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GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir meets US treasury secretary Ministry to open In brief more markets for

QATAR | Offi cial Amir congratulates Qatari farmers Vietnam president-elect O HE al-Rumaihi long-distance transport.” His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim inaugurates a new HE al-Rumaihi was of the view that bin Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday Al Shamal town deserves the interest a cable of congratulations to Dr vegetable yard given to it as it has a large number of Nguyen Phu Trong on his election farmers, some of whom are yet to com- as president of Vietnam, wishing QNA mence production. him success in his duties and Doha “A market will be inaugurated in Al the relations between Qatar and Sheehaniya too,” he added. Markets for Vietnam further development and local vegetables were also opened yes- growth. His Highness the Deputy he Ministry of Municipality and terday at Al Khor, Al Thukhaira, and Al Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al- Environment will open more Wakrah. Thani has also sent a similar cable to Tmarkets to support Qatari farm- The Agricultural Aff airs Depart- Dr Nguyen Phu Trong on his election ers, it was announced yesterday. ment manager Youssef al-Khulaifi said as Vietnam’s president. “Promoting local produce will sup- a total of 12 farms are participating in port Qatari farmers by lowering the Al Shamal market, bringing to 100 the QATAR | Offi cial marketing costs and encouraging them total number of farms marketing their to increase production,” HE the Minister products in the local markets. Amir greets new of Municipality and Environment Mo- “These markets have made big sales Ethiopian president hamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi said. of around 4mn boxes of produce ever His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim Speaking to reporters after inau- since their fi rst season in 2012/2013, bin Hamad al-Thani has sent a cable gurating a new vegetable yard at Al including some 1.2mn boxes last year of congratulations to President Shamal, he explained that the ministry alone,” he added. Sahle-Work Zewde who was sworn- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and the delegation aims to facilitate the supply of local pro- Abdulrahman al-Sulaiti, who over- in as President of Ethiopia, wishing accompanying him, at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. The meeting dealt with reviewing relations and the strategic partnership duce from the farms to the consumers. sees the markets, said that consumers her success and more development between Qatar and the US, as well as the means to enhance them in financial and economic fields. The meeting also focused “Such eff orts ease the burden on are keen on visiting the local produce and prosperity for the relations on reviewing counter-terrorism eff orts, besides addressing regional and international issues. farmers in terms of marketing their markets, due to their high quality and between Qatar and Ethiopia. His products, as all they have to do is bring reasonable prices. Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh their products to these markets. “The idea behind these markets is to Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani has “The markets for local produce must provide producers with the ability to also sent a similar cable to President be located in easily accessible areas as market their products without fees or Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia. Khashoggi murder ‘premeditated’, Saudi admits the products may not be suitable for middlemen,” he added. QATAR | Energy audi Arabia’s public prosecu- director Gina Haspel heard an audio State Department sources. A source GCC-US summit in January: Kuwaiti deputy FM Woqod achieves net tor yesterday said the murder of recording of the killing during a fact- close to the family said Salah holds profi t of QR825mn Sjournalist Jamal Khashoggi in the fi nding visit to Turkey this week. The dual US-Saudi citizenship. GCC-US summit will be held in January, meeting of the ministerial committee Qatar Fuel (Woqod) achieved a kingdom’s Istanbul consulate earlier spy chief later briefed US President German Chancellor Angela Merkel according to what was agreed upon to follow up the implementation of net profit of QR825mn at the end this month was premeditated, revers- Donald Trump on the matter. condemned the killing in the strong- with no changes, Kuwait’s Deputy the resolutions issued by the current of September 2018 compared to ing previous offi cial statements that Meanwhile, Khashoggi’s eldest son est terms possible during a phone call Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah session of the Gulf Co-operation QR643mn for the same period in the killing was unintended, Reuters Salah and his family were on their way with King Salman, and vowed to take has aff irmed. In a statement posted Council (GCC) countries. He said Kuwait 2017, with an increase of QR182mn reported. to the US yesterday after Saudi Arabia appropriate measures in response, the by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), is looking forward to holding this or 28%, QNA reported yesterday. The Saudi disclosure came after CIA lifted their travel ban, according to chancellery said. Page 9 al-Jarallah said that there will be a meeting in November. – QNA Page 3 Gulf Times 2 Friday, October 26, 2018 QATAR

PM, US treasury secretary hold talks PM meets FIFA security director

E the Prime Minister and Minister of Inte- Hrior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday met FIFA’s Security Director Helmut Joseph Spahn, currently visiting Qatar. During the meeting, they dis- cussed areas of co-operation between Qatar and the FIFA, as well as the preparations for Qa- tar 2022 World Cup. Following the meeting, HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani and FIFA security director visited the National Command Centre (NCC) of the Ministry of In- terior, where Helmut Spahn was briefed on the goals and services of the centre which HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani was established in 2006 in yesterday met US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his accompanying delegation in Doha conjunction with the organi- HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, and FIFA’s yesterday. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and ways of developing and sation of the 15th Asian Games Security Director Helmut Joseph Spahn, visiting the National Command Centre (NCC) of the Ministry of strengthening them in various fields, especially in economy and investment sectors. They also in Qatar. Interior yesterday. reviewed the eff orts of Qatar and the US in fighting terrorism and combating terror financing, in He also was briefed on the addition to the regional and international developments. centre’s modern equipment rity systems based on inter- well as emergency and traffic 2022 World Cup. and advanced technological national standards such as the services. He also praised the facilities systems to maintain security unified geographical system FIFA’s security director hailed and the advanced systems at the and response to accidents and (Najm) and the early warning the level of preparations and the National Command Centre. – emergencies through secu- system of vital facilities, as eff orts made by Qatar to host the QNA

OFFICIAL Stark Motors to CNA-Q, PHCC partner on campus for breast cancer screening Al-Muraikhi holds talks with be Milipol Qatar he Primary Health Care Tajikistan PM Corporation (PHCC) TBreast Cancer Screening Tajikistan Prime Minister, Kokhir Bus was on campus at College of Rasulzoda, has met the Minister the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA- of State for Foreign Aff airs HE Q) to off er screening for females Sultan bin Saad al-Muraikhi, in diamond sponsor over 45 years. Dushanbe. The meeting focused Numerous staff members, and on bilateral relations. zStark Motors and Eshhar and development in our be- students’ family members were Security Services is the loved country, Qatar, for its se- screened on Wednesday, as part Foreign ministry first national manufacturer curity and safety technologies. of Qatar’s National Cancer Pro- of armoured vehicles The event also hosts seminars gramme. secretary-general zMilipol Qatar 2018 will and discussions rich with glo- When caught at an early stage, meets UN off icial bring together experts bal experience and informa- there is nearly a 100% survival and specialists in internal tion.” rate from breast cancer. One HE Secretary-General of the security, civil defence and He added that the exhibition former instructor at CNA-Q, Ministry of Foreign Aff airs, Dr public safety sectors represents a natural refl ection of Kim Doucet, knows this well. In Ahmed bin Hassan al-Hammadi, the growth witnessed by Qatar in 2016 she was screened in PH- English instructor Moira Phillips registers for screening aboard the yesterday met the Director ilipol Qatar Commit- recent times in all sectors, espe- CC’s bus when it visited the Col- PHCC bus at the CNA-Q campus on Wednesday. Below: PHCC’s of Middle East and West Asia tee chairman Major cially the security sector. Milipol lege campus. mobile breast screening bus. Division of the Department of MGeneral Nasser bin is a good opportunity to get to The results showed that two Political Aff airs at the United Fahd al-Thani has announced know the international compa- tiny cancerous lumps were de- Nations, Susanne Rose, who that Stark Motors and Eshhar nies participating in the exhibi- tected in her right breast. At 48 is currently visiting Qatar. The Security Services will be the tion and a means of presenting years, she had never experienced meeting focused on enhancing diamond sponsor of Milipol Major General Nasser bin Fahd products of diff erent compa- any symptoms or family history the scope of co-operation, and Qatar 2018. al-Thani nies. It will be an occasion for of cancer, and she regularly con- discussed issues of joint interest. The International Exhibition the competent establishments ducted self-examinations. of Homeland Security and Civil rity and civil defence are among and authorities in Qatar to learn “If the PHCC mobile breast Qatar attends Arab Defence will take place on Octo- the cornerstones of any coun- about the latest security equip- screening bus never came to ber 29-31, 2018 at Doha Exhibi- try and that Qatar is a leading ment and safety solutions in the campus, I would have never had environment tion and Convention Centre. country in the fi eld of security world. a mammogram. I would have ministers’ meeting The event will bring togeth- and pays great attention to en- Stark Motors is the fi rst na- never has known that I had can- er experts and specialists in sure and enhance its security tional manufacturer of ar- cer,” she said. “I’m happy to fi nd The 30th session of the Council internal security, civil defence together with leading national moured vehicles. The company the cancer when I did – I’m hap- of Arab Ministers Responsible for and public safety sectors, de- companies. aims to provide complete solu- py to be alive!” the Environment began in Cairo cision-makers and leaders to Mohamed al-Ali, owner of tions to provide maximum pro- “At CNA-Q, we want to en- yesterday, chaired by Lebanon. meet under one roof and re- Eshhar Security Services and tection for private and transport sure that Qatar’s population is Qatar is participating with a view the latest security solu- chairman of Stark Motors, said: vehicles, relying on the exper- not only educated, but healthy, paigns and recreation activi- families are fulfilled mem- delegation chaired by Qatar’s tions. “The holding of this distin- tise of a distinguished team of happy and productive. Offer- ties on campus is part of our bers of society,” said dean Permanent Representative to Major General Nasser bin Fahd guished exhibition contributes designers and engineers recog- ing breast screening, health holistic approach to ensuring of Student Affairs, Kathleen the Arab League Ibrahim bin al-Thani said that internal secu- greatly to encouraging progress nised globally. and wellness awareness cam- our students, staff and their Howard. Abdulaziz al-Sahlawi.

Nature highlights scientifi c research at QU Doha declared

n intensive scientifi c re- Survey Institute (Sesri) was also port titled “Qatar puts included in the report, citing its Capital of Islamic Athe Pursuit of Knowledge production of high quality sur- Front and Centre” has been pub- vey data on the process of change lished in the renowned science and transformation within the journal Nature, presenting the fabric of Qatari society. Youth for 2019 research eff orts of Qatar Univer- The institute collects infor- sity (QU) on the country’s devel- mation on important issues like opment and its needs. family, education, immigration, QNA world will have the opportu- Nature publishes fi ne peer- modernisation, health, media, Istanbul nity to further build this creative reviewed research that drives and other vital socio-economic force that is suffi ciently aware of ground-breaking discovery, QU topics. the requirements of the present said in a statement yesterday. Sesri is also investigating the oha has been selected and the future and has a deep vi- The report highlights the high views of society on issues of as the Capital of the Is- sion for a society we want and a regional and international rank- public interest such as the FIFA Dlamic Youth for 2019, in lifestyle we desire in the context ing of QU, which is due much in World Cup, sponsorship, the recognition of Qatar’s eff orts in of our contemporary civilisa- part to the original achievements blockade, in order to produce supporting and empowering the tion”, he added. in research and education. reliable data which helps con- Islamic youth. The announcement was pre- “Our university has enabled cerned state authorities and de- The selection took place on ceded by the third meeting of Qatari citizens to become minis- cision makers to draw their pri- Wednesday night in Istanbul af- the General Assembly of the OIC ters, presidents of agencies, and orities and successful planning. ter the activities of Al-Quds as Youth Forum for Dialogue and infl uential members of govern- The report concludes by high- the capital of Islamic youth for Co-operation, which was at- ment,” QU dean Dr Hassan al- lighting QU’s ambitious goals of the year 2018 came to a close. tended by HE Salah bin Ghanem Derham pointed out. the transformative strategic plan Doha was declared the Capital bin Nasser al-Ali. QU vice-president for re- from 2018 to 2022 to develop re- of the Islamic Youth at a special He highlighted the features search and graduate studies Dr The report published in Nature highlights QU’s various science experiments. search on the above-mentioned dinner after a unanimous deci- of the roadmap for the youth Mariam al-Maadeed said the fi elds. sion by the Islamic Youth Forum of the Islamic world, who seek university is the largest national and key players in the industry, various fi elds; highlighting the produce valid scientifi c data to The plan also includes the for Dialogue and Co-operation, the development of its socie- institution serving government, such as with Qatar Petroleum, Centre of Advanced Material’s help biomedical and medical in- supplementary support for the youth wing of the Organi- ties through the establishment society and industry in Qatar. Qatar Petrochemical Company programmes such as material vestigations aimed at determin- graduate students through the sation of Islamic Co-operation of civilisational change starting The report begins by provid- and ExxonMobil Research Qatar, science corrosion and nanote- ing the causes of diseases and newly established Graduate (OIC). In his fi rst reaction to this with self-change and ending ing a background on the vision of and many major companies. chnology; and Biomedical Re- test their potential treatments Academic Support Unit, which announcement, HE the Minis- with changing the way people Qatar in general and explains the Research at QU is aligned with search Centre’s collaboration and therapies. creates synergy between educa- ter of Culture and Sports, Salah live by raising the effi ciency of vision to become a knowledge- Qatar National Vision 2030, with concerned local and in- The report cites Kindi Cen- tion and research, supporting bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali the people. based economy and how QU has which emphasises the impor- ternational institutions to keep tre’s support in information and capacity building and talented praised the eff orts of Qatari The Director of Youth Aff airs benefi ted from the country’s in- tance of an economy centred Qatar healthy by conducting re- communication technology by students, who are the driving youth on the world stage. Department at the Ministry of terest in expanding its research on innovation, entrepreneur- search on neural stem cell, car- developing computer research force behind the societal devel- The minister said the par- Culture and Sports, Abdulrah- and development. ship, excellence in education, a diovascular diseases, hyperten- in the fi elds of cyber security, opments and prosperity. ticipants’ consensus to declare man Mohamed al-Hajri, said Among the ways in which QU world-class infrastructure, and sion, infectious diseases, cancer, data business analytics, cloud The report also includes in- Doha as the Capital of the Islam- that this announcement is a invested in research is the inau- effi cient public services. diabetes, and other common computing, mobile sensors, net- formation, statistics and data ic Youth 2019 refl ects the status culmination of his department’s guration of the Research Com- The report’s main points in- diseases in Qatar and the region. works and their applications. on the future plans of the State of Qatari youth locally and inter- work and a result of the eff orts plex, a state-of-the-art research clude encouraging partnerships The report highlights the Lab- The centre achieved outstanding and University, which is on its nationally and the leadership’s that follow the general policy of facility. especially with major private oratory Animal Research Cen- publications, received awards, way toward regional and inter- belief in the role of Qatari youth the state within a clear vision, QU developed partnerships and public companies to de- tre’s eff orts in providing research and received wide recognition. national excellence in education in the vision of 2030. aimed at empowering young with governmental authorities velop research that focuses on and experiments on animals to The Social and Economic and research. “The youth in the Islamic people. - QNA Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 3 QATAR/REGION/ARAB WORLD

Qatar, France hold joint naval exercise FM meets UK foreign secretary

The Amiri Naval Forces have carried out the joint exercise ‘PASSEX’ with their French counterpart, with the participation of the frigate HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman COURBET, in the Qatari territorial and economic waters. The naval exercise included a number of elements, such as MANOEUVERING EX, al-Thani has met the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Aff airs Jeremy Hunt, SURFACE EX and ADEX with he fighters wing of the Qatar Amiri Air Force. The military exercise is part of the co-operation agreements during his off icial visit to the United Kingdom. The meeting discussed bilateral relations and means of between the two countries in the fields of training and planning. boosting them, in addition to a number of regional and international issues of common concern.

MoI, Kahramaa sign security agreement

GCC-US meet in Lieutenant Colonel Khalifa Mohamed al-Attiyah, director-general of Industrial Security at the MoI, and Nasser Ali al-Mohannadi, director of Shared Services at Kahramaa, at the MoI signing ceremony. The General Directorate of Industrial January, says Security at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and Qatar General Electricity & Water Corp (Kahramaa) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday morning, the MoI said in a tweet. The MoU envisages co-ordination and co-operation Kuwait minister between the two entities with regard to the protection of Kahramaa facilities in the QNA Gulf Co-operation Coun- possibility of inviting Kuwait to best interests of the State as well as both Kuwait cil (GCC) countries, look- hold a conference for the relief parties. Lieutenant Colonel al-Attiyah and ing forward to holding this of the Yemeni people by saying, al-Mohannadi signed the MoU representing meeting in November. “our eff orts are continuing to the two organisations. “The MoU aims to uwait’s Deputy Foreign support the Yemeni people and provide technical and security support Minister Khaled al-Jar- “Our eff orts are continuing alleviate their suff ering, Kuwait and exchange of expertise in the field Kallah affirmed that the to support the Yemeni has made great eff orts in this re- of training and protection of facilities, in GCC-US summit will be held people and alleviate their gard.” the interest of both parties,” the ministry in January, with no changes suff ering, Kuwait has made He pointed out that Kuwait added. according to what was agreed great eff orts in this regard” has committed to provide as- upon. sistance worth $250mn to In a statement posted The Deputy Foreign Minis- the Yemeni people in 2018, by Kuwait News Agency ter said that Kuwait, as current as they previously provided (KUNA), al-Jarallah said that president of the GCC, invited $100mn. there will be a meeting of the the brothers in the GCC states to Al-Jarallah concluded by stat- Ministerial Committee to a senior-level meeting to review ing Kuwait’s obligations are per- follow up the implementa- the implementation of the previ- manent and continuous, as well tion of the resolutions issued ous summit. as joint eff orts with the GCC by the current session of the Al-Jarallah underlined the countries. More rain expected over weekend: Met offi ce

Fuel shipments et weather is likely to tions are likely to peak on Sunday speed (mainly southeasterly) in conditions have been forecast return to the country morning, the weather offi ce has inshore areas will range from 5-15 offshore. from Qatar power Wthis weekend as the tweeted. knots, going up to 25 knots dur- The minimum and maximum At least 18 people, Met department has said thun- Doha and other parts of the ing thundery rain. temperatures are expected to up Gaza turbine dershowers are expected in the country experienced heavy The detailed forecast for be 25C in Al Khor and Dukhan, southern parts of Qatar today rainfall recently, especially today says it will be relatively while in Doha the mercury level A second turbine in the Gaza mostly children, die in along with strong winds. last Saturday when thunder- hot during the day and cloudy will range from 30C to 35C. Yes- Strip’s only power plant started Then, there are chances of storms and strong winds were conditions are also likely. terday, a minimum of 25C was operating yesterday, bringing scattered rain in the country be- reported from around the There is a chance of rain, recorded in Al Khor, while the much-needed electricity to the fl ash fl ood in Jordan tween tomorrow noon and Sun- country. which may turn thundery in maximum was 40C in Jumayli- blockaded coastal enclave. day evening, which may turn There is no warning for off - the southern parts of Qatar by yah. Doha temperatures ranged Nickolay Mladenov, the thundery at times. These condi- shore areas today. The wind this afternoon. Partly cloudy yesterday between 30C and 35C. UN envoy for the Middle Reuters giving a breakdown of numbers. East Peace Process, said that Dead Sea, Jordan Hundreds of families and second turbine will produce 52 relatives converged on Shounah megawatts of electricity, giv- hospital a few kilometers from ing Gaza a total supply of 172 t least 18 people, mainly the resort area. megawatts, the highest elec- schoolchildren and teach- Relatives sobbed and searched SC, Interpol consider stadium safety norms tricity output since January. Aers, were killed yesterday for details about the missing The increase in electricity in a fl ash fl ood near Jordan’s Dead children, a witness said. comes after Qatar delivered Sea that happened while they King Abdullah cancelled a trip QNA measures in licensing and issu- suance of such certificates and ments of security and safety, fuel to the Gaza Strip, which is were on an outing, rescuers and to Bahrain to follow the rescue Doha ing stadium certifi cates to ensure licenses to be a reference for promising a prominent World blockaded by Israel and Egypt. hospital workers said. operations, state media said. that they are ready to host major all countries of the world. Cup in 2022. Qatar had promised last Thirty-four people were res- Israel sent search-and-rescue sporting events and competi- Project Stadia senior man- The three-day meeting dis- Sunday to eventually deliver cued in an major operation in- helicopters to assist, an Israeli he third consultative tions. ager Falah Abdullah al-Dosari cussed a number of important enough fuel to increase elec- volving police helicopters and military statement said, adding meeting on stadium safety The aim of the meeting is said that the meeting resulted topics, including the timetable tricity output from eight to 16 hundreds of army troops, police the team dispatched at Amman’s Tand security licensing and to highlight the efforts of the in the adoption of the issuance for the construction of all facili- hours a day. chief Brigadier General Farid Al request was operating on the certifi cation, organized by the State of Qatar in the field of of certificates and licenses ties for hosting the World Cup in “Today the second turbine Sharaa told state television. Jordanian side of the Dead Sea. security committee of the Su- security and safety measures guide for stadium security 2022 and delivering on time, the of the Gaza power plant starts Some of those rescued were in Civil defence spokesman preme Committee for Delivery in the licensing and issuance and safety, stressing that the plan for licensing and accredi- producing 52MW, alleviating a serious condition. Captain Iyad Al Omar told Reu- and Legacy in cooperation with of stadium certificates, espe- experts participating in the tation of playgrounds for com- the suff ering of 2mn Palestin- Many of those killed were ters the number of casualties the International Criminal Police cially that the supervisors of meeting expressed their con- pleted facilities, maintenance of ians in Gaza,” Mladenov, who children under 14. was expected to rise. Organization (Interpol) (Project the construction of the 2022 fidence in the State of Qatar stadiums, tools and operational helped broker the deal, said on A number of families picnick- Rescue workers using fl ash- Stadia) concluded yesterday. FIFA World Cup stadiums have and its achievements on the responsibilities in the post- Twitter. ing in the popular destination lights were searching the cliff s The three-day meeting was followed the best internation- ground in relation to the es- construction phase, as well as Two turbines in the power were also among the dead and near the shore of the Dead Sea attended by many international al standards and developed a tablishment of sports stadi- choosing the 2022 World Cup ac- plant remain inactive. injured, rescuers said, without where bodies had been found. experts on security and safety guiding framework for the is- ums that meet the require- tion plan. UN off icials hope the deal could significantly increase electricity rates in Gaza, where ‘Fiercest’ shellfire residents receive only a few yet around Syria hours of mains power a day. It could also help calm ten- Iraq cabinet holds fi rst post-Saddam meeting outside Green Zone truce zone: monitor sions between Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel. Fuel deliveries were tempo- AFP Rebels and extremists traded rarily suspended by Israel over Baghdad fire with government forces in violence emanating from the northern Syria overnight, their strip but resumed Wednesday. “fiercest” exchanges since a Fifteen trucks carrying raq’s cabinet yesterday met buff er zone deal was announced around 500,000 litres of fuel for the fi rst time outside the for the area last month, a monitor entered Gaza yesterday, an IGreen Zone, the fortifi ed said yesterday. off icial said on condition of Baghdad district set up 15 years A 15km to 20km wide “de- anonymity. ago in the wake of the US inva- militarised zone” was announced The fuel deal was brokered sion. by rebel backer Turkey and through the UN without the The meeting was attended by government ally Moscow on involvement of the Palestinian Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mah- September 17 to separate Authority, the internationally- di and 14 new ministers whose government troops from rebel recognised Palestinian govern- positions were approved over- fighters in their last major bastion ment which is based in the night by parliament. in Idlib province and adjacent occupied West Bank. The cabinet meeting was held areas. According to Gisha, an in the highly symbolic former Shelling has continued Israeli human rights group, parliament complex that was intermittently, however, and the Gaza Strip needs a total of used under former dictator escalated dramatically late 280 megawatts during peak Saddam Hussain. After Saddam’s on Wednesday, the Syrian demand in summer and winter. fall from power in 2003, ongoing Observatory for Human Rights Gaza — home to around violence and insecurity in Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Adel Abdul Mahdi announces his cabinet at parliament headquarters in Baghdad on Wednesday night. said yesterday. 2mn people — has one of the ensured the Green Zone endured “It was the fiercest bombing yet highest unemployment rates as an enclave for dignitaries and The US and Britain built diplo- similarly retreated behind its blast ing parliamentary factions who ask the legislature to approve his since September 17,” said Rami in the world. offi cials, cut off from the rest of matic missions in the zone, while walls, barbed wire and checkpoints. are clamouring for a place in the candidates for key ministries in- Abdel Rahman, who heads the capital. Iraq’s government and parliament Under pressure from compet- cabinet, Abdel Mahdi has yet to cluding interior and defence. Britain-based monitoring group. Gulf Times 4 Friday, October 26, 2018 AFRICA Ethiopia appoints Africa’s only female president

AFP police and domestic intelligence As president she is expected to and generation that will make all of Addis Ababa agencies. serve two six-year terms. us proud,” she said. “If the current change in Ethio- “Mulatu has shown us the “The absence of peace victim- pia is headed equally by both men way for change and hope, he has ises fi rstly women, so during my thiopia yesterday appointed and women, it can sustain its mo- shown life continues before and tenure I will emphasise women’s a woman to the largely cer- mentum and realise a prosperous after leaving power. I call on oth- roles in ensuring peace and the Eemonial position of presi- Ethiopia free of religious, ethnic ers to heed his example and be dividends of peace for women.” dent for the fi rst time, further in- and gender discrimination,” Sahle- ready for change,” said Sahle- Sahle-Work becomes Africa’s creasing female representation in Work said yesterday. Work in a speech to parliament only serving female head of state, the government of Africa’s second Sahle-Work, who was born in yesterday. albeit in a ceremonial role. most populous nation. the capital Addis Ababa and at- Political power in Ethiopia is A handful of African countries In a unanimous vote, Ethiopian tended university in France, has wielded by the prime minister have in the recent past been led by lawmakers picked career diplomat been Ethiopia’s ambassador to with the president’s role restricted female presidents with executive Sahle-Work Zewde, 68, to replace France, Djibouti, Senegal and the to attending ceremonies and func- powers, including Ellen Johnson Mulatu Teshome who resigned in regional bloc, the Intergovern- tions. Sirleaf in Liberia (2006-18) and unclear circumstances. mental Authority on Development Nevertheless, Sahle-Work’s po- Joyce Banda in Malawi (2012-14). Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Min- (IGAD). sition carries important symbolic Banda was elevated to the presi- ister Abiy Ahmed last week ap- Just prior to her appointment as weight and social infl uence. dency following the death in of- pointed a slimline 20-person cabi- president she was the UN’s top of- “Government and opposition fi ce of Bingu wa Mutharika, while net in which half the posts are held Zewde ... new responsibilities fi cial at the African Union. parties have to understand we are Sirleaf won two elections before by women. She is fl uent in English and living in a common house and fo- standing down earlier this year They include defence minister mil, who leads the newly-created French as well as Amharic, Ethio- cus on things that unite us, not at the end of her constitutionally Aisha Mohamed and Muferiat Ka- Ministry of Peace, responsible for pia’s main language. what divides us, to create a country mandated terms.

Africa’s largest train-making plant Weah announces free opens doors in Johannesburg tuition for undergrads

AFP The fi rst train from the Gibela The president said the plant was AFP had led to a rise in the amount Johannesburg plant in Dunnottar, east of Johan- a “major boost to our manufactur- Monrovia due in the local currency. Both nesburg, is scheduled to roll off the ing capacity as a country.” currencies are legal tender in test track by the end of this year. “Manufacturing...is the real en- Liberia, which was founded by outh Africa’s President Cyril South Africa’s economy has in gine of economic growth.” iberian President George freed former American slaves. Ramaphosa yesterday un- recent years suff ered low growth When fully operational, the Weah, who overcame “I was shocked when I was Sveiled the continent’s largest rates and this year slipped into a plant is expected to employ 1,500 Lchildhood poverty to be- told that every semester about train manufacturing plant, a joint recession, and Ramaphosa hailed people. come one of the world’s top foot- 20,000 (would-be students) go venture between the national rail the new investment in trains. At least 56 trains are to be built ballers, has abolished tuition fees through the registration process, fi rm and French transport group “This investment here signifi es over the next two years. for undergraduate students in (but) only 12,000 attend. Alstom. a new era in the modernisation of “This factory is a major boost the poor West African country’s “Furthermore, about 5,000 of the The factory is a part of a 51-bil- modern rail network,” he said as he to the rail industry in the coun- state universities. 12,000 who are in attendance are lion-rand ($3.5bn) deal between formally inaugurated the plant. try, as South Africa will now be Speaking Wednesday night on depending on some form of fi nan- Alstom and the Passenger Rail “Our railways must become the able to produce state-of-the-art the campus of the University of cial aids or scholarship. The rest of Agency of South Africa (PRASA) arteries of a growing economy trains locally,” said Didier Pfl eger, Liberia in the name of “the Libe- the students do not attend due to the to produce a fl eet of 580 six-car that brings meaningful improve- Alstom senior vice president for rian people and my government”, lack of fi nancial aid,” Weah added. suburban trains. ment in people’s lives.” Middle East and Africa. Weah declared “free tuition for Weah was elected late last year all undergraduate students” at on a platform of fi ghting poverty all the public universities. and kickstarting an economy still Weah said his decision arose aff ected by two civil wars be- after a meeting he had with the tween 1989 and 2003, as well as Nigeria cuts curfew in violence-hit Kaduna university administration. providing stability and growth. “The students came in front “The inability of our young of my offi ce to complain that people to continue their educa- AFP from 6:00am to 5:00pm...until after fi ghting broke out between the administrators have in- tion is very troubling,” he said on Kano further notice,” he added. Hausa Muslim and Adara Chris- creased the tuition in the school. campus. Governor Nasir El-Rufai im- tian youths in Kasuwan Magani’s I was not happy about that,” said Liberia has four state univer- posed the 24-hour curfew last market following a dispute among Weah, who took offi ce in January. sities: the main University of uthorities in the northern Sunday after at least 55 people wheelbarrow porters. An administrator informed Liberia, the Booker Washington Nigerian city of Kaduna were killed in clashes in the town Two people were said to have him that the actual fee had not Institute, Louis Arthur Grimes Ahave relaxed a round-the- of Kasuwan Magani. been killed in the initial fracas but changed, but the fall of the Li- School of Law and the William clock curfew that was imposed On Tuesday, he gave residents the violence then dramatically berian dollar against the US one Tubman University. because of deadly sectarian vio- a four-hour window to leave their escalated when Adara youths at- lence between Muslim and Chris- homes and restock food supplies tacked Hausa residents, burning tian mobs. following complaints that people homes and killing dozens. The reduction by 11 hours had run out of basic necessities, The violence spread to Kaduna now allows residents outside including water and food. city on Sunday. from dawn to dusk, said Ka- Yesterday, residents reported Kaduna state lies in the fl ash- Militancy-ravaged Mali duna state governor’s spokes- banks, schools, offi ces and busi- point Middle Belt of Nigeria, man Samuel Aruwan late on nesses reopened while armed sol- where the mainly Muslim north Wednesday. diers and policemen patrolled the meets the largely Christian south, extends emergency “Residents are now free to pur- streets of notorious fl ashpoints. and has seen previous bouts of sue their legitimate businesses Communal violence erupted bloody sectarian violence. ilitancy-hit Mali yes- people and their goods,” it said. terday extended by a The eighth largest country in Myear a state of emer- Africa and one of the poorest in Burundi govt skips last round of peace talks in Tanzania gency in place since a deadly No- the world, the landlocked Sahel vember 2015 attack on a top ho- state has been grappling with urundi’s government is not Pierre Nkurunziza announced he be drawing up a roadmap to elec- tel in the capital Bamako which violence since 2012. participating in the last round would seek a third term in offi ce. The tions in 2020, Ntahorwamiye said: claimed 20 lives. Tuareg rebels staged an up- Bof peace talks that began yes- same year, in response to Nkurunzi- “How can we implement conclu- The state of emergency was rising in northern Mali which terday, saying that they won’t en- za’s attempts to stay in power, a mili- sions from a dialogue in which we due to expire at the end of this jihadists then exploited to take gage in dialogue with “putschists.” tary coup was launched but failed. do not did not take part?” month and the cabinet approved over key cities. The talks got underway in the Ntahorwamiye added that the Earlier this year, changes to the the extension, a statement said The extremists were routed in Tanzanian city of Arusha despite month of October is a period of constitution were approved that al- yesterday. a French-led military operation the government’s absence. mourning in Burundi because of low Nkurunziza to potentially remain It gives authorities greater in 2013 but large stretches of the “The government of Burundi the deaths of two previous leaders. in power until 2034; he has, however, powers to take measures to pre- country remain out of govern- cannot agree to be at the same ta- He said the government had said he’ll step down in 2020. empt attacks and accords more ment control. ble for talks with the putschists suggested the talks be postponed. The European Union yesterday powers to security forces and In central Mali, the situation sought by Burundian justice,” gov- The talks were set with opposi- renewed sanctions against the east judicial authorities, the govern- has been made even more unsta- ernment spokesman Prosper Nta- tion members in exile of the oppo- African state, saying “the EU has ment said. ble by a resurgence of violence horwamiye told DPA. sition umbrella group CNARED — stressed that only through dia- The extension was necessary between ethnic groups, notably Burundi has been seized by civil most of whose leaders are in exile. logue leading to consensus...can a to “reinforce preventive measures Fulani nomadic herders and Do- unrest since 2015, when President While the talks are supposed to lasting political solution be found.” to prevent the threat of attacks on gon farmers over access to land.

SA top court curtails tribal chiefs’ power to cut mining deals

By Ed Stoddard, Reuters property rights system with roots of 13 families whose ancestors and will advise pursuant actions as Traditional leaders hold sway in Johannesburg in the colonial and apartheid eras. bought the farm over a century ago and when appropriate.” South Africa’s old “Homelands,” At issue in the case before the but could not get title deeds to it Lawyers and land policy experts islands of rural poverty where Constitutional Court was a deal because of racist laws at the time. say the implications are far reach- most blacks were literally confi ned outh Africa’s top court yes- agreed with the council of the Bak- “There is a constitutional im- ing and could raise questions about along tribal lines under apartheid. terday ruled that a platinum gatla tribe to allow Pilanesberg perative...to ensure that persons other mining deals signed between These areas comprise only 13% Sminer that has a deal with a Platinum Mines (PPM), a unit of or communities whose tenure of companies and tribal chiefs, which of South Africa’s land but are home tribal chief could not evict a group unlisted Sedibelo Platinum Mines, land is legally insecure as a result have stoked social strife and con- to a third of the population, 17mn of black farmers, in a decision that to evict farmers to expand its of past racially discriminatory laws fl ict. blacks, mostly subsistence farmers could curtail the power of tradi- open-pit mine. or practices are entitled either to “It dramatically undermines the working tiny plots. tional leaders whose deals often The farmers argued that they tenure which is legally secure or to powers of traditional leaders to On these lands, the chiefs of- disadvantage poor blacks. were the rightful owners of the comparable redress,” it said. make deals on behalf of subjects,” ten determine who gets to farm or Land rights are a red-hot issue farm and needed to be consulted After the unanimous judgment said Johan Lorenzen, a lawyer at where cattle are grazed and also — ahead of elections in 2019 as the before mining took place. was delivered, about 50 people in- human rights fi rm Richard Spoor and more signifi cantly — who gets African National Congress (ANC) In previous court fi lings, PPM cluding the farmers facing eviction Inc Attorneys. access to resources like water and moves for constitutional change and a partner company formed by and their supporters broke out into Aninka Claassens, director of minerals. aimed at a more equitable distri- the tribal council took the position song and dance in the court. the University of Cape Town’s The chiefs maintain they are the bution of land. that the Bakgatla community con- “We feel vindicated. The chief Land and Accountability Research custodians of African culture and This includes expropriating land trols the farm and adjoining prop- never listened to us,” said a jubilant Centre, said: “No mining com- tradition and play a role in mediat- from whites without compensa- erties communally, with the chief Setshedi Rasepae, one of the sup- pany can continue to pretend that ing disputes and dispensing justice tion, but also addressing the plight as custodian. porters. traditional leaders are authorised among their subjects. of poor blacks vulnerable to forced The court ruled that such an ar- Through a spokesman, the com- to make these deals without the Critics allege some have used evictions in tribal lands because of rangement ran rough shod over the pany said: “Sedibelo Platinum consent of the people directly af- their powers of resource allocation deals stuck by local chiefs under a rights of the applicants, comprised Mines is studying the judgment fected.” to enrich themselves. Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 5 AMERICA Nato urges Trump offi cials not to quit nuke treaty

Reuters ganisation (Nato), offi cials from Kremlin to stop what the West a withdrawal would make it easy tary General Jens Stoltenberg laid to install medium-range nuclear tion of US nuclear missiles sta- Brussels the Pentagon, the US State De- says are violations, or possibly for Moscow to blame us for the the blame on Russia for violating weapons on their territory again. tioned on the continent. partment, and the US National renegotiate it to include China. end of this landmark agreement,” the treaty by developing the SSC- Stoltenberg said on Wednes- Diplomats said the US offi cials Security Council briefed alliance “Allies want to see a last-ditch a second diplomat said. 8, a land-based, intermediate- day that he did not think this did hold out the possibility that uropean members of Nato envoys on US President Don- eff ort to avoid a US withdrawal,” Nato declined to comment on range Cruise missile which also would lead to reciprocal deploy- the US may delay its formal with- have urged the United ald Trump’s decision to pull out one Nato diplomat said on con- the details of the meeting but is- has the name of Novator 9M729. ments of US missiles in Europe as drawal to after a planned meet- EStates to try to bring Rus- of the 1987 Intermediate-range dition of anonymity because of sued a statement saying that al- Russia denies any claims. happened in the 1980s. ing between Putin and Trump in sia back into compliance with a Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the classifi ed nature of the meet- lies assessed “the implications of Nato allies including Belgium European allies see the INF Paris on November 11. nuclear arms control treaty rath- which rid Europe of land-based ing, which took place two days Russia’s destabilising behaviour and the Netherlands, which host treaty as a pillar of arms control The treaty foresees a six- er than quit it, diplomats said, nuclear missiles. after senior US offi cial John Bol- on our security”. US nuclear weapons facilities and, while accepting that Mos- month notifi cation period for seeking to avoid a split in the alli- Diplomats present said Ger- ton informed Russian President “Nato allies will continue to in Europe, warned in the North cow is violating it by developing any withdrawal, also potentially ance that Moscow could exploit. many and other European allies Vladimir Putin in Moscow. consult on this important issue,” Atlantic Council, Nato’s high- new weapons, are concerned its giving Washington time to nego- In a closed-door meeting at called for a fi nal eff ort on Wash- “Nobody takes issue with Rus- it added. est decision-making body, of a collapse could lead to a new arms tiate with Moscow before fi nally the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ington’s part to convince the sia’s violation of the treaty, but Earlier this week, Nato Secre- public outcry if the US were to try race with possibly a new genera- pulling out.

Ford orders recall of 1.5mn vehicles

Ford has announced a recall of 1.5mn vehicles because of a malfunctioning valve in the fuel system that could result in the indicator showing an incorrect fuel level. The aff ected vehicles were sold in North America and are equipped with a canister purge valve that may become stuck in an open position, Ford said in a news release. More bombs sent to That could result in an excessive vacuum in the fuel system that may cause deformation of the vehicle’s plastic fuel tank. “As a result, the customer could observe a malfunction indicator light or a fuel gauge with fluctuating or inaccurate fuel levels,” Ford said. The problem could lead to the car stalling or an inability to restart the vehicle, which can increase the risk of a crash. Ford said it was not aware of any accidents, injuries or fires as a critics of president result of the problem. The aff ected cars are 2012-18 Ford Focus vehicles equipped with Reuters certain 2.0-litre engines. Washington/New York More than 1.2mn of the cars aff ected were sold in the United States. The remainder were sold in Canada and Mexico.

he two bombs sent to former vice-president Joe Biden and AI art sold for more than $400,000 Ta third to actor Robert De Niro yesterday were similar to the devices A work of art created by an algorithm has been sold for $432,500, intended for several other high-profi le the auction house said yesterday. Democrats and critics of US President It is the first time a piece of art made using artificial intelligence (AI) Donald Trump, authorities said. has gone under the hammer, according to Christie’s in New York. None of the 10 devices exploded but The price was far beyond the estimate of $7,000 to $10,000 set authorities stepped up a manhunt for for what the auctioneer describes as the portrait of “a portly the serial bomber amid a contentious gentleman, possibly French”, who appears to be a man of the campaign season ahead of the No- church, judging by his clothing. vember 6 elections, in which Trump’s Trump: Mainstream media must clean Five bidders drove up the price of the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, Republicans will try to maintain ma- up its act. which is part of a group of portraits of the fictional Belamy family. jorities in the Senate and House of The series is the brainchild of Obvious, a Paris-based collective Representatives. Right: A police off icer is seen outside exploring the interface between art and artificial intelligence, No one has claimed responsibility the off ice of the the New York Times. Christie’s said in a statement. and the Federal Bureau of Investiga- Security is being ramped up in New The algorithm used a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between tion (FBI) urged the public to report York City after explosive devices were the 14th and 20th centuries to create a new image. any tips and be vigilant. sent to top Democratic politicians and In February, another work from the series was sold to collector Several of the eight people who were to CNN headquarters. Nicolas Laugero Lasserre for €10,000. sent bombs – including former presi- dent Barack Obama and Trump’s rival night, Trump, who has denounced The package sent to CNN, which for the presidency, Hillary Clinton news media organisations as an “en- Trump has frequently derided for its – have been singled out regularly for emy of the people,” called attention coverage of him, contained an enve- harsh rhetoric from Trump and right- to “how nice I’m behaving tonight” lope of white powder that experts were wing critics. but yesterday morning he attacked the analysing, New York City Police Com- Leading Democrats said that the media. missioner James O’Neill said. bombs were a dangerous outgrowth of “A very big part of the Anger we see Some major media outlets in New an antagonistic political atmosphere today in our society is caused by the York, including the New York Times, created by the president. purposely false and inaccurate report- increased security yesterday. Trump condemned the bombs but ing of the Mainstream Media that I re- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo later blamed the media, his frequent fer to as Fake News,” Trump wrote. “It told CNN that some of the packages foil, for much of the angry tone. has gotten so bad and hateful that it is in his state were hand-delivered and Trump and other Republicans have beyond description. Mainstream Me- that the authorities were scrutinising likened Democrats to an “angry mob”, dia must clean up its act, FAST!” security camera videos for signs of the citing protests at the confi rmation Also sent packages were Eric Holder, bomber. hearing of US Supreme Court Justice who served as attorney general under Trump told the Wisconsin rally his Brett Kavanaugh. Obama; former Central Intelligence government would conduct “an ag- The pipe bombs discovered on Agency (CIA) director John Brennan, gressive investigation”. Wednesday were similar to the ones who had his security clearance with- “Any acts or threats of political vio- sent to Biden and De Niro, a federal of- drawn after frequently lambasting lence are an attack on our democracy fi cial told Reuters. Trump; prominent Democratic Party itself,” Trump said. “We want all sides Authorities described the devices donor George Soros; and, California to come together in peace and har- as crude, while security experts said Representative Maxine Waters, anoth- mony.” their goal may have been to create fear er outspoken Trump critic. Last week, Trump, who joined other rather than to kill. Two packages were sent to Waters, Republicans in accusing Democrats of The FBI said yesterday that one of who Trump has called “an extraordi- encouraging “mob” tactics, heaped the two packages sent to Biden – who narily low IQ person”, Several politi- praise on a Montana congressional once said he would have fought Trump cians, including US Senate Major- candidate who assaulted a reporter if they were in high school – was dis- ity Leader Mitch McConnell and New during his successful 2017 campaign. covered at a mail facility in his home York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, de- The fi rst package turned up on state of Delaware and the second at scribed the package bombs as an act of Monday and was addressed to Soros, another location. terrorism. the billionaire fi nancier and advocate The device intended for De Niro, “Someone is trying to intimidate. of liberal, open-border values who is who received a loud ovation when he Someone is trying to quash voices in a frequent target of right-wing con- hurled an obscenity at Trump at the this country using violence,” De Blasio spiracy theories. Tony Awards last June, was sent to one said. “I am confi dent that we will fi nd The FBI said on Wednesday that of his properties in New York City. the perpetrator or perpetrators.” the packages consisted of a manila As investigators sought the would- The CNN bureau in New York re- envelope with a bubble-wrap interior be bomber, police evacuated a building ceived a package addressed to Bren- containing “potentially destructive adjacent to the US Capitol that houses nan, who has appeared as a CNN devices”. lawmakers’ offi ces around midday but analyst, leading police to evacuate the Each bore a computer-printed ad- did not cite a reason for the action. Time Warner building in a Manhattan dress label and six “Forever” postage At a Wisconsin rally Wednesday neighbourhood near Central Park. stamps, the FBI said.

Pentagon to send 800 troops to border

AFP tagon by the Department of Homeland headlines in the run up to America’s Washington Security, the huge US agency with re- mid-term Congressional elections sponsibility for the border. that could see the Democrats regain Trump earlier tweeted earlier yes- some degree of power. he Pentagon is expected to de- terday that “Democrat inspired” laws In a series of tweets last week, ploy about 800 troops to the make it diffi cult to stop people at the Trump signalled his intention to send TUS-Mexico border, two US of- border. more troops, saying that unless Mex- fi cials told AFP yesterday, after Presi- “I am bringing out the military for ico stopped the “onslaught” of peo- dent Donald Trump said the military this National Emergency. They will be ple from Guatemala, Honduras and would be used there to tackle a “na- stopped!” he said. El Salvador, he would “call up the US tional emergency”. In April, Trump said he would send Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN The active-duty troops would aug- thousands of National Guard troops to BORDER!” ment the 2,000 or so National Guards- the southern border. He has also announced the US men already deployed to support op- That initial authorisation allowed would start cutting aid to Guatemala, erations on the border, and could come for about 4,000 Guardsmen to be sent Honduras and El Salvador. from multiple military bases around to the frontier, but only about half that Yesterday, the caravan set off from the US. number have been deployed. the town of Mapastepec in the south- Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is ex- Those troops are mainly serving in a ern Mexican state of Chiapas, moving pected to sign orders for the new de- support role to help free up border pa- on to the next stop in their long march ployment, one offi cial said. trol offi cers. north. The troops would include doc- Yesterday’s move comes as thou- They were headed to the town of tors and engineers and would be used sands of Central American migrants Pijijiapan, some on trucks but most mainly to provide logistical support are crossing Mexico toward the United making the seven-hour trek on foot. including tents, vehicles and equip- States in a “caravan”. Four days after crossing into Mexico, ment. The issue has become a rallying cry the caravan is still more than 3,000km The offi cial said that the troops for the US president, who has taken a (1,860 miles) from the US border, would satisfy elements of a “wish list” hard line on illegal immigration and moving along a route that runs parallel for military assistance sent to the Pen- has repeatedly kept the story in the with the Pacifi c coast. Gulf Times 6 Friday, October 26, 2018 ASIA Mourned Najib faces 6 more graft charges over state funds

Reuters A particular focus is how relate to a pipeline project and Kuala Lumpur billions of dollars went miss- the East Cost Rail Link (ECRL), a ing from state fund 1Malaysian $14bn project that was the cen- Development Berhad (1MDB), trepiece of China’s infrastructure ormer Malaysian premier founded by Najib in 2009. push in Malaysia. Najib Razak was yesterday Four of the six charges fi led The project, signed under Na- Fcharged with six counts of yesterday involving about 4.78bn jib’s premiership, was suspended criminal breach of trust involv- ringgit relate to a settlement by Mahathir who has said the Indonesians yesterday held mass prayers at the Balaroa village, where soil liquefaction happened after the powerful magnitude 7.5 ing government funds worth agreement between 1MDB and deal was “unfair” to Malaysia. earthquake hit central Sulawesi on September 28. more than $1.5bn, adding to the Abu Dhabi state fund IPIC, said The judge released Najib and 32 charges he already faces for Azam Baki, a deputy commis- Irwan after setting a bail of 1mn money laundering and graft. sioner at the anti-graft agency. ringgit each. His former treasury chief, Ir- In 2017, 1MDB had agreed to Prosecutors had earlier asked wan Serigar Abdullah, was also pay $1.2bn to the Abu Dhabi for 3mn ringgit bail for Najib, but charged with criminal breach fund, in a settlement agreement the former premier’s lawyers said of trust, becoming the high- following a dispute between the it was getting diffi cult for Najib Duterte sacks ‘Ongoing genocide’ against est-ranking civil servant to be two over bond payments, ac- to settle bail after having paid charged since Najib was unex- cording to the companies. 4.5mn ringgit in bail since July. pectedly ousted in a general elec- The 1MDB-linked charges al- “I would like to ask that my cli- top customs Myanmar’s Rohingya: UN tion in May. The two pleaded not lege Irwan and Najib committed ent is given at least three weeks guilty to all the charges. the breach of trust off ence with for him to settle the 1mn bail be- Each charge carries a jail term 220mn ringgit of government cause it has become very diffi cult offi cials over AFP Burgener, said that accountability and of up to 20 years, a fi nancial pen- funds meant for Kuala Lumpur for my client, even before and in United Nations “inclusive dialogue” were the two im- alty and a whipping sentence, International Airport Berhad, the latest case,” Shafee said, add- portant pillars for national reconcilia- but both Najib and Irwan would 1.3bn ringgit meant for a sub- ing Najib’s bank accounts remain missed drugs tion. be exempted from whipping as sidy and cash aid programme and frozen. genocide against Myanmar’s “Credible fact-fi nding is the fi rst they are over the age of 50. 3.3bn ringgit of other govern- The judge ordered the bail be Rohingya Muslims is still con- step towards accountability,” she said. “Nothing in the charges show ment funds. paid in 10 days. Reuters Atinuing, UN investigators said The Myanmar government rejected that any of the acts I undertook Najib’s lawyer Mohamed Sha- Najib is already facing 32 mon- Manila Wednesday as they presented a report the UN mission’s fi ndings, questioning resulted in any benefi t to me,” fee Abdullah said his client did ey laundering, graft and breach to the Security Council, calling for the its independence and pointing out that Najib said at a press conference not personally benefi t from these of trust charges over transactions issue to be referred to an international it had itself established an independent after the court hearing. transactions. linked to 1MDB. hilippine President Rodrigo Duterte yester- tribunal. investigative commission made up of “There shouldn’t be any be- “These were funds that were He has pleaded not guilty and day fi red the head of the Bureau of Customs Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the Asian diplomats. lief that any of the monies stated initially allocated for a purpose, his trial is due to begin next year. Pand ordered all top bureau offi cials replaced UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, Darusman said however that Myan- in the charges were lost, or that but on priority was revised, in the His wife, Rosmah Mansor, was after the agency failed to intercept more than a said that beyond mass killings, the con- mar’s internal inquiries have “proven to there were any elements of self- face of urgency and dire straits charged with money laundering tonne of drugs, the second such case in two years. fl ict included the ostracisation of the be ineff ective failures” so far. interest.” the nation was placed into. earlier this month and had to pay Duterte has made a bloody fi ght against drugs population, prevention of births, and The Security Council meeting was The new administration led For the purposes of settlement bail of 2mn ringgit. the centrepiece of his administration since he widespread displacement in camps. called by Western powers but opposed by Mahathir Mohamed has been of the IPIC issue, an executive US authorities allege that won a presidential election in 2016. “It is an ongoing genocide,” he told a by China and Russia, allies who have cracking down on corruption and decision had to be undertaken $4.5bn was siphoned from 1MDB Thousands of people have been killed in the press conference. friendly ties with Myanmar’s military has charged several former senior very honestly,” Shafee told the and that about $700mn was di- crackdown. “We consider the genocide intent can and have regularly shielded the nation government offi cials, including court. verted into Najib’s personal bank Duterte said Customs Commissioner Isidro be reasonably inferred,” he said as he from criticism. Najib’s former deputy. He said the other two charges accounts. Lapena was being removed from his post and presented the team’s report to a United Myanmar maintains that the vio- all his deputies and top offi cials would be trans- Nations Security Council meeting. lence in Rakhine was triggered by Ro- ferred. The 444-page report, fi rst made hingya extremists who attacked border “The commissioners are out, the department public last month, called on the coun- posts in August 2017. heads are out,” Duterte said during a speech at a cil to refer the issue to the International The military has denied almost ceremony commemorating the founding of the Criminal Court in The Hague, or to cre- all accusations of genocide levelled Singapore opposition leaders appeal coastguard. ate an ad hoc tribunal, as was done with against it, insisting that “clearance op- He said he was appointing retired army general the former Yugoslavia. erations” were necessary to fi ght Ro- to take over the bureau and soldiers and members The explosive report said that My- hingya militants. for help to stave off bankruptcy of the coastguard would help him. anmar’s top generals, including Com- But the UN fact-fi nding mission said Duterte said Lapena would be reassigned to a mander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, there were reasonable grounds to be- government training agency. must be investigated and prosecuted lieve that the atrocities were commit- By Fathin Ungku, Reuters the defendants say are unfounded. friends to pay almost S$600,000 in Lapena, who was at the ceremony, expressed for genocide in Rakhine state. ted with the intention of destroying the Singapore The three can lose their parlia- legal fees and will continue to fi ght surprise by his transfer and commented briefl y to Myanmar has rejected accusations Rohingya. mentary seats if declared bank- the claims against them. reporters to express his thanks to Duterte for his that its military committed atrocities It found that the military’s tactics rupt, which will cut the party’s Singh took to the witness new posting. in the crackdown last year that forced had been “consistently and grossly eaders of Singapore’s only seats to six in the 100-seat as- stand yesterday hearing in the He was not available for comment later. 720,000 Rohingya to fl ee over the bor- disproportionate to actual security parliamentary opposi- sembly dominated by the ruling trial which is expected to con- Lapena, a retired police general, has been un- der to Bangladesh. threats”, and that estimates that some Ltion party have appealed People’s Action Party (PAP). tinue until into next month. der pressure since customs authorities failed to The confl ict has also seen about 10,000 people were killed in the crack- to supporters for fi nancial help, “We need fi nancial resources The trio are being sued in sepa- detect a shipment estimated at more than a tonne 390 villages destroyed and 10,000 Ro- down was likely a conservative fi gure. saying they face the risk of bank- to fi ght the legal battle and to rate cases by the town councils of methamphetamines being smuggled into the hingya killed, Darusman said. Myanmar’s de facto leader Suu Kyi — ruptcy as costs mount in civil deal with the prospect of being for wrongful payments made to country in July. “The conditions are not in place for once lionised by the international com- cases they are fi ghting. made a bankrupt,” party chief companies. Drug enforcement agents later found traces of a safe, dignifi ed and sustainable return munity as a democracy icon — has seen The three offi cials are being Pritam Singh, former leader Low “We have acted in good faith, the drugs in the containers in which they were of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh” to My- a sharp fall from grace following her re- sued by two town councils con- Thia Khiang, and party chair Syl- and did what we believed to be in smuggled, but the drugs were gone. Duterte did anmar, he warned, adding any attempt fusal to speak out against the military. trolled by the party between 2011 via Lim said in a joint post on a the best interests of our residents not refer to that case yesterday. would just risk more deaths. The UN mission has pointed out that and 2015 for more than S$30mn website set up to appeal for sup- and the Town Council,” the Work- The previous head of the customs bureau At the end of an October 10-20 visit her government’s attempts to white- ($21.7mn) in damages. port in their case. ers’ Party leaders said in the post. was removed after a huge amount of drugs were to the country, the UN’s Special En- wash facts had worsened the situation The councils say the trio failed They said they have used personal The next general election is smuggled into the country in May last year. voy to Myanmar, Christine Schraner for the embattled Rohingya. in their fi duciary duties — claims savings and fi nancial support from due by early 2021.

Swamped with plastic waste: Malaysia struggles as global scrap piles up

By A Ananthalakshmi and in Malaysia to handle that waste, many ries in that area have a licence to import ain, another big plastic waste exporter, Emily Chow, Reuters without an operating licence, using plastic waste. sends a quarter of its waste to Malaysia, Pulau Indah, Malaysia low-end technology and environmen- One of the bigger ones, Jingye Manu- also more than any other country. tally harmful methods of disposal. facturing Sdn Bhd, was shut down in Environment Minister Yeo esti- “The situation is getting worse, es- August for not having a licence, accord- mated that the plastic recycling indus- undreds of sacks fi lled with pecially with more and more illegal ing to an offi cial notice seen by Reuters. try would earn Malaysia 3.5bn ringgit plastic waste from the United plastic recycling factories,” Yeo Bee Yin, But workers in the factory and others ($841.95mn) this year. HStates, Britain, South Korea and Malaysia’s minister of energy, technol- nearby say it reopened within weeks, Zuraida said she planned to intro- Spain spill onto the streets of an indus- ogy, science, climate change and envi- and when Reuters reporters visited ear- duce new rules soon that will make it trial zone in Pulau Indah, an island town ronment, told parliament last week. lier this month, it was operating. harder for factories to qualify for an just an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur Used plastic is recycled into pellets, Plastic waste was stacked up within import licence. and home to Malaysia’s biggest port. which are then used to manufacture the premises and all along the road. “I understand plastic recycling is The stench of burning plastic and other plastic products, but the process The factory supervisor declined quite lucrative. So I am also thinking fumes from nearly a dozen recycling comes with pollution risks. comment. should we miss this economic opportu- factories wafts through the neighbour- Plastic unsuitable for recycling is Company records show Jingye was nity? This is something the committee hood, even as more container-loads of burnt, which releases toxic chemicals set up in Malaysia in October 2017, will study,” Zuraida told Reuters. plastic waste are unloaded. into the atmosphere. three months after China said it would If such an option is pursued, Malay- Pulau Indah — ironically, the name Or it ends up in landfi ll, potentially ban imports of foreign waste from 2018. sia would do so on strict terms, require means “beautiful island” in Malay — is contaminating soil and water sources. Reuters could not reach the owners high-end, green technology and allow one of many towns in Malaysia where Yeo said she does not want Malay- of the factory and no contact details factories to operate only in heavy in- illegal plastic recycling factories have sia to be the “trash can” for developed were listed in records. dustrial areas, she said. popped up in recent months as the nations, but Housing Minister Zuraida One worker in the industrial zone, Plastic waste is piled outside an illegal recycling factory in Jenjarom, Kuala The factories are currently located Southeast Asian nation became the top Kamaruddin, who oversees the waste who did not want to be identifi ed, said Langat, Malaysia. haphazardly, including near or within choice for plastic waste exporters from management department, told Reuters there were as many as eight illegal fac- residential areas. around the world. that the government also does not want tories in the zone and many openly thorities in the last three months after jumped to 456,000 tonnes between In Kuala Langat, southwest of Kuala The trigger for this dumping deluge to miss out on a business that could be burned plastic that cannot be recycled. residents complained of open burning January and July, versus 316,600 tonnes Lumpur, a massive recycling factory was a Chinese ban on waste imports worth billions. “Every night they burn. I see black of plastic and health complications. purchased in all of 2017 and 168,500 nestled between palm plantations was from the beginning of this year, which Both ministers are members of a gov- smoke at night, so I go over and ask him It is unclear how the illegal factories tonnes in 2016. shut down three months ago. disrupted the fl ow of more than 7mn ernment committee studying its op- ‘why are you trying to kill me?’ They ig- are sourcing plastic waste. The United States, the world’s top But 3m tall towers of plastic waste — tonnes of plastic scrap a year. tions for dealing with the growing pile nore me,” he said. Zuraida said some of the 95 compa- exporter of plastic waste, sent 178,238 mostly consumer packaging material Malaysia quickly became the lead- of plastic waste. In the nearby district of Kuala Lan- nies that have a permit to import and tonnes of such waste to Malaysia be- from the United States, Britain, France, ing alternative destination, importing In the Pulau Indah industrial zone, gat, authorities found 41 factories recycle such waste are subcontracting tween January and July, nearly twice as Netherlands, Germany and Australia — nearly half a million tonnes of plastic Reuters reporters saw nearly a dozen operating illegally, many of them run to illegal factories as they lack the ca- much as it sent to second top destina- were still piled in the front yard. waste between January and July from recycling plants, many of them without by Chinese companies, according to pacity to handle such volumes. tion, Thailand, according to the United A large plot of land next to the factory just its top 10 source-countries. signboards or company names, though Housing Minister Zuraida. Malaysia’s imports of plastic waste Nations’ trade database and the Insti- has been turned into a dumping site for Dozens of factories have opened up government data shows only two facto- Around 30 were shut down by au- from its 10 biggest source-countries tute of Scrap Recycling Industries. Brit- scrap. Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 7 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA Japan’s Abe meets China premier as

Tongan artistes perform during the visit of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in relations thaw Nuku’alofa. AFP visits by both sides and a softening of Beijing rhetoric. “Our two countries have been mak- Tonga princess greets Harry, Meghan ing continuous eff orts to improve rela- apan’s Shinzo Abe and his Chinese tions,” Abe said before fl ying to Beijing, counterpart Li Keqiang yesterday expressing his hope that the visit would Reuters Twitter user, Talita Kefu of San monarchies, like Australia and New Jcommemorated the 40th anniversary “lift bilateral relations to a new level.” Sydney Mateo in California, in a message on Zealand, recognise Britain’s Queen of a friendship treaty, at the start of a Abe and Xi are likely to focus on a the social network. “Thank you for Elizabeth as their head of state. rare trip to Beijing by the Japanese prime range of potential deals, including joint donning our national colours.” The couple dine with Tupou be- minister, who is seeking to repair frayed investments in infrastructure in region- Tongan princess yesterday Dancers in woven skirts and fore an audience today with Prime relations. al nations including Indonesia and the welcomed Britain’s Prince necklaces crafted from red fl owers Minister ‘Akilisi Phiva, who briefl y Abe’s visit is part of a painstaking Philippines. AHarry and his wife Meghan and feathers in their hair sang and found himself at the centre of a dip- courtship aimed at winning over the Abe said they also planned to discuss when they arrived in the tiny South clapped to welcome the royal couple lomatic storm in August, when he world’s second economy after a disas- North Korea and territorial frictions — Pacifi c nation, before driving into to the Polynesian kingdom, made up called for China to forgive mounting trous falling-out in 2012, when Tokyo calling to make “the East China Sea a sea the capital as thousands of school- of 170 mostly uninhabited islands. debt in the region. “nationalised” disputed islands claimed of peace, friendship and cooperation.” children cheered and waved fl ags Red-and-white balloons and Tonga is one of seven island na- by Beijing. The Japanese leader, who leaves China along the way. streamers dotted the route of their tions in the South Pacifi c indebted to Slowly defrosting relations have Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and tomorrow, will also hold additional talks Princess Latufuipeka Tukuaho, motorcade into Nuku’alofa, the cap- China, which is building infl uence in warmed rapidly in recent months as the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with Li. the eldest daughter of King Tupou, ital, while schoolchildren in red and the region. two countries face down huge tariff s shake hands during their meeting at the Just days before Abe’s trip, Tokyo shook hands and curtseyed to greet white uniforms waved small plastic The visit by the British royal cou- from US President Donald Trump, who Great Hall of the People in Beijing lodged an offi cial complaint after Chi- Harry, clad in beige linen suit and British and Tongan fl ags and cheered ple, who announced last week that is set on reducing American trade defi - nese ships cruised around the disputed Meghan, who wore a long-sleeved excitedly. they are expecting a child, follows a cits with both countries. World War II, Li called for the countries islands that Tokyo calls the Senkaku and red dress in the colour of the Tongan Tonga is the only sovereign con- tour of Fiji and Australia, where they Looking to hedge against the US lead- to “jointly promote regional peace” and Beijing labels the Diaoyu islands. fl ag, with a label visible at the hem. stitutional monarchy in Oceania that will return for the closing ceremony er, Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping “safeguard multilateralism and free trade,” Abe’s three-day trip sets up the pos- “How do we love thee, Meghan? retains its own royal family, while of the Invictus Games in Sydney, be- are expected to discuss how to improve according to state broadcaster CCTV. sibility that Xi will visit Japan next year. Oh let us count the ways,” said one the region’s other constitutional fore wrapping up in New Zealand. economic cooperation between the “Japan and China play an irreplace- China has long denounced Japan for world’s second and third largest econo- able role in the economic development of what it says is an insuffi ciently contrite mies when they meet today. Asia and even the world,” Abe said, ac- attitude towards its role in World War II. Japanese business is eager for in- cording to CCTV, calling on both sides to But ahead of the trip, Beijing has taken creased access to China’s massive work together to “promote world peace a more cordial stance than it has in the market, while Beijing is interested in and prosperity.” past. N Korean general attends China forum Japanese technology and corporate Abe’s visit is the fi rst by a Japanese Japanese media have reported Abe is know-how. prime minister since 2011. hoping the visit will produce a soft pow- During a reception to celebrate the Since an awkward 2014 encounter er win in the form of some panda diplo- Reuters Singaporean indicted for laundering funds for N Korea signing of the treaty that put Japanese between Abe and Xi on the sidelines of macy, with zoos in Sendai and Kobe ap- Beijing and Chinese relations back on track after a summit, there have been ministerial parently angling for new additions. US prosecutors yesterday unveiled slapped sanctions on Tan and two charges against a Singapore business- companies he ran — Wee Tiong(S) Pte North Korean general yes- man once lauded as a leading young and WT Marine Pte, both of which did terday got a warm welcome entrepreneur, alleging he illegally business with North Korea. Ain Beijing, a rare high-profi le laundered millions of dollars in funds Tan “conducted illicit transactions showing at an international mili- for North Korea. totalling millions of dollars in support Beijing insists Chinese military will act tary forum by his normally reclusive A grand jury indictment charged of North Korean entities in blatant vio- country, underscoring an improve- Tan Wee Beng, 41, with working with lation of a host of economic sanctions ment in ties with China and the several other unnamed actors to the United States has established ‘at any cost’ to prevent Taiwan split world. move money through the interna- against North Korea and North Kore- North Korean leader Kim Jong- tional banking system for North an entities,” said FBI assistant director un and US President Donald Trump Korean banks between 2011 and 2018, William Sweeney in a statement. Reuters Forum in Beijing, which China styles as States are important and sensitive, Wei held a landmark summit in Singa- violating international sanctions on The FBI placed Tan on its “most Beijing its answer to the annual Shangri-La Dia- said, adding that China would never give pore in June as they both look to set North Korea. wanted” list, saying his whereabouts logue security forum in Singapore. up an inch of its territory. aside decades of hostility and bring Separately, the US Treasury are currently unknown. “On this issue, it is extremely danger- Beijing opposed displays of strength peace to the Korean peninsula. hina’s military will take action “at ous to repeatedly challenge China’s bot- and provocation in the South China Sea The two Koreas have also held any cost” to foil any attempt to tom line. If someone tries to separate out by “nations from outside the region” three summits this year, while Kim ments translated into English. chapter in ties, he said. Cseparate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, China’s military will take the carried out under the pretense of pro- has also met Chinese President Xi “Today’s dramatic reality of the North Korea wants to turn the Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, the necessary actions at any cost.” tecting freedom of fl ight and navigation, Jinping three times in 2018. Korean Peninsula is the fruition of peninsula into a “cradle for peace country’s defence minister said yesterday. Taiwan’s Presidential Offi ce and De- he added. Attending the Xiangshan Forum chairman Kim Jong Un’s determi- and prosperity that contributes to China has been infuriated by recent fence Ministry declined to comment on The world’s two largest economies in Beijing, which China styles as its nation and bold decision to turn the the security of Asia and the globe US sanctions on its military, one of a Wei’s remarks. needed to deepen high-level ties so as to answer to the annual Shangri-La Korean Peninsula into a cradle of by thoroughly implementing the growing number of fl ashpoints in Sino- China-Taiwan relations have dete- navigate tension and rein in the risk of Dialogue security forum in Singa- peace without any nuclear weapons DPRK-US joint statement”, Kim US ties that include a bitter trade war, riorated since the island’s President Tsai inadvertent confl ict, US Defense Secre- pore, Kim Hyong Ryong, vice minis- or nuclear threats and achieve na- added, referring to his country’s of- the issue of Taiwan, and China’s increas- Ing-wen, of the independence-leaning tary Jim Mattis told his Chinese counter- ter of North Korea’s People’s Armed tional reunifi cation,” Kim said. fi cial name, the Democratic People’s ingly muscular military posture in the Democratic Progressive Party, swept to part in Singapore last week. Forces, was greeted warmly by other Chinese state media said it was Republic of Korea. South China Sea. power in 2016. China has also expressed concern af- attendees, including Singapore De- the fi rst time a North Korean general “The important reason the DPRK On Monday, the United States sent Tsai says she wants to maintain the ter US President Donald Trump said the fence Minister Ng Eng Hen. had attended the forum, which sen- put forward a new strategic policy two warships through the Taiwan Strait status quo with China but will not be United States would withdraw from a Addressing the forum, Kim said ior Western offi cials are traditionally line of concentrating all eff orts on in the second such operation this year bullied. Cold War-era treaty that eliminated nu- peace was the priority. largely absent from. socialist economic construction is and the latest in a series of US gestures in Beijing, which has never renounced clear missiles from Europe because Rus- “Until only a year ago, the danger Kim said North Korea was mak- to contribute to peace and stability support of democratic Taiwan. the use of force to bring Taiwan under its sia was violating the pact. of military confl ict lingered on the ing “sincere eff orts” to successfully of the region and the whole world,” “The Taiwan issue is related to China’s control, has also viewed US overtures to- China is not a party to that treaty, Korean Peninsula but today we are implement agreements reached by he said. sovereignty and territorial integrity and ward the island with alarm, such as a new but Trump has also suggested China’s witnessing a series of events beyond leader Kim and Trump in Singapore. “The DPRK will continue to ful- touches upon China’s core interests,” de facto embassy there and passage of a military strength played a role in his all our expectations giving rise to the That summit was an “event of ep- fi l its obligations and role in order Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe law to encourage visits by US offi cials. decision, which China has described as warm atmosphere of reconciliation, ochal signifi cance” putting an end to to ease tensions and achieve stable said at the opening of the Xiangshan China’s military ties with the United “completely wrong”. unity and peace,” he said, in com- their hostility and opening up a new peace on the Korean Peninsula.” Koreans remove guns from Cold War truce village

AFP Command stand face to face. personnel from each side and Moon has advocated engage- Seoul By today, all guards will be dis- “freedom of movement” will be ment with the isolated North to armed, ministry spokeswoman allowed for visitors and tour- nudge it toward denuclearisa- Choi Hyun-soo said, part of a ists, according to a military pact tion. he two Koreas yesterday recent diplomatic thaw between signed between the two Koreas The two Koreas and the UN were removing the last the two foes that has gathered last month. Command, which is included as Tremaining fi rearms and pace. South and North Korea — it retains jurisdiction over the guard posts from a Cold War “I am aware that it is going which are technically still at war southern half of the JSA, will era truce village where armed according to plan,” Choi told re- — agreed to take measures to ease conduct a joint verifi cation until soldiers have stared each other porters. military tensions on their border Saturday. down for decades, Seoul’s de- Panmunjom was where the ar- at a meeting in Pyongyang last The UNC chief, US general fence ministry said. mistice that ended the bitter Ko- month between President Moon Vincent Brooks, told report- The Joint Security Area — also rean War was signed. Jae-in and Kim Jong Un. ers in August that as UN com- known as the truce village of It was a designated neutral The two sides fi nished remov- mander he supported initiatives Panmunjom — has historically zone until the “axe murder in- ing landmines at the JSA — which that could reduce military ten- been both a fl ashpoint and a key cident” in 1976, when North has been increasingly used for sions. location for diplomacy between Korean soldiers attacked a work talks between the two Koreas — But he added that as com- the two Koreas ever since their party trying to chop down a tree last week as part of the deal. mander of the combined US- split in 1953. inside the Demilitarized Zone The September summit was South Korean forces — one of his It is the only spot along the (DMZ), leaving two US army of- the third this year between the other roles — he felt there was a Members of South Korea’s Defence Ministry recovery team work on recovering the remains of soldiers tense, 250km frontier where fi cers dead. leaders, as a remarkable rap- “reasonable degree of risk” in killed in the Korean War in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, 90km northeast soldiers from North Korea and Once demilitarised, the JSA prochement takes hold on the Seoul’s plans to dismantle guard of Seoul. the US-led United Nations will be guarded by 35 unarmed peninsula. posts near the DMZ. Gulf Times 8 Friday, October 26, 2018 BRITAIN/IRELAND

PEOPLE DECISION SETBACK OFFBEAT LAW AND ORDER All roles in military to be Bercow could face Bakery’s gingerbread men Journalist charged for open to women: govt ‘bullying’ inquiry turned into ‘ginger persons’ slapping man at conference

Women will be allowed to apply for all Speaker John Bercow could face an A family bakery has been criticised for selling A female Chinese reporter has been charged military roles in the British armed forces investigation into historical bullying ‘ginger persons’ instead of gingerbread men. with assault after allegedly slapping a including in frontline infantry units and allegations made against him by Commons The decision to rebrand the traditional biscuit volunteer at an event on the sidelines of the Royal Marines, the government has staff . Parliament’s ruling body, the House of has gone down badly with traditionalists. An the Conservative Party conference last announced. It was confirmed that women Commons Commission, has agreed to consider image of ‘ginger persons’ on sale at the Thomas month where they were discussing political will also be able to put themselves forward such claims after a damning report into bullying the Baker shop in York at a price of four for freedoms in Hong Kong. Kong Linlin, a for selection for specialist units including and sexual harassment. The recommendation £1.20 was shared thousands of times online and 48-year-old reporter for the country’s state- the SAS and SBS. The Defence Secretary, of the inquiry headed by Dame Laura Cox was provoked a heated debate. One Twitter user run broadcaster China Central Television, was Gavin Williamson, made the announcement, adopted by the commission. Her report said the said: “What is going on in the world they’ve arrested after the incident at the event that which the ministry of defence described as senior management of parliament had allowed always been GINGERBREAD MEN now they’re featured pro-democracy supporters from the historic, during a land power demonstration a culture of bullying and harassment to ‘thrive’. called “Gingerbread persons” Another wrote: former British colony. West Midlands Police French free-climber Alain Robert, known on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Williamson The blow for Bercow came as the chairman of ‘What on earth is our world coming too? They said she had been charged with common as ‘Spiderman’, attempts to climb up the said that, from yesterday, women already the women and equalities committee, Maria have always been gingerbread men!’ Others assault and will appear at Birmingham outside of the Heron Tower in the financial serving in the army were able to transfer into Miller, quit a diversity group led by the Speaker blamed ‘feminists’ and ‘snowflakes’ for the Magistrates Court on November 7. Kong did district of London, Britain, yesterday. infantry roles. in protest that he had not resigned. gender-neutral change. not respond to a request for comment left at her company’s off ices in London.

Irish presidential election begins Govt apologises to migrants forced to give DNA samples

Guardian News and Media dence and that not providing such London information without a reasonable excuse would lead to their appli- cation being refused on suitability he home secretary has apol- grounds. ogised to migrants – in- Javid said 83 applications were Tcluding to Afghan nationals refused, including seven refused who worked for the British armed solely for the failure to provide forces and Gurkha soldiers – who DNA evidence. A further six ap- were forced to provide DNA sam- pear to have been refused for ples under the government’s hos- failure to provide DNA evidence tile environment agenda. where this was not the sole reason. Migrants seeking to live and In addition, the home secre- work in the UK on the basis of a tary said the illegal requirement to family relationship can choose to provide DNA had been applied to provide DNA to prove a relation- Gurkha soldiers and Afghan na- ship to support an application. tionals who had worked for the UK Presiding off icer Carmel McBride and Garda Sergeant John Gallagher arrive by helicopter with a ballot box for the Irish presidential election, on Inishbofin Island, County But Sajid Javid told the House government. Donegal, Ireland, yesterday. Some 2,100 registered voters on 12 remote islands off the west coast went to the polls one day ahead of the rest of the electorate. With a huge of Commons that in June it be- In January 2015, a scheme was lead in the opinion polls ahead of the vote, President Michael D Higgins appears to be a near-certainty to win his second seven-year term for the largely ceremonial off ice. came apparent that the provision expanded to allow adult depend- of DNA evidence had been made a ent children of Gurkhas dis- requirement and was “not simply charged before 1997 to settle in the a request” in a number of family UK, Javid said. visa applications. Guidance was published that “I want to take this opportu- stated that DNA evidence might nity to apologise to those who have be required and that applications been aff ected by this process,” could be refused if that evidence Javid said. was not provided without reason- The minister said he had set up a able excuse within four weeks. new taskforce for anyone who felt “This published guidance was Philip Green named they had been wrongly required to wrong and has now been updated,” provide DNA evidence for an im- Javid said, adding that there were migration application. 51 cases identifi ed where DNA The home secretary said the evidence was requested from ap- issue came to light over the sum- plicants at their own cost. mer and an internal review was There were four cases from the over harassment claims immediately ordered. The review same family who had their appli- had fi nished but there was further cation refused solely because they Guardian News and Media volved in the case of a powerful from publishing allegations of his statement, an intervention “Non-disclosure agree- work to be done to establish the did not provide DNA evidence. London businessman using non-disclo- misconduct made by fi ve em- before a routine statement on ments cannot stop people from scale of the problem, Javid said. In 2013, applications from Af- sure agreements and substantial ployees about a fi gure the news- immigration made by Conserva- whistleblowing, but it is clear “But regardless of the numbers ghan nationals formerly employed payments to conceal the truth paper described as a “leading tive Home Offi ce minister Lady that some employers are us- of the people that have been af- by the UK government to resettle he retail tycoon Philip about serious and repeated sex- businessman”. Williams. ing them unethically,” May said. fected, one case is one too many,” in the UK were welcomed. Green has been named in ual harassment, racist abuse and That decision overturned an After the name was revealed, She said the government was he said. “I’m determined to get But the terms of the scheme in- Tparliament as the busi- bullying which is compulsively earlier fi nding by the high court Conservative vice-chairman going to bring forward its con- to the bottom of how and why in cluded mandatory DNA testing for nessman accused over sexual continuing, I feel it’s my duty that to identify the man would James Cleverley said on Twit- sultation “to seek to improve some cases people can be com- family groups paid for by the UK harassment and bullying allega- under parliamentary privilege to be in the public interest. ter that he hoped “people must the regulation around non-dis- pelled to supply DNA evidence government, Javid said. tions that the Daily Telegraph name Philip Green as the indi- On Tuesday, the Telegraph now realise that injunctions closure agreements and make it in the fi rst place.” The majority Current investigations suggest was barred from reporting by an vidual in question, given that the published claims that an un- and super-injunctions are absolutely explicit to employees of cases identifi ed were part of a that no one making an applica- injunction. media have been subject to an named “leading businessman” nothing more than a good way when a non-disclosure agree- Home Offi ce operation, which tion under this scheme has been Green, the owner of Topshop, injunction preventing publica- had used NDAs to pay off former to part with large sums of mon- ment does not apply and when it started in April 2016, to clamp refused because they did not take was named by Labour peer Pe- tion of the full details of a story employees who had accused him ey and a bad way to keep things cannot be enforced”. down on alleged fraud in some a DNA test, he said. ter Hain, who said he was using which is clearly in the public in- of discreditable conduct, in what secret”. She was responding to a ques- family and human rights immigra- “Nonetheless mandatory test- parliamentary privilege in the terest.” it described as “a British .MeToo Theresa May said the gov- tion from Labour’s Jess Phillips, tion applications. ing should not have been part of public interest. Hain’s intervention comes scandal”. The Guardian has ap- ernment was committed to re- who said: “It seems our laws al- Letters sent as part of the op- this scheme and this requirement Lord Hain told the House of after court of appeal judges proached Green for comment. forming the use of NDAs when low rich and powerful men to do eration incorrectly stated that the has now been removed,” the home Lords: “Having been contacted granted a temporary injunction There was silence in the questioned in the Commons on what they want as long as they applicant had to provide DNA evi- secretary added. by somebody intimately in- blocking the Daily Telegraph House of Lords after Hain made Wednesday. pay to keep it quiet.”

Royals in Tonga Gritters readied as Missing mum could have bitter cold on the way been murdered: police Guardian News and Media carrying out dry runs on roads in London recent days. “Our gritters are now on 24- Daily Mail about how he panicked on the green’s family desperately ap- hour standby, ready to react to London day she vanished when she failed pealed for information after her ouncil gritters are be- the weather. And with tempera- to respond to his texts. disappearance from the secluded ing prepared for the fi rst tures set to drop, you may see James, from Guildford, Sur- village on October 9. Csigns of winter in Brit- them in the next few days,” said he boyfriend of a miss- rey, said: “On the Tuesday night Kent Police said her small ain, with bitterly cold weather Stoke-on-Trent council. ing mother-of-fi ve spoke I spoke to Sarah on the phone at black 4x4 had been left outside forecast for the coming days and Durham council said several Tof his fi nal conversation 9.24pm. The conversation went her house in the secluded village, snow a possibility in some parts. of its older gritters had been re- with her as police said they were on for about 15 minutes. She said while neither her phone nor bank The end of the week will be placed, with four new power treating the disappearance as po- she was at home and she was in cards have been used since she noticeably colder than recent gritters and 23 new trailer grit- tential murder. bed. went missing. days, with early frost and ice ters among a 76-strong fl eet of Sarah Wellgreen, 46, vanished On Wednesday morning, I Detective superintendent Paul arriving for some, according to road gritting vehicles and snow from her former partner Ben texted her about 7.50am: “morn- Fotheringham said: “It is en- the Met Office, which tweeted blowers. Lacomba’s £330,000 four-bed- ing, honey, how’s you?”, that sort tirely out of character for her to out a warning that the chang- Today is expected to be a room house in New Ash Green, of thing, and it didn’t deliver. go missing and having conducted ing of the clocks this weekend colder day across the whole Kent, a fortnight ago. I didn’t think anything of it at extensive inquiries and searches, would be accompanied by a country, with northerly winds. The beautician had recently fi rst – I thought she just hadn’t this case is now being treated as a cold blast. Any rain in the south will clear moved back in with Lacomba, charged her phone or whatever. potential murder. The Met Offi ce meteorolo- to leave sunny spells. Showers 38, with her three youngest chil- “It got to lunchtime and then “Signifi cantly, Sarah has gist John West predicted “a real would mostly aff ect northern dren – six-year-old twins and I tried texting her again, I tried missed one of her children’s change in feel from the rather Scotland, Wales and areas near a 12-year-old boy – although calling her, e-mailing her, What- birthdays for which she had mild weather, due to high pres- western and eastern coasts, the they had not rekindled their ro- sApp, Messenger.’ Panicking, he made plans – and that too was sure in the UK and replaced by a Met Offi ce said. Some of them, mance. messaged Wellgreen’s older sons, completely out of character.” strong northerly fl ow from the across high ground in Scotland, Taxi driver Lacomba is said to Lewis, 22, and Jack, 21, from her Wellgreen’s uncle Ronald Arctic”. will be wintry. be a fan of Nerf guns, the chil- previous marriage to Dave Bur- Wellgreen, 61, said: “I’m gob- “While the thermometers Predicting cold and windy dren’s toy that fi res foam bul- dett. smacked that it could now be a will be maxing out at about 6C weather over the coming week- lets, and would organise play- The news that Kent Police potential murder investigation. (42.8F) it will feel colder in that end, with overnight frost and fi ghts among friends. Detectives were treating her disappearance It’s been 15 days now. It looks to strong northerly wind,” he said. icy patches, the Met Offi ce quizzed him for three days last as ‘suspicious and a potential me like she could have died, but Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive at While gritters are already pa- said showers would be blustery week before releasing him. murder’ came as it emerged the I’ve got no reason to think she Fua’amotu Airport, Tonga, on day one of the royal couple’s trolling Scottish roads, English around coasts, with some snow Wellgreen’s boyfriend, Neil devoted mother has missed one was killed by someone – why visit to Tonga yesterday. Page 7 councils are also stepping up on hills. Showers will ease from James, spoke for the fi rst time of her children’s birthdays. Well- would she be?” preparations, with a number the north-west by Monday. Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 9 EUROPE Khashoggi’s son leaves Saudi Arabia for US: HRW

Agencies Sarah Leah Whitson, the rights Salah was on his way to the US ton-based Middle East Institute, After fi rst insisting that there are hundreds, if not thou- Saudi King Salman and Crown Washington watchdog’s executive director from Saudi Arabia, as reported who knew the slain journalist Khashoggi left the consulate un- sands, of people in Saudi Ara- Prince Mohamed bin Salman for the Middle East and North by Reuters. personally. harmed, the Saudi authorities bia who face travel bans and are met Salah as well as Khashoggi’s Africa, told AFP, citing a family Salah, a dual US-Saudi citi- “It is tragic that it took his said he was killed in an argument held in detention without any brother, Sahel, at the royal pal- he eldest son of murdered friend. zen, will be joined in the US by death to get the Saudi authori- that degenerated into a brawl. justice.” ace in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi journalist Jamal There was no immediate com- his other siblings who are based ties to grant them the freedom to Riyadh fi nally accepted yes- An offi cial in Washington said Saudi state media said they TKhashoggi, Salah, and ment from Saudi offi cials, but there, friends of the family told travel,” Slim told AFP. terday what Turkey had said US Secretary of State Mike Pom- off ered their condolences to the his family left the Gulf kingdom Whitson said that they were AFP. Jamal Khashoggi, a Washing- virtually from the start – that he peo had “raised the safety and family, but pictures of the prince after the government lifted a apparently allowed to leave af- “Jamal’s family needs a place ton Post contributor, was killed was killed in a premeditated hit. security of the Khashoggi family shaking hands with Salah went travel ban, Human Rights Watch ter the travel ban on Salah was to be together where they feel on October 2 after a visit to the “The lifting of this travel members with the Saudi leader- viral on social media, where (HRW) said yesterday. lifted. safe to mourn their beloved one,” Saudi consulate in Istanbul to ban on Salah and his family is ship”, but declined to discuss the rights activists demanded the “Salah and his family are on a Later, the US State Depart- said Randa Slim, director of con- obtain paperwork before marry- a huge sigh of relief,” Whitson specifi cs of Salah’s travel. immediate lifting of the travel plane to (Washington) DC now,” ment said in a statement that fl ict resolution at the Washing- ing his Turkish fi ancee. said. “We should keep in mind His departure comes after ban. Merkel condemns CIA chief briefs Trump journalist’s killing in call with Saudi king zUnited Nations special rapporteur: Khashoggi was on Khashoggi probe victim of extrajudicial killing z European Parliament urges international probe, seeks Saudi arms embargo zHaspel listened to A European security source zPutin briefed on investigation audio tape of murder: who was briefed by people who listened to the audio said of the Agencies & Al Jazeera sources recording: “There was an argu- z Turkish police ment at the beginning, they in- sulted each other, it then devel- erman Chancellor Angela investigating water oped. (Saudis said) ‘Let’s give a Merkel condemned the samples from well in lesson to him’.” Gkilling of journalist Jamal Saudi consulate Khashoggi did not appear to Khashoggi in the strongest terms believe he was going to die, the possible during a phone call with zWashington Post source said. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, and issues full-page ad for Turkish police were inves- vowed to take appropriate meas- tigating water samples from a ures in response, the chancellery truth in Khashoggi case well at the consulate yesterday said. after initially being denied ac- Merkel “made clear that the Agencies & Al Jazeera cess, broadcaster CNN Turk exact course of events must be said. cleared up”, the chancellery said Meanwhile, dozens of people in a statement after yesterday’s Angela Merkel he head of the CIA yester- stood vigil outside the Saudi telephone call between the two day briefed US President consulate in Istanbul yester- leaders. those responsible to be “iden- TDonald Trump on the lat- day to demand justice. Sev- “The chancellor urged Saudi tifi ed and brought to justice,” est developments in the inves- eral carried cardboard images Arabia to ensure a rapid, trans- and for EU member countries to tigation of the killing of Saudi of his face and signs reading parent and credible investiga- “stand ready to impose targeted journalist Jamal Khashoggi after People hold posters picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a candle during a gathering outside “Khashoggi’s friends”. One, his tion. She stressed that all those sanctions”, including visa bans a fact-fi nding mission to Turkey, the Saudi consulate in Istanbul yesterday. hands painted red, wore a mask responsible must be held ac- and freezing assets, as possi- offi cials said. depicting the face of Crown countable,” the statement added. ble sanctions if Saudi agents are CIA director Gina Haspel with video images and audio investigation takes, the more operation to return him to the Prince Mohamed. The United Nations special found culpable in Khashoggi’s delivered her report to Trump tapes of Khashoggi’s killing concerned we become about its kingdom. The Washington Post called rapporteur on extrajudicial, death. at the White House with Sec- gathered from the consulate. impact and its effi cacy. And the Yesterday, Saudi state TV on its readers to “Demand the summary or arbitrary executions The European Parliament also retary of State Mike Pompeo Sources told Reuters that longer it takes, the longer there are quoted the Saudi public pros- Truth” regarding the murder of has said the killing of Khashoggi, demanded an EU-wide arms also present, State Department Haspel heard an audio record- questions about this tragedy that ecutor as saying the killing was Khashoggi, who was a columnist who vanished after entering the embargo against Saudi Arabia spokesman Robert Palladino ing of Khashoggi’s death dur- remain unanswered,” he added. premeditated, and that prosecu- with the paper, in its online and Saudi consulate in Istanbul on in response to the murder of said, according to AFP. ing the trip to Turkey, but it was Earlier in the day, Saudi Ara- tors were interrogating suspects print editions yesterday, DPA re- October 2, bears the hallmark of Khashoggi, DPA said. Haspel shared her “fi ndings not clear what could be heard. bia’s public prosecutor said on the basis of information pro- ported. an extrajudicial execution. “The murder is unlikely to and discussions from her trip to “We have shared with those who Khashoggi’s murder was pre- vided by a joint Saudi-Turkish “On Tuesday, October 2 “What we know is suffi cient have happened without the Turkey”, said Palladino, who de- sought additional information meditated, reversing previous task force. Washington Post columnist to suggest very strongly that Mr knowledge or control of Saudi clined to discuss the substance some of the information and offi cial statements that the kill- “Information from the Turk- Jamal Khashoggi entered the Khashoggi was the victim of an Crown Prince Mohammed bin of her presentation. fi ndings that the prosecutor has ing was unintended. ish side affi rms that the suspects consulate of Saudi Arabia in Is- extrajudicial execution,” Agnes Salman,” lawmakers noted. The CIA chief held talks Tues- allowed us to share,” Turkish Saudi offi cials initially de- in Khashoggi’s case premeditat- tanbul and was brutally mur- Callamard told Al Jazeera. The parliament resolution was day in Turkey as global outrage Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavu- nied having anything to do with ed their crime,” said the state- dered,” the newspaper wrote in “First, we know that kill- passed by 325 votes in favour, mounted over the killing of soglu told reporters, without Khashoggi’s disappearance after ment carried by state TV. the full-page print ad. ing was in the consulate, which one against and 19 abstentions, Saudi palace critic Khashoggi giving details. he entered the consulate on Oc- Turkish newspaper Yeni Sa- It then showed Crown Prince is representative of the state of during a plenary session in the inside the kingdom’s consulate Palladino said the US was still tober 2, before changing the of- fak, citing an audio recording, Mohamed with the words “De- Saudi Arabia. Second, the indi- French city of Strasbourg. in Istanbul. waiting for a more detailed probe fi cial account to say an internal has said his torturers cut off his mand the Truth” splashed in all viduals present at the time of the Meanwhile, King Salman Turkish media said intelli- by the Saudis. “We want this as investigation suggested he was fi ngers during an interrogation caps. The online edition featured disappearance and the alleged spoke with Russian President gence offi cers provided Haspel soon as possible. The longer the accidentally killed in a botched and later beheaded him. the same image. killing were representatives of Vladimir Putin by telephone the State. Subsequently, over yesterday to brief him on the the last few days at least, Saudi investigation into the murder of authorities have recognised in- Khashoggi, Reuters said, citing dividuals at the highest levels of the offi cial Saudi press agency. Saudi dissident defi ant after Khashoggi murder the structures of authority were The king assured Putin that involved in the disappearance the Saudi government was de- and the killing. termined to hold the guilty par- AFP and accusing Prince Mohamed Saudi passport at the embassy. decisions,” he said. “All of those elements indicate ties accountable and to make London of being behind his murder. After emerging as fi rst-in- Almasarir said international that the disappearance and now sure “they receive their punish- The bus was plastered in ban- line to the Saudi throne in June pressure over Khashoggi’s mur- killing of Jamal Khashoggi bear ment”. ners reading “Justice for Jamal”, 2017, Prince Mohamed gained der should lead to Prince Mo- the hallmark of an extrajudicial The Kremlin said in a state- audi dissident satirist which the demonstrators then popularity after shaking up the hamed being prosecuted. execution.” ment yesterday that Putin and Ghanem Almasarir, whose unfurled outside the security ultraconservative kingdom with “If they refuse to do so, the The European Parliament King Salman had addressed Ssocial media mockery of fence surrounding the plush fundamental reforms. international community should yesterday urged an “independ- the situation related to the Crown Prince Mohamed bin 18th-century mansion in central However, his image has been get together and impose sanc- ent and impartial” international “Khashoggi case” during their Salman gets millions of hits, London. tarnished by Khashoggi’s kill- tions on him personally. He probe into the death of Khashog- phone conversation. has told AFP he is undeterred From self-imposed exile in ing and many critics now see the should be banned from travel- gi, Qatar News Agency reported. DPA also reported that Ger- by journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s Britain, the video-blogging po- 33-year-old’s crackdown on dis- ling,” the social media star said. In a resolution, the European man police are no longer training murder. litical satirist has racked up more sent as verging on authoritarian- Some American politicians Parliament condemned “in the Saudi border guards as of the be- Speaking at a protest on than 200mn views on YouTube. ism. are calling for tough action if a strongest possible terms” the re- ginning of October, the Interior Wednesday outside the Saudi His outspoken anti-regime “A lot of people around the link to the Saudi royal family is ported torture and killing of the Ministry in Berlin announced embassy in London, Almasa- criticism has also earned him world have the wrong image proven. Saudi offi cials say the journalist at the Saudi consulate yesterday, in a further sign of rir said Khashoggi’s slaying had enemies. Ghanem Almasarir poses for a of the Saudis,” said Almasarir. crown prince did not order the in Istanbul. worsening security ties in the shown the wider world a darker On August 31, just over a photograph in front of a protest If critics were being murdered killing. The resolution also called for wake of Khashoggi’s death. side to the power wielded by month before Khashoggi was outside the Saudi Arabian abroad, it begs the question as to Almasarir said he hoped the Prince Mohamed. killed, Almasarir said he was fol- embassy in west London, calling the fate of domestic dissidents, global outrage would bring Turkey questions 38 workers at Saudi consulate “If they are not held account- lowed and beaten by two Saudi for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. he said. “But I don’t think we change to the kingdom, pointing able, they will continue to do men. should be intimidated because out that 94% of his YouTube hits Turkish prosecutors have so whether they witnessed it,” the 38-year-old said, adding The scene – in which he was masarir said he has no plans to we have freedom of speech,” he come from within Saudi Arabia. far taken statements from 38 anything extraordinary on the that many Saudi dissidents liv- punched in broad daylight – was step beyond them any time soon. added. “The Saudi people are fed up employees at Saudi Arabia’s day of Khashoggi’s death or ing in Britain were “afraid right captured on video. “If we happen to walk inside, Almasarir’s videos ridicule, in with the government, they don’t consulate in Istanbul as part had seen Khashoggi or the 15 now to leave their houses”. Khashoggi’s death has caused I think we will end up like what particular, the crown prince – trust them and they see my show of the probe into the killing alleged perpetrators, according Almasarir and a dozen ac- such a wave of fear among ex- Jamal Khashoggi has suff ered. the power behind King Salman’s as a voice for them.” of Saudi dissident Jamal to the report. Another five tivists hired an old-fashioned, iles that some are now cautious “They might kill us and dis- throne. He said people watched his Khashoggi, DPA said, citing a employees still have to be open-top red London bus to of even visiting their country’s member our bodies,” said the “I mock the Saudis. I nick- YouTube channel “in secrecy report by Turkish state news questioned, the report added. drive past the Saudi embassy for overseas missions. dissident, who has political asy- name the crown prince Tubby but I hope that one day (they) agency Anadolu. It was not clear if the workers their demonstration, chanting Looking at the wrought iron lum in Britain and said he has Teddy Bear. I criticise them and will share it and it’s not a crime The workers were asked were only Turkish employees. “Where is the body of Jamal?” gates of the Saudi embassy, Al- refused invitations to renew his make a joke out of them and their in Saudi Arabia”.

PROTEST HUMAN RIGHTS CLIMATE WAR CRIMES Thousands against Franco burial EU prize given to Ukraine’s Sentsov Dry Danube reveals treasure Kosovo court jails Roma man

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Almudena The European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov human A treasure trove of some 2,000 gold and silver coins has A Pristina court has sentenced a Roma man to 10 years in Roman Catholic Cathedral in central Madrid yesterday to rights prize to Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov and called for Russia to been found on the Danube riverbed in Hungary thanks to an prison for torturing civilians during Kosovo’s 1998-99 conflict demonstrate against any plans to bury the remains of former free the filmmaker, jailed after opposing the annexation of his exceptionally low water level, archaeologists said yesterday. with Serbia. dictator Francisco Franco at the site. native Crimea. “Around 2,000 coins have been found, as well as arms, pikes, Skender Bislimi is the first Roma, a minority group in the Families of the tens of thousands of his opponents who were In bestowing the honour, the European Union’s elected cannon balls and swords,” Katalin Kovacs, an archaeologist region, to be convicted of war crimes in the independence killed or imprisoned during his near four-decade rule oppose assembly took Russian President Vladimir Putin again to task with the Ferenczy Museum Centre, told the MTI agency. struggle that pitted ethnic Albanian guerillas against Serb his burial at such an emblematic site. over what it sees as his illegal occupation of Ukraine. The discovery was made this week where the river passes by forces. Spanish lawmakers voted in September to remove the remains Russia’s foreign ministry slammed the award as “an absolutely the town of Erd, to the south of Budapest. The 58-year-old was found guilty of torturing ethnic Albanian of Franco from a mausoleum where tens of thousands of politicised” move. Archaeologists are working frantically, assisted by divers and civilians in March 1999 as a member of a Serb paramilitary victims of the 1936-39 civil war that brought him to power are In announcing the Sakharov prize, European Parliament drones, to extract what they can from the site before a rise in group. also laid to rest. President Antonio Tajani said Sentsov’s case reminded river levels expected this weekend. Bislimi, who acted “together with at least 10 members” of It is still not known where his remains will be transferred to. the assembly that it has a duty to defend human rights Like other rivers across Europe, the Danube is in some places the group, “violated the bodily integrity and health of more The Franco family has a crypt at the cathedral and Franco’s everywhere. at a historically low level after a long period of dry weather. than 40 civilians, Albanian males, by applying measures of daughter is buried there. Sentsov, 42, is serving a 20-year sentence in a Russian penal In Budapest it is running at a mere 38cm (15”), which has intimidation and terror”, the Pristina court said in a statement. People chanted ‘Criminal out of the cathedral’ and carried colony north of the Arctic Circle based on his 2015 conviction aff ected shipping traff ic. Bislimi was extradited to Kosovo from Bosnia in 2016 after placards reading ‘Madrid: Without Franco’ and ‘Justice!’ for an arson plot in Crimea. The treasure, which includes ducats and pennies, was found being held on an international arrest warrant. The plans to move the remains have divided Spanish society. Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory in 2014, triggering amid the wreck of a trading boat whose origin is not yet The war paved the way for Kosovo’s independence and Some of his descendants have opposed the exhumation. European and US sanctions. known, archaeologists said. claimed 13,000 lives, mostly ethnic Albanians. Gulf Times 10 Friday, October 26, 2018 INDIA

REPRIEVE PEOPLE LAW AND ORDER LEGAL MILITANCY Kejriwal granted bail Nun who protested against Kerala cracks down on Move to attach Nirav Modi’s Four militants shot in assault case tainted bishop heckled Sabarimala protesters Hong Kong properties dead in Kashmir The enforcement directorate yesterday said it A court yesterday granted bail to Delhi Chief A nun who was at the forefront of a protest A day after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sent a request for attachment of fugitive Four militants were yesterday killed in two Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish against now tainted and rape accused Bishop chaired a high-level meeting with senior police diamantaire Nirav Modi’s Hong Kong assets separate gunfights with security forces in Sisodia and nine other Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Franco Mulakkal was at the receiving end from off icials in Thiruvananthapuram, authorities worth Rs2.55bn in the multi-crore Punjab the Kashmir Valley. The security personnel in a case of alleged assault on chief secretary her colleagues yesterday. The incident took place yesterday launched a crackdown on protesters National Bank (PNB) loan default case. The surrounded Athoora village in north Kashmir’s Anshu Prakash. The party accused Prime when the body of Father Kuriakose Kattuthara, who prevented women in the 10-50 age group financial probe agency sought attachment of Baramulla district after receiving information Minister Narendra Modi of conspiring against its who had given statements against Mulakkal, from entering the Sabarimala temple. Police the assets by Hong Kong authorities under the about the presence of militants there, police MLAs. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate was brought for final rites at the St Mary’s Forane have arrested over 1,400 people across the state, Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The ED said. “As the security forces surrounded the Samar Vishal granted bail and asked the accused Church near Alappuzha, Kerala. Kattuthara was registering 258 cases against 2,000 people for said it has till date attached properties worth hiding militants, they fired at the security to furnish a personal bond of Rs 50,000 each found dead in a room at the St. Mary’s Church defying an order of the Supreme Court that had Rs47.44bn in connection with the case in forces triggering an encounter in which two and has listed the matter for further hearing complex in Dasuya, Punjab. The nun, Anupama, allowed women of all ages to visit the temple. India and abroad. The agency said it gathered militants were killed,” a police officer said. on December 7. AAP leader and Delhi Cabinet told the media: “I do not know why people in my The police arrested people from Pathanamthitta information that certain valuables pertaining Later security forces started a cordon and Minister Gopal Rai accused Modi and his parish are against me.” While she was speaking to – the district where the temple is located, to Nirav Modi controlled companies are lying search operation in Arwani village in Anantnag government of conspiring against the Aam the media, some of her colleagues gathered at the Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Ernakulam in the vaults of a Hong Kong-based Logistics district after learning that some militants were Aadmi Party government. spot and shouted at her and told her to leave. and elsewhere. Company. hiding there. Chidambaram 600 cars gifted to employees charged in Aircel-Maxis deal case

IANS petent authority to give the New Delhi approval. “But it was not referred to CCEA, and was approved by he enforcement direc- Chidambaram under a con- torate (ED) yesterday spiracy,” the agency said. Tfi led a chargesheet in the Claiming that the com- Rs35bn Aircel-Maxis case, ac- plaint was on the basis of cusing former fi nance minister adequate material evidences P Chidambaram and a few oth- in the form of e-mails, and ers of laundering Rs11.59mn. communications retrieved The ED has also charged from seized digital devices Chidambaram and others for from Karti and his associates, their role in the Foreign In- the ED filed the voluminous vestment Promotion Board information collected from (FIPB) approval in March various sources. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hands over car keys to employees of Surat-based diamond merchant Savji Dholakia at a programme in New Delhi yesterday. The diamond 2006 to Global Communica- “The material evidences merchant gifted 600 cars to his employees as Diwali gift. tion and Services Holdings inter-alia reveal routing of Ltd, Mauritius, in violation of proceeds of crimes in the guise various rules and regulations of bonafi de business deal by governing the Foreign Direct the benefi ciaries of illegal FIPB Investment (FDI) policy in approval in the companies of India. Karti. Investigation has re- The supplementary pros- vealed the fi nancial linkage of ecution complaint was fi led Karti and P Chidambaram,” before special judge 0 P Saini, the ED said. who listed the matter for fur- “There are contradictory ther hearing on November 26. and evasive responses. Yet, the Govt hits back at Rahul The charge-sheet named ED has collected materials that Chidambaram, S Bhaskarara- are corroboratory statements man, the chartered accountant recorded under Section 50 of of Chidambaram’s son Karti, the PMLA from various per- private persons Augustus sons during the investigation Ralph Marshall and V Srini- to substantiate the off ence of vasan. money laundering,” the agency claims over CBI row The other accused in the said. case include companies such ED’s lawyers N K Matta and IANS out with two falsehoods. The sial Rafale deal that would have “Who misused the CBI. We CBI,” he added. as Aircel Televentures, Astro Nitesh Rana requested the New Delhi fi rst falsehood is that the CBI been “suicidal” for Modi. never interfered. Actually people Re-emphasising ruling BJP All Asia Networks Plc Malay- court to take cognisance of the director was removed but the Slamming the Congress, Ja- are accusing us now that why we government’s complete trans- sia, Maxis Mobile Services Sdn chargesheet and initiate pro- fact is that he was not removed. vadekar said, “Why they are did not interfere in time. There parency in defence-related mat- Bhd, Bumi Armada Berhad, ceedings against the accused. he Bharatiya Janata Party He has been sent on leave. Ver- doing this? Because Congress was anarchy-like situation de- ters, Defence Minister Nirmala and Bumi Armada Navigation They also apprised the court (BJP) yesterday hit back ma and special director Rakesh and Rahul think that he has lost veloping and we should have Sitharaman yesterday attacked Sdn Bhd. that the ED investigation was Tat Congress president Asthana have been sent on a chance to pocket the heavy interfered earlier. But we never the opposition Congress for “As per rules and FDI still on. Rahul Gandhi accusing him of leave,” he said. commission through his friend interfered.” “brazenly misleading” the na- policy of the government in On June 13, the ED had fi led “spreading falsehood” over the The second falsehood was Sanjay Bhandari if he was the Javadekar said that even after tion on the Rafale fi ghter jet deal. 2006, Chidambaram, the a chargesheet against Karti issue of Central Bureau of Inves- that “Verma was sent on leave middleman.” fi nding out that a ‘Look Out’ cir- “The allegations the Congress then finance minister, was and two companies – Ad- tigation director Alok Verma and because he was inquiring about Javadekar said the people were cular, which was being issued to is making are baseless. The rules, empowered to give approval vantage Strategic Consulting said that he was living in “hallu- Rafale”. more mature than Rahul Gandhi. Karti Chidambaram, was leaked which were essentially framed to foreign investment pro- Pvt Ltd (ASCPL) and Chess cination”. “There is no inquiry. There is “The country has not witnessed and even after the Aircel Maxis during their (UPA government) posals worth up to Rs6bn Management Services Pvt “Congress has lost all hopes no case of inquiry on Rafale. He such an immature politician. He deal case report was found in the period, very clearly tell me one only. The foreign investment Ltd (CMSPL) – under vari- of becoming relevant and it has (Rahul) says that papers were failed in his two-minute press bedroom of erstwhile fi nance thing – they are misleading the proposal of Global Commu- ous provisions of the Preven- also lost patience. And there- taken from his offi ce. This is ut- conference yesterday on matter, minister P Chidambaram the nation brazenly,” she said ad- nication and Services Hold- tion of Money Laundering Act fore in their dreams also they terly fallacious, malicious and a on manner and on method,” he government had not interfered. dressing the Economic India ing Limited, Mauritius, was (PMLA). are dreaming only about Rafale. manufactured lie,” he said. said. “The coal scam accused had Summit-2018, in Mumbai. of $800mn (Rs36.5bn ap- The CBI and ED are inves- It appears Rahul is living in hal- The BJP leader’s remarks came Javadekar said Gandhi has easy access to the then CBI di- Pointing out that all the proximately),” the ED said. tigating Karti Chidambaram’s lucination,” Human Resource soon after the Congress presi- lost civility and therefore he was rector (Ranjit Sinha) and the case doubts and questions raised by The agency alleged that the alleged role in getting FIPB Development Minister Prakash dent sharpened his attack on “cursing” the prime minister is in court. Moin Qureshi was the opposition parties have already proposal should have been clearance for the Aircel-Maxis Javadekar told reporters at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, day in and day out. go between as always. And there been answered, Sitharaman referred to the Cabinet Com- deal in 2006 when his father party headquarters. saying Verma was “removed in Accusing the Congress of are many cases which show tre- charged them with changing the mittee on Economic Aff airs was the Union fi nance minis- “He is manufacturing lies on panic” because he was going to having misused the CBI when mendous interference when they ‘milepost’ repeatedly. (CCEA), which was the com- ter. Rafale every day. Today he came begin a probe into the controver- it was in power, Javadekar said, used, misused and abused the 18 AIADMK legislators Politician stabbed disqualifi cation upheld at Vizag airport IANS The attacker, identifi ed as Jari- Hyderabad/Visakhapatnam palli Srinivas, works as a waiter at IANS anan observed that he was “If the 18 disqualifi ed leg- a restaurant at the airport. Chennai giving his verdict independ- islators decide to go on appeal A commandant of the Central ently on the basis of the ar- against the decision then we SR Congress Party presi- Industrial Security Force (CISF) guments presented before will go for an appeal,” Dhinaka- dent Y S Jaganmohan overpowered the attacker, who n a relief to the All India him and was not going by the ran said. YReddy suff ered a minor was handed over to police. Ja- Anna Dravida Munnetra judgement given by the then Chief Minister Edapadi Pal- injury at the Visakhapatam air- gan continued his journey to IKazhagam (AIADMK) gov- chief justice Indrani Banerjee aniswamy said it was a good port in a knife attack by a man Hyderabad after getting fi rst aid ernment in Tamil Nadu, the and justice M Sundar. judgement and the AIADMK and was yesterday admitted to from the airport staff . Madras High Court yester- Dismissing all the writ pe- was ready to face elections in a hospital in Hyderabad even as Andhra Pradesh director gen- day upheld the state assembly titions filed by 18 disqualified these constituencies. Andhra Pradesh’s ruling TDP eral of police R P Thakur said speaker’s order disqualifying MLAs, the judge, in his 475- Dravida Munnetra Kazhag- voiced doubts that the attack they were questioning the ac- 18 AIADMK legislators last page judgement, said the high am president M K Stalin said could be a political conspiracy. cused. The police chief said year that could pave the way for constitutional office of the the bypolls for the 20 assembly Soon after landing in Hydera- Srinivas claimed to be a fan of bye-elections in 20 constitu- speaker is always considered constituencies should be held bad, the Andhra Pradesh’s leader Jagan. “Prima facie it appears encies, including two that fell as the respectable position in immediately. of opposition was admitted to a that he resorted to the attack for vacant following the death of tune with the said office and In the 235-member Assembly, hospital. Doctors said his condi- publicity,” he said. MLAs. the speaker is expected to be the AIADMK has 115 members tion was stable. The offi cer said the police had Justice M Sathyanarayanan, not only impartial but should followed by the DMK with 88, The injury on his left arm was no role in the security measures the third judge named by the Su- be perceptible. Congress eight, one of the IUML, three to four inch deep and it inside the airport. He said it was preme Court after a split verdict The disqualifi ed legislators one Independent, the Speaker required nine stitches, the doc- for CISF to fi nd out how the at- delivered by a two-judge bench are with sidelined party leader and 20 vacant seats (18 disquali- tors said. With doubts being ex- tacker managed to carry a knife earlier, upheld Speaker P Dha- T T V Dhinakaran, now an in- fi ed and two dead). Besides, there pressed by YSRCP leaders that into the airport. A case has been napal’s order, saying it was done dependent legislator in the is a nominated member. the knife could have been laced registered by the police on a under the provisions of the anti- Tamil Nadu Assembly. Three legislators though be- with poison, the doctors sent his complaint by CISF. defection law and vacated the Reacting to the judgement, longing to three diff erent par- blood samples for examination. The YSRCP chief visits Hy- stay on holding bye-elections to Dhinakaran told reporters: “We ties won their seats under the Jagan sustained injury on his derabad every Friday to attend these constituencies. will discuss with the 18 legisla- AIADMK’s two leaves symbol. left arm when he was stabbed by the court in the disproportionate Before reading out the op- tors and decide on the future Of that, one legislator Karunas a youth who sneaked up to him assets case. Jagan tweeted after erative portions of the judge- course of action.” He said it was is openly supporting Dhinaka- YSR Congress Party President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy arrives at the with a request to take a selfi e, landing in Hyderabad that he ment, justice Sathyanaray- “an experience for us”. ran. Visakhapatam airport where he was later attacked with a knife by a man. police said. was safe. Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 11 LATIN AMERICA Viral video turns Brazilian cop into politician

AFP side her daughter’s school and turn “I shot and I would do it again. The 21-year-old assailant died her father, grandfather and great- Her actions proved popular not one of 35 armed forces candidates Sao Paulo Sastre’s life upside down. I’m brave,” she said in a campaign in a hospital. grandfather, while her husband least because security and safety to earn seats in parliament, twice She was praised by Sao Paulo’s video, dressed in her police uni- “I’m not happy about the death, also works for the same force. have been major campaign issues the number prior to the October 7 governor and having been fast- form. which no one wants. But I am hap- Her moment of fame came on in Brazil, where 63,800 people general election. t took three gunshots to change tracked into politics, Sastre re- In the video, an armed robber py for having saved good people,” Mothers’ Day in May, after which were murdered last year alone. Although she proved highly Katia Sastre’s life, turning the ceived 264,000 votes as she was appears suddenly pointing a gun the 42-year-old Sastre said from the video quickly went viral on so- Sastre’s phone didn’t stop ring- popular, Sastre’s campaign wasn’t Ipolice offi cer fi rst into a heroine elected to Congress. at a woman, but just as quickly, as her offi ce in Suzano, a city in the cial media. ing and almost every political par- without controversy. and then one of the most success- Known locally as “mother po- others scream and run away, the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. “When I left the police station ty made overtures hoping to cash She had to pull the shooting ful politicians in Brazil’s general lice offi cer,” Sastre was not shy in off -duty Sastre pulls a weapon Sastre wasn’t just some ordi- after making a statement, people in on her sudden fame, recognising video for a few days after an appeal election. using the video of her dramatic from her handbag and shoots him, nary passer-by, though. She joined started ringing me and congratu- her instant marketability. by two leftist parties that said it in- Those three shots were what it shoot-out to promote herself in twice in the chest and once in the the military police two decades lating me as they’d seen the video,” She opted for the conservative cited violence, but the courts sub- took to kill an armed robber out- the election run-up. leg. ago, following in the footsteps of she recounts with a smile. Party of the Republic and became sequently sided with Sastre.

Farc Vote on airport’s fate offi cial China ‘looks to in hiding contacts court make peace

AFP Bogota with Brazil after he man who negotiated Farc’s peace agreement Twith the Colombian gov- ernment has emerged from hid- ing to comply with a demand that former guerrilla leaders reaffi rm their commitment to Bolsanaro rant’ the 2016 peace agreement that ended decades of confl ict. Reuters allowed to own Brazilian land or as the sole Chinese government The Special Jurisdiction for Brasilia control key industries. under the One China policy in the Peace (JEP) — set up after the An ardent nationalist, Bol- 1970s. deal — announced that Ivan sonaro is expected to win a land- The Chinese embassy in Brazil Marquez had submitted a state- he Chinese government is slide victory in balloting this Sun- issued a letter condemning Bol- ment through his lawyers. trying to make peace with day. “The Chinese are not buying sonaro’s Taiwan trip as an “aff ront The court had asked 30 TBrazil’s leading presidential in Brazil. They are buying Brazil,” to the sovereignty and territorial former rebel commanders to re- candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, whose Bolsonaro has warned repeatedly. integrity of China.” affi rm their commitment to the China-bashing threatens to chill a Companies in the crosshairs Bolsonaro’s combative stance is agreement Farc signed with the profi table trading relationship that include China Molybdenum Co, in stark contrast to the rest of Latin government in November 2016. has benefi ted both countries. which bought a $1.7bn niobium America, whose leaders have wel- The special peace tribunal Chinese diplomats based in mine in 2016 that Bolsonaro says comed Chinese investment, loans was set up to try former com- Brasilia have met twice with top Brazil should develop itself. and commodities purchases. batants accused of atrocities Bolsonaro advisers in recent Niobium is used as an additive And it could eventually put during the fi ve-decade war. weeks, according to participants in to steel to make it stronger and him at odds with Brazil’s power- The tribunal had set a Tues- the meetings. lighter. It is used in cars, buildings, ful farm and mining industries, for day deadline for contact from Their aim is to highlight co- jet engines and a host of other ap- whom China is an indispensable the missing guerrilla leaders, operation with Latin America’s plications. customer. failing which they could face re- largest country, whose grain and Brazil controls about 85% of Brazil’s farm sector, mean- moval from its list and face trial minerals have fuelled China’s rise the world’s supply and Bolsonaro while, has reaped the benefi t of instead by ordinary courts. while lifting millions of Brazilians wants his nation to reap the ben- China’s feud with Trump. Beijing The special peace tribunals from poverty in the resulting com- efi ts. has sharply reduced purchases of provides for alternative prison modities boom. Bolsonaro is also on record op- American soybeans, fi lling the gap sentences for those involved in Bolsonaro has portrayed China, posing a planned privatisation of with Brazilian grain. the confl ict — both guerrillas its largest trading partner, as a some assets of state-owned util- Brazilian exports of soy to China and soldiers — who admit their predator looking to dominate key ity Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras are up 22% by value this year with crimes, compensate victims and sectors of its economy. SA (Eletrobras) on concerns that about 80 % of its soy shipments pledge to reject violence. With its own economy slowing, Chinese buyers would win the now destined there. However, the JEP has said it China cannot aff ord to become bid. The US-China trade war has was concerned by reports that embroiled in another costly trade Offi cials at China Molybdenum given Brazil leverage for now. several former leaders had com- war like that which has erupted declined requests for comment. But Jorge Arbache, former sec- mitted crimes after the 2016 between Beijing and Washington. But six senior executives at retary for international aff airs at deal was signed. Two-way trade between China Chinese companies operating in Brazil’s planning ministry, said Only those who have not and Brazil stood at $75bn last year, Brazil said they were watching Brazil would do well not to over- committed crimes after the deal according to Brazilian government Bolsonaro’s remarks with varying play its hand. can benefi t from the special statistics. degrees of concern. Brazil “does not have the luxury court. China has invested $124bn in “We are worrying a bit about of giving up its biggest trade and Several ex-leaders, includ- Brazil since 2003, mostly in the oil, some of his extreme views,” one investment partner,” Arbache said. ing Marquez — who renounced mining and energy sectors. China Chinese infrastructure execu- “There’s not one economy in the his Senate seat — have gone into is eager to bankroll railway, port tive told Reuters. “He is on guard world that can occupy the space hiding in recent weeks. and other infrastructure projects against China.” China occupies.” Colombian media reports said here to speed the movement of its Bolsonaro’s friendly leanings Chinese diplomats met with the former rebel commanders Brazilian grain. toward Taiwan are likewise vexing Bolsonaro’s top economic adviser had either rejoined dissident But the far-right Bolsonaro, to Beijing, which considers Taiwan Paulo Guedes in early September Farc cadres in the mountains or Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador talks to reporters before casting much like US President Donald a renegade province. Bolsonaro in to discuss the importance of the fl ed to Socialist-led Venezuela, his vote in a public consultation on the fate of a $13.3bn Mexico City International Airport Trump, has criticised China re- February became the fi rst Brazilian bilateral relationship, Qu Yuhui, which Farc — now a political project, in Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday. peatedly on the campaign trail, presidential candidate to visit Tai- Chinese Minister-Counsellor at party — denied. saying the Chinese should not be wan since Brazil recognised Beijing the embassy in Brasilia, said. Migrant caravan resumes Argentine lawmakers trek to US-Mexico border clear austerity budget Agencies year at 40% and the economy is Buenos Aires expected to shrink by 2.6%. AFP Fleeing violent crime, politi- the caravan entered Mexico by “We are in a crisis and the Mapastepec, Mexico cal unrest and poverty at home, swimming or taking rafts across government must take respon- the migrants say they are deter- the river that forms the border. he lower house of Argen- sibility. Social problems and the mined to reach the US — despite Mexican federal police have tina’s Congress yesterday recession oblige us to pass the housands of Central Trump’s vows to stop them, and periodically accompanied the Tapproved an unpopular law,” ruling Cambiemos party American migrants cross- his threats to cut aid to Central caravan in trucks or fl own over- austerity budget designed to lawmaker Mario Negri said in a Ting Mexico towards the US American countries, as well as to head in helicopters, but without meet the requirements of a $57bn speech after the budget passed. in a caravan have resumed their deploy the military and close the attempting to stop it. IMF bailout. “To have no budget would be a long trek, walking about 12 hours southern US border. According to the Mexican The vote came in the early defeat for the country,” he added. to their next destination. There are now about 7,000 mi- government, about 1,700 peo- morning after 14 hours of debate Macri has pledged cuts of The migrants, who have drawn grants in the caravan, the United ple who were travelling in the and a day of unrest that saw po- $10bn in health, education, sci- near-daily Twitter tirades from Nations estimates — though caravan have requested asylum in lice fi re tear gas at people throw- ence, transportation, public US President Donald Trump, Mexican authorities put the Mexico. The migrants still have ing rocks outside the legislature works and culture. walked and hitched rides from number much lower on Wednes- some 3,000kms left to walk to building to protest the 2019 “No to the IMF budget. Don’t the town of Huixtla, in southern day at 3,630. reach the US. blueprint’s bitter cocktail of tax cut our future!” shouted demon- Mexico, to Mapastepec, some 60 The vast majority are from Venezuela’s President Nicolas increases and spending cuts. strators outside Congress while, kilometres away. Honduras. Maduro labelled US Vice Presi- The vote tally was 138 in favour inside the chamber, tempers ran Carrying their few belong- In a show of solidarity, Mexi- dent Mike Pence “a madman” to 103 against, with eight absten- high as lawmakers jostled and ings on their backs — many with cans watching the caravan pass after he accused Caracas of fi - tions. traded insults ahead of the vote. babies pressed to their chests or shouted out, “Keep it up, broth- nancing the caravan. The draft now goes to the Sen- “In Argentina, austerity pro- holding their children by the hand ers!” and gave them food and “What tremendous convening ate for fi nal approval. grammes always end up in a cri- — they left at dawn after taking a water. power I have in Central America, Unions and the leftist opposi- sis. Why do they think the Titan- one-day break to rest, bathe and “Mexico! Mexico!” the mi- Mike Pence! If it wasn’t for an tion have criticised centre-right ic is not going to sink this time?” nurse aching and injured feet. grants shouted in reply, bathed extremist, an extremist mad- President Mauricio Macri’s eco- lawmaker Agustin Rossi of the “I miss my country. I’m not in sweat under the hot sun of the man saying it....one would have nomic programme of sweeping centre-left Front for Victory doing this because I want to. No southern state of Chiapas. to laugh.” Pence on Tuesday said spending cuts to meet the def- party of former president Cris- one wants to leave their home They have so far travelled Honduran President Juan Or- icit-reduction requirements of tina Kirchner said after the vote. to go to a place they don’t know. about 100 kilometres from the lando Hernandez told him the the IMF loan. Street protests have refl ected But sometimes necessity pushes Mexico-Guatemala border, caravan “was organised by left- The bailout is supposed to help growing public anger after Macri us to do this, because of what’s where they crashed through a ist groups in Honduras fi nanced Argentina recover from an eco- slashed civil service jobs as part happening in our countries,” said series of border gates last Friday. by Venezuela and sent north to A protester throws back a tear gas canister at the police during nomic crisis in which the peso of a bid to cut Argentina’s fi scal Delmer Martinez, a migrant from Halted at the fi nal gate by challenge our sovereignty and clashes outside the Congress as the budget bill was debated, in has lost half its value this year, defi cit and tame infl ation at the El Salvador. hundreds of riot police, most of challenge our border.” Buenos Aires, Argentina. infl ation is forecast to fi nish the IMF’s behest. Gulf Times 12 Friday, October 26, 2018 PAKISTAN

US, EU concerned PML-N not planning about ‘crackdown’ on aid groups

Reuters The European Union ambas- Islamabad sador signed on behalf of the 17 anti-govt protests EU countries with missions in Pakistan, including Britain and Sharif’s party not taking the speech as a rant of a leader still wish to draw unnecessary atten- estern nations, in- France. bait despite Imran dare stuck in the “opposition mode”. tion towards himself. cluding the US and A similar letter was sent to They claim that the PTI gov- “He will not succumb to the WEuropean countries, the interior ministry in Sep- Internews ernment does not need any pressure of social media, which is have expressed “serious con- tember, diplomatic sources say. Lahore protest or sit-in as it is already rife with rumours of a deal [with cerns” over Pakistan’s crack- The 18 aid organisations are weakening. the establishment]. He will inter- down on aid groups, diplomats appealing against their expul- “The PTI is a very strong op- act with the media when he will said. sion orders, issued late last he opposition Pakistan position of its own government,” feel the need for it.” At least 18 international aid year to 27 non-governmental Muslim League – Na- a PML-N leader said. Pervaiz Rashid, another sen- agencies, most of them work- organisations (NGOs) in all. Twaz (PML-N) of Shehbaz Senator Mushahidullah Khan ior PML-N leader, said that they ing on human rights issues, The Western envoys said Sharif has decided not to go for said that Prime Minister Khan are fi ghting their cases through were ordered to leave Pakistan that the impact of expelling street agitation against the rul- had mastered only one speech, the relevant forums, and that the over recent months after being the groups would be “signifi - ing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf which he also used to deliver party would move forward re- refused registration. cant”, and warned that it would (PTI) government despite Prime while standing on a shipping sponsibly. The countries have writ- imperil some of development Minister Imran Khan’s challenge container during his party’s 2014 “We will not stoop to the level ten a letter to Prime Minister goals championed by Khan, to opposition parties to hold sit-in. of the PTI. The PML-N is a ma- Imran Khan, saying that the who was elected in July on a public protests against his gov- “Imran Khan has failed to come ture party and is well aware of aid groups have not received populist platform to help the ernment’s anti-graft campaign, out of that opposition mode, and how to handle its aff airs,” he said. proper explanations as to why poor. party sources said. that is why the PML-N does not Rashid also said that the party the government had ordered “Restricting INGO (inter- In his address to the nation take his speeches seriously,” he would not stage protests on the them out, and they criticised national non-governmental this week, the prime minister had said. “instructions” of Imran Khan. a “lack of transparency” in the organisation) operations will once again off ered the opposition He said the party would not He also denied speculation registration process. aff ect millions of poor Paki- parties shipping containers and go for any street protest as there that Sharif was refusing to an- “We are writing to express stanis. In 2017 alone, the INGO free food if they wished to launch would be no need of it. Imran Khan: accused of still being ‘stuck in opposition mode’. swer media queries. serious concerns with respect sector reached 34mn people public protests against his gov- “Protest days are gone and the “[On an occasion that] Sharif to recent developments,” the with humanitarian relief and ernment. PML-N will achieve nothing out The senator said that the former prime minister Nawaz did not respond to media, (it countries said in the letter seen development assistance,” the However, leaders of the pre- of protests. The party will con- PML-N would do things on its Sharif’s absence from main- is because) journalists started by Reuters. countries said in their letter. vious ruling PML-N party have tinue to fi ght its case only in the own schedule, adding that the stream politics, he said: “Sharif asking questions on the court Four diplomats confi rmed its “This will mean thousands of ruled out the possibility of any Senate, the National Assembly party would give the PTI a “sur- was, and still is, at the helm of premises, where the judge had authenticity. Pakistanis employed by INGOs protest or a sit-in any time soon. and the provincial assemblies,” prise of its life”. the party aff airs. He has a diff er- advised them not to talk about “Restriction on civil soci- and local partners may lose They have termed Khan’s he said. Answering a question about ent style of working. He does not politics,” he said. ety risks aff ecting Pakistan’s their jobs.” international reputation as a One of the 18 groups fac- genuine partner on human de- ing closure, ActionAid, which velopments and undermining focuses on education, poverty confi dence of the international alleviation and human rights, donor and business commu- said this month that the expul- Key govt nity,” they said in the letter. sion of the groups was part of a Non-taxpaying non-resident Neither Khan’s offi ce nor the broader pattern. foreign ministry had any im- “Pakistan’s decision to shut buildings mediate comment on the letter, down ActionAid and other in- which was signed by envoys ternational NGOs is a worry- from the US, Canada, Japan, ing escalation of recent attacks to become Pakistanis can buy property Australia, Norway, and Swit- on civil society, academics and zerland. journalists,” the group said. schools, Internews duce a certifi cate from a sched- alty of 3% of the value of a motor mandated to provide a list con- Islamabad uled bank verifying receipt of vehicle if it accepts, processes, taining particulars of deposits foreign exchange remitted from or registers applications for amounting to Rs10mn or more museums, outside Pakistan through nor- registration of a locally-man- made during a calendar month, he government has re- mal banking channels, during ufactured motor vehicle or the and give a list of payments made British Pakistani to moved the condition of a period of 60 days prior to the fi rst registration of an imported by any person against credit card and parks Tbeing a tax-fi ler for non- date of registering, recording, or vehicle by a non-fi ler. bills amounting to Rs200,000 resident Pakistanis to purchase attesting transfer of immovable If any authority responsi- or more during the preceding head key UK body properties in the country. property valuing Rs5mn. ble for registering, recording, calendar month. Internews Offi cial sources have con- To eff ectively implement re- or attesting the transfer of im- They will also provide a list of Islamabad fi rmed that the decision was strictions on non-fi lers to pur- movable property accepts or persons receiving profi t on debt Internews senior British doctors, and a taken for non-resident individ- chase and sell properties and processes the registration or at- exceeding Rs1mn for tax fi lers London major provider of postgraduate uals investing in the real estate vehicles, the government has testation of immovable property and Rs500,000 for non-fi lers, medical education. he Imran Khan govern- sector. introduced penalties upon lo- valuing above Rs5mn in the case along with information regard- Quraishi will be taking ment has approved con- The condition, which was im- cal manufacturers of vehicles, of a non-fi ler, it will be liable to a ing tax deduction during the British Pakistani has charge as the president of the Tversion of several state posed by the previous govern- excise and taxation department penalty of 3% of the value of im- preceding fi nancial year. been elected as a presi- Royal Society of Medicine buildings, including governor ment, increased challenges for and authorities responsible for movable property. The information is to be pro- Adent of the Royal So- (Laryngology & Rhinology houses, into educational insti- overseas Pakistanis. registering, recording or attest- Through an amendment in vided on a monthly basis. ciety of Medicine in recogni- Section) in London. tutions, parks, hotels, and mu- The decision issued via an ing of immovable properties. the Finance Act 2018, banks Through an amendment, the tion of his services to Britain’s When contacted, Dr Qurai- seums. offi cial notifi cation also reveals A local manufacturer of a mo- will provide information to the government has allowed tax- National Health Service (NHS) shi said: “I am humbled to have Offi cial sources said that the that the restriction on purchase tor vehicle will pay a penalty Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) payers to revise their tax returns and medical education. this privilege. Being of Pakista- approval was given at a meeting or transfer of property having a of 5% of the value of the motor of individuals who withdraw voluntarily by December 31, Professor Dr Shahed Qurai- ni origin, it’s a great honour for presided by Prime Minister Im- value exceeding Rs5mn by non- vehicle if it accepts or processes cash in excess of Rs50,000 in a along with the payment of high- shi is an ENT (Ears, Nose and Pakistan and speaks volumes ran Khan after his return from fi lers will not apply to legal heirs any application for booking or day, as well as information on er tax, which is 25% higher than Throat) consultant and he be- about the contribution of Brit- Saudi Arabia this week. acquiring property through in- purchase of a locally-manufac- any tax deduction for fi ler and tax paid with returns on the ba- comes the fi rst Pakistani to get ish Pakistani diaspora.” Education Minister Shafqat heritance. tured motor vehicle by a non- non-fi lers amounting to Rs1mn sis of taxable income. appointed at this post. He is a ENT consultant sur- Mehmood, Higher Education The condition of being a tax fi ler. or more during each preceding In case no tax is payable, the The Royal Society of Medi- geon and a head and neck sur- Commission chairman Tariq fi ler will not apply on overseas Similarly, the excise and taxa- calendar year. taxpayer will have to pay 2% of cine is one of the world’s most geon who graduated from the Binori, the secretaries of foreign Pakistanis who are able to pro- tion department will pay a pen- The banks have also been the turnover. prestigious organisations of Dow Medical College Karachi. aff airs, education, housing and national heritage, and the chief secretaries of four provinces and The Donkey King other senior offi cials, attended the meeting. All in a day’s work keeping strong Khan reviewed the operation- Construction on run at box off ice al costs of governor houses and other state buildings. Pakistan has had its share of The meeting approved the animated films in this post-revival conversion of the Punjab Gov- $8bn dam to start age of cinema, but it seems The ernor’s House into a public park. Donkey King, which is written, Its outer wall would be de- directed and co-produced by Aziz molished for easy access by the Jindani, will continue to impress public. by April 2020 the audience for some time. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Released in cinemas across Governor’s House will be turned Pakistan on October 13 under into a women’s park and a mu- Internews arrears of the federal govern- the banner of Geo Films, the film seum. Islamabad ment which are pending for a collected around Rs40mn in its The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa long time. first week, breaking previous box Governor’s House at Nathiagali The committee was told off ice records in Pakistan made will become a boutique hotel, onstruction work on that the agreement of 650MW by other animated films. while the Governor’s House in the $8bn Diamer Bha- electricity supply to K-Electric In its second week, The Quetta in Baluchistan, spread Csha dam in Pakistan is expired in January 2015, while Donkey King has raked in over 25 acres, will also be turned likely to start by April 2020, it is still getting this electricity Rs37.5mn, making the grand into a public park. as four-fi fths of the 37,500 from the national grid. total of Rs77.5mn. according to However, more suggestions acres of land for it has been The offi cial also told the Entertainment Pakistan website. will be taken for better utilisa- acquired, and the remaining is committee that there is a se- The website also states that the tion of the buildings. under process to complete ac- rious issue of power trans- film’s second weekend numbers The meeting recommended quisition. mission lines which are not are around 36% more than its that state guest houses in Kara- Offi cial sources said that a bearing the load of required first weekend numbers. chi and Lahore be converted into power ministry offi cial has told electricity. The Donkey King has become fi ve-star hotels. the Senate Standing Commit- Ali also said that the govern- the second highest grossing The central building of Cham- tee on Power that there will be ment is going to install devices animated film in Pakistan behind ba House in Lahore will be used two power generation houses on cables from transformer to 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba in a way to generate funds, while of the dam – one each in Gilg- electric meter to control power Balaam, which collected Rs80mn. the building of 90-Shahrah-e- it-Baltistan and Khyber Pa- theft, and would start a cam- It is estimated that The Donkey Quaid-e-Azam will be converted khtunkhwa – to be completed paign against theft with the A man sits with assorted oil bottles, displayed on a traditional wooden extractor, at a market in King will emerge as the highest into a crafts museum and a con- in 2028. support of provinces. Karachi. grossing animated film produced ference hall. The offi cial further said that The offi cial said that due to in Pakistan. An information technology work on the Mohmand Dam is shortfall of 90% recovery in park will be established in the expected to start by April 2019 electricity bills in Baluchistan, buildings of Punjab House and and completed by 2025. power supply is being supplied Education ministry takes over management of foreign scholarships Governor House in Rawalpindi. The committee met this according to already-formed The meeting recommended week, with Senator Fida Khan policy. The Pakistan government has taken the scholarship aff airs managed by a section institutions under its umbrella. that the Punjab House at Pindi chairing. The biggest issue is that of control of managing foreign scholarships off icer who was deployed as an education The inclusion of education was an addition Point in Murree be turned into a Meanwhile, the committee 29,000 agriculture tubewells from the ministry of inter-provincial off icer, leading to failure for the scholarship in the ministry, he said, adding his off ice had university, and the Government members were informed by in Baluchistan. co-ordination and handed it over to the programme. requested that the Establishment Division House at Kashmir Point, also in Power Division secretary Ir- Of their bills, 10% is being education ministry. The government therefore decided to shift shift control of the education and scholarship Murree, will be renovated. fan Ali that Pakistan’s largest paid by farmers, 40% by the Sources said that students have been facing control and management of the scholarships department to the education ministry. Three committees have been power company K-Electric, province and the balance by hardships in acquiring foreign scholarships to the education ministry. In addition to scholarships, control of established to convert the Prime which is based in Karachi, can- the federal government. due to the “incompetence” of off icials at the According to an off icial of the ministry of the Pakistan Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Minister’s House in Islamabad not be handed over to Shang- Their arrears have reached to inter-provincial ministry. inter-provincial co-ordination, the ministry Association has also been handed over to the into an international university. hai Electric, unless it clears the tens of billions of rupees. The inter-provincial ministry had been having operates various departments, divisions and education ministry. Gulf Times Friday, October 26, 2018 13 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Q&A based on evidence from the Qur’an and the Sunnah 1 Why has Allah created us? Answer: To worship Him alone and to 42 What is the status of jihad for the sake worship no other besides Him. of Allah in Islam? And I (Allah) created not the Jinn and human It is obligatory with lives, wealth and speech. beings except they should worship Me (alone). March forth, whether you are light (being [Q. 51:56] healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, The right of Allah upon slaves is to worship old and poor) strive hard with your wealth and Him and not to associate partners with Him. your lives in the cause of Allah. (Q.9:41) [Al-Bukhari, Muslim] Fight against the polytheisms with your wealth, lives and speech. (Abu Dawud) 2 How should we worship Allah? As Allah and His Messenger commanded us. 43 What is Walaa (friendship and And they were commanded not, but that they loyalty)? should worship Allah, and worship none but Walaa (friendship and loyalty) is love and Him alone (Q. 98:5) help of the faithful believers. Whoever does any deed (in religion) which The believers men and women are Auliyaa our matter in not in accordance with, it will not (helpers, supporters friends and protectors) of be accepted. (Muslim) one another. (Q9:71) The faithful believers are as a brick structure, 3 Should we worship Allah with fear and each supporting the other. (Muslim) hope? Yes, we worship Him with fear and hope. 44 Is seeking the friendship and help of And invoke Him with fear and hope (Q. 7:56) disbelievers permitted? I beseech Allah to grant me Paradise and I No, it’s not permitted. seek refuge in Him from Hellfi re. (Abu Dawud) And if any amongst you take them as Auliyaa then surely he is one of them (Q.5:51) 4 What is Ihsaan (perfection in The people of such and such clan are not my worship)? supporters (Auliyaa). (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) Ihsaan is to be conscious that Allah sees us during worship. 45 Who is Wali (friend)? Who sees you (O Muhammad) when you A Wali is a true believer, who fears Allah very stand up (alone at night for Tahajjud prayer).(Q. much. 26: 218-219) Verily, Auliyaa of Allah no fear shall come Ihsaan is to worship Allah as if you are seeing upon them nor shall they grieve (Q.10:62 - 63) Him, yet truly He is seeing you. (Muslim) My only Wali are Allah then the most pious among the true believers. (Al-Bukhari & 5 Why did Allah send the Messengers? Muslim) To call mankind to His worship and to reject the worship of anything besides Allah. 46 Why did Allah reveal the Qur’an? And verily We have sent among every nation So as to apply it to our daily life. a Messenger (proclaiming) worship Allah alone Follow what has been sent down to you from and avoid Taghoot (false deities) (Q.16:36) your Lord (Q.7:3) The prophets are brothers and their faith is Read Qur’an and apply it, do not make your one. (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) living from it. (Ahmad)

6 What is meant by (Tawheed) oneness 47 Is the Qur’an alone suffi cient for us of Allah? Verily whoever assigns partners (commits Whoever vows to obey Allah should obey 33 Should we wear good luck charms without the Hadith (statements, actions, It means devoting worship to him alone like shirk) to Allah, Allah makes it impermissible for Him, and whoever vows to disobey Him should (like amulets or talismans)? tacit approvals of the Prophet)? supplication, vow, judgment. him to enter Al-Jannah. (Q. 5: 72) not disobey Him. (Al-Bukhari) No, we should not wear them . No, it is not suffi cient . So know (O Muhammad) that there is no God Whoever died while joining partners with And if Allah touches you with harm none can And We have sent down unto you (O except Allah (Q.47:19) Allah (commits shirk) enters Hellfi re. (Muslim) 24 Is it allowed to sacrifi ce in any remove it but He. (Q.6:17) Muhammad ) the reminder and the advice (the Let the fi rst thing you invite them to do is to name besides Allah? Whoever wears an amulet has committed Qur’an) that you may explain clearly to men testify that none has the right to be worshipped 15 Are good deeds of any benefi t to one No, it is not allowed. Shirk. (Ahmad) what is sent down to them, and that they may but Allah (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) who worships others Therefore turn in prayer to your Lord and give thought. (Q. 16:44 ) besides Allah? sacrifi ce (to Him only). (Q. 108:2) 34 Through what may we seek Indeed, I have been given Qur’an and along 7 What is the meaning of there is no God No, good deeds are of no benefi t to those who Allah curses whoever sacrifi ces and intercession with Allah? with it that which is like it. (Abu Dawud) but Allah? worship others besides Allah. slaughters in any name other than Allah. By His Names and Attributes. It means there is no deity that truly deserves But if they had joined in worship others with (Muslim) And (all) the most beautiful Names belong to 48 Should we give priority to other to be worshipped except Allah. Allah, all that they used to do would have been Allah, so call on Him by them. (Q.7:P108) opinions over the Word of Allah and His That is because Allah, He is the truth and that of no benefi t to hem (Q. 27 :20) 25 Is it permitted to circumambulate the I ask you by all your names, with which you Messengers? is which they invoke besides Him is Al-Baatil Whoever does any deed in which he graves of pious men? wave named your self. (Ahmad) No, we should not. (falsehood, Satan, and all other deities) (Q. 30:31) associates partners with Me, I reject him and No, it is not allowed. 35 Does any supplication to Allah require a Oh you who believe, do not be forward Whoever says there is no God except Allah his shirk. (Muslim) And circumambulate the Ancient House (the human intermediary? (hasten not to decide) in the presence of Allah and rejects whatever is worshipped besides Ka’aba in Makkah). (Q.22:29) No, prayer does not require a human and His Messenger. (Q.49:1) Allah, his property and blood become 16 Does shirk exist among Muslims Whoever circumambulate the House (Ka’aba) intermediary. There is no obedience to the creatures if it sacrosanct and his reckoning with Allah , the today? seven times and prays two raka’h. (Ibn Majah) And when my slaves ask you (O Muhammad) means disobeying the Creator. (Ahmad) Mighty and Exalted (Muslim) Yes, it does exist. concerning Me, then I am indeed near (to them And most of them believe not in Allah 26 Is it allowed to pray while the grave is by My knowledge). (Q.2:186) 49 What should we do if we diff er in the 8 What is meant by oneness of names except that they attribute partners (unto Him) in front of you? You pray to the one who hears all and He is religious matters? and attributes of Allah? (Q.12:106) No, it is not allowed. near and He is with you. (Muslim) We should refer to holy Qur’an and authentic To confi rm the names and attributes as The doom Day will not occur until some So turn your face in the direction of Al- Sunnah. Allah described them in His Book and as tribes of my Ummah (Islamic nation) have Masjid Al-Haraam. (Q. 2: 144) 36 What is the mediation (waasitah) of And if you diff er in any thing amongst His Messenger described them in authentic joined the idolaters and they will even worship Don’t sit on the graves and do not pray the Messenger? yourselves, refer back to Allah and His Sunnah. idols. (At-Tirmidhi) towards them. (Muslim) The mediation of the Messenger is the Messenger. (Q.4:59) There is nothing like unto Him and His the transmission of Allah’s Message . I am leaving two things with you, you will All-Hearer, the All-seer (Q. 42:11) 17 What is ruling concerning praying 27 What is the ruling in Islam O Messenger (Muhammad) proclaim what never go astray if you hold fast to them, and Allah descends each night to the fi rst heaven. (supplicating) to other than Allah like the concerning the practice of sihr (black has been sent down to you from your Lord. they are Allah’s Book and the Sunnah. (Ahmad) dead? magic/sorcery)? (Q.5:67) Praying to them is a major Shirk. The practice of sihr is considered an act of Oh Allah, have I proclaimed your message? Oh 50 What is (al-bid’ah) innovation in 9 What is the benefi t of monotheism Invoke not with Allah another Ilaah disbelief. Allah bear witness. (In response to the statement religion? (oneness of Allah) to the Muslim? (God) Lest you be among those who receive But the Devils disbelieve, teaching men sihr. of the sahaabah, ‘Indeed, we bear witness that It is any thing not based on evidence from Right guidance in this world and salvation punishment. (Q.26:213) (Q.2:102) you have proclaimed the message.’ - Muslim) Islamic law from eternal punishment in the Hereafter. Whoever dies having called upon partners Avoid seven destroyers: Shirk, sihr... Or have they partners with Allah who have It is those who believe (in oneness of Allah) besides Allah shall enter Hellfi re. (Al-Bukhari) (Muslim) 37 From whom may we seek the instituted for them a religion which Allah has and confuse not their belief with Thulm Messenger’s intercession? not allowed? (Q. 42:21) (wrong) by worshipping others besides Allah) 18 Is supplication a form of worship? 28 Should we believe the claims of From Allah alone. Whoever adds something new in our matter for them (only) there is security and they are Yes, supplication is worship. fortunetellers and soothsayers? Say: To Allah belongs all intercession. (Islam), it will not be accepted. (Al-Bukhari & guided. (Q.6:8) And your Lord said: Invoke Me, I will respond No, we should not believe them. (Q39:44) Muslim) The right of worshippers upon Allah is that to your invocation. (Q. 40:60) Say: None in the heavens and the earth Oh Allah grant to him (the Prophet) He will not punish those who worship none Supplication is worship. (At-Tirmidhi) knows the Ghaib (unseen). (Q27:65) intercession for me. (At-Tirmidhi) 51 Is there good innovation (bid’atun beside Him (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) Whoever goes to a fortuneteller or hasanatun) in religion? 19 Do dead hear our supplication? soothsayer, and believe what they say, has 38 How do we demonstrate our love for No, there is no good innovation in religion. 10 Where is Allah? No, they do not hear. disbelieved in what has been revealed to Allah and his Messenger? This day I have perfected your religion for Allah is over the Throne which is above the But you cannot make hear those who are in Muhammad. (Ahmad) By obeying and following their commands. you, completed my favour on you, and have seven heavens graves. (Q. 35:22) Say (O Muhammad to mankind) if you really chosen for you Islam as your religion. (Q. 5:3) Ar-Rahmaan (The Merciful) Istawaa (rose Allah has assigned angels to inform me of my 29 Does any one have the knowledge of love Allah then follow me, Allah will love you. Beware of new things (in the matters of over) the Throne (Q. 20:5) nation salutation. (Ahmad) the (unseen)? (Q. 3:31) religion) for every new thing is innovation, Allah wrote out in a book with Him over the No one but Allah alone has the knowledge of None of you have perfect faith until you love every innovation is heresy and every heresy throne that His mercy preceded His wrath. 20 Do we seek help from those who are the unseen. me more than your parents, children, and all leads to Hellfi re. (An-Nasaa’i) (Al-Bukhari) dead, or from those who are not present? And with Him are the keys of Ghaib (unseen), mankind. (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) No we do not seek help from, we rather seek none knows them but He. (Q.6:59) 52 Is there such a thing as Sunnah 11 Is Allah with us by His entity or help from Allah. No one has the knowledge of the unseen 39 Should we be excessive in our praise Hasanah in Islam? knowledge? (Remember) when you sought help of your except Allah. (At-Tabaraani) for the Messenger? Yes, there is Sunnah Hasanah are good deeds Allah with us by His knowledge, He hears and Lord, and He answered you. (Q. 8:9) No, we should not be excessive in our praise (such as giving charity). sees us O Ever-Living, Self-Subsistent, upon Him 30 By what sources do the Muslims to him. And made us leaders of the Muttaqun (the He (Allah) said: Fear not, verily I am with you all subsist , I seek help through Your Mercy govern? Say I am only a man like you. It has been pious). (Q. 25:74) both, Hearing and Seeing (Q. 20 :46) (At-Tirmidhi) Muslims govern by laws laid down in the inspired to me that your god is one Ilaah (Allah). Whoever introduces a good practice into You call upon the one Who hears, Who is Qur’an and authentic Ahadith. (Q18:110) Islam, will have the reward for it and the reward near and is with you. (Muslim) 21 Is it permitted to seek help from any And so judge (you O Muhammad) between Do not exaggerate in praising me, I am only of those who follow his practice thereafter, yet other besides Allah? them by what Allah has revealed. (Q.5:49) a slave. So say Allah’s slave and Messenger. they will lose nothing of their reward. (Muslim) 12 What is the greatest sin with Allah? No, it is not permitted. Allah is the judge and to whom is the return. (Al-Bukhari) It is the major Shirk (polytheism). You (alone) we worship and you alone) we 53 Is it enough for a person to reform Verily whoever sets partners with Allah , then ask for help. (Q.1:5) 31 What is the ruling in Islam 40 Who were the fi rst creation? himself? Allah has forbidden paradise for him and the If you ask, ask of Allah, if you seek help seek concerning applying non - Islamic laws? From human being was Adam and from No, it is a duty on him to reform his relatives Fire will be his abode (Q.5:72) help of Allah. (At-Tirmidhi) It is an act of disbelief. things was the pen. also. The Prophet was asked : what is the greater And whosoever does not judge by what Remember when your Lord said to the Oh you who believe! Ward off yourselves and sin , he said: To ascribe partners to Allah even 22 Can one seek help from the living? Allah has revealed, such are the disbelievers. angels truly I am going to create man from clay. your families against a Fire. (Q. 66:6) though he created you. (Al-Bukhari) Yes, in the matters in which they are able to (Q.5:44) (Q.38:71) Verily Allah will ask every shepherd about his help When the leaders do not rule by Allah’s Book The fi rst thing created by Allah was the pen. fl ock. Did he protect it or lose it? (hasan - An- 13 What is the major shirk (polytheism)? Help one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (Qur’an ) and choose the good from that which (At-Tirmidhi & Abu-Dawud) Nasaa’i) It is to devote any forms of worship to one (virtue, righteousness) (Q.5:2) Allah has revealed, Allah will cause confl ict other than Allah. Allah helps the worshipper as long as the among them (Ibn-Majah) 41 From what was Prophet Muhammad 54 When will Muslims Verily Allah forgives not that partners should worshipper helps his brother. (Muslim) created? be victorious? be set up with Him, but He forgives all that He 32 Is it permitted to swear by other than He was created from Nutfah (drops of semen When they apply Qur’an and Sunnah (fully) wills. (Q. 4:48) 23 Is it allowed to make vows to other Allah’s Name? – male and female discharges) in their lives. The greatest sins are polytheism etc. than Allah? No, it is not permitted. It is He Who created you (Adam) from dust, O you who believe! If you help in the cause of (Muslim) No, it is not allowed to swear oaths except in Say: By my Lord you will certainly be then from a Nutfah. (Q.40:67) Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold Allah’s Name. resurrected. (Q.64:7) In every one of you, all components are fi rm. (Q.47:7) 14 What is the harm of major shirk? O my Lord I have to you what is in my womb Whoever swears by anyone other than Allah, created together in your mother’s womb by There will always be a victorious group from The reason for eternity in Hellfi re. to be dedicated for your services. (Q. 3:35) has associated partners with Allah. (Ahmad) 40 days. (Mutafaqun ‘alaihi) my nation. (Ibn Majah) Gulf Times 14 Friday, October 26, 2018 COMMENT

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One doesn’t yet know who was responsible for the explosive devices and suspicious packages sent to former US president Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, philanthropist and liberal donor George Soros, CNN headquarters, Maxine Waters (Democrat – Los Angeles) and others. It’s conceivable that the most obvious motivation – to cause injury and conceivably death to people who have been at odds with President Trump and his Theresa May could back supporters – will turn out not to be the reason, and that some diff erent, more personal explanation will eventually be unearthed. It seems far more likely, however, that an unstable mind marinated in the often vicious rhetoric of the current political moment decided to act on his beliefs. a new Brexit referendum It’s always possible that someone will be inspired by ugly words to commit violent acts. President Trump referendum to deliver Brexit, but that needs to realise that. By Anatole Kaletsky Either they accept whatever Brexit Brexiteers, the eff ect of these warnings London deal May proposes, or they will face has been counter-productive: instead of this would involve more disruption Trump said the right thing on Wednesday when he a chaotic “no deal” Brexit that would triggering an upsurge of preparations, than predicted. It would therefore be said that “in these times we have to unify, we have be catastrophic not just for the United the prospect of aircraft being grounded, right to ask voters where or not they to come together and send one very clear, strong, s the Brexit negotiations enter Kingdom, but for the entire EU. hospitals running out of medicines, still wanted to go ahead with Brexit on their endgame, a stalemate But May’s eff ort to present a and exports coming to a standstill have these tougher terms. unmistakable message that acts or threats of political has become the most likely Hobson’s Choice suff ers a fatal flaw: made a no-deal Brexit implausible to By posing this question, May could violence of any kind have no place in the United States Aoutcome. This is good news. It almost nobody believes that she the point of absurdity and probably outmanoeuvre Boris Johnson and of America.” does not mean that Britain will “crash would dare to infl ict chaos on British discouraged business decision-makers her other rivals. Because the hardline The problem is that this is the same president who out” of the European Union with no businesses and voters. A no-deal from wasting money preparing for such Brexiteers have presented “no deal” as once called major news organisations “the enemy of agreement: deals in the European Union Brexit would rule out the transition an unrealistic contingency. a perfectly acceptable outcome, they tend to be struck at the last possible period that Britain desperately needs The upshot is that even if May could not object if this were the form of the American People,” moment. But the British parliament will to negotiate the thousands of rules, genuinely wanted to pursue a no-deal Brexit put to voters. If it won, May could who refused to answer probably reject whatever arrangement regulations, and standards required Brexit, a large parliamentary majority not be held responsible and would have “In these times a question from a CNN Prime Minister Theresa May manages to continue trading with Europe, as would unite to prevent it. While the satisfaction of watching Johnson correspondent because to negotiate with European leaders, and well as the US, Japan, China, and other there are questions about the exact cope with the resulting chaos. we have to unify, “CNN is fake news,” the likeliest way to end the deadlock countries covered by agreements parliamentary procedures, the political Much more likely is that a new will be to hold a new referendum that negotiated by the EU over many dynamics are clear. Pursuing such a referendum would reject a no-deal we have to come who ranted about reconsiders the decision to leave the EU. decades. desperately risky gamble against the Brexit, not just because of the economic “Crooked Hillary” Until recently, conventional wisdom Without this transition period, expressed wishes of a parliamentary risks, but also because the demographic together” while his adoring fans dismissed this possibility. But now the British exports would come to a majority would trigger a constitutional balance of the UK population has chanted “Lock her up,” political mechanics that could lead to a temporary standstill in March 2019, crisis that could be resolved only by shifted in favor of pro-European voters new referendum and the cancellation of because agreements on product appealing to voters – either through a by around 1mn since 2016. If voters and who only a few days ago entertained the crowd Brexit are becoming clear. safety, labeling, food quality, public general election or a new referendum. rejected “no deal” in favor of no Brexit, at one of his rallies by complimenting a member of Whatever version of Brexit procurement, and hundreds of The opposition Labour Party would May’s hardline opponents would be Congress who pleaded guilty to assaulting a reporter May proposes now faces a veto. A other little-known issues must be demand a general election, but the silenced, and her position as Prime while campaigning. “Any guy that can do a body slam, Norwegian-style “soft Brexit” that negotiated to trade under World Trade Conservatives, split as they are over Minister would be secured until the he’s my candidate,” the president said. would keep Britain in the EU’s trading Organization rules – and these need Europe, would unite to block this. 2022 election. Better still, the end of structures would be blocked by the to satisfy all 164 members of the Once the election gambit failed, Brexit uncertainty would result in an The intended recipients of the explosive devices are Euroskeptics in May’s Conservative WTO. The disruption of trade fl ows Labour would almost surely support a economic rebound, almost certainly a who’s who of Trump targets: Soros, the bogeyman Party. A “hard Brexit,” which would would only be temporary, because referendum, which is backed by 85% of guaranteeing a Conservative victory in for right-wing conspiracy theorists; John Brennan, require border controls with the Britain would eventually negotiate the its members. Only a few Conservatives 2022. Obama’s CIA director whom Trump has described as Republic of Ireland, is unacceptable to necessary WTO agreements, but even a would then be needed to create a In short, a new referendum to break the Irish government and the EU. And brief interruption could be devastating, referendum majority, and they might the impending parliamentary deadlock “a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be a hybrid arrangement that would take as evidenced by the “sudden stop” fi nd themselves with an unexpected would probably mean that Britain trusted with the secrets to our country”; Waters, whom Britain out of the EU single market in bank fi nance that lasted only a few ally: Theresa May. remains in Europe and May remains in Trump has derided as “crazy” and “low IQ.” but keep Northern Ireland in would be weeks after the bankruptcy of Lehman For May, a referendum could be the Downing Street. Why would she not If it turns out that the devices, which fortunately a dealbreaker for Northern Ireland’s Brothers in 2008. key that unlocks the cage in which seize this chance? - Project Syndicate harmed no one, were sent by a supporter of the Democratic Unionist Party, whose To make her no-deal threat more her own “red lines” have trapped support May needs to stay in power. credible, May has tried sending dozens her. Once it was clear that the only zAnatole Kaletsky is Chief Economist president, Trump can of course argue that he never These competing vetoes explain of “technical notices” to businesses, option for leaving the EU would and Co-Chairman of Gavekal encouraged violence or criminality. But surely this May’s only strategy for delivering hospitals, and public agencies about be to crash out with no deal, May Dragonomics and the author of kind of violence is the foreseeable outcome of our Brexit: to tell MPs and EU leaders that the emergency preparations they could honestly claim that she had Capitalism 4.0, The Birth of a New increasingly toxic politics, in which diff erences they must choose the lesser of two evils. should make. Unfortunately for the followed the mandate from the 2016 Economy. over issues have grown into walls, rage has replaced discourse, in which both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Democrat – San Francisco) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican – Kentucky) have recently been chased and cursed in the streets by angry opponents. And in which the president of the United States, far from bringing the country together, fans fl ames of fear, divisiveness and distrust through a rhetoric of bigotry and anger. The fact that hostile, provocative and ugly political speech falls short of the legal defi nition of incitement doesn’t make it right. It’s always possible that someone will be inspired by ugly words to commit violent acts. The president needs to realise that. – Tribune News Service

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By Sławomir Sierakowski political platforms. Hence, Alexander further than that. In fact, this has Berlin Dobrindt of the CSU has promised already happened in Bavaria, where a “conservative revolution,” while the AfD garnered 10.2% of the vote Martin Schulz, the erstwhile this month, down from the 12.4% he German Social Democrats’ leader of the SPD, has promoted EU that it received in last year’s federal (SPD) existential crisis can federation. election. no longer be treated as a At any rate, when the constituent Another potential silver lining to a Ttypical party crisis. The parts of a coalition start moving in multiparty system is that it might lead party captured a mere 9.7% of the diff erent directions, things quickly to more political engagement. In the vote in regional elections in Bavaria fall apart. Still, it is worth noting case of Bavaria, voter participation this month, and it is trailing both the that while the SPD and the CDU are rose to 72.4% this election cycle, up populist Alternative für Deutschland currently losing support, their ideas from 63.6% fi ve years ago. (AfD) and the Greens in national remain popular. Their problem is not Looking ahead, Germany may opinion polls. With another important that they are devoid of ideas, but that now end up with rotating coalition regional election fast approaching in they lack political credibility. governments comprising multiple Hesse, polls indicate that the SPD will This credibility defi cit has created a parties. For example, one could lose still more support, albeit not as vacuum for other parties to fi ll. Thus, imagine an arrangement between the dramatically as in Bavaria. the Greens have made gains in Bavaria CDU/CSU, the Free Democrats, and The SPD and the Christian by supporting an open-door refugee the Greens – the so-called Jamaica Democratic Union/Christian Social policy that actually originated with coalition. But this scenario would Union (CDU/CSU) have stood as the the CDU/SPD. Likewise, the AfD has most likely produce political paralysis, twin pillars of German politics since wrested the anti-refugee mantle away because politicians from competing the end of World War II. But with the from the CSU and Seehofer, who went parties within the coalition would SPD declining, Germany is moving so far as to try to undermine Merkel’s constantly undercut one another from a de facto two-party system to a government from within while other while pandering to the popular multiparty system in which no single serving as Minister of the Interior. will. Moreover, the chancellorship – party plays a dominant role. The common thread connecting all traditionally very strong in Germany The German post-war consensus of the parties that performed well in – will always be weaker in a patchwork is collapsing in key areas – history the Bavarian election is that they ran government. (attitudes toward WWII), geopolitics politicians who are at least consistent Most likely, the fall of the CDU/ (attitudes toward Russia), the economy in their views. CSU-SPD duopoly will undermine (attitudes toward the auto industry), Unfortunately for Germany, German hegemony in Europe, even if and ethics (attitudes toward refugees) multiparty systems are generally no other country can replace Germany – and this is refl ected in the fracturing unstable and less predictable, which in that role. At the same time, the of the political scene. German voters Andrea Nahles (right), leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), speaks with Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel, her explains why every other European weakening of the SPD will diminish have rejected the longstanding CDU/ party’s top candidate in Hesse, during an election rally in Heuchelheim, western Germany on Wednesday, ahead of the week- country – Latvia is a current example the socialist faction in the European CSU-SPD “grand coalition.” Whereas end’s regional election. – constantly struggles to establish Parliament, where a similar eclipse of smaller parties once functioned as a governing coalition. Under such two-party rule could be in the offi ng. mere subsidiaries of either the SPD or 54% are over 60. By contrast, just 24% participated as the minority partner in grand-coalition rule allowed for the conditions, it is not uncommon Yet without the twin pillars of the the CDU/CSU, the bit players are now of Greens are over 60. And Die Linke, three grand-coalition governments. As right-wing populist Freedom Party of for bizarre arrangements to arise, European People’s Party and the Party eclipsing the former stars. meanwhile, has become increasingly a result, it has come to be associated Austria to present itself as an agent for including coalitions between the far of European Socialists, the parliament Moreover, what was once “Red attractive both to younger new leftists with the status quo, even though change. left and the far right, as we have seen in will be incapable of making even Munich” has now turned Green. and ageing post-communists from the it hasn’t been able to claim direct When a grand coalition is Greece, Italy, and Slovakia. insignifi cant decisions. As Germany Whereas cities had long been SPD former East Germany. credit for the previous governments’ threatened, its members tend to panic. Germany’s best hope now is that and the SPD go, so goes Europe. – strongholds, they are switching Just as a two-party system ensures successes. Those who toe the party line lose its newly emerging multiparty system Project Syndicate to the Greens and other smaller stability and predictability, so might Something similar happened in support, as German Chancellor Angela will impede the progress of the AfD, parties. Making matters worse for its collapse contribute to radical social Austria, where the Social Democratic Merkel has. Others thus attempt to by nullifying its anti-establishment zSławomir Sierakowski, founder of the SPD, the demographic profi le of change. By defi nition, the fall of the Party ruled either alone or in appropriate populist language – as appeal. The AfD will take its place on the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is its core electorate amounts to a death establishment implies the rise of the conjunction with the Austrian People’s CSU leader Horst Seehofer has done in the radical right as one party among Director of the Institute for Advanced sentence. Only 8% of SPD voters are anti-establishment, often in the form Party between 1971 and 1999 (except recent months – while still others will many. Its support will remain in the Study in Warsaw and a fellow at the under the age of 30, and a whopping of populism. Since 2005, the SPD has for 1983-1986). Such long periods of try to associate themselves with new 10-20% range, but it will not go any Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.

US must stop supplying Saudi bombing of Yemen Three-day forecast off weapons sales to Saudi Arabia in on the brink of starvation, according should decide whether or not the US TODAY By Mark Weisbrot Maximum Temperature : 350c Washington response to this atrocity? Of course it to the UN. military should be deployed in war. should. But President Donald Trump The New York Times editorial board Under the two resolutions, if the Minimum Temperature : 300c has opposed this measure, and The has noted that the Saudis were trying Congress votes to end US military SATURDAY ach day since October 2, new Washington Post reports that Congress to “starve Yemen into submission,” a participation in the Saudi war, Maximum Temperature : 330c evidence has emerged that might not even have a chance to vote strategy that constituted “war crimes.” the president will have 30 days to Minimum Temperature : 280c the killing of Washington on it. Congress can stop these horrifi c withdraw. SUNDAY Post journalist Jamal However, there is something vastly crimes, because the Saudi and UAE In the coming months, tens of Maximum Temperature : 310c E Minimum Temperature : 270c Khashoggi, a resident of Virginia, was more important and obvious that bombers are dependent on mid-air thousands of people across the the US Congress can do – regardless refuelling from US planes. The US also country will be contacting their a premeditated murder. Fisherman's forecast At the same time, it is also of what Trump wants – about Saudi provides assistance with targeting and representatives and senators to increasingly clear that the murder was atrocities. The Congress can stop US intelligence and logistics. persuade them to vote to end this WARNING There are currently bipartisan bills war that has nothing to do with US Inshore : Thundery rain approved at the highest levels of the participation in the Saudis’ genocidal expected at southern Saudi Arabian government, most likely war in Yemen. in both Houses of Congress to cut off national security. area associated with including the current ruler, Crown Since 2015, the US military has been US participation in the war. They will be up against some of the sudden strong wind Prince Mohammd bin Salman. providing mid-air refuelling to Saudi House Concurrent Resolution 138, most powerful interests in the world: Offshore : Nil The Saudis at fi rst maintained that and UAE planes conducting airstrikes introduced by Ro Khanna (Democrat- the military-industrial complex – WEATHER Khashoggi had left the Saudi consulate that have killed thousands of civilians California), has 56 co-sponsors. These including the weapons manufacturers Inshore : Relatively hot daytime in Istanbul, Turkey, alive; they then in Yemen – including a school bus include high-level leadership, such as that Trump has expressed concerns & partly cloudy with c of rain maybe thun- claimed, incredulously, that he was with 40 children that was hit by a US- the ranking Democratic members of about – as well as the national security dery at southern areas killed there in the course of a fi st fi ght. supplied bomb in August. the Foreign Aff airs, Armed Services, state. But if enough people participate by afternnon But we also know that a team of 15 These bombing raids also have Appropriations, and Judiciary in this eff ort, the war will end. Offshore : Partly cloudy

Saudis, including “an autopsy expert” hit water, sewage, and other vital Committees. WIND and others with links to Saudi high infrastructure, causing thousands The Senate bill, led by Bernie zA graduate of the University of Inshore : Southeasterly 05-15/25 offi cials and intelligence, was own fl in more deaths and a million people Sanders and Mike Lee, got 44 votes in Michigan, Mark Weisbrot is Co- KT Offshrore : Northeasterly-South- at dawn on October 2. infected with cholera. February and is likely to get a majority Director of the Centre for Economic and easterly 05-15 KT In the past four years, the United But most catastrophically, the air in the wake of the Khashoggi murder. Policy Research and the president of States has supplied 60% of Saudi arms strikes and the Saudi blockade and These bills have been introduced Just Foreign Policy. Readers may write Visibility : 4-8/3 KM purchases – many of which are used to siege of Yemen’s major port city have under the 1973 War Powers him at CEPR, 1611 Connecticut Avenue Offshore : 1-3/4 FT NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC kill civilians in Yemen. caused the worst humanitarian crisis Resolution, a law that reinforced the Around the region Should the US government cut in the world today, with 14mn people Constitution’s provision that Congress 20009. – Tribune News Service Weather Weather today Max/min tomorrow Max/min Baghdad P Cloudy 30/14 Sunny 22/12 Kuwait City P Cloudy 34/24 P Cloudy 29/19 Manama M Sunny 34/28 P Cloudy 34/26 Live issues Muscat Sunny 32/27 M Sunny 32/27 Tehran Cloudy 23/16 P Cloudy 22/12 New diabetes treatment could end daily insulin jabs

London Apart from dispensing with Guardian News and Media insulin injections, researchers claim that those treated could benefi t from a lower risk of cardiovascular potential medical disease, kidney failure, blindness and breakthrough that could put numbness in the hands and feet. an end to the daily insulin Scientists from Amsterdam UMC Ainjections endured by people who presented their study at a living with diabetes has been unveiled conference in Vienna this week were by Dutch scientists. said to be cautious but “jubilant” Around the world By destroying the mucous about the initial results. Weather Weather membrane in the small intestine People with type 2 diabetes aged today Max/min tomorrow Max/min and causing a new one to develop, between 28 and 75 are now being Athens Sunny 22/15 Sunny 24/17 scientists stabilised the blood recruited for a larger study of 100 Beirut Rain 21/17 Sunny 24/19 sugar levels of people with type people. Bangkok S T Storms 33/26 P Cloudy 33/26 2 diabetes. The results have been Almost 3.7mn people in the UK live Berlin Cloudy 13/06 Cloudy 09/03 described as “spectacular” – with a diagnosis of type 1 or 2 diabetes, Cairo Sunny 26/16 Sunny 27/17 albeit unexpected – by the chief an increase of 1.9mn since 1998. Type Cape Town Cloudy 27/17 Sunny 33/18 researchers involved. 1 diabetes is where the level of sugar Colombo T Storm 29/24 T Storm 29/24 In the hourlong procedure, trialled insulin resistance among people with “Because the question now in the blood is too high because the Dhaka Sunny 32/21 M Sunny 33/22 on 50 patients in Amsterdam, a tube type 2 diabetes. is whether this is a permanent pancreas does not produce insulin. Hong Kong P Cloudy 28/23 M Sunny 27/22 with a small balloon in its end is Jacques Bergman, a professor of treatment, or whether it is something Those with type 2 diabetes are not Istanbul P Cloudy 18/13 Sunny 20/15 inserted through the mouth of the gastroenterology at Amsterdam UMC, that you have to keep repeating – producing enough insulin. The impact Jakarta T Storm 33/26 T Storm 33/26 patient down to the small intestine. said: “Because of this treatment the something that in theory should be can be controlled by changes to diet, Karachi P Cloudy 33/23 Sunny 34/23 The balloon is infl ated with hot use of insulin can be postponed or possible. We looked at whether we but it is a progressive disease. Most London S Showers 11/03 P Cloudy 08/06 water and the mucous membrane perhaps prevented. That is promising.” could stop their insulin, which is still people will need to take tablets or Manila P Cloudy 33/25 P Cloudy 33/25 burned away by the heat. Within two Bergman added of the procedure ongoing, but the fi rst results are truly inject insulin after living with it for Moscow M Cloudy 04/01 Rain 04/03 weeks a new membrane develops, that it was “amazing that people suff er spectacular, with the lion’s share of fi ve to 10 years. New Delhi Sunny 32/18 Sunny 32/18 leading to an improvement in the very little from this”. patients no longer using insulin after Nine out of 10 people diagnosed New York M Cloudy 13/09 Rain 13/09 patient’s health. He told the Dutch broadcaster this treatment.” with diabetes have type 2. It is Paris Cloudy 14/02 P Cloudy 11/04 Even a year after the treatment, the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting: “With The new discovery initially seems estimated that there are nearly Sao Paulo Showers 23/19 S T Storms 24/16 disease was found to be stable in 90% those people we see a spectacular most suitable for borderline patients 1mn people currently living with Seoul Rain 16/07 P Cloudy 12/06 of those treated. It is believed there improvement in blood sugar levels one who already take pills but whose blood the condition who have yet to be Singapore T Storm 31/26 T Storm 31/26 is a link between nutrient absorption day after the operation, before they sugar level is high enough for doctors diagnosed and that 12.3mn people are Sydney Cloudy 19/13 P Cloudy 22/15 by the mucus membrane in the small even lose one kilo, which has put us on to advise that they inject insulin in the at an increased risk due high levels of Tokyo Clear 21/13 Cloudy 24/16 intestine and the development of the track. short term. sugar in their blood. Gulf Times 16 Friday, October 26, 2018 QATAR

Minister opens new vegetable yard at Al Shamal

HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi opened yesterday a new yard at Al Shamal for local farm produce. More such markets will be opened to support Qatari farmers, he said on the occasion. PICTURES: Ram Chand. Aspire Zone ‘Pink Walk’ sees huge turnout o mark this year’s Breast dation said: “We are very happy Cancer Awareness Month, with this large turnout to this TAspire Zone Foundation year’s ‘Pink Walk’ campaign. (AZF), in collaboration with the Thanks to the organisers at As- Primary Health Care Corpora- pire Zone Foundation, and our tion (PHCC) and Hamad Medical partners HMC and PHCC. This Corporation (HMC), organised is the fourth consecutive year the fourth consecutive annual we have organised such activ- ‘Pink Walk’ breast cancer aware- ity. I’m glad to say that the level ness event yesterday at Aspire of participation refl ects peo- Park, sponsored by Saleh Al Ha- ple’s appetite to learn more and mad Al Mana Co - Nissan Qatar. educate themselves about breast The aim is to encourage par- cancer, as well as an increased ticipants to embrace a healthier willingness to become involved lifestyle and learn more about in activities that raise awareness the causes of breast cancer as about such important issues in well as recommended steps to Qatar.” reduce the risk of developing it. Dr Shaikha Abu Shaikha Hundreds of women of all Cancer Programme Manager at ages participated in various ac- PHCC said: “Partnering with tivities at the ‘Pink Walk’ breast renowned entities like HMC and cancer awareness event. The Aspire Zone is key in maximising Some of the participants during the Pink Walk at Aspire Park yesterday. PICTURE: Shemeer Rasheed. event kicked off with interactive the reach to the targeted audi- awareness sessions presented by ence and spreading awareness of education on breast cancer to the winner from the fi rst 200 nessed a large turnout from AZF worldwide hold activities to in- tive and healthy lifestyle among HMC followed by a fi ve-minute messages about the importance across the communities, so they female participants. employees and was sponsored by crease awareness of the disease all community members, in line warm-up session delivered by of early detection and ways to can take initiatives to improve Earlier this week, Aspire L’Occitane. among community members, with the Human Development an Aspire Zone fi tness instruc- improve one’s health. We at their lifestyles and perceive Zone Foundation organised The event is designed to particularly women, and to raise pillar of the Qatar National Vi- tor, for the 1-2km walk around PHCC believe that unity makes breast cancer screening as a rou- ‘Cook Pink’ an internal event mark Breast Cancer Awareness funds for research into its caus- sion 2030, which aims to create Aspire Park. strength, hence we always look tine check-up.” for its employees to raise their Month, an annual international es, prevention, diagnosis, treat- a physically and psychologically Commenting on the event, forward to joining forces with Following the event, AZF car- awareness on the importance of health campaign organised by ment and cure. healthy population for a well- Hamad al-Khaldi, head of PR other private and government ried out a raffl e draw, in which a healthy food in the prevention major breast cancer charities As a sports organisation, AZF rounded society. and CSR at Aspire Zone Foun- bodies to maximise the level Nissan sedan car was presented of breast cancer. The event wit- every October. Organisations focuses on promoting an ac- Kuwaiti lensmen’s award-winning Katara hosts Andalusian music concert atara - the Cultural Vil- lage Foundation, in co- photographs on show at Katara Kordination with the Alge- rian embassy in Qatar, recently organised an Andalusian music By Joey Aguilar concert performed at the Opera Staff Reporter House theatre in Katara. The concert was attended by several diplomats and dignitar- ome 24 Kuwaiti photog- ies as well as by a considerable raphers, who call Qatar number of Andalusian music Stheir second home, are fans and visitors from diff erent showcasing 42 stunning and communities in Qatar, Katara award-winning images at the said in a statement. ‘Creative’ exhibition, being Abdulaziz al-Sabaa, Algeria’s Nassima Shaaban (middle) performing at the show. held at the Katara – the Cul- ambassador to Qatar, delivered tural Village. a speech before the audience Shaaban expressed happiness The artiste stressed that she The exhibition, organised where he praised the eff orts of at being able to perform in Qa- acquired this art from the older by Youth Hobbies Centre and Katara to host the concert fea- tar for the fi rst time after having generation and is now teaching Kuwait Science Club in asso- turing prominent Algerian ar- performed at many places in the it to youngsters in order to “pre- ciation with Qatar’s Ministry of tiste Nassima Shaaban. “I would world. serve this valued heritage”. Culture and Sports, was opened like to convey my deepest grati- “I am here to present this mar- Katara has hosted several cul- by Katara’s human resourc- tude to Katara for their constant vellous type of music in the best tural events in co-operation with es department manager Saif Yacoub al-Kanderi (left) shows his works to Saif Saeed al-Dosari, who opened the Kuwait exhibition co-operation and keenness to form, which carries a message the Algerian embassy in Doha, Saeed al-Dosari on Wednesday. ‘Creative’ at Katara. PICTURES: Jayaram. present the precious culture of of peace to the world from our such as the successful Shahrazad “This is the fi rst time we did Algeria as well as other cultural deep-rooted heritage – one that Symphony musical show in 2016 an exhibition in Qatar, which is specialties from around the we inherited from our ancestors and the Algerian folklore show at my second home,” Kuwait Sci- world,” he said. in Andalusia,” Shaaban said. the Cultural Diversity Festival. ence Club president Yacoub al- Kanderi told reporters. ‘Creative,’ featuring the works of Kuwait Science Club members, presents a variety of themes such as wildlife, street Ooredoo off ers eSIM technology photography, sports, abstract, architecture and portraits, oredoo yesterday an- digital channels like SMS or e- among others. nounced that custom- mail. 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Right: Kuwaiti photographer Mustafa al-Basheer’s photograph on display at bile phone to work without a fee of QR50 and pre–paid cus- Many of the photographs at the ‘Creative’ exhibition. physical SIM card and enables tomers QR35. ‘Creative’ were also published users to use both their private Talking about the launch, in international magazines, ac- A QNA report, quoting the su- eration with photographers from the Kuwait Science Club is a and business numbers at the in any Ooredoo Shop or on Waleed al-Sayed, Ooredoo’s cording to al-Kanderi. pervisor of the photography de- Oman and Qatar, featuring their non-profi t organisation spon- same time and switch between the eShop, and start using the CEO commented: “Ooredoo is About Katara, he fi nds the partment at the Youth Hobbies works in either or both countries. sored by the Ministry of Social them seamlessly without technology on available com- delighted to be the fi rst to off er cultural village an excellent Centre of the Ministry of Culture Kuwaiti photographer Amani Aff airs and Labour and managed needing to physically swap patible devices as soon as the eSIM technology to our custom- venue for such kind of exhibi- and Sports Abdulaziz al-Kubaisi, al-Sai, also a member of the by nine board of directors. 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