Ex-Speaker Rashed Submits Reform Proposals to Amir
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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015 RAMADAN 5, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Govt keen on Charleston Murray crowned cooperation church reopens king of Queen’s Emsak: 03:04 with judiciary: in triumph for fourth time Fajer: 03:14 Shrooq 04:48 Minister over ‘the Devil’ Dohr: 11:50 Asr: 15:24 Maghreb: 18:51 3 9 20 Eshaa: 20:23 Ex-speaker Rashed submits Min 32º Max 44º reform proposals to Amir High Tide 03:55 & 15:00 Female activist Saadoun sentenced to 3 years in jail Low Tide 09:50 & 22:10 40 PAGES NO: 16559 150 FILS By B Izzak Ramadan Kareem KUWAIT: Former National Assembly Speaker Ali Al-Rashed said yesterday that he submitted to HH the Amir Sheikh The three levels Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah propos- of fasting als for reforms prepared by a group of experts sponsored by his group, the Independent Path. By Hassan T Bwambale “I was honored with a meeting with HH the Amir and HH the Crown Prince and presented to them the charter of ear reader, Ramadan is a wonderful month reforms by the Independent Path. The reforms were pre- and is a school for the Muslim because what- pared by a number of elite experts,” Rashed, who was the ever he learns and implements during speaker of the 2012 assembly before it was dissolved, DRamadan, should be implemented after Ramadan as wrote on his Twitter account. well. We should not be only Ramadan Muslims. A He did not reveal the contents of the proposals but said Muslim should behave graciously, kindly and that the details of the proposed reforms will be made pub- respectfully all year round. The following are the lic at a Ramadan party on Saturday. Rashed, who resigned main levels of fasting that a fasting Muslim should from the National Assembly last year in protest against the understand well and try his best to be among those lawmakers’ rejection of a grilling against the prime minis- qualified to be in the highest level of fasting. The lev- ter, has been calling for national reconciliation that should els are as follows: involve opposition groups to overcome the political dead- a. The fast of the masses, which entails abandon- lock in the country. In the meantime, Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair appears to be ing food, drinks and satisfying one’s carnal desires headed for a showdown with the National Assembly after albeit licitly for some hours. Allah says in Al-Hadeeth a number of MPs demanded explanation from him over Al-Qudsi describing the situation of a fasting person: his accusations and some of them threatened to grill him. “... he abandons his food, drinks and enjoying his Last month, Omair charged that some big contractors conjugal rites because of Me. Therefore, fasting is for and executives in the oil sector did not like his appoint- Me and I am the one to determine the nature and ment to the post. A number of MPs have demanded that amount of rewards for a fasting person.” Majority of JAKARTA: An Indonesian young girl reads the holy Quran at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta yesterday. More Omair should name those contractors alluding to suspect- the Muslims fall under this category. than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world celebrate the month with fast from dawn to dusk and conduct ed corruption. Continued on Page 13 night prayers. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Kuwait’s court rejects Investment Dar appeal DUBAI: Kuwait’s Investment Dar said yesterday that a es being brought against the firm in relation to non-pay- Kuwaiti court had rejected the company’s appeal against ment of debts to allow it to implement its restructuring. a ruling to lift protection it had against legal action by A court ruling in July last year ruled that legal pro- creditors. The company, which holds a stake in luxury tection from creditors would be lifted, although it was carmaker Aston Martin, will be reviewing available temporarily reinstated in October to allow Investment options with its advisers over the next few days and Dar to appeal. However, a hearing by the Kuwaiti Court would announce the result of these conversations in the of Cassation on June 17 rejected the appeal, the state- coming period, it said in a statement. ment said. Investment Dar was one of a clutch of local financial The court’s decision was final, Investment Dar added. firms which struggled to refinance debt in the aftermath The company is seeking to agree a 813 million dinar of the global economic crisis. It was then one of the first ($2.69 billion) debt restructuring plan with investors. to reorganize under Kuwait’s Financial Stability Law - Some creditors have already said they would reject such introduced in 2009 to assist debt renegotiations in a moves though - Kuwait Finance House said in February it country with opaque bankruptcy rules. As part of that would take all legal measures against Investment Dar to legislation, Investment Dar secured a halt to all legal cas- try and collect the money it is owed. — Reuters Al-Jazeera journalist to face judge soon CAIRO: A high-profile Al-Jazeera journalist arrested in Germany at the request of Egypt said he expected to soon face a judge who would decide whether or not to extradite him, in a case likely to raise fresh questions about Cairo’s crackdown on dissent. Ahmed Mansour, a leading talk show host on the channel’s Arabic service, was arrested in Germany on Saturday. His is the latest in a string of such cases brought by the Egyptian authorities against Al-Jazeera journalists. Egypt accuses Al-Jazeera of being a mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Qatar- backed Islamist movement which President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi toppled in 2013 when he was army chief and accuses of being a terrorist group. Both the television channel and the Brotherhood reject the allega- tions made by Egyptian authori- ties. Mansour told Al-Jazeera by telephone: “The German authorities told me that we are Ahmed Mansour dealing with an international criminal case” and a judge would decide whether he should be extradited to Egypt. Cairo’s criminal court sentenced Mansour, who has dual Egyptian and British citizenship, to 15 years in prison in absentia last year on the charge of torturing a lawyer in 2011 in Tahrir Square, the focus of the popular uprising that toppled veteran leader Hosni Mubarak. Jazeera said at the time the charge was false and an attempt to silence Mansour, known to viewers across the Arab world. Saad Djebbar, a lawyer for Al-Jazeera, said Mansour was arrested unexpectedly on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha. “This is a very serious development,” Djebbar said. “We NEW DELHI: Thousands of participants perform knew that the Egyptians were going to set such a trap to yoga on Rajpath in New Delhi on the first harass our journalists and that is what has happened.” International Yoga Day yesterday.— AFP Continued on Page 13 LOCAL MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015 Photo of the day KUWAIT: People enjoy a meal inside the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa. Restaurants and hotels are often occupied from dusk till dawn in Ramadan as they serve iftar, ghabka and suhour meals throughout the holy month. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Ramadan soap opera’s review KUWAIT VOICES By Nawara Fattahova gym and exercises strenuously. After some time, during a match, after he was hit in his spine. All she is in pain and after taking her to the hospital, his siblings go to the hospital to find that Faisal is Kuwait Times is publishing a daily review of three they find the fetus is dead due to a miscarriage. paralyzed. They start discussing what will hap- Kuwaiti soap operas aired on Al Rai TV. Here is Sulaiman admits to his sister he squandered KD 6 pen and who will take care of him. Fatma, who is ‘I am most grateful the review of the third episodes of the serials: million of his wife’s money. there from the beginning and is listening to Rakan, Ali’s friend, is at the mall, where he everything, cannot stop herself telling them she meets Wed, a student at the school where is their mother. All of them rebuff her except Dr for people’s love’ Hadeel teaches. She shares the table with him to Fawzi, who says he still loves her. Faroug recalls eat her meal, but refuses to talk to him, so he the bad memories when she left him with their leaves. He is still at the mall when three guys try drug addict father. to harass her. Rakan defends her, but one of the men stabs him and he is admitted to the hospi- ‘Thakira min Waraq’ tal. People record the fight and post it on social Najd wakes up and can breathe. She wants to media, and this is how his family knows about it. get out of her room but Mashael, her room- mate, has locked her in the house. When she comes back, she opens the windows as gas has ‘Ummina Rwehit al Jannah’ filled the apartment because she forgot boiling Fatma is following all her seven children to find coffee on the stove and left. Najd takes her out more about their lives. Fajer is suffering from belongings and leaves the house. Shouq, the hallucinations due to the drugs she is taking. Her new roommate of Noora, another Kuwaiti stu- Thakira min waraq’s poster daughter tells her grandmother that the reason dent in Germany, finds out Noora has an artifi- behind this is her paternal grandmother who cial leg.