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SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Minister of “Under food security program, THE PENINSULA Municipality and work is going on to increase Environment self-sufficiency of the country DOHA: Minister of Municipality H E Mohamed bin in animals production (red and Environment H E Mohamed meat) to 30 percent from bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi opened Abdullah Al Rumaihi existing 15 percent.” yesterday a new winter vege- opened yesterday He said that strategy of food table market in Al Shamal which a new winter security aims at increasing stra- offers varieties of vegetables in tegic reserve of livestock and large quantity directly from vegetable market in production of local animal local farms at lower prices. Al Shamal. The fifth farms. Some outlets at new market market will open in “Al Shamal winter vegetable offered also locally produced Al Shihaniya within market is a new platform to sugarcane and oranges. market the local products Winter vegetable markets few months. directly from farms to con- have become highly popular sumers without brokers,” said among residents as over 1.2 the Minister. million boxes of vegetables were Affairs Department at the Min- He said that that these sold last year compared to over istry of Municipality and Envi- markets provide opportunity to 4 million boxes of vegetables ronment will work from local farmers to offer their sold during 2012 to 2017. Thursday to Saturday from 7am products without any marketing The new market ‘Al Shamal to 5pm. cost because Ministry of Munic- Yard’, located in Al Shamal city The fifth winter vegetable ipality and Environment bears opposite to headquarters of Al market will open in Al Shihaniya all operation cost of the markets. Shamal Municipality near within few months, said the “New market will serve the Woqod petrol station, is the Minister of Municipality and people residing in Al Shamal fourth market after Al Maz- Environment while speaking to and provide good profits to the Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met yesterday at Al Bahr Palace with US Secretary rouah, Al Khor-Dhakhira and the media person on the side- farmers encouraging them to of Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, and the delegation accompanying him. The meeting reviewed the Al Wakrah markets which were lines of the inaugural increase the productions,” said strategic ties and partnership between the State of Qatar and the United States, as well as the means reopened yesterday for this ceremony. the Minister. to enhance them in financial and economic fields. The meeting also focused on reviewing counter- season. All four winter vegetable Speaking about local animal terrorism efforts and addressed a number of regional and international issues of joint interest. markets run by the Agricultural products, the Minister said: →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FIFA Security Director meets PM, hails World Cup preparations GCC-US summit in January, says THE PENINSULA with the organisation of the 15th Kuwait Minister Asian Games in Qatar. DOHA: Prime Minister and Interior He also praised the facilities and THE PENINSULA Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin the advanced systems at the Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met National Command Center, which yesterday with FIFA Security is expected to have the most prom- DOHA: Kuwait’s Deputy Director, Helmut Joseph Spahn, inent role in securing the 2022 Foreign Minister Khaled Al currently visiting the country. World Cup. Jarallah affirmed that the During the meeting, they dis- FIFA Security Director hailed GCC-US summit will be held cussed areas of joint cooperation the level of preparations and the in January, with no changes between the State of Qatar and the efforts made by the State of Qatar according to what was agreed FIFA, as well as the preparations to host the 2022 World Cup. upon. for securing Qatar 2022 World Cup, He also was briefed on the In a statement posted by QNA reported. center’s modern equipment and Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Following the meeting, H E advanced technological systems to Al Jarallah said that there will Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin maintain security and response to be a meeting of the Ministerial Khalifa Al Thani and FIFA Security accidents and emergencies through Committee to follow up the Director visited the National security systems based on interna- implementation of the reso- Command Center (NCC) of the Min- tional standards such as the unified lutions issued by the current istry of Interior, where Helmut geographical system (Najm) and the session of the Gulf Cooper- Spahn was briefed on the goals and early warning system of vital facil- ation Council (GCC) countries, Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, with services of the Center which was ities, as well as emergency and looking forward to holding FIFA Security Director, Helmut Joseph Spahn, at the National Command Center (NCC) in Doha. established in 2006 in conjunction traffic services. this meeting in November. The Deputy Foreign Min- ister said that Kuwait, as current president of the GCC, Changing story again, Saudi admits invited the brothers in the Ooredoo digital eSIM available for customers GCC states to a senior-level meeting to review the imple- THE PENINSULA Khashoggi murder was planned Thanks to the launch, cus- QR50 and prepaid customers mentation of the previous tomers can request an eSIM in will pay a onetime activation fee summit, QNA reported. AP DOHA: Ooredoo announced any Ooredoo Shop or on the of QR35. Al Jarallah underlined the yesterday that customers can eShop, and start using the tech- Talking about the launch, possibility of inviting Kuwait RIYADH: Saudi prosecutors say the killing of journalist Jamal now enjoy eSIM technology on nology on available compatible Waleed Al Sayed, Ooredoo’s to hold a conference for the Khashoggi was planned, state-run media reported yesterday, Qatar’s biggest mobile network devices as soon as the manufac- Chief Executive Officer, com- relief of the Yemeni people by reflecting yet another change in the shifting Saudi Arabian account with compatible devices turer has updated their software. mented: “Ooredoo is delighted saying, “our efforts are con- of what happened to the writer who was killed by Saudi officials available to purchase via the This is the only self-service to be the first to offer eSIM tech- tinuing to support the Yemeni in their Istanbul consulate. eShop and Ooredoo Shops. digital eSIM feature available in nology to our customers with a people and alleviate their suf- Saudi Attorney General Saud Al Mojeb said investigators con- eSIM is a revolutionary tech- Qatar and the region. At the time compatible device. eSIMs will fering, Kuwait has made great cluded that Khashoggi’s killing was a premeditated crime after nology that allows a mobile of purchase, customer will get help everyone seamlessly switch efforts in this regard.” reviewing evidence presented by Turkish officials as part of a joint phone to work without a a QR code, which can be between their mobile accounts He pointed out that investigation, according to a statement on the state-run Saudi Press physical SIM card and enables requested over digital channels and connect faster than ever Kuwait has committed to Agency. Saudi Arabia initially insisted Khashoggi had walked out of users to use both their private like SMS or email. before. This technology has just provide assistance worth the consulate after visiting the building on October 2. It later dropped and business numbers at the Ooredoo is also the only launched and we look forward $250m to the Yemeni people that account for a new one, saying it had detained 18 people for what same time and switch between operator in the country offering to investing further in it to help in 2018, as they previously it said was an accidental killing during a “fistfight.” them seamlessly without eSIM for both post-paid and transform our customers’ digital provided $100m. Many countries responded to the version of a brawl involving needing to physically swap SIM pre-paid customers via digital experience at home or in the Al Jarallah concluded by Khashoggi with skepticism and demands for transparency. Turkey cards. This technology will channels. workplace with devices such as stating Kuwait’s obligations has been turning up the pressure on Saudi Arabia, a regional provide a whole new digital To enjoy the benefits of smart watches and other next- are permanent and con- rival, to reveal more about the crime. experience for customers in eSIM, post–paid customers will generation technology in the tinuous, as well as joint efforts →SEE ALSO PAGE 5 Qatar and the region. pay a onetime activation fee of near future.” with the GCC countries. 02 HOME FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 Sheikh Hamad Award to PM, US Treasury Secretary review bilateral relations Amir greets new President be promoted in Oman of Ethiopia QNA THE PENINSULA Oman universities and institu- tions specialised in translation DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh DOHA: The Organising through media and press Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Committee of the Sheikh Hamad interaction. sent a cable of congratula- Award for Translation and Inter- The Media Committee of the tions to President Sahle-Work national Understanding has Steering Committee represented Zewde on the occasion of her announced that the Media by Media Committee Adviser Dr election and her swearing-in Committee will organise a Hanan Al Fayyad and member as President of the Demo- diverse cultural programme in Dr Amtanan Al Samadi, set up a cratic Federal Republic of Oman from October 27 to 29. preliminary plan for the visit. Ethiopia, wishing her success The programme aims at The visit will be made in the and more development and promoting the award framework of academic and prosperity for the relations worldwide, stressing the impor- knowledge cooperation between the two friendly tance of translation as a culture between the two countries, and countries. Deputy Amir H H to help build humanity and the opening of the award to the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met with Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad enhances the participants, said academic in Gulf and the Arab US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of their Al Thani also sent a cable of a release. Based on this, the world. visit to the country. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and ways of developing congratulations to President media team of the committee Fayyad said that the visit and strengthening them in various fields, especially in economy and investment. They also reviewed Sahle-Work Zewde on the will hold various meetings, sem- will provide a comprehensive the two countries’ efforts in fighting terrorism and combating its finance, in addition to the regional occasion of her election and inars and workshops. overview of the Award , which and international developments. her swearing-in as President The idea and importance of is one of the most important of the Federal Democratic the award will be explained in awards for translation. Republic of Ethiopia. Amir sends congratulations Winter vegetable markets a big hit among residents to President CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 He said that winter vege- of Vietnam “Ministry of Municipality table markets attracted large QNA and Environment has launched number of customers. “During a number of initiatives past six seasons from 2012 to including premium products, 2017 over 4 million boxes of DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Qatari farms and winter vege- vegetables were sold. Over 1.2 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani table markets to provide plat- million boxes of vegetables sent a cable of congratula- forms to market local products were sold alone in last season tions to Dr Nguyen Phu Trong as the Ministry believes that 2017,” Al Khulaifi added. on his election as the Pres- marketing is most important He said that winter vege- ident of the Socialist Republic factor to increase the pro- table markets have become a of Vietnam, wishing him duction,” said Yusuf Khalid Al big marketing platform for local success in his duties and the Khulaifi, Director of Agriculture products as over 20 percent of relations between the two Affairs. total local vegetables were sold friendly countries further Addressing the inaugural at these markets last season. development and growth. ceremony, Al Khulaifi said that Winter vegetable markets Deputy Amir H H Sheikh 12 farms are participating in the offer vegetables at lower prices Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani new market taking the total from the daily price list of veg- also sent a cable of congrat- count of participating farms in etables issued by the Ministry ulations to Dr Nguyen Phu such markets to 100 agricul- of Economy and Commerce, Trong on his election as Pres- Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi touring the winter tural farms, 75 animal farms said Abdurrahman Al Sulaiti, ident of the Socialist Republic market after inaugurating the Al Shamal Yard, yesterday.PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA and 14 fishermen. Supervisor of the markets. of Vietnam. Huawei selected as Gold Sponsor of Milipol

THE PENINSULA public safety solutions in Qatar, wider scale, it supports cross- Huawei shared how its new Huawei will showcase how its regional and global information digital platform strategy will DOHA: By 2022, intelligence will latest AI-driven homeland security sharing. enable governments and enter- become as ubiquitous as air, technologies and solutions will Ahead of Milipol Qatar 2018, prises to accelerate digital trans- creating enormous opportunities. drive the public safety sector. This Fan Tao, CEO of Huawei Qatar, formation and achieve new levels Currently, governments and year’s event will be held from said, “Huawei is committed to har- of innovation and growth. Huawei enterprises across the globe have October 29 to 31, at the Doha Exhi- nessing technology to serve the also introduced Audi and unveiled vast disparity when it comes to bition and Convention Center, needs of the Qatar government, their future plans together in the interoperability at the IT infra- where Huawei has been selected and no need is stronger than guar- field of intelligent connected structure level. as a Gold Sponsor of the event. anteeing the safety and well-being vehicles (ICV), featuring a demon- Looking forward to 2022, Huawei’s public safety solu- of its people. It is a great honour stration from the new Audi Q7. As A view of Huawei AI Smart City. Huawei is determined to serve tions include the Video Cloud to be selected as a Gold Sponsor a leader in the field of vehicle tech- Qatar’s FIFA preparation in facil- Policing Big Data Solution, an inte- of this critical event, and we look nology, Audi is the ideal partner platform will sit on Huawei’s Huawei’s AI portfolio includes itating an always connected, all- grated AI analysis tool for public forward to the opportunity to for Huawei, paving the way for the Cloud Infrastructure and will its new Ascend series of AI chips, encompassing, intelligent society. security customers. The solution demonstrate how our state-of- most intelligent and automated connect web-enabled objects to the world’s first AI IP and chip Huawei is committed to make this enables intelligent crime investi- the-art smart homeland security driving functions and experiences facilitate data sharing across a series designed for a full range of exciting, intelligent world a reality gation and prevention. It can technologies can act as a robust in the world. multitude of digital services and scenarios. The portfolio also via extending the benefits of analyse huge volumes of data to pillar of support for the security of In another marked milestone, business models. Under this includes new products and cloud advanced AI based digital tech- obtain valuable information on the Nation of Qatar.” Earlier this Huawei introduced yet another advanced solution offering, one of services that are built on Ascend nology and transformation to first time visitors, frequent access month at the Huawei Connect major global partnership, with the first services being made com- chip capabilities. With its full-stack FIFA, in order to empower, facil- statistics, movement patterns and 2018 event in Shanghai, under the inviting leading technology sup- mercially available to consumers AI portfolio, Huawei aims to itate and innovate for a truly suspicious activity. It provides a theme of “Activate Intelligence”, plier Bosch on stage at the event through the Huawei Cloud will be provide pervasive intelligence to ‘Expect Amazing’ mega event. holographic profile of key per- this year’s event also focused on to outline their plans for acceler- the Bosch IoT Remote Manager — help drive industry development In Milpol 2018 event, in sonnel, background information AI: its challenges, opportunities, ating the development of Internet a service that manages gateways, and build a fully connected, intel- addition to launching its smart and activity track dynamics. On a innovations, and practices. of Things (IoT). Bosch’s software sensors, and devices. ligent world. Kuwaiti photography exhibition opens at Katara RAYNALD C RIVERA inaugurated by Saif Al Dosari, HR bition, Al Kanderi explained. THE PENINSULA Manager at Katara Cultural Village, were The participating photographers have impressed by the beauty, quality and won awards in both local and interna- DOHA: Forty-two stunning images diversity of the photos taken in different tional competitions such as Trierenberg captured on lens by 24 Kuwaiti amateur countries around the world to highlight Super Circuit in Austria and National and professional photographers are on the splendour of nature and Geographic while many of the works had display at the “Creative 2018” exhibition civilisations. graced the pages of international pho- which was launched on Wednesday at “We chose the most beautiful pho- tography magazines. Youth Hobbies Center at Katara Building tographs not focusing on one theme. Founded in 1979, Kuwait Science 18. From wildlife, portrait and abstract to Club is a non-profit organisation spon- The photos were taken by members landscape, street and sport photography, sored by Kuwait’s Ministry of Social of the Kuwait Science Club, which is the photos on display are diverse and Affairs and Labour and managed by duly exhibiting for the first time in Qatar and through which we hope to send a elected board of directors. Its photog- abroad. message to everyone,” said Al Kanderi. raphy department aims at honing a new “This is the first time we have trav- Ibraheem Al Farhan captures the generation of talented photographers and elled out of Kuwait for an exhibition,” striking geometric patterns of a multi- raising their level and qualifications Yacoub Al Kanderi, president of Kuwait story scaffolding as workers go on with through its many events and activities. Science Club told local media at the their tasks, while Fatima Al Hammadi “Currently, we have around 50 opening ceremony. delves into the regal beauty of the members. We regularly conduct photog- Al Kanderi expressed happiness the Arabian horse and Mohammad Mirza raphy workshops and many events Club is exhibiting for the first time outside gives a glimpse of nature-sculpted rocky including an event with Nikon next Kuwait in their second home Qatar. mountains embraced by the mist. month,” said Al Kanderi. “Qatar is my second country. I love Kuwait Science Club members had The exhibition organised in cooper- it so much because the people here are sojourned in various countries such as ation with Youth Hobbies Centre and Yacoub Al Kanderi (left), President of Kuwait Science Club, and Saif Al Dosari very good and they are like my family,” Kenya and Hungary to take photos, some Katara is open to the public until (centre), HR Manager at Katara Cultural Village, at the opening of Creative 2018 he said. Visitors at the exhibition of which are now on show at the exhi- tomorrow. exhibition at Katara Building 18. PIC: RAYNALD C RIVERA/THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 HOME 03 Qatar and UK discuss boosting bilateral ties Nature sheds light on scientific research at QU THE PENINSULA The report presents governmental authorities and the research efforts key players in the industry, such DOHA: Nature, a science journal as with Qatar Petroleum, Qatar that publishes fine peer- of Qatar University on Petrochemical Company and reviewed research that drives Qatar’s development ExxonMobil Research Qatar, and ground-breaking discovery, has and its crucial needs. many more major companies. published an intensive scientific Research at QU is aligned report titled “Qatar puts the with Qatar National Vision 2030, Pursuit of Knowledge Front and which emphasizes the impor- Center.” This report presents the tance of an economy centred on research efforts of Qatar innovation, entrepreneurship, University (QU) on Qatar’s devel- excellence in education, a world- opment and its crucial needs. The class infrastructure, and efficient report highlights the high public services. regional and international The report concludes by high- ranking of QU, which is due lighting the university’s ambitious much in part to the original goals of the transformative stra- achievements in research and tegic plan from 2018 to 2022 to education. develop research on the above- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Dr Hassan Al Derham, Pres- mentioned fields. Thani with the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Jeremy Hunt, during ident of Qatar University, said, The plan includes also the his official visit to the United Kingdom. The meeting discussed bilateral relations and means of “Our university has enabled supplementary support for boosting them, in addition to a number of regional and international issues of common concern. Qatari citizens to become min- A view of the QU Lab. graduate students through the isters, presidents of agencies, and newly established Graduate Aca- influential members of demic Support Unit, which government.” economy. Particularly, it explains creates synergy between edu- Dr Mariam Al Maadeed, Qatar’s vision in becoming a cation and research, supporting Amiri Naval Forces holds joint exercise with French Forces Qatar University’s Vice-President knowledge-based economy and capacity building and talented for research and graduate studies how QU has benefitted from the students, who are the driving added, “Qatar University is the country’s interest in expanding force behind the societal devel- QNA (COURBET), in the Qatari terri- Amiri Air Force. largest national institution its research and development. opments and prosperity. torial and economic waters. This military exercise is serving government, society and Among the ways in which QU The report includes infor- DOHA: The Amiri Naval Forces The naval exercise part of the cooperation agree- industry in Qatar.” has invested in research is the mation and precise statistics and carried out the joint exercise included a number of exer- ments between the two coun- The report begins by pro- inauguration of the Research data on state and university future (PASSEX) with the French cises, such as MANEUVERING tries in the fields of training viding a background on the vision Complex, a state-of-the-art plans, on its way toward regional Naval Forces with the partici- EX, SURFACE EX and ADEX and planning on all tasks and of Qatar in general and explains research facility. QU has also and international excellence in pation of the frigate with fighters wing of the Qatar required duties. Qatar’s efforts in diversifying its developed partnerships with education and research. Orchestra of the Filipino Youth marks international debut in Qatar

RAYNALD C RIVERA Ating Musika, Pizzicato Polka, and backgrounds, have grown and developed THE PENINSULA Rhapsody for Orchestra. as musicians, and are a standard which I “We are happy and excited to be here. believe is truly world class.” DOHA: The 69-piece Orchestra of the I think this is the first time that a Filipino While the many of the lives of OFY Filipino Youth (OFY) staged its interna- orchestra will perform in Qatar so we feel members had changed having being tional debut yesterday with a bravura it’s a special moment to represent the granted college scholarships and using performance met with rapturous ovations country,” Dos Santos, OFY musical their music backgrounds as alternative from an enthusiastic audience at Qatar director and conductor said while talking career paths, most inspiring was the fact National Library (QNL). to reporters prior to the performance. they wanted to share what they learned Under the baton of Venezuelan Introducing the orchestra, Philippine with other children who come from back- Maestro Joshua Dos Santos, the orchestra Ambassador Alan L. Timbayan said: “I’m grounds similar to theirs, said Lopez. comprising musicians as young as 12 proud to present to you the Orchestra of Since its founding six years back, the mostly from less privileged families played the Filipino Youth, a group of talented orchestra has performed in various venues an eclectic mix of masterpieces by well- young musicians who came all the way around the Philippines including Metro known composers from around the world. from the Philippines to share their extraor- Manila as well as in several communities The young orchestra sustained a great dinary talent and love for music.” in Isabela, Pampanga, Rizal, Laguna, energy througout the performance The envoy expressed appreciation to Batangas, and Cavite. starting with Italian opera composer the QNL management for giving the In 2015, it was a featured performer Giuseppi Verdi’s “Nabucco Overture” from orchestra the opportunity to perform at in the ChildAid Asia Concert in Kuala The Orchestra of the Filipino Youth concert held at Qatar National Library. his 1841 four-act opera culminating with QNL. Lumpur, Malaysia. PIC: ABDUL BASIT / THE PENINSULA a medley of renowned Cuban musician Established by nongovernment non- Presented by Ang Misyon in part- Perez Prado’s well loved compositions. profit organization Ang Misyon, OFY is nership with the Philippine Department As an encore, the ensemble also played composed of young musicians chosen by creating alternative career paths in It’s quite heartwarming to see our efforts of Foreign Affairs, “Qatar Tour 2018” is Filipino singer and composer Rey Valera’s from different existing ensembles and are classical music while redeveloping the arts bearing fruit with nearly a thousand lives the first international performance of the Kahit Maputi na Ang Buhok Ko. spread throughout the Philippines. and culture scene in the country. touched throughout the past years,” Fed- full orchestra. The orchestra is set to The wide ranging repertoire also With the belief that social change is “When we started Ang Misyon in 2012, erico R. Lopez, president of Ang Misyon, enthrall a capacity audience tonight at included ‘Batique’ Danza di Negri, Pasa- sparked through the learning of orchestral it was with the greater vision that social said in a statement. Katara Opera House playing Russian com- doble from the Opera ‘El Gato Montes,’ music, Ang Misyon works towards change would take place through the He added: “These scholars, most of poser and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich’s Venezuela, Danzon No. 2, Kay Ganda ng enhancing the identity of the Philippines transformative power of orchestral music. whom come from less privileged “Symphony No. 12” among others. ‘Pink Walk’ organised to raise breast cancer awareness THE PENINSULA

DOHA: To mark this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF), in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), organised the fourth consecutive annual ‘Pink Walk’ breast cancer awareness event at Aspire Park, sponsored by Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Co. Nissan Qatar. The aim of such breast cancer awareness activity is to encourage partic- ipants to embrace a healthier lifestyle and learn more about the causes of breast cancer as well as recommended steps to reduce the risk of developing it. Campaigners attending the Pink Walk at Aspire Park. Hundreds of women of all ages partic- ipated in various activities at the ‘Pink Walk’ breast cancer awareness event. The educate themselves about breast cancer, as cancer across the communities, so they can event kicked off with interactive awareness well as an increased willingness to become take initiatives to improve their lifestyles sessions presented by HMC followed by a involved in activities that raise awareness and perceive breast cancer screening as a five-minute warm-up session delivered about such important issues in Qatar.” routine check-up.” by an Aspire Zone fitness instructor, for Dr Shaikha Abu Shaikha, Cancer Following the event, AZF carried out a the 1-2km walk around Aspire Park. Program Manager at PHCC, said: “Part- raffle draw, in which a Nissan sedan car Commenting on the event, Hamad Al nering with renowned entities like HMC was presented to the winner from the first Khaldi, Head of PR and CSR at Aspire Zone and Aspire Zone is key in maximising the 200 female participants. Foundation, said: “We are very happy with reach to the targeted audience and Earlier this week, Aspire Zone Foun- this large turnout to this year’s ‘Pink Walk’ spreading awareness messages about the dation organised ‘Cook Pink’ an internal campaign. Thanks to the organisers at Aspire importance of early detection and ways to event for its employees to raise their Zone Foundation, and our partners HMC improve one’s health. We at PHCC believe awareness on the importance of healthy and PHCC. This is the fourth consecutive that unity makes strength, hence we always food in the prevention of breast cancer. year we have organised such activity. I’m look forward to joining forces with other The event witnessed a large turnout from glad to say that the level of participation private and government bodies to max- AZF employees and was sponsored by reflects people’s appetite to learn more and imize the level of education on breast L’Occitane. 04 ISLAM FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 The last sermon of the Prophet This sermon was delivered Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Re- on the Ninth day of Dhul → Hijjah, 10 AH (623AD) in member one day you will meet Allah and answer the Uranah valley of Mount your deeds. So beware, do not astray from the path Arafat in Makkah. It was the of righteousness after I am gone. occasion of annual rites of Haj. It is also known as the Farewell Pilgrimage. → Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remem- ber that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that he will indeed reckon your deeds. fter praising and thanking Allah the Prophet (Peace be upon him) began with the words: → Do treat your women well and be kind to them for “O people! Lend me an attentiveA ear, for I know not whether they are your partners and committed helpers. after this year I shall ever be among you again. Therefore, listen carefully to what I am saying and take these words to not approve, as well never to be others again; and may the last ones those who could not be present here unchaste.” understand my words better than those today.” “O People! listen to me in earnest, who listen to me directly.” “O People! just as you regard this worship Allah, say your five daily “O Allah, be my witness, that I have month, this day, this city as sacred,so prayers, fast during month of Ramadan, conveyed your message to Your regard the life and property of every and give your wealth in Zakat.Perform people.” Muslim a sacred trust. Return the Haj if you can afford it.” As part of this sermon, the Prophet goods entrusted to you to their rightful “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, (PBUH) recited to them a revelation owners. an Arab has no superiority over a non- from Allah, which he had just received, Hurt no one so that no one may hurt Arab nor a non-Arab has any superi- and which completed the Quran, for you. Remember that you will indeed ority over an Arab; also a White has no it was the last passage to be revealed: meet your Lord, and that he will indeed superiority over a Black nor a Black has This day the disbeliever’s despair of reckon your deeds.” “Allah has for- any superiority over a White except by prevailing against your religion, so fear bidden you to take usury, therefore all piety and good action. Learn that every them not, but fear Me (Allah)! This day interest obligation shall henceforth be Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and have I perfected for you, your religion waived. that the Muslims constitute one and fulfilled My favour unto you, and Your capital is yours to keep. You brotherhood. it hath been My good pleasure to will neither inflict nor suffer any ine- Nothing shall be legitimate to a choose Islam for you as your religion. quality. Allah has judged that there shall Muslim which belongs to a fellow (Surah 5, Ayah 3) be no interest and that all interest due Muslim unless it was given freely and The sermon was repeated sentence to Abbas Ibn ‘Aal Muttalib be waived.” willingly.” by sentence by Safwan’s brother Rabiah “Every right arising out of homicide in “Do not therefore do injustice to (RA), who had powerful voice, at the pre-Islamic days is henceforth waived yourselves. Remember one day you will request of the Prophet and he faithfully, and the first such right that I waive is meet Allah and answer your deeds. So proclaimed to over ten thousand that arising from the murder of Rabiah beware, do not astray from the path of gathered on the occasion. ibni al-Harithiah.” righteousness after I am gone.” Towards the end of his sermon, the “O men! the unbelievers indulge in “O People! No Prophet or apostle Prophet (PBUH) asked “O people, have tampering with the calendar in order to “Beware of Satan, for the safety of them as your wives only under Allah’s will come after me and no new faith will I faithfully delivered unto you my make permissible that which Allah your religion. He has lost all hope that trust and with His permission. If they be born. Reason well, therefore O message?” A powerful murmur of forbade, and to prohibit what Allah has he will be able to lead you astray in big abide by your right then to them belongs People! and understand words that I assents “O Allah! yes!”arose from thou- made permissible. things so beware of following him in the right to be fed and clothed in convey to you. sands of pilgrims and the vibrant words With Allah the months are twelve in small things.” kindness. Do treat your women well and I leave behind me two things, the “Allahumma Na’m,” rolled like thunder number. Four of them are holy, there “O People it is true that you have be kind to them for they are your Quran and the Sunnah and if you follow throughout the valley. The Prophet are sucessive and one occurs singly certain rights with regard to your partners and committed helpers. And it these you will never go astray.” (PBUH) raised his forefinger and said: between the months of Jumada and women but they also have rights over is your right that they do not make “All those who listen to me shall pass “O Allah bear witness that I have con- Shaban.” you. Remember that you have taken friends with any one of whom you do on my words to others and those to veyed your message to your people.” Islamic perspective of forgiveness

DR MUZZAMIL SIDDIQI Islam states two aspects of forgiveness: a) Allah’s forgive those who do wrong to liver. When she embraced Islam, me.” The Prophet (PBUH) was the Prophet even forgave her. art of our being human is forgiveness; b) Human forgiveness. We need both, the most forgiving person. He A very striking example of that we make mistakes, no was ever ready to forgive his forgiveness we find in the Pbody is perfect. Sometime because we do wrong in our relations to Allah as enemies. When he went to Ta’if Quran in reference to the most we make mistakes without delib- to preach the message of Allah, unfortunate event of “Slander eration and intention. But well as in our relations to each other. its people mistreated him, of Ayisha” (Prophet’s wife). sometime we deliberately sin abused him and hit him with Some hypocrites of Madinah and do wrong to others. It is said, stones. He left the city humiliated tried unrightfully to put dirt on “to err is human and to forgive and wounded. When he took her noble character. One of the is divine.” “Indeed! God does not forgive the commit sins and make mistakes and infinite. Thus we all need shelter under a tree, the angel of slanderers turned out to be Both parts of this statement sin of ascribing partners to Him, and when we repent, He again Allah’s mercy and forgiveness Allah visited him and told him Mistah, the cousin of ‘Aicha’s are very true. As human beings but He forgives anything else to very kindly accepts us and gives all the time. that Allah sent him to destroy the father Abu Bakr’s. Abu Bakr we are responsible, but we do whom He pleases, and whoever us another chance. It is important Just as it is important to people of Ta’if because of their (May Allah be pleased with also make mistakes and we are takes partners with God has gone to mention that we have to believe in the mercy and for- sin of maltreating their Prophet. him) used to give financial help constantly in need of astray into far error”. (4:116) We repent from our sins quickly and giveness of Allah, it is also nec- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to this young man. After he forgiveness. must turn to Allah to seek His turn to God and ask for His essary to base all human rela- prayed to Allah to save the slandered his daughter, Abu Islam states two aspects of forgiveness. forgiveness. tions on forgiveness. How should people of Taif, because what they Bakr vowed not to help him forgiveness: a) Allah’s for- we expect Allah’s forgiveness did was out of their ignorance. any more. But Allah reminded giveness; b) Human Al Afuw Al Haleem while we do not forgive those The Prophet (PBUH) said: “O Abu Bakr and through him all forgiveness. This is another aspect of for- The Clement. This name is who do wrong to us?! Forgiving Allah, guide these people, as they the Believers saying: “Let not We need both, because we giveness. This name occurs in the mentioned fifteen times in the each other, even forgiving one’s did not know what they were those among you who are do wrong in our relations to Allah Quran five times. Literally the Quran. It means that Allah The enemies is one of the most doing.” When he entered the city endued with grace and as well as in our relations to each word Afuw means “to release” Almighty is not quick to important Islamic teaching. of Makkah after the victory, the amplitude of means resolve by other. “to heal”, “to restore”, “to remit”. judgment. He gives us time. He In the Quran Allah has Prophet (PBUH) had in front of oath against helping their It means that Allah “ releases us forebears and is patient with us described the Believers as: him some of his staunchest kinsmen, those in want and ALLAH’S FORGIVENESS: from the burden of punishment till we return to Him. “Those who avoid major sins and enemies. Those who fought him those who migrated in the path Allah the Almighty is the due to our sins and mistakes”, acts of indecencies and when for many yea rs, persecuted his of Allah. Let them forgive and most Forgiving. “to restore our honour after we Al Rahman and Al Rahim they are angry they forgive.” followers and killed many of overlook. Do you not wish that There are many names of have dishonoured ourselves by The most Merciful and (42:37) them. Now he had full power to Allah should forgive you? Allah given in the Quran. Some committing sins and making Compassionate. Later in the same chapter pay back and punish them for Indeed Allah is oft-Forgiving, of which are related to His mercy mistakes.” These names are the most Allah says: “The reward of the their crimes and for what they most Merciful.” (24:22) Abu and forgiveness. Let me mention In some verses in the Quran frequently mentioned in the evil is the evil thereof, but who- did to him and to the Muslims. Bakr (May Allah be pleased some of these names. both names Afuw and Ghafoor Quran. Al Rahman is mentioned soever forgives and makes Instead the Prophet (PBUH) with him) came out of his occur together. 57 times and Al Raheem is men- amends, his reward is upon asked them: “What do you think home and said, “Yes, indeed, I Al Ghafoor tioned 115 times. Al Rahman indi- Allah.”( 42:40) I shall do to you now?” They want Allah’s forgiveness. He The most Forgiving. This Al Tawwab cates that Allah’s mercy is In another chapter in the pleaded for mercy. The Prophet not only continued to help and name occurs in the Quran more This name means The abundant and plenty and Al Quran, Allah The Almighty says: (PBUH) said, “Today I shall say support Mistah but he gave him than seventy times. There are Acceptor of repentance. Raheem indicates that this is “If you punish, then punish with to you what Joseph (referring more. Islam emphasises justice other names from the same root. This name of Allah is men- always the case with Allah. the like of that wherewith you to Prophet Youssuf (PBUH) as and punishment of the wrong The meaning of the “ghafar” is tioned in the Quran about 11 The Quran states that Allah were afflicted. But if you endure mentioned in the Quran, doers, but it equally strongly to cover, to hide and from it times. Allah accepts the is a Judge and He also punishes, patiently, indeed it is better for (Youssuf 12:92) Prophet Youssuf emphasises mercy, kindness comes the meaning “to excuse”, repentance of those who sin- but Allah is not bound to the patient. Endure you patiently. (PBUH) said to his brothers, ‘No and love. Justice, law and order “to pardon”, “to remit” and “to cerely repent and turn to him for punish. The justice of Allah, Your patience is not except blame on you today. Go, you are are necessary for the mainte- forgive”. Allah the Almighty does forgiveness. according to Quran is that through the help of Allah.” all free.” Soon they all came and nance of a social order, but all these things. In the Quran, it The word Tawwab gives the Allah does not and will not (16:126-127) embraced Islam at his hands. there is also a need for for- is mentioned that Allah does not sense of “oft-returning” which inflict undue punishment on He forgave even Hind who had giveness to heal the wounds forgive shirk (partnership) means that Allah again and again any person. He will not ignore Nine things caused the murder of his uncle and to restore good relations without repentance but He may accepts the repentance. We the good of any person. But if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Hamza -may Allah be pleased between the people. Thus must forgive every other sin for make sins and mistakes then we He wishes to forgive any said that Allah has commanded with him. not forget that as much as we whomsoever He wills. repent, He accepts our sinner, He has full freedom to him with nine things. One of After killing him she had his need Allah’s forgiveness for As Allah says in the Quran: repentance. Then again we do that. His mercy is unlimited them he mentioned was “that I body mutilated and chewed his our sins and mistakes. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 05 Son of Khashoggi leaves Saudi Arabia

AFP family is a huge sigh of relief,” Whitson said. “We should keep RIYADH: The eldest son of in mind there are hundreds, if murdered Saudi journalist not thousands, of people in Jamal Khashoggi, Salah, and his Saudi Arabia who face travel family have left the Gulf bans and are held in detention kingdom after the government without any justice.” lifted a travel ban, Human An official in Washington Rights Watch said.. said US Secretary of State Mike “Salah and his family are Pompeo had “raised the safety on a plane to (Washington) DC and security of the Khashoggi now,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the family members with the Saudi rights watchdog’s executive leadership”, but declined to director for the Middle East and discuss the specifics of Salah’s Newly elected President of Ethiopia, North Africa, said, citing a travel. Sahle-Work Zewde, takes oath of family friend. His departure comes after office in Addis Ababa, yesterday. There was no immediate Saudi King Salman and Crown comment from Saudi officials, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Ethiopia elects first but Whitson said that they were met Salah and Khashoggi’s apparently allowed to leave brother Sahel at the royal female President after a travel ban on Salah was palace in Riyadh on Tuesday. lifted. Salah, a dual US-Saudi Saudi state media said they citizen, will be joined in the offered their condolences to the AP United States by his other sib- family, but pictures of the lings who are based there, Friends of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold posters and banners with his pictures during prince shaking hands with ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian lawmakers friends of the family said. a demonstration outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. Salah went viral on social yesterday unanimously elected the “Jamal’s family needs a media, where rights activists country’s first female president, days place to be together where they demanded the immediate after approving one of the world’s few feel safe to mourn their beloved lifting of the travel ban. “gender-balanced” Cabinets. one,” said Randa Slim, director Saudi still has questions to Saudi Arabia has sought to As seasoned diplomat Sahle-Work of conflict resolution at the draw a line under the crisis Zewde takes the largely ceremonial Washington-based Middle East over Khashoggi’s murder, but post, many celebrated Africa’s only Institute, who knew the slain has come under mounting current female head of state. Africa’s journalist personally. answer over Khashoggi: Turkey pressure from sceptical world first female president, Liberia’s Ellen “It is tragic that it took his powers demanding answers Johnson Sirleaf, left office this year. death to get the Saudi author- AFP and the whereabouts of his “Congratulations, Madam President! ities to grant them the freedom Turkish media have published admit they did it, but why are body.US President Donald Women do make a difference. We are to travel,” Slim said. gruesome details of Khashoggi’s they not saying (where)?” Cavu- Trump has derided the killing proud of you!” the female president of Jamal Khashoggi, a Wash- ANKARA: Turkey yesterday alleged torture and decapitation. soglu told a press conference in as “one of the worst cover-ups” the United Nations General Assembly, ington Post contributor, was urged Saudi Arabia to answer The 59-year-old was killed on Ankara with Palestinian foreign in history. María Fernanda Espinosa Garces, said killed on October 2 after a visit questions that remain over the October 2 after a visit to the minister Riyad Al Maliki. “His CIA Director Gina Haspel in a Twitter post. to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul murder of Riyadh critic Jamal Saudi consulate in Istanbul to family also wants to know and visited Ankara on Tuesday for “In a patriarchal society such as to obtain paperwork before mar- Khashoggi, such as who obtain paperwork ahead of mar- pay their final tribute.” talks, with pro-government ours, the appointment of a female head rying his Turkish fiancee. After ordered his killing and what rying his Turkish fiancee. The Turkish minister Turkish media claiming on of state not only sets the standard for first insisting Khashoggi left the happened to the body. Turkish Foreign Minister repeated Erdogan’s demand Wednesday intelligence offi- the future but also normalizes women consulate unharmed, Saudi Saudi authorities last week Mevlut Cavusoglu said: “There that those involved in the cials shared evidence with as decision-makers in public life,” the authorities said he was killed in claimed Khashoggi, a Wash- are still questions that need murder should be legally tried her. The officials provided chief of staff for Prime Minister Abiy an argument that degenerated ington Post contributor, was answers” over the premedi- in Turkey, adding that Ankara Haspel with video images and Ahmed said on Twitter. Sahle-Work into a brawl. killed during a “brawl”, and tated murder, demanding the was willing to cooperate with audio tapes as well as evi- has worked in various United Nations Riyadh finally accepted arrested 18 Saudis in con- Saudis explain why the 18 were everyone. Turkey did not have dence gathered from the con- organs and was the first director- yesterday what Turkey had nection with his death. arrested. “Who gave them the “any desire” to take the case to sulate and the consul’s resi- general of the UN office in Nairobi. said virtually from the start — Turkish President Recep orders?” he asked, pointing out an international court, he dence during a briefing at the Until recently she was the UN sec- that he was killed in a premed- Tayyip Erdogan earlier this that Khashoggi’s body had still added, but would be willing to Turkish Intelligence Organi- retary-general’s special represent- itated hit. “The lifting of this week said the “savage” murder not been found. share information and the out- sation (MIT), Sabah news- ative to the African Union. travel ban on Salah and his had been planned, while “Where is (the body)? You comes of its investigation. paper reported. Death toll from Saudi airstrike in Yemen at 21 AP

SANA’A: A Saudi-led coalition airstrike at a fruit-and-vege- table market near Yemen’s flashpoint Red Sea port of Hodeida killed at least 21 civilians, including children, the UN humanitarian aid agency said yesterday. Wednesday night’s attack came amid mounting fears of a fresh coalition assault on Hodeida — a city that has been the lifeline for international aid deliveries to Yemen, ravaged by a brutal 3 ½-year war between The wreckage of a car reportedly destroyed in an airstrike in the Saudi-led alliance and Shite downtown Hodeida, Yemen, yesterday. rebels known as Houthis. The coalition has been trying to wrest Hodeida from the Iran- the outdoor market in the town The director of the Bayt Al backed rebels but the campaign, of Bayt Al Faqih, just south of Faqih hospital, Abdullah like the rest of Yemen’s war, had Hodeida, also wounded 10 Shahawi, said all the victims fallen into a stalemate. people. Initial reports had five were civilians and that at least The airstrike, which hit a dead but the death toll steadily two children were among the vegetable packaging facility in climbed overnight. dead.

S Sudan frees five political detainees Key Al Shabaab commander REUTERS dead in ambush JUBA: South Sudan freed five political detainees and prisoners of AP war yesterday, although none appeared to be senior rebel offi- cials, a category of captive whose release is required by a peace deal signed last month. JOHANNESBURG: The South Sudan plunged into war two years after independence African Union force in from Sudan in 2011 when a dispute between Kiir and then vice- Somalia says it has killed a president Riek Machar erupted into armed confrontation. More “chief finance controller” for than 50,000 people have been killed in the violence, and more the Al Qaeda-linked Al than two million have been forced to flee their homes. Shabaab extremist group. Yesterday in Juba, a National Security official who did not give The AU force in a series of his name told reporters that the release of the prisoners was in tweets says the commander, line with the peace deal signed in September in the Ethiopian the head of tax collection in capital. Lower Shabelle region, was However, according to a Reuters witness, the five men who killed after an ambush on were freed did not appear to be among the senior members of the Monday on an Al Shabaab main rebel faction led by Riek Machar, formerly the vice president meeting in Bariire. The of South Sudan. Under the peace deal signed by the government extremists bring in funding by and several rebel factions, senior officials of those factions should taxing the communities they be released. control. 06 ASIA FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018

Jagan Reddy hurt Chidambaram in airport attack AP

HYDERABAD: A popular chargesheeted regional politician — YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, chief of the YSR Congress party — was attacked by a young man in bribery case while waiting to board a flight at an airport in Visakhap- atnam and suffered a minor IANS The Enforcement cut in his arm, police said. Directorate filed a The youth asked to take NEW DELHI: The Enforcement chargesheet in the a selfie with Reddy and then Directorate (ED) filed a took out a sharp object and chargesheet in the Rs3,500-crore Aircel-Maxis deal attacked him. Reddy’s Aircel-Maxis deal case, accusing case, accusing former security guards overpowered former Finance Minister P Finance Minister P the attacker and handed him Chidambaram and a few others Chidambaram and a over to police. Police said a of laundering Rs 1.16 crore. political rivalry appeared to The ED has also charged few others of money be the motive for the attack. Chidambaram and others for laundering. their role in the Foreign Diamond trader gifts cars to his employees Investment Promotion Board China, India to (FIPB) approval in March 2006 Communication and Services New cars, which according to the local media will be distributed by India’s diamond trader Savji to Global Communication and Holding Limited, Mauritius, was Dholakia to his employees as Diwali gifts during an event called the “Skill India Incentive Ceremony”, hold army drills are seen parked in Surat, in Gujarat, yesterday. Services Holdings Limited, Mau- of $800m (Rs 3,650 crore REUTERS ritius, in violation of various rules approximately),” the ED said. and regulations governing the The agency alleged that the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposal should have been BEIJING: China and India aim policy in India. referred to the Cabinet Com- to hold joint army drills in The supplementary prose- mittee on Economic Affairs China before the end of this cution complaint was filed before (CCEA), which was the com- HC upholds Speaker’s decision year, China’s Defence Special Judge 0P Saini, who listed petent authority to give the Ministry said, as the two the matter for further hearing on approval. “But it was not referred countries continue a rapid November 26. The chargesheet to CCEA, and was approved by to disqualify 18 TN legislators rapprochement. named Chidambaram, S Bhaska- Chidambaram under a con- The neighbours have over raraman, the Chartered spiracy,” it said. recent months been working IANS Accountant of Chidambaram’s Claiming that the complaint 475-page judgement, confirmed course of action.” He said it was on mending ties and visiting son Karti, private persons was on the basis of adequate the Speaker’s order disquali- “an experience for us”. Chinese Defence Minister Wei Augustus Ralph Marshall and V material evidences in the form CHENNAI: The Supreme Court- fying the 18 legislators. Sathy- In 2017, a group of 19 law- Fenghe met Indian Prime Srinivasan. of e-mails, and communica- appointed third judge, Justice M anarayanan said the high Con- makers met then Governor C. Minister Narendra Modi in The other accused in the case tions retrieved from the seized Sathyanarayanan of the Madras stitutional office of the Speaker Vidyasagar Rao and gave a New Delhi in August. include companies such as Aircel digital devices from Karti and High Court, upheld the disqual- is always considered as the memorandum expressing loss Speaking at a regular Televentures Ltd., Astro All Asia his associates, the ED filed a ification of 18 AIADMK legis- respectable position in tune with of confidence in Palaniswami monthly news briefing, Networks Plc Malaysia, Maxis voluminous information col- lators by the Tamil Nadu the said office and the Speaker and requested him to appoint a Chinese Defence Ministry Mobile Services Sdn Bhd, Bumi lected from various sources. Assembly Speaker in 2017. is expected to be not only new Chief Minister. spokesman Wu Qian said that Armada Berhad, and Bumi “The material evidences Appointed in the wake of a impartial but should be percep- The Speaker then issued the joint exercise was planned Armada Navigation Sdn Bhd. “As inter-alia reveal routing of pro- split verdict on the issue, Justice tible. The disqualified legislators notice to the lawmakers asking for before the end of this year. per rules and FDI policy of the ceeds of crimes in the guise of Sathyanarayanan did not find are with sidelined party leader them why they should not be The two countries would government in 2006, bonafide business deal by the fault with Speaker P Dhanapal’s TTV Dhinakaran, now an inde- disqualified under the anti- meet in the southwestern Chidambaram, the then Finance beneficiaries of illegal FIPB order. He also vacated the pendent legislator in the Tamil defection law. Chinese city of Chengdu next Minister, was empowered to give approval in the companies of interim orders of the court, Nadu Assembly. Subsequently, one of legis- month to discuss the arrange- approval to foreign investment Karti. Investigation has banning the conduct of by-polls Reacting to the judgement, lators, S.T.K. Jakkaiyan, switched ments, he added, without proposals worth up to Rs 600 revealed the financial linkage for the 18 constituencies. Dhinakaran told reporters: “We over to the Palaniswami side giving other details. crore only. The foreign of Karti and P Chidambaram,” Dismissing all the Writ Peti- will discuss with the 18 legis- and the others were investment proposal of Global the ED said. tions, Sathyanarayanan in his lators and decide on the future disqualified. China, US plan defence meeting AP

Abe in China as two nations try to mend ties BEIJING: China said it is working with the Pentagon AP economies seek to deepen trade, investment on arranging a visit to the US and cooperation on infrastructure and other by Defence Minister Wei BEIJING: It’s taken nearly seven years, but a projects in third countries. China is Japan’s Fenghe that has been side- Japanese leader is finally returning to China largest trade partner. lined by a spike in tensions. on an official visit for bilateral talks. Prime Abe said he would stress the importance Defence Ministry Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Beijing yesterday of strengthening a free and fair trading system. spokesman Wu Qian told as both countries try to repair ties that have Japan shares US concerns about Chinese trade reporters the sides were com- been riven by disputes over territory, military practices, but favors dialogue with Beijing over municating closely on a visit expansion in the Pacific and World War II President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy. Japan and that Beijing hopes the US history. Abe met with Chinese Premier Li has been targeted by US tariffs too, though will work with it to strengthen Keqiang ahead of a summit with China’s top much less so than China. cooperation, boost mutual leader, President Xi Jinping. He is scheduled to High-level exchanges were frozen in 2012 trust and “control risks.” return to Japan tomorrow. The last such visit after Japan nationalised a small group of remote “Chinese and US defence was in late 2011. islands in the East China Sea claimed by Beijing. establishments are working “We hope the two sides will work together That set off violent protests in China and sent closely on a visit,” Wu said. and make efforts to maintain the stable and Japanese investment in China and tourism into US Defense Secretary Jim healthy development of China-Japan relations, a nosedive. Chinese coast guard vessels con- Mattis yesterday met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (centre) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and to make new progress,” Li told Abe. tinue to make regular incursions into Japanese Wei on the sidelines of an (right) at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace A delegation of Japanese business leaders waters around the islands. Japan is a major US Asian security conference in and Friendship Treaty at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, yesterday. is accompanying Abe as Asia’s two largest ally and hosts a major American naval base. Singapore.

Four IB men caught Six militants near CBI chief’s house dead in Kashmir IANS gunfights been sent “on leave” by the gov- IANS ernment after a high-profile spat NEW DELHI: In a dramatic with CBI Special Director Rakesh development, four Intelligence Asthana, who too has been sent SRINAGAR: Six militants Bureau (IB) personnel were on leave. were killed in two separate caught by the security staff of CBI As a video showing the men gunfights with security forces Director Alok Verma outside his being dragged by Verma’s in the Kashmir Valley, police residence in the heart of Delhi, security officers went viral, the said. While two were killed in prompting the IB to say the men IB admitted that the men were Baramulla, four died in were on “routine patrol”. its operatives. “The IB is Anantnag. Security personnel The security staff of Verma, entrusted with the responsibility surrounded Athoora village who was stripped of his powers of collecting intelligence on sit- in north Kashmir’s Baramulla post midnight Tuesday, caught uations that may affect, inter alia, district after receiving infor- hold of the IB personnel who public order and internal mation about the presence of were seated in two parked cars security. Its units are routinely militants there. outside the CBI Director’s Janpath deployed on a regular basis in “As the security forces residence and dragged them into sensitive areas,” the normally surrounded the hiding mili- his house. Each IB operative was reticent IB said in a statement. tants, they fired at the security caught by at least two of Verma’s “One such unit, in early forces triggering an encounter guards — in one case one man hours, halted on Janpath, where in which two militants were was held by his collar — and there was an unusual collection killed,” a police officer said. taken into Verma’s bungalow of people. This was with a view The security forces did Paying respects and asked to reveal their identity. to check the reason why people not suffer any casualty in the The men had been seen in their had collected at the location... operation. The exact identity Sikh devotees gather to pay their respects, as lights glow on the eve of birth anniversary of the cars since Wednesday night, This is a high security zone. and the group affiliation of fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, yesterday. Ramdas was born in Lahore raising suspicion that they were Unfortunately, their presence the slain militants were being spying on Verma. was projected otherwise,” the ascertained although both in 1574 and is the the fourth Guru, as well as the Guru who established the city of Amritsar. The CBI chief had earlier statement said. appeared to be locals. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 HOME 07 08 VIEWS FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 The despair at the heart of ESTABLISHED IN 1996 Afghanistan’s election CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

AMANDA ERICKSON ACTING MANAGING EDITOR THE WASHINGTON POST MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] his weekend, Afghans went to the polls to elect a new par- DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR liament. It was the first vote held MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Tlargely independent of foreign [email protected] assistance since the Taliban fell in 2001. As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani put it, shortly after casting his ballot at a Kabul elementary school, the high turnout proved voters “have the power and will to defeat their enemies,” namely the Taliban and the Islamic State. “Today, we proved together we will EDITORIAL Wounded people are being carried to a hospital after a suicide attack targeted a uphold democracy, casting ballots polling station during the parliamentary elections in Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood without fear,” he said. in northern Kabul, Afghanistan But if Ghani seemed optimistic, his Towards brighter future countrymen are not. “In the past 17 years of war and crisis in Afghanistan,” the in earnest this fall, election-related vio- tions in Afghanistan is dropping. hildren play a key role in the society as they are the New York Times wrote, “no one lence was a near-daily occurrence. Less than half the population trusts deciding factors of how the world would be in the future. remembers a season quite like this one, As my colleague Pamela Constable the country’s Independent Election CIf one wants to see some good changes in the world to with peril and hopelessness at every wrote, “the Taliban, which had Commission, and confidence in come, the best thing is to create some good changes in the life turn.” The campaign was marred by promised to disrupt the vote, claimed to members of parliament is falling. of a child. So parenting matters; and here comes the signifi- gruesome violence. Sectarian strife and have staged 164 attacks nationwide. In In the run-up to this weekend’s vote, cance of the role played by a parent. By taking cognisance of political division threaten to tear the the days leading up to the poll, insur- that skepticism was on full display. Fear the reports highlighting this, most countries have started battered country apart. And few people gents assassinated a top security official of corruption and voter fraud was investing more in parenting. believe Ghani can pick up the pieces. in Kandahar province, leading author- rampant, prompting the government to Going by a recent UN report, providing adequate invest- It didn’t have to be that way. In June, ities to postpone the election there for launch a last-minute, high-tech anti- ments that enable children to thrive is a moral imperative, Ghani announced a temporary cease- one week at least. In other provinces, 10 fraud program. But on election and investing in a child is to invest in society’s future. Most fire with the Taliban. Experts hoped that candidates were killed during the weekend, many poll workers were would agree that there could be no more compelling argument the pause, backed by Nato and the campaign.” unable to use the equipment meant to than that. The international community has recognised that United States, would pave the way for Just this weekend, officials estimate, verify voters’ identities. As a result, investing in children is not only essential, but an obligation as peace talks with the fundamentalist 78 people, including 28 members of polling centers opened late, and lines outlined under the United Nations Convention on the Rights group, which has been gaining ground Afghan security forces, were killed at moved slowly, though election officials of the Child. Qatar remains at the forefront in investing in in its years- polling places. In Kabul, there were as say delays affected fewer than 10 parents and parenting strategies to bring up its kids to a long battle to many as a dozen attacks, including a percent of polling centers. position where they can positively influence the world. recapture the suicide bomber who killed 10 voters and Still, about 4 million of Afghanistan’s The recent international conference, entitled ‘Parenting, country. Mil- five police officers when he detonated 8.8 million registered voters turned out - Child Wellbeing and Development’ organised by the Doha itary analysts his explosive outside a police station. A a striking number when you consider International Family Institute (DIFI), a member of Qatar Foun- The violence say as many third of all polling stations stayed closed the deadly risks voters faced in showing dation (QF), underlines the as 100 because the government could not guar- up at all. Many who came out did so nation’s commitment towards the has made the Afghans are antee the safety of voters. because they want an opportunity to cause. Held under the patronage question of dying each The violence has made the question control their future. Zamir Ahmad of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, who wins the day in skir- of who wins the election almost a sec- Khaksar of Jalalabad, a city that has Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, election almost mishes ondary concern. Experts largely agree been targeted by repeated bombings, Qatar remains at in the presence of Minister of between the that there is no peaceful future for told the New York Times that he had the forefront in Administrative Development, a secondary Taliban and Afghanistan without achieving a been waiting for an hour at a polling investing in parents Labour and Social Affairs, H E Dr concern. Experts security political reconciliation with the Taliban. place for election workers to find his and parenting Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi, largely agree forces; they But the group has shown no interest voter registration. They had yet to find it, strategies to bring and in partnership with Unicef, the that there is no say 61 percent in moderating its stances — and its cam- he said, but he was undeterred: “I would up its kids to a conference brought together pol- of Afghani- paign of terror against Afghan come to vote even if bullets were raining icymakers, practitioners, peaceful future stan’s districts democracy makes any compromise in the city just to have a proper position where researchers, and experts from for Afghanistan. are controlled seem all but impossible. parliament.” they can positively around the world. by the Beyond the slim hopes for peace, Others, though, offered a darker influence the world. The conference focused on the Taliban. there is a deep anxiety about the gov- vision. There is no returning to normal importance of investing in parents But the cease-fire was called off just ernment’s ability to protect and lead its in Afghanistan, they said, and their only and parenting strategies — in the weeks later, after the Taliban staged citizens. An Asia Society poll, conducted hope is that the country’s deep dys- form of programmes, laws, and policies at all levels — while major attacks in the cities of Kunduz and annually since 2006, found that public function will give way to something identifying the different approaches adopted by governments Ghazni. By the time campaigning began support for democracy and key institu- totally new and possibly better. around the world to achieve these aims. Qatar’s initiatives on good parenting have received huge round of applauses from the every part of the world and the Regional Director of Unicef, Geert Cappelaere, appreciated Qatar in great words on behalf of Unicef. An untold history of Palestinian women’s resistance Parenting capabilities, and the capacity to provide children AL JAZEERA with care, are not traits people are born with. Such traits are painted Palestinian women as or claim, my own agency. nonviolent general strike, a learned over time, through exposure to one’s surroundings, terrorists. The role of Palestinian symbolic act to mobilise the and can be instilled in parents over time. Qatar places great he hallways of my This drought concerning a women in my neighbourhood masses and a tactical move to value on a child’s wellbeing, through financial, health, and memory have always much-needed movement of was not exclusive to allevi- pressure Israel to end the educational means, and has worked to improve childhood echoed with my unapologetic and unadul- ating the pain of Israeli occupation. Part of that strike projects, qualitatively and quantitatively, following the direc- grandmother’s voice terated representation of Pal- oppression — it was also a was boycotting certain Israeli T model of leadership. goods (this call for boycott tives of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to protect storytelling, and thus unbur- estinian society was one of the all the rights of children. dening, narratives of womanly many reasons I chose to write. A few months after our pre-dates the South Africa- The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and struggle. Her voice projected One of the stories I tell neighbours lost their homes, inspired BDS movement), all Social Affairs has also been working on implementing the both wit and resilience in the most often - and a real-life my own home was forcibly while women’s committees social protection strategy, which aims to provide a compre- face of the Israeli ethnic epiphany - is the story of ten- taken and, motivated by anger provided home-grown hensive and integrated vision in this regard. The role played cleansing of Palestine and the year-old me witnessing Israeli and a sense of urgency, my alternatives. by various Qatari organisations for the wellbeing of children decades-old Israeli military policemen, undercover cops, aunt, in her sixties at the time, This movement dramati- is also praiseworthy. Education Above All Foundation, a global occupation. However, my soldiers, and settlers assaulting alongside the women of cally reduced reliance on initiative founded by H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser in 2012, grandmother’s testimonies the people of my neigh- Sheikh Jarrah, paraded around Israeli goods and hit the Israeli enrolled as many as 10 million children in education around were rarely recognised. bourhood with tear gas, sound the neighbourhood, chanting economy hard, leading to mil- the world. As a child fascinated with bombs and rubber-coated and drumming on pots and lions of dollars of losses Today’s children are tomorrow’s future. Nothing would poetry and literature, I would bullets, all while forcibly con- pans - demanding justice. That annually. prevent anyone from stating that Qatar’s future will be brighter spend hours browsing for fiscating our neighbours’ minor protest later turned into Israel’s response was as it invests sensibly on its kids. poems that sang profiles like homes. a huge, press-inviting weekly harsh: daily curfews, mass that of my grandmother, and What makes this story demonstration, sometimes arrests, breaking the bones of seldom was I able to find defining for me is not only the involving thousands of Pales- protesters, cutting phone lines poetry that did not reduce the trauma or the violent and his- tinian, international, and of entire villages and pre- QUOTE OF THE DAY Palestinian woman to a mere torically-repetitive loss but the Israeli activists. venting Palestinian com- glamorised and exaggerated dynamic and collective way in Historically, Palestinian munity members from leaving characteristic, likening her to which our community actively women have stood at the fore- their homes without army Turkey always men in a poorly calculated remedied the aftermath of fronts of our resistance. Not permission. stands with attempt at praise, not only those assaults. only nursing victims of vio- Palestinian women, its Palestinian robbing her of her complex My mother, as well as the lence, but actively orches- written or unwritten, have humanity but also of her other women of the neigh- trating popular resistance always and continue to brothers. Palestine womanhood. bourhood, tessellated their movements and navigating, or embroider the blueprint for and Jerusalem Well-meaning Western efforts and labour to free the at least contributing to, the both our liberation and sover- essays on Palestinian women young men, young women, political conversation, eignty, for resistance and rem- are our red line. were often insulting and and even children from the whether with their assigned- edying the aftermath of reductive, illustrating a pow- hands of incarceration, rubbed authority or self-proclaimed oppression. If stories like my Mevlut Cavusoglu erless, uneducated, and stere- yoghurt on their tear-gassed seat at the table. grandmother’s are not Turkey’s Foreign otypical woman that was eyelids and stood tall with During the first Intifada - properly represented and rec- Minister drawn with the colours of ori- voices thunderous and the Palestinian people’s most ognised, whole generations of entalism. Not to mention the stubborn. That manifestation vivacious mobilisation in their children might become illit- not very well-meaning of agency forever influenced struggle for freedom - mer- erate to their own agency and Western articles that blatantly the ways in which I practice, chants and labourers waged a potential. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 OPINION 09 Apparent attempts at terrorist bombings were predictable

he Secret Service said on these events. The first is to say that it’s part of the reason it takes so long, is America’s borders and allow drugs Wednesday that it had inter- Trump’s fault, as many liberals will nobody wants to hurt each other and gangs to pour into our country cepted packages containing do. The second is to say that it means anymore, right?” unabated,” or “Democrats want to . ‘potential explosive devices’ nothing and has nothing to do with There is simply no question that . . turn us into another Venezuela, T Trump has repeatedly sent the addressed to former secretary of state Trump, as many conservatives will do. take away your health care, destroy Hillary Clinton in New York and And the third is to blame it on broad message to his supporters that politi- your Second Amendment, and former president Barack Obama in forces that float about the country cally motivated violence is not a vio- Democrats want to throw your Washington. with no particular partisan pull, such lation of proper behavior and ideals, borders wide open to deadly drugs PAUL WALDMAN “The devices were recovered not as “polarisation” or “division” or but instead is perfectly appropriate if and ruthless gangs,” that is not THE WASHINGTON POST long after an explosive device was “anger.” you detest the person against whom something you can simply fight by found in a mailbox at the Bedford, NY, Allow me to suggest that “blame” you’re committing that violence. voting. home of George Soros, the liberal phi- is too narrow a way to make sense of Second, Trump regularly says that If you thought that Democrats lanthropist who is a frequent target of a series of attempted bombings aimed ordinary legal procedures and want to force the entire country to criticism from far-right groups. at precisely the people Trump and systems are inadequate to mete out starve and then allow MS-13 gang “CNN’s headquarters in New York other Republicans spend a huge the harsh punishment that those who members to come to your com- were also evacuated Wednesday amount of time vilifying. oppose him deserve. munity so that they can kill you and While every politician morning due to a suspicious package We don’t have to look for clues While every politician has changes your family — which, because we there, multiple employees reported.” about whether the person responsible he or she would like to make to one have to keep repeating this, is lit- has changes he or she There are reports that the package has a MAGA hat, or what their party law or another, Trump has under- erally what Trump says — then why would like to make to sent to CNN was addressed to former registration is. We don’t have to assign taken a sustained assault on the very wouldn’t you feel that any possible one law or another, CIA director John Brennan. Though direct blame beyond a reasonable idea that we have a legal system that means, including violence, should Trump has undertaken Brennan actually works as an analyst doubt. should be respected even if it pro- be employed to stop them? It’s only for MSNBC, both he and CNN have But what we can say is this: Given duces outcomes you don’t like. self-defense. a sustained assault been particular targets of President what Trump has done and said, this Trump spins out wild stories about The politically savvy might on the very idea Donald Trump’s ire. There was also was absolutely predictable. In fact, it’s “deep state” conspiracies against him. dismiss that rhetoric as just crazy that we have a legal reportedly a suspicious package sent a wonder that it took this long. He complains that immigration laws hyperbole, but there are people system that should to congresswoman and former Dem- It’s not just that Trump advocates prevent the harsh treatment he’d like who take it seriously. And even if ocratic National Committee chair violence against his political oppo- to deliver to immigrants, and that libel only a tiny number of Trump sup- be respected even if Debbie Wasserman Schultz. nents — though he does. It’s that eve- laws unfairly prevent him from suing porters go so far as to beat up lib- it produces outcomes There are three common rything about his rhetoric pushes his reporters for criticising him. erals they encounter or even you don’t like. responses we’ll be hearing as people supporters in that direction, even if He encourages his crowds, even undertake a campaign of terrorist try to understand and contextualise the overwhelming majority will never two years after the 2016 election, to bombings (granting that we don’t get quite to the point shout “Lock her up!” at the mention of know who sent these bombs, but it where they’ll actually Hillary Clinton’s name. By now his would be rather extraordinary if a commit this kind of act of red-faced supporters have probably collection of Trump’s enemies was terrorism. forgotten what imagined crime she targeted just by coincidence), that’s The first is Trump’s was supposed to have committed; all only because most people have explicit celebration of they know is that she opposed Trump, emotional controls that prevent violence against political so she should be tossed behind bars. them from breaking the law in that opponents. He lauds a Third — and this is vitally way and physically harming other violent assault a Repub- important — Trump paints for his people. But not all. lican congressman com- supporters an apocalyptic picture of Yes, Democrats have said some mitted against a reporter the horrors Democrats want to bring intemperate things, too. But Trump who had the temerity to to the United States, presenting the has sent the small number of ask about health-care most horrific fantasies as fact. That violent people a message. It’s one policy. When confronted picture is so terrifying that if you were they might be hearing loud and with protesters, he regu- to actually believe it, violence against clear. larly talks about the Democrats might be a perfectly violent retribution he appropriate response. The author is an opinion writer for would like to visit against When Trump says things like the Plum Line blog. them. Some samples: “I’d “They want to turn America, these like to punch him in the Democrats— and that’s what they face.” “Maybe he should want - into a giant sanctuary for New York City Police officers stand outside the office of the The New York Times in have been roughed up.” criminal aliens and the MS-13 killers,” New York City. “Part of the problem, and or “Democrats want to abolish D-RING ROAD POST BOX: 3488 undreds of sacks filled with sources. Yeo said she does not want and health complications. DOHA - QATAR plastic waste from the United Malaysia to be the “trash can” for It is unclear how the illegal factories [email protected] States, Britain, South Korea developed nations, but Housing Min- are sourcing plastic waste. Zuraida said and Spain spill onto the ister Zuraida Kamaruddin, who some of the 95 companies that have a H EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE streets of an industrial zone in Pulau oversees the waste management permit to import and recycle such Indah, an island town just an hour’s department, told that the government waste are subcontracting to illegal fac- TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 A ANANTHALAKSHMI & drive from Kuala Lumpur and home to also does not want to miss out on a tories as they lack the capacity to Malaysia’s biggest port. business that could be worth billions. handle such volumes. EMILY CHOW MANAGING EDITOR REUTERS The stench of burning plastic and Both ministers are members of a Malaysia’s imports of plastic waste fumes from nearly a dozen recycling government committee studying its from its 10 biggest source-countries TEL: 4462 7505 options for dealing with the growing jumped to 456,000 tonnes between pile of plastic waste. January and July, versus 316,600 tonnes DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR In the Pulau Indah industrial zone, purchased in all of 2017 and 168,500 TEL: 4455 7769 Reuters reporters saw nearly a dozen tonnes in 2016. LOCAL NEWS SECTION recycling plants, many of them without The United States, the world’s top Malaysia struggles as TEL: 4455 7743 signboards or company names, though exporter of plastic waste, sent 178,238 government data shows only two fac- tonnes of such waste to Malaysia BUSINESS NEWS SECTION tories in that area have a licence to between January and July, nearly twice global scrap piles up TEL: 4462 7535 import plastic waste. as much as it sent to second top desti- One of the bigger ones, Jingye Manu- nation, Thailand, according to the SPORT NEWS SECTION facturing Sdn Bhd, was shut down in United Nations’ trade database and the TEL: 4455 7745 factories wafts through the neigh- August for not having a licence, according Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. bourhood, even as more container- to an official notice seen by Reuters. But Britain, another big plastic waste ONLINE SECTION loads of plastic waste are unloaded. workers in the factory and others nearby exporter, sends a quarter of its waste to TEL: 4462 7501 Pulau Indah — ironically, the name say it reopened within weeks, and when Malaysia, also more than any other [email protected] means “beautiful island” in Malay — is Reuters reporters visited earlier this country. Environment Minister Yeo esti- one of many towns in Malaysia where mated that the plastic recycling industry month, it was operating. Plastic waste PUBLIC RELATIONS would earn Malaysia 3.5 billion ringgit illegal plastic recycling factories have was stacked up within the premises and TEL: 4455 7613 ($841.95 million) this year. popped up in recent months as the all along the road. The factory supervisor [email protected] Southeast Asian nation became the top declined to comment. Zuraida said she planned to choice for plastic waste exporters from Company records show Jingye was introduce new rules soon that will ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT around the world. set up in Malaysia in October 2017, make it harder for factories to qualify TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 The trigger for this dumping deluge three months after China said it would for an import licence.“I understand FAX: 4455 7870 was a Chinese ban on waste imports ban imports of foreign waste from 2018. plastic recycling is quite lucrative. So I [email protected] from the beginning of this year, which Reuters could not reach the owners of am also thinking should we miss this disrupted the flow of more than 7 the factory and no contact details were economic opportunity? This is some- CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT million tonnes of plastic scrap a year. listed in records. thing the committee will study,” Zuraida TEL: 4455 7857 Malaysia quickly became the leading One worker in the industrial zone, told Reuters. [email protected] alternative destination, importing who did not want to be identified, said If such an option is pursued, Used plastic is nearly half a million tonnes of plastic there were as many as eight illegal fac- Malaysia would do so on strict terms, SUBSCRIPTION & recycled into waste between January and July from tories in the zone and many openly require high-end, green technology and DISTRIBUTION just its top 10 source-countries. burned plastic that cannot be recycled. allow factories to operate only in heavy pellets, which TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 Dozens of factories have opened up “Every night they burn. I see black industrial areas, she said. FAX: 44557819 are then used to in Malaysia to handle that waste, many smoke at night, so I go [email protected] manufacture other without an operating licence, using over and ask him ‘why plastic products, but low-end technology and environmen- are you trying to kill tally harmful methods of disposal. me?’ They ignore me,” the process comes “The situation is getting worse, he said. All thoughts and views with pollution risks. especially with more and more illegal In the nearby district expressed in these columns Plastic unsuitable for plastic recycling factories,” Yeo Bee Yin, of Kuala Langat, author- are those of the writers, recycling is burnt, Malaysia’s minister of energy, tech- ities found 41 factories nology, science, climate change and operating illegally, many not of the newspaper. which releases environment, told parliament last week. of them run by Chinese toxic chemicals into Used plastic is recycled into pellets, companies, according to All correspondence the atmosphere. which are then used to manufacture Housing Minister regarding Views and Or it ends up in other plastic products, but the process Zuraida. Around 30 comes with pollution risks. Plastic were shut down by Opinion pages should be landfill, potentially unsuitable for recycling is burnt, which authorities in the last send to editor-in-chief releases toxic chemicals into the atmos- three months after resi- contaminating soil Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in phere. Or it ends up in landfill, poten- dents complained of office or mailed to the and water sources. Jenjarom, Kuala Langat, Malaysia. tially contaminating soil and water open burning of plastic [email protected] 10 ASIA FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 Pakistan allows non-taxpaying non-residents to buy property

INTERNEWS The condition which of three per cent of the value of was imposed by immovable property. ISLAMABAD: The Imran Khan previous government Through an amendment in government has removed the Finance Act 2018, banks will condition of being a tax-filer for increased challenges provide information to Federal non-resident Pakistanis to for overseas Board of Revenue of individuals purchase properties in the Pakistanis. who withdraw cash in excess of country and individuals Rs50,000 in a day and tax acquiring properties through deduction for filer and non-filers, inheritance. vehicles, the government has aggregating to Rs1m or more Official sources confirmed introduced penalties upon local during each preceding calendar that the decision has been taken manufacturers of vehicles, excise year. to alleviate hardships faced by and taxation department and The banks have also been non-resident individuals authorities responsible for reg- mandated provide list containing Afghan protest investing in the real estate sector. istering, recording or attesting of particulars of deposits aggre- The condition which was immovable properties. gating Rs10m or more made Afghans are gathered after 17 civilians were allegedly killed during an Afghan security forces imposed by previous gov- A local manufacturer of a during the calendar month and operation targeting terrorist organisations in Rodat district of eastern Nangarhar province, yesterday. ernment increased challenges for motor vehicle will pay a penalty a list of payment made by any overseas Pakistanis. of five percent of the value of the person against credit card bills The decision issued via an motor vehicle in case of aggregating Rs200,000 or more official notification reveals that accepting or processing any during the preceding calendar restriction on purchase or application for booking or pur- month. transfer of property having value chase of a locally manufactured They will also provide a list exceeding Rs5m by non-filers motor vehicle by a non-filer. of persons receiving profit on Taliban leader freed after US talks will not apply to legal heirs Similarly, the excise and tax- debt exceeding Rs1m for filers AFP acquiring property through ation department will pay a and Rs500, 000 for non-filers conflict. Baradar was among high-profile Afghan Taliban inheritance. penalty of three percent of the along with information regarding several senior Taliban leaders leader detained by Pakistan since The condition of being a filer value of motor vehicle by tax deduction during the pre- ISLAMABAD: A top Taliban freed this week, after the Taliban the 9/11 attacks in 2001. will not apply on overseas Paki- accepting, processing or regis- ceding financial year. commander held in Pakistani demanded their release in direct He was arrested in Karachi in stanis who are able to produce a tering applications for regis- The information will be pro- detention for more than eight talks with Khalilzad on October 2010, reportedly in an operation certificate from a scheduled bank tration of a locally manufactured vided on monthly basis. years has been freed, sources said, 12, a senior Taliban leader said on that was described as a huge blow verifying receipt of foreign motor vehicle or the first regis- Through an amendment, the in an apparent move to aid the condition of anonymity. to the militant group, which ruled exchange remitted from outside tration of an imported vehicle by government has allowed tax- tentative talks between the United “We believe that they were Afghanistan from 1996-2001 Pakistan through normal a non-filer. If any authority payers to revise tax return vol- States and the militant group. released at the US’s request,” the when it was toppled by a US-led banking channels during a period responsible for registering, untarily by December 31, 2018 The release of Abdul Ghani leader said. invasion. of 60 days prior to the date of recording or attesting the along with the payment of higher Baradar — the former right-hand He said Baradar would likely It was not clear what role, if registering, recording or attesting transfer of immovable property tax which is 25 per cent higher man of Taliban founder Mullah stay in Pakistan. “It was important any, he would play in peace talks. transfer of immovable property accepts or processes the regis- than tax paid with return on the Omar, who died in 2013 — came for confidence building and all “Baradar was freed yesterday valuing Rs5m. tration or attestation of basis of taxable income. In case less than two weeks after US three will participate in the next afternoon and he joined his To effectively implement immovable property valuing no tax is payable, the taxpayer envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with round of talks with the US,” he family,” Afghan Taliban restrictions on non-filers to pur- above Rs5m in the case of a non- will have to pay two per cent of the group’s representatives to added. spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid chase and sell properties and filer, it will be liable to a penalty the turnover. discuss ending the Afghan Baradar was the most said in a WhatsApp message.

Key govt buildings in Pakistan to become Japan reporter parks, museums, universities and hotels freed in Syria returns home INTERNEWS The meeting approved conversion of the Punjab Governor House into a public TOKYO: A Japanese journalist ISLAMABAD: The Imran Khan park. Its outer wall would be demolished returned to Tokyo after being government has approved conversion of for easy access by the public. The Khyber freed from more than three several state buildings, including governor Pakhtunkhwa Governor House will be years of captivity in Syria, and houses, into educational institutions, parks, turned into a women’s park and a was greeted at the airport hotels and museums. museum. The Governor House at Nathi- with hugs from his wife and Official sources said the approval was agali will become a boutique hotel while his favourite handmade rice given at a meeting presided by Prime Min- the Governor House in Quetta in Balo- balls from his mother. ister Imran Khan after his return from chistan, spread over 25 acres, will also be Jumpei Yasuda was Saudi Arabia this week. Education Min- turned into a public park. However, more released in Syria on Tuesday ister Shafqat Mehmood, Higher Education suggestions will be taken for better utili- and taken to neighbouring Commission Chairman Tariq Binori, sec- sation of the buildings. Turkey. Yasuda, wearing a Mass prayers for earthquake victims retaries of foreign affairs, education, The meeting recommended that state black T-shirt, was escorted housing and national heritage, and chief guest houses in Karachi and Lahore be from his plane at Tokyo’s secretaries of four provinces and other converted into five-star hotels. The central airport by Japanese officials Indonesian women hold mass prayers at the Balaroa village, for the September 28 senior officials attended the meeting. building of Chamba House in Lahore, and ushered into a black van. powerful earthquake victims that hit Sulawesi, yesterday. The World Bank on October Khan reviewed operational costs of Punjab, will be used in a way to generate He left without talking to a 14 announced funding of up to $1bn for Indonesia after it was rocked by a string governor houses and other state buildings funds while the building of 90-Shahrah- large group of reporters who of recent disasters, including a deadly earthquake-tsunami that killed thousands. and the losses they were causing to the i-Quaid-i-Azam will be converted into a had waited for his arrival. national exchequer. crafts museum and a conference hall. He briefly met his wife and parents. In a short message released by his wife Myu, Yasuda said he was grateful that he could return Koreas, UN finish removing firearms from border home safely and promised to explain his experiences at a AP announced that its troops found Panmunjom and the joint The Koreas and the UN on Friday and Saturday. Under later date. what it believes are Korean War searches are among a package Command completed a removal the September deals, the two SEOUL: The rival Koreas and the remains in another front-line of deals the Koreas’ defence of weapons, ammunition and Koreas are to let 35 “unarmed Duterte sacks top US-led UN Command finished area where they have been ministers struck on the sidelines soldiers manning guard posts at personnel” from each side guard removing firearms and troops clearing land mines with North of their leaders’ summit last Panmunjom’s Joint Security the Joint Security Area and let customs officials from a jointly controlled area at Korean soldiers. The rival Koreas month. Other steps include cre- Area, Seoul’s Defence Ministry tourists freely move around a border village, as part of agree- plan their first-ever joint ating buffer zones along their said in a statement. The three there. The area symbolises the over drugs ments to reduce decades-long searches for war dead there after land and sea boundaries and a sides earlier finished removing Koreas’ seven decades of animosity on the Korean their demining work is done. no-fly zone above the border, as mines from the village. division. It’s where an armistice MANILA: Philippine President Peninsula. Disarming the Joint Security well as removing some of their The three sides will jointly was signed at the end of the Rodrigo Duterte fired the head South Korea separately Area at the border village of front-line guard posts. verify their disarmament work 1950-53 Korean War. of the Bureau of Customs and ordered all top bureau officials replaced after the agency failed to intercept more than a tonne of drugs, the second such case US Army trainers due to in two years. Duterte has made a bloody fight against drugs the centre- leave Kabul will return soon piece of his administration since he won a presidential AP the pause in training. election in 2016. Thousands of Army Gen. Robert Abrams, head of people have been killed in the MANAMA: About 100 members of a US US Army Forces Command, who crackdown. Army training brigade scheduled to leave oversaw the creation of the training bri- Duterte said Customs Afghanistan next month will take the gades, said the initial plan was to “accept Commissioner Isidro Lapena unusual step of returning in February to the risk of having a gap” during the was being removed from his help the next unit of advisers coming in, usually quieter winter season. That way, post and all his deputies and US military officials said. the units doing a nine-month tour top officials would be trans- The advisers’ return is intended to wouldn’t eventually have to change over ferred. “The commissioners are help compensate for a months long in the peak summer fighting time. out, the department heads are break in the training of Afghan forces, But he said the Army approved out,” Duterte said during a between the time the first unit leaves sending the advisers back to Afghan- speech at a ceremony com- and the second brigade arrives next year. istan to serve the first three weeks with Demonstration against dams on the Indus River memorating the founding of It comes amid a surge in Taliban vio- the 2nd Brigade when it deploys. Army the coastguard. He said he was Supporters of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum chant slogans against the proposed lence as Afghanistan enters its 18th year Brig. Gen. Scott Jackson, who leads the appointing retired army construction of all dams on the Indus River, during the last day of long march of war, and reflects concerns that 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade general to take over the bureau progress made by the first brigade of currently in Afghanistan, will return to protest in Karachi, yesterday. and soldiers and members of elite Army advisers could be eroded by the warfront with his soldiers. the coastguard would help him. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 EUROPE 11 EU awards Sakharov human rights prize to Oleg Sentsov AFP “Through his courage of course I am happy for him. and determination, He deserved this,” Kaplan said. STRASBOURG: The European by putting his life in She had no news of his con- Parliament yesterday awarded danger, the filmmaker dition but has voiced fear over the Sakharov human rights prize whether he will survive his to Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov Oleg Sentsov has ordeal. Hours after the award, (pictured) and called for Russia become a symbol of Russian foreign ministry to free the filmmaker, jailed the struggle for the spokeswoman Maria Zakharova after opposing the annexation release of political told reporters in Moscow: “An of his native Crimea. absolutely politicised decision In bestowing the honour, the prisoners held in has been taken.” European Union’s elected Russia and around Sentsov made his first film assembly took Russian President the world,” European “Gamer” in 2011, raising the Vladimir Putin again to task over money for the movie from his what it sees as his illegal occu- Parliament President job running a gaming centre in pation of Ukraine. Antonio Tajani said. the Crimean city of Simferopol. Russia’s foreign ministry It was shown at the Rotterdam slammed the award as “an abso- Film Festival in 2012 as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel (centre), Hesse’s State Premier amd Deputy Chairman of the lutely politicised” move. several other European festivals. Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Volker Bouffier and his wife Ursula (left) applaud on stage during In announcing the prize, At the time of his arrest in 2014, European Parliament President he was preparing to make a new an election rally in Fulda, western Germany, yesterday ahead of the weekend’s regional election. Antonio Tajani said Sentsov’s film, “Nosorog,” or “Rhino” with case reminded the assembly it financing from a German film has a duty to defend human fund. Merkel faces litmust test in Hesse rights everywhere. “Through his Michael Gahler, a member AFP courage and determination, by of the European Parliament who compared with 38 percent five party is expected to eat into both putting his life in danger, the pushed for his nomination, said years ago, the Hessian CDU “may the CDU and SPD’s vote to enter filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has Sentsov has become the “voice FRANKFURT: German Chan- have rested on its laurels for too the Hessian legislature with a become a symbol of the struggle of around 70 other innocent cellor Angela Merkel on Sunday long”, the state capital’s news- low double-digit share, for the release of political pris- individuals perishing in faces a second regional election paper Wiesbadener Kurier said. according to recent polls. oners held in Russia and around inhumane conditions” in jails within a fortnight set to inflict Surveys suggest that the Merkel Meanwhile, the Greens — the world,” Tajani said. scattered around Russia. more pain on her shaky coalition formula — government by com- already the junior government “The European Parliament The Sakharov Prize, set up and strengthen centrifugal forces promise, with any offensive partner in Hesse — look poised to is expressing its solidarity with bring nearer the release of Oleg in 1988 and named after Soviet that could yet tear it apart. corners sanded off — has lost its roughly double their 2013 vote him and his cause,” the Italian Sentsov,” he said on Facebook. dissident Andrei Sakharov, is Earlier this month, Bavarian charm and that voter fatigue has share to as much as 22 percent, politician told the assembly in Sentsov started a hunger awarded every year to indi- voters deserted in droves the set in with her repeated “grand topping the 17.5 percent they Strasbourg, France. “We ask that strike on May 14 demanding the viduals or organisations that two allies Merkel counts on for coalition” alliances with the SPD. scored in conservative Bavaria. he be released immediately.” release of all Ukrainian pris- “have made an important con- her national government Two smaller parties have The party attracts voters Sentsov, 42, is serving a 20-year oners in Russia, and his deteri- tribution to the fight for human alliance in Berlin — the deeply benefited most from exhaustion who favour welcoming refugees, sentence in a Russian penal orating health provoked an rights or democracy”. conservative Christian Social with the big-tent “people’s worry about climate change or colony north of the Arctic Circle outcry from the international Last year’s award of the Union (CSU) and the centre-left parties” that have dominated are fed up with the big parties’ based on his 2015 conviction for community. €50,000 ($58,000) prize went Social Democrats (SPD). German post-war politics. indulgence towards the car an arson plot in Crimea. Sentsov called off the protest to the democratic opposition in With those results yet to be One is the far-right, anti- companies during a years-long Russia annexed the after 145 days to avoid being Venezuela. Sentsov was among fully digested in the capital, it’s immigration Alternative for scandal over harmful emissions Ukrainian territory in 2014, trig- force-fed. Sentsov’s cousin three finalists for the prize, the turn of voters in Hesse to Germany (AfD), the other the from diesel vehicles. gering European and US sanc- Natalya Kaplan, who lives in the along with a group of 11 char- have their say — and state left-leaning ecologist Greens. Hessian Greens leader Tarek tions. Ukrainian President Petro Ukrainian capital Kiev, said she ities rescuing migrants in the premier Volker Bouffier, a loyal The AfD has entered 15 of Al Wazir predicted his party Poroshenko hailed the decision hopes the prize will raise his Mediterranean, and Nasser foot soldier in Merkel’s Christian Germany’s 16 state parliaments would also benefit from disap- to give the award to Sentsov. morale when he finally hears Zefzafi, head of a Moroccan Democratic Union (CDU), faces and the federal Bundestag, pro- pointment over quarrels that “I am sure that this decision about it. “I hope (this) will help protest movement who has been a bumpy ride of his own. pelled by a backlash to Merkel’s have rocked Merkel’s coalition of the European Parliament will Oleg to further stay strong and in jail since May 2017. Polling at just 26 percent now migration policy. The protest in recent months.

May pressed to deliver ‘end of austerity’ claim Polish nationalists gain in local REUTERS the huge uncertainty posed by and a few financial conjuring Britain’s budget deficit has been polls, liberals win urban vote Brexit. tricks.” Responding to McDon- cut from nearly 10 percent of AFP LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labour’s finance policy chief nell’s speech, Treasury minister gross domestic product in warned pose a threat to judicial Labour Party challenged Prime John McDonnell said Hammond Liz Truss defended her party’s 2009/10 to under 2 percent in independence, the rule of law Minister Theresa May’s must also flesh out a promise track record on the economy the last financial year. WARSAW: Poland’s governing and ultimately to democracy. government yesterday to deliver May has made to bring an end and said the government was McDonnell’s speech was nationalists won weekend Official full results pub- immediately on its promise that to austerity after eight years of working to grow the economy accompanied by a dossier out- regional elections but lost to lished by the State Elections nearly a decade of public spending public spending cuts designed so more money was available for lining Labour research into the opposition centrists in mayoral Commission showed the PiS cuts is coming to an end. to shrink Britain’s budget deficit. public services. extent and impact of spending races in large cities, official party winning in nine of 16 Finance Minister Philip “This budget will show us May told her party’s annual cuts on areas such as health, results showed yesterday, regional assemblies, including Hammond will announce his whether she is true to her word conference this month that “a education and local services. reflecting deepening polari- absolute majorities in six. annual budget next week, armed or not,” McDonnell said. “We decade after the financial crash, It said £30bn of new funding sation amid the government’s This result reflects a signif- with better than expected public need decisive action to end and people need to know that the was needed to stop planned cuts, controversial judicial reforms. icant expansion for the party in finances but needing to balance reverse austerity, not some austerity it led to is over and that and nearly £80bn to reverse cuts Sunday’s ballot was the first rural areas, where it controlled any largesse with caution over vague promises for the future their hard work has paid off.” since 2010. since a 2015 parliamentary just one regional assembly fol- election that handed the Law lowing the 2014 election. and Justice (PiS) party an Riding a wave of popularity unprecedented parliamentary driven by robust economic growth French court says Sarkozy should majority and was seen as a key and generous social spending, the test for the nationalists as they PiS won 254 seats in regional gear up for EU and legislative assemblies nationwide. be tried over campaign funding elections next year. A centrist coalition led by The local elections also took the Civic Platform (PO) liberal AFP facing trial alongside place as the PiS has put Poland opposition took 194 seats, accountants and former offi- on a collision course with the Polish Peasants’ Party (PSL) PARIS: A French appeals court cials of his UMP party. European Union by introducing won 70, with independents ruled yesterday that former His defence team had also a string of controversial judicial scoring 15 and the SLD-Left president Nicolas Sarkozy argued that the politician had reforms that the bloc has Together leftists winning 11. should stand trial on charges of already been sanctioned for illicit financing of his failed campaign overspending by 2012 presidential campaign. France’s Constitutional Council Sarkozy, 63, will appeal the in 2013. But that ruling involved Spanish police seize massive decision before the Cour de just €364,000 of overspending, Cassation, France’s court of and came before the revelations cocaine haul in banana cargo final appeal, his lawyers said of the “Bygmalion affair” and AFP yesterday. It is one of several fake billings. added. The cocaine was hidden legal inquiries which have Bygmalion executives as in a banana shipment that dogged the rightwing politician well as Jerome Lavrilleux, the MADRID: Spanish police said arrived by boat in neighbouring since he left office. deputy manager of Sarkozy’s yesterday that they had seized Portugal and was then trans- In upholding last year’s 2012 campaign, have acknowl- over six tonnes of cocaine ported by truck to Malaga in decision by a judge to put edged the existence of fraud hidden in a shipment of southern Spain. Sarkozy on trial, the appeals and false accounting. bananas and arrested 16 Police said the gang used a court in Paris rejected argu- Sarkozy was president from suspects, some of them wanted company that imported fruit ments from his legal team 2007 until his defeat by in the Netherlands. from Costa Rica as a cover for its seeking to avoid a potentially Socialist rival Francois Hol- The police raid in the operations. Officers seized embarrassing public ordeal of lande in 2012. The rightwinger southern port of Malaga also €300,000 ($343,000) as part of a trial as well as up to a year in has been fighting legal netted cash, weapons and the operation along with four prison if found guilty. problems on several fronts. luxury vehicles. The operation guns and several luxury vehicles. Prosecutors claim Sarkozy He is also charged with cor- broke up a trafficking ring Fifteen people were spent nearly €43m ($51m) on ruption and influence peddling made up of well-known Dutch arrested in Malaga and one in his lavish re-election bid — for allegedly offering to help a criminals based on Spain’s Badajoz in the eastern region almost double the legal limit of judge obtain a plum retirement Macron meets Nadia Murad Costa del Sol, police said in a of Extremadura on the border €22.5m — via fake invoices. job in return from secret infor- statement. They had specialised with Portugal. The operation French President Emmanuel Macron accompanies Nobel Peace Sarkozy has angrily mation about another case. That in smuggling cocaine into Spain was carried out in collaboration Prize co-recipient Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad denounced the charges, saying inquiry gave him the dubious dis- and the Netherlands. with the anti-drugs arm of Por- he was unaware of the fraud by tinction in 2014 of being the first Basee Taha (left) as she leaves after a meeting at the Elysee “Some were considered pri- tugal’s police and with the executives at public relations former French president to be Palace in Paris, France, yesterday. ority targets by police in the United States’ Homeland firm Bygmalion, who are also taken into police custody. Netherlands,” the statement Security Investigations unit. 12 EUROPE / AMERICAS FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 Mail bomb scare widens; Trump slams media

AFP The FBI, US Secret emboldening right-wing Service and police extremists. He recently endorsed NEW YORK: Hollywood are conducting a the body-slamming of a reporter, megastar Robert De Niro and nationwide manhunt routinely denounces the press as former US vice-president Joe “fake news” and has leveled toxic Biden were the latest targets for the culprit or remarks in the past against the yesterday of a spree of 10 devices network of people pipe bomb targets. and pipe bombs sent to oppo- behind at least 10 All the packages were sent in nents of Donald Trump as the suspect packages that manila envelopes with bubble President lashed out at the media wrap, marked with computer- for stirring up “anger”. politicians on both printed address labels. Each listed The FBI, US Secret Service sides of the aisle have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and police are conducting a branded terrorism. former chairwoman of the Dem- nationwide manhunt for the ocratic National Committee, as culprit or network of people the sender, including misspellings behind at least 10 suspect on Monday with a device found at of her last name, the FBI said. packages that politicians on both the New York home of billionaire “I believe there is someone sides of the aisle have branded liberal donor George Soros. So far, by definition a serial bomber, yes, terrorism. no one has been hurt. and a terrorist,” New York Mayor Democrats accuse the Repub- With the United States bitterly Bill de Blasio told CNN yesterday. lican head of state of inciting vio- divided and crucial midterm elec- “Person or people, foreign or lence after crude, homemade tions on November 6, Trump domestic — we don’t know. And bombs were addressed to Barack reacted first by calling for unity we don’t know if they’re here or Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN and and condemning “acts of political elsewhere in the country.” other figures who are loathed by violence”, before reverting to Former CIA director John Trump supporters. attacks on the media. Brennan, who was the addressee TOP, FROM LEFT: Actor Robert De Niro, US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Yesterday, a police bomb “A very big part of the Anger of the pipe bomb sent to CNN, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party donor George Soros and former squad removed a similar-looking we see today in our society is yesterday assailed Trump for device, also treated as explosives, caused by the purposely false and attacking the media. “Stop US President Barack Obama. BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: Former US attorney-general Eric Holder, US that was sent to double Oscar- inaccurate reporting of the Main- blaming others. Look in the mirror. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former US vice-president Joe Biden and former CIA director John winner De Niro at the TriBeCa Pro- stream Media that I refer to as Your inflammatory rhetoric, Brennan are pictured in a combination photograph. ductions company he co-founded Fake News,” Trump tweeted. insults, lies, & encouragement of in New York. The 75-year-old star “It has gotten so bad and physical violence are disgraceful,” Top Democrat lawmakers tinued attacks on the media”. mail screening procedures” and famously used an expletive to hateful that it is beyond he tweeted. “Your critics will not Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer The FBI has appealed to that neither were ever at risk of condemn Trump at the televised description. Mainstream Media be intimidated into silence. have accused Trump of con- members of the public to come receiving them. Tony Awards last June, receiving a must clean up its act, FAST!” The White House was forced doning “physical violence and forward with any information they Soros, the target of the first standing ovation. “The media also has a respon- yesterday to defend the President dividing Americans”. may have as police study CCTV device, has long been a hate figure Two additional packages sibility to set a civil tone and stop over accusations that he was not CNN president Jeff Zucker, footage that may help identify cou- for right-wing groups and lives in were addressed to Obama’s the endless hostility and constant taking the attempted bombings whose employees were forced to riers who dropped off the Bedford, New York, not far from the former vice-president, Joe Biden, negative, and often times false seriously enough. “We condemn evacuate their New York bureau packages. There has been no claim Clintons. The 88-year-old is one of often rumored as a potential attacks and stories,” he told a violence in all forms. This is a des- on Wednesday by the discovery of of responsibility and no one was the world’s richest men and sup- Democratic presidential can- campaign rally. picable act and certainly something the pipe bomb in the mail room, yet known to have been arrested. ported Clinton in 2016. He has been didate for 2020, in Delaware, the Liberal critics accuse Trump’s that should never take place in slammed the White House for its The Secret Service said the accused by nationalists of spon- FBI confirmed. rhetoric-laden “Make America America,” Press Secretary Sarah “complete lack of understanding” Clinton and Obama packages soring protests and seeking to push The mail-bomb spree began Great Again” presidency of Sanders told Fox News. about “the seriousness of their con- were “identified during routine a liberal, multicultural agenda.

185,000 more With eye on vote, Trump stacks Topshop billionaire named BA customers US courts with conservatives AFP Senate’s green light. in ‘Brit #MeToo’ scandal affected in Trump’s former White House WASHINGTON: President counsel Don McGahn said they AFP with another yesterday in which cyber attack Donald Trump has stepped up have consciously chosen some a woman identified only as a his drive to fill courts across the of the most conservative people AFP LONDON: British fashion “well-known socialite” said she United States with conservative possible for the positions. “Some industry billionaire Philip Green believed the same businessman judges in an effort to woo voters folks that are kind of too hot for (pictured) was named by a slid a hand up her skirt at a LONDON: British Airways on the right ahead of the midterm prime-time,” he described them. member of the House of Lords function a decade ago. owner IAG yesterday said that congressional elections. “The kind of people that make yesterday as the businessman The mass-selling tabloid The a further 185,000 customers Coming off his success in some people nervous.” who used an injunction to Sun devoted three pages yes- may have had their personal appointing two judges strongly Democrats are angry, but suppress the publication of terday to the “Brit #MeToo details stolen in a cyber attack aligned with Republican ide- have been powerless to do any- harassment allegations by five gagging scandal” headlined earlier this year. ology to the Supreme Court, thing about it because they are a employees. “Gags to Riches”. The popular i This includes the holders Trump is duplicating that move minority in the Senate. The senior The allegation against commuter newspaper called it of 77,000 payment cards in federal circuit and district Democrat on the Judiciary Com- 66-year-old Green — whose a “MeToo cover-up” while The whose name, billing address, courts — the next two levels in mittee, Dianne Feinstein, pointed international clothing empire Times interviewed a former email address, card payment the US justice system. out that her committee was the includes the popular Topshop and assistant to Harvey Weinstein information have potentially “I have been there less than only one holding hearings before Topman brands — was made after who exposed the US film mogul’s been compromised. A further two years and I have two of the midterms. “Republicans are media cried foul about being behaviour despite signing an 108,000 people’s personal them,” Trump boasted in an breaking every norm to stack the “gagged” by rich and powerful NDA. The case “highlights the details without card verifi- election rally in Texas, referring courts with young, ideological tycoons. The emerging scandal the alleged businessman’s name. weaponisation of NDAs and how cation value have also been to Neil Gorsuch and Brett nominees who will undermine has also prompted Prime Minister “I feel it is my duty under parlia- they are being used unethically,” compromised, the airline said. Kavanaugh, the conservative jus- the rights and protections of all Theresa May to accuse unnamed mentary privilege to name Philip former Weinstein assistant Zelda “While British Airways tices who have tilted the Supreme Americans for generations to employers of abusing non-dis- Green as the individual in question Perkins told The Times. does not have conclusive evi- Court strongly toward the right. come,” she said. closure agreements (NDAs). given that the media have been Non-disclosure agreements dence that the data was “We have a record number And Democratic Senator Several members of par- subject to an injunction preventing are signed by companies and removed from its systems, it is of circuit court judges for the time Kamala Harris said in a tweet, liament threatened to reveal the publication of full details of a story their executives to prevent taking a prudent approach in we have been in office,” he “The Trump Administration is company boss’s name after The which is clearly in the public business secrets from leaking notifying potentially affected added. “We expect to go to the trying to pack the courts for years Daily Telegraph gave its entire interest,” he said. out. Their use has been a source customers, advising them to all-time record.” The US Consti- to come. We will fight this.” If front page on Wednesday to a Hain said he learned the of debate since the MeToo contact their bank or card pro- tution empowers the president to Republicans retain control of the story headlined: “The British name after being “contacted by movement first gained vider as a precaution,” it said. make lifetime appointments of Senate in the November midterm #MeToo scandal which cannot someone intimately involved in momentum in the wake of the The company, which has judges to all three levels of federal elections as expected, Trump be revealed”. The newspaper the case”. Arcadia Group, the Weinstein allegations last year. promised to compensate any courts, where nearly 900 judges could have the opportunity to fill said the second-most senior holding company controlled by May stressed in parliament on affected customers, said there had serve. Each needs to be confirmed another 150 vacant posts over the judge in England issued a tem- Philip Green, was not able to Wednesday that NDAs “cannot been no verified cases of fraud by the Senate, however. next two years. porary injunction on Tuesday comment on the allegations. stop people from whistleblowing”. since its first announ-cement Since taking office in January The new judges are already against the publication of sexual The Daily Telegraph said the She said she could not weigh in about the cyber attack in Sep- 2017, Trump has obtained the having an impact on US society, for harassment and racial abuse accused man had hired seven on ongoing court hearings but tember. BA at the time took out confirmation of 84 federal judges, instance by shooting down a com- allegations against their boss. lawyers and spent nearly vowed to “bring forward full-page adverts in the news- compared to 43 in the same plaint on racial discrimination in But House of Lords peer Peter £500,000 ($645,000) in legal measures for consideration, for papers to apologise to customers period for his predecessor, Dem- the workplace, and supporting the Hain told a hushed session yes- fees to settle the complaints consultation to seek to improve and called the theft “a very ocrat Barack Obama. removal of limits to election cam- terday that he was using his “par- using non-disclosure agree- the regulation around non-dis- sophisticated, malicious, Trump has nominated some paign donations, both positions liamentary privilege” to disclose ments. It followed up the story closure agreements”. criminal attack on our website”. 50 more, who are awaiting the backed by Republicans. Nato displays military might in biggest Norway exercises AFP Atlantic Alliance to defend a in our acts and our deeds.” The biggest ever exercises in the Far member state after an aggression. United States is contributing the East in September. “In recent OSLO: Nato began its biggest The show of force comes biggest contingent to Trident years, Europe’s security envi- military exercises since the end amid recent concerns over US Juncture, including more than ronment has significantly dete- of the Cold War in Norway President Donald Trump’s com- 9,000 Marines and an aircraft riorated,” Nato Secretary General yesterday, proof of the US’ “rock- mitment to Nato, in particular the carrier deployed in Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg said. solid” commitment to the alli- “Article 5” mutual defence clause waters for the first time since 1987. “Trident Juncture sends a ance’s collective defence, US which requires all member states The exercises are also taking clear message to our nations and Navy Admiral James G Foggo to come to the aid of another place against the backdrop of rising to any potential adversary. Nato said, as Moscow denounced the member state. tensions between the West and does not seek confrontation but manoeuvres as “anti-Russian”. “On Article 5 and the United Russia, which has annexed Crimea we stand ready to defend all allies Around 50,000 soldiers, States’ commitment, it is rock- and is accused of destabilising against any threat,” he said. 10,000 vehicles, 65 ships and 250 solid,” Foggo, who is also the eastern Ukraine, which it denies. The exercises will take place Norwegian Chief of Defence, Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen (left), aircraft from 31 countries were head of Nato’s Allied Joint Force Moscow has also beefed up at a respectful distance from Nor- and Commander of Nato’s Joint Force Command Naples, Admiral taking part in Trident Juncture 18, Command, told reporters in Oslo. its military capabilities in the way’s 198km border with Russia which is aimed at training the “That commitment is evident Arctic, and conducted its own in the Far North. James G Foggo, at a joint press meeting in Oslo yesterday. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS 13 Pentagon to send about 800 troops to US-Mexico border

AFP Yesterday’s move announced the US would start comes as thousands cutting aid to Guatemala, Hon- WASHINGTON: The Pentagon of Central American duras and El Salvador. is expected to deploy about 800 migrants are crossing Guatemalan Foreign Minister troops to the US-Mexico border, Sandra Jovel dismissed the threat two US officials said yesterday, Mexico toward the as a posture adopted for the after President Donald Trump United States in a media, however, telling reporters said the military would be used caravan. that the country had received no there to tackle a “national emer- official notice of the move. gency”. “We have had no official The active-duty troops That initial authorization information, and I rather think would augment the 2,000 or so allowed for about 4,000 it has all been a show for the National Guardsmen already Guardsmen to be sent to the media,” the diplomat said deployed to support operations frontier, but only about half that Thursday, adding that the two on the border, and could come number have been deployed. countries maintained “excellent from multiple military bases Those troops are mainly relations.” Early yesterday, the around the US. serving in a support role to help caravan set off from the town of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis free up border patrol officers. Mapastepec in the southern was expected to sign orders for Yesterday’s move comes as Mexican state of Chiapas, the new deployment, one official thousands of Central American moving on to the next stop in said. The troops would include migrants are crossing Mexico their long march north. doctors and engineers and toward the United States in a They were headed to the would be used mainly to provide caravan. The issue has become town of Pijijiapan, some on logistical support including a rallying cry for the US Pres- trucks but most making the tents, vehicles and equipment. ident, who has taken a hard line seven-hour trek on foot. The official said the troops on illegal immigration and has Four days after crossing into would satisfy elements of a repeatedly kept the story in the Mexico, the caravan is still more “wish list” for military assistance headlines in the run up to Amer- than 3,000km from the US sent to the Pentagon by the ica’s mid-term Congressional border, moving along a route Department of Homeland elections that could see the that runs parallel with the Security, the huge US agency with Democrats regain some degree Pacific coast. responsibility for the border. of power. “It’s hard, and we know this Trump earlier tweeted that In a series of tweets last country is dangerous too, but “Democrat inspired” laws make week, Trump signaled his back in Honduras it’s even more it difficult to stop people at the intention to send more troops, dangerous, they kill for nothing,” border. “I am bringing out the saying that unless Mexico said Josena Anibal Mejia, 27, as military for this National Emer- stopped the “onslaught” of he walked with his daughter. gency. They will be stopped!” he people from Guatemala, Hon- The United Nations esti- said. In April, Trump said he duras and El Salvador, he would mates that 7,000 people have would send thousands of “call up the US Military and joined the caravan since it set National Guard troops to the CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN out from San Pedro Sula, Hon- southern border. BORDER!” He has also duras on October 13.

Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the US, travel standing on the back of a truck in Mapastepec on their way to Pijijiapan Chiapas state, Mexico, yesterday. Thousands of Central American migrants crossing Mexico toward the United States in a caravan have resumed their long trek, walking about 12 hours to their next destination.

Tensions as Argentina’s lower FARC official house passes austerity budget makes contact with Colombia AFP help Argentina recover from an economic crisis that has seen special court BUENOS AIRES: Lawmakers the peso lose half of its value AFP in Argentina’s lower house of this year. Inflation is forecast to Congress yesterday approved finish the year at 40 percent an unpopular austerity budget and the economy is expected BOGOTA: The man who nego- designed to meet the stiff to shrink by 2.6 percent. tiated FARC’s peace agreement requirements of a $57bn Inter- “We are in a crisis and the with the Colombian gove- national Monetary Fund bailout. government must take respon- rnment emerged from hiding The final pre-dawn vote sibility. Social problems and the to comply with a demand that came after a marathon, ran- recession oblige us to pass the former guerrilla leaders corous debate and a day of law,” Cambiemos party law- reaffirm their commitment to unrest that saw police fire tear maker Mario Negri said in a the 2016 peace agreement that gas and rubber bullets at dem- speech after the budget passed. ended decades of conflict. onstrators throwing rocks “To have no budget would be a The Special Jurisdiction outside the legislature building defeat for the country,” he added. for Peace (JEP) — set up after to protest a bitter cocktail of tax Macri has pledged a swathe the deal — announced that increases and spending cuts. of cuts in health, education, Ivan Marquez had submitted Factions of the leftist oppo- science, transportation, public a statement through his sition backed President Mau- works and culture to the tune lawyers. The court had asked ricio Macri’s center-right Cam- of $10bn. On Wednesday, dem- 30 former rebel commanders biemos coalition to pass the bill onstrators outside the legis- to reaffirm their commitment in a 138-103 vote with eight lature shouted “No to the IMF to the agreement FARC signed abstentions. The draft now goes budget. Don’t cut our future!” with the government in to the Senate, where it is while inside, lawmakers traded November 2016. expected to win final approval. insults ahead of the vote. The special peace tribunal Unions and the leftist oppo- Nine police were injured in was set up to try former com- sition have criticized Macri’s the clashes, authorities said, batants accused of atrocities program of sweeping spending while 26 demonstrators were during the five-decade war. cuts to meet the deficit briefly detained. Street protests The tribunal had set a Tuesday reduction requirements of the have reflected growing public deadline for contact from the IMF loan, originally approved anger after Macri slashed tra- missing guerrilla leaders, in June before being increased ditionally-safe civil service jobs failing which they could face at Macri’s request this month. as part of a bid to cut Argen- removal from its list and face The bailout is supposed to tina’s fiscal deficit. trial instead by ordinary courts. 14 CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018

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Friday 26 October 2018 PAGE | 16 PAGE | 16 Daimler profits Debenhams to hit by diesel shut up to 50 UK scandal department stores

Woqod net profit rises to QR825m in third quarter

THE PENINSULA The company’s plan amounted to 4.7 percent com- Woqod Vehicle Inspection is to increase the pared to the same period of year Company “FAHES” increased by DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod) number of operational 2017. Jet fuel sales increased by about 40 percent. announced a 28 percent rise in petrol stations to 130 11 percent in comparison with Al Muhannadi stated that the net profit for the quarter ended sales of the same period in 2017 Petroleum Products Sale & Pur- September 30, 2018. The net stations by the end while Bitumen sales reached to chase Agreement between Qatar profit, attributable to Woqod of the year 2020, of about 203,000 metric tonnes in Petroleum and Woqod has been shareholders, increased to which 72 stations are current year which is approxi- executed for a further period of QR825m during the third quarter currently operational, mately equal to the sales of same five years expiring on September of 2018 compared to QR643m period of the year 2017. 30, 2023. A new agreement exe- for the same period in 2017. Engineer Saad Rashid LPG sales increased by 14 cuted recently embodies the Woqod’s Board of Directors Al Muhannadi, Chief percent whereas Bunkering Fuel terms, conditions and arrange- held its fifth meeting, which was Executive Officer of Ahmed Saif Al Sulaiti (left), Chairman of the Board of Directors of sales reached 458,000 metric ments reached by the parties in presided over by Ahmed Saif Al Woqod, said. Woqod, and Engineer Saad Rashid Al Muhannadi, Chief Executive tonnes, compared to 57,000 this regard. Sulaiti, Chairman of the Board, Officer of Woqod. metric tonnes for the same On the other hand, he stated for the year 2018 yesterday at period of 2017. Sales of natural that, the Board of Directors has Woqod Tower in West Bay, said resulting cost reduction has been amounted to QR8.30 by the end stations. Another 13 stations gas and compressed natural gas approved annual budget for the Engineer Saad Rashid Al achieved despite the expansion of the third quarter 2018 com- (including four mobile stations) realised a 5 percent increase, in year 2019, pointing out that the Muhannadi, Chief Executive of Woqod fuel stations network. pared to QR6.47 for the same will be opened thus increasing comparison with the same budget comprised the antici- Officer, Woqod. Al Muhannadi further period of the year 2017. the number of operational petrol period of the year 2017. pated key performance indi- The Board discussed and attributed the increase achieved About the company’s stations to 90 stations by the end As regards the retail sales of cators for Woqod group in approved the unaudited financial in profit levels to the increase of projects, Al Muhannadi explained of 2018. A total of 47 locations petroleum products in the local relation to the distribution and statements and operational the volume of quantities dis- that the company’s plan is to are currently undergoing various market, the company targets to marketing of petroleum products activities of the company for the tributed through the various dis- increase the number of opera- stages of preparation, in order to increase its stake to 86 percent and gas and other activities of third quarter of 2018. tribution networks which had tional petrol stations to 130 sta- qualify them for the construction by the year 2022. Woqod Woqod and subsidiary com- He attributed the good been enhanced and optimised tions by the end of the year 2020, of new petrol stations. increased its market share to 68 panies during the year 2019, and results achieved in terms of profit both quantitatively and qualita- of which 72 stations are currently With regard to the company’s percent during the subject the requisite operational and level to the efforts exerted tively to meet the persistent operational. operations, Al Muhannadi stated reporting period compared to 57 capital costs and expenses. toward enhancing efficiency and increase of demand for petroleum The company is targeting the that the company has witnessed percent during the same period In this regard, the company capability in company’s business products and gas, along with construction and operation of 32 an increase on the sales of most of the year 2017. has allocated about QR1.175bn to operations, and cost optimisation accompanying services. stations by the end of this year products by the end of the third Retail non-fuel sales be spent on new projects intended in line with the study duly con- He also attributed the including 13 mobile stations. Of quarter 2018 compared to the (including Sidra C-Store sales) for implementation in the year ducted and implemented since increase to the prudent man- these, the company has com- corresponding period of 2017. have witnessed a 4.6 percent 2019. The company will also spend the year 2017. agement of cash and investment pleted and is operating 19 petrol The average increase in the increase. The total operations on the requirements for mainte- It is to be noted that the activities. The return on a share stations including 9 mobile total sales of petroleum products value of Woqod Subsidiary, nance, security and safety. ECB sticks to Opec and allies may need to change course as oil inventories rise: Panel

REUTERS stimulus exit signs of ample supply even as Forecasters, including the US sanctions on Iran aimed at International Energy Agency, REUTERS maintain a long-standing LONDON/RIYADH: Opec cutting the Opec member’s oil expect slower growth in global assessment that growth risks signalled yesterday that it may exports loom. Oil prices stabi- oil demand next year and rising FRANKFURT: The European were “broadly balanced”. have to return to oil production lised yesterday. Brent crude oil supplies from outside Opec, Central Bank stuck to plans “Is this enough of a change cuts as global inventories rise, fell 82 cents, or 1.1 percent, to a which could further increase yesterday to claw back unprec- to make us change the baseline in a statement that may further low of $75.35 a barrel before ral- inventories if Opec keeps output edented stimulus, even as the scenario? The answer is ‘No’,” sour relations with US President lying to around $76.37, up 20 at the same level. growth outlook continues to he said, adding that the ECB did added of measures initiated as a Donald Trump. cents, by 1325 GMT. The ministerial panel asked darken and political turmoil in not even contemplate extending result of the sovereign debt crisis The President has US light crude was up 20 its technical group, called the Italy looms large over the its bond purchase programme, of almost a decade ago but which repeatedly lashed out at the cents at $67.02 after touching Joint Technical Committee, to currency bloc. which has depressed borrowing have foundered on a lack of con- Organization of the Petroleum an intraday low of $65.99. “continue to study the 2019 Having exhausted much of its costs and revived growth. sensus among member states. The Exporting Countries, saying it is For now, producers are outlook and present options on firepower with years of support, The comments appeared to single currency slipped 0.1 percent not supplying enough oil. Opec, making progress in increasing 2019 production levels to the ECB reaffirmed that its €2.6 confirm already solid expecta- to $1.138 after having earlier plus Russia and other allied non- production in line with the June prevent reemergence of a trillion ($3 trillion) asset purchase tions that the ECB will not go reached a session-high of $1.143. Opec producers agreed to pump agreement. market imbalance.” scheme will end this year and back on its pledge to end bond With the EU having taken more in June. Opec and its partners agreed Earlier yesterday, top interest rates could rise after next purchases by the close of the the unprecedented step of An Opec and non-Opec in June to lift oil supplies so that exporter Saudi Arabia said the summer, sticking to guidance first year, even if the growth outlook rejecting Italy’s budget this ministerial panel concluded that compliance with output curbs oil market could be oversup- unveiled in June and repeated at continues to weaken. week, Draghi was quizzed at supply is “very comfortable” in place since January 2017 plied in the fourth quarter of the every meeting since. Focusing on inflation, the length about the escalating compared to demand and falls to 100 percent, from year as stocks rise and demand While he acknowledged a bank’s primary mandate, Draghi political fight between Rome and warned producers may need a closer to 150 percent because slows. It said it will “mirror” loss of growth momentum and struck a positive tone, arguing Brussels. He made it abundantly change of tack because of rising of declining production in such changes in its production. a “bunch of uncertainties” from that wage growth was a “very clear that the ECB would not inventories and economic some countries. “We are of the view that the trade protectionism and comforting” sign and that poli- come to Italy’s aid. uncertainties. Countries complied with 111 market in the fourth quarter market volatility, ECB Pres- cymakers remained confident Himself an Italian, Draghi “The committee, however, percent of pledged supply curbs could be shifting towards an ident Mario Draghi (pictured) that price growth will rise. said he was confident com- expressed concerns about rising in September, the statement oversupply situation as evi- played down concerns, arguing But despite the hawkish promise would be reached inventories in recent weeks and said, meaning production denced by rising inventories that the euro zone was merely message, the euro slipped on his between Brussels and Rome and also noted looming macroeco- increased from August when over the past few weeks,” Saudi returning to a normal or comment that Europe’s monetary noted how much the stand-off nomic uncertainties which may adherence was 129 percent. Opec governor Adeeb Al-Aama natural pace of expansion after union remained “fragile” as long was already costing Italy require changing course,” a The panel, called the Joint told Reuters. an exceptional 2017. as measures to shore up existing because of the rising yield on its statement issued by Opec said. Ministerial Monitoring Com- The Opec governor is typ- “We’re talking about weaker structures were not complete. government debt. With a debt to Brent crude oil, the global mittee, can make recommenda- ically one of the most senior momentum, not a downturn,” “And when I say completed, I GDP ratio of 130 percent, Italy benchmark, has lost about $10 tions but does not set policy. Opec posts in a country’s Opec del- Draghi told a news conference mean the banking union, I mean is the euro zone’s second most a barrel since hitting a four-year and its allies hold their next policy egation after the energy after policymakers decided to the capital market union,” he indebted country after Greece. high of $86.74 on October 3, on meeting in December. minister. 16 BUSINESS FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 Cathay Pacific admits huge data leak MarketWatch AFP The airline came 860,000 passport numbers, the European Union’s new under pressure to 245,000 Hong Kong identity card General Data Protection Regu- QSE FTSE100 DOW BRENT HONG KONG: Hong Kong numbers, 403 expired credit card lation says any such breach should explain why it had 10,153.36 7,004.10 25,037.60 $67.29 carrier Cathay Pacific came taken five months numbers and 27 credit card be reported within 72 hours. under pressure yesterday to numbers with no card verification Hong Kong’s privacy com- +0.74 PTS +41.12 PTS +454.18 PTS +0.47 explain why it had taken five to admit it had value (CVV) were accessed. missioner Stephen Wong 0.01% 0.59% 1.85% Dow & Brent before going to press months to admit it had been been hacked and Other compromised pas- expressed “serious concern” hacked and compromised the compromised the senger data included national- over the breach in a statement data of 9.4 million customers, data of 9.4 million ities, dates of births, phone yesterday and said the office including passport numbers and numbers, emails, and physical would initiate a compliance credit card details. customers, including addresses. check with the airline. The airline said on passport numbers and “We have no evidence that “Organisations in general Debenhams to shut up to Wednesday that it had discovered credit card details. any personal data has been that amass and derive benefits suspicious activity on its network misused. No-one’s travel or from personal data should ditch in March and confirmed unau- loyalty profile was accessed in the mindset of conducting their 50 UK department stores thorised access to certain personal fuelled worries. “Whether the full, and no passwords were operations to meet the minimum AFP data in early May. However, chief panic is necessary or not is not compromised,” chief executive regulatory requirements only,” customer and commercial officer for them to decide, it is for the Rupert Hogg said in a statement Wong said. “They should instead Paul Loo said officials wanted to victim to decide. This is not a Wednesday. be held to a higher ethical LONDON: British department have an accurate grasp on the sit- good explanation at all to justify But Mok said the public standard that meets the stake- store chain Debenhams uation before making an the delay,” said IT sector law- needs to know how the company holders’ expectations alongside yesterday said it planned to shut announcement and did not wish maker Charles Mok. can prove that was the case. the requirements of laws and about one third of its shops, many to “create unnecessary panic”. And legislator Elizabeth Quat “Such a statement doesn’t regulations,” he added. more than previously News of the leak sent shares said the delay was “unac- give people absolute confidence Cathay said it had launched announced, signalling another in Cathay plunging more than ceptable” as it meant customers that we are completely safe, and an investigation and alerted the blow to a retail sector faced with six percent to a nine-year low in missed five months of opportu- it doesn’t mean that some of this police after an ongoing IT oper- fierce online competition. Hong Kong trading. Local poli- nities to take steps to safeguard data would not be misused ation revealed unauthorised The announcement had been ticians slammed the carrier, their personal data. later,” Mok said. access of systems containing the expected following recent saying its response had only The airline admitted about He also pointed out that the passenger data. reports, with suggestions that some 4,000 jobs could be at risk. bought by retailer Sports Direct Debenhams said that it was in August. Department stores “closing up to 50 stores over 3-5 are among a string of major years, compared with the 10 British retailers who have fallen Daimler profits hit by diesel scandal previously identified”. “It has victim to fierce online compe- been a tough year for retail in tition, rising business taxes and AFP percent at €40.2bn. “The auto- group was “confident” of ending 2018,” Chief Executive Sergio stretched household budgets — motive industry and thus also the year on a high note thanks Bucher (pictured) said. all coming amid Brexit FRANKFURT: German car giant Daimler are still in a very chal- to robust demand. “We are taking decisive steps uncertainty. Daimler reported yesterday a lenging environment,” Chief Daimler’s share price rose to strengthen Debenhams in a British budget chain Pound- slump in third-quarter profits, Executive Dieter Zetsche (pic- 2.5 percent to €51.24 in mid-day market that remains volatile and world collapsed earlier this year confirming a weaker 2018 tured) said in a statement. trading in Frankfurt, outper- challenging... At the same time, with the loss of some 5,100 jobs. outlook as it suffered lower sales At the Mercedes-Benz cars forming a DAX blue-chip index we are taking tough decisions on “Debenhams’ decision to and shouldered costs for refits arm, the third quarter brought a that was up 0.30 percent. stores where financial per- close 50 stores reflects the new to polluting diesel cars. four-percent drop in unit sales Weighing on the carmaker’s formance is likely to deteriorate harsh economic reality on the Net profit at the Mercedes- to 795,000 vehicles, and a third quarter was a recall over time,” he added. UK high street,” said Laith Benz maker shed 21 percent seven-percent drop in revenue. ordered by the German gov- Debenhams said it had Khalaf, senior analyst at stock- year-on-year between July and But the flagship division’s ernment in June of some plunged into a loss of almost brokers Hargreaves Lansdown. September, to €1.76bn ($2bn), operating profit tumbled 35 774,000 cars Berlin said had £500m ($645m) in its financial The problems affecting short of analysts’ forecasts. percent over the quarter as it been equipped with illegal blow yet for Daimler in the year to September on excep- Debenhams and other British Operating, or underlying faced “ongoing governmental software to conceal excessive industry’s “dieselgate” scandal tional writedowns. The group’s retailers are not confined to the profits were even harder hit, proceedings and measures taken emissions of harmful nitrogen that began with Volkswagen’s revelations come after UK rival UK, with US department store falling 27 percent to €2.5bn, for diesel vehicles”, the group said. oxide gases (NOx). 2015 admission to manipulating House of Fraser was rescued group Sears filing for bank- while revenues were down 1.0 Zetsche nevertheless said the The measure was the biggest 11 million vehicles worldwide. from collapse having been ruptcy earlier this month. BREAK TIME

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Mandharam (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 11:30pm; The Princess And The Dragon (2D/Animation) 2:30pm; Badaai Ho The Princess And The Dragon (2D/Animation) 2:15 & 4:30pm; (2D/Hindi) 2:30pm; Chalakkudikkaran Changathi (2D/Malayalam) Jarugandi (Tamil) 2:30pm First Love (2D/Tagalog) 7:15pm; 4:30pm; Ana And Bruno (2D/Animation) 5:00pm; Hunter Killer Ana And Bruno (2D/Animation) 3:45 & 5:30pm; (2D/Action) 7:30pm; The King Of Thieves (2D/Crime) 7:00pm; Chalakkudikkaran Changathi (2D/Malayalam) 6:00pm; First Love (2D/Tagalog) 9:00pm; Hot Dog (2D/Action) 9:30pm; Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 5:00 & 9:00pm; Halloween (2D/Horror) 9:30pm; Halloween (2D/Horror) 11:30pm; Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 11:15pm Hunter Killer (2D/Action) 7:30pm; Hell Fest (2D/Horror) 11:30pm; Badaai Ho (2D/Hindi) 11:30pm; The King Of Thieves (2D/Crime) 9:30pm ASIAN TOWN Jarugandi (Tamil) 12:00, 5:45 & 11:30pm; LANDMARK Hello Guru Prema Kosama (Telugu) 12:00noon; Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 2:15 & 9:00pm; Ana And Bruno (2D/Ani- Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 12:15, 5:45 & 11:15pm; mation) 2:15 & 4:00pm; Jarugandi (Tamil) 5:00pm 96 (Tamil) 1:00 & 8:15pm; Mandharam (2D/Malayalam) 2:30pm; Badaai Ho (2D/Hindi) Mandharam (2D/Malayalam) 3:00, 8;30pm & 2:00am 4:45 & 11:00pm; Sandakozhi (2D/Tamil) 5:00pm; The Princess Kayamkulam Kochunni (Malayalam) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00pm And The Dragon (2D/Animation) 5:45pm; & 1:00am; Sandakozhi (2D/Tamil) 5:30pm; Hunter Killer (2D/Action) 7:00pm; Chalakkudikkaran Chalakkudikkaran Changathi (2D/Malayalam) 2:45, 8:30pm Changathi (2D/Malayalam) 8:00 & 11:00pm; &2:00am; Vada Chennai (2D/Tamil) 11:00pm; Halloween (2D/Horror) 7:15 & 11:30pm; Hell Fest (2D/Horror) 9:15pm. ROXY FLIK Lagoona Mall 5 Weddings 12:30, 5:00 & 9:30pm Ana And Bruno (2D/Ani- A Star Is Born 1:40pm; Ana And Bruno (2D/Animation) 2:30 mation) 12:30, 2:20 & 4:50 & 7:00pm; Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 9:10 & 6:00pm; Goosebumps2: Haunted Halloween (2D/Comedy) & 11:55pm; Halloween (2D/Horror) 4:15, 6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 12:30, 2:20 & 6:20pm; Halloween (2D/Horror) 4:15, 6:40, 10;15pm & 0:10am; Badaai Ho (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 7:00pm; Hal- 7:30, 8:20, 10;15pm & 0:10am; Hunter Killer (2D/Action) loween (2D/Horror) 4:15, 6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 10;15pm & 0:10am; 12:20, 2:45, 4:20, 5:10, 7:55, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25, 11:05, 11:20pm & 0:20am; The Princess And The Dragon (2D/Animation) Kayamkulam Kochunni (Malayalam) 3:50pm; Hunter Killer (2D/ 11:20am, 12:55 & 4:25pm Action) 3:50 & 10:30pm; Vada Chennai (2D/Tamil) 12:30 & 7:10pm

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Hunter Killer (2D/Action) 10:45am, 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 & 11:15pm Jarugandi (Tamil) 10:30 & 3:45pm; Mandharam (2D/Malayalam) 12:15, 5:45 & 11:15pm Badaai Ho (2D/Hindi) 1:15 & 9:15pm Chalakkudikkaran Changathi (2D/Malayalam) 3:00 & 8:30pm Baazaar (2D/Hindi) 6:30 & 11:45pm

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An untested American submarine captain teams with US Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general. SPORT Friday 26 October 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 El Arabi brace Al Attiyah eyes seals 4-1 win 14th MERC title for Al Duhail in Kuwait Doha Worlds kick off with impressive ceremony THE PENINSULA we aim to forge a path for future athletes, inspire new gymnasts DOHA: The 48th edition of FIG and grow this sport in Qatar.” Artistic Gymnastics World Cham- Al Hitmi also thanked the pionships Doha 2018, the first people of Qatar, the members of such event to be staged in the the Organising Committee and the Middle East, was launched volunteers for their efforts and following an impressive opening commitment to the ceremony at the magnificent championship. Aspire Dome yesterday. Qatar’s female gymnast, On the occasion, the President 16-year-old Jana Al Kiki then took of Qatar Gymnastics Federation an oath on behalf of the athletes and Executive Director of the as did coach David Kikuchi of Organising Committee Ali Al Hitmi Canada and judge Han Yoon-Soo thanked The Amir H H Sheikh of South Korea. FROM LEFT: The Secretary-General of Qatar Olympic Committee, Jassim Al Buainain, International Gymnastics Federation President, Morinari Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for A Chinese acrobatic show Watanabe, Vice-President of the Qatar Olympic Committee, Dr. Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari and President of Qatar Gymnastics Federation his guidance, and interest in sport, entertained the audience which, he said, is an integral part and Executive Director of the Organising Committee Ali Al Hitmi watch the opening ceremony of the 48th edition of FIG Artistic Gymnastics attending the opening of Qatar’s National Vision 2030. World Championships Doha 2018 at the Aspire Dome yesterday. RIGHT: Qatari gymnast Jana Al Kiki taking an oath on behalf of the athletes. ceremony. The opening was attended by Soon, gymnastics took over several distinguished guests and The championship was offi- Federation has made a wonderful gymnasts and officials from reach and encouraging even more with men’s sub-division qualifiers. included Dr. Thani Abdulrahman cially declared open by Interna- garden in the middle of the desert. various countries of the world and Qatari residents to become The artistic gymnastics worlds is Al Kuwari, Second Vice-President tional Gymnastics Federation For ten days from today, with the said: “Hosting this prestigious involved, whether participating flagship event of FIG and will see of the Qatar Olympic Committee, President Morinari Watanabe, power of our gymnasts, we’ll see event in Qatar has given us the or being a spectator. over 600 gymnasts from 76 coun- Jassim Al Buainain, Secretary- who was dressed in a thobe – the the beautiful and strong flowers opportunity to take gymnastics to “President Watanabe and FIG tries, including three Team Qatar General of Qatar Olympic Com- traditional Arabic dress - for the (of gymnastics) bloom at the new heights in our country and to family, thank you for the trust that gymnasts, compete over ten days mittee, and Sheikh Saud bin Abdul- occasion, and Ali Al Hitmi. Aspire Dome. I wish all gymnasts drive the passion and engagement you have placed in us. We are so at this edition that is also serving rahman Al Thani, Qatar’s Ambas- Addressing the audience, good luck.” for the sport amongst our com- grateful for the support and coop- as the first qualification event for sador to Germany, among others. Watanabe said, “Qatar Gymnastics Al Hitmi welcomed the munities; expanding gymnastics eration that you have provided as Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Qatar’s Ahmed Al Dayani in action at the Aspire Dome Top sports events yesterday. PICTURE: SAYED OMAR in Qatar reflect trust: Sheikh Saud

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DOHA: Qatar’s Ambassador to Germany, H E Sheikh Saud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who graced the opening of 48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha 2018 at the Aspire Dome yesterday termed the successful launch of the event as a fruition of hard work and the trust of the international world in Qatar built over the years. “The trust that Qatar has from the Inter- national Gymnastics Federation hasn’t come by chance. It has come with the long expe- rience that they have with Qatar and which has built over the years with its history of sport starting from 1981 when Qatar hosted the Sesame World Cup for football and until now where we are,” said Sheikh Saud while Russian gymnasts shine on speaking to the media soon after official opening of the event. Explaining the confidence which inter- national sports bodies have in Qatar also opening day at Aspire Dome reflects the trust in the people of Qatar. “Over the last decade and a half, Qatar has organised several world championships FAWAD HUSSAIN after a consistent after collecting 14.400 points. in various sports and now we have the gym- THE PENINSULA performance. Qatar’s Al Dayani posts Croatia’s Srbic Tin (14.300) nastics Doha Worlds. Next year we will be After the opening day, and Artur (14.166) finished on hosting the IAAF World Championships for DOHA: Seeking an end to they have a lead of over 13 the following positions athletics and then we have the 2022 FIFA their medal drought in the points over the Netherlands respectable scores respectively. World Cup Qatar coming up, and we have prestigious competition, after marking 258.402, with “I hoped to score a little many more after that. So this shows and Team Russia yesterday got the Dutchmen finishing the THE PENINSULA bit better. For the team I think explains the trust international sporting off to a flying start as the 48th qualification on 245.663 it’s a great score. For the final bodies have in Qatar and what we can edition of Artistic Gymnastics points. Switzerland (245.186) DOHA: Qatar’s promising gymnast Ahmed Al Dayani marked I don’t know if it’s enough,” deliver,” he explained. World Championships Doha and Ukraine (243.651) respectable scores in the men’s qualification and accumulated a Zonderland said after topping Sheikh Saud said the FIG was confident 2018 kicked off at the Aspire occupy the next positions total of 72.632 in the Men’s All-Round competition. in the qualification on of Doha Worlds’ success well in advance. “In Dome. respectively in Team He took part in all the six disciplines with his top score coming opening day. gymnastics, we have been hosting the Word On the first day of quali- qualification. in Vault in which he earned 13.766 points. The Qatari gymnast also “I think it should be but Cup series over the years and the FIG now fication round for men’s Meanwhile, Russia’s marked 12.333 points in Parallel Bars. I’m not confident yet. We’ll knows the people behind the events here in events which offer eight Nagornyy Nikita ended the Al Dayani’s compatriot Mosa claimed a total of 59.966 points and have to see what the other Qatar very closely. They were confident that titles, Russian gymnasts opening day as leader in did well in vault for 13.066 points. guys will do. It might be the first gymnastics world championships of hogged the limelight by dom- Men’s All-Round event The men’s qualification round continues today with Japan, Great enough but there are so many the Middle East in Qatar would be a success inating Team qualification after accumulating 87.098, Britain and China set to compete along with other sides at Aspire guys who also able to score much before the start of the event in Doha,” round, and were also followed by compatriots Dome where a packed hall is expected. this,” he said. he said. impressive in the individual Dalaloyan Artur (84.572) Kazakhstan’s Kurbanov He credited Qatar’s growth as the capital events. and Belyavskiy David Nariman (14.466) was leading for major sports events to the vision of Qatari gymnasts Ahmed (83.332). However, his team-mate who also played a key role in the Men’s Pommel Horse Qatar’s leaders and their belief in sports Al Dayani and Mosa Ahmed But the Rio Olympic Nikolai Kuksenkov was for Russia yesterday, topped while Ukraine’s Radivilov being an investment for future generations also received applause for medalist Nikita was not fully happy with the start. the opening day’s Men’s Floor Igor (14.733) scored the of the nation. their commendable perform- convinced with overall per- “The team did good. We with 14.833 points followed maximum points in Men’s “Our passion and love for sport has ances by a good number of formance despite a suc- started very good on vault, by Nikita (14.800) and Yulo Rings qualification come from the belief of our leaders that fans at Doha’s iconic venue cessful day for Russia. parallel bars, as well. We Carlos Edriel (14.766) of the yesterday. investment in sports means in investment last night. “On the pommel horse, have two finalists, Artur and Philippines. North Korea’s Ri Se in the future generations of our nation. Russian men, who last we made a few mistakes but David (Belyavskiy), so the Dutchman Zonderland Gwang (14.966) marked the Qatar looks to sport as a vehicle to achieve won a team medal at the they were silly mistakes. competition was very good,” Epke, the 2012 London highest score in Men’s Vault the vision of His Highness The Amir Sheikh World Artistic Gymnastics Pommel horse is an event he said. Olympic gold medalist lived while Ukraine’s Verniaiev Tamim bin Hamad al Thani as Qatar’s Championships back in where we should be getting Four-time European up to his top billing by leading Oleg (15.458) was ahead in National Vision for 2030.” 2006, were leading the event a lot of points,” he said. champion Dalaloyan Artur, the Men’s Horizontal Bar Men’s Parallel Bars. 18 SPORT FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 Second round of Hathab Series starts today

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DOHA: The second round of the hugely popular Hathab Series kicks off today at the Indoor Arena of Qatar Equestrian Federation (QEF). The overall prize money of the event is QR 1m with lesser amounts reserved for the top riders in each competitions. Individual competitions will be followed by team contests as well in this year’s series. Today’s action will see con- tests in the 110/115cm, 120/130cm and 130/145cm. Last week, promising young Qatari rider Hamad Nasser Al Qadi produced a sublime ride with St Lucia to win the Big Tour event in the season’s opening A rider walks along with a horse at a vet check ahead of the second round of the Hathab Equestrian round of Hathab Series. Series at the Qatar Equestrian Federation arena yesterday. World No.1 ElShorbagy arrives in Doha Managing a flawless routine, World No.1 and defending Qatar Classic champion Mohamed Al Qadi looked in little trouble ElShorbagy gestures after arriving at Hamad International over a field of 13 riders to seal The 12-leg show jumping Hathab, meaning ‘Canter’ in riding among Qatari youth while his win. St Lucia, aged 15, series - worth a staggering QR Arabic, is an initiative of H E encouraging the involvement of Airport in Doha yesterday. The Egyptian star is leading the pack clocked a time of 62.60 seconds 1m in overall prize money - will Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al private stables and individual of 48 players, including most of the world’s top 20 who will be as Al Qadi won the top prize of alternate between Al Shaqab Thani, President of the Qatar horse owners to spread in action during the 16th edition of the annual premier squash QR 8,750. Arena and Qatar Equestrian Fed- Olympic Committee (QOC). awareness of horsemanship as tournament which will be held from October 27 to November 2 It was the new season’s first eration’s (QEF) Main Arena in Al The series is aimed at part of Qatar’s history and at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex. Big Tour win for any rider. Rayyan, organisers confirmed. improving the standard of horse tradition. Laverty fastest in Qatar practice under lights THE PENINSULA Team Milwaukee Aprilia’s Irish rider Eugene Laverty in action DOHA: Irish rider Eugene Laverty during the free practice at the WorldSSP: Mahias (Milwaukee Aprilia) last night Losail International Circuit on produced the fastest time at the flood- the opening day of the final lit Losail International Circuit (LIC) WorldSBK round yesterday. leads over Cortese beating world champion Jonathan PIC: BAHER AMIN/ Rhea to the top of the timesheets on THE PENINSULA and Krummenacher day one of the final WorldSBK round. Clocking a time of 1’57.323, THE PENINSULA Laverty supplemented his brilliant pace in the first free practice session by scorching the circuit with his top DOHA: Lucas Mahias (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP speed of 312km/h in FP3. Rea, who Team) continued to show phenomenal Free Practice form crashed in FP1, returned in style to at the Losail International Circuit, recording the fastest finish second fastest in a time of time yesterday at the Pirelli Qatar Round. 1’57.506 around the 5.38km circuit FIM Supersport World Championship leader Sandro bathed in artificial light. Cortese (Kallio Racing) followed close behind in second In what turned to be an exciting position, with both riders head and shoulders above the night of action, Laverty completed a rest of the field in Free Practice. brilliant first day at LIC taking first PIRELLI QATAR ROUND WORLDSBK - FREE PRACTICE (3RD SESSION): RESULTS The biggest news of the day arrived shortly after the position in the combined Free green lights turned on for FP1, yet it happened off track: Rank Rider (Nationality) Team Time Gap Practice timesheets. Mahias has been officially reinstated as the winner of the Underlining his intentions for and getting pipped to P1 by just 0.025 1 E. Laverty (IRL) Milwaukee Aprilia 1’57.323 - Nolan Portuguese Round following an appeal to the CAS. tomorrow’s final round of the MOTUL seconds in FP2, the Irishman seems 2 J. Rea (GBR) Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK 1’57.506 0.183 This decision comes with one huge knock-on effect: the FIM Superbike World Championship set to leave his mark on the final 3 T. Sykes (GBR) Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK 1’57.514 0.191 gap between Jules Cluzel (NRT) and Cortese has been reduced to five points, turning Saturday’s race into a in Qatar, the Irish rider showed his round of 2018. 4 L. Savadori (ITA) Milwaukee Aprilia 1’57.799 0.476 full potential by managing to beat Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha Official winner-takes-all affair. 5 L. Baz (FRA) GULF ALTHEA BMW Racing Team 1’57.922 0.599 both Rea and in the final minutes of WorldSBK Team) completed the front But if Free Practice is anything to go by, these new FP3. quartet, although he was unable to 6 M. Melandri (ITA) Aruba.it Racing - Ducati 1’57.924 0.601 developments have done nothing but embolden Cortese Both KRT riders had finished improve upon his best FP2 time. 7 M. Van Der Mark (NED) Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team 1’57.980 0.657 ahead of the final showdown. The German was the only outside the top two in the second Topping the second session earlier in 8 C. Davies (GBR) Aruba.it Racing - Ducati 1’58.046 0.723 rider capable of following the 2017 Champion’s pace through FP1, with Cluzel lagging nearly a full second session and returned to the track the evening, the Englishman seems 9 T. Razgatlioglu (TUR) Kawasaki Puccetti Racing 1’58.054 0.731 determined to recover their set to end his season on a high at behind in fifth position. 10 A. Lowes (GBR) Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team 1’58.166 0.843 advantage under the Qatari flood- Losail. Even as the margins tightened throughout the second lights. First it was Sykes who moved Lorenzo Savadori (Milwaukee session Mahias and Cortese remained one step above into the lead inside the opening ten Aprilia) was fifth fastest on Thursday, Fores (Barni Racing Team) twelfth the eighth fastest time for the day. the chasing pack for most of the second 50-minute minutes; Rea followed fifteen minutes moving inside the top spots at the end onboard the other red machine, with Closing the top ten for Free practice. Only Randy Krummenacher (BARDAHL Evan later, inching ahead by just 30 thou- of the third practice. He moves into the independent riders champion Practice was Toprak Razgatlioglu Bros. WorldSSP Team) managed to briefly topple the sandths of a second. today’s Superpole 2 ahead of Loris forced to battle his way through (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing), the pair with three minutes on the clock; however, his slip- Sykes would tighten the gap Baz (GULF Althea BMW Racing Superpole 1 on Friday. Turkish rider extending his good stream-aided lap was quickly countered by yesterday’s further in the dying stages of FP3 to Team), sixth fastest in Qatar. Michael van der Mark (Pata momentum into the Pirelli Qatar two frontrunners, with the Swiss rider having to settle just eight thousandths of a second. In the final round of the Panigale Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team) Round as the top independent rider for third. But it was Laverty who managed to R before its four-cylinder brother seemed destined for that first qual- yesterday. Leandro Mercado (Orelac Cluzel finished FP2 in fourth position, over half a steal the top spot one minute before arrives next season, Marco Melandri ifying shootout after crashing in Racing VerdNatura), however, fell just second behind his championship rival. Corentin Perolari the chequered flag came down, (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) was only FP1 and struggling through FP2 and short of the Superpole 2 positions in (GMT94 YAMAHA) moved up to fifth position in the closing setting a fastest lap of 1’57.323, nearly able to finish seventh fastest, with most of FP3; however the eleventh, as did both Red Bull Honda stages of the session, followed by Raffaele De Rosa (MV two tenths of a second faster than the teammate Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Dutchman found some late form World Superbike riders (Jake Gagne Agusta Reparto Corse by Vamag) in sixth, in a return to two ZX-10RRs. After also topping FP1 Racing – Ducati) in ninth and Xavi in the closing session and recorded 13th, Leon Camier 14th). form by the Italian. El Arabi’s heroics seal 4-1 Al Rayyan edge Al Sailiya 2-1

THE PENINSULA win for champions Al Duhail to block the shot by turning his back to the threat. The ball hit Dami’s back and went DOHA: Two second-half goals yesterday for a corner. A few moments later, Al THE PENINSULA Just nine minutes later, Al Duhail his snap-header was palmed over the lifted Al Rayyan to a 2-1 win over Al Sailiya Rayyan skipper Tabata - after a cross from equalised through Al Rawi off an crossbar by keeper Sofyan. at Al Ahli Stadium in their QNB Stars Ibrahim Masoud - flicked the ball towards DOHA: Al Duhail yesterday rallied in indirect corner. Al Rawi, stationed However, exactly at the hour- League round 10 clash. the net by keeper Al Khater punched the fine fashion to beat Al Kharaitiyat 4-1 close to the goal, latched on to a inad- mark, QNB Stars League giants Al Veteran strikers Sebastian Soria (71) ball away. in their QNB Stars League (QSL) 10th vertent loopy cross from El Arabi and Duhail went 2-1 up. Al Duhail and Rodrigo Tabata (82) scored the goals A minute before injury time, Qadir round clash at Abdullah Bin Khalifa flicked the ball into net before keeper defender Ali made the most of an for Al Rayyan after Al Sailiya’s Abdul Qadir scored for Al Sailiyah after picking up a Stadium. Ahmed Sofyan could effect a stop. error by Al Kharatiyat’s Abdarahamn had found the net close to the first-half cross from the centre of field. Despite being Al Kharaitiyat opened the scoring Just before the end of the first half, Abdallah who jumped high to head whistle. given chase by defender Terwari, Qadir through Romanian midfielder Val- feared Korean striker Nam Tae-hee the ball away but ended up allowing In the 15th minute, Al Rayyan’s Bra- trapped the ball close to himself before entin Lazar in the 23rd minute. But curled in a well-taken shot from the Ali to flick the ball into the open net. zilian forward Lucca Brito outran his firing it past keeper Omar Barry. thereafter it was Al Duhail all the way edge of Al Kharaitiyat box but the ball In the 74th minute, Al Kharatiyat’s marker and charged towards the Al Sailiya After numerous attempts at goal, as Bassam Al Rawi (32), Mohammed narrowly missed the far post with Hamroun Jugurtha unleashed a pow- box. Right on the edge of the box the feared former Qatar striker Soria found the net Moosa Ali (60) and Youssef El Arabi keeper Sofyan completely beaten. erful shot from the edge of the Al Brazilian striker unleashed a powerful shot for Al Rayyan in the 71st minute. Soria (77 and 85) completed the win for the When the first half ended, Al Duhail Duhail box but his low shot crashed that was smartly saved by Al Sailiya keeper headed the ball into the net on a long cross defending champions. enjoyed most of the ball possession - into the outside of the net. Saoud Al Khater. In the 24th minute, from the flank with an airborne dive to In the 23rd minute, Al Kharaitiyat’s 67 percent to 23 by Al Kharaitiyat. The In the 77th minute, El Arabi easily veteran winger Nadir Belhadj was shown meet the ball. overseas star Lazar - after a couple of defending champions also produced converted a penalty to give Al Duhail the yellow card for a reckless tackle on Al With momentum on their side, Al back-heal short passes - swivelled on seven corners to just two by their rivals. a 3-1 cushion. It was El Arabi’s eighth Rayyan’s Daniel Goumou. Rayyan scored the second goal in the 82nd his feet inside the Al Duhail box and A few minutes into the second half goal of the season. El Arabi added one In the 34th minute, Al Sailiya’s Rashid minute when Tabata tapped the ball into shot the ball past goalkeeper Khalifa and Tae-hee missed a golden oppor- more from close range in the 85th Al Rashdi fired a bullet from close range the net from close range following a cross Ndiaye with a slick finish. tunity to score from close range when minute of the one-sided clash. but Al Rayyan’s Dami Terawari was quick from Lucca standing nearby. FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2018 SPORT 19 Al Attiyah eyes 14th MERC title in Kuwait THE PENINSULA goes to plan and they are able to wrap up the 2018 MERC 3 Rally DOHA: Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Championship title at the Kuwait Attiyah will be hoping to lay his International Rally on November hands on a 14th FIA Middle East 1-3. Rally Championship (MERC) title The pair have tackled a full in 16 years at next weekend’s programme of regional MERC 3 Kuwait International Rally to events this season and three con- enable him to focus on winning sistent finishes in Jordan, Lebanon the Manateq International Rally and Cyprus have given Kahy a of Qatar for a 14th time two 49-point lead in the title race. weeks later. In his first full season of Czech driver Vojtech Stajf regional rallying, Kahy secured stands in the Qatari’s way in victory in Jordan and third places Kuwait and will be pushing hard at the other two rounds at the to try and become the first non- wheel of his Škoda Fabia 1.6, a car Arab driver in the history of the built by Škoda Motorsport and championship to seal the overall running in the RC4 class. title. The Fabia will feature the Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah Since the championship’s yellow livery of SEG Qatar for the inception in 1984, only eight Arab last two rounds of the series drivers have ever won the series, where additional support comes with Saeed Al Hajri sealing the from Michelin, Total Oils, el- inaugural victory in 1984 and the Baharri and MMS Racing. likes of Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Lebanon’s Rony Kanaan and Mamdouh Khayat, Sheikh Hamed Cypriot racer Panayiotis Xeno- bin Eid Al Thani, Abdullah phontos claimed their points for Bakhashab, Nasser Saleh Al respective MERC 3 successes at Qatari driver Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah in action during the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) in this file photo. Attiyah, Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi the Rally of Lebanon and the and the late Misfer Al Marri fol- Cyprus Rally, where Kahy’s con- lowing in his wake. sistent finishing proved decisive. 3 Co-drivers’ Championship for Rally of Qatar will start and finish Entries close on Wednesday, contacting the Qatar Motor and Meanwhile, Lebanese rally Djiyerian, who acted as the the second time. He won the at Souq Waqif in Doha with the October 31. Motor Cycle Federation (QMMF) driver Henry Kahy and his Jor- Competition Liaison Officer at the series last year with close Jor- ceremonial start planned for Further information about the web site website: www.qmmf. danian navigator Musa Djiyerian recent Jordan Baja, is the nailed danian friend Asem Aref. 19.00hrs on Thursday, September 2018 QMMF Qatar International com or email [email protected]. will be hoping that everything on favourite to wrap up the MERC The Manateq International 15. Rally can be obtained by qa CAF delegation visits Education City Stadium

THE PENINSULA The visiting Confederation of African Football (CAF) delegation and Qatar Football Association officials at the Education City Stadium construction site yesterday. DOHA: The visiting high level Dwayne Bravo delegation of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) yesterday witnessed the ongoing work of the Education City Windies all-rounder Stadium. The CAF delegation - headed by its President Ahmad Ahmad - was shown around the Bravo retires from 40,000-capaicity venue that is under construction for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar. internationals Placed in the heart of Edu- cation City campus, the under REUTERS construction stadium will be the that for me to preserve my lon- one of the venues to host the gevity as a professional 2022 FIFA World Cup matches TRINIDAD: West Indies all- cricketer, I must do as others up to the quarter-finals. rounder Dwayne Bravo before have done, leave the The seating capacity of the delegation praised the delegation also stressed Qatar’s Metro system which is now fast announced his retirement from international arena for the next Education City Stadium will be remarkable progress made in readiness to host the 2022 World moving towards completion. international cricket yesterday. generation of players.” reduced to half once the event Qatar’s infrastructure and Cup through what they saw prep- The delegation also toured The 35-year-old Trinidadian, Bravo, known for his big- comes to an end. The 20,000 expressed their admiration for arations relying on innovation the Aspire Academy of Sports who made his West Indies debut hitting ability and a wide range seats will be eventually shipped the construction of the venues. and creativity. The visiting dele- Excellence and the Aspetar Sports in 2004, played 40 tests, 164 of slower deliveries, ends his to help building stadiums in A FIFA World Cup in Qatar gation also praised the infra- Medicine Hospital yesterday. one-day internationals and 66 international stint with 2,200 developing countries. will be a unique opportunity for structure development taking The on-going visit of the CAF T20 internationals. His last runs at an average of 31.42 in The decrease in capacity will fans to experience a distinctive place across the country. delegation is an extension of the appearance for his country came Tests. not affect the aesthetics of the cultural experience during the Qatar has already impressed Memorandum of Understanding in the shortest format against In ODIs, he finished with stadium, the visiting delegates tournament, as members of the travellers coming into the country the African body signed with Pakistan in Sept. 2016. 2,968 runs at 25.36, while of CAF were informed. CAF delegation stated. with its state-of-the-art Hamad Qatar Football Association (QFA) “Today I want to confirm to claiming 199 wickets at an Members of the CAF Members of the CAF International Airport and the in May 2015. the cricket world that I have offi- economy rate of 5.41. cially retired from international Bravo plays for the Chennai cricket in all formats of the Super Kings franchise in the game,” he said in a statement. Indian Premier League and has Zverev seals “After 14 years when I made also represented T20 outfits in Pliskova downs Kvitova to reach semis my debut for the West Indies, I England, Australia, Pakistan, still remember that moment I Bangladesh and the Caribbean. 50th win of REUTERS movement and coughed up a received the maroon cap before “I am extremely fortunate to slew of double faults to fall 4-0 walking onto the Lords Cricket have a career that has taken me the season SINGAPORE: Karolina Pliskova down in the blink of an eye as Ground against England in July across the globe into the most became the first woman to Pliskova pounced on every 2004. The enthusiasm and prestigious dressing rooms AP advance to the last four of the opportunity. passion I felt then, I have kept sharing experiences with all the WTA Finals when the big-hitting Slowly but surely, Kvitova with me throughout my career. recent legends of this glorious BASEL: Alexander Zverev Czech put on a controlled display worked her way back into the “However, I must accept game,” he said. became the first man to to defeat compatriot Petra contest, rallying twice from 40-0 reach 50 wins on the ATP Kvitova 6-3, 6-4 in their final down to win back-to-back games Tour this season by beating round robin encounter yesterday. in the middle of the set that finally Robin Haase 6-4, 7-5 on The former world number gave Pliskova something to think Kumar, Bumrah return Wednesday in the first round one will be joined in the last four about. of the Swiss Indoors. by either Elina Svitolina (2-0) or Pliskova’s coach Rennae The second-seeded defending champion Caroline Stubbs urged her to “stay disci- to India’s ODI squad German moved to 50-16 in a Wozniacki (1-1), who complete plined” in the next changeover REUTERS season that has brought three White Group play at the Sin- and the Czech heeded the advice 81. The 28-year-old improved titles, including the Madrid gapore Indoor Stadium later on to curb her attacking instincts as in the second ODI in Visakhap- Masters. Thursday. she ended Kvitova’s tournament NEW DELHI: Indian pace atnam, taking one wicket for 59 Zverev converted all four Kvitova (0-3) had lost her by holding serve to take the bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar from 10 overs, but was unable of his break points while opening two matches and knew opener in 41 minutes. and Jasprit Bumrah are back in to hold on to his place in the saving eight of the 10 held by that only a straight sets victory The loss of the opening set the squad for the three squad. Karolina Pliskova celebrates the 47th-ranked Dutchman. would give her any chance of appeared to free up Kvitova’s remaining one-day interna- INDIA SQUAD: after defeating Petra Kvitova. Haase used a between- advancing but Pliskova (2-1) booming forehand and she tionals against the West Indies, Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit the-legs lob to force a break stayed calm and focused to feasted on Pliskova’s tentative with fellow quick Mohammed Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar in the second set that Zverev record a first win over her com- next match yet, I’ll do what I can start to the second set to race to Shami making way, selectors Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, retrieved with his own patriot in four attempts. to recover first. Before the tour- a 3-0 lead, but the world number announced yesterday. Rishabh Pant, Mahendra Singh ‘tweener into the net. “I cannot be more happy nament, I said to myself that I eight battled back brilliantly to Kumar and Bumrah were Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Third-seeded Marin Cilic right now. It was a good match want to enjoy it and I will con- book her semi-final place. rested for the first two matches Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep now has a 1-3 record in and she’s a great player. She has tinue to do just that.” In the late match, Ukraine’s of the five-match ODI series, Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, October after losing 7-5, 7-6 always beaten me in the past but Kvitova needed to make a Svitolina will advance if she wins while Shami, who did feature, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit (2) to the 93rd-ranked Marius I knew I had a chance as I have fast start to put her opponent one set against Wozniacki, who was the most expensive India Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Copil of Romania in a been playing well,” Pliskova said. under pressure but the double needs a straight-sets triumph to bowler in the first match in Umesh Yadav, Lokesh Rahul, second-round match. “I’m not thinking about the Wimbledon champion lacked continue her title defence. 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Members of the public watch French freeclimber Alain Robert (right), known as ‘Spiderman’, as he attempts to scale the 46-storey Heron Tower in the financial district of London, Britain, yesterday. ‘French Spiderman’ held after tower stunt snarls London’s financial hub

AFP o o dedicated my whole life to climb his forehead, soon attracted hordes of they were nice, and then after (it) 30 C 35 C mountains, to climb cliffs, and now to mobile phone-wielding onlookers after started to get more complicated after LONDON: French urban freeclimber climb buildings — but always ‘free starting at lunchtime from busy Bish- 9/11 and everything.” Minimum Maximum Alain Robert was arrested yesterday soloing’, meaning I’m not using safety opsgate on the southwestern side of Several skyscrapers in London, after bringing parts of London’s devices.” The maverick climber has the building. including the tower at Canary Wharf, Relatively hot daytime and and partly cloudy with chance of rain. financial district to a standstill by scaled more than 100 structures glo- Police arrived within minutes and have taken out injunctions against scaling the 46-storey Heron Tower — bally — including several in London cordoned off nearby roads, quickly Robert to prevent him climbing them

HIGH TIDE 06:00 – 17:30 LOW TIDE 12:15 – 23:45 the area’s tallest building. previously -- setting a record for “most clogging traffic in the area. again, according to his manager Bryan Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department The 56-year-old so-called “French buildings climbed unassisted,” “It’s weird — that’s my office,” said Yeubrey. He said yesterday’s site was Spiderman” took around an hour to according to Guinness World Records. 36-year-old finance worker John chosen from a shortlist of three, which climb the 230-metre high tower Earlier this year, he was forced to Doherty, gazing up at Robert as he also included the 224-metres-high without ropes or safety equipment, abandon climbing the world’s fifth- tackled the lower section of the mixed- Leadenhall Building — nicknamed “the while traffic came to a halt as bemused tallest tower in Seoul, South Korea, use tower, home to offices, restaurants cheesegrater” — and the 38-storey crowds packed the streets below. after the 123-storey building’s security and a bar. “I’ve just come back from “Walkie-Talkie” tower. Police in the City of London, the cap- confronted him halfway up. lunch and it’s a surprise.” Robert threw “He just wanted to climb in London ital’s square-mile financial centre, con- Robert admitted yesterday that he his arms in the air in apparent jubi- again,” Yeubrey explained. However, firmed he was then arrested “for causing was “very nervous”, adding he always lation after reaching the top before dis- City of London Police criticised the a public nuisance” and remained in felt anxious ahead of an ascent. “When appearing out of sight. stunt for causing “immense disruption custody yesterday afternoon. I start climbing it’s OK, because I know Prior to the stunt, he said he “def- to everyday business”. “This is what I love to do,” Robert I’m going to be completely focused,” initely expected” to be detained — as “It also posed a significant level of had told a handful of reporters at a he added. “But at this point of time I’m had occurred after his six other risk to the safety of people in and nearby hotel shortly before beginning a little bit shaky.” The Frenchman, climbs in the British capital. “They around Heron Tower at the time,” said his ascent. “I have pretty much who climbed with a small camera on always arrest me,” he added. “(In) ‘95 Commander Karen Baxter.

Humpback whales stop singing when ships are near: Study AFP through the area once per day. by,” said the study in the to sing again until a half hour authors note, however, ongoing Male humpback whales journal PLOS ONE, led by Koki after the ship was gone from studies are required to determine TAMPA: Humpback whales sing as a way to communicate Tsujii from Ogasawara Whale the area. Since ocean noise if indeed the response was tem- are famous for their eerie, and attract mates. But by Watching Association and has been on the rise in recent porary, as factors such as stress underwater songs. But plunging a pair of hydrophones Hokkaido University. decades, some experts said the levels need to be considered and researchers in Japan said that into the water to listen to the Fewer male humpbacks findings raise new questions examined,” she added. these massive marine crea- whales’ reaction — about 26 of sang in the area within 500 about what other whale “Also, it is unknown what tures stop singing, at least whom were detected in the metres of the shipping lane behaviors might be changing such modifications in singing temporarily, when human- study area — researchers found than elsewhere. “After the ship due to mounting human behavior, a vital reproductive driven ships are nearby. that the approach of a ship passed by, whales within presence on the high seas. behavior, have on their repro- Researchers focused on silenced them. around 1,200 metres tended Linda Weilgart, a ductive success.” Only male the remote Ogasawara Islands “The main reaction of to temporarily reduce singing researcher at Dalhousie Uni- humpback whales sing, so the in Japan, some 1,000km south humpback whales was to stop or stop singing altogether,” versity who was not involved research did not delve into the of Tokyo, where a single pas- singing either when the ship said the study. in the study, called the whales’ effects of shipping noise on senger-cargo liner passed approached or after it passed Many whales did not start responses “remarkable”. “As the females and calves.

Indian couples drawn to Antalya Water out of thin air: California to tie the knot ANATOLIA couple’s device wins $1.5m AP ANTALYA: More and more Burt Rutan in 2004 for Space- “One of the fascinating Indian couples are looking to ShipOne, the first privately things about shipping containers tie the knot in Turkey’s sunny LOS ANGELES: It started out financed manned space flight. is that more are imported than coastal resort of Antalya. modestly enough: David Hertz, When Hertz learned a exported, so there’s generally a Of some 1 million wed- having learned that under the couple of years ago that a prize surplus,” said Hertz, adding dings organized annually in right conditions you really can was about to be offered to they’re cheap and easy to move India, about 10,000 were make your own water out of thin whoever could come up with a around. And if there’s no wood arranged to be held in foreign air, put a little contraption on the cheap, innovative way to chips around for heat, coconut countries, said Bunyat Ozpak, roof of his office and began produce clean freshwater for a husks, rice, walnut shells, grass co-owner of Inventum cranking out free bottles of H2O world that doesn’t have enough clippings or just about any Global, an Indian wedding for anyone who wanted one. of it, he decided to go all in. other such waste product will organization firm based in Soon he and his wife, Laura At the time, his little water- do just fine. Antalya. So far, Antalya has Doss-Hertz, were thinking making machine was cranking Matthew Stuber, a professor hosted 12 big, multi-day bigger — so much so that this out 150 gallons a day, much of of chemical and biomolecular Indian weddings, Ozpak said. week the couple won the $1.5m which was being given to engineering at the University of Indian couple Arjun Arora XPrize For Water Abundance. homeless people living in and Connecticut and expert on water and Sukriti Grover recently They prevailed by developing a around the alley behind the systems who was one of the chose the resort to host their system that uses shipping con- Studio of Environmental Archi- panel’s judges, called their wedding, an event spanning tainers, wood chips and other tecture, Hertz’s Venice Beach- water-making machine a “really four days and four nights. detritus to produce as much as area firm that specializes in cre- cool” merging of rather simple Around 600 guests attended 528 gallons (2,000 litres) of ating green buildings. technologies that can be used to the nuptials. water a day at a cost of no more He and his wife, a com- quickly deliver water to regions A 80-person kitchen team than 2 cents a litre. mercial photographer, and their hit by natural disasters, stricken was flown into Turkey just for The XPrize competition, partner Richard Groden, who by drought or even rural areas the wedding. A 50-person created by a group of philan- created the smaller machine, with a shortage of clean water. team to do makeup, hair- thropists, entrepreneurs and assembled The Skysource/Sky- Hertz and Doss-Hertz are dressing, photos, and deco- others, has awarded more than water Alliance and went to just starting to contemplate how ration was also sent. This was $140m over the years for what work. They settled on creating to accomplish that. Theirs was in addition to a 200-person Prince Harry and Meghan in Tonga it calls audacious, futuristic little rainstorms inside shipping among 98 teams from 27 coun- Turkish team on duty during ideas aimed at protecting and containers by heating up wood tries who entered the compe- Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the wedding. Around $1.5m improving the planet. chips to produce the temper- tition. Many teams were bigger Fua’amotu International Airport, on day one of the royal couple’s was spent on the wedding, The first XPrize, for $10m, ature and humidity needed to and better funded, while the which was hosted at a five-star visit to Tonga, yesterday. went to Microsoft co-founder draw water from the air and the couple mortgaged their Malibu hotel in Belek district. Paul Allen and aviation pioneer wood itself. home to stay in the game.