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REGION | Confl ict up for new Syria blocking aid to civilians: US The US yesterday accused Syria of blocking aid to besieged cities intersection and warned it will not boost military co-operation with Russia he opening of the Civil Defence the congestion in major areas. unless Damascus honours a truce intersection by the Public Works Ever since traffi c volumes increased agreement. President Barack Obama’s TAuthority, Ashghal, on Wednes- in Doha, the former Civil Defence spokesman Josh Earnest said Russia day as scheduled has come as a huge re- Roundabout used to be congested dur- is responsible for ensuring that its lief to motorists who traverse the busy ing the peak hours, causing consider- ally Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad area in Doha. able delays to motorists. allows United Nations convoys to What used to be a prominent round- enter towns like Aleppo. “Right now, about adjacent to the former head- “Ashghal has done a the trucks that could bring them quarters of the General Directorate of commendable job of life-saving assistance are idling on the Civil Defence is now a signal-control- converting the Civil wrong side of the border,” Earnest led intersection. Defence Roundabout told reporters. Page 3 The reconstructions included wid- to a signal-controlled ening all streets leading to Civil De- intersection, especially AMERICA | Law and order fence intersection to become four lanes before the schools reopen” instead of three, as well as relocating US police fatally utilities including power, sewerage and Once the situation became unman- shoot 13-year-old boy drainage lines. ageable, the authorities concerned in- An off icer responding to a robbery In order to accommodate the in- stalled signals at the roundabout, im- report shot dead a 13-year-old creased fl ow of traffi c from the Civil parting some relief. boy in Columbus, Ohio, after he Defence intersection, the Hamad Med- “Ashghal has done a commend- drew what turned out to be a low- ical City intersection has been upgrad- able job of converting the Civil Defence powered air gun, police said. The ed through widening the left-bound Roundabout to a signal-controlled Columbus Police Department said route to three lanes. intersection, especially before the it was investigating the death of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets UK Prime Minister Theresa May at No 10 Downing Street in London. A third lane has also been added to schools reopen next Sunday,” a long- Tyree King, the latest in a string of the left-bound route for the motor- time Doha resident said. shootings of African Americans by ists coming from the Sports Rounda- The vision of Ashghal is to convert law enforcement that have fuelled bout towards the Television Rounda- all major roundabouts in Doha to inter- protests and national debate about bout. sections in due course. policing tactics in US cities. King was The reconfigurations come as part The TV Roundabout, Sports Round- pronounced dead at Nationwide of the Development of Intersections about and a roundabout near Me- Children’s Hospital after being shot and Roundabouts Project in several saimeer are among the last few major multiple times after he pulled out a areas in Greater Doha aimed at en- roundabouts pending conversion to BB gun during a confrontation in an Qatar, UK hancing the traffic flow and reducing signal-controlled intersections. alley, a police statement said.

PHILIPPINES | Hearing Duterte ordered killings, claims hitman A self-confessed hitman yesterday testified that Philippines President stress need to Rodrigo Duterte personally issued assassination orders while mayor of a city where activists say hundreds of summary executions took place. The president made no comment on the allegations yesterday but his political allies dismissed them as enhance ties lies. Page 11 QNA putting these into eff ect, also fi gured and historic, and adding that the two BUSINESS | Currency London in the talks. countries have joint co-operation in The meeting also discussed the is- various fi elds. Indian rupee hit sue of terrorism with its serious reper- HH the Emir reiterated Qatar’s by devaluation talk H the Emir Sheikh Tamim cussions and worsening threat to the openness and keenness on promoting Vehicles cross the newly-opened Civil Defence intersection, which replaced the India’s finance ministry swatted bin Hamad al-Thani yester- security and stability of the world, as these relations. earlier roundabout. down a media report yesterday of Hday met UK Prime Minister well as the need to address the causes HH the Emir and the UK prime min- a possible devaluation of the rupee, Theresa May at No 10 Downing Street, of this issue at both the regional and ister discussed bilateral ties and means dismissing lobbying by struggling the offi cial residence and offi ce of the international levels. to further develop these in the fi elds exporters seeking a competitive British premier. At the outset of the meeting, the of education, research, development, boost from a cheaper currency. The During the meeting, the two sides British premier welcomed HH the economy and investments in addi- Hamad Hospital attends to 800 cases rupee weakened 0.28% to 67.0750 discussed a host of regional and in- Emir, stressing that the visit was an tion to the importance of utilising the to the dollar after a television ternational issues, especially devel- important step in the development investment and trade opportunities to he Hamad General Hospital’s ing treatment. The Al Wakra Hospital channel CNBC-TV18 reported that the opments in the Middle East region, of bilateral relations in various fi elds. cement the relations between the two (HGH) emergency department received more than 350 cases in the commerce ministry would propose most notably the situation in Syria The prime minister added that Britain nations and achieve their common in- Tyesterday received more than same period and there were no reports a devaluation, before steadying after and the need to lift the blockade and was looking forward to advancing co- terests. 800 cases, including two deaths, from of any serious accidents or deaths. The the central bank stepped in to prevent end the suff erings endured by the operation between the two countries The meeting was attended by mem- early in the morning until 6pm. Thir- Ambulance Service registered some a sharp fall. “The value of rupee is Syrian people. The need to stop the at various levels. bers of the offi cial delegation accom- teen of these cases pertained to heart 257 calls for help, with seven for road determined by the market and there forced displacement of the Syrian HH the Emir expressed pleasure at panying HH the Emir. disease, while three were injuries sus- accidents. The Paediatric Emergency is no plan to change policy,” a finance people and the importance of acti- the meeting, pointing out that Qatari- On the British side it was attended tained in road accidents. Most of the Centres received more than 1,200 cases ministry off icial said. Page 4 vating international solutions and British relations were strong, strategic by a number of ministers. patients returned home after receiv- across the country. Spectacular Katara Eid festivities draw to a close atara – the Cultural Village number of people of various age cat- erature and myths, with some of these “I really liked the arrangements for Foundation’s 2016 Eid extrava- egories isn’t an easy job. masterpieces having made it to the in- the Eid festival and would like to com- Kganza concluded yesterday after “We have paid close attention and ternational scene as part of humanity’s mend the organisers for their eff orts,” off ering audiences a “joyful and unfor- spent time listening to the views, distinguished traditions and epics,” al- Meqbil al-Judaie added. gettable experience”. notes and feedback from our guests, Shuraim added. Some also highlighted Katara’s role A large number of people from diff er- who in many cases requested us to ex- Meanwhile, visitors seemed im- in attracting GCC tourists to Qatar. ent age groups attended the four-day tend the Eid festival while expressing pressed with the programmes off ered “This is my third visit to Katara dur- Eid al-Adha festivities at Katara, which satisfaction at the shows and services by Katara. ing the Eid season. Every time I come included attractions such as ‘Sinbad’, we offer.” One of the visitors, Ahmed Sarrie, here I notice a lot of progress and more the musical show on the waterfront de- The offi cial stressed that pro- said: “I haven’t missed any of the shows services off ered to guests and their picting the story of the sailor, ‘Eidyah’ grammes organised by the Cultural staged by Katara during the Eid festival. families. Qatar has become a favourite gifts for children and the fi reworks dis- Village were not restricted to enter- The ‘Sinbad’ show and fi reworks dis- tourism destination for GCC nation- play at night. tainment, as “cultural and educational play were amazing and my family and I als” said Bandar al-Outaibi, a visitor. Speaking on the occasion, Katara messages are always present in all our had a really good time.” In a press statement, Katara stressed public relations and communications events”. Added Khalid al-Ayadi: “I’ve spent that it “once again managed to bring director Malika Mohamed al-Shuraim “The Eid festival was an opportu- one of the best times of the year at communities together at the festival - said: “The overwhelming turnout re- nity for children to watch the great ad- the Katara Eid festival. Along with my where smiles, greetings and gifts were news the trust between us and the ventures of Sinbad and a platform for friend, I would arrive at the Katara exchanged and Eid blessing shared in community and is proof of our success, our foreign guests to learn more about beach at 9am and stay until night, when an atmosphere of love, peace and fun”. as pleasing a crowd comprising a large the rich traditional Arabic stories, lit- The fireworks display was one of the highlights of the Katara’s Eid festival. we enjoyed the fi reworks display.” Page 16 Gulf Times 2 Friday, September 16, 2016 QATAR

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Emir congratulates president of Salvador on Independence Day

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim Salvador Sanchez Ceren on bin Hamad al-Thani sent the occasion of his country’s yesterday a cable of Independence Day. congratulations to president HE the Prime Minister of the Republic of El Salvador, and Minister of Interior Salvador Sanchez Ceren on Sheikh Abdullah bin the occasion of his country’s Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani Independence Day. sent yesterday a cable of HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh congratulations to president Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani of the Republic of El Salvador, also sent yesterday a cable of Salvador Sanchez Ceren on congratulations to president the occasion of his country’s of the Republic of El Salvador, Independence Day.

Emir congratulates president of Nicaragua on Independence Day

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin president of Nicaragua Daniel Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday Ortega on the occasion of his a cable of congratulations to country’s Independence Day. People enjoying the sunset on a beach. the president of Nicaragua, HE the Prime Minister and Daniel Ortega on the occasion Minister of Interior Sheikh of his country’s Independence Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Day. al-Thani sent yesterday a HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh cable of congratulations to the Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani president of Nicaragua Daniel Residents fl ock to beach areas also sent yesterday a cable Ortega on the occasion of his of congratulations to the country’s Independence Day.

By Ramesh Mathew Staff Reporter

eaches across Qatar drew a large number Qatar envoy calls for of visitors, including single expatriate Bworkers, during the ongoing Eid al-Adha festivities and holidays. enhancing of rights Since the mercury started to dip below 40C with a corresponding drop in humidity, there has been a remarkable improvement in numbers of the elderly at the beaches during the afternoon. Beaches at Dukhan, Shamaal, Al Wakrah and Mesaieed have been attracting a steady stream QNA that elderly citizens enjoy their of visitors from last Friday, with the rush peak- Geneva full human rights, especially ing from the fi rst day of Eid al-Adha. in the absence of any specifi c The Doha Corniche too has attracted a large documents on the rights of the number of visitors. Marinas at The Pearl-Qatar he State of Qatar called elderly. and Lusail too received quite a number of visi- yesterday for enhancing of She noted that Qatari laws tors and many of them went on boat rides to Tthe rights of the elderly. guaranteed the elderly social se- islands. This appeal was made by the curity, housing, as well as legal More than half of the nearly 350-400 luxury Second Secretary at Qatar’s Per- protection. She added that the boats, including scores of small vessels, berthed manent delegation to the UN country had established institu- at the marinas at The Pearl-Qatar and many Offi ce in Geneva, Nour Ibrahim tions for that cause, such as the boats in Lusail and Marriot Doha Hotel are away al-Sada, during a dialogue with Centre of Empowerment and at sea. the Independent Expert on the Care Elderly (Ihsan). A large number of the locals travelled to is- enjoyment of all human rights by The centre works on providing lands like Aala, Shraya and Sabilya among other older persons (HROP). healthcare services, in addition locations in their boat. Some of the groups, es- Al-Sada praised the eff orts of to mental and social ones to eld- pecially those owning luxury boats, also take Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, the UN erly citizens of Qatar. Ihsan also their personal cooks along, sources said. Independent Expert, in promot- works with a number of govern- While some of the revellers stay overnight ing the rights of elderly people ment institutions and NGOs on at tents erected on the islands, others return to and her report on the matter. enhancing the contribution of Doha late in the evening. Expatriates enjoy the Eid break on a beach. PICTURES: Ram Chand Al-Sada said that it’s important the elderly to society. NU-Q off ers Doha moving towards sustainable future

oha is making good progress in an analysis of 32 diff erent indicators and “It’s not a huge surprise that Doha as the city’s ambition to build a presence becoming more socially and eco- is also broken down into three sub-indi- scores lower on the environmental indi- on the world stage, including hosting the online version Dnomically sustainable; even as ces across each pillar. cators within the study given the city’s 2022 FIFA World Cup, will see continued several environmental issues still need to Doha came in fourth position out of heritage in the oil, gas and petrochemi- investment in transport infrastructure be addressed, according to the 2016 Sus- the eight Middle East cities covered in cals industry, its natural climate, and and in making the city an easier place to of Arabic for tainable Cities Index from Arcadis, the this year’s report and 72nd overall. The the volume of energy that’s required do business, he said, adding the 2030 Na- leading global design and consultancy for city scored relatively well in the people to power the city’s continued develop- tional Vision also includes a sharp focus natural and built assets. and profit categories with major in- ment. This will all improve as the city on improving human development, and The study was compiled for Arcadis vestment in both transport and social matures and within the 2030 Vision we the new education and healthcare facili- media course by the Centre for Economic and Business infrastructure, as part of Qatar’s 2030 also see a clear commitment to offset ties due to come online will off er citizens Research and explores three core pillars National Vision, beginning to pay divi- this environmental impact with invest- an even better quality of life. of sustainability – social (people), envi- dends. ment in areas like green technology and In the Middle East, Dubai was ranked orthwestern University innovative use of technology. ronmental (planet) and economic (profi t) However, Doha fi nished 98th based cleaner energy sources,” according to fi rst (52nd globally), Abu Dhabi second in Qatar (NU-Q) will be “The Arabic for Media course to develop an indicative ranking of 100 of on the environmental indicators, which Jack Overkamp, managing director, Ar- (58th), Kuwait third (70th), Muscat fi fth Noff ering an online version that is now off ered at NU-Q is the world’s leading cities. dragged down the city’s overall sustain- cadis Qatar. (75th), Riyadh sixth (76th), Jeddah sev- of its course on Arabic for Media. designed to examine the linguis- The overall index is informed through ability ranking. The future (of Doha) looks even brighter enth (81st) and Amman eighth (86th). Mounir Ouanaimi, an adjunct tic implications of language used lecturer at NU-Q, has received in Arabic media. In educating fu- a grant from the home campus ture journalists and media lead- to adapt the popular course to an ers in the Arab region, North- online version, targeting Arabic- western recognises that this Cleaning drive speaking media professionals includes reaching out to Arabic and students. media professionals as well. This This course will benefi t any- online course will assist us in one who is interested in lan- reaching out more broadly across guage and media. It is the only the region.” said NU-Q’s Dean Massive Open Online Course Everette E. Dennis. in Arabic in Education City and NU-Q encourages its students will off er faculty and the uni- who will live and work in the re- versity an opportunity to ex- gion to master Arabic to be able periment with modern learning to work professionally in the re- technologies. gion. Since 2010, NU-Q has of- The online version, Arabic fered to Arabic speaking students for Media, Linguistic Choices a similar course that is taught in by Media Professionals – re- the classroom. ceived funding from North- The course, while expected western’s Office of the Provost to help students improve their and Faculty Distance Learning Arabic language profi ciency, re- Workgroup. The goal is to sup- quires an Intermediate High pro- port projects that encourage fi ciency level of Standard Arabic student learning through the or Arabic B1.

Fishing vessel seized

vessel carrying fi ve Indian fi shermen from Bahrain has been seized by the Qatari Coastguard for straying into the country’s Aterritorial waters, sources said. The boat was reportedly captured somewhere near the periphery of the Northern coastguard territory. The fi ve were identifi ed as Suresh, Reagan, Sahayaraj, Sahaya Bineesh and Amal Raj. All except one are said to be natives of Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Cleaning works have been intensified in the country and are continuing round the clock to remove garbage and rubbish promptly, the Ministry of Municipality and Nadu. Environment (MME) has said. In particular, the initiative targets public places where footfall increases during the Eid al-Adha holidays. Gulf Times recently reported The fi shermen have been moved to a jail in Umm Slal Mohamed that fieldwork teams have been formed for the purpose, with special focus on areas such as beaches, the Doha Corniche, parks and gardens. Picture courtesy of municipal limits. They will be produced before a court in Doha on MME Twitter page. September 26. Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 3 REGION/ARAB WORLD

Saudi prince warns Iran Ceasefi re plan at risk as against use of force Aleppo aid plan ‘stalls’ Reuters Reuters Dubai Beirut/Geneva

senior Saudi offi cial, re- ussia and a war monitor sponding to Iranian criti- said the Syrian army had Acism of Riyadh’s man- Rbegun to withdraw from agement of the Haj pilgrimage, a road into Aleppo yesterday, a urged Iran to end what he called prerequisite for pressing ahead wrong attitudes towards Arabs with international peacemak- and warned it against any use of ing eff orts as the government force in its rivalry with the king- and rebels accused each other of dom. violating a truce. Makkah province governor However, insurgent groups Prince Khaled al-Faisal, in re- present in Aleppo said they still marks likely to be seen as a refer- had not seen the army with- ence to Iran, added that the or- drawing from the Castello Road, derly conduct of the pilgrimage needed to allow aid deliveries this year “is a response to all the into the city, and would not pull UN envoy de Mistura gestures during a press briefing following a lies and slanders made against back from their own positions meeting on Syria at the UN Off ices in Geneva. the kingdom”. near the road until they did. The remarks carried by the of- The Pentagon said it could and personnel from the Castello eastern Aleppo has again been fi cial Saudi Press Agency (SPA) not confi rm reports of a with- Road to ensure the unimpeded a combination of very diffi cult on Wednesday evening follow an drawal but US State Department delivery of aid to eastern Alep- and detailed discussions around escalating war of words between spokesman Mark Toner said po,” said Lieutenant General security monitoring and passage Shia Muslim Iran and Sunni that the ceasefi re was holding Vladimir Savchenko, head of the of roadblocks, which is both op- Saudi Arabia since a crush at the “by and large”, adding that both Russian Reconciliation Centre position and government,” he annual Haj pilgrimage a year ago Washington and Moscow be- in Syria in remarks broadcast on said. in which hundreds of pilgrims, lieved it was worth continuing. state television. In other areas, de Mistura was Children play on swings, made from the remnants of exploded rockets in the rebel-held town of Douma, many of them Iranians, died. But there were growing ac- The Observatory said the categorical about blaming the on the eastern edges of the capital Damascus. The United Nations has urged Syria’s government to SPA quoted Prince Khaled as cusations of violations by each army had started to withdraw Syrian government, saying it allow immediate aid deliveries to hunger-stricken civilians after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 telling journalists that his mes- side, with a Syrian military from positions on the road, but had not yet provided the proper hours by Russia and the United States. sage to the Iranian leadership source saying the rebels were re- that Russian troops, whose air permits. was “I pray to God Almighty to sponsible for dozens of breaches force has helped Damascus to The Syrian government has city safely, the second convoy compromising as ever. lamic State and a group formerly guide them and to deter them including gun, rocket and mor- blockade rebel-held Aleppo, had said all aid deliveries must be would then also leave. He vowed again on Monday known as the Nusra Front if all from their transgression and tar fi re in Damascus, Aleppo, replaced it. conducted in co-ordination The two convoys were car- to win back the entire country, goes to plan under the deal. their wrong attitudes toward Hama, Homs and Latakia. An offi cial in an Aleppo-based with it. rying enough food for 80,000 which has been splintered into But Russia said yesterday that their fellow Muslim among the The rebels said Syrian army Syrian rebel group said late yes- France, which backs the oppo- people for a month, he said. areas controlled by the state, an the United States was using “a Arabs in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and jets had struck in Hama and terday that the army had still not sition, became the fi rst US ally to The United States and Rus- array of rebel factions, the Is- verbal smokescreen” to hide its around the world”. Idlib, and used artillery near Da- pulled back. publicly question the deal with sia have backed opposing sides lamic State group, and the Kurd- reluctance to fulfi l its part of the “But if they are preparing an mascus. “There is no withdrawal by the Moscow, urging Washington to in the Syrian war that has killed ish YPG militia. agreement, including separating army to invade us, we are not The Syrian Observatory for regime from the Castello Road,” share details of the agreement hundreds of thousands of peo- Washington hopes the pact what it called moderate opposi- easily taken by someone who Human Rights, a British-based Zakaria Malahifj i, of the Aleppo- and saying that without aid for ple, forced 11mn from their will pave the way to a resump- tion units from terrorist groups. would make war on us.” war monitor, said that while it based rebel group Fastaqim, told Aleppo, it was not credible. homes, and created the world’s tion of political talks. The defence ministry said “When we desire, and with had documented attacks by both Reuters. About 300,000 people are worst refugee crisis since the But a similar agreement un- only government forces were the help of God Almighty, we will sides, relative calm had persisted The UN Syria envoy Staff an thought to be living in eastern World War II. ravelled earlier this year, and this observing the truce and opposi- deter every aggressor and will in most areas and it had not re- de Mistura said that the United Aleppo, while more than 1mn Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city one also faces enormous chal- tion units “controlled by the US” never relent in protecting this corded any civilian deaths for a States and Russia were expected live in the government-control- before the war, has been a focal lenges. had stepped up shelling of civil- holy land and our dear country. third consecutive day. to manage the disengagement led western half of the city. point of the confl ict this year. Russia’s deputy foreign min- ian residential areas. No one can defi le any part from Control of the Castello Road of forces from the road, but also Two convoys of aid for Aleppo Government forces backed ister Gannady Gatilov said talks Rebels say Damascus has car- our country if any one of us re- is divided between the govern- criticised Damascus for failing to have been waiting in no-man’s by militias from Iran, Iraq, and could resume at the end of Sep- ried out numerous violations. mains on the face of the earth.” ment and rebels who have been provide permits needed to make land to proceed to Aleppo after Lebanon have recently achieved tember, but this was quickly re- While the general lines of the No top Iranian leader has battling to topple President aid deliveries to other areas. crossing the Turkish border. their long-held objective of en- jected by George Sabra, an op- agreement have been made pub- called for war with Saudi Ara- Bashar al-Assad for more than The UN humanitarian adviser If a green light was given, a circling the rebel-held east. position negotiator, who said lic, other parts have yet to be re- bia, something neither country fi ve years. Jan Egeland said both the rebels spokesman for the UN Offi ce for Russia’s intervention a year conditions on the ground were vealed, raising concerns among wants. It has been a major frontline in and the government were re- the Co-ordination of Humani- ago in support of Assad has not yet good enough. US But last year’s Haj disaster, the war. sponsible for delaying aid deliv- tarian Aff airs (OCHA) said the given it critical leverage over the The United States and Rus- allies such as France, which and the execution in January of “The Syrian army ... began the eries into Aleppo. fi rst 20 trucks would move to diplomatic process. sia are due to start coordinat- is part of the coalition attacking dissident Saudi Shia cleric Nimr staged withdrawal of vehicles “The reason we’re not in Aleppo and if they reached the Its ally, Assad, appears as un- ing military strikes against Is- Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. al-Nimr, triggered months of scathing Iranian criticism of the kingdom. Riyadh broke off relations with Tehran after its embassy there was attacked by Iranians protesting against Nimr’s death. UN chief slams Netanyahu Iran’s powerful Revolution- ary Guards promised “harsh re- venge” for Nimr’s death. Iran blamed the 2015 Haj dis- aster on Saudi incompetence and for ethnic cleansing remark Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on September 5 said some of the Iranians who died AFP Ban told the Security Council 463 housing units in four settle- had been “murdered” by Saudi United Nations during a meeting on the Israeli- ments of the West Bank. Arabia. Palestinian confl ict. “This is un- Ban quoted Israeli data as He said Muslims should not acceptable and outrageous.” showing that since April, there let Saudi rulers escape respon- N Secretary General Ban Ban asserted that Israel’s pol- had been the highest number Ban: I am disturbed by a recent statement by Israel’s prime minister sibility for “crimes” that he said Ki-moon took a swipe icy of building housing on land of construction starts in three portraying those who oppose settlement expansion as supporters they had committed in Arab Uyesterday at Israeli Prime earmarked for a future Palestin- years, confi rming the Israeli push of ethnic cleansing. confl icts. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ian state was illegal and called for on settlements. saying that it was “unacceptable an end to Israeli rule over Pales- Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Minister Avigdor Lieberman had New Zealand’s Foreign Minis- and outrageous” to claim that tinian territories. Danny Danon, hit back at Ban, ordered ministry employees and ter Murray McCully, who holds 40 dead in clashes opposition to settlements was “Let me be absolutely clear: saying that he should direct his military offi cials to boycott UN the council presidency this tantamount to ethnic cleansing. settlements are illegal under in- criticism at the Palestinians. envoy Nickolay Mladenov over month, said that Lieberman’s around key Yemen Netanyahu has accused the ternational law. The occupation, “Instead of directly condemn- his criticism of Israel’s settle- decision was “deeply counter- city, says military Palestinians of seeking a state stifl ing and oppressive, must ing Hamas and its building of ment policies. productive” and that Mladenov with “no Jews” and declared in a end,” he said. terror tunnels, and instead of Mladenov last month told the was “doing the job we all asked Forty people were killed in video released last week that this More than half a million Israe- investing time and resources in council that Israel had launched him to do”. fighting between Shia Houthi could be described as “ethnic lis have settled in Palestinian ter- ensuring that the Palestinians a “surge” in settlement activity, The United Nations has been rebels and pro-government cleansing.” ritories under a policy that Ban end their incitement, the secre- ignoring the recommendations struggling to fi nd a way to re- forces around southwest Yemen’s “I am disturbed by a recent said was “diametrically opposed tary general chooses to condemn of the diplomatic quartet that start the Israeli-Palestinian main city of Taez, military sources Netanyahu: had claimed statement by Israel’s prime min- to the creation of a Palestinian Israel on a regular basis,” he said called for a halt to settlements. peace process, which has been said yesterday. that opposition to ister portraying those who op- state”. in a statement. The quartet is comprised of comatose since a US-led diplo- Colonel Sadeq al-Hassani, settlements was tantamount pose settlement expansion as Over the past two weeks, Israel The council meeting was held the US, Russia, the European Un- matic eff ort collapsed in April spokesman for the loyalist forces, to ethnic cleansing. supporters of ethnic cleansing,” has advanced plans for another amid reports that Israeli Defence ion and the United Nations. 2014. told AFP that 27 Houthis and 13 pro-government fighters were killed as a rebel off ensive aimed Ehud Barak calls premier ‘reckless’ at reimposing a siege of the city was repelled on Wednesday. A former Israeli prime minister said yesterday that incumbent Premier Also on Wednesday, five Houthis Arab Israeli MP sparks controversy Benjamin Netanyahu eroded national security and the size of US and allied rebels were killed when defence aid by “irresponsible” handling of relations with Washington. loyalists backed by Saudi-led “Netanyahu’s reckless conduct has ... undermined Israel’s security,” Arab coalition air strikes and AFP Peres, he wrote in Arabic, toric visit to Jerusalem, leading at Qana village, in Lebanon, Ehud Barak wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. artillery fought off a rebel assault Jerusalem was one of the “strongest pil- to the fi rst Arab-Israeli peace killing 105 in what a UN report “Israel will receive $38bn a year – an important contribution to our in the nearby Kahbub area, pro- lars of the Zionist colonial- treaty. ruled was a deliberate attack. security but far less than what could have been obtained before the government off icials said. ist settlement project and one “Our blood covers him from Another Arab MP, of the Ar- prime minister chose to blatantly interfere with US politics.” AFP could not independently n Arab Israeli lawmaker of the most despicable, cruel, head to toe,” wrote Ghattas, a ab-Jewish leftist Meretz party, The US on Wednesday promised Israel $38bn between 2019 and 2028 verify the tolls and the rebels has caused an uproar radical and long-living”. member of the Joint List Arab took Ghattas to task for his to buy advanced planes and weaponry and boost its missile defence rarely acknowledge their losses. Aafter describing ailing Arab Israelis – who represent coalition. “Let us ... remember comments. shield, the biggest pledge of military aid in US history. The Kahbub fighting centred on Nobel peace laureate Shimon about 17.5% of Israel’s popula- his real essence as a tyrant and “The majority of Arab soci- Barak and other critics say that an even more generous deal could a mountainous area overlooking Peres as covered “head to toe” tion – are the descendants of a direct administrator of the ety thinks otherwise,” Issawi have been achieved if Netanyahu had not campaigned so publicly the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait in Palestinian blood. Palestinians who remained on crimes and war crimes carried Freij told the Ynet news site. and vociferously against a nuclear agreement with Iran backed by US at the entrance to the Red Sea. Former Israeli president and their land after the creation of out against our rights.” “Ghattas won the support of a President Barack Obama. The area is guarded by forces prime minister Peres, 93, re- Israel in 1948. Peres won the Nobel Peace minority.” Frosty relations between the two leaders went into a deep chill last year, from the coalition, which mained in serious condition Although they are citizens Prize in 1994 along with “The things he said have no after Netanyahu appeared before the US Congress to lobby against the intervened in Yemen in March yesterday, according to his of the Jewish state they largely Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Ara- place in society and should be Iran deal. 2015 to support President doctor, after suff ering a major identify as Palestinians. fat for his role in negotiating condemned,” Freij said. “These The White House viewed the appearance as unprecedented Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s stroke two days earlier. Peres, who became director the Oslo accords. things seriously hurt the Arab interference by a foreign leader. government after rebels seized As messages of concern and general of the defence ministry But he was also an early population of the country.” “Expressing our opposition to the Iran nuclear deal was certainly the capital Sanaa. wishes for his recovery fl owed at just 29 years old, once hawk- backer of Israeli settlement in Yariv Levin, of the govern- legitimate,” Barak wrote. “But instead of holding a candid dialogue Yemen’s conflict has since killed from public leaders at home ishly rejected any compromise the West Bank after its occupa- ing right-wing Likud party and behind closed doors with President Obama, Netanyahu went behind his more than 6,600 people, most and abroad, MP Basel Ghat- with hostile Arab states. tion in the 1967 Six Day War. who serves as tourist minister, back.” of them civilians, and displaced tas posted on his Facebook an He said he became a dove af- He was Israel’s foreign min- went further, calling Ghattas Barak served as the Labour party’s prime minister between 1999 at least three million others, attack on Peres’s record in the ter 1977, when Egyptian presi- ister in 1996 when the Jewish “a provocateur of the worst and 2001 then as defence minister from 2009 to 2013 in a coalition according to the United Nations. confl ict with the Palestinians. dent Anwar Sadat made a his- state shelled a UN compound kind”. government under Netanyahu. Gulf Times 4 Friday, September 16, 2016 AFRICA Kenya’s refugee scheme ‘fl outs global standards’ Kenyatta: We all must come AFP/Reuters watchdog said after a visit to the not giving Somali refugees a Community leaders told HRW retary for Kenya’s interior min- moved from the country by the together and contribute to Nairobi camp last month that many So- real choice between staying and that a government offi cial in- istry, told the Thomson Reuters end of the year. create enough impetus against malis return home involuntarily, leaving, and the United Nations timidated them at a meeting in Foundation. “We are trying to Just 24,000 refugees have HIV, tuberculosis and malaria only to face danger, persecution refugee agency isn’t giving peo- July. restore sanity in matters of refu- taken up the off er of voluntary and other health concerns that he repatriation of Somali and hunger. ple accurate information about “When I tried to tell the (of- gee aff airs. We are a sovereign return since the programme be- continue to devastate our refugees from Kenya’s “Many refugees ... say they security conditions in Somalia,” fi cial) that people can’t go back, country that is trying to address gan in December 2014, of whom people. TDadaab, the world’s larg- have agreed to return home be- said HRW’s refugee rights direc- that it is not as safe as he sug- a security concern and we are as 18,000 returned this year, in- est refugee camp, breaks in- cause they fear Kenya will force tor Bill Frelick in a statement. gests, he pointed his fi nger at me humane as possible.” cluding 10,000 after the an- ternational standards as many them out if they stay,” said HRW “There is no way these returns and told me to sit down,” HRW Since sending troops into nouncement of the camp’s clo- returns are motivated by fear, a after interviewing around 100 can be considered voluntary,” he quoted one elder as saying. “He neighbouring Somalia om 2011, sure. Human Rights Watch (HRW) re- refugees at the camp. added. told me to pick up a gun and de- Kenya has come under repeated The vast majority of resi- Kenyatta port said yesterday. Refugees spoke of intimida- This violated the 1951 interna- fend my country ... after that attack from Shebaab, East Af- dents of the sprawling Dadaab Kenya wants to close Dadaab tion by the Kenyan government, tional Refugee Convention, the meeting, people began to really rica’s long-time branch of Al complex of camps close to the in northeast Kenya by Novem- lack of information on ways of report said. worry that we would be put into Qaeda, Islamic State’s rivals. Kenya-Somalia border fl ed So- urges ber, insisting that the camp is remaining or on conditions in Kenya’s repatriation pro- lorries come November.” Nairobi has taken a hardline malia’s more than two-decade- a security threat and a drain on Somalia, and fears of losing a gramme, “fuelled by fear and Kenya has rejected the allega- position, claiming that Dadaab long confl ict. national resources. $400 repatriation cash grant if misinformation, does not meet tions by HRW. acts as a terrorist training ground Many remain fearful of re- Africans It currently houses some they wind up being deported at international standards for vol- “Our timeline is November for Shebaab militants, and has turning to a country where in- 266,000 Somali refugees. the end of the year. untary refugee return”, the rights 30th for closure of the camp,” publicly and repeatedly said all security remains rife and life is However, the human rights “The Kenyan authorities are group said. Karanja Kibicho, principal sec- the Somali refugees would be re- tough. to invest in beating Zimbabwe to print substitute killer US dollars as cash runs out diseases Reuters AFP “The bond notes will start to that the introduction of bond London Harare circulate by the end of October notes does not mark the return and will be at par with the US of the Zimbabwe dollar through dollar,” Reserve Bank of Zimba- the back door,” he said. enyan President Uhuru imbabwe has announced bwe governor John Mangudya The new notes will be printed Kenyatta said yesterday that it will introduce next said in Harare. “We anticipate by in Germany and backed by a Kthat ending diseases like Zmonth “bond notes” the end of the year Z$75mn will $200mn support facility pro- Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in equivalent to the US dollar, be in the market.” vided by Afreximbank (Africa Africa was within reach if coun- sparking fears of a return to the The cash shortage has forced Export-Import Bank), the gov- tries spent more on healthcare hyperinfl ation that wrecked the the ZANU-PF government ernment has said. which would ensure their people economy several years ago. to delay paying salaries each Further anti-Mugabe demon- stayed healthy, and boost their The country, led by authori- month to civil servants and the strations are planned tomorrow, economies. tarian President Robert Mugabe, military. despite a police ban on rallies in In an exclusive blog for the adopted the US dollar and South With the government again Harare. Thomson Reuters Foundation, African rand in 2009 after infl a- printing its own money, many The president, 92, has of- Kenyatta credited international tion – which peaked at 231mn Zimbabweans fear a repeat of ten used brutal force to silence donors for helping Africa to per cent – rendered the local the excessive printing that led to his opponents, and he recent- make “tremendous gains” in dollar worthless. hyperinfl ation. ly warned the protesters that fi ghting these diseases, which in But Zimbabwe has run out “It will immediately destroy they were “playing a dangerous People queue yesterday to the 1990s killed millions of peo- of US dollar notes in recent trust. The trust is not there and game”. withdraw cash from a local ple on the continent every year. months, and hopes to ease the the value of the bond note will The Tajamuka protest group bank in Harare. But more investment from Af- cash crunch by printing its own not be sustained,” Harare-based said on Wednesday that one rican governments was needed, “bond notes” that will be valued economic analyst John Rob- of its activists, actor Sylvanos Group, told a briefi ng in Johan- he said. in denominations of Z$2, Z$5, ertson told AFP. “There is no Mudzvova, was being treated in nesburg this week. “I don’t think “We are at a point where we Z$10 and Z$20. money because there is no new hospital after being abducted, (Mugabe) has faced this kind of can defeat these diseases and end The plan immediately at- investment. beaten up by assailants and fi - pressure before. The state of the them as public health threats,” tracted criticism, with analysts “There is no investment be- nally abandoned outside the party has never been so frac- Kenyatta wrote. “To achieve saying that the token currency cause there is no trust – and you city. tured and the state of the econ- that, we must invest more. We would not hold its US dollar can’t fi x that by printing more Mugabe, who looks frail but omy – some are arguing that it must commit ourselves more.” value and would be seen as a notes.” still gives long speeches in pub- is worse now than it was at the In the last decade, HIV-relat- new version of the valueless lo- Zimbabwe once removed 12 lic, has vowed to stand for re- height of hyperinfl ation.” ed deaths in Africa have halved cal dollar. zeros from its battered currency election in 2018, while his wife Last week, the government to 790,000 in 2014, while malar- A wave of protests has shak- at the height of hyperinfl ation in Grace, 51, is seen as one of his revealed that nearly 97% of its ia deaths fell 54% between 2000 en Mugabe’s regime this year, 2009 when the largest note was possible successors. revenue goes to paying public and 2013, according to the World with “No to bond notes” among the Z$100tn denomination. “It is clear Mugabe’s capaci- workers’ salaries. Health Organisation (WHO). the regular slogans expressing Mangudya denied the new ties have diminished signifi - Bond coins valued in US cents But these diseases remain a grievances against the govern- bond notes would be rejected by cantly, his ability to hold things were introduced in Zimbabwe threat with malaria alone killing ment amid a worsening eco- many Zimbabweans. together is doubtful,” Piers Pig- in 2014 to tackle the problem of an estimated 437,000 African nomic crisis. “It is critical to emphasise ou, of the International Crisis small change. The Z$100,000,000,000,000 note. children before their fi fth birth- day in 2013, the WHO says. Through its partnership with the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which was set up in 2002 to raise money Police fi nd note suggesting IS link to attack in Mombasa to tackle these epidemics, Kenya has been able to save 300,000 lives, Kenyatta said. Reuters named as he was not authorised women, with their weapons The government denies any Kenya has pledged $5mn to the Mombasa to speak publicly about the on- concealed under fl owing robes such killings and says it is simply Global Fund for its next funding going investigation. worn by some Muslims, tricked fi ghting terrorism. cycle, he added. In the note, written on the their way into the police station, Kenyan security forces de- The Global Fund, a public- hree women who were lined page of an exercise book, stabbed an offi cer and threw a tained Haniya Said Saagar, a private partnership, is seeking killed when they attacked the women called themselves petrol bomb. widow of a slain Muslim cleric, $13bn from international donors Ta Kenyan police station Umm Maysarah, Umm Ma’bad Police also found an unex- late on Wednesday as part of the for its 2017 to 2019 funding cycle last week had pledged allegiance and Umm Sa’ad, which the offi c- ploded suicide vest. investigation into the Mombasa at a conference due to begin to- to Islamic State (IS), accord- ers said was believed to be their This appeared to be the fi rst attack, Evans Achoki, Mombasa day in Montreal, Canada. ing to a handwritten note police aliases. claim of an attack by IS in Kenya, county commissioner, told Reu- If Kenya and other develop- believe they penned before the The offi cer said the note was although police said in May that ters. ing countries are to meet the UN assault, an offi cer said yesterday. found in the house they stayed they had detained people linked Saagar’s husband, Sheikh Sustainable Development Goal Kenya has faced a spate of Is- in. to Islamic State. Aboud Rogo, was a fi ery preach- to end these epidemics by 2030, lamist militant attacks in recent “Know that Islamic State sol- Kenya’s authorities have been er who was killed by unknown they need to strengthen their years, usually claimed by the diers are everywhere,” the note cracking down on people they gunmen in 2012. health systems, experts say. Somali group Shebaab, but Sun- said. “O fi lthy Kenyan govern- accuse of promoting militant Supporters said police ex- “We all must come together day’s assault on a police station ment, don’t think we’ve forgot- ideas or planning and carrying ecuted him, which offi cials de- and contribute to create enough in the port city of Mombasa by Haniya Said Saagar sits in the dock in court yesterday after she was ten how you mercilessly killed out attacks, particularly in the nied. impetus against HIV, tuber- the three women was claimed by arrested over the foiled attack on the Central police station in the our brothers ... we promise to coastal region where many Ken- Shebaab has said it targets culosis and malaria and other Islamic State. coastal city of Mombasa. make your women widows and yans live in the majority Chris- Kenya for sending its troops into health concerns that continue to Islamic State has seized terri- your children orphans.” tian African nation. Somalia as part of an African devastate our people,” Kenyatta tory in Syria and Iraq, inspiring a long way from Islamic State’s the caliph of the Muslims, the Amaq news agency, affi liated Muslim activists and rights force to battle the Islamist in- wrote. off shoot groups in the Middle heartland, may only be sym- Amir of the Believers, Abu Bakr to Islamic State, said on Tues- groups have accused the govern- surgents. In Kenya, 37% of healthcare East and Africa. pathisers rather than have the al Baghdadi,” according to the day that “supporters” of Islamic ment of heavy-handed tactics It often says it will continue is funded by patients, 35% by Experts say those accused of group’s active backing. handwritten shown to Reuters State carried out the Mom- and say extra-judicial killings attacks until the Kenyan “cru- donors and 28% by the govern- links to the group, but who live “We pledged allegiance to by an offi cer, who asked not to be basa attack, in which the three have spurred on radicals. saders” leave. ment, the government says.

Bid to extend Pistorius prison sentence

Prosecutors in South Africa said yesterday that they would launch Family of three killed in grenade attack in Burundi crisis a new legal push for a tougher sentence for Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, who was jailed for six years for murdering his girlfriend. The National Prosecution Authority said it will file papers today to seek Reuters perts fear the violence could Local residents said it may people carried out the attack on peace deal that ended a previous permission to appeal against the term handed down by a High Court in Bujumbura revive ethnic rivalries in a na- have been staged because of Ba- Wednesday afternoon. civil war. July. tion torn apart by a 12-year civil shirahishize’s links to the gov- Sporadic violence has gripped A constitutional court ruled “I have been advised by the prosecutors that they are filing their papers war pitting Hutu rebels against a ernment. Burundi since April 2015 when he could run. tomorrow petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal for leave to appeal,” former army offi cer and Tutsi-led army that only ended “It was believed he was re- incumbent President Pierre At least three rebel groups NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku told AFP. his family were killed in in 2005. vealing names of political op- Nkurunziza said he would seek though have launched an armed He did not give details of the grounds for the appeal. Aa grenade attack on their Dismas Bashirahishize, a pro- ponents to the police and ad- a third term, prompting pro- resistance against him and tit- Prosecutor Gerrie Nel last month argued in court that the six-year home in Burundi, a government government former offi cer, and ministration to be arrested and tests and leading to often deadly for-tat killings of government sentence – less than half the minimum 15-year sentence for murder in offi cial said yesterday, the latest his wife and child were killed tortured,” said one resident, who clashes with police. offi cials and opposition fi gures South Africa – was “shockingly lenient”. episode in political violence that when a grenade was hurled into asked not to be named. He then won a disputed elec- have continued unabated. The prosecution is directly petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal has plagued the central African their house on Wednesday, the There was no immediate of- tion in July. At least 450 people have been following last month’s rejection by the High Court of their application country for more than a year. governor of Bururi province in fi cial comment on the reason for Opponents said a third term killed, while the violence has for permission to appeal. Burundi’s crisis has broadly the south of Burundi, Christian the attack. breached the country’s consti- also uprooted about a quarter of Pistorius, 29, shot Reeva Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, in the followed political lines, but ex- Nkurunziza, told Reuters. The governor said two armed tution and the terms of a 2005 a million Burundians. early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013. Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 5 AMERICAS

Powell critical of Trump, Clinton back on campaign Clinton

DPA Washington trail after taking time off

Reuters that running against a candidate boro, North Carolina, will focus Her strong lead over Trump he e-mail account of White Plains, New York as controversial as Donald Trump on how she plans to make sure in most opinion polls after the former US secretary of means it is harder to be heard on “every child has the chance to party-nominating conventions Tstate Colin Powell has what you aspire for the country’s live up to their God-given poten- in July narrowed throughout Au- been hacked, revealing his criti- illary Clinton is resuming future, and it is incumbent on us tial”, Palmieri said. gust. cal views of the two US presi- campaigning after pneu- to work harder,” Palmieri said in a The former secretary of state, A New York Times/CBS News dential candidates. Hmonia forced her to take statement. US senator from New York and poll released yesterday showed Powell, who served as the top time off , and a top aide said the Trump’s campaign said the fi rst lady will deliver speeches in Clinton had the support of 46% US diplomat from 2001-05, had Democratic candidate’s presi- results of his physical showed the coming days on the economy of likely voters nationwide, with negative things to say about dential campaign would have to the 70-year-old fast-food fan and national service, her cam- 44% backing Trump. Hillary Clinton but he was even work harder because a candidate has normal cholesterol with the paign said. States such as Ohio and Flor- harsher in his assessment of fel- as controversial as Republican help of a statin drug, weighs 236 Last week, she discussed her ida, which do not lean heavily low Republican Donald Trump. Donald Trump makes it “harder pounds (107kg) and has normal religious faith in Kansas City, Democratic or Republican, are no Powell, a retired four-star to be heard”. blood pressure. Missouri. longer considered likely wins for general and respected elder In the fi nal stretch before the In a not-so-subtle slap at In a move to jump-start mo- Clinton, according to the Reu- statesman, called the billionaire November 8 election, Clinton Clinton, the Trump campaign mentum, Clinton’s campaign ters/Ipsos States of the Nation real estate mogul “a national was slated to attend a rally in said that the medical report announced yesterday that US project released on Saturday. disgrace and an international North Carolina and speak at a showed Trump “has the stamina Senators Elizabeth Warren of Trump backers on Capitol Hill pariah”. dinner in Washington. to endure – uninterrupted – the Massachusetts and Bernie Sand- said they were heartened by the He said the “birther” move- The 68-year-old had rested rigours of a punishing and un- ers of Vermont will campaign tightening race after a call yester- ment Trump led question- at her home in Chappaqua, New precedented presidential cam- for her tomorrow in the battle- day morning with Trump’s cam- ing whether President Barack York, for three days after being paign and, more importantly, ground state of Ohio. paign manager, Kellyanne Con- Obama’s was born in the United diagnosed with pneumonia and the singularly demanding job of Warren is a progressive leader way, who mapped out what the States was “racist”. falling ill at a September 11 me- president of the United States”. within the Democratic Party, and campaign was doing and prom- But he also sharply criticised morial ceremony on Sunday. Clinton’s health scare forced Sanders waged a hard-fought ised a more policy-driven ap- Clinton for the way she has han- With the candidates’ health her to cancel a two-day swing primary race against Clinton. proach in the race’s fi nal stretch. dled her e-mail, saying “every- in the spotlight, Trump, 70, re- through California this week and At events aimed at younger “The poll numbers are just thing [she] touches she kind of leased yesterday details of a re- send her husband, former presi- voters, both will discuss Clin- looking phenomenal as you move screws up with hubris”. cent physical examination, a day dent Bill Clinton, to a Las Vegas ton’s plan to reduce college tui- away from registered voters to Clinton made the scandal over after Clinton released details on campaign rally in her stead. tion costs. likely voters,” US Representative her private e-mail server worse her medical condition. It also interrupted a series Clinton’s pneumonia diag- Blake Farenthold of Texas said. by not apologising immediately, Top aide Jennifer Palmieri said of speeches in which she had nosis came at inopportune time On Wednesday, Clinton re- said Powell. “one upside” of Clinton’s un- planned to refocus her campaign for the candidate, who spent leased a letter from her physi- She “could have killed this planned break was the chance on what she would do for the the bulk of August fundrais- cian, Dr Lisa Bardack, to dispel two years ago by merely telling to “sharpen the fi nal argument country after a period when she ing in wealthy US enclaves such rumours about her health. everyone honestly what she had Former president Clinton speaking at an event on Wednesday for Clinton will present to voters in attacked Trump as a dangerous, as the Hamptons and Martha’s The letter detailed her pneu- done”, he wrote. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a College of these closing weeks”. unprepared candidate. Vineyard, with only intermittent monia diagnosis and declared her He also said he had repeatedly Southern Nevada campus in North Las Vegas, Nevada. “Our campaign readily admits Clinton’s speech in Greens- campaign events. fi t for the presidency. told Clinton’s aides that they were making a mistake trying to drag him in. Clinton’s campaign had im- plicated Powell by saying he had a similar set up. Trump’s doctor declares him But Powell never set up a pri- vate server. He kept his personal account separate on a server maintained by an Internet service provider in ‘excellent physical health’ and used a government compu- ter for classifi ed communica- tions. AFP more medical information since thyroid functions are “all within premature cardiac or neoplas- A spokesman for Powell con- Washington Clinton fell ill during a 9/11 cer- the normal range”, his longtime tic disease, which includes all fi rmed to the Washington Post emony in New York on Sunday doctor Harold Bornstein wrote kinds of cancers and abnormal and other media outlets that the and was forced to leave. in a one-page letter that also growths. e-mails were authentic. onald Trump released lab While Clinton released a new lists Trump’s cholesterol, trig- He noted that Trump had Trump with Dr Oz on The Dr Oz Show, detailing the results of his The leaked e-mails were Pow- results yesterday from a health bulletin on Wednesday lycerides, blood sugar and blood been hospitalised only once, for most recent physical examination. ell’s correspondences with re- Drecent medical examina- night, the media-savvy Trump pressure results. an appendectomy when he was porters and friends. tion, with his personal physi- teased the results of his recent “He takes a lipid lowering 11 years old, and that his parents Laboratory results show cho- Protein UQ 0.7. Trump’s testo- They were published at the cian stating that the Republican physical during the taping of a agent (rosuvastatin) and a low lived into their late 80s and 90s. lesterol well in the normal range sterone level is 441.6, also with- website DCLeaks.com and fi rst presidential candidate “is in ex- medical chat show, a day before dose aspirin. He does not use The doctor said results from (169 with HDL cholesterol at 63, in the normal range. reported by the website Buzz- cellent physical health”. releasing the details to the press. tobacco products or alcohol,” he an electrocardiogram and chest LDL at 94). Until now Trump had released feed. Both Trump and his Demo- The 70-year-old Trump, who added. X-ray on April 16 were normal. Other results: triglycerides 61, only four, gushing paragraphs on In an e-mail dated July crat rival Hillary Clinton have is 6’ 3” (1.90m) tall, weighs 236 Bornstein said there was no A colonoscopy on July 11 re- PSA 0.15, blood pressure 116/70, his health, written by his doctor 26, 2014, Powell revealed his been under pressure to share pounds (107kg) and his liver and history in Trump’s family of vealed no polyps. blood sugar 99, and C Reactive Bornstein in December 2015. thoughts about Clinton’s candi- dacy: “I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect.” He then describes her as a “person with a long track record, Sex reassignment thriller causes Head of unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a hus- band still d**king bimbos at waves at Toronto fi lm festival missing home (according to the New York Post)”. Reuters community, who said the med- think the transgender situation students Toronto ical procedure should not be has been more in the headlines used as a sensationalistic plot the last couple of years,” he device. said in a red carpet interview. case quits he director and star of a It was also called transphobic “I don’t know. I’m a storyteller, fi lm about a hitman who and exploitative by Twitter us- it’s a crime story, it’s a noir vi- Tis put through gender ers. sion, it’s comic book in a way AFP reassignment surgery by a rela- The fi lm’s challenges have and quite a few women have Mexico City tive of one of his victims de- not stopped there. said to me that after seeing the fended the project as it had its Some early reviews have movie, they feel empowered by world premiere at the Toronto been very negative, with the it.” exico’s head of crimi- International Film Festival on Guardian newspaper calling it Rodriguez, who starred in Actress Michelle Rodriguez takes a selfie with a fan at the nal investigation, who Wednesday. “a strong contender for 2016’s the Fast and the Furious fi lm se- premiere of the film (re)Assignment at the Toronto International Mhas faced a probe into (re)Assignment stars Michelle worst movie”. ries, took issue with criticism, Film Festival. his handling of the investigation Rodriguez as an assassin named Director Walter Hill, who asking: “Are they mad that of the disappearance of 43 stu- Frank Kitchen. made action classics 48 Hours somebody decided to take their the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and anybody in the LGBT commu- dents, resigned on Wednesday After killing the brother of a and The Warriors, noted at the branded transgender operation transgender (LGBT) commu- nity because I’m a part of it,” but was given another govern- brilliant but deranged surgeon, premiere that other fi lmmakers and use it on heterosexual peo- nity. she said. ment job. Kitchen is captured and awakes had dealt with “altering biolog- ple?” “I’m bisexual. I do guys. I Sigourney Weaver, who plays Attorney General Arely to fi nd himself unwillingly ical organs”. She also noted the fi lm was do girls. You can’t really argue the deranged doctor, said “cer- Gomez accepted the resignation Powell: had negative things to turned into a woman. “I don’t know why this one a “B-movie noir genre comic with me because I’m you. So if I tainly no-one is demeaned or of Tomas Zeron as director of the say about Clinton but he was The premise drew criticism stirred up such interest in a way book take on something” and do a movie, I’d never do a movie denigrated”, adding: “It’s not a Criminal Investigations Agency, even harsher about Trump. from some in the transgender that those didn’t except that I that she herself was part of with the intention of off ending Disney movie. It is noir.” the federal prosecutor’s offi ce said in a statement. The move comes two weeks before the second anniversary of the 2014 tragedy, which has caused international outrage Colombia’s Farc rebel leaders set to ratify peace deal while President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration has faced criticism at home for failing to AFP 17 to 23 in an area called El Ca- near the town of San Vicente del by the rank-and-fi le, will de- port in the presence of around Farc posted on Twitter. resolve the case. Bogota guan, the Marxist group’s Swit- Caguan, Jimenez underscored cide on whether to approve the 900 people, including 50 guests Ariel Avila of the Peace and Gomez “recognised the ef- zerland-sized stronghold during the event’s importance. agreement to end a confl ict that and some 350 journalists from Reconciliation Foundation said forts” of Zeron as head of the the continent’s oldest rebellion, “Everything we are now doing drew in other leftist guerrillas, around the world. ratifi cation should proceed agency and “wished him success olombia’s Farc rebels are which began as a peasant upris- will help us achieve our goals,” extreme right-wing paramilitary This “last conference of our smoothly. in his personal and professional set to vote on a historic ing in 1964 and still boasts 7,500 he said, stepping off a helicop- groups and criminal gangs, leav- armed organisation will ratify “Nearly 90% of the Farc al- projects”, the statement said. Cpeace agreement with the armed fi ghters. ter provided by the International ing 260,000 dead, 45,000 miss- the peace accords and endorse ready accepts the agreements,” Pena Nieto later named Zeron government to end more than a “It will be a democratic event Committee of the Red Cross, ing and some 6.9mn displaced. the Farc’s transformation into a he said. “That basically means as “technical secretary” of the half-century of confl ict before that will show the route to fol- according to the guerrilla media Arriving in El Caguan, guer- legal political movement”, Alape 10% must be convinced during National Public Security Coun- giving up their armed struggle in low,” tweeted Farc leader Timo- outlet Noticias Nueva Colom- rilla commander Pastor Alape said, announcing the conference the conference.” cil, in a government statement favour of politics. leon “Timochenko” Jimenez. bia. said that “at the other (confer- shortly after the negotiations The peace agreement must saying it was a “recognition of Guerrillas of the Revolution- He agreed to the peace deal If the conference approves the ences), we talked about war produced the deal in a 297-page still be approved by Colombian his actions” and experience in ary Armed Forces of Colombia with the government on Au- peace deal, the Farc leader will plans, and at this one, processes document covering the rebels’ voters in a referendum on Octo- previous jobs. (Farc) are converging on a camp gust 24 after nearly four years sign the agreement with centre- and initiatives toward peace, to- demobilisation, a transitional ber 2 – a step Santos insisted on Parents of the missing stu- in southern Colombia for their of negotiations that took place right President Juan Manuel ward strengthening democracy justice system and reparations to ensure the full legitimacy of dents had called for his resig- 10th national conference, the in Cuba after three previous at- Santos on September 26 in the in Colombia”. for victims, among other topics. the process. nation over his conduct in the fi rst time they will discuss peace tempts were aborted in 1984, Caribbean port of Cartagena. The conference is set to mark The conference is set to take Recent opinion polls put the investigation into the disappear- instead of fi ghting during such 1991 and 1999. Some 200 Farc delegates, in- another fi rst: Farc leaders will place in a brick building the “Yes” vote ahead by some 40 ance of the 43 trainee teachers an event. Arriving from Cuba at the cluding 29 members of the gen- be meeting not in secret, but guerrillas constructed amid tall percentage points. in the southern city of Iguala on It is scheduled for September conference site in the Yari plains eral staff and delegates elected with the authorities’ full sup- grass, according to a video the September 26, 2014. Gulf Times 6 Friday, September 16, 2016 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA Tourists die in Bali boat blast AFP eigner, whose nationality was The speedboat, which was at the scene, the explosion came Denpasar, Indonesia still being verifi ed. carrying some 30 foreign tour- from the fuel tank,” he said. Two German citizens were in- ists and four crew, had just left “Above it was a battery, maybe jured while nationals from Brit- Padang Bai port in Bali yesterday there was a short circuit that af- n explosion on a speed- ain, France, Italy, Portugal, Ire- morning en route to the holiday fected the fuel tank.” boat in Bali left two for- land and Spain were also among island of Gili Trawangan when The British embassy in Jakarta Aeigners dead and 18 other the passengers. the blast occurred. said it was providing assistance tourists injured yesterday, spark- It appeared to be an accident “The explosion happened fi ve to British nationals aff ected by ing dramatic scenes as rescu- with the explosion occurring in minutes after the boat departed,” the explosion. ers rushed to haul stunned and the fuel tank. local police chief Sugeng Sudarso The Indonesian archipelago of A police forensic team examines the ferry boat following an explosion onboard. bloodied holidaymakers off the The bomb squad was initially told AFP, adding the vessel had more than 17,000 islands is heav- vessel. deployed to the scene on an is- been about 200m from the port. ily dependent on ferry services the ferry, which was carrying 129 In January, a gun and suicide lowing the Bali bombings had Dazed passengers, many cov- land that has suff ered bloody One woman died from head but the industry has a poor safety passengers, most of them tour- bomb attack claimed by IS in the weakened the most dangerous ered in cuts and bruises, were Islamist militant attacks in the injuries soon after the blast while record. ists. capital Jakarta left four attackers networks but IS has proved a taken to medical centres on the past, but authorities quickly the Austrian woman died later in Last year, dozens of tourists However fears have also been and four civilians dead. potent new rallying cry for the Indonesian holiday island af- ruled out an attack. hospital, he said. were injured when small explo- growing in Indonesia that radi- Bali has been attacked by Is- country’s extremists. ter the blast, with TV footage Indonesia has a poor mari- Sudarso said he believed a sions hit a ferry crossing between cals who have headed to fi ght lamic radicals before. A pocket of Hinduism in Mus- showing them being carried on time safety record and regularly malfunctioning battery near the Bali and the neighbouring holi- with the Islamic State group in In 2002, more than 200 peo- lim-majority Indonesia, Bali stretchers to ambulances and ly- suff ers fatal boat accidents but fuel tank may have caused the day island of Lombok. the Middle East could encourage ple, most of them foreign tour- attracts millions of foreign visi- ing in hospital beds. serious incidents around Bali – accident. The explosions, determined to supporters back home to mount ists, were killed in bombings on tors every year due to its palm- An Austrian woman was killed which attracts millions of foreign “Based on the testimony (from be an accident, were thought to attacks, or may do so themselves the island. fringed, tropical beaches and along with a second female for- visitors each year – are rare. passengers) and from what I saw have come from the fuel tank of on their return. A sustained crackdown fol- picture-postcard temples.

Typhoon batters southeastern China and Taiwan Ex-journalist to lead

DPA/AFP Japan opposition Beijing

AFP hina has issued its high- Tokyo est weather warning as CTyphoon Meranti swept across the country’s southeast- apan’s main opposition ern coast, bringing torrential rain party has chosen a half- and gusts of up to 48m per sec- JTaiwanese former model ond. and TV anchorwoman as its The world’s strongest typhoon new leader, as it looks to reboot so far this year was also the most its fortunes after four years in severe in the southern Fujian the political wilderness. province since local meteoro- The telegenic Renho, a Renho: a former journalist logical records were kept in 1949, 48-year-old who goes by only who earned the nickname the state news agency Xinhua re- one name, trounced her op- ‘Hissatsu’ (shoot-to-kill) for her ported. ponents – including a former style of grilling bureaucrats. “We lost power! It’s so hot and An overturned fishing boat is seen in the aftermath of Super Typhoon foreign minister – to take the I am scared, and want this over Meranti, at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, yesterday. helm of the beleaguered Dem- ugly backlash on social media. with,” Wang Huijia, a local stu- ocratic Party. Renho fi rst came to national dent in the city of Xiamen, told Below: Residents clean up a flooded street in Xiamen, in China’s The one-time journalist prominence in the 1980s as a DPA. eastern Fujian province after Typhoon Meranti made landfall earned the nickname “His- model and later as a TV news- “The typhoon is really strong. yesterday. satsu” (shoot-to-kill) for her caster, reporting from the I felt the building shaking,” Xuan A man records waves whipping style of grilling bureaucrats quake-devastated city of Kobe Xuan, another college student, the shore on Wednesday, before over public waste, in a coun- in 1995. added. Typhoon Meranti made a landfall try where the media are of- She entered parliament in The typhoon sent a massive on southeastern China, in Wen- ten criticised for pulling their 2004. infl atable moon bobbing through ling, Zhejiang province. punches. She sparked controversy the streets of southern China’s “I’ll stand at the forefront of in 2010 when she posed for a Fuzhou, smothering cars and and around 1mn families without our fi ght to rebuild the party to magazine shoot inside parlia- sending at least one motorcyclist electricity, authorities said yes- win an election again,” Renho ment for Vogue Nippon, the fl eeing for cover, as the powerful terday. said, after being declared the Japanese version of the inter- storm lashed the mainland. Meranti battered the south- winner. national fashion monthly. Footage broadcast by state ern part of the island with tor- Renho’s Taiwanese heritage The centre-left Democratic television showed the infl atable rential rain and strong wind on – her father is from the island, Party that she now leads faces moon bowling over traffi c in the Wednesday, forcing the evacua- a former Japanese colony – be- a huge battle to revive fl agging city. tion of 6,500 residents, the Cen- came an issue during the vote. fortunes, with Premier Shinzo AFP was unable to confi rm tral Emergency Operation Centre She was forced to apologise Abe’s ruling coalition boast- where the moon originated from said. after it emerged she had never ing a majority in both houses of and what fate the infl atable ob- The body of a fi sherman was given up her Taiwanese citi- parliament. ject eventually met. found yesterday after the man zenship. The party – formerly known Wind speeds in the region had fallen into the waters at Ka- Japan does not allow adults as the Democratic Party of slowed during the day, but were ohsiung Harbour in southern to hold dual nationality. Japan before merging with a expected to pick up again in the Taiwan the day before. With the exception of its tel- smaller party in March – swept evening, according to weather About 994,270 families were evision personalities, largely to power in 2009, ousting reports. without electricity and 722,700 ethnically homogenous Japan Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party The storm caused severe dam- households without tap water is unused to seeing mixed-race after more than half a century age to the power grid in the pop- on the eve of the four-day Mid- people in public positions. of conservative dominance. ulous city, causing mass blackout Autumn Festival holiday, one of However, last week a half- But a series of mis-steps and and disrupting electricity supply the most important Chinese fes- Indian beauty queen was policy fl ip-fl ops, along with in outlying islands, according to tivals, which started yesterday. crowned Miss Japan. its shambolic handling of the Xiamen Power Supply Company. More than 4,000 military staff That came just one year af- Fukushima nuclear crisis, cost The typhoon hit as China was were dispatched to disaster ar- cation,” Taiwan’s President Tsai mountain and coastal areas, with ern and eastern parts of Taiwan ter a black woman claimed the it dearly in the polls, and it was still recovering from a summer eas to help aff ected residents, Ing-wen said during an inspec- the Water Resources Agency is- today and tomorrow, bureau coveted title, and she faced an booted from offi ce in 2012. of unusually severe fl ooding, hail according to the ministry of na- tion of the emergency operation suing fl ood warnings to counties forecaster Luo Ya-ying said. and landslides that had ravaged tional defence. centre. in eastern and southern Taiwan. Under China’s four-tier severe the country since June. “I appreciate the military as- Yesterday the Central Weather Meanwhile, Typhoon Malakas, weather warning system, red is In Taiwan, the severe weather sistance off ered to local govern- Bureau lifted typhoon warnings which has formed in the Western the most serious, followed by or- left one person dead, 38 injured ments on evacuation and relo- but urged people to stay alert in Pacifi c, could impact the north- ange, yellow and blue. Malaysia confi rms NZ court convicts debris from MH370 human trafficker Wet koala no damp squib on social media A New Zealand court has found AFP continue in hopes that evi- a man guilty of exploiting Fijian Kuala Lumpur dence may be uncovered which workers in the country’s first Reuters may provide new insight into human-traff icking conviction. Sydney the circumstances surround- The case brought to light the piece of aircraft wreck- ing fl ight MH370.” darker side of New Zealand’s age found in June off Authorities had earlier said immigration boom and rain-soaked koala has found ATanzania has been con- the piece of debris was “high- represented a shift in focus fame after its attempts to es- fi rmed as coming from the ly likely” to have come from by authorities who have been Acape fl oods in Australia by sit- doomed airliner MH370, Ma- MH370. criticised for not taking a hard ting on a fence post landed him on the laysia said yesterday. However, the confi rmation enough line on exploitation of front page of an Adelaide newspaper. The debris, found on Pemba appears to have so far shed no migrants. Plumber Russell Latter was driving Island off the Tanzanian coast, fresh light on the plane’s fate. Faroz Ali, a 46-year-old Fijian between jobs in the town of Stirling is the latest piece of wreckage The Malaysia Airlines jet citizen with New Zealand when he saw the soggy marsupial sit- to be linked to the Malaysia was carrying 239 passengers residency, was found guilty of ting on the road, looking cold and wet. Airlines jet, whose disappear- and crew when it disappeared people traff icking off ences after “I stopped and guided him out of ance remains a mystery. en route from Kuala Lumpur to promising 15 Fijian workers harm’s way and he spotted the fence Malaysia’s transport min- Beijing on March 8, 2014. well-paid jobs in New Zealand, and climbed to the top like he had done istry said the piece of debris, It is believed to have crashed according to the ministry it many times,” said Latter, who quick- which had been taken to Aus- into the Indian Ocean, but an of business, innovation and ly snapped a photo. “He sat on top for tralia for expert analysis, was extensive deep-sea hunt off employment, which investigates a few minutes and then climbed down found to have part numbers, Australia’s west coast is draw- immigration off ences. the other side and across some shallow date stamps and other identifi - ing to a close. The workers paid NZ$4,000 fl ood waters to a big gum tree.” ers confi rming it came from the The Australian-led opera- ($2,900) to Ali in “administration The picture has since gone viral on Malaysia Airlines jet. tion is scouring the seafl oor fees” and were told they would social media after being used by The “As such, the experts have within a remote 120,000sq km earn NZ$900 a week to pick fruit. Advertiser newspaper and featured on concluded that the debris, an belt of the Indian Ocean where Instead, they only got one-month television. outboard fl ap, originated from authorities believe the passen- visitor visas and low wages. Parts of South Australia and Victo- the aircraft 9M-MRO, also ger jet went down. Ali made more than NZ$100,000 ria states were fl ooded yesterday after known as MH370,” a ministry The search is nearly fi nished, from the scheme, the ministry The soaked koala sits atop a fence post to escape the deluge in the town of Stirling, in the heavy rain caused numerous rivers to statement said. “Further ex- however, and families are brac- said. Adelaide Hills of South Australia, in this picture taken on Wednesday. swell. amination of the debris will ing for it to be called off . Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 7 BRITAIN MI6 rebuked over handling of Lee Rigby killer’s claims

Guardian News and Media Sir Mark Waller, the intelli- services, and that his allegations tion into Adebolajo’s allegations investigation into Adebolajo after fi cer’s incorrect supposition that treatment while he was in custody. London gence services commissioner, said of torture or mistreatment at the was carried out at David Cam- he returned from Kenya in 2010, his arrest was as a result of intelli- “I am not satisfi ed they did MI6’s level of engagement with hands of the Kenyan authorities eron’s request after the parlia- where he had been arrested after gence from a Kenyan agent rather this, although I cannot rule it out. two oversight investigations into were probably untrue. mentary intelligence and security apparently preparing to fi ght with than happenstance. The error There is no contemporaneous he security services were its response to the mistreatment “Indeed, I think it highly un- committee reported in November the Somali militant group Al She- distorted MI6’s understanding of documentary evidence to support guilty of “serious failings” allegations was “wholly inad- likely that Adebolajo was mis- 2014 that Rigby’s murder had not baab. the case, which might have been this claim,” Waller writes. Tin their response to allega- equate” and “extremely unsatis- treated by any of the Kenyan po- been preventable but that it had Waller highlights three key de- given a diff erent priority if it had The third defect involved not tions by one of Fusilier Lee Rigby’s factory”. lice or intelligence units which serious concerns about the way fects in the performance of the not been made. following offi cial guidance for killers, Michael Adebolajo, that he But Waller’s investigation also work with (the British govern- MI6 responded to the allegations British intelligence services in The second involves a claim by such cases in which there is a risk was mistreated by Kenyan coun- concluded that Adebolajo was ment),” Waller writes in his 126- of mistreatment and torture. relation to Adebolajo’s time in MI6 that it had sought and ob- the complainant might have been ter-terrorism units, a watchdog “most defi nitely” not the subject page report published yesterday. Those concerns related to a Kenya. tained assurances from the Ken- subject to unacceptable standards has found. of a conspiracy by the intelligence The commissioner’s investiga- four-month delay in opening an The fi rst involves an MI6 of- yan authorities over Adebolajo’s of detention.

Fishing Harrogate flower show ban in Hinkley Point four new marine reserves nuke power

Guardian News and Media London plant deal gets he UK is to ban commer- cial fi shing from a million Tsquare kilometres of ocean around British overseas territo- ries, the government said yester- day. In total, the government is creating marine protected areas govt approval around four islands in the Pacifi c and Atlantic, including the des- AFP But Clark’s ministry explained Timothy, also made his scepti- ignation this week of one of the London the government was now taking cism over the security aspects of world’s biggest around the Pit- steps to ensure it could intervene China’s involvement in the project cairn Islands. to stop any sale of EDF’s stake. clear last year. A 840,000sq km area around ritain yesterday gave the “The agreement in principle It was “baffl ing” that Britain Pitcairn, where the mutineers go-ahead for the Hinkley with EDF means that the govern- had welcomed investment by of the Bounty settled, becomes BPoint power station, its fi rst ment will be able to prevent the state-owned Chinese companies a no-take zone for any fi sh- nuclear plant in a generation, but sale of EDF’s controlling stake given fears they could build weak- ing from this week. St Helena, set conditions to address concerns prior to the completion of con- nesses into IT systems, “which around 445,000sq km of the about China’s role in a landmark struction,” it said. will allow them to shut down Brit- south Atlantic ocean and home European project. “Existing legal powers, and the ain’s energy production at will,” to whale sharks and humpbacks, China has a one-third stake new legal framework, will mean Timothy wrote in a blog. is now also designated as a pro- in the project and analysts had that the government is able to in- Campaigners against Hinkley tected area. warned that Britain, which needs tervene in the sale of EDF’s stake Point later yesterday handed in The foreign offi ce said it would to forge new trade deals after once Hinkley is operational.” a 300,000-signature petition to designate two further ma- June’s vote to leave the EU, could Olivia Gippner, a fellow in EU- May’s Downing Street offi ce with rine protection zones, one each have jeopardised relations with China relations at the London environmental pressure group around two south Altantic is- the world’s second-largest econ- School of Economics said the Greenpeace. lands – Ascension by 2019 and omy if it scrapped the deal. framework was aimed at China Steve Thomas, emeritus pro- Tristan da Cunha by 2020. The announcement, wel- but “by introducing a general na- fessor of energy policy at Lon- Sir Alan Duncan, minister of comed by French and Chinese tional security test rather than don’s Greenwich University, said state for Europe and the Ameri- backers, came two months af- focusing only on Chinese invest- there were still “a number of ma- cas, said: “Protecting 4mn sq km ter Prime Minister Theresa May ment, this is a very diplomatic jor hurdles to get through before of ocean is a fantastic achieve- caused shockwaves by ordering solution”. Hinkley can go ahead” including ment, converting our historic a review of the £18bn deal bro- Under the deal, Beijing’s state- fi nancing at EDF’s end. legacy into modern environmen- kered under her predecessor, run China General Nuclear Cor- “If they aren’t (overcome), tal success.” David Cameron. poration (CGN) is set to fi nance British loan guarantees will not be Commercial fi shing will be Jean-Bernard Levy, chief ex- £6bn of the costs, with EDF pro- granted and the remaining cred- banned in all of Pitcairn’s zone ecutive of the French state-owned viding the remainder. ibility of the EPR (a new reactor and half of the 445,390sq km As- power company EDF, said the French Prime Minister Manuel design set to used at Hinkley) will cension protected area. Fishing move “relaunches nuclear power hailed the deal as “excellent news” be gone,” he added. will be allowed in the other areas, in Europe”. for France’s nuclear sector and The Hinkley facility will not be but activities such as oil drilling EDF’s board had already ap- domestic employment. operational until 2025 — two years will be prohibited. proved its participation in the May called French President later than originally planned when Conservationists welcomed project in southwest England in Francois Hollande on Wednes- the deal was fi rst unveiled. the new protections. “By pro- July when May’s government sud- day evening to tell him that the China’s one-third stake in the tecting the vast array of marine denly announced it was pausing government had approved the deal was sealed last year on a state life within these rich waters, the it. project, the French presidency visit to Britain by Chinese Presi- United Kingdom has solidifi ed “We have decided to proceed said. dent Xi Jinping. its position as a leader in ocean with the fi rst new nuclear power CGN said in a statement on Agreement was also reached conservation,” said Joshua S Re- station for a generation,” Busi- social network Weibo it was “de- at that stage on a partnership to ichert, of the Pew Charitable ness Secretary Greg Clark said in lighted” at the move. develop nuclear power stations at Trusts, which is working with a statement, while pledging fresh Critics have focused on the Sizewell, on the Suff olk coast, and the UK on technology to monitor measures “to enhance security”. growing diff erence between an at Bradwell in Essex. the Pitcairn area. One of Downing Street’s prime electricity price guarantee for The Financial Times reported Jonathan Hall, the RSPB’s head A woman prepares plants for a floral display ahead of Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, concerns was over the security EDF, subsidised by the British that Downing Street had been of UK Overseas Territories, said: in Harrogate, northern England, yesterday. The show, which is set to start today, ends on implications of allowing China to taxpayer, and current falling en- particularly concerned about the “This is simply enormous and September 28. take such a large stake in a critical ergy prices. deal to build plants at Sizewell and shows world-leading vision.” infrastructure project. May’s joint chief of staff , Nick Bradwell.-Page 14 Top barrister killed in Joint patrol Man and woman shot dead in north London

‘hit-and-run’ smash Guardian News and Media en family members and friends sat London by the cordon on Elmshurst Cres- cent grieving for the victims, who London Evening Standard found abandoned nearby. His chambers said he would be were named locally as Anny Ba- London Batcup had worked for over 35 remembered as a “warm, modest, murder investigation sala Ekofo, a mother-of-nine, and years in criminal courts on high- loyal, open and big-hearted fam- has been launched after Bervely Ekofo, her nephew. profi le cases involving murder, ily man” and for his “cheerful and A52-year-old woman and A family friend among the top barrister was killed in money laundering, large-scale optimistic outlook on all things”. her 21-year-old nephew were shot mourners, who preferred not to be a suspected hit-and-run drug importations and historic It added: “Always a kind and dead in north London yesterday named, said the nephew had been Asmash moments after leav- sexual abuse. generous man, he nurtured many morning. visiting his aunt and cousins. ing a charity concert organised by Friends and colleagues yester- junior barristers through pupil- Paramedics from the London “Bervely was not the target. London’s biggest legal fi rms. day called his death a “senseless lage and into practice...He had a Ambulance Service called police to Bervely just came to see them and David Batcup, 64, was hit by a tragedy”. particular strength in that he was Elmshurst Crescent, East Finch- unfortunately that’s what hap- white Porsche 911 as he crossed a A spokesman for Batcup’s genuinely interested in everyone ley, at 6.25am after responding to pened but I really don’t know the junction in Balham. chambers, Charter Chambers, he met, he never forgot anyone, reports of two people suff ering rest,” she said. Witnesses said he was thrown said: “He had so much more to even those of brief acquaintance. gunshot wounds. The friend said that many other 20ft along the road after being give. He was a committed fam- “It was a knack that he had of An ambulance service spokes- family members were at home at struck on Bedford Hill. ily man, devoted to his wife Janet making everyone seem important person said: “We were called at the time. Most had been taken to It is understood he had just left and to his daughter Rebecca of to him, as they were. But David 6.22am … to reports of an incident the police station, but some others a Law Rocks battle-of-the-bands whom he was immensely proud, was also hugely important to us at an address near East End Road, may be in hospital. “Bervely’s dad, event at The Bedford pub where especially as she begins her adult and we shall miss him terribly.” N2. We sent three ambulance he’s in pieces, he can’t even talk,” staff from fi rms including Harbot- life at university. We feel their Mukul Chawla QC said: “David crews, an advanced paramedic and she added. tle and Lewis, Mishcon de Reya loss keenly and our thoughts and was quite one of the kindest men an incident response offi cer to the Catherine Moffi tt, 56, a neigh- and One Inner Temple Lane per- sympathy are with them at this you could hope to meet and excel- scene. We also dispatched Lon- bour, described what she saw just formed to raise money for charity. terrible time.” lent in court. He will be very sorely Polish Police off icer, chief sergeant Dariusz Tybura (left) don’s air ambulance.” before 6.30am. “About 12 cars He had been crossing the road Batcup, who graduated from missed.” talks with Essex Police off icer Paul Harrison, as they walk Both victims were pronounced were down yesterday morning, with a friend when he was hit at University College London, was Michael Neofytou called him through Harlow, north of London yesterday. Two Polish dead at the scene, the Metropoli- about two ambulances, police 10.18pm. called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in “one of the kindest, intelligent and off icers joined the police in the town of Harlow where a tan police said. running down the road with their Paramedics battled unsuccess- 1974. most cheerful men one could ever Polish man, Arkadiusz Jozwik, known as Arek, was killed Detectives from the Met’s hom- blue gloves on. Some people did fully for 30 minutes to save his life He became head of chambers have the pleasure of meeting.” in a possible hate crime incident last month, police said icide and major crime command hear gunshots, but I didn’t. before pronouncing him dead at before retiring that position in Zizou Hammoud, 46, the owner yesterday. They are being deployed in the Essex town are investigating. There have been “I thought we were under siege, the scene. 2000, when he was appointed as of nearby Tagine restaurant, said for a week to reassure local people following a surge in no arrests and police are appealing I really did. This has never hap- A white Porsche, which had not a part-time judge in the Crown tearful onlookers rushed to his aid reported attacks against foreigners. for witnesses. pened down this road, it’s a lovely, been reported lost or stolen, was Court. after the crash. Yesterday morning about a doz- little, quiet estate.” Gulf Times 8 Friday, September 16, 2016 EUROPE Italy to launch €500 arts bonus for 18-year-olds

Reuters Critics, however, see it as a scribe to magazines and newspa- ucation than any other European helped stall output growth in the Rome political stunt like other bo- pers.” Union country in 2014. second quarter. nuses and handouts which they Cultural institutions can start Alberto Bagnai, economic pol- Rome native Valentina Maraz- say Renzi has off ered instead of to sign up and those of the rough- icy professor at the University of za, who turns 18 this month, said merging from an under- a coherent policy to make Italy’s ly 570,000 Italians and non-na- Chieti-Pescara, said Renzi could she was pleased money was be- funded school system into chronically weak economy more tive residents born in 1998 who fi nd better uses for the money, ing dedicated to the young, even Ea bleak jobs market, Ital- competitive. have already blown out 18 candles especially after an earthquake though she would prefer not to be ians turning 18 this year at least Renzi, who originally promised can request an online ID. that killed almost 300 people last told how to spend it and thought have one birthday treat to look the bonus after Islamist attacks When Renzi announced the month in central Italy. it might have been better to fa- forward to – €500 ($562.10) from in Paris last November, said yes- scheme, it was criticised as a “Unfortunately, there are big- vour lower earners. the state to spend on cultural terday that the bonus would be means to woo new young voters. ger problems right now, just “It is a fi rst step, like a chink items such as books, concerts and available from October. “Young people don’t sell think of reconstruction after the of light in investment for young movies. Beatrice Hirsch, from the themselves for a handout,” Beppe earthquake or a whole series of people,” she said. “I think it’s The €290mn scheme is the northern city of Turin, was look- Grillo, founder of the anti-es- infrastructure works that are not right to give the money to brainchild of Prime Minister ing forward to seeing how the tablishment 5-Star Movement, being done,” Bagnai said. 18-year-olds because turning 18 Matteo Renzi, who says he wants money can be spent. wrote on his blog, slamming the Tax cuts of about €80 a month is an important moment.” the new adults to feel part of the “We hardly ever go on school “decrepit” state of schools. for low earners have not sent There is no suggestion the world’s biggest cultural patri- trips,” she said. “I will try to go to According to Eurostat, Italy them shopping as Renzi hoped, scheme will be repeated for those Renzi: wants the new adults to feel part of the world’s biggest mony. the cinema or the theatre, or sub- spent proportionately less on ed- and weak domestic demand who turn 18 next year. cultural patrimony. French protesters in bid to undo govt labour law AFP against them,” Francois Roche, Aviation authorities had ers’ hard-won collective bar- Paris a member of the hardline CGT advised airlines serving Paris gaining rights. Zookeeper Tania Stroobant union demonstrating in Mar- airports to cancel 15% of their However the protests have holds three-month-old baby seille, told AFP. fl ights yesterday due to the air fi zzled in recent months, falling panda Tian Bao during a press pponents of France’s One of the focal points of traffi c controllers strike. from hundreds of thousands of conference on the name of the controversial labour re- yesterday’s protests was the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair demonstrators in March to just animal at the Pairi Daiza animal Oforms took to the streets eastern city of Belfort where said that it had cancelled scores 35,000 during the last rallies in park in Brugelette. yesterday for the 14th time in the government is locked in a of fl ights to or through France. early July. six months in a last-ditch bid battle with train-building gi- Postal and railway work- Many of the demonstrations to quash the measures that lost ant Alstom over the future of a ers were also called on to down were scarred by clashes between the Socialist government cru- locomotive factory threatened tools but the disruptions in protesters and riot police. cial support on the left. with closure. those areas seemed to be mini- The violence peaked on Belgium’s Scores of fl ights in and out Belfort’s history is inter- mal. June 14, just four days after the of France were cancelled as air twined with that of Alstom, The new labour law – one of start of the Euro 2016 football traffi c controllers went on strike which produced its fi rst steam the few major reforms of Hol- championships in France, when fi rst baby to try to force the government to train there in 1880. lande’s tenure – aims to bring around 40 people were hurt and repeal the changes that became The plant now assembles down France’s unemployment dozens arrested. law in July. high-speed TGV train locomo- rate of around 10% by making CGT leader Philippe Mar- panda Demonstrations were tives. nation’s notoriously rigid la- tinez has vowed to continue the planned in towns and cities Last week, Alstom had an- bour laws more fl exible. fi ght in the country’s courts and nationwide, but the movement nounced it would close the After months of sometimes at the individual company level. named appeared to be running out of plant due to a lack of orders violent protests, the measures Workers, he said, should con- steam. and move production to a site were adopted after being wa- tinue “fi ghting tooth and nail Trade unions admitted that 200km to the north. tered down. to stop it (the law) crossing the Tian Bao turnout would likely be lower Hundreds of demonstrators However, such was the op- threshold”. than at the mass rallies in the chanting “Alstom is Belfort, position on the left, including Hollande, who has yet to an- spring but vowed to continue Belfort is Alstom” took part in a from within the Socialists’ own nounce whether he will seek re- AFP opposing the law which makes march from the plant yesterday ranks, the government had to election next year, had hoped Brussels it easier to hire and fi re people over the move. force through the reforms with- for a signature reform to boost and for bosses to negotiate di- The prospect of up to 400 job out a vote, causing a deep divide his dire approval ratings. rectly with employees on work- losses is a headache for French within the ruling party. Polls currently show around Belgian zoo has fi nally ing time. President Francois Hollande, Opponents see the measures four out of fi ve French people named a baby giant pan- A youth throws a plastic bin at police off icers during a demonstration “We will show them that, law with parliamentary and presi- as weighted in favour of em- are opposed to him standing for Ada three months after in Nantes against the controversial labour reform. or no law, we will always stand dential polls eight months away. ployers and an erosion of work- a second term. its birth, calling it “Tian Bao”, which means “Treasure of Heav- en” in Chinese. The name was chosen by the panda’s keepers at Pairi Daiza wildlife park outside Brussels after an survey online, in which Tian Bao received the most pub- lic votes. The cub’s mother, Hao Hao, and her mate Xing Hui were loaned to Belgium from China for 15 years in February 2014 to mark Chinese President Xi Jin- ping’s state visit to the kingdom. There are about 1,800 freely roaming pandas left in the world, with about 400 in captivity, mainly in southwest China. The species has a notoriously low birthrate. The name Tian Bao received 40% of the vote in the on- line survey, beating Xing Hao (“Good Star”), Ou Xing (“Star of Europe”), Hua Li (“China and Belgium”) and An Tuan (“United Peace”). People take part in a demonstration in Lyon (above) and Marseille (right) against the government’s labour law reforms. Previously, the baby panda was just referred to as “Baby P”. Chinese ambassador to Bel- Scuffles on Greek island over migrant camp gium Qu Xing and Belgian Envi- ronment Minister Marie-Chris- Scuff les broke out on the Greek island of Chios, police said yesterday, tine Marghem both attended the Thugs, asylum-seekers clash in Germany during a protest by locals demanding the departure of some 3,500 offi cial naming ceremony, which refugees and migrants held there. falls on the same day as the Chi- Riot police were deployed late on Wednesday to keep a crowd of 800 nese mid-autumn festival. AFP surge in support for right-wing pepper spray and batons to sepa- ing numbers of anti-migrant people from approaching two migrant camps, a police source told A plaque was unveiled bearing Berlin populists AfD, which has run an rate the groups. militants, apparently mobilised AFP. the cub’s name in Chinese and anti-migrant and Islamophobic The battling sides subsequent- through Facebook posts, said the “A few bursts of tear gas” were fired when the protesters tried to Latin characters – while the ani- campaign. ly left the scene, but the far-right police chief. break through the cordon and reach one of the camps, the off icer mal was also named an honorary lashes broke out between Illustrating the tensions, a extremists broke up into smaller Skirmishes had already bro- added. citizen of the town of Brugelette, dozens of asylum-seekers restaurant owner in northern groups and chased the migrants ken out over the past week, but State agency ANA said journalists were also chased from the scene. where the zoo is located. Cand far-right extremists Germany sparked a heated so- to a refugee shelter. not on the scale of Wednesday’s One of them said he was struck by a protester allegedly linked to The panda cub was born on in an eastern German city, forc- cial media debate when he told a The migrants fl ed into the clash. Greece’s neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. June 2 to much fanfare, after Hao ing police to call in reinforce- woman wearing a niqab to leave building, while offi cers formed Bautzen authorities are plan- Four camp volunteers and a migrant were also briefly detained when Hao was artifi cially inseminated ments to quell the violence, po- after she refused to remove the a cordon to prevent attacks, po- ning to impose an alcohol ban they came out of the facility, the police off icer said. twice in February with the sperm lice said yesterday. face veil. lice said, adding that three other and 7pm curfew on the 30 young of Xing Hui. Around 20 migrant youths Christian Schulz, the owner of shelters had to be protected by asylum-seekers living in the sparked the violence on Wednes- the Seekrug restaurant, rejected security forces overnight. town, according to local media the “pogrom atmosphere” in day night in the city of Bautzen, charges of racism and defended In a video circulating on social reports. Bautzen must end. Court upholds Yanukovych sanctions police chief Uwe Kilz said, when his actions, telling Bild daily that media, the far-right group could Four of the migrant “ring- Former communist eastern they fl ung bottles and wooden he did it “because it gives several be heard chanting “we are the leaders” in Wednesday’s violence Germany has been the scene of The EU’s second-highest court upheld yesterday financial sanctions slats at some 80 young German guests an uncomfortable feel- people”. have been transferred to another ugly incidents in which extrem- imposed on Ukraine’s ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, who men and women from the far- ing to have fully veiled women in Meanwhile, an ambulance commune, according to local au- ists targeted asylum-seekers. fled the country in 2014 after a popular uprising. right scene. their midst”. sent for an 18-year-old Moroc- thorities. In February, a cheering crowd Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, challenged the EU’s sanctions, The right-wing extremists, He added that he was far from can male, who was found with a Condemning the violence, was seen outside a burning asy- imposed in response to allegations of embezzlement and financial many of whom were drunk, re- xenophobic as several of his gash on his arm, was also pelted Mayor Alexander Ahrens said lum-seeker shelter in Bautzen, wrongdoing, in the General Court. turned the abuse with stones and staff are foreigners – including by stones by the German extrem- that “Bautzen must not become clapping and shouting: “Good, The court’s action, which took eff ect in March 2014, meant he and bottles, he added, in the latest from Turkey, Ghana, Pakistan or ists, said police. the playground of violent right that’s up in fl ames.” his son lost access to funds they hold in European banks. incident to hit the small former Egypt. The trouble had been building extremists”. That same weekend, a video The court said it confirmed the freezing of funds from March 2015 communist town, which has been In Bautzen, police chief Kilz up over a few days, said Kilz, after MP Caren Lay of the far-left emerged of far-right thugs in- to March 2016. the scene of several eruptions of said the group of asylum-seek- young migrants had begun gath- opposition Linke party said “that timidating refugees – including Yanukovych won his challenge against sanctions from March 2014 hostility toward refugees. ers, identifi ed as unaccompanied ering regularly at the fl ashpoint so many neo-Nazis were able to crying children – and preventing to March 2015 because EU governments did not provide enough The arrival of around 1mn asy- minors, also threw projectiles at downtown square called Korn- come together so quickly leads them from getting off a bus to get proof of wrongdoing, basing the measures only on a letter from lum-seekers in 2015 has deeply the 100 offi cers sent in to stop the markt over the summer. one to suspect that this racist at- into another shelter in the east- Ukraine’s prosecutor. polarised Germany and fuelled a clashes, adding that police used Their presence drew increas- tack was planned”, adding that ern town of Clausnitz. The EU has extended the sanctions until March 2017. Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 9 INDIA

RESCUE CRIME DECISION OUTBREAK DEFENCE Two Indians abducted in 23-year-old woman hacked Infrastructure boost for Dengue deaths Govt close to signing Libya freed: minister to death in Coimbatore Kerala film industry toll climbs to 14 Rafale jet deal: off icial

Two Indian teachers who were A 23-year-old woman was hacked to death at Kerala is set to get a film city on the lines of The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) The government is close to finalising a long- abducted in Libya over a year her house in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, allegedly Hyderabad’s Ramoji Rao Film City, 100 new yesterday reported nine deaths from dengue delayed deal to buy 36 fighter jets from France’s ago have been released, External by a man she had turned down. S Dhanya, who theatres and a permanent venue for the since September 1, taking the toll in the national Dassault Aviation, a defence ministry off icial Aff airs Minister Sushma Swaraj said was already engaged to be married, was alone at International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) capital from the mosquito-borne disease to 14 said yesterday, with the Cabinet set to meet next yesterday. “I am happy to inform home when Zahir allegedly entered through the with a total investment of Rs5bn to boost the so far. “AIIMS has reported the death of nine week to agree a price. Television channel NDTV that T Gopalakrishna (Andhra house and attacked her with a sickle. Her parents Kerala film industry, Cultural Aff airs Minister A patients suff ering from dengue since September reported that India had agreed to pay 7.87bn Pradesh) and C BalaramKishan had gone out when the murder took place, K Balan said in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday. 1. A total of 96 patients suff ering from dengue euros ($8.84bn) for the jets and would sign the (Telangana) who were captive in police said. The 27-year-old accused allegedly “A Rs500mn state-of-the-art venue for the IFFK were admitted in the hospital of whom 56 have deal on September 23. There have been several Libya since July 29, 2015 have been rescued,” she attempted suicide by consuming poison after and a Rs250mn film city is going to come up in been discharged till now,” said a statement leaks to the press this year that a deal had been tweeted. Both Gopalakrishna and Balaramkishan killing Dhanya. He has been admitted to an ICU around 60 acres at the present campus of the from the hospital. The first dengue death in the reached that proved to be premature, as the two were teachers at the University of Sirte and were ward of a hospital in Palakkad. Police said that Kerala State Film Development Corporation,” national capital was reported in July. The city sides haggled over price and other terms of the abducted while they were on their way to Tripoli the accused, a mill worker, was a family friend said Balan. The state government will also set has also witnessed the death of 12 persons due deal. A senior defence ministry off icial in New airport to return to India. Sirte was the hometown and had known Dhanya for over a year. However, up 100 new theatre complexes across the state, to chikungunya till September 15, with the latest Delhi, said the cabinet committee on security of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Dhanya’s parents rejected his marriage proposal. each having a seating capacity of around 250. being two men – aged 50 and 30 – at AIIMS. would meet on Wednesday to discuss the deal. Kerala rapist Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad escapes death sentence after legal ‘bungle’

By Ashraf Padanna pushed her off the moving train, Thiruvananthapuram carried the unconscious woman to a nearby place and raped. The autopsy had found traces he Supreme Court yes- of Govindachami’s DNA on her terday revoked the capital body. The medical examination Tpunishment awarded to a also found bruises on Govinda- convict for the rape and murder chami’s body which were infl ict- of a woman on train fi ve years ed by the victim while resisting ago. the rape attempt. The court cleared Govindacha- However, the apex court was mi of murder charges on the ben- not convinced of the argument efi t of the doubt while upholding in the absence of “evidence” to the seven years of hard labour the prove the murder charges. trial court awarded him for raping Soumya was found uncon- Congress Party vice president, Rahul Gandhi addresses supporters during a roadshow in Allahabad yesterday, ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections. 23-year-old Soumya. scious near the railway tracks and The purse-snatcher is likely to died in hospital fi ve days later. walk free in about 16 months as he A fast track court in Thrissur has already spent most of the term in 2012 awarded the man from behind bars. He faces sentencing Virudhunagar in the neighbouring in a few minor cases of theft. Tamil Nadu state seven years in jail A bench of justice Ranjan Go- as well as the death sentence. goi, justice P C Pant and justice The Kerala High Court had U U Lalit upheld charges under upheld the death sentence in Section 376 (punishment for December 2013, and the convict rape), 394 (voluntarily causing had challenged it in the Supreme Shivpal Yadav resigns hurt in committing robbery) and Court and got a stay of execu- 325 (punishment for voluntarily tion, in July 2014. The court also causing grievous hurt) of the In- called for all the records from the dian Penal Code. lower courts for a review. The government of Kerala, Govindachami was a convict the home state of the victim, in eight other cases of robbery, said it would fi le a review peti- attempted rape and causing in- from Akhilesh cabinet tion in the court, admissibil- jury while robbery and he will ity of which, legal circles feel, is have to undergo imprisonment IANS once powerful minister and in the Uttar Pradesh assembly. dents”. He will remain the Uttar episode she said that the politi- doubtful. Govindachami’s peti- varying from 45 days to eight Lucknow his nephew, Chief Minister “Whatever Netaji (Mulayam Pradesh party president, Mu- cal drama was enacted to make tion had been pending before the months or a total of 33 months Akhilesh Yadav. Singh) decides has to be ad- layam Singh told the media ‘Akhilesh appear Mr Clean’. apex court for the past two years. and 15 days in these cases, which Earlier in the day Shivpal had hered by everyone in the party. Meanwhile, the Bahujan Sa- Mayawati said: “It is drama, a “We suspect the court had could further delay his release. n a signifi cant late night ruled out quitting the ministry No one can challenge his deci- maj Party chief Mayawati has theatre ... in UP in the absence not looked into the pieces of On hearing the verdict, Sou- development, senior Sama- and said it was immaterial which sion,” he said. advised her Samajwadi Party of any tangible work done by the evidence, especially the autopsy mya’s mother Sumathi broke Ijwadi Party (SP) leader Shiv- posts he held as a minister. “Netaji has sent him counterpart Mulayam Singh SP government,” she claimed. report, in detail. We will appeal,” down, saying “The Supreme pal Singh Yadav resigned from Akhilesh Yadav had on Tues- (Akhilesh Yadav) as the chief Yadav to quit active politics and However, she added, if true, insisted A K Balan, the southern Court’s verdict breaks my heart. the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet yes- day stripped his uncle Shivpal minister and this is acceptable retire. Mulayam should immediately state’s law minister. I have always been hoping that terday. He also resigned as the from the plum posts of public to me,” Shivpal Yadav had said. Referring to the ongo- retire from active politics and The victim – who had been my daughter would get justice.” party’s state unit president, a works department, co-opera- Asked if the “outsider” be- ing power struggle within the not be infl uenced by the love for employed in a textile shop in Counsel A Sureshan, who post to which he was appointed tive and irrigation minister. ing blamed for the party crisis SP, the former Uttar Pradesh his son. the port city of Kochi – was had appeared in the trial court just two days ago, a senior party Shivpal had earlier yesterday was Rajya Sabha Samajwadi chief minister said that if what She also targeted the road travelling to her hometown of and ensured the suspect got the source said. said the Samajwadi Party needs Party member Amar Singh, was being said was true about shows of the Congress party Palakkad, some 130km away death penalty, blamed the pros- Shivpal Yadav took the deci- to remain united ahead of as- Shivpal Yadav said: “Our power Akhilesh’s rebellion against his whose vote bank, she said, had on February 1, 2011, when she ecution for the case failure. sion after a meeting with his sembly elections next year. will strengthen by uniting, not father, then Mulayam should ‘nose-dived’. was attacked in a coach on the He claimed the new coun- elder brother and party chief “Elections are around the breaking.” quit politics. Targeting Prime Minister Ernakulam-Thrissur passenger sels failed to consult him while Mulayam Singh Yadav. He sent corner. It’s best for the fam- Commenting on his broth- In a statement issued after a Narendra Modi and his party train. conducting the case in the high his resignation to Chief Minis- ily and everyone else to stay er, Mulayam Singh Yadav had meeting of co-ordinators, the BJP, Mayawati said the people A police investigation found court. This was not the case ter Akhilesh Yadav. united,” Shivpal Yadav told the earlier said that Shivpal Yadav BSP chief raised questions over of Uttar Pradesh would not be that Govindachami fi rst tried when the convict’s review pe- The development is being media. was a grass-roots leader and a the authenticity of the ‘power fooled repeatedly, calling the BJP to snatch away her bag, hit her tition came up before the high seen as a rebuff to all possibili- He said the Samajwadi Par- happy-go-lucky person who struggle’ being reported widely. ‘a leaderless party’ that had no head on the doors several times, court, he said. ties of coming together of the ty’s aim was to win a majority was “not perturbed by inci- Raising doubts over the entire chief ministerial face to project.

Building blaze Kashmir MP likens Tamil Nadu shutdown ruling alliance to Nazis today over water row IANS sibly on incidents connected Bengaluru with the Cauvery agitation, as IANS erned BJP,” he said and accused even during these times were done by his government. Srinagar the Prime Minister Narendra adding fuel to the anger of the The Karnataka government on Modi’s government of “pushing people”. ours after the Supreme Wednesday issued an advisory to the country towards a Hindu na- The Kashmir Valley has been Court criticism over the state media to report respon- n a blow to Chief Minister tion”. battling the deadliest street agita- Hthe Cauvery river water sibly on the incidents following Mehbooba Mufti, her senior Elected to the Lok Sabha in tion it has suff ered in six years. At sharing issue yesterday, Karna- protests against the release of Icolleague Tariq Karra yes- 2014, Karra was a close aide of least 80 people have been killed taka Chief Minister Siddara- 12,000 cusecs of water daily to terday quit the PDP (Peoples the late chief minister Mufti and thousands injured in daily maiah urged his Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu till September 20. Democratic Party) and parlia- Mohamed Sayeed and was one of protests between civilians and se- counterpart J Jayalalithaa to “I have instructed my ad- ment after comparing the ruling the founders of the PDP. curity forces, triggered by the July protect Kannadigas and their ditional chief secretary, home PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu and He had always opposed the 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen property in her state during the secretary and director general Kashmir to Nazi rule. idea of the party teaming up with commander Burhan Wani. proposed shutdown today. of police to be in touch with au- Karra told reporters here that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karra mocked the PDP’s pre- “I request you to take steps thorities in Tamil Nadu. I request he “was feeling suff ocated by to form an alliance after a frac- election promises and its earlier to ensure that no untoward you to advise your offi cers to be the alliance” and was resign- tured mandate in the 2015 as- protests against civilian killings incident occurs and lives and in touch with their counterparts ing to “protest against the bru- sembly polls. Karra had made his and human rights violations in property of Kannada-speaking in Karnataka,” the letter added. talities on civilian protesters dissent known earlier too. the state. people in Tamil Nadu are pro- Organisations of farm- and the PDP’s sell out to the BJP “It is an unnatural alliance and “What happened to the prom- tected during the shutdown ers and traders have called for (Bharatiya Janata Party )”. the PDP is losing its character as ises like self-rule? Why was the today,” Siddaramaiah said in a daylong shutdown across He said the PDP was founded it is doing exactly what it op- PDP protesting against simi- his letter to Jayalalithaa yes- Tamil Nadu today to protest as a “saviour” for the people of posed in the past (when it was in lar killings during the previous terday, the second in this week. against the violence targeting the state but the present govern- opposition),” Karra said. government? The PDP had been The Supreme Court had Tamils in Karnataka on Mon- ment “is treating its own people “I had been warning about protesting against everything yesterday pulled up the two day after the apex court order. like the Nazi forces treated the this alliance. I was even mocked. that is happening now.” warring states for their failure Opposition parties, in- oppressed”. Whatever was agreed to be done He also appealed to other leg- to prevent violence over the cluding the DMK (Dravida Karra said he couldn’t stand was never done.” islators and MPs of the party to A fire broke out yesterday on the top floors of a residential river water sharing issue. Munnetra Kazhagam), the the “new form adorned by the He said the state government “listen to their conscience and building in Hiranandani Heritage complex at Kandivali in Noting that escalation of MDMK (Marumalarchi Dravida PDP and my conscience could mishandled the civilian unrest take a fi nal call on whether they Mumbai. There were no reports of casualties. According to animosity would be detrimen- Munnetra Kazhagam), the PMK not take it anymore. in the Kashmir Valley even as he want to co-exist with their peo- the fire brigade, the fire was reported from the 22nd floor tal to both the states, Siddara- (Pattali Makkal Katchi) and the “The PDP has become a col- had warned that “Modi’s arm ple or continue to work as col- of the posh building around 1pm. Four fire tenders, two maiah urged Jayalalithaa to is- Congress have extended their laborator for fascist RSS (Rash- twisting attitude and criminal laborators for the BJP and the ambulances and water tankers rushed to the site. sue an advisory to the media in support to the dawn-to-dusk triya Swayamsevak Sangh)-gov- silence on contentious issues RSS”. Tamil Nadu to report respon- shutdown in Tamil Nadu. Gulf Times 10 Friday, September 16, 2016 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Former Afghan president attacks US combat rules The former president has criticised over-reliance on US firepower by the present regime

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ormer Afghan president Hamid Karzai has sharply criticised new Fauthorities giving the US military greater freedom to fi ght Taliban insur- gents, saying they were a further ero- sion of the country’s sovereignty. In an interview, Karzai, who contin- ues to exert considerable behind-the- scenes infl uence on Afghan politics, also called on the Islamist militant movement to be more realistic in de- mands that have hampered progress in peace talks. His comments on American involve- ment in the war were at odds with the government of his successor, president Ashraf Ghani, which has welcomed US political and military support. “How could the US president au- thorise US troops to launch attacks on Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai their own in Afghanistan?” Karzai said, speaks during an interview in Kabul. referring to Barack Obama’s June deci- sion to alter the rules of engagement for “The government should know that the American military. no one is going to ask them to go away. “Don’t we have a government here? We want them to complete their Aren’t we a sovereign country?” term, we want them to complete the The new authorities, which US of- fi ve years,” he said. “But the country fi cials say were agreed with the Afghan needs a voice, the country needs to re- government, aff ect ground operations gain its confi dence.” where US troops provide support to Af- To do that, he called for a loya jirga. ghan forces as well as air combat, and “The loya jirga is an expression of au- Karzai has long been critical of US air thority of the Afghan people. strikes in Afghanistan, be they by fi ght- Things must return to the ownership er jets, helicopters or drones. of the Afghan people,” said Karzai, who He would ban them altogether, American A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter aircraft at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. has a deep network of political connec- even though the Afghan armed forces, tions throughout the country. struggling to contain the insurgency, duz last year in which 42 people died. Karzai was succeeded by Ghani two He appealed to the Taliban “as fel- must leave fi rst and then we will talk, “It’s an institution for a time of crisis say they could not cope without sup- Calling Afghanistan the victim of years ago. low Afghans to recognise that this is then I tell them that if they keep wait- and we are in crisis.” port from the skies and want more. a 21st century version of the “Great “I want to be allies with the United their country” and to break free of the ing for that, a lot of Afghan blood will The 58-year-old dismissed sugges- The former leader’s opposition re- Game” between competing powers on States, I want to be partners with the infl uence of Pakistan, which despite be shed,” he said. tions that such a gathering, including fl ects broader unease among Afghans the 19th century borders of British In- United States,” he said. “But it must be frequent denials, is blamed by Afghani- Despite suspicions among some opponents and allies of the govern- who believe innocent people have been dia, Karzai blamed the United States a partnership, not a master-and-slave stan for supporting the insurgency. close to the government that he wants ment, could undermine stability and killed in air attacks targeting militants, and Pakistan for “a war that is not ours”. relationship. “I would call on the Taliban to be free to destabilise Ghani, Karzai said he ex- weaken an administration that has unease that may grow with new powers However, he added that he wanted “We must remain the owners of this from foreign infl uence — in this case pected the US-backed government to struggled to overcome internal rival- granted to the US military. to reshape the partnership between house, the United States of America, a Pakistan, the Pakistan intelligence and serve its full fi ve-year term. ries. The US says its air strikes support Kabul and Washington, not end an al- guest.” military,” Karzai said. This is even though parliamentary Adding to the challenges, the Taliban Afghan operations and it takes extreme liance which brought him to power over As for the Taliban, Karzai said he saw He added that they had to be more elections and a special “loya jirga”, or have stepped up their insurgency, while care to avoid civilian casualties, despite a decade ago and still ensures billions of little change in tactics since the death of realistic in their demands to make gathering of Afghan leaders and elders, thousands of young people, unable to incidents such as the bombing of a Me- dollars in aid and military support each former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in peace talks possible. have not materialised as scheduled fi nd work, prefer to risk a perilous jour- decins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kun- year. a US drone strike on Pakistani soil in May. “When they say that foreign forces within the fi rst two years. ney to seek a better life in Europe. Woman, ‘boyfriend’ hanged from tree

AFP leged affair to the attention Multan, Pakistan of the others. The incident was confi rmed by other local offi cials at the Pakistani mother-of- police station. “They were three and the man she beaten up before being strung Awas allegedly having an up in the tree and hanged,” an- aff air with were hanged from other offi cial said. a tree yesterday, with police Pakistan’s law minister blaming her husband, brother in July announced that bills and father for carrying out the aimed at tackling “honour killings. killings” and boosting rape The grisly murders oc- convictions would soon be cured in the village of Chak 56 voted on by parliament, fol- around 55km northeast of the lowing a slew of high profile central city of Multan. cases including the killing Hundreds of so-called of racy social media star- “honour killings”, in which let Qandeel Baloch by her the victim, normally a woman, brother. People gather beside the wreckage at the site of the collision on the outskirts of Multan yesterday. is killed by a male relative or A young British Pakistani relatives for bringing shame woman, Samia Shahid, was to the family are carried out in also murdered in July, with Pakistan every year. her husband blaming her “A woman and her alleged family for orchestrating the boyfriend were hanged to killing. Pakistan train crash kills four death by the woman’s father, The perpetrators of honour brother and husband after killings often walk free because the woman was caught on a they can seek forgiveness for AFP Rescue workers used metal- and many lying outside the train. the area as troops also raced to trains from former colonial pow- date with her boyfriend in the crime from another family Multan, Pakistan cutting equipment to try to reach “Survivors and locals were the scene to help. er, Britain. the backyard of her house,” member. injured passengers still trapped in pulling out wounded people who Rescue offi cial Khalid Hus- The railways have seen dec- Sardar Afzal Dogar, chief of The new law, which aims to the mangled wreckage, according were stuck in the wreckage.” sain 28 people had been taken to ades of decline due to corrup- the local police station told do away with the clemency op- t least four people were to an AFP reporter at the scene. Local state-run rescue serv- hospital, while scores more were tion, mismanagement and lack of AFP. tion, has not been made avail- killed and more than 100 Mohamed Javed, 35, a shop- ice spokesman Abdul Jabbar told treated on the spot. investment. The victims were named as able to the public and no fi rm Ainjured when two trains keeper who lives near the site of AFP that more than 100 people A three-day public holiday for Last November, 19 people were Khalida Bibi, who was in her date has been set on when it collided in central Pakistan early the crash said he had been woken had been hurt. the festival of Eid al-Adha ended killed in southwestern Balu- late twenties, and Mukhtiar will be tabled. yesterday, offi cials said. up by “a huge blast”. Railway offi cial Saima Bashir on Wednesday, and many Paki- chistan province after a train’s Muhamed, who was around Observers say the govern- The accident occurred when “I thought that some bomb blamed the accident on the pas- stanis are returning from their brakes failed and it sped down 19. ment is fearful of blowback the Karachi-bound “Awam Ex- had exploded,” he told AFP. senger train driver, saying he family homes to the cities where the side of a mountain. He said all three suspect- from the religious right who press” passenger train rammed “I came out of my house and failed to heed a red signal that they work. In July 2015, at least 17 people ed murderers were arrested believe being able to forgive a into a goods train that had saw a passenger train had piled went up after the goods train had Train accidents are common were killed when a military train and had confessed to their murder in exchange for blood stopped after running over a man up on a goods train. stopped. in the country, which inherited fell into a canal after a bridge par- crimes, adding the woman’s money is an essential compo- near the city of Multan. I heard people crying in pain Cranes and ambulances fi lled thousands of miles of track and tially collapsed. husband had brought the al- nent of Islamic law. Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 11 PHILIPPINES Duterte killed justice offi cial, hitman tells Philippine Senate The president’s term as mayor of Davao has been controversial

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odrigo Duterte shot dead a justice department employee and or- Rdered the murder of opponents, a former death squad member told par- liament yesterday, in explosive allega- tions against the Philippine president. The self-described assassin testi- fi ed under oath that he and a group of policemen and ex-communist rebels killed about 1,000 people between 1988 and 2013 on Duterte’s orders — one of them an alleged kidnapper fed alive to a crocodile. Others were garroted, burned, quar- tered and then buried at a quarry owned by a police offi cer who was a member of the death squad. Others were dumped at sea to be eat- en by fi sh. Edgar Matobato, 57, made the allega- tions before the Senate, which is inves- tigating alleged extrajudicial killings in Duterte’s anti-crime crackdown that police said has left 3,140 people dead in his fi rst 72 days in offi ce. Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre called the allegations “lies and fabrica- Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed former hitman, holds up a roll of tape, the type of which he claims he used on his victims, during a Senate hearing on drug-related extra-judicial killings, in Pasay city, Metro tions”, adding Matobato “is obviously Manila, yesterday. Right: Philippine National Police (PNP) chief director Ronald Dela Rosa stretches as he attends the Senate hearing in Manila. not telling the truth”. Duterte aides said the government’s wounded in a shootout before Rodrigo “Our job was to kill criminals, rap- two months ago, won May elections in a left on Davao streets with rusty hand- dug up several skeletons of unidentifi ed Commission on Human Rights had al- Duterte, the Davao mayor at the time, ists, pushers, and snatchers. landslide on a promise to kill thousands guns planted in their hands to simulate people at the Davao quarry. ready investigated the allegations but showed up armed with a submachine That’s what we did. of criminals. a gun battle, he added. She said the hitman’s testimony did not fi le charges while his son, Paolo gun, Matobato said. We killed people almost on a daily He has rejected calls by the United The boyfriend of Duterte’s sister, would be referred to the Philippine Duterte, called the testimony “mere “Mayor Duterte was the one who fi n- basis” between 1988 and 2013, said States, the United Nations and rights along with Davao broadcaster and Du- Ombudsman, although she acknowl- hearsay” of “a madman”. ished him off .... Matobato, adding they also killed Du- groups to stop extra-judicial killings. terte critic Jun Pala, four bodyguards edged sitting presidents are immune The then head of the Commission on He emptied two Uzi magazines on terte family foes and an “international Matobato said he received orders to of a local rival, and two enemies of Du- from prosecution and could only be re- Human Rights, senator Leila de Lima, him.” terrorist”. kill either directly from Duterte or from terte’s son Paolo, now Davao vice may- moved through impeachment. told the inquiry Matobato had surren- “I didn’t kill anyone unless ordered “The people of Davao were being active-duty Davao police offi cers as- or, were also killed, Matobato added. Matobato said the death squad “tor- dered to the investigatory body in 2009 by Charlie Mike,” he said, telling the slaughtered like chicken,” he said, add- signed to the mayor’s offi ce who were “I will not dignify with an answer the tured” him when he asked to leave the and had until recently been in a witness Senate it was the death squad’s coded ing he lied to his wife about butchering also part of the death squad. The offi c- accusations of a madman,” Paolo Du- group in 2013, telling his bosses he was protection scheme. reference to city mayor, referring to chickens when she saw his blood-spat- ers told us ordinary killings won’t do. terte said, calling the allegations “mere “too old” for it and wanted to look for a Matobato recounted a 1993 death then-mayor Duterte. tered shirts. “They are sadists,” he said, describ- hearsay”. proper job. squad mission that was unintention- Matobato’s testimony fl eshed out in “I don’t think he’s capable of giving a ing how the victims were strangled. President Duterte has denied order- He was admitted to the justice depart- ally impeded by the vehicle of an agent gruesome detail for the fi rst time long- directive like that,” Duterte spokesman “Then we’d remove their clothes, ing Pala’s 2003 Davao ambush but has ment’s witness protection programme of the justice department’s Nation- running allegations Duterte was behind Martin Andanar said, adding that the burn the bodies and chop them up,” described him as an extortionist and a but left to go into hiding when Duterte al Bureau of Investigation that was the killings of more than a thousand government’s human rights commis- Matobato said, adding that he had per- “rotten son of a bitch” who “deserved won the presidency, Matobato added. blocking a road on the southern city of petty criminals, including minors, in sion investigated the allegations but did sonally killed “about 50” people. it”. The UN and rights watchdogs Asked why he left the death squad, Davao. Davao, where he was mayor for most of not fi le charges. Some victims were disembowelled roundly denounced his comments. he replied: “I am bothered by my con- The agent ran out of bullets and was the past two decades. Duterte, who took offi ce more than and dropped at sea, while others were De Lima said the rights body later science.”

President meets the troops Asian women lead the way in businesses to aid society — poll

Thomson Reuters Foundation enterprise called Siam Organic with a female business Bangkok/Jakarta school classmate. “They are more compassionate and want a mean- ingful life... t all the peace talks Joji Felicitas Pantoja at- Social entrepreneurs are inherently driven by im- tended in the confl ict-troubled Philippines proving people’s lives, lifting people out of poverty. Aisland of Mindanao, coff ee was served to put Women social entrepreneurs are better at doing people at ease. this than their male counterparts.” But Pantoja soon realised talking about peace Neil and Pornthida Palmmy Wongphatharakul wasn’t enough in communities unable to address ba- began work on Siam Organic as business school stu- sic needs like food and health, sparking an idea to use dents, not setting out with the aim of building a busi- coff ee as a vehicle for change. ness seeking to improve society. Setting up “Coff ee for Peace”, Pantoja worked “The social impact was tied into the business mod- with Mindanao farmers to revitalise an industry long el — the better the business, the more impact for the abandoned for cash crops like rubber and bananas — farmer,” said Palmmy. and her farmers’ earnings tripled. With Thai rice farmers earning about $12 per month “Peace is not just the absence of war... per acre, they decided to home in on the US market if we don’t address the economic aspect, it’s not and innovations — mainly the organic purple Jasberry complete,” Pantoja, 56, a self-described peacebuilder, rice, high in antioxidants — to boost farmers’ earnings said by Skype from Mindanao. and win health-conscious customers. Across Asia, women like Pantoja are re-examining The company now works with 1,000 farmers and society’s problems through a business lens, play- sold about 100 tonnes of its specialty rice in 2015 to ing a more leading role than women in other regions Thai and US buyers — and its farmers earn an average in harnessing the power of markets to tackle poverty of $180 per month per acre. and social ills, according to the fi rst experts’ poll on “My objective has always been whatever you do, the best countries for social entrepreneurs. you always have to help the farmers you promised to The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of the help. world’s 45 biggest economies found the Philippines When a decision comes along, you put the farmers Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte raises a clenched fist with secretary of defence Delfin Lorenzana and military chief general was the country where women fared best when tak- fi rst,” said Palmmy, 31. Ricardo Visaya as he poses for photos with members of the Scout Rangers regiment at a military training camp in San Miguel ing into account representation in leadership roles in Indonesian former domestic worker Heni Sri Sun- town, Bulacan province, north of Manila yesterday. social enterprises and the gender pay gap. dani never imagined she would become a social en- In fact fi ve other spots among the top 10 ranking trepreneur, using education to empower children and in the poll of nearly 900 experts in social enterprise families in Indonesian villages. were in Asia — Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Indone- From an impoverished farming family, in 2005 she sia and Thailand. went to Hong Kong as a maid to support her family Russia, Norway, and Canada rounded out the top but discovered her recruiter kept half her salary, in- 10, while Brazil came last and the United States fared spiring her to use any spare time to study for a degree Show face to cops, women in Davao told as badly in the perception poll due to concerns women in entrepreneurial management. are paid less than men. She returned home six years later with a degree and Women interviewed across Asia described a fairer started off ering free classes to children through her police hunt for suspects behind bombing playing fi eld and higher drive to put compassion over Smart Farmer Kids in Action movement, teaching valuation as the reason women are doing so well as science and also modern farming. social entrepreneurs. As the movement grew to include over 1,000 stu- AFP disallow garments that cover the faces in “The general welfare of the majority takes Overall the online poll, conducted between June dents in eight villages, she began charging a small fee Davao, Philippines public places,” the mayor said in a written precedence over religious tradition. 9 and July 15 in partnership with Deutsche Bank, the to help cover running costs but most parents, who are statement. While it is true that these garments are Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN) and farmers, could not aff ord it. “These garments include hats, sunglass- not disallowed by law, we discourage their UnLtd, foundations for social entrepreneurs, found So she created another community programme to omen in burqas and those wear- es, face masks, mouth masks, burqa, face use in public places,” the mayor added. 68% of experts said women are well represented in help the farmers sell their products online and intro- ing surgical masks should refrain paint, and other similar things.” Surgical masks are commonly worn by leadership in social enterprises. duced eco-tourism, boosting their incomes so they Wfrom concealing their faces in She said she understood the concerns of commuters in Asian cities, to block out pol- A study by Deloitte in 2015 showed that women could pay for schooling. public, the Philippine president’s daughter Muslim women who are required by their lution, or sometimes to stop the spread of hold only 12% of the world’s board seats while data “We hope these children stay and empower others said yesterday, describing the measure as religion to cover up. illness. from the Inter-Parliamentary Union shows women in the villages to become educated farmers. aimed at preventing attacks. “May I suggest that you wear the hijab Since the deadly blast in the bustling account for about 23% of all national parliamentar- We don’t want them to go to big cities to become Sara Duterte, mayor of Davao and daugh- which shows your face or co-operate with market in Davao on September 2, which led ians. exploited labourers or end up becoming human traf- ter of fi rebrand leader Rodrigo Duterte, the security personnel and show your face if to the president declaring a “state of law- However only 48% of experts said women in social fi cking victims,” said 29-year-old Sundani. made the remarks as police hunt for the sus- you are wearing the burqa,” the mayor said. lessness”, the city has introduced check- enterprises were paid the same as men, with the Unit- “People I met were amazed what a woman like me pects — seen on CCTV wearing face masks Muslim women in the majority Catholic points and armed security at key establish- ed States particularly concerned on this issue. can do. — behind a bombing this month that killed nation usually favour a hijab, which covers ments. “Whereas men want to be like Mark Zuckerberg, More women started to join me because a woman 15 in the southern city. only the hair, over the face-concealing bur- The government has blamed the attack on women want to do well for the community,” said is not just a housewife,” she said, adding she raised “It would be a good security practice to qa, though it is growing in popularity. local Islamic militants. Peetachai Neil Dejkraisak, who founded a rice social money via crowdfunding. Gulf Times 12 Friday, September 16, 2016 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL

Festival in Kathmandu 15 appeals in war crimes cases pending

People take part in the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. with court in ‘Walk-in’ India visas for Bangladesh

By Mizan Rahman man Noni and Obaidul Haque Taher while sentencing his lawyer AKM Fa- Dhaka of Netrokona, Shamsuddin Ahmed of khrul Islam to 10 years’ imprisonment elderly Bangladeshis Kishoreganj and Mohibur Rahman, and fi ned him ten mn taka, in default, alias Boro Miah, and his cousin Abdur to suff er six months’ more rigorous lthough most of the top Razzak of Habiganj. imprisonment. By Mizan Rahman en people-to-people contacts and relations between both Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have Of these 15 appeals, the state has Besides, the court sentenced his Dhaka the countries, it said. Abeen executed, the most recent pleaded for the death sentence for manager Mahbubul Ahsan, On the other hand, the high commission of india (HCI) has being Mir Quasem Ali, 15 war crimes Jabbar, who had been sentenced to life Fakhrul’s associate lawyer Mehedi introduced SMS-based appointment and One Time Pass- cases are waiting for appeal hearing imprisonment by the International Hasan, two staff of the ICT-1 Nay- ndia has introduced walk-in visas for senior citizens of word (OTP) for tourist visa applicants from Bangladesh. before the Supreme Court. Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) consider- an Ali and Faruq Hossain to seven Bangladesh with eff ect from September 18. Now the applicants need not pay any money to anyone The Supreme Court (SC) has so ing his age. years’ imprisonment and fined them I Senior citizens from Bangladesh, aged 65 and above, who promises facilitation of visa, particularly for appoint- far disposed of nine cases of crimes The other appeals were lodged by 10,000 taka each, in default, to suf- will not require prior appointment or e-token to submit their ment dates. against humanity. the convicts against their sentences by fer six months more rigorous impris- tourist visa applications, said an offi cial announcement. Under the new system, appointment dates for tourist visa It has handed down the death sen- the tribunal. onment. Senior citizens can walk in and submit their applications applicants including OTP will be sent to the mobile phone of tence against six war criminal—Abdul Two tribunals have so far disposed Earlier on August 28, the Dhaka to any of the Indian Visa Application Centres in Bangladesh, the applicants by SMS. Quader Molla, Kamaruzzaman, of 24 cases in six years. court deferred its judgment until Sep- said Indian high commission in Dhaka yesterday. It will be mandatory for tourist visa applicants to show this Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Ali The fi rst special court was set up on tember 15. The Indian government recently announced that Bang- SMS at the Indian visa application centre (IVAC) to enter and Ahsan Mujahid, Motiur Rahman Ni- March 25, 2010. On August 4, Judge of the tribunal ladesh nationals above the age of 65 years would be eligible deposit the application, said a press release of the HCI. zami and Mir Quasem Ali. Trials of more than 50 accused in 18 KM Samsul Alam fi xed August 14 for for Long Term Multiple Entry Tourist visas valid for five Applicants have been advised to fi ll in their genuine mobile They have already been executed cases are going on at the single tribu- delivering the judgment on comple- years. numbers while fi lling in their forms and applying for online after all legal procedures were carried nal after the merger of the two. tion of arguments in the case. This is a goodwill gesture extended for the benefi t of senior appointment dates. out. Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla The court also sent four accused – citizens, said the high commission. Diplomatic sources at the HCI said that the new and mod- The SC also delivered judgment in was the fi rst war criminal to be sent to Fakhrul, Faruq, Nayan and Mahbubul It is expected to ease the visa process and further strength- ern system will greatly improve the entire visa system. the appeal petitions of Gulam Azam, the gallows on December 12, 2013. – to jail when they appeared before the Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Abdul This was followed by Moham- court while lawyer Fakhrul’s associate Alim. ed Kamaruzzaman (April 11, 2015), Mehedi Hasan remains absconding. The SC awarded life in prison to Gu- Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali On February 15, the court framed lam Azam, Sayedee and Abdul Alim. Ahsan Mohamed Mujahid (November charges against seven people, Gulam Azam and Alim died while 21, 2015) including wife, a son and a counsel serving their jail terms. and Jaamaat supremo Motiur Rah- for executed Bangladesh Nationalist But both the defence and the state man Nizami (May 10, 2016). Party leader Salauddin Quader Chow- have pleaded for review of the SC At least 62 new cases are going to dhury, in the case. judgment that had commuted the be fi led shortly, while hundreds are in Detective branch inspector M death sentence of Jamaat nayeb-e- the process of investigation, sources Shajahan submitted a chargesheet to ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee to life in the investigation agency of the tri- the Dhaka metropolitan magistrate imprisonment. bunal said. court against the seven accused on The state sought death penalty, There are over 2,000 accused in at August 28, 2014. while the defence appealed for acquit- least 622 cases now being looked into On October 1, 2013, ICT sentenced tal of Sayedee. by the investigation agency of the BNP standing committee member The apex court is yet to hear the re- ICT. Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to view petitions. The second bench (ICT-2), which death after fi nding him guilty of com- Apart from this, at least 15 cases are was formed on March 22, 2012, mitting crimes against humanity and now pending before the apex court re- was dismantled on September 15, genocide during the Liberation War in lating to war crimes. 2015 and the ICT-1 was reconstituted. 1971. Most of the convicted appellants The ICT-1 disposed of 10 cases, and However, some parts of the draft were mid-level or even grassroots- the second tribunal 11. verdict were found posted on the in- level criminals, who terrorised their A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted ternet several hours before pronounc- neighbourhoods. wife and son of executed war criminal ing the verdict. The cases are against Jamaat nayeb- Salauddin Quader Chowdhury while Later, showing the copy of the draft e-ameer Moulana Abdus Subhan it sentenced fi ve people to diff erent verdict, Salauddin’s wife and son of Pabna, fellow Jamaat man ATM jail terms in a case fi led over leaking raised a complaint that the verdict Azharul Islam of Rangpur, the draft verdict of the International originated from the law ministry. Mobarak Hossain of Brahmanbaria, Crimes Tribunal (ICT) that sentenced On October 4, a case was fi led with ONE SMOKER. Syed Kaiser of Habiganj, engineer Ab- him to death. Shahbagh police station under sec- dul Jabbar of Pirojpur, Mahidur Rah- Dhaka cyber crimes tribunal judge tions 57 and 63 of information and man and Afsar Hossain of Chapaina- KM Samsul Alam passed the order. communication technology act. wabganj, Sheikh Sirajul Haque and The court acquitted Salauddin Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was Khan Akram Hossain of Bagerhat, For- Quader’s wife Farhat Quader and son executed in the Dhaka Central Jail on TWO PATIENTS. kan Mallik of Patuakhali, Ataur Rah- Humman Quader from the charges November 22, 2015.

Lanka mulls voting for citizens abroad The Sri Lankan election commission Pregnant women advised is keen to ensure millions of Sri Lankans living abroad are granted voting rights to make the electoral to avoid Zika hot spots process more inclusive, a top off icial TOBACCO KILLS said yesterday. This according to infolanka.com. Chief elections By Mizan Rahman climate conditions conducive to local commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya Dhaka spread and limited health resources, said he expected parliament according to the study published on- to enact laws that would allow line in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, some 2mn Sri Lankans living and angladesh has advised pregnant a medical journal, on September 1. working abroad to exercise their women not to travel to Zika- Malaysia reported its fi rst case of Zika franchise at national elections. “In Baff ected countries, including on August 31. A woman tested positive the interest of making our elections Singapore and Malaysia. for the mosquito-borne virus after she more inclusive, the commission is The instruction came after 10 Bang- visited neighbouring Singapore. of the view that we should have a ladeshis were reported to have been The Zika virus, which has spread mechanism for those (Sri Lankan tested positive for Zika in Singapore, through the Americas and the Carib- citizens) living abroad to vote,” he where 189 people have been infected. bean since late last year, is generally a told the Foreign Correspondents’ “The Bangladeshis infected with mild disease but is a particular risk to Association of Sri Lanka. Zika in Singapore are fi ne,” Health pregnant women. “Bangladesh is fully Under current laws, only citizens Minister Mohamed Nasim told report- prepared to tackle Zika,” Nasim said. who turn up at polling booths ers during a visit to Hazrat Shahjalal He also urged people not to be panic. between 7am and 4pm are allowed International Airport in the capital. Professor Abul Kalam Azad, direc- to vote. A few public servants He said the authorities are enquir- tor general of the directorate general of directly involved in conducting ing about Bangladeshi expatriates in health services, said the 10 Bangladesh- the poll and providing security are the countries that have been aff ected is infected with Zika have been quaran- allowed to cast their ballots by post. by Zika. tined and they are now out of danger. Deshapriya said he was also hoping A new study, meanwhile, said Bang- As there is a general concern over that a postal voting system or some ladesh is one of the Asian and African Zika, he said, the health ministry has other mechanism could be devised countries that may be at greatest risk alerted medical teams at all interna- to help many others carrying out of local outbreaks. tional air and seaports to make sure essential work during the polling Other countries of the region in- incoming travellers go through the period to exercise their franchise clude India, China, the Philippines, thermal scanners. If anybody is sus- without going to the polling booth Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam and Pa- pected to have been infected, they will during the stipulated period. kistan. be kept under observation at a special Addressing the FCA on the World These countries receive a combina- unit in Kurmitola Hospital, he said. democracy Day, Deshapriya said he tion of high volumes of travellers from “We have a capacity to test 1,500 Issued in Public Interest by GULF TIMES wanted even homeless people to Zika-aff ected areas, have mosquitoes people for Zika and will enhance it up participate. capable of transmitting Zika virus, to 20,000 if necessary,” Azad said. Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 13 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH The chemical analysis of Zamzam

r. Ahmad Abdul-Qaadir al-Muhandiss indicates that the results of chemical analyses show that Zamzam water is Dpure water, without colour or smell, has a distinct taste, and its hydrogen exponent is 7.5, indicating that it is alkaline to some extent. A study conducted in American laboratories showed that traces of 30 elements were identifi ed in Zamzam water by means of energising neutrons. Some of these elements scored less than 0.01. After matching up the chemical analysis to international specifi cations, especially to the specifi cations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), results proved the portability of Zamzam water as well as its benefi cial eff ect on the body health. Additionally, sodium is very high in Zamzam water and the international specifi cations do not put a limit to the measurement of its composition.

Minerals (Percentages): Calcium I98 Magnesium 43.7 Zamzam water Chloride 335 dispensers in the Sulphur 370 Grand Mosque of Iron 0.I5 Makkah. Manganese 0.I5 Copper 0.I2

This is an analysis of a study conducted in the laboratory of the Department of Water and Waste Water Treatment, the Western Province, Saudi Arabia (I400 AH.) Zamzam water has also been treated by ultraviolet rays, and microbes have no place to survive in it, which means that Zamzam water preserves its taste and is not a congenial environment for bacteria. According to various chemical analyses, dry Zamzam water: history weather makes Zamzam more saline through evaporation, which is, with Allaah’s might, good for the human body. In conclusion, it becomes clear that we should believe in the Prophet’s miracles and that he as described by Allah (what meant): “Nor does he speak of (his own) desire. It is only Inspiration that is inspired.” [Qur’an 53: 3-41] and signifi cance Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “Zamzam water is a lavish meal and llah has made all living creatures out that it has never once dried up. To Muslims with his heel to illustrate it), and so the water It so happened that for three consecutive a great healer,” and, “Zamzam water is what one of water. People require water for this blessed water is special in signifi cance and gushed out. Ismaa’eel’s mother was astonished nights, Abdul-Muttalib had a very clear vision intends to drink it for.” Thus, it is a Sunnah to drink almost everything; for agriculture, history. and started digging ... She started drinking from about digging a well. During each vision, the Zamzam water, wash with it, and splash it on a sick Aconstruction, transportation, and for the water and her milk increased for her child...” name of the well was diff erent and no location person. cooling and heating. But not all water carries A lofty history [Al-Bukhari] was mentioned. On the fourth night, however, the same value and signifi cance? Muslims refer Ibn ‘Abbaas narrated that the Prophet sallal- In another narration of Ibn ‘Abbaas the both Zamzam and its location were commu- The Benefi ts of Drinking Zamzam Water to the water of Zamzam as something revered laahu ‘alaihi wa sallam said: “When Ibraa- Prophet said: “May Allah be merciful to the nicated to Abdul-Muttalib so clearly that he Ibn ‘Abbaas said: “The people of Makkah used and unique. They crave this mysterious liquid heem (Abraham) had diff erences with his wife, mother of Ismaa’eel! If she had left the water attended to the appointed task on the morning to be the fastest when it comes to sprinting, and the and love to drink it whenever they can. And (because of her jealousy of Haajar, Ismaa’eel’s of Zamzam (fountain) as it was, (without of the very fourth night. most powerful when it comes to wrestling, but as for those who managed to go to the Haj, they mother), he took Ismaa’eel and his mother and constructing a basin for keeping the water), it To the utter disbelief of the Makkans who soon as they stopped drinking Zamzam water, they return home carrying it for thousands of miles went away. They had a water-skin with them would have been a fl owing stream. Jurhum (an ridiculed the seemingly futile attempt at fi nding started to suff er from a disease in their legs.” as a prized possession and to give as special containing some water, Ismaa’eel’s mother used ancient Arab tribe) came to Hagar and asked water in such an arid place, Abdul-Muttalib He also said that the Messenger of Allah gift to their friends and families. to drink water from the water-skin so that her her, ‘May we settle at your dwelling?’ She said, found water in an ancient buried well so close (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) had said: “Zamzam So, what is so special about Zamzam water? milk would increase for her child. ‘Yes, but you have no right to possess the water.’ to the Ka’aba. And it was only natural that the water is what one intends to drink for. When one In a word: Everything. When Ibraaheem reached Makkah, he made They agreed.” [Al-Bukhari] Makkans claim a share in this, obviously, special drinks it to be healed, Allah heals him; when one There is nothing ordinary about it. The her sit under a tree and afterwards returned It was thus how the dry and barren valley of well. Abdul-Muttalib gave no concessions and drinks it be full, Allah makes him full; and when one miracle of how it came to being in the mid- home. Ismaa’eel’s mother followed him, and Makkah became inhabited. rejected any such claim. drinks it to quench his thirst, Allah quenches it.” dle of the desert, its consistency throughout she called him from behind, ‘O Ibraaheem! The Archangel Gabriel unearthed the water The Makkans and Abdul-Muttalib’s could [Ahmad and Ibn Maajah] thousands of years, the benefi cial qualities it To whom are you leaving us?’ He replied, ‘(I of Zamzam such that the life of Ismaa’eel, the not negotiate a middle ground, so both parties There is no doubt that drinking Zamzam water is has, the fact that it never dries up. This water am leaving you) to Allah’s (Care).’ She said, ‘I great grandfather of Prophet Muhammad, agreed to seek arbitration. They set out for a very benefi cial. Thus, dear brothers and sisters! One is special. am satisfi ed to be with Allah.’ She returned to maybe saved. Hagar, the wife of Ibraaheem the priestess whose judgment was accepted by both should drink Zamzam water because it is the best The fact is, this small 5ft deep well is far her place and started drinking water from the patriarch, restricted its fl ow and caused it to be- parties. water on earth. Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allah be pleased away from any other source or body of water. It water-skin, and her milk increased for her child. come a well. It is located next to the holiest of all On their way, and while crossing the desert, with him, said that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi is self-replenishing. It is constantly replen- When the water had all been used up, she said holy places: the Ka’bah. Its water was the direct the caravan ran out of water. The companions of wa sallam) had said: “The best water on earth is ishing itself in order to produce gallons upon to herself, ‘I would better go and look so that I cause of Jurhum’s settlement in Makkah, and Abdul-Muttalib all but gave up any hope of sal- Zamzam water”. gallons of water for consumption of thirsty may see somebody.’ She ascended the hill of the hence the start of the Makkan era in the human vation. And when all seemed lost, water sprang Ibn Khaytham said: “Ibn Wahb came to us pilgrims plus the additional amount that is Safaa and looked, hoping to see somebody, but history. No other water can claim this honour. out from the ever so small notch that Abdul- suff ering from an illness. We, then, paid him a bottled and also the amount that is taken in vain. When she came down to the valley, she Muttalib’s camel made with its pad. Upon visit and found out that he had Zamzam water. We as gifts distributed worldwide to millions. ran till she reached the hill of the Marwah. She The Rebirth of Zamzam seeing this, the Makkans knew that He who said to him, ‘If you taste this water, you will fi nd it Zamzam water has scientifi cally been proven ran to and from (between the two hills) many With passage of time, the inhabitants of saved Abdul-Muttalib from this eminent death crude (salty).’ Then, he said: ‘I’ll drink from it till I to possess healing qualities due to its higher times. Then she said to herself, ‘I would better Makkah started to forego the ways of the pious on this very journey to settle the very question recover. I swear by the One Who owns my soul that content of calcium and magnesium salts and go and see the state of the child,’ she went and ones. Jurhum, the core of the Makkan popula- of Zamzam, had made Abdul-Muttalib the sole it is in the Book of Allah, ‘Zamzam neither drains also the natural fl uorides that encompass a found it in a state of one on the point of dying. tion, were driven out of Makkah when they heir to this special water. The matter was settled nor can by vilifi ed.’ It is in the Book of Allah, ‘... It germicidal action. She could not endure to watch her child dying became unjust and tyrannical. They, being fully and the family of the Prophet was ennobled is the drink of the pious.’ It is in the Book of Allah, It is also an established scientifi c fact that and said (to herself), ‘If I go and look, I may fi nd aware of the importance of Zamzam, hideously with a mark of clearest distinction. ‘Priceless perfume.’ It is in the Book of Allah, ‘It is pools or water wells tend to grow vegetation somebody.’ plugged it to deny their conquerors its blessings. It is of paramount importance to mention a lavish meal and a great healer.’ I swear by the One such as algae - especially in warm climates. She went and ascended the hill of the Safaa Zamzam was not reopened and henceforth was that Abdul-Muttalib’s possession of Zamzam Who owns my soul that if anyone drink his full from Amazingly this is not the case in the well of and looked for a long while but could not see forgotten. was not an act of ownership where he would it, he recovers.’ [Sa’eed Ibn Mansoor and Al-Arzaqi] Zamzam. It has remained free from biological anybody. Thus she completed seven rounds (of Many generations passed in Makkah with deny its water to others. Being the sole heir to All the above proves the authenticity of the contaminants. running) between Safaa and Marwah. Again she Zamzam in complete oblivion, until Abdul- Zamzam meant that Abdul-Muttalib alone was narration: “Zamzam water is what one intends to From the time that Haajar wandered aim- said (to herself), ‘I would better go back and see Muttalib (the paternal grandfather of the to provide Zamzam water to the pilgrims; no drink for.” Additionally, many Islamic scholars drank lessly through the desert in search of suste- how the child is doing.’ But all of a sudden she Prophet ) resurrected the dead well. Abdul- one else (save his family of course) could partake it and experienced its dazzling eff ects. For instance, nance for her son and herself; to the moment heard a voice, and she said to that strange voice, Muttalib himself was oblivious to Zamzam. in this most honorable privilege. Source: Al- Imaam Abu Haneefah drank from Zamzam water in that the well of Zamzam was born out of the ‘Help us if you can off er any help.’ It was Gabriel With the approaching of the last divine mes- Jumu’ah order to be a knowledgeable scholar and he became great Mercy of Allah, Muslims have been (who had made the voice). Gabriel hit the earth sage, a sequence of signifi cant preludes was in Article source: http://www.islamweb.net/ the best among the scholars in his era. drinking from it. What is more fascinating is with his heel like this (Ibn ‘Abbaas hit the earth order; the rebirth of Zamzam was one. emainpage/ Al-Bakri said: “I tried (Zamzam water) and sensed the truth about what had been said about it, and when I drank it, I had no doubt about its amazing eff ect.” It is also true that Imaam Shaafi ’i felt its tangible results when he drank Zamzam water in order to be a knowledgeable person and a good arrow shooter, Venerable even before Islam fi tting nine out of ten targets at a time. Al-Ajmi said that when drinking Zamzam water fter the rebirth of Zamzam from the well, and to remove all obsta- example, ‘a cure for illness’, and ‘a food ing, and a guidance for Al-’Aalameen than a well) whose water shall never one should ask for forgiveness from sins, one may on the hands of Abdul- cles from the path of Tawaaf. for hunger’. It is also called ‘suffi cient’, (the mankind and jinn). In it are mani- dry.” [Ahmad] say: “O Allah! It came to my knowledge that your Muttalib, the Makkans It is worth mentioning that there ‘benefi cent’, and ‘pure and sweet’. fest signs (for example), the Maqaam Every year, millions upon millions Prophet said, ‘Zamzam water is what one intends Aaccorded Zamzam the are other wells named Zamzam after (place) of Ibraaheem (Abraham); who- of pilgrims drink Zamzam water, to drink it for.’ O Allaah! I am drinking it to forgive veneration it deserved. They used to the original one. Such a well can be The Heavenly Connection soever enters it, he attains security...” which has been around for thousands me. O Allah! Forgive me.” Besides, when someone drink from Zamzam whenever they found, for example, in Madinah. Ibn ‘Abbaas related that when a [Qur’an 3:96-97] of years. It is fed daily to the Prophet’s drinks it to be healed, it is good to say: “O Allah! I were about to engage in matter of man drowned in Zamzam much of the Zamzam is one of those signs. mosque in Madeenah in large quanti- am drinking it to be healed. O Allaah! Heal me.” grave importance. The Names of Zamzam water was removed out of the well in Chronologically it is the fi rst, for when ties, and is packaged and shipped to Al-Haarith Ibn Khaleefah As-Sa’di Like any object of reverence, Zam- order to retrieve the body. After re- Ibraaheem, the Patriarch left his wife millions of Muslims worldwide, with- The ruling of carrying Zamzam Water narrated that Quraysh always com- zam commands both love and respect. moving the body, Ibn ‘Abbaas told the and infant son at the barren valley, out the slightest blemish in its fl ow. outside Makkah menced their preparation to fend In addition to the sublime nature and man who was at the bottom of the well following Allah’s command, he made It is the epitome of munifi cence; the Al-Imaam Al-Faarisi mentioned that it is enemies by drinking from Zamzam. the loft history of this unique water, to collect water from the wellspring a humble request: “O our Lord! I have more we drink, the more it gives. permissible to carry Zamzam water outside Makkah This was so customary that one could its attributes have originated its many which fl ows from the direction of the made some of my off spring to dwell in according to the four juristic schools, and that it is easily infer the gravity of matters names. Some of its names that are Ka’aba. The source of this wellspring, an uncultivable valley by Your Sacred A Friend of the Believer even recommended by Imaam Maalik and Imaam from the collection of pots near related to its sublimity are ‘blessing’ said Ibn ‘Abbaas is from Paradise. House (the Ka’aba at Makkah) in order, Ibn ‘Abbaas narrated that the Shaafi ’ee . Zamzam. and ‘blessed’. Another beautiful name ‘Abdullaah Ibn ‘Amr corroborates O our Lord, that they may perform Prophet said: “One diff erence ‘Aa’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, also The Makkans realised that Zam- is ‘Bushra’ which signifi es glad tidings the same reference to the heavenly salaah (prayer). So fi ll some hearts between us (believers) and the mentioned that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa zam was blessed water. They sought for the believers. connection. This gives Zamzam yet among men with love towards them, hypocrites is that they could not drink sallam) and herself used to do that. [At-Tirmithi]. its blessing in matters of gravity, and Its lofty history contributed to its a further distinction whereby this and (O Allah) provide them with fruits much from Zamzam.” [Ibn Maajah] Abu Hasan said: “The Prophet wrote to Suhayl many a times it was the diff erence. many names, such as ‘sanctifi ed’. An- earthly stream is mixed with water so that they may give thanks.” [Qur’an A Muslim loves Zamzam and drinks Ibn ‘Amr : ‘If you receive my message at night, other set of names derive from the fact from Paradise. This is a most generous 14:37] Zamzam was the fi rst among it abundantly until he is full, whereas do not wait till the morning, and if you receive The Location of the Well that the Archangel Gabriel (Jibreel) gift of Allah. many fruits. a hypocrite could not. This inability is it in the morning do not wait till night; just The well is located only few paces unearthed the water, such as ‘Hamzat caused by innate dislike to whatever immediately send me some Zamzam water.’ Then, from the Ka’aba, behind the Maqaam Jibreel’ and ‘Wat’at Jibreel’, with both A Clear Sign A Perpetual Water the believers do in accordance with Suhail’s wife with the help of his grandfather, (the stepping stone which Ibraaheem names referring to the act of knocking Al-Masjid Al-Haraam (The Sacred One of the greatest attributes of Allaah’s wishes, which, in turn, causes Ayoob Ibn ‘Abdullaah, and their maids carried used while building the Ka’bah) to the the ground open by the Archangel. Mosque in Makkah) is the fi rst House Zamzam is that it will never dry up. the wretched one to forsake this divine Zamzam water at night…” [Abu Moosaa Al- left. Its location is now clearly marked Zamzam’s attributes, however, of worship appointed for mankind. This is a gift from Allaah to Makkah gift for a mere mortal one. Madeeni & Al-Azraqi] on the marbles of the Mataaf (the account for most of its names. Some Along with this appointment, Allah and to its pilgrims. Ibn ‘Abbaas nar- Article source: http://www.is- Attaa stated that Ka’bah Al-Ahbaar used to carry nearly circular open space where the of these attributes were learned from blessed this sacred place with many rated that the Prophet said: “... May lamweb.net/emainpage/ it to ancient Syria. pilgrims circumambulate around the teachings of the Prophet ; others signs of distinction. Allah Says (what Allah bestow his mercy upon her ‘Aa’ishah carried Zamzam in bottles for sick Ka’bah). The well itself was lowered were coined as descriptive names for means): “Verily, the fi rst House (of (Hagar, the mother of Ismaa’eel), had people. The Prophet also carried it in leather bags below the ground to facilitate the physical and spiritual attributes of worship) appointed for mankind was she let go (of the water of Zamzam) it and used to pour it on the sick and give it to them as modernisation of water extraction the water. These names include, for that at Bakkah (Makkah), full of bless- would have become a spring (rather a drink. [Al-Faakihi] Gulf Times 14 Friday, September 16, 2016 COMMENT

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P.O.Box 2888 Doha, Qatar push against sexist press [email protected] Telephone 44350478 (news), 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) By Amber Jamieson and Adam Cue horror from conservatives and Fax 44350474 Gabbatt stay-at-home mothers, who saw it Guardian News and Media as a dismissal of their life choices and lambasted her for it – although the full Clinton quote continued: “The work ypical Hillary Clinton, many that I have done as a professional, scoff ed, not telling the media a public advocate, has been aimed for two days she was sick … to assure that women can make GULF TIMES Twith pneumonia until video the choices, whether it’s full-time emerged of her nearly collapsing as she career, full-time motherhood or some left a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday. combination.” Clinton headed back to the “She has no use for us, we have no campaign trail for a rally in use for her,” declared one woman in a Does the UK Greensboro, North Carolina, Today show story. yesterday. A theme of the 2016 Journalist Katie Couric asked if election is Clinton’s supposed hatred she regretted the comment in a 1992 of the press, as seen in her avoidance interview. “I regret having had it taken need Hinkley of press conferences and her pool of out of context and misconstrued,” reporters. Clinton replied. But a study of Clinton’s press This treatment from the early days interactions off ers at least one reason under the national spotlight – and why the Democratic nominee is not it worsened when Clinton tried and Point C? too keen to share intimate details failed to push healthcare legislation about her life unless absolutely in 1993 – is one reason Clinton’s Half the world seems to think the planet needs nuclear power necessary: the coverage has been relationship with the media remains more than ever. The other half seems just as sure that now’s the overwhelming sexist for decades. testy. Who wants to engage with an time to get rid of it forever. From the beginning of her career industry that has publicly humiliated It’s a collision between long-term concerns over global in the public eye, Clinton has been you for years? warming — which gives nuclear power appeal as a practical dogged by questions about her “There’s no rational reason why a interest in homemaking – despite her centre-left Democratic traditional form of carbon-free energy — and anxieties heightened by three own successful career. The queries candidate running the campaign she’s reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima plant in northern Japan in gradually became more subtle, but the running would generate so much March 2011. concern of her interviewers was often animosity ... it’s only explained if Proponents of nuclear energy say accidents like the Fukushima the same: is this woman “womanly” you look at the decades that go back,” meltdown are rare, that reactors are getting safer, and that fossil enough? Boehlert said. fuels are responsible for more deaths, through mine accidents Some of the earliest footage of But the idea that she avoids the Clinton having to deal with open Hillary Clinton: relentless attack by media. press during this election because and pollution. sexism comes from 1979. She was a she hates them isn’t fair, he adds, Opponents say Fukushima shows that reactors can’t be month into her spell as fi rst lady of birthed the famed war between the traditional mold but trying to prove explaining that he thinks the press made to withstand catastrophes. They also cite the cost and Arkansas and was being interviewed Clintons and the media. that she doesn’t, by discrediting simply isn’t her priority. environmental risks involved in disposing of nuclear waste. on local television. “It’s not the Clintons versus the her because she isn’t a good woman “She’d much rather spend her time Notwithstanding these arguments, the British government “You don’t really fi t the image we press, it’s the Clintons versus the who doesn’t fi t the traditional mold. trying to communicate with voters, yesterday gave the green light to the controversial Hinkley Point have created for the governor’s wife press plus the Republican party,” There’s no way of winning that I think the press senses that and gets in Arkansas,” says her inquisitor, a said Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at contest. If she says, ‘I love my child’, off ended by that,” Boehlert said. C nuclear power plant after agreeing on measures to “enhance man with a brutal hair parting and Media Matters, a progressive media people say, ‘Yeah, but you work the He also contrasts Trump’s security” in the French-built, Chinese-invested project. disconcerting tie. watchdog. whole time’.” treatment of the press in this The government said it approved the project “following a “You’re not a native. You’ve The 1992 election, with Clinton Clinton pushed herself as an campaign. “She respects their role. comprehensive review,” a revised agreement with French energy been educated in liberal eastern competing against America’s grandma independent and ambitious woman – She’s not banning people from her giant EDF, and the imposing of new legal restrictions on future universities. You’re less than 40. You Barbara Bush for the role of fi rst lady, and the heat she got for it burnt her. rally, not insulting them in every foreign investment in nuclear energy facilities and other “critical don’t have any children. You don’t use is when the national sexist spotlight In a 60 Minutes interview with speech, she doesn’t herd them into your husband’s name. You practice began to shine. husband Bill during the 92 campaign, metal pens, and yet the press seems to infrastructure.” law. Does it concern you that maybe “There was a hostility that she was quizzed about his supposed be upset with her. They don’t seem to EDF and its Chinese partner, the state-owned China General other people feel that you don’t fi t seemed to emerge in that compare infi delity and Clinton famously be upset at Trump,” Boehlert said. Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), both said they were the image that we’ve created for the and contrast,” said Tammy R responded: “I’m not sitting here some He also notes that when Clinton “delighted” with the governor’s wife in Arkansas?” Vigil, an assistant professor of little woman standing by my man wasn’t covered by the DC beltway press, go-ahead, while the Clinton – who earned a doctor of communication studies at Boston like Tammy Wynette. I’m sitting here such as during her time as secretary “We have always French government law degree from Yale, was the fi rst University who is working on a book because I love him and I respect him.” of state when the diplomatic press female chair of the Legal Services about the role of political spouses Which off ended country singer reported on her, the reporting on her called the approval “a been clear that Corporation, and was the fi rst female during campaigns. Wynette, who told Clinton via the was more neutral and favourable. Vigil major step in Franco- partner at Rose Law Firm, the third “Right out of the gate she was press she should appear with her in an points out the same thing happened nuclear is an British industrial and oldest law fi rm in the US – handled getting slammed for the pantsuits, the interview to defend those remarks. during her time as a US senator for New energy co-operation.” the question with panache while hair, the headbands, her appearance, “I can assure you, in spite of your York, when it was mainly local press important part of The government’s sporting a huge pair of spectacles in her life choices, and everything she education, you will fi nd me to be just focusing on her work. business secretary, what was the style of the time. said was so heavily scrutinised. I think as bright as yourself,” said Wynette, a No one is asking Clinton about ensuring the UK’s “I think that each person should she became defensive. And now she’s dig at Clinton’s Ivy League education napkins these days, but that Greg Clark, said be assessed and judged on that trying not to be as defensive, but it’s and high-powered career. doesn’t mean the sexism has gone. future low-carbon “Britain needs to person’s own merits. I’m not 40 but sort of still there,” Vigil said. Even Clinton’s response to “Within the beltway press, the upgrade its supplies of that hopefully will be cured by age, Barbara Bush fi tted into the Wynette’s response was covered sexism has become more nuanced energy security” energy, and we have eventually I will be,” she quips. expected norm for presidential wives, negatively, although her reaction was condescension,” Boehlert said. always been clear that “That doesn’t bother me, and I a sweet southern lady who spent her not very media-savvy. Presidents have also had much more nuclear is an important part of ensuring our future low-carbon hope that it doesn’t bother very many life raising children. Clinton was an “Hillary Clinton rolled her eyes serious health crises far before Clinton energy security.” people. I think in a way it’s kind of ambitious working mother. and slapped her forehead when told came down with a bout of pneumonia. a tribute to the state that someone “The Republicans in 1992 were of Wynette’s reaction Tuesday during Franklin D Roosevelt wore leg braces Industry groups have welcomed the go-ahead for Hinkley who may or may not fi t an image is using terms like ‘feminazi’ claiming a meeting with the editorial board of and could barely walk when he Point, saying thousands of new jobs will now be created, giving a accepted on her own terms.” she wanted to destroy the fabric of the the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel,” accepted the Democratic nomination huge boost to the nuclear sector. The interviewer – he is called Jack – American family because she wasn’t a reported the Associated Press at the in 1932, before becoming entirely However, there is an array of signifi cant problems and fears lobs another question. stay-at-home mom,” Vigil said. time. paralysed. John F Kennedy had related to the £18bn project which is projected to one day supply “One gets the impression that The media tried to make Clinton Shortly afterwards, when defending Addison’s disease. Both health issues 7% of the UK’s electricity. One is the technology itself. you’re really not all that interested into the traditional fi rst lady they her own legal career, Clinton declared: were rarely covered in the media. possibly in state dinners and teas and were accustomed to while criticising “I suppose I could have stayed home “Yet Hillary Clinton had The planned European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) for Hinkley garden parties?” her for not being it, starting the idea and baked cookies and had teas, but pneumonia, didn’t share it for two is a relatively new and still unproven design. There have been Bill Clinton was governor of that Clinton is disingenuous. As Vigil what I decided to do was fulfi l my days and it was the biggest crime of serious technical problems at other EPR construction sites in Arkansas for 12 years before being explains, “There’s been kind of a profession, which I entered before my the century. I can understand being Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in northern France. elected president in 1992. His election weird way of making her fi t into the husband was in public life.” defensive if I’m her,” Vigil said. There are also worries that the project’s funding is at risk. The construction will be paid for by EDF and Chinese state-backed CGN group, which will pay two thirds and one third respectively. However, EDF’s market value has halved in the past two years, dropping to £18.7bn – not much more than the cost of Hinkley Point C. Millions fl eeing from one confl ict to another From the British perspective, another issue is the indirect involvement of the Chinese state. Some argue it’s unwise to country that’s safe,’” al-Jassem said. give Beijing control over such an important part of UK’s energy Thomson Reuters Foundation London It took months of convincing before infrastructure. al-Jassem fi nally decided to leave Syria Yet another major problem is the cost to UK consumers. and seek asylum in Britain. In 2013, the coalition government agreed a price of £92.5 per or Ahmad al-Rashid, fl eeing A record 65.3mn people were megawatt hour of electricity (rising in line with infl ation) at from his home in Aleppo, uprooted worldwide last year, many which it would purchase power from the new plant for 35 years northern Syria, to Iraq in 2013 of them fl eeing wars only to face was the safest choice he had. walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as once it is operational. Without such guarantees EDF and the F But after two years as an aid worker they reach borders, according to the Chinese would not have agreed to invest. there, and watching the situation UNHCR. Concerns have been raised that the energy landscape has deteriorate, al-Rashid decided to leave “While there has been some eff ort to changed in the last few years, since the deal was fi rst backed and for Britain. welcome refugees, the overall trend has the contract negotiated. Renewables are much more mainstream “Iraq itself was in a crisis, it got been around deterrence, containment and the costs of subsidising solar, onshore and off shore wind worse and worse. Syria and Iraq were and outsourcing,” said Maya Mailer, the same – so being a refugee in Iraq Oxfam UK’s head of humanitarian have fallen dramatically. was just like being in Aleppo,” he said policy. And the way the energy system is managed, with more at a media briefi ng organised by aid “The right to claim asylum is being balancing of supply and demand and growing use of storage, may group Oxfam UK. eroded. And in part, it’s because the mean a large chunk of base-load power running all the time – as Around 3.8mn refugees and asylum Migrants sleep on camp beds at a Red Cross centre in the city of Ventimiglia on richer countries aren’t sharing the nuclear would – is not needed. seekers fl ed from one confl ict zone the French-Italian border. responsibility.” to another last year, according to an Al-Jassem said it took months Oxfam report published yesterday. East with some 2mn internally opposing President Bashar al- to travel through Turkey, Greece, To Advertise Using data from the United Nation’s displaced people, hosts refugees from Assad’s regime. Macedonia and Calais in France, before refugee agency (UNHCR), Oxfam other confl ict-ridden nations such Al-Jassem left the capital Damascus fi nally arriving in the northern English [email protected] found that around 16% of the world’s as Eritrea, Ethiopia, and even Syria, where he worked, and returned to his city of Manchester, where he now Display refugee and asylum seeker population Goldring said. home village near Aleppo to volunteer lives with his wife and two-year-old had fl ed to countries also in confl ict, The Oxfam report comes a week as an ambulance driver, pulling people daughter. Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, before US President Barack Obama from the rubble after a bombing or air While grateful for his new life, Classified Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. hosts the fi rst UN summit on refugees strike. al-Jassem said he dreams of returning Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 “The fact that so many people fl ee in New York where he is expected But in 2014, Islamic State militants home to be with his friends and elderly confl ict only to end up in another to urge leaders to do more to help marched into his village in northern parents. Subscription country that’s troubled by insecurity refugees in countries like Lebanon, Syria and executed his brother. Now, “When I think of Damascus, I feel [email protected] shows the lack of options many Turkey, Kenya and Jordan. al-Jassem said, he was wanted by both very sad. Could I ever go back to refugees have,” Mark Goldring, Oxfam Like many Syrian refugees, government forces and the militants, Damascus? I don’t want to stay in CEO, said. Yasser al-Jassem had no intention also known as Isis. Europe. I just want a safe place for (a 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved For example, war-torn Yemen, one of fleeing when war broke out in “My parents and my wife asked me short while) and we’ll go back to Syria. of poorest countries in the Middle 2011, preferring to die in Syria while many times, ‘Please move to another I love my country.” Gulf Times Friday, September 16, 2016 15 Weather report Three-day forecast COMMENT TODAY High: 39 C Low : 31 C Hazy at first, becomes hot daytime with some clouds.

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When her pro-Brexit Trade Minister, Liam Fox, May broke with tradition and invited media to her was reported as suggesting Britain should leave the offi cial country residence, Chequers, last month to EU’s customs union, May’s offi ce at 10 Downing fi lm her taking charge of a potentially unruly cabinet, Street said no decision had yet been made. whose members diff er widely and sometimes Fox was also recorded as saying Britain had become publicly over Britain’s priorities. “too lazy and too fat” to seek new export markets; She promised a “unique deal” allowing the country May’s spokeswoman responded that trade ties were to secure trade deals on good terms while limiting important. immigration, a combination repeatedly ruled out by May’s aides say she is not overly worried by European leaders, who say free trade is only possible Davis, Fox or Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, whose with free movement of people. appointment prompted concern abroad because of “We must continue to be very clear that Brexit his history of off ending people. means Brexit, and we are going to make a success of “This is the way I operate,” May told reporters on The three men all have prime ministerial ambitions it,” she told ministers she chose when the surprise board her offi cial plane headed for a summit in China and all campaigned to leave the EU. May’s aides referendum result brought her to power to bridge earlier this month, describing why she took her time say she will stand by them, a comment aimed at splits over Europe in her Conservative Party. deciding whether to go ahead with a nuclear power reassuring some anti-EU Conservative activists and It was the latest iteration of a catchphrase that plant funded partly by China. lawmakers that “Brexit means Brexit”. critics of May, who quietly backed the campaign to “I don’t just come in and say ‘I’m going to take a Davis and Fox have since stuck to the offi cial line stay in the European Union before the referendum, decision’ – I actually look at the evidence, weigh up and Johnson has made few public comments. Two say is open to wide interpretation. that evidence, take the advice and consider that and lawmakers said he was focused on researching his May will not attend today’s EU summit in the come to my decision.” brief, particularly the Middle East. Slovak capital, Bratislava, the bloc’s fi rst since Britain Her aides and ministers have told reporters the Davis reiterated to parliament this week his Brexit Around the world voted to pull out in June. Brexit will be the elephant government will not off er a “running commentary” ministry would co-ordinate policy, not form it. “On Weather Weather in the room but the meeting is unlikely to shed much on talks her European counterparts say cannot begin responsibilities, the prime minister will lead the UK’s today Max/min tomorrow Max/min light on it. until Britain triggers the exit. exit negotiations and be supported on a day-to-day Athens Sunny 32/20 Sunny 33/22 She has vowed not to start divorce proceedings this “This is a negotiation. It is not always the right basis by my department,” he said. 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Until then, British civil servants are contingency what to do in the normally private setting of Colombo S T Storms 29/26 S T Storms 29/25 May’s aides suggest her plan is to invoke Article 50 planning, working out ways immigration could be Chequers on August 31 was calculated to underline Dhaka P Cloudy 32/26 T Storms 31/26 Hong Kong M Sunny 31/28 P Cloudy 32/27 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which triggers the start of controlled, lost funding from the bloc replaced and she was in charge of the Brexit process. Istanbul Sunny 27/17 Sunny 29/20 the exit, early in 2017. Until then, her critics will just EU laws transposed into British law. “It is a scene that will be played out again and Jakarta T Storms 32/25 T Storms 32/25 have to wait. Two sources close to the preparations say they again,” the source said. ‘Huge’ gender pay gap in sport persists: study

AFP director Fiona Hathorn added in a Australia is making greater progress and Sydney statement. has a professional independent board, “Yet this is really just an example of with three senior corporate women.” bias at play. In terms of women’s representation he huge gulf between how “Had our culture been used to seeing on boards, only tennis recorded a much male and female women, rather than men, play football signifi cant increase in the percentage athletes are paid is not likely and rugby for generations, we would of female members — but it had come Tto narrow in the foreseeable fi nd the idea of men playing these off a base of zero percent two years ago, future, a joint British-Australian games a bit novel — it’s all a matter of added the report, which sourced data report said yesterday. perspective.” from more than 600 sporting bodies. The study by advocacy group The Gender Balance in Global The report’s release came just days Women on Boards found the gender Sport Report — written before the after Australia’s new national netball pay gap was in part due to the growing Rio Olympics last month — said there league secured an improved pay deal commercialisation of sport, where was progress in cricket, where the for players, with athletes set to earn media rights and sponsorships shorter T20 game has been seen to twice the previous minimum salary — contribute to tournaments and how be “signifi cantly benefi ting female from A$13,250 ($9,905) to A$27,375. much players take home. players”. But this was not the case The landmark agreement also puts The report, which follows up on a in football, with Hathorn saying the pressure on the Australian Football 2014 analysis, said “the huge pay gap diff erence in pay represented a wider League, which is launching a female in many sports is not likely to close problem that stemmed from the national league next year. anytime soon”. sport’s top leaders. The so-called Aussie Rules sport has “There are a lot of arguments put “The main governing bodies in been criticised in recent weeks for the low forward that women’s sport is not as world football have few women on pay its female stars are set to take home — physical and not as good to watch,” their boards. with the base salary for most players for Women on Boards UK’s managing The UK fares little better whilst this fi rst season at just A$5,000.

Live issues Can long naps cause diabetes?

AFP Tokyo and colleagues, covered more diseases, even when only the reverse is Paris than 300,000 people of Asian and true.” European origin from around the world. “In general, it is not possible to For naps of less than forty minutes, make conclusions about cause and study presented at a scientifi c the link with diabetes disappeared, they eff ect based on observational studies congress yesterday has noted. alone, because usually they cannot rule reported a link between Experts not involved in the research out alternative explanations for their Along naps and a higher risk noted that the statistical correlation fi ndings,” he said. of diabetes, though it couldn’t say if revealed nothing about cause-and- Naveed Sattar, an expert on daytime sleeping was a symptom or a eff ect. metabolic disease at the University cause. The study, they added, has yet to be of Glasgow said the results should be People who slept more than an published in a peer-reviewed Science taken with a generous pinch of salt. hour each day were 45% more likely to journal. “It’s likely that risk factors which develop type 2 diabetes, a debilitating UK experts said people with lead to diabetes also cause napping,” he condition associated with overweight long-term illnesses and undiagnosed wrote in a comment distributed by the and a sedentary lifestyle, the study diabetes often felt tired during the day. non-profi t Science Media Centre. found. But they said there was no evidence that Only clinical trials – experiments in Individuals with diabetes are unable napping caused or increased the risk of which scientists could test the impact to naturally regulate their blood sugar diabetes. of napping by comparing two or more levels. “It can falsely appear that their groups of people – can reveal whether too Without treatment, the disease can illness followed increased napping, much day-time sleeping is bad for health. lead to blindness, nerve damage, kidney rather than the other way around,” “Without proper trials, we simply failure, heart disease and premature said Benjamin Cairns, a researcher at will never know the answer,” Sattar death. the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the said. The meta-analysis – a review of University of Oxford. The study was unveiled at a meeting existing scientifi c literature – by “This could mean that long naps of the European Association for the Yamada Tomahide of the University of appear to cause diabetes or other Study of Diabetes in Munich, Germany. Gulf Times 16 Friday, September 16, 2016 QATAR MoI stresses importance of Activities for kids at Al Rayyan Park proper parking near malls

he Ministry of Interior “Wrong parking is a violation (MoI) has advised peo- of traffic laws,” the MoI said, Tple to park their vehicles noting that motorists should properly near malls and other ensure that they park their ve- busy public areas to ensure that hicles properly – in designated traffi c movement is not aff ected areas – so that traffic flow is in the vicinity. not affected and other cars are In a post on its Facebook page not blocked. yesterday, the MoI also remind- Earlier this week, the MoI ed motorists not to park their stressed the need for motorists cars in slots reserved for people to follow traffi c rules in order to with special needs (by ignoring prevent accidents during the Eid their rights) and also be alert for al-Adha holidays. pedestrians crossing the road. In a statement, the minis- The post points out that try said people should comply some motorists resort to wrong with traffi c regulations during and random parking near malls the busy Eid days to ensure the and shopping complexes, safety of road users and prevent thereby impeding traffic move- mishaps. Overcrowding and Al Rayyan Municipality has organised a number of children’s activities, including inflatable play ment or blocking the path of Vehicles should be parked in designated areas to ensure smooth flow congestion are expected in many areas, at Al Rayyan Park in view of the Eid al-Adha holidays. other vehicles. of traff ic. (picture courtesy of MoI Facebook page). areas during this period. Pirates show wows audience By Joey Aguilar Staff Reporter

fter winning the hearts of young spectators in Doha Awith Snow White last year, performers from London have once again enthralled audi- ences with another unique show this Eid al-Adha. The Pirates from the Carib- bean show at Lagoona Mall, which runs until Sunday, has been providing mall visitors with an exciting action-comedy theme. It is one of the exclu- sive family entertainment pro- grammes organised by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA). “The process we use to get to this standard is very high,” said A group of Qatari performers regaled the audience with traditional music at Lagoona Mall following the Joshua Hammond, who plays the Pirates from the Caribbean show. PICTURES: Joey Aguilar role of pirate Barny. “The per- formers exert 100% eff ort into see them knowing and enjoying the show.” the show,” he added. Performers from London have returned to Doha for another entertaining show, Pirates from the He noted that the cast had About the preparations, Ham- Caribbean, this Eid al-Adha holiday. trained in the UK, home of the mond disclosed that they usually West End theatre where profes- spend a month to practise as well sionals and young actors aspire as write and rewrite scripts, mu- to perform. “These perform- sic and the lyrics. ers love coming to Qatar to see Besides Snow White, the team something diff erent, particular- had also staged The Jungle Book ly during the Eid celebrations, a and Cinderella in Qatar in pre- time when residents and visitors vious years, also during the Eid throng the malls to watch family celebrations. All received a posi- entertainment shows.” tive response from the public, he While the artistes go through added. auditions in London, he said “The best thing about this they pick the best ones who show is that the cast is like a would perform in Qatar. family, so we always stay in con- About the audience, he said: tact. It is a big family group,” “They have been fantastic – they he said. “The process goes a lot always respond whenever you quicker when you think alike.” talk to them. If we ask them to He lauded QTA for coming up say ahoy, they all shout ahoy, with a wide range of entertain- and they boo. They booed before ment off erings and for allowing I even said boo when they saw them to perform in Qatar. The well-designed and colourful costumes fascinate spectators. Medusa.” Why Pirates? Hammond said He observed that some chil- after staging fairy tales and The never been staged before. idea would be a good goal. “I dren who had watched the show Jungle Book, they thought of On their plans to perform at hope one day we can perform at over the previous days came back coming up with a unique pirate bigger venues such as Katara – Katara. We would love to do it,” Children were excited to watch the show and some did not mind sitting on the floor. with their parents. “It is great to show at Lagoona Mall that had the Cultural Village, he said the Hammond added.

Katara Eid festival a big draw

The Eid al-Adha festival at Katara wrapped up yesterday after attracting a large number of people of diff erent ages. The festival was marked by the special show, ‘Sinbad the Sailor’, ‘Eidyah’ or gift distribution among children and the dazzling fireworks display.