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WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10260 November 2, 2016 Safar 2, 1438 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals

In brief Qatar urged to tackle

QATAR | Media Al Jazeera celebrates ‘culture of consumption’ 20th anniversary HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin cite the achievements of our deceased HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani inaugurates grandee. Although these have been Hamad al-Thani and HH the Father the 45th ordinary session of the mentioned time and again in recent Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al- Advisory Council days, yet his scented memory will re- Thani yesterday attended the 20th main vivid in the minds and hearts of anniversary of Al Jazeera Media AFP, QNA all Qataris. May Allah bestow mercy Network, held at its headquarters. Doha on him and rest his soul in His most HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser spacious paradise and grant mercy to attended the celebration as well. HE our dead and to the martyrs of this the Prime Minister and Minister of H the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin homeland and this Umma. I extend my Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Hamad al-Thani said yester- thanks to all those who expressed their bin Khalifa al-Thani was also present. Hday that the state must tackle condolences and sympathies to us on HH the Father Emir gave a speech its “culture of consumption” as it deals this loss.” to mark the occasion, praising the with the decline in world energy prices. The Emir said the economic aff airs network’s credibility and commitment In a speech to mark the opening ses- remained a matter of prime concern, to tell the truth since its inception. sion of Qatar’s Advisory Council, HH especially in light of the circumstances HH the Father Emir said that Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani created by the sharp decline in hydro- decided two decades ago to establish also called for the elimination of “ex- carbon prices, “but we are determined an Arab media outlet that would allow travagance and waste”. to proceed with our development plans people of the region to see the world HH Sheikh Tamim said that Qa- to achieve the goals we have drawn up from their perspective, an outlet that tar would complete all infrastruc- in Qatar’s National Vision”. would raise awareness and enjoy ture projects connected with the 2022 the highest level of credibility and football World Cup but would strive professionalism on par with the rest for greater effi ciency in government Advisory Council of the world. Page 11 spending in a new fi ve-year plan to be Speaker hails Emir’s launched next year. QATAR | Weather This new approach would incor- speech — Page 6 porate the development of a “culture Chance of of planning, work and achievement”, In this regard, he said that new fea- rain today as well as cultural changes, especially HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani addressing the opening session of the Advisory Council yesterday. tures of reality had been emerging in It may rain in the western parts of aimed at the country’s young. the global energy industry as a result of the country and some off shore areas “There are challenges that we should the accelerating technological develop- today, the Qatar Met department tackle, which are related to the goals ments, which had led to an increase in has said. Poor visibility, down to and values of young people and the im- oil and gas production to unprecedented 2km or less, is also expected in most pact of the culture of consumption on levels and the subsequent sharp decline areas in the early hours today. The these goals and values,” the Emir said. of prices in the global energy markets. detailed forecast for inshore areas “Without that we cannot move for- “Also, the drop in growth rates in says hazy to misty/foggy conditions ward – wealth alone is not suffi cient.” signifi cant energy markets has placed are likely in most places at first, The Emir said the speed of the fall pressure on prices due to decrease in followed by mild conditions during in world prices had taken everyone by demand and increase in supply. the day with some clouds. Page 31 surprise. “Furthermore, forecasts suggest that “Frankly speaking, although we had uncertainty would linger in those mar- anticipated that high energy prices kets. would not remain indefi nitely... no one “Frankly speaking, although we had expected this fast decline in energy anticipated that high energy prices prices,” he said. would not remain indefi nitely and we HH the Father Emir Sheikh Ha- adopted the Qatar’s National Vision in mad bin Khalifa al-Thani attended the preparation for the day when we can opening of the 45th ordinary session of achieve sustainable development to di- the Advisory Council. versify the sources of income and avoid HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdul- relying exclusively on oil and gas, no lah bin Hamad al-Thani, HE Sheikh one expected this fast decline in energy Abdulaziz bin Khalifa al-Thani, HH prices.” the Emir’s Special Representative HH HH the Emir said that in spite of Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the sharp decline in oil and gas prices Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) HE Sheikh Jassim bin Khalifa al-Thani, HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and other dignitaries at the opening session. at constant-prices posted an annual HE the Prime Minister and Minister of growth rate of around 3.6% in 2015, Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin HH the Grandfather Emir Sheikh Kha- we bid farewell to HH the Grandfa- builders of modern Qatar that holds to in comparison with the average 1.9% Khalifa al-Thani were also present. lifa bin Hamad al-Thani who died on ther Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad its genuine Arab and Islamic values and growth rates in oil-exporting coun- In his opening address, HH the Emir October 23. al-Thani. With his departure, we lost traditions. tries in the Middle East, according to paid tribute to the contributions of the HH the Emir said: “A few days ago one of our most prominent leaders and “The occasion will not be suffi ce to the IMF. To Page 31 Transport ministry to expand Qatar’s digital culture

By Peter Alagos Internet between businesses and their downturn, widening inequalities, and Business Reporter clients in Qatar. Forty percent of busi- the impact of social media. nesses in Qatar use the Internet in their “And while conventional methods of banking and electronic operations, crime have formed, new forms of crim- ne of the strategic plans of about a fi fth of those businesses use the inal activities have risen. Cybercrime, the Ministry of Transport and Internet to access other services,” the fraud, money laundering and terror- OCommunications (MoTC) is to minister said. ism have grown rapidly and just last expand Qatar’s digital culture across Al-Sulaiti lauded the government’s year we have seen an increase probably all demographic segments, it was an- “indefi nite support” in providing the beyond anything any of us have seen in nounced yesterday at the third Annual country with the benefi ts of techno- our experience. And therefore, such an Information Security Conference for logical advancements. increase is a danger to us all and has to the Financial Sector. The minister emphasised that there be countered.” The event, inaugurated by HE the is now increased public awareness on Al-Sulaiti stressed that the Qatar Prime Minister and Interior Minister information security, and that the risks government had already developed and Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa of cyberattacks, perpetrated by an in- adopted measures to counter cyberat- al-Thani, gathered Qatari and interna- ternational network of cybercriminals, tacks. Among these initiatives is the tional experts from renowned institu- are widespread. Qatar National Cyber Security Strat- tions like the World Bank, International This was reiterated by QNB Group egy, he said. Monetary Fund, and Society for World- CEO Ali Ahmed al-Kuwari, who called Speaking earlier during the pro- wide Interbank Financial Telecommu- on the fi nancial industry to exercise gramme, Doha Bank Group CEO Dr R nication (Swift). vigilance against any form of cyberat- Seetharaman said: “In view of the re- According to HE the Minister of tack: “We don’t know how and when cent cybersecurity incidents and to en- Transport and Communications Jas- the attack will take place but we know sure the continuity of business in a dis- sim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, the minis- HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani joins government dignitaries for sure that these attacks will inevita- aster scenario, the Qatar Central Bank try’s strategic plan “aims to spread the during the opening of the third Annual Information Security Conference for the Financial Sector. From left are HE the Minister of bly come.” came up with an initiative, which was digital culture and achieve 100% digital Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, HE the Finance Minister Ali Sherif al-Emadi, and HE the Governor of Lord Stevens, former head of the mandated for all banks in Qatar.” comprehensiveness for all demographic Qatar Central Bank Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud al-Thani. PICTURE: Jayan Orma Metropolitan Police – UK, said: “The These initiatives included the con- segments, including temporary workers, world continues to change, and with duct of cybersecurity maturity as- the elderly, and persons with disabili- Speaking at the event, al-Sulaiti He noted that Internet penetration in nesses reach new markets.” it the methods of criminality (…) To- sessment and assessment of the busi- ties, to raise awareness of the benefi ts of underscored the “major role” played Qatar’s banking and financial serv- “It is expected that Qatar will wit- day’s policing and security takes place ness availability posture of banks in information technology, communica- by digital technology in creating “an ices has reached 100%, adding that ness an increase in the use of ICT and against the backdrop of social trans- the event of a disaster, Seetharaman tions, and electronic protection”. innovative and diversified economy.” high Internet usage “would help busi- Information Technology, as well as the formation, including global economic added. Gulf Times 2 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR

Emir meets Azerbaijani minister

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meeting Azerbaijani Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations between Qatar and Azerbaijan and ways of developing them, and discussed topics of mutual interest. The Azeri minister and his delegation are in Doha to attend the international exhibition of homeland security (Milipol Qatar 2016).

Interior Ministry showcases hi-tech systems and devices at Milipol expo

he Ministry of Interior with high speed and accu- is showcasing a number of of the security personnel, (MoI) is showcasing racy, latest systems in the devices for detecting crimes he added. Tmany of its state-of- police patrol and military and verifying the identity of Qatar Rail’s technical re- the-art systems, applications vehicles for locating places the criminals. lations executive director and devices at Milipol Qatar. and the systems handled by “We are exhibiting the and senior engineer Hasan which concludes at the Doha operations teams to monitor latest technological de- Ahmed al-Marwani said Exhibition and Convention the cameras installed in the vices including the fi nger- their company aimed to in- Centre today. patrol vehicles. print machine to detect the troducing the rail project in On display at the MoI The pavilion also intro- identity of the unknown general to the visitors and pavilion are some of the duces early alarm warning persons, wherever it is re- its achievements so far. equipment used by its de- systems installed in build- quired, especially traffi c The Supreme Committee partments such as General ings connected with Na- accident victims. They will for Delivery and Legacy (SC) Directorate of Information tional Command Centre. soon be made available for is showcasing the models Systems, General Directorate The system can directly give the patrols and security de- of its under-construction of Civil Defence, Criminal information to the opera- partments,” said Brigadier stadiums for the FIFA 2022 Evidence and Investigation tions room in the event of al-Mahmoud. World Cup. Department, Telecommuni- any fi re or theft. This device will be similar Speaking at the venue cations, National Command The pavilion of Civil De- to or smaller than a smart- SC’s Security Department Centre, General Directorate fence exhibits automatic phone and within seconds executive director Col Mo- of Coasts and Borders Secu- rescuers for rescue opera- the security agency can hamed Majid al-Sulaiti said rity, Security Press and Gen- tions in tunnels and airbags verify whether a person is the SC has participated in eral Directorate of Industrial used in building collapses among the wanted list or several important exhi- Security. and similar incidents. not. This device can also bitions and conferences Telecommunications de- The Director of Criminal verify the identity of sus- held in Qatar for inform- partment has showcased Evidence and Investiga- pects without taking them ing people about the works many innovative tools in- tion Department (CEID) to the security departments, being done to promote cluding 4G LTE smartphones Brigadier Nasser Abdullah which will contribute to the FIFA 2022 World Cup. which can help transfer data al-Mahmoud said the CEID saving the time and eff orts Page 32 Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 3 QATAR

Emir, Father Emir receive condolences

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday met Sheikh Suroor bin Mohamed al-Nahyan and Sheikh Faisal bin Sultan al-Qassimi of UAE, who off ered their condolences on the death of HH the Grandfather Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani. HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani, HE Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Khalifa al-Thani, HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, and HE Sheikh Jassim bin Khalifa al-Thani were also present during the two separate meetings.

Qatar’s population crosses 2.6mn mark

By Ramesh Mathew had 2,611,000 residents at The lowest population The country’ population Staff Reporter the end of October and it of the last one year was re- has grown four-fold in the showed a 2.3% rise in num- corded in July when it was last 16 years according to bers compared to the fi gures 2,326,000 apparently when the fi gures available with atar’s population is of September. many expatriates were away the Ministry. back to an all-time In September, the coun- on vacation. While it was 614,000 in Qhigh once again as it try’s population was The ministry says the lat- the year 2000, it crossed the crossed the 2.6mn mark for 2,553,000. The year’s previ- est fi gure shows an increase 1mn mark for the fi rst time the fi rst time ever. ous highest population was of approximately 8.3% in 2006. It exceeded 1.5mn According to the Ministry recorded in May when the compared to the fi gures of towards the end of 2008 and of Development Planning country had 2,587,000 resi- the corresponding period since then there has been a & Statistics (MDPS), Qatar dents. last year. steady rise, it is learnt. Gulf Times 4 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR Plan to hold diabetes survey in 2017

By Joseph varghese Wakrah is playing a key role. ups so that the disease can be Staff Reporter “We are working on diff er- contained in a big way.” ent projects and those found According to Dr Sheikh Mo- successful will be adopted in hamed, the new facilities will atar will conduct a new other centres and facilities. We help the diabetes patients to survey on the prevalence are hoping that the electronic adopt personalised medicine Qof diabetes in the coun- system will help us for better as each patient will understand try next year, according to a top screening.” what is needed to be done. “With offi cial of the Ministry of Public He added, “We plan to in- all the advances in diabetes care, Health (MoPH). troduce new things in every we expect that each diabetic per- “We had done the last survey six months or a year and son will live a normal life with on diabetes in 2012 which found just like the smart diabetes all the productivity. This is our out that 16.7% of the population clinics, new initiatives will goal,” he added. was diabetic. We plan to conduct happen sooner. Even more Tresiba is a once-daily basal our next survey by 2017,” said Dr advanced and more sophisti- insulin for people with diabetes Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad cated centres will be opened that successfully achieves equiv- al-Thani, director, public health Dr Sheikh Mohamed speaks at the event as Dr Abdulla al-Hamaq and other off icials look on. in due course. We are aiming alent reduction in blood glucose at MoPH, on the sidelines of for screening of all the people levels, with a lower risk of noc- the launch of insulin Tresiba by sim al-Thani, Qatar Diabetes Weill Cornell Medicine-Qa- “We estimate the diabetes fi gures,” said Dr al-Hamaq. and delivering medicine at all turnal hypoglycaemia versus Novo Nordisk. Association executive director tar’s professor of medicine Dr prevalence rate must have now Speaking about the steps the centres. However, we hope insulin glargine1, 2. It is already The event was also attended Dr Abdulla al-Hamaq, Dan- Stephen Atkin and Novo Nord- gone up by another 1 to 1.5% to fi ght diabetes in Qatar, Dr that the patients will visit the available with Hamad Medical by prominent Qatar entrepre- ish embassy’s healthcare sector isk Gulf general manager Akin from 16.7% in 2012. The new Sheikh Mohamed pointed out clinics regularly for all the Corporation and will be available neur HE Sheikh Faisal bin Qas- senior adviser Edith Christmas, Aksekili. survey will give us the right the smart diabetes clinic in Al follow up and other check- in the private sector soon. QIB names winners of fi nal round of ‘Win Back Your Spend’ campaign

atar Islamic Bank (QIB) Visa credit cards in Qatar. All ble to enter the draw. The two for purchases, all of QIB’s cards Al Jaber Jewellery and Watches, has announced the win- customers who spent a mini- selected winners received their are accepted locally and inter- Alfardan Jewellery, Movenpick Qners of the fi nal round mum of QR5,000 using their total international spends back nationally – and can be used at Hotel, Westin Hotel, Grand of the “Win Back Your Spend” QIB Visa debit or credit cards up to QR25,000. A grand prize millions of merchant outlets and Wyndham Regency, Souq Waqif summer promotion. during the aforementioned pe- winner received QR75,000 as more than 1.8mn ATMs globally. Boutique Hotels, The Ritz Carl- The eligible customers used riod were eligible to enter the spends back. QIB Platinum and World debit ton, and other popular shops and their QIB credit and debit cards draw. A grand prize winner re- With the second and fi nal an- cards have been designed with destinations in Qatar. domestically and internationally ceived QR50,000. The custom- nouncement of the “Win Back the needs of the bank’s Tamayuz In addition, World, Infi nite, between June 20 and Septem- ers received their spend back up Your Spend” Summer Campaign and Private customers in mind, and QIB-Qatar Airways co- ber 30, 2016. The winners were to QR15,000. draw winners, a total of 26 cus- and off er exclusive privileges branded Signature cardhold- selected in a draw conducted in QIB also announced two win- tomers holding QIB’s cards have to complement their lifestyle. ers also enjoy a complimentary the presence of an offi cial rep- ners from the fi nal draw who benefi ted from the 2016 summer These include Takaful and war- LoungeKey membership and resentative from the Ministry used their QIB MasterCard debit campaign prizes. ranty extensions, discounts, and unlimited lounge access at more of Economy and Commerce and cards internationally. Tamayuz QIB off ers a wide range of off ers when dining and shop- than 500 airports worldwide, in- QIB said a total of 26 customers holding bank’s cards have benefited QIB representatives. and Private Banking custom- debit and credit cards, all with a ping, 24/7 International Con- cluding Al Maha Transit Lounge from the 2016 summer campaign prizes. The fi nal draw winners in- ers who spent a minimum of variety of valuable features tai- cierge Service. – Departure Area at Hamad In- cluded fi ve QIB Visa credit and QR5,000 using their Platinum lored to meet the needs of dif- The QIB cards also off er exclu- ternational Airport. credit cards for secure online personal identifi cation number debit cardholders who made in- and World MasterCard debit ferent customers. With cashless sive discounts and promotions Recently, QIB announced that purchases and payment any- (PIN) from any QIB ATM in the ternational purchases, and fi ve cards during the promotion pe- convenience and the ability to at various premium brands in its customers may now use their where on the web. Customer can country. For the full list of win- customers who used their QIB riod were automatically eligi- withdraw cash or instantly pay Qatar such as 51 East, Channel, debit cards, in addition to their also now change their credit card ners, visit www.qib.com.qa. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 5 QATAR

Emir sends Turkish FM calls on Emir PM meets Turkish FM National Day greetings

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani have sent cables of congratulations to Algerian President Abdulaziz Boutafleika on his country’s National Day. Qatar, Tunisia education ministers meet

HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi yesterday met Tunisian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Slim Khalbous and the delegation currently accompanying him on a visit to Qatar. The meeting reviewed aspects of co-operation in the fields of higher education and scientific HE Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani met research and means of boosting HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Jawish Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Jawish Ihsanoglu in Doha yesterday. They reviewed the and developing them. Ihsanoglu at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations between Qatar and relations between Qartar and Turkey and ways of enhancing them, in addition to discussing issues The Tunisian minister is set to Turkey and ways of enhancing them, in addition to discussing issues of common concern. of common concern. visit a number of educational institutions in the country. FM chairs Qatari-Turkish committee meeting

QNA as well as the consultation and co-or- Doha dination between them in the light of the continuous exchange of high-level visits between senior offi cials. They E the Foreign Minister Sheikh stressed the importance of maintain- Mohamed bin Abdulrahman ing these relations by increasing exist- Hal-Thani yesterday held a ing bilateral co-ordination. meeting with Turkish Foreign Min- They also reviewed bilateral rela- ister Mevlut Cavusoglu, within the tions in all fi elds, particularly in the framework of the Qatari-Turkish con- areas of trade, investment and en- sultative committee meetings. ergy and ways of enhancing them to At the outset of the meeting, the serve the common interests of the two two ministers commended the out- countries. comes of the fi rst round of the con- The two ministers exchanged views sultative committee meetings, which on the latest political regional and was held in Doha last year and resulted international developments, particu- in the signing of 17 agreements. larly the situation in Palestine, Syria, The two sides expressed satisfac- Iraq, Yemen and Libya. They also dis- tion over the excellent level the bilat- cussed roles of the two countries in HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, chairing the Qatari-Turkish consultative committee eral relations have reached in all fi elds combating terrorism. meeting. Gulf Times 6 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR Speaker al-Khulaifi hails Emir’s support to Advisory Council

QNA bringing peace and stability Doha in Darfur region. According- ly, the people of Darfur have begun to contribute to the E the Speaker of the progress and development of Advisory Council Mo- their region. This is a testi- Hhamed bin Mubarak al- mony to the position of Qatar Khulaifi has praised HH the Emir to promote peace, end dis- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al- putes and resolution of con- Thani’s continuous support to flicts with peaceful means,” the Council, saying that it is al- he said. ways focussed on public interest The Advisory Council Speak- and the welfare of the citizens. er said: “The Advisory Coun- The Speaker lauded the cil wishes all the success for speech delivered by HH the Emir the summit of the heads of the at the inauguration of the 45th member-states of the Gulf Co- ordinary session of the Advi- operation Council, which is sory Council, saying the Emir schedule to take place in Bah- has outlined key features of the rain.” nation’s domestic and foreign Concluding his speech, HE al- policy, particularly the economic Khulaifi said the Council “would component, in light of the cur- like to seize this opportunity to rent regional and international HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani addresses the inaugural meeting of the 45th ordinary session of the Advisory Council yesterday. renew its pledge and allegiance situation. to Your Highness as the Emir of “On this occasion, the Coun- concern,” al-Khulaifi said, add- the “Gulf States Initiative’’, the between its people and the suc- Darfur region in Sudan, were of the implementation of the our nation. May Allah bless you cil praises Your Highness’s ra- ing that the Advisory Council “Outcomes of the National Dia- cess of the UN’s eff orts directed crowned by Your Highness’s Doha Document for the Peace with His support and success. tional policy which has ensured is expressing its deep concern logue” and the “Security Coun- to support the international ac- visit to Darfur in Septem- in Darfur (DDPD), where our We pledge to the Almighty Allah, security and peace in nation regarding the prevailing tragic cil’s Resolution Number 2216”, cord, “ al-Khulaifi said. ber 2016 to participate in the country has succeeded in the to stand united behind your wise and preservation of our national situation in the Palestinian ter- he said. “As for terrorism, the Coun- celebration of the conclusion reunion of the Sudanese by leadership.” economy despite the decrease ritories as a result of the Israeli Al-Khulaifi also touched on cil condemns it. Terrorism has in the oil prices and the current war in the Gaze Strip’’, he added. the Syrian crisis saying: ‘‘The no religion or abode. Terrorism international economic condi- “Not to mention the crimes Advisory Council is anticipat- is a hateful phenomenon, a dis- Advisory Council holds fi rst meeting of 45th ordinary session tions’’. committed...massacres and ing with all hopefulness and ease which threatens the lives of “On the domestic level, our genocide without any regard to expectation the consolidation the innocents and it strips the The Advisory Council yesterday held its first Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. nation witnessed progress in all international law, norms and of all the efforts and endeav- communities of their security meeting of the 45th ordinary session under the He called upon the council to elect a speaker of the sectors, including education, conventions. From this plat- ours in order for the Syrian and stability. There is no doubt chairmanship of the eldest member HE Hamed Ali Council, according to the provisions of Article 9 of health and infrastructure. Simi- form, the Advisory Council people to overcome this cata- that the entire world shoulders al-Ahbabi. the council’s Rules of Procedure. larly, it took serious and concrete commends your support for the strophic situation, as well as the common responsibility to At the outset of the meeting the Council’s The Council unanimously re-elected HE Mohamed steps in these fi elds. In this con- brotherly Palestinian people and to bring an end to the tragedy combat and eradicate its sourc- Secretary-General Fahd bin Mubarak al- bin Mubarak al-Khulaifi as the Speaker of Council. text, the Council is expressing for providing them with all help.” and the acute human suffer- es wherever they are located. Khayareen read out the Decree No 41 of The Council also unanimously re-elected HE its profound appreciation for the ‘‘With regard to Yemen, the ing through the resumption Moreover, combating terrorism 2016 calling upon the Advisory Council to Issa bin Rabia al-Kuwari as Deputy Speaker and various achievements that were Advisory Council expresses its of the political process within should not be confi ned to securi- convene its regular 45th session. The Decree Dr Ahmed Mohamed Obeidan and Mohamed accomplished by your esteemed support for the return of the le- the framework of the Security ty alone. Eff orts should be made stipulated that the Council shall convene on Abdullah al-Sulaiti as rapporteurs. government in accordance with gitimate government in the way Council Resolution Number to promote the spirit of tolerance Tuesday, Safar 1st, 1438 AH, Corresponding to HE the Speaker of the Council delivered a speech your appropriate directives,” the which guarantees the integrity 2254 and as per the resolutions and the culture of diversity and November 1, 2016. in which he extended his thanks to the members Speaker said in his speech. of its territories, stability and of “Geneva” 1. dialogue,” he added. Then HE al-Ahbabi delivered a speech welcoming for their trust, wishing the Council success in “As for the Palestinian issue, it the resumption of the political “As for Libya, we pray to Al- “The great efforts exerted the council members and wishing them success in serving Qatar and its people under the wise will remain the main and central consultations between the Yem- mighty God to spare this country by the State of Qatar under their duties and in serving the people of the State leadership of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin issue for both Arab and Islamic eni parties to reach a political from the divergence and division the leadership of Your High- of Qatar under the wise leadership of HH the Emir Hamad al-Thani. world and will remain our main resolution in accordance with and also to restore the kinship ness to bring peace in the Advisory Council chief lauds Emir’s speech

QNA Doha

E the Secretary Gen- eral of the Advisory HCouncil Fahad bin Mubarak al-Khayareen said that the speech delivered by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the inauguration of the 45th ordinary session of the Ad- visory Council has outlined the numerous achievements of the government in vari- ous sectors, and the future plans to continue the eco- nomic and social prosperity in light of unstable econom- ic conditions. Advisory Council members and other dignitaries attending the inaugural meeting of the Speaking to the media, 45th ordinary session of the Council yesterday. he thanked HH the Emir for inaugurating the 45th ordi- nary session of the Advisory Council. Al-Khayareen congratu- lated the government and people on the occasion. He stressed that the Advisory Council has been enjoying special patronage from HH the Emir and HH the Father Emir, who spared no eff ort in providing every assist- ance and care, and in ap- preciating the Council’s role through accepting its rec- ommendations and issuing all the legislation through it. He expressed hope that the 45th session of the Council would make great achievements and meet the Emir and the government The Advisory Coun- Mubarak al-Khulaifi , his legislative requirements of would succeed in bringing cil’s secretary general also deputy and the council’s the state. more prosperity, growth thanked the Council’s members for their eff orts He prayed that HH the and stability to Qatar. Speaker HE Mohamed bin and co-operation.

Emir draws a roadmap for future course of action

HE the Minister of Public Health more progress based on solid reaff irmation that the second national Dr Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari said foundations and firm approach development strategy 2017-2022 the speech of HH the Emir Sheikh that reads into the present and focuses on executing education and Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the future and lays the foundations for health projects that address the needs inauguration of the 45th ordinary comprehensive and sustainable of citizens in line with the best global session of the Advisory Council was development on all fronts. standards. comprehensive and clearly draws the She added that HH the Emir’s keenness HE Dr al-Kuwari reiterated the features of the coming phase of the on health and education underlines his determination to exert utmost eff orts country’s path. interest in building a fit and educated in order to implement the directives The Minister said the speech human being who is capable of leading of HH the Emir and to interpret them embodies the wise vision and the march of development. in life and work so as to contribute to leadership of HH the Emir towards She pointed to HH the Emir’s comprehensive development. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7 QATAR QC signs pact with LuLu to sell Elkher cards atar Charity (QC) and norms of our society has signed a co-op- and community interde- Qeration agreement pendence with the various with LuLu Hypermarket segments of society.” Trading Co. Ali Gharib, of QC, added, The co-operation will “Qatar Charity works to involve marketing of Elkher provide charitable support cards project in LuLu Hy- through various marketing permarket outlets, provid- outlets and this card allows ing an easy way for shoppers shoppers to provide for the to donate to QC projects, needs of poor families by hav- the organisation has said in ing their funds transferred di- a statement. rectly to Qatar Charity. The cards will be on sale “The Qatar Charity applica- in LuLu outlets across the tion allows you to choose the country, with all proceeds Yusuf bin Ahmed al-Kuwari and Shaijan M O shaking hands exact area where you wish to going to QC. after signing an agreement. donate via participating malls. Yusuf bin Ahmed al-Ku- This can be done by showing a wari, chief executive offi cer, achieve its mission and reach LuLu in the Qatari society barcode through your mobile QC, said, “Qatar Charity is the largest number of target and its eagerness to con- phone to the cashier, who then very pleased with the signing groups around the world.” tribute to the well-being of adds the amount to the shop- of this agreement with LuLu Al-Kuwari stressed that the community and support ping, rather than having to seek Hypermarket Trading Co QC was particularly keen needy groups through the out collectors.” because they strive to serve on building co-operation signing of the agreement. QC had entered into the humanitarian message. with the retail sector so that Shaijan M O, regional di- a previous co-operation Elkher cards contribute to it could reach as many do- rector, at LuLu, said: “LuLu agreement and partnership this by allowing shoppers to nors as possible, pointing to Hypermarket Trading Co with LuLu Hypermarket donate to Qatar Charity. previous seasonal collabo- wishes to play an important Trading Co, allowing cus- “Qatar Charity has always rations with LuLu, which role in the area of social re- tomers to donate their small sought to create partner- raised considerable funds. sponsibility via this collab- change for the benefi t of ships with public and pri- The Qatar Charity CEO oration with Qatar Charity, charitable projects within vate institutions in order to praised the role played by on the basis of the values and outside Qatar.

Unesco candidate al-Kuwari launches another Africa tour HE Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz yesterday started another and will see him meet with bears the slogan ‘Toward a al-Kuwari, adviser at the African tour as part of his senior off icials there to thank New Momentum for Unesco.’ Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s campaign from Chad where them for their support. The Qatari candidate had candidate for the post of he will meet a number of During the tour, Dr al-Kuwari previously visited a number director general of the senior off icials. will also meet a number of of African countries, with the United Nations Educational, The current African tour African politicians, diplomats visits receiving wide support Scientific and Cultural includes a visit to Cameroon, and media personalities as in political and cultural Organisation (Unesco), Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire part of his campaign, which circles. Gulf Times 8 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR Samsung launches Galaxy A8 smartphone

amsung has launched the more people 2016 edition of the Gal- and landscape Saxy A8. The smartphone is into pictures - driven by an Octacore processor even with the with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage front camera. internal memory. The Rear The new Galaxy A8 features a Cam Selfi e 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED function auto- Gorilla Glass 2.5D display, a 16 matically de- MP rear and 8 MP front camera, tects the sub- powered by a 3,300mAh bat- ject’s face. The tery that supports fast charging. smartphone Running on Android 6.0.1, the has advanced CNA-Q officials hand over the money raised for the Qatar Cancer Society through donations and raffle draws. 2016 edition boasts of a metal selfi e features including ultra uni-body design and fi ngerprint wide shot, GIF shooting modes scanner. and auto selfi e modes – palm and Tarek Sabbagh, head of IT voice selfi e. With the ‘Beautify- and Mobile (IM) Division at ing eff ect’ facial features can be Samsung Gulf Electronics said: retouched, such as slimming the “Through the Galaxy A8, we face or enlarging eyes. are not only providing the lat- The always-on-display, fi rst est imaging capabilities at an seen on the Galaxy S7, allows us- CNA-Q events focus on affordable price point, but also ers to see the latest notifi cations combining sleek design with and other key information im- powerful performance and pro- mediately without waking the ductivity tools. ” screen, using less than 1% bat- The 16 MP rear and 8 MP tery charge per hour. It also has a front cameras, both featur- microSD slot that can accommo- ing f/1.9 aperture, take crisp, date up to 256GB. The phone is breast cancer awareness brighter and very vivid images. available in blue, silver and gold The Wide Selfie function gives at a recommended retail price of ollege of the North At- ments to receive mammograms was an informative presentation community courageously battle generations about the benefi ts a 103° view and allows to get QR1,799. lantic - Qatar (CNA-Q) from the mobile unit, and met by Dr Mohamed Abdel Nabi, breast cancer in recent years, and importance of early detec- Chas concluded its Breast with licensed nurses to learn lead clinical radiologist, and Dr which reinforces the importance tion,” said Dr Shaikha. Cancer Awareness Month pro- about breast health. Shaikha Abu Shaikha, cancer of education and early detec- In addition to the PHCC mobile Qatar attends Riyadh meeting grammes, bringing messages of ‘Screen for Life,’ the breast programme division manager tion,” said Dr Ken MacLeod, screening unit, there were several awareness and education to its and bowel cancer screening pro- at PHCC, where students were president of CNA-Q. activities ongoing over the month Qatar is taking part in the 33rd meeting for GCC senior municipal off icials, campus community. gramme led by PHCC, recom- provided with information for “While it is important that of October, including a ‘Pink’ which started in Riyadh yesterday. Doha Municipality Director Jamal Mat- The main activity was a part- mends that all women between their mothers, sisters and sis- we encourage women aged from walk around campus and a panel tar al-Nuaimi is leading Qatar’s delegation to the two-day meeting, which nership with Primary Health the ages of 45 and 69 showing ters-in-law. 45 to 69 and who do not suff er of breast cancer survivors who will discuss reports of the GCC general secretariat’s technical teams and Care Corporation (PHCC) to no related symptoms undergo “We are proud to partner with from any breast cancer related shared their stories of bravery. the measures that were taken on the recommendations of the 19th meet- bring its mobile breast screen- breast screening. PHCC to bring breast screen- symptoms to undergo screening, CNA-Q also raised over ing that Qatar hosted in October 2015. The 29th meeting for municipality ing unit to the college campus. Many students also met with ing and awareness activities to engaging with students, em- QR9,000 for the Qatar Cancer communications off icers was held in Riyadh on Sunday. GCC ministers in On October 18, eligible members Screen for Life staff to learn our campus. We have had sev- ployees in the education fi eld, Society through donations and charge of municipalities will hold their 20th meeting tomorrow. of the college booked appoint- about early detection. There eral members of the CNA-Q ensures we are informing all raffl e draws.

A group of CHS students at a counter during the breast cancer awareness campaign. QU-CHS campaign highlights importance of early detection

atar University College of tributed to awareness booths that were community support for patients who Health Sciences (QU-CHS) set up at the Women’s Science Building fi ght cancer. Qhosted its annual breast can- atrium to brief students and visitors on CHS dean and QU Biomedical Re- cer awareness campaign in support early detection, signs and symptoms, search Centre (BRC) director Dr Asma of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to encourage regular breast exami- al-Thani said that this year’s cam- which concluded on Monday. nation. paign has been taken to a greater extent Themed ‘We can, I can,’ the event The event included a wide range by introducing new educational and witnessed a remarkable contribu- of student activities such as poster awareness activities. tion from CHS departments, the presentations, handmade givea- CHS associate dean for Academic Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) and ways, brochures, breast cancer risk Aff airs and the Breast Cancer Aware- Qatar Biomedical Research Insti- assessment and survey, and QCS ness Campaign leader Dr Ahmed Malki tute (QBRI). signature boards, and a seminar said the campaign highlighted the true It aimed to increase community presented by QCS health educator impact of cohesiveness by connecting awareness on breast cancer within Qa- Dana Mansour and a workshop by various partners to bring their diversi- tar, as the country has the third highest her colleague Heba Nassar on breast fi ed backgrounds and perspectives to rate of the disease in the Gulf region. cancer early detection and self-ex- Qatar’s community. Breast cancer represents about 20% amination. “Together with our partners, we of all cancer cases according to Qatar The event also featured a testimony shared a range of advices, tips and re- National Centre for Cancer Care Re- by Bernadite Abellana, a breast cancer sources to encourage action in the fi ght search. fi ghter, who shared her personal story against breast cancer and foster health As many as 70 CHS students con- and highlighted the importance of and wellness.”

Subaru Legacy 2015 model cars recalled

he Ministry of Economy and comes within the framework of its on- The MEC has urged all customers to Commerce, in collaboration going eff orts to protect consumers and report any violations to its Consum- Twith Mannai Trading Company, ensure that car dealers follow up on ve- er Protection and Anti-Commercial has announced the recall of Subaru hicle defects and repairs. Fraud Department through the fol- Legacy (model year 2015) over a poten- The MEC will co-ordinate with the lowing channels: Hotline: 16001, e- tial defect in the internal parts of the dealer to follow up on the maintenance mail: [email protected], Twitter: @ electronic parking brake motor as they and repair works and communicate MEC_Qatar, Instagram: MEC_Qatar, might get overheated. with customers to ensure that the nec- MEC mobile app for Android and IOS: The MEC said the recall campaign essary repairs are carried out. MEC_Qatar Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 9 QATAR HIA welcomes Audi fl eet to shuttle VIPs amad International Audi AG vice-president of over- this premium international Airport (HIA) has wel- seas sales Terrence Johnson and gateway in Qatar.” Hcomed a brand-new fl eet Audi Middle East brand director The partnership with HIA of Audi luxury cars that will be Enrico Atanasio. “underlines Audi Qatar’s com- consigned to shuttle VIPs. Al-Baker said, “At HIA, mitment to provide world-class Akbar al-Baker, Badr Mohamed al-Meer, Terrence Johnson and Enrico Atanasio at a special handover ceremony. The premium fl eet includes we have always been keen automotive comfort to its cli- the Audi Q7, RS 6 Avant and A8L, on providing our passengers ents”. The fl eet has been spe- enhance the travel experience valuable asset to Qatar’s award- are based on travellers’ feedback RS 6 Avant features a V8 engine according to a statement. with the ultimate experience cially fl own in from Ingolstadt, of its premium travellers”, the winning airport,” said Johnson. on services provided, refl ecting and “best in range” acceleration The announcement was made of travelling in comfort. Our the heart of Audi manufacturing statement notes. HIA is an award-winning quality, ease of service and supe- speeds, reaching a maximum of at a special handover ceremo- new partnership with Audi is in Germany. Renowned for their “We are delighted to present airport that recently won fi rst rior facilities for passengers. 305km/h. For passengers seeking ny, attended by Qatar Airways a testimony of our commit- precise engineering and sophis- our most exclusive models for place on the list of best airports Celebrating 35 years of Quat- even greater space and luxury, Group chief executive Akbar ment to providing our es- tication, each model will “per- the luxurious limousine service in Middle East and 10th among tro, the all-new Q7 is a combina- the A8L is set to thrill with its al-Baker, HIA chief operating teemed guests with the most fectly complement the airport’s off ered by HIA. We are confi dent worldwide airports, according to tion of trend-setting design and increased legroom and elegant offi cer Badr Mohamed al-Meer, exquisite services, through cutting-edge facility and further that the Audi fl eet will stand as a the Skytrax website. The awards precision dynamics, while the upholstery. WISE to hold Beijing forum on innovation in education

he World Innova- cluding 2012 WISE Prize tion Summit for for Education laureate Dr TEducation (WISE), a Madhav Chavan, founder member of Qatar Founda- of the infl uential Indian tion for Education, Science learning organisation and Community Develop- Pratham, and Shannon ment, along with China’s May, co-founder of Bridge 21st Century Education Re- International Academy, search Institute, will jointly will be among the speakers. host the WISE-LIFE China The 2016 WISE Awards Education Forum in Beijing winning projects will be on November 5. introduced and celebrated The LIFE Forum (Learn- during the forum; repre- ers Innovation Forum on sentatives of the projects Education) will address will participate in work- the theme of ‘Innovating shops and panel dis- for Equity and Empower- cussions. WISE and the ment’, and will explore and 21st Century Education encourage innovative prac- Research Institute will tices and ideas to promote present their latest research equitable education as an and policy publications. empowering force. The fo- WISE said that the Chi- rum is expected to attract nese editions of the WISE 1,000 education innova- Books will be launched tors, leaders and decision during the forum. Authors makers from China and and contributors to the worldwide. three books will be present The Beijing engagement, for a special signing ses- which takes place dur- sion, a photo exhibition, ing the Qatar-China Year and will also take part in of Culture, is described panel discussions during as a timely opportunity to the forum. further explore collabo- The WISE-LIFE Forum rations between the two will encourage lively dis- countries. It aims to deepen cussion and new insights mutual understanding and and perspectives on topics celebrate common values including frugal innova- between the two cultures, tion, education for rural removing barriers and and migrant children, and opening minds. the integration of 21st cen- Global innovators, in- tury skills in education.

Ahmed al-Khulaifi, a member of the Al Fazaa Volunteers, with Meshal al-Shamari after the signing ceremony. QGBC, Al Fazaa sign pact to raise green building awareness Qatar Green Building further help to foster a Council (QGBC) has culture of sustainability signed a memorandum of among the wider Qatari understanding (MoU) with Al community. A number Fazaa Volunteers, a Qatar- of volunteers from the based group committed to group will undertake supporting various national various functions during events and causes. the upcoming Qatar Green As part of the agreement, Building Conference and both organisations will Qatar Sustainability Week.” work together to raise “We’re extremely proud to have sustainability and green Qatari youth involved in this building awareness week-long initiative to advance and understanding by the nation’s sustainability disseminating knowledge, objectives, and we encourage facilitating relevant training more young people to play an programmes, and assisting active role in assisting Qatar with managing networking to secure a greener future,” and community events. al-Shamari added. Meshal al-Shamari, director, QGBC’s second annual Qatar QGBC, said, “We are delighted Green Building Conference to welcome on board Al 2016 and the Qatar Fazaa Volunteers whose Sustainability Week take invaluable assistance will place from November 13 to 19. Gulf Times 10 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR

Minister of State for Defence attends aviation expo in China E the State Minister for Defence Af- in the Chinese city of Zhuhai. Following the fairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al- opening ceremony, al-Attiyah toured the dif- HAttiyah participated in the opening ferent pavilions of the exhibition, where he of the 11th China International Aviation and was briefed on the latest developments in the Aerospace Exhibition, currently being held fi eld of aviation and aerospace.

SDC off icials and guests at the launch of its new visual identity ‘Nama’ yesterday. SDC unveils visual identity ‘Nama’ he Social Development Cen- dation for Social Action CEO Amaal contribution to achieving the Qa- youth; the future of our country tre (SDC), a member of Qatar bint Abdullatif al-Mannai said. tar National Vision 2030. The Nama and one of its cornerstones,” said TFoundation for Social Action, The Centre’s new identity portrays strategy focuses on a social invest- Mariam bint Abdullatif al-Mannai, yesterday launched its new visual the importance of playing the role of ment approach in harmony with the director of the Community Serv- identity entitled ‘Nama’, and the the engine in the wheel of develop- highest international standards and ices Department, and the director in Nama (development) strategy 2016- ment and prosperity in Qatar through practices in the fi eld of social welfare. charge of running the Nama’s aff airs. 2020. Nama embodies an extension a sound investment in human capital, Nama is a model that transforms Nama’s community awareness de- of a deep-seated legacy of social particularly the younger generations, the organisation from a provider of partment director Hamad bin Ali al- work over the past two decades, ac- SDC said in a statement. grants and aid, and one that works to Marri added: “The choice of youth to cording to SDC. Nama will work on the empower- improve the families’ situation and be the centre of attention at ‘Nama’ “We are pleased to see the Cen- ment of youth to boost their capabili- their quality of life, the Centre said. is based on the leadership’s direc- tre’s new direction towards a prima- ties and investing in their capacity. “Through our new launch, we aim tion towards providing more care and ry focus on the youth in Qatar, and It will identify channels and pro- to translate the meaning of ‘Nama’ attention to a key category in soci- hope for ‘Nama’ to create the devel- grammes that contribute to the ac- into action on the ground. ety that enjoys amazing potential and opment we aspire to, for the benefi t tivation of their participation in Nama’s role lies in making a posi- capacity that need to be steered in a of future generations,” Qatar Foun- community development and their tive diff erence in the lives of our constructive and positive way.”

Giorgio Armani kits woo Business Class passengers

atar Airways, in part- Fragrances, has launched The newly designed kits nership with Giorgio its newly designed range of continue to provide the QArmani Beauty and Giorgio Armani Beauty and luxury products desired by Fragrances Business Class Qatar Airways’ premium amenity kits. customers. Complementing the re- The Business Class Gior- cently launched Giorgio Ar- gio Armani Beauty and Fra- mani Beauty and Fragrances grances amenity kit includes First Class amenity kits, the a SÍ Lotion (75ml) and SÍ Business Class bags share EDT (7ml). The Business similar style inspirations Class male amenity kits fea- and are designed in Giorgio ture Acqua Di Gio EDT (5ml) Armani’s black and gold ac- and Acqua Di Gio EDT after cents, refl ecting the latest shave balm (75ml). Giorgio Armani collection, Both amenity kits include the Doha-based carrier has The latest amenity kits by Giorgio Armani Beauty and a comfort bag consisting of said in a press statement. Fragrances. lip balm from Rituals, socks, Women travelling with eyeshades and ear plugs, Qatar Airways will receive a are debuting on the airline’s strong partnership in pro- while the women’s kit also Giorgio Armani Beauty and A380 long-haul and ultra- viding our travellers with includes a hair brush. Fragrances amenity kit that long haul fl ights. unrivalled levels of style, The latest amenity kits doubles as a make-up or jew- The new amenity kits will comfort and luxury. mark the beginning of a ellery bag post-fl ight, while be progressively rolled out “The new Giorgio Armani number of changes to the men will get a smart travel fl eet-wide on the airline’s Beauty and Fragrances amen- airline’s premium product bag made with a ribbed fabric long-haul fl ights, the state- ity kits not only provide our range for Business Class that refl ects the latest trends ment notes. passengers with luxurious passengers, with the airline in male style and luxury. Qatar Airways Group essentials to use throughout set to “reveal an entirely new As part of a collection ex- chief executive Akbar al- their travels, but the stylish and revolutionary Business clusive to Qatar Airways, the Baker said: “Qatar Airways bags also act as a memento of Class seat in early-2017”, the Business Class amenity kits and Giorgio Armani share a our journey together.” statement adds.

QU students participate in a discussion at the Qatar Genome Programme internship. QU graduates gain insight into genomics

he Qatar Genome Programme the internship has been greatly benefi - the students learnt a great deal about (QGP) recently concluded its cial to the interns who have gained an genomics and the relevant ethical as- Tsecond summer internship pro- in-depth understanding of genomic pects of the fi eld as part of their studies gramme. research in Qatar. at Qatar University, and the internship The three-week internship, hosting Genomics and Genomic medicine provided them with an ideal chance a combination of biomedical and law are fast becoming a leading branch of to put their learnings into practice by graduates from Qatar University (QU), medicine and therefore it is important gaining a wider perspective of the in- was aimed at developing students’ re- that future researchers and practition- dustry. search skills and industry knowledge. ers are introduced to the latest industry “Our experts who have served as The programme was designed to developments, she pointed out. mentors to these students off ered them help interns improve their teamwork, “For new graduates and aspiring valuable insights into various aspects leadership, communication and prob- practitioners, knowing how to conduct of the fi eld, including clinical applica- lem-solving skills. vital genomic research and thoroughly tion of genomics, genomic research, In addition, it provided them with understand the ethico-legal issues in and ethical and legal matters around comprehensive insights into the ge- particular, is highly important. We will this fi eld in Qatar.” nomic research scene in Qatar, with a continue to work with this group and The participants, who have bio- focus on the importance of the ethico- other aspiring youth to build their ca- medical and law backgrounds, were se- legal issues related to the fi eld. reers in genomic research in Qatar,” Dr lected from a pool of recent QU gradu- Dr Asma al-Thani, chair of Qatar Asma added. ates through a competitive application Genome Programme Committee, said Dr Said Ismail, manager of QGP, said process. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 11 QATAR Emir attends Al Jazeera’s anniversary celebration HH the Emir at the anniversary celebrations.

QNA members of the network along of these twenty years, stressing Doha with a host of intellectuals and that Al Jazeera marked the birth media personalities. of the greatest Arab Media outlet HH the Father Emir gave a yet. H the Emir Sheikh speech to mark the occasion, Al Jazeera had many achieve- Tamim bin Hamad al- praising the network’s credibil- ments to its credit over the past HThani and HH the Father ity and commitment to tell the two decades, HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa truth since its inception. HH Emir said. One of them was that al-Thani attended yesterday the the Father Emir said that Qa- it freed Arab viewers from rely- 20th anniversary of Al Jazeera tar decided two decades ago to ing on foreign media which was Media Network, held at its head- establish an Arab media outlet biased against Arab interests quarters. HH Sheikha Moza bint that allows people of the region and aspirations. His Highness Nasser attended the celebration to see the world from their per- said that the network proved to as well. spective, an outlet that would Arab people that they can rely on HE the Prime Minister and raise awareness and enjoy the an Arab network that off ers all Minister of Interior Sheikh Ab- highest level of credibility and opinions in a balanced manner. dullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al- professionalism on par with the To this day, His Highness added, Thani attended the celebration rest of the world. Al Jazeera remains committed to along with a number of their ex- HH the Father Emir said that the truth and the aspirations of cellencies Sheikhs and ministers, today was a good opportunity to the Arab people for freedom and as well as president and board refl ect with pride on the result dignity. HH the Father Emir, HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and other dignitaries at the anniversary celebrations. Massive nursery to provide Infection prevention week organised 16,000 trees for World Cup he Ministry of Public number of activities includ- Health (MoPH) ob- ing a lecture.The lecture fo- Tserved ‘Qatar Infec- cused on making the public hile stadium construction work Al-Mulla explained that the nursery tion Prevention and Control aware of the importance of continues to advance across will supply grass, trees and shrubs to the Week’ (QIPC) recently under preventing infection to pro- WQatar, preparations for the contractors building the surrounding area the theme ‘Break the Chain tect themselves and others. It fi rst FIFA World Cup in the Middle East for the diff erent sites, ensuring that the of Infection’ in collaboration also urged them to follow in- are also progressing in a surprising area: communities around the stadiums have with healthcare facilities and fection prevention practices growing trees. a green space for recreational activities: other relevant institutions in such as washing hands prop- At the Northern tip of Qatar, 300 “A team will give advice to the contrac- Qatar. erly and follow etiquette for transplanted trees are already in place in tors to ensure they are given best practice The objective was to raise sneezing and coughing. a project which will be increased to a total on how to handle the trees. All trees that awareness through activities of 16,000 trees of approximately 60 types are taken from our nursery will have a tag to highlight the importance of The Qatar Infection in the coming years, according to an arti- with all the information about their ori- infection prevention and con- Prevention and cle posted on the website of the Supreme gin, name and life cycle that will be part trol practices in all healthcare Control Week aimed Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC). of our database.” facilities. In addition, there at highlighting the A central part of the plans will be played The entire perimeter of the site will be will be a public campaign to important role that the by the Sidra tree, which has grown in the planted with trees that will be elevated to raise awareness among the best evidence based deserts of Qatar for generations and has serve as windbreakers. The nursery will public on preventing infec- practices in infection long provided shade and shelter to travel- have approximately 60 diff erent types tions and control practices prevention and control lers. of trees and shrubs including Sidra, Fi- wherever healthcare is de- play in preventing A great eff ort in the design of all pro- cus and Acacia trees coming from Qatar livered to improve patient infections posed host venues for the 2022 FIFA as well as Asia and Europe. A section of safety. World Cup Qatar has gone into building 30,000sqm will be dedicated to growing QIPC Week was the fi rst As part of the events, the stadiums that will have a clear legacy use approximately 16,000 trees and another event at the national level. MoPH conducted a sympo- in years to come. area will be used for transplanted trees Huda Amer al-Katheeri, sium attended by senior of- These eff orts have focused not only on with space for approximately 3,000 trees. acting director, Healthcare fi cials and experts, includ- the stadiums, but also on the precincts “To protect trees and make sure a Quality & Patient Safety De- ing those from the relevant that will include a number of services and transplant is successful they must be partment, MoPH said the healthcare organisations in green areas for the community. This year, relocated in a place where they receive Qatar Infection Prevention the government, semi-gov- the SC has kicked off construction of a sunlight always from the same direction. and Control Week aimed at ernment and private sector. tree and landscape grass nursery that will SC official Yasser al-Mulla at Al Shamal tree nursery. The roots must be cut carefully in a one- highlighting the important Also university professors cater to the requests for these resources metre diameter and always keeping soil in role that the best evidence and students from the rel- coming from all 2022 FIFA World Cup water to the facilities that will have two FIFA World Cup stadiums by harvest- the roots. For transportation the tree has based practices in infection evant schools of medicine, sites. 18,000sqm lagoons with enough capacity ing the section dedicated to landscape to be well wrapped and trimmed before it prevention and control play nursing, pharmacy and other Works have started at the 880,000sqm for the facility to be independent for three grass, which is around 440,000sqm, is replanted,” said al-Mulla. in preventing infections. health sciences attended the site next to Doha North Sewage Treat- days. three times per year. This means we will Before the grass or the new trees are MoPH team conducted symposium. Dr Nahid al- ment Works Plant where the nursery “This is a very ambitious project that produce 1.2mn sqm of landscape grass planted, 10cm of soil will have to be added a fi eld visit to Mesaimeer Ajami from Hamad Medical will be located. The space will be divided we see as legacy,” said Yasser al-Mulla, per year. By using water from the sewage to make the land fertile. The trees will Workers Health Centre and Corporation, Dr Sitana al- into diff erent areas dedicated to planting SC Landscape & Sport Turf Management water treatment plant we are also ensur- be grown on site for between two to fi ve participated in the celebra- Shafi from Aspetar and a con- landscape grass, trees and shrubs. The senior manager. “We want to cater to all ing that the project is as sustainable as years before they are taken to the diff erent tion of the national infec- sultant from the Joint Com- nearby water treatment plant will supply the areas surrounding all proposed 2022 possible.” sites, the SC website added. tion control week through a mission International spoke. Award-winning fi lms from MEC seeks uniform contracts for Chartered Accountants services China to be screened at MIA he Ministry of Economy and Commerce issues, a client’s request for chartered account- (MEC) yesterday unveiled a new initia- ant services – whether provided by an indi- Ttive that aims to promote the adoption of vidual chartered accountant offi ce, a general selection of award-winning Screen Awards and Shanghai Film a uniform contract for the provision of chartered partnership company or the representative of a fi lms from China and Hong Critics Award, among others. accountant services to clients. global offi ce registered as a chartered account- AKong will be screened by Still Life (2006) will be screened The move comes within the framework of the ant offi ce specialised in reviewing and auditing Doha Film Institute (DFI) at the on November 5, 4.30pm. It had its MEC’s eff orts to improve the services off ered fi nancial accounts; the commitment of char- Museum of Islamic Art auditorium premiere at the Venice Film Festi- by chartered accountants and raise awareness tered accountants to provide accounting, fi nan- to mark Qatar China 2016 Year of val, where it won the Golden Lion among accounting offi ces and customers about cial account auditing services and advice in the Culture. for Best Film. the legal rights and duties of chartered account- fi nancial, economic and administrative fi elds; From tomorrow to November At 7.30pm that day, Coming ants, the ministry said in a press statement. commitment of the chartered accountant to 7, audiences in Qatar will have an Home (2014) – which premiered at The uniform contract form for the provision provide accounting services required by the cus- opportunity to discover China’s the Cannes Film Festival – will be of chartered accounting services includes 13 tomer, such as reviewing and auditing fi nancial rich and diverse cinematic tradi- screened. provisions that outline the responsibilities of accounts, etc; and the responsibility of chartered tions that highlight the vibrancy Then, Police Story (1985) will be both parties. accountants for auditing operations and the ac- of fi lms from the country, DFI has screened on November 6, 7.30pm. “The initiative aims to provide an electronic, curacy of information presented in their reports. said in a press statement. A still from Police Story. It went on to win the Best Film uniform contract for the provision of accounting Further, chartered accountants are respon- Part of DFI Cinema, the Chinese honour at the 1986 Hong Kong services and the establishment of a legal frame- sible for compensating customers for all dam- Film Week celebrates the cultural Lee’s Way of the Dragon, Xiaogang dustry and been ranked second Film Awards. work for the contractual relationship between ages due to negligence and professional error ties between Qatar and China in Feng’s Back to 1942, Jia Zhangke’s on the list of the Best 100 Chinese The special event concludes chartered accountants and their clients,” the committed by the accountants, their assist- support of the Years of Culture Still Life, Yimou Zhang’s Coming Motion Pictures. on November 7, 7.30pm, with the MEC said. ants or both. Chartered accountants also need initiative organised by Qatar Mu- Home, Jackie Chan’s Police Story Way of the Dragon (1972) will screening of A Simple Life (2011). It also aims to educate clients about the to maintain the confidentiality of information seums, and highlights the insti- and Ann Hui’s A Simple Life. Each be screened on November 4 at It has won several honours, in- main provisions that should be included in the and documents related to the client’s work. tute’s “ongoing commitment to fi lm presents a distinctive style 4.30pm. It won the Golden Horse cluding Best Actress Award, at the contract for the provision of accounting serv- Meanwhile, a client is prohibited from termi- strengthen fi lm appreciation and and will entertain audiences of all Award (1973) for Best Film Editing. Venice Film Festival, where it was ices, as well as to ensure the compliance of the nating the work of the chartered accountant be- provide diverse cultural perspec- ages. Also on November 4, Back to an offi cial selection in competi- terms of the contract between accounting of- fore the end of the fi scal year unless the account- tives to the local community”, the The series begins tomorrow, 1942 (2012) will be screened at tion. Tickets are priced at QR35 fices and clients with the provisions of Law No ant violates provisions of Law No 30 of 2004, statement notes. 7.30pm, with A Better Tomorrow 7.30pm. It won a number of hon- and can be purchased in person 30 of 2004, which regulates the audit profes- while another article determines the beginning The selection includes John (1986), which has had a signifi cant ours at the Beijing International from the MIA Box Offi ce or online sion. and end of the contract term and the possibility Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, Bruce impact on Hong Kong’s fi lm in- Film Festival (2013), Asia Pacifi c at www.dohafi lminstitute.com The diff erent articles relate to, among other of its renewal for a similar period. Gulf Times 12 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 REGION/ARAB WORLD 47 candidates Gulf security drill Fatah to hold fi rst barred from congress since 2009 contesting this month

AFP Kuwait polls Ramallah, Palestinian Territories

AFP will challenge the decision. alestinian President Kuwait City Dashti has been living outside Mahmoud Abbas said Kuwait for several months and Pyesterday that his Fatah won a court order last week al- party, which is facing internal uwait’s election authorities lowing his son to submit nomi- divisions, will hold its fi rst con- yesterday barred 47 candi- nation papers on his behalf. gress since 2009 at the end of Kdates from contesting par- Also barred was Sheikh Malek November. liamentary polls later this month Humoud al-Sabah, a member of A unanimous decision was for being convicted in courts or the ruling family who announced taken by Fatah’s senior most not fulfi lling nomination require- his candidacy in a rare move in body, the central committee, to ments, candidates said. the Gulf state where royals nor- convene the congress on Novem- Those barred include former mally stay away from elections. ber 29 in the West Bank city of opposition MPs Bader al-Dahum There has been no comment Ramallah, he said in a statement. and Safa al-Hashem, as well as from either Dashti or Sheikh The central committee controversial Shia ex-MP Ab- Malek on their exclusion. chaired by Abbas is the back- dulhameed Dashti who has been Kuwaiti courts can overturn bone of Fatah, tasked with de- sentenced in absentia to jail for the decision of the authorities veloping and implementing the insulting fellow Gulf states Saudi and allow candidates to run. Saudi Special Guard Forces unit members perform their drill during the month-long GCC joint security exercise “Arabian Gulf party’s strategy. Arabia and Bahrain. Although no offi cial details Security 1” in Manama, Bahrain yesterday. The congress is expected to The Kuwaiti ruler dissolved were given on the decision, lo- elect a new 23-member central parliament last month because cal media websites reported that committee as well a 132-strong of a crisis between MPs and the 31 candidates were banned be- revolutionary council, which is government over hiking petrol cause of court verdicts and the considered Fatah’s parliament. prices, and set November 26 for remaining 16 for not completing Analysts have said plans to an election. procedures. hold the long overdue congress Dahum wrote on Twitter that A total of 454 candidates, in- is a bid by Abbas to stave off ri- he was informed by the elec- cluding 15 women, have regis- vals, including Mohamed Dah- tion authority that he had been tered to stand for election to the lan, Fatah’s former strongman in barred from standing but not 50-seat parliament. the Gaza Strip. told why. The election sees the return OIC chief quits Dahlan was expelled from the He said he will mount a legal of major opposition groups and party in 2011 and now lives in ex- challenge to the decision. individuals ending a four-year ile in the United Arab Emirates. Hashem also tweeted that boycott in protest against the The congress is seen as an op- she had been told she could not government for amending the portunity for Abbas to reshuffl e stand for office and that she voting the system. key positions and sideline allies of Dahlan. after remark on Besides splits within the par- ty, Abbas’s secular Fatah and Hamas have been at loggerheads since the latter seized Gaza in a near civil war in 2007. UAE has no plans Reconciliation attempts be- tween them have repeatedly Egypt president failed. The congress will be held as to tax individuals AFP “The OIC General Secretar- Sisi earlier last week in which the bloc since 2014, apolo- the 81-year-old Abbas is under Jeddah iat takes this chance to express he claimed that his fridge only gised, saying in a statement he heavy political pressure at home its utmost appreciation and had water in it for a decade. meant no “insult to the Egyp- and from abroad. Reuters Earlier this week the cabi- respect to all member states,” Egypt’s Foreign Minis- tian leadership”. Arab states have reportedly Dubai net approved a 48.7bn dirham he world’s largest pan- the 57-member bloc said. ter Sameh Shoukry has said Saudi Arabia has nominated pressured Abbas to bring Dahlan ($13.3bn) federal budget for 2017. Islamic body, the Or- The former Saudi minister Madani’s remark was “a seri- its former minister of social af- back from exile while opinions Khouri told the Al Bayan that Tganisation of Islamic made the comment last week ous encroachment against a fairs, Youssef al-Utaymeen, to polls at home have suggested he United Arab Emirates projects in the budget would not Co-operation, said its Saudi after he mixed up Sisi’s name founding member state of the replace Madani, the OIC state- most Palestinians would like has no plans to impose rely on new taxes or additional chief resigned on Monday, days with that of Tunisian Presi- organisation and its political ment said. him to step down. Tnew taxes on individu- fees, or revenues from VAT. after infuriating Egypt over a dent Beji Caid Essebsi at a con- leadership”. Egypt’s foreign ministry said als and the government is not The budget will not be aff ect- remark that mocked President ference. “Such remarks do not con- it supported the nominee, “ap- studying the introduction of ed by changes in global oil prices, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “Mr President Beji Caid al- form with the responsibilities preciating the important role Iranian parliament more fees for services, Younis he added. OIC Secretary-General Iyad Sisi. Essebsi sorry. This is a big and the duties of the organisa- Saudi is doing in the support of al-Khouri, under-secretary at On corporate tax, Khouri said Madani “has resigned for health mistake. I’m sure your fridge tion’s secretary general posi- the activities and goals of OIC”. okays three new the fi nance ministry, told the Al the ministry had for years been reasons,” the Jeddah-based or- has more than water, your ex- tion, and fundamentally aff ect “Egypt looks forward to Rouhani ministers Bayan newspaper. studying the social and econom- ganisation said in a statement, cellency,” he told the Tunisian his ability to carry out his du- continuing its strong co-op- Governments across the Gulf ic impact of it, and was now tak- two days after Cairo condemned leader. ties,” he added in a statement eration with the general secre- Iranian lawmakers approved have been planning fresh ways ing those studies to the cabinet, the comment that provoked He was referring to widely in English. tary of OIC and its secretariat,” three new ministers yesterday, to raise money as low oil and with a view to building a com- outrage among Egyptians. derided comments made by Madani, who had headed it added. signalling support for changes gas prices open up big defi cits in prehensive tax regime. in the cabinet of pragmatist state budgets. He did not elaborate on any President Hassan Rouhani seven In 2018, the six members of the possible changes to corporate months before a presidential Gulf Co-operation Council plan tax but said an initial step in de- election. to introduce value-added tax. veloping the tax regime had been State media reported that Reza However, Khouri’s remarks taken with President Sheikh Morocco charges 11 over fi shmonger’s death Salehi Amiri, Saeed Soltanifar appeared to rule out, for now at Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s and Fakhredin Ahmadi Danesh- least, the possibility of personal decree last week setting up a Ashtiani won votes of confidence income tax in the UAE. federal tax authority. Reuters pro-reform demonstrations Fikri bought 500kg (1,100lb) fore seizing it, which amounts to take over the ministries of Rabat broke out during the 2011 Arab of swordfi sh, for which fi shing to forgery of public docu- Islamic guidance and culture, Spring. is banned from Oct. ments, the statement said. sport and youth aff airs, and Verdicts issued for suspects in In an eff ort to calm tensions, 1 to Nov. 30 every year, ac- According to local media education. oroccan authorities King Mohamed, currently on a cording to a prosecutor’s and authorities, Fikri jumped Their predecessors resigned Saudi embassy attack in Iran have charged 11 peo- tour of Africa, ordered the in- statement published by state inside the trash truck that po- after Rouhani criticised them Mple over the death of terior minister to visit the vic- news agency MAP. lice used to destroy the con- for ineff iciency and succumbing Iran’s judiciary has issued verdicts Mashhad in response to Riyadh’s a fi shmonger who was crushed tim’s family and present royal A police offi cer guarding the fi scated fi sh in a desperate at- to pressures from outside the for 20 people accused of storming execution of a prominent Saudi in a garbage truck while trying condolences. port gates called the security tempt to stop them, and was government. Saudi diplomatic missions in Shia cleric. to stop police from destroying The general prosecutor said services, who impounded Fikri’s caught inside the crusher. Rouhani allies won big gains January and will announce them The Iranian government his stock, in a case that has ig- yesterday that 11 people had truck later inside the city. Activists accused police of- in parliamentary elections in in the near future, an off icial was condemned the assault and nited public anger. been referred to an investi- The veterinary doctor de- fi cers at the scene of ordering February, short of an outright quoted as saying by the judiciary President Hassan Rouhani, keen The death of Mouhcine Fikri gating judge, including two cided the fi sh was unfi t for garbage men to crush Fikri majority but comfortable enough news agency yesterday. to improve Tehran’s long-strained in the northern city of Al-Ho- interior ministry offi cials, two consumption because of a lack but the police denied those to pass his legislative plans. Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with its neighbours and ceima on Friday has prompted local fi sheries offi cials and the of documents. accusations, and the prosecu- Rouhani is expected to stand relations with Iran after protesters the West, asked the judiciary to thousands to take to the streets veterinary chief in Al-Hocei- But the local committee had tor said the investigation had for re-election next year but stormed the kingdom’s embassy punish the protesters and prevent in four days of protests, among ma, on charges of involuntary already prepared the legal pa- shown there was no order to may face a challenge from in Tehran and consulate in further attacks. the biggest in Morocco since manslaughter. perwork to destroy the fi sh be- harm the victim. conservative rivals

UN commander sacked in S Sudan

AFP been at war since December 2013. Loj of Denmark steps down at the United Nations “The special investigation found end of November after more than two that UNMISS did not respond eff ec- years in the job. tively to the violence due to an over- The fi erce fi ghting in Juba involved N Secretary-General Ban Ki- all lack of leadership, preparedness helicopter gunships and tanks pitting moon yesterday sacked the and integration among the various President Salva Kiir’s government Ucommander of the peace- components of the mission,” said UN forces against those loyal to ex-rebel keeping force in South Sudan follow- spokesman Stephane Dujarric. chief Riek Machar. ing a damning report showing failure Chinese peacekeepers abandoned Machar fl ed the capital during the to protect civilians during violence their positions at least twice and violence, which derailed internation- earlier this year in Juba. Nepalese peacekeepers failed to stop al eff orts to form a unity government The report from a UN special in- looting inside the UN compound, the and restore peace to South Sudan. vestigation found that a lack of inquiry found. About a dozen aid workers and leadership in the UN mission culmi- Ban said he was “deeply distressed UN staff housed at the Terrain hotel nated in a “chaotic and ineff ective re- by these fi ndings” and “alarmed by compound were attacked by South sponse” during heavy fi ghting in the the serious shortcomings” of the UN Sudanese soldiers on July 11, but the capital from July 8 to 11. Peacekeep- mission. peacekeepers, just 1.2km away, failed ers abandoned their posts and failed The UN chief “has asked for the to come to their aid. to respond to pleas for help from aid immediate replacement of the force There were multiple requests to workers under attack in a nearby ho- commander,” said Dujarric, adding the peacekeepers from China, Ethio- tel compound, according to a sum- that other measures would follow. pia, India and Nepal for forces to be mary of the report. Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa dispatched, “but each UNMISS con- The UN mission known as Kimani Ondieki of Kenya had been tingent turned down the request, in- UNMISS has 16,000 troops de- the force commander since May. dicating their troops were fully com- ployed in South Sudan, which has UN mission chief Ellen Margrethe mitted.” Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 13 ARAB WORLD

Turkey deploys tanks, artillery near Iraq border

AFP tween the Turkish army and Ankara Kurdish militants in Silopi while its residents have been subject to curfews earlier this year. he Turkish military has de- The district is also close to PKK ployed tanks and artillery bases in the Qandil mountains in Tto southeastern districts northern Iraq. near the Iraqi border, military Erdogan also warned Shia mi- sources said yesterday. litias in Iraq against attacking The 30-vehicle convoy left An- Turkmen residents of Tal Afar, kara for Silopi, the sources said, a town near Mosul, after the adding that it was now close to Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary Adana province in southern Tur- force launched an off ensive at the key. weekend. The deployment came as Iraq The Iraqi army’s off ensive to said its forces had entered mili- take back Mosul from the Islamic tant-held Mosul for the fi rst time State group was one of the issues since the Islamic State group discussed by the army chiefs of overran the city more than two Turkey and Russia at a meeting in years ago. Moscow yesterday. Ankara has repeatedly insisted Valery Guerassimov and Hulusi that it would be involved in the Akkar also focused on the confl ict off ensive in northern Iraq and in Syria. would be “at the table”. “The question of settling the Defence Minister Fikri Isik Syrian confl ict, including the said yesterday’s deployment was normalisation of the situation in Tribal fighters walk as fire and smoke rises from oil wells, set ablaze by Islamic State militants before they fled the oil-producing region of Qayyara, Iraq, yesterday. a part of Turkey’s preparation Aleppo, was discussed during this for “important developments in meeting,” the Russian defence the region”, referring to Kurd- ministry said in a statement, ish rebels inside the country and adding that it was an “open” ex- events in Iraq. change of views. “Turkey is preparing in ad- Russia has been militarily vance for whatever happens (and) backing its ally Syrian President this is one element of that,” he Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey said, quoted by the offi cial news has been a supporter of the Syr- agency Anadolu. ian opposition seeking to oust the Iraq forces fi ght way The outlawed Kurdistan Work- Damascus regime. ers’ Party (PKK) has waged an Guerassimov also informed the insurgency inside Turkey since Turkish military leader of Russian 1984, with almost daily attacks eff orts to “help the humanitarian against Turkish security forces in situation in Aleppo,” the state- the mainly Kurdish southeast. ment added. Isik added that there was a “se- Russia has now ceased air rious fi ght against terror” inside strikes on eastern Aleppo for 16 into IS-held Mosul Turkey, a reference to Islamic days, Russian Defence Minister AFP the CTS, told Iraqiya from Gog- fi ghters, fi ghting positions (and) assault at the weekend to cut off The United Nations says up to State (IS) militant and the PKK. Sergei Shoigu said yesterday, after Bartalla, Iraq jali. weapons” in the strikes, Dorrian that route. 1mn people could be displaced in Last month, Prime Minister criticism over a Russian-backed “We are working with army said. They have been advancing the coming weeks. Binali Yildirim claimed Turkish Syrian government assault that units to secure the area and As his forces advanced, Iraqi north, their sights set on the More than 17,900 people have artillery hit IS positions in Bash- has killed hundreds of civilians raqi forces fought their way advance on Mosul together,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi town of Tal Afar which com- already fl ed their homes since iqa, northern Iraq. and destroyed infrastructure in- into militant-held Mosul Muntathar Salem, a lieutenant warned the militants they would mands the city’s western ap- the operation began, according President Recep Tayyip Er- cluding hospitals. Iyesterday, the military said, colonel with CTS told an AFP re- have no place to run. proaches. to the International Organisation dogan on Saturday indicated that Shoigu also accused the US-led as a top commander declared the porter near the front line. “We will close in on (IS) from On the northern and eastern for Migration. Turkey wanted to reinforce its se- coalition in Syria of failing to rein “true liberation” of the city from Soldiers from Iraq’s 16th Divi- every place,” he said on state tel- sides of Mosul, peshmerga forces The UN said yesterday it had curity forces already in Silopi in in hardline rebels, and said the the Islamic State group had be- sion also retook a series of villag- evision on Monday, dressed in a from the autonomous Kurdish received more reports of IS fi ght- Sirnak province. chance of a political settlement gun. es north of Mosul, according to camoufl age uniform. region have taken a series of vil- ers forcing thousands of civilians There have been clashes be- was remote. Just over two weeks into the the Joint Operations Command, “They don’t have an exit, they lages and towns and consolidat- into Mosul, possibly to be used as massive off ensive to retake Mo- while pro-government paramili- don’t have an escape, they can ed their positions, while federal human shields. sul – IS’s last major stronghold in tary forces said they captured only surrender - they can die or forces have advanced toward the In the early hours of Monday, Iraq – soldiers managed to push villages southwest of the city. they can surrender,” said Abadi. city from the south. IS fi ghters “brought dozens of within city limits. Backed by air and ground sup- For now the militants do have Iraqi forces are expected to long trucks and mini-buses to Troops had “entered the port from a US-led coalition, an escape route – to the west to- try to open safe corridors for the Hamam al-Alil south of Mosul, Louvre ‘could house Judaidat Al-Mufti area, within tens of thousands of Iraqi fi ghters wards IS-controlled territory in million-plus civilians still be- in an attempt to forcibly transfer the left bank of the city of Mo- have been converging on Mosul. Syria. lieved to be inside. some 25,000 civilians towards sul,” said the Joint Operations Since the off ensive was Paramilitary forces from the Humanitarian organisations locations in and around Mosul,” Iraq, Syria treasures’ Command. launched on October 17, federal Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular have been fi ghting against the said the UN rights offi ce. Mosul is split by the Tigris forces and Kurdish peshmerga Mobilisation), an umbrella or- clock to build up the capacity to Most of the vehicles were pre- River, with the eastern half of the fi ghters have retaken a series of ganisation dominated by Iran- handle the possible mass exodus vented from reaching Mosul be- AFP But, Hollande said, it will have city known as the left bank. villages as they advance on the backed Shia militia, launched an from the city. cause of coalition aircraft patrol- Lens, France “another role, sadly linked to Judaidat al-Mufti is on the city from the north, east and ling the area, it added. the events, dramas and tragedies southeastern side of the city. south. Up to 600,000 children trapped in Mosul: NGO The militants also reportedly which may unfold in the world, Elite Iraqi forces had also re- Some 4,000 to 7,000 mili- killed 40 former Iraqi security rench President Francois wherever works of art are in dan- captured the key village of Gog- tants are believed to be in and Up to 600,000 children are to unfold, whilst there is still the forces members and dumped Hollande yesterday said the ger because terrorists, because jali and taken control of a televi- around Mosul, where IS chief among the civilians trapped in opportunity to get children out their bodies in the river, UN FLouvre could house threat- barbarians have decided to de- sion station building belonging Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared militant-held Mosul, Save The of the war zone,” the NGO’s Iraq rights offi ce spokeswoman Ravi- ened treasures from Iraq, Syria stroy them...(especially) in Syria to a local affi liate of Iraqiya state a cross-border “caliphate” after Children said yesterday, calling director Maurizio Crivellaro said. na Shamdasani told reporters in and other war-torn countries at a and Iraq.” TV on the eastern edge of the the group seized control of large for safe corridors as Iraqi forces An estimated 250,000 people Geneva. secure site in northern France. Hollande said France will make city. parts of Iraq and neighbouring advanced on the city. have been besieged by regime That would bring to 296 the The precious items could be the proposal at a December con- Fighters from the US-trained Syria two years ago. “It is a critical moment to forces in the northern Syrian city number of former Iraqi secu- placed in safe keeping at a con- ference in Abu Dhabi on endan- Counter-Terrorism Service had Colonel John Dorrian, the protect children and open safe of Aleppo for three months. rity offi cers killed by IS since last servation facility due to open in gered heritage. pushed into the area amid heavy spokesman for the US-led coa- routes to allow the 1.5mn civil- Most estimates put the number Tuesday, according to the UN. 2019 in Lievin, 200km (120 miles) Representatives from around fi ghting on the eastern front in lition against IS, said it had tar- ians, including about 600,000 of people trapped in Mosul at IS has been losing ground north of Paris, he said. 40 countries are expected to take the past two days. geted the militants with “nearly children, still trapped in the city to more than a million, but accurate steadily in Iraq since 2015 and “The prime mission of the Liev- part. “Now is the beginning of the 3,000 bombs, artillery shells, leave safely,” the charity said. numbers are impossible to come the outcome of the Mosul battle in site will be to house the Louvre “We are going to suggest that true liberation of the city of Mo- rockets and missiles” since the “We cannot sit back and wait by after more than two years of is in little doubt, but command- Museum’s stored collection,” Hol- the Lievin conservation site is sul,” Staff General Taleb Sheghati operation began. for another situation like Aleppo militant rule in the city. ers have warned it could last lande said at a ceremony to unveil where these works can be pro- al-Kenani, the commander of “We’ve taken out hundreds of months. a plaque marking the site. tected,” Hollande said. West Bank village of Al Jab’a thirsts for water supply

By Fabiola Ortiz/Thomson could be demolished as it was not resolved the community’s water The UN Environment Pro- ing more variable rainfall, “it is Reuters Foundation offi cially approved. problems. gramme said in a report that Israel also important to emphasise that Al Jab’a, West Bank “Before, we had to walk many Residents say the Mekorot sys- uses the majority of the water re- there is a question of accessibility times a day to the nearby springs tem supplies water only intermit- sources available in the West Bank and human right to a minimum to fi ll our bottles and buckets,” tently and at low pressure. and Gaza Strip. amount of water”, he said. mountainous Palestinian said Omar Musa, 18, who lives When supplies fl ow, families Israel, however, points out that Apart from building reservoirs, community in the Israeli- with his parents and fi ve siblings must hurry to store as much as it provides the Palestinians with Von Medeazza suggests rehabili- Aoccupied West Bank, Al near the reservoir in a house atop they can. double the 30mn cu m of water tating around 300 ancient cisterns Jab’a diff ers in many ways from a hill. In addition, residents like Musa annually that was agreed to in the – underground storage tanks dat- surrounding Israeli settlements “I was happy when I knew I and his family fear the reservoir 1995 Oslo accords. ing from Roman times that once but it shares one worry with its would have water at home.” could be demolished by the Israeli Gregor von Medeazza, chief of collected water in the rainy season. neighbours – a shortage of water. He estimated that his family authorities because, like many of the water, sanitation and hygiene These have the potential to be In the last few decades the saves about six hours a day by not their homes, the structure was programme at Unicef in East Jeru- used today and would be a cost- West Bank has seen rainfall de- having to fetch water for their use, built without an offi cial permit. salem, said water remains a per- eff ective measure, he said. crease and groundwater levels fall crops and livestock. Construction by Palestinians is sistent sore point between Israel Around 80 such cisterns have with drought expected to become But numerous rural and forbidden in Area C, a designation and Palestinian communities in been restored so far by a coalition of “more frequent (and) more in- Bedouin communities in the West covering about 60% of the West the West Bank. non-governmental organisations. tense”, according to a 2012 United Bank are not connected to a net- Bank, including Al Jab’a. “Water should be a source of “The long-term vision is to Nations Environment Programme work run by Israel’s national wa- Between 2010 and 2014 only A view of the covered water reservoir and pipe system in the West collaboration and should bring increase the current access (to (UNEP) report. ter company, Mekorot, which is 1.5% of requests for building per- Bank village of Al Jab’a. people together,” he said. “At the water) of people living in remote Residents of Al Jab’a, who once responsible for supplying water to mits in Area C were approved, ac- end of the day, they all share the places,” Von Medeazza said.”We had to walk for hours daily to fetch Palestinians in the Israeli-occu- cording to the UNOffi ce for the mission is a legitimate measure, a ing and constructing distribution same water resources.” have the technical solutions to ex- water, do have limited access to Is- pied territory. Coordination of Humanitarian 2015 OCHA report notes. networks, which has left a quarter Von Medeazza said that Unicef tend services and connect com- raeli water supplies in their concrete In Al Jab’a, only 10% of homes Aff airs (OCHA). Although only one-fi fth of the of Palestinians without piped wa- is concerned about ensuring munities. homes due to a reservoir, pipeline were part of the Mekorot dis- An application for a permit for 14,000 demolition orders issued ter, according to a report by the measures are in place to use wa- What we need is further sup- and a pump built in 2013 by an Ital- tribution system until the pipes the Al Jab’a reservoir by GVC, the in Area C since 1988 have been Palestinian Academic Society for ter carefully and help communi- port from all parties (Israelis and ian non-governmental organisation. and reservoir completed in 2013 Italian development organisation carried out, according to OCHA, the Study of International Aff airs. ties adapt in the face of growing Palestinians) for this to happen.” But the water provided is not extended the network to the re- that built it in partnership with the uncertainty leaves residents An assessment by Unicef in scarcity. For his part, Musa in Al Jab’a re- enough, according to families maining households. Unicef, was turned down, GVC worried for the safety of their 2015 showed that 400,000 Pal- “It means having rational use of mains worried but resolute. in Al Jab’a, a village of about 150 Water piped by Mekorot is said. homes and their water supply. estinians from 1.7mn living in the (the) water available and making “We are really afraid of losing houses 12km (7 miles) southwest pumped up the hill to be stored in According to Israeli authori- After the 1967 war in which Is- West Bank were in need of im- sure there is no wasting of water,” our reservoir,” he said. of Bethlehem. the reservoir. ties, issuing demolition orders rael acquired the West Bank, Israel proved water, sanitation and hy- he said. But “we are not leaving our They also fear their system But this has not completely for structures built without per- imposed restrictions on well drill- giene services. With climate change bring- house nor our community”. Gulf Times 14 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 ARAB WORLD Sudan keen to normalise US ties despite sanctions

AFP Obama extended the sanctions by Darfur have been cited as a reason “The ministry confi rms that government of Sudan continue to Monday, the American embassy taken to secure economic sanc- Khartoum another year, saying Khartoum’s not to lift the sanctions. Sudan will continue to be part of a pose an unusual and extraordinary said the extension was purely tions relief”, the embassy said. policies remained an “extraordi- Sudan’s foreign ministry played high-level dialogue currently tak- threat to the national security “technical” and the sanctions An end to fi ghting in Darfur and nary threat” to the national secu- down Obama’s decision, saying it ing place between the two sides,” and foreign policy of the United could still be eased. in Blue Nile and South Kordofan udan said yesterday it will rity of the United States. was a “routine” annual procedure, the ministry said in a statement. States,” Obama said in a statement It was “part of a routine, annual states is a key condition demand- press ahead with eff orts Sudan has been subject to a but one that negatively impacted “Afterwards, there will be an while extending the measures. process that does not prejudice ed by the Obama administration Sto normalise ties with the US trade embargo since 1997 for the humanitarian situation in the assessment of the two countries’ There had been speculation the ability of the president to pro- for any easing or lifting of sanc- United States despite Washington its alleged support for Islamist country. vision towards normalising all as- that the sanctions might be eased vide sanctions relief at any point tions, diplomats said. extending sanctions imposed on groups. However, the extension of pects of relations.” after repeated visits to Khartoum in the future,” it said. Washington was a key support- Khartoum that adversely impact In recent years, the govern- sanctions will not hamper ongo- The extension of sanctions in recent months by US special Washington “has been quite er of the peace accords that led to the east African country. ment’s scorched earth tactics ing eff orts to improve ties between comes into eff ect from tomorrow. envoy Donald Booth. clear with the government of Su- the independence of South Sudan On Monday, President Barack against ethnic minority rebels in the two countries, it said. “The actions and policies of the In a statement released late dan on the steps that need to be in 2011. Italian leader visits Bethlehem Opposition lashes out at ‘inaction’ over Aleppo AFP on Friday, backed by car bombs United States who had refused to Geneva and salvos of rockets, to end the provide accurate weapons. regime’s three-month encircle- He said the rebels “are not tar- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and visiting Italian President Sergio Mattarella review the honour guard during a welcome ment of the city’s eastern dis- geting civilians, they are targeting ceremony in the West Bank town of Bethlehem yesterday. Mattarella is on a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. eople stuck in war-ravaged tricts. the regime, but the bombs they Aleppo do not have the lux- He said there were only around are using are not perfect bombs”. Pury of refusing help from 300 Nusra fi ghters in eastern On the other side, he said, “the the Islamist fi ghters, a high-level Aleppo out of around 20,000 Russians are targeting civilians, member of Syria’s main opposi- rebels – numbers that diff er the regime is targeting civilians. tion said, lashing out at interna- wildly from a UN estimate of It’s uncomparable.” tional “inaction” in breaking the around 8,000 rebels in the be- Khoja also voiced hope that siege. sieged part of the city, including the US election next week would Damascus and its Russian ally some 900 who belong to Fateh push Washington to more ac- Israel wants Western Wall tively support the opposition in have used the presence of fi ght- al-Sham. ers with former Al Qaeda affi liate Khoja rejected widespread Syria. Fateh al-Sham Front – previously criticism of opposition fi re on ci- “We heard (Democratic presi- called Al Nusra Front – to jus- vilians in western Aleppo, stress- dential candidate Hillary) Clin- tify their off ensive on rebel-held ing that “as HNC we don’t accept ton talking about civilian pro- station for high-speed train tection, no-fl y-zones, which is eastern Aleppo. civilian targets”. The top UN envoy for Syria, According to the Syrian Ob- something we welcome and that Agencies It would “link the future word for Western Wall. Kabatiya, south of Jenin, and Staff an de Mistura, has also called servatory for Human Rights, a we demand,” he said. Jerusalem central station at the entrance It was unclear whether the arrested his brother, an army on the fi ghters to leave the city to Britain-based monitor, heavy He was more wary of a possi- to Jerusalem, bypass the Old plan would be given final ap- spokeswoman said. help enable aid to reach the es- rebel rocket fi re since Friday has ble win by Republican candidate City and end near the Western proval. According to Palestinian timated 250,000 civilians living killed 51 civilians, including 18 Donald Trump, who he said came srael’s transport minister Wall.” The high-speed rail line media reports, the man was a under siege. children. across as “very close to (Syrian said yesterday he wants to The Western Wall is located from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem member of the police force. But Khaled Khoja, a top nego- Khoja acknowledged that President Bashar al-) Assad and Iextend a high-speed rail in the ancient Old City in East is expected to cost some 7bn The Israeli army would not tiator with the High Negotiations there had been civilian casu- to the Russians.” line being built to include a Jerusalem, illegally occupied shekels ($1.8bn). comment on that information. Committee (HNC) opposition alties as the rebels struggle to But he said that once Trump station for East Jerusalem’s by Israel in 1967 and later an- It will extend some 56km The man’s family members umbrella group, insisted that break the siege, but blamed received more information about Western Wall, a move likely to nexed in a move never rec- (35 miles), linking the two cit- told reporters that Palestinian trapped and desperate residents international backers like the the Syrian confl ict “we hope he spark intense controversy. ognised by the international ies in 28 minutes, and is to be security forces had searched and the armed rebels trying to The transport ministry de- community. inaugurated in 2017. their home on Monday be- defend them had been left with Russia: chance of Syria settlement remote scribed the plan in a statement, It is in an area at the heart A tram line built by Israel fore the checkpoint attack and no option but to accept help from though the exact location of of the Israeli-Palestinian con- and operating since 2011 that seized weapons, but they said the Islamist fi ghters. Russian Defence Minister Sergei and a return of the Syrian the station was not made clear, flict, with the Western Wall extends into East Jerusalem they had not known why at the “The inaction of the interna- Shoigu yesterday accused the people to peaceful life has been saying only that it would be located just below the Al-Aq- generated controversy, as have time. tional community in terms of US-led coalition in Syria of failing postponed indefinitely,” he said near the Western Wall and sa Mosque compound. plans for a cable car in the city More than 230 Palestin- breaking the siege of Aleppo al- to rein in hardline rebels, and at a televised meeting with top connected with a tunnel. While Israel sees all of Jeru- where political and religious ians and 30 Israelis have been lowed Al Nusra to intervene in said the chance of a political brass. “The minister has given in- salem as its undivided capital, tensions are high. killed over the past year in Is- this battle,” he said in Geneva late settlement was now remote. He said rebels were shooting structions to advance a project the Palestinians view East Je- Meanwhile, Israeli army rael, the West Bank and East Monday. He said the coalition was “dozens of peaceful civilians” to extend the high-speed rail rusalem as the capital of their forces yesterday searched the Jerusalem. “You cannot ask the people “putting spokes in the wheel” every day for attempting to line linking Tel Aviv to Jeru- future state. residence of a Palestinian man The surge in violence comes who are suff ering inside Aleppo of Russia’s military operation in use humanitarian corridors set salem with a 2km (1.25-mile) Though the location of the who was killed after opening amid controversy over visiting because of the siege to refuse the the country and failing to “act in up by Russia out of rebel-held tunnel 80m (262ft) deep,” the station was not made clear, fire at a West Bank checkpoint and praying rights at holy sites help from anyone,” he said. unison”. eastern Aleppo, which so far statement said, referring to the transport ministry state- and injuring three soldiers. in Jerusalem and Palestinian His comments came after op- “As a result, the prospect of the have seen only a trickle of Transport Minister Yisrael ment said it would be called Israeli forces conducted frustration over Israeli occupa- position factions allied with Is- start of a political settlement people leave. Katz. “Kotel station” – the Hebrew searches on the man’s home in tion. lamists launched a major assault Beirut’s National Museum reveals long-hidden treasures

AFP rector Anne-Marie Maila Afeiche. They include a premolar from mummifi ed bodies” wearing the Beirut The archaeological museum 70,000 BC belonging to the fi rst clothes of of women and children, was renovated after the years of known example of a homo sapiens in some cases the 13th-century fi ghting and shelling damaged its in Lebanon, and stretch through silk embroidery still intact. eirut’s National Museum building and exhibits, and reo- to an 1830 Ottoman stele adorned Around them were nuts, onion has opened its basement pened in the 1990s. with a turban. skins, ceramics, bronze tools and Bof ancient treasures for the But the current exhibit is the Among the collection’s fl agship documents written in Arabic and fi rst time in four decades to show fi rst time its basement has been displays is a series of Phoenician Syriac. the public its stunning array of fu- open since the civil war. sarcophagi dating from between “They were psalms and litur- nerary art, including the world’s Among the treasures of often- the sixth and fourth century BC gical chants that showed that largest collection of anthropoid breathtaking beauty is a fragment that were found in the southern these were Christians who had sarcophogi. of a Roman sarcophagus found in region of Sidon. taken refuge in this cave,” said The new exhibition’s 520 pieces Beirut that depicts the myth of “We’re exhibiting 31 of these Afeiche. range from the Paleolithic period Icarus, who is shown alongside his sarcophagi at the moment,” which The three mummifi ed bodies to the Ottoman Empire. father Daedalus, making his ill- mix Greek and Egyptian styles, are particularly rare as Lebanon They include Phoenician ste- fated wings. said Afeiche, noting that some of does not have a tradition of mum- lae and rare medieval Christian Another gem is an extraordi- the sarcophagi found in Sidon are mifi cation, according to Marco mummies along with the anthro- nary hypogeum – an underground currently displayed in the Louvre. Samadelli, director of the EU- poid coffi ns, which display a hu- tomb – accidentally discovered by This is “the largest collection RAC centre in Italy, who off ered man face on the sarcophogus and a farmer in the Tyre region in 1937. of anthropoid sarcophagi in the his expertise to help conserve the were long a standard for the elite. It is covered with restored fres- world,” she added. unique mummies. Some of the items have never coes inspired by Greek mythol- But perhaps the most striking Italy contributed 1.02mn euros before been on public display. ogy, including a scene of Priam on part of the exhibit is the unprec- ($1.1mn) to the project of restoring Other pieces have not been bended knee begging Achilles to edented display of three mum- the museum’s basement and col- shown since the 1970s, when the return the body of Hector. mies found in 1989 by cavers in lection, along with the expertise museum was forced to shut down “It was essential to show the the Qadisha Valley. of leading archaeologists includ- because it sat on the frontline that public this heritage, which be- The area is a Unesco World ing Antonio Giannarusti. ran through the city during Leba- longs to Lebanon and humanity, Heritage site and its cave-pocked Even with the basement now non’s 1975-1990 civil war. that was lying in our storage,” said sheer rock faces provided refuge open, the museum’s storage ar- “This is a lesson in courage and Afeiche. for Maronite Christians persecut- eas contain plenty of undisplayed hope because 41 years after the All of the exhibits on display ed during the Mamluk and Byzan- pieces and the culture ministry museum was closed in 1975, we in the museum were excavated tine eras. has plans for a new history mu- A cradle tomb on display in the newly inaugurated basement section of Beirut’s National Museum. The today are able to receive visitors across Lebanon, which is rich with “They were discovered in a seum in Beirut as well as museums museum has a collection of 31 anthropoid sacrophagi, the most important single collection of this type in a on three fl oors,” says museum di- historical sites and artefacts. cave along with eight naturally in both Sidon and Tyre. museum today. These sacrophagi were built in Sidon workshops between the 6th and the 4th century BC. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 15 AFRICA

NEW STUDY DIPLOMATIC ROW CROSS-BORDER RAID DEMOCRATIC APPEAL ACCIDENT Elephant poaching costs Rwanda accuses 22 French Ugandan rebels hack six Burkina president urges Boko Haram militants Africa tourism $25mn off icers over 1994 genocide to death in DR Congo army to remain ‘neutral’ killed in Nigeria blast

Stopping the killing of elephants for their tusks Rwanda has published a list of 22 French off icers Six civilians were hacked to death in the east of Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore A truck conveying eight suspected Boko Haram could add some $25mn to Africa’s annual tourism it accuses of helping plan and execute the 1994 the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack yesterday implored the country’s army to respect Islamists exploded yesterday near a military income, more than off setting the anti-poaching genocide. Rwanda’s National Commission for by Ugandan Islamist rebels, local off icials said the “rule of law”. The impoverished, landlocked west checkpoint in the northeast Nigerian city of spend, a study said yesterday. “We find that the the Fight Against Genocide (known by its French yesterday. Fighters from the Ugandan Allied African country has been blighted by numerous Maiduguri, killing the occupants, an army lost economic benefits that elephants could acronym CNLG) issued the list late on Monday, a Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked a small coups and mutinies since gaining independence spokesman told AFP. The open truck burst into deliver to African countries via tourism are month after French investigators said they were re- village in North Kivu province on Monday, an from France in 1960. Ten days ago the government flames when the explosives concealed in it went substantial, and that these benefits exceed the opening a probe into who shot down then-president administrator in the Beni region, Amisi Kalonda, claimed it had thwarted another coup plot earlier in off as the insurgents were trying to escape from a costs necessary to halt elephant declines in east, Juvenal Habyarimana’s jet triggering the genocide. told AFP. “The provisional toll is six dead, all the month led by troops loyal to former president military checkpoint, Colonel Sani Usman said. “They southern and west Africa,” the authors wrote “High-ranking French off icers and political figures civilians (killed) with machetes, two injured and Blaise Compaore. “Democracy needs a strong and attempted to detonate at a checkpoint but were in the journal Nature Communications. The committed very serious crimes in Rwanda,” the a medical centre plundered,” Kalonda said of the republican army, an army that conforms to the denied access by troops and as they turned back, conservation of elephants, they concluded, “is CNLG said in a statement. “The refusal to put an raid in the village of Kitevya. Noella Katsongerwaki, rules and to the demands of the rule of law, and it exploded killing all the eight occupants,” he said. a wise investment decision for countries in the end to the judicial investigation and to exonerate Beni’s civil society president, speaking by which doesn’t act as if in a state of emergency,” The checkpoint was the last security post leading savannah regions of Africa”. The estimated value Rwandan leaders who ended the genocide is telephone from Goma, the capital of North Kivu, Kabore told soldiers in Ouagadougou on the 56th out of Maiduguri towards the town of Gubio which of the ivory trade is almost $600mn per year. designed to camouflage these responsibilities.” said two men and four women were killed. anniversary of the formation of the armed forces. was liberated from Boko Haram fighters last year. Niger Delta Mourned leaders want army out and oil fi rms in

Reuters Senate rejects plan to borrow $30bn Abuja Nigeria’s Senate yesterday dealt worth $4.5bn and planned budget an unexpected blow to President support of $3.5bn. eaders from the Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari by rejecting The shock vote undermines Niger Delta yesterday called his plan to borrow $30bn abroad the president’s authority as he Lon President Muhammadu for infrastructure projects and tries to lift the Opec country out People escort the coffins of Congolese opposition party UDPS supporters which were released from the morgue in Kinshasa Buhari to pull the army out from budget support until 2018. of its first recession in more than yesterday. The bodies of six militants of the Congolese opposition party UDPS, who were burnt in arsons during the night of the oil hub, order oil fi rms to move The decision makes it more 20 years, triggered by low global September 19, 2016 at the party’s headquarters, were released from the morgue on Monday. Opposition groups had organised headquarters there and spend diff icult for Buhari to build new oil prices. demonstrations on September 19 to demand the resignation of President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since 2001 and, under more on development to end mili- roads or invest in the outdated Some lawmakers, including the constitution, should step down on December 20. tancy in the region. power grids as part of his plans from Buhari’s ruling All Progres- Buhari met leaders from the to boost agriculture and other sives Congress (APC), have southern swampland for the fi rst non-oil industries to end the econ- objected to government plans to time since militants started a omy’s dependence on dwindling sell oil and other assets to raise wave of attacks on oil pipelines oil revenues. badly needed hard currency. in January to push for a greater Senators threw out the plan, “Why this appears strange share of oil revenues. introduced last week, without is because...they (lawmakers) Mugabe decree paves the way for bond notes At the meeting in the presiden- debate. tend to approve whatever the tial villa in Abuja, Niger Delta lead- When a surprised Senate Presi- president puts on their table,” ers, joined by representatives of dent Bukola Saraki held a second said Ayodele Thompson, director Reuters Minister accuses Mugabe deputy in succession row militant groups, gave Buhari a list of vote, most senators shouted at the Initiative for Public Policy Harare 16 demands to pacify the impover- again “Nay”. Analysis think tank. A Zimbabwean cabinet minis- But he is increasingly look- higher education minister who ished region where many say they Just minutes after the vote, the “If you look at how we got into ter yesterday accused Robert ing frail, stoking a scramble is linked to the G40 group be- do not benefi t from the oil wealth. ministry sent a statement once the debt in the past, you would imbabwean President Robert Mugabe Mugabe’s deputy of using in his ruling ZANU-PF party hind Grace, are the most overt The list “includes the with- again justifying the borrowing realise that borrowing is not the has side-stepped parliament to issue state institutions to try to to succeed him. attack on the man assumed to drawal of the military in oil pro- plan. answer to economic recession,” Za decree clearing the way for the in- arrest him and further his at- One faction is widely be her biggest rival. ducing communities in the re- A finance ministry off icial he said. “The government needs troduction of “bond notes” that have raised tempt to eventually become believed to be manoeuvring Moyo, a senior ZANU-PF gion”, King Alfred Diete-Spiff , declined to comment on the to take some hard decisions like fears of a return to a domestic currency president in the most direct to impose his wife Grace as a off icial, said in a public state- a Niger Delta leader leading the rejection. shrinking its size.” abandoned in 2009 as hyperinfl ation crip- attack in the deep rivalry possible successor, another ment that Mnangagwa was region’s delegation, said after the “The loans, which cover a pe- Buhari had already sent a draft pled the economy. over the country’s future backs Vice President Emmer- illegally using the anti-graft meeting, adding: “We don’t want riod of three years, would help in budget for 2017 to parliament for The bond notes are meant to ease biting leadership. son Mnangagwa, who has commission to further his the communities militarised.” addressing the biting infrastruc- approval, detailing plans to spend cash shortages that have gripped the south- Mugabe is 92 and Africa’s the support of war veterans. political career. Buhari sent in army reinforce- ture deficit in the country,” the a record 6.866tn naira ($22.55bn). ern African nation since March but have oldest ruler who has held While the two sides have Mnangagwa could not be ments in May to hunt down mili- ministry quoted a top debt off icial The planned spending is up from helped fuel anti-government protests in re- power since the country traded barbs for months, reached for comment, and tants, a move that stoked anger as saying in its statement. this year’s 6.06tn naira budget and cent months. gained independence from yesterday’s comments by his aides said he was busy in as residents complained of rape, Buhari’s borrowing plans had seeks to stimulate growth by fund- Mugabe late on Monday used his presi- Britain in 1980. Jonathan Moyo, an outspoken meetings. looting and arrests of youths un- included the sale of Eurobonds ing infrastructure development. dential powers to amend the Reserve Bank related to the militants, charges of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Act, designating bond denied by the military. notes as legal tender that will be equivalent Mugabe’s decree did not say when bond in the interest of public safety and public The delegation leader also said been successful. “The president Nigeria has held months of to the US dollar, according to an offi cial gov- notes will be introduced. The regulations good,” Biti said. oil fi rms should move headquar- has noted the requests and will talks to end the violence but no ernment notice. will last six months, after which parliament RBZ Governor John Mangudya has strug- ters to the region so unemployed study them,” he told reporters. lasting ceasefi re has been agreed Mugabe said bond notes, which he has has to ratify or reject them. gled to allay concerns of a return to the ram- youths — who often work for He said oil output had re- in the oil hub, where many com- previously called surrogate currency, “shall But former fi nance minister and opposi- pant money printing and infl ation rates that militants — could get more jobs. covered to 2.1mn barrels a day, plain about poverty, even though be legal tender in all transactions in Zimba- tion leader Tendai Biti said Mugabe’s decree peaked at 500bn per cent, by saying bond Foreign fi rms active in Nigeria roughly back to levels before the the region provides much of Ni- bwe” just like the US dollar, British sterling was illegal and could be challenged in court. notes were an incentive for exporters and are often based in the commer- attacks began in January. geria’s oil exports. pound and South African rand, which are He criticised Mugabe for resorting to a would not be forced on people. cial capital Lagos. The attacks, which put four Nigeria agreed on a ceasefi re also used in the country. decree when parliament, dominated by the Mangudya, who has previously said the The Niger Delta leaders also key export streams under force with major militant groups in Zimbabwe was this year hit by a devastat- ruling ZANU-PF party, could have easily new bank notes would start circulating early asked for more funds for the de- majeure, had led production to 2009 to end an earlier insur- ing drought that left 4mn people in need of passed the law. this month, did not answer calls to his mo- velopment and an amnesty plan plunge to just 1.37mn barrels per gency. food aid. The RBZ fi rst announced plans for bond bile phone. for ex fi ghters which Buhari had day in May, the lowest level since But previously unknown It is facing its worst fi nancial crisis since notes in May. The RBZ yesterday started running ad- planned to cut, which has upset July 1988, according to the Inter- groups have since taken up arms switching its currency for the US dollar as “Even if assuming they (regulations) were vertisements in local newspapers and radio the militant scene. national Energy Agency (IEA), after authorities tried to arrest weak mineral commodity prices hurt its legal, the presidential powers should only be saying up to 5% incentive would be paid on Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe from 2.2mn barrels in January a former militant leader on cor- major exports, while formal unemployment used in extreme circumstances where there all exports and diaspora remittances in bond Kachikwu said the meeting had 2016. ruption charges. remains above 80%. is no suffi cient time to go to parliament notes. Court hears Zuma bid to block corruption report

AFP In its submission, the op- an empire in mining trans- Pretoria position Democratic Alliance portation, technology and party rejected Zuma’s argu- media after coming to South ment, saying he would be free Africa from India in the early South African court to challenge the report once it 1990s. was yesterday hearing a is out. One of Zuma’s sons, Dudu- Abid by President Jacob Madonsela concluded the zane, is their business part- Zuma to block the publication report last month, shortly ner. of a potentially explosive re- after the expiry of her seven- Deputy fi nance minister port that probed his ties with year non-renewable term. Mcebisi Jonas early this year a controversial and powerful The report was due to be accused the family of off ering Indian business family. released on October 14 but him the job of fi nance minis- Zuma is arguing that he Zuma moved to block it. ter, something he said he re- was not give enough time to The application to halt its jected. respond to questions posed to release is also backed by Local Zuma, 74, has survived him by former ombudswom- Government Minister David a string of damaging scan- an Thuli Madonsela during van Rooyen and Mines Min- dals, but has faced increasing the investigation into “state ister Mosebenzi Zwane, who criticism as the economy has capture” by the Gupta family. too are named in the report. stalled and after the ruling The report investigated al- Dali Mpofu, the lawyer ANC party suff ered unprec- legations that Zuma allowed representing the opposition edented losses in local polls. the Gupta family undue po- parties, said Zuma’s applica- Earlier this year several litical sway, including letting tion was motivated by fears banks and audit fi rms in them choose some cabinet that his implication “might South Africa cut ties with ministers. lead to the invocation of the Gupta-owned fi rms. Four opposition parties are impeachment proceedings or The family has been lob- challenging Zuma’s bid in a motion of no confi dence.” bying the government to have Lawyers Anthea Platt and Myron Dewrance representing South African President Jacob Zuma, look through documents during a hearing at the case heard in the High Court The Guptas — brothers the banks’ decision declared High Court in Pretoria yesterday. in Pretoria. Ajay, Atul and Rajesh — built unlawful. Gulf Times 16 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 AMERICA Rubio votes Zika virus makes mice infertile, says study

Reuters ral genes in certain cells of the Chicago testes. But overall, the testes ap- peared normal compared with study of mice infected other lab mice. with Zika showed the After three weeks, however, Avirus caused lasting the diff erences were stark. damage to key cells in the male The testes in the Zika-in- reproductive system, resulting fected mice had shrunk to a in shrunken testicles, lower tenth of their normal size, and levels of sex hormones and re- the internal structure was de- duced fertility, US researchers stroyed. said yesterday. “We saw signifi cant evi- So far, the fi ndings are only dence of destruction of the in mice, but the result is wor- seminiferous tubules, which risome enough to warrant fur- are important for generating ther study because of possible new sperm,” Diamond said. implications for people, said The researchers also found Dr Michael Diamond of Wash- that Zika infects and kills Ser- ington University in St. toli cells, which maintain the Louis, whose research was barrier between the blood- published in the journal Na- stream and the testes and fos- ture. ter sperm growth. “It has to be corroborated,” Diamond, a professor of pa- The result is worrisome Senator Marco Rubio is greeted as he visits an early voting centre to cast his general election ballot in Miami, Florida. Rubio is in a race against his Democratic opponent thology, immunology and mo- enough to warrant further representative Patrick Murphy (D-FL) for the Florida Senate seat. lecular microbiology, said in a study because of possible telephone interview. implications for people Much of the global eff ort to fi ght Zika has focused on pro- Sertoli cells do not regener- tecting pregnant women from ate. infection because of the grave That raises the spectre of implications for their unborn long-lasting damage. children. “The virus is infecting a site Zika infections in pregnant which doesn’t really renew if it women have been shown to gets damaged. cause microcephaly, a severe That is the problem,” Dia- Debate swirls on limits birth defect in which the head mond said. and brain are undersized, as Tests of testicular func- well as other brain abnormali- tion showed sperm counts, ties. sex hormones and fertility had Previous studies have shown dropped. that Zika can remain in semen Infected mice were four for as long as six months. times less likely to impregnate But little is known about a healthy female mouse than of cyber retaliation whether prolonged exposure to healthy males. the virus in the testes can cause “This is the only virus I There is talk of subcontracting raids It comes after President Barack Obama Juan Zarate, a former White House na- allowed to take counter-measures. harm. know of that causes such se- on hackers called for a “proportional” response to tional security advisor who now works Because hackers can easily disguise To study this, Diamond and vere symptoms of infertility,” Russia, while leaving unanswered whether with the Foundation for Defense of De- their attacks, Grobman said a questionable colleagues injected male mice added Dr Kelle Moley, a fertil- AFP this would mean a cyber attack or measures mocracies, said such a model for action retaliation could create an ugly situation. with Zika. ity specialist at Washington Washington such as diplomatic or economic sanctions. could be based on the early days of the “What I worry about is a terrorist entity After a week, the research- University and a study co-au- Former national intelligence director republic when Congress issued “letters of creating an attack that appears to come ers recovered infectious virus thor. and GWU task force co-chair Dennis Blair marque and reprisal” for private merchant from a nation state that creates a public from the testes and sperm, There is no vaccine or treat- fter a seemingly endless barrage of said the US has been moving too slowly in ships to bring in maritime pirates. push for some hack back and that leads to and they found evidence of vi- ment for Zika. cyberattacks, debate is heating up its response to cyberattacks. In an essay last year, Zarate called for a a live shooting cyber war,” he said. Aon hitting back at hackers where it “We are shooting so far behind the “cyber-privateering regime that rewards, James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center hurts. rabbit that we will only hit it if the rab- enables, and empowers the private sector for Strategic and International Studies, Amid calls for ways to punish and deter bit makes another lap and comes back to to help defend itself in concert with gov- said the United States has pledged to its hackers without sparking a so-called “cy- where it was,” he told a conference pre- ernment.” international partners to steer clear of ber war”, a panel of experts assembled by senting the report. Others warn of the dangers of empow- these kinds of acts in cyberspace. the George Washington University Center Some analysts argue that hackers and ering private actors to engage in reprisals. “We’ve told people the internet should Nuala O’Connor, president of the be based on the rule of law, and (hacking Murder for Cyber and Homeland Security said in a states responsible for attacks should get report Monday that US policies should be a taste of their own medicine, and that US Center for Democracy and Technology back) would undercut that,” he said. eased to allow “active defence” measures laws should be amended to allow for hack- and co-chair of the GWU panel, argued of “The question you always want to ask is by both the government and private sector. ing back at the cyber criminals. unintended consequences of authorising whether this would make cyberspace more However, it stopped short of endorsing Some proposals call for private security companies to break into outside computer or less stable. networks. This would make it less stable.” suspect the idea of “hacking back” to disable sys- fi rms to be “deputised” to carry out legally tems used by attackers. sanctioned hack-back operations when “I believe these types of measures Patrick Lin, who led a study this year for The panel envisioned measures such as private fi rms are victimised. should remain unlawful,” she wrote, add- California Polytechnic State University on taking down “botnets” that disrupt cy- “Department stores hire private inves- ing that it remains diffi cult to be sure of the ethics of hacking back, said there is “a berspace, freeing data from “ransomware” tigators to catch shoplifters rather than cyberattacks’ sources. moral case for hacking back, but an under- “The risks of collateral damage to inno- developed case for its legality and eff ec- shot dead hackers and “rescue missions” to recover relying only on the police. stolen data. So too private companies should be cent Internet users, to data security, and tiveness.” The report follows a wave of high-pro- able to hire their own security services,” to national security that can result from In the report, Lin wrote that while it is Reuters fi le attacks against US companies and gov- said a Hoover Institution paper written by overly aggressive defensive eff orts needs diffi cult to know whether hacking back has Oklahoma ernment databases, and after Washington scholars Jeremy Rabkin and Ariel Rabkin. to be better accounted for.” deterrent value, “doing nothing, as seems accused Russia of using cyberattacks to “There should be a list of approved Steve Grobman, chief technical of- to be the case now, certainly off ers no de- attempt to disrupt next week’s presiden- hack-back vendors from which victims are ficer at Intel Security, also questioned terrence and likely encourages cyber-at- man who had been on tial election. free to choose.” whether private entities should be tackers to continue preying on others”. the run for nearly a week Aafter being suspected of killing two relatives and trying to decapitate them was killed on Sunday night in a shootout with police. Michael Vance, 38, who was US airlines lose bid to dismiss also suspected of wounding two police offi cers in a shoot out and posting his getaway on social media, was killed by po- Michael Dale Vance Jr lice after a caller reported a car price-fi xing antitrust lawsuit matching one allegedly stolen Sunday 50km northeast of by Vance was seen near Ham- Oklahoma City. mon, in western Oklahoma, Vance was thought to have Reuters airline executives about the need for “dis- local media reports said, citing killed his aunt and uncle about Washington cipline” in seating capacity. police sources. three hours after the shootout “Starting in 2009, the industry experi- An Oklahoma sheriff ’s dep- with police, according to the enced limited capacity growth,” the judge uty was shot and wounded Oklahoma County Sheriff ’s of- federal judge rejected a bid by the wrote.”Notably, as defendants’ executives near Leedey, Oklahoma, dur- fi ce. four largest US airlines to dismiss acknowledged, this restriction on growing ing the hunt for Vance, televi- He then stole their car. Anationwide antitrust litigation by capacity was a marked change within the sion station KOCO reported on Vance also was believed passengers who accused them of conspir- industry. its website. to have an infectious disease ing to raise fares by keeping seating capac- The court is satisfi ed that at this stage, There were no details on his that he was possibly trying to ity artifi cially low. plaintiff s suffi ciently plied parallel con- condition, though at least one spread. In a decision late Friday afternoon, US duct.” report said his condition was In July, he was charged with district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Kollar-Kotelly said this was true even not life-threatening. child sexual abuse, the offi ce she could “reasonably infer the existence for Southwest, though its use of a single In a spree that began over a said. of a conspiracy” among American Airlines aircraft type and other factors gave it a week ago, police said offi cers In a video posted on Face- Group Inc, Delta Air Lines Inc, Southwest “limited ability” to reduce capacity. responded to a call of shots be- book Live while fl eeing, Vance Airlines Co and United Continental Hold- American spokesman Matt Miller called ing fi red. was heard saying he was about ings Inc to fi x prices. the plaintiff s’ claims “plainly defi cient,” Both suff ered wounds that to steal another car and that Kollar-Kotelly, who sits in Washington, and said the carrier is confi dent they will were not life threatening. the chase has been “intense”. DC, did not rule on the merits of the pro- be found meritless. Vance was shot twice in a “This ain’t a joke. posed class-action case, which combines Delta had no immediate comment. gunfi ght, in which he wounded This ain’t a prank,” Vance 105 lawsuits fi led around the country and Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins two police offi cers and then said, adding he was set up. seeks triple damages. A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330 aircraft. declined to comment. stole a police vehicle. Vance also stated in the vid- The US department of justice last year United did not immediately respond to The US Marshal Service eo that he was shot. began its own probe into a possible con- higher fares and reduced fl ight choices. The airlines said the litigation should be requests for comment. joined in the search for Vance, The Oklahoma County spiracy among the airlines, which, ac- They said the conspiracy, together with dismissed because there was no proof of Michael Hausfeld, a lawyer for the plain- who was charged on Friday Sheriff ’s Offi ce said there ap- cording to government data, command a low fuel prices and higher fees for check- an agreement to collude, or that they re- tiff s, called the decision a “substantial vic- with the murder of Ron- peared to be a large amount of roughly 69% domestic market share. ing bags and other services, helped the duced capacity in tandem. tory” for passengers. “We look forward to ald Wilkson, 55, and his wife blood on his shirt and a rifl e or Passengers claimed that the conspiracy airlines post a record $21.7bn combined But in her 41-page decision, Kollar- moving forward aggressively to secure the Valerie Wilkson, 54, who were shotgun next to him in the ve- began in early 2009, and has resulted in profi t in 2015. Kotelly pointed to statements by several relief the public deserves,” he added. found dead in their home on hicle. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 17 AMERICA FBI ‘must come clean on Trump’s Russia ties’

Reuters concluded that the Russian gov- White Plains, New York ernment was trying to disrupt or discredit the US presidential election and the broader US po- top aide to Hillary Clinton litical process by hacking into yesterday urged the FBI Democratic Party and Clinton Ato disclose what it knows campaign e-mails. about any ties between Repub- The United States has blamed lican Donald Trump and Russia, Russia for cyber attacks on Dem- accusing the law enforcement ocratic Party organisations. agency of unfairly publicising An article in Slate said that a its inquiry into Clinton’s email group of computer scientists had practices while staying quiet been alarmed by records show- about Trump. ing thousands of apparent con- A week before Election Day, nection attempts between a mail the Clinton campaign has been server operated on behalf of the trying to contain damage from Trump Organization and com- FBI Director James Comey’s an- puters inside a Russian company, nouncement on Friday of new Alfa Bank in Moscow. emails that might pertain to Trump campaign spokeswom- Clinton’s use of a private server an Hope Hicks said the server in while secretary of state. question, which had been used to Trump seized on the revela- send out hotel marketing mate- tion to intensify his criticism of a rial, had been dormant for years. rival he has long dubbed “Crook- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, his daughter Tiffany Trump, and his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway shop at a Wawa gas station yesterday in Valley ed Hillary” and welcomed a The FBI opened a Forge, Pennsylvania. slight improvement for him in a preliminary inquiry into new ABC/Washington Post poll allegations that Trump or yesterday. his associates might have Clinton campaign manager had questionable dealings Robby Mook questioned why the with Russian individuals or Federal Bureau of Investigation’s businesses director had not released any information about its investiga- The Clinton campaign has tion into Russia’s role in the US been furiously pressing the FBI election or ties to Trump and his to provide details on the new Shock poll survey senior aides. trove of emails, which Comey “If you’re in the business of said may or may not be signifi - releasing information about in- cant in the case. vestigations on presidential can- Little is publicly known yet didates, release everything you about the emails, other than that have on Donald Trump. they were found during an unre- Release the information on his lated probe into Anthony Wein- connections to the Russians,” er, the estranged husband of top puts Trump ahead Mook said on CNN. Clinton aide Huma Abedin. “They don’t say a thing when In an effort to shift the focus With a week to go Trump spected website FiveThirtyEight the world into recession”. who make up the majority bloc challenge and return to the issue it comes to Donald Trump and back to Trump’s vulnerabilities, appears to be turning the says 74%. The tumultuous two-year race of voters, is as likely as anything of Trump’s fi tness to lead. investigations against him, yet the Clinton campaign released corner But the shock ABC poll caps — featuring suggestions of sexual else to decide who wins the elec- Both candidates were keeping when it comes to Hillary Clinton, a provocative new ad raising the a series of surveys that point to assault, Russian espionage and tion. up a manic campaign schedule for some reason, they are more specter of a possible nuclear AFP a race which is narrowing in the fi nancial wheeler-dealing — may Her campaign spent days be- targeting key swing states. than happy to talk.” war if Trump is elected presi- Washington fi nal sprint. have few twists and turns left in rating FBI director James Comey Trump was scheduled to speak The FBI opened a preliminary dent. The idea that the 70-year-old store. for revealing that the bureau is in Pennsylvania and Wiscon- inquiry into allegations that Clinton emphasised the mes- Trump is still in with a chance On Monday Trump was hit by looking anew at her use of a pri- sin yesterday, while Clinton was Trump or his associates might sage that Trump has a bad tem- n explosive new poll will surprise many and prompt fresh allegations, revealed in The vate email server while secretary hopscotching across must-win have had questionable dealings per and an overly cavalier atti- showed Donald Trump jitters among Democrats and the New York Times, that he not only of state. Florida. with Russian individuals or busi- tude toward nuclear weapons at Aleading the race for the fi nancial markets. dodged paying income tax, but Clinton and her support- He has been warning support- nesses, but found no evidence to rallies in the battleground state White House yesterday, amid an The bombastic reality TV did so in a legally dubious way. ers were furious that Comey ers that a Clinton victory would warrant opening a full investiga- of Ohio on Monday. avalanche of revelations and al- star has been pummelled by al- Clinton and Trump spent made his announcement with- mire America in “constitutional tion, according to sources famil- The FBI spent a year investi- legations a week before Election legations that he groped sev- yesterday barnstorming battle- out providing any new evidence crisis”. iar with the matter. gating Clinton’s use of a private Day. eral women and has shady ties to ground states. of wrongdoing but, after three He predicted “a criminal tri- The inquiry reviewed alle- email server, instead of govern- An ABC News/Washington Moscow. Trump — somewhat out of days of rage, Clinton took a more al for a sitting president”, and gations that Trump or his as- ment systems, while secretary of Post tracking poll showed the Re- A week ago pundits were rush- character — went to the oddly emollient tone Monday. chastised Clinton for seeking to sociates might have engaged state from 2009 to 2013. publican leading his rival Hillary ing to declare the election over. named town of King of Prussia in “I made a mistake. blame others for a scandal that in contacts or commerce with Comey concluded in July that Clinton 46-45%, with news of Now, voices on Wall Street are Pennsylvania to deliver a policy I’m not making any excuses,” has lasted for 20 months: “She individuals subject to US or in- while Clinton and her staff had a renewed FBI probe apparently warning that markets have not speech on healthcare. she said, inviting the FBI to pur- has brought all of this on herself.” ternational fi nancial sanctions been “extremely careless” in devouring the Democrat’s long- taken the prospect of a Trump “Our tax plan will provide sue its probe and suggesting that University of Virginia politics or violated the Foreign Corrupt handling classifi ed information, held lead. presidency seriously enough. a 35% tax cut to middle class the agency would fi nd, as it did in professor Larry Sabato said the Practices Act. there were no grounds for any Experts caution not to put too “A Trump win could lead to a families with two kids,” he told July, that she has no case to an- FBI development has changed US intelligence agencies charges. much stock in any one poll, espe- 11-13% sell-off ,” on the S&P 500 supporters.”Our middle class has swer. the race’s dynamics. such as the Central Intelligence Comey has said he released cially one well within the statis- share index, analysts at Barclays not been properly respected. “It wasn’t even a close call,” “She would have been run- Agency and the National Secu- more information about the in- tical margin of error. warned clients yesterday. That I can tell you.” she said.”I think most people ning a victory lap this week, rity Agency, which generally are vestigation than is typical be- Clinton is still the over- That would be a bigger crash Critics question how Trump have moved on. running up the score,” he told barred from investigating or spy- cause of election year sensitivi- whelming favourite, thanks to than the day Lehman Brothers would pay for his proposed cuts. They’re looking and focused AFP.”Instead, she’s trying to hold ing on US citizens, did not inves- ties. the quirks of the US electoral went bust in September 2008, Meanwhile the Democratic on ‘OK, who is going to be the on.” tigate Trump or his alleged deal- The New York Times also as- system, which tallies the win- the nadir of the fi nancial crisis. nominee tried to steer attention next president and the com- But Sabato added that Trump’s ings in Russia, according to three sailed Comey, accusing him in an ner based on weighted state-by- Simon Johnson, former chief away from her handling of US mander-in-chief?’” strategy of touring Democratic- sources familiar with the matter. editorial in its yesterday edition state races. economist of the International secrets and on to Trump’s treat- With no sign anything con- leaning states refl ects a stark The offi ce of the director of of sending “a brief, inscrutable, The New York Times’ statisti- Monetary Fund, warned such a ment of women. crete will come of the FBI probe truth: he needs to fl ip at least one national intelligence and the de- election-shaking letter” in a cal model gives Clinton an 88% shock “would cause the stock The 69-year-old Clinton’s before polling day, Clinton be- of them in order to win, and even partment of Homeland Security “breathtakingly rash and irre- chance of winning, while re- market to crash and plunge level of support among women, lieves she can face down the that may not be enough. recently declared that they had sponsible decision”. Actress accuses Hitchcock Grizzly mom of groping her in memoir

Reuters Hitchcock fi lm, Marnie, when the director Los Angeles “suddenly grabbed me....” “I couldn’t have been more shocked and more repulsed,” she added, alleging that ctress Tippi Hedren graphically Hitchcock threatened to ruin her career when chronicles in a new memoir incidents she insisted on ending her contract, which Ain which she says she was sexually as- she did that day. saulted and harassed by famed British direc- “It was the early 1960s. tor Alfred Hitchcock during her star turns in Sexual harassment and stalking were terms The Birds and Marnie. that didn’t exist back then,” she wrote. Tippi, which went on sale yesterday, docu- “Besides, he was Alfred Hitchcock, one of ments Hedren’s rise from fashion model to Universal’s superstars, and I was just a lucky movie star and “Hitchcock blonde” after the little blonde model he’d rescued from rela- director spotted her in a commercial and cast tively obscurity. her in the lead of the 1963 thriller The Birds. Which one of us was more valuable to the The book by Hedren, mother of actress Tippi Hedren: new memoir studio, him or me?” Melanie Griffith and grandmother to Fifty The Birds, about a California town terrorised Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson, of- A representative for his estate did not im- by a vicious fl ock of birds, is often named among fers a rare, first-person account of the ro- mediately return requests for comment. the best horror fi lms in American cinema. tund “master of suspense” that contrasts Hedren, 86, recalled Hitchcock making Hedren’s experiences with Hitchcock were sharply with Hitchcock’s public image as a unwanted advances during her gruelling six- dramatised in HBO’s 2012 fi lm The Girl, and mild-mannered, self-effacing English gen- month shoot for The Birds in 1962, including stars actress Sienna Miller as a young Hedren tleman. one encounter while riding back to her hotel being coached, manipulated and tormented What emerges is the unfl attering portrait with the fi lmmaker in his limousine. by Hitchcock. of a powerful director who nursed a dark, un- The actress said she pushed the director The fi lm features the limousine incident controllable obsession with the icy-blonde away and left the vehicle. and sees Hedren terminate her contract with leading ladies of his fi lms. The breaking point, she wrote, came in Hitchcock when he demands she be “sexually Participants in the 43rd Annual Halloween Parade in New York. Hitchcock died in 1980 at age 80. 1964 during production of Hedren’s second available” to him at all times. Gulf Times 18 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 ASEAN

Police charge captain over deadly Myanmar ferry sinking

AFP A total of 73 people, including scores Four people were arrested at the “We have now arrested him and pledged a “systematic investigation” but they did not care,” she said.“I want Yangon of teachers and university students, time but the captain and the boat’s charged him...and are investigating into the incident and to “take action them to spend the rest of their life in jail.” died when the boat capsized on the owner fl ed the scene. The skipper, Zaw the case,” said Tin Maung Myint, the against those who are responsible”. Local MP Tun Tun Win said the Chindwin River on its way to the cen- Myo Win, later turned himself in to head of police in Kani township where Thin Thin Aung, 62, who lost her baby region was now facing a shortage of yanmar police said yesterday tral city of Monywa on October 15. Monywa authorities. the boat sank. granddaughter and her son-in-law, said teachers and health workers because so they have brought charges Dozens of bloated corpses were He was charged with careless driving The size of the death toll shocked she wanted to see the boat’s owner — many died in the disaster. Mpunishable by a long jail term swept downriver from the scene of the of a vessel and causing death by negli- Myanmar, where many rely on rickety who is still at large — jailed for life. “The boat sank because it was over- against the captain of an overloaded disaster, some 70 kilometres north of gence, police said. old ferries for transport along a net- “The boat owners...are rich and they loaded, against regulations, but there river ferry that sank last month, killing the city, while others were found when The crimes are punishable by more work of fl ood-prone river systems. can’t control their greed. They knew are still many boats running in this re- dozens of people. workers dragged the hull to the surface. than 10 years in prison. Last month President Htin Kyaw how many people their boat can carry gion that are breaking the rules,” he said. China, Malaysia sign Jakarta still in talks to deals on navy vessels buy Sukhoi Reuters Beijing Su-35 jets alaysia has agreed to buy four Chinese na- Mval vessels and pledged Reuters and Indonesian state weapons with Beijing to handle South Jakarta maker PT Pindad will be repre- China Sea disputes bilaterally, a sented at an Indo Defence ex- Chinese offi cial said yesterday, hibition, which will be held in in what could be China’s latest ndonesia is in talks to buy Jakarta from Nov 2 to Nov 5.The counter to US infl uence in the “nine or 10” Sukhoi Su-35 country’s biggest annual de- region. Ifi ghter jets from Russia, an fence show will come weeks af- The vessels are known as lit- Indonesian defence ministry ter Indonesian warplanes staged toral mission ships, small craft offi cial told Reuters yesterday, large-scale exercises on the that operate close to shore. without giving a timeline for any edge of a South China Sea area Two will be built in China deal. claimed by Beijing. and two in Malaysia, Malaysian “We are still negotiating,” While Indonesia is not part state media reported after a Leonardi, head of the defence of the dispute over the South meeting between Chinese Pre- facilities at Indonesia’s defence China Sea, it objects to China’s mier Li Keqiang and his visit- ministry who goes by one name, inclusion of waters around ing counterpart Prime Minister said by telephone. the Natuna Islands within its Najib Razak. “We are still bargaining, ‘how ‘nine-dash line’, a demarcation Last week, Malaysia’s de- much do you want to sell them line used by China to show its fence ministry said in a posting for?’.” claims there. on social media that the country Indonesian defence minister Indonesia’s total defence would sign a contract to pur- Ryamizard Ryacudu said in May spending has risen 77 % over chase patrol vessels from China the Southeast Asian country the last four years to 108.7tn during Najib’s week-long visit would buy eight Russian Su- rupiah ($8.3bn), though it is that began on Sunday, but the khoi Su-35 jets this year, but the expected to dip to 108.0tn ru- post was later removed. planned purchase has not mate- piah next year, according to of- The move marks Malaysia’s rialised.Rival Western compa- ficial data. fi rst signifi cant defence deal nies are still trying to wrest the Indonesia had signed a con- with China at a time of rising deal to supply Indonesia with tract with Lockheed Martin for tension in the South China Sea. fi ghter jets away from Russia’s 24 F-16 jets, of which 14 had “Leaders of the two sides Sukhoi, two people familiar with been delivered and 10 more agreed to further advance the the talks said, asking not to be expected by early 2018, the de- proper settlement of the South named because of the sensitivity fence ministry’s Leonardi said. China Sea issue with dialogue of the matter. He declined to disclose the through a bilateral channel,” The award has not been fi nal- value of the deal. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister ised and it is seen as a test for Research firm IHS Markit Liu Zhenmin told reporters at eff orts by Indonesian President predicts that Indonesia will Beijing’s Great Hall of the Peo- Joko Widodo to enforce more spend more than $20bn on ple where Li and Najib met. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak and China’s Premier Li Keqiang attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, yesterday. transparency in big-ticket deals, procurement between 2016 and “Obviously the launching of they said. 2025 — the fifth fastest-grow- naval co-operation between the coastal security, maritime pa- which carry some $5tn worth of fi led by the US Justice Depart- porter’s question on the issue. Hundreds of companies in- ing defence budget in the world two sides is signifi cant for our trol and surveillance, but can trade a year. ment implicating Najib in a Both nations also signed cluding Lockheed Martin of the — and it will increasingly seek bilateral ties. It’s a refl ection also be deployed for disaster Najib’s visit follows that of money-laundering scandal. deals for collaboration to build United States, Sweden’s Saab to diversify its suppliers. of the very high level, mutual relief and search and rescue op- Philippines President Rodrigo Najib has denied any wrong- rail projects in Malaysia, which political trust between our two erations. Duterte, who announced the doing and said Malaysia will included the 55bn ringgit countries,” Liu said. China claims most of the country’s “separation” from the co-operate in the international ($13.2bn) East Coast Rail Line. He gave no other details on South China Sea as its territory. United States and signed a raft investigations. Najib told Malaysian state the deal. But Brunei, Malaysia, the of memoranda of understand- “I think there’s a mischar- news agency Bernama that Littoral mission ships can Philippines, Taiwan and Viet- ing for Chinese investment in acterisation here. There’s no both countries had made a his- Rescuers fi nd Australian be equipped with a helicopter nam also have rival claims to the country. such thing as using our finan- toric achievement by signing 14 fl ight deck and carry missiles. parts of the waterway, which The push to strengthen China cial muscle to improve ties,” agreements totalling 143.64bn They are primarily used for commands strategic sea lanes ties comes after July lawsuits Liu said in response to a re- ringgit ($34.4bn). hiker after two-week ordeal

AFP Gabriel Marudi said by phone. Kuala Lumpur But he was found yesterday afternoon after a nearly week- Top diplomats to visit troubled northern Rakhine long jungle search by around 40 n Australian hiker who rescue personnel. went missing for nearly Gaskell was thin and weak Reuters direct knowledge of the matter told Reu- The government of Nobel laureate Aung the government had not shared a detailed Atwo weeks after losing his and had an injured foot but was Yangon ters yesterday. San Suu Kyi has denied any abuses have itinerary. bearings in a remote Malaysian fl own by helicopter to the town Troops have poured into the area since been committed. However, offi cials expressed scepti- jungle was found by rescuers of Miri and was expected to re- militants believed to be Rohingya Mus- The sources, who spoke about the cism that the high-level diplomatic mis- yesterday and taken to hospital, cover, Marudi said. enior diplomats from the United lims launched coordinated attacks on planned trip on condition of anonym- sion will address the concerns raised by police said. “It was very lucky for him to States, China, Britain and the Eu- border posts on Oct 9, killing nine police ity due to the sensitivity of the matter, the international community. Andrew Gaskell, 26, had set be found still alive after such a Sropean Union will this week visit offi cers. said the invitation by the government United Nations experts have publicly off alone on October 20 into long time,” said Marudi, adding Myanmar’s troubled northern Rakhine The government says fi ve soldiers and was in response to requests for access to called for the government to investigate Mulu National Park, which is at he had no further details on how State, which has been cut off to aid work- at least 33 alleged attackers have been the Rohingya-majority area, which has allegations of human rights abuses. the heart of vast and rugged rain Gaskell survived. ers and observers for more than three killed in the area. been designated a military “operation Diplomats have also pressured the forests on Borneo island. Mulu National Park is a Unesco weeks, sources said. Residents and human rights advocates zone”. Myanmar government to allow humani- Gaskell got lost after eschew- world heritage site famed for The diplomats, and the top United Na- have said government forces have com- Over two days, the offi cials will visit tarian aid, including World Food Pro- ing local park regulations re- some of the world’s largest caves, tions representative in Myanmar, will set mitted abuses including summary ex- Maungdaw by helicopter from the state gramme assistance and mobile clinics, to quiring that visitors take a guide, striking limestone karst pinnacles off for Maungdaw today, six people with ecutions, rape and setting fi re to homes. capital Sittwe, the people said, although be restored. district police offi cer-in-charge above ground and dense jungle.

DIPLOMACY Thai party scene set to resume after Suu Kyi arrives in royal mourning Japan for talks Thailand’s party scene may get Stars hit red carpet for Hanoi fi lm fest back into gear in a fortnight after Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi a shutdown to mourn the death arrived in Tokyo yesterday for of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the AFP “There’s a large talent pool mentum to boost the nation’s talks with Prime Minister Shinzo junta suggested yesterday. Hanoi of actors and fi lmmakers so it’s cinematography is a bit over- Abe, her first visit since becom- The death of 88-year-old Bhu- a very exciting time to see what blown” said Nguyen Thi Hong ing her country’s de facto leader mibol Adulyadej on October 13 takes shape and where it can Ngat, deputy head of Vietnam’s earlier this year. She and Abe are thrust a country renowned for its ietnam’s glitterati grow from here.” Cinematography Association. expected to discuss economic colourful nightlife into profound donned their fi nest on This year’s festival features Such momentum has been assistance and Myanmar’s mourning. Thais have donned Vthe red carpet yester- 146 fi lms from more than 40 lacking in recent years: though peace-building process with black, soap operas have been day for the opening of the Ha- countries, including a re-re- the number of fi lm studios its ethnic minorities, according pulled from television schedules, noi International Film Festival, lease of Indochine, fi lmed in Vi- boomed from 63 in 2009 to a Japanese foreign ministry festivals cancelled and the music aimed at boosting the com- etnam and starring French cin- to nearly 400 last year, the official. Japan hopes to build a even turned down at Bangkok’s munist nation’s little-known ema queen Catherine Deneuve, number of Vietnamese movies better business environment in seedier bars — with go-go danc- movie industry. who is in town for the event. produced has barely notched Myanmar by offering infrastruc- ers swapping the usual garish Welcomed by cheering But some worry the fi ve-day up, with many studios produc- ture support as more than 300 bikinis for sombre black outfits. fans, Vietnam’s A-listers were Vietnamese actress Giang My (third right) walks with fellow artistes festival won’t be enough to lure ing commercial work instead of Japanese companies currently But the junta leader signalled that joined by fi lmmakers and ac- as she arrives at the Hanoi International Film Festival yesterday. in young audiences in Vietnam, feature fi lms. operate in the resource-rich nightlife may soon be allowed to tors from around the globe most of whom would rather see The festival will also host a Southeast Asian country. creep back — along with cultural including from Russia, India will breathe life into Vietnam’s fi lms into the forefront of in- the latest Hollywood action roundtable with bigwigs from But the major donor has been celebrations, concerts and the and as far afi eld as Ghana, all movie industry — still in its ternational recognition,” pro- blockbuster or Korean romance Indian cinema, home to the irked by the delay in Suu Kyi’s beloved soap operas — when a in town for the fourth edition infancy and mostly unknown, ducer Timothy Linh Bui said fl ick than a Vietnamese art- wildly successful Bollywood visit, reportedly because of To- 30-day initial mourning period of the festival that runs until even on home soil. at the festival, where his ro- house movie. industry — a chance for Viet- kyo’s close relationship with the ends on November 14. Saturday. “An event like this, what it mance-horror fi lm The House- “Hoping that the fi lm festi- nam’s novice industry to learn former military-backed govern- Some are hoping the event does is it bring Vietnamese maid is screening. val will have some sort of mo- from business veterans. ment of Thein Sein. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 19 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

UN rights offi cial in Australia HK leader mulls asking to assess asylum Beijing to resolve crisis policy Reuters ment-requested legal hearing it wide-ranging freedoms. courts to review a decision by the and actions afterwards,” the later yesterday but said that the Hong Kong that could eff ectively bar two Speaking ahead of a weekly legislature’s president allowing chief executive said, explaining lawmakers “seriously violated” recently elected pro-independ- executive meeting yesterday, pro-independence lawmakers why he had postponed a trip to China’s constitution, the Basic Reuters ence lawmakers from the legis- Leung went further than other Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Beijing. Law and the relevant Hong Kong Sydney ong Kong’s leader has lature of the global fi nancial hub. offi cials in raising the prospect Leung, 30, to re-take their oaths In response, the two lawmak- laws. signalled that he might Some local offi cials and judges that his government could re- of offi ce. ers said in a joint statement that “Any speech and action pro- Hask Beijing to use a rarely have grown privately fearful that quest Beijing to interpret the The hearing is due to start to- if an interpretation was to take moting Hong Kong independ- United Nations inves- invoked power to interpret the the emergence of independence Basic Law. morrow. place, it would mean the Chi- ence should be punished ac- tigator into the human city’s Basic Law mini-constitu- issues could see Beijing force “We hope to do our utmost to The pair, who represent a new nese Communist Party ruled cording to the law. There is no Arights of migrants arrived tion to end a political crisis over tough new laws on the city, or resolve it within Hong Kong, but breed of more radical activists over Hong Kong directly. reason to be lenient,” said the in Australia yesterday to assess a fl edgling independence move- interpret the Basic Law to ex- we cannot rule out this possibil- moving into the political main- Pressure has built in recent head of the Liaison Offi ce, Zhang its tough asylum-seeker policy, ment. plicitly curb pro-independence ity,” Leung told local media. stream, had their swearing-in weeks from local Beijing loyal- Xiaoming. after aborting a visit last year Any such move will raise con- legislators. Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen oaths invalidated last month ists and the president Legisla- Once taboo, calls for self- claiming a lack of government cerns for Hong Kong’s auton- The city’s rule of law and has said previously that there over language and a banner that tive Council last week delayed determination and independ- assistance and access to deten- omy and vaunted legal system, freedom of speech is jealously was no need for an interpreta- was deemed derogatory to Chi- their swearing-in until the High ence have risen since the 79-day tion camps. offi cials, judges and lawyers say guarded by many in the former tion at this point. na. Court rules. struggle in late 2014 when tens The UN Special Rapporteur privately. British colony after it was re- Yuen said later that he still “Apart from the case in court Meanwhile, Beijing’s chief of thousands took to the streets on the human rights of migrants, Chief Executive Leung Chun- turned to Chinese rule in 1997 “hopes” the issue can be han- ... there is a high possibility that representative in Hong Kong for 79 days of protests against Francois Crépeau, will spend 18 ying’s remarks yesterday come under the principle of “one dled locally. other things might be triggered did not mention the possibility reforms that failed to deliver full days in Australia and the tiny ahead of a Hong Kong govern- country, two systems”, allowing The government has asked the by their oaths and their words of an interpretation in a speech democracy for leadership. South Pacifi c island nation of Nauru – where some 410 men, women and children remain in indefi nite detention. “This is an opportunity for me to understand how Australia manages its overall migration China debuts J-20 stealth jet at air show policies, and their impact on the human rights of migrants,” Crépeau said in a statement. Reuters Week, a veteran China watcher. tute, “and demonstrates a lot of Under Australia’s border se- Zhuhai, China State-owned Commercial confi dence in the capability, and curity laws, asylum-seekers Aircraft Corporation of China also a lot of pride.” intercepted trying to reach the (COMAC) was also bullish on Other aircraft on display yes- country by boat are sent for hina showed its Chengdu China’s appetite for new civilian terday alongside the latest Chi- processing to detention camps J-20 stealth fi ghter in planes, estimating the market nese weapon systems, radar and on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Cpublic for the fi rst time would need 6,865 new aircraft drones, included the Xian Y-20 island and Nauru. yesterday, opening the country’s worth $930bn over the next 20 strategic airlifter, and what or- They will never be resettled in biggest meeting of aircraft mak- years. ganisers say is the largest am- Australia. ers and buyers with a show of its The COMAC forecast – simi- phibious plane now in produc- Currently, there are 1,200 military clout. lar to long-term outlooks from tion – the AG600. people held in camps. Airshow China, in the south- well-established rivals Boeing The fl ying boat is offi cially A UN report in October heav- ern city of Zhuhai, off ers Beijing Co and Airbus Group – said that promoted as a fi re-fi ghting or ily criticised Nauru for its failure an opportunity to demonstrate China would make up almost search and rescue plane. to protect asylum-seeker chil- its ambitions in civil aerospace one-fi fth of global demand for But analysts note that the dren from sexual abuse inside and to underline its growing ca- close to 40,000 planes over the AG600 – fi rst unveiled 10 days the Australian-funded deten- pability in defence. next two decades. after a Hague tribunal ruled tion centre. China is set to overtake the US After screeching onto the against China’s claim to parts Crépeau’s visit comes amid as the world’s top aviation mar- Zhuhai stage as a pair at low- of the South China Sea in July fresh criticism of Australian ket in the next decade. level, one of the J-20s quickly – is well suited to resupplying Prime Minister Malcolm Turn- Two J-20 jets, Zhuhai’s head- disappeared over the horizon, military outposts in the disputed bull over a government proposal line act, swept over dignitar- leaving the other to perform a area. to permanently ban asylum- ies, hundreds of spectators and series of turns, revealing its delta A model of a wide-body jet seekers who arrive by boat from industry executives gathered at wing shape against bright sub- being developed by COMAC and ever entering Australia again. the show’s opening ceremony in tropical haze. Russia’s UAC was also on show, Even if they are resettled in a a fl ypast that barely exceeded a It was China’s second succes- revealing design details such as third country as genuine refu- minute, generating a deafening sive display of stealth at the bi- China’s J-10 fighter jets perform wingspan and cruising speeds gees, they will be denied any roar that was met with gasps and ennial show, following the 2014 during the air show in Zhuhai. for the fi rst time. Australian visas in the future, applause and set off car alarms debut of the J-31. Airbus and Boeing dominate even tourist or business visas. in a parking lot. But analysts said the brief and Right: MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the wide-body segment. “We welcome refugees, they Experts say that China has relatively cautious J-20 routine the Russian Air Force ‘Swifts’ Notably absent from the air- have made an enormous contri- been refi ning designs for the – the pilots did not open weapon aerobatic team launch flares show schedule, though, was bution to Australia ... but we are J-20, fi rst glimpsed by planes- bay doors, or perform low-speed as they fly in formation at the the 150-seater COMAC C919 able to do that because we can potters in 2010, in the hope of passes – answered few ques- Zhuhai air show. passenger jet, which has been maintain the integrity and se- narrowing a military technology tions. beset by delays and is now run- curity of our borders,” Turnbull gap with the United States. “I think we learned very little. new Chinese fi ghter can match ning three years behind original told Australian Broadcasting President Xi Jinping has We learned it is very loud. But the radar-evading properties of plans. Corporation radio. pushed to toughen the armed we can’t tell what type of engine the Lockheed Martin F-22 Rap- COMAC said at the show Crépeau, who cancelled his forces as China takes a more as- it has, or very much about the tor air-to-air combat jet, or the that China Eastern Airlines will last visit citing a lack of govern- sertive stance in Asia, particu- mobility,” said Greg Waldron, latest strike jet in the US arsenal, be the launch customer for the ment co-operation and “unac- larly in the South China and East Asia managing editor of Flight- Lockheed’s F-35. C919, which may take its fi rst ceptable” legal restrictions de- China seas. Global. “Most importantly, we The F-22, developed for the newly-developed aircraft was a off weapons that aren’t in full test fl ight later this year or early nying him entry to Nauru, will “It is clearly a big step forward didn’t learn much about its radar US Air Force, is the J-20’s closest revealing signal, others said. squadron service yet,” said Sam 2017, and that it had clinched 23 issue his fi ndings in a report on in Chinese combat capability,” cross-section.” lookalike. “It’s a change of tactics for Roggeveen, a senior fellow at new orders for its C919, taking November 18. said Bradley Perrett of Aviation A key question whether the But the mere display of such a the Chinese to publicly show the Sydney-based Lowy Insti- total fi rm orders to 570.

Taiwan’s KMT party chairwoman Woman at heart of Korean scandal detained tells China it is pushing for peace AFP/Reuters current scandal which has trig- Seoul gered a media frenzy in South Korea, with lurid reports of re- Reuters ligious cults and shamanistic Taipei/Beijing he woman at the centre of rituals. the snowballing political The media has portrayed the Tscandal engulfi ng Presi- 60-year-old Choi as a Raspu- aiwan’s opposition dent Park Geun-hye is a “fl ight tin-like fi gure, who wielded an Kuomintang (KMT) party risk” and has been placed under unhealthy infl uence over Park Tis pushing for peace with emergency detention, South and interfered in government mainland China and holds out Korean prosecutors said yester- policy despite holding no offi - the possibility of a peace pact, day. cial post and having no security the party’s chairwoman told Choi Soon-sil, who faces al- clearance. Chinese leader Xi Jinping yester- legations of fraud and meddling Suggestions that Choi vetted day, the party said. in state aff airs over her decades- presidential speeches and was Xi, general secretary of the long friendship with Park, was given access to classifi ed docu- Communist Party and China’s grilled for hours on Monday af- ments has exposed Park to pub- president, met a delegation ter she returned to the country lic anger and ridicule and, with led by KMT chairwoman Hung and handed herself in. just over a year left in offi ce, Hsiu-chu at Beijing’s Great Hall “There is possibility of Choi pushed her approval ratings off of the People, the Xinhua news trying to destroy evidence as she a cliff . Cameramen surround the excavator after its driver attempted to agency reported. is denying all the allegations,” Choi has also been accused ram the Central District Prosecutor’s Off ice in Seoul. Taiwan, which relies on the US a prosecution offi cial told the of using her relationship with for arms sales, has ruled itself as Yonhap news agency, explain- the president to coerce corpo- The main opposition Dem- the South Korean currency and a rival to China since the end of a ing the decision to hold her for rate donations to two non-profi t ocratic Party of Korea has stocks, as investors fret about Chinese civil war in 1949. KMT’s Hung with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. 48 hours. “She has fl ed overseas foundations, and then siphon stopped short of demanding the political uncertainty, with the Beijing sees the island as a ren- in the past, and she doesn’t have off funds for personal use. president’s resignation. won falling 0.9% last week while egade province that must be reu- Chinese president said Taiwan’s China policy-making body re- a permanent address in this Park issued a public apology However, it is refusing to be- stocks slipped 0.7%. nited with the mainland, by force changing politics would not af- iterated its desire for China to country, making her a fl ight risk. last week, acknowledging seek- gin cross-party talks on how to Yesterday, although Choi was if necessary. fect the meaning of the “One resume talks. “She is also in an extremely ing limited advice from Choi on end the crisis until the inves- being questioned at another lo- Hung, once a presidential can- China” principle, China’s state “A peaceful development of unstable psychological state, her speeches. tigation into Choi has run its cation, a man used a heavy con- didate, said the KMT would play radio said. cross-strait ties is the responsi- and it’s possible an unexpected But it did little to assuage course. struction excavator to smash the an active role in pushing for the China’s position on this is- bility of both sides ... we should event could occur if she is re- public outrage, with mass street Under South Korea’s con- front entrance of the Supreme “institutionalisation” of peace- sue will not waver or be blurred both make mutual gestures of leased,” the offi cial added. protests erupting in Seoul and stitutional law, an incumbent Prosecutors’ Offi ce building in ful relations between the two in the slightest, the broadcaster goodwill, to resolve our diff er- Choi was being held at the other cities to demand Park’s president is exempt from being Seoul, injuring a security guard, sides and for the possibility of cited Xi as saying. ences via constructive dialogue,” Seoul Detention Centre, where resignation. submitted to prosecution for in an apparent act of protest a peace pact, the KMT said in a Beijing cut an offi cial commu- said the Mainland Aff airs Coun- the single cells for high-profi le Park carried out a partial re- any criminal off ence. against Choi. statement released in Taiwan. nication mechanism with Taiwan cil in a statement. inmates are equipped with fl oor shuffl e of her key aides accused Park is in the fourth year of He was arrested by police. Relations between the main- in June, after Taiwan’s President The previous KMT adminis- heating, a television, a folding of being linked to Choi on Sun- a fi ve-year term and the crisis According to Han Jeung-sub, land and Taiwan have de- Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP refused tration had agreed to recognise mattress and toilet, according to day. threatens to complicate policy- a senior offi cial at the Seocho teriorated since the island’s to commit to the “One China” the “1992 consensus”, which media reports. She is considering calls from making during the lame-duck Police Station, the 45-year-old pro-independence Democratic principle that Taiwan is part of states that there is only one Park and Choi have been close her ruling Saenuri Party to form period that typically sets in to- man told police: “Choi Soon-sil Progressive Party (DPP) took China. China, with each side having its friends for 40 years. a neutral multi-party cabinet to wards the end of South Korea’s said she had committed a crime power in May. In response to comments own interpretation of what that The precise nature of that restore public trust and national single-term presidency. she deserves to die for, so I came In his meeting with Hung, the made in the meeting, Taiwan’s means. friendship lies at the heart of the unity. The scandal has weighed on here to help her die.” Gulf Times 20 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 BRITAIN/IRELAND

ECONOMY CRIME TRAVEL RESEARCH INITIATIVE Hedge fund manager Singer’s father arrested Cabbies fume over delays New benefits cap to hit Sol Campbell, CEOs sleep ‘predicts UK recession’ over hit-and-run death in fitting card machines thousands of families rough to aid homeless

Veteran hedge fund manager Crispin Odey The father of Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson has Black cab drivers yesterday complained of a huge More than 35,000 families in London and the Sol Campbell said he hoped to “shine the spotlight” believes Britain is “destined” to have a recession. In been arrested after a man died in a hit-and-run backlog in fitting vehicles with card machines South-East will lose money under a tighter benefit on homelessness after spending the night in a a letter to investors London-based Odey said the crash. John Nelson was detained after his Range following the start of new rules obliging drivers cap from next week, according to research sleeping bag at Lord’s Cricket Ground. The former Bank of England had engineered an unsustainable Rover was in a collision with a motorcycle in to accept payment by plastic. A legal requirement published yesterday. The region will be hardest England footballer joined 200 chief executives, situation in which company earnings have fallen Gidea Park, Essex. The rider, father-of-three Craig for all hackney carriages to be equipped for hit when the ceiling on individual claims is cut on MPs and peers for a “sleep-out” in a bid to raise but the stock market continues to rise. Bank of Voyce, was taken hospital but could not be saved passengers to pay using debit, credit and November 7 from £26,000 across the country more than £180,000 for homelessness charities England governor Mark Carney should be raising following the crash on Friday evening. Police said contactless cards came in on Monday. Some cab to £23,000 in London and £20,000 outside the the Cardinal Hume Centre, Depaul, CEO Sleepout interest rates to counter the growing diff erence the car failed to stop and was found abandoned drivers claimed the changes had been “forced” capital. More than 116,000 families nationwide UK, YMCA North London and MCC Community. between inflation next year and today’s interest in a nearby car park. Nelson, a 51-year-old garden upon them, although most agreed accepting card will get up to £115 less a week, the study by the Campbell, 42, who was joined by wife Fiona rates, he said. “What the UK is promising is rising centre owner, who is estranged from his pop star payments was the “way forward”. But there were Chartered Institute of Housing found. Some 18,000 Barratt-Campbell, said: “Nobody is pretending wages, recession, inflation and falling profits,” daughter, was later arrested nearby. He denied also complaints that garages installing electronic families will be aff ected in the capital, with another that one night sleeping outside is anything like wrote Odey. “Not exactly the prize that ticket being behind the wheel, while two men said payment systems had been “inundated” with 17,500 hit in the South-East. The North-West was being homeless. But we wanted to get involved to holders in the FTSE and the gilt market have paid to have been with him at the time had left the requests — meaning some drivers were still the next most aff ected, where 13,000 families lose support the Cardinal Hume Centre and the other up for.” scene. waiting for their card machines to be fitted. out, plus 12,000 in the West Midlands. charities who do some amazing work.

Autumn view Airbnb rentals rise ‘Gig economy’ leads to more noise complaints workers must

London Evening Standard London get minimum omplaints about “nui- sance” noise from Airbnb Cproperties have increased more than seven-fold over the past year in one area of London, offi cial data reveals. Islington’s noise disturbance wage: Vaizey unit has received 45 calls to Sep- tember this year about noise Guardian News and Media resisted by companies that port people on low pay.” at properties rented out on the London have modelled their businesses Vaizey’s speech refl ected short-term letting website — up around such workers. increasing concern inside the from six calls last year. A source at a leading app government about low pay, a The dramatic increase is likely senior Conservative MP company said applying a mini- lack of training opportunities to be largely accounted for by a has called for self-em- mum wage would require re- and job insecurity in a growing surge in the number of homes Aployed workers in the stricting when people worked part of the low-paid economy. available for rent on Airbnb in the “gig economy” to be guaran- to ensure they were not paying The Prime Minister, There- “party areas” of Clerkenwell, Old teed the legal minimum wage. wages at times when customer sa May, last month commis- Street and Angel. The call came from Ed Vaizey, demand was low. sioned a review of employ- Labour MP for Westminster who until July was the minis- They questioned whether ment practices from Matthew North, Karen Buck, who cam- ter for digital industries, and if working time would be defi ned Taylor, the former adviser to paigns for tighter controls on Air- heeded would require a major as when the worker was logged Tony Blair, that is expected to bnb, linked the problem to pro- change in business models for into the app and waiting for make recommendations for fessional landlords using the site fast-growing fi rms relying on work or only when they were on reform. to turn residential properties into self-employed contractors paid a job. Speaking on the same plat- de facto “hotels”. She said: “Resi- on a piecework basis. They also questioned who form as Vaizey at a discussion dents in some apartment blocks They include companies such would pay the minimum wage forum on the gig economy, are eff ectively living in a hotel. The as the taxi app fi rm Uber, which if a worker was using several Alan Milburn, the chairman of comings and goings and their gen- has 40,000 drivers enrolled on employment apps at the same the government’s social mo- eral expectation of being on holi- its system in the UK, and deliv- time. bility taskforce, said the Tay- day often add up to disturbance. ery giant Hermes, which relies Vaizey was speaking at an lor review should clarify that And unlike in a hotel, there is no on 10,500 self-employed couri- event in London yesterday “what is happening in terms one there to manage the situation ers to deliver parcels for retail- about the impact of digital of the creation of a class of when problems occur.” ers including John Lewis and technology on the labour mar- self-employed is genuinely a The Islington data — which was Next. ket and urged the government demand from the labour mar- obtained under Freedom of Infor- Neither currently guarantees to produce a “defi nition of a ket for greater flexibility and is mation law — shows that for the workers the minimum wage. new kind of worker in the gig not driven by financial and tax year to September 2014 the coun- Uber last week said it would economy” as a “halfway house” incentives that are creating an cil’s noise nuisance team received appeal against an employment between an employee and self- imbalanced playing field”. two calls about properties alleg- tribunal ruling that its drivers employed contractor. “The time is right to strike a edly rented out on Airbnb. For the should not be classed as self- “What is emerging from the new deal, between big employ- year to September 2015, that fi gure employed and so should receive current debate is an inchoate ers in particular and govern- rose to six calls and to September the minimum wage. feeling that there is something ment about what it is we expect this year it was up to 45. HM Revenue and Customs out there called the gig econo- to see employers discharge as Islington did not give any de- is also investigating whether my that needs some defi nition,” their social obligations,” said tails about what type of noise Hermes couriers are wrongly said Vaizey. the former Labour health sec- disturbance caused concern. But classed as self-employed fol- “I wonder whether the ap- retary. Diarmaid Ward, the council’s lowing an investigation by the plication of a minimum wage “What we should expect of executive member for housing Guardian that uncovered con- to people who work in the so- employers is not just that they and development, said that Air- cerns some were earning below called gig economy might be create jobs, but they create ca- bnb’s popularity in the borough the £7.20 national living wage one step forward.” reers; how they design jobs not presents the council with “serious that is statutory for employees He said it would not neces- just to get people off welfare challenges” even beyond the noise and workers aged 25 and over, sarily mean employers having into work, but to give them the issue. He added: “The rise of this but not the self-employed. to provide sick pay or holidays, opportunity to progress. sort of subletting has led to com- A woman swings her daughter beneath the trees in St James’s Park in London yesterday. With The proposal of a wage fl oor but added: “The minimum “This is the time to strike a plaints about properties that are the trees showing autumn colours, the park is a major attraction with tourists and Londoners for people who work “on de- wage has eff ectively taken the diff erent relationship between let online for parties, holiday lets, alike. mand” for companies in the gig place now of tax credits as a the employing class and the and B&Bs”. economy is likely to be strongly statutory intervention to sup- governing class.”

Rugby players deny Old Oak Common sex off ences claim regeneration ‘a mess’ Guardian News and Media submission to the Public Pros- Belfast ecution Service. A fourth man, aged 24, will be reported to the London Evening Standard of railway lines, sidings and de- site compromised. PPS in relation to this incident London pots south of the Grand Union Khan told the Standard: “Old wo Irish rugby inter- for perverting the course of jus- Canal as well as industrial estates Oak and Park Royal is one of the nationals have been tice.” and the Cargiant second-hand most important regeneration Tquestioned by the Police Jackson’s legal fi rm, KRW he UK’s biggest regen- car dealer to the canal’s north. projects in London but it has Service of Northern Ireland Law, said he “rejects completely eration project at Old More than 25,000 homes and been left in a mess by my prede- over alleged sex off ences in the any allegations made against TOak Common has been 55,000 jobs are due to be created cessor. We need to make sure the summer, it has emerged. him”. The statement said: criticised as “a mess” in a review there over the next 15 years, sup- fundamentals are in place now so One of the players, Ulster’s “Patrick has co-operated fully which calls on the government ported by 250,000 passengers a we get the best deal for London- Paddy Jackson, has released a with police in their inquiries and to reduce the fi nancial burden it year using a transport super-hub ers. statement through his lawyers we have been liaising with police could place on Londoners. with Crossrail, HS2, Tube and “It is clear from this review denying all of the allegations on his behalf. The study into the £10bn west Overground stations. that Boris Johnson was rushing about an incident at a property “We are both disappointed London scheme, set up by Sadiq Earlier this year government headlong into agreeing a land in south Belfast in June. and indeed concerned that this Khan, found that a deal over adviser Sir Terry Farrell warned deal with government that was The other player, fellow Ul- information has been leaked to public land was “hastily entered the scheme was in danger of not in the city’s best interests, ster star Stuart Olding, was the press before the investiga- into” and the location of a Cross- turning into London’s “worst potentially reducing the amount questioned by the PSNI about tion has concluded and well in rail depot at the heart of the de- cock-up in 50 years” because of of aff ordable housing that can be the same incident. A third man advance of any fi nal decision. velopment had depressed land the rush to fi nish Crossrail. obtained from the site. was also arrested. This has the potential to be prej- values. The major review suggested “I will continue to lobby gov- Details of the pair’s arrest udicial to our client’s interests. The mayor criticised his pred- more government funding had ernment to ensure this scheme came to light yesterday after a “We will not hesitate to take ecessor Boris Johnson for “rush- gone into other areas along the meets the needs of the city and report on BBC Northern Ireland. all necessary steps to protect his ing headlong” into an agreement HS2 line, including a new Bir- that we squeeze every drop of In a statement, the PSNI legal position as he is entitled to to transfer land on less favourable mingham metro station. potential out of this.” said: “Police arrested two men the presumption of innocence. terms than other regeneration It also criticised the decision The mayor plans to tell min- aged 24 and one man aged 23 on We urge the media to restrain projects around the country. to position the Crossrail depot at isters he will only agree to a land June 30 in relation to a number from any damaging specula- He gave his full backing for the the centre of the development, deal that is in the best interests of sexual off ences, reported to tion.” Old Oak scheme but called on without investing in “decking” of London. He wants the gov- have taken place at a property in Jackson had been due to fl y ministers to ensure Londoners to cover it, so that valuable land ernment to provide additional south Belfast, on June 28. to Chicago on Monday with reaped the maximum benefi ts of had been lost, the price for ad- fi nancial support and devolve “The men have been inter- the Irish squad who are playing the opportunity. jacent sites had fallen and the further fi scal powers to meet the viewed and released from cus- against New Zealand on Satur- Old Oak Common is 100 acres prospect of creating an attractive costs. Sadiq Khan: attacks Johnson tody. A fi le will be prepared for day. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 21 BRITAIN Son gets life for ‘senseless murder of a good mother

Guardian News and Media old Iris Owens, a retired history tween her and her son had been Owens, 47, dialled 999 after neighbour then heard the sound this have to happen?” One woman who knew them London lecturer and charity worker, in “close, loving and supportive”. the attack, and when paramedics of a chainsaw. The prosecutor said he later said he seemed “odd, but not the garden of their home in She said only he knew what arrived they found Iris lying on Owens called for an ambulance told offi cers: “I didn’t mean to scary odd” and sometimes acted Caerphilly, south Wales. had happened that day, adding: her back and her son with blood at 5.21pm, claiming: “My mother kill my mother. I was chopping “like a child who wanted atten- man who murdered his He initially told police she had “You accept that what you have on his hands. went mad. I was chainsawing wood pallets and she fell off on to tion”. The court was told they elderly mother with a fallen on to the tool as he cut up done was a terrible thing. This She had a laceration to her some wood and my mother went my saw.” But at a hearing in Sep- began to live together after Iris’ Achainsaw at the home pallets for their wood-burning was the tragic and senseless mur- neck and head and a black eye. mad.” She was pronounced dead tember he admitted murder. husband died. they shared has been jailed for stove but subsequently admitted der of a good mother by her son.” There was also blood on a wall 20 minutes later. As well as attacking her with Owens had a drug problem life and told he must serve at murder. The judge acknowledged that and on a tree stump. Owens was arrested on suspi- the chainsaw, Owens strangled and heroin, morphine and co- least 12 years and six months Sentencing Owens at Cardiff there was no suggestion Owens Christopher Clee, prosecut- cion of murder at 6pm. He said: and kicked his mother in the caine was found in his body after before he can be considered for crown court, the judge, Nico- had planned the attack but said ing, said Iris had been spotted “I know, I’m going to jail. I can’t ribs. In witness statements read the killing. Paying tribute to Iris, release. la Davies, said Iris was a good it must have been a terrifying or- hanging out her washing in the believe this has happened. I was to the court, Owens was said to the judge said she was full of life Robert Owens killed 75-year- mother and the relationship be- deal for his victim. garden just after 5pm on May 3. A just chopping wood. Why did be close to his mother. and liked to help others. £2bn potential Pledge to campaign for Orgreave justice tax avoidance by super-rich being probed

Guardian News and Media level of prosecutions and wheth- London er it is stepping up to the plate,” she said. HMRC set up the specialist unit ax inspectors targeting in 2009 after criticisms that it Britain’s wealthiest peo- had failed to pursue wealthy tax- Tple have identifi ed poten- payers. Each wealthy individual tial evasion and avoidance worth is assigned a “customer relation- nearly £2bn, but have pursued ship manager” within HMRC. only one successful criminal Where high net worth individ- prosecution, a National Audit uals are suspected of tax fraud, Offi ce report reveals. their case is passed to a team that It says the tax aff airs of 6,500 examines whether the evidence super-rich individuals – each is suffi cient to merit a criminal, worth more than £20mn – are rather than civil, investigation. being examined by a specialist The tax authority estimates Barbara Jackson (second left), founder of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign speaks during a media conference at the National Union of Mine Workers in HM Revenue and Customs unit. that around £1.1bn of the po- Barnsley, northern England, yesterday. The media conference follows Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s announcement that there would not be an inquiry into the 1984 The unit is investigating out- tential £1.9bn in unpaid taxes is ‘Battle of Orgreave’ in which a violent confrontation took place between police and mine workers picketing outside British Steel’s Orgreave coking plant in Yorkshire standing receipts worth £1.9bn, linked to tax avoidance schemes, during the miners’ strike. The campaign has vowed to continue pressing for a public investigation. a majority of which involve ag- and that 15% of the wealthi- gressive avoidance schemes. est have used at least one such However, just two individu- scheme. als have been criminally inves- In 2014-15, the super-rich tigated over the past fi ve years, paid more than £4.3bn in tax, leading to a single prosecution, according to the NAO’s report. while another 70 were pursued It says 137 people who had un- through the civil courts. disclosed assets in Liechtenstein In an indication of the scale used an agreement with the tax of the task faced by the unit, haven in 2009 to admit liabilities the report discloses that each of of £141mn in return for gentler Man slain, three hurt in the 6,500 super-rich taxpayers penalties. The average settle- has had on average four serious ment was £1mn per person. tax issues looked at by the unit. The report also discloses that Around 4,000 inquiries have the unit, alongside the National been open for more than three Crime Agency, is investigating years, it adds. 40 wealthy individuals named in The report sheds a light on the the Panama Papers . ambush by masked gang scale of potential tax avoidance “(HMRC offi cials) are as- involving the super-rich and sessing if the data reveals new London Evening Standard the street. Paramedics battled to careers of Adele and the late had just left the park where he 9.30pm. He was taken to hospi- will prompt further claims that risks that mean these 40 people London save him but he was pronounced Amy Winehouse. had been with the group minutes tal but his injuries were not said Britain’s wealthiest people are should be considered for civil or dead shortly after they arrived. A witness, 18, who did not earlier. Paying tribute to the vic- to be life-threatening. not being pursued with the same criminal investigation,” the re- Two more men, aged 27 and want to be named said: “Four tim, named locally as Scott, he Police were also targeted with vigour as benefi ts claimants or port says. man was stabbed to death 21, suff ered serious injuries in guys pulled up in a car jumped said: “He was just a lovely guy. fi reworks by youths in Totten- small businesses. In the past fi ve years, HMRC and three others injured the Croydon attack and were in out and attacked the group. We all played football together ham and an offi cer narrowly Meg Hillier, chair of the pub- has investigated and closed 72 Ain a terrifying knife am- hospital yesterday. They had hoodies pulled down and he was a really good player.” avoided being hit by a rocket. lic accounts committee, which cases relating to high net worth bush by masked thugs on a night A fourth man, also believed and bandanas covering their Distraught relatives of the Footage from the dashboard will question tax offi cials over its individuals. Seventy of these of Halloween mayhem in Lon- injured in the frenzied assault faces. It seemed to be over really victim had to be held back by camera of a car being driven by policies, said the fi ndings would were investigated with civil pow- don. and aged 22, walked into a south quickly and the others had no police. His mother stayed at the neighbourhood watch group prompt further examination of ers, raising £80mn in compliance Witnesses said the man, 22, London hospital later. time to fi ght back.” scene long into the night wailing Shomrim showed a fi rework fl y the tax authority’s policies to- yield including penalties. was walking with friends when Friends of the murder victim Kaschief Miller, 22, a friend “No, not my son”. past a running offi cer. The rock- wards wealthy taxpayers. In 2015-16, HMRC undertook four men wearing hoods and cradled him and desperately of the victim, told how he tried Anyone with information has et then ricocheted and exploded “This very low prosecution a review of high net worth cases bandanas jumped out of a car banged on doors asking for help to save his life. He said: “He was been asked to contact the police next to a police car in Fladbury rate highlights the concern that and identifi ed an extra 1,000 and attacked them. in the moments after the stab- silent, it was obvious he was dy- In a separate Halloween at- Road at around 9.40pm. Shom- high net worth individuals and people with a net worth of more The victim suff ered critical bings. The attack in Gloucester ing. His brother came and he tack, a 14-year-old boy was rim said police were responding their tax advisers are always one than £20mn on top of the 6,500 stab injuries, reportedly to his Road was 300 yards from the died in his arms.” stabbed at a McDonald’s res- to reports of youths throwing step ahead of HMRC. We will be initially identifi ed, the report chest and neck, and collapsed in Brit School which launched the Karl Stygal, another friend, taurant in Ealing Broadway at fi reworks at passers-by. questioning HMRC about the says. Tory grandee denies Epilepsy drug ‘left my baby brain damaged’

killing mother’s dog London Evening Standard Carol Sarler has dubbed the London drug the “new thalidomide” in articles about her granddaughter. Guardian News and Media killed Kim, he told the Press As- Reinforcing her husband’s Adrian Hopkins QC, for the London sociation it was an anecdote that no-nonsense image in an in- heartbroken mother family, said Milly, who is now had been misinterpreted. terview with the Guardian last claims the “toxic” epilepsy six, was diagnosed with fetal val- “I didn’t strangle the dog,” month, Ann revealed that the Amedicine she took during proate syndrome in 2012 and will ichael Heseltine has he said. “They have misunder- former cabinet minister once her pregnancy left her daughter always need extensive care. He said that his appar- stood.” He added: “The dog was punched a man who approached severely brain damaged, the High said at the time of the pregnancy Ment admission that he perfectly all right after this inci- him as he was returning home Court heard. there was minimal information killed his mother’s pet pooch dent.” from parliament. Flynn Sarler, 43, is suing con- about fetal development risks was nothing more than a con- The Tory peer said he took the “Don’t you remember?” she sultant neurophysiologist Dr linked to epilepsy medication. cocted dog story. dog to the vet the next day and said, addressing Heseltine. “You Shelagh Smith for multi-mil- But he added: “What was The former deputy prime was told he “had no choice but were coming back from the lion-pound damages, arguing known about sodium valproate minister seemingly confessed to to have the dog put down” be- House of Commons, and a man she failed to warn her of the pos- was that this was considered the strangling Kim, an Alsatian, in cause it was dangerous. approached you. He was drunk sible neurological eff ects of her most toxic to the fetus of all the an interview with Tatler maga- Heseltine was nicknamed or druggy or something. And medication. She told the High anti-epilepsy drugs.” zine. Tarzan after he swung the mace you just went voomph...And he Court Dr Smith was “negligent” He said Flynn “remained in “I went to stroke him and he in parliament in 1976, but the fell over! And nobody was more while treating her at a private ignorance of this risk” until she started biting me,” he said. “If Kim revelations suggested he surprised than you.” clinic for epilepsy before the became pregnant, and it was then you have a dog that turns, you may not be as in tune with the Heseltine may be best known birth of her daughter, Milly, in too late to safely change her med- just cannot risk it. So I took Kim’s feelings of animals as the lord of for his role in forcing Margaret 2009. ication. collar – a short of choker chain – the jungle. Thatcher from offi ce. When, in However Dr Smith said the risk Caroline Harrison QC, for Dr and pulled it tight. Suddenly he In his recent book, Thenford, 2002, he called for Tory MPs to was unclear to professionals at Smith, said while she had treated went limp. I was devoted to Kim, written with his wife Ann, He- oust then party leader Iain Dun- the time, and Sarler would have Flynn privately from 1994, she but he’d obviously had some sort seltine claimed to have shot can Smith, fellow Tory grandee continued to take the drug re- did not see her between October of mental breakdown.” dead 350 grey squirrels in six Norman Tebbit, a key fi gure of gardless as there was “no realistic 2006 and April 2009, by which The 83-year-old told the sto- months. the Thatcher years, dubbed He- alternative”. time she was six weeks pregnant. ry about Kim when he was asked They wrote: “These foreign seltine “a serial Conservative The court heard that Flynn She argues that, in 2006, the about rumours, dating back to intruders may have a Walt Dis- assassin”. An RSPCA spokesman Sarler, the daughter of journalist evidence about a link between the 1990s, that he was involved ney appeal in London parks, said the society could not inves- Carol Sarler, had her fi rst epilep- valproate and neuro-develop- in the death of a dog. but to us they are Public En- tigate the dog’s death because tic seizure at the age of 15 and was mental delay was “confounded But after his comments were emy Number One...and are shot the incident occurred more than prescribed Epilim, containing so- and confl icting”. widely reported as him having without hesitation.” three years ago. Heseltine: ‘anecdote misinterpreted’ dium valproate. The hearing continues. Gulf Times 22 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 EUROPE

Custodian named to Turkey rejects Europe’s replace detained press freedom ‘red line’ mayors Reuters European Parliament Presi- Kurdish militants and the net- to the end,” it said in a defi ant Reuters Istanbul dent Martin Schulz wrote on work of Fethullah Gulen, a US- editorial which described the ar- Diyarbakir Twitter that the detentions based cleric blamed for orches- rests as the start of an attempt to marked the crossing of “yet an- trating the July coup attempt. close the paper. urkey’s prime minister other red-line” against freedom Journalists at the paper were It said its pages had repeat- urkish authorities ap- has said he had no regard of expression in the country. suspected of seeking to precipi- edly warned that Gulen’s move- pointed an unelected Tfor Europe’s “red line” on “Brother, we don’t care about tate the coup through “sublimi- ment represented a danger to the Tadministrator to run the press freedom and warned that your red line. It’s the people who nal messages” in their columns Republic and wanted to abolish mainly Kurdish city of Diyarba- Ankara would not be brought draw the red line. What impor- before it happened, the state-run secularism. kir, offi cials said yesterday, after to heel with threats, rejecting tance does your line have,” Prime Anadolu agency said. The paper said it had in the detaining its two mayors last criticism of the detention of sen- Minister Binali Yildirim told Cumhuriyet vowed “we will past been targeted by prosecutors week in a crackdown on unrest in ior journalists at an opposition members of his ruling AK Party not surrender” in a front-page and judges aligned with Gulen. the southeast of the country. newspaper. in a speech in parliament. “Tur- headline. Turkey’s authorities have bris- Separately, police detained Police detained the editor key is not a country to be brought Dozens of people staged a tled at the Western reaction to 30 offi cials from the opposi- and top staff of Cumhuriyet on in line with salvoes and threats. vigil in front of its Istanbul of- the abortive coup, in which rogue tion Democratic Regions’ Party Monday on accusations that the Turkey gets its power from the fi ces overnight, some wrapped in soldiers used fi ghter jets and (DBP) in dawn raids in three newspaper’s coverage had helped people and would be held ac- blankets as they slept on benches tanks to attack parliament and towns in the restive region, se- precipitate a failed military coup countable by the people.” while police guarded barriers other key buildings, killing more curity sources said. in July. Prosecutors accuse staff at outside. than 240 people, many of them President Recep Tayyip Er- The US and European Union Cumhuriyet, one of few media “Even if Cumhuriyet’s execu- civilians. dogan has vowed to “dry the both voiced concern about the outlets still critical of Presi- tives and writers are detained, They see European leaders as swamp” to end a three-decade move in Turkey, a Nato ally which dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of our newspaper will continue its quick to condemn wide-scale insurgency that has killed more aspires to EU membership. committing crimes on behalf of fi ght for democracy and freedom purges of suspected plotters, but than 40,000 people, mainly reluctant to accept the gravity of Kurds. the putsch and the threat to the The new state-appointed state. chief administrator for Diyar- “We have no problem with bakir was confi rmed as Cumali press freedom. This is what we Yildirim: We have no problem with press freedom. This is what we Atilla, formerly the top offi cial can’t agree with our European can’t agree with our European friends. They always bring up press in the Etimesgut district of the friends. They always bring up freedom when we take steps in our fight against terrorism. capital Ankara, municipality of- press freedom when we take fi cials in the southeastern city steps in our fi ght against terror- surgency, and Islamic State. Cumhuriyet’s previous editor, said on condition of anonymity. ism,” Yildirim said. Gulen, who has lived in self- Can Dundar, was jailed last year, Offi cials had said the new ad- He also said that Turkey could imposed exile in the United convicted of publishing state se- ministration would be named draft a “limited measure” to States since 1999, denies in- crets. as soon as possible under pow- bring back the death penalty if volvement in the coup attempt. Since the attempted coup, ers enacted via decrees during a political compromise could be More than 110,000 of Gulen’s 170 newspapers, magazines, emergency rule, imposed after a reached on the issue, a move that suspected followers have been television stations and news failed military coup in July, offi - could spell an end to its eff orts to sacked or suspended and 37,000 agencies have been shut down, cials told reporters on condition join the European Union. jailed pending trial since the leaving 2,500 journalists un- their names were not used. Crowds have repeatedly called coup attempt. employed, Turkey’s journalists’ “It is expected the interior for the re-introduction of capital association said in a statement ministry will assign new may- punishment, which Turkey abol- Cumhuriyet, a staunchly secu- on Monday. ors to the municipality after the ished in 2002 as part of the EU larist paper, was established in “We are not going to learn from mayors were dismissed for ter- accession process, and Erdogan 1924 by a confi dant of Mustafa you what press freedom is. We rorism links and arrested,” Diya- has said he would approve it if Kemal Ataturk just six months support it all the way,” Yildirim rbakir Governor Huseyin Aksoy parliament voted for it. after he established the Turkish said of European criticism. “But said in a statement. Turkey has classifi ed Gu- Republic. we won’t see criminals, their ac- All governors in Turkey are len’s network of followers as the Political violence has dogged complices, and supporters of the appointed. “Gulenist Terror Organisation” its history. separatist (PKK) and FETO ter- A prosecutor accuses Gultan (FETO), ranking it as an enemy Seven of its writers have been rorist organisations as innocent. Kisanak, Diyarbakir’s fi rst fe- of the state alongside the Kurdish assassinated since 1978 and some Let the judiciary do its job. If male mayor and a former par- Protesters hold copies of the latest edition of Cumhuriyet during a demonstration outside the PKK militant group, which has were among those jailed after there is nothing on them, then it liamentarian, and her co-mayor newspaper’s headquarters in Istanbul yesterday. waged a three-decade armed in- coups in 1971 and 1980. will come out.” Firat Anli of terrorist links. Refugees languish in Greece Pope meets as alarm grows in Brussels Sweden’s

By Karolina Tagaris, Reuters is a risk that more will decide to Catholic Athens come. “There’s the deterrence ef- fect. If it’s proven that people are minority even months after the being turned back, it can force European Union and Tur- people to think twice about even Skey struck an agreement trying,” said James Ker-Lindsay, AFP to turn back the tide of Syrians an expert on southern Europe at Malmo fl eeing west, not a single refugee the London School of Econom- has been sent back from Greece, ics. and Brussels is losing its pa- Only about 700 people who ope Francis held a pub- tience as overcrowded camps arrived since the deal was signed lic mass yesterday for grow violent. – just 4% of the total – have Pthe Catholic minority in The agreement reached in gone back to Turkey, and none Sweden, a Lutheran but secular March was designed to reduce was ordered back after being country where same-sex mar- the number of migrants cross- recognised as a refugee. A refugee and her children are registered at the migrant riage is allowed even for priests. ing into Europe from Turkey, Of those who returned, most registration centre on the Greek island of Chios. The Argentine Pontiff ad- after more than a million people were economic migrants from dressed an estimated 15,000 arrived in Europe last year, most countries like Pakistan and migrants and smugglers.” asked to name streets, identify members of the country’s Ro- reaching Greek islands by boat Bangladesh who left without Athens says it is simply over- landmarks or pick out Syrian man Catholic minority, many of and continuing by land to Ger- seeking asylum in Greece. whelmed and cannot speed up coins from a handful of diff erent them converts or migrants, at a Pope Francis greeting people at the Swedenbank stadium in many. Around 70 people who did the painstaking process of eval- currencies. stadium in the southern Swedish Malmo, where the Pontiff celebrated a mass as part of his two-day Under the deal, the European claim asylum in Greece gave uating claims. The long waits and squalor of town of Malmo, home to a large visit in Sweden. Union declared Turkey “a safe up on the process and asked to It has asked the EU to send some camps have turned frus- immigrant population. third country”, meaning those leave before it was over. more staff , but European of- tration into violence. “Meekness is a way of living Together with Sweden’s fe- Church is still reluctant to take. who make the crossing can be The rest are still in Greece, fi cials say that would not help On Chios and the island of and acting that draws us close male archbishop Antje Jackelen “I think the Catholics have to returned there, even if found to prey for smugglers who off er to without more eff ort from Greece Lesbos in recent days, asylum- to Jesus and to one another. It and other Lutheran leaders, the change. We need women priests,” have fl ed Syria or other coun- take them to northern Europe. to improve its system. seekers attacked EASO’s offi ces enables us to set aside every- Pope expressed deep regret over Ingeborg Stenstrom, a Catholic tries as refugees deserving pro- Some 61,000 migrants are Interviews with asylum- to protest against delays. thing that divides and estranges the schism and called for unity. and retired doctor from Germany tection. still scattered across Greece, in- seekers and offi cials involved Interviews there have yet to us, and to fi nd ever new ways to Hailed as “a breath of fresh who lives in Sweden, told AFP. Turkey agreed to take them cluding 15,900 in overcrowded in the process suggest Greek resume. advance along the path of unity,” air” by Lutheran leaders, Francis Figures released in 2010 back, in return for a range of EU island camps that have grown staff are indeed stretched, but EASO has deployed 202 staff Francis said, according to an of- raised hopes early in his papacy showed that 45% of Sweden’s concessions. violent as the delays mount, red tape, ineffi ciency, the lack in Greece and has called for 100 fi cial translation of his remarks. that he might steer the church nearly 4,500 priests were female. At around the same time, with around 2,500 more arriv- of a unifi ed plan across refugee more, but EU member states “One very eloquent sign of towards greater acceptance of The Swedish Lutheran church Balkan countries along the land ing each month. camps and a lengthy appeals have yet to respond, EASO this is that here in your country, homosexuality, and in June he says it currently has 6.2mn route north closed their bor- The camps are now hold- process are also to blame. spokesman Jean-Pierre Schem- marked as it is by the co-exist- said Christians “must apologise” members, over 60% of the popu- ders, so that migrants who once ing three times as many people Humanitarian groups on the bri said. ence of quite diff erent peoples, to gays and lesbians for their past lation. poured across Greece to reach as they held when the deal was ground say poor co-ordination Greece has repeatedly asked we are jointly commemorating treatment. But as fewer Swedes believe or other parts of Europe are now signed, and twice as many as slows things down on the is- for more. the fi fth centenary of the Refor- Anders Arborelius, bishop of practice religion – and refuse to trapped there and prevented they were built for. lands, a conclusion backed up The Greek legal system allows mation,” the Pope said before he the Roman Catholic Church in pay a tax collected for religious from pressing on. The EU blames the delays on by the EU Commission report, for an elaborate appeals process, headed back to Rome. Stockholm who himself con- groups – the church has lost For the most part, the goal Greek ineffi ciency. which urged Greece to develop which the EU says is too slow. An advocate of Christian uni- verted from Lutheranism, said 550,000 members in 10 years. of stemming the tide has been “The goal of ensuring returns unifi ed management for the Greece responded in June by ty, Francis visited the southern the Pope’s approach had been However, Catholicism is on achieved so far. ... has mostly been hampered camps. sending more judges to replace city of Lund on Monday for an one of continuity, despite a “pro- the rise in Sweden. Only 17,000 people, around by the slow pace of processing The camps are typically run civil servants and staff of either ecumenical service marking the gressive” image compared to his Referred to as the “Church of half of them Syrians, have of asylum applications at fi rst by local municipalities or the the UN refugee agency or Greek start of a year of celebrations for predecessors. the converts”, it now has 113,000 made the hazardous sea cross- instance by the Greek Asylum central government, while human rights commission, who the Reformation – the dramatic “Pope Francis comes from registered members, about 1% of ing from Turkey since the deal Service and of processing of ap- screening and interviews are had previously sat on appeals 1517 event that created a Protes- another continent and has a dif- the population, compared with was signed, a tiny fraction of peals by the newly-established carried out primarily by offi cials panels. tant branch of Christianity which ferent way of expressing things, 87,000 in 2000, but the church hundreds of thousands that ar- Greek Appeals Authority,” from EU border agency Frontex The new boards appear to be rebelled against papal rule. but one cannot say that he has says the actual number could be rived the previous year to pass the EU Commission said in a and the European Asylum Sup- moving only slightly faster: they The event in Lund, where the changed anything in the teach- 150,000. through Greece. progress report. port Offi ce (EASO). made 35 decisions in their fi rst Lutheran World Federation was ings,” he told AFP. The rise has largely been driv- But for the deal to continue “Further eff orts are urgently Frontex and EASO offi cials go month, compared with 72 made founded in 1947, also marked 50 Sweden’s Lutheran Church is en by immigration. to work for the longer term, needed by the Greek adminis- to unusual lengths to confi rm by the old boards in the fi rst years of reconciliatory dialogue among the most liberal in Chris- Immigrants have mainly come European offi cials and experts tration to build a substantially an identity or check an asylum three months of the deal, the EU between the Catholic Church tendom. from war-torn countries such as say refugees will have to be sent increased and sustained capac- seeker’s story. Commission report said. and Lutheranism, a tradition A pioneer in women’s and present-day Syria and Iraq, Leb- back to Turkey. ity to return arriving migrants, Someone who has no docu- The report did not speci- once fervently hostile to the au- LGBT rights, it has been ap- anon in the 80s, and Latin Amer- As long as those crossing are which is considered to be the mentation and professes to be fy what decisions had been thority and teachings of the Vati- pointing female priests since ica in the 60s and 70s, according still able to stay in Greece, there key deterrent factor for irregular from Syria, for example, will be reached. can. 1960, a step the Catholic to church registrar Louis Michel. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 23 EUROPE Cancer to kill 5.5mn women a year by 2030: report

By Mariëtte Le Roux, AFP placing a heavy burden on fami- cers – breast, colorectal, lung as physical inactivity, unhealthy Of these, 56% of cases and access to screening and detec- off by vaccination against the Paris lies and national economies, and cervical cancer – are mostly diet, obesity, and reproduc- 64% of deaths were in less devel- tion. cancer-causing Human papillo- said Sally Cowal, senior vice- preventable or can be detected tive factors” such as postponing oped countries. Deaths, however, were propor- mavirus (HPV), and can be easily president of global health at the early, when treatment is more motherhood. “These numbers are expected tionally much higher in low- and detected through regular Papani- ancer will kill 5.5mn wom- American Cancer Society, which successful. “Due to these changes, cancers to increase to 9.9mn cases and middle-income countries with colaou (pap) test screens. en – about the population compiled the report with phar- In poorer countries, a much that were once common only in 5.5mn deaths among females an- reduced access to diagnosis and “Breast cancer is the most Cof Denmark – per year by maceutical company Merck. smaller proportion of cancer cas- high-income countries are be- nually by 2030 as a result of the treatment. commonly diagnosed cancer 2030, a near 60% increase in less The review “highlights the es are diagnosed and treated than coming more prevalent,” said the growth and ageing of the popula- The countries with the highest among women in 140 countries than two decades, a report said large geographic inequality in in rich ones, while a much bigger report entitled The Global Burden tion,” said the new report. death rate were Zimbabwe, Ma- worldwide and cervical cancer is yesterday. availability of resources and pre- group dies. of Cancer in Women. The biggest concentration is lawi, Kenya, Mongolia and Papua the most common in 39 coun- As the global population grows ventive measures and treatment The relative burden is growing It was presented yesterday at in eastern Asia, with 1.7mn cases New Guinea. tries, all of which are LMICs and ages, the highest toll will to combat the growing burden of for developing countries as peo- the World Cancer Congress in and 1mn deaths in 2012, mainly in Breast and lung cancer are (low- and medium-income be among women in poor and cancer”, she told AFP. ple live longer due to better basic Paris. China. the two most common types in countries),” said the report. middle-income countries, the Cancer is already killing one in healthcare. According to the International The report found that the both rich and poor nations, with It said the global economic report warned, and much of it seven women around the world, Women in these countries Agency for Research on Cancer, highest ratio of cancer cases per colorectal cancer the number burden of cancer for both gen- from cancers which are largely said the report – the second are also increasingly exposed to in 2012 there were 6.7mn new re- population group are still report- three killer in developed coun- ders was about $286bn (€261bn) preventable. highest cause of death after car- known cancer risk factors “as- ported cases of cancer and 3.5mn ed in high-income countries in tries, and cervical cancer in less in 2009, including costs for “Most of the deaths occur in diovascular disease. sociated with rapid economic deaths among women world- Europe, the Americas and Asia, developed ones. treatment and care, and loss of young- and middle-aged adults”, All four of the deadliest can- transition”, said Cowal, “such wide. but this was partly due to better Cervical cancer can be staved workforce productivity.

‘Prince of Spam’ ordered Renzi reiterates vow to massive DDoS, rebuild quake-hit region court told AFP Rome

AFP Dordrecht, Netherlands talian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has vowed to rebuild Ithe entire region fl attened Dutchman behind a 2013 by Sunday’s earthquake as the cyber-attack, dubbed country’s main farming union A“the man who almost called for help. broke the Internet”, knew the Speaking from Preci in the consequences of his actions mountainous central region of when he ordered cohorts to “take Italy that has been devastated down” a spam-tracking group, by three powerful tremors in just prosecutors said yesterday. over two months, Renzi warned Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, was that it would take time. absent from his one-day trial in “I’m here to say that it won’t the southern Dutch city of Dor- be easy, it will take a long time ... drecht more than three years but little by little everything will Renzi with Preci mayor Pietro Bellini (centre) arriving in Preci for an after what was said at the time be rebuilt,” Renzi told villagers in All Saints mass yesterday, two days after a 6.6-magnitude to be the biggest attack in cyber Preci. earthquake in central Italy. history. He had already pledged to re- He is charged with carrying build every aff ected home while lages and small towns rendered of livestock farming which must out several distributed denial of Culture Minister Dario Frances- unsafe. receive concrete help so as not to service (DDoS) attacks against a chini has promised every dam- The quake also damaged a be abandoned and depopulated,” group called Spamhaus and its aged fresco would be pieced number of architectural land- said Coldiretti president Rob- partners in the United States, back together. marks, including the Abbey of erto Moncalvo. the Netherlands and Britain, as Sunday’s 6.6-magnitude Sant’Eutizio, one of the oldest Many farmers are refusing to well as having hacked into an earthquake, whose epicentre monastic sites in Italy. leave their farms because they A firefighter scouts destroyed houses in the village of San Pellegrino, near Norcia, yesterday. IP address and taking part in a was near the mediaeval town of And it left around 3,000 farms don’t want to abandon their criminal organisation. Norcia, which is famed for its in the region in urgent need of livestock. most abandoned, barring a few shipping containers would be was in the Castelluccio region, “The suspect knew what the ham and salami, was the most help, Italy’s main farming union Signifi cant numbers of farm- stubborn and hardy souls, as used as temporary housing. near Norcia, where the ground consequences would be,” of the powerful to strike the country in Coldiretti said yesterday. ers are struggling to fi nd food thousands of residents sought Meanwhile, Italian scientists was pushed up or sank by up to March 2013 attack on Spamhaus, 36 years. Farming is the primary indus- and water for their herds, the refuge with friends and family said that areas hit by Sunday’s 70cm. a British non-profi t group based Although it did not cause try in the mountainous region, union said, while damage to or were bused to hotels on the temblor displaced the ground by The quake struck at a very in Geneva and London that any deaths, it left some 22,000 which relies heavily on agricul- roads in remote areas is prevent- Adriatic coast or on the inland up to 70cm (27.5”). shallow depth and was followed tracks spam and related cyber people homeless with authori- ture and agritourism, with the ing them from delivering goods, Lake Trasimeno. Satellite images showed that by around 1,100 after-shocks, threats, prosecutors said. ties putting them in hotels and quake leaving 100,000 animals including dairy products. Overnight, a dog was pulled the quake had deformed the including 19 quakes registering The group publishes blacklists holiday resorts on the Adriatric – mostly cows and sheep – now Coldiretti has provided cara- alive from the rubble of one of landscape over an area covering between four and fi ve magnitude of spammers used by networks coast which are vacant now that in danger of starving. vans to some of those forced to the houses in the village, which some 130sq km, Italy’s National and 240 of between three and and corporations to fi lter out the tourist season is over. “The earthquake has hit hard leave their farms to enable them was just 6km from the epicentre Research Council said in a state- four magnitude, the National unwanted e-mail. Thousands of homes have in an area dominated by agribus- to stay close to their livestock. of Sunday’s quake. ment. Institute of Geophysics and Vol- It said on its website that it is been left in ruins, with many vil- iness with a signifi cant amount Norcia itself has been left al- On Monday, Renzi said that The biggest displacement canology said. currently protecting more than 1.7bn mailboxes, and works closely with law enforcement agencies to help probe phishing and malware operations. Spamhaus blamed the Dutch Deal on Cyprus reunifi cation closer now: UN web-hosting service Cyberbun- ker for the 2013 attack, which came just after it blacklisted the Reuters or-break aff air resulting in a moving a ceasefi re line bound- breakaway state recognised only Dutch service. Nicosia fully-fl edged agreement, the ary now cleaving Cyprus east to by Ankara. Kamphuis, also called the Norwegian diplomat told a con- west, and will be tackled in next Eide, who has presided over “Prince of Spam” by Dutch me- ference. week’s talks. dozens of sessions involving dia, was at the time said to be deal to end the parti- Ban was due to be present at But other matters such as Anastasiades and Akinci since Cyberbunker’s spokesman. tion of Cyprus, one of negotiations starting in the re- security issues will need input the latter’s election in 2015, said Defence lawyer Marcel van AEurope’s most enduring sort of Mont Pelerin on Mon- from Turkey, and are expected to that “practically every meeting” Gessel said that Kamphuis be- confl icts, is closer than ever and day in the presence of President be addressed after the territorial had yielded more convergence. lieved Spamhaus “needlessly could be clinched by the end of Nicos Anastasiades, the Greek issue is worked out. “It is possible to arrive at a censures, blackmails and abus- this year, a senior UN envoy said Cypriot leader, and Turkish Ioannis Kasoulides, foreign comprehensive political settle- es” its role. yesterday. Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. minister of the internationally- ment (by the end of the year) but And he insisted there had been Rival Greek and Turkish Cyp- “No negotiations on Cyprus recognised Republic of Cyprus we have to use every single day no co-ordination on the length Eide (right) with Cypriot Foreign Minister Kasoulides. riot leaders are slated to meet have come close to the level we comprising the southern two- from now on to maximum eff ect and duration of the attack. at a Swiss resort for talks from are at now,” Eide said of past thirds of the island, said the to do so,” Eide said at the confer- Arrested in Spain, Kamphuis November 7-11 to pave the way peace eff orts. quality of a peace deal, rather ence in Cyprus’s divided capital was eventually extradited to The for greater convergence between Anastasiades and Akinci are than its timing, is crucial. Nicosia. Netherlands, where he was re- two sides split since a brief both moderates leading their Alluding to one of several out- From Sunday, Nicosia was manded for two months in May Greek coup and ensuing Turkish respective communities split for standing issues, that of Turkey’s partitioned not just by the 2013. Finland to continue invasion of Cyprus in 1974. 42 years, but also for many years intervention rights over Cy- ceasefi re line monitored by UN Kamphuis – who says he is “We are way ahead of what preceding inter-communal prus under a 1960 constitution peacekeepers, but by time as living in Spain and refers to him- has ever happened before,” said strife that led Turkish Cypriots which Greek Cypriots demand well. self as the “minister of telecom- wolf cull campaigns Espen Barth Eide, Special Ad- to withdraw into enclaves. be scrapped, Kasoulides said: Northern Cyprus is one hour munications of the Cyberbunker viser to United Nations Secre- Talks are focused on reunit- “Defi nitely the time has come ahead of the south, after Turk- republic” – told the AD daily tary General Ban Ki-moon. ing Cyprus as a loose federation for Cyprus to be a fully inde- ish Cypriot authorities decided newspaper the charges against AFP But in addition to the 55 The Swiss meeting will focus of two constituent, largely self- pendent and sovereign country.” to follow Ankara’s cue and stick him were “absurd”. Helsinki wolves culled over the winter, on proposed territorial trade- governing states. Up to 30,000 Turkish troops to daylight saving hours on Oc- The prosecution said Kam- 23 animals died for other rea- off s but will not be a make- That is very likely to entail remain in northern Cyprus, a tober 30. phuis gave the orders to a young sons such as traffi c accidents, British hacker, known only as innish authorities said poaching, or were shot by po- “Narco”, to “take it down”, refer- yesterday that they plan lice to protect people. ring to Spamhaus. Fto maintain culling of the Ministerial adviser Sami But the defence said it was the protected wolf population to Niemi admitted that the high British teenager, who has already prevent illegal poaching, de- number of other deaths had Ukraine sets out anti-corruption strategy been sentenced to 240 hours of spite opposition from environ- caught the authorities by sur- community service by a British mentalists. prise and as a result, the licens- court, who was the real author of Fifty-fi ve out of Finland’s ing system was being modifi ed Reuters His announcement came af- watches and luxury cars have reported receiving gifts of over the attack. 290 grey wolves were culled before hunting could continue. KIev ter Ukraine completed a land- shocked many in a country $10,000 or said they had over So-called DDoS attacks es- during the 2015-2016 hunting Environmentalists have mark anti-corruption reform on where the average monthly sal- $100,000 in the bank, he said. sentially bombard websites with season, and the Finnish minis- heavily criticised Finland for Sunday obliging tens of thou- ary is little over $200. Lutsenko’s family may not be traffi c from various sources in try of agriculture and forestry culling an animal strictly pro- krainian authorities will sands of offi cials, all the way up “The online declaration is not immune from investigation. order to disrupt or block servers. said culling needed to con- tected by the European Union’s investigate politicians to the president, to declare their the end of the process, but only His wife, herself a lawmaker, The prosecution has called for tinue. legislation. Uand offi cials who de- wealth in an online database. the beginning,” Lutsenko told a declared owning $280,000 and essentially a one-year suspend- The decision came after “The numbers have been clare cash assets of more than Although a Western-backed briefi ng, adding more than half €50,000 ($55,120) in cash. ed sentence for Kamphuis, not- two month-long trial culls in signifi cant and wrong wolf $100,000 and will impose pris- government came to power two of the lawmakers in parliament The declaration system is de- ing that he has already spent 55 2015 and 2016, during which individuals have been shot in on sentences of up to 15 years on years ago promising reform, had declared possession of more signed to move away from a cul- days in prison. licensed hunters were allowed these hunts”, the Finnish Na- any found guilty of wrongdoing, corruption remains entrenched. than $100,000 in cash. ture that tacitly allowed bureau- A verdict will be handed down to seek permits for killing indi- ture League’s manager Sami General Prosecutor Yuriy Lut- Declarations of millions of The authorities will also look crats to amass wealth through on November 14. vidual wolves. Saynevirta told AFP. senko said yesterday. dollars in cash, expensive Swiss into the tax aff airs of those who cronyism and graft. Gulf Times 24 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 INDIA

POLLUTION INVESTIGATION LEGISLATION HONOUR POLITICS Delhi roads to be vacuum ‘Pressure cooker’ bomb Real estate bill will help SPB to get Centenary Nitish not to attend cleaned weekly: Sisodia explodes at govt off ice regulate the sector: Naidu Award at film event Samajwadi function

The Delhi government yesterday said A blast rocked the District Collector’s off ice Minister of Urban Development and Housing Veteran singer S P Balasubrahmanyam will be Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will not attend roads in the capital will be vacuum in Malappuram, Kerala yesterday. But there M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday said “changes in felicitated with the Centenary Award for Indian the silver jubilee celebrations of Uttar Pradesh’s cleaned every week to check dust and air were no deaths or damage to property, the real estate bill will help regulate the real Film Personality of the Year at the upcoming ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) on November 5. “Nitish pollution. “Vacuum cleaning of roads will police said. The bomb, kept in a pressure estate sector” and will be more “consumer 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Kumar will be busy in administrative work during be brought back in Delhi,” Deputy Chief cooker, was placed next to the car of a state friendly.” Asked why there were changes in in Goa, Information and Broadcasting Minister Chhath, the most popular festival in Bihar, from Minister Manish Sisodia said after a meeting government off icial who came for a routine the Real Estate bill, Naidu said: “Through this M Venkaiah Naidu announced yesterday. November 4 to 6,” Janata Dal-United spokesperson held to discuss pollution levels in the city. meeting at the collector’s off ice, the police bill, we have taken care of all the tensions of “Balasubrahmanyam will be honoured for his K C Tayagi said. He said the Samajwadi Party’s He said all roads falling under the Delhi said. Malappuram Superintendent of Police the common people. We did talk about it in talent. He has been working in the film industry state chief Shivpal Yadav has twice invited both government’s Public Works Department Debesh Kumar Behra told reporters that it parliament. After that we have made these for the past five decades and has rendered Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu (PWD) would be cleaned through water was a ‘pressure cooker bomb’ and apart from rules for people’s consumption. We have more than 40,000 songs. He is a big name Prasad Yadav for the November 5 function. Lalu sprinklers. This would bring down the the car, no other damage or casualties were received a few responses from the public in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Prasad has said would attend the celebrations. “I dust, a major contributor to pollution. The reported. “A box with a name slip of ‘The Base and after that we have finalised these rules,” also in Hindi. He has a melodious voice and will leave for Lucknow on November 4 to attend vacuum cleaning would start in two weeks Movement’ has been recovered from the site. he said. Naidu also said that the legislation is hard working. It’s an award, not a reward,” the function,” he announced yesterday. The SP had and it would be done once a week. Sisodia It seems this organisation was involved in will help regulate the real estate sector and Naidu said. The six-time National Award walked out of the RJD-JD-U alliance in Bihar last called for new ideas to curb pollution which such activities in Nellore, Mysuru and Kollam there will be no scope for exploitation and winning-singer holds the record of singing the year, straining relations between Nitish Kumar and has touched serious levels. in the past,” he said. cheating. maximum number of songs. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Modi’s ‘tryst’ with tiger Low savings rate threatens to derail govt’s growth plans

Households are the main The tiger economies of China Government offi cials say the source of savings in India, and East Asia realised their eco- savings rate should bottom out but high inflation, sluggish nomic potential by keeping their of its own accord thanks to an growth in incomes and two savings rates above 30% for dec- expected improvement in rural Prime Minister Narendra Modi photographs a tiger during a visit to the Nandan Van Jungle Safari at Naya Raipur in the eastern state of successive droughts have left ades. incomes after a good monsoon, Chhattisgarh yesterday. Earlier in the day, the prime minister inaugurated the Jungle Safari park developed in an area of 320-hectares their finances under siege But India’s economic travails better corporate profi ts and, most in Naya Raipur. stem from fl agging investment, importantly, a sharp moderation Reuters which as a proportion of GDP fell in retail infl ation. New Delhi/ Mumbai by about 3 percentage points to The slide also poses a dilemma 29.6% of GDP in the June quarter for the RBI, which is widely ex- from a year ago. pected to respond to a decline in or India’s dream of taking Its infrastructure development infl ation to 4.3% with further cuts the baton of global growth has failed to keep up with the in- in its 6.25% policy rate. Ffrom China, its savings rate creasing needs of the economy. Former RBI chief Raghuram is fl ashing a warning sign. The World Bank estimates that Rajan advocated maintaining a Khattar’s ‘good governance’ Gross national savings as a per- Asia’s third-largest economy real interest rate of 1.5-2 percent- centage of the country’s gross do- needs up to $1.7tn to close its in- age points to protect savers. Still, mestic product will slip this year frastructure gap Rajan said small savers would to 30.2%, the lowest since 2003, Households are the main source send him heart-rending letters, and fall further over the next two of savings in India, but years of complaining about cuts in retail rattles Haryana bureaucracy years, the International Monetary high infl ation, weak job creation, deposit rates. Fund forecasts. sluggish growth in incomes and Following his recent departure, IANS Dal (INLD), which often refer to minister,” said Khattar’s Offi cer ing taken to redress complaints. Since companies use domes- two successive droughts have left the central bank lowered its real Chandigarh Khattar and his government as on Special Duty (OSD), Bhu- The CM Window was opened to tic savings to fund their capital their fi nances under siege. interest rate target - or the margin being inexperienced and weak peshwar Dayal. encourage people to send their spending, the fall would increase Take Manohar Lal, a 50-year- by which its policy rate exceeds in administration, have criti- If there is a complaint against complaints directly to the chief their vulnerability to external old marketing manager at an infl ation - to 1.25%. uspension, dismissal, dis- cised the CMGGA saying these an offi cial, the responsibility to minister without travelling to risks - such as uncertainty over electric cable company in New With the new regime at the ciplinary action, censure, individuals who report directly investigate such cases is being Chandigarh,” Khattar’s Addi- the US presidential election or Delhi, who is struggling to pay for RBI under Governor Urjit Patel Sregistration of cases and to Khattar’s offi ce are extra- entrusted to a senior offi cer. tional Principal Secretary Rakesh the prospect of monetary tight- his kids’ education and mother’s sounding dovish, the odds are other forms of tough action - of- constitutional authorities, the “If any complainant with- Gupta said. ening there - that could staunch medical bills on his monthly in- high the target would come down fi cials of government depart- government has gone ahead and draws his complaint without The CM Window is function- the fl ow of cheap investment dol- come of Rs70,000. further. ments in Haryana’s 21 districts launched strict action against its redressal, then the nature of al at district headquarters and lars to emerging markets such as While his salary has grown by Globally interest rates are on a have been rattled by tough and offi cials who, in its perception, complaint would also be consid- a total of 205,000 complaints India. an average 8% in the past three downward trajectory, with some sometimes punitive actions or- have failed to deliver on the ered to fi nd out any possibility of have been received. Of these, It’s a worry for Prime Minister years, Lal’s spending on tuition central banks in the developed dered by the government of Chief “good governance” promise. nexus between the accused and nearly 185,000 have been re- Narendra Modi who aspires to fees and medicines have shot up world using negative rates to Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Complaints coming to the CM complainant,” Dayal said. dressed. achieve economic growth rates by nearly 40%, leaving him with boost consumption. recent months. Window are attended to by the In September, Khattar himself “We will open the CM Win- of 8-9% - much higher than the little to save for his retirement. “If you continue to compress Bitten by the “good govern- CMGGAs and referred to the de- suspended fi ve offi cers of dif- dows at the sub-divisional level current 7.1% - not only to repli- Pressing him further is India’s real rates, savings will fall and ance” bug, Khattar has un- partments concerned for redres- ferent departments and ordered as well. All loopholes in the of- cate China’s growth miracle but bid to stimulate consumption dependence on capital infl ows leashed 21 “high calibre” indi- sal. disciplinary action against two fl ine and online functioning of also to create jobs for the 1mn through low interest rates. As in- will rise, which can get risky if viduals - one for each district in On October 20, the Haryana for their “lackadaisical attitude” offi ces would be fi xed to weed people who join India’s workforce fl ation has fallen in recent years, oil prices abruptly shoot up,” said Haryana (the 22nd district was government ordered the dis- in dealing with complaints re- out all sorts of corruption. Strict every month. the Reserve Bank of India has cut Sonal Varma, Chief India Econo- announced recently), under the missal of two doctors and sus- ceived at the CM Window. action would be taken against Nearly two-thirds of India’s its offi cial rates by 175 basis points mist at Nomura. Chief Minister’s Good Govern- pension of two offi cers. It also He also ordered FIRs against individuals indulging in such de- 1.3bn people are under 35 years - and banks have cut deposit rates A search for higher yields by ance Associates (CMGGAs) pro- ordered that show-cause notices two persons on the basis of com- linquent practices,” Khattar said old. But to fully harness the big- accordingly. India’s small savers has reduced gramme. be served to fi ve others for der- plaints. Those suspended in- at a recent meeting with CMG- gest youth bulge the world has “In all, I am saving barely a growth in bank deposits to its These associates have been eliction of duty in redressing the cluded a police offi cer. GAs and top offi cers. ever seen, economists say its sav- fourth of what I used to,” Lal said. lowest level in 53 years. Cash held mandated to fi nd out what is complaints received. Action has been taken against “The observations of CMGGA ings rate needs to be around 35%. “The way things are, I would be by households has, meanwhile, lacking in the public delivery “Nodal offi cers (of depart- around 100 offi cials since have become a base for good “Raising the savings rate is lucky if I just manage to provide a surged 40% from last year to systems in various departments ments) have been directed to re- the CMGGA programme was governance, the impact of which one of the main pre-conditions quality education to both the kids.” $266bn. and the corrective measures that dress the grievances received on launched on July 1 this year. would be felt later. The aim of the for India’s long-term sustainable To get by, Lal has cut down Low returns on bank deposits need to be taken. CM Window on a priority basis “The concept of CM Window present government is to provide growth,” said Hanna Luchnikava- spending on movies and clothing. are also goading some like Mad- Even though the Congress and laxity would not be toler- has evoked a massive response hassle-free delivery of services Schorsch, senior economist for Dining out has become a “luxury” hav Narayan to resort to riskier and the Indian National Lok ated as per the orders of the chief from the public and action is be- to the public,” Khattar said. Asia Pacifi c at IHS Markit. for his family, Lal said. ways to augment their incomes.

Controversy mars Kerala Woman on house-hunt foundation day celebrations gang-raped in Mumbai

IANS That was when a gang of eight Agencies his own prominence and get the function. It’s an insult and impro- Mumbai local men, aged between 20 and Thiruvananthapuram focus on him. priety,” he said. 25, saw them and went inside the “Let the celebrations go on. Meanwhile, routine business house. I don’t want to take the sheen was kept aside as leaders from 28-year-old woman was They threatened the husband elebrations held to mark away,” said Antony, who arrived the ruling and opposition parties allegedly tied up and gang- and forced him to leave, tied up Kerala’s foundation day in the hope of getting a formal in- spoke about the role played by Araped by eight men at Am- the woman and took turns to rape Cwere marred by contro- vitation. “I decided not to go after their parties to help Kerala de- boli in Mumbai late on Monday her. versy yesterday. seeing the programme notice.” velop. night, police said yesterday. The suspects were presented A special assembly session was Religious heads and many Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Following a complaint by the before a magistrate court in And- held to commemorate the 60th from the fi lm industry, including emphasised the role played by the husband and the victim, the po- heri yesterday afternoon and were birthday of the coastal state. small-time actors, were among previous governments, includ- lice arrested seven suspects and remanded in police custody till However, the government kept the 60 people invited to light 60 ing that of E M S Nampoothiri- are on the lookout for the eighth. November 4. out Governor P Sathasivam and small lamps in earthen pots rep- pad, who headed the world’s fi rst Mumbai’s Deputy Commis- The condition of the woman, former chief ministers A K An- resenting the age of the state. democratically elected Commu- sioner of Police Ashok Dudhe said who was admitted to a local hos- tony, Oommen Chandy and V S V M Sudheeran, president of nist government. the couple had gone house-hunt- pital, was reported to be stable, Achuthanandan from the function. the state unit of the Congress, in a Opposition Congress leader ing in the Shyamnagar slums in Dudhe said. The governor left for Chennai statement, said Antony, a former Ramesh Chennithala spoke about Jogeshwari with a woman estate The incident brought back in a huff while his offi ce expressed defence minister, came from his party’s programmes and poli- agent. memories of the infamous gang- displeasure. Chief Minister Pi- New Delhi after he was invited cies. Since it got late, the couple rape incident inside the desolate narayi Vijayan justifi ed the omis- by the chief minister by phone. Communist Party of India stayed back at the estate agent’s Shakti Mills complex in central sion citing “protocol issues” and But he chose to keep away as his leader and Revenue Minister E home on Monday night, when the Mumbai in 2013 which had shak- off ered to invite the governor to name was not on the printed pro- Chandrasekheran said it was city was celebrating Diwali festival. en Mumbaikars. “more important functions.” gramme list. under the CPI government of C Critics say the chief minister “I also decided to keep away as Achutha Menon that the state saw chose to keep the governor, the Antony and Chandy did not get a number of educational, scientifi c Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan speaks at a function to mark Delhi Diary will be back next week head of the state, away to ensure a decent accommodation at the and research institutions come up. Kerala’s 60th anniversary in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 25 INDIA Enslaved teen boys dial for help from shoe factory

Reuters who sell them into bonded la- statement they hadn’t been paid The government has recently 9 in the morning to 9 at night. 18, had been brought to Ben- promised wages of Rs7,000 Bengaluru bour or hire them out to unscru- in over a year. Earlier this month, amended its child labour law to They were made to sleep in the galuru from Sitamarhi district ($105) a month. Most said the pulous employers, activists say. six boys from Bihar were rescued permit children to work for their workplace only, which was fi lled in Bihar by at least fi ve diff erent money had been sent for a few “I sneaked out one night and from a decoration-making fac- families and reduce the number with the smell of glue used in traffi ckers. months to their parents and then olice have rescued 10 teen- bought a telephone card,” Adhir tory in Bengaluru. of banned occupations for ado- sticking the soles,” Pendyala told The boys had been working at discontinued. age boys, allegedly traf- Paswan, 18, told the Thomson A 2015 report by the Interna- lescents. the Thomson Reuters Founda- the factory for between one and Police have registered a case Pfi cked and held in bondage Reuters Foundation in a tele- tional Labour Organisation puts “The sole factory was a mis- tion. 14 months. against the owner of the factory in a shoe-sole factory in Karna- phone interview. the number of child workers in erable place,” said Lakshapathi “Several chemicals and glues In their accounts to offi cials, and two traffi ckers under anti- taka, after a tip-off from a chil- “I made the distress call to our India aged between fi ve and 17 at Pendyala of the Association were being used by the boys the boys said they were forced slavery legislation. dren’s helpline. families and a helpline in Bihar. 5.7mn, out of 168mn globally. for Promoting Social Action, a without any protection and to work throughout the day with They arrested two people. Hundreds of children, mostly We were not being paid and the More than half of India’s child charity that runs a helpline in some of the boys had deep cuts breaks for meals only. None were The factory owner is at large, from poor rural areas of northern younger boys were being beaten workers labour in agriculture Bengaluru that was part of the on their palms.” allowed to call or visit their fam- investigating police, said in states like Bihar, are brought to and abused.” and over a quarter are in the rescue team. In a statement, rescuers said ilies. an interview, requesting ano- Bengaluru every year by agents One of the boys, 17, said in a manufacturing sector. “The boys were working from the boys, aged between 14 and Paswan said they had been nymity. Tata-Mistry feud shocks proud Parsi community

Reuters The two sides have traded barbs Mumbai on a near-daily basis since then. While business spats are not uncommon in Mumbai, the he bitter public feud public allegations of malfea- between the Tata fam- sance and the central role of two Tily, which controls India’s billionaire Parsis has not gone most respected conglomerate, down well in the community. and its now ousted chairman “I would say Cyrus, walk out Cyrus Mistry has created an with a little dignity and self re- unwelcome stir in the tiny Parsi spect. Don’t wash dirty linen community to which both sides in public. Don’t make the press belong. your playground. Fight battles Police gather at the entrance to the Central Jail in Bhopal yesterday, a day after eight SIMI members escaped and were killed in an encounter with security personnel. There are only about 58,000 inside boardrooms,” said Rumi Parsis in India, a nation of 1.3bn Behram Balsara, a second gen- people. eration shareholder in some Tata Yet, the community has in- group companies. cluded some of India’s biggest From shipyards to textiles, business names, its top nuclear Mumbai’s Parsis have led the scientists, world-class musi- city’s commercial development cians and several senior military from a group of sleepy fi shing offi cers including the country’s villages to one of Asia’s business Police urged to explain fi rst fi eld-marshal. capitals. Parsis are also known for Parsi business houses owned maintaining their privacy. by the Tata, Wadia and Godrej “They should have settled this families are at the forefront of between themselves instead of India’s corporate world. what has happened so publicly,” The Tata empire stretches said a Parsi woman stepping out from Jaguar Land Rover to Tet- killing of terror suspects of the community’s fi re temple ley Tea, while the Wadia family in downtown Mumbai. owns textile and food-product Footage raises questions but were resisting capture. be independently verified. “People of the state and coun- dreaded terrorists who could The row between Ratan Tata, businesses. about deaths of eight men “(They) attempted to attack the Extra-judicial killings by po- try must know how terrorists have wreaked havoc had they family patriarch of the sprawl- The Godrej Group owns inter- killed in ‘encounter’ with police with stones. We had to lice, known as “encounters”, are with such a record were able to succeeded in escaping.” ing $100bn salt-to-steel Tata ests in everything from consum- police in Madhya Pradesh shoot them,” he said yesterday. extremely common in India, escape from such a high-secu- The Bharatiya Janata Party Sons empire, and Cyrus Mistry, a er goods to chemicals. He later clarifi ed that they particularly in states with active rity jail and within hours caught (BJP) leader said the opposition scion of the billionaire Shapoorji Parsis follow the Zoroastrian Agencies had been armed with knives and insurgencies such as Manipur, and shot dead,” said Kamal Nath, was doing “dirty politics” to se- Pallonji clan, erupted in public faith. Some of the tenets of the Bhopal makeshift pistols. He said: “We where more than 1,500 alleged a Madhya Pradesh MP and Con- cure minority vote banks. last week. faith like charity and doing good located the eight inmates, they cases have been registered in gress Party member. “Patriotism is important,” he Both families are pillars of the to others have long been woven fi red on us and all of them were the last two decades. Senior Communist Party of said, hailing “the sacrifi ce” of Parsi community, comprised of into the Tata heritage and busi- olice in Madhya Pradesh killed in the cross-fi ring.” Earlier this year, a former India (Marxist) leader Brinda the prison guard allegedly killed descendants of Persians who fi rst ness ethos. are under pressure to ex- But this contradicted the ac- senior Manipur police of- Karat called the police’s version by the escapees. landed in India in the 9th century. Much of the dividend paid Pplain the killing of eight count of the state’s Home Min- fi cer, Herojit Singh, admitted of events “highly dubious and In Delhi Minister for Infor- Tata Sons announced on October out by Tata Sons gets funnelled terror suspects who escaped ister Bhupendra Singh, who to shooting dead an unarmed, suspicious.” mation and Broadcasting M 24 that Mistry had been removed into charitable trusts involved in from a jail in Bhopal early on told NDTV the men had “used 22-year-old suspected separa- The National Investigation Venkaiah Naidu slammed the as chairman of the company. philanthropic work. Monday, after footage emerged jail utensils as weapons. (They) tist and more than 100 others Agency has been asked to exam- Congress for being “concerned Sources close to the company The crux of the Tata world that appeared to show at least didn’t have guns, but the police over the course of his career. ine how the prisoners escaped about terrorists,” calling it “all said Mistry’s corporate strategy view, said Morgen Witzel, a UK- one of the men being shot while had no choice but to kill them.” According to the National one of India’s most secure fa- cheap politics” against the na- was seen as transgressing the based author of a book on the already incapacitated. Also raising doubts were two Human Rights Commission cilities, but minister Singh said tional interest of the country. core Parsi value of working for Tata company, is shareholder The prisoners, all members of videos that emerged on Mon- there were 206 encounters reg- there was “no need for any in- BJP leader Shrikant Sharma the greater common good. value should not be an end in it- the Students’ Islamic Movement day evening, one purporting to istered across India in the year vestigation on the encounter.” went a step ahead and said those A fi ve-page e-mail response self. of India, cut the throat of a pris- show an offi cer fi ring at a pris- to September 2016. “When an encounter hap- killed were “supporters of Osa- from Mistry to the Tata board “Companies are not machines on guard as they escaped. They oner, the other appearing to Yesterday, opposition parties pens, police have no other op- ma bin Laden and working as was leaked two days later, con- for making money. They exist were killed in a confrontation show some of the escapees with called for a judicial investigation tion but to fi re,” he said. sleeper cells.” taining scathing criticism of the to provide value and service to with police at about 11.30am on their hands raised, asking to into the deaths of the Bhopal es- Madhya Pradesh Chief Min- He said the Congress “has company’s corporate govern- their communities; profi t is a the outskirts of the city. speak with the offi cers. capees, all of who were awaiting ister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hit taken to communal politics” ance practices and Ratan Tata’s by-product of that process.” Bhopal’s chief police offi cer, The videos, which have been trial on charges including ex- out at the opposition for in- because it was unable to defeat role in some of the company’s That view appears to be at the Yogesh Choudhary, initially widely broadcast on televi- plosives off ences, plotting to kill dulging in electoral politics, and the BJP over its development costliest errors. heart of the boardroom dust-up. said the men had been unarmed sion and social media, cannot public offi cials and robbery. said those killed were “of course agenda.

Won’t accept court verdict Goswami quits, says on river water, says Badal ‘game has just begun’ Agencies New Delhi IANS the 50th anniversary of the Pun- since October 2014, is awaiting Amritsar jabi Suba. the court verdict on the water “Neither Punjab nor Punjabis sharing issue. rnab Goswami, the ed- would accept any verdict against In Punjab, the ruling Shiro- itor-in-chief of Times unjab Chief Minister Par- state’s interest on river waters mani Akali Dal, of which Badal ANow and ET Now, an- kash Singh Badal yester- and are ever ready to make any is the patron, has an alliance nounced yesterday he was quit- Pday said that his govern- sacrifi ce to safeguard the legiti- government with the BJP since ting the Times Group, employ- Goswami: resigns ment and state will not accept mate share of river waters,” he 2007. ees of the news channel said. the verdict of even the highest asserted. Assembly polls in Punjab are Goswami made the an- Goswami started his career as a court on the issue of sharing “I want to use this occasion to likely to be held in January-Feb- nouncement at a meeting with print journalist in The Telegraph, river waters with neighbouring state one thing clearly, even if it ruary next year. Times Now employees. before joining NDTV in 1995. Haryana, and that Punjab was is taken adversely...even if the “Successive Congress govern- Some of the employees said According to Business Stand- ready for “any sacrifi ce.” highest court decides on this is- ments at the Centre have sub- Goswami took questions after ard, Goswami might start a Without mincing words, sue (of sharing of water), we will jected our state and its people announcing his resignation. news channel with politician Badal demanded that the “in- not give even a drop of water. We to sheer exploitation by denying They said he referred to the and entrepreneur Rajeev Chan- justice” done to Punjab over are ready for any sacrifi ce. We its rightful share in river waters,” launch of Times Now in 2006 drasekhar and American media the decades on issues like will not allow Punjabis to die of Badal said while seeking the and said: “We disrupted the in- baron Rupert Murdoch. It was river waters, denial of Chandi- hunger,” he said. personal attention of Jaitley and dustry,” and it will be done again. also said that Goswami might garh as the state’s capital and The Supreme Court is seized Shah. “The game has just begun,” join Fox News. transfer of Punjabi-speaking of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal “Inter-state issues, including the employees quoted Goswami He was recently given “Y cat- areas from Haryana, should be issue and is likely to announce its the denial of capital to Punjab, as saying. egory” security cover from the undone. verdict soon. transfer of Punjabi-speaking Goswami anchors prime time government after the Intelligence “I urge you to deliver prompt The SYL, which was to link areas and resolving river water TV show The Newshour which Bureau perceived a threat to his justice rather than making any both rivers in the two states, issues within the ambit interna- is known for its intense and ag- life from “terrorists groups.” He favour to us,” Badal said while has been a bone of contention tionally accepted riparian prin- gressive style of questioning. was to get 24-hour protection sharing the stage with Fi- for over three decades. Punjab ciple are hanging in fi re for long With news doing the rounds from around 20 security person- nance Minister Arun Jaitley and maintains that it has no water to due to apathetic attitude of the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal interacts with Sikh that Goswami has quit, Times nel, including two personal secu- Bharatiya Janata Party president spare for other states. Haryana, Congress governments at the leaders during an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the Now channel ran a ticker “Arnab rity offi cers, who will guard him Amit Shah at an event to mark which has a BJP government Centre,” he said. Punjabi Suba in Amritsar yesterday. Goswami is back tonight.” from close distance. Gulf Times 26 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 LATIN AMERICA

CRIME VIOLENCE CLAIM CORPORATE ECONOMY Two Mexican soldiers Bus passenger shoots El Salvador ex-president Venezuela food firm Brazil trade surplus kidnapped and killed dead four robbers ‘embezzled’ millions slams harassment narrows to $2.3bn in Oct

Unknown assailants kidnapped and then killed A bus passenger killed four robbers on a A former president of El Salvador, Elias Antonio Venezuelan food company Polar, the South Brazil recorded a trade surplus of $2.346bn in two soldiers in the Mexican coastal city of highway near Mexico City and their bodies were Saca, arrested with six other people over the American nation’s largest private firm, has October, government data showed yesterday, Acapulco, local authorities said. The two men had later found on the road by police, authorities weekend, stole $246mn from state coff ers, denounced harassment by state intelligence the biggest surplus posted for that month since reportedly taken a course at an air base on the said. The thieves boarded the bus near San the Central American nation’s chief state agents who have been stationed at the gates of 2011, but narrower than the $3.8bn surplus weekend, and were kidnapped afterwards when Pedro Tultepec, pointed their guns and robbed prosecutor said. “An overall amount of $246mn its headquarters since late last week. Lorenzo recorded in September. The result was smaller they were off duty. Their bodies were found at the passengers, the prosecutor’s off ice in the was embezzled into the accounts of individuals, Mendoza, owner of the conglomerate, said armed than market expectations for a surplus of $2.7bn, a market, a statement from the Guerrero state central State of Mexico said in a statement, benefiting those charged,” Douglas Melendez and masked off icers from the Sebin intelligence according to a Reuters poll. Exports totalled government said. Recently, gangs have been citing witnesses. As the assailants were leaving, told a news conference. Nearly half of that was agency have also been stationed outside his $13.721bn and imports $11.375bn. Economists in a fighting for control of the drug business in one of “one of the passengers stood up and began to taken out in cash after being transferred from residence for no apparent reason. “I simply weekly central bank poll expect a trade surplus Mexico’s most well-known tourist destinations. shoot,” the statement said. The bus then headed government accounts to those of presidential wanted to make this statement to reject the of $48bn in 2016, more than double last year’s In 2015, Acapulco was ranked as the most to Mexico City but the shooter left and was employees who wired them to accounts persecution and harassment that my workers, result after a severe recession curbed demand dangerous city in Mexico by the country’s Citizen not seen again, prosecutors said. Authorities belonging to companies “close to the accused.” my family, and I have been subjected to by the for imports. Brazil’s trade surplus so far this year Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, reported the discovery of four bullet-riddled Several companies connected to a cousin of political police,” said Mendoza, surrounded by has risen to $38.5bn, more than three times with 903 homicides for the year. bodies without providing more details. Saca’s were searched under warrant on Monday. cheering workers, in comments to reporters. larger than in the same period of 2015. Crisis brings boom, social tensions to Brazil town

Guardian News and Media with crime and the demand for Brasilia healthcare.” In the past 10 months, 1,805 Venezuelans have sought refu- t fi rst sight, the small Am- gee status in Brazil, more than azonian border communi- the combined total for the pre- Aty of Pacaraima appears to vious fi ve years. Deportations in be doing well amid the humani- 2016 are on course to be 10 times tarian crisis affl icting Venezuela, higher than in 2015. In the vast transforming itself into a giant majority of these cases, they en- grain warehouse, and supplying ter through the porous border at food – at considerable profi t – to Pacaraima. a country that cannot feed itself. For most of its history, this Boutique Charmoso has Brazilian town was the poor stopped selling smocks and bi- neighbour of the Venezuelan kinis and started hawking rice town of Santa Elena de Uairen. and fl our. The Flip-Flop Shop Many Brazilian children crossed is piled high with sacks of sugar the frontier to attend the better- and pasta. resourced schools of the oil-rich Four of the town’s seven butch- state. The sick would go to Ven- ers have given up carving meat ezuelan hospitals. Hundreds and switched to fl ogging grain. of workers would commute to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro (centre) meets with former Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (left) at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela. Boxes of cooking oil fi ll the lobby higher-paying jobs. of the Amazon hotel. Drinkers at Today, however, the relation- the Ronaldo Bar have to weave ship has been reversed by one of between stacks of produce. the greatest economic and so- “I went for a haircut last week, cial upheavals Latin America has but even my salon has switched seen this century. Venezuela has businesses,” said social worker hyperinfl ation heading towards Socorro Lopes. “It’s madness 2,000%, plunging supplies of here now. There is such a rush to food and medicine, and growing Venezuela frees activists get rich.” rates of malnutrition and murder. But the economic boom has By comparison, Brazil – even come at a price: growing des- in the midst of its worst re- peration in Venezuela is starting cession for decades – seems a to send ripples across the border, sanctuary of stability, safety, where it is triggering a new set of provisions and profi ts. Since social tensions. Venezuela dropped food tariff s in post-talks gesture An estimated 30,000 Ven- a couple of months ago, traders ezuelan migrants have come to have come from as far afi eld as Reuters duro of creating a dictatorship Moreno and Trejo spent a offi cial Jorge Rodriguez, who is Ledezma and Manuel Rosales. Pacaraima looking for food, jobs China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Caracas by leaning on compliant institu- month in jail, accused of damag- representing the government in “The releases have to con- and medical care in an infl ux Lebanon to cash in. tions to block a recall referen- ing military morale in a political the talks. tinue. They must give us the re- that threatens to overwhelm lo- Mostly though, the infl ux is dum on his rule and sideline the propaganda video that showed a He added that investigations call referendum back, or if not, cal hospitals, police and social of Venezuelans fi lling cars and enezuela has freed three opposition-led legislature. soldier suff ering the same eco- of the three activists were con- bring the presidential elections services. trucks with goods they cannot opposition activists jailed Authorities freed the three nomic hardships as protesters. tinuing. forward,” he said on a radio pro- “The chaos in Venezuela is fi nd in their own country. Some Vfor more than a month in activists — Carlos Melo, Andres They deny the charges, and gramme. causing turbulence for us,” says buy for themselves; most buy to a fi rst gesture by President Nico- Moreno and Marco Trejo — on “The releases have to opposition parties say they were Venezuela’s next presidential Lopes, who is on the frontline sell on at a profi t. las Maduro’s government after Monday night, but the opposi- continue. They must give trumped up as part of a wave of election is due in late 2018. of municipal eff orts to cope As demand for goods grows, talks began with his foes. tion says another 100 or so Ma- us the recall referendum repression this year. Maduro, who is struggling to with rising homelessness, beg- prices are going up. In four The socialist leader met op- duro opponents remain in jail. back, or if not, bring the Jesus Torrealba, secre- control shortages of consumer ging, prostitution, hunger and ill months, rice has increased from position leaders at the weekend “I hope that what happened to presidential elections tary-general of the Demo- goods and soaring prices in an health. 1.8 reais (£0.46/$0.56) per kilo- in talks convened by the Vatican, me, will happen to all of them,” forward” cratic Unity coalition, said unraveling economy, says he “We know this is just the gram to 3.8 reais (£1/$1.20), and but they conditioned further di- Melo said in a video released af- the releases were welcome but is a victim of opposition con- start. We don’t know how bad fl our has more than doubled alogue on the release of political ter his release. “These (releases) were deci- not enough given scores re- spiracies to overthrow him and it will get. But if the number of from 3.4 reais to 7 reais. Scarcity prisoners and a national vote on He was detained in August and sions by the tribunals in the con- mained in detention including of an “economic war” led by migrants keeps growing uncon- is also a problem. Aspirin and Maduro’s rule. accused of carrying explosives as text of the dialogue process, ges- well-known opposition lead- businesses with the backing of trolled, we won’t be able to deal vaccines are harder to fi nd. His adversaries accuse Ma- part of a coup plot against Maduro. tures,” said senior Socialist Party ers Leopoldo Lopez, Antonio Washington. Bogota seeks better trade Brazil senators urged ties with Britain: Santos to back spending cap Reuters approved without changes. Brasilia “I am all for debate, but we must Agencies new agreement to be secured by young man working in London, stick to the calendar,” Oliveira told London Christmas. he was thrown to the ground by reporters after reading the pro- But Angelika Rettberg, ex- a bomb left in a bin by the IRA razil’s ruling party yester- posal to the standing committee pert in peace processes at the paramilitary group. day urged senators to back on the constitution and justice, olombia wants to Colombian university of Los “The experiences of Northern Ba constitutional amend- which will vote on the measure on strengthen its trade and Andes, warned that while his Ireland continue to inspire my vi- ment that caps federal spending November 9.Two rounds of voting Cinvestment ties with Brit- trip to Britain may boost his in- sion of Colombia as a country at for 20 years and reject an opposi- in the full Senate are scheduled for ain after the country leaves the ternational profi le, it “doesn’t peace with itself,” Santos wrote. tion request that it be put to a na- November 29 and December 13. European Union, President Juan help him fi x the crisis at home”. “I know that diff erences and tional referendum, which would The government enjoys a Manuel Santos said yesterday. If anything, it “aggravates the grievances persist in Northern delay its approval until next year. majority and expects to repeat Speaking to British lawmak- perception that he’s interested in Ireland but its people have learnt The fl agship measure in Presi- its victory in the lower house, ers, Santos said the British in- make a good impression abroad” to express them through demo- dent Michel Temer’s eff ort to where the cap passed by a com- vestment into Colombia would while he should be working on cratic means.” restore Brazil’s fi scal discipline fortable 359-116 margin. be able to grow when peace is the peace process, she said. Northern Ireland was plagued cleared the lower house of Con- Oliveira said the opposition, led achieved with the Revolution- The fi rst day of Santos’ visit by three decades of violence over gress last week and the govern- by the recently ousted Workers ary Armed Forces of Colombia, was dominated by ceremonial British control of the province, ment is confi dent it can win Sen- Party, were adopting delaying tac- or Farc. events, including tea with heir- in which 3,500 people died, un- ate approval by mid-December. tics. “They know they can’t win so Santos has promised to revive to-the-throne Prince Charles til the 1998 Good Friday accords But leftist senators are de- they are trying to delay,” he said. a peace plan even though Co- and a meeting with members of largely brought an end to the manding more debate on the aus- Workers Party senator Gleisi lombians narrowly rejected it in parliament. fi ghting. terity measure and have included a Hoff mann, who proposed the a referendum earlier this month Santos will today hold talks Two architects of the peace clause providing for a referendum national referendum on Monday, and he said he hoped for a better with Prime Minister Theresa process — David Trimble and before it can be put into eff ect. accused the government of sti- and more legitimate deal after a May at Downing Street, before John Hume — won the Nobel Any changes to the proposal fl ing debate and rushing the leg- national dialogue. heading to Belfast tomorrow Peace Prize that year. would require approval in the islation through because it does Many voters believed the plan to meet key fi gures from the The Colombian government’s lower chamber, making it all but not want to discuss unpopular was too lenient on the Farc guer- Northern Ireland peace process. 52-year-long war is of a diff erent impossible to pass this year. spending cuts. rillas. “Its success is a constant re- magnitude, however. Senator Eunicio Oliveira, sen- The constitutional amend- Santos has since been in talks minder of what is possible,” Although a ceasefi re with Farc ate leader for Temer’s Brazilian ment would limit the growth of with the Marxist rebels and Santos wrote in The Times on has been extended until De- Democratic Movement Party, public spending each year for two those who opposed the deal, Monday. cember 31, Santos warned in the Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos meets Queen Elizabeth said Brazil was running out of decades to the rate of infl ation of notably former president Al- Santos was briefl y caught up Times that “time has become at the Buckingham Palace in London yesterday. Also seen is the time to put its books in order the previous 12 months, though it varo Uribe, and said he wants a in the Irish confl ict when, as a the biggest threat” to peace. president’s wife, Maria Clemencia Rodriguez de Santos. and urged that the legislation be can be revised after 10 years. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 27 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN First trade activity under CPEC beigns

Internews highway in Gilgit-Baltistan Islamabad every week. “This activity will bring prosperity and end unem- akistan and China ployment in the region,’’ the kicked off fi rst trade chief minister said. Pactivities under the He said that it was an im- China-Pakistan Economic portant day for both Chi- Corridor project (CPEC) yes- nese and Pakistani people terday as over a hundred Chi- since trade activity under nese containers arrived at the the CPEC had officially Sust port after clearance from started. customs and an inaugural “The federal government ceremony was held at the port has approved projects worth a day earlier. Rs72bn in the region to pro- Sust is a village in Hunza. vide GB with modern tech- It’s the last town in Paki- nology. stan on the Karakoram high- The Shuntar pass, Babusar way before the Chinese bor- road and Gilgit-Skardu road der. would also be constructed The containers left for under the CPEC,’’ Rehman Gwadar after custom clear- said. ance. Police personnel were The ceremony was at- posted on the containers as Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan (C) talks to media outside his house in Islamabad yesterday. tended by Chinese offi cials as part of security measures for well as Gilgit-Baltistan Chief the CPEC. Minister Hafeezur Rehman The customs superintend- and the Force Commander of ent at the Sust port, Ishaq Gilgit-Baltistan, Saqib Mah- Kiani, said containers loaded mud Malik. with CPEC projects goods Addressing the inaugu- were exempted from paying ral ceremony, Rehman said import tax. that under the CPEC the “Forty-fi ve Chinese con- fate of GB would change, tainers have departed from Imran Khan calls off adding that one thousand Sust and the remaining Chinese containers would would leave after clearance,’’ pass through the Karakoram he said.

Islamabad ‘lockdown’ Pakistan summons Cricketer-turned-politician’s Khan’s retreat has left him po- move could defuse tension; litically weaker despite his eff ort Indian envoy Supreme Court decides to to portray the Supreme Court pursue case linked to prime decision as a political victory, minister; Police try to keep said Michael Kugelman, a South IANS civilians, including a woman, hundreds of people out of Asia specialist at Washington Islamabad and injuries to eight civilians, capital think-tank the Woodrow Wilson including two women, said Center. a statement by the Pakistan Reuters “The problem is in recent days akistan yesterday again Foreign Offi ce. Islamabad Khan had focused more on the summoned Indian The Director General need to get Sharif to quit, and PDeputy High Commis- urged the Indian side to re- that clearly isn’t happening,” sioner JP Singh to “strongly spect the 2003 Ceasefire akistani opposition leader Kugelman said. condemn” the “unprovoked Understanding; investigate Imran Khan backed down Khan’s Supreme Court chal- ceasefi re violations” on the the continued incidents of Pfrom a threat to paralyse lenge stems from documents Line of Control that led to the ceasefire violations; in- the capital yesterday, a move leaked from the Panama-based deaths of six civilians. struct the Indian forces to likely to ease tension that has Mossack Fonseca law fi rm that Director General (SA & respect the ceasefire, in let- spilled over into violence in the appeared to show that Sharif’s Saarc), Mohamed Faisal, ter and spirit, stop targeting run-up to the planned protests. daughter and two sons owned summoned Indian Deputy the villages and civilians and Khan’s vow to “shut down” off shore holding companies High Commissioner, Singh, maintain peace on the Work- Islamabad to press a demand for registered in the British Virgin and strongly condemned the ing Boundary and the LoC, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Islands. unprovoked ceasefi re viola- the statement said. resign or face a corruption in- Sharif’s family denies wrong- tions on October 31, 2016, by The Indian diplomat has quiry had sparked a citywide ban doing and there was no mention the Indian forces on the LoC been summoned several times on gatherings and the arrests of of Sharif himself owning any in Nikial and Jandrot sectors, in the past few weeks over fi r- hundreds of opposition activists off shore companies. resulting in the deaths of six ing by forces on the border. accused of defying the ban. The ruling party had said it Instead of the protest, Khan would participate in an investi- yesterday said he would hold a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activists gesture as they listen to their leader Imran Khan address them gation, but rejected the opposi- Roadside bomb leaves seven “celebratory” rally, following a outside his residence in Islamabad yesterday. tion’s formula focused on Shar- decision by the Supreme Court if’s family. dead in eastern Afghanistan to pursue a case linked to Sharif. parade ground, vowing to para- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. police blocking their route to Is- If the political deadlock per- “We will hold a massive gath- lyse the capital with a turnout of Authorities have arrested lamabad. sists, the Supreme Court intends A roadside bomb blast left seven civilians dead in Afghanistan’s ering in Islamabad tomorrow at a million protesters. scores of party supporters and Pakistan’s soaring stock mar- to set up a commission based on central Parwan province yesterday, a local off icial said. the parade ground to celebrate The tension unleashed fears shut a major motorway leading ket, which took a hit in recent its own terms. The victims including a tribal elder and a retired government off icer this victory,” Khan told media Pakistan’s economic recovery from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prov- days on the prospect of the “We have to save the coun- were travelling in a car in Sayed Khel district when their vehicle was outside his plush home on the could be jeopardised if there ince, Khan’s political heartland. protests, bounced sharply after try from unrest and crises,” said struck by the bomb, Mawlawi Mir Hamdullah, a provincial council edge of the capital. were a prolonged crisis that After the Supreme Court de- Khan’s decision to call them off . Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer member from Parwan, said. In a bid to resolve the crisis, could even draw in the powerful cision, offi cials said the highway Khan had accused the police, Jamali, according to the English- Hundreds of civilians are harmed every month in the increasing the Supreme Court said it would military, which has a history of barriers would be cleared. judiciary and other government language newspaper Dawn. violence in Afghanistan as a bitter battle for territory rages between form a judicial commission to meddling in politics and over- Authorities said they wanted bodies of conspiring against Holding off shore companies insurgents and security forces. probe allegations stemming throwing civilian governments. to prevent a repeat of Khan’s him, besides claiming to have is not illegal in Pakistan, but According to a UN report published late October, 8,397 people from the “Panama Papers” leaks There have been daily clashes protests in 2014 that paralysed been under virtual house arrest. Khan has implied the money was were aff ected by the ongoing violence, including 2,562 deaths and about the Sharif family’s off - between police and support- the city’s government quarter But ruling party offi cials paint- gained by corruption. 5,835 injuries. shore wealth. ers of the cricketer-turned- after he rejected Sharif’s election ed Khan as a desperate politi- Khan admitted in May that he Home-made bombs remain one of the leading causes of civilian Khan had previously rejected politician in the lead-up to to- win a year earlier. cian seeking to revive his fl agging himself used an off shore compa- casualties in the war-torn country. the city High Court’s order to day, while the government has Party offi cials said two sup- popularity by setting up a violent ny to legally avoid paying British Taliban militants use the devices to attack the Afghan security hold his protests on Islamabad’s cracked down on workers of his porters died after clashing with confrontation in the capital. tax on a London property sale. forces, but instead mostly kill civilians. Fashion show 12 dead in huge blast at ship-breaking yard

Reuters tive official in the area. Islamabad Nasir Mansoor, a representa- tive of the National Trade Union Federation of Pakistan, said the t least 12 Pakistani work- explosion sent pieces of metal ers were killed and more fl ying up to 2km away. Athan 50 injured yester- The blast occurred in the fuel day after a huge blast ripped tank of the ship, which was still through an oil tanker at a ship- on fi re, he said. breaking yard, trapping others Firefi ghters from Karachi and inside the vessel, local offi cials from the air force and navy were said. attempting to put out the blaze, The leader of a ship-break- he said. ing workers union said fi re had Mansoor said the fi refi ghters engulfed the vessel moored in would have to wait for the fi re Gaddani, 45km northwest of to die out “as they lack the foam the port city of Karachi. required douse it.” “Things are really bad Labourers in Gaddani often here,” union president Bash- work in poor conditions with- eer Mehmoodani said by tel- out basic protective gear. ephone. “There’s an unclear The Gaddani ship-breaking number of workers said to be industry has fallen on hard trapped in the burning ship.” times recently and employs At least 12 people were about 9,000 workers, fewer A model presents a creation by designer Shehla Chaloor at the killed and another 58 injured than in its boom years at the end Fashion Pakistan Week Winter Festive 2016, in Karachi. in the blast, said Zulfiqar of the last decade. Pakistani bystanders gather around the wreckage of a burning ship after a gas cylinder explosion at the Bokhari, a senior administra- Gadani shipbreaking yard, some 50km west of Karachi yesterday. Gulf Times 28 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 PHILIPPINES Special envoy US ‘stopped’ Philippines rifl e Ramos quits as sale that senator opposed aide says Reuters violations in the Philippines. his violent battle to rid the coun- sale of 26,000-27,000 assault In October, Duterte told US Washington News of the thwarting of the try of illegal drugs. rifl es, stopping the deal. President Barack Obama to “go weapons sale was met with dis- More than 2,300 people have US State Department offi cials to hell” and said the United China mission appointment among the Philip- been killed in police operations did not comment. States had refused to sell some he US State Department pine police and government yes- or by suspected vigilantes in Ronald dela Rosa, the Philip- weapons to his country, but he halted the planned sale of terday, but they said alternative connection with the anti-nar- pine national police chief and did not care because Russia and Tsome 26,000 assault ri- suppliers would be found. cotics campaign since Duterte staunch supporter of the war on China were willing suppliers. accomplished fl es to the Philippines’ national Police spokesman Dionardo took offi ce on June 30. drugs, said he liked the Ameri- According to some US offi - police after Senator Ben Cardin Carlos said the Philippines had The US State Department in- can rifl e, but suggested China cials, Washington has been do- said he would oppose it, Senate yet to be notifi ed about the sale forms Congress when interna- as an alternative small-arms ing its best to ignore Duterte’s Reuters aides told Reuters on Monday. being stopped. tional weapons sales are in the provider.“We really wanted the rhetoric and not provide him Manila Aides said Cardin, the top The relationship between the works. US rifl es because these are reli- with a pretext for more out- Democrat on the US Senate For- United States and the Philip- Aides said Foreign Relations able,” he told broadcaster ABS- bursts. An open break with the eign Relations Committee, was pines, a long-time ally, has been committee staff informed State CBN. Philippines could create prob- he Philippines’ former reluctant for the United States complicated lately by President that Cardin would oppose the “But if the sale will not push lems for the United States in a president Fidel Ramos to provide the weapons given Rodrigo Duterte’s angry reaction deal during the department’s through, we will fi nd another region where China’s infl uence Thas quit his job as spe- concerns about human rights to criticism from Washington of prenotifi cation process for the source, maybe from China.” has grown. cial envoy to China, aides said yesterday, but the government has yet to act on his resigna- tion, weeks after the current Philippine leader visited Bei- Rehabilitation programme jing. President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Ramos, a mentor Fidel Ramos: task accomplished? who he said persuaded him to run for offi ce, as special en- scribed the president’s hos- voy to China to help repair ties tility and mixed statements soured by an international ar- towards old ally the United bitration case in a maritime States as “discombobulating”. territorial dispute which went But a Ramos aide yesterday in Manila’s favour in July, said the resignation had noth- sparking outrage in Beijing. ing to do with his view on Du- Ramos’ decision to quit a job terte’s performance. he had barely started was due “Please, do not put mean- to the progress made during ing into this, he remains a team Duterte’s visit, including what Philippines player,” the aide appears to be an end to China’s said. blockade of a disputed fi shing The government gave little zone. comment on the circumstanc- “He has done his job,” a es behind Ramos’ resignation. Ramos aide told Reuters. Presidential Communica- “President Duterte has visited tions Secretary Martin Anda- Beijing and our fi shermen are nar said Ramos “was instru- back in the disputed Scarbor- mental in the softening of ties”, ough Shoal. while presidential spokesman He has accomplished his Ernesto Abella said it was Du- mission.” terte’s decision whether or not The aide declined to be to accept the resignation. named because he was not au- As his fi rst step towards thorised to speak to the media. softening ties with China, Ra- Ramos’ offi ce said an cialoffi mos spent fi ve days in Hong statement would soon follow. Kong in August meeting “old Ramos, an 88-year-old friends” — a diplomat and an statesman widely respected in a academic — and described his country he led from 1992-1998, trip as an “ice breaker”. was quoted by GMA News On- The two countries had pre- line as saying his China role was viously had no high-level con- only to “break the ice”. tact for fi ve years. Ramos is a supporter of Du- Ramos never made it to Chi- terte but has recently turned na, however. critical of the maverick leader. His offi ce in September said In a newspaper column, he a trip there had been post- described Duterte’s fi rst 100 poned. days in offi ce as a “huge dis- A few weeks later, Duterte appointment and letdown”, went to Beijing himself, ac- an assessment that contrasts companied by about 200 starkly with popular opinion. businessmen, and plenty of Ramos said Duterte had fanfare. “I still consider my- spent too much energy on his self a part of the Duterte team Drug dependents who called themselves “Recovering Champions” raise their hands while they are hosed with water as part of their weekend drug rehabilitation programme war on drugs and neglected whether they like it or not,” organised by the government of San Fernando, La Union in northern Philippines. poverty, the environment and Ramos was quoted as saying rising living costs and he de- by local media. Five suspected addicts Church protests killings as killed during drug session Filipinos honour the dead DPA area on Monday evening and der an aggressive anti-drugs Manila opened fire on the victims, campaign launched by Presi- Chief Superintendent Romulo dent Rodrigo Duterte, accord- AFP Sapitula said. “The victims ing to police statistics. Manila ive suspected ad- were allegedly engaged in a Police are also investigat- dicts were shot dead by pot session when the suspects ing the deaths of 2,153 people Fmasked gunmen while entered the residence and during the same period to de- hilippine church leaders allegedly holding a drug-tak- shot them,” said Sapitula, a termine if they are related to yesterday renewed calls for ing session inside a house in district police commander. illegal drugs. Pan end to killings linked to the Philippine capital, police The suspects were wear- Some of the deaths are be- President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug said yesterday. ing masks and fled after the ing blamed on vigilantes al- war as millions of people took Police said the group of shooting, Sapitula said. legedly carrying out killings part in traditional ceremonies to gunmen barged into the house From July 1 to October 28, of drug suspects without the remember the dead. in the city of Mandaluyong 1,736 suspects have been authorisation of the police or Duterte’s bloody campaign to in the metropolitan Manila killed in police operations un- other authorities. rid the country of criminals has been a feature of this year’s All Saints’ Day, with some people using the annual commemora- tion to poke fun at the brutal crackdown. Families typically mark No- vember 1 by fl ocking to the graves of loved ones across the mainly Catholic country, light- ing candles and praying for their souls. This year some retailers in Manila, apparently inspired by Duterte’s clampdown that has killed more than 4,000 people, used fake cadavers and police crime tape to promote hand san- itising products. People off er prayers and light candles in front of graves of dead relatives during the annual religious tradition A house in the capital had a of paying respects for the dead in Manila yesterday. grisly display of polystyrene foam in the shape of bodies has become so easy and com- But an offi cial at the infl uen- perpetrators.” wrapped in garbage bags and mon it is now a joke, a visual gag tial Catholic Bishops’ Confer- Archbishop Angel Lagdameo packing tape, with a sign reading in gleaming malls where families ence of the Philippines repeated from the central province of Il- “Do not follow them” — resem- and children gather,” an editorial the church’s call to fi ght drugs oilo also issued a statement say- bling the way victims of the drug in the Philippine Daily Inquirer “the right and proper way”. ing the church “cannot accept war are often found. said yesterday. “We encourage the faithful to in conscience extrajudicial kill- But not everyone appreciated Duterte, who was swept to pray for the souls of the victims ings”. the black humour in relation to power in May on a promise to of extrajudicial killings,” said Fa- “Each time a person is killed Duterte’s campaign, that has eradicate drugs by killing sus- ther Jerome Secillano, executive without due process, a part of drawn international criticism for pects, claims police are only secretary at its public aff airs of- us dies also. Our humanity is alleged extrajudicial killings and acting in self-defence and drug fi ce. diminished and our dignity is Funeral parlour workers, policemen, reporters and the relatives of a person who was killed, wait for rights violations. gangs are murdering their mem- “We continue our call to stop cheapened,” Lagdameo wrote on investigation to be done outside a house in Manila yesterday. “It has come to this: Death bers to silence them. the killings and to look for the Sunday. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 29 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL

Woman Thousands of Bangladeshis held for cheating bank of yet to return home after Haj millions By Mizan Rahman performing Haj and Umrah. “More than 3,000 Haj pil- “We won’t tolerate any irreg- He also claimed that no agen- The licences of 69 Haj and Dhaka Bangladesh had cracked grims are yet to return home ularities in this respect as the cy owner is involved in human Umrah agencies were can- down on 95 Haj and Umrah from Saudi Arabia. Many pas- country’s image is involved,” he traffi cking. celled and deposits confi s- of takas agencies for their involve- sengers also returned through a added. “No passenger would like to cated last year due to irregu- ore than 3,000 Bang- ment in human traffi cking in third carrier. So, we are await- Meanwhile, a HAAB leader stay in Saudi Arabia after per- larities in sending pilgrims ladeshis, who went to the guise of sending people for ing the actual fi gures from the said the long package and the forming the Haj. Many Hajis are to Saudi Arabia to perform By Mizan Rahman MSaudi Arabia to per- performing Umrah last year. Saudi Arabian Haj Offi ce and use of the third carrier are rea- still returning home through pilgrimage. Dhaka form Haj this year with various These agencies work under the immigration department,” sons for the delay in Haj pas- a third carrier. Many govern- Twenty-six other agencies private agencies, are yet to re- the umbrella organisations Haj Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal, di- sengers returning home. ment offi cials and other senior were fi ned and had their depos- turn home after performing the Agencies Association of Bang- rector, the Haj Department in “After we get the fi nal num- offi cials went to Saudi Arabia to its seized. he Anti-Corruption Com- pilgrimage. ladesh (HAAB) and Association Dhaka, told newsmen. bers from the Haj exit list of perform Haj using a third carri- The religious aff airs ministry mission (ACC) of Bang- The last fl ight with Hajis of Travel Agents of Bangladesh Kamal warned that stern ac- Saudi Arabia’s immigration, we er,” Helal said in reply to a query. had decided to punish agencies Tladesh yesterday arrested from Saudi Arabia to Bangla- (ATAB). tion would be taken if anybody will come to know how many On January 11, the Cabinet ap- in accordance with the list of Hall Mark Group chairman in desh landed on October 17. According to the religious or any agency was involved in Bangladeshis are overstaying proved the Haj Package 2016, set- the Saudi Arabian government a 858.7mn taka embezzlement It has been alleged that some aff airs ministry, as many as human traffi cking under the there,” HAAB’s senior vice- ting the minimum cost for a pil- and recommendations of the case fi led against her and others. Haj agencies are involved in hu- 101,758 Bangladeshis had per- pretext of sending passengers to president Mohammad Helal grim at 304,903 taka, up by 8,697 probe committee that the min- ACC deputy assistant director man traffi cking under claims of formed the Haj this year. perform Haj or Umrah. said. taka from the previous year. istry formed in September. Zainal Abedin said Jasmin Islam was arrested from her Bongshal area of the capital Dhaka. Earlier in the day, the na- tional anti-graft body fi led a View from the top case against 16 people, includ- ing Jasmin Islam, for allegedly ‘Dual rule’ plundering 858.7mn taka from state-owned Janata Bank’s Moti- jheel branch during June 2011 to June 2015. Hall Mark Group managing slowing director Tanvir Mahmud, who the husband of Jasmin, and its general manager Tushar Ahmed were also made accused in the case. down work According to the charge-sheet, Mahmud and Jasmin opened two bank accounts at Janata Bank’s corporate branch in the name of their employees Jahangir Alam of judiciary: and Mir Zakaria, showing that the two are the owners of Anwar Spinning Mills and Max Spin- ning Mills, respectively. Later, they withdrew 858.7mn top judge taka from Janata Bank’s corpo- rate branch by opening back- to-back letters of credit (LCs) By Mizan Rahman Article 116 says the control against the two fake spinning Dhaka (including the power of post- mills. ing, promotion and grant of On October 4, 2012, the ACC leave) and discipline of per- fi led 11 cases against 27 people, angladesh’s Chief Jus- sons employed in the judicial including 20 offi cials of state- tice Surendra Kumar service and magistrates exer- owned Sonali Bank, on charges BSinha has said that Ar- cising judicial functions shall of swindling 15.68bn taka from ticle 116 of the constitution is vest in the president and shall Nepalese people look at the view of the city from the hilltop at Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery (locally known as Seto Gumba) on the the Ruposhi Bangla branch the main reason for the judi- be exercised by him in con- outskirts of Kathmandu yesterday. of the bank, showing fake ciary’s slow work as it makes sultation with the Supreme documents. way for ‘dual rule’. Court. Article 109 says that the The chief justice said it is High Court division shall have the demand of the time to re- superintendence and control instate the 1972 constitution’s over all courts and tribunals Article 116, which was framed subordinate to it. under the leadership of Bang- Lanka navy arrests However, the judiciary can- abandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rah- Lanka to launch themed not play its due role as Article man. That article categorically 116 creates hindrances for the said that the control and disci- 4 Indian fi shermen judiciary to work properly, the pline (determination of work- chief justice said. place, promotion and granting “Article 116 makes for dual of leave) of persons appointed zones to attract tourists ahead of talks rule in the judiciary as it is to the judicial service depart- not possible for the Supreme ment and judicial magistrates Court alone to do all the work will be vested in the Supreme IANS They include beaches, mountains of the land would be transparent. t least four Indian fi sh- The arrests were con- – subordinate court judges’ Court, Justice Sinha said in the Colombo and forest regions, extending over The developments will in- ermen were arrested fi rmed by Fishermen Asso- promotion, transfer and dis- message. more than 1,500 acres. clude luxury tourism, eco-tour- Ayesterday and their ciation president Sagayam in ciplinary action. But judges He said independence of the The full plans will be unveiled ism, wellness and yoga, as well as trawler seized by Sri Lankan Rameswaram. cannot be appointed in many judiciary would be upheld and ri Lanka yesterday an- at the inaugural Asia Hotel and adventure and family activities. navy off the coast of northern The arrests have come ahead districts due to the dual rule,” strengthened if Article 116 of nounced that it will launch Tourism Investment Conference Tourism Minister John Amaratun- Jaff na peninsula ahead of min- of the scheduled talks tomor- he observed in a statement the 1972 constitution is rein- Sthemed tourism develop- (AHTIC) in Colombo in Novem- ga said that Sri Lanka plans to devel- isterial-level bilateral talks in row between Indian and Sri issued marking the ninth an- stated. ment zones across the country ber, organised by Bench Events. op more zones in the future, and that New Delhi tomorrow to solve Lanka fi shermen to solve the niversary of separation of the Despite many hurdles, the to lure more tourists to visit the Sri Lanka Tourism Club chair- the island country aims to attract up the sensitive issue, a media recurring dispute over the ar- judiciary from the executive in chief justice said the judges island nation. man Prabath C Ukwatte said, to 5mn tourists by 2020 and increase report said. rest of fi shermen. A 10-mem- Bangladesh. are working to ensure fast The project is a public-private “We will be working with gov- tourism revenue to $10bn. The Sri Lanka navy said the ber Sri Lankan fi shing asso- “For this, judicial proceed- and quality justice in spite sector initiative backed by the min- ernment ministries to deliver That includes doubling the fi shermen were arrested on ciation delegation will arrive in ings are hampered and suff er- of manpower shortage and istry of lands, the ministry of tour- themed international tourism current number of rooms avail- charges of fi shing in Sri Lankan India for the talks. ings of litigants increase,” he hostilities. ism and the Sri Lanka Tourism Club, and family entertainment zones, able and creating direct employ- territorial waters off the External Aff airs Minister Su- said. “The ratio of disposing of a government-recognised group of and to open them up for foreign ment for 300,000 people. coast of Delft islet early this shma Swaraj will meet her Sri Bangladesh’s judiciary was cases is going up, as well as the industry leaders, Xinhua reports. investment. The conference will He further said that the fi rst morning. Lankan counterpart Mangala separated from the execu- trust of people in the judici- A statement said that at least be an ideal opportunity to ex- zone in a fi ve-year plan, Sri Lan- The arrested Indian fi sher- Samaraweera and Sri Lankan tive on November 1, 2007, on ary,” he said while expressing fi ve to eight “themed international plain what we will be doing and ka Patuna, is already under ini- men were handed over to the Fisheries Minister Mahinda the directives of the Supreme hope that the judiciary would tourism and family entertain- to attract international fi nance.” tial construction which covers fi sheries inspectorate at Ka- Amaraweera. These talks are to Court in the Masdar Hossain be able to attain its ultimate ment zones” are being designated The statement said that one of over 450 acres of beautiful beach raingar, Jaff na, by Sri Lankan be preceded by talks between case, popularly known as the goal if various longstanding in state-owned land selected for the attractions of the project for land. It will have a capacity for 25 naval coast guard vessel Elara, the fi shermen associations separation of judiciary case. problems are resolved. their outstanding natural beauty. investors is that the ownership to 30 luxury hotels. the navy added. of the two countries. Bangladesh mulls buying China and Nepal sign pact on Chevron’s local assets consumers’ rights protection IANS ministry, the important areas of at $1bn, according to Nepal’s Kathmandu co-operation under the MoU, central bank. Reuters which account for more than “We will only proceed if we the three fi elds to Petrobangla among others, include the mu- “Due to exchange of informa- Dhaka half of the country’s produc- can realise attractive value for under a production sharing tual exchange of information tion in the fi eld of consumers’ tion, as a matter of “national Chevron,” the spokesman said in contract. epal and China have on newly eff ected rules and interest protection and contact interest” and a purchase is on an e-mailed statement yesterday. Under the terms of the con- signed a memoran- regulations, hold consultation between the offi cials on regu- angladesh is considering the table, said Istiaque Ahmad, Bangladesh offi cials have tract, the Bangladesh gov- Ndum of understanding by high offi cials on the matters lar basis, the MoU will have a buying Chevron Corp’s chairman of Petrobangla, the said that the South Asian na- ernment has the right of fi rst (MoU) on bilateral exchange of common concerns routinely, far reaching consequence,” said Binterest in three natural state-owned oil and gas com- tion of 160mn needs more refusal in any asset sale, Mo- of information on the areas of information sharing on new Zhang. gas fi elds in the country, worth pany, on Thursday. He added, energy to realise its vision of hammad Hussain Monsur, consumers’ right protection. practices of trade and com- Minister Bohora said that an estimated $2bn, two senior however, that their eff orts were becoming a middle-income former Petrobangla chairman, The move is aimed at help- merce and periodic exchange given the Chinese initiation government offi cials said, as at a preliminary stage. country by 2021. The country is said yesterday. ing to create competitive market visits by government offi cials, on the connectivity, particu- Dhaka looks to secure the supply Ahmad said Petrobang- currently short of about 500mn Monsur also said that funding environment and more particu- trade experts and consumers larly through the construction of a critical source of energy. la was waiting for Chevron cubic feet a day of gas, accord- the purchase of the assets would larly, accentuate the trade rela- rights activists. of roads and railway networks Chevron, the second-largest to approach it about a bid. ing to the energy ministry. not be a problem since the tions between two neighbourly According to the Nepalese along the border, the intensifi - US-based oil producer, said in Petrobangla is also likely to ap- Bangladesh will buy the as- country could rely on its foreign countries, Nepal’s ministry of offi cials, the MoU has been cation of trade and investment October last year that it plans point a consultancy fi rm to as- sets through an open bidding exchange reserves, which stand supplies said in a statement. signed to protect the consum- between the two countries is to sell about $10bn of assets by sess the assets, including prov- process, a government source at more than $31bn. Chinese Minister of State ers’ rights in the context that imminent. 2017 amid a prolonged slump in en and recoverable gas reserves, said last week. “Why should we In 2015, Chevron’s net daily Administration for Indus- the consumers of two coun- “For this, we timely pay energy prices. Chevron recent- to arrive at a valuation, he said. hand it over to someone else?” production in the country av- try and Commerce Zhang Mao tries have been using goods our attention in the enforce- ly said it is in discussions about A Chevron spokesman said the source said. eraged 720mn cubic feet of and Nepal’s Supply Minister of each other countries amid ment of rules and regula- the potential sale of three fi elds the company has been in com- Dhaka’s interest would likely natural gas and 3,000 bar- Deepak Bohora signed the MoU growing bilateral trade. In the tions including institutional it operates in the northeast of mercial discussions about its make it harder for a third-party rels of condensate, account- at a function in Kathmandu in last fi scal year 2015-16 that strengthening to take care Bangladesh. assets but no decision had been to buy the assets. The Chevron ing for more than half the gas October. concluded in mid-July, Chi- of the consumers’ interest Dhaka sees the gas fi elds, made so far to sell them. unit sells its entire output from production in Bangladesh. According to Nepal’s supply na-Nepal bilateral trade stood protection,” he said. Gulf Times 30 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 COMMENT

Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah Sustainable path to global Production Editor: C P Ravindran

P.O.Box 2888 growth and high employment Doha, Qatar [email protected] Governments should levy public policy and international taxation The developing world, in particular, renewable-power generation. hampering private investment, such also needs major investments in To help fi nance such programmes, Telephone 44350478 (news), gradually rising carbon spending has generally declined in the water and sanitation projects in fast- the multilateral development banks 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) taxes, using the revenues to high-income countries. growing urban areas. And low-income – such as the World Bank, the Asian Fax 44350474 Despite US President Barack Obama’s countries, in particular, need to scale up Development Bank and the African fi nance low-carbon energy promises of investment in high-speed health and education systems. Development Bank – should raise vastly systems rail and other modern infrastructure, China’s “one belt, one road” initiative more long-term debt from the capital not one mile of fast rail was built – which aims to link Asia to Europe markets at the prevailing low interest during his eight years in offi ce. It is with modern infrastructure networks – rates. They should then lend those By Jeff rey D Sachs time to translate words into action, in will help to advance some of these goals, funds to governments and public- New York the United States and elsewhere, and assuming the projects are designed with private investment entities. GULF TIMES usher in a new era of high investment in a low-carbon-energy future in mind. Governments should levy gradually sustainable development. That initiative will boost employment, rising carbon taxes, using the revenues he big disappointment in spending, and growth, especially in the to fi nance low-carbon energy systems. the world economy today is landlocked economies across Eurasia. And the egregious loopholes in the the low rate of investment. Sustainable It should even deliver new dynamism global corporate-tax system should Stricter measures, TIn the years leading up to to economic and diplomatic relations be closed, thereby boosting global the 2008 fi nancial crisis, growth in development is among the European Union, Russia, and corporate taxation by some $200bn high-income countries was propelled China. annually, if not more. (American latest technology can by spending on housing and private not just a wish A similar programme is needed companies are currently sitting on consumption. When the crisis hit, both urgently in Africa. Although African nearly $2tn in off shore funds that kinds of spending plummeted, and the and a slogan countries have already identifi ed should fi nally be taxed.) The added investments that should have picked up priority investments for electrifi cation revenues should be allocated to new domesticate drones the slack never materialised. This must There are three challenges facing and transport, progress will remain public investment spending. change. such a strategy: identifying the right slow without a new wave of investment For the poorest countries, much of After the crisis, the world’s major projects; developing complex plans spending. the needed investment should come Just as the spurt in global drone technology development central banks attempted to revive that involve both the public and African countries’ combined through increased offi cial development is defying the speed of imagination, so also safety risks spending and employment by private sectors (and often more than spending on education alone should assistance. There are several ways slashing interest rates. The strategy one country); and structuring the increase by tens of billions of dollars per to generate that extra aid money via continue to evolve much faster than eff orts to domesticate worked, to some extent. By fl ooding fi nancing. To succeed, governments year; combined infrastructure spending a reduction of military spending, them. With drones discovered in the past on the White capital markets with liquidity and must be capable of eff ective long- should surge by at least $100bn per including by ending the wars in the House lawn and the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s holding down market interest rates, term planning, budgeting, and year. These needs should be covered Middle East; deciding fi rmly against a policymakers encouraged investors project implementation. China has mostly by long-term, low-interest- next generation of nuclear weapons; offi ce, the threat of stray fl ying robots fi nding their way into to bid up stock and bond prices. This demonstrated these capabilities in rate loans from China, Europe, and the cutting back on US military bases restricted airspace is fast becoming a reality. created fi nancial wealth through capital the last 20 years (though with major US, as well as by mobilising African overseas; and avoiding a US-China The Dubai International Airport, one the world’s busiest, gains, while spurring consumption environmental failures), whereas the countries’ long-term savings (through, arms race through enhanced diplomacy and – through initial public off erings – US and Europe have been stymied. The for example, the introduction of new and co-operation. The resulting closed its airspace for an hour and a half on Saturday evening some investment. poorest countries, meanwhile, have pension systems). peace dividend should be channelled due to unauthorised drone activity. This is the third such Yet this policy has reached its limits often been told by the International The US and Europe also need major toward health care, education, and – and imposed undeniable costs. With Monetary Fund and others not even to new infrastructure programmes. The infrastructure in today’s impoverished incident in less than fi ve months. interest rates at or even below zero, try. US – where the last big infrastructure and war-torn regions. The same day, the airport in Sharjah, about 15km away, investors borrow for highly speculative Today, governments will have some project, the national highway system, Sustainable development is not just was also closed for a similar period of time because of the purposes. As a result, the overall quality help in overcoming at least one of was concluded in the 1970s – should a wish and a slogan; it off ers the only of investments has dropped, while the key challenges. The Sustainable emphasise investment in low-carbon realistic path to global growth and same drone. leverage has risen. When central banks Development Goals (SDGs) and the energy, high-speed rail, and the mass high employment. It is time to give it Around 100 airlines fl y to more than 260 destinations from fi nally tighten credit, there is a real risk Paris Climate Agreement will help to uptake of electric vehicles. the attention – and investment – it the Dubai hub, which is also home to carrier Emirates. Apart of signifi cant asset-price declines. guide them toward the right projects. As for Europe, the European deserves. Project Syndicate As monetary policy was being pushed The world needs massive Commission’s Investment Plan for from the larger issues of aviation safety, inconvenience to to its limits, what went missing was an investments in low-carbon energy Europe – dubbed the “Juncker Plan,” zJeff rey D. Sachs is professor of thousands of passengers, experts have estimated that Dubai’s increase in long-term investments in systems, and an end to the construction for Commission President Jean-Claude sustainable development, professor high-speed rail, roads, ports, low- of new coal-fi red power plants. And it Juncker – should become the EU’s of health policy and management, economy loses about carbon energy, safe water and sanitation needs massive investments in electric SDG programme. It should focus, for and director of the Earth Institute at $1mn for every minute and health and education. With budget vehicles (and advanced batteries), example, on creating a Europe-wide Columbia University. He is also director Around the world, the hub is closed. austerity restraining public investment, together with a sharp reduction in transmission grid for low-carbon of the UN Sustainable Development and major uncertainties concerning internal combustion engine vehicles. energy, and on a massive increase in Solutions Network. the use of civil Around the world, the use of civil drones, drones, whether whether for commercial for commercial purposes or as a leisure activity, is rising. And purposes or as a that has led to regular leisure activity, is reports of near-misses with commercial rising aircraft. Each month, US pilots and air traffi c controllers report more than 100 drone “sightings” to the Federal Aviation Administration, which says such incidents have surged since 2014, with more than 1,200 events nationwide last year. FAA rules restrict drone operators from fl ying within fi ve miles of an airport and above 400ft. Drones, made of solid plastics, batteries and metal, will “most certainly” cause more damage to an aircraft than birds, which have caused airliners to crash, according to a US study published in November 2015. There is, however, no stopping of technology. The global market for commercial drones, currently estimated at $2bn, will jump to as high as $127bn by 2020, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers study. One way of domesticating drones is to apply technology, experts argue. Drones could be manned by geo-fencing technology, which could prevent the robots from fl ying near airports. Embedded software could also restrict the altitude. The fl ying of drones is prohibited within 5km of airports, helipads, landing areas or manned aircraft in the UAE. Authorities in the UAE have also announced their plans for introducing even stricter rules on the purchase and use of drones and the penalties for violations. US participation in Paris Agreement is vital Gulf states are currently investing millions of dollars in technology and system upgrades to ensure seamless By Sydney Tate the Paris Agreement. Maintaining and clean energy, I have seen how the The sea level is continuously rising Sun Sentinel/TNS US role in the Paris Agreement is military is already leading US eff orts on and catastrophic hurricanes threaten and safer passenger as well as freight movement. With integral to our global relationships and tackling this challenge. the state annually, most recently Middle East airports expected to be handling nearly 450mn imperative to its national security. Our Since defi ning climate change Hurricane Matthew. passengers a year by 2020, constant upgrades to the security ere days before American national security depends on cutting as a “threat multiplier” in the 2014 These eff ects will have signifi cant history is made, the world the greenhouse gas emissions that Quadrennial Defence Review, the repercussions for major southern cities, system are needed to deliver a better travellers’ experience, will change the future contribute to climate change. Department of Defence has laid out like Miami, and the tourism industry. says the International Air Transport Association. Mfor generations to come. US military leaders agree that the risks climate change poses directly Moreover, the entire country’s safety There are growing concerns that a drone could sometimes On November 4, 2016, the UN Paris climate change is a serious threat that to mission capability and developed a will be compromised when the military Agreement will enter into force. will weaken our economy, strain our comprehensive roadmap to building a is required to redirect missions and be used by terrorists to wreak havoc. The unauthorised use American leadership on this deal military, create new confl icts zones, resilient fi ghting force. funds to help rescue and rebuild our of small drones – a clear danger to aircraft, privacy and wider will show the global community and have a big impact on our coastal The military is replacing their need state. our commitment to combating communities. for oil and cutting their emissions with Scientists and defence experts agree: security – needs to be policed with a viable combination of climate change and building a 21st new clean energy technologies such There is no doubt that climate change stricter regulatory measures and latest technology. century clean energy economy. With as diverse fuel sources, more effi cient is a real threat to America. a presidential election four days US national security vehicles, and solar power. US veterans, national security after this landmark deal will become The Paris Agreement is an additional experts, and senior military offi cials all To Advertise enforceable, our position of leadership depends on cutting tool to further their investment in agree that we need to act now, and we will be put to the test. climate change adaptation and reduce can’t do it alone. [email protected] Donald Trump pledges to “cancel” the greenhouse the overall burden on the military. US participation in the Paris Display the Paris Agreement and drastically gas emissions that Some might argue that climate Agreement is vital to keeping Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 increase domestic production of fossil change isn’t real or that the United Americans safe at home and abroad. It fuels that will progress climate change. contribute to States shouldn’t take mitigating steps is up to us to choose a president who Classified Conversely, Hillary Clinton’s plan will alone. understands just how important this honour the agreement – and make climate change Climate change, however, does not deal is to our country’s security and our Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 the United States the clean energy respect geographical borders; without state’s future. Subscription superpower of the world. The Paris Agreement will hold us in a legally binding global commitment [email protected] Florida has the potential to the US accountable for our own energy like the one reached in Paris, Florida zSydney Tate is the advocacy manager determine the outcome of this election. choices at home and monitor our will inevitably experience the for Operation Free, a nationwide It is important that we cast our votes country’s eff orts to mitigate climate devastating consequences of climate coalition of veterans and national 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved for the candidate that will tell the change. change fi rsthand in the coming security experts that advocates for world that we stand by our pledge to Through my work with veterans decades. securing America with clean energy. Gulf Times Wednesday, November 2, 2016 31 QATAR Qatar urged to tackle ‘culture of consumption’

From Page 1 sector credited with efficiency, trans- “Qatar has maintained its credit parency and subject to accountability. rating, which is one of the highest in He said that putting these elements the world. It has also continued to into eff ect required the development of assume top positions in the indices the culture of planning, work and ac- of Global Competitiveness. Qatar complishment. Also providing needed ranked 18th in the latest world com- fi nance to implement them required an petitiveness report by the World Eco- alteration in the culture of consump- nomic Forum and ranked second in tion and handling of wealth as well as the Middle East. an approach that combined the expec- “By presenting these figures, we do tations of both the state and the citi- not mean to underestimate the nega- zens who belonged to this society and tive repercussions of the energy mar- this nation, HH the Emir added. kets’ current crisis on our economy, “Sometimes, dear brothers, when but we want to illustrate by figures an I see billboards on the streets that actual reality, namely that our econ- read: ‘Qatar deserves the best’, I say it omy is still robust and credited with would be more correct to read: ‘Qatar a high level of confidence by the glo- deserves the best from its citizens’. bal rating agencies. This is an accom- There are challenges that we should plishment per se against the backdrop tackle, which are related to the mo- of the current circumstances. tives and values of the youths and the “To counter the negative effects impact of the culture of consumption of these developments, we have to on these motives and values. continue to implement the devel- “Without that we cannot move for- opment process we started in 2008 ward; wealth alone is not sufficient. by launching Qatar National Vision Citizenship is an affiliation, which 2030 and the first National Develop- incorporates rights on the part of the ment Strategy 2011-2016. We are now state as well as duties towards the in the process of launching the Sec- community and the State,” HH the ond National Development Strategy Emir said. 2017-2022. “We have achieved some signifi- “We have to intensify the efforts cant steps in the introduction of the we had started during the imple- national service, and we should eval- mentation of the First National De- uate this experience to benefit from velopment Strategy and to rely on that, before moving forward to up- an in-depth objective assessment grade this experience needed by the HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani addressing the opening session of the Advisory Council yesterday. to identify its strengths and weak- state, the community and the Qatari nesses. youth. work had been intensified across the ogy, encourage excellence and inno- The Emir then summarised the pa- “In Qatar, we have to be fully aware country. “Seven projects have been vation and create an inventive private rameters of Qatar’s Second National of our reality. We have accomplished completed and the implementation sector capable of competing globally Development Strategy: a lot and we can accomplish more, but of fifteen projects is under way. Six and has a commitment towards the First: Identifying the obstacles we have to set out from the prevalent other projects will be implemented at National Vision values, such as en- Weather report an estimated total cost of sixty billion couraging national workforce and that hampered the implementation of reality and not from wishful thinking. Three-day forecast some programmes and projects in the “We have taken advantage of the Qatari Riyals. All these projects are preserving the environment. first National Development Strategy drop in prices to explore the poten- due to be completed ahead of 2022.” “With regard to our foreign poli- TODAY to draw lessons in order to avoid re- tial for rationalising spending, and “While seeking to reduce depend- cy, the support of the Co-operation High: 33 C currence. distinguishing necessary from un- ency on oil and gas in our economic Council of the Arab States of the Gulf, Low : 26 C Expected poor horizontal visibility at Second: Maintaining the required necessary as well as beneficial from activities and striving to achieve eco- the strengthening and development most area at first. continuity to complete the initiatives non-beneficial. Work will continue nomic diversification, we will con- of the relations between our broth- and infrastructure projects under im- on increasing the efficiency of pub- tinue to pay an adequate attention erly countries occupy the forefront plementation and major projects in- lic spending and enhancing trans- to the energy sector as an important of our priorities, especially against THURSDAY cluding the facilities of Qatar World parency and control through a close source to expand our economic base,” the backdrop of the very serious de- High: 32 C Cup 2022, in compliance with Qatar follow-up of all government projects HH the Emir said, adding: “There- velopments gripping the world, and Low: 24 C National Vision 2030. and programmes and focusing on ma- fore, our activities in this sector are which have undermined the stability Sunny Third: Reviewing development jor development projects. still based on several levels with a and security of many countries in our priorities in the light of the outcome “The synergy between fiscal and focus on exploration projects locally Arab region. of the First National Development monetary policies to fight infla- and overseas. In line with Qatar’s “Concerning the security and sta- FRIDAY Strategy and the new global develop- tion, tackle liquidity pressures and National Vision on preservation and bility of the Gulf region and from the High: 31 C ments. strengthen the banking sector has conservation of the environment, a standpoint of our solid principles, we Low: 23 C Fourth: Identifying the available been promoted. project – the largest of its kind world- call for resolving differences through Sunny opportunities to implement new pro- “In addition, the state has made wide – on recovering evaporating gas constructive and purposeful dialogue grammes and projects compatible significant initiatives and great ef- during loading of gas on board lique- in the context of mutual respect and with the sectoral and national priori- forts to strengthen the private sector fied gas tankers to reduce the carbon non-interference in internal affairs. Fishermen’s forecast and increase its participation in the footprint, has been commissioned. “Qatar has never lingered to as- ties. OFFSHORE DOHA Fifth: Achieving education and economic activity, namely: We also set out to develop a project to sume the role dictated on us by our Wind: NE-SE 03-13/18 KT health projects in a manner that sat- First: Implementation of the new generate electricity from solar energy Arab and Islamic sense of belonging, Waves: 1-3/5 Feet isfies, qualitatively and quantitative- government tenders’ law, which pro- with production capacity of 200- in defending the causes of both our INSHORE DOHA Wind: SE-E 05-15 KT ly, the needs of citizens, according to vides for exempting small and me- megawatts (MW) in the first phase, Arab and Islamic Ummas, first and Waves: 1-2 Feet the highest global standards. dium businesses from some require- rising later to more than 500MW.” foremost is the Palestinian cause, and “Although we set out in these fields ments of government tenders, such as He said the state has carried out we, God willing, will not be inactive Around the region of basic human development from the financial guarantees. important steps to rationalise spend- in the future. Weather Weather point of responsibility of the state in Second: Updating trade laws and ing. It has to combine the evolution of “As for the Syrian crisis, we em- today Max/min tomorrow Max/min the first place, still we concluded that legislations to liberalise certain goods a modern and distinctive public sector phasise our position on supporting Abu Dhabi Sunny 36/23 Sunny 35/23 it is necessary to benefit from the and services from the commercial mainly benchmarked against success, a just and comprehensive political Baghdad M Sunny 25/10 Sunny 24/10 Dubai agents’ monopoly and permit with encouraging the private sector to Sunny 34/24 Sunny 33/24 constructive interaction between the solution to end the suffering of this Kuwait City Sunny implement projects and programmes P Cloudy 35/17 27/14 private and public sectors in this re- non-agents to import them. The war-stricken people and ensure the Manama Sunny 33/25 Cloudy 31/23 spect,” the Emir said in this context. government is working on liberalising set by the national strategies that aim unity and stability of Syria. Muscat Sunny 31/23 Sunny 32/23 Sixth: Eliminating bureaucratic other sectors in the future in order to at achieving sustainable prosperity for “The phenomenon of terrorism and Riyadh Sunny 34/17 Sunny 30/14 impediments facing investments. bolster competition. the State of Qatar. But this develop- radicalism in all its forms have threat- Tehran S T Storms 21/06 Sunny 16/07 The government has pledged to im- Third: Updating corporate laws and ment process will not succeed without ened stability and security of the world, plement the standardisation of trans- legislations and method of drafting the co-operation of everyone. claimed the lives of innocent people actions procedures and the “single financial statements of companies so “Here I especially mention the and alerted the international commu- window” by the end of this year. “We as to comply with the international public sector employees and entre- nity, including the State of Qatar, to expect further measures from it to standards. preneurs in the private sector. A pub- combat this phenomenon. It is incon- remove obstacles and complications Fourth: Acting on fi nalising a law on lic sector’s employee should not be ceivable to eradicate terrorism or radi- facing investments.” partnership between the public and pri- inactive in discharging work require- calism without eliminating their core Seventh: Stimulating the private vate sectors, which will enable awarding ments. Job is a right, but discharging roots through giving hope to the youth, sector and directing it towards the government projects to the private sector the tasks of this job is a duty. achieving social justice, promoting hu- most productive sectors, or serv- as well as ensuring their high-quality and “The citizen’s rights on our part in- man rights, consolidating the values of ice-cum-production ones that are low cost implementation. It will also help clude education, training and qualifying tolerance, keeping clear of sectarian- compatible with the National Vision to promote foreign investment in Qatar, him for work, and it is his duty to do his ism in all its manifestations, and avoid- trends. specially at the current stage in which we work in the best way possible, accom- ing double standards.” Eighth: Transition from the state of invest in the infrastructure. It is diffi cult plish his tasks on time and as per the re- The Emir said that in the humani- reception embedded in simple social to provide funds for all the projects that quired accuracy and complete integrity. tarian field, and on the basis of the welfare policies to a state of action by we want to execute as per the strategic As a citizen, he also bears an additional state’s well-established basics and empowering all segments of society plan. duty of advancing the work and being genuine values, Qatar would continue to participate in national develop- Fifth: The involvement of the Qatar proud of it to realise its mission in serving its effective role in adopting initia- ment. Development Bank in manifold activ- the community and the state. tives that served people and provid- Ninth: Continuous review of tariffs ities to encourage small and medium “As for the entrepreneurs, I want ing aid to alleviate the plight and suf- and fees for many services and com- businesses that include direct and in- to say that the state expects a pay- fering of victims in all parts of the modities to better reflect their eco- direct financing. back for the benefits that it provides world. Around the world nomic cost, and to direct subsidies Sixth: Developing huge housing to the private sector, in order to help “There are basic tasks that lie be- Weather Weather towards the targeted groups in need complexes for workers at the Indus- put the development process on the fore us in the coming year to ac- today Max/min tomorrow Max/min in a way not conducive to extrava- trial Area as well as in the economic right track by launching bold na- complish with the same resolve and Athens Sunny 19/13 Sunny 23/14 gance and waste. and logistical zones.” tional initiatives and entering into determination. I am confident that Beirut Sunny 20/16 Sunny 23/17 S T Storms 32/24 Tenth: Developing and modernis- In the area of infrastructure, HH real rather than nominal partnerships we, along with your valuable contri- Bangkok 32/24 P Cloudy Berlin S Showers 08/01 M Sunny 06/01 ing the public sector’s institutions the Emir said activities for develop- with the world’s most reputable for- butions, will go on the right track to Cairo M Sunny 25/16 Sunny 26/16 in order to reach a distinctive public ing projects for express ways’ net- eign companies to transfer technol- achieve our aspired goals.” Cape Town P Cloudy 28/16 P Cloudy 21/14 Colombo S T Storms 29/25 T Storms 29/25 Dhaka Sunny 32/25 M Cloudy 31/25 Hong Kong P Cloudy 26/18 M Sunny 24/19 Istanbul Sunny 15/10 Sunny 19/12 Jakarta T Storms 31/24 T Storms 31/25 Karachi Sunny 36/22 Sunny 36/22 London M Sunny 10/02 P Cloudy 11/07 Chance of rain in western parts of country today P Cloudy P Cloudy 32/25 Manila 32/26 Moscow M Cloudy -3/-4 Snow 00/-1 New Delhi Sunny 32/17 Sunny 32/17 t may rain in the western parts of areas says hazy to misty/foggy condi- chance of scattered rain in these places. A maximum temperature of 35C New York P Cloudy 22/13 Rain 23/08 the country and some off shore are- tions are likely in most places at fi rst, Today, the mercury level is expected was recorded in Al Rayyan yester- Paris P Cloudy 12/02 M Sunny 11/03 as today, the Qatar Met department followed by mild conditions during the to reach a high of 34C in Abu Samra and day, followed by 34C in the Doha Sao Paulo S T Storms 31/19 Rain 21/16 I Seoul M Sunny 10/04 Sunny 13/06 has said. Poor visibility, down to 2km day with some clouds. 33C in Doha, while the minimum will airport area, Al Sheehaniya and Singapore T Storms 32/24 T Storms 32/24 or less, is also expected in most areas in Hazy to misty conditions are also be 18C in Abu Samra. The minimum other places. The minimum temper- Sydney Sunny 22/12 Sunny 24/13 the early hours today. expected in some off shore areas at temperature will be relatively higher in ature, on the other hand, was 19C in Tokyo Cloudy 13/11 Clear 15/09 The detailed forecast for inshore fi rst along with clouds. Also, there is a Doha at 26C. Shehaimiya. Gulf Times 32 Wednesday, November 2, 2016 QATAR

French handmade souvenirs in spotlight

By Ramesh Mathew mainly in the Middle East, Staff Reporter South America and Africa. Deliberating on their com- pany’s stress on handmade hile major deals on accessories, Rocher feels they weapons, equipment are more appealing to the Wand accessories are eyes. taking place elsewhere at the The company official venue of Milipol Qatar, the stall claims nearly 99% of their of Arthus-Bertrand (estab- products are handmade even lished 1803) is receiving a lot today. Arthur-Bertrand’s of attention from the visitors, souvenirs and citations con- with its shelves full of hun- tinue to adorn the uniforms of dreds of souvenirs, mementos, defence personnel of France decorations, badges, trophies and Qatar, both of which are and medals. stakeholders in the Milipol “Most armed forces’ uni- expo. The company’s medals, forms have some decorations souvenirs and mementos have produced by our company,” also found their way to major Arthus-Bertrand’s medal sport events and other cultur- projects chief Jean Charles Ro- al and art festivals in both the cher told Gulf Times yesterday. Middle East and Europe. For many years, apart from “The Cannes Film Festival, the defence forces in the re- French Open tennis and Tour de gion, the French company has France are among some of the been meeting the requirements major events where our pres- of the armed forces of several ence is strongly felt,” added A view of the souvenirs and mementos at Arthus-Bertrand’s stall at Milipol Qatar. PICTURE: Shaji Kayamkulam countries across the world, Rocher. AAB ‘main QR260mn worth deals offi cial sponsor’ of signed at Milipol Qatar ontracts worth QR260mn were signed on behalf of CQatar’s Ministry of Inte- exhibition rior (MoI) on the fi rst two days of the Milipol Qatar, the organisers said yesterday. bdullah Abdulghani & – is one of the biggest cus- The MoI offi cials disclosed at Bros Co (AAB), the ex- tomers with Toyota vehicles a press conference the details of Aclusive agent for Toyota in their fleet. 11 contracts which were worth a and Lexus vehicles in Qatar, is “A majority of the vehicles total of 260.050mn. participating in the ongoing sold to Qatar Armed Forces The briefing was attended 11th international exhibition and other security forces are by Milipol Qatar Committee of homeland security – Milipol Land Cruiser station wagons. president Brigadier Nasser bin Qatar 2016. Land Cruiser is a true go- Fahad al-Thani, MoI Financial AAB is the main official anywhere, all-terrain four- Affairs director and Milipol sponsor of the event, which is wheel-drive SUV that has Committee member Brigadier being held at Doha Exhibition always exceeded expectations Ahmad Abdulla al-Jamal and and Convention Centre until around the globe.” the General Directorate of Lo- today. During a press conference gistics assistant director gen- The exhibition, held under held in May this year, AAB eral Brigadier Saud Rashid al- the patronage of HH the Emir chairman Osama Abdullah Shafi. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al- Abdulghani had highlighted The biggest single contract, Thani, was inaugurated by the significance of the ex- for QR140mn, was awarded to HE the Prime Minister and hibition and noted that the Ares Beskitas of Turkey for the Interior Minister Sheikh Ab- company was “privileged supply of equipment and weap- dullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa and honoured to sponsor – ons for the MoI boats. al-Thani on Monday. in a significant manner – all While Airbus Defence & Space Salman Abdullah Ab- Milipol Qatar events since bagged a work worth QR11.5mn dulghani attended the in- 1996”. for the maintenance, support auguration ceremony along “For our support, we have and upgradation of the Tetra with Serdar Toktamis, CEO of been awarded the status of System, De La Rue Int Ltd won AAB, and senior managers of main official sponsor with a contract for QR22.250mn the company. Toyota and Lexus vehicles for supplying travel document On the occasion, the CEO designated as the official printers. said: “Being the automotive cars for the event. We are GET Group won QR10mn market leaders, AAB always extremely grateful to be as- worth contract for the main- feels the responsibility as a sociated with this prestigious tenance of printers and their corporate citizen to give back event,” he said. consumables while Safran Iden- (From left) Brigadier Nasser bin Fahad al-Thani, Brigadier Ahmed Abdulla al-Jamal and Brigadier Saud Rashid al-Shafi at the briefing where to the society by supporting The company is display- tity & Security was successful details of the contracts awarded were announced yesterday. the government in its vari- ing vehicles used by various in bidding for a contract worth ous initiatives – be it sports, ministries at the AAB booth QR7.8mn for the renovation of plying 120 diff erent types of Gulf Business Machines tional was awarded a QR7.8mn traffic radar devices while Sail education, exhibitions, phi- in the exhibition centre. It is the fi ngerprinting system and Toyota vehicles for QR25.4mn won a QR21.7mn contract for contract for the maintenance Labs Technology of Austria lanthropy, etc. Moreover, the also providing a fleet of Toy- expansion of fi ngerprinting da- and Saleh Hamad Al Mana Co, the licenses for operating pro- and data collection of traffi c ra- bagged a QR2.5mn contract for Ministry of Interior – organ- ota and Lexus vehicles for the tabase devices. the distributors of Nissan ve- grammes and the development dar devices. comprehensive media moni- isers of the Milipol exhibition transportation of officials. Abdullah Abdul Ghani & Bros hicles, bagged a contract worth of the central systems of infor- Al Tanmiyah bagged a toring systems. This year’s edi- Co, dealers of Toyota and Lexus QR6.7mn for the supply of 30 mation systems of the Ministry QR4.4mn work for the main- tion of Milipol Qatar concludes vehicles, won a contract for sup- Nissan cars. of Interior. 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UK fi rms keen to share expertise with Qatar

efence companies from the UK are looking to enhance opportunities Din Qatar through industrial part- nerships and long term joint ventures, of- fi cials of a UK delegation said yesterday at Milipol Qatar 2016. Led by UK cyber ambassador Conrad Prince, Senior Police Adviser and Depart- HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin ment of International Trade’s security Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani with Salman Abdullah Abdulghani and adviser Richard Freeman, Department other dignitaries at Milipol Qatar 2016. of Defence and Security Organisation’s security adviser Nigel Ellis and other UK representatives spoke highly of the sup- port they received at Milipol Qatar. While terming Milipol Qatar as one of the best fairs of the region, the UK dele- gates spoke on such vital areas as strategic partnership, innovation and technology co-operation. They said the UK security companies at the event showcased their capabilities in the law enforcement and security sectors, including cyber security solutions. This signifi cant presence refl ects the ongoing strong commitment between the UK officials at a briefing held as part of Milipol Qatar yesterday. UK and their security and cyber sector counterparts in Qatar, it was pointed out. of cyber security would help us to work ships including the cyber sector where the added Freeman. The UK has a strong track The delegation members said they have closely with Qatar in this important and UK has gained extensive experience and record in organising major sporting events experiences in managing large sporting growing sector,” a delegate said. knowledge over the last fi ve years.” and we will continue to work with Qatar as events and their companies are ready to Commenting on the UK companies’ “I am very keen that the UK companies they prepare for the 2022 FIFA World Cup share their successful experiences at the involvement in Milipol Qatar 2016, Free- look for industrial partnerships in Qatar and and develop national security capabilities to recent Rugby World Cup, Olympic Games man said: “Qatar is an important strategic the region so that we can continue to share support “the wider 2030 vision.” and Commonwealth Games. partner and we are continuing to deepen knowledge, understanding and technology The UK pavilion at Milipol Qatar features Toyota vehicles at the AAB booth. “Further, our extensive knowledge and strengthen our security relation- that can continue to strengthen our ties,” 14 diff erent companies this year, he added.