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Pakistan pharma Emir meets members of Libya’s Al Bunyan Al Marsous firms to set up plants in Qatar Mohammad Shoeb The Peninsula Under the new cooperation wo top Pakistani pharmaceu- agreements, two leading tical companies, including pharmaceutical firms are Martin Dow Pharmaceuticals, going to set up manufacturing are set to begin manufacturing drugs in Qatar within a year, plants in Qatar immediately Tsaid the head of a visiting trade delega- with 100 percent ownership, tion from South Asia. which are expected to Martin Dow is a leading drug manu- bring the first batch of their facturing company in Pakistan which also owns two plants in France. products within a year. “We have had a very healthy discus- sions yesterday and today with of the first meeting of Qatar-Pakistan representatives from government enti- Joint Business Council, added: “Under the ties and Qatari businessmen. The results new cooperation agreements, two lead- of the meetings are very fruitful and ing pharmaceutical firms are going to set encouraging. Several cooperation agree- up manufacturing plants in Qatar imme- ments have been signed,” Zubair F Tufail, diately with 100 percent ownership, President of the Federation of Pakistan which are expected to bring the first batch Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met yesterday at the Emiri Diwan with a delegation Chambers of Commerce and Industry of their products within a year.” comprising members of Al Bunyan Al Marsous forces in the fraternal country of Libya, who called upon (FPCCI), told The Peninsula yesterday. the Emir to greet him on the occasion of their visit to Qatar. → See also page 2 Zubair, while talking on the sidelines → Continued on page 3

Iraqi satellite channel Alghadeer reported Saudi ‘wants out’ of Yemen war; seeks that Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Iraq’s help to mend ties with Iran Mohammed bin Salman, had asked Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi to lead the Agencies looked at this demand positively,” Araji tensions” with Iran. was quoted as saying by Alghadeer. Separately, Muqtada Al Sadr, the mediation with Iran. he government of Saudi Arabia has “After the victories that Iraq has influential Iraqi Shia leader made a rare sought the help of Iraq’s prime achieved, Saudi Arabia began looking visit to Saudi Arabia, where he met Tminister to mend relations to Iraq, at its true size and leading role. Mohammed bin Salman and other offi- between Riyadh and Tehran, according “The calm and stability and the cials. Sadr, an anti-American figure, to two former US officials he “wants out” kingdom accused Qatar of undermin- to news reports. return of relations between Iran and Saudi commands a large following among the of the brutal two-year war he started in ing its campaign in Yemen and colluding Citing Qasim Al Araji, Iraq’s interior Arabia have positive repercussions on the urban poor of Baghdad and the south- Yemen, and added that he was “okay” with Iran. Details of the meeting were minister, the Iraqi satellite channel region as a whole.” Araji visited the Ira- ern cities, including Saraya Al Salam, or with Washington engaging with his contained in an email thread between Alghadeer reported that Mohammed bin nian capital, Tehran, on Saturday to Peace Brigades armed group. arch-foe Iran, according to leaked Indyk and Yousef Otaiba, the UAE’s Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Ara- discuss “several issues” with top Iranian He is now seen as a nationalist who emails obtained by Middle East Eye. ambassador in Washington, which was bia, had asked Iraqi Prime Minister Haider officials, according to reports. He also vis- has repeatedly called for protests against The 31-year-old revealed his inten- obtained by the GlobalLeaks campaign Al Abadi to lead the mediation with Iran. ited Saudi Arabia in July. corruption in the Iraqi government, and tions to Martin Indyk, the former US group. Indyk and Otaiba were discuss- “During our visit to Saudi Arabia, The Iranian news agency Isna his supporters have staged huge protests ambassador to Israel, and Stephen Had- ing the Saudi prince’s “pragmatism” and they also asked us to do so, and we said quoted Araji in Farsi as saying that in Baghdad calling for electoral reform. ley, a former US national security where it deviated from the public posi- that to the Iranian side. The Iranian side Mohammed bin Salman wanted to “ease Saudi Crown Prince also confessed adviser, at least one month before the tions the kingdom adopts.

Qatar condemns Burkina Faso attack All 2022-related projects on schedule, says Thawadi THE STATE of Qatar has strongly condemned the attack QNA on a restaurant in Burkina HIA sponsorship of Bayern Faso, which resulted in a upreme Committee for Delivery and number of deaths and injuries. Legacy (SC) Secretary-General Hassan proves Qatar not affected The Ministry of Foreign Affairs SAl Thawadi said Qatar’s 2022 World Cup reiterated Qatar’s firm position related projects and infrastructure are pro- by siege: Al Baker rejecting violence and terror- gressing well according to the schedule and ism regardless of motives or haven’t been affected by the recent events. HAMAD International Airport’s (HIA) reasons. In a press statements, Al Thawadi said announcement of consolidating its platinum the SC is moving ahead with its previously sponsorship of FC Bayern Munich announced plans and wasn’t affected by the demonstrates that the plans of HIA and Qatar

1 INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY AUGUST 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 siege. He pointed to enhancing the partner- Airways have not been affected by the siege ship between HIA and Bayern Munich as a imposed on Qatar, Qatar Airways Chief proof that life is going on normally in Qatar Executive Akbar Al Baker said. and that the sponsorship agreement bene- Speaking to Qatar News Agency (QNA), fits both sides. Bayern Munich Executive Al Baker stressed the importance of the Board Member Andreas Jung said that start- agreement for HIA as the only airport in the ing with the new season, the Bavarian club’s world to sponsor a football team, noting that shirts will don the HIA logo. this sponsorship assures the world that life The Chief Executive Officer of Hamad International Airport (HIA), As a sporting icon in Germany, Jung said, is going on normally in Qatar under an Akbar Al Baker (second left), Secretary-General of Supreme Bayern Munich is the best partner for the ineffective siege. The CEO of Qatar Airways, Committee for Delivery and Legacy, Hassan Al Thawadi (second five-star airport, stressing that the two sides which is responsible for operating HIA, right), Executive Board Member of FC Bayern Munich, Andreas Included with are on top and aim to stay there. A Bayern explained that Germany is Europe’s largest Jung (right), and Chief Operating Officer of HIA, Eng Badr Al Meer today’s edition is a Munich official store was opened in the duty travel market, therefore this sponsorship is holding the Jersey of FC Bayern Munich during a press conference free zone at HIA, allowing travellers an important to introduce Qatar and the great at the HIA in Doha, yesterday. Pic: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula special supplement opportunity to shop for a selection of gifts potential of HIA and Qatar Airways. → See also page 24 and goods that bear the logo of the club. 02 HOME TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

Emir meets members of Libya’s Al Bunyan Al Marsous forces

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met with a delegation comprising members of Al Bunyan Al Marsous forces in the fraternal country of Libya, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They expressed their sincere thanks and gratitude to the Emir for Qatar’s support and humanitarian and medical services to Al Bunyan Al Marsous forces in resisting and fighting terrorist groups, which were a success in Sirte, in addition to the constant support for the Libyan people to establish security and stability, and combating terrorism and extremism in Libya. For his part, the Emir welcomed the delegation, stressing Qatar’s support for the Government of National Accord, Qatar’s firm stance in combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and standing by the fraternal Libyan people in order to achieve security and stability in their country and enhance its national unity.

Emir sends QSF boosts business in hotels & resorts message to

Raynald C Rivera weekdays by 20 percent, which to stay and enjoy the city, whilst everyone in a ‘holiday’ mood and average our guests stay between President of The Peninsula we consider good during this time. motivating foreign visitors to an encourages residents and tourists one to two nights with preferences This Summer Festival improved interesting attraction. Our collab- to go out more often to explore the over the weekend from families. El Salvador he ongoing Qatar Sum- occupancy rates and with the new oration with the Summer Festival city and seek entertainment. To Positioned as an ideal quick get- mer Festival (QSF), visa rules, we are confident that provides great value for guests complete that ‘experience’, some away or short-term stay, our hotel EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim organised by Qatar guests will spend more time in looking for the ideal retreat which families and groups of friends look is extremely popular among local bin Hamad Al Thani has Tourism Authority Qatar,” Saeid Heidari, General has in effect benefited all the tour- for hotels and resorts to add a guests and visitors from Oman and sent a written message (QTA), is helping bol- Manager at Sheraton Grand Doha ism sector in the city,“ said Sharad ‘vacation vibe’ to the summer and Kuwait,” said Fehlbier. to President Salvador Tster the country’s hotel and Resort & Convention Hotel, said. Rattan, Executive Assistant Man- take a break from their daily rou- To attract more guests, he said Sanchez Ceren of the resort business during the off- On its fourth edition, this ager at Sharq Village & Spa a Ritz tine. This can have a positive effect they had worked with travel part- Republic of El Salvador, peak summer season, said year’s festival, which is the long- Carlton Hotel. on hotels’ occupancy rates during ners in the region and created pertaining to bilateral five-star hotels and resorts. est edition running until Nawaf Ali Al Obaidly, General the season and prompts our guests various summer packages such relations and means Hotels and resorts The Penin- September 5, offers a wide array Manager at Sealine Beach Resort, to actively be a part of the cele- as I Love Qatar summer special, of boosting them. The sula spoke to said the festival’s of rides, games and live entertain- shared the same view saying “The bration,” he added. luxury escape packages and din- message was received offerings along with the country’s ment as well as attractive city-wide celebrations at the Qatar Thomas Fehlbier, General ing and recreational activities. by Minister of Foreign improved visa rules boosts occu- shopping discounts, hotel promo- Summer Festival, which this year Manager at Banana Island Resort Sharq Village & Spa, on the Affairs of El Salvador pancy rate during summer, which tions and travel packages. range from concerts and live Doha by Anantara, said summer other hand, has launched summer Hugo Martinez, during is typically off season. “Every fes- “The Summer Festival pro- shows to shopping promotions is usually peak season for the packages for Qatari citizens and a meeting with Acting tival or event helps as it pushes our vides a wide variety of activities, and entertainment activities, resort and this year it has achieved residents providing guests unique Charge d’Affaires of the business. The Summer Festival entertainment, events and promo- makes the summer season fun for record numbers in comparison to room and dining promotions for Embassy of Qatar Ahmed increases our occupancy during tions which encourage residents the whole family. “This helps put the same period last year. “On an ideal staycation. bin Mohammed Al Horr.

Qatar Sustainability Week from FM meets Libyan delegation October 28 to November 4

The Peninsula of, and attitude towards, the con- while showcasing the progress cept. It will also highlight the key Qatar has made in the areas of atar Green Building role the wider community plays sustainability and green Council (QGBC) has in advancing Qatar’s long-term buildings.” announced that Qatar ‘green’ agenda. Al Shamari added: “This year Sustainability Week Highlighting QGBC’s contri- bears special significance for Q2017 will be under the butions, Eng Meshal Al Shamari, QGBC and Qatar’s sustainability patronage of Prime Minister and Director, QGBC, said: “It’s an hon- industry, as we will be rolling out Interior Minister H E Sheikh our and a privilege for QGBC to our newest initiative, ‘Green Life,’ Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa have the support of the Prime the world’s first sustainability loy- Al Thani. The week-long initia- Minister for Qatar Sustainability alty programme. Leading up to tive, which hosts numerous Week 2017. QGBC has made tre- Qatar Sustainability Week 2017, sustainability events across the mendous strides in advancing residents, organisations, and busi- country, will take place from Qatar’s sustainable development nesses in Qatar will have the October 28 to November 4. goals, and the launch of Qatar opportunity to attend a series of Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met a Qatar Sustainability Week Sustainability Week last year was exciting events, and we encour- delegation comprising members of Al Bunyan Al Marsous forces in Libya, during their visit grants stakeholders from the pub- a notable achievement for QGBC age everyone to join us.” to Qatar. They discussed means of cooperation between Qatar and Al Bunyan Al Marsous lic and private sectors an and a significant nationwide Qatar Green Building Confer- forces in resisting and confronting the terrorist groups. The Foreign Minister affirmed opportunity to promote the event. This initiative plays a cru- ence 2017, the week’s flagship Qatar’s support for the political agreement and the national reconciliation government nation’s sustainability vision and cial role in raising awareness event, will also run from October as well as Qatar’s firm stance in combating terrorism in all its forms. address society’s understanding among the wider community, 29 to 31.

Al Sulaiti gets invite from Singapore Eid Charity spends QR1.14m for Indian mission to hoist treatment of 129 patients flag today The Peninsula INDIAN Embassy in heikh Eid Bin association with Indian Mohammad Al Cultural Centre (ICC) will SThani Charita- conduct the flag hoisting ble Foundation (Eid ceremony today at ICC Charity) has said it premises at Abu Hamour spent QR1.14m for to mark the 71st Indian treatment of 129 Independence Day. The patients in Qatar event shall start at 6.45am. between January Ambassador of India and July this year. Officials from Eid Charity visited a number of to Qatar, P Kumaran, will The charity with be hoisting the flag in the patients in the hospitals to give moral support support from Qatari presence of leaders and the patients and their families. donors has covered members of Indian com- all medical needs through Eid Social Eid Social Center receives accred- munity in Qatar. Apex Center in cooperation with Hamad ited reports from the hospitals about body officials, Affiliated Medical Corporation (HMC) and in critical cases that need urgent treat- organisation leaders and Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti received a message accordance to approved medical ments. The cases include elders and members of Indian com- from Dr Yacoub Ibrahim, the Republic of Singapore’s Minister of Communications and reports, it said yesterday in individuals injured because of acci- munity will be present Information and Minister in Charge of Cyber Security. Singapore Ambassador, J S Sohan, statement. dents and some with disabilities. during the function. delivered the message during a meeting with the Minister. The message included an The charity said it is working Officials from Eid Charity visited Students from Indian invitation to the Minister to participate in the global information security conference as closely with HMC’s hospitals in par- recently a number of patients in the schools shall present well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the two countries. ticular with Heart Hospital, Al hospitals to give moral support the patriotic songs during the Rumaila Hospital, Al Khor, where patients and their families. occasion. TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 HOME 03

Emir greets Pakistan Embassy marks Independence Day President

Amna Pervaiz Rao of Pakistan The Peninsula H H Sheikh Tamim he Pakistan embassy bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday celebrated Esent a cable of con- the country’s 70th gratulations to President of Independence Day the Islamic Republic of Paki- with traditional gaiety stan, Mamnoon Hussain, on Tand fervour. the anniversary of his coun- Starting with National try’s Independence Day. Anthem playing in the backdrop, Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Ambassador of Pakistan to Qatar, Abdullah bin Hamad Al Shahzad Ahmad, hoisted the Thani also sent a similar national flag on the embassy cable to the President. premises early in the morning to Meanwhile, Prime Min- kick off the celebrations. ister and Interior Minister Following a protocol, the H E Sheikh Abdullah bin envoy read out the felicitation Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani messages from Pakistan’s Pres- sent a cable of congratula- ident and Prime Minister for the tions to Prime Minister of Pakistani nationals living in LEFT: Shahzad Ahmad, Pakistan Ambassador to Qatar, hoisting the flag during Pakistan, Shahid Khaqan Qatar. the Pakistan Independence Day ceremony at Pakistan Embassy yesterday. Abbasi, on the anniversary The ambassador then went The Ambassador along with other officials cutting a cake during the event. of his country’s Independ- on to congratulate men, women Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula ence Day. and children from the commu- nity and embassy officials in attendance in large numbers at nationals of this great nation of mountains, natural water fall, the ceremony. Guests from all that time is right that we all lavish green, A wide desert and walks of life interacted with each realise this fact that justifying a deep sea you can find only in other and congratulated officers independence calls for individ- Pakistan. We proud of rich cul- and staff of the embassy on the ual effort and contribution at ture and tradition. As a great Independence Day. all levels. I believe that Paki- nation we always remember our They expressed their happi- stan over past seven decades heroes because of their struggle ness and exchanged views with despite all odds has progressed and hard work, Pakistan the ambassador and other significantly and one of the appeared on the map of the officers. basic reason behind that is the world. Quaid-e-Azam Muham- Talking to The Peninsula, ideology of its creation.” mad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Hafiz Junaid Amir Sial, Com- “We all stand together as a Pakistan, said: ‘Pakistan not only munity Welfare Attaché’, nation and our motivation to means freedom and independ- Embassy of Pakistan to Qatar, make Pakistan ideal, peaceful ence but the Muslim ideology said: “I would like to congrat- and progressive country is which has to be preserved, which ulate every Pakistani citizen increasing day by day. It is time has come to us as a precious gift living in Pakistan or represent- that we pay off through our and treasure and which, we hope ing Pakistani outside its hard-work and passion. If we other will share with us.’” territorial limits on the beauti- all improve ourselves in a way Celebration of Independence ful and auspicious occasion of that whatever task we are Day is held all over the world on Community members celebrating the Independence Day in Doha, yesterday. Pic: Syed Omar its 70th Independence day. My assigned with and we should August 14, organised by Pakistani message to Pakistani citizens do it with full zeal and vigour, embassies and Pakistan cultural is to contribute in the better- the day is not far that Pakistan’s a socio-cultural forum of expa- of Sohni Dharti, said: “Today of loving people. This land is and community organisations. ment of this country. Today progress will be quoted as an triate Pakistanis, sang melodious Pakistani nation is celebrating blessed with all seasons and a On the occasion, Pakistanis what we are is because of this example,” he added. National songs. its 70th Independence day with landscape which attracts express their solidarity and love country, I urge upon all the Children from Sohni Dharti, Rana Anwar Ali, Chairman pride. This is the land of peace towards a natural beauty. Beauty for their homeland. Two Pakistani pharma firms to set up base in Qatar

→ Continued from page 1 percent compared to $410.10m equipment, lead in raw form. line links Hamad Port with Mun- A 12-member trade delegation (QR1.49bn) in 2015. To offset the impact of the dra and Nhava Sheva Ports in consisting of top business leaders According to data provided by ongoing blockade, Qatar has been India. “Until now the Qatari goods from a wide-range of industries, Qatar Chamber, the trade balance working aggressively to enhance were going to Pakistan through including food and agriculture, is lopsided (since 2012) and has trade cooperation with India, transship via Jabel Ali port (UAE). textiles, chemicals, education and been in favour of Doha. Qatar’s Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and many The route has been disconnected Islamic finace, concluded their trade surplus with Pakistan in other partners to diversify the but we can’t disconnect trade with two-day visit to Doha yesterday. 2016 stood at $598.6m (about sources of imports and established Qatar. The new route will ensure Top business executives from QR2.18bn), up by 170.7 percent new trade lines with India, Paki- the transportation of goods more Pakistan were here to explore compared to $221.1m in the pre- stan, Turkey and Iran. smooth and faster,” said the pres- business and investment oppor- vious year. The total value of Qatar Ports Management ident of FPCCI, who jointly tunities. Several of them have Qatar’s exports to Pakistan in 2016 Company (Mwani Qatar) on last presided yesterday’s meeting with established partnership with local surged to $685.6m, while imports Saturday announced the launch Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Towar companies and individual inves- stood at $87.01m. of a new route between Hamad Al Kuwari, Vice-Chairman, Qatar FPCCI President Zubair F Tufail (second left), receiving a tors to boost the cooperation. The Major Qatari imports from Port and the Port of Karachi in Chamber. A trade delegation from memento from Qatar Chamber Vice-Chairman Mohammed trade volume between Qatar and Pakistan in 2016 included vege- Pakistan. Hamad Port also wel- Qatar is also expected to visit to bin Ahmed bin Towar Al Kuwari (centre) along with Pakistan Pakistan has witnessed a record tables, fruits, meat and other comed the container vessel Libra, Pakistan to explore business and Ambassador Shahzad Ahmad (left), Al Darwish United Group double-digit growth last year due food stuffs, textiles and ready- marking the first call of the weekly investment opportunities in sec- to sharp increase in gas (LNG) made garments among others. direct service. It has also launched tors such as steel, textiles, telecom, Chairman Yousuf bin Jassim Al Darwish (second right) and imports from Qatar. The bilateral Qatar’s major exports to Paki- a new maritime line between real estate, food and agriculture, OITC Group Managing Director Mohammed bin Ahmed Al trade volume in 2016 surged to stan were oils & gas, chemicals Qatar and India named “India retails and shopping malls and Obaidly (right) in Doha, yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula $772.61m (QR2.81bn), up 88.4 and petrochemicals, tools & Qatar Express Service” (IQX). The others. Complaint made against NHRC by siege countries ‘purely political’

The Peninsula for Justice, Equality and Peace – working in the field of human COJEP international – France; rights promotion; the Committee group of human rights Association of Torture Victims in is full of regional and interna- advocating organisations Tunisia – Geneva; Solidarity for tional activities and Ahave considered the com- Human Rights – Geneva; Inter- partnerships”. plaint made against the National national Observatory for Societies The NHRC has “extensive Human Rights Committee in and Sustainable Development – partnerships with international Qatar (QNHRC) by the siege coun- Tunis; International Coalition for organizations and with OHCHR, tries to the United Nations High Human Rights and Development the United Nations Center for Commissioner for Human Rights – Geneva; Libya Watch Documentation and Training, it is purely political and has no rela- – London. organised several international tion to assessing the performance They expressed their great conferences on human rights and of the United Nations standards concerns on the complaint filed several conferences on the pro- for national institutions. by the Permanent Representa- tection of journalists and freedom This was stated in an open tives of three Gulf countries of speech. The rating (A) is the letter directed to Zeid Raad Al imposing siege on Qatar and highest rating in the Accredita- Hussein, United Nations High Egypt against NHRC requesting tion Committee of the Commissioner for Human Rights the UN High Commissioner for International Alliance of National and signed by number of human Human Rights to withdraw the Human Rights Institutions, which rights organisations including (A) rating from the Committee. is granted to national institutions Free Voice Organization for the “We consider that this com- working for the promotion of Defence of Human Rights - Paris; plaint is purely political and has human rights, that is fully inde- Swiss Organization for the Pro- no relation to assessing the per- pendent of governments and tection of Human Rights formance of the United Nations operate in accordance with the – Geneva; International Council standards for national institutions standards established by the UN. 04 HOME TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

Al Muraikhi meets Serbian Ambassador Advisory Council Speaker meets US & Australian officials

Speaker of the Advisory Council, H E Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, met Ambassador of Mohamed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi, met the Republic of Serbia to Qatar, Jasminko Pozderac. Talks covered bilateral relations and with Australia’s Ambassador to Qatar Axel cooperation and ways of enhancing them, as well as issues of mutual interest. Wabenhorst (right). The meeting reviewed the existing parliamentary ties between the two countries and means of boosting and developing them. Secretary-General of the Advisory Council, Fahad bin Mubarak Dates festival ends; sales exceed 175 tonnes Al Khayareen, attended the meeting. Advisory Council’s Speaker also met with QATAR’S second local dates fes- state’s efforts to achieve food attention to the quality of dates William Grant, the new charge d’affaires tival concluded after 18 days with security and its keenness on and to educate them about mod- at the US embassy in Qatar. The meeting unprecedented sales amounting developing the agriculture sec- ern agriculture methods and the discussed the existing parliamentary ties to 175 tonnes and 430 kg of dates. tor, including palm trees, and care of palm trees. between Qatar and the United Sates of More than 60 Qatari farms the promotion of date varieties The festival will be an America, and means of boosting and took part in the festival, which towards greater excellence and annual event to share technical was organised in the framework competition locally and expertise among farmers, mar- enhancing them. Deputy Speaker of the of Qatar’s great attention to sup- internationally. ket the local date products and Advisory Council, Issa bin Rabia Al Kuwari, porting and encouraging local The festival also aimed at present the local production of and Al Khayareen attended the meeting. production, and as part of the encouraging farmers to pay dates and its types. Qatar pavilion at Expo HMC hosts visiting Astana hosts children international with special needs consultants The Peninsula

The Peninsula The event reflects Qatar’s amad Medical Corpo- keenness to familiarise people ration (HMC) is s part of its extensive with special needs with Qatari cul- Hwelcoming a host of list of activities and ture and ensure their participation visiting consultants from var- events at Expo Astana in unique activities and events ious medical specialties during 2017 in Kazakhstan organized by the Qatari pavilion. August. The visits are part of during August and Qatar’s pavilion also hosted 35 the organisation’s effort to pro- SeptemberA 2017, Qatar’s pavilion people from various media organ- vide patients with additional organised a special day for chil- isations that took part in Expo access to international experts dren with special needs Astana 2017. Members of the and to continue to enhance the (Association of Persons with Dis- media were introduced to the Visitors at the Qatar’s pavilion at Expo Astana 2017 which hosted children with special needs quality of healthcare services abilities in Astana). pavilion, whose design was and media figures. in its hospitals. Throughout the day, children inspired by Qatari heritage, and The visiting consultants are listened to Qatari songs and music its various sections. The pavilion enjoys a design The pavilion also sheds light and reduce carbon emissions, Dr Helmuth Billy, a highly- and toured the various sections of Visitors were also briefed on that merges modernity with her- on Qatar’s position as a tourism while the “Sustainable Energy” experienced Bariatric and the pavilion, which tells the story development projects in Qatar and itage and Qatari culture. Its unique destination and an attractive hub section calls for the efficient and Metabolic Specialist from Ven- of Qatar’s ancient past, its flour- the renaissance the country is wit- front presents a number of suc- for business and investment. intelligent use of energy to mini- tura Advanced Surgical ishing present and bright future. nessing, as well as the state’s cessful projects that the country The pavilion is home to a mise overconsumption. The Associates in Thousand Oaks, Children also enjoyed activities in interest in human development has undertaken in the field of sus- number of sections, including “Human Energy is the Focus of our , will visit from a dedicated section where they and the country’s many accom- tainable and alternative energy, “Qatar is Vibrant,” which visually Attention” section highlights the August 11 to 19. participated in drawing and col- plishments across various fields. and highlights Qatar’s strategy in presents Qatar’s history to partic- importance of supporting human Dr Gert Van Assche, a Gas- ouring activities and received Journalists expressed their admi- diversifying its energy sources and ipants. The “Technology of the capacity building through troenterology expert and Head, henna tattoos, in addition to tak- ration for the valuable information overcoming challenges in line with Future” section focuses on Qatar’s advanced research in the field Division of Gastroenterology ing photographs. that the pavilion offers on Qatar. Qatar National Vision 2030. efforts to embrace green energy alternative energy. and Hepatology at University Hospitals Leuven in Leuven, Belgium will visit from August 16 to 19. Dr Michel Onimus, a French Orthopaedic Surgery Qatar won’t be intimidated: Qahtani Specialist will visit from August 16 to 23. Dr Chris Langrish, a QNA are used in IS schools. Saudi citizens also finance Consultant Intensivist and a large number of the 50 groups designated by Anaesthetist from Guy’s and St. he Foreign Minister’s Special Envoy on the US Department of State as terrorist organi- Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Counterterrorism and Mediation for Set- sations. He then discussed the UAE and said that in England will visit from Ttling Conflicts Ambassador, H E Mutlaq Al it have taken a similarly hypocritical stance. August 21 to 23; Qahtani, said that the siege enforced on Qatar “While the UAE falsely portrays itself as Dr Ali Kindawi, a Cardiot- did not succeed, as the Gulf crisis enters its third Americas best ally in the region, its track record horacic Surgeon from Freeman month. He said that now was the time to resolve is no better than Saudi Arabias. Two Emiratis Hospital in Newcastle, England the dispute, which was driven by Saudi and Emi- participated in the September 11 hijackings, and will visit from August 28 to rati hypocrisy. the staff report to the 9/11 Commission revealed September 3. Dr. Kindawi was In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Jour- that much of the funding for the attacks flowed previously employed as a Sen- nal entitled ‘Qatar will not be intimidated’, he through the UAE, which was a world hub for ior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon said: “If Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emir- money laundering,” he said. at HMC’s Heart Hospital. ates, the countries driving the confrontation, Al Qahtani also said in the opinion piece that Other experts are sched- despite the appearance of a unified bloc hoped “the UAE has fared no better with regard to free- uled to visit throughout the to bring Qatar to its knees, they have failed. If dom of speech and press. In 2014 authorities year as part of HMC’s focus on they hoped to damage Qatars reputation and arrested a man for plotting a terrorist attack on a hosting highly-respected phy- improve their own, they have failed. If they Formula One racetrack in Abu Dhabi. But the Emir- sicians and surgeons from hoped to enhance their relationship with the US ates prohibited international media outlets from around the world. Visits from at Qatar’s expense, again, they have failed.” reporting on the trial. The UAEs recent clampdown international consultants ena- “Instead, the anti-Qatar smear campaign on free speech has been widely condemned, espe- ble patients to benefit from the has put a spotlight on the shameful history and cially after the country’s Justice Ministry said in convenience of world unsavoury practices of the Saudis and Emiratis June that supporting Qatar on social media could renowned specialists here at themselves. Saudi Arabia justifies the blockade be punishable by fines and even prison time.” home while sparing them the by alleging that Qatari authorities support He then referred to leaked emails which show need to travel abroad. extremists and terrorist organisations. But the that Emirati officials were conspiring with a vari- Members of the public accusation only reminds observers that the Sau- ety of interest groups and lobbyists on a campaign wishing to book an appoint- dis have consistently failed to prevent the to slander Qatar long before the blockade was ment with consultants are radicalisation of their citizens,” Al Qahtani added. imposed. “Surely this kind of publicity can not be advised to discuss this option Al Qahtani pointed out that fifteen of the 19 what the Saudis and Emiratis hoped for when they with their physician. If your hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were Saudis and instigated this crisis. Yet the longer the blockade doctor agrees that an appoint- thousands of Saudi citizens have taken up arms goes on, the more damaging information the world ment with a visiting consultant to join Islamic State and other radical groups. will learn about them and the more difficult it will is appropriate, they will pro- In addition to the fact that Saudi textbooks be to resolve their differences with Qatar.” vide a referral. TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 HOME 05 Siege helps Qatar gain real political independence

Mohammed Osman of the neighbouring countries The Peninsula and the fluctuations in oil prices. The financial and This requires redrawing pol- banking sector in icies to stimulate economic atari economy was Qatar are immune diversification in various fields able to face the cur- because of the to achieve security, sustainable rent blockade due to development, social and eco- two sources of power; policies adopted by nomic well-being through four Qthe natural resources the Central Bank pillars: self-reliance, reducing and the wise economic policies even before the dependence on neighbouring of the country, said an expert on beginning of the countries and diversifying import monetary policy and political agents and encouraging economy. crisis. QCB’s policies industry. These two sources have con- have limited the The second paper was pre- tributed to achieve development exposure and impact sented by Mohammed Al Khulaifi and encouraged investment in of the blockade on the who focused on the legal aspects infrastructure, promotion of of the crisis. Al Khulaifi said that investment policies and a shift financial and banking international law is the main ref- towards economic diversifica- sectors through erence to international relations tion, said Dr Khalid Al Khater, an pumping money and as well as human rights laws, expert on monetary policy and since every individual is part of political economy. deposits, said Dr the international community. Al Khater was speaking at a Khalid Al Khater. Al Khulaifi said that siege symposium organised last week countries have violated princi- by the Arab Center for Research ples and provisions of and Policy Studies. Mohammed Al Khulaifi, Dean of international laws as threaten- Al Khater stressed that the the Faculty of Law, Qatar Uni- ing another country to use financial and banking sector in versity (QU), Majid Al Ansari is violence against a state Experts speaking at a symposium organised last week by the Arab Center for Research and Qatar are immune because of the Professor of Political Sociology according to the international policies adopted by the Central at QU, to discuss the economic, relations. As well economic and Policy Studies, in Doha. Bank even before the beginning legal and political implications political boycotts and imposing of the crisis. QCB’s policies have of the Gulf crisis that erupted on siege on a state is a kind of rights and violated international believes that the Qatari position convince the US administration limited the exposure and impact June 5, 2017. revenge and reprisal, Al Khulaifi conventions signed by these has been steadfast in supporting to stand against changes in the of the blockade on the financial Al Khater stressed that the added. countries, including the regula- change in the Arab countries and region. He noted that the crisis and banking sectors of Qatar Saudi-led bloc will lose credibil- The internal affairs of the tion of air traffic. standing by the peoples during will move Qatar to real political through pumping money and ity in the long run because of the State is a sovereign issue and For his part Dr Majid Al the Arab Spring revolution. independence and rely on diver- deposits, he observed. destruction of the business envi- every State is free to form its pol- Ansari said that before the erup- Al Ansari highlighted that the sification of bilateral relations Moreover, Al Khater said that ronment and projects of icies without a mandate or tion of the crisis there were a set conflicts inside the Kingdom of and out of the principle of polit- the Qatari currency was sub- economic integration, and this guardianship of any other State. of things which we used to Saudi Arabia and the game of ical courtesy, which was adopted jected to speculative attempts rift will affect their economic Al Khulaifi said that siege believe in and now we have chairs has played a role in the before the crisis. At the end of during the crisis but proved to growth. There are many lessons countries did not go to the prin- become unrealistic. Differences steps taken against Qatar. He the seminar, a discussion was be a strong currency, which is learned from this crisis on top of ciple of peaceful settlement of between these countries is old added that the Riyadh confer- held on a range of issues such as considered the most stable in the that Qatar needs to work on new disputes and violated interna- because the Arab revolutions ence and the arrival of President the future of the Gulf Coopera- region for decades, thanks to the economic policies that ensure tional law in this regard, and this have unveiled countries that sup- Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia tion Council, the foreign policies financial reserves and sovereign that the Qatari economy will not indicates an intention to harm port change and people’s choices provided the siege countries with of Qatar and the role of Iran dur- state fund. return to situation before the the State of Qatar. and another countries which an opportunity to convince him ing the crisis and the position of The symposium hosted a crisis, which were Al Khulaifi stressed that the stood against the choice of peo- to take a stand against the State international organizations and group of Qatari researchers and putting the country under the countries of the blockade vio- ples and their rights to of Qatar. Ansari believes that the economic implications of the specialists including Al Khater, mercy of volatility of the policies lated the principles of human democracy and freedom. He these countries are trying to crisis on the Gulf States. 06 HOME TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 LG lines up latest home appliances

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The event, which will be generation of players. We The meeting also discussed the formation of a work- held at the Doha Exhibition and encourage everyone to attend ing team to study the sites and coordinate with the Convention Centre from August the championships and thank Public Works Authority and the security authorities to 19 to 27, is expected to attract the event’s host, Qatar Tourism identify the water points and develop solutions for them, some 1,500 mindsports Authority, for once again part- as well as equip the work teams in all municipalities of enthusiasts from over 40 nering with Ooredoo.” workers, machinery, equipment and suction machines. different countries. 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To stay up to date and the resulting risks, prepare strategic plans for this prizes up for grabs, including with all the news, happenings situation, and coordinate and cooperate with the con- Apple technology contributed and events in the mindsports cerned authorities in the country. by Ooredoo. community, visit www.mind- Talking about the sportsacademy.com TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 07 18 dead in Burkina Faso restaurant attack Ouagadougou Deadly attack “has ended” but searches are AFP continuing in buildings in the Foreign minister said surrounding neighbourhood, t least 18 people including that the “terrorist” Dandjinou said. eight or more foreigners attack in the capital He had said earlier that Awere gunned down in a Ouagadougou killed “some people were held” by the Turkish restaurant in Burkina seven locals & eight assailants and that “some were Faso, officials said yesterday, the foreigners including released”, but gave no further latest west African attack to tar- one Frenchman; one details. “They started shooting get a spot popular with expats. Canadian woman; on the terrace. We climbed up There has been no claim of the stairs and lay on the ground. male victims from responsibility for Sunday night’s The attackers came and pointed Senegal, Niger, attack at the Aziz Istanbul res- their guns at us,” said one survi- taurant, which was often packed Lebanon and Turkey; vor, interviewed in hospital on with foreign nationals who went and two Kuwaiti national television. there to watch football. women. Three “I didn’t understand their Foreign Minister Alpha Barry victims remain language, it might have been said that the “terrorist” attack in unidentified. Arabic.” A surgeon said the local the capital Ouagadougou killed hospital was “overwhelmed”. There has been no seven locals and at least eight The restaurant is just 200 foreigners including one French- claim of metres (220 yards) from a hotel man; one Canadian woman; responsibility for and cafe targeted in an assault male victims from Senegal, Sunday night’s attack in January 2016 that left 30 peo- Niger, Lebanon and Turkey; and at the Aziz Istanbul ple dead and 71 wounded, many two Kuwaiti women. restaurant, which of them foreigners. That attack Three victims remain uni- was often packed was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the dentified, he said. Separately, with foreign Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrys- nationals who went A government statement tia Freeland said two Canadians there to watch described the latest deadly Security forces inspecting the site after a terrorist attack at a restaurant on Kwame Nkrumah were among the victims. Turkey football. shooting as a “terrorist attack”, Avenue in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, yesterday. confirmed that one of its citizens while President Roch Marc was among the dead, while Paris Christian Kabore condemned it anonymity cited witnesses as vehicle around 9:30pm, get off Splendid hotel and Cappuccino prosecutors said at least one security forces had killed two as “a despicable attack that has saying at least two assailants the vehicle and open fire on cus- restaurant, down the road from French national died. assailants in a counter-assault Ouagadougou in mourning”. arrived on a motorcycle around tomers seated on the terrace”. the Aziz Istanbul, came weeks Earlier in Ougadougou, Com- that went on until morning. “The fight against terrorism 9:00pm armed with Kalashnik- The shooting is the latest in the after jihadists claimed an assault munications Minister Remis It was not clear how many is a long-term struggle,” he said ovs, and opened fire. region targeting spots popular on a hotel in the capital of neigh- Dandjinou said about ten peo- gunmen were involved in the on . A police officer who A waiter also said he saw with foreigners and locals alike. bouring Mali that killed 20 ple had been injured, while attack. The security operation spoke on condition of “three men arrive on a 4X4 Last year’s attack on the people. Mudslides & flooding leave 312 dead in Freetown Syrian army encircles

Freetown dead”. Many more bodies were IS pocket near Homs AFP taken to private morgues, Sin- neh said. Images obtained t least 312 people were showed a ferocious churning of Beirut fighters to their west in an area killed and more than dark orange mud coursing down Reuters of land around 8,000km A2,000 left homeless yes- a steep street in the capital, while square, the Syrian Observatory terday when heavy flooding hit videos posted by local residents he Syrian army and its for Human Rights said. Sierra Leone’s capital of Free- showed people waist and chest allies advanced in the The Russian Defence Min- town, leaving morgues deep in water trying to traverse Tcentral Syrian desert yes- istry said yesterday that it had overflowing and residents des- the road. terday and could soon encircle contributed to this advance by perately searching for loved Fatmata Sesay, who lives on an Islamic State pocket, part advising on an airborne land- ones. the hilltop area of Juba, said she, of a multi-pronged thrust into ing of pro-government troops A source saw bodies being her three children and husband eastern areas held by the jihad- north of Al Koum on carried away and houses sub- were awoken at 4:30 am by rain ist group. Saturday. merged in two areas of the city, beating down on the mud house A Syrian military source The operation allowed where roads turned into churn- they occupy, which was by then said the Syrian army and its them to take the Al Qadeer ing rivers of mud and corpses submerged by water. allies had taken a number of area from Islamic State mili- Bystanders look on as floodwaters rage past a damaged were washed up on the streets. She managed to escape by villages around the town of Al tants before proceeding to Al Red Cross spokesman climbing onto the roof. “We have building in an area of Freetown yesterday, after landslides Koum in northeastern Homs Koum, Russia’s TASS news Patrick Massaquoi said the death lost everything and we do not struck the capital of the west African state of Sierra Leone. province. agency reported. Islamic State toll was 312 but could rise fur- have a place to sleep,” she said. This leaves a gap held by has lost swathes of Syrian ter- ther as his team continued to Local media reports said a homeless,” hinting at the huge diseases such as cholera. Flood- Islamic State of around only ritory to separate campaigns survey disaster areas in Free- section of a hill in the Regent humanitarian effort that will be ing in the capital in 2015 killed 25km between Al Koum and being waged by Syrian govern- town and tally the number of area of the city had partially col- required to deal with the fallout 10 people and left thousands the town of Al Sukhna to its ment forces backed by Russia dead. Mohamed Sinneh, a lapsed, exacerbating the disaster. of the flooding in one of Africa’s homeless. south, which was taken by the and Iran, and by the US- morgue technician at Freetown’s Other images showed battered poorest nations. Sierra Leone was one of the Syrian government on backed Syrian Democratic Connaught Hospital, said 180 corpses piled on top of each Freetown, an overcrowded west African nations hit by an Saturday. (SDF) Forces, which is domi- bodies had been received so far other, as residents struggled to coastal city of 1.2 million, is hit outbreak of the Ebola virus in If the army, supported by nated by the Kurdish YPG at his facility alone, many of cope with the destruction. each year by flooding during 2014 that left more than 4,000 Russian air power and Iran- militia. The SDF is currently them children, leaving no space Meanwhile, disaster man- several months of rain that people dead in the country, and backed militias, closes this gap focused on capturing Raqqa to lay what he described as the agement official Candy Rogers destroys makeshift settlements it has struggled to revive its they will encircle Islamic State city from Islamic State. “overwhelming number of said that “over 2,000 people are and raises the risk of waterborne economy since the crisis. Iraq readies for battle Air raids on Yemen higher this year THE number of air strikes on Yemen in the first half of 2017 has already exceeded the total for 12 months last year, accord- to retake Tal Afar ing to a UN report released yesterday. Since 2015, Yemen has been the site of a devastating war between the Saudi-backed government and Houthi rebels allied Baghdad coalition of paramilitary units with Iran. The country is also regularly targeted by US drone AFP deployed since 2014 to halt the strikes aiming for Al Qaeda cells that have flourished in the jihadist advance. “Hashed Al chaos of the conflict. raqi officials said yesterday Shaabi commanders met Sat- The monthly average of air raids on Yemeni provinces for that preparations have been urday with army and police 2017 is almost three times higher than that of last year, accord- Imade for the battle to retake commanders to decide on the ing to a report released by the Protection Cluster Yemen. Tal Afar, a town held by the plan to free Tal Afar,” spokes- Islamic State jihadist group man Ahmed Al Assadi told Egypt reopens Gaza border for Hajis between Mosul and the Syrian reporters. The coalition, which border. includes Iran-backed militias, EGYPT reopened its border with the Gaza Strip yesterday for Federal police chief Lieu- would take part “actively and the first time in months to allow Muslims from the blockaded tenant General Raed Shakir on all fronts” in the battle for Palestinian enclave to travel to Makkah for the Haj pilgrim- Jawdat said in a statement that Tal Afar to be launched within age, authorities said. “armoured and elite units are days, he said. “The crossing was reopened this morning for four days headed for Tal Afar”, the main Assadi did not give a date in one direction for 2,500 pilgrims,” Hisham Adwan, director remaining stronghold of IS in for the launch and said that only of information at the crossings authority of the Hamas-run northern Iraq. Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi interior ministry, said. The town is located 70km could announce the beginning west of Mosul, where the jihad- of military operations. Cholera affects half a million in Yemen ist group declared its IS jihadists overran Tal Afar “caliphate” in 2014 before being in June 2014, when it had a pop- CHOLERA is believed to have affected more than 500,000 ousted from the city in July. ulation of around 200,000. people and killed nearly 2,000 since late April in Yemen, the The units, whose number Tal Afar is surrounded by World Health Organization said yesterday. has not been specified, were Hashed Al Shaabi and cut off A full 503,484 suspected cases and 1,975 deaths are attrib- “regrouping in combat positions from Mosul in the east and the utable to the outbreak that erupted last than four months ago in preparation for the next bat- Syrian border to the north and in the war-ravaged country. The UN health agency said the tle, said the statement. west. The town was a Shia- speed at which the deadly waterborne disease was spread- Joining them is the Hashed majority enclave in the mostly ing had slowed significantly since early July, but warned that Al Shaabi, a Shia-dominated Sunni Muslim area. it was still affecting an estimated 5,000 people each day. 08 VIEWS TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

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EDITORIAL Ides of August orth Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s threat to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam with missiles sent tensions spiralling on the Korean Peninsula, Japan and across the ripples of which were felt through Nthe world. As the international community reacted to a state of in world capitals, it was no reining in the Can GCC survive weakened US president. As is Donald Trump’s wont, he kept ratcheting up the rhetoric against North Korea. It was left to his top officials to calm taut nerves as US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson penned down an op-ed piece in the Wall Street journal international organisations? that sent a reconciliatory message to Pyongyang. It was a placatory move to pre-empt North Korea’s threat to strike Guam around August 15. “The US has no interest in regime change or Minister Javad Zarif penned several of Qatar and Saudi accelerated reunification of Korea. We do not seek an Hussain Abdul Hussain articles in Western newspapers in Arabia could not excuse to garrison US troops north of the Demilitarized Anatolia which he called for the establishment be reconciled. Abu Zone,” they wrote in an attempt to assuage fears of the of a “Greater Persian Gulf” organisa- Dhabi, too, was reclusive regime that has taken to the missile launch pad tion, with Iran and Yemen being now locked in a with the intention of stoking fears among responsible members of the new regional race with Doha states like the United States and North Korea. Kim’s configuration. over regional and ultimate fear is that Washington is trying to overthrow Iran’s ability to check Saudi power international influence. his regime. It is this fear that Mattis and Tillerson he decade that followed the conclu- within the GCC forced Saudi Arabia Kuwait, serving as the glue that addressed in their opinion article. sion of World War II saw the and the UAE to try to use the council kept the council together, sprang to The article took a softer tone on North Korea than mushrooming of all kinds of inter- for other purposes. Since the mid- action again to bridge the gap and rec- the president, who warned Pyongyang last week of “fire national and regional organisations, 1990s, Riyadh and Qatar had been oncile Qatar with its detractors. This and fury” if it launched an attack. including the UN, Nato, the Warsaw locked in a bitter rivalry. The Saudis time reconciliation proved much TPact, and the Arab League. did not support Qatari succession of harder. Mattis and Tillerson Anecdotes from the Arab League leave power, a position that ensured the Not only Qatar was unwilling to go stressed that the United little to be desired. It is said that in one of its continuity of antagonism between the back to the eve before the crisis broke States aims “to achieve the meetings, late Iraqi President Saddam Hus- two sides. out, this time Qataris demanded that complete, verifiable and sein became so angry that he threw an As rivalry grew between them, differences between Gulf states should irreversible denuclearisation ashtray at his Syrian counterpart, the late Qatar inched closer toward the Muslim be resolved either bilaterally, or within China’s move of the Korean Peninsula and Hafez Assad. In more recent episodes, Lib- Brotherhood, a group that the Saudis the GCC. Doha argued that if every to amend its a dismantling of the regime’s ya’s Moammar Gadhafi accused Saudis of have been fighting since the 1920s and time there are problems it has to hear ballistic-missile customs rules to selling out to America, prompting a harsh that Riyadh perceives of as an existen- about its rivals imposing their boycott programmes.” rebuke from then Saudi Crown Prince tial threat to the very foundation of its from the news, rather than through implement UN Going by the reputation Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. A similar heated system, based on tribal allegiance diplomatic or GCC channels, then sanctions shows of Kim’s regime or the lack of exchange, which included cursing of mus- rather than the “consultation” that the there was no reason why the GCC it is now ready to it, the international taches, took place between former Iraqi Islamists call for. should live on. act against North community should not be Vice President Izzat Douri and a Kuwaiti Saudi-Qatari rivalry came to a Despite the hardships, Kuwait has lulled into a state of delegation. head in 2014 when Saudi Arabia, the persisted with its mediation. Without Korea. complacency just because Like other big organizations, the Arab UAE and Bahrain severed ties with the GCC, the region will be fragmented top US officials are striving to League showed an inability to lead or Qatar, accusing it of supporting Islam- into alliances and sunk into more bit- throw up a semblance of resolve differences. The failure prompted ist groups, which the three Gulf allies ter rivalries. Kuwaiti officials have deceptive calm. smaller countries, who usually benefit from call “terrorist” groups. Saudi Arabia said that they will continue with their The hermit state’s regime world order and international bodies, to and its allies, on one hand, and Qatar, attempts to rescue the GCC, because is known for its egregious work for the creation of smaller regional on the other, were clearly in disagree- there is no alternative to the council. nature. The system if any in Kim’s North Korea, eludes ones. ment over the aftermath of the Arab Should the contending parties refuse checks and balances — which will be too much to expect Hence in 1981, and under from Spring. to reconcile, the GCC might simply die. in a set up given to one man’s whims and fancies. revolutionary Iran, Kuwait initiated the cre- Kuwait, the founder of GCC, sprang In 2000, the election of George W. That a rogue state has been able to jolt the ation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), into action. Through shuttle diplo- Bush marked the early beginnings of international community with its pugilistic bringing together six of the seven Arab macy, the Kuwaitis managed to bridge a sustained American attack against pronouncements is proof enough that the global order states that border the Persian Gulf. Iraq was the gap and bring the GCC back the UN. Since then, Congress has has to recalibrate its preferences and ways of dealing deemed not to be a Gulf state, on the together. often defunded whatever UN organi- with such regimes. It was China that Washington and grounds that the country shared only a tiny But other than sharing cultural sations that have recognized the State other countries were expecting to act in order to sliver of gulf shore. heritage, GCC members had little to of Palestine. The rise of Donald economically and politically emasculate the regime of But geography was not the only reason agree on. Decision-making in the Trump saw stronger attacks on inter- Kim. Yesterday, Beijing finally changed its customs rules to keep Iraq out. Baghdad was engaged in a council was by consensus, rather than national and regional organisations, to stop imports of coal and other commodities from its bitter war with Iran, and Gulf countries by voting, which further complicated with Nato being the favorite target of maverick neighbour. This came after the UN Security probably feared that inviting Iraq would conflict resolution. Trump’s misinformed criticism. In Council slapped sanctions on Pyongyang. China’s nod to invite Iranian wrath. The 2014 reconcili- Britain, a majority voted to break Since 1981, the GCC has worked in a rel- ation gave the GCC a away from the EU. the curbs have propped Washington and Seoul’s attempt atively smooth manner, especially when new lease on life, As post-WWII order breaks at hitting the North’s finances that are largely used to compared to the dysfunctional Arab League. though a short one. By apart and comes under attack, and fund its missile programme. Saudi Arabia, the biggest and most populous summer 2017, it was as international organisations prove of the Gulf states, dominated the council, clear that the policies inadequate in performing their whose annual meetings are held, by rota- basic tasks, such as stopping massa- tion, in one of the member states. cres in Syria, there is no reason to QUOTE OF THE DAY Oman, the closest to Iran in the Gulf, As post-WWII order breaks believe that the GCC can survive often checked Saudi dominance and hin- apart and comes under while similar configurations dered attempts at further unity within the attack, and as international become too weak and irrelevant or When I see that we have GCC, the most recent of which was in organisations prove break up and dissolve. much that is very dear to Kuwait in 2013, when Saudi Arabia lobbied It remains to be seen whether the us — freedom of religion, for the creation of a joint military com- inadequate in performing Kuwaitis can pull one more rabbit out freedom of opinion, freedom mand, to be headquartered in Riyadh, along their basic tasks, such as of their hat and keep the GCC together, with full market integration and a common stopping massacres in at least to give the impression that the of movement, democracy, currency. council, which never realized its goal respect for human values — Fearing Saudi hegemony, and perhaps Syria, there is no reason of Gulf unity, can still function as an then it is clear that Europe with Iranian instigation, Oman torpedoed to believe that the GCC annual get-together for Gulf leaders. makes us stronger than we the plan for a joint military command. The can survive while similar would be on our own. GCC thus maintained its status as a council configurations become of neighboring countries. The writer is a Washington-based political But Iran wished to further weaken the too weak and irrelevant or analyst. He has written for The New York Angela Merkel GCC, first and foremost its archrival Saudi break up and dissolve. Times, The Washington Post and Kuwaiti German Chancellor Arabia. To that effect, Iranian Foreign daily Al Rai, among others. TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 OPINION 09 Why Trump can’t respond to Charlottesville

man who ran a housing and Timothy L O’Brien real-estate business with his Bloomberg father that was investigated and sanctioned by the Justice Department in the 1970s for discriminating against prospec- tive tenants of color. He’s the onald Trump, the hip-hop mogul Rus- same man who brought Steve sell Simmons once told me, is “the Bannon, the former boss of official bling-bling white man.” Breitbart, the white-nationalist Simmons, a frequent guest at tribune, into the White House. Mar-a-Lago, was explaining to me Trump is the same man who Dmore than a decade ago why Trump had gained refused last year to explicitly con- widespread acclaim among rappers. In short, demn former Ku Klux Klan Grand Simmons said, Trump was extravagant, obsessed Wizard David Duke. “I know with public displays of his wealth and loving nothing about David Duke; I every minute of it. Rappers saw Trump as a role know nothing about white model, and as someone who was inclusive. “A lot supremacists,” Trump told CNN at of rich white guys want to thumb their noses at the time. you and have their cake,” Simmons said. “That’s Duke himself knows better. not Donald.” He joined the Charlottesville rally Simmons and Trump aren’t pals anymore. over the weekend, telling NBC Simmons now describes the president as that he attended because he saw the “epitome” of “white supremacy.” Shortly the event as a “turning point” for after Trump was elected last year, Simmons white nationalists seeking to “ful- published a letter asking him to reconsider fill the promises of Donald some of his campaign themes. “The far right Trump.” wing and the alt-right were your most staunch David Duke is right. And supporters, but those people are not your Russell Simmons is right. The friends and you know that,” Simmons wrote. president has long consorted “You must stop with the hateful and harmful freely with bigotry, dignifying language towards women and people of and empowering the racism color.” that’s now unspooling onto our Trump hasn’t taken Simmons’s advice. He streets. has never really distanced himself from the People gather in front of the White House in Washington, DC for a vigil in response to the death of a white nationalists who have been among his The writer is the executive editor counter-protester in the Unite the Right rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, . most visible backers since he announced his of Bloomberg Gadfly and Bloomb- presidential bid two years ago. And last week- erg view. He has been an editor end he reached a new low when he failed to removal of a statue of Confederate General Charlottesville, or simply because he’s pandering and writer for the New York Times, clearly condemn the avowed racists who gath- Robert E Lee. to a vocal and vicious segment of his political the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost ered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the The rally turned violent, a woman was killed by base. and Talk magazine. His books an alleged white nationalist, and Trump equivo- I suspect, rather, that the president isn’t being include “TrumpNation: The Art of cated: “Many sides” were to blame for the tragedy, clear and forceful about Charlottesville because Being The Donald.” he said in a televised statement on Saturday. he has a long history as a race-baiter himself — Trump has never really After then being pilloried by activists, politi- and to overtly condemn others for the same is distanced himself from cians from both parties, the media, and on and on, beyond him. the white nationalists who Trump — who typically seizes any opportunity to Remember, our president is the same man who opine publicly about the news of the day — took out full-page newspaper ads in 1989 con- have been among his most couldn’t come up with anything much better than demning black and Latino teenagers accused of visible backers since he that initial statement. He took to Twitter to express assaulting a white jogger in Central Park. announced his presidential his disappointment (“but Charlottesville sad!” he Trump had no need to insert himself in that D-RING ROAD offered) and then his daughter Ivanka Trump event, other than to stir up the racial animosi- POST BOX: 3488 bid two years ago. And entered the fray to say what her father apparently ties brewing around it and exploit them for his last weekend he reached wasn’t willing to: “There should be no place in own publicity. Even after the teenagers were DOHA - QATAR a new low when he failed society for racism, white supremacy and fully exonerated, including by DNA evidence [email protected] to clearly condemn the neo-nazis.” proving they weren’t the assailants, Trump con- The White House also sought to mollify the tinued to insist on their guilt as recently as last avowed racists who president’s critics, issuing a statement on Sunday year. 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LOCAL NEWS SECTION The Google memo isn’t the interesting part TEL: 4455 7743 BUSINESS NEWS SECTION that those goals weren’t useful at all? influential companies in the world. TEL: 4462 7535 Christine Emba Damore’s firing was likewise seen as validat- Major media outlets are clamoring to interview him, The Washington Post ing the fears of the right. New ideologies around and he has received public and private support, includ- SPORT NEWS SECTION gender, diversity and other flash points seem ever ing job offers at organizations where his views are more TEL: 4455 7745 more strictly enforced, and many who would dis- welcome. All is not lost. sent feel that it’s impossible to do so without And frankly, Google was well within its rights to ONLINE SECTION repercussions. Do social conservatives still have a fire him. 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More the man nor his memo Such signaling is more likely to harden opinions than [email protected] important is how the uproar has deftly is the most interesting change minds, and makes it harder to have an open uncovered social anxieties that are gain- debate in the future. To avoid confirmation bias and be ing steam across the political spectrum, part of this story. able to make a clear case for your values, you have to be and coming to a head in Silicon Valley More important is how willing to hear the other side. All thoughts and views and beyond. the uproar has deftly In addition, piling onto one problematic software expressed in these columns Voices from the left were loudest uncovered social engineer as a stand-in for a whole system of oppression after the memo went viral. Gender is a distraction from larger goals. Sure, forcing Google to are those of the writers, not equality and diversity movements anxieties that are fire him might provide a temporary high. But will it help of the newspaper. have advanced, but their hold remains gaining steam across to diversify Silicon Valley in the long run? The Google tenuous in powerful spaces such as the political spectrum, management team can now say it stood up for diversity All correspondence Google. and coming to a head even as men continue to fill 80 percent of engineering regarding Views and Will advocates be able to defend roles and women allegedly make tens of thousands of Opinion pages should be their hard-won successes against those, in Silicon Valley and dollars less than their male colleagues. I’d like to read like the memo-writer, who think that beyond. the memo on how getting rid of one graceless engineer mailed to the enough has been achieved — or worse, will make a dent in that. [email protected] 10 ASIA TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

PM must apologise President for Gorakhpur deaths: Congress

New Delhi calls for new IANS

THE CONGRESS yesterday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apolo- tolerant India gise to the nation during his Independence Day address for New Delhi “deliberate criminal negligence” IANS In his first address to on part of the government that the nation, on the eve led to the death of over 60 chil- alling for creating a dren in a hospital in Uttar of 71st Independence New India by 2022, Pradesh’s Gorakhpur. President Ram Nath Day, President Ram Terming the government Kovind yesterday Nath Kovind hailed “insensitive”, the party also hit Workers fix lights at the India Gate on the eve of Independence Day celebrations in New said the country must the government’s out at BJP President Amit Shah Delhi, yesterday. Cbe a compassionate and egali- demonetisation decision for his remarks that “such inci- tarian society that does not and the people’s dents do happen”, saying it was discriminate on gender or reli- “wholehearted” support society rushing towards the belief in unity and discipline, He said it is also for each indi- a “matter of shame and gious background. future, but also a compassion- faith in a synthesis of heritage vidual to ensure that daughters sadness”. In his first address to the in the battle against ate society,” he said. and science, and promotion of are not discriminated against The party also demanded nation, on the eve of 71st Inde- corruption and black The second Dalit President the rule of law and of education and get the best education while that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis- pendence Day, he hailed the money, voluntarily said India must be a compas- - all of it was located in a part- promoting idea of “Beti Bachao, ter Yogi Adityanath and Health government’s demonetisation giving up LPG fuel sionate society where the nership between citizen and Beti Padhao.” Minister Siddharth Nath Singh decision and the people’s subsidy and the roll out traditionally disadvantaged, government,” he said. “The government can frame must resign and an FIR be “wholehearted” support in the of Goods and Services whether SCs, STs or OBCs are Asking people to work with laws and strengthen law lodged on the charges of “delib- battle against corruption and part of the country’s national unity and purpose to ensure that enforcement - but it is for each erate criminal negligence”. black money, voluntarily giving Tax. development process. benefits of government policy of us to be a law-abiding citizen. “The deaths that took place up LPG fuel subsidy and the roll Recalling the role of freedom reach all sections of society, the And to build a law-abiding soci- in Gorakhpur is only because out of Goods and Services Tax. New India must include “that fighters, Kovind said people President said for this the part- ety. The government is pushing negligence of the government. He referred to Gandhi, integral humanist component need to draw inspiration from nership between citizens and transparency and eliminating PM Narendra Modi reacts to Nehru, Patel, Bose and various that is in our DNA and which has them and imbibe their spirit and government remains essential. corruption in public recruitment every incidents outside the other freedom fighters and also defined our country and our invoke it in the task of nation He said it is for each individual and procurement - but it is for country on Twitter, but has no invoked Jana Sangh ideologue civilisation”. building. “The stress on the to ensure a Swachh Bharat and each of us to answer to our inner time to react on this incident. Deen Dayal Upadhyay, saying “New India must be a moral basis of policy and action, make India open defecation free. conscience in everyday life.” This is very unfortunate. “We would expect the prime minister to apologise to the nation on Tuesday when he’ll be address- ing the nation on Independence Delhi to deport Rohingyas regardless of UN registration Day for the negligence on part of the government that in the Gora- khpur incident,” said Congress New Delhi high-profile minister in Prime citizenship in Myanmar and spokesperson Ajay Maken. Reuters Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu classified as illegal immigrants, Slamming Amit Shah, Maken nationalist government, said in despite claiming roots there that said: “When deaths have taken ll of an estimated 40,000 an interview on the weekend go back centuries, with commu- place due to criminal negligence, Rohingya Muslims living that the UNHCR registration was nities marginalized and BJP president Amit shah says Ain India are illegal immi- irrelevant. occasionally subjected to com- ‘such incidents do happen’. If the grants, even those registered “They are doing it, we can’t munal violence. BJP president makes such with the UN refugee agency, and stop them from registering. But Hundreds of thousands of remarks, then is is a matter of the government aims to deport we are not signatory to the Rohingya have fled from Myan- shame and sadness. How can we them, a senior government offi- accord on refugees,” he said. mar, with many taking refuge in expect the government to be cial said. “As far as we are concerned Bangladesh, and some then sensitive towards children.” Junior interior minister they are all illegal immigrants crossing a porous border into Maken also said: “In Sep- Kiren Rijiju told parliament last They have no basis to live here. Hindu-majority India. tember 2016, Rahul Gandhiji had week the central government Anybody who is illegal migrant Many have also headed to raised the encephalitis issue, had directed state authorities to will be deported.” Southeast Asia, often on rickety which fell on deaf ears as usual identify and deport illegal immi- The UNHCR’s India office boats run by people-smuggling because of sheer arrogance. grants including Rohingya, who said the principle of non- gangs. Rohingya are generally vil- “If they don’t take seriously face persecution in Buddhist- refoulement – or not sending A family, belonging to Rohingya Community from Myanmar, ified in India and over the past few the warning of a senior leader majority Myanmar. The United back refugees to a place where eats breakfast at a makeshift shelter in a camp in New Delhi. months, there has been a string of of the principal opposition party, Nations High Commissioner for they face danger – was consid- anti-Rohingya protests. Rijiju then how can you expect the Refugees (UNHCR) has issued ered part of customary declined to comment on the government to sensitive. Despite identity cards to about 16,500 international law and binding on a plan to deport Rohingya refu- Myanmar has emerged as its most deportation process, even as some repeated warnings, they did not Rohingya in India that it says all states whether they have gees, and had not got any reports contentious human rights issue human rights activists question act.” Maken noted that the oxy- help them “prevent harassment, signed the Refugee Convention deportations were taking place. as it makes a transition from dec- the practicality of rounding up and gen supplier had written two arbitrary arrests, detention and or not. The office said it had not The treatment of the roughly ades of harsh military rule. expelling thousands of people letters to the Chief Minister - on deportation”. But Rijiju, a received any official word about one million Rohingya in The Rohingya are denied scattered across the country. August 9 and on April 6 - about the delay in payment. JD-U suspends Strict action against those who 21 rebels in Bihar misbehave with women: Kerala CM PATNA: Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) yesterday THRISSUR: Strict action will be taken against those who misbe- suspended 21 members, have with women, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said including former minister yesterday. “The recent stand of the government regarding those Ramai Ram, for six years on who misbehave with women will reveal what we stand for,” he charges of anti-party activi- said, after taking the salute at the passing out parade of women ties after they backed rebel constables here. “No one who misbehave with women, irrespec- leader Sharad Yadav, who has tive of their standing in society, will be spared, Tough action has opposed Chief Minister Nit- been taken and that is evident from what has happened in Ker- ish Kumar’s decision to tie up ala in recent times,” he said. with the BJP. Among the leaders sus- pended are Arjun Rai, a 5 swine flu deaths in Madhya Pradesh former MP from Sitamarhi, former MLA Raj Kishore BHOPAL: Swine flu has so far claimed five lives in Madhya Pradesh Sinha and former MLC Vijay while 143 persons, suspected of having the deadly disease, have A villager walks along a submerged railway track in the flood-affected Jakhalabandha area Verma. Two district presi- been tested in the state, health officials said. “Diseases such as in Koliabor, some 186km from Guwahati, the capital of east Indian state of Assam, yesterday. dents and five block level swine flu, dengue, malaria, chikungunya, etc. are being analysed presidents are also in the list. everyday. From July 1 to August 13, 143 persons suspected of hav- Bihar JD-U President ing the deadly disease have been tested in the state. Of the 140 Heavy rains and water released Vashistha Narayan Singh reports that we have thus received, 28 persons have tested posi- issued a statement naming tive for swine flu. As we are yet to receive three reports, five persons the 21 who were stripped off have died of swine flu in the state,” the Health Department said. by Nepal maroon hundreds in UP their primary membership. The JD-U on Saturday Lucknow an embankment was breached flooding and flood waters removed Sharad Yadav, who Three Manipur terrorists held in Delhi IANS following which flood waters entered the famous Lehda tem- opposed the party’s decision entered some villages. ple here, an official said. to ally with the BJP in Bihar, NEW DELHI: Three members of a Manipur-based banned terror t least two persons were Rivers were in spate in The discharge of water at as its leader in the Rajya Sabha outfit, including its self-styled commander-in-chief, have been killed and two others Gorakhpur and Siddharthana- the Balmikinagar barrage was and replaced him with R C P arrested in Delhi, police said. Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s Awashed away in a deluge gar districts. More than a dozen recorded at 3,92,050 cusecs in Singh, a trusted lieutenant of War Group) chief Laishram Ranjit Meitei, 45, Khumanthem Naobicha induced by heavy rains in Maha- people were injured in a house the morning. Government offi- Nitish Kumar. On Friday, the Singh, 36, and Thoidam Chaothoi, 30, were arrested from near the rajganj yesterday even as collapse in Maharajganj. Rohin, cials said adequate JD-U suspended its Rajya Inter-State Bus Terminus in north Delhi on Sunday evening, Deputy monsoon torrents and water Rapti, Jharahi and Pyaas rivers arrangements were being made Sabha member Ali Anwar Commissioner of Police Pramod Kushwah said. A laptop, a tablet, released by neighbouring Nepal in Maharajganj were in spate for rescue and relief and enough Ansari from the parliamentary two mobile phones and extortion letters were seized from the men continued to cause havoc in the and crossed their respective food items, medicines and other party after he attended a who the police said were looking for a safe hideout in Delhi after eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh. danger mark. Vehicular traffic essentials were being given to meeting of opposition parties their hideout on the India-Nepal border was busted by security forces. The Jharahi river continued on the Nautanwa-Thoothibari people in the flood-affected convened by Congress chief “They target schools, businessmen and owners of oil tankers to extort to be in spate and road was disrupted due to areas. Sonia Gandhi. money for funding their terror activities,” the officer said. TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 ASIA 11

Pakistan's Interim Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang (second left) during a flag hoisting ceremony to mark the Pakistan’s Independence Day in Islamabad, yesterday. RIGHT: Students hold national flags during a ceremony at the mausoleum of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Air show marks Pakistan I-Day celebration Karachi scandal to border tensions. Premier Wang Yang presided Independence Day neighboring India to witness the Saba Ahmed, a young girl Anatolia The day began with a 31-gun over a flag-raising ceremony at flag-hoisting ceremony chaired from Islamabad, said she was salute in Islamabad and cities, Parliament House. The celebration began by Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed very happy to see the Turkish ore than 200 mil- towns and villages were deco- The Turkish Air Force’s with a 31-gun salute in Bajwa late Sunday night. jets. lion Pakistanis rated with green and white flags world-renowned demonstration Islamabad and cities, The air show at Fatima “I really enjoyed the air show marked 70 years and posters of national heroes. team -- SOLOTURK --also towns and villages Jinnah park Islamabad filled the today and I am especially of independence Special prayers were offered joined Pakistan’s 70th independ- were decorated with skies of Islamabad with rainbow thankful to the Turkish nation, yesterday with the and President Mamnoon Hus- ence day celebrations, leaving green and white flags colors as thousands witnessed government and their air force Mcountry facing challenges rang- sain, Prime Minister Shahid the crowds dazzled with their and posters of national the flight demonstration of who participated in our country’s ing from terrorism to political Khaqan Abbasi and Chinese Vice unique display. heroes. Special prayers Pakistani Air Force jets. birthday celebrations and made Traffic came to a halt across were offered and Pres- This year aerobatic teams this event colorful for us,” Ahmed the country as the national from Turkish Air Force and said. ident Mamnoon anthem was played at 8am local Royal Saudi Air Force’s Saudi On Sunday, Pakistan Air Hussain, Prime Minis- time (0500 GMT). Hawks also participated in the Force officials had warmly Wang congratulated Pakistan ter Shahid Khaqan air show. welcomed the SOLOTURK team on its independence day and said Abbasi and Chinese SOLOTURK team comprised during a ceremony at the Air the time-tested Sino-Pak Vice Premier Wang of two F-16 jets piloted by Capt Force Headquarters in friendship would last for Yang presided over a Erhan Guner and Capt Serdar Islamabad, and called their generations to come. flag-raising ceremony Dogan who were supported by participation at the air show as “Our friendship is higher at Parliament House. 11 other personnel. another sign of brotherly ties than the mountains, deeper than When Turkish jets appeared between both countries. the oceans, stronger than steel, above Islamabad, people raised Pakistani F-16s, JF-17 and sweeter than honey,” PTV slogans of Turkey Zindabad Thunder jets, Puma, Augusta and quoted the Chinese vice ceremony, which is one of the (Long Live Turkey), according to Mi-17 helicopters also performed president as saying. main attractions on PTV. at the air show while army Meanwhile, thousands of independence day. “Today, I am feeling proud commandos demonstrated an air people visited the mausoleum of Thousands others wearing of Pakistani and Turkish air drop and fly-past from the Pakistan’s founder -- Quaid-e- dresses in the colors of Pakistani forces, and there is no doubt that helicopters. Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah national flag -- green and white both countries have the world’s A separate airshow was also -- in the country’s commercial flag – also gathered at best pilots who can do anything held by the sea in Karachi in Pakistan Air Force pilots demonstrate their skills during an capital Karachi to pay homage northeastern Wagha border near “ Gohar Ali, one of the spectators which only Pakistani jets air show. and witness the change of guard Lahore city, which is next to who witnessed the airshow, said. participated.

25 dead as IS Australia scraps asylum-seeker secrecy laws militants and Sydney camps in Nauru and on Papua restrict the definition of unau- The previous provisions that holding people on Manus Milf clash AFP New Guinea’s Manus Island. thorised disclosures to were set to be challenged in the was unconstitutional, and Can- Refugee advocates and med- information relating to the High Court by rights group Doc- berra is set to shut the camp later Manila ustralia is scrapping ical professionals have long national or public interest. tors for Refugees, which this year. Reuters secrecy laws designed to criticised conditions in the He told parliament last week welcomed the government’s The detainees will be moved Astop whistleblowers from camps, where some detainees the 2015 changes had “not kept U-turn. to third countries such as the US FIGHTING between gov- speaking out about alleged abuse have been held for years. pace with the developments in “This is a stunning victory for and Cambodia or be resettled in ernment-backed separatist at offshore asylum-seeker The secrecy provisions were the modern border anyone in Australia who believes PNG. rebels and pro-IS militants detention camps, in a move introduced in 2015, making it a environment”. people who are concerned about Canberra has been criticised have killed at least 25 people which campaigners yesterday jailable offence for immigration “The definition of the infor- abuse or neglect should be for its asylum-seeker policies but in the southern Philippines, hailed as a victory for free department workers to speak out mation to be protected has been allowed to speak out,” Barri defends its tough stance as nec- the army said yesterday, as speech. about conditions in the centres. refined to include only certain Phatarfod from Doctors for Ref- essary to stamp out the military battles to restore Asylum-seekers who try to But Immigration Minister kinds of information” such as ugees said in a statement people-smuggling and stop asy- order on the troubled island reach Australia by boat are either Peter Dutton last week moved national security and defence, Monday. lum-seekers dying at sea in of Mindanao. turned back or sent to remote an amendment to the law to Dutton added. A PNG court ruled last year rickety boats. Soldiers provided artillery support for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), a rebel group with which the govern- ment has signed a peace 173 dead as monsoon Malaysian Princess marries Dutchman agreement, to try to tackle extremists, spokesman Colo- Johor Bahru nel Gerry Besana said. flooding ravages S Asia AFP The Milf and the govern- ment have agreed to work he daughter of one of together to thwart several Kunauli of people reported missing after Malaysia’s most powerful militant groups in Mindanao AP rivers burst their banks and Tsultans married her Dutch that have pledged allegiance killed at least 80, according to fiance yesterday in a tradition- to IS fighters. eavy monsoon rains police spokesman Pushkar filled ceremony during a day of The Milf is opposed to have unleashed land- Karki. lavish celebrations witnessed by radical groups and sees them Hslides and floods that “The death toll may go up crowds of excited as undermining its legitimate killed at least 173 people in further as reports come in from well-wishers. quest for greater autonomy recent days and displaced mil- remote areas,” Karki said. Princess Tunku Tun Aminah for Muslims in parts of Mind- lions more across northern Many of those killed had Sultan Ibrahim, 31, the only anao, to end nearly 50 years India, southern Nepal and drowned or been caught in col- daughter of the Sultan of Johor, of conflict that has killed Bangladesh. lapsed houses or under toppled tied the knot with Dennis more than 120,000 people Officials said yesterday that trees. The floods destroyed key Muhammad Abdullah, 28, cap- The wedding ceremony between Dutchman Dennis and displaced 2 million. they were still trying to deter- rice crops in Nepal and drove ping a romance of over three Muhammad Abdullah and Johor Princess Tunku Tun Aminah “Based on reports from mine the scale of the disaster, thousands of farmers and their years. Maimunah Iskandariah Sultan Ibrahim is projected on a giant ceasefire monitors, the two as weather forecasters pre- families to take refuge in The Dutchman, who has screen for public viewing at Dataran Bandaraya, in Johor sides suffered 25 casualties, dicted more rain for some areas schools or tents on higher converted to Islam, and the Bahru, yesterday. including 20 from the ISIS- and casualties were reported ground, as water submerged princess wed according to Mus- inspired group,” Besana said in multiple locations across the roads and cut transport to lim Malay custom at the Serene family and friends. placing the ring on his bride’s yesterday. Himalayan foothills of South affected areas. Hill Palace, the royal family’s The groom wore traditional finger in a special room of the He said 10 Milf were Asia. Landslides and flooding are residence in the southern city of white Malay wedding attire and palace and offering a dowry of wounded and were being Nepalese police were common across South Asia dur- Johor Bahru. The private cere- the bride wore a white dress, around $5, in line with centu- treated at a military searching yesterday for scores ing summer monsoon season. mony was attended by close with Dennis Muhammad ries-old local customs. hospital. 12 EUROPE TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

Armed London Multiple terror police to wear head-mounted attack plot in cameras Istanbul Anatolia Moscow foiled ARMED police in London will wear head-mounted cameras in future to ensure “greater Moscow Bombers held transparency,” the UK secu- AFP rity forces said yesterday. FSB said that security “The cameras are being ussia’s FSB security officers detained issued to all the Armed service said yester- members of the Response Units in our Fire- day that it had group outside arms Command, allowing captured a gang Moscow as they them to wear the new tech- planning major plotted “a series of nology on their baseball caps Rattacks on Moscow transport terrorist attacks in and ballistic helmets,” a networks and shopping centres, crowded public police statement read. directed by members of the IS places including on Officers will receive jihadist group from Syria. around 1,000 cameras “to public transport and Security officers detained encompass the additional in major shopping members of the group outside firearms officers”. More than Moscow as they plotted “a centres in Moscow 17,500 body-worn cameras Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) welcomes General Khalifa Haftar (left), series of terrorist attacks in using suicide are already in service. crowded public places includ- bombers and commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA), during a meeting, in Moscow, yesterday. Most police officers in the ing on public transport and in powerful explosive UK -- with the exception of major shopping centres in Mos- devices. Northern Ireland -- patrol cow using suicide bombers and Russia backs Libya peace plan unarmed. powerful explosive devices,” “The cameras offer the FSB said. captured, three from Central Moscow ways to execute the Skhirat administration is based in Lib- greater transparency for It said it had determined the Asian states and one a Russian AFP political agreement that would ya’s remote east. those in front of the camera attacks were being organised by citizen. be acceptable for everyone,” The two rivals agreed a as well as those behind it,” IS warlords and emissaries who Russia’s Rossiya 24 state ussian Foreign Minister Lavrov said. ceasefire at talks in France last Matt Twist, police chief in are in Syria, which it identified television showed FSB footage Sergei Lavrov yesterday The UN-backed Skhirat month and committed to hold- charge of Firearms Com- as T M Nazarov and A M of the raid on a house in which Rbacked the efforts of Lib- Agreement was reached in 2015 ing elections, a plan which was mand, said. Shirindzhonov. plainclothes officers are seen ya’s military commander Khalifa as the basis for a political proc- endorsed by the UN Security Mayor of London Sadiq Media outlets in Tajikistan pinning two young men wear- Haftar and his rival UN-backed ess in Libya, but it had been Council. Khan said that the technol- reported this month that a man ing black rucksacks to the floor Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj rejected by Haftar and other Yesterday, Lavrov empha- ogy “will make a real named Todzhiddin Nazarov, and handcuffing them. It also to reach a peace agreement in factions. sised the UN’s role in the peace difference to those carrying also known as Abu Osama showed what it said was equip- the conflict-ridden country. “We support your intent on process, adding that the new UN firearms, increasing account- Noraka, had appeared in IS ment used to mix chemicals. “We actively support the achieving some progress,” Lav- special envoy to Libya, Ghassan ability and helping to gather video statements from Syria Russia regularly announces emerging trend to step up the rov said. Salame, who started work this better evidence for swifter posted on pro-jihadist sites. that it has foiled major terrorist process of political resolution, Libya has been in chaos month, was also due in justice”. The FSB said officers raided attacks, and recently has empha- towards a full restoration of since the 2011 uprising that top- Moscow. According to a July report a bomb-making laboratory out- sised the threat from former statehood in your country,” Lav- pled longtime dictator Moamer “Unfortunately, the situation by the UK’s Independent side Moscow and captured the Soviet countries in Central Asia. rov told Haftar in remarks Kadhafi. in your country continues to be Police Complaints Commis- group’s coordinator, an IS emis- The FSB said in July that it released by foreign ministry. Sarraj, who was appointed complicated. The threat of sion (IPCC) there were six sary in Russia, as well as an had detained seven nationals “We know about your last year to lead the new gov- extremism has not been over- fatal police shootings in the explosives expert and two from Central Asia who were efforts, together with Sarraj, ernment of national accord, has come, though we know about country in the 2016/2017 potential suicide bombers. “preparing terrorist attacks” in aimed at achieving a generally been unable to assert his author- the actions being taken to erad- period, compared to three in It said that four people were Saint Petersburg. accepted agreement on optimal ity outside Tripoli. Haftar’s rival icate it,” Lavrov said. 2015/2016.

Macron condemns terror attack in Ouagadougou ‘Show brotherhood by Paris which left at least 18 people France remains committed AFP dead, including at least one to pursuing the fight against ter- French national, according to rorist groups in west Africa and welcoming migrants’ rench President Emmanuel Paris prosecutors. accelerating work to set up a Macron (pictured) yester- Macron and his counterpart planned Sahel force to fight Rome Fday condemned an in the former French colony, Roch jihadists, the statement said. AP overnight assault by presumed Marc Christian Kabore, will dis- Macron visited the region in jihadists on a Turkish restaurant cuss the situation later Monday, early July, when he said he ope Francis is praising acceptance for migrants as a way in Ouagadougou, calling it a his office said in a statement. wanted the force, which will ini- to show brotherhood, even as Europe’s welcome mat “terrorist attack”. “The president of the repub- tially count some 5,000 troops Pwears thin. In a statement, Macron also lic will hold talks during the day and begin its operations in Mali, Francis sent a message yesterday to a diocesan-organised praised the “effective mobilisa- with his counterpart, President Burkina Faso and Niger, to be conference in southern Italy promoting brotherhood in the tion” of the Burkina security Roch Marc Kabore, in order to operational by the end of Mediterranean area. He encouraged Christians, young people forces in ending the assault, evaluate the situation.” August. and “all persons of good will to consider the presence of migrants an opportunity for human growth, encounter and dialogue” as well as an opportunity to practice charity. In the last few years, Italy has taken on hundreds of thou- UK to reduce sands of asylum-seekers, many of them economic migrants, who were rescued at sea from smugglers’ boats setting out from Libya’s coast. alcohol-related Several European countries have refused to follow EU- assigned quotas to distribute the migrants. Many Italian air incidents politicians acknowledge Italy’s patience for caring for migrants is fraying. London Anatolia

THE British government is con- sidering stronger measures German prosecutors begin to deal with drunken airline passengers amid reports the number of alcohol-linked air probe against Swiss spies incidents has risen by over a fifth in 12 months. Berlin western allies and underlines According to British AFP how seriously Germany is tak- police data obtained by the ing the case of Daniel M, who BBC, 387 intoxicated people erman prosecutors have has been charged with spying were arrested in UK airports opened a probe against for Switzerland’s NDB intelli- between February 2016 and Gthree Swiss intelligence gence service on German February 2017; the compara- agents on suspicion of spying authorities hunting tax cheats. Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire near the village of Kalamos, east of Athens, yesterday. ble figure for 2015-2016 was on German authorities hunting The three new suspects, 255 arrests. tax cheats in a case that has who also work for the NDB, While the House of strained cross-border relations, have not been named. Firefighters tackle blazes near Athens Lords, the upper chamber of local media reported. The case has created serious parliament, is demanding a The new investigation by friction between the neighbours, Athens Around 150 firefighters, with blocked to allow for tens of fire strengthening of the rules federal prosecutors is related with German Foreign Minister Anatolia the help of helicopters and engines. regulating alcohol sales at to the arrest in April of a Swiss Sigmar Gabriel upbraiding Swit- planes, are still combatting to Meanwhile, Greek civil pro- airports, parliament’s Home man, identified as Daniel M, 54, zerland after Daniel M’s arrest, igh winds are driving contain fires in the coastal areas tection authorities declared a Affairs Committee has who is accused of carrying out calling the case “incredible” and wildfires near the Greek of Kalamos and Varnava. state of emergency in Zakynthos announced it is considering espionage activities against expressing hope it would not Hcapital Athens in the sec- Hundreds of holidaymakers Island to combat wildfires. The calls for a tougher German finance inspectors “wreck” the countries’ good ond day, forcing residents and and residents have been forced forest fires in the area occurred regulation. since 2012, German daily Sued- relationship. holidaymakers to flee. to spend the night on local on 12 fronts, the agency said in New proposals would deutsche Zeitung reported in He said he discussed the More than 20 houses have beaches. Campsites also have a statement on its website. restrict duty-free alcohol cooperation with public broad- affair with his Swiss counterpart already been damaged as the been evacuated as a precaution- The fire department said the sales. casters NDR and WDR. Didier Burkhalter, who assured blazes, which began on Sunday, ary measure. wildfires so far did not pose a risk Current legislation allows According to the report, the him that monitoring of German burned through pine forests Traffic in the area has been to urban areas and holiday courts to jail nuisance passen- probe launched in early August tax inspectors was not ongoing, north of the city. disrupted as roads have been resorts in Ionian Sea. gers for up to two years. is highly unusual between as it had stopped in 2014. TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 EUROPE 13 Dutch count massive cost of tainted eggs The Hague $176m back on the shelves in many Commonly used to get rid of AFP shops across the country, Dutch fleas, lice and ticks from animals, The damage is at least farmers said they were still deal- Austria finds insecticide fipronil is banned by the Euro- utch farmers and around $176m so far. ing with the fallout over eggs that pean Union from use in the food retailers yesterday It depends how quickly were found to contain the insec- Vienna lower than the highest concen- industry. were counting the we can get through ticide fipronil. AP tration, found in Belgium. The issue has sparked a row costs stemming this crisis, but it may Millions of eggs have been AGES said yesterday the between Belgium, the Nether- from the tainted- still go up: Spokesman pulled from supermarket shelves ustria’s food safety insecticide was found in ship- lands and Germany, the three Deggs scandal that swept Europe, and destroyed across Europe and agency says it has found ments of egg products for countries at the centre of the cri- saying the total ran into tens of dozens of poultry farms closed the first instances of restaurant use from Germany, sis, about how long officials Dutch farmers said A millions of euros as two men at since the discovery of contami- eggs contaminated with The Netherlands, Belgium and knew about the problem. the scandal’s centre were due to they were still dealing nation with fipronil, which can Fipronil in the country. Poland. The European Commission appear in court. with the fallout over harm human health, was made The AGES agency says Experts say the risk of get- is due to hold a meeting about “The damage is at least eggs that were found public on August 1. eight of 80 samples tested ting sick from eating an egg the contamination in around $176m so far,” said Mark to contain the Iris Odink-Schrijver, treas- nationwide yielded traces of tainted with Fipronil is low. But September. de Jong, spokesman for the ZLTO insecticide fipronil. urer of the Dutch Poultry the insecticide, with the high- the illegal use of the insecticide Belgium became the first federation of southern Dutch Farmers’ Union,said it had not est level at 0.1 milligrams a in spray to rid hens of ticks, country to officially notify the farmers and gardeners. yet estimated the damages. kilogramme. That’s below the fleas and lice has prompted European Union’s food safety “It depends how quickly we supermarket groups including “At this point we’re still EU limit of 0.72 milligrams a European food safety agencies alert system about the presence can get through this crisis, but it Albert Heijn, Aldi, Lidl and cleaning our chicken pens, hop- kilogramme and AGES says the to issue warnings and recalls of tainted eggs on July 20, fol- may still go up,” said de Jong, Jumbo. ing to finally rid them of fipronil,” traces in Austria are 10 times of possibly affected imports. lowed by the Netherlands and whose organisation represents “We had to pull eggs from the she said. Germany. about 15,000 farmers and gar- shelves in 4,000 supermarkets. Meanwhile, two men aged 31 But the discovery was not deners, many of them in the Millions of eggs had to be and 24 were to make an initial company based in the central longer,” the spokeswoman, made public until August 1. poultry sector. destroyed,” Roorda also said appearance before a judge in the Netherlands which was hired by Marieke van der Molen, said The European Union insists “Damages for supermarket recently. central Zwolle district court on farmers to treat chicken pens to yesterday. there is no threat to humans, but chains have run into tens of mil- “We are doing everything we Tuesday in connection with the eradicate parasitic red lice. Eggs tainted with fipronil the World Health Organization lions of euros,” added Rene can to restore consumer’s con- case, a spokeswoman for the “The men are to appear in a have been discovered in 17 Euro- says that when eaten in large Roorda, director of the CBL fed- fidence,” Roorda added, without public prosecutor’s office said. closed hearing before a judge pean countries since the scandal quantities it can harm people’s eration of retailers, whose going into details. The men are said to be the who will have to decide if they came to light, and have also been kidneys, liver and thyroid members include giant While untainted eggs were owners of Chickfriend, a Dutch will remain in custody for found as far afield as Hong Kong. glands. Ukraine denies producing missiles Kiev weapon has raised global ten- Union in 1991. Reuters sions in recent weeks. The “In the years of independ- United States is a key backer of ence, Yuzhmash has not kraine denied yesterday Ukraine. produced, and is not producing, that it had ever supplied The secretary of the Ukrain- missiles and military missile sys- Udefence technology to ian Security and Defence tems,” it said in a statement North Korea, responding to an Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, published on their company’s article in the New York Times said Ukraine “has never sup- website. that said North Korea may have plied rocket engines or any kind President Donald Trump purchased rocket engines from of missile technology to North warned at the weekend that the Ukrainian factory Yuzhmash. Korea.” US military was “locked and Concern that North Korea is State-owned Yuzhmash said loaded” if North Korea acted close to achieving its goal of it had not produced military- unwisely after threatening last putting the mainland United grade ballistic missiles since week to land missiles near the States within range of a nuclear independence from the Soviet US Pacific territory of Guam.

Three Russians British hacking suspect arrested over One of the four faces of the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly referred to as Big Ben, is reflected as it is pictured at the Houses of Parliament, in central London, yesterday. pleads ‘not guilty’ Italian’s death San Francisco Reuters Madrid Big Ben bell to fall silent for 4 years AP ritish cyber security researcher Marcus Hutchins pleaded London important events. photographed building in the not guilty yesterday to federal charges he built and sold POLICE in northeastern Spain Reuters “This essential programme United Kingdom, is already half Bmalicious code used to steal banking credentials. have arrested three Russians of works will safeguard the enveloped in scaffolding as part Hutchins, 23, rose to overnight fame within the hacker accused of beating a 22-year- he “Big Ben” bell in the clock on a long term basis, as of a major renovation project. community in May when he helped defang the global “Wan- old Italian man to death in the British parliament’s well as protecting and preserv- As part of the works the naCry” ransomware attack, which infected hundreds of seaside resort town of Lloret Tfamous clock tower will ing its home, the Elizabeth clock housing Big Ben will be thousands of computers in May and caused disruptions at fac- de Mar. cease its regular bongs at noon Tower,” said Steve Jaggs, Keeper dismantled and each cog exam- tories, hospitals, shops and schools in more than 150 A statement by the Mos- on August 21, falling silent for of the Great Clock. ined and restored. The clock’s countries. sos d’Esquadra regional most of the next four years while The Palace of Westminster four dials will be cleaned and He was arrested earlier this month in Las Vegas on unre- police said that officers were renovation works are carried on the bank of the River Thames repaired, their cast iron frame- lated hacking charges. US prosecutors have claimed that he sent to a discotheque at out, the House of Commons said is a world heritage site and work renewed and the hands and an unnamed co-defendant advertised, distributed and around 3am on Saturday yesterday. major tourist attraction, and removed and refurbished. profited from malware code known as “Kronos” between July where they found the Italian The hammers which have Jaggs encouraged members of One working clock face will 2014 and 2015. badly injured after a fight was struck the 13.7 tonne bell every the public to gather in nearby remain visible at all times, telling The case has drawn intense interest from the hacker com- reported. It said the man died hour for most of the last 157 Parliament Square to hear the the time silently, and it will be munity for the implications it may pose for cyber research and a day later after being admit- years will be locked and discon- final bongs next Monday. powered by a modern electric concerns it may deteriorate an often tense relationship between ted to a hospital in the nearby nected from the clock, although The 96-metre-tall Elizabeth motor until the original clock- hackers and law enforcement. city of Girona. the bongs will still sound for Tower, believed to be the most work mechanism is reinstated. Police identified the vic- tim as Niccolo Ciatti. Serbia offers solution El Prat Airport operations back to normal Romania fugitive surrenders to Madrid to end Kosovo conflict AP British police Bellgrade suggested that delimitation n indefinite strike by Bucharest Reuters between Serbs and Albanians, workers handling carry- AP the largest ethnic group in Kos- Aon baggage checks at erbia’s foreign minister ovo, would be a way out of Barcelona’s airport is having a A fugitive Romanian business- and a top ally of President what he described as Serbia’s more limited impact on passen- man sentenced to seven years SAleksandar Vucic has sug- centennial problem. gers after police have been in prison for real estate fraud gested a compromise to end a “Everyone needs a lasting deployed to help. was detained in London yes- conflict over Kosovo, the new- solution of the Serbian-Alba- Public Works Minister Inigo terday, British and Romanian est independent European state, nian conflict which can be de la Serna said the Civil Guard’s police said. that is blocking Serbia’s hopes reached only through an agree- presence had brought El Prat Gabriel Popoviciu, who of European Union ment ... where everyone will Airport back to normal after was sentenced on August 2 in membership. win something and lose some- weeks of flight delays. Bucharest, turned himself in Serbia, where many regard thing,” wrote Dacic, who is also He also said that it was nec- yesterday after Romanian Kosovo as the cradle of their First Deputy Prime Minister. essary to guarantee security at police located him in London, nation and Orthodox Christian Dacic said Serbia should the airport given that Spain was Romanian authorities said. faith, refuses to recognise the seek autonomy for Serb on high alert in case of a terror Justice Minister Tudorel independence of its former enclaves in Kosovo, a protected attack. Toader said Romania would Southern province and has status for Orthodox monaster- Passenger queues of less start extradition proceedings. been blocking its membership ies and financial compensation than 30 minutes were reported A civil guard checks passengers as they pass through a metal London’s Metropolitan in organisations including for what Serbia claims as its yesterday, down from several detector at Barcelona's El Prat Airport, yesterday. Police confirmed that offic- Interpol and Unesco. property including industrial hours in recent weeks. ers arrested Popoviciu. He In an op-ed piece published and energy facilities. The baggage screeners pay-rise offer from their decreed that they provide 90 was due to appear at West- by the Vecernje Novosti daily There was no immediate voted to intensify their strike company. percent of regular service dur- minster Magistrates Court yesterday, Ivica Dacic reaction from Pristina. action on Sunday on rejecting a The government has also ing the stoppage. later in the day. 14 AMERICAS TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 In about-face, Trump slams far-right groups

domestic terrorism.” supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all After Virginia remark “You can be sure we will charge and extremist groups.” uproar, US President says: advance the investigation towards the On a visit to Colombia, Vice-Presi- most serious charges that can be brought dent Mike Pence said: “These dangerous Racism is evil. And those because this is unequivocally an unac- fringe groups have no place in Ameri- who cause violence in ceptable, evil attack,” he told ABC. can public life and in the American its name are criminals The Justice Department has debate, and we condemn them in the and thugs, including the launched a civil rights inquiry in con- strongest possible terms.” nection with the incident, and the driver, Pence also defended Trump, saying KKK, neo-Nazis, white a 20-year-old Ohio man who was said the president “clearly and unambigu- supremacists and other to have had a history of neo-Nazi beliefs, ously condemned the bigotry, violence hate groups that are has been charged with second-degree and hatred” on display in repugnant to everything murder. Charlottesville. Yesterday, a judge denied bail for The Charlottesville mayor, Michael we hold dear as Americans. the suspected attacker, James Fields. Signer, a Democrat, however laid much After a weekend of criticism of of the blame for the violence directly Trump from both sides of the political at the president’s feet, saying on CBS Washington aisle, a prominent African-American that Trump had created an atmosphere Agencies businessman quit a presidential advi- of “coarseness, cynicism (and) sory body yesterday to protest what he bullying.” S President Donald Trump, deemed an insufficient response. Of the 19 people injured on Satur- under pressure to explicitly US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the deadly protests in “Our country’s strength stems from day, 10 remained hospitalised in good condemn a weekend rally Charlottesville, at the White House in Washington, yesterday. its diversity and the contributions made condition and nine had been released, by white supremacists that by men and women of different faiths, the University of Virginia Health Sys- ended in bloodshed, yester- Attorney General Jeff Sessions and new we hold dear as Americans,” he said. races, sexual orientations and political tem said. Uday denounced racism and slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray, Trump “To anyone who acted criminally in beliefs,” Ken Frazier, chief executive Two state police officers involved in the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis as got tough. this weekend’s racist violence, you will of Merck Pharmaceutical, said in the law enforcement deployment for the “repugnant.” “Those who spread violence in the be held fully accountable. Justice will be announcing his resignation from rally also died Saturday in a helicopter Trump had taken heat from Demo- name of bigotry strike at the very core delivered.” Trump’s American Manufacturing crash. Trump faced criticism during last crats and Republicans alike for his of America,” Trump said in nationally In an appearance Saturday at his golf Council. year’s presidential campaign for failing response to Saturday’s violence in Char- televised remarks from the White House, resort in New Jersey, Trump had faulted On Sunday, the White House and top to quickly reject a vow of support from lottesville, Virginia. where he travelled early yesterday to “many sides” for the violence but made administration officials strove to defend a former Ku Klux Klan leader, David A woman was killed and 19 others meet with his top law enforcement no specific mention of the white extrem- the president. Duke, though he eventually did so. Duke injured when a suspected Nazi sympa- aides. ists involved in the melee, some of “The president said very strongly in attended Saturday’s rally. thiser ploughed his car into a crowd of “Racism is evil. And those who cause whom wore Trump hats and T-shirts. his statement yesterday that he con- The president has long had a follow- anti-racism protesters after a violent violence in its name are criminals and Earlier yesterday, Sessions said in demns all forms of violence, bigotry and ing among white supremacist groups rally by neo-Nazis and white suprema- thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning hatred,” the White House said in a attracted to his nationalist rhetoric on cists over the removal of a Confederate white supremacists and other hate America” programme that the car statement. immigration and other hot-button statue. After meeting with groups that are repugnant to everything attack “does meet the definition of “Of course that includes white issues. SpaceX sends US officials’ remarks ease tensions on Korean Peninsula ice cream Seoul ior aides and advisers. differs from the “strategic and mice to Reuters “I am certain the United patience” Korea policy of former States will respond to the cur- President Barack Obama. ension on the Korean rent situation calmly and A global index of stocks rose, space station Peninsula eased slightly responsibly in a stance that is after fears of a US-North Korea Tyesterday as South Korea’s equal to ours,” he said. nuclear standoff had driven it to Cape Canaveral president said resolving North US Defence Secretary Jim the biggest weekly losses of 2017, AP Korea’s nuclear ambitions must Mattis and Secretary of State Rex while the dollar also be done peacefully and US offi- Tillerson sent a conciliatory mes- strengthened. SpaceX capsule rock- cials played down the risk of an sage to North Korea in an op-ed US Central Intelligence eted to the imminent war. piece in the Wall Street Journal Agency Director Mike Pompeo AInternational Space Concern that North Korea is on Sunday. said North Korean leader Kim Station yesterday, carrying close to achieving its goal of “The US has no interest in Jong Un might conduct another tons of science experiments, putting the mainland United regime change or accelerated missile test but talk of being on plus ice cream. States within range of a nuclear reunification of Korea. We do not the cusp of a nuclear war was As has become custom- weapon has caused tension to seek an excuse to garrison US overstating the risk. ary on these cargo flights, spike in recent months. troops north of the Demilitarized “I’ve seen no intelligence that SpaceX landed its leftover US President Donald Trump Zone,” the officials said, address- would indicate that we’re in that booster back at Cape Canav- warned last week that the US ing some of Pyongyang’s fears place today,” Pompeo told “Fox eral shortly after liftoff, a key military was “locked and loaded” that Washington ultimately News Sunday”. to its long-term effort to recy- if North Korea acted unwisely intends to replace the reclusive Members of community groups calling for the “de-colonisation However, North Korea reit- cle rockets and reduce costs. after threatening to land missiles country’s leadership. and de-militarisation of Guam” attend a peace rally in Hagatna erated its threats, with its official It was the 14th successful in the sea near the US Pacific ter- The article took a softer tone yesterday. KCNA news agency saying “war booster landing for SpaceX ritory of Guam. on North Korea than the presi- cannot be blocked by any power and the sixth on the giant X at “There must be no more war dent, who warned Pyongyang denuclearisation of the Korean backed by military options,” they if sparks fly due to a small, ran- the company’s designated on the Korean peninsula. What- last week of “fire and fury” if it Peninsula and a dismantling of said. dom incident that was touchdown spot at Cape ever ups and downs we face, the launched an attack. the regime’s ballistic-missile The United States is adopt- unintentional”. Canaveral Air Force Station, North Korean nuclear situation Mattis and Tillerson under- programmes.” ing a policy of “strategic “Any second Korean War just a few miles from its must be resolved peacefully,” lined that the United States aims “While diplomacy is our pre- accountability” towards North would have no choice but to NASA-leased pad at Kennedy South Korean President Moon “to achieve the complete, veri- ferred means of changing North Korea, the officials wrote, but it spread into a nuclear war,” it said Space Center. Jae-in told a meeting with sen- fiable and irreversible Korea’s course of action, it is is not clear how this significantly in a commentary. “X marks the spot for yet another picture-perfect land- ing,” announced SpaceX Mission Control at company headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Maduro seeks to capitalise Experiments make up most of the 6,400 pounds of cargo, which should reach the orbiting lab Wednesday. That on Trump’s military threat includes 20 mice that will return alive inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule in about a Caracas The vice president said the US #StopTrump and month. Reuters administration is confident that #TrumpGoHome. The Dragon is also dou- a peaceful solution could be Television interrupted cov- bling as an ice cream truck hile US Vice-President found to the crisis in oil-rich but erage of the march to broadcast this time. Mike Pence travels to economically ailing Venezuela, an address by the Defence Min- There was extra freezer WLatin America tamping where more than 120 have died ister Vladimir Padrino. With space, so NASA packed little down concern over his boss’s in anti-Maduro protests since dozens of battle-ready troops cups of vanilla, chocolate and threat of possible military action April. behind him at an army base, birthday cake ice cream, as in Venezuela, the country’s leader Trump’s comments may be a including one soldier with a well as ice cream candy bars. Nicolas Maduro sought to capi- political lifeline for the unpopu- shoulder-fired missile launcher Those treats should be espe- talise on local outrage by holding lar Maduro. Like his predecessor pointed skyward, Padrino warned cially welcomed by US an “anti-imperialist” protest and mentor, the late Hugo that the United States wants to , in yesterday. Chavez, Maduro says the coun- steal Venezuela’s oil reserves. orbit since November. She’s The march started with a late try must be unified by socialism Venezuela’s opposition coa- due back at the beginning of morning rally and was expected in order to defend against a US lition on Sunday rejected foreign September. Newly arrived US to end at the presidential palace invasion aimed at stealing Ven- threats to the country, without spaceman Randolph Bresnik where Maduro will address the ezuela’s vast oil resources. specifically identifying Trump or turns 50 next month. crowd, while a conciliatory The march started at a down- the United States while criticis- The space station was Pence continued a tour of the town square, where hundreds of ing Maduro’s close relationship zooming 250 miles above the region that began in Colombia “Chavistas” moved to the rhythms with Communist-run Cuba. Atlantic, when the Falcon on Sunday. of a local folk band playing on a Padrino criticised the oppo- took flight. The mice are part In Cartagena, Pence backped- makeshift stage. “Venezuela and sition’s position as ambivalent. of a study aimed at better alled from President Donald Latin America united against the “This is a time of reflection,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (left) with US understanding visual prob- Trump’s statement last week that empire!” a marcher shouted, Padrino said. “You are either a Vice-President Mike Pence at the Presidential guest house lems suffered in space by a “military option” was on the while the Socialist Party pro- Venezuelan patriot, or some male . in Cartagena, Colombia, yesterday. table for Venezuela. moted Twitter hashtags pro-Yankee.” TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017 BREAK TIME 15

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08:00 News 10:10 Cooper's Treasure: 11:00 Gator Boys 13:05 Star Darlings 08:30 Counting the Cost The Hunt For A 11:55 Catching 13:10 Good Luck 09:00 Al Jazeera World Secret Fortune Monsters Charlie 10:00 News 10:55 Deadliest Catch 12:50 Monster Island 15:20 Miraculous Tales 10:30 Inside Story 11:40 Devil's 13:45 Bad Dog Of Ladybug And 11:00 News Canyon 14:40 Mutant Planet Cat Noir 11:30 The Stream 12:40 Storage Hunters 15:35 Untamed & Uncut 15:45 Elena Of Avalor 12:00 News 13:10 Gold Rush 16:30 Treehouse 16:10 Liv And Maddie 12:30 Science In A Golden 13:55 Running Wild With Masters 16:35 Descendants Age Bear Grylls 17:25 Project Grizzly Wicked World 13:00 NEWSHOUR 14:40 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Guardians Of 16:40 Girl Meets World 14:00 News 15:25 Fast N' Loud Rescue 17:05 Stuck In The 14:30 Inside Story 16:10 Wheeler Dealers 19:15 Preposterous Middle 15:00 The Big Picture 17:00 How Do They Do Pets 17:30 Bunk'd 16:00 NEWSHOUR It? 20:10 Gator Boys 18:50 Best Friends 17:00 News 18:20 Storage Hunters 21:05 Project Grizzly Whenever 17:30 The Stream 18:50 Running Wild With 22:00 Guardians Of 20:10 Jessie Yesterday's answer 18:00 newsgrid Bear Grylls Rescue 20:35 Cracke 19:00 News 20:35 How Do They Do 22:55 Mutant Planet 20:40 Alex & Co. Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is a number- 19:30 Rebel Education It? 23:50 Untamed & 21:05 Austin & Ally placing puzzle based on a 9×9 grid. The object is to 20:00 News 21:00 Kings Of The Wild Uncut 21:30 Stuck In The place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so 20:30 Inside Story 21:50 Treasure Quest: 00:45 Treehouse Middle that each row, each column and each 3×3 box 21:00 NEWSHOUR Snake Island Masters 22:00 Bunk'd contains the same number only once. 22:00 News 22:40 Legend Of Croc 01:40 Preposterous 22:25 Miraculous Tales 22:30 The Stream Gold Pets Of Ladybug And 23:00 23:30 02:35 CROSSWORD Al Jazeera World Fast N' Loud Gator Boys Cat Noir HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

NOVO — Pearl SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 10:00, 11:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 4:10, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Wind River (2D/Crime) 10:00am, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 11:15 & 11:30pm The Emoji Movie(Animation) 3D 10:00am & 5:20pm 2D 11:50am & 3:30pm Arabic 1:40pm The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 7:10, 9:00 & 11:00pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 10:00am, 3:30 & 9:00pm Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 1:00, 6:30pm & 12:00midnight Boyka: Undisputed (2D/Action) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm First Kill (2D/Action) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight Baby Driver (2D/Action) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pm Jawab Leteqal (2D/Arabic) 12:15, 4:45 & 9:15pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Dunkirk (2D IMAX/Action) 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm

MALL VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 2:00 & 11:30pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:00 & 5:30pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 7:15 & 11:00pm Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2D/Telugu) 2:00pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 4:15 & 10:00pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 4:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 7:15 & 11:15pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 5:45 & 9:45pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 7:30pm Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 9:00pm

LANDMARK Podhuvaga Emmanasu Thangam (2D/Tamil) 2:15pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 2:15pm Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 2:30pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:15, 5:45 & 7:15pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 4:30 & 11:00pm Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2D/Telugu) 5:00pm VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 7:15 & 11:30pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 7:45 & 9:45pm Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 9:15pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 9:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 11:30pm

ROYAL PLAZA Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 2:00pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:30 & 6:00pm VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 3:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 2:30 & 11:30pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 4:00pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 6:00 & 10:00pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 6:45 & 11:15pm Yesterday’s answer Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 7:30 & 9:30pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 7:45pm Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 9:15pm ALL IN THE MIND Podhuvaga Emmanasu Thangam (2D/Tamil) 11:30pm ASIAN TOWN Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 5:15, 7:45, 8:15 & 10:15pm Podhuvaga (2D/Tamil) 5:45 & 10:30pm VIP-2 (2D/Tamil) 6:00, 8:45, 9:00 & 11:30pm Toliet Ek Prem Katha 12:30, 6:00pm & 12:00midnight AVOCADO, AZURE, BEIGE, BLACK, BLUE, BRONZE, AL KHOR BROWN, CAMEL, CARAMEL, Velailla Pattadi (Tamil) 10:45am, 3:45, 8:45 & 11:30pm Podhuvaga 1:45 & 11:45pm CERISE, CRIMSON, CYAN, 47 Meters Down (Drama) 11:45am & 7:00pm Jaya Janaki Nay (Telugu) 3:00pm GOLD, GREEN, INDIGO, The Emoji Movie (Animation) 11:00am & 01:00am Kidnap (Thriller)1:30 & 6:30pm KHAKI, LAVENDER, LILAC, Toilet Ek Prem Katha 5:45 & 11:30pm Chunkzz 4:30 & 9:00pm Nene Raju 8:45pm MAGENTA, MAROON, NAVY, OLIVE, ORANGE, ROXY PEACH, PINK, PURPLE, RED, The Emoji Movie (Animation) 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00. 6:00 & 8:00pm RUSSET, RUST, SAGE, Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Hindi) 12:00noon, 3:00, 8:50 & 11:50pm SCARLET, SEPIA, SILVER, Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00pm TAN, TEAL, TURQUOISE, VIP 2 9:00 & 11:45pm 47 Meters Down (Drama) 10:00pm & 12:00midnight VIOLET, WHITE, YELLOW. Lie 12:00noon & 6:00pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 12:00noon, 3:00 & 6:00pm 16 MORNING BREAK TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017

PRAYER TIMINGS Good taste: Food trucks to offer choices at MIA FAJR 03.46 am SHOROOK 05.07 am The Peninsula

ZUHR 11.38 am MAGHRIB 06.11 pm he Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) ASR 03.07 pm ISHA 07.41 pm grounds will soon have food Ttrucks offering visitors an array of delectable cuisines offered by six WEATHER TODAY local food operators. Six local businesses, representing o o some of the best new arrivals on the Qatar food truck scene, have been 35 C 43 C selected to join the growing supply Minimum Maximum chain of Qatar Museums. The announcement marks the latest exam- ple of the successful long-term partnership between Qatar Museums (QM) and Qatar Development Bank (QDB) to support the development of SMEs and the private sector in Qatar. The six winners will host their first visitors on MIA grounds in the coming weeks, just in time for the start of the busy fall exhibition season. Additional food operators will be selected for future QM sites in the coming months. They include Doha Bus Café to uti- lise the popular Doha hop-on-off bus as the venue for its operation, which will be located at MIA Park, offering a deli- cious Qatari fusion food and beverages menu; the Coffee-Bike which will offer Trees line the approach to the Museum of Islamic Art buiding in Doha. own rich tasting organic coffee, fresh juices, healthy smoothies, in addition to poori and parati sandwiches. chain. Each application we received pleased to see the results from our signature sandwiches and desserts and The partnership between QM and was unique and truly impressive, prov- partnership with QM come to life. QM Dareen Sweets with its selection of sweet QDB was launched earlier this year, call- ing Qatari entrepreneurs are ready to and QDB have full confidence in local and salty biscuits, cakes and a selection ing on SMEs across Qatar in the fields of create a positive impact on the local suppliers and strongly believe that of hot and cold drinks. hospitality, food and beverage, mer- economy. We would also like to thank growth and diversification of the There will also be Ice Rolls which chandising, retail and creative products QDB for their support with this initia- national economy through the support will be the first Qatari concept offer- and design to develop and submit busi- tive, which perfectly reflects our of local entrepreneurs and SMEs is vital ing customers rolled ice cream in cups ness ideas for the chance to join QM and mission to develop, promote and sus- in achieving economic growth.”

Hazy to misty at places at first be- known on the streets of Thailand; QDB’s growing supply chain. tain the cultural sector in Qatar The partnership between QM and comes hot daytime with scattered Burger and Burmait will offer a selec- Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al Mah- through a variety of initiatives.” QDB forms part of a nationwide strat- clouds and humid by night. tion of authentic American food with moud, CEO and Special Advisor to Abdul Aziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa, egy to promote and accelerate the a local twist such as handmade Amer- H E the Chairperson at QM, said: “It is CEO of QDB, said: “At QDB, we are development of the private sector in HIGH 11:15 – 21:45 LOW TIDE 04:15 – 16:30 ican style burgers created using local with great pleasure that we announce continuously working with our part- Qatar, and falls in line with the eco- Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department ingredients; and Poori&Karak offer- the first six local SMEs that have been ners to help strengthen the economic nomic pillar of the Qatar National ing a wide range of Indian chapati, selected to join our growing supply system for the SME sector. We are Vision 2030. Modern diet could lead to arthritis: Study HBKU’s latest book chronicles Miami Other factors could be the surprise is that it’s not just obvious to the naked eye. AFP modern diet, which is high in because people are living Osteoarthritis has been lives of child refined sugars and carbohy- longer or getting fatter, but around for ages, with evi- nee osteoarthritis, a drates and can lead to for other reasons likely dence of the condition even labourers painful condition that chronic low grade inflamma- related to our modern turning up in Neanderthal Koften strikes older tion, which wears down environments.” fossils. The Peninsula people, is twice as common joints. Footwear, sidewalks, The study was based on Experts suspected it has today in the United States as and increasing body a review of more than 2,000 become more common in hen most of us think it was prior to World War II, could also be changing the skeletons from across the recent times, but researchers back to our child- researchers said yesterday. way we load our joints, United States. had not studied the trends in Whood, we are lucky But the reasons for the researchers said. “This the largest sample a systematic way until now. enough to recall fond mem- rise are not simply because More study is needed to ever studied of older-aged “The most important ories of a simple, happy time obesity is increasingly com- narrow down the causes of individuals from three broad comparison is between the where the only causes of mon, or that people are living osteoarthritis, and to find time periods — prehistoric early industrial and modern stress were studying for tests longer, said the researchers ways to prevent it, they said. times, early industrial times samples,” Harvard researcher or dealing with an obnoxious from Harvard University. “We were able to show, (mainly the 1800s), and the and co-author Daniel Lieber- sibling. The word childhood The study in the Proceed- for the first time, that this modern post-industrial era,” man said. “Because we had itself invokes thoughts of ings of the National Academy pervasive cause of pain is said the report. data on each individual’s age, laughter, playing outside on of Sciences, a peer-reviewed actually twice as common Osteoarthritis is easy to sex, body weight, ethnicity, bright summer days, and feel- US journal, did not identify today than even in the recent diagnose in skeletal remains. and in many cases, their ing safe, secure and happy. the real reasons, but sug- past,” said Ian Wallace, the When cartilage erodes, and occupation and cause of But the reality of child- gested they may include study’s first author and a the bones of a joint rub death, we were able to cor- hood for child labourers physical inactivity, “which post-doctoral fellow at Har- together, the friction causes rect for a number of factors around the world today can- has become epidemic during vard University. a glass-like polish to develop, that we considered important not be farther from this the postindustrial era.” “But the even bigger called eburnation, which is covariates,” he added. idealistic walk down mem- ory lane. They face hardships and causes of stress that take over their daily lives and rob them of the freedom of child- For the love of Qatar hood that they rightly deserve. Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- versity Press’s (HBKU Press) latest title, Missing Colours, written and illustrated by Gulnar Hajo, imaginatively and symbolically explores the hardships faced by child labourers in cities around the world. In Missing Colours, the powerful and evocative nar- rative takes the reader on journey to reveal the truth of how child labourers survive in cities far away from home. Despite their adversity, which is represented by their bleak and colourless surroundings, these children are optimistic about their future, and see the few glimpses of colour around them as representa- tive of a better life where they experience all that childhood has to offer. Their dreams are Qatari artists Lina Al Aali (left) and Radi Al Hajri along with children and their artworks at Doha Festival City. simple, and their happiness ‘For the Love of Qatar’ art initiative at Doha Festival City (DFC) has been extended until Saturday, allowing lies in a blue sky and a sweet more Doha residents the chance to creatively express their love for the country and its people, organisers breeze. The author/illustra- announced yesterday. The Qatari artists will be at DFC between noon and 3pm and again between 5pm and tor, Gulnar Hajo, was born in 8pm every day until Saturday. Children and adults have been invited to take part in creating the largest mosaic Damascus, Syria, where she graduated from the College in Qatar. The collective work of art, which kicked off on Thursday, is an initiative of Qatar Summer Festival. of Fine Arts, University of Damascus.