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[email protected] [email protected] fficial statistics have pointed a finger at uwait is a diverse place with residents from nearly system for expats. unlicensed weapons as the main reason every country in the world, though one hesitates According to a Kuwait Times report published earlier behind the rise in crimes in Kuwait. For this Kto call it a melting pot or even a salad bowl. There this month, the study recognizes a ‘large imbalance’ that O is hardly any assimilation, cultural or otherwise, and vari- has created a situation where the Indian and Egyptian reason, the ministry of interior launched a weapons ous communities, sub-communities and even sub-sub- communities make up 33 percent and 23 percent of the collection campaign to deliver a message to all communities exist in their own bubbles, spending their expatriate population respectively, compared to com- segments of the society and raise public awareness entire lives in this country without any exposure to those munities from other countries including Bangladesh and of the seriousness of unlicensed weapons. The unlike them. the Philippines (7 percent each), Syria (6 percent), interior ministry announced a four-month grace This doesn’t mean Kuwait’s foreign residents are anti- Pakistan (5 percent), Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka (4 per- period that will end on June 22.