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Sunday 1 September 2019 | 2 Muharram 1441 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 24 | Number 8001 | 2 Riyals Join the elite, with beIN and Ooredoo ONE Upon directives QFZA signs MoUs with Singapore firms THE PENINSULA of Amir, Qatar DOHA Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA), an airlifts support for authority that develops free zones in Qatar and sets the strategic direction as well as formulates and governs policies for busi- Sudan flood victims nesses operating in the free zones, recently signed Memorandums of Understanding QNA The Qatari Search (MoU) with two leading entities in DOHA and Rescue team of Singapore. Lekhwiya will oversee The entities include Intellectual Property Upon the directives of Amir H H Office of Singapore (IPOS), an innovation Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al the delivery of 60 agency that uses intellectual property (IP) Thani, the first flight of the State tonnes of relief items. expertise and networks to drive growth in of Qatar’s airlift to support flood Singapore and CrimsonLogic PTE LTD, an victims in Sudan took off flood that Sudan has been organisation that delivers world-class eGov- yesterday morning. exposed to since the beginning of ernment solutions. Later in the day, Qatar’s first this month. The signing took place as part of the 2nd plane carrying 60 tonnes of relief The trip is accompanied by the annual Implementation Monitoring Mech- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman aid to flood-affected people Qatari Search and Rescue team of anism (IMM) meeting held recently in Sin- Al Thani, and Singapore Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, witnessing arrived in Khartoum as part of an Lekhwiya, which will oversee the gapore. `P3 the signing ceremony. airlift aimed at easing the suf- delivery of 60 tonnes of various fering of thousands of families in relief items, as part of an emer- FUEL PRICES DECLINE several areas. gency grant allocated by the Qatar Qatar 2022 emblem to be displayed around the world Qatar Petroleum announced the fuel prices This urgent response comes Fund for Development worth $5m. for September. Petrol of both types in line with the essential role The Standing Committee for THE PENINSULA Supreme Committee for Delivery Katara Amphitheater, Souq decreased by more than 5% a litre, and played by the State of Qatar in Rescue and Relief Works and DOHA & Legacy (SC) and FIFA plat- Waqif, Sheraton Hotel, Torch diesel prices by 2.6% a litre. helping and providing assistance Humanitarian Aids for Afflicted forms, and across jumbo screens Doha, Doha Tower, Zubarah Super grade to the needy in all regions and Areas in Brotherly and Friendly The official emblem of the FIFA and iconic buildings around the Fort and Ministry of Interior petrol QR1.80 countries of the world. Countries headed by Lekhwiya World Cup Qatar 2022 will be world on Tuesday at 20:22 Doha Building. The plane, which belongs to was responsible for preparing the projected onto a number of iconic time (19:22 CET), said a The emblem will also be Premium grade QR the Amiri Air Force of the Ministry relief materials and coordinating buildings in Doha and around the statement. projected onto a number of petrol 1.70 of Defence, went to Khartoum with the concerned authorities world on September 3. The emblem will be pro- iconic buildings and touristic carrying the State of Qatar’s aid to deliver them to the affected The official emblem will be jected onto a number of iconic sites around the region at 20:22 Price of diesel QR1.85 in support of the victims of the areas. `P2 unveiled digitally across all buildings in Qatar including Doha time. `P3 02 HOME SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS Ooredoo, Atos to enhance cybersecurity in Qatar Culture Ministry FAJR 03. 55 AM supports youth SHOROOK 05. 13 AM THE PENINSULA DOHA empowerment ZUHR 11. 35 AM MAGHRIB 05. 57 PM ASR 03.04 PM ISHA 07. 27 PM Ooredoo, the region’s leading enabler of QNA / DOHA digital business innovation, and Atos, a global leader in digital transformation The Minister of Culture and WEATHER TODAY and cybersecurity, announced yesterday Sports, H E Salah bin Ghanem a partnership to launch enhanced Al Ali, said that the Ministry is industry-leading cybersecurity solutions working to empower and to support secure digital transformation support Qatari youth by taking for Qatar’s organisations. leadership positions in youth From its Qatar Data Centre, Ooredoo centres in order to be active and is leveraging Atos’ experience to enhance involved in formulating strat- the capabilities of its Security Operations egies that help them achieve Centre. The central unit can investigate their goals and aspirations in security incidents, perform incident the field of youth work. response and forensics, and maintain H E the Minister revealed in business uptime 24x7. Atos, which has a a speech this evening during a Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Chief Operating Officer, Ooredoo Qatar; Francis Meston, team of 5,000 security specialists, runs forum where he spoke to young Atos Group EVP and CEO Middle-East, Africa & Turkey, and Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad 14 Security Operations Centres people within the activities of worldwide. bin Nasser Al Thani, CBO at Ooredoo Qatar. Najah Qatari festival that next Ooredoo’s business customers can September will witness the also benefit from Atos’ support for new comply with security regulations.” charter for greater cybersecurity. election of three directors of levels of ‘Managed Security Services. Ooredoo’s business customers can Francis Meston, Atos Group EVP and youth centres instead of being Solutions’ include Domain Name System also benefit from Ooredoo’s industry- CEO Middle-East, Africa & Turkey, said: appointed by H E the Minister. (DNS) security, Database Security, Email leading Security Operations Centres’ “With Qatar’s cyberthreat landscape The selection of the Security, Endpoint Detection and service level agreements, disaster evolving in scale and complexity, cyber- directors of the centres will Response (EDR), Firewall Management, recovery, and customer-centric security security is now one of the top business continue in stages through elec- Threat Intelligence services, Web Appli- dashboards for real-time threat insights. risks. Atos is exchanging global best prac- tions, stressing that the State cation Firewall (WAF-as-a-Service), and Thanks to Ooredoo’s opex-based sub- tices with Ooredoo to ensure that Qatar’s enacts laws and legislation and Web Security. scription model, business customers can organisations can find a seamless security provides funds and all forms of Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Chief also find fully transparent and regular strategy with Big Data, high-performance support in youth centres and o o Operating Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, said: billing options. computing, and automated security other centres that enable 32 C 42 C “Our partnership with Atos on enhancing This partnership builds on the recent responses for end-to-end protection.” raising of competencies and Minimum Maximum our cybersecurity solutions aims to announcement between Ooredoo and Business customers can leverage the youth skills in various fields. protect the information security of our Atos to support Qatar’s organisations in Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo H E the Minister noted that the business customers and to protect critical their digital transformation. Ooredoo’s “Best for Business”, thanks to its breadth Qatari youth proved high effi- Hot daytime with some clouds and slight dust at times. national infrastructure. Qatar’s organi- business customers can also benefit from and depth of talent, best fixed and mobile ciency in various times of crisis sations of all sizes and industry verticals the global best practices being exchanged networks, broadest portfolio of ICT is a partner and a key part of

can enhance their defences against as part of Atos being a co-founder of the services and solutions, and trusted achieving the required

HIGH TIDE 04:54 – 17:50 LOW TIDE 00:57 – 12:31 cyberthreats, reduce their risk, and Charter of Trust, the world’s first joint partner for 60 years. competence. Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Qatar’s supportive stance in Sudan lauded ADI official lauds Qatar’s QNA / KHARTOUM Sudan Radio, Dr. Tower praised the support provided by Qatar, Qatar’s immediate response in which it has always returned to Dr. Al Siddiq Tawer, a member this regard by providing human- be a forerunner of the good and quality dementia care of the Sovereignty Council in itarian and relief assistance to stand with the Sudanese people Sudan, has lauded the Qatari the affected people and running in all crises and tragedies that FAZEENA SALEEM healthcare workers — is making added. The theme of this year’s stances in support of the an air bridge in support of the have gone through.” He stressed THE PENINSULA efforts to support people with World Alzheimer’s Month is, Sudanese people to prevent the Sudanese people. that relations with Qatar were dementia working towards a ‘Let’s talk about dementia: Break effects of rains and floods and The Deputy Commissioner- extended and deeply rooted, and Alzheimer’s Disease Interna- dementia friendly and aged- the stigma’. face the challenges resulting General of Humanitarian Aid, that this is not the first time tional (ADI) has lauded the initi- friendly country. It is only Qatar will be taking that from them. said: “The Sudanese government Qatar stands with the Sudanese atives and efforts Qatar has through collaboration that we main theme across the nation In remarks yesterday to and people value and appreciate people. taken to improve the quality of can do this,” she said. in a series of events across the dementia care in the country. In addition, ADI will publish healthcare sector and com- Qatar airlifts support for flood victims in Sudan DY Suharya, Regional World Alzheimer’s Report munity, according to Dr. Mani Director of Asia Pacific at ADI, related to stigma in dementia. Chandran, Senior Consultant FROM PAGE 1 who is in Doha said that Qatar is This will be published in Sep- Geriatric Psychiatry, floods and rains that have hit the Khartoum on Tuesday. Al playing a very inspirational role tember to coincide with the Department of Geriatric Med- The Ambassador of Qatar, country recently. The Ambas- Kubaisi explained that Qatar and it is a country that has an World Alzheimer’s Month and icine, at HMC. Abdulrahman bin Ali Al Kubaisi, sador said that the Qatari aid Charity and QRCS earlier sent outstanding National Dementia more than 1000 people from “We have launched HMC considered this assistance is a includes foodstuffs as well as relief convoys to several affected Plan in the Middle East. Qatar have taken part in the wide Dementia Friendly Cam- sincere expression of the inter- support for the health and envi- areas in brotherly Sudan in “The efforts taken by Qatar survey. paign as part of this invited all action of Qatar’s leadership, gov- ronmental sanitation sectors, cooperation and coordination and its health sector for “About 70,000 people par- the HMC facilities taking care of ernment and people with what pointing out that the second with the competent Sudanese dementia care are com- ticipated in this biggest global our elderly to come up with an happened to Sudan due to the plane of the airlift will arrive in authorities. mendable. Only 30 countries in survey on dementia. It will be idea in their respective care the world have national published next month. The facility which they consider will dementia plans and Qatar is the survey took about 6 months. It’s help change their practice in Qatari engineer shares his passion at QNL forum first in the Middle East. That’s a the biggest survey ever and dementia care to make it more pioneering initiative,” she said Qatar has played a significant dementia friendly services,” he THE PENINSULA well-known TEDx speaker. speaking on the sidelines of role in it,” said Suharya. said. DOHA Attending the event, student Launch of ‘National Dementia “The survey is the answer to In Qatar, more than 4,400 Hussein Ahmed AlAjmi, said: Training – Dementia Care Skills information related to attitudes people over 60 years of age may As part of its ongoing “Inspiring “The lecture provided me with Training workshop being held and how people see dementia have dementia. This figure is Individuals” series, Qatar several life lessons, and led me for dementia care providers. and how they perceive it from expected to rise ten-fold to more National Library hosted a talk to realise that punctuality, ded- Qatar National Dementia different groups including than 41,000 people by 2050 if by Qatari engineer and teacher, ication, perseverance, and com- Plan was launched on November people with dementia, care no cure or improved prevention Mohammed Al Janahi (pictured), mitment are necessary to 2018 by the Minister of Public workers, family care givers takes in place, according to the on Thursday. overcome any difficulties in life Health H E Dr. Hanan Mohamed ,researchers, among others,” she United Nations. The audience had the oppor- or challenges we may face along Al Kuwari and the plan sets out tunity to hear what motivated Al our learning journey.” seven action areas addressing Janahi, as a mechanical engineer Samah Abbasi, Mathematics core of dementia care which will working for Maersk Oil Qatar, to Teacher, said, “During the have an impact on improving the switch to teaching mathematics lecture, we were inspired quality of care. in Qatar’s elementary schools. experience led to a complete hearing about his success story According to Suharya, her Al Janahi graduated from the career change, and Al Janahi is and experiences in teaching journey with Qatar National College of Engineering at Qatar also continuing his higher edu- math at independent schools. I Dementia Plan team started at University in 2010 and began his cation as a master’s student in loved his enthusiasm in inter- a meeting with Dr. Hanadi Al professional career as an the College of Education at Qatar acting with attending students Hamad, who is the National Lead engineer. In 2014, he was University. In his teaching, Al and children. I even wish I had for the ‘Healthy Ageing’ within assigned by Teach for Qatar, a Janahi uses Arabic poetry to brought my son with me to par- the National Health Strategy non-governmental organisation deliver mathematical concepts ticipate in the lecture with the 2018-2022 and focal point of seeking solutions to the chal- to students and bring the subject rest of the children.” Global Dementia Observatory, lenges faced by students in closer to their hearts. He regu- The library regularly hosts during the World Innovation Dr. Mani Chandran (right), Senior Consultant of Geriatric Psychiatry, Qatar, to be an elementary larly shares his creative new inspirational community events Summit for Health in 2016. Department of Geriatric Medicine, at HMC; with DY Suharya, mathematics teacher at Al Ahnaf classroom approaches with in which Qatar’s outstanding “Qatar through the collab- Bin Qais Elementary School for other teachers and the wider individuals share their motiva- oration with international com- Regional Director of Asia Pacific at ADI, addressing the media on Boys. community as the head of out- tional stories of how they have munity-based working groups the sidelines of ADI dementia training at Bayt aldhiyafa, Hamad Bin What began as a two-year reach at Teach for Qatar and a excelled in their fields. — the scientific people, the Khalifa Medical City, in Doha. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA Najah Qatari Festival highlights success stories of inventors QNA obstacles they encountered of an existing product contributes to the realisation of Al Jufairi talked about his introduced his invention, a self- DOHA during the production process, development. the State of Qatar’s knowledge- invention, an interactive robot operating system that detects the while calling on young people They appreciated the based economy vision, which that provides innovative instruc- leakage of cooking gas and auto- The ongoing Najah Qatari to start their ideas and exper- existence of a number of entities contributes to the growth of the tions to teach sign language to matically shut it off to prevent Festival on Friday highlighted iment and work to achieve their that support the projects of national economy. deaf children at an important the flow of gas and prevent the the success stories of a number ambitions. inventors such as the Qatar Eng Khaled Mohammed Abu stage of their growth. occurrence of fires, explaining of Qatari inventors who have The participants stressed Science Club, Qatar Business Jassoum presented during event Another inventor, Jaber that the idea of the device came achieved international success that it is not a requirement for Incubation Center, Qatar Science his invention, a fully automatic Mohammed Al Sulaiti explained after an accident in Doha in and their inventions have an inventor to be an engineer or and Technology Park and others. and intelligent cooking device the idea behind his “Fine 2016, while innovator Mohsen become a reality. technology researcher, but At the same time, the partic- compatible with a special mobile Posture” invention, saying that Hussein Sheikh presented his The innovators reviewed through careful observation ipants called for more support application, and contains pre- ‘this device monitors the position invention, a tank water cooler their success stories, the ideas around us the invention is made, for the inventors, as the success programmed recipes created by of your back and alerts you if that cools the surface and that inspired their innovations whether in the form of a new of the Qatari inventions in professional chefs. sitting in an incorrect way’. bottom of the tank water at high and the most important product we need or in the form reaching international markets Qatari inventor Mohammed Inventor Saleh Saeed Safran speed. SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 03 Malaysians celebrate National Day with patriotic zeal

THE PENINSULA Addressing the DOHA gathering, Mohamad The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Shahir Sabarudin, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and Charge d’Affaires some of his Cabinet ministers are at the Embassy of most likely to visit Qatar in Malaysia in Qatar, December this year. Malaysians from all over highlighted that Qatar thronged Malaysian the Prime Minister Embassy to show their patriotism of Malaysia and to their motherland by marking few other Cabinet National Day on Friday. Addressing the gathering, ministers are Mohamad Shahir Sabarudin, expecting to visit Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy Qatar in the fourth of Malaysia in Qatar, highlighted quarter of this year. that the Prime Minister of Malaysia and few other cabinet Malaysiaku ride event for ministers are expecting to visit Malaysian community residing Malaysian expatriates should Qatar in the fourth quarter of this in the country. The event was always abide by the local rules year. organised annually for like- and regulations and make their Later talking to The minded people whom we shared country proud. “All Malaysians Peninsula, Mohd Syatir Talib, motorcycling as a passion, and are urged to be thankful for the First Secretary (Information) at to fire up the spirit of patriotism freedom, peace and unity that the Embassy of Malaysia, said in a 80km ride from Doha to they are enjoying both in that most likely Prime Minister Dukhan. Some 50 riders took Malaysia and Qatar.” of Malaysia would visit Qatar in part in Sayangi Malaysiaku (Love Mohamad Shahir Sabarudin, Malaysian students at various universities in Qatar holding their national flag during a function to December this year. Malaysia) ride. also touched on the tourism celebrate the National Day of Malaysia at the Embassy of Malaysia in Doha, on Friday. The National Day 2019 cel- The Charge d’Affaires on sector in which he updated that ebration at the embassy began Thursday flagged off a group of Qatar Airways will launch its PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA with the hoisting of the Jalur bikers who are on ride to show inaugural flight to Langkawi on Gemilang (national flag) and Malaysian communities’ patri- October 15, 2019. Langkawi. He further mentioned the political sphere and into Committee (HLC) at the Ministry singing of the national anthem, otism towards their motherland. This is the third gateway to that the embassy and tourism other areas of cooperation such of Foreign Affairs as a mech- ‘Negaraku’. This was followed by Mohamad Shahir said the theme Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur and department in Malaysia have as trade and investment, higher anism to monitor the implemen- the oath-taking (ikrar) cer- for this year’s National Day is Penang. To further promote also outlined few events to education, legal and judicial tation of follow up actions to be emony, speech by Mohamad ‘Sayangi Malaysiaku: Malaysia Malaysia and Langkawi tourism, further promote visit Malaysia cooperation, culture and tourism. taken on the agreements reached Shahir Sabarudin, Charge Bersih’ which means ‘Love Malaysian Embassy in Qatar with 2020 to the Qataris and expa- He also commented that the by the supreme leaders of both d’Affaires, Embassy of Malaysia, Malaysia: A Clean Malaysia’. This the cooperation of Qatar Airways triates residing in the country. visits of high level officials countries. He said that both Qatar and ended with a dinner. year’s stress is the importance of will bring a cultural troupe from Commenting on bilateral between Malaysia and Qatar countries also agreed to hold the The National Day celebration unity and patriotism for the well- Malaysia to perform at Hamad cooperation, Mohamad Shahir have further given positive second meeting of the Joint in Qatar kicked-off a day earlier being of the people. international Airport prior to the explained that the bilateral ties results where both countries Trade Committee (JTC) in Kuala (in August 2019) with Sayangi Shahir emphasised that inaugural flight departure to have further blossomed beyond agreed to establish a High Level Lumpur this year. 96% transactions for registration and documentation of real estate lease contracts made online THE PENINSULA submitted and processed elec- DOHA tronically from the portal since its launch on January 16, 2019. Ninety six percent transactions He explained that work is for registration and documen- under way to develop and tation of real estate lease improve the performance of the contracts were made online two services and all other through the portal of the Ministry services of the Ministry to of Municipality and Environment achieve the continuity of pro- (MME). viding them electronically Hamad Khalifa Al Khalifa round-the-clock enabling appli- (pictured), Assistant Under-Sec- cants to avail the services from retary for Common Services anywhere and at any time. Affairs at MME, has said in a Al Khalifa announced that a statement that a qualitative leap new service, which was The first batch of students of the Ministry of Interior at the Polish Maritime Academy during the was achieved in the devel- developed by the department of Hamad Khalifa Al Khalifa, celebration of their graduation in Gdynia, Poland. opment of two online services - information systems, was Assistant Under-Secretary for registration and documentation launched in cooperation with the of real estate lease contracts; and Common Services Affairs at MME. building licensing department advertising licenses - through and was added to the Ministry’s MoI’s first batch of students graduate the services of automation for the service of advertising application (Oun) to provide a project currently under licenses. digital copy of maps and annexes from Polish Maritime Academy implementation. Al Khalifa stressed that the of the building permit and He said that all transactions two services have witnessed building completion certificates. QNA Maritime Academy, which is one discipline, which will reflect in of the two services can be com- increasing demand since their He also pointed out that the first GDYNIA, POLAND of the esteemed maritime acad- the future on their field per- pleted fully electronically official launch, as the number of phase of development of urban emies in the world and highly formance in the service of their without the need for applicant transactions completed to reg- planning services will be The Polish Maritime Academy appreciates its cooperation in country. to visit in person the government ister and document the leases launched soon. has celebrated the graduation of transferring its long-standing Lt. Col. Abdulaziz Ali Al service centres. contract of real estate reached The Ministry is working on the first batch of scholarships of expertise to the ministry’s cadres Mohannadi, Assistant Director He pointed out that the 47,778, of which 45,788 were the implementation of a project the Ministry of Interior (MoI), in a way that achieves its objec- General of Coast and Border online transactions through the submitted and completed elec- to automate all its services in the which includes 10 students who tives to build a modern Security, praised the partnership portal of the Ministry, compared tronically from the portal since framework of its continuous received a qualitative education policeman who keeps pace with between MoI and the academy, to those applied at the service its launch on March 10, 2019. endeavour to develop its services over four years to obtain a bach- the latest developments in the noting that there are many areas centres, has reached 96 percent He said that the number of electronically so that they are elor’s degree in marine science. field of policing and security and of cooperation between the for the service of registration and transactions made for the service easily available at any time and Colonel Dr. Mohammed improve performance at all parties in the field of and documentation of real estate of advertising licenses reached from anywhere and completed Hamad Al Ghayatheen, Assistant levels. training and everything related lease contracts and 99 percent 30,981 of which 30,675 were in record time with high quality. Director of Human Resources He said that the graduates of to marine science. Department at MoI, praised the the first batch of scholarship of The Qatari student Humaid efforts exerted by the academy the Ministry constitute a quali- Mohammed Al Humaidi was in educating and training of tative addition to the Ministry of awarded a distinction and was QFZA signs MoUs with Singapore firms scholarship of the ministry, and Interior, especially in the field of honoured during the ceremony equipping them with science and maritime tasks carried out by the among the outstanding grad- FROM PAGE 1 business efficiency for our advisory services, which we knowledge to perform their General Directorate of Coastal uates of the Academy. The grad- partners.” Abdulla AlMisnad, hope will strengthen our duties in the service of their dear and Border Security. uation ceremony was attended The meeting was co-chaired Deputy Chief Executive Officer respective innovation eco- country, Qatar with high scien- Colonel Dr. Mohammed by the Ambassador of Qatar to by Qatar’s Deputy Prime Min- of QFZA, added, “These agree- systems and enrich the connec- tific capabilities and Hamad Al Ghayatheen congrat- Poland, Ahmed bin Saif Al ister and Minister of Foreign ments promote bilateral eco- tions between our innovation competencies. ulated the graduating students, Maadadi, a delegation from MoI Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin nomic relations with Singapore communities.” He added that MoI is proud praising their high results during and a number of parents of the Abdulrahman Al Thani, and Sin- and foster knowledge-sharing Under the MoU, QFZA and of its partnership with the Polish the study and their highest graduating students. gapore Minister for Foreign initiatives, and are a testament IPOS will strengthen collabo- Affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, to our ongoing commitment to ration on intangible assets (IA) and focused on the strong rela- strengthening Qatar’s position and intellectual property (IP) to Qatar 2022 emblem to be displayed around the world tionship between Qatar and Sin- as a global hub for trade.” support bilateral economic rela- gapore and their shared com- Daren Tang, Chief Executive tions, promote best practice and FROM PAGE 1 time (19:22 CET). The list includes Milano; Mexico – Principal streets mitment to continued bilateral of IPOS said, “The Intellectual technology exchanges, develop Argentina – General Paz y 15 de in Mexico City; Russia – Noviy cooperation. Property Office of Singapore and skills in these areas within free These buildings include Agosto, Buenos Aires; Brazil – Arbat 2, Moscow; South Africa – Lim Meng Hui, CEO of QFZA, the Qatar Free Zones Authority zones and facilitate economic Kuwait Towers — Kuwait, Oman Metro Domination Sé Station, Sao Alice Lane, Sandton, Johan- said, “We are excited to partner share a common goal of sup- development. Opera House — Oman, Al Rawsha Paulo; Chile – Av Kennedy / Padre nesburg; South Korea – Coex with CrimsonLogic and IPOS to porting innovation-driven While the MoU with Crim- Rock — Lebanon, Le Royal Hurtado, Santiago; England – Crown, Seoul; Spain – Callao, strengthen QFZA’s value prop- growth. Through this MOU, we sonLogic and QFZA aim to Amman Hotel — Jordan, Baghdad Westfield Stratford City / Four Madrid; Turkey – City Screens osition to our tenants, investors will work together to support develop a roadmap for QFZA to Tower — Iraq, Hammamat City — Dials, Westfield Square @ West- across ten districts including Yildz, and partners, both locally and innovative enterprises seeking use a CrimsonLogic Trade Facil- Tunisia, Algeria Opera House — field London, Canary Wharf and Zuharatbaba, Bahcesehir Kism, globally. At QFZA, we consist- business growth through the itation Platform (TFP), to Algeria, Al Rebat Cornish Leicester Square; France – Gare Tasdelen, Mimar sinan, Caferaga, ently embrace innovation and strategic use of their intangible enhance and streamline trade - Morocco. du Nord, Paris; Germany – Berlin Harbiye, Merkez, Barbarros and technology to create a assets and IP. In particular, we processes and facilitate trade The emblem will also be Railway Station; India – Bab- Levazim; United States – Times favourable business envi- will put in place various IP pro- between Qatar and existing and unveiled across jumbo screens ulnath Junction, Mumbai; Italy – Square, Broadway between 44th ronment and achieve greater grammes, training, events and target trading partners. around the world at 20:22 Doha Sempione, Arco della pace, and 45th F/W, New York. 04 HOME SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 QRCS and KRCS provide shelter for Syrian families with orphans in Turkey THE PENINSULA The eight-month their studies and help mothers DOHA with Holy Quran memorisation project involved and recitation. Sewing, makeup, The Qatar Red Crescent Society renting two shelter and embroidery courses were (QRCS) has completed phase 2 premises, operating held for 53 women and young of a relief project to secure a kindergarten, women. The children attended shelter and empowerment for play, education, and rehabili- the Syrian families with orphans holding vocational tation sessions, while the in Gaziantep, southern Turkey. training activities, mothers attended life consulting At a total cost of $142,000 and securing other and stress management (QR518,300), the project was requirements such as sessions. done in partnership with Kuwait Dr. Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, Red Crescent Society (KRCS). The transportation, food, Executive Director of Relief and eight-month project involved cooking fuel and first- International Development renting two shelter premises, aid and hygiene kits. Division at QRCS, said: “I would operating a kindergarten, like to thank KRCS for making holding vocational training activ- this humanitarian project a ities, and securing other require- and entertainment to mitigate success. It meets the needs of the ments such as transportation, the psychological impact of war most vulnerable Syrians in food, cooking fuel and first-aid on 137 women and children, as Turkey, who are desperate for The Syrian children interacting with a teacher at a kindergarten, which was built under the education and hygiene kits. well as to integrate them into any form of assistance, following project of QRCS for Syrian refugees, in Turkey. In order to help 42 neediest their community. their horrible experiences amid Syrian families with no bread- In relation to education, 93 the atrocities of war”. winners, QRCS’s representation under-six kids were enrolled into He emphasised QRCS’s firm refugees, inspired by its strategy in their lives. Dr. Ibrahim called lend a hand to those who have mission in Turkey offered pro- a kindergarten. Teachers were commitment towards such a sig- to mobilise human and financial upon everyone in the Qatari been hungry and homeless for tection, social care, education, hired to help the students with nificant projects for Syrian resources to make a real change society to be compassionate and too many years. DBS students achieve QCS raises awareness on blood cancer record set of IGCSE results THE PENINSULA cancers which affects blood cells, DOHA blood forming tissues or the THE PENINSULA have been better. Natalie immune system cells and there DOHA achieved a perfect set of results The Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) are three main types of blood with ten grade 9s. Natalie will has concluded ‘Your blood ..Your cancers: Lymphoma, Leukemia The Doha British School (DBS) now be continuing her edu- Health’ campaign to raise and Myeloma, noted that Lym- students celebrated achieving a cation at DBS 6th Form where awareness on blood cancers. phoma and Leukemia are the record set of IGCSE results. she will study A Levels in Music, The campaign continued most common blood cancers and A total of 48% of grades were Biology and Chemistry. throughout August, the month Leukemia ranks fifth among the secured at the equivalent of an Terry McGuire, Principal of of global awareness on blood most common cancers and A grade (Grades 7, 8 and 9 in the DBS, said: “I am immensely cancers. NON-Hodgkin Lymphoma ranks new system) which is the proud of all staff and students at Blood cancer is one of the fourth in Qatar.” school’s highest ever figure DBS. These results are a fantastic most prevalent cancers in Qatar, Nassar stressed the impor- despite this year’s new more achievement especially under according to Qatar National tance of periodic tests for early challenging grading system. the new very challenging system Cancer registry 2015 of the Min- detection of the disease, and A man undergoing examination during the health campaign of A total of 89% of students of IGCSEs. This just goes to show istry of Public Health. conducting comprehensive Qatar Cancer Society to raise awareness on blood cancer. have met and exceeded the what can be achieved with the The campaign included a periodic analyses that detect benchmark standards of five right combination of talent, con- number of awareness events at early on potential diseases, espe- Grade 9-4, with 80% of students stant dedication and a will- malls and addressed questions early detection, in addition to the Medical Corporation, Mall of cially cancer , explained that achieving five Grade 9-5. All stu- ingness to work consistently of public. It also addressed the distribution of vouchers for con- Qatar and Qatar Living. each type of blood cancers has dents hope that it will be good hard. We are all delighted for symptoms, risk factors, methods sultations and free tests to the Hiba Nassar, Head of Health a different way of spreading and news when they open their Natalie and all our students and of prevention and the impor- public, in cooperation with the Education Department at QCS, responding to treatment so it is envelope on IGCSE results day are looking forward to working tance of periodic examination for Syrian Medical Center, Hamad said, “ Blood cancer is a group of important to determine the type. but for DBS student Natalie with them on A Level courses Magness, the news could not next year” Al Emadi Hospital educates public on benefits of donating blood THE PENINSULA As a private healthcare pro- DOHA vider, the hospital is keen to support the local community and As part of its commitment to those in need, and aims to raise support the local community, Al awareness and educate staff Emadi Hospital hosted a blood through this initiative on the donation campaign at the out- numerous benefits of donating patient clinics for its employees blood. and public. A huge number of employees The blood donation drive, and people participated in the Al Emadi Hospital hosted a blood donation campaign at the out- held in collaboration between Al blood donation campaign. Blood patient clinics for its employees and the public. Emadi Hospital and Hamad donation offers many benefits Medical Corporation, was hosted to both the donor and the recently at the hospital premises recipient. While the recipient or injury, the donor also benefits to help in lowering the risk of The Principal of Doha British School, Terry McGuire, with student to help increase blood supply in receives the specific blood type from the process, as donating cardiovascular diseases as well Natalie Magness. Qatar. they need to recover from illness blood is believed as certain forms of cancer. Samsung Galaxy Note10 available at select Vodafone stores THE PENINSULA in innovative communication and life, the Galaxy Note10 gives do it faster and better. 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SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 05 Jassim Magazine holds ‘Back to School’ event at KidzMondo Doha

RAYNALD C RIVERA THE PENINSULA Young children enjoyed activities like puzzle solving, colouring, face painting and balloon twisting at the event which was organised by Jassim Magazine, a children’s publication by Dar Al Sharq. The children were also introduced to the different characters of the magazine.

Jassim Magazine, a monthly children’s publication by Dar Al Sharq, celebrated a successful ‘Back to School” event on Friday at KidzMondo TOP: Shafik Saleh, Managing Editor of Jassim Magazine, speaking during the ‘Back to School’ edutainment Doha, a unique children’s event organised by Jassim Magazine. RIGHT: Children taking part in activities at the event held at edutainment park located at the Mall of Qatar. KidzMondo Doha, Mall of Qatar, on Friday. PICS: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA KidzMondo’s Dancing K Plaza was very much alive as smiles to the faces of the now who purchase the mag- publish them in the magazine. many young children enjoyed children as they danced and azine from different outlets We have also special pages for different fun activities such as interacted with them at a pro- spread across Qatar as well as talented children,” added Saleh, solving puzzles, colouring, face gramme held following the subscribers who have the mag- highlighting the response from painting and balloon twisting activities. The event concluded azine delivered in their homes. readers. at the different stations during with scrumptious snacks and They have welcomed the mag- Named after Qatar’s the event. The children were lots of gifts which all the par- azine as we have seen increase founder, Jassim Magazine will also introduced to the different ticipants enjoyed. in distribution in many outlets be celebrating its third year in characters of the magazine. Jassim Magazine’s Back to where it is sold,” said Saleh. November this year with a big “Back to School with Jassim School event was the first one The magazine has also seen event. “Jassim is a famous name Magazine aims to prepare stu- organised by the magazine in increased interest and for Qatari people and is also the dents to enter the school again partnership with KidzMondo engagement from readers who name of the founder of Qatar after the vacation through dif- Doha. send their stories, drawings and Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed ferent activities. We have also Since it was launched in photos to be published in the Al Thani so we chose it as the prepared some gifts for the November 2016, Jassim Mag- magazine. name of the magazine inspired kids,” Shafik Saleh, Managing azine has been patronised by “We have comics, colouring by this great person,” said Editor of Jassim Magazine told an increasing number of young pages and many other activ- Saleh. The Peninsula at the event. readers across the country. ities. We receive photos and “Jassim is the hero of our Adorable mascots brought “We have many readers drawings from the children and magazine. He is 11 years old. He is joined by other characters including Sarah, his sister; Hamood, his brother; and Fatom, his younger sister. We are starting to prepare for a big event to celebrate the birthday A child has his face painted at the ‘Back to School with Jassim of Jassim in November,” he Magazine’ event at KidzMondo Doha. PIC: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA added.

Children taking part in face-painting activity during the ‘Back to School with Jassim Magazine’ event by Dar Al Sharq at KidzMondo Doha, Mall of Qatar, on Friday. PIC: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA

Indian Cultural Centre hosts musical event THE PENINSULA DOHA

Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) along with Friends of Pattanam- titta (FOPTA) conducted a grand show of talents by musicians in a fiesta of instrumental fusion recently at the Ashoka Hall at the ICC premises. These musicians who have served Indian Navy for around two decades and residing in Qatar kept the 200 plus audience glued to their seats with a variety Musicians perform during the programme at the ICC. of music. Classical music items pre- sented in the evening to the by Santosh Govind was the pick in 2015. ICC President Man- audience included Carnatic of the evening which the ikantan AP welcomed the gath- Classic Keerthanam (Maha Gan- audience will cherish for long. ering and felicitated the artists apathim, Boho Shambho); Tamil The painting was done in the with the appreciation plaques. movie songs (Kannane Kanne, duration of the five-minute song. He said that the programme Mankuyile Poonkuyile ); KPAC Earlier, Oonnikrishnan Nair was a continuation of the initi- Drama Song (Parannu Parannu M N, president of FOPTA, intro- ative by Indian Cultural Centre Parannu Chellan); old festival duced the artists and the pro- along with all ICC associate song (Mamangam); old Hindi gramme to the audience and also organisations, Indian schools song (Mana ho tum, Durum ain’t spoke about the continuous and Indian cultural institutions Akhiyom me, Ajaare Pardesi); association with all major pro- in Qatar, to have cultural shows Hindustani classical song — Raag gramme of the Indian Cultural on every week at the ICC’s Darbari Kanada, theme song of Centre. Ashoka Hall. Sholay; trumpet & saxophone He spoke about the contri- Such programmes provide a duet, Hindi medley — violin solo, bution of the associated organ- suitable platform and opportu- chain song with music and man- isation of Indian cultural Center nities for associate organisations galam carnatic – vocal. in the Passage to India in 2016 of different states of India to A special performance of the and the roadshow for the envi- showcase their culture. patriotic song Sandese Aathe Hai ronmental awareness during the Admission to these programme (film Border) with live painting Qatar National Environment day is free for all. 06 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019

Monitor: 40 US blacklists dead in US Iranian oil tanker strikes in Syria AFP The US Department AFP WASHINGTON IDLIB, SYRIA of Treasury said the The United States has blacklisted vessel was “blocked US forces attacked Al Qaeda the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, property” under an leaders in northwestern Syria saying it had “reliable infor- anti-terrorist order, yesterday, the Pentagon said, mation” it was transporting oil in what a battlefield monitor to Syria in defiance of wide- and “anyone providing called a missile strike that left ranging sanctions on the regime support to the Adrian at least 40 dead. of Bashar Al Assad. Darya 1 risks being The US strike came as Previously known as Grace sanctioned”. renewed Syrian regime bom- 1, the vessel was seized in July bardment of Idlib province by British Royal Marines and under the order. killed one civilian — the latter held in Gibraltar for six weeks Since its release from a first violation of a Russian- on suspicion it was delivering Gibraltar, the Adrian Darya backed truce for the region that oil for Damascus. has been bouncing around the came into effect just hours The British territory released Mediterranean, its every move before, the Syrian Observatory the ship — despite US protests followed with intense specu- for Human Rights said. — after it said it had received lation. The vessel was in The US Defence written assurances from Iran waters north of Cyprus as of Department said its own attack A file photo shows Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya off the coast of Gibraltar on August 18, 2019. that the vessel would not head 0745GMT yesterday, according targeted leaders of Al Qaeda in for countries under European to the MarineTraffic tracking the north of the same province, Union sanctions. website. but did not say what kind of Tehran later denied it had It has a cargo of 2.1 million Tanker has no listed destination, data shows weapon was used. made any promises about the barrels worth around $140 REUTERS/AFP listing it as Iskenderun. “For When the ship was released off That attack targeted leaders ship’s destination. million. ISTANBUL order” usually means a vessel is Gibraltar in mid-August after a of jihadist groups and allied fac- “We have reliable infor- While Iran has denied selling available for charter. five-week standoff, Iran told tions near Idlib city, the Observ- mation that the tanker is the oil to Damascus, experts said An Iranian oil tanker at the Iranian Foreign Minister Britain the cargo was not headed atory said. underway and headed to Tartus, the likely scenario was for a centre of a dispute between Mohammad Javad Zarif accused to Syria. It killed at least 40 jihadist Syria,” US Secretary of State ship-to-ship transfer, with a Washington and Tehran is no the United States on Twitter of The ship tracking data indi- leaders, the Britain based Mike Pompeo said in a tweet on Syrian port as the final longer heading towards Turkey’s engaging in “piracy and threats” cated the tanker heading in a monitor said. Friday. destination. Iskenderun port and now has no to stop Tehran selling oil to tra- westerly direction after previ- The US Central Command The US Department of Iran said on Monday that it specified destination, Refinitiv ditional clients. ously moving eastwards towards said in a statement that the Treasury said the vessel was had “sold the oil” aboard the ship tracking data showed Turkey said on Friday the the Turkish coast throughout the attack targeted leaders of Al- “blocked property” under an tanker and that the owner will yesterday. tanker was headed to Lebanon’s afternoon. Qaeda in Syria (AQ-S) “respon- anti-terrorist order, and “anyone decide the destination. The US Treasury Department waters, but the United States This is the third clear change sible for attacks threatening US providing support to the Adrian It did not identify the buyer on Friday blacklisted the tanker, later said the ship was sailing to of course since Thursday, citizens, our partners and Darya 1 risks being or say whether the oil had been Adrian Darya 1. Syria. Turkey’s Iskenderun port according to ship tracking data. innocent civilians. sanctioned”. sold before or after the tanker’s Refinitiv tracking data reg- is 200km north of Syria’s Syria is also under a raft of It was not immediately The ship’s captain, Akhilesh detention in the Strait of istered the ship’s destination as Baniyas refinery, the tanker’s US and European sanctions over clear if the missiles were Kumar, was also blacklisted Gibraltar. “for order”, after previously suspected original destination. its eight-year-old conflict. launched from war planes or positions on the ground, the monitor said. Yemeni separatists arrest dozens of govt loyalists in Aden Turkey wants REUTERS city and southern Yemeni prov- “terrorists and outlaws” had ADEN inces. Hadi’s forces withdrew been rounded up. Though a key from Aden after the air strikes, part of the anti-Houthi coalition, safe zone in Southern Yemeni separatists said which killed at least 45 the UAE has been hostile to Hadi they arrested dozens of soldiers. government. Syria soon government loyalists in Aden After the pull-out, forces of Abu Dhabi has armed and yesterday after President Abd- the separatist Southern Transi- trained tens of thousands of sep- ANATOLIA Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s forces tional Council raided homes and aratists who seek to restore the ISTANBUL/ANKARA withdrew from the port city businesses, arrested “scores” of South Yemen republic which following air strikes by the pro-government activists, poli- merged with the north in 1990. Turkey will apply its own plan United Arab Emirates. ticians and clerics, accusing them A suicide bomber on a of action, if Turkish soldiers are The outbreak of hostilities of “terrorism”, STC officials and motorcycle killed six separatist not allowed to control safe zone between Yemen’s Saudi-backed witnesses said. fighters on the outskirts of Aden in Syria, Turkish President government and the UAE- An edgy calm returned to on Friday in an attack claimed Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in backed separatists is the latest Aden yesterday but separatist by Islamic State militants. Istanbul yesterday. twist in a multi-faceted war in fighters were patrolling the The conflict over Aden has “Turkey has no time and Yemen pitting several factions streets and seen carrying out thwarted UN efforts to end a war patience and it wants safe-zone Demonstrators marching with a Yemeni national flag in protest and armies against each other. more arrests across the city, four that has driven Yemen to the to be built along eastern against air strikes carried out by the UAE on Aden, in Taez, Yemen. The separatists and Hadi’s residents said. brink of famine. The Saudi-led Euphrates line, along Syria, as government are nominal allies Hadi’s government said the coalition intervened in Yemen soon as possible,” Erdogan said, in a Saudi-led coalition fighting conflict. On Thursday, UAE war- the balance of power in a month- arrests were “politically moti- in March 2015 against the speaking at the graduation cer- Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi planes bombed Yemeni gov- long battle between the separa- vated”. An STC security source Houthis, who ousted Hadi’s gov- emony of Milli Savunma movement in a broader regional ernment forces in Aden, shifting tists and Hadi for control of the denied this, saying dozens of ernment from power. University. “Three weeks later, there is last chance, when we are holding a meetings in the US on Palestinian martyred in Israeli fire the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session,” said Turkish president. AFP GAZA CITY in demonstrations near the border with He added that Turkey Israel, he said. At least 75 Palestinians wants to actually create a safe- were wounded, including 42 other Pal- zone with own soldiers A Palestinian wounded during clashes estinians hit by live fire, he said in a guarding it, within three weeks with Israeli troops along the Gaza- statement. in the eastern Euphrates within Israel border died yesterday, the health Mass protests began along the the conditions it has ministry in Gaza said. Gaza-Israel border in March last year determined. Badreddin Abu Musa, 25, was “hit demanding the easing of Israel’s more “The oppression of the ter- by a bullet to the head (in Friday’s than decade-old blockade of the ter- rorist organisations against the clashes) and died this morning”, min- ritory. At least 306 Palestinians have people in the region has istry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said been martyred since then by Israeli become invisible in the eastern in a statement. Abu Mussa was taking fire, the majority of them during Euphrates area of Syria,” part alongside hundreds of Palestinians demonstrations. Erdogan added. Sudan’s Bashir says received $25m from MBS

AFP KHARTOUM funds were the remainder of the Sudan has in recent years played equivalent of $25m that he had a key role in supporting the regional received from the Saudi crown prince. interests of Saudi Arabia and its allies, Sudan’s ousted president Omar Al “My office manager... received a with Bashir overseeing a major Bashir was charged in court yesterday call from the office of Saudi Crown foreign policy shift that saw Khartoum with illegal acquisition and use of Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) break its decades-old ties with Iran. foreign funds, offences that could land saying he has a ‘message’ that will be His administration sided with him behind bars for more than a sent on a private jet,” Bashir told the Riyadh against Tehran in part by pro- decade. court. viding troops for the Saudi-led coa- Bashir appeared in court in a “We were told that the crown lition fighting against Huthi rebels in black metal cage wearing the coun- prince did not want his name to Yemen’s ongoing war. try’s traditional white attire and appear (linked to the transaction)... “Relations with Saudi witnessed turban. and if the funds were deposited with episodes of tensions (over the years)... Judge Al-Sadiq Abdelrahman out- Sudan’s bank or the finance ministry, but they developed greatly, especially lined the charges at what was the third the source would have to be iden- as bin Salman rose to power,” Bashir session of the trial, saying cash in mul- tified,” he said. said. tiple currencies was uncovered at his Bashir failed to specify when he According to Judge Abdelrahman, home. received the funds, but said he Sudanese law punishes illegal acqui- Authorities had “seized 6.9 million accepted them as part of strategic sition of wealth by up to 10 years in euros, $351,770 and 5.7 million relations with Saudi Arabia. jail while illicit use of foreign funds Sudanese pounds at (Bashir’s) home He said the funds “were not used carries up to three years. which he acquired and used illegally”, for private interests but as donations” Bashir’s defence lawyers insisted said Abdelrahman. to support individuals and entities their client was “not guilty” and said Speaking for the first time in court, including wheat import companies, witnesses would be brought before 75-year-old Bashir said the seized a university and a hospital. the court. SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 ASIA 07 India excludes nearly 2 million people from Assam citizens’ list

IANS The government has framed as per the cut-off date of GUWAHATI assured that the March 24 (midnight), 1971 people left out of the decided as per the Assam Accord. Over 19 lakh people in Assam Final NRC will not be The process of receipt of NRC were left out of the much- application forms started at the awaited final list of the National detained and they end of May 2015 and ended on Register of Citizens (NRC) can appeal against August 31, 2015. A total of released yesterday morning their exclusion in the 3,30,27,661 people applied for it amid heightened security. Foreigners’ Tribunals through 68,37,660 applications,” Some 19,06,657 people have said the statement issued by the been excluded from the final list, (FT) and subsequently NRC authorities. which names 3,11,21,004 people move higher courts. “The particulars submitted as Indian citizens, the NRC by the applicants were taken up authorities announced. for scrutiny to determine eligi- People stand in a queue to check their names on the final list of the National Register of Citizens at The Union Home Ministry seeking detection and depor- bility of their inclusion in the an office in Pavakati village of Morigaon district, some 70km from Guwahati, Assam, yesterday. said the 19,06,657 people left out tation of illegal Bangladeshis. NRC... The entire process has had not submitted their claims. The movement finally led to been meticulously carried out in names,” the NRC said. Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Addi- public view at NRC Seva Kendras The citizens’ registry was signing of the Assam Accord of an objective and transparent “Taking into account all the tional Chief Secretary (Home & (NSK), offices of the Deputy released online around 10am, 1985 by then prime minister manner,” it said. persons already included and Political). Commissioner and offices of the ending six years of speculation Rajiv Gandhi and the leaders of “The draft NRC published on after disposal of all the claims The Assam government will Circle Officer during office hours. over the mammoth exercise the agitation belonging to the All July 30 last year found and objections and proceedings establish 400 Foreigners’ Tri- The status of both inclusion and involving 52,000 state gov- Assam Students Union and the 2,89,83,677 persons eligible for under Clause 4(3), it has been bunals in the state to deal with exclusion were on view on the NRC ernment officials working on it All Assam Gana Sangram inclusion in the list. found that a total of 3,11,21,004 such appeals. website (www.nrcassam.nic.in), for identifying illegal foreigners Parishad. Thereafter, 36,26,630 people persons are eligible for inclusion Krishna said the process is which, however, crashed within a living in Assam. The NRC updation process, staked claims against their in the Final NRC leaving out already on to set up 200 such tri- few minutes of the publication of In the run up to yesterday, which started in the state on exclusion, and a verification was 19,06,657 persons, including bunals and 200 more will be set the list apparently due to heavy prohibitory orders were issued orders of the Supreme Court in also carried out of the persons those who did not submit their up soon for the benefit of the traffic with an error message banning assembly of more than 2013, is being carried out by the included in the Draft NRC under claims,” said the statement. excluded people. saying, “The site cannot be four people in some public Registrar General of India and is Clause 4(3) of the Schedule of the The government has assured The Foreigners’ Tribunals are reached”. It resumed work soon. places, 14 districts were declared being monitored by the apex Citizenship (Registration of Cit- that the people left out of the quasi judicial courts mandated However, the BJP, which had sensitive areas, and Assam police court. izens and Issue of National Final NRC will not be detained to hear appeals of those excluded been clamouring for the NRC for personnel, 218 companies of The process of NRC update Identity Cards) Rules, 2003,” it and they can appeal against their from the NRC. years, was far from happy. additional forces, were deployed in Assam differs from the rest of said. exclusion in the Foreigners’ Tri- Krishna said legal aid will Fearing exclusion of a large in the state to prevent any breach the country and is governed by “Objections were received bunals (FT) and subsequently also be made available to those number of Hindus, the saffron of peace. Rule 4A and the corresponding against inclusion of 1,87,633 move higher courts. excluded from the Final NRC party’s man in the northeast The NRC has immense sig- Schedule of the Citizenship (Reg- persons, whose names had “These people can first through the District Legal Himanta Biswa Sarma said on nificance for the people of the istration of Citizens and Issue of appeared in the Complete Draft. approach the Foreigners’ Tri- Services Authorities (DLSA). Friday he had lost all hope in the north eastern state which wit- National Identity Cards) Rules, Another Additional Draft Exclu- bunals (FT) and subsequently Yesterday morning, hard present form of the NRC.”as so nessed a six-year-long 2003. sions List, which was published move to higher courts if not sat- copies of the supplementary list many genuine Indians are out” movement from 1979 to 1985 “These rules have been on June 26, 2019, had 1,02,462 isfied with the FT ruling,” said of inclusions were available for of the document. Factory blast ED targets ‘bags of cash’ delivered by Shivakumar’s aides leaves 12 dead in Maharashtra IANS instrumental in keeping the party’s we are focusing on the source of Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The parts of the country. He said: “We NEW DELHI MLAs from Gujarat from being the money.” He said, during Income Tax department in its probe gave him a set of questions per- poached in 2017 ahead of the investigation it was found that against the Congress leader has taining to the details of his prop- IANS DHULE, MAHARASHTRA The Enforcement Directorate crucial Rajya Sabha polls in which Shivakumar’s close associates found that his close associate SK erties and source of those prop- (ED), which is questioning former Ahmed Patel was the party’s can- delivered bags full of cash in the Sharma transported huge amounts erties, whether it was inherited Karnataka minister and senior didate and won narrowly. Chandni Chowk area to few of unaccounted cash on a regular from the family or bought later.” At least 12 persons are reported Congress leader DK Shivakumar Shivakumar had arranged people on the directions of the basis through ‘hawala’ channels The official said that the agency killed and over 50 others injured in a money laundering case, is for the stay of the Gujarat Con- Karnataka Congress leader. with the help of three other accused. also confronted him with the doc- in a massive explosion which probing the “bags full of cash” gress MLAs at a luxury resort in He said the agency during The official said that we are uments of those properties to find ripped through a chemical delivered to some people in old Karnataka at that time. the questioning of Shivakumar trying to identify who were the the source of the income from factory near Shirpur yesterday Delhi’s Chandni Chowk area A senior ED official related asked him about the conduits he “persons” who received those which they were bought. The morning, officials said. which the Income Tax to the probe said: “The I-T had hired to send the money full amounts and for what purpose financial probe agency had in Sep- The blast, which rocked department unearthed in the department has unearthed a of bags in Chandni Chowk and that amount was “meant” for. tember last year registered a case homes and buildings in several raids at his residence in the money trail, which led to the other areas of the city. The official pointed out that of money laundering against Shi- surrounding villages, was fol- national capital in 2017. recovery of over Rs8.59 crore in The official said that Shiva- during questioning of Shivakumar, vakumar, Haumanthaiah, an lowed by a huge fire with Shivakumar, considered to be 2017 from his Safdarjung Enclave kumar is being questioned under they also asked him about the employee at Karnataka Bhavan in clouds of black smoke billowing the Congress’ troubleshooter, was residence and other places. So the Prevention of Money details of his properties in several New Delhi, and others. out, Shirpur Police Station official Sanjay Ahire said. Dhule Superintendent of Police Vishwas Pandhre told ISI plotting big strikes media persons that 12 people have been killed and more than 50 injured, including 10 who are critical, and they have been outside Valley, says IB rushed to hospitals in Shirpur and Dhule. IANS terror strikes in and out of Jammu and The eruption is believed to NEW DELHI Kashmir,” says the IB report. have taken place in a chemical- In a security briefing given to top Delhi filled boiler of the Mumbai-based The Intelligence Bureau (IB), India’s internal police officers, the IB suggested strict anti- Rumit International’s Rumit spy agency, has alerted Delhi Police against terror measures in the NCR (with the help Chemisynth factory in Waghadi potential terror attacks in the National of respective state police) to counter the ISI area, around five kilometres on Capital Region (NCR) post revocation of plot. The measures to be taken by the police the outskirts of Shirpur. Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Its top includes intensive vigil on cyber cafes, old There were an estimated secret reports say: “With Jaish-e- car dealers, SIM card dealers, chemical 100 workers present in the Mohammedd (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba shops, besides carrying out other secret factory at that time and consid- (LeT) exposed at international platforms, drills. The reports says AuM’s present head- ering the intensity of the blast Al-umar-Mujahideen (AuM) is the new quarters is based in Muzaffarabad where and the blaze which engulfed poster boy of ISI (Pakistan’s Inter-Services the outfit runs a terror camp under the it, officials fear the casualties Intelligence) and is capable of carrying supervision of ISI officials. figure could increase. major terror strikes outside the Valley”. The report says at present, Pakistan’s Early pictures of the blast The Pakistan-based terror outfit, political establishment, its Army and ISI site showed a factory building AuM, is led by dreaded Kashmiri terrorist — all three — are working in tandem, with all its walls blown off Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar alias Mushtaq and are desperate to internationalise the leaving behind a skeletal Latram, whose module executed terror Kashmir issue. On Islamabad’s hidden structure, and neighbouring strike in Anantnag, near Srinagar on June goal, the report says, “Only spectacular buildings which sustained huge 12 last, killing five CRPF jawans. (terror) action to be executed; interna- damage. “Zargar has recruited Kashmiri tionalisation is the intent.” For this sin- Firefighters were engaged cadres from Jammu and Kashmir as well ister plan, the ISI is tasking ‘fidayeen’ in dousing the flames in the from Pakistan-held Kashmir. Post rev- groups, which primarily includes AuM, boiler complex till late this ocation of Article 370, the ISI’s intention for carrying out massive terror attacks afternoon. is to use Zargar’s cadres to carry out outside the Valley. Prosecution’s charges absurd: Tharoor’s lawyer

IANS/NEW DELHI charge sheet. The charges pressed are He didn’t read the opinion of experts absurd and preposterous,” said senior who conducted the psychological autopsy, Reacting to the push to press murder advocate Vikas Pahwa. Pahwa said and added, they categorically charges in the Sunanda Pushkar case, The prosecutor read the evidence held it’s neither a case of homicide nor Shashi Tharoor’s counsel said it was in bits and pieces and tried to connect suicide, but due to some unidentified bio- “absurd” and “preposterous”. with the charges proposed by him, con- logical reasons. “If there is no evidence of “The prosecutor’s arguments are trary to the settled principles of law, he suicide, where is the question of abetment contrary to the bare reading of the said. to suicide,” Pahwa said. 08 VIEWS SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 A flaw in Trump’s Iran plan ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DENNIS ROSS, DANA STROUL DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI THE WASHINGTON POST [email protected] he Trump administration says ACTING MANAGING EDITOR its maximum-pressure cam- MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED paign on Iran is working. If [email protected] Tonly that were true. The administration has consist- ently made the argument that eco- DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR nomic sanctions would deprive the MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Iranian regime of money, and that less [email protected] money would mean less bad behavior and more concessions at the negoti- ating table. Bargaining with Iran is not the same as a closing a real estate deal, A file photo of Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, with visiting senior however, and Iran-sponsored ter- French diplomat Emmanuel Bonne in Tehran. rorism is not easily reduced to EDITORIAL counting dollars and cents. Less of one put precision targeting capabilities on working. Well before the 2015 nuclear does not necessarily correlate to less tens of thousands of Hezbollah deal, Tehran had adopted a low-cost, of the other. The inescapable con- rockets. asymmetric strategy because it cannot A heinous crime clusion, after surveying the region’s In Yemen, Iran-supported Houthi compete with the large defense conflicts, is that a US strategy based fighters are intensifying the pace and budgets and conventional military he world marked on Friday the International Day of the exclusively on starving Tehran of sophistication of attacks against Saudi capabilities of the United States, or of Victims of Enforced Disappearances which is observed money cannot by itself compel Arabia. Houthi ballistic-missile and regional rivals such as Saudi Arabia Tevery year on August 30. changes in Iran’s regional behavior. drone attacks against civilian airports, and the United Arab Emirates. Sanc- In many parties of the world, today, many illegal practices In Syria, Iran-backed Shia militia oil pipelines and pumping stations in tions alone will not be effective when are being revealed as arrest, detention and abduction leading groups may be suffering from salary Saudi Arabia continue, with attacks Iran intentionally executes its regional to deprivation of victim from liberty and those responsible are cuts, but less take-home pay has not now even in the eastern part of the terror campaign on the cheap. refusing to acknowledge the persons’ fate or their wherea- led to a reduction in violence, a kingdom. The evidence suggests that A successful strategy toward Iran bouts. It has become a phenomenon in particular in the MENA reversal in battlefield gains by the Iran is transforming its relationship must be based on more than US- region where people in many countries suffer from lack of law. regime of with the Houthis from one of limited imposed sanctions. Political isolation Arrest or abduction of individuals outside the protection Bashar Assad, support in a local dispute to a regional is also necessary, along with the of the law is one of the crimes that have been highlighted by or a willingness partnership. credible threat of military force and the United Nations General Assembly since it adopted, on by these Sanctions pressure does not readiness to offer Iran a way out of the December 20, 2006, the International Convention for the Pro- foreign groups always equate to less Iranian cash for economic pain and way in from the tection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. or Iranian terror. In Gaza, Iran is reportedly political cold. In regard to the Gulf region, it has been noted that since Sanctions pressure forces to leave increasing funding to Hamas from Unfortunately, President Donald $70m each year to $30m each month, Trump has been far better at isolating the blockading quartet imposed of the siege on the State of does not always Syria. Militia Qatar on June 5, 2017, the phenomenon popped up on the fighters willing which is separate from the money it is the United States than he has Iran. His surface. Many Qataris have been subjects to detention outside equate to less to travel to giving Islamic Jihad. administration has signaled in both the protection of law for no reason except being Qatari cit- Iranian cash for Syria from Testifying to Congress in June, statements and actions its unwill- izens and false accusations were generated to justify the illegal terror. In Gaza, Afghanistan, Brian Hook, the US special represent- ingness to use military force except in measures. Although some have been released but some others Iran is reportedly Pakistan or ative for Iran,argued that US sanctions the narrowest of circumstances, cre- still considered as enforced disappearance as the Saudi increasing funding Iraq will con- have led to cuts in Iran’s military ating a rift between the United States budget in 2018 and again in 2019. But and its partners in the gulf region. authority denying their wherea- to Hamas from tinue to answer bouts and refuse to acknowledge Tehran’s call these purported budget reductions did Maximum pressure alienated European their fate. $70m each year to because of ide- not translate into reduced threats in allies who have been integral to every The Qatar National Human $30m each month, ology or the the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, other successful pressure approach Rights Committee (NHRC) recently which is separate abysmal eco- when Iran attacked with mines, imposed against Iran. The NHRC expressed reported the case of enforced dis- from the money nomic condi- attempted to seize commercial vessels, Taken together, these strategic its concerns about appearance of 70-year-old Qatari it is giving Islamic tions in their and shot down a US drone. The Pen- missteps have emboldened Iran’s the safety of the tagon is not counting on the max- leaders. They clearly don’t feel the national Ali Nasser Ali Jarallah and Jihad. own countries. detainees and called his 17-year-old son Abdulhadi in Despite an imum-pressure campaign to reduce need to talk to the administration, upon the Saudi Saudi Arabia. announcement Iran’s military aggression; this month, having turned down a meeting at the authorities to disclose The committee said that Qatari in March by Lebanese Hezbollah it issued a year-long warning of White House for their foreign minister citizen and his son entered Saudi leader Hasan Nasrallah, which called Iranian “aggressive actions” in the Gulf and conditioning any talks on the their fate and release Arabia under a family permit on for donations from supporters to region. administration lifting sanctions. And them immediately. August 15, 2019 and on the third replace revenue lost to sanctions, Hez- Hook also noted that the Iranian their attempt to use drones to carry It has also urged day of the arrival were arrested bollah has not called home its fighters Revolutionary Guard Corps’ cyber out a terrorist attack against Israel concerned UN bodies and kept in an undisclosed from Syria. Nor has the group diverted command is low on cash. Yet a pair of shows their willingness to take risks. and international location. funding from its missile arsenal cybersecurity firms pointed to Iran History tells us that Iran will not be community to The NHRC expressed its con- threatening Israel in southern this year as the nexus in a wave of sanctioned into changing its behavior. cerns about the safety of the Lebanon or from digging terror cyber attacks targeting government, A successful policy of leverage comes intervene to stop detainees and called upon the tunnels. Israeli strikes in Lebanon over telecommunications, and Internet from collective international pressure, these systematic Saudi authorities to disclose their the weekend targeting the fabrication infrastructure entities. the prospect that negotiations can and gross violations fate and release them immediately. of missile components reinforce the Taken together, the fact pattern offer credible economic gains and the against Qatari It has also urged concerned UN point that economic pressure alone is does not back up the Trump line that threat of meaningful consequences for citizens. bodies and international com- not preventing Tehran from trying to the maximum-pressure campaign is malign actions. munity to intervene to stop these systematic and gross violations against Qatari citizens. On the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disap- Asia should fix its megacities, not move them pearances, Vice-Chairman of (NHRC), Dr. Mohammed Saif Al Kuwari, condemned the detention of Qatari citizens noting the ADAM MINTER Asian cities were seeded in hours to move three miles. Putrajaya in the 1990s was “practice of enforced disappearance constitutes a crime against BLOOMBERG the 1970s as countries across That traffic accounts for 75% partly intended to reduce humanity as defined in international law” under whatever cir- the region liberalized their of Jakarta’s air pollution, traffic and pollution in the cumstances happed. He also pointed out that many citizens sia’s biggest cities, economies. In Indonesia, which also happens to be older city. Yet, 20 years on, in the Gulf region have become unsafe for themselves from from Shanghai to land-use controls were among the world’s worst. both have gotten worse. this phenomenon, especially human rights activists, and many Dhaka, are strug- aggressively deregulated in Jakarta’s metro only Like Malaysia and other of them retain their views for fear of being subjected to enforced gling to manage the the 1980s while entire opened this year and isn’t countries, Indonesia has A expected to make a favored top-down techno- disappearance or arbitrary detention. impact of decades of growth. sectors of the economy were Al Kuwari called for the day of enforced disappearance to Some are sinking. Most are opened up to direct noticeable impact for years, cratic solutions to Jakarta’s be an important occasion to investigate such cases in all parts traffic-choked. And almost investment. Economically, if ever. problems, including building of the world, to bring all those responsible to justice, to com- all struggle with chronic air the results were spectacular: Meanwhile, 60% of seawalls, clearing low- pensate those affected by enforced disappearances. For its pollution. Worst of all, Factories, shopping malls Jakarta’s residents rely upon income communities from part the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) coastal cities face the threat and housing developments often illegally pumped flood plains and now estab- took the advantage of the occasion to remember the victims of being inundated by rising sprouted up across Jakarta groundwater, in part because lishing a new capital. Indeed, whose fate remains unknown and called on the States in the seas. and the surrounding region. of how polluted other the government recently region to take all necessary measures to prevent, investigate, Indonesia’s capital Meanwhile, Indonesians, sources are. That’s caused announced that it plans to and punish the practice of this serious human rights violation Jakarta suffers these urban keen for opportunity, flocked the land to subside: Since the spend $40 billion on needed in their territory and to implement comprehensive reparation ills more acutely than most, to the city. Between 1970 and 1970s, parts of Jakarta have infrastructure improvements for the victims. which is why President Joko 2000, the population of the sunk as much as 13 feet, at a to Jakarta, in addition to the Widodo announced a plan greater Jakarta region -- rate of almost 10 inches per money promised to its new last week to shift the gov- which now encompasses 12 year. Today, roughly 40% of capital city. ernment 900 miles away, to municipalities or regencies -- the city is below sea level and Yet the real issue remains a relatively undeveloped grew from roughly 5 million floods are a regular failures of governance in an QUOTE OF THE DAY section of Borneo. Indonesia people to over 20 million. occurrence. era of fast urbanization. If the isn’t the first Asian country to And from 2000 to 2010, it There’s little reason to government can’t effectively We must stress how move its official capital and added another 7 million think that relocating 1.5 regulate real estate devel- won’t be the last. But evacu- people, making it the world’s million bureaucrats and their opers and land use, it cer- very important it is ating government officials fastest-growing urban region families -- as the current tainly can’t stop the city from that no one, in Europe and their families won’t solve outside of China. By 2030, plan contemplates -- will sinking thanks to illegal or in the world, is the problems of Jakarta, greater Jakarta will be home relieve these problems for groundwater pumping. allowed to change Bangkok, Dhaka or any other to 35 million people, topping the tens of millions of people In this, Indonesia is megacity. Given how many Tokyo for the title of world’s left behind in Jakarta. Indeed, hardly alone. In China, more borders by force. people will continue to live in most populous city. the experience of other Asian than 50 cities, including those urban conurbations, The results are well- countries suggests it will Shanghai, are struggling to Andrzej Duda the focus has to remain on known. Jakarta is home to merely divert attention and control land subsidence due President of Poland fixing what ails them. some of the world’s worst resources. Malaysia’s to overuse of groundwater The challenges faced by traffic jams; drivers are decision to relocate its capital and uncontrolled Jakarta and other developing accustomed to spending two from Kuala Lumpur to development. SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 ASIA 09 Afghan forces claim upper hand after Taliban attack Kunduz AFP President Ghani said operation is ongoing,” he said. KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN the Taliban attack An AFP reporter in Kunduz earlier said small-arms and Afghan security forces “repelled” was “repelled by heavy-weapons fire could be a coordinated Taliban assault on security forces”, but heard in four areas of the city but the northern city of Kunduz the Taliban claimed by mid-morning most cellphone yesterday, President Ashraf they were capturing coverage had been cut. Ghani said, amid competing The attack comes as US and claims from the insurgents. government buildings Taliban negotiators continue a Officials said the fighting ‘one after the other’. ninth round of talks. Western started at around 1:00am, when diplomats had widely expected Taliban militants advanced on spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid an announcement to have been the city from several claimed the attack had resulted reached by now, but progress directions. in the capture of several appears to have slowed in recent Gunfire could be heard important structures. days. across Kunduz, the capital of “The Taliban attacked On Thursday, a US com- Kunduz province near the Tajik Kunduz city from several direc- mando was killed in the southern border, and as the day wore on, tions this morning. We are in the province of Zabul, marking at both sides claimed units from the city now capturing government least the 15th American combat other’s forces were buildings one after the other,” he death in Afghanistan this year. surrendering. told reporters. The Taliban attack shows But by the evening, the US aircraft supported the they “don’t believe in the peace Afghan government said it had Afghan air force in joint air opportunity provided by the US gained the upper hand. strikes, a US official said, while and the government of Afghan- Afghan security forces patrol during a Taliban attack in Kunduz city, Afghanistan, yesterday. “The Taliban attacked American trainers gave advice istan”, Ghani spokesman Sediq Kunduz today and caused to Afghan ground troops. Sediqqi said on Twitter. damages to civilians and their Interior ministry spokesman “On the one hand they are Taliban attacked Kunduz, over- gunship struck a hospital run by played a role in stopping the houses. They wanted to create Nasrat Rahimi said “hundreds of talking with the US, on the other whelming local forces and briefly Medecins Sans Frontieres pull-out of US forces under pres- an atmosphere of fear in the Taliban terrorists had been hand they are attacking people’s seizing the city. It was only (Doctors Without Borders), ident Barack Obama. city,” Ghani said in a statement. killed”, but there was no way to houses and villages. We will not through extensive US air support killing dozens of patients and Since then, the city has come “Their attack was repelled immediately verify the claim. leave their attack that the Taliban were repelled. staff. The fall of Kunduz also under frequent Taliban attacks by our brave security forces.” A “The situation is under unanswered.” The event garnered par- underscored the vulnerability of but the insurgents have not been few hours earlier, Taliban control in Kunduz but clearing In late September 2015, the ticular global attention after a US Afghan security forces and able to repeat a full capture.

Bus falls into Zardari shifted back river in north to jail after medical Pakistan, 24 dead AP check-up at PIMS PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN INTERNEWS shifting her ailing father to jail, Pakistani police said a bus fell ISLAMABAD demanding his immediate off a mountainous road into a admission to a hospital owing river, killing at least 24 Amid tight security, Pakistan’s to his “critical medical passengers and injuring two in former president Asif Ali Zardari condition”. the country’s northwest. was sent back to Adiala Jail after She was accompanied by Senior officer Raja Abdul being discharged from Pakistan PPP leaders Sherry Rehman, Saboor said all those aboard the Institute of Medical Sciences Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Farooq H bus were members of an (PIMS) in Islamabad. Naek, and Farhatullah Babar. extended family from Upper The former president was Aseefa said: “Medical reports Kohistan District of Khyber shifted to PIMS after his health show that three arteries of Pakhtunkhwa province. deteriorated the other day. He Zardari are blocked and he is They were returning after was admitted to the cardiac suffering from severe spinal attending a wedding ceremony ward of the hospital. issues due to which he needs when the accident happened According to hospital immediate medical attention”. on Friday in Kandian area of the sources, Zardari’s medical She added, “If anything district. reports were clear. The medical happens to my father, the gov- Saboor said police and vol- Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (left) waves to supporters during a Kashmir team has suggested some tests ernment will be held respon- unteers faced difficulties in solidarity gathering organised by Hindu community, in Umerkot, Pakistan, yesterday. and physiotherapy to the PPP sible.” Ex-president’s daughter rescue and search efforts in the co-chairman. Zardari had com- said doctors had informed they remote mountainous terrain plained of back pain and were being pressured to shift due to unavailability of Pakistan welcomes US House panel weakness. Zardari back to jail despite the equipment and necessary Sources said the doctors deteriorating health. resources. performed MRI of his backbone “Receiving medical decision to discuss Kashmir issue and proposed some nerve tests. treatment is his right as a citizen INTERNEWS community, have played a key Kashmir in its upcoming Blood sugar and blood pressure and former president of the PIA lays off nearly ISLAMABAD role to internationalise the meeting. were also measured, they added. country,” said the PPP leader, 1,000 surplus staff issue,” Qureshi said, adding Chairman of the House Doctors would decide about adding that “it clearly showed a Pakistan’s Foreign Minister that Pakistan is highlighting Subcommittee on Asia, Brad continuation of the treatment in mala fide intent on the govern- INTERNEWS Shah Mehmood Qureshi the Kashmir issue across the Sherman, announced that the PIMS on the basis of test results. ment’s part”. KARACHI yesterday hailed US House globe which is why the issue subcommittee will soon hold The ex-president was dis- On the occasion, former Committee on Foreign Affairs’ is being discussed on every a hearing on the deteriorating charged from the hospital after premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf also State-owned Pakistan Inter- decision to discuss the forum. situation in Kashmir which has his test reports were received. criticised the government, main- national Airlines (PIA) has laid prevailing situation in Indian- The foreign minister said been under a clampdown since As Zardari was admitted to taining that in view of the off nearly 1,000 surplus administered Kashmir. that Prime Minister Imran August 5. the hospital it was declared a sub doctors’ advice, the PPP co- employees and has taken Speaking to Geo News, Khan will also raise the “The hearing will focus on jail, the security was increased chairman should be shifted to a other measures to reduce the Qureshi said the meeting of the Kashmir issue during his the humanitarian situation in and no one was allowed to visit hospital. PPP leader Farooq H operational cost of the flag US House Committee on speech at the UN General Kashmir, where many political him. His daughter Aseefa Bhutto Naek said the whole hospital carrier. Foreign Affairs will prove to Assembly session next month. activists have been arrested Zardari arrived to see him but cannot be closed, while a room According to a statement be quite useful regarding the The US House Foreign and daily life, the Internet and was not allowed to meet him. is declared to be a sub jail. by Pakistan Airline Pilots’ Kashmir dispute. Relations Committee on Friday telephone communications Talking to reporters in He said it was illegal that the Association (PALPA), the “Overseas Pakistanis, par- said it will soon hear the issue have been interrupted,” Con- Islamabad, she lashed out at the daughter was refused a meeting current non-conducive envi- ticularly the Pak-American of Indian-administered gressman Sherman said. government for “forcefully” with her father. ronment at PIA has been resulting in the non-retention of its talent as eight pilots have Mobile app for tax resigned this year while many Five civilians die in artillery others are considering this return filing soon option due to poor policies fire in northern Myanmar INTERNEWS and unfair scheduling of ISLAMABAD flights by the management of ANATOLIA Kachin Literature and Culture the airline. YANGON Association in Shan state, said With the introduction of new “PIACL has recently intro- three shells hit Mawhit. tax return forms for tax year duced some changes in FDTL Five civilians, including two “A shell hit a house directly, 2019, the Federal Board of planning which carries a very children, were killed in north- and killed a mother and her Revenue (FBR) of Pakistan has high element of fatigue,” said- eastern Myanmar yesterday 5-month old daughter in the decided to launch ‘Income Tax PALPA President Rizwan when artillery hit a village amid house,” she said by phone from Return App’ next week to help Gondal in a letter to the talks between rebel groups and the village. individuals and businesses file director-general of the the government to end the She added that a nine-year- their tax returns. Pakistan Civil Aviation conflict. old boy was also among the five The new electronic form for Authority. Heavy fighting broke out for casualties. individuals, salaried individuals He added this cost cutting more than six hours between It is unclear which groups — and association of persons for exercise is actually compro- Myanmar’s military and the military or rebel groups — fired tax year 2019 will also be mising flight safety. Northern Alliance rebel coalition the shell. uploaded on the FBR website He further said that PIACL near the town of Kutkai in the “We don’t know, and don’t after making necessary amend- schedule has failed to keep in northern Shan state early yes- want to know who is responsible ments. The deadline for the mind the effects of fatigue, terday, according to local media for this incident,” said Lwan submission of returns has been compounding adverse effect reports and activists. Nyel. “We just want this kind of set September 30. on crew’s health and therefore The Radio Free Asia incident to never happen again.” FBR spokesperson Hamid safety of flight. Burmese service reported There has been fighting on a Ateeq said a new icon will be “The same is reflected in artillery shells landed in the daily basis since the Northern made part of Tax Asaan Mobile a number of captains’ de- village of Mawhit, killing three Alliance — a rebel collation — next week. He said the app will briefs. Majority of our crew women and two children. last month launched synchro- facilitate filing of e-returns and are reluctant to accept these It added that three others nised attacks on a major military Season of melons will be available on the Google flights. However, those on were injured and taken to hos- training academy and several Play store. The spokesperson contract are forced to carry Pakistani fruit vendors arrange melons at a wholesale fruit market pital in Lashio, the capital of positions in Shan state, halting said the new App will make tax out these duties under in Peshawar, yesterday. northern Shan. Myanmar-China cross-border filing handy and less time pressure in fear of losing their Lwan Nyel, vice-chair of the trade. consuming. contracts,” Gondal stated. 10 ASIA / EUROPE SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 North Korea says hopes for US talks fading AP Choe Son Hui expressed displeasure about a thoughtless remarks and we summit between President at the inter-Korean border in SEOUL said Pompeo’s months-long stalemate in will watch what calculations Donald Trump and North June and agreed to resume negotiations and ramped up he has,” she said. “The US had Korean leader Kim Jong Un in working-level talks, but there A senior North Korean diplomat “thoughtless” testing of short-range ballistic better not put any longer our Vietnam collapsed after the US has been no known meeting yesterday berated US Secretary comments increased missiles and rocket artillery in patience to the test with such side rejected North Korean between the countries since of State Mike Pompeo over his North Korean people’s recent weeks in an apparent remarks irritating us if it demands for broad sanctions then. comments describing North effort to build bargaining doesn’t want to have bitter relief in exchange for a partial Last week, North Korean Korean behaviour as “rogue” animosity toward leverage. regrets afterward.” surrender of its nuclear Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and warned that Pyongyang’s Americans and made “Our expectations of dia- In a speech to US veterans capabilities. called Pompeo a “die-hard toxin hopes for talks with Washington it harder for working- logue with the US are gradually in Indiana on Tuesday, Pompeo Since the breakdown in of US diplomacy” after he said are fading. level nuclear dialogue disappearing and we are being said the Trump administration Hanoi, North Korea has Washington would maintain In a statement carried by pushed to re-examine all the recognized that “North Korea’s repeatedly demanded that strong sanctions on North Korea state media, North Korean First between the countries measures we have taken so far,” rogue behavior could not be Washington remove Pompeo until the country is Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son to resume. Choe said in the statement, ignored” while touting its from the nuclear negotiations, denuclearised. Hui said Pompeo’s “thoughtless” carried by the North’s official approach in foreign policy. accusing him of maintaining a KCNA also yesterday said comments increased North countries to resume. Korean Central News Agency, “Americanism — it means hard-line stance on sanctions Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Korean people’s animosity North Korea is extremely or KCNA. telling the truth about the chal- and distorting Pyongyang’s Yi will visit North Korea soon toward Americans and made it sensitive to outside criticism “We are very curious about lenges we face,” he said. statements, while avoiding at the invitation of Ri, but did harder for working-level about its authoritarian lead- the background of the Nuclear negotiations have been direct criticism of Trump. not specify what would be nuclear dialogue between the ership. It has also repeatedly American top diplomat’s at a standstill since a February Trump and Kim met again discussed.

Australian jockey Hong Kong police fire dies after fall tear gas as march turns during track work into violent chaos AP MELBOURNE REUTERS In the neighbouring Wanchai HONG KONG club and restaurant district, A 22-year-old female apprentice police fought running battles jockey who was recently Hong Kong police fired tear gas with protesters, beating them married has died after falling and water cannon yesterday and with truncheons. There were from her horse during track pro-democracy protesters threw several arrests. work in the Australian state of petrol bombs in the latest in a “We don’t know how to stop Victoria. Racing Victoria said series of chaotic clashes that this, how to stop the violence,” that the early-morning accident have plunged the Chinese-ruled said Celia Liu, who offers emo- happened at the Cranbourne city into its worst political crisis tional counselling to protesters, track, southeast of Melbourne. in decades. as she watched riot police form It said track work was can- Police fired round after a barrier across one of the celed after the death of the round of tear gas and protesters world’s busiest shopping dis- jockey, Mikaela Claridge. took cover behind umbrellas tricts, Causeway Bay. “Mikaela was dislodged between the local headquarters “... The young are emotional from her horse while riding on of China’s People’s Liberation and we just can’t stop it.” the sand trails on the southern Army and the government. Pro- The protests, which at one A demonstrator is detained by police officers during a protest in Hong Kong, yesterday. side of the Training Centre at testers also threw bricks dug up point blocked three key roads, approximately 4:35am. She was from pathways at police. came on the fifth anniversary of peaceful atmosphere with for a largely peaceful, mean- where water cannon moved in. attended to by the on-course The water cannon unleashed a decision by China to curtail mutual trust in a pragmatic dering rally in the afternoon rain. . The protests have gone on paramedic but was tragically blue-dyed water, often used democratic reforms and rule out manner.” Many of them joined a “Christian for three months, sometimes unable to be saved,” Racing Vic- elsewhere to make it easier for universal suffrage in Hong Kong, The People’s Liberation march” from Wanchai and con- turning violent, and have tar- toria said in a statement. After police to identify protesters. a former British colony that was Army on Thursday rotated its gregating next to the Legislative geted the airport, the legislature injury interrupted her career, Riot police then marched on returned to China in 1997. troops in Hong Kong in what it Council, stormed by activists in and the Liaison Office, the Claridge returned to riding in foot towards the neighbouring The government today said said was a routine operation. an earlier protest. symbol of Chinese rule. 2018 and won her first race in Admiralty district, followed by rashly embarking on political Their Hong Kong HQ was the Other protesters, many Police arrested a number of September. 20 police cars, where protesters reform again will further polarise former base of the British mil- wearing black and face masks, prominent pro-democracy had thrown fire bombs from fly- society, which is an irresponsible itary garrison. marched in Causeway Bay. The activists and three lawmakers on overs, some landing close to act,” the government news.gov. Senior Chinese officials have crowds grew after dusk in Friday, seeking to rein in a One dead in knife police. Others shone blue and hk website said. warned that if the turmoil per- Wanchai, where demonstrators movement that began with anger green lasers at police lines. “It noted any discussions on sists, “the central government built roadblocks and banged iron over planned legislation allowing attack near Lyon There were unconfirmed constitutional development have must intervene”. sticks. Firemen battled a huge extraditions to mainland China, reports of an off-duty policeman to be premised on the legal basis, Thousands took to the blaze outside a Methodist church where courts are controlled by AFP/LYON being wounded. and be conducted under a streets of the Asian financial hub in the main Hennessy Road the ruling Communist Party. One person was killed and another nine wounded, three Former Spanish S Korean lawmakers visit disputed islets as Japan tensions mount seriously, yesterday in a knife attack near the French city of King Juan Carlos TOKYO Takeshima in Japan, in part to a Democratic Party lawmaker. Relations between South Lyon, a regional official and REUTERS protest Japanese curbs on ship- Japan’s foreign ministry has Korea and Japan are at the emergency services said. leaves hospital ments of essential components lodged a “stern” protest over the lowest in years after a row over Two men, one armed with after surgery A group of South Korean for making smartphone chips, visit. In its statement, the min- compensation for wartime a knife and the other with a lawmakers visited islands South Korea’s chief export. istry said the Korean lawmakers forced labourers during Japan’s skewer, carried out the attack REUTERS disputed with Japan, sparking a “Regardless of the South had ignored Japan’s previous occupation of Korea until end of in Villeurbanne, a Lyon suburb, MADRID protest from the Japanese Korean government’s efforts, demand that the plan be World War II. Ties soured further in southeastern France, the foreign ministry as the countries’ Japan has not only dropped scrapped, and called the visit when Japan removed South official said. Spain’s King Juan Carlos, 81 and already tense relationship dete- South Korea from the “white “extremely regrettable”. Korea from a “white list” of One of the men had been the father of the current head riorates further. list”, but also, it is claiming The islands are Japan’s countries with fast-track export arrested by police but the of state King Felipe VI, left Six Korean lawmakers yes- Dokdo as part of its territory, inherent territory in terms of status, and Korea followed by second was on the run. The hospital yesterday one week terday flew to the islets, known worsening the South Korea- both history and international scrapping a military intelligence- attack took place close to a after undergoing heart surgery, as Dokdo in Korea and Japan relations,” said Sul Hoon, law, the ministry said. sharing pact with Japan. metro station. a regional head for the Hospital Quiron said. “His Majesty the King Don Juan Carlos was discharged this Russian oppn holds new morning, he is clinically stable (...) the cardiological exami- protest march amid ban nation shows a normal cardiac rhythm,” said Lucia Alonso, AFP The gathering was Quiron’s regional head said MOSCOW noticeably calmer than previous yesterday. similar protests, when police Juan Carlos, who retained Russia’s opposition held a new blocked the crowd and made the title of emeritus King after protest march in central Moscow thousands of sometimes violent his abdication in 2014, joked yesterday, despite a ban by arrests. with journalists as he was authorities, a week before Police yesterday merely told taken away in a car outside the controversial regional elections people to leave the street and hospital on the outskirts of in the capital. walk along the pedestrian areas Madrid. Demonstrations have been without intervening or “It’s as if a truck has passed held on an almost weekly basis deploying rows of riot police over you but now once the since July after authorities whose actions have been criti- truck has been removed (...) denied most opposition candi- cised over the past weeks. new piping, phenomenal,” he dates registration in the elec- “I want political rights of said with a smile on his face to tions for city parliament next Muscovites to be respected,” said journalists. Sunday. organiser Lyubov Sobol, whose In May, Juan Carlos Moscow prosecutors bid to run in the election was announced his decision to warned that the latest rally, rejected. withdraw from public life, called by Kremlin critic Alexei “We’re a peaceful march, we giving up his remaining insti- Navalny for 2pm (1100 GMT) on even wait for the green light to tutional functions and appear- part of the city’s Boulevard cross the street. We’re the most ances from June. Ring, was not authorised and law-abiding citizens of The king played a critical participants would “bear Moscow,” she said. role guiding Spain to responsibility.” Opposition politicians had democracy after the death of Nanjing massacre lifesaver honoured Hundreds gathered at the requested formal permission to dictator Francisco Franco, but Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (left) unveils a statue of Bernhard Arp Sindberg in Memorial Park, start site of the announced hold yesterday march but were his 40-year reign was tarnished Aarhus, yesterday. Bernhard Arp Sindberg is known for his heroism during the Nanjing massacre of “March against political repres- turned down. in later years by accusations 1937 to 1938, where Sindberg saved thousands of people by providing them protection in a factory sions” and began a slow walk The marching crowd also that he was out of touch with site. The statue was created in a collaboration between Aarhus and the city of Nanjing, which wanted along the route, occasionally included a group of women’s ordinary people, especially chanting “This is our city” and rights activists, who held up a to honour Bernhard Arp Sindberg. during the economic crisis in “Freedom to political giant pink banner against 2008 to 2014. prisoners!”. domestic violence. SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 EUROPE 11 German media probes death of Georgian in Berlin AFP Spiegel, Bellingcat using a fake identity. BERLIN and The Insider An additional troubling element in the case is that the Despite Russian denials, concluded from their suspect’s passport number has German politicians and media investigation that been traced back to a unit of the are blaming Moscow for the Russian implication Russian interior ministry which Berlin assassination of a in the killing of has already in the past delivered Georgian who once fought identity documents for GRU Russian forces in Chechnya, an Khangoshvili was a intelligence. affair that could spark a diplo- “possible scenario”. The GRU was cited in the matic crisis. case of last year’s poisoning in One security source, in com- Britain of former Russian double ments to German weekly Der Georgia’s interior ministry, while agent Sergei Skripal, after Bell- Spiegel, described the killing as retaining links with militants. ingcat said it had identified those a second Skripal affair — After surviving two assassi- responsible for that attack came referring to the attempt on the nation attempts in Georgia, he from the military spy agency. life of a former Russian agent in had spent recent years in Russia has repeatedly also England last year. Germany, where he had applied denied any involvement in that On August 23, German police for political asylum. Russia has incident. arrested a 49-year-old suspect denied involvement in any of the Spiegel, Bellingcat and The from Russia’s Chechnya republic, attempts on his life. Insider concluded from their shortly after Zelimkhan Police arrested a suspect investigation that Russian impli- Khangoshvili, 40, had been shot shortly after the shooting, who cation in the killing of dead. had allegedly thrown a stone- Khangoshvili was a “possible Khangoshvili had fled to laden bag containing his firearm scenario”. Poland President Andrzej Duda (centre, right) and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (centre, Germany from Georgia after sur- and his getaway electric bicycle The media investigation also left) inspecting a military guard of honour, in front of the Presidential Place in Warsaw, yesterday. viving previous assassination into a river. looked at other potential sce- attempts. They also found a wig they narios. They considered a link Yesterday, Der Spiegel, in a think he wore during the attack, to Chechen President Ramzan joint investigation with investi- an air ticket for Moscow for the Kadyrov, who has close ties with Ukraine President in Poland gative websites Bellingcat and following day and a large sum Russia’s president Vladimir Putin The Insider, reported details of of cash in his apartment, Der — and “Chechen Islamists”, who how the Russian secret services Spiegel reported. “might have acted in revenge for talks on international ties — or the regime of Chechen The joint media investi- over rivalries linked to organised President Ramzan Kadyrov — gation named the suspect as crime” or to the victim’s military AGENCIES Zelenskiy said they have agreed sanctions (against Russia) must may have been involved in the 49-year-old Vadim Andreevich past. WARSAW on steps that should be taken to be continued. killing. Sokolov, a Russian national A German government put an end to the war in eastern Also yesterday, US Energy The Kremlin on Wednesday from Siberia. Police have source said yesterday that only Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ukraine and return the Crimean Secretary Rick Perry said that formally denied involvement in charged him with murder and that the victim was known to Zelenskiy said yesterday that he Peninsula to Ukraine. Washington will most likely con- the killing of Khangoshvili, shot are holding him in Berlin. It also German security officials. and Poland’s president have Duda said he had assured tinue to toughen sanctions on once in the shoulder and twice reported that he had travelled Despite Russian denials, a agreed that sanctions ought to Zelenskiy of his support as Russia. in the head at close range, to Germany having obtained a German security source told continue against Russia until regards “Ukraine’s sovereignty, Perry was speaking in according to Bellingcat. visa for France just a day after Spiegel earlier this week they Ukraine regains the territory it independence and territorial Warsaw after meeting with The site said the victim had applying. were “100-percent certain” lost in Moscow’s 2014 annex- integrity.” Polish and Ukrainian fought for the Chechens in the While he had a valid Russia was responsible. ation of Crimea. The conflict in eastern politicians. second Chechen war in 1999- passport, Bellingcat said they Patrick Sensburg, a law- Accompanied by some Ukraine is pitching government Today, Duda, Zelenskiy, US 2002, then continued supporting had established that no such maker with the ruling party and members of his new Cabinet, forces against Russia-backed Vice-President Mike Pence and Chechen separatists from his person existed in Russia’s a security specialist told Bild Zelenskiy is in Poland for separatists. dozens of world leaders will take native Georgia. In 2008, he national citizen database. daily: “There are some indica- political talks and also to attend Duda said that Crimea as part in ceremonies in Warsaw “recruited and armed” a vol- That made Russia’s claim tions the author of the crime had ceremonies today marking the well as regions in eastern marking the 80th anniversary unteer unit to fight Russian that he was not connected to the links with Russian (security) 80 years since the start of World Ukraine “must be brought back of the start of World War II — troops in Georgia in 2008. state implausible, Bellingcat said, services. “If that proves to be the War II. under Ukraine’s full control.” the invasion of Poland by Nazi The site also said he had as no one outside the state appa- case the question is who is Following talks with Polish “In this context,” Duda said, German troops on September 1, joined an anti-terrorist unit in ratus could get a valid passport pulling the strings in Moscow.” President Andrzej Duda, “We believe that the policy of 1939. Denmark to UK Chancellor berates retire its last four circus elephants Premier over aide’s firing AFP BLOOMBERG successful or they’re famous. COPENHAGEN LONDON It’s the first public rift between Javid and Johnson, less The government of Denmark UK Chancellor of the Exchequer than two months after they took will buy the country’s last four Sajid Javid angrily confronted over their respective roles. circus elephants in order to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Earlier this week, the Chan- retire them, a minister said over the sacking of one of his cellor’s first major speech was yesterday, as more countries top aides, according to a person abruptly cancelled less than 24 move to shield wild animals familiar with the discussion. hours before it was due to take from the practice. Javid was furious he hadn’t place to make way for the Highly regulated, though been consulted — or even announcement from Johnson that still controversial, elephants, informed — before Sonia Khan, he was suspending Parliament. sea lions and zebras are the his media adviser, was sacked. With two months to go until only animals that can be used She was escorted out of 10 Britain is due to leave the in circuses in Denmark. Downing Street on August 29. European Union, and sections But a new anti-cruelty law As a political appointee, Khan of his Conservative Party will be introduced to par- was technically an employee of already in revolt over his liament soon to impose a the prime minister. strategy, Johnson can ill afford blanket ban for all animals, the The adviser was fired during a split within his government. FROM LEFT: Christine Lagarde, Head of the IMF and nominee to head the European Central Bank; ministry of food, agriculture a meeting with Dominic Cum- The relationship between Stephan Stubner, Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management; German Chancellor Angela and fisheries said in a mings, the prime minister’s chief prime minister and chancellor statement. Merkel and Saxony State Premier Michael Kretschmer, at Leipzig Opera House, in Germany ,yesterday. adviser. She was accused of is the central one in most British The government will pay 11 lying about being in contact with governments. Margaret million krone ($1.6 million) to former colleagues who are close Thatcher’s battles with her buy Ramboline, Lara, Djunga Merkel hints at return to academia after term to Philip Hammond. The ex- chancellors helped to hasten her and Jenny, it said. REUTERS speech at HHL Leipzig Graduate serve her last term as chancellor finance minister has vowed to end. Tony Blair’s administration The animals will be sent to LEIPZIG School of Management. in full. do everything in his power to was torn apart by his fights with a zoo to live out their last days, HHL gave Merkel, a former Her conservatives and their prevent a no-deal Brexit. Gordon Brown, who had once though it is not yet clear which German Chancellor Angela physicist, the honourary quali- Social Democrat (SPD) partners The firing is a reflection of been his closest political friend. one. Merkel appeared to suggest fication at a ceremony attended face losing a lot of support to the the control that Cummings is Brown, in turn, clashed with his “The elephants will be sent yesterday that she might return by Christine Lagarde, the far right in elections in two trying to exercise over Johnson’s chancellor, Alistair Darling, over to the establishment that can to academia at the end of her nominee to become next head eastern German states on administration, and Javid’s spending controls in the wake offer them the highest level of current term in office, which of the European Central Bank. Sunday, potentially putting response reflects the frustration of the 2008 financial crash. A well-being,” the ministry ends in 2021. “I will return and will not be further strain on the coalition. that has generated elsewhere in rare exception was the close added. “All universities that have staying for a short time like Merkel stepped down as government. There’s a long alliance between David More than 40 countries given me an honourary doc- today. (I) will be staying longer,” leader of the Christian Demo- history in British politics of Cameron and George Osborne. around the world, about half of torate will anyway hear from me said Merkel, drawing laughter cratic Union (CDU) party last elected politicians clashing with Since Johnson took office, them in Europe, have restricted again when I’m no longer chan- from the audience. year after painful losses in state unelected advisers, leading to a there has been pressure from his or banned the use of wild cellor,” Merkel, who has been in There has been growing elections and said her current saying that political advisers are team for big spending animals in zoos. office since 2005, said in a doubt that Merkel will get to term would be her last. like poisoners — they’re either announcements. French coast guard rescues 13 migrants headed for Britain by boat

AFP where they were handed over to either by British or French coast- “possibility of British financial France has attributed the who tried to swim across the LILLE border police. guards — more than double the support” to France to curb the increase to good summer Channel to Britain was found off Migrants are taking ever number who tried to cross the rising number of migrants weather, which has emboldened Belgium’s coast earlier this Thirteen migrants attempting to greater risks to reach Britain busy shipping lane in the whole attempting the perilous Channel more migrants to make the week, wearing a makeshift life reach Britain by boat from from France, which has taken an of 2018, according to official crossing, the French ministry journey. jacket made of empty plastic France were rescued in the uncompromising approach French figures released on said. However, such crossings are bottles. English Channel early yesterday, towards so-called economic Monday. The talks in Paris came after dangerous given the heavy mar- Officials believe the 48-year- French maritime authorities said. migrants who come to Europe in On Thursday, UK’s Interior dozens of migrants including itime traffic in the Channel as old drowned after setting off The 13 migrants, all men, search of a better life. Minister Priti Patel and her children were detained crossing well as strong currents and cold from a beach in northern France, were rescued by the coast guard Since January, some 1,450 French counterpart Christophe the Channel in four separate water. with currents dragging him into and brought to the port of Calais migrants have been rescued Castaner discussed the incidents last week. The body of an Iraqi migrant Belgian waters. 12 AMERICAS SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 US to use fake social media to monitor migrants AP preceded by other steps taken A USCIS statement privacy assessment notes that He added: “It can’t be this including but not limited to WASHINGTON by the State Department, which said fake accounts officers can only review publicly double standard where police accessing internet and publicly began requiring applicants for available social media available can do it, but members of the available social media content US Citizenship and Immigration U.S. visas to submit their social and identities will to all users on the platform - they general public can’t.” using a fictitious account or Services (USCIS) officers can now media usernames this past June, make it easier for cannot “friend” or “follow” an Mike German, a retired FBI identity.” create fictitious social media a vast expansion of the Trump investigators to individual — and must undergo agent and a fellow in the Brennan But a privacy impact accounts to monitor social media administration’s enhanced search for potential annual training. Center for Justice’s Liberty and assessment was required to be information on foreigners screening of potential immi- The officers are also not National Security programme completed first. Bipartisan seeking visas, green cards and grants and visitors. evidence of fraud or allowed to interact with users on said it’s important for strong support for additional back- citizenship. It’s unclear exactly how the security concerns. the social media sites and can guidelines to be in place and for ground checks involving social An updated Homeland creation of fake social media only passively review infor- lawmakers to ask lots of ques- media was initially spurred by Security Department review of accounts would work given pol- Twitter data for persistent sur- mation, according to the DHS tions to ensure there are no the fallout of the 2015 San Ber- potential privacy issues dated icies of platforms like Facebook veillance of individuals. We look document. abuses. nardino attack, which resulted July 2019 that was posted online and Twitter, which both specif- forward to understanding While lots of social media “It’s easy to conjure up a use in 14 people’s deaths. essentially reversed a prior ban ically state that impersonation - USCIS’s proposed practices to activity can be viewed without where the use is appropriate and In that case, the shooter Syed on officers creating fake pretending to be someone other determine whether they are con- an account, many platforms limit entirely necessary, but also Rizwan Farook’s wife Tashfeen profiles. than yourself — violates their sistent with our terms of service,” access without one. where it could be abused,” Malik gained entry to the US on A USCIS statement explaining terms of use. according to a Twitter statement. Dave Maass, senior investi- German said. “It should only be a fiancée visa — a process that the change says fake accounts Twitter and Facebook recently Facebook did not immediately gative researcher for the civil lib- used in cases where absolutely did not involve a social media and identities will make it easier shut down numerous accounts provide comment. erties advocacy group Electronic necessary.” check. The day after the attack, for investigators to search for believed to be operated by the Such a review of social media Frontier Foundation, said such In January 2017, former Facebook found a post on a page potential evidence of fraud or Chinese government using their would be conducted by officers use of fake accounts “under- Homeland Security Department maintained by Malik pledging security concerns as they decide platforms under false identities for in the agency’s Fraud Detection mines our trust in social media Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a her and Farook’s allegiance to whether to allow someone entry information operations. and National Security Direc- companies and our ability to privacy impact update giving the leader of the IS militant into the US. “It is against our policies to torate on cases flagged as communicate and organise and authority to USCIS to “conduct group. The page was under an The change in policy was use fake personae and to use requiring more investigation. The stay in touch with people.” law enforcement activities alias. Brazil says it is successfully controlling fires in Amazon

AP not an excuse to promote ideas have to wait for the Senate to WASHINGTON of international management of approve hopefully the invi- the Amazon,” though he said the tation,” he said. Brazil’s foreign minister said his South American country is open Araujo said the fact that country is successfully extin- to cooperation with other Trump hosted both him and the guishing the fires in the Amazon countries. congressman at the White region that have generated inter- “The fires that exist today are House even though they are not national concern after discussing already being fought and we are heads of state “shows how far the situation with President being successful in extinguishing we are in building a very special Donald Trump at the White most of the fires,” he said, adding relationship with the United House. that the meeting with Trump did States.” Brazilian President Jair Bol- not bring up specific US aid. The compliments about the sonaro said on Friday that his Bolsonaro is considering relationship with the Trump son and Foreign Minister Ernesto appointing his son, congressman administration contrast with Araujo were heading to Wash- Eduardo Bolsonaro, to be criticism of Brazil’s government ington to discuss possible US aid ambassador to the US, though from French President in fighting the fires. The far-right the posting would need to be Emmanuel Macron and some president said he asked Trump approved by the upper house of other European leaders. for help and the US president the Brazilian congress. A $20m offer of aid from the had said that “he couldn’t make Araujo said the Trump Group of Seven nations to help a decision without hearing from administration had already fight fires and protect rainforest Brazil.” expressed its approval to a pos- stalled after Bolsonaro said Shoppers at a supermarket before the arrival of Hurricane Dorian on the Great Abaco island town Araujo said after meeting sible ambassadorship of con- Macron would have to apologise of Marsh Harbour, in Bahamas, yesterday. with Trump that the fires “are gressman Bolsonaro. “Now we for remarks he had made.

Evacuations in Bahamas as storm bears down Brazil leader to stop using Convicted RFK AP powerful winds and rising ocean as 1 metre of rain, unleash high MCLEAN’S TOWN CAY water that causes potentially winds and whip up an abnormal France’s Bic pens amid spat assassin stabbed deadly flooding. rise in sea level called storm Hurricane Dorian shut down In the Bahamas, any surge, according to private mete- AFP/BRASÍLIA was serious or joking, Brazil’s in California most major resorts in the remaining tourists were sent to orologist Ryan Maue and some presidential office declined to prison: Reports Bahamas and forced authorities government shelters in schools, of the most reliable computer Brazil’s President Jair comment. to evacuate much of the churches and other buildings models. Bolsonaro said he will stop Most of the Bic ballpoint REUTERS northern shore and low-lying offering protection from the Bahamas Prime Minister using disposable pens made by pens sold in Brazil are made in LOS ANGELES islands yesterday as the fierce storm. Hubert Minnis warned in a France’s Bic to sign official the French company’s factory Category 4 storm prepared to “My home is all battened up, nationally televised briefing that documents, while a diplomatic in the Brazilian city of Manaus Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian unleash torrents of rain but was and I’m preparing right now to “Hurricane Dorian is a devas- spat continues over fires in the in the Amazon, a Bic spokes- refugee found guilty of shooting projected to spin farther away leave in a couple of minutes. ... tating, dangerous storm Amazon basin. person said. US presidential candidate from the coast of the Southeast We’re not taking no chances,” approaching our islands.” “A pen (of the Brazilian Bolsonaro has previously Robert F Kennedy to death in US next week. said Margaret Bassett, 55, a ferry Small skiffs rented by brand) Compactor and no more cited Bic pens, which are cheap 1968, was wounded in a Forecasters expect Dorian, boat driver for the Deep Water Bahamas authorities ran back Bic, will work,” Bolsonaro said, and commonly used in Brazil, stabbing at a California prison which packed 240kph winds, to Cay resort who chose to leave and forth between outlying confirming remarks he made as a sign of austerity after the on Friday, according to media hit the northwestern part of the her home. fishing communities and during a live broadcast on expenses of his predecessors. reports. Bahamas today before curving “They said evacuate, you McLean’s Town, a settlement of Facebook a day earlier. Bic said it felt “flattered” to Celebrity website TMZ, upward. The storm’s slow march have to evacuate. It’s for the best a few dozen homes on the Bolsonaro said he would be recognised as a “democratic citing unnamed sources, was north could spare a direct hit in interests of the people.” eastern end of Grand Bahama, stop using Bic “because it is brand,” but would not first to report that Sirhan, 75, the US but still threatens Florida, Over two or three days, the about 240km from Florida’s French.” comment on the president’s had been stabbed. Georgia and the Carolinas with hurricane could dump as much Atlantic coast. When asked if Bolsonaro decision. Replying to a request for confirmation that Sirhan was wounded, Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the California Colombia’s fight against Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said an inmate rebels would be easier had been stabbed at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility without Maduro: Minister near San Diego. The wounded inmate was REUTERS party, whose leadership said the taken to a hospital outside the BOGOTA majority of ex-rebels remain prison and is listed in stable committed to peace despite “dif- condition, Callison said in a There is “no doubt” it would be ficulties and dangers.” statement released yesterday, easier to combat Colombia’s Combating the dissidents, adding that a suspect has been rebel groups if Venezuelan Pres- who are estimated to number identified in the assault. ident Nicolas Maduro were no more than 2,200, and separate In a follow-up email, Cal- longer in power, Colombia’s rebel group the National Liber- lison declined to identify the foreign minister said, amid accu- ation Army (ELN) would be wounded inmate as Sirhan, sations that Caracas is providing easier were Maduro no longer in citing department policy on not the groups with shelter. power, Foreign Minister Carlos naming victims. On Thursday, former leaders Holmes Trujillo said in an A jury in 1969 found Sirhan from the Revolutionary Armed interview. “This regime protects guilty of assassinating Kennedy Forces of Colombia (FARC) them: it has opened its doors to the previous year by opening announced a new offensive in a them. This regime facilitates fire with a .22-calibre pistol into video believed to have been their actions from its territory.” Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro taking part in a rally in support of the government a small crowd surrounding the filmed in Venezuela. Asked what proof Colombia and against US imperialism in Caracas, yesterday. Democratic candidate in the Ex-FARC commanders Ivan has of rebel presence in Vene- pantry of the Ambassador Hotel Marquez and Jesus Santrich zuela, Trujillo said: “There are Venezuela’s foreign ministry reestablish conversations of this tyranny, would be the best in Los Angeles. appeared surrounded by armed indicators; there is a hypothesis: yesterday blamed the dissident between the two sides. for Venezuela, the best for Kennedy, a US senator from fighters in a YouTube video, that’s the information that we rearmament on Duque’s failure Neither mentioned the issue Colombia, the best for the New York, was hit three times saying a 2016 peace accord had have.” to follow through on the peace of rebel presence in Venezuelan region.” and died the next day. been betrayed. The United States also accords. territory. Colombia will seek Interpol Sirhan was sentenced to The announcement was con- believes the Maduro government Maduro later tweeted his Trujillo said the neigh- red notices for anyone involved death, but the sentence was demned by President Ivan is providing shelter to dissident government was committed to bouring Venezuelan government with dissident groups who may changed to life in prison after Duque’s government, the United FARC and ELN groups, a senior promoting peace in Colombia was a “dictatorship.” be based in Venezuela, Trujillo California banned the death Nations and the FARC political State Department official said. and would advance efforts to “The end of this dictatorship, added. penalty for a time.