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SUNDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10201 September 4, 2016 Dhul-Hijja 2, 1437 AH

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QATAR | Diplomacy to sell FM receives phone call from Kerry HE the Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani yesterday received subsidised a telephone call from the US Secretary of State John Kerry. During the call, they discussed the latest developments in Syria. QATAR | Product sheep Samsung Note 7 recall over battery fl aw Widam’s slaughterhouses will be through coupons issued at the com- The Ministry of Economy and open for the public during the first pany’s selling points. The price for a Commerce (MEC), in co-operation three Eid days from 5am to 5pm sheep is set at QR350, plus QR10 for with Samsung Electronics Co, has the slaughtering, as these animals will announced the recall of Galaxy Note head of the upcoming Eid al- be slaughtered at Widam abattoirs and 7 devices on account of a potential Adha, Widam Food Company are not meant to be taken away alive. defect in the battery that may lead to Ais set to sell subsidised Arabic The company has kept ready around a fire. MEC has advised all those who sheep to Qataris from today until Sep- 45,000- 50,000 heads for this season have bought the product to contact Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama shaking hands as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looks on tember 13. to cater to the expected surge in de- the dealer or the sellers to replace during a joint ratification of the Paris climate change agreement ceremony ahead of the G20 summit at the West Lake State Each Qatari, 18 years and above, mand. The number includes sheep and the device or get a full refund. Guest House in Hangzhou yesterday. The United States and China formally joined the Paris climate deal, with US President is entitled to one subsidised sheep. some Australian calves. The purchased Barack Obama hailing the accord as the “moment we finally decided to save our planet”. Widam, in co-operation with the carcasses will be delivered during the AMERICA | Tremor Ministry of Economy and Commerce fi rst and second days of Eid al-Adha, (MEC), will provide 12,200 such sheep as the slaughtering process will start Earthquake to be sold ahead of the upcoming Eid after the Eid prayers until 5pm for the hits Oklahoma al-Adha. Each Jordanian sheep will be fi rst day and from 5am to 5pm on the One of the strongest earthquakes sold for QR1,100. second and third days. ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled Widam, in a statement, pointed out Widam stressed that all its slaugh- the state yesterday morning, US, China join climate deal that it had adopted a comprehensive terhouses would be open for the public the United States Geological plan in co-operation with the govern- during the fi rst three Eid days from 5am Survey said, and tremors were felt ment departments concerned to make to 5pm. Besides, the company has made throughout the region. The quake this season a success and had made the public waiting halls comfortable by had a magnitude of 5.6. Page 10 in ‘turning point’ for planet sure that all the necessary services equipping them with all the necessary were in place for the convenience of the means of convenience. GERMANY | Policy AFP emissions, so their participation is peace policy adviser Li Shuo. public. The company has hired an adequate Hangzhou, China crucial. The Paris pact calls for capping glo- To claim the allocated subsidised number of butchers and other staff to Merkel expresses no China’s Communist-controlled bal warming at well below two degrees sheep, the buyer should head to one reduce the waiting time for customers. regrets on refugees parliament ratifi ed the agreement ear- Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), and of the designated slaughterhouses of Further, the company has engaged the Angela Merkel said yesterday he United States and China yes- lier yesterday, and President Xi said 1.5 C (2.7 F) if possible, compared with Widam located at Al Mamoura , Al services of a company specialised in that she had no regrets about her terday formally joined the Paris the Asian giant was “solemnly” com- pre-industrial levels. Shammal, Al Khor or Al Mazrouah, and security to regulate the exit and entry welcoming policy toward refugees, Tclimate change agreement, with mitted to the issue. For China, ratifying the agreement show his Qatari ID at the registration of customers and avoid any potential even as a new poll showed that President Barack Obama hailing the “Hopefully this will encourage oth- fi ts with Beijing’s domestic political point. delays or congestion. fewer than half of Germans accord as the “moment we fi nally de- er countries to take similar eff orts,” he agenda of being seen to make eff orts to “After verifying the credentials, Priority will be given to woman cus- surveyed would trust her with a cided to save our planet”. said in Hangzhou, where he is to host clean up the environment, after years the employee in charge will issue him tomers, the elderly and persons with fourth term as chancellor. Page 14 The move by the world’s two big- the G20 summit of the world’s leading of breakneck industrial development a purchase receipt. He can go to the special needs, it said. There will be gest polluters is a major step forward developed and emerging economies. led to soaring air, water and ground designated livestock barns to select his guides, who will help solve any issue BUSINESS | Exhibition for the 180-nation deal, which sets Until yesterday, only 24 of the sig- pollution. sheep and receive it without having to that may arise due to the huge turnout. ambitious goals for capping global natories had ratifi ed the accord, in- The scourge is estimated to have slaughter it at the Widam slaughter- Meanwhile, the company has point- Waterproof gadgets warming and funnelling trillions of cluding France and many island states caused hundreds of thousands of early house.” ed out that it will always maintain the making a splash dollars to poor countries facing cli- threatened by rising sea levels but who deaths, and is the source of mounting Regarding the sale of Australian highest possible standards of quality, From smartphones that can survive mate catastrophe. only produce a tiny proportion of the public anger. sheep, Widam said these would be also health and safety for its products and a dip in the sink to sweat-resistant Obama and his Chinese counterpart world’s emissions. Under the Paris accord, China has sold from today to the general public services. earphones and floating speakers Xi Jinping handed ratifi cation docu- Ban said there would be high-level pledged to cut its carbon emissions for your next pool party, waterproof ments to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who talks in New York later this month to per unit of GDP by 60-65 % from 2005 gadgets are making a splash at this said he was now optimistic the agree- push more countries to sign up, and levels by 2030 and increase non-fossil year’s IFA electronics fair in Berlin. ment will be in force by the end of this told the two leaders they had “added fuel sources in primary energy con- Business Page 19 year. powerful momentum” to eff orts to sumption to about 20 %. At a ceremony in the Chinese city bring the accord into force. Neither of those requirements im- HIA tells passengers to arrive ASEAN | Health of Hangzhou, Obama said climate “I am optimistic we can do it before plies a commitment to cut absolute change would “defi ne the contours of the end of this year.” levels of emissions, although China Zika virus in Singapore this century more dramatically than Climate is one of the few areas is also obliged to have them peak by three hours early for fl ights ‘from regional strain’ any other challenge”. where the world’s two most power- “around 2030”. Singapore yesterday reported 215 History would show that the Paris ful countries - who are at loggerheads In its Paris commitment, the US ue to the Eid al-Adha travel People who are dropping off or col- cases of Zika infections as scientists deal would “ultimately prove to be on issues ranging from trade disputes, promised to cut its own emissions 26- rush, Hamad International Air- lecting passengers have been advised in the city-state said the virus strain a turning point”, he said, “the mo- cyberspying and the South China Sea - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025. Dport (HIA) has advised depart- to use the short-term car park, which comes from within Asia and was not ment we finally decided to save our are able to fi nd common cause. During the negotiations over the ing passengers to arrive at the airport off ers complimentary parking for the imported from Brazil. Page 11 planet”. Campaigners welcomed the move, Paris deal Beijing stressed the concept three hours before the fl ight “to enjoy a fi rst 30 minutes and costs QR5 per “There’s an American saying, You with WWF saying they had sent “a of “diff erentiated responsibilities” comfortable and seamless journey”. hour thereafter. PHILIPPINES | Blast need to put your money where your very powerful signal that there will be - the idea that developed countries The HIA advisory said the rush is Passengers also have the option of mouth is. That’s what we’re doing.” real global action on climate change”. should shoulder the lion’s share of expected to continue until September parking their vehicles at the airport’s President declares The Paris accord aims to limit global But some environmental groups say the burden as they have polluted most 14. long-term car park, which provides ‘state of lawlessness’ temperature increases to two degrees that the Paris pledges by China, the since the Industrial Revolution. “To enjoy a comfortable and seam- them with a regular shuttle service to Philippine President Rodrigo centigrade, and will be triggered after US and others fall far short of what is For its part the White House is look- less journey, be sure to check in online, the main terminal every 15-20 min- Duterte yesterday declared a “state it is ratifi ed by at least 55 countries, ac- needed to meet the goal of less than ing for the Paris accord to come into arrive three hours prior to your fl ight utes. of lawlessness” in the country after counting for 55 % of global greenhouse two degrees of warming. force during Obama’s tenure, in part to and use the E-gates to avoid queues,” For assistance during travel and 14 people were killed in a bomb gas emissions. “This moment should be seen as a burnish his climate legacy, but also to HIA has said, reminding passengers updates on deals and off ers, one can blast at a night market in his home The US and China are together re- starting point, not the finale, of glo- ensure it is not derailed by the forth- that check-in would close 60 minutes download the HIAQatar App available city, Davao. Page 20 sponsible for some 40 % of the world’s bal action on climate,” said Green- coming US election. Page 14 prior to departure. for both Android and iPhone. Expressway projects worth over QR38bn under construction

rojects worth more than related to the 200km-long New Or- linking Mesaieed Road to the East West Dukhan Highway and Al Khor Link QR38.98bn are currently under- bital Highway and Truck Route starting Corridor. The work began in the fi rst Road. Pway across Qatar as part of Ash- from New Hamad Port on the country’s quarter of 2014. In the third contract, there are three ghal’s plan to develop the country’s southern side to Ras Laff an Industrial Contract 2 of the project, which major junctions while the fourth has fi ve. Expressways. City. started in the second quarter of 2014 is The road, when completed, is expect- A report in Ashghal’s annual report The road bypasses city areas and are between Salwa Road and North Relief ed to provide an alternative route with (2015) said that until December 2015, mostly through the desert areas. The Road. This is approximately 54km and faster journey times without touching construction projects worth QR49.8bn Contract 1 of the project between Ha- includes eight two-level inter-changes. residential areas while travelling be- had been awarded by Ashghal as part of mad Port to Orbital Highway alone is It is worth QR4.271bn. tween Al Khor and New Hamad Port. its ambitious Expressway Project. tendered for QR3.2bn. A 41km road is The third and fourth contracts, It is expected to manage up to no less As per the report, currently 11 Ex- being built as part of the project and it worth QR6.089bn and QR3.481bn re- than 1500 heavy goods vehicles per pressway projects are in diff erent stages connects Hamad Port and Al Wakrah spectively, also started in the second hour in each direction. It can also cater of construction and 10 more are in the bypass with other works being con- quarter of 2014. The third contract for general traffi c volumes at approxi- design phase. structed as part of the project. is for the works between Mesaieed mately 8000 vehicles per hour in each One of the bridges of the New Orbital Highway under construction on the southern The most important ones are those It includes the construction of a road and Salwa and the fourth is between direction. side of the country. Gulf Times 2 Sunday, September 4, 2016 QATAR New model of OFFICIAL Qatar expresses condolences on Karimov death HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin care helping Hamad al-Thani and HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abullah bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday sent cables of condolences to Acting President Nigmatilla Yuldashev on the death of Uzbek President Islam Karimov. child patients HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa new collaborative model episodes of acute illnesses,” re- Dr Mohamed said once eve- al-Thani also sent a cable of of care introduced into called Dr Reem Babiker Abdalla ry month, the Al Maha team, condolences to Prime Minister AAl Maha Children’s Unit Mohamed, general paediatrics which comprises a paediatri- Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the death at Rumailah Hospital is ben- consultant at Al Maha Chil- cian, pharmacist, nutritionist, Off icials at the agreement-signing ceremony. of Karimov. efi ting patients in a big way. dren’s Unit. respiratory therapist, physi- Al Maha 1 is a 26-bed long- Al Maha Children’s Unit in- otherapist, nurse and occupa- Minister in term facility providing com- troduced the new collaborative tional therapist, is joined by plex care for children aged from model of care as the population paediatric pulmonology con- Kyrgyzstan three months to 14 years. of its patients has continued to sultants and specialists from Many of them have their rise by about 150% in less than other Hamad Medical Corpo- KidzMondo, art centre HE the Minister of Culture breathing supported by a me- two years after its opening and ration’s network of hospitals to and Sport Salah bin Ghanem chanical ventilator. also because the level of patient conduct their rounds. bin Nasser al-Ali and his The length of stay for each complexities became more “Each subspecialist clini- accompanying delegation arrived child varies from months to challenging. cian, usually from Hamad join hands to ‘create in Kyrgyzstan on Friday to attend years depending on the pa- The new multi-disciplinary General Hospital, has a sched- the opening ceremony of the tient’s diagnoses, ranging from subspecialties round en- uled time they visit based on second World Nomad Games. hereditary disorders and neu- sures continuity of care for their other duties and each pa- The minister was received ro-muscular disorders, to res- its young patients, improves tient’s needs. photographic memories’ by Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of f piratory disorders. their health outcomes and in- Although this is challeng- Labor and Social Development Amira (not her real name) creases satisfaction levels of ing for many of the specialists Kudaibergen Bazarbayev and was born prematurely at 33 their families. since it is off site work, the in- idzMondo Doha has to deliver quality photog- the Art Centre’s stand on Qatar’s ambassador Mohamed weeks and was mechanically Al Maha Children’s Unit was centive that keeps them going signed a partnership raphy, advertising, event the premises to acquire their bin Arar al-Nuaimi. The event ventilated, hospitalised and established in October 2010 as is the positive patient out- Kagreement with Al- management and other cre- photographs, as an everlast- is being held in Kyrgyzstan’s dealing with one medical con- a collaboration between Ru- come,” Dr Rayyan Art Centre, adding to ative products and services, ing memory of their unique Cholpon Ata province on the dition after another. mailah Hospital and Hamad Mohamed said. its range of educational estab- covering both conceptual experience at the edutain- northern shore of Issky Kul Lake. However Amira, now four General Hospital and in con- She explained that the Al lishments and entertaining ac- and technical areas that ment city. years’ old, is no longer depend- sultation with the Toronto- Maha teams of specialists usu- tivities. match clients’ best inter- “Al-Rayyan Art Centre’s ent on hospital care and now based Hospital for Sick Chil- ally discuss each child’s cur- The two entities have joined ests. partnership with KidzMondo Haj mission working resides with her family in the dren and Holland Bloorview rent health condition, future hands to “create photographic The ceremony was also at- Doha is designed to complete round the clock community thanks to this new Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. care plans and their possible memories,” according to a tended by Ayman al-Jamil, the children’s journey at the facility. The aim was to establish a long-term outcome with the press statement. CEO of Aura Holding, and kid-sized city, with a token The Qatari Haj Mission’s various “At three months of age, specialised unit to provide the child’s family. KidzMondo Doha is Qatar’s Nabil R Barakat, general of remembrance for the spe- units are working round-the- Amira, who was the fi rst baby highest standard of care and On some occasions, other “one-of-a-kind” miniature manager of KidzMondo cial time they spend exploring clock to provide all services to for her family, was admit- improve the quality of life for clinicians are invited to join edutainment city, while Al- Doha, who said: “Under the establishments and learning pilgrims from the country in ted to the Paediatric Intensive medically complex technolo- these discussions based on the Rayyan Art Centre is a “leading new partnership, Al-Rayyan about the adult professional order to help them perform their Care Unit with respiratory gy-dependent children. patient’s needs and the com- action photography and con- Art Centre’s professionals world in a fun and entertaining rituals properly, the mission’s failure because of a viral ill- The initiative is led by Gen- plexity of their illness. ceptual art” service provider in will be taking photographs way.” executive president Dr Abdul ness. From then until the age eral Paediatrics, and Child Re- Dr Mohamed noted that part Qatar. of the Kidizens (kid citizens) KidzMondo Doha will fea- Salam Ali al-Qahtani said. He said of four, Amira was hospitalised habilitation with development of the collaboration also in- The signing was attended as they role-play through ture an interactive kid-sized the mission has making all eff orts and attached to a mechanical teams who are role models in cludes the regular paediatric by Sheikh Ahmed bin Nass- KidzMondo Doha’s estab- city developed for and man- to ensure the safety of their place ventilator through a tracheos- taking a collaborative approach dental services by the Depart- er bin Hassan al-Thani, lishments. aged solely by children aged of residence and the quality of tomy, suff ering from multiple to treatment and care. ment of Dentistry. who founded the art centre “Youngsters can then visit two to 14 years. service to be provided to them. Municipality takes action against restaurant in Najma

he Health Control Section at Doha Municipality has taken action against Ta restaurant in Najma for storing and preparing food at a nearby workers’ accom- modation. An expatriate man had earlier reported the issue to the municipality. Inspectors questioned the workers and manager who admitted storing and prepar- ing the meals at a nearby house and trans- porting it to the restaurant, ready to be served. During a search, the inspectors found food items stored in in unhygienic condi- tions at the labour accommodation. They found frozen chicken being defrosted at room temperature. Apart from a lack of overall cleanliness, Food items were found stored in the labour accommodation in unsuitable the workers themselves failed to maintain conditions. the necessary standards of hygiene when handling food products. The outlet was issued a notice of viola- tion of law No 8 for 1990 regarding food control regulations. The Health Control Section has affi rmed its determination to continue its inspec- tions and said it would handle all com- plaints seriously in order to protect people. Similarly, the Health Control Section at Al Shamal municipality has conducted a number of searches at several eateries and shops. Besides, the director of the municipal control section accompanied offi cers to inspect the slaughterhouse of Madinat Al Shammal, the fi sh market and a chicken farm. The Municipality of Al Khor and Al Za- khira has also launched a cleaning cam- Frozen chicken packets were left to thaw at room temperature in paign at Al Zakhira fi sh market. unhygienic conditions.

Black by Splash is bold and beautiful plash has launched the There are leather, satin, silk Black premium collection, georgette and spandex in key Stargeting women in the pieces like jackets, skirts, dress- 16-40 age group, at its stores in es and shirts. Al Asmakh Mall and City Center The line also has a mono- Doha. chrome element which will be The collection is described as updated depending on the sea- the return of the grunge - sharp- sonality. er, edgier with a dash of oomph. The rebel attitude is high- The Black collection is fo- lighted further with the use of cused on straightforward sil- intricate details and embellish- houettes, layered shapes and a ments like zippers, chains, studs lot of detailing. and mirrors. With around 30 pieces on The focal point for the range display which includes apparel will be evening wear and acces- The Black collection is focused on and accessories, the collection sories. straightforward silhouettes, layered shapes and promises an array of fabrics to The niche product is priced a lot of detailing. experiment with. between QR200 and QR800. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 3 QATAR Texas A&M at Qatar’s Detergent maker backs engineering programme ‘Made in off ers 26 short courses Qatar’ expo atar Detergent Com- aims to attract investment ngineering students at Dr Eyad Masad, vice dean pany (QDC) will sup- in the manufacturing sector Texas A&M University at of Texas A&M at Qatar, told Qport the upcoming while promoting and show- EQatar (Tamuq) are build- students that he was proud of ‘Made in Qatar’ exhibition casing locally manufactured ing on their classroom knowl- what they’d accomplished, and as a sector sponsor, Qatar products in Saudi markets. edge and bringing their imagined their participation showed their Chamber (QC) has said in a The exhibition will include projects to life through the Engi- “commitment and thirst for statement. a selection of products from neering Enrichment Programme learning and gaining skills.” Ma- This is the fi rst time that leading Qatari companies, (EEP). sad encouraged them to continue the event, scheduled from No- along with small and medium First off ered in spring 2016, in the programme to train the vember 6 to 9 in Saudi capital businesses, in order to intro- the programme provides 26 next group of students. Riyadh, is being held outside duce Qatari products to the short courses to students who More than 100 students have Qatar. Saudi business community. want a more hands-on engi- since participated and some have Speaking at the agreement neering experience to drive in- achieved certifi cation. One stu- signing ceremony, QDC gen- The exhibition will novation and entrepreneurship. dent attained the NI Certifi ed La- eral manager Hamdy Abu- include a selection of The programme, which just bVIEW Associate Developer dis- elkassem said the company’s products from Qatari wrapped up its third cycle in tinction and fi ve of the 12 Certifi ed new factory opened recently companies in order to mid-August, enhances Texas SOLIDWORKS Associates in Qa- in Mesaieed Industrial City introduce them to Saudi A&M at Qatar’s commitment tar are Aggie engineers. The pro- and will contribute to increas- business community to educate exemplary engineers gramme came full circle last week ing exports to GCC, Arab and and well-rounded leaders. EEP when one of its certifi ed students Mena markets. “It will be a It also aims to promote has three levels: Pros, Mentors literally became the teacher. push towards global markets,” Qatar’s industry sector and and Inventeers. Pros learn the For students, the draw is the he noted. encourage the use of Qatari skills of machining, electronics, opportunity to get certifi ed in The offi cial stressed his products, while updating the fabrication and programming. house. “Personally, the chance confi dence in the Qatari Saudi business community Mentors help their fellow stu- to take a SolidWorks course and products to be able to com- on the latest developments in dents learn these valuable skills future opportunities to get certi- pete globally, adding that the participating sectors. while solving design problems fi ed is why I wanted to be here,” event “refl ected the booming The number of participants and Inventeers have the oppor- said one of the participants, Ma- economy of Qatar”. at the exhibition, including tunity to bring their ideas to fru- her Armoush. “It was a really Qatar Chamber director leading companies and fac- ition — and possibly have their good experience.” general Saleh Hamad al-Shar- tories, is expected to dou- projects sponsored. Beyond short courses, one qi said QC appreciated this ble, compared to the previ- EEP manager Yasser al-Ha- new aspect of the programme initiative from the company, ous edition, which attracted midi said he wants the pro- will be involving students in in- which would further help in more than 220 companies and gramme to empower engineering ternational competitions like holding a successful exhibi- factories. students. the Society of Automotive Engi- tion and enhance its role in Al-Sharqi recently empha- “These short courses are im- neers’ Formula SAE programme developing Qatar’s industry. sised that the exhibition was portant stepping stones in your where students will be tasked to He thanked the company a “big chance” for many lo- career,” al-Hamidi said, adding: collectively build a race car from for the co-operation, prais- cal fi rms and institutions to “This recognises you as an expert scratch. ing its leading role in the fi eld exchange experiences and se- in your course, but the road doesn’t Masad also said he hopes these of detergent products and its cure business deals with their end here. We look forward to seeing trainings will appear on future contribution to the industrial Saudi counterparts, as well you return as mentors and to con- students’ transcripts as ancillary sector in general. as strengthen Qatar-Saudi tinue toward certifi cation.” coursework. A student working on a project. The four-day exhibition economic partnership. QNRF launches fellowship for women researchers

he Qatar National Re- present and active in the duration of the fellowship. nities and potential support search Fund (QNRF) Qatari research workforce. The programme will help for future employment. Thas launched a sci- The fellowship is availa- ensure that fellows contin- While the primary ben- ence fellowship programme ble in research areas such as ue pursuit of their research efi t of this activity is to for Qatari and Qatar-born Ecology of Infectious Dis- at institutions inside Qatar build human capital, its female PhD students and eases, Environmental Sci- and enable them to share secondary aim is to support MSc graduates for which ence, Cyber-security and the skills, knowledge and young female researchers to applications will be received Materials Science in Ener- professional connections work- upon completion of until September 30. gy. The research fellowship gained in the US with their the fellowship- within Qa- The Women in Science will be for four months in a colleagues. tar-based research groups (WIS) programme aims to US university under one of The programme also pro- in areas of national priority complement the vision of these four topics. vides working experience as outlined in the Qatar Na- fostering a research culture The fellowship will ex- with best-in-class scien- tional Research Strategy. in Qatar with the motto pose WIS fellows to univer- tists, one of whom will be CRDF Global is a non- ‘Building a new genera- sity research environment the research mentor as well profi t organisation that tion of talented women re- under the mentorship of as with state-of-the-art re- promotes international searchers in Qatar’. Off ered leading female researchers search equipment wherever scientifi c and technical col- in collaboration with CRDF in the US. QNRF and CRDF necessary. laboration through grants, Global, the programme Global will jointly fund the WIS aims to contribute technical resources, and seeks to fi ll the gap between fellowship, and CRDF Glo- socially and scientifi cally training. CRDF Global’s the number of successful bal will coordinate all nec- to Qatar’s research mis- mission is to promote peace women graduating from essary travel arrangements sion with the potential for and prosperity through universities and the number and accommodation for worldwide impact and pro- international science of women eff ectively all selected fellows for the vide networking opportu- collaboration.

Accurate address allows quick access to services: MoI Sasol renews sponsorship The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has reminded residents that its for Al Fikra competition “Know your address” electronic service allows them to enquire about their place of residence asol, the interna- takes a holistic view to and area through six options. tional integrated the entrepreneurship These are name of the street, Schemicals and en- ecosystem – providing electricity number, zone number, ergy company, has an- fi nancial and non-fi nan- name of the neighbourhood, co- nounced its support for cial support and benefi ts ordinates and building number, the Al Fikra National to participants.” according to a post on the Business Competition The Al Fikra business Ministry’s Facebook page. for the fourth year in a competition was de- The facility becomes particularly row. signed by QDB to sup- important when people seek Organised by Qa- port innovative business to obtain any of the services tar Development Bank ideas in Qatar and pro- provided by the Ministry. (QDB) and its partners, vide investors with a way These include services off ered Al Fikra, now in its fi fth Henk Joubert to contribute to a vibrant by the General Directorate year, is intended to be economy. In line with of Nationality, Borders and a catalyst for entrepre- place for entrepreneurs Qatar National Vision Expatriates Aff airs, Traff ic neurship in Qatar. through September and 2030, Al Fikra supports Department, the various security Sasol previously sup- October. The fi nal busi- the diversifi cation of Qa- departments concerned with ported the 2013 and ness plans are due in tar’s economy away from combating crime and the 2014 editions of the Al October, and the fi nal a hydrocarbon-based National Command Centre Fikra competition as ceremony announcing to a knowledge-based regarding emergency services technology sponsor and the winner takes place in economy. (999). platinum sponsor, re- December. In a statement, Sasol The availability of a detailed and spectively. In 2015, the Henk Joubert, opera- said its sponsorship to Al accurate address will guarantee company elevated its tions manager or GTL Fikra was in line with the easy and quick access to such support to become the Ventures, Sasol, said: company’s community services, it is observed. main sponsor. “Sasol is pleased to once engagement eff orts in Address plates have been put up Registration for the again support QDB as Qatar and its long-term on buildings across the country competition began last the main sponsor of Al entrepreneurship and as part of a GIS (Geographical month, with training Fikra. We admire this SME support in its home Information System) initiative. workshops set to take competition because it country, South Africa. Gulf Times 4 Sunday, September 4, 2016 QATAR

Ooredoo launches next-generation fi rewall and connectivity solution oredoo has announced branches cost-effectively. can connect their various sites agement (UTM) to automatically nesses to offl oad the task of 24/7. We are investing heavily in the launch of its new In addition to enhanced net- cost-eff ectively using any ex- update its catalogue of known managing their networks and the latest technology to connect OManaged Router Serv- working capability, the Managed isting Internet connection (Mo- cyber threats. free their IT staff to focus on and secure our country’s busi- ice Extension, which has Router Service Extension solu- bile Broadband, Business Fibre, Talking about the service, revenue-generating initiatives.” nesses and this extension service been designed for small busi- tion comes with a device that has among others) and can also se- Yousuf al-Kubaisi, COO of “With this service in place, we is the latest in 2016, as we push nesses in Qatar that need a built-in full-fl edged fi rewall. cure their data behind a sentry Ooredoo Qatar, said: “Our new can ensure their business net- forward to become Qatar’s lead- to be able to network their This means that customers that uses Unifi ed Threat Man- service enables Qatar’s busi- works remain up and running ing ICT provider.”

Ministry organises training session on living conditions index The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS), in collaboration with the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries in Ankara, will organise a training course on living conditions measurement in the community from today until September 8. The course will be attended by staff from the MDPS and Permanent Population Committee in order to unify the methodologies of social phenomena monitoring as a prelude to preparing reports on sustainable development. The initiative comes in preparation for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, according to a press statement. Participants will learn about the concept and determinants of poverty and income inequality, the data sources and calculation methodology of such indicators. They will recognise the experiences of many countries in the measurement of these indicators.

Gulf Times 6 Sunday, September 4, 2016 REGION Market mine blast kills three soldiers

AFP The soldiers had “dismantled” at a market in the city, he added. Aden the mine planted by suspected Forces loyal to President Abd- jihadists on a road on the edge Rabbu Mansour Hadi are at war of Huta and placed it in the back on two fronts, against both mili- hree Yemeni soldiers were of their vehicle, he said, declin- tants and Shia Houthi rebels who killed yesterday when a ing to be named. The device control swathes of northern and Tmine they had “disman- exploded when they stopped central Yemen. tled” and taken away in their ve- hicle blew up as they stopped in Yemeni PM to visit Sudan today a marketplace, a security offi cial said. Prime Minister of Yemen Ahmed talks with Sudanese off icials on Seven other people including Obeid bin Daghr will start today bilateral co-operation and issues three civilians were wounded in an off icial visit to Sudan, heading of common concern in addition the blast in Huta, capital of the a high-level delegation. Suda- to the current Arab situations southern province of Lahj, a bas- nese radio service said that bin and the developments in the Yemenis gather around a burnt vehicle at the site where a mine, that Yemeni soldiers were taking away in their vehicle, blew up in a marketplace tion of Al Qaeda militants, ac- Daghr, during the visit, will hold Yemeni peace process. yesterday in Huta, the capital of the southern province of Lahj, a bastion of Al Qaeda militants. The mine, that the Yemeni soldiers had “dismantled”, cording to the offi cial. exploded when they stopped at the market, killing three soldiers and wounding at least seven civilians. Kuwait citizens advised to check phones before travelling to US

Reuters State news agency Kuna quot- ture, related to areas of confl ict or entering US territories,” it added. which is fi ghting against Islamic Dubai ed a statement by the Kuwaiti terrorist organisations or footage The Arabic language al-Rai State in Syria. embassy in Washington as say- of violence of all kinds before en- newspaper reported in July that In July, the United Arab Emir- ing that authorities at “some US tering US territories,” Kuna said, three businessmen were ques- ates, another close Gulf Arab uwait has advised citizens airports may check the contents citing a statement. tioned for 21 hours at Los Angeles ally of the United States, told its to make sure their phones of mobile phones or other smart “(This is) so that students and airport and had their telephones male citizens to avoid wearing Kcontain no material that mobile equipment”. citizens may be spared ques- checked before they were turned traditional white robes and head might be seen as being linked to “The embassy of the state of tioning by authorities in US back, in the second incident of its dress when travelling abroad, af- Islamist militants before travelling Kuwait in Washington urged airports and to avoid any ac- kind this year. ter a businessman was wrestled to the United States, local media citizens to make sure that their tion against them that could The Gulf state is a key US ally to the ground at an Avon, Ohio A man stands on rubble from destruction at the site of an air strike reported yesterday, after three phones do not contain any ma- result in cancelling their vi- and a member of an international hotel and held as an Islamic State by Arab coalition in Sanaa,Yemen, yesterday. men were denied entry in July. terials or photos of extremist na- sas and banning them from alliance led by the United States suspect. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 7 ARAB WORLD

Palestinians wait for travel permits to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, yesterday in the southern Gaza Strip. Egyptian authorities temporarily reopened it both directions for two days in Gaza Strip. Patients, people with residence permit and passport owners are allowed to cross to border. Turkey sends second aid shipment to Gaza

AFP The shipment is the fi rst since Turk- tonnes of sugar, 95 tonnes of vegetable Ankara ish lawmakers ratifi ed the deal to nor- oil, the offi cial said. malise ties between the two countries “We expect the items to be distrib- last month. uted to the people of Gaza before the urkish aid for the Gaza Strip Under the deal, Israel will pay Tur- upcoming Islamic holiday,” the offi cial has been sent from the coun- key $20mn in compensation for a said, referring to the Eid al-Adha holi- Ttry’s southern coast for the botched Israeli commando raid on a day, around September 12. second time since relations were Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship in 2010 The fi rst shipment reached Gaza normalised between Israel and An- that left 10 Turks dead. on July 4 just in time for the Eid cel- kara in June, a Turkish official said The offi cial, who did not wish ebrations marking the end of Ramadan yesterday. to be named, said Ankara had sent fasting. A humanitarian aid ship bound for 100 wheelchairs, 1,000 bicycles, Turkey’s ruling Islamic-rooted southern Israel’s Ashdod port left 100,000 backpacks and stationery Justice and Development Party has Mersin on Friday, the offi cial said, “the kits, 300,000 pieces of clothing and friendly ties with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, second major shipment of humanitar- 350,000 nappies. and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ian aid to Gaza since an agreement was The shipment also contained 1,288 has been a vocal supporter of the Pal- reached”. tons of fl our, 170 tonnes of rice, 64 estinian cause. Gulf Times 8 Sunday, September 4, 2016 ARAB WORLD Turkey opens a new front in Syria attack

AFP At least 20 tanks, fi ve armoured This is Ankara’s most ambitious clear the border area between al- Ankara personnel carriers, trucks and other operation during the fi ve-and-a- Rai and Jarabulus from IS, before armoured vehicles crossed the bor- half-year Syria confl ict, backed by advancing south towards al-Bab der after noon, Dogan news agency the tanks as well as warplanes and (the last IS bastion in Aleppo) and urkey yesterday sent more said. special forces providing support to Manbij (controlled by pro Kurdish tanks into the northern Syr- Turkish Firtina howitzers fi red rebels. forces).” Tian village of al-Rai to fi ght on IS targets as the contingent ad- The goal is to remove IS from its After the Kurds’ success in Man- Islamic State extremists, opening a vanced, Dogan said. border and to halt the westward ad- bij, they said they wanted to advance new front after its intervention last Meanwhile, Turkish warplanes vance of the Kurdish People’s Pro- and link their other two ‘cantons’ in month against the group, state media destroyed two IS targets in Wuguf tection Militia (YPG). northern Syria, Kobane and Afrin. reported. in southern al-Rai between 10:00 Ahmed Othman, a commander in But President Recep Tayyip Er- The tanks crossed into the village GMT and 10:24 GMT, the Chief of pro-Turkey rebel group Sultan Mu- dogan said on Friday that Turkey from Elbeyli in the Turkish province Staff said, quoted by NTV television. rad, said in Beirut that his group was would not allow the group to create of Kilis to provide military support to The statement also said two vil- now “working on two fronts in al- a “terror corridor”. Syrian opposition fi ghters after rid- lages and an airport were captured by Rai, south and east, in order to ad- Ankara sees the Kurdish Demo- Turkish military tanks are seen during clashes between Turkish soldiers and Islamic State ding northern villages of extremists rebels yesterday in the al-Rai region. vance towards the villages recently cratic Union Party (PYD) and the group fighters, 20km west of the Turkish-Syrian border town of Karkamis, in the southern in its “Euphrates Shield” operation In the last few months, al-Rai has liberated from IS west of Jarabulus”. YPG as terror groups acting as the region of Gaziantep, yesterday. launched on August 24, state-run repeatedly changed hands between Othman said it was the fi rst Syrian branch of separatist rebels in Anadolu news agency said. rebels and IS. phase of their plans.”We want to Turkey’s restive southeast. Libyan govt forces attack last IS-held areas in Sirte

AFP wounded are treated. Sirte, Libya Since the off ensive against Forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) gather around a tank, as they Sirte began on May 12, more attack the last positions of the Islamic State group’s (IS) militants yesterday in the area than 400 fi ghters loyal to the known as district three in the west of the coastal city of Sirte. orces loyal to Libya’s government have been killed Government of Na- and about 2,500 wounded. Ftional Accord said It is not yet known how they launched a new attack many IS militants have been yesterday on diehards of the killed, but the GNA media Islamic State group in the centre said the bodies of 10 coastal city of Sirte. militants had been found in a Backed by weeks of US air school in district one, which strikes, the pro-GNA forces was being combed after be- have recaptured nearly all of ing retaken on Monday. what had been the militants’ The forces loyal to the UN- main stronghold in North backed GNA had said last Africa. weekend they were prepar- The city’s fall would be a ing to “liberate” the entire huge setback to IS’s eff orts city after seizing several IS to expand its self-proclaimed positions, including its head- “caliphate” beyond Syria and quarters. Iraq where the militants have On Wednesday, GNA head also suff ered losses. Fayez al-Sarraj visited Sirte “The fi ghting has begun. for the fi rst time since loyalist We are attacking the last forces launched their off en- Daesh positions in district sive more than three months three” where the militants ago to drive the militants are cornered, a GNA fi ghter from the city. said, using an Arabic acro- Sarraj and some of his nym for IS. ministers toured former The GNA forces media front lines as well as the Oua- centre confi rmed on Face- gadougou conference centre book that the new push had which IS had used as its base. begun to retake Sirte, located “We will continue to 450km (280 miles) east of the chase, with the help of God, capital Tripoli. the Daesh remnants and “Our forces are advancing strike them wherever they inside the areas where Daesh may be in our country,” Sarraj is, in district three, and so far said this week. have taken control of” two The capture of Sirte by IS banks and a hotel, the media last year sparked fears the centre said. militants would use it as a It also said they had springboard for attacks on thwarted an attempted sui- Europe. The off ensive on the cide bombing. ground has been backed by Seven members of the US air power. GNA forces were killed and On Friday, the United 30 wounded in clashes with States Africa Command IS yesterday, it added. said that since the US cam- Earlier, an AFP journalist paign began on August 1, saw ambulances leaving Sirte US drones, helicopters and – hometown of dead dicta- bombers had carried out a tor Moamer Kadhafi – for total of 108 air strikes against Misrata to the west where the the militants in Sirte. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 9 AFRICA Mugabe scoff s at ill-health talk

Reuters Harare

imbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday returned home Zfrom abroad in a jovial mood, poking fun at the latest online media speculation that he was gravely ill and had sought medical help in Dubai. Mugabe, 92, came back to the grim reality of rising public anger over an economic meltdown widely blamed on his misrule, with violence erupting a week ago when police fi red teargas at opposition leaders and protesters. Reports that Mugabe’s health is de- clining have become common in recent years, but the veteran politician, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, often refers to himself as “fi t as a fi ddle”. Mugabe yesterday poured scorn on rumours on some online news websites President Robert Mugabe talks to the media at Harare airport yesterday. — partly fed by his early departure from a regional summit — that he had been cash shortages and high unemploy- cial farms in support of Mugabe’s land rushed for medical treatment in Dubai. ment, and last week warned protest- seizures, have turned their backs on Mugabe told journalists at Harare in- ers there would be no “Arab Spring” in him, saying he has “devoured” the val- ternational airport he had gone to Du- Zimbabwe, referring to the uprisings ues of the liberation struggle. bai on a family matter concerning one that toppled several Arab leaders. Zimbabwe, which has also been hit of his children. He routinely blames Zimbabwe’s by drought and weak commodity pric- “Yes, I was dead, it’s true I was dead. economic problems on sabotage by es, is struggling to pay salaries to sol- I resurrected as I always do. Once I Western opponents of his policies, such diers, police and other public workers, get back to my country I am real,” he as the seizure of white-owned com- fuelling political tensions, including quipped. mercial farms for black people. within the ruling ZANU-PF. But Mugabe showed some signs of Last week Mugabe accused Western Divisions have emerged inside the frailty, walking slowly from the plane countries, including the United States, party as senior offi cials position them- and only chatting briefl y with offi cials of sponsoring recent anti-government selves for power after the veteran leader before being whisked away in a motor- protests. is gone, with one faction supporting cade. But even some of his once stalwart Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa Mugabe rejects the blame for a cri- supporters, including Zimbabwe’s war while another backs fi rst lady Grace sis currently manifesting itself in acute veterans who invaded white commer- Mugabe.

14 oil workers abducted in Nigeria

Reuters and the southern Delta energy hub has they were travelling in before the in- Onitsha, Nigeria seen an increase in crime since the start cident occurred. Police are currently of attacks by militants calling for more combing bushes around the area in a oil wealth to go to the impoverished re- bid to find and release the victims,” unmen in Nigeria’s restive gion. said Nnamdi Omoni of Rivers state southern Niger Delta region, The abduction took place on a road police. Gwhich has been hit by a series connecting the towns of Omoku and “I do not think there was a foreigner of militant attacks on energy facilities Elele, around 50km from the city of among those kidnapped. Their abduc- since the start of the year, have kid- Port Harcourt, Rivers state, in the early tors have not made any contact and napped 14 local oil workers and their hours of Friday as the employees of Ni- nobody has been arrested yet,” added driver, police said yesterday. gerian energy company Nestoil trav- Nnamdi. Kidnapping for ransom is a com- elled to work, police said. A spokesman for Nestoil could not mon problem in some parts of Nigeria “We have recovered the vehicle immediately be reached.

Paris protest

People hold placards reading “Bongo, get out”, during a demonstration at the Esplanade du Trocadero in Paris yesterday. Two people died on Friday following overnight clashes, bringing to five the number killed in the violence that erupted after Bongo was declared victor of the disputed election. Bongo was declared victorious by a razor-thin margin of just under 6,000 votes, but his main challenger Ping, a veteran diplomat and former top African Union off icial, insisted the vote was rigged and claimed victory for himself.

Court allows time for Zambia poll challenge

AFP resentation and the matter would con- high infl ation and rising food prices. Lusaka tinue tomorrow. A drop in copper prices of almost “This matter has to be heard and one-third from their peak in February each party will have two days and the 2011 has resulted in thousands of job ambia’s constitutional court yes- respondents will also have two days,” losses in the mining industry, where terday gave the country’s main said constitutional court president most companies are owned by foreign, Zopposition leader two more days Hildah Chibomba. notably Chinese, investors. to present a petition challenging last Lungu won the election by a narrow Zambia previously enjoyed a stellar month’s disputed re-election of Presi- margin according to offi cial results, gar- period of growth, peaking at 10.3% in dent Edgar Lungu. nering 50.3% or about 100,000 votes. 2010. The court had on Friday gave Hakai- Hichilema, a businessman vying for Despite the legal challenge to his re- nde Hichilema, who was defeated in the presidency for a fi fth time, won election, Lungu, head of the Patriotic the August 11 vote, only two hours, 47.6% but immediately claimed the Front, has vowed to hit the ground run- prompting his lawyers to say they poll was rigged. ning. would no longer represent him. After the disputed election Lungu “For the next fi ve years, it will be to- Yesterday, it asked Hichilema, leader moved to assure supporters that a new tal work, there will be no honeymoon,” of the opposition United Party for Na- government would work to improve Lungu told supporters at a rally shortly tional Development, to seek legal rep- the welfare of Zambians grappling with after his re-election. Gulf Times 10 Sunday, September 4, 2016 AMERICA

V-J Day observance FBI releases Clinton e-mail probe fi les

AFP alphabetical order,” the report said. Reuters “When asked of her knowledge regard- ing TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFI- DENTIAL classification levels...Clinton he FBI on Friday poured fresh fuel on responded that she did not pay attention the fi re sparked by Hillary Clinton’s to the ‘level’ of classification and took all Tuse of a private e-mail server as sec- classified information seriously,” it add- retary of state, releasing heavily redacted ed. notes on its probe, which White House rival The report also revealed that Colin Powell, Donald Trump seized on to attack her fi tness who served as secretary of state from 2001 for offi ce. to 2005, warned Clinton to “be very careful” The 58 pages — 14 of which were entirely regarding e-mails. blacked out — showed that the FBI found no “Powell warned Clinton that if it became evidence her e-mail system was compro- ‘public’ that Clinton had a BlackBerry, and WWII veterans participate in the annual V-J Day observance on Friday to commemorate the Allied Forces victory, at the World War II Memorial in mised but decided it could not be ruled out she used it to ‘do business,’ her e-mails Washington, DC. It was 71 years ago when Japan surrendered to allied forces, ending World War II. because some of her mobile devices were not could become ‘official record(s) and sub- recovered. ject to the law’,” the report said, noting “The FBI did fi nd that hostile foreign ac- Clinton had e-mailed Powell after tak- tors successfully gained access to the per- ing office in 2009 to ask about his use of sonal e-mail accounts of individuals with a BlackBerry. whom Clinton was in regular contact and, “Powell further advised Clinton, ‘Be very in doing so, obtained e-mails sent to or re- careful. I got around it all by not saying much ceived by Clinton on her personal account,” and not using systems that captured the data’.” Moderate earthquake rattles the notes said. Clinton’s use of a private server has been The FBI notes said investigators iden- the subject of simmering controversy as she tified 13 mobile devices that “poten- runs for president against Trump, the Re- tially were used to send e-mails using publican candidate. Clinton’s Clintone-mail.com e-mail ad- dress.” temblor-prone Oklahoma The documents’ release follows the FBI’s recommendation in July not to prosecute It said eight of the devices were BlackBer- Clinton for sending unsecured e-mails with ries that she used while secretary of state, Reuters ammunition to environmentalists ing like this,” he said. “It was a long, whether wastewater disposal from classifi ed material through the server, and the other fi ve were devices, including Tulsa, Oklahoma concerned about the side-eff ects of sustained quake.” oil and gas production triggers though it found her to have been “extremely BlackBerries, that she used after leaving of- oil and gas production, which has The likelihood of casualties and earthquakes. careless.” fi ce. been blamed for a spike in minor to damage from the earthquake, was The state’s economy depends Clinton’s campaign said it was “pleased” In its summary of the interview with Clin- ne of the strongest earth- moderate quakes in the region. low, the USGS said. heavily on energy production, ac- with the report’s release. ton, the agency said she had received no quakes ever recorded in “We just had an earthquake that Most residences in north-central counting for one of every four jobs “While her use of a single e-mail account direction on preserving or producing State OOklahoma rattled a state shook our whole house!,” wrote Oklahoma were resistant to earth- there. was clearly a mistake and she has taken re- Department records while transitioning out where seismic activity has become Gretchen Scott of Enid, Oklahoma, quakes, it said on its website. Zachary Reeves, a seismologist sponsibility for it, these materials make clear of her post. a growing concern, sending tremors 100km west of Pawnee. Oklahoma geologists have docu- with the USGS National Earth- why the Justice Department believed there However, Clinton noted that she had suf- through six neighbouring states, the “Could actually hear it rum- mented links between increased quake Information Center in Gold- was no basis to move forward with this case,” fered a concussion in December 2012, less United States Geological Survey said bling like thunder. Very freaky, and seismic activity in the state and the en, Colorado, said the agency had it said in a statement. than two months before leaving offi ce, and yesterday. defi nitely not something I’d like to injection into the ground of waste- received reports of the Oklahoma But Trump’s campaign pounced, then had a blood clot. The quake, which struck 14km repeat soon!,” she said on her Face- water from oil and gas production, quake from South Dakota, Wiscon- charging that the notes “reinforce her “Based on her doctor’s advice, she could northwest of Pawnee in north- book page. according to a report from a state sin, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and tremendously bad judgement and dis- only work at State for a few hours a day and central Oklahoma at 7.02am CDT Pawnee Mayor Brad Sewell said agency last year. Texas. honesty”. could not recall every briefi ng she received,” (1302 GMT), had a magnitude of 5.6, the tremor lasted nearly a minute, Oklahoma is recording 2-1/2 “It’s a relatively large quake for “Clinton’s secret e-mail server was an end the summary said. matching in strength a temblor that far longer than previous ones that earthquakes daily of a magnitude the area. The central US doesn’t tend run around government transparency laws The apparent suggestion that Clinton’s hit the state in 2011, the USGS re- lasted only a second or two. three or greater, a seismicity rate to get a lot of fi ve-plus earthquakes,” that wound up jeopardizing our national blood clot led to memory loss could be po- ported on its website. Part of the façade of an early 20th- 600 times greater than before 2008, he said. security and sensitive diplomatic eff orts,” tent fodder for the Trump camp — as it seeks There were no immediate reports century bank building had fallen the Oklahoma Geological Survey He said it was the third magnitude Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a to portray the Democrat as lacking the stam- of injuries. into a downtown street, he said. (OGS) said. 5 quake in the state since 2011, and statement. ina for the job. The earthquake, which had a “We have had a spate of quakes The spike has put Oklahoma at there were a couple of dozen or so 4s Trump said Clinton’s answers to the FBI Clinton’s campaign spokesman Brian depth of 6.6km, could off er fresh over the last several years, but noth- the centre of a national debate over or bigger in Oklahoma last year. “defy belief”. Fallon sought to cut short any such notion, “I was absolutely shocked to see that her tweeting: “Asked about briefi ngs in late ‘12, answers to the FBI stood in direct contra- Clinton said 2 things: (1) she couldn’t recall diction to what she told the American peo- each briefi ng (2) she missed part of that time ple. After reading these documents, I really due to health.” don’t understand how she was able to get Of some 30,000 e-mails Clinton subse- Hermine churns north into the Carolinas away from prosecution,” he said in a state- quently turned over to the FBI, the agency’s ment. director James Comey has said 110 contained Embarrassing revelations include a pas- classifi ed information. ropical Storm Hermine plowed then gather strength after moving ened after the storm battered Flori- Jersey, to cancel concerts over the sage in the report in which the 68-year-old Clinton had said none was classifi ed at the across North Carolina’s Outer off shore into the Atlantic, possibly da’s $89bn tourism industry. weekend, and beaches were closed Clinton told investigators she was unaware time they were sent. TBanks yesterday, threatening reaching near-hurricane intensity “We’ll probably stay inside in several coastal communities. that confi dential material was marked with Meanwhile, the State Department has the US East Coast with a mix of high by tonight, the National Hurricane watching movies or going to the At 5am EDT, the centre of the a “C.” been ordered to review for possible release winds and heavy rain after leaving a Center said. movie theatre,” Joan Whalen told an fourth named storm of the 2016 “Clinton stated she did not know nearly 15,000 additional e-mails and docu- path of destruction in Florida, Geor- Labor Day weekend plans for ABC affi liate in Virginia after can- Atlantic hurricane season was near what the ‘(C)’ meant at the beginning ments uncovered during the FBI investiga- gia and in the Carolinas. thousands of vacationers who were celling weekend beach plans. the northern Outer Banks of North of the paragraphs and speculated it tion that had not been disclosed by her law- The storm was projected to creep headed to popular beach spots along The threat of severe weather Carolina, with top winds near was referencing paragraphs marked in yers. north along the Carolina coast, the Atlantic seaboard were damp- caused offi cials in Atlantic City, New 95kph, the hurricane centre said.

First photo of Jupiter’s North Pole released

AFP Washington

asa published on Friday the fi rst-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole and its southern aurora, taken Nduring the Juno spacecraft’s fi rst orbital fl yby of the gaseous giant. Juno came within 4,200km of Jupiter on August 27 dur- ing a six-hour transit from the north pole to the south. “It looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique. We have 36 more fl ybys to study just how unique it really is.” A camera dubbed the “JunoCam” took the high-defi ni- tion images. It is one of the nine instruments onboard the spacecraft. Juno notably sent the fi rst infrared close-ups of the planet’s north and south poles. “These fi rst infrared views of Jupiter’s north and south poles are revealing warm and hot spots that have never been seen before,” said Alberto Adriani, of the Istituto di Astrofi sica e Planetologia Spaziali in Rome. Adriani is one of the researchers who developed the Jo- vian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) that allowed scien- tists to acquire the images. “While we knew that the fi rst-ever infrared views of Ju- piter’s south pole could reveal the planet’s southern aurora, we were amazed to see it for the fi rst time,” he said. Auroras are streamers of light in the sky caused by ener- gy from the sun and electrically charged particles trapped in the magnetic fi eld. Another Juno instrument recorded sounds from Jupiter — “ghostly-sounding transmissions emanating from the planet,” said NASA. Scientists have known about Jupiter’s radio emissions since the 1950s, but had never analysed them from such a close distance. “Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas-giant worlds can,” said Bill Kurth, co-investigator from the University of Iowa. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 11 ASEAN Myanmar peace summit Man dies in ends with long road ahead Malaysia’s AFP Although the army has loos- fi rst locally Naypyidaw ened its grip on the country since the end of junta rule 2011, soldiers still run key government yanmar’s Aung San Suu ministries and a quarter of par- Kyi concluded a land- liament seats. transmitted Mmark summit with eth- Lian Hmung Sahkong, a lead- nic rebels yesterday, calling it the er from the Chin National Front fi rst step on what promises to be who helped organise the peace a tough road to peace. conference, said the next gath- The conference in the capital ering of delegates will be held in Zika case Naypyidaw was Suu Kyi’s fi rst six months. big drive to end insurgencies “Our current challenge is that have rumbled across My- to get the signatures of eth- AFP anmar’s frontier states for nearly nic groups that did not sign the Kuala Lumpur Scientists say seven decades. NCA,” he said, referring to the The Nobel Laureate, now limited ceasefi re negotiated last Singapore leading the country after cham- year. alaysia reported its Zika is Asian pioning a democracy struggle A leader from the Kachin fi rst locally trans- against the former junta, has Independence Organisation Mmitted Zika case Singapore yesterday reported devoted her fi rst few months in (KIO) — a powerful rebel fac- yesterday, a 61-year-old man 215 cases of Zika infections power to kickstarting fresh ne- tion that did not sign the truce who has died of heart-related as scientists in the city-state gotiations between rebel militias — stressed that no concrete complications, the govern- said the virus strain comes and the army. agreements were reached at this ment said. from within Asia and was not No resolution emerged from week’s talks. The patient was a resident of imported from Brazil. The the four-day summit, which “We were able to present our the eastern Malaysian state of Ministry of Health and National gave representatives from doz- proposals at this conference, but Sabah, the Ministry of Health Environment Agency said in ens of ethnic groups a chance to nothing important happened,” said, and already was in fragile a joint statement yesterday air grievances and outline their General Gun Maw told reporters, health due to heart problems, evening that of the 26 new political aspirations. adding that more discussion is high blood pressure and other cases reported, 24 were linked Suu Kyi’s biggest achieve- needed before his group will sign maladies. But the case, coming to a cluster in the Aljunied ment was bringing new play- a deal. two days after authorities re- district where the country’s first ers to the table, including rebel Myanmar’s diverse patchwork ported the country’s fi rst case locally-transmitted cases were armies that did not sign a shaky of ethnic groups make up around of Zika, is likely to add to fears reported. The statement did ceasefi re brokered by the former a third of the population, but the of a full-blown outbreak of the not say where the other two military-backed government government and military have mosquito-borne virus in the cases were from. A week after last year. long been dominated by mem- tropical nation. Singapore reported its first However three groups still bers of the majority Bamar eth- The ministry said local trans- case of locally transmitted Zika actively clashing with troops Myanmar’s State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with ethnic rebel leader nicity, to which Suu Kyi belongs. mission was highly likely be- infection, local scientists say did not attend the talks, and the General Gun Maw (right) from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the military wing of the Kachin The peace summit comes al- cause the man had no recent they have completed genetic powerful Wa — a heavily armed Independence Organisation (KIO), at the conclusion of the peace conference in Naypyidaw yesterday. most 70 years after her inde- history of travelling outside sequencing of the virus. militia based near the border pendence hero father signed an Malaysia. “The analysis found that the with China — stormed out on “This is the fi rst meeting. Af- continues. Distrust of the mili- the minorities’ calls for greater agreement promising autonomy Ministry Director-general virus belongs to the Asian line- day two over what the govern- ter this, there will be more meet- tary still runs deep in Myanmar autonomy in their homelands, to major ethnic groups ahead of Noor Hisham Abdullah told age and likely evolved from the ment said was a misunderstand- ings. And there are many things — especially in the minority ar- it will be a challenge to craft a Myanmar’s break from colonial state news agency Bernama his strain that was already circulat- ing. we have to do during the time in eas battered by decades of fi ght- federal arrangement that meets ruler Britain. prior health problems were the ing in Southeast Asia. “To achieve peace is very dif- between,” she added. ing and oppression. Many of the each group’s unique demands. But the deal collapsed after his cause of death yesterday after- fi cult,” Suu Kyi told the confer- The veteran democracy ac- confl icts are complicated by tus- Any changes to a junta-era assassination and was ignored noon, but that the results of a ence hall fi lled with hundreds of tivist, who spent some 15 years sles over drug trades and lucra- charter will also require support by the junta that seized power, full investigation were pending. who is believed to have con- delegates yesterday, the fi nal day under house arrest during junta tive gem and timber reserves in from the still-infl uential army, triggering uprisings that have On Thursday, Malaysia re- tracted it on a visit to neigh- of the summit after it was decid- rule, urged all sides to “look rebel-held areas. which has the power to veto any simmered in the country’s bor- ported the fi rst Zika case on its bouring Singapore, where 150 ed a fi fth was not needed. forward” as the peace process While Suu Kyi has backed proposed amendments. derlands ever since. soil — a 58-year-old woman cases have been confi rmed.

Rain walk

Children walk under the rain in the northern city of Xieng Khouang, Laos, yesterday.

INVESTIGATION First tourist town blast suspect Railway worker killed as held in Thailand Thai authorities have arrested bomb explodes on train the first suspect linked to a string of bomb and arson attacks that rocked southern tourist towns Reuters damaging the last carriage, Police Cap- last month, a police off icer said Bangkok tain Promote Juichouy told Reuters. yesterday. The co-ordinated blasts The blast destroyed half the carriage erupted across seven provinces and blew a big hole under the track, po- on August 11-12, killing four and ne railway worker was killed lice said. injuring dozens, including foreign and three people were wound- The three wounded people included tourists. No one has claimed Oed when a bomb exploded on two train workers and a female passen- responsibility for the bombing a train in Thailand’s southern town of ger. spree but analysts say it bore the Pattani yesterday, police said, a day The train was heading to Bangkok. hallmarks of ethnic Malay insur- after peace talks between the Thai gov- Peace talks between Thailand’s govern- gents behind a 12-year rebellion ernment and Muslim rebels. ment and separatists ended on Friday concentrated further south. The bomb was hidden under rail with no breakthrough but an agree- The battle for greater autonomy tracks at Khok Pho district of Pattani, ment to meet again. from the Buddhist-majority state The insurgents denied responsibility has killed than 6,500 people — for a string of bombs last month. mainly civilians — since 2004, but A decades-old insurgency in the the violence rarely spills outside Muslim-majority southern provinces the southern border region. of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has “One suspected arsonist was ar- claimed more than 6,500 lives since rested yesterday in his hometown it escalated in 2004, according to the in Pattani,” assistant national independent monitoring group Deep police chief Suchart Theerasawat South Watch. told AFP Saturday, referring to a As with most such attacks, no one province that lies in the heart of claimed responsibility. The blast oc- the insurgency.The man, identified curred three weeks after a series of ex- by police as 36-year-old Abdul plosions hit three of Thailand’s most Kadae Salae, is accused of setting Military personnel inspect the site of a popular tourist resorts and a town fire to a supermarket in Trang bomb attack at Khok Pho district in the in the south, killing four people and province. troubled southern province of Pattani. wounding dozens. Gulf Times 12 Sunday, September 4, 2016 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

China ‘blocks’ civil society groups Taiwan’s public from monitoring G20 summit By Joanna Chiu and ‘This is our country!’, Chinese offi cial tells US Andreas Landwehr, DPA Hangzhou, China When US President Barack Obama arrived in China yesterday for his final trip to Asia as commander-in-chief, the ceremonial niceties were marred by an undiplomatic shouting incident on the tarmac. he host of this year’s G20 Chinese authorities have imposed extremely tight security precautions for summit has “broken prec- the G20 summit, and not even US National Security Adviser Susan Rice and workers protest Tedent” by denying leading the White House press corps proved exempt when Air Force One landed in civil society organisations the host city Hangzhou. ability to monitor and comment As usual when Obama travels, the reporters accompanying him were on events inside the venue’s me- brought under the wing of the Boeing 747 to watch him come down the dia centre, activists charge. aircraft stairs, penned off behind a blue rope installed by Chinese security. China either ignored or re- But that was not far away enough for the Chinese personnel, one of whom fused the requests of major in- screamed at White House staff , demanding the US press leave the scene. ternational non-profi t organisa- A female White House off icial, handbag over her arm, told him that it was pension reforms tions to participate in the Group an American plane and the US president. of 20 summit in Hangzhou as “This is our country!” the Chinese off icial, in a dark suit, shouted at her in AFP “We are accused of stealing observers, representatives of English. “This is our airport!” Taipei and robbing the country. Our several such groups asserted yes- When US National Security Adviser Susan Rice and senior White House dignity is hurt and we are very terday. staff er Ben Rhodes tried to get closer to the president, lifting up the blue angry. Enough is enough,” rally They spoke to DPA on condi- rope and walking under it, the off icial turned his ire on Rice, trying to block ore than 100,000 peo- organiser Peng Ju-yu told AFP. tion of anonymity so as not to her progress. ple, mostly civil serv- Public sector employees do jeopardise their operations in As they exchanged angry words her Secret Service agent stepped in to Mants, took to Taipei’s not oppose reforms but they are China. usher her past him. streets yesterday in protest angry that they are being unfair- “I’ve been at the last three Moments afterwards the US president’s motorcade was rolling away, planned reforms to the island’s ly blamed for bankrupting the G20 summits but not this time. towards a city of 9mn people that has been denuded of around a quarter struggling pension system, for pension system, Peng explained. In those three years, we had up of its population for the event. Factories have been closed to ensure blue which they say they are unfairly In the past the government to around 40 places in the media skies, potential troublemakers detained, and the wide boulevards of a city blamed. had to off er generous incentives centre and were able to provide lauded by Venetian traveller Marco Polo are empty. The massive demonstra- to public sector employees as comment to journalists,” a man- “They did things that weren’t anticipated,” Rice told reporters later. tion was the latest challenge to the starting salaries were low. ager of an international advocacy President Tsai Ing-wen’s new But public sector jobs have group told DPA. government, which has seen its become popular in the past dec- “Basically, there is no rep- “Past meetings have taken rights lawyers and activists who popularity ratings fall rapidly ade amid economic slowdowns. resentation by civil society at place in locations that generally have been detained or summoned since taking the helm in May. Tsai has said that pension this G20 summit,” a senior staff were more tolerant of civil soci- by Chinese police since last sum- Taiwan’s pension schemes reform is “an unavoidable re- member of another major hu- ety, such that access was easier. mer, more than a dozen are be- vary for diff erent occupations sponsibility of our generation” manitarian group said. But maddeningly, a lot of ‘how’ lieved to still be in jail, according and public sector retirees typi- to protect retirees. He also noted that when China any G20 is held is really up to the to Amnesty International. cally receive more generous “I support pension reforms hosted the meeting of the Civil host – it’s not a codifi ed matter Teng Biao, one of China’s best- packages than workers from but they should be reasonable Society 20 (C20) in Qingdao in of international law,” Richardson known human rights lawyers other sectors which fall under a and transparent. It’s not fair to July, roughly three-quarters of told DPA. who fl ed to the United States in diff erent labour pension system. just blame public sector workers organisations were affi liated with International advocacy organ- 2014, said that silence from G20 The government has warned for dragging down the country’s the Chinese state. isations and prominent activists leaders on China’s human rights that various pension funds are fi nances,” said 35-year-old po- China did not agree to host a have appealed to G20 leaders to would amount to complicity. estimated to go bankrupt from lice offi cer Levi Lee. C20 event until late April, and at confront Beijing over what they “If G20 participants only talk as early as 2020 if the system is The opposition Kuomintang the time did not clarify when or call a dramatically worsening en- about issues concerning the not overhauled. (KMT) party warned the gov- where the gathering would take vironment for human rights. economy, if they don’t say any- Retired civil servants, teach- ernment against “stirring up place. In June, authorities sentenced thing about human rights, they ers, servicemen and fi refi ghters hatred and confrontation”. Government employees hold placards reading ‘oppose “Chinese authorities have Hangzhou-based democracy are helping the Chinese govern- shouted “oppose stigmatisa- “We support pension reforms stigmatisation’ and ‘demand dignity’ while marching through the made their hostility to civil so- activists Lü Gengsong and Chen ment to crack down on the peo- tion” and “demand dignity” as but they should be gradual and streets during a protest yesterday in Taipei. ciety painfully clear in recent Shuqing to prison terms of 11 and ple and civil society,” Teng told they gathered in a square near with supporting measures. The years, such that no G20 members 10 and a half years respectively DPA. the presidential offi ce in down- DPP has caused many problems 70% following a string of con- porations from evading taxes should be surprised at the re- for their online essays, in a move Yesterday Chinese President town Taipei. with its rough methods,” said troversies, including the pen- instead of going after people strictions imposed for the sum- seen as an attempt to intimidate Xi Jinping told a meeting of G20 Police estimated a turnout of KMT spokesman Chou Chih- sion reform plans. who worked all their lives in mit itself,” said Sophie Richard- other dissidents from speaking business leaders in Hangzhou around 117,000 for the rally, the wei. “The government should public services,” said protester son, China director for Human up during the G20 summit. that China is committed to “law- biggest public protest since Tsai Tsai has seen her support rat- work harder to improve the Kao Shu-rong, a 82-year-old Rights Watch. Of the more than 300 human based governance”. took offi ce. ings slide to 41% from a high of economy and prevent big cor- retired civil servant. Aboriginal woman goes from being a ‘non-citizen’ to Australian lawmaker

AFP as a non-citizen,” the 59-year- Sydney old lawmaker added. The 1967 referendum changed Australia’s constitution to allow earing a cloak deco- Aboriginal people to be counted rated with the goanna in the national census. Wlizard, the fi rst Abo- But indigenous Australians riginal woman elected to Aus- still suff er disproportionate lev- tralia’s lower house took her seat els of disadvantage and impris- in parliament this week, saying onment and have a much lower that as a child she was a “non- life expectancy. citizen”. They are also dealing with the Former teacher Linda Bur- legacy of policies under which Police off icers secure an area at West Lake in Hangzhou. Factories have been closed to ensure blue skies, ney made history in July when indigenous children were taken potential troublemakers detained, and a quarter of the residents have left. she was voted into the House from their mothers to be raised of Representatives, joining only by white families or in institu- a handful of other indigenous tions. lawmakers in Australia’s na- Burney, who is with the op- tional parliament. position Labor Party, joins the Hangzhou turns ghost town In her maiden speech, she ruling conservative Liberal said that her kangaroo skin cloak Party’s fi rst Aboriginal MP, Ken “tells my story”, as another Wir- A handout photo taken on August 31 and obtained on Friday shows Wyatt, who was elected in 2010, By Joseph Campbell, Reuters derstand why,” said Hangzhou gion, were also sent home over adjuri woman sang to her in tra- Burney holding up her cloak as she gave her first speech in the and follows in the footsteps of Hangzhou, China real estate agent Liu Wenchao. the period, restaurants told Reu- ditional language from the pub- national parliament in Canberra. former senator and Olympian “Leaders from the world’s most ters. lic gallery. Nova Peris, who was the fi rst important 20 countries are com- The government has blamed “It charts my life, on it is my spirit” to the capital in Canber- but not how many Aboriginal indigenous woman in the upper he Chinese city of ing for this big summit, and we Islamist militants for carrying clan totem the goanna and my ra, as she described how far she people,” Burney, a former New house. Hangzhou felt like a ghost all need to guarantee security for out attacks in that region. personal totem the white cock- had come from her childhood in South Wales state government “The Aboriginal part of my Ttown yesterday ahead of foreigners.” Over the weekend, police of- atoo,” she told parliament on New South Wales. minister, said. story is important, it is the core the arrival of leaders from the The stakes are high for China fi cers conducted security checks Wednesday. “I was born at a time when the “I was 10 years old before the of who I am,” Burney said. “But I world’s 20 biggest economies, to pull off a trouble-free sum- on streets while men identifying Burney said that she would Australian government knew ‘67 referendum fi xed that. The will not be stereotyped and I will after the government encouraged mit, its highest profi le event of themselves as volunteer security bring the “fi ghting Wiradjuri how many sheep there were fi rst decade of my life was spent not be pigeon-holed.” residents to clear out and cranked the year, as it looks to cement its guards patrolled. up security for the summit. standing as a global power and Two volunteers told Reuters On the eve of the Group of 20 avoid acrimony over issues like journalists they were not allowed Japan braces for Typhoon Namtheun summit, roads and malls around the South China Sea territorial to fi lm in residential areas. the main venue in the centre of dispute. Chinese industry consultant Japan was on alert for typhoon winds and heavy rain yesterday as the death Hangzhou, usually a bustling city The city, a tourist hot spot, is Mysteel said more steel mills in toll from a devastating hurricane that hit the country’s north earlier this week of 9mn, were largely deserted, home to Chinese e-commerce the neighbouring provinces of rose to 15. with just a smattering of cars and giant Alibaba Group Holdings Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Typhoon Namtheun was heading north towards the southern main island people around while shops were and to textile factories as well as Zhejiang had been ordered to of Kyushu with gusts of up to 198kph (123mph), according to the Japan shut and locked. steel. curb or suspend production be- Meteorological Agency. Construction sites also Hangzhou’s residents left in cause the air quality was deemed Namtheun was passing near the small subtropical island of Amami, which lies whirred to a stop, uncommon in droves after authorities declared not good enough. between Okinawa and Kyushu, yesterday afternoon, the agency said. a country where labourers often a week-long holiday for the sum- Yesterday the air quality in- It issued a warning for strong winds, heavy rain and floods in southern work around-the-clock. mit, shut down the city’s famous dex for Hangzhou was 76, a level Kyushu, but there was no immediate report of injuries or damage from the More than 200 steel mills in West Lake beauty spot and of- classed as “good” but far worse typhoon. surrounding districts were shut fered free travel vouchers worth than Beijing which had an “ex- Meanwhile, the death toll from Typhoon Lionrock in northern Japan rose to 15 as part of a government bid to up to 10bn yuan ($1.5bn) to en- cellent” level of 25. after the body of a 57-year-old man was found in Iwaizumi, Iwate prefecture, limit pollution during the two- courage people to visit out-of- “We need put on our best face, police and local government off icials said. day summit which begins today. town attractions. Hangzhou’s most beautiful face, Public broadcaster NHK said at least nine people were still unaccounted for. “Things are now a little bit Some residents, such as chefs for the entire world,” said real es- Lionrock landed on Japan’s northern Pacific coast on Tuesday evening, inconvenient. But you can un- from the western Xinjiang re- tate agent Liu. dumping torrential rain over a wide area. Overflowing rivers wreaked havoc, stranding many communities in the country’s largely agricultural north. Son of former Chinese PM promoted to transport minister Iwaizumi was the hardest hit as nine people were buried inside a building of an elderly care facility, which was engulfed by a flood from a nearby river. China’s parliament has named the son of former military crackdown on student-led demonstrations Some 1,000 people were still cut off in isolated communities in Iwate premier Li Peng as transport minister, part of an for democracy around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square prefecture, the prefectural government off icial said. on-going reshuff le of senior off icials by President Xi in 1989. “We are dispatching helicopters to bring foods and necessary items to the Jinping ahead of a once-every-five-years congress His son had been the governor in Shanxi, a coal-rich isolated areas,” the off icial said. in 2017. northern province beset by corruption scandals, Lionrock was the third typhoon to strike Japan’s northeast in about 10 days, The legislature approved the appointment of Li before being promoted to his new role. the previous two causing at least two deaths. Xiaopeng, who replaces Yang Chuantang as minister Reuters reported on Monday that Li Xiaopeng would In 2013, a powerful typhoon that triggered massive landslides on Oshima of transport, the off icial Xinhua news agency said in move to Beijing to take over as transport minister. island, 120km (75 miles) south of Tokyo, killed 40 people, while 82 died after a a brief statement. It gave no other details. The ministry is responsible for road, air, rail and typhoon hit Japan in 2011. His father, Li Peng, was deeply involved in the water transport. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 13 BRITAIN Stay out Replica city will burn to mark the Great Fire

AFP The London of today, with London its characteristic English Ba- roque architecture in grey Portland stone, was built from giant replica of 17th- the ashes of the wooden city, century London will though the old street layout A be set ablaze in the city was retained to respect prop- this weekend to mark the 350th erty rights. anniversary of the devastating The Monument column Great Fire of London. commemorates the fi re near The 1666 inferno destroyed where it started but Pudding most of the walled inner city Lane itself is now an unre- dating back to Roman times markable concrete-lined back — a bustling, congested maze road. of tightly-packed wooden The new St Paul’s Cathedral, houses. still the centrepiece of the city, It forced London to rebuild was completed 44 years after anew from the ashes. the Great Fire. Now the city is looking back Nick Bodger, head of cul- to when it lay in ruins — with tural and visitor development a few shuddering sights to re- for the City of London, said mind Londoners of the peril the capital’s resilience — wit- faced by their predecessors. nessed again during the 1940s The London’s Burning pro- Blitz — helped it rebuild and gramme of events commemo- survive. rating the disaster culminates “350 years ago, when embers An anti-EU pro-Brexit marcher takes part in a counter protest against pro-Europe marchers on a March for Europe demonstration against the Brexit vote in Parliament in Sunday’s torching of a 120m from a baker’s oven sparked Square in central London yesterday. long wooden replica of old one of the most catastrophic London — moored in the Riv- events the capital has ever wit- er Thames to prevent the fi re nessed, London’s economic from spreading again. prowess almost came to a fi ery “It will look spectacular,” end,” he told reporters. said Helen Marriage, director “A renewed sense of purpose of creative events company saw the great city we enjoy to- Artichoke, which is staging the day rise from those ashes, de- London’s Burning programme. velop and thrive.” The recreation was built by The Museum of London’s US ‘burn artist’ David Best and “Fire! Fire!” exhibition con- can be watched worldwide on a tains scorched possessions Golden era for UK, livestream from 8:25pm (1925 only just saved from the fi re, GMT) today. leather buckets used to fi ght it The Great Fire of London and letters telling of the infer- broke out in Thomas Farrinor’s no written by people who fl ed. bakery on Pudding Lane short- It also has burnt items ex- ly after midnight on September cavated from a Pudding Lane 2, 1666 and gradually spread shop, including charred bricks, through the city. melted tile fragments and China ties, says PM The fi re was fi nally extin- scorched wooden barrels, still guished on September 5, with black from the blaze. The premier sounded positive about Although a decision on whether or not ment hitherto in to this country has been around 80% of the walled city “It was hugely devastating. future ties with China the project in Somerset will go ahead is from the west,” she told the BBC Radio 4 in ruins. It’s the heart of London expected this month, UK offi cials indi- Today programme. It consumed 13,200 houses, where most of the major cul- Guardian News cated it would not be announced tomor- Any fi nal decision on Hinkley Point is 87 parish churches and Saint tural and commercial buildings London row — fuelling speculation the plan would expected to have major diplomatic im- Paul’s Cathedral. were,” curator Meriel Jeater be scrapped or signifi cantly altered.“We plications for relations between the UK, Only six deaths were of- told AFP. have set out the government’s approach to France and China. fi cially attributed to the fi re, “People lost their homes, heresa May has said the UK will be a Hinkley. Meanwhile, May’s talks with Obama though an estimated 70,000 belongings and businesses.” global leader for free trade following We are currently considering all the follow his warning that the UK would be of the 80,000 residents were During London’s Burning Tthe vote to leave the European Un- component parts of that,” a UK source at forced to fl ee, most to squalid festival fl ames will be project- ion, as she headed to Hangzhou in eastern said. “the back of the queue” for a trade deal camps outside the city walls. ed onto the dome of St Paul’s China for the G20 summit yesterday. “We have said we will make a decision if it voted to leave the EU. Various scapegoats were Cathedral and 23,000 breeze May also declared it a “golden era” for this month — that remains the plan. But amid reports the planned US-EU blamed, chiefl y Catholics and blocks arranged as a domino UK-China relations despite the impend- I don’t expect one in the next few days trade deal has stalled, the UK hopes for foreigners. run will be felled to show how ing row with Beijing over the delayed deci- and I don’t expect our Chinese or French talks on a transatlantic agreement of its Robert Hubert, a French the fi re spread through the city. sion on the Hinkley Point C power station, British Prime Minister Theresa May. partners are expecting one in the next few own with Washington. watchmaker, confessed to In London’s Inner Temple suggesting she wants to use her fi rst major days.” During today’s summit May is also re- starting the blaze and was hall, the scale of events is being global summit to prove the UK remains the strategic partnership that we have be- The French energy giant, EDF, with ported to want to push for action on tack- swiftly hanged — though he visually represented by piles of dependable in the wake of the June refer- tween the UK and China,” May said. support from China General Nuclear, ling terrorism, including stopping the fl ow was actually at sea when the rice — one grain for each per- endum result. “But I will also be talking to other world had expected to build the £18bn plant, of money and foreign fi ghters to extremist fi re broke out. son. Speaking at Heathrow before boarding leaders about how we can develop free but in a surprise move May’s administra- groups such as Islamic State. an RAF plane, May said: “The message for trade around the world, and Britain wants tion delayed a fi nal decision on the project She will press for action to make sure the G20 is that Britain is open for business, to seize those opportunities. amid reports of security concerns about that Isis fi ghters are not able to fi nd new as a bold, confi dent, outward-looking My ambition is that Britain will be a glo- Beijing’s involvement and the high cost of safe havens in areas such as sub-Saharan country we will be playing a key role on the bal leader in free trade.” energy from the power station. Africa once they are forced out of strong- world stage.” May is due to hold talks with leaders The UK’s former security minister holds. Former PM ‘urged The prime minister will have a meeting including Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin Pauline Neville-Jones said yesterday that Her government is still working on its with Chinese President Xi Jinping tomor- and Narendra Modi. reassurances were needed from China be- vision for how Britain’s relationship with row, following the conclusion of the two- But despite a face-to-face with Xi, she fore a decision could be made.“The issue, the EU should look post-Brexit. Clegg to give his day summit.“This is a golden era for UK- is not expected to make an announcement I think, is much more day-to-day security Downing Street said after a meeting of China relations and one of the things I will on the Hinkley Point C project, which is implications of having an investor of that ministers this week that it wants immigra- be doing at the G20 is obviously talking to backed by Beijing’s state-owned nuclear kind who isn’t an ally — not an enemy — tion controls while retaining strong trad- mansion to Osborne’ President Xi about how we can develop fi rm. but isn’t an ally in the way most invest- ing ties.

Evening Standard “I was a bit taken aback. London I thought he wanted to ask me something important. It hadn’t really occurred to me avid Cameron urged that I might get a retreat to Parents place academic results Nick Clegg to hand over use at weekends, still less that Dhis grace and favour there was any great distinction country mansion to George between one or the other.” Osborne because the former “Cameron’s plea suggested chancellor “had his eye on it”. that George Osborne had been above child’s happiness: survey Clegg reveals the incident in measuring up the curtains for a memoir of his time in power years.” in which he brands Osborne The ex-deputy PM said By Richard Adams lying and unhappiness at school as key ated anxiety in parents by saying that ed- But while the bad behaviour of other “smug” for publicly ridiculing that other senior Lib Dems in Guardian News and Media/London worries, according to the survey of more ucation is all about year six Sats or GCSE children worries parents, they have few his unpopularity as Lib Dem the coalition, Sir Vince Cable than 1,000 parents carried out by poll- results.” concerns about their own child’s behav- leader. and Chris Huhne, were “not sters ComRes. Bullying remains a concern among par- iour: just 3% of parents rated it as their An extract from the book in team players” who left him ressure to get good results means Tim Morfi n, the chief executive of ents, with one in fi ve naming fear of their top concern. The Guardian states: “David isolated in the face of public most parents are more worried TLG, said while it was natural for parents child being bullied as the single thing that And despite worries about progress, Cameron seemed a little on anger. Pabout the progress their children to want to be assured their children were most concerned them about returning to homework was the lowest concern for the edge. Clegg says: “I was unable to are making at school than about bullying keeping up with their peers, concerns parents surveyed, with just 2% of parents We were alone in his study in rely on others to defend in the or their happiness, according to a sur- over progress may be the result of over- “There is an instinct as a parent to listing it as a top priority. Number 10, very shortly after media what we were doing. vey of families preparing to start the new emphasis on achievement from schools want to make a comparison, both TLG was founded in Bradford 18 years the formation of the coalition, I soon became such a focal school year. and policymakers. in what is expected for a child of ago, partnering with churches across de- and he wanted to ask me some- point for anger that I felt the With most schools in England and “There is an instinct as a parent to that age and as compared to other nominations to aid children and families thing that had clearly been impulse to defend myself pub- Wales reopening tomorrow after the want to make a comparison, both in what kids in the class” in education, through support for fami- preying on his mind.” licly.” summer holidays, the poll conducted for is expected for a child of that age and as lies and volunteer coaches helping pupils It says: “This is terribly awk- “No wonder Osborne said, education charity TLG found that most compared to other kids in the class. But school. having diffi culty at school. ward,” he admitted.“The thing somewhat smugly, in an in- parents rated their child’s classroom there’s so much pressure now, it feels, Fear of bullying peaked among parents “What we have learned over our 18 is...George has for so long had terview in 2011 that, having achievements as one of their top con- around educational performance and of children entering primary school, even years of supporting children in schools is his eye on Dorneywood... He’s expected to become British cerns. how best to help our children succeed, though offi cial data from schools shows that, typically, wherever there is a strug- very close to me... Would you politics’ public enemy number The survey also found parents worried and that’s getting harder as exams are that the most serious exclusions for bul- gling child there is often a struggling fam- mind if he used Dorneywood one, he ‘hadn’t reckoned on more about their children not meeting getting more diffi cult,” Morfi n said. lying and violence occurs in the early ily or a parent who is anxious and con- instead of you?” Nick Clegg’.” expectations or being stretched suffi - “It feels like our kids have got to do re- teens. cerned. “He then proposed that I Promoting his book, Poli- ciently as they got older, peaking among ally, really well (at school) to make a suc- “There’s a sense that the problems are “But without a doubt, many parents of share the foreign secretary’s tics: Between The Extremes, parents with children in the early years of cess of life. So it’s interesting that’s what becoming more visible sooner, and that’s children who aren’t struggling still have traditional grace-and-favour Clegg told The Guardian he secondary school. surfaces in the minds of parents.” to do with struggling families and maybe anxiety regarding schools. School is a countryside retreat, Chevening, had failed to cater for the While 52% of parents ranked their “We wouldn’t say this is a call for more a system that is having diffi culty in reach- challenge for many parents, and working rather than Dorneywood, which “brazen ruthlessness” of the child’s progress among their major con- communication from schools around ing out and supporting families to tackle out how to best support their children is a was ordinarily used by the Tories when he went into coa- cerns, just under half also picked out bul- progress. It’s about asking if we have cre- issues around bullying early,” Morfi n said. conundrum,” Morfi n said. number two in government.” lition with them. Gulf Times 14 Sunday, September 4, 2016 EUROPE Experts: US, China climate Merkel has no move signals hopeful era AFP Observers urged others to fol- agreed in Paris, will soon have Paris low suit, while stressing that the force of law,” said Mattlan mere ratifi cation was not enough Zackhras, Minister-in-Assist- to meet the agreement’s goals. ance to the President of the Re- limate activists and small The Paris pact has so far been public of the Marshall Islands, nations at risk of global signed by 180 countries, but will which face the threat of climate- regrets on her Cwarming’s direst conse- only take eff ect after 55 nations change induced sea-level rise. quences, welcomed yesterday’s responsible for 55% of green- “With the two biggest emitters ratifi cation by China and the house gas emissions have ratifi ed ready to lead, the transition to a United States of a global pact it – making it binding. low-emissions, climate-resilient to curb planet-harming carbon Depending on their constitu- global economy is now irrevers- emissions. tions, for many countries this ible.” The move by the world’s two means passing domestic legisla- On current country pledges, largest greenhouse gas emitters tion. scientists expect the world to refugee policy brought the hard-fought agree- In the United States it can be warm by 3° C or more, and more ment, concluded in Paris in De- done by executive presidential drastic measures are needed to DPA state of Bavaria who has recent- cember, a major step closer to order. eff ect a large-scale shift towards Berlin ly had a testy relationship with taking legal eff ect, they said. China and the United States, wind, solar and other sustainable Merkel, received 28%. The previous international ef- jointly responsible for about 38% energies. Defence Minister Ursula von fort to curb reliance on planet- of global emissions, ratifi ed the “Now, other countries must ngela Merkel said yester- der Leyen, once considered a harming fossil fuels, the Kyoto Paris agreement on the eve of a act swiftly to ratify the deal, and day that she has no re- strong contender to succeed Protocol, had excluded China meeting of G20 leaders meeting to reduce their emissions in line Agrets about her welcom- Merkel, stood at 15%. and other developing nations, in Hangzhou, China, where all with the Paris Agreement’s long- ing policy toward refugees, even In the interview with Bild, while the United States refused eyes will now be on other major term goals,” said Lo Sze Ping of as a new poll showed that fewer Merkel defended a controversial to sign up. economies to follow suit. environmental group WWF- than half of Germans surveyed EU-Turkey deal that has helped “It’s remarkable that in a few Until Beijing and Washington China. would trust her with a fourth stem migration fl ows through short years the world’s two lead- joined the club, 24 nations emit- They should also move quickly term as chancellor. the Balkans, but which has come ing climate antagonists have ting just over 1% of global gases towards “increasing their current Only 44% of those questioned under increased scrutiny be- become the world’s two lead- had offi cially acceded to the deal pledges”. said Merkel is the right leader to cause of Turkish President Re- ing climate champions,” said to cap global warming at 2° Cel- The leadership shown by tackle the range of issues facing cep Tayyip Erdogan’s slide to- Bob Perciasepe, president of sius (3.6° Fahrenheit) over pre- Washington and Beijing will do the country, the survey released wards authoritarianism. the Centre for Climate and En- Industrial Revolution levels. much to boost political momen- yesterday by TNS Emnid on be- She called the deal “the key to ergy Solutions, a US-based think This must be achieved by re- tum and goodwill, observers half of the Funke media group Merkel speaks at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party countering migrant-smuggling tank. “The United States can no placing atmosphere-polluting agreed. found. campaign in Bad Doberan, on the eve of state election in across the Aegean Sea and sta- longer claim that China’s inac- fossil fuels with renewable “The fi ght against climate Merkel’s leadership both at Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. bilising the situation in Greece”. tion is an excuse to do nothing, sources – an ambitious goal to- change remains diffi cult and ur- home and in Europe has been Merkel also rejected the por- and vice versa. With both again wards which most UN nations gent, but having heavy-hitters tested by fi nancial crises, the which brought around 1.1mn that she will decide “in due trayal of her migrant policy committing themselves to a low- have already pledged emissions like China and the US on your rise of the far-right and Britain’s migrants to the country last course” whether to seek anoth- as allowing anybody into the carbon future, the two countries curbs. side is extremely heartening,” recent vote to leave the Euro- year, created deep divisions er term in next year’s national country, saying that she only are setting an example the rest of “Today’s announcement is the commented the UN Environ- pean Union. among the electorate. elections. opened the border at the height the world can hardly ignore.” strongest signal yet that what we ment Programme’s Erik Solheim. But she has said the refugee The right-wing populist Al- Despite the slumping poll of the infl ux in September last crisis represents her biggest ternative for Germany (Afd) has numbers, Merkel still comes out year, when tens of thousands challenge since she was sworn since soared in the polls, as anti- ahead of potential challengers walked on foot to Germany from in as the nation’s fi rst female foreigner sentiment grows. for the job. Hungary. leader in 2005. The mood towards the new Thirty-eight per cent of re- It was never about “opening When asked in an interview arrivals further soured after a spondents said they thought the border for all, but for those Romeo with Bild newspaper published spate of recent attacks, some of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter who had travelled far, and who yesterday whether she would them carried out by migrants. Steinmeier, of the centre-left were in great humanitarian need handle the mass migrant infl ux The AfD is expected to do well Social Democrats, could handle after walking to us from Hun- the dog the same way today as she did in an election today in Merkel’s the range of issues facing Ger- gary”. one year ago, Merkel replied: home state of Mecklenburg- many. The pollster surveyed 1,006 “Yes, I would.” Vorpommern. Horst Seehofer, the power- Germans on August 31 and Sep- survives Merkel’s open-door policy, The chancellor said last week ful conservative premier of the tember 1. Italy Wake-up call for Europe in Frantz quake

AFP A image grab from a AFP (played by sweet-faced Paula tant for me to tell the point of Rome handout video taken and Venice Beer) mourns daily at the grave view of the Germans, who had released by the Vigili del of her fi ance Frantz, killed in lost the war”. Fuoco (Italian battle in France. He chose to shoot largely golden retriever called Firefighters) press off ice cclaimed French director One day a mysterious young in black and white because it Romeo has been pulled yesterday shows a Francois Ozon brought a Frenchman, Adrien (Pierre brought a greater level of realism Afrom the rubble of Italy’s firefighter carrying Apacifi st tale of reconcili- Niney) also visits the grave. to the period drama. earthquake, more than nine days Romeo after he has been ation to the Venice Film Festival While Anna believes she has “All our references from the after he was given up for dead. pulled from the rubble. yesterday with his new melo- found a friend of Frantz’s, he is period, all our cultural images Touching footage fi lmed by the drama Frantz, a love story for an spat at by the locals, hostile so of it are in black and white. I fi refi ghters who saved him shows Right: This picture uneasy post-Brexit Europe. soon after the German defeat. love colour though, and thought the shaggy dog being lifted out released by the Vatican A take on German-American Among the scenes of Broken it could be a useful device in Actress Paula Beer at the from under a pile of masonry that Press Off ice yesterday master Ernst Lubitsch’s 1931 Lullaby replicated by Ozon is scenes where life interrupts the photocall of the movie Frantz, is all that remains of his owners’ shows Pope Francis with fi lm Broken Lullaby, itself an the speech by Frantz’s father period of mourning,” he said. presented in competition at the house. Leo the Labrador. adaption of a Maurice Rostand in which he admonishes his The fi lm diff ers sharply from 73rd Venice Film Festival. Appearing completely relaxed, novel, Frantz is shot mostly in compatriots, reminding them Lubitsch’s off ering, not only Romeo slurps his fi rst drops of recover key belongings from the town where three quarters of the black and white and set in the of France’s 2mn dead, each of because the second half of the And there is a homoerotic water in more than 230 hours rubble. deaths occurred. aftermath of World War I. whom was also someone’s son. work is invented, but because connection between the two from a bottle held by one of the Almost as soon as they came The fi nal death count may yet It is not the only fi lm in com- The fi lm, premiering on the Ozon – known for complex fe- men which screams from the fi refi ghters. into the tiny mediaeval village, top 300 with a handful of peo- petition to be rooted in this pe- anniversary of the outbreak of male heroines – shifts the per- screen but is never outwardly As it becomes clear he is un- Romeo heard their voices and ple unaccounted for and some riod: like Derek Cianfrance’s The World War II and as pro-Europe spective to tell the story through acknowledged. scathed, the fi refi ghter holding began barking. hospitalised victims in a critical Light Between Oceans, the story protesters organise anti-Brexit Anna. It is Ozon’s love for Germa- him puts him down. “We immediately began mov- condition. is one of traumatised people on rallies, warns of the dangers Adrien’s story of how he knew ny, the fi rst foreign country he Romeo then tiptoes gracefully ing masonry from where the Vasco Errani, the govern- the move – recalling those up- of nationalism and closing the Frantz is pictured in a series of visited as a child, which shines down the pile of rubble to be reu- barking was coming from and in- ment’s reconstruction supremo, rooted by wars and heading for door on neighbours or migrants. fl ashbacks imagined by Anna through as he takes the viewer nited with tearful owners who credibly we got to him and he was vowed yesterday that hundreds Europe’s shores today. Ozon, who shot to fame with – fl ashbacks which, however, from squares to beer taverns in had given up hope of fi nding him in pretty good condition,” one of people made homeless by the Frantz opens in a small Ger- 8 femmes (2002) and Swimming reduced the emotional tension his exploration of melodrama’s alive. of the fi refi ghters told the Ansa quake would be back in houses man town – the fi lm is shot Pool (2003), told journalists in rather than increasing it, partic- classic themes of guilt and for- “He’s in great shape,” says news agency. “Luckily some “in your own territory” within largely in German – where Anna Venice that it had been “impor- ularly in the weak violin scenes. giveness. one of the fi refi ghters as others beams had fallen in a way that seven months. whoop in delight while Romeo they were holding up the weight Many are currently housed in trots around what remains of his of everything above them leaving tents in a region where freezing yard. Romeo with a little niche that he overnight temperatures are com- As he sniff s out familiar smells was able to survive in.” mon from mid-October. Jude Law bewitches as the ‘young pope’ with trademark retriever insou- No human survivors of the The clear-up operation was ciance, he looks for all the world quake have been found since the given a signifi cant boost yes- as if he has just woken from a evening of August 24th, when terday with the reopening of a AFP The visuals and music are short nap. four-year-old Giorgia was pulled key roadbridge on the main road Venice lush and heavily cinematic and Romeo’s owners were sleeping out alive after being located by leading to Amatrice. the set replicates down to the on the second fl oor of their house another canine hero of the disas- The centuries-old original smallest detail key locations in the tiny village of San Lorenzo ter, Leo. “bridge of three eyes” was left t’s Jude Law’s fi rst day as inside the Holy See, giving the a Flaviano when the earthquake A labrador who works as a po- structurally unsafe by the quake pope and after a naughty viewer an exceptional look into struck before dawn on August 24. lice sniff er dog, Leo was granted but army engineers have built a Igesture, he addresses the a secretive world of grandeur. They managed to get out, but an audience with Pope Francis temporary by-pass next to it. crowd in Saint Peter’s Square. Asked by reporters at the Romeo, who was sleeping on the yesterday, two days after he was Farmers organisation Col- Italian master Paolo Sorren- beach-side festival whether he fi rst fl oor, was trapped inside. guest of honour at a summit diretti meanwhile announced tino’s fi rst foray into the world was worried the Vatican and After searching for him for between Italian Prime Minister that all the surviving cows in the of television series has produced Pope Francis may take off ence at hours, they were eventually Matteo Renzi and German Chan- agricultural area hit by the quake The Young Pope, a 10-part won- the clever, funny but biting tale, evacuated from the devastated cellor Angela Merkel. were being fed and milked every der set at the heart of the Vati- Sorrentino said it was “the Vati- village for their own safety. The toll from the deadliest day. can state, where the college of can’s problem not mine”. All hope of fi nding Romeo alive quake to hit Italy since the 2009 The milk is being used to make cardinals has just elected its fi rst “But if they watch to the end appeared to have disappeared L’Aquila disaster now stands at a “caciotta” cheese. American pope. they will see it is a work that Actor Jude Law arrives for the premiere of The Young Pope. until Friday evening, when the 294 confi rmed dead following The fi rst samples were sold at Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, tackles with curiosity and hon- couple returned to their home in the discovery of another body on a market in Rome yesterday with is revealed in the fi rst two epi- esty, not with a desire to pro- there could be such a one in the lic role, and Paolo (Sorrentino) the company of a group of fi re- Friday evening at Casale, a small funds raised going to help farm- sodes – premiered at the Venice voke ... the contradictions and future.” reminded me constantly that fi ghters assigned to help them village near Amatrice, the tourist ers in the quake-hit area. fi lm festival – as shrewd, ironi- diffi culties, and fascinating lives Law said he had been thrilled it was really about a man who cal, doubting and ruthless, a boy of clergy, nuns and the pope,” he to work with Sorrentino, the happened to be a pope. who grew up in an orphanage said. man behind the Oscar-winning “It’s a complicated, multi- Germany hands prison sentence to ‘Nazi grandma’ who revels in his new power. While Francis insists on the The Great Beauty (2013) and layered character, and on top of The Vatican’s secretary of church opening its doors to the Youth (2015). that, it’s a character playing a A notorious 87-year-old Holocaust denier dubbed the The letter was written during the Detmold trial of state (Italy’s Silvio Orlando) at people, Pius XIII has but harsh “Paolo creates such a beauti- character,” he said. “Nazi grandma” by German media was sentenced Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former Auschwitz fi rst hopes to manipulate him, words for his fl ock. ful visual language, to fi nd my- There are hints of some- to eight months in prison on Friday on charges of concentration camp guard. and is left fl ummoxed by his “The pope we have created is self a colour in his paintbox was thing mystical to come from sedition relating to her claim that Auschwitz was In her letter, Haverbeck referred to the Holocaust new cigarette-smoking, cherry- diametrically opposed to the real a joy. I was attracted to the idea Pius XIII – particularly in one never used for the mass extermination of Jews. survivors who gave testimony at the trial as “alleged Coke drinking, Machiavellian one, because that could happen. of playing a character so rich in scene with a kangaroo – but, Ursula Haverbeck, whose criminal record includes witnesses” brought to Detmold for the sole purpose boss. It is possible for a liberal pope contradictions,” he said about for now at least, the audience is another 10-month jail sentence that she is currently of proving that Auschwitz was a death camp. Lenny’s “adoptive mother”, to be followed by someone very Lenny, who appears to use the kept guessing as to whether the appealing, wrote a letter to the mayor of Detmold The leading judge in the case said on Friday that Sister Mary (Diane Keaton) ar- diff erent,” Sorrentino said. “I role of red-shoed pontiff as a blue-eyed pontiff even believes in which she claimed it is “clearly recognisable” that Haverbeck refused to see reason and that her recent rives at the Vatican and is quick- think it’s illusory to believe that mask and a means to working in God. Auschwitz was nothing more than a labour camp. comments also made her liable to prosecution. ly appointed personal secretary the church has set off on a long through his own issues. “Whether you agree or not In Germany, anyone who publicly endorses, denies Various German courts have sentenced the to her former charge, leaving the journey towards liberalness. The “I think more than anything with the things he says and the or plays down the mass murder of Jews during the recalcitrant Holocaust denier and her criminal record cardinals to wonder whether she Pope (Francis) is not like ours, what worried me was the idea stands he takes, he is an honest Third Reich faces a maximum penalty of five years in includes two fines and another suspended sentence is puppet master or put upon. but it’s not far-fetched to think of playing a pope, a title, a pub- man,” Law said. jail and a minimum of a fine. for sedition. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 15 EUROPE

Russian intelligence waging EU and Turkey ministers information war: Czechs look to repair frayed ties Reuters Reuters with the EU’s initial reaction to cratic defi ciencies but, despite Convicted editor says wife has been banned from leaving Turkey Prague Bratislava the attempted military coup. widespread reservations among But he also said: “As a result of EU capitals on whether Ankara The wife of the former editor-in-chief of Turkey’s top Dundar was sentenced by the court in May to five the meeting, there is very strong should or would ever join, Vi- opposition daily Cumhuriyet was banned yesterday years and 10 months in prison for allegedly reveal- ussian intelligence serv- he European Union and consensus about focusing on a enna seemed to be getting little from flying to Germany and her passport seized, her ing state secrets in a story that infuriated Turkey’s ices are conducting “an Turkey tested the waters positive agenda and further en- support on this particular point. husband said on Twitter. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Rinformation war” in the Tfor a political rapproche- hancing co-operation between Celik criticised Austria, say- Less than three weeks after Can Dundar stepped Cumhuriyet’s report on a shipment of arms inter- Czech Republic, building a net- ment with a fi rst meeting yes- Turkey and the EU.” ing such comments “lack vi- down from the paper, Dilek Dundar was told she could cepted at the Syrian border in January 2014 sparked work of puppet groups and terday between the bloc’s 28 The EU, often critical of Tur- sion” and “put in jeopardy the not fly to Berlin at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, the state- a furore when it was published in May 2015, with propaganda agents that could foreign ministers and a senior key’s track record on human future of Europe”. run news agency Anadolu said. Erdogan warning Dundar himself he would “pay a be used to destabilise the coun- Ankara offi cial after a failed coup rights and rule of law, was tak- He said Ankara would stick to Her passport had been cancelled last month, Cum- heavy price”. try, the BIS counterintelligence in Turkey in July strained their en further aback when Ankara the migration accord but that it huriyet added. Dundar is believed to be in Germany after he was service warned on Thursday. uneasy ties. dismissed 80,000 people from was “not rational” to expect the The agency said Dundar’s passport was seized and freed earlier this year pending an appeal following Czech security services have The EU, which depends on public duty and arrested many Turkish government to relax she left after being told she could not leave the his trial. long focused attention on a Rus- Ankara to keep a lid on the of them over alleged sympathies its counter-terrorism laws now country. Last month, he said he would not surrender himself sian presence that remains sig- movement of migrants to the with the plotters. as it fi ghts Islamic State (IS) in Dundar was defiant on Twitter, saying he and his wife to the Turkish courts because he had lost faith in the nifi cant a quarter century after bloc, is now seeking to ease ten- Turkey was enraged by what neighbouring Syria and Kurdish would not be intimidated. judiciary after the failed July 15 coup and the three- the country of 10.6mn broke sions with Turkey after voicing it saw as the EU’s half-hearted militants on its own soil. “They took my wife hostage. Law of the jungle. But month state of emergency imposed in the days after. from Moscow’s orbit and be- loud criticism of President Re- condemnation of the coup. He did not rule out, however, in vain. Neither I nor a woman who jumped on top “To trust such a judiciary would be like putting one’s came a member of Nato and the cep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup It accused Muslim cleric that this could happen in the fu- of a gun can be frightened of this,” he said, referring head under the guillotine,” he wrote in a Cumhuriyet European Union. crackdown. Fethullah Gulen of mastermind- ture once there is “no terrorism to an incident in May when his wife grappled with a column entitled “time to say farewell”. In its annual report, the BIS “On the political level we need ing it, which he denied. threat” in Turkey, saying that gunman who tried to shoot her husband outside an “Therefore, I’ve decided not to surrender to this judici- said Russian and Chinese intel- a rapprochement, we need to With the talks in Bratislava, Ankara was ready for talks on Istanbul court. ary at least until the state of emergency is lifted.” ligence remained the most active normalise the situation,” Lux- the bloc is now sending a more that with the Council of Europe operating in the Czech Republic, embourg Foreign Minister Jean conciliatory message, while up- (CoE), a European rights body of and Russia particularly sought to Asselborn told Reuters after the holding demands that Turkey which Turkey is a member. migration to the EU before it gets “Perhaps we must admit self- Putin met Erdogan in Hangzhou infl uence Czech media over its EU ministers’ meeting with Tur- makes a eff ort towards uphold- The EU worries Turkey ap- visa liberalisation. critically that the empathy and on the eve of the summit and role in the Ukrainian and Syrian key’s EU Aff airs Minister Omer ing democratic principles. plies its anti-terror laws too German Foreign Minister emotionality of our statements told him that he was glad that confl icts. Celik. “It’s the fi rst time since “I really expect an improve- broadly to go after Erdogan crit- Frank-Walter Steinmeier said of solidarity were not heard political life was being stabilised Russia annexed Crimea from the coup that we spoke to each ment of relationship now,” Slo- ics and has made easing them a his Turkish counterpart Mevlut and received in Turkey with the in Turkey. Ukraine in 2014 and Kiev and the other, not about one another. vak Foreign Minister Miroslav precondition for granting Turks Cavusoglu would travel to Stras- needed intensity,” Steinmeier “We see that the Turkey is West say Moscow is arming and But we cannot forget the rule of Lajcak said. visa-free movement. bourg to discuss the role that said of the EU’s initial reaction living through diffi cult time, is supporting separatist rebels in law. Everyone around the table The Netherlands was more Ankara previously threatened the CoE could play in post-coup to the botched coup. fi ghting against terrorism and eastern Ukraine. said that if they want to stabilise cautious, as it also raised with to walk away from co-operation prosecutions in Turkey. EU-Turkey talks will con- facing serious terrorist crimes,” In Syria, Russia supports the situation, they must come fellow EU states the issue of on migration should it not get “We need to underscore that tinue when Erdogan meets Jean- Putin said. “You and me have President Bashar al-Assad back to the rule of law as quickly dealing with Gulen supporters in more relaxed travel rules in Oc- we stand by the side of Turkey, Claude Juncker, the head of the several time expressed our po- whom Western governments as possible.” their own countries. tober, a prospect Celik down- and have enormous respect for EU’s executive arm, on the side- sition on the fi ght against ter- want to see leave power and Celik, speaking to reporters Austria has gone as far as to played yesterday. the Turkish people who rose up lines of the G20 summit in China rorism. I am sure that you have Russian aircraft have carried out via a translator, expressed Tur- propose dropping EU accession But he did say Turkey would and fought the military coup,” he today and tomorrow. already succeeded in fully nor- strikes on US-back rebels. key’s strong disappointment talks with Turkey over demo- not seal any new deals to control said. Russian President Vladimir malising the situation.” The BIS warned that Russian agents sought to stoke social and political tensions by using pup- pet groups and supporting pop- ulist and extremist groups. “The infrastructure created for achieving these goals will not Uzbekistan’s disappear with the end of the two confl icts,” BIS said. “It can be used to destabilise or manip- ulate Czech society or political environment at any time, if Rus- leader buried sia wishes to do so.” Fears of Russian interference in countries along the European Reuters could be exploited by Islam- Union’s eastern fl ank, especially Almaty ist militants who in the past in the Baltics, are growing in the have staged violent attacks in wake of the Ukrainian crisis and Uzbek cities and want to make Nato has been looking to beef up slam Karimov, president Uzbekistan part of an Islamic its defences. of Uzbekistan for the past caliphate. Additionally a pro-Russian Iquarter of a century, was Karimov jailed, killed or ex- lobby in Czech Republic seeks to buried in his home city of Sa- iled most of the Islamist fi ght- boost relations with Russia. markand yesterday, leaving ers inside Uzbekistan. Russian intelligence agents, behind a power vacuum in a Many have since joined the the BIS report said, sought to nation that serves as a bulwark Taliban in Afghanistan and weaken Czech media through against militant Islam in Cen- Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and infi ltration and by spreading tral Asia. Syria, where they have become propaganda and disinformation. Karimov, who was 78, died battle-hardened. BIS said that “a large number” from a stroke. An upsurge in Islamist vio- of Russian intelligence offi c- After a funeral rite in Samar- lence in Uzbekistan would pose ers were working undercover as kand’s ancient Registan square a threat to the United States, part of the Russian embassy in attended by hundreds of men which is trying to contain the Prague, which is by far the larg- – some of whom were in tears insurgency in Afghanistan, to est foreign mission in the coun- – his body was buried at the Russia – home to millions of try with around 140 staff , twice city’s Shah-i-Zinda cemetery, Uzbek migrant workers – and as many as the US mission. People at the mourning ceremony in Samarkand’s Registan Square. two attendees told Reuters. to China, which worries about Karimov was derided by Central Asian Islamists mak- Western governments as a ing common cause with sepa- dictator who violated human ratists from its mainly Muslim rights, but for many people in Uighur ethnic minority. Uzbekistan, a mainly Muslim Many people had antici- Thousands of Kurds stage protest in Cologne former Soviet state which bor- pated that Karimov would be ders Afghanistan, he is the only succeeded by his older daugh- head of state they have ever ter Gulnara, a businesswoman Reuters the 3mn people with a Turkish known. and pop star, but she fell from Cologne background in Germany. With no obvious successor, favour two years ago and there A police spokeswoman said Karimov’s death has triggered was no sign of her yesterday 1,000 police offi cers on site kept an outpouring of grief, mixed among the family members in About 25,000 Kurdish sup- the demonstration largely peace- with uncertainty about the fu- the funeral cortège. porters demonstrated in Cologne ful, although many banned PKK ture. At Tashkent airport, as the yesterday, demanding the release fl ags and banners were confi s- “I still can’t believe it hap- coffi n was being loaded onto of jailed Kurdish leader Abdul- cated. pened,” said a 39-year-old res- a plane bound for Samarkand, lah Ocalan.Many demonstra- Police also had to shut a nearby ident of the capital, Tashkent, Karimov’s wife, Tatiana, and tors carried posters portraying bridge during the event to inves- who was among thousands his younger daughter, Lola Ka- Ocalan, the leader of the militant tigate a possible backpack bomb, who lined the main thorough- rimova-Tillyaeva, stood at the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), but later determined it was a false fare early yesterday to watch foot of the aircraft steps. which is listed as a terrorist group alarm. the funeral cortege pass by en His daughter, dressed all in by the European Union and the Police had detained 77 people route to Samarkand. black, was dabbing her eyes United States, and is banned in on Friday in the nearby town of “I don’t know what happens with a white handkerchief. Germany. Grevenbroich after Kurdish stu- now, I am lost,” said the man, Karimov’s death could un- Ocalan, who has been held in dents refused to disperse after a who declined to be identifi ed. leash a new round of jockeying prison by Turkey since 1999, has sit-in. How the power vacuum is between Russia, the US and not been heard from since the Three police offi cers were in- fi lled in Uzbekistan is of urgent China, which are all trying to failed July 15 coup. jured, police said. concern to Russia, the United bring Central Asia, with its oil A group of Kurdish politicians The Verfassungsschutz do- States and China, all powers and gas reserves and metal ore, and activists in Turkey have mestic intelligence agency esti- The Kurdish Turk rally in with interests in the volatile into their sphere of infl uence. said that they will start a hun- mates the PKK has about 14,000 Cologne. Central Asia region, where Uz- In a statement off ering his ger strike next week to demand members in Germany. bekistan is the most populous condolences, US President the right to visit Ocalan, who The agency in June said that it Right: A six-year-old boy and his state. Barack Obama said his coun- has been kept in isolation since could not rule out a return by the four-year-old sister pose during Central Asia analysts say a try stood with Uzbekistan as peace talks between the PKK and PKK to militant forms of action the rally. small circle of senior offi cials it “begins a new chapter in its the government collapsed last in Europe given escalating vio- and Karimov family members history”. year. lence in Turkey. ter Germany’s top court prevent- will have been meeting behind Alexei Pushkov, the pro- “We are demonstrating be- Organisers negotiated with ed President Recep Tayyip Er- closed doors to try to agree on Kremlin head of the foreign cause we have been treated un- police to stage the Cologne dogan from addressing the crowd anointing a new president. aff airs committee in Rus- fairly for 30 years, but also be- demonstration after city of- via teleconference. The funeral rites off ered sia’s parliament, responded cause Germany is supporting fi cials cancelled a Kurdish fes- The Kurdish event was also clues as to who might be in the on Twitter that Obama was that behaviour through weapons tival that had been scheduled banned from live-streaming any running. “mistaken if he thinks the new shipments and bans on Kurdish for a stadium with a capacity of speakers. At the Samarkand ceremony, chapter is going to be written groups in Germany,” said Yavuz 50,000, fearing it could engen- “When our German govern- Prime Minister Shavkat Mirzi- in Washington”. Fersoglu, spokesman for Nav- der counter-demonstrations ment with Angela Merkel sup- yoyev, 59, and Finance Minister The most prominent for- Dem, the Kurdish group that and violence. ports the Turkish government, Rustam Azimov, 57, were allo- eign dignitaries at the funeral organised the demonstration in The event followed a demon- we have to at least send a signal cated spots in the front row, were Afghan President Ashraf Cologne. stration by about 20,000 Erdog- to show that she is supporting a nearest to Karimov’s coffi n. Ghani, Tajikistan’s President German offi cials are concerned an supporters at the same site on dictatorship,” said Selim Cebba, If the elite fail to agree Imomali Rakhmon and Rus- about deepening divisions fol- July 31. a young Kurdish German at the among themselves on a tran- sian Prime Minister Dmitry lowing the failed putsch among Ankara had reacted angrily af- event, told Reuters. sition, the resulting instability Medvedev. 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JUDICIARY CONTROVERSY SCANDAL MILITANCY DEMONSTRATION Case to be filed Goa RSS-BJP rift AAP suspends sacked Four soldiers injured Thousands protest against Panaji mayor a farce: Congress minister from party in Nagaland ambush over eviction threat

A Goa court yesterday ordered that a case The ongoing squabble between the Bharatiya The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has suspended At least four soldiers of the Assam Rifles were Thousands of people facing eviction from by registered against Panaji Mayor Surendra Janata Party and the Rashtriyaswayam Sevak former Delhi minister Sandeep Kumar, who was injured after a group of heavily armed militants their houses staged a protest outside the Raj Furtado for allegedly endangering lives Sangh in Goa is only an ego clash between sacked after a sex tape emerged, a party leader ambushed a convoy of the security forces in Bhavan in Ranchi yesterday. In August the by overcrowding a de-weeding boat that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and said yesterday. “In a high-level meeting held remote Zunheboto district of Nagaland, off icials district administration had served notices capsized in June this year. The order by the Subhash Velingkar, the Congress has alleged, on Saturday morning, the party suspended the said yesterday. An Assam Rifles spokesman to people who had bought land from tribal Judicial Magistrate First Class Panaji Pooja adding that the differences would be patched primary membership of Sandeep Kumar,” AAP’s said heavily armed cadres of National Socialist owners asking them to prove that the deals Kavlekar followed a petition by a lawyer up soon. “According to us this is all a farce. The Delhi convener Dilip Pandey said. A decision on Council of Nagaland (K) fired indiscriminately were not fraudulent or illegal. Failure to prove who said Furtado had endangered lives by clash is actually between Parrikar and Subhash expelling him from the party will be taken later, at a convoy of four vehicles at Zunheboto on would result in the eviction of all non-tribals. If overcrowding the boat, which capsized in the Velingkar (who heads a breakaway RSS he added. The AAP on Wednesday night sacked Friday evening, injuring four of them. “The these notices are executed more than 100,000 Campal creek in Panaji. No one was injured faction in Goa),” Congress spokesman Trajano Sandeep Kumar as social welfare and women and convoy led by a Junior Commissioned Off icer people will be rendered homeless. “This fight in the incident. The boat was carrying the D’Mello said in Panaji yesterday. “They had child development minister after a video emerged (JCO) was returning to the base from a routine is for the poor – tribal or not, doesn’t matter. mayor, officials and journalists. “The court has both worked out a strategy to win the 2012 showing him in an “objectionable position” with a patrolling when the incident took place,” We purchased our land by spending our directed the police to register an FIR under elections but Parrikar got away with all the woman. On Thursday, Sandeep Kumar defended the spokesman said, adding that the injured entire life’s savings and now we are being Sections 280 and 287 of the Indian Penal credit,” D’Mello added. Velingkar was sacked himself, saying he had resigned on his own and soldiers have been shifted to the nearest army made homeless,” said Malti Devi, a resident of Code,” lawyer Aires Rodrigues said. as the RSS chief for the Goa. that he had been targeted because he was a Dalit. hospital for treatment. Ganganagar who participated in the protest.

Vigilance squad raids Teresa legacy homes and offi ces of ex-minister under cloud

IANS Kochi

ffi cers of the Kerala Vigi- ahead of her lance and Anti Corrup- Otion Bureau raided the homes of former excise minister and senior Congress leader K Babu, his two daughters and two of his close aides in Ernakulam district yesterday. canonisation The raids began at 7am at the homes and offi ces Babu and oth- AFP get rid of polio,” Lewis, now a pi- Some former volunteers say her ers. Babu was present when the Kolkata lot in London, said. order glorifi es pain and poverty offi cers arrived at his home here. “I remember feeling very safe and accuse it of delivering bare- He is the second minister from and secure in her presence,” said bones care, despite receiving mil- the former Oommen Chandy s the Vatican prepares to the 39-year-old, in Kolkata for lions of dollars in donations. cabinet to face vigilance inves- declare Mother Teresa a celebrations of the nun. Hemley Gonzalez, who started tigation. The fi rst was former Asaint today, in the eastern Already considered a living his own NGO in Kolkata as a re- fi nance minister K M Mani. Indian city of Kolkata where she saint by many, the humanitar- sponse to the alleged defi ciencies Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi- rose to fame, claims of medical ian’s path to canonisation was he witnessed when volunteering jayan, who completed 100 days negligence and fi nancial mis- sealed after the Vatican last year at Missionaries of Charity eight in offi ce, and Director General of management at her care homes recognised the second of the two years ago, calls it “a modern-day Police (DGP) Jacob Thomas, who threaten to cloud her legacy. required miracles, following her cult.” also heads the Vigilance and Anti Pope Francis approved the death. Nuns washed needles with Corruption Bureau, have made canonisation of the widely be- A critically ill Bengali tribal tap water before reusing them, their intention clear to weed out loved Roman Catholic nun last woman and a Brazilian man suf- he said, and scolded him for corruption from the state. December, nearly two decades fering from multiple brain tu- giving terminal patients hair- Babu had come under severe after she died in Kolkata, in mours both credited prayers to cuts because they were going pressure when he was the excise whose teeming slums she de- the deceased nun with saving to die anyway. “Right under the minister in the Chandy cabinet voted her life to helping the des- their lives. eyes of everyone they’re getting after Biju Ramesh, a bar owner, titute and the sick. But Aroup Chatterjee, a British away with medical negligence,” alleged that he had bribed Babu Yet criticisms of the soon-to- doctor born in the city formerly Gonzalez said. at his offi ce. The raids were car- be Saint Teresa of Kolkata abound, known as Calcutta, said that “her S Bedford, a journalist who ried out simultaneously at the with doctors and former volun- whole emphasis was propagation spent two months volunteering homes of Babu, his two daugh- teers recounting grim tales of poor of her faith at any cost.” at the home in Kolkata, recalled ters and two of his close friends sanitation, medical neglect and “To convert a dying, uncon- grim sanitary conditions. by a group of vigilance offi cials forced conversions of the dying. scious person is very, very low “The squat-style toilets were at 10 diff erent locations. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu behaviour, very disgusting,” the in a narrow room slick with wa- The raids were based on a First to Albanian parents in what is 58-year-old author of a contro- ter, urine and faeces...(many Information Report (FIR) fi led now Macedonia, her Mission- versial 2003 book on the nun said. had) to crawl through the mess,” in a vigilance court in Muvat- aries of Charity homes for the “Mother Teresa did that on an she wrote in a 2014 article. tupuzha in Ernakulam district dying earned her a Nobel Peace industrial basis.” Missionaries of Charity has alleging Babu had accumulated Prize and the sobriquet Saint of One of Mother Teresa’s most vastly expanded since Mother wealth disproportionate to his the Gutters. vocal critics, the late British- Teresa’s death, and now has 758 known sources of income. “We feel that Mother Teresa’s born author Christopher Hitch- centres in 139 countries staff ed Reiterating his claims, bar own- elevation to sainthood would be ens, accused her of exacerbating by more than 5,000 nuns. er Ramesh said: “The truth will a renewed thrust to (her) chari- the plight of the poor with her Yet the order remains opaque, come out as everyone knows what table works,” Thomas D’Souza, staunch opposition to contra- declining to publish its funding has happened. A lot had happened the Archbishop of Kolkata, said. ception and abortion. sources or accounts, a stance during Babu’s term as minister.” Like millions of Catholics The famous atheist, who made which has elicited suspicion over Both Babu and Mani have worldwide, Gautam Lewis is a provocative fi lm about the nun its management of allegedly vast been under the spotlight follow- excited to celebrate the canoni- called Hell’s Angel in 1994, said sums. ing the bar scandal that erupted sation of the woman he calls his she denied basic care to patients In her lifetime Mother Ter- in October 2014. Mani had gone “second mother,” who rescued out of a belief that suff ering esa was criticised for accepting public after vigilance offi cers the orphan after he was struck brought them closer to God. funds from corrupt fi nanciers questioned him last week. He with polio aged two. “I think it is very beautiful including former Haitian dicta- had accused DGP Thomas of “Mother Teresa used to carry for the poor to accept their lot, tor Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier carrying out a personal vendetta Sister Marcelli M C interacts with a young inmate at ‘Shanti Nilaya’, a home for the dying and destitute me to church every Sunday and to share it with the passion of and a California banker jailed for against him for ordering fi nancial run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Ahmedabad. Known as the “Angel of Mercy” for she personally supervised my Christ,” Hitchens quoted her as swindling investors. inspection into top cop’s depart- serving the poor in India, Mother Teresa will be declared a saint today, amid great fanfare. But as the treatment when I underwent saying in 1981, in his book The The order, however, roundly ment when Mani was minister. Vatican prepares her canonisation, allegations of fraud and medical negligence cloud her legacy. surgeries and rehabilitation to Missionary Position. rejects its detractors. All-party delegation Ministry threatening to sack us, say nurses to visit Kashmir today IANS Essential Services Maintenance New Delhi Act (ESMA) against them. Ramchandani said a delega- IANS Food and Public Distribution sations not to meet the all-party tion of 17 nurses from various New Delhi Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, delegation. Geelani has said the housands of nurses who government hospitals of Delhi Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi delegation was coming on “an have launched an indefi - were invited for talks by the Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge, offi cially conducted tour of the Tnite strike demanding Health Ministry but none of the oliticians set to visit Kash- and MP Asaduddin Owaisi. blood-littered valley.” higher salaries and allowances, offi cials met the delegation. mir as part of an all-party Normal life has remained Trade organisations, includ- yesterday alleged they were be- The striker has aff ected hospi- Pdelegation met here yester- disrupted in the Kashmir Val- ing the Kashmir Chamber of ing threatened with dismissal tal services badly. day to discuss the situation in the ley for nearly two months amid Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and asked to vacate their gov- According to federation, the restive state and the possibility of recurring pro-freedom stone- and Kashmir Economic Alliance ernment quarters within two core demands include that the holding talks with people from throwing protests and counter- (KEA), have said they won’t meet days if they don’t return to work entry pay grade for staff nurses various sections of society there. violence by security forces. At the delegation unless the mem- immediately. be enhanced to Rs5,400 from Home Minister Rajnath Singh least 73 people, including two bers meet the separatists fi rst. The All India Government Rs4,600 and nursing allowance chaired the meeting and also policemen, have been killed in Mainstream politicians, in a Nurses Federation (AIGNF) has be raised to Rs7,800. discussed the itinerary of the the weeks of violence. delegation led by former chief said its members have been try- They are also demanding risk Kashmir visit that begins today. Yesterday authorities imposed minister Omar Abdullah, had ing to meet senior Health Minis- and night duty allowances for all The home minister-led all- a curfew as a separatist protest met national party leaders in try offi cials, including Secretary nurses. party delegation is expected to shutdown continued for the 57th New Delhi last month. C K Mishra. On Friday, over 80 nurses of meet political groups, trade un- day. Expecting that solutions would “Though we want to meet the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital ion leaders, civil society members Police said curfew has been be found by meetings of the del- senior offi cials and resolve the were detained by Delhi police for and individuals to discuss ways to imposed in Baramulla, Sopore egation members with leaders of problem, we have been asked to going ahead with the strike. restore peace in the valley caught and Badgam towns in addition state’s mainstream parties would meet only the nursing adviser The agitation has badly hit in an unending cycle of violence to areas falling under Nowhatta be naive, observers say. repeatedly. The health secretary over 40 central and state gov- triggered by the July 8 killing and M.R.Gunj in Srinagar city. The problem lies on the other is not confi rming our request to ernment hospitals in Delhi, at a of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Heavy deployments of secu- side of the political divide in meet him,” Liladhar Ramchan- time when dengue and chikun- commander Burhan Wani. rity forces and restrictions were Jammu and Kashmir although dani, AIGNF spokesperson, said. gunya cases are soaring. The delegation comprises 28 in place in the rest of the valley. representatives from every re- Over 20,000 nurses in govern- Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung MPs and some senior govern- Senior separatist leaderSyed gion, including those from Jam- ment hospitals in Delhi on Friday invoked the ESMA against the ment offi cials. They include Ali Geelani has asked civilians mu, Ladakh and the valley, have Striking nurses stage a demonstration to press for their demands went on an indefi nite strike, even striking nurses, terming the pro- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and trade and business organi- stakes in restoring peace. at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi yesterday. as the government invoked the test completely illegal. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 17 INDIA Govt shelves plan to expand Scorpene order after data leak

Reuters legitimate worries.” New Delhi “The investigation is still ongoing and one of its objec- tives is to determine the po- ndia is unlikely to give tential prejudice and minimise French naval contractor its potential consequences,” IDCNS a proposed order the spokesman said. for three new submarines, in DCNS is preparing to addition to the six it is already build a new fl eet of subma- building in the country, fol- rines in Australia for A$50bn lowing the leak of secret data ($38.13bn). Australian defence about its capabilities, Indian offi cials have warned the fi rm defence offi cials said. to beef up security in the wake Details of the Scorpene of the leak. submarine were published in DCNS has said that the leak, The Australian newspaper last which covered details of the month, triggering concerns Scorpene-class model and not that it had become vulnerable the vessel currently being de- even before it was ready to en- signed for the Australian fl eet, ter service. bore the hallmarks of “eco- DCNS had off ered to build nomic warfare” carried out by three more submarines to help frustrated competitors. India replace its ageing Sovi- Indian offi cials have pointed et-era fl eet, and had held talks to a “non-disclosure of infor- over the past year, two Indian mation” clause that was writ- sources said. ten into the 2005 contract at That off er will not now be French insistence, the fi rst de- taken up, according to the of- fence ministry offi cial briefed fi cials. on the communication with Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (front row, right) and Buddhist monk Thich Thanh Nhieu as he visits Quan Su Buddhism “We had an agreement for the DCNS, said. pagoda in Hanoi yesterday. six, and six it will remain,” But the offi cial said the gov- a defence ministry offi cial ernment could only invoke briefed on the navy’s plans that clause if it was estab- told Reuters, speaking on con- lished that the data was leaked dition of anonymity. and not stolen. A spokesman of the Indian A French government Navy confi rmed that the or- source has said the fi rm had ders would not be placed for apparently been robbed, and three more submarines. it was not a leak, adding it was India, Vietnam to boost “Indian has ordered only unlikely classifi ed data was six Scorpene submarines and stolen. orders have not been placed Indian submarine experts for three more as reported by say that, while the breach in some media. Therefore the information security was se- question of cancellation does rious, it does not make the not arise,” the spokesman said Scorpenes immediately vul- defence co-operation A navy offi cer said there had nerable to detection. been a serious breach of data The most vital data about a Modi announces $500mn nam of $500mn for facilitating “(We) discussed matters con- Stockholm International Peace nology park in the coastal resort and the navy’s eff orts were submarine is its unique “sig- credit during a visit to Hanoi deeper defence co-operation,” cerning the East Sea,” the Vi- Research Institute, up from a city of Nha Trang. focused on determining the nature” of noise, heat and Modi told reporters after signing etnamese prime minister told rank of 43 in the previous fi ve- Vietnam is pushing to become damage done to the existing electromagnetic emissions, AFP the deal. reporters. year period. a key player in Southeast Asia’s submarines. and it is the combination of Hanoi He did not specify details of “All sides must peacefully The communist country is tech scene as it looks to diversify “No order will be signed, such signatures that deter- the arrangement, but tradition- solve East Sea disputes based on increasingly looking to new exports beyond manufacturing nothing is going to happen mines the ability to detect ally such lines of credit would international laws,” he added of partners to replace or update So- and agriculture. now,” the offi cer, who has also them. ndia said yesterday it is giving oblige Vietnam to sign contracts the contested waterway, where viet-era military equipment, in- Modi also visited the tomb of been briefed on the submarine “If that is gone, then you Vietnam half a billion dollars with Indian companies. the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan cluding the United States which Vietnam’s independence leader data leak, said when asked if might as well say goodbye to Iin credit to boost defence About 50% of India’s trade and Malaysia also have claims. lifted a Cold War-era arms em- and communist crusader Ho Chi the government planned to the submarine. You are ex- ties, the latest security deal be- passes through the South China The latest defence deal fol- bargo in May. Minh, posting a photo on Twit- enlarge the order. posed,” said former vice admi- tween the two nations seeking to Sea, where Beijing has built up lows a similar announcement in Vietnam expert Carl Thayer ter of the monument where the India’s defence ministry ral and submariner A K Singh. counter Beijing’s muscle-fl exing islands and outcrops capable of 2014 when India agreed to give said Modi’s trip was Vietnam’s embalmed national hero is on has written to DCNS asking Such signatures are assem- in the South China Sea. supporting military activities to Vietnam a $100mn line of credit way of showing it has other display, saying: “Paid tributes to for details about the extent of bled in the course of the sea Prime Minister Narendra the chagrin of Vietnam and oth- to buy naval patrol boats, a move friends in the region. one of Asia’s tallest leaders, the the leak and how data relating trials of a submarine, and in Modi made the announcement er claimants. that likely rankled China. “Vietnam is playing that great Ho Chi Minh.” to the Scorpene’s intelligence the case of the Scorpenes that during a visit to Hanoi, which Vietnam’s Prime Minister Beijing has previously criti- game: ‘Come on, China, get Modi later fl ew out to attend the gathering frequencies, diving has yet to happen, he said. has gone on a spending spree in Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised its cised India’s co-operation with close to us, co-operate, but if G20 summit in Hangzhou China depth, endurance and weap- India’s submarine arm is recent years to expand and mod- close friendship with India yes- Vietnam in the defence sector, you don’t we can move to India along with other world leaders. ons specifi cations had ended down to 13 vessels, only half ernise its military arsenal amid terday during the visit – the fi rst and India has its own frosty his- or we’ll go talk to you after the He will then head to Laos up in the public domain, both of which are operational at any territorial disputes with Beijing by an Indian premier in 15 years tory with China following a brief Prime Minister of India has just for a summit of the Associa- offi cials said. time, and is falling rapidly be- in the strategically vital water- and part of New Delhi’s “Act East but bloody border war in 1962. been through,’” he said. tion of Southeast Asian Na- A naval group headed by hind China, which is expand- way. Policy” to strengthen economic Vietnam was the eighth larg- India and Vietnam signed a tions (Asean), and will attend an a three-star admiral is look- ing its maritime presence in “I am also happy to announce and security ties with east Asian est importer of arms between dozen agreements in all, includ- Asean-India Summit on Sep- ing at altering some features the Indian Ocean. a new defence credit for Viet- neighbours. 2011 and 2015, according to the ing a $5mn deal to build a tech- tember 8. of the submarine, the fi rst of Even Pakistan, which oper- which began sea trials in May ates Agosta submarines also for induction later this year, to built by DCNS and is in talks Trinamool gets national party status minimise any damage. with China for a new set of The remaining fi ve are in submarines, is drawing close The Trinamool Congress led by Mamata in the Election Symbols (Reservation various stages of production to the operational strength of Banerjee has been granted the status and Allotment) Order, 1968 to be at state-run Mazgaon Docks the Indian Navy. of a national party by the Election recognised as a national party,” a shipyard in Mumbai and they The Indian government has Commission, and the elated party party leader said. were all due to enter service by approved the acquisition of leaders termed it a major boost to the The Trinamool now becomes the 2020. the next generation of subma- party’s image. seventh recognised national party in An offi cial at Mazgaon rines beyond the Scorpene, in “Landed in Rome & got great news. the country after the Congress, the Docks said the fi rm was fo- a project estimated at $8bn. Trinamool gets national party Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bahujan cused on completing the orig- DCNS has expressed an in- status. We started in Bengal 18 Samaj Party, the Communist Party of inal order of six Scorpenes and terest in that project, as has years ago and now being blessed India, the Communist Party of India that he was not aware of any Russia and Germany’s Thys- by you across India,” West Bengal (Marxist) and the Nationalist Congress plan to build more. senKrupp Marine Systems. Chief Minister and party supremo Party. A DCNS spokesman said The fi rst defence offi cial Banerjee tweeted from Rome, where However, the NCP, BSP and CPI could the fi rm was in close touch said he did not expect any she has gone for Mother Teresa’s face some technical issues in keeping with “our key customers like movement on that project un- canonisation programme. the national status, sources said. India to keep them informed til the investigation into the “The national status has been The Trinamool will be also maintaining of the development of our in- Scorpene leak was completed granted to our party by the Election the “recognised state party” status vestigation, respond to their and new security measures Commission as Trinamool satisfies in West Bengal, Manipur, Tripura and questions and mitigate their put in place. pre-requisite conditions mentioned Arunachal Pradesh. Amitabh picks up broom for a clean cause

IANS dump it in a cane basket. Mumbai “If each one cleans up 10 yards around their homes, the entire city will sparkle. When you see some- aharashtra Chief Min- body littering, tell them if you keep ister Devendra Fadnavis doing this, it will have an impact,” Mand Bollywood icon Am- Bachchan said. itabh Bachchan yesterday picked up Later, he tweeted: “At Ma- brooms to clean the sprawling Sir haCleanathon to acknowledge the J J Hospital complex as part of the Swachch Bharat campaign in Ma- NDTV-Dettol ‘MahaCleanathon’ harashtra and to work so many oth- campaign. ers follow.” “We have not come here to make The campaign, launched in Janu- speeches… We want to set an exam- ary 2016, aims to complete 5mn ple and hope this movement con- manhours to the Swachch Bharat tinues and we can keep our cities Abhiyan and has already clocked in clean,” Fadnavis said as he dug his over 3.3mn manhours, with the rest Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan sweeps a road in front of the J J hands into dirt at the event. scheduled to be completed by the Hospital complex in Mumbai yesterday. Bachchan, the campaign’s brand year-end, an offi cial said. ambassador, swished around with Fadnavis said that by October ‘swachch’ or clean, and around yanka Chopra, Dia Mirza, Sonakshi a broom along with Fadnavis, and 2 this year – marking Mahatma 7,000 villages have already become Sinha, Arjun Kapoor, ministers, then picked up the accumulated Gandhi’s 147th birth anniversary open defecation-free. government offi cials and common- garbage with his bare hands to – 50 cities in Maharashtra will be Several other celebrities like Pri- ers joined the initiative yesterday. Gulf Times 18 Sunday, September 4, 2016 LATIN AMERICA Caracas says foiled a coup

Reuters Like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, Maduro Caracas frequently denounces coup and assassination plans, bringing ridicule from foes who say he is inventing them to justify repression and distract enezuela’s socialist government said on Venezuelans from their economic crisis. Friday it thwarted a coup plot this week as Reverol said this week’s detention of opposi- Vopponents planned to build on their big- tion activists Carlos Melo and Yon Goicoechea gest protest in more than a decade with further had led to the capture of arms and explosives in a street action demanding a referendum to remove makeshift camp a few kilometres from the presi- the president. dential palace. Buoyed by rallies in Caracas on Thursday that They included a sniper’s rifl e, Reverol said, drew hundreds of thousands, the opposition coa- showing photos of the arms. lition is planning more marches on September 7 He added that fi ve policemen were injured in to demand a plebiscite against President Nicolas skirmishes with stone-throwing youths after Maduro this year. Thursday’s opposition rallies. But with the election board dragging out the The opposition said the troublemakers, who process and Maduro vowing there will be no such clashed briefl y with police and National Guard vote in 2016, it is hard to see how the opposition troops in several parts of Caracas, were infi ltrators. can force it. Thursday’s main events passed off peacefully, “It was the day they wanted: massive, peace- with the opposition saying more than a million ful and inspirational. But that success leaves a key protesters fl ooded Caracas, wearing white and question in the air: ‘What next?’” wrote pollster chanting “This government will fall.” Luis Vicente Leon in the aftermath of Thursday’s They want to activate a referendum on Maduro opposition-dubbed ‘Takeover of Caracas’. as allowed by the constitution half-way through As the Democratic Unity coalition detailed his term. its timetable for future actions, the government But if it drags into 2017, and Maduro loses, it convened foreign diplomats on Friday to show would be a Pyrrhic victory for the opposition as how the arrest of several activists and capture of Maduro’s handpicked vice president would take weapons evidenced plans to topple Maduro by over for the ruling party. Trade unionists from around Argentina take part in a protest in Buenos Aires on Friday. force. Opposition leader Henry Ramos said calling “We have frustrated the intended coup d’etat,” the push for a recall referendum part of a coup Interior Minister Nestor Reverol told the diplo- plot was “crazy, a psychiatric problem.” matic corps. “This is a government in its death throes, try- Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez added: “Yes- ing to avoid a popular vote because it knows it’s terday, we stopped a massacre.” fi nished.” Anti-Macri protest comes Mexico lawmaker pushes new to Argentinian capital

Reuters “Enough of poverty and infl a- It expects infl ation to fall from Catalano, secretary general of the law to counter Trump Buenos Aires tion” read one sign. “No to higher around 40% currently to 17% ATE Capital union. tariff s” read another, a reference next year, when the economy is Catalano, one of several union to Macri’s eff orts to end gas and forecast to grow 3.5%. leaders who gave lengthy speech- By Dave Graham, Reuters of foreigners from that country on our territory.” housands of workers and electricity subsidies. Macri’s approval rating fell es in the plaza, also expressed sol- Mexico City Total remittances to Mexico from abroad — members of leftist social Since taking power in Decem- from 72% in January to 50% in idarity with Brazil’s ousted leader, most of which come from the United States — Tmovements descended on ber, Macri has implemented a July, according to pollster Ipsos. Dilma Rousseff , and lamented the were worth nearly $25bn last year, according to Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo on slew of policies aimed at attract- Chile-based Latinobarometro recent tilt to the political right Mexican senator is proposing legislation the central bank. Friday to protest the economic ing investors to Latin America’s released a report on Friday that seen in several South American to empower the government to retaliate if Bilateral trade between the two nations is worth measures of centre-right Presi- third-largest economy. said only 40% of Argentines ap- countries. Macri’s eff orts to curb Aa US administration led by Donald Trump about half a trillion dollars a year. dent Mauricio Macri. He eliminated currency con- proved of their government. spending have also been chal- infl icts expropriations or economic losses on his Trump has also threatened to tear up a trade Many of the protesters, who trols and devalued the peso, which Unions hardened their stance lenged in court. country to make it pay for a border wall. deal with Mexico if it is not recast in the United had arrived from other cities spurred infl ation and decreased against Macri last month and The Supreme Court ruled the Republican presidential nominee Trump has States’ favour. in recent days, cut off access to workers’ purchasing power. agreed to unify their eff orts un- government must hold public vowed to have Mexico fund the planned wall to He met President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico bridges and main streets in the The government says the der the General Confederation of hearings before reducing home keep out illegal immigrants if he is elected, and City this week, sparking fi erce criticism in Mexico Argentine capital before gather- measures were necessary to at- Labour, a trade union federation. heating gas subsidies and is ex- threatened to fund it by blocking remittances sent of the government for hosting him. ing in the plaza to demand an end tract investment and restore “There is nothing more demo- pected to make a similar ruling home by Mexicans living in the United States. Afterwards, Trump repeated his pledge to make to austerity and more support for growth after 12 years of high- cratic than the workers fi ght- regarding electricity subsidies Armando Rios Piter, an opposition senator for Mexico foot the bill for the wall. workers. spending leftist rule. ing for their rights,” said Daniel next week. the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolu- Mexico says it will not pay. tion (PRD), will next week present the initiative It is yet to be established how such expropria- he hopes will protect Mexicans, and highlight the tions could work, nor is it clear what chance the risks of targeting them economically. bill could have of passing. The plan off ers a taste of the kind of tit-for-tat The PRD and other leftist parties hold less than measures that could gain traction between the a quarter of the 128 seats in Mexico’s Senate. two heavily-integrated economies if Trump wins Rios Piter said his aim was to counter threats Colombian peace deal the presidency in the November 8 election. by Trump to target Mexicans in the United States In a preliminary summary of the proposal, and to stress that the economic welfare of both which also foresees giving the Senate the power nations is at stake. to disavow international treaties when the inter- “At a time like this, it’s vital for us to under- ests of Mexico or its companies are threatened by stand why this relationship benefi ts both. We’re signing set for Sept 26 other signatories, it states: neighbours, we’re friends, we’re partners,” he “In cases where the property/assets of (our) said. “He’s putting (that) at risk.” fellow citizens or companies are aff ected by The initiative also seeks to protect Mexico AFP ez tweeted the date and location dead, 45,000 missing and 6.9mn 10th national conference, which a foreign government, as Donald Trump has against unilateral changes to the 1994 North Bogota of the signing, calling it “the uprooted from their homes. will take place from September threatened, the Mexican government should American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which foundation for building #peace.” On October 2, Colombians will 17-23. proportionally expropriate assets and properties Trump has threatened to ditch. Various Latin American lead- vote on this question: “Do you It would be the group’s “last olombia’s peace deal with ers, as well as Spanish Prime Min- support the fi nal accord to end meeting with weapons...ratify Farc rebels will be formal- ister Mariano Rajoy, are expected the confl ict and build a stable and the peace agreement and trans- In Cuba the tax man cometh, slowly Cly signed on September to attend the ceremony in the port lasting peace?” form Farc into a legal political 26, in a new milestone towards city on the Caribbean coast. A new poll out Friday said movement,” the group said in a Some 1.5mn more Cuban state month, Cuban state media said on economy, the Communist-run ending the half-century confl ict, Once the deal is formally 59.5% would vote “yes” in sup- statement. workers will contribute to social Friday. Deputy Finance Minister island passed its first compre- President Juan Manuel Santos signed, the Farc will have 180 port of the agreement, according Guests and journalists were security next month, with some Meisi Bolanos Weis said the tax hensive tax code in 2012. said on Friday. days to demobilise, disarm and to the survey conducted for El invited to attend the meeting in paying income tax for the first would be deducted from workers’ The government envisions “Peace will be signed on Sep- relaunch itself as a political party. Tiempo newspaper and W Radio. the former rebel stronghold of time since the 1959 revolution as pay checks by their employers, the replacing subsidies for all with tember 26 in Cartagena,” an- The UN has agreed to monitor That was nearly double the San Vicente del Caguan because a law passed as part of eff orts to Communist Party daily, Granma, targeted welfare, meaning that nounced Santos, ahead of an the process. number of those opposed to the “the historic importance of the modernize the economy gradu- reported. the largely tax-free life under a October referendum on fi nal The government and Farc be- deal, at 33.2%, while 4.7% said event means that the people of ally goes into eff ect. With an eye to the increas- paternalistic government is on ratifi cation of the historic accord gan a landmark ceasefi re Mon- they were undecided and 2.6% Colombia and the world must be The workers, mainly in industry, ing inequality that was sure to its way out But the code is being with the Revolutionary Armed day, the fi rst time both sides have had no opinion. directly informed of the progress will pay a 5% social security tax come after President Raul Castro implemented gradually, as “condi- Forces of Colombia. put down their weapons since To be ratifi ed, the August 24 and conclusions,” Farc said. on income over 500 pesos per began implementing cautious tions permit,” the law states, with The emotional president called the Marxist guerilla group was peace deal needs “yes” votes The conference had originally month and income tax of 3% to 5% market-oriented reforms and re- such novelties as a property tax it “perhaps the most important launched in 1964. from 4.4mn voters — 13% of the been scheduled for September on earnings over 2,500 pesos per ducing the role of the state in the and inheritance tax still on hold. announcement” of his life. The confl ict, which has drawn in electorate. 13-19 but the group said Friday it Minutes later, Farc leader various left and right-wing armed On the rebel side, the agree- had to be changed for “logistical Timoleon “Timochenko” Jimen- groups and gangs, has left 260,000 ment must be ratifi ed at Farc’s reasons.” Sacked Dilma Rousseff pledges to fi ght on

AFP In her fi rst media briefi ng since lost,” she said of the impeach- Brasilia then, she repeated her claim that ment process. “I hope that we Brazil’s new President Temer had can rebuild it and make sure that led a “coup” in having her im- this never happens again.” razil’s sacked ex-president peached. Rousseff was born in the Dilma Rousseff said on Fri- Rousseff ’s lawyers have al- southern central city of Belo Bday she will abandon the ready lodged an appeal in the Horizonte but built her politi- presidential residence next week high court against the impeach- cal career further south in Porto and continue the fi ght against her ment, which she says was a plot Alegre. Her daughter and grand- successor Michel Temer from her by Temer, her former vice-pres- children still live there and she adopted hometown, Porto Alegre. ident turned enemy. keeps an apartment in the city. The 68-year-old leftist leader “I will not stay in Brasilia. I will Brazilian newspaper Folha must leave the Alvorada offi cial go to Porto Alegre...early next said Rousseff started moving residence in Brasilia within a month week,” Rousseff told a briefi ng of books and clothes to Porto Ale- after senators voted Wednesday to foreign reporters. gre weeks ago and will leave the fi re her over charges she illegally “Democracy was on trial Alvorada accompanied by her pet Supporters of former president Dilma Rousseff demonstrate in Sao Paulo on Friday night. manipulated the national budget. alongside me. Unfortunately, we dachshund, Fafa. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Govt to avoid LNG import to more than project penalty by Iran by 2018

double by 2017: Minister Internews gotiate GSPA with Iran and is Islamabad waiting for its nod. Internews online, the LNG import volumes 400mn metric standard cubic nonoperational due to the gas lays in LNG import as there was Iran is also ready even to Lahore will further be doubled from July feet per day (mmscfd) of regasi- shortage. a price diff erence between LNG renegotiate the price of gas next year. fi ed LNG into the system. The The government even had and furnace oil. he federal government as there is a clause in case the “There has been a tremendous terminal has a capacity to handle to pay capacity charge to the Currently, liquefi ed petro- of Pakistan has so far buyer country manages the he monthly import of liq- demand for this effi cient fuel up to 600 mmscfd. power plants, which increases leum gas (LPG) price stands at Tmanaged to avoid the import of piped gas at lower uefi ed natural gas (LNG) from industrial, power, fertiliser the electricity tariff s. Unavail- $15.13/MMBtu, high sulfur fur- $605mn penalty to be im- price from any other country, Tby Pakistan will be more and CNG (compressed natural “There has been a ability of gas to fertiliser plants nace oil ($8.05/MMBtu) and posed by Iran as per the GSPA than Iran will match it. than doubled in the coming gas) sectors,” said the minister. tremendous demand also resulted in the urea imports high speed diesel ($17.7/MMB- (gas sale purchase agreement) The price of gas to be im- months in the wake of growing Before the start of LNG imports for this effi cient fuel to meet the local demand, which tu), while RLNG price comes at under the IP gas pipeline and ported from Turkmenistan energy demand in the country, a around one and a half year back, from industrial, power, caused an outfl ow of valuable about $6.74/MMBtu. will avert $1.183bn by March through TAPI gas line has been minister said yesterday. there was a demand and supply fertiliser and CNG foreign exchange. LNG-run power plants have 2018 which is close to the price fi nalised lower than the gas Minister for Petroleum and gap of natural gas of more than (compressed natural gas) Over the past 10 years, diff er- a much lower operational and of 700kms Gwadar-Nawab- price of Iran. Natural Resources Shahid 3bn cubic feet per day during the sectors” ent governments made several management costs, thereby turn- shah pipeline that stands at Pakistan failed to arrange Khaqan Abbasi said the country winter season. attempts to import LNG, but all ing up lower electricity tariff s. $1.353bn, a top offi cial of the the required fi nances for will import four LNG cargoes After chronic shortages of The terminal alone is helping in vain. It is more effi cient in power Ministry of Petroleum and 781kms pipeline on account of of 13mn metric British thermal natural gas supplies that crip- the country save up to $600mn When the Supreme Court generation (60% effi ciency on Natural Resources said. sanctions imposed on Tehran unit (MMBtu) a month from pled the economy, the fi rst through the oil import substitu- scrapped the government RLNG versus 45% on alternate “Under an agreement with by the UN, the US and the EU September to December. LNG import was made possible tion and generating fuel for up ‘Mashal LNG Project 2007’ in fuels). It is also a cleaner fuel Iran, Pakistan was to pay $1mn countries for Iranian’s ambi- Abbasi added that six cargoes through the establishment of to 2,000 megawatts of electric- 2011, the head of Dutch company substitute to the expensive die- a day to Iran from January 1, tious nuclear programme. of 17MMBtu a month would be the country’s fi rst Engro Elengy ity. Previously, several thermal 4Gas, which was allowed to set sel, furnace oil, LPG and kero- 2015 as penalty for failure in The Nawaz government arriving in the country. As LNG- Terminal Private Limited, which power plants, industrial units up a LNG terminal, said Pakistan sene, which are also unsafe for laying down the pipeline of then came up with the inno- based power plants start coming was commissioned to transfer and CNG fi lling stations became lost $3.6bn because of the de- the domestic use. 781kms in its territory.” vative idea of constructing the As per GSPA signed with 700kms Gwadar-Nawabshah Tehran, he said the IP gas pipe- pipeline with the same speci- line was to come on stream by fi cations of IP gas pipeline December 31, 2014 and under agreed with Iran to avert the Salvaging belongings the penalty clause in case Pa- imposition of penalty. Father and kistan fails by December 31, The government success- 2014 to lay down the pipeline fully prepared its force majore from Pakistan-Iran border to case which was pitched before ex-husband Nawabshah, then the penalty the top authorities of Iran tell- clause would invoke automati- ing them that Pakistan had cally and Pakistan will have to carved out a plan to lay down charged pay $1mn a day to Iran. the 700kms pipeline from The government success- Gwadar to Nawabshah with the fully pitched the alternative same specifi cations of IP gas with UK project of Gwadar-Nawabshah line project agreed to with Iran. pipeline which will be renamed And when the sanctions get as IP gas line once the sanctions waived off , then the pipeline woman’s imposed on Iran are lifted. will be extended backward The Gwadar-Nawabshah from Gwadar to Iran by 81 kil- pipeline will be completed by ometers that is to be connected murder March 2018. However, its fi rst to the pipeline in the territory target of completion is De- of Iran. cember 2017. The top mandarins also AFP Mobine Saulat, manag- found that the pipeline Iranian Islamabad ing director, Inter-State Gas authorities have constructed System, also confi rmed say- in their territory under um- ing that so far the government brella of IP gas line is still away olice in Pakistan charged had avoided $605mn penalty by 300 kilometres from the the ex-husband and fa- which was due from Decem- Pak-Iran border meaning that Pther of a British woman ber 31, 2014 and will avert Iran had not so far done its believed to have been the victim $1.183bn penalty by March own job. of an “honour killing” with her 2018 when the LNG pipeline “The IP gas pipeline line un- murder yesterday. from Gwadar to Nawabshah der the agreement was to be Samia Shahid, a dual na- gets operational. built under a segmented ap- tional, died in July during a In the current scenario, the proach,” the offi cial explained. visit to her family village in top offi cial said the petroleum During the PPP regime, the Punjab province. Her second ministry wants to extend the inaugural ceremony herald- husband, Mukhtar Kazam, GSPA with penalty clause up to ing the initiation of the IP gas claims she was murdered for December 2018 and to this ef- line project was held in Iran, bringing “dishonour” on her fect Iran is open to an amend- but economic sanctions made family. Residents salvage their belongings from their damaged house in a Christian Colony on the outskirts of Peshawar yesterday, a day ment to the GSPA. Pakistan unable to arrange the Kazam has said his wife had after security forces killed four suicide bombers. Four suicide bombers who were trying to attack a Christian colony in Pakistan were The ministry has written fi nances required for laying angered her parents by convert- killed early Friday, during a gunfight with security forces outside the northwestern city of Peshawar, the army said. a letter to the foreign offi ce down the pipeline its own ju- ing to Shia Islam, his sect, before seeking permission to rene- risdiction. their wedding. “We have completed our in- vestigation and concluded that her ex-husband Muhammad Shakeel and father Muhammad Shahid were involved in her kill- Chopper deployed in search for missing US climbers ing,” said Abubakar Buksh, dep- uty inspector general of police in the region. AFP went missing the next day and them from ascending the peak. ACP charters army helicopters “[The cook] saw them half- transfer money for the helicop- “Her ex-husband has also Islamabad have not been seen since. Pakistan has long been a draw for search and rescue operations way up the mountain Monday ter rescue and porters on foot been charged with raping her,” “Two helicopters belonging for foreign climbers lured by which cost thousands of dollars evening. On Tuesday, a storm in search of Kyle Dempster and he said. to military aviation fl ew over some of the most spectacular by the hour. rolled in and diminished the Scott Adamson. With the unre- “The abetment of Samia’s akistan stepped up its the mountains yesterday morn- mountains on Earth, including While the summer climbing visibility in the area. There has liable weather we are in [need] mother and sister in the crime search for two Americans ing but there was no sign of the savage K2, the world’s sec- season in the Karakoram range been no sign of the two climbers of more money every day.” has also been proved but they Pclimbers yesterday, de- the climbers,” Karrar Haidri, a ond highest peak. is over, a handful of climbers since,” Haidri said. “Dempster’s accomplish- have fl ed to the UK. We have also ploying army helicopters to fi nd spokesman for the Alpine Club Money raised for missing were still attempting their sum- He added that on August 28, ments in mountaineering are arrested the chief of the local the pair who went missing six of Pakistan, said. climbers: The global mountain- mits and Dempster and Adam- a week after the two American well known, including his his- police station for helping them days ago while trying to summit “The search goes on,” he added. eering community has raised son were trying to be the fi rst to climbers started their ascent, toric accent of Ogre I in 2012 for escape.” a mountain in the country’s far The helicopter search has $100,000 to fi nd two American summit the Ogre II. their families and friends start- which another climber and him Kazam and Shahid, both dual north. been delayed for days because of climbers, Internews reports. According to the ACP, the two ed co-ordinating a search and earned the prestigious Piolets British-Pakistani citizens, had Kyle Dempster and Scott Ad- the adverse weather conditions. “Climbers from around the climbers set out on the north rescue operation with help from d’Or award for speed climbing been married for two years and amson began their ascent of the Authorities said that a team world raised $100,000 in 15 face of the mountain on August local authorities and another in 2013,” Haidri said, adding were living in Dubai. 7,285m (23,900ft) Ogre-II peak of local high-altitude rescuers hours to fund a search and rescue 21 and planned to reach the top climbing team in the area. that Dempster had also won the Shahid’s father has denied the off the Choktoi Glacier in the has been searching for the miss- for the climbers,” said Haidri. and descend within fi ve days. Their fundraising page Golden Ice Axe in a competition charges, claiming his daughter Gilgit-Baltistan region of Paki- ing climbers for almost a week In the absence of proper res- They were last seen on August reads: “Please help these boys. for the fastest and strongest died of natural causes. stan on Sunday August 21, but but bad weather has prevented cue facilities in Pakistan, the 22 by their Pakistani cook. We have also been required to climber. Number of Pakistanis seeking Newborn’s day out at refugee camp asylum abroad on the rise

Internews This was a nearly threefold in- only 16% of the applications ap- uge in the US so far in 2016. This Karachi crease from the same period in proved. was up from 205 in 2015 and the 2015 when 2,546 Pakistanis ap- Data released by the British highest at any point since 2011. plied for asylum. Home Offi ce this week showed The data, which classifi ed the he number of Pakistanis Germany, which saw over half that this was up from the 2,313 refugees by religion, showed that applying for asylum in the a million migrants arrive from Pakistanis who applied for asy- most of those who sought refuge Tthree Western countries June 2015-June 2016, has been lum from June 2014-2015. were Ahmadis, with around 247 have spiked in the past year. turning away and deporting an Despite the increase, Pakistan applying for refuge in the current Data released by Germany, increasing number of migrants slipped from two to three for the year, up from 61 in 2015. England and the US recently in recent months. countries whose citizens were At least 78 Christians (up from showed that more than 10,000 According to a report leaked applying for asylum owing to a 76 in 2015) also sought refuge Pakistanis had sought refuge in by the German government, jump in the number of appli- in the country in addition to 33 these three countries over the Berlin turned away some 13,000 cants from Iran and Iraq. Shias (up from 15 in 2015). past year. people at its land borders from Pakistanis make up around 3% Data from the past fi ve years Of the three, Germany saw the January to July 2016 for having of the 283,078 migrant arrivals in showed that Ahmadis were the most number of Pakistanis apply invalid documents, including Europe this year. single largest group of Pakista- for asylum. Data from the Ger- 529 Pakistanis. Pakistani refugees arriving nis seeking refuge in the US with man interior ministry showed Separately, at least 117 Pakista- in the US also saw a marked in- 746, accounting for over half of An Afghani refugee holds her newborn daughter at the hotel run by Doctors Without Borders that 9,185 Pakistanis applied for nis were deported though only 34 crease in 2016. Data from the US all Pakistani asylum applicants. where they live on the island of Samos yesterday. They live at island’s hotspot but are allowed, asylum from January to July 2016 were sent back to Pakistan. Department of State Bureau of Another 240 Christians and 66 as the majority of 900 migrants who stay there, to leave during the day and return at night. (including 156 with repeat appli- In the United Kingdom, 2,992 Population, Refugees and Mi- Shias sought refuge. However, Staying in Greece is not their first option, but as “European borders are closed, this is the only cations), the eighth largest group Pakistanis applied for asylum gration showed that as many as their reason for seeking asylum solution for now to stay in Europe,” stresses Reem. of asylum applicants. from June 2015 to June 2016 with 376 Pakistanis applied for ref- was not immediately clear. Gulf Times 20 Sunday, September 4, 2016 PHILIPPINES

Police investigators gather evidence at the site of the explosion. Mourners off er flowers and candles during a memorial service for victims of the blast at a market in Davao city. Militants blamed for deadly Davao night market blast Duterte declares national Their leaders have said they “state of lawlessness”; want to broker a lasting peace. Police have said at least 14 However the Abu Sayyaf, people were killed a much smaller and hardline and another 67 wounded group infamous for kidnapping foreigners to extract ransoms, AFP has rejected Duterte’s peace Davao overtures. In response, Duterte deployed thousands of troops onto the hilippine authorities yes- small and remote island of Jolo terday blamed a notori- to “destroy” the group. Pous group of militants for The military reported 15 sol- the bombing of a night market diers died in clashes on Monday, in President Rodrigo Duterte’s but also claimed killing dozens home town that killed at least 14 of Abu Sayyaf gunmen. people. Yesterday, Duterte declared a An improvised explosive de- national “state of lawlessness”, vice tore through the bustling which his security adviser said market in the heart of Davao city gave the military extra powers to and close to one of its top hotels conduct law enforcement opera- just before 11:00pm (1500 GMT) tions normally done only by the on Friday. police. Authorities said the Abu While Davao has been re- Sayyaf, a small band of militants garded as relatively safer than that has declared allegiance to the rest of Mindanao, the Abu the Islamic State group, most Sayyaf and other militant groups likely carried out the attack in President Rodrigo Duterte visits a wounded victim of an explosion during his visit of a hospital in Davao city. Right: People hold placards condemning the bombing at a market in Davao have carried out deadly attacks response to a military off ensive city during a candlelight protest in front of the Catholic church in Quiapo city, Metro Manila yesterday. there in the past. launched against it last week. In 2003, two bomb attacks The president’s spokesman, Delfin Lorenzana said the Abu Duterte, who was in Davao at won, 34, said chaos broke out af- southern region of Mindanao, dential elections in a landslide in blamed on rebels at Davao’s air- Martin Andanar, said Duterte Sayyaf had struck back after the time of the attack but not ter the blast. with a population of about 2mn May and being sworn in on June port and the city’s port within a believed the militants were be- suffering heavy casualties on near the market, told report- She helped rescue three vic- people. 30. month of each other killed about hind the blast. its stronghold of Jolo island ers before dawn Saturday that tims but one of them, a woman It is about 1,500 kilometres Duterte became well known 40 people. “The offi ce of the president about 900 kilometres from it was an act of terrorism, as he seven months pregnant, eventu- from the capital of Manila. for bringing relative peace and Duterte initially raised the pos- texted and confi rmed that was Davao. announced extra powers for the ally died. The city is part of the south- order to Davao with hardline sibility of drug lords carrying out an Abu Sayyaf retaliation. For “We have predicted this and military. “The blast was so loud the ern region of Mindanao, where security policies, while also bro- Friday’s attack as a way of fi ght- the city government side, we warned our troops accordingly At least 14 people were killed ground shook. She was crawling militants have waged a decades- kering deals with local Muslim ing back against his crime war. are working on that it is an Abu but the enemy is also adept at and another 67 were wounded in but she was lucky enough no one long separatist insurgency that and communist rebels. More than 2,000 people Sayyaf retaliation,” Davao mayor using the democratic space the explosion, police said. trampled her during the stam- has claimed more than 120,000 Duterte has in recent weeks have died in his unprecedented Sara Duterte, who is also the granted by our constitution to Sixteen of the injured were in pede. lives. pursued peace talks with the anti-crime crackdown, draw- president’s daughter, told CNN move around freely and unim- critical condition, a local hospi- She was shaking and bleed- Duterte had been mayor of two main Muslim rebel groups, ing widespread international Philippines. peded to sow terror,” Lorenzana tal director told reporters. ing.” Davao for most of the past two which each has thousands of condemnation over an apparent National Defence Secretary said in a statement. Durian vendor Maribel Tabal- Davao is the biggest city in the decades, before winning presi- armed followers. wave of extrajudicial killings.

Police arrest 70-year-old Security beefed up Authorities step up drug pusher at premier airport eff orts against Zika By Jaime G Aquino Manila Times/Calasiao By Benjie Vergara Manila Times in the country before, but the transmission hap- Manila Times Manila pened outside the country, Ubial said. Among the fi ve cases, one was a Filipino (in 70-year-old woman, Cebu in 2012) while the rest, or four cases, in- listed as top priority drug ecurity at the coun- ealth, airport and quarantine authori- volved foreign nationals, and were documented Apusher in the province, try’s premier airport ties urged travellers and pregnant women early this year. is among the oldest and high- Swas beefed up yesterday Hto take extra precaution to prevent the All were cleared in confi rmatory tests done af- value suspects to be arrested in in reaction to Friday’s deadly spread of the Zika virus, as they stepped up ef- ter their conditions or symptoms were managed the continuing anti-illegal drug bombing in Davao City. forts to block the mosquito-borne disease that by the DOH referral hospital, the Research Insti- drive in this town. The Manila International has reached Singapore and Malaysia. tute for Tropical Medicine in Alabang, Muntin- Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver- Airport Authority (MIAA), the The Department of Health (DOH) assured the lupa. Lee, police provincial director, operator of Ninoy Aquino In- public on Friday there had been no new local Airport authorities on Friday doubled their identifi ed the arrested pusher as ternational Airport, however, transmission of the Zika virus in the country. alert status to ward off the possible entry of the Zenaida Medrano-Ortiz, a wid- advised airport users not to be Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) personnel patrol the streets of In a news conference, Health Secretary Paulyn Zika virus, said Manila International Airport Au- ow in Barangay San Miguel here. alarmed as there was increased Manila yesterday as Davao city and central Manila is placed on high Jean Rosell-Ubial said her department and the thority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal. Ortiz reportedly refused to sur- police visibility in terminal alert following an earlier bomb blast. Bureau of Quarantine would continuously moni- The MIAA is co-ordinating with the DOH, render under “Oplan Tokhang.” buildings as well as in all areas tor passengers arriving from overseas. which gave a directive to intensify monitoring of She is also listed as Top 4 in the of the NAIA complex. ing and to conduct thorough vehicles and the people are Part of the anti-Zika initiatives is testing arriving travellers, he said. municipal level in San Miguel. Re- “This is not to alarm the inspection only when the need advised to oblige for their own among patients displaying Zika symptoms, but At the DOH news conference, quarantine di- covered from her possession were public. We have raised our calls for it. We do not want protection. there will be no random tests yet, she said. rector Ferchito Avelino said arriving passengers four sachets of shabu, a plastic alert status as a proactive to cause inconvenience in He said issue of access passes Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) were being required to fi ll up a yellow form or box containing shabu, a caliber measure to ensure safety and the process, by creating long for meeting or sending off pas- test, the DOH has not yet detected local trans- health declaration checklist honestly. 38 revolver and drug parapherna- security of airport users,” lines at the baggage screening sengers has been limited. mission, Ubial told reporters. Thermal scanners have been installed at the lia. Ortiz told Manila Times that MIAA general manager Ed checkpoints.” “Depending on intelligence Under the PCR test, blood samples are tested airport to detect the temperature of arriving trav- she started deals in marijuana Monreal said. The MIAA chief warned that reports, we may completely among patients displaying symptoms that are ellers as part of strict monitoring, he said. and shabu as a source of income He added that they “have security at checkpoints during suspend issuance of visitor’s fl u-like—fever of 38 degrees and up, muscle or Travellers were also advised to immediately for her family after her husband directed baggage screeners to full-alert status will conduct passes for everyone’s safety,” joint pains, vomiting, eye redness and skin rash- seek any DOH referral hospital in case symptoms died in 2006. remain vigilant and discern- rigid inspection of all motor Monreal added. es. At least fi ve Zika cases have been documented appear, or contact the DOH hotline. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL

Lanka made Bangladesh hangs Jamaat progress in justice, leader for war crimes in 1971 rights: Ban IANS AFP Prosecutors said Ali was a Colombo Dhaka key commander of the noto- rious pro-Pakistan militia in the southern port city of Chit- ri Lanka has made progress angladesh hanged a tagong during the war, and later in reconciliation, human wealthy tycoon and top became a shipping, banking and Srights and justice but more Bfi nancial backer of its larg- real estate tycoon. needs to be done, UN Secretary est Islamist party late yesterday The war crimes trials have General Ban Ki-moon has said. for war crimes, dealing a massive divided the country, with sup- Addressing a gathering in Co- blow to the group’s ambitions in porters of Jamaat and the main lombo during his two-day visit the Muslim-majority nation. opposition Bangladesh Nation- on Friday, Ban said Sri Lanka is Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader alist Party (BNP) branding them still in the early stages of regain- of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, a sham aimed at eliminating ing its rightful position in the re- was executed after being con- their leaders. gion and the international com- victed by a controversial war The executions and convic- munity, Xinhua news agency crimes tribunal for off ences tions of Jamaat offi cials plunged reported. committed during the 1971 inde- Bangladesh into one of its worst “There is still much work pendence confl ict with Pakistan. crises in 2013 when tens of to be done in order to redress The 63-year-old was hanged thousands of Islamist activists the wrongs of the past and to at the Kashimpur high security clashed with police in protests restore the legitimacy and ac- jail in Gazipur, some 40kms (25 that left some 500 people dead. countability of key institutions, miles) north of Dhaka, amid Family members met Ali for particularly the judiciary and stepped-up security outside the the last time in the prison just the security services,” the UN prison and in the capital. hours before he went to the gal- chief said. “The execution took place lows. The island nation suff ered 30 at 10:35pm (1635 GMT),” the “All along he said he was in- years of civil confl ict between country’s Law and Justice Min- nocent. He said he is being government troops and Tamil ister Anisul Huq said. killed unjustifi ably,” said Tahera Tiger rebels, which ended in Six opposition leaders have Tasnim, one of Ali’s daughters May 2009 with the defeat of the now been executed for war after 23 members of his family rebels. crimes after the secular gov- met him. Security personnel stand alert at the entrance to Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday, as relatives of jailed Bangladeshi Ban also urged Sri Lanka to ernment led by Prime Minister “He said this repressive gov- leader of Jamaat-e-Islam Mir Quasem Ali arrive to visit him. speed up the return of land so Sheikh Hasina set up a domestic ernment is killing them (Islam- that the remaining communities war crimes tribunal in 2010. ist leaders) to stop Islam being tion that was shut down in 2013 abducted by security forces ear- measures” ahead of the execu- A group of United Nations of displaced people can return With Ali’s death, all fi ve top established in the society and for stoking religious tensions. lier in August, which critics say tion for fear of violence by his human rights experts last week home. leaders of the Jamaat party have the country,” Tasnim said. He was convicted in Novem- was an attempt to sow fear and Islamist supporters. urged Bangladesh to annul Ali’s Thousands of victims were been hanged, a massive setback Ali had helped revive Jamaat ber 2014 of a series of war crimes prevent protests against the im- More than 1,000 police were death sentence and to retry him displaced by the confl ict and for the Islamists in the world’s and made it a potent force in including the abduction and minent execution. deployed in Gazipur and hun- in compliance with international the government is now in the third largest Muslim nation. Bangladesh politics by setting up murder of a young independ- Jamaat, which is banned from dreds of paramilitary border standards. process of setting up a domestic After the Supreme Court re- charities, businesses and trusts ence fi ghter. contesting elections, has labelled guards were outside the prison But Hasina’s government has process to probe allegations of jected his fi nal appeal against linked to it after it was allowed to Defence lawyers have said the the charges against Ali “false” and in Dhaka, security offi cials defended the trials, saying they war crimes during and after the the penalty on Tuesday, Ali operate in the late 1970s. charges against him were base- and accuses the government of said. are needed to heal the wounds end of the war. declined to seek a presidential Before he was arrested in 2012, less. exacting “political vengeance”. Rights groups have criticised of the confl ict, which it says left Ban arrived in the country on pardon, which would require an Ali headed the Diganta Media His son Mir Ahmed Bin Russel Sheikh, a senior po- the war crimes trials, saying 3mn people dead. Wednesday, and travelled to the admission of guilt, paving the Corporation, which owns a pro- Quasem, who was part of his le- lice offi cial, said that officials they were fl awed and lack any Independent researchers put northern town of Jaff na on Fri- way for his execution. Jamaat daily and a television sta- gal defence team, was allegedly had taken the “highest security foreign oversight. the war toll much lower. day to visit a resettlement site. 22 traffi cking Aide of cafe attack mastermind killed

IANS ing mostly foreign hostages. He in Narayanganj on August 27. out attacks causing massive Reports, citing several Is- Dhaka had also trained the attackers of Police raided the house in destruction. lamic State publications, have the Eid congregation on July 7 at Rupnagar also on Thursday Murad was not popular in described Tamim as the co- victims from ordinator of Middle East-based Sholakia, in which four people but found it locked, bdnews24 the militant group, a JMB off - close aide of slain Dhaka were killed. reported. shoot called by law enforcers group’s Bangladesh operations. cafe terror attack mas- Detective Branch joint com- Police lay in wait of Murad on “Neo JMB”. He was ill-tempered The Bangladesh authorities Atermind Tamim Ahmed missioner Abdul Baten said po- Friday. “He (Murad) stabbed po- and used to order his trainees said that Tamim, a Canadian- Chowdhury was killed during a lice raided the house in Rupnagar lice offi cers when they entered to do push-ups 20 to 25 times Bangladeshi, led the “Neo-JMB”, Nepal rescued for minor mistakes, said an which emerged after the JMB raid in a house in the Bangladesh residential area around 9.30pm the house. He died after being hit capital, media reports said. on Friday. by a bullet during a scuffl e that investigator. split on the issue of backing the AFP in the aftermath of a devastat- Tamim’s second-in-com- Two police offi cials were also ensued when he tried to fl ee,” a During a routine search in July, Islamic State terrorist group. New Delhi ing earthquake in April 2015 mand, identifi ed as Murad, or injured in the attack. police offi cer added. police had come under attack The “Neo JMB” was formed and were lured with the prom- called ‘Major Murad’ by the Murad was using aliases ‘Ja- The injured police offi cials from militants holed up in an by leaders and operatives of ise of jobs in the Middle East, members of the “Neo Jamaat-ul hangir’ and ‘Omar’, said police. were taken to Dhaka Medical apartment at Dhaka’s Kalyan- mainstream JMB who did not olice rescued 22 Nepali another offi cer said. Mujahideen” (Neo-JMB) terror- He was found carrying a knife College Hospital. pur. A SWAT team later stormed accept the leadership of Saidur women from a hotel in Their traffi ckers took away ist outfi t, was killed during a raid and a pistol during the raid. “He Aged between 40 and 45, Mu- the apartment and gunned down Rahman. PNew Delhi who were al- their passports and docu- in Dhaka’s Mirpur city on Friday used both of them,” police said. rad had retired from the army, nine suspected militants. The police said they have legedly being traffi cked from ments after they arrived in evening. Police found out about Murad the police offi cial said. Flags similar to those of the identifi ed the second man and the impoverished Himalayan Delhi a week ago. Murad gave arms training to during investigations after the According to the Daily Star, Islamic State terrorist group, third-in-command in Neo-JMB nation to the Middle East, and the terrorists who attacked the death of Tamim, the suspected investigators also said that Mu- which purportedly claimed the after Tamim. are searching for two suspects, “The women will give Holey Artisan Bakery on July mastermind of Gulshan cafe ter- rad was known as an arrogant Gulshan attack, were found in “We are trying to arrest them,” offi cers said yesterday. their testimonies before 1-2, killing 22 people, includ- ror attack, in a raid on a house man and capable of carrying Kalyanpur. the police offi cial said. Offi cers from the force’s a court today. The visas serious crimes branch raided indicate most of them a hotel near the capital’s in- were fl ying to Middle Amnesty calls for release of student ternational airport on Thurs- Eastern countries” day morning after receiving a Amnesty International yesterday invoking draconian laws to hound Protest by students tip-off from the Nepali em- Nepal has seen an upswing demanded the release of a critics for Facebook posts, they bassy. in the number of cases of Bangladeshi student activist who are not just cracking down on One of the traffi cked women trafficking since last year’s was detained for allegedly making peaceful dissent but courting had earlier escaped from the earthquake killed nearly “derogatory remarks” about Prime embarrassment,” said Champa hotel and reached the embas- 9,000 and left thousands Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Patel, Amnesty International sy, leading to the police raid. homeless. ruling Awami League on Facebook. director for South Asia. “Twenty-two women were Many of them are traffi cked Dilip Roy, 22, a student activist at Amnesty International has called rescued in the raid. We have to India and Gulf countries Rajshahi University in western on the Bangladesh authorities to identifi ed two accused who and forced into slavery and Bangladesh, was booked on repeal section 57 of the ICT Act and are evading arrest,” Ravindra prostitution. August 28 after a student body pointed out that section 57 of the Yadav, joint commissioner of Campaigners have warned linked to the government filed a ICT Act is “vaguely formulated” police (crime) in New Delhi, that gangs are targeting vul- case against him under Section and “used by the authorities to said. nerable women and children 57 of the country’s Information target and imprison critics”. This “The women will give their and traffi c through the porous and Communications Technology stands in violation of Bangladesh’s testimonies before a court to- border with India. Act (ICT) for his alleged off ence of obligations under international day. The visas indicate most A 2013 report by Nepal’s writing two Facebook posts critical human rights law. The ICT Act – of them were fl ying to Middle human rights commission re- of the prime minister’s support for first passed in 2006 and amended Eastern countries,” he said. corded 29,000 incidences of a controversial coal power plant. in 2013 – has for years been used The traffi cked women were traffi cking or attempted traf- “Bangladesh’s authorities should by the authorities in Bangladesh to desperately looking for work fi cking in the country. immediately drop this case. By choke freedom of expression. Income of the family determines mode of birth deliveries in Nepal

IANS why they delivered their babies dependently decide, and poor nifi cant factors in predicting New York at home or in a hospital. quality saervices at facilities also whether a woman would have The majority of women ac- posed barriers to a hospital or in- an institutional birth. Nearly all knowledged that giving birth in stitutional birth. women in our study stated they amily income and age play a hospital was safer than giving Despite these statistics, only would prefer an institutional a key role in determin- birth at home. In fact, 93% of 30% of women in the study birth,” said Sheela Maru, re- Fing whether women living women who gave birth in an in- had their babies in a hospital or searcher at the Boston University in rural Nepal could have home stitution were satisfi ed with their health post (an “institutional School of Medicine. Protesting students are dispersed by water cannon in Colombo recently. The Sri Lankan police births or hospital deliveries, a experience, while only 32% were birth”), mentioned the study Family, partner and societal on Wednesday fired teargas and water cannon to disperse a group of protesting students while new study has found. satisfi ed with their home birth. published in the journal BMC support were important factors in they were heading towards the prime minister’s off ice to protest against the South Asian Institute For the study, the researchers Researchers also found that Pregnancy and Childbirth. a woman leaving her home in la- of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe, a private medical college whose graduates were interviewed 98 women in Nepal lack of transportation resources, “We found that age, income bour and reaching an institution, allowed to register with normal university’s students. shortly after birth to understand gender equity or power to in- and land ownership were sig- the study mentioned. Gulf Times 22 Sunday, September 4, 2016 COMMENT

Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah Production Editor: C P Ravindran A strategy to manage Brexit

P.O.Box 2888 consequences successfully Doha, Qatar [email protected] The Brexit negotiations is to preserve Europe’s prosperity and claim that these four freedoms are committed to listening to the other. Telephone 44350478 (news), will be long, complex and infl uence. indivisible, and that if Britain wants to The EU, however, would have the fi nal 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) It is with these ideas in mind that maintain free access to the continental say, so that its laws would apply and be Fax 44350474 acrimonious, and the divorce I, together with several European market for its data processing and enforced. will have far-reaching colleagues – all of us acting in fi nancial services, it must accept To enjoy full access to the EU an individual capacity – recently unlimited access to its labour market market, Britain would need to agree on geopolitical eff ects co-authored a paper proposing a for Polish or Irish workers. a package of policies essential to the concept for Europe in 10-20 years: a Freedom of movement of workers proper functioning of an integrated By Jean Pisani-Ferry continental partnership that would is undoubtedly integral to the EU. market: competition rules, consumer Paris create a new basis for continued Indeed, the fundamental right to protection, and fundamental social GULF TIMES economic, foreign policy and security settle and earn one’s living in another rights, for example, and perhaps also cooperation with the UK. country without asking for permission minimum tax rules to avoid distortions o one yet knows when does not exist anywhere else in the of the type recently exemplifi ed by the United Kingdom will Whereas Britain world. For millions, this right most Apple’s practices. present an agenda for fully embodies what the EU stands for. Britain would also need to As G20 seeks to spur Nnegotiating its withdrawal can leave the EU, it But Britain has made its choice, contribute to the EU budget, from from the European Union. But it is and the right question to ask now is which development funds (the already clear that Brexit will reshape cannot relocate away whether strong economic links can be counterpart to single-market access) the map of Europe. preserved without free movement of are delivered. global growth, fi scal And, especially given Britain’s from Europe labour. From an economic standpoint, Some object that the deal would stunning unpreparedness for the the answer is yes: a deeply integrated be too harsh for Britain to accept. consequences of its own decision – The basic economic idea is a market for goods, services, and capital But would the UK be better off losing push is still elusive its strategy, priorities and even its template for a relationship that does not require full labour mobility. access to the market of its main timetable remain uncertain – that is considerably less deep than EU What is needed is only enough trading partner? means that the EU must start fi guring membership, but rather closer than temporary mobility to accompany the Others worry that the EU would World leaders attending the G20 summit in China out how to make the best of it. Here’s a free-trade agreement. If adopted, integration of services markets. surrender its decision-making powers are likely to renew their promises to use tax and how. Britain and the EU could not only In other words, freedom of were it to consult with outsiders. But spending policies to invigorate the sluggish world Let’s start with the only certainties: preserve their economic ties, but movement of workers is politically how would the few without a vote the Brexit negotiations will be long, also provide a new model for the essential within the EU, but – Britain and others – dominate the economy, but the chances of a meaningful new pro- complex and acrimonious, and future relationship between the EU economically dispensable when many with a vote? growth push look slim. the divorce will have far-reaching and neighbours that will not join it dealing with third countries. An Still others claim that such an As concerns grow about over-reliance on central geopolitical eff ects. The immediate anytime soon: Norway, Switzerland, economic agreement with Britain does arrangement would concede too much banks to deal with the hangover of the fi nancial crisis, impact is a halt to 60 years of Turkey, Ukraine, and eventually not need to include it. to Britain, compelling other countries there are some tentative signs of a more relaxed integration momentum. southern Mediterranean countries. The second constraint is of a to aim at a similar status and causing Europe will suff er in the short and Any proposal regarding the future diff erent nature. Unlike a market for the EU to unravel. But why would an approach to public spending. medium term as well, as considerable of the EU-UK relationship must start nails or screws, a market for fi nancial EU member be better off abiding by The European Union has taken a softer stance with political energy is likely to be devoted from an interpretation of the Brexit or information services must be based rules and paying into the EU budget some member states over its budget rules. And Britain, to Brexit for the next fi ve years, at a referendum’s meaning. Ours assumes on detailed legislation that ensures fair without having a vote on the design of which until recently wanted to turn its big defi cit into time when the EU needs the strength that UK voters rejected both the legal competition and protects customers. policies? And, far from undermining to confront internal and external impossibility of limiting infl ows of A large part of the EU’s task is to European integration, a continental a surplus by 2020, is considering fi scal stimulus to dangers. Over the longer term, Brexit workers from the EU and the principle prepare this legislation. So the partnership could support the off set the shock Brexit vote. is likely to accelerate Europe’s exit of pooled sovereignty. question here is how British producers consolidation of the EU’s core. The United States, frustrated that the slow global from the top table of global decision- These two political constraints can retain access to the EU market True, there would be a price to economy is holding it back, hopes its calls for making. should be taken as a given. The fi rst (and vice versa) if they are no longer pay for everyone. But it would be governments to do more to spur growth will gain new Britain will not escape these implies that a lasting arrangement party to the legislation. far lower than the price, in terms consequences. Whereas it can leave between Britain and the EU cannot Solving this conundrum would of lost prosperity and diminished urgency when G20 presidents and prime ministers the EU, it cannot relocate away from include free movement of labour. The be one of the main purposes of the global infl uence, of failing to create meet in Hangzhou in China today and tomorrow. Europe. second rules out participation in a continental partnership. Through a continental partnership. - Project In 2015, the G20 leaders said they would use That is why, though Britain’s common polity, and thus implies that it, Britain would participate in a Syndicate fi scal policies to help growth but also stressed the European partners did not choose any co-operation must be based on multilateral process of consultation Brexit, they must manage its intergovernmental agreements. on draft EU legislation and would have zJean Pisani-Ferry is a professor importance of cutting debt. consequences successfully, which The fi rst constraint is a serious the right to raise concerns and propose at the Hertie School of Governance Japan, which has been trying to revive its economy requires balancing two priorities. stumbling block, because the EU is amendments, so that the outcome in Berlin and currently serves as for about 20 years, announced last month a 13.5tn-yen Their tactical goal must be to reach a based on the free movement of goods, of the process would remain as far as commissioner-general of France spending plan which includes infrastructure payouts deal with the UK that maintains the services, capital, and workers. The possible consensual. Strategie, a policy advisory institution to low-income households. integrity of the EU. The strategic goal UK’s European partners adamantly Both sides would be politically in Paris. But with public fi nances still weak in many countries, there has been little major action to spur growth. Nearly 10 years after the fi nancial crisis began, many central bankers sound exasperated that their bold stimulus attempts have Many eurozone not been followed up by governments. governments The frustration of central bankers is are still even more palpable in struggling with Europe where growth is weaker than in the the legacy of United States, despite debt and defi cits the European Central Bank cutting rates left by the below zero. Many eurozone fi nancial crisis governments are still struggling with the legacy of debt and defi cits left by the fi nancial crisis. Extra spending this year to cover the cost of the eurozone’s refugee crisis will evaporate in 2017 given the unwillingness of the bloc’s big countries to reform or spend more. In Britain, where new fi nance minister Philip Hammond has talked about a possible fi scal policy “re-set” later this year after the Brexit vote shock, the size of any stimulus will depend on the scale of the post-referendum slowdown. So far, data suggests the economy has been more resilient than forecast. It’s not just central bankers who are urging governments to take advantage of their record-low Antonio Vassallo, 100, and his wife Amina Fedollo, 93, posing for a photo at their house in Acciaroli, southern Italy. borrowing costs to act. The International Monetary Fund has estimated that a sustained increase in economic growth of 1 percentage point could bring debt ratios in advanced Italy’s 100 club to reveal its secrets economies to their pre-crisis levels within a decade. It called last week for G20 leaders to take much stronger action. By Ella Ide established convincing evidence of in any number of factors - from the The study focused on 80 elderly And big long-term investors such as pension funds Acciaroli, Italy the health benefi ts of a Mediterranean villagers’ high consumption of the people including 25 centenarians. diet based on olive oil and rich in fresh pungent herb rosemary to the active Sapienza University’s Salvatore Di and insurers see promise in a deeper market for fruit, vegetables and fi sh. lifestyles imposed by their home’s Somma said the goal was to identify higher-yielding infrastructure-linked assets. ome of the secrets of an Italian Sixty years later, it is not hard to fi nd steep streets, which means everyone what Acciaroli has to off er the rest of Yet the longer it takes for governments to develop village that has long fascinated supporting evidence for Keys’ core has to do a little bit of tough walking the world. new ways to support their economies, the more some scientists because of its high thesis in Acciaroli itself. every day. “What we would like to create is investors are worried about the dangers of continued Snumber of active centenarians More than one in 10 - 81 at the “Is there something in their genes a sort of clinical scoresheet, a tool are set to be revealed today. mayor’s last count - of the village’s that may, along with something that that says that someone who wants low growth, high debt, weaker banks and growing Scientists have spent the last six population of 700 has passed the they do make them live longer and to live well for a long time should asset price bubbles. months looking into why residents century mark. healthy?” he said. have a certain type of diet, a certain of Acciaroli and nearby tiny Among them is Antonio Vassalo, “They eat rosemary almost every level of physical activity, a certain communities enjoy such extraordinary 100. “We only eat healthy stuff,” day, and they grow it - maybe this type of social life and a certain way of To Advertise longevity - while also seeming to be he confirmed to AFP on a visit this does something that helps. We thinking.” largely immune from dementia, heart week. know that rosemary improves brain Maisel said Acciaroli was unusual [email protected] disease and other chronic conditions Antonio’s wife Amina Fedollo, function.” in that the numbers of very old people Display associated with ageing in other parts a sprightly 93-year-old, develops “They are also all physically active. were split evenly between men and Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 of the world. the point. “We eat a lot of fi sh, fresh Whether it is fi shing, walking or women. Scientists from Rome’s Sapienza produce from the countryside that we gardening, everyone does something “Usually a signifi cantly higher Classified University and the San Diego School of grow ourselves. every day.” number of women live longer than Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 Medicine will unveil their fi ndings at a “We have our own rabbits, our One fi nd that surprised the men,” he said, adding that some conference in the village today. chickens. Only local products. And scientists on the project concerned important lifestyle factors could be Subscription Acciaroli is part of the Cilento olive oil: we consume what we the subjects’ capillary blood vessels, every bit as important as the anti- [email protected] coast, a largely industry-free area of produce.” which tend to degenerate in older infl ammatory properties of rosemary. outstanding natural beauty that now Alan S Maisel, the San Diego people. But the Cilento seniors had “It may have something to do with has national park protected status. cardiologist heading up the project, decidedly youthful capillaries of the the fact the older men do nothing but 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved It was in the Cilento that the late says the explanation for the sort found in much younger people, sit around all day outside cafes and are US nutritionist Ancel Keys fi rst longevity and sprightliness could lie even those in their 20s. less stressed,” he said. Gulf Times Sunday, September 4, 2016 23 COMMENT 50 years on, Star Trek endures

Roddenberry forged the their disillusionment with Trek’s intellectuals from Marx to Keynes to original Star Trek in the paradigms. the average stoned undergraduate have Joss Whedon’s short-lived science- fantasized about? mid-1960s, the era of the fi ction western Firefl y (2002-03) Roddenberry forged the original Great Society and the heights pitched itself as the anti-Star Trek. Star Trek in the mid-1960s, the era of The show featured a gritty band of the Great Society and the heights of of the postwar economic heroic outlaws who were often pitted the postwar economic boom. It was boom against the depredations of a star- an entirely diff erent world, where few systems-spanning alliance of planets could imagine the depredations the – an anti-utopian version of Star 1970s would bring. By Jake Blumgart Trek’s United Federation of Planets, Humanity was reaching the moon, The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS without the aliens. the economies of developed nations The argument against Star Trek is, seemed to be on an ever-expanding usually, that it is simply too clean, trajectory, and real progress was being s Gene Roddenberry’s Star ordered and harmonious. In the made in advancing the welfare state Trek boldly passes the 50- universe that Roddenberry created, and in addressing the quintessential year mark, the series is in humanity not only overcomes American problem of racial Aimpressive shape. disharmony among races and nations, segregation and oppression. The latest movie – Star Trek Beyond but with a multitude of alien species. In that context, it perhaps – made about $250mn at the domestic There are warlike empires out there, didn’t seem so far-fetched that the box offi ce and received an 83% rating but within the Federation’s purview Enterprise could be helmed by a black on Rotten Tomatoes, which is far better there is peace and plenty. Capitalism woman, an Asian man, a Russian than most of this summer’s hideously as we know it no longer exists because (testament to an imagined amiable awful blockbusters. technological advances have allowed end to the Cold War) and an alien with A new series, Discovery – No 7 people to survive without working, pointed ears. in the franchise – makes its debut money has pretty much been done Today the outlook is much diff erent. on CBS at the beginning of 2017, away with and hunger is no longer a The future political economy Keynes seemingly in a serialised fashion threat. dreamed of hasn’t arrived. We aren’t where the characters and plotlines There’s a 1930 essay by John working less, wages have stagnated for change every season, much like Maynard Keynes, Economic decades, the American middle class American Horror Story. Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in is shrinking, the social safety net is Most impressive, though: It’s which the famous economist frets over fraying and racial segregation is very impossible to name another series what humanity will do with its free much still with us. from the early days of television that time after progress and technology All that would seem to indicate that has enjoyed as lasting an infl uence. have eliminated “pressing economic Actors Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and James Doohan from the original Star Trek series. The show premiered 50 years the naysayers are onto something. From Star Trek’s own decade, only cares”. Star Trek posits that this ago as one of the new fall shows on NBC’s 1966-1967 schedule. Humanity will never live up to Star The Twilight Zone (1959-64) comes supposed conundrum won’t be much Trek. Perhaps that is right. But close. Nothing from the 1970s or even of a problem. We’ll be free to pursue Some of the options are pretty humanity has moved beyond the tribal of what a totalitarian or primitivist perhaps we can also have both, and the 1980s matches its longevity in the our hobbies and interests, which may scary, but the one that is explicated confl icts and narrow self-interest that or postapocalyptic future would look perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to public imagination. include touring the galaxy, engaging using Roddenberry’s world is by far have defi ned much of our history. like. disregard utopianism. Star Trek’s long reign is fraught with in scientifi c discovery and forging the most appealing. Too unrealistic, critics say, and Writers are great at dreaming up It’s far better to have, or at least complications. Star Wars (1977) both enriching alliances with varied alien In the original essay, Frase writes lacking even the faux grit of a Han ways that everything could get worse. imagine, a better option rather than overshadowed it and, arguably, led species. that “many people are already familiar Solo, much less the jaundiced view of Degradation and woe – and zombies just surrender to the cynicism and to the series’ rebirth by proving that These days, the Internet is full of with the utopia of a post-scarcity institutions (not to mention humanity – are the norm when we dream of the despair that have so dramatically science-fi ction franchises have huge fascinating dissections of Star Trek’s communism, because it has been writ large) on display in Firefl y or the future. narrowed our vision of what is box-offi ce potential. political economy, from Vox editor represented in one of our most familiar rebooted Battlestar Galactica (2004- In the context of the rote grinding possible. Star Trek: The Motion Picture – the Matt Yglesias’ review of the entire works of popular culture: Star Trek. 09). pessimism of our prognostications for fi rst of 13 franchise fi lms – appeared series in Slate to Jacobin’s Peter Frase, Needless to say, such a society But that hopeful vision is one of the future, sci-fi and otherwise, what zJake Blumgart is a reporter with in 1979. who has a new book titled Four Futures has never existed on this earth. Star the most appealing aspects of Star could be more interesting to imagine Philadelphia radio station WHYY. In more recent years, newer that examines possible outcomes for a Trek bashers disdain it for this very Trek. Science fi ction is meant to be than how humanity would function Readers may send him e-mail at jake. science-fi ction shows have signalled postcapitalist world. vision of a semi-utopic future where speculative. 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By Usha Wagle Gautam Asked about the demand for Top Jobs Overseas, a manpower for taking them to a registered managers of some companies Kathmandu workers in the Gulf countries, agency. He earlier worked in Ja- agency in the capital. ask for bribes” from agencies in he said: “There is still a large de- pan for almost a decade before “They trust the agents or mid- Nepal. mand for manual labourers from opening his agency in the capital dlemen from their locality and, Highlighting the steps taken atar is like a second home the Gulf countries. Qatar and the Kathmandu in 2005. in turn, pay them large sums (as by the Nepal authorities to en- for Nepalese workers and UAE are the two most preferred He advised young Nepalese fee for facilitating the recruit- sure the security and welfare of Qtheir most preferred job destinations.” looking for jobs in Qatar and ment). Registered manpower workers employed abroad, Gu- destination among GCC coun- The hosting of the 2022 FIFA other Gulf countries to learn agencies do not charge heavy rung said the government has tries, an offi cial of an umbrella World Cup in Qatar and imple- more about the laws, rules and sums from aspiring workers for a compensation scheme which organisation of manpower agen- mentation of ambitious projects regulations, religion and culture recruitment,” he explained. pays up to 1.4mn rupees to the cies in Nepal has said. as part of Qatar National Vision of the destination country. “I The offi cial further clarifi ed families of workers who lose Rohan Gurung, general secre- 2030 are also attracting Nepa- would like them to be mentally that manpower agencies in Ne- their lives, disappear or are disa- tary of the Nepalese Association lese workers to the country, he prepared. I request all to ap- pal collect only service fees from bled while working in any for- of Foreign Employment Agen- observed. proach a registered manpower candidates and that too when eign company. cies (Nafea), disclosed this while There are some 756 registered agency and not to deal with mid- such fee is not paid by the em- Meanwhile, it is learnt that the speaking to Gulf Times on Nepa- manpower agencies in Nepal dlemen.” ployer in the destination coun- number of Nepalese who have lese men seeking jobs in the GCC whose task is to assist people Gurung said the biggest prob- try. left the country to take up jobs states and steps taken by the au- who aspire to go to the Gulf or lem faced by rural job-seekers He also pointed out that most in Gulf countries has dropped thorities in his country to ensure East Asia for employment. Be- in Nepal was the exploitation by of the Qatari employers provide to around 800-900 this August the security and welfare of such sides being a senior offi ce-bear- middlemen, who charge hun- free visas and tickets to workers, as compared to 1,300 during the workers. er of Nafea, Gurung also owns dreds of thousands of rupees but “it is being heard that the HR same period last year. Rohan Gurung: middlemen ‘exploiting job-seekers’ Tour guides hone skills ahead of cruise season

s the beginning of the mented Najd al-Marri, head nationalities that will be arriv- cruise season draws of Tourism Product Support ing on Qatar’s shores. Acloser, tour guides from Section at QTA. The guides were tested at the across the country are prepar- end of the course through a prac- ing to welcome passengers and “A tour guide plays a tical evaluation that involves deliver enjoyable, smooth and crucial role in shaping guiding a group on a moving bus memorable excursions. a tourist’s experience and giving a tour of Msheireb At a training course organ- of a destination, and by Museums. ised by Qatar Tourism Au- equipping them with the Those who pass the test will thority (QTA), tour guides right tools we are ensuring receive certifi cates and a license sharpened their communica- the success of Qatar’s from QTA to become cruise ship tion and commentary skills, biggest cruise season yet” tour guides. their knowledge of Qatar’s During the upcoming cruise tourist sites, and practiced “This training course is de- season, which begins in Octo- on ways to build relationships signed specifi cally for tour ber and continues until April with their tour groups to en- guides that will work with 2017, 32 cruise ships are con- sure a wholesome and unique cruise passengers, addressing fi rmed to call at Qatar’s ports experience. the unique needs of guiding with an expected 50,000 pas- “A tour guide plays a cru- shore excursions, which are sengers on board. cial role in shaping a tourist’s often condensed in a day and This marks a three-fold in- Ezdan Holding Group and Regency Group officials, as well as other dignitaries during the event. experience of a destination, include large groups.” crease in the number of ships, and by equipping them with Al -Marri added that the and an increase of over 1000% the right tools we are ensur- training course targeted par- in the expected number of ing the success of Qatar’s big- ticipants from diff erent back- passengers, from the 2015-16 Grand Hypermarket opens gest cruise season yet,” com- grounds to cater to the multiple season. at Ezdan Mall in Al Wukair

zdan Holding Group has ping centres. Al-Awwad said: strengthen economic activity to entertainment facilities, espe- announced the opening “Ezdan Holding Group spares in the state.” cially during national holidays to Eof Grand Hypermarket at no effort in finding the right He said the mall is the fi rst- highlight the authenticity of the Ezdan Mall Al Wukair. channels that would con- of-its-kind and a vital addition rich Qatari culture.” The opening of the hyper- tribute to the promotion and to the vibrant and increasingly The new Grand Hypermarket market follows the signing of growth of the Qatari economy. populous regions of Al Wakrah branch provides fresh produce, an agreement between Ezdan The group’s direction towards and Al Wukair, Mesaieed and food products, healthcare and and Regency Group. investment diversification is Barwa. beauty goods, and home im- The inauguration was at- guided by Qatar’s 2030 vision “It will be an important out- provement supplies. tended by Group COO Dr of comprehensive develop- let to serve the 25 Ezdan Villages The hypermarket houses ma- Mousa al-Awwad, Regency ment, which considers diver- that host over 70,000 people. jor brands of consumer prod- Group representatives and sity the cornerstone of a strong The mall will provide a large ucts, clothing, accessories, bags, Malik Awan, general manager and successful economy. The number of diverse shops across shoes, leather goods and lug- of Ezdan Mall, the subsidi- group’s efforts are focused two fl oors, off ering diff erent gage, furniture, electrical and ary that manages Ezdan Hold- on promoting important and services and high-quality goods electronic appliances, household ing Group’s malls and shop- dynamic sectors that would from global brands, in addition appliances and sport products. Guides are trained to welcome passengers and to deliver enjoyable, memorable excursions. Retailers optimistic of steady increase in sales

fter getting a fi llip from shop here in Doha and they the month-long Qatar spend in bulk whether we have ASummer Festival (QSF), promotions, reduced prices or many retailers and boutiques at none at all,” she said. diff erent malls in Qatar expect However, she disclosed that their sales to further improve their shop recorded an estimated before and after the Eid al-Adha 45% drop in sales this summer holidays. compared with last year’s fi gure The annual QSF, organised by for the same period. Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA), This was also echoed by a featured a number of off erings boutique employee at another such as the shopping promo- mall citing a substantial drop in tions aimed at energising the sales of both men’s and women’s hospitality and retail sectors, clothes. driving domestic tourism and “We are trying to woo cus- attracting regional visitors year- tomers with our promotions, round. special off ers and reduced pric- “We received an increasing es for us to hit our targets this number of shoppers at the start month,” he said. of this month and we hope to at- He expressed optimism that tract more before they leave for business will improve with the the Eid holidays with our pro- opening of schools and the re- mos,” said an employee of a fe- turn of vacationing residents af- male apparel boutique at a mall ter the Eid al-Adha holidays. in Doha. The employee also expects She noted that QTA’s weekly their sales to increase once the raffl e draws during the festi- winter season sets in and with val had signifi cantly helped in the arrival of more tourists from enticing more people to spend cruise ships. at least a minimum of QR200. QTA earlier announced that This amount gives them one raf- they expect more than 50,000 fl e coupon with a chance to win Apparel boutiques in Doha expect to receive more shoppers in the coming days. tourists aboard 32 cruise ships cash or a Jaguar car. to arrive in the country for the The employee believes the tailers get only a few customers Many retailers, shops and ing the summer, coinciding people to buy, she explained. August 1 onwards is also giving a 2016-2017 cruise season, which launch of the shopping promo- after the Eid al-Fitr holidays, boutiques normally launch with such festivals as part of She added that the infl ux of boost to their sales. starts in October and ends in tions was timely since many re- considered an off -peak period. their promotions dur- their strategy to encourage visitors from Saudi Arabia from “Many people from Saudi April next year.