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THURSDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10233 October 6, 2016 Muharram 5, 1438 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir meets UAE minister Qatar slams In brief US Sept 11

QATAR | Diplomacy Intervention ‘changing equation’ of Syria war legislation as Outside powers need to act fast to protect Syrians because foreign military backing for the government is “changing the equation” of the war, Qatar’s foreign minister said ‘dangerous’ yesterday. For 14 days, a Russian- backed Syrian government off ensive he Cabinet yesterday de- edent, adding that the State of Qatar has been underway to capture nounced the Justice Against warned that it would have dangerous eastern Aleppo and crush the last TSponsors of Terrorism Act implications for relations between urban stronghold of a revolt against (JASTA), which was passed in the US states, according to QNA. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently, stating that it violated inter- After the Cabinet meeting chaired that began in 2011. Qatar’s Foreign national law and the principle of sov- by HE the Prime Minister Sheikh Ab- Minister, HE Sheikh Mohamed bin ereignty of states. dullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani Abdulrahman al-Thani, told a news At its weekly meeting yesterday, the at the Emiri Diwan yesterday, HE the conference in Singapore yesterday Cabinet noted that passing the law Deputy Prime Minister and Minister that the Friends of Syria group represented a dangerous precedent in of State for Cabinet Aff airs Ahmed bin had since February “stopped and relations between countries and would Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud said minimised” its supply of weapons have negative consequences, the of- the Cabinet gave its nod to a draft deci- to rebels. “On the other hand, the fi cial Qatar News Agency (QNA) re- sion to set up a permanent committee regime is continuing to receive ported. to manage seaports. supply from its allies, and that is HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met, in his off ice at Al Bahr Palace yesterday, Dr Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, JASTA allows attack survivors and Under the law, the committee will what is changing the equation right Minister of State, Cabinet Member and Chief Executive Off icer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and its group of relatives of terrorism victims to pursue be chaired by a representative from the now, and we hope that we can do companies in the UAE, along with his accompanying delegation. Dr Sultan al-Jaber conveyed the greetings of UAE President cases against foreign governments in Ministry of Interior, while the mem- something to protect them,” he said Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohamed US federal court and to demand com- bers will include representatives of all in answer to a question. Page 2 bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh pensation. designated authorities. Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, wishing HH the Emir good health and happiness, and the Qatari people further progress The US Senate and House of Rep- The role of the committee is to oper- and prosperity. For his part, HH the Emir entrusted the UAE minister to convey his greetings to the UAE President, the Vice resentatives voted overwhelmingly to ate ports in co-ordination with the au- QATAR | Health President and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, wishing them good health and wellness, and the people of the UAE more override President Barack Obama’s thorities concerned. 13 outlets shut for progress and development. Talks during the meeting dealt with relations between the two countries in energy. HE the Prime veto of the law. It will also follow up on and regulate Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani also met Dr Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber. During the Saudi Arabia warned of “disastrous work at the ports, as well as oversee all food safety violation meeting, they reviewed the fraternal relations between the two brotherly countries and ways to develop them, especially in consequences” from the law, which al- employees there. An inspection campaign carried the fields of energy. Business Page 1 lows 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom, It will also provide a quarterly report out by Doha Municipality to ensure Gulf Times reported recently. to HE the Minister of Interior on the the safety of food items resulted in A Saudi foreign ministry source progress at seaports, according to the the closure of 13 violating outlets called on the US Congress “to take the QNA report. in September. Inspectors from the necessary measures to counter the dis- The Cabinet, meanwhile, approved municipality’s Health Control Section, astrous and dangerous consequences”, HE the Minister of Public Health’s Municipal Control Department, noting that JASTA was “a source of draft decision on restructuring the conducted a total of 1,084 inspection great worry”. The erosion of sovereign “supreme medical committee” as well tours at food facilities in Doha last Sheikha Hind named immunity is also a concern among the as HE the Minister’s draft decision on month, the off icial Qatar News six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council. forming a “medical committee”. It also Agency reported yesterday. During The Gulf states have criticised the gave its nod to the application of pro- this period, 82 violations were issued legislation, the report said. visions of Law No 24 of 2002 on the for non-compliance with health Last month, a Qatari offi cial had said retirement and pension of Qatari em- regulations and 25 for flouting the chairperson of HBKU the bill represented a dangerous prec- ployees of some entities. law pertaining to the regulation of human food control.

REGION | Confl ict Board of Trustees UAE: crewmen hurt E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Economy and Commerce, vice chair- Panel for pedestrian in rebel attack on ship al-Thani has been appointed man of Qatar Petroleum, and deputy The United Arab Emirates said Hchairperson of the Board of chairman of Qatar Financial Centre yesterday that there were injuries Trustees of Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- Authority); Khalid Ahmed al-Mannai bridges gets go-ahead among civilian crewmen of a vessel versity (HBKU). HE Sheikha Hind will (vice chairman of the Executive Com- hit by Yemeni rebels in the strategic assume the position in addition to her mittee of the Mannai Corporation); Bab al-Mandab waterway last week. role as vice chairperson and CEO of Dr Moncef Slaoui (chairman of Global he Cabinet has given its nod to Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa The foreign ministry did not say Qatar Foundation for Education, Sci- Vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline PLC); a draft decision by HE the Min- al-Thani at the Emiri Diwan yesterday, how many were wounded in the ence and Community Development. Dr Samira Omar (director general of Tister of Municipality and Envi- HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Friday night attack but said they As chairperson, HE Sheikha Hind the Kuwait Institute for Scientifi c Re- ronment establishing a committee that Minister of State for Cabinet Aff airs were receiving treatment in the UAE. will lead HBKU’s Board of Trustees, search); Dr Kang Sung-mo (president will oversee the implementation of dif- Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mah- The UAE military had previously ensuring the success of the university of Korea Advanced Institute of Sci- ferent stages of an agreement for build- moud said the Cabinet also approved said there were no casualties in the and its vision and mission. ence and Technology) and Prof Ikhlaq ing pedestrian bridges. draft air services agreements with the attack. Page 9 HE Sheikha Hind said: “HBKU has Sidhu (chief scientist and founding The law states that the committee governments of Mongolia and Saint witnessed tremendous growth with director of the University of Cali- will be chaired by a representative from Vincent and the Grenadines. the development of both its integrated fornia Berkeley’s Sutardja Centre for the Ministry of Municipality and En- It also approved a draft memoran- BRUSSELS | Aid academic programmes and its national HE Sheikha Hind bint Hamad al-Thani. Entrepreneurship and Technology, vironment, while representatives of all dum of understanding for co-operation World donors pledge research capabilities. The university’s and founder of the Fung Institute for designated authorities will be members in the fi eld of health between the Min- new Board of Trustees will off er their diverse and sustainable economy. Engineering Leadership). The presi- of the panel, the offi cial Qatar News istry of Public Health, Qatar, and the $15bn for Afghanistan invaluable insight and expertise to the “Each of the Board members shares dent of HBKU, Dr Ahmad M Hasnah, Agency reported. Ministry of Health, Belarus. International donors pledged $15.2bn research university as it continues to HBKU’s vision, and, together, we will also sits on the board as an ex-offi cio The committee will be charged with Further, the meeting reviewed some at a conference in Brussels yesterday target its strategic objectives and tack- guide the university’s path forward as member. following up on the work carried out issues and took appropriate decisions. to get Afghanistan through the next le critical challenges facing Qatar and a national source of knowledge that The new appointees bring to HBKU by the company implementing the These included HE the Minister of In- four years, urging the Taliban to make the region. The board will also play a serves government, industry, and the a wealth of diverse leadership experi- project. It will also operate the bridges terior’s memo on the fi nal report on peace after years of war. Afghan leading role as the university endeav- wider community in Qatar.” ence, both in Qatar and overseas, and and ensure that the construction is the results of the work of a committee President Ashraf Ghani was in the ours to create new and innovative The Board of Trustees will comprise share a commitment to ensure HBKU progressing within the set timeframe formed to study all aspects of the use of Belgian capital seeking aid from learning opportunities that help build six members in addition to its chair- succeeds in its mission to provide an and is compatible with the designs. the smart card as proof of identity for off icials from 75 countries and more human capacity and further support person: HE Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim exceptional level of transformative After the regular Cabinet meet- citizens of GCC states and develop an than 20 global organisations. Page 19 Qatar as it moves towards building a bin Mohamed al-Thani (Minister of education and research in Qatar. ing chaired by HE the Prime Minister appropriate mechanism for such use. Preventive measures advised to contain seasonal fl u

By Joseph Varghese quiries with various clinics revealed fected people cough, sneeze or talk in get vaccinated. “Flu vaccine is available plications out of seasonal fl u,” pointed the virus is not carried on to others,” Staff Reporter that the number of patients with fl u the presence of those who are not ill,” across all the healthcare institutions in out the physician. he added. has gone up considerably in the last few he explained. the country. Generally it is a very safe Dr Joseph said that people can A paediatrician at another private days. “Generally, children get infected vaccine and 70 to 80% people have no take certain precautions to avoid the clinic also reported an increase in the n the light of many Qatar residents Speaking to Gulf Times, Dr Antony fi rst. Schoolgoing children get aff ected problems with it. Only some people spread of this disease. “It is impor- number of children who have devel- falling ill with the seasonal fl u as the George Joseph, specialist in internal from their schoolmates and pass it on who are allergic to items such as eggs tant that that the affected people oped seasonal cough and fever. “This Isummer to winter transition hap- medicine at Aster Medical Centre, Al to their friends and family members. should avoid it.” keep away from others. They should happens usually twice every year, when pens, preventive measures have been Hilal, said that this type of fl u and cold Since it is highly contagious, people “The vaccine is all the more advis- ensure hand hygiene by washing summer transitions to winter and vice advised. is common in Qatar from September have to take necessary precautions to able for small children as well as people them constantly and sanitising. They versa,” he recalled. It is learnt that healthcare institu- end to November. “It is a contagious prevent the spread of the disease,” he aged above 65. Similarly, people who must also avoid coughing, sneez- A resident said a Paediatric Emer- tions, both government and private, respiratory illness caused by infl uenza said. are suff ering from certain chronic dis- ing while they are in the company of gency Centre he visited the other day are witnessing an increased number of viruses. Generally it causes mild ill- According to the physician, the best eases are also advised to undergo the others. While speaking, they should at night was also packed with children people suff ering from the illness. En- ness. Flu viruses are spread while af- way to stay safe from the condition is to vaccination process to avoid any com- keep a reasonable distance so that suff ering from fl u. Gulf Times 2 Thursday, October 6, 2016 QATAR

FM meets Singapore leaders Number of UN offi cial visitors to Qatar passes hails Qatar’s 2mn mark

atar has received 2.182mn visitors so far Qthis year, with visits of human rights GCC nationals continuing to increase in September, a Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) report has shown. The growth in year-to-date (January to end of September), visitor arrivals from the GCC commitment was dominated by visits from nationals of Saudi Arabia and QNA able to spread its message and the UAE, which increased by 8% Doha achieve its objectives. and 17% respectively, compared Obaid said that the Hu- to 2015. man Rights Department at HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani yesterday met separately Visits from nationals of Bah- UN official has praised the Ministry of Interior is an Singapore’s President Tony Tan Keng (above) and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. rain and Kuwait were up as well Qatar for the positive important partner of the UN The Foreign Minister conveyed to the president the greetings of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin by 3% and 2% respectively; A developments in the Centre, noting that they to- Hamad al-Thani. The meetings dealt with bilateral relations and the means to enhance them. while visits from nationals of field of human rights and the gether implemented many Oman were down by 5%. clear commitment to the rule activities and launched effec- Overall, year-to-date arriv- of law. tive initiatives to raise aware- als from the GCC region grew by Speaking to Qatar News ness about human rights and 7% compared to the same period Agency, Obaid Ahmed al- spread its culture among the in 2015. Obaid, Director of the United community. Meanwhile, visitors entering Nations Centre for Train- He commented the distinct the country on the Qatar-Oman ing and Documentation in role of the Department locally tourist visa increased by 2% the field of Human Rights for and internationally in the ar- year-to-date in comparison to South-West Asia and the Arab eas of training and rehabilita- the same period in 2015. region in Doha, said the Qa- tion, spreading this culture Visitors who are nationals of tar’s commitment to the rule among the ministry’s employ- the Americas also increased by of law has a positive impact on Obaid Ahmed al-Obaid ees and the community, and 5% between January and Sep- human rights in the country. educating inmates and penal tember 2016 compared to the He said Qatar has commit- He highlighted important institutions. same period in 2015. ted to providing its interna- role of the National Human The UN official said the De- September witnessed the tional reports, and actively Rights Committee (NHRC) and partment was an active part- week-long Eid, a festival participates in discussions at its support for the UN Cen- ner of the Centre. which typically draws families the international level. tre in its activities and events He said the Centre has from around the region. The Obaid, who was appointed aiming to promote the culture achieved the desired success in number of Saudi visitors alone Director of the Office of the of human rights. the past fi ve years thanks to the reached over 100,000 during High Commissioner for Hu- He referred in this regard to support given by the Qatar and this month. man Rights in Yemen, praised the NHRC’s role in the estab- the co-operation and assist- As Qatar welcomes its the development in human lishment of the Arab Network ance of the authorities, which first cruise ship on October rights institutional work in for National Human Rights In- resulted in organising activities 18, carrying tourists from 45 Qatar, and the political will to stitutions in Doha. and regional and international countries, QTA projects fur- advance in this field, which re- He explained that the UN conferences and events, as well ther modest increases in visi- quires greater understanding Centre, through its co-oper- as visits of international human tor arrivals during the current of the community. ation with the network, was rights offi cials to Doha. month. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 3 QATAR Bedaya summer QM plans exhibitions camp for girl and cultural events students ends he Bedaya Centre for En- stitutions that will help them By Joey Aguilar trepreneurship and Ca- understand the key elements of Staff Reporter Treer Development (Bedaya working in a real environment, Centre), a joint initiative by Qa- as well as creating valuable rela- tar Development Bank and Si- tionships that can support them atar Museums (QM) is latech, has concluded a summer in the future. set to hold a series of camp organised for girls study- Ola Abdin, Career Develop- Qexhibitions and cul- ing in high schools and universi- ment manager at Bedaya Centre tural events at various locations ties. said: “The Girls Summer camp across the country during the Bedaya Centre said the stu- provided an eff ective working last quarter of 2016. dents enjoyed all of the activities experience that helped them A world-class retrospective that took place in the fi rst week develop their knowledge, skills, exhibition by one of the most in addition to getting the op- and expertise, in addition to of- renowned modern artists of the portunity to experience the work fering them a clear understand- Arab world, Dia al-Azzawi of environment during the second ing of the values, norms and Iraq, will highlight QM’s forth- week of the camp. standards adopted by institu- coming ‘autumn programme.’ tions and companies in a real Addressing a press confer- “The Girls Summer camp work environment.” ence yesterday at the Museum provided an eff ective The camp concluded with of Islamic Art (MIA), QM’s chief working experience that a ceremony attended by Ab- strategic planning offi cer Kha- helped them develop their dulaziz bin Nasser al-Khalifa, lid al-Ibrahim said the unique knowledge, skills, and CEO of Qatar Development exhibition will be open in two expertise” Bank and chairman of Bedaya venues - Mathaf: Arab Museum Centre, and Sheikha Alanoud of Modern Art (on October 16), Reem al-Suwaidi, general al-Thani, vice chairman of Be- and the QM Gallery Al Riwaq manager of Bedaya Centre, daya Centre’s board and Qatar (October 17). said: “The camp gave all par- Country Operations manager The exhibition, titled “I am the Mahmoud Obaidi showing one of his exhibitions. ticipating girls an opportunity for Silatech, and representatives cry, who will give voice to me? (ti- to see the different types of from all companies and institu- tle of a poem by Fadhil Azzawi),” ed to the airport’s world-class jiang Provincial Department of raphy exhibition next month, jobs and helped them to follow tions that collaborated for the features more than 546 works collection of art objects created Culture, will be held from No- which will feature the work of the staff closely while carrying summer camp. across 50 years and a range of me- by local, regional and interna- vember 2 to 5 at the MIA Park. four Chinese and two Qatari out their work by accompany- dia aimed at mapping an itinerary tional artists,” al-Ibrahim said. Residents and visitors will photographers who travelled to ing them throughout the work of modernism and profi les the According to QM, several ex- have the opportunity to see the each other’s countries to visu- day. They also gained expertise practice of the Iraqi artist. hibitions and events will also be rich and varied cultures of Chi- ally document another way of that will qualify them to be- “We will continue to cel- held as part of the Qatar-China na in Qatar in a weekend of fun- life and capture another culture come successful employees in ebrate the infl uence and impact Year of Culture besides the on- fi lled events. through their own lenses. the future.” of Arab artists more generally going shows. These include Some of Zhejiang’s lead- In 2017, QM’s public and in- The fi rst week of the camp in addition to championing es- Treasures of China (until Janu- ing musicians and artistes will ternational relations director witnessed career guidance ses- tablished, home-grown artists ary 7, 2017 at MIA), Muhammad perform live in “a beautifully- Mohamed al-Othman said they sions varying between leader- such as Yousef Ahmad and Faraj Ali: Tribute to a Legend (until conceived” outdoor setting that are looking forward to organis- ship skills, art of communi- Daham,” al-Ibrahim said. QM’s Khalid al-Ibrahim speaks November 5 at MIA), Fair Skies will include a Chinese market, ing a successful programme of cations, writing CVs, career Part of the programme includes yesterday. (until January 8, 2017 at Project Chinese tea house, stage, pho- events for the Qatar-Germany planning skills, movie produc- an exhibition by contemporary PICTURE: Jayan Orma Space, Mathaf), and Pearls: tography exhibition space, food Year of Culture. tions, health tips, and other fun Iraqi-Canadian artist Mahmoud Jewels from the Sea and the Riv- stalls and a children’s area. “Qatar and Germany have activities such as visiting the Obaidi titled ‘Fragments.’ In the coming weeks, the QM ers (until January 8, 2017 at the China will be celebrated with very strong ties and the part- Lusail Shooting Club and Qatar Set to open on October 18 at offi cial said they will also unveil National Museum of China in musical performances, fi lm, nership will celebrate and ex- Adventure room. the QM Gallery in Katara – the two new sculptures by al-Azza- Beijing). children’s activities and deli- plore common values between The second week of the camp Cultural Village, Fragments re- wi at the Hamad International The ‘Chinese Festival,’ pre- cious food, QM added. each of our cultures, break- provided the participants the traces the ‘organised chaos’ that Airport. sented by QM, the Ministry of The Qatar-China Year of Cul- ing down barriers and opening chance to work closely with the led to the destruction of Iraq. “These sculptures will be add- Culture of China and the Zhe- ture will also present a photog- minds,” he said. contributing companies and in- Reem al-Suwaidi Gulf Times 4 Thursday, October 6, 2016 QATAR Ties reviewed Caribbeans support Kuwari’s candidature

QNA Doha HE the Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Aff airs Dr Issa Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimi met in Doha yes- terday with US ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith. During he Caribbean community the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and ways of has announced its sup- enhancing them. Tport for HE Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari, Ad- viser at the Emiri Diwan, who is Qatar’s candidate for the post of Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scien- tifi c and Cultural Organisation Widodo receives new (Unesco). The support was declared by Prime Minister of Antigua and envoy’s credentials Barbuda Gaston Browne during a meeting with al-Kuwari. Browne is on a visit to Doha QNA and the people of Indonesia heading a ministerial delega- Jakarta more progress and prosperity. tion. For his part, the Indonesian Talking to reporters before president asked the ambassador the meeting, Browne said the ndonesian President Joko to convey his greetings to HH the Dominican Republic, the Fed- Widodo has received the Emir, wishing the Qatari people eration of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Icredentials of Ahmed Jassim further progress and develop- the Republic of Trinidad and al-Hamar as ambassador ex- ment. Tobago and the Republic of Hai- traordinary and plenipotentiary The Indonesian president ti and the rest of the Caribbean of Qatar to Indonesia. wished the ambassador suc- community have mandated him The ambassador conveyed cess in his duties and hoped for to decide which candidate the the greetings of HH the Emir to further expansion of ties and group would support. President Joko Widodo, wishing co-operation between the two He said they have already HE Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne speak to reporters. him good health and happiness, countries. decided to support al-Kuwari, the strongest candidate for this this prestigious organisation, stability and as is also a tourist ing peace, adding it was a mes- conveying its message to the post. Browne said. destination, adding his govern- sage that reached the members world, he added. Browne said Qatar did well On relations between Qa- ment is working on putting into of the Caribbean community. Al-Kuwari highlighted the when it chose al-Kuwari owing tar and his country, the prime place the infrastructure and the He added that he was aware role of Qatar in co-operating to his distinguished reputation minister of Antigua and Bar- legislature to ensure the stabil- of the significance of the Car- with Unesco in a number of within the country and at the buda said his government is ity and protection of foreign ibbean islands, a matter which initiatives, such as “Educate a international level. seeking to build strong ties investment, as well as working he highlighted in his candi- Child”. This initiative will en- He added that he was im- based on mutual understand- on the abolition of entry visas. dacy bid. able 10mn children to access pressed with al-Kuwari’s pro- ing and co-operation in many Al-Kuwari said he was Al-Kuwari said the Unesco, education by the end of 2016, gramme which attaches special fields. pleased to have the backing of despite all of efforts, can still he added. attention to the Caribbean, Af- He added that the govern- the Caribbean community. play a bigger role as there were The Dominican Republic, rican as well as other countries ment of Antigua and Barbuda He said Qatar’s nomination many humanitarian and chari- the Federation of Saint Kitts of the world, in addition to his has decided to appoint an am- of one of its citizens to the table organisations that looks and Nevis, the Republic of interest in culture, science and bassador to Qatar. post was because it wanted to forward to co-operating with Trinidad and Tobago and the education. The prime minister urged deliver a message to the world the UN body. Republic of Haiti are all mem- His vision for the Unesco is Qataris to invest in his coun- on the importance of educa- This is possible only af- bers of the Unesco Executive expected to be a new start for try as it enjoys democracy and tion and culture in establish- ter the Unesco succeeds in Board.

Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 7 QATAR Companies HMC breast cancer awareness drive targets women above 45

amad Medical Corpo- their lifetime. As such, educa- and healthcare professionals known as the ‘Pink Team’ is also yet to receive ration (HMC) is taking tion, prevention and diagnostic from around the world together planned to take place on October Hpart in the promotion of services remain at the frontline to share their knowledge and ex- 31 at Bayt Al Dhiyafa at Hamad Bin Breast Cancer Awareness Month of the battle against breast can- pertise on breast cancer screen- Khalifa Medical City to acknowl- and launching a nationwide cer.” ing and the latest information edge the team’s eff orts, reward ‘Early Detection Saves Lives’ Dr Bujassoum pointed out about mammograms and early teamwork, and recognise their campaign. This initiative aims to that breast changes can show up detection. contribution to HMC’s delivery of educate women at risk of breast on mammograms before the pa- There will also be information high quality care to patients. transfer notice cancer, increasing their knowl- tient or doctor can feel a lump. booths in some of HMC’s hospi- Along with these activities, a edge of the signs and symp- “We therefore encourage women tals including Al Wakra Hospital, social media campaign will run toms and empowering them to aged 45 and above to be screened Hamad General Hospital, The throughout the month to engage take charge of their own breast appropriately for breast cancer, Cuban Hospital and the NCCCR. with the public by sharing infor- health. to stay physically active and eat This initiative aims to inform mation about breast cancer and Dr Salha Bujassoum al-Bader, a healthy diet.” patients and their families, visi- providing support to those af- senior consultant at the National The campaign features a tors and staff about the signs and fected by the disease. to Hamad Port Centre for Cancer Care and Re- number of activities including a symptoms of breast cancer and Other activities for Breast search (NCCCR), and director of conference held in conjunction educate them about the impor- Cancer Awareness Month in- By Peter Alagos only information we have got cranes, and faster operations. the Breast Cancer Programme at with Primary Health Care Cor- tance of prevention and early clude educational lectures, a Business Reporter about the transfer was from the The capacity of the Hamad Port HMC, said: “Breast cancer is by poration and Qatar Cancer Soci- detection in reducing the risk of workshop and a networking newspaper advertisement.” is 10 times the capacity of the far the most common cancer in ety. The conference is being held breast cancer and saving lives. gathering with private compa- He added: “If they have of- Doha Port; hence, we expect an Qatar and one in eight women on October 29 and 30 at Shera- A celebration event for the nies and other governmental ompanies operating out fi ces there, they can move. No increase in effi ciency in port op- will develop breast cancer in ton Doha. It will bring leaders breast cancer team at HMC, also organisations. of Doha Port are yet to issues. All companies will exist erations,” he said. Creceive a formal no- in the same place only. A few During the welcome cer- tice from port or customs au- agents have offi ces inside the emony for Hamad Port’s fi rst thorities on the start of general port. But what facilities they vessel in July 2015, HE the cargo operations at the new are providing in the new port, Minister of Transport and Hamad Port on October 15, in- we don’t know, and we didn’t Communications Jassim Seif quiries have found. have any meeting with port au- Ahmed al-Sulaiti said the new WCM-Q seminar discusses In an advertisement released thorities. They did not call for facility is expected to handle to local newspapers on October any meeting.” more than 6mn containers a 4, the Ministry of Transport and However, he said because year once all three phases of Communications announced the opening of the new Ha- the project is completed. “the start of operations on gen- mad Port has already been ad- The Transport Minister, who is mental healthcare challenges eral cargo and the movement vertised in the media, they are also the chairman of the Hamad from Doha Port to Hamad Port expecting the authorities to Port Steering Committee, ex- as of October 15, 2016”. “offi cially release a notice or plained that phase 1 of the project he challenges of provid- Dr Sunanda Holmes, associate “Therefore, the ministry has some form of communication was expected to be completed by ing mental health services university counsel and assistant completed the second move- to move out from Doha Port to the end of 2016, allowing Hamad Tin a growing and diverse professor of healthcare policy and ment for cargo in preparation the new one.” Port to handle 2mn containers. community were discussed at a research at WCM-Q, said: “Provi- for the full operation according According to him, opera- “After the completion of seminar organised by Weill Cor- sion of high quality and appropriate to the schedule dates,” the an- tions at the Doha Port cannot phase 1 by 2016, the volume nell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) mental healthcare services is a glo- nouncement added. come to an abrupt stop. “You would be 2mn containers, and hosted by Hamad Medical bal challenge. By working together The manager of a freight cannot close the gate even for which is a huge quantity. By the Corporation (HMC). we can identify the service gaps and company said yesterday that just one day, so, I guess when time we complete the second The purpose of the ‘Mental educate the various stakeholders roll-on and roll-off (Ro-Ro) operations will be transferred and third phases, there would Health Care, Law and Patients’ in global best practices to ensure and bulk freight, including to the new port it will be done be more than 6mn containers Rights’ seminar was to bring prompt, respectful and eff ective Panellists taking part in an interactive Q&A with the audience. container operation, have al- in a phased manner.” handled by the port. together various stakeholders, care for those in need.” ready moved out of Doha Port. He also felt the opening of “Shipping volumes will dou- including medical and health Dr Suhaila Ghuloum, senior con- for continued investment in infra- Dr Ghuloum also advised the Asked when other compa- the new Hamad Port will help ble once all phases of the port professionals, legal and social sultant at the Psychiatry Department structure, recruitment and training audience of the upcoming Fifth nies operating at Doha Port increase effi ciency in opera- project are completed, allow- services, law enforcement and at HMC, underscored the impor- of personnel, the need to overcome Qatar International Mental Health will shift operations to the new tions. “Obviously, there will be ing us to achieve operations others, to fi nd ways to work to- tance of providing access to adequate barriers to access, and the establish- Conference, organised by HMC port, he said: “We have not re- no congestion at all at the new never done before in the coun- gether to meet the mental health- and appropriate mental health serv- ment of a comprehensive legal frame- and scheduled for December 2-3 ceived any offi cial letter from port and we can engage with try such as direct shipment,” care requirements of Qatar’s di- ices, and identifi ed the challenges work to protect the rights of both in Doha, at which these complex port or customs offi cials … the more space and facilities, gantry al-Sulaiti stressed. verse and growing community. facing Qatar. These include the need service providers and users. issues are to be addressed. Gulf Times 8 Thursday, October 6, 2016 QATAR Ford and Lincoln showroom opens The MINI City will remain on display at Villaggio Mall until October 11. MINI City on display at Airport Road at Villaggio Mall lmana Motors Company, the Ford and Lincoln Aimporter-dealer in Qa- lfardan Automobiles, the MINI District, inspired by ent characteristics of MINI, is tar, yesterday marked the grand offi cial MINI importer in the age old Monopoly game, al- another great activation that opening of its latest, state-of- AQatar, unveiled the inter- lows fans to play the MINIPOLY we have brought to Qatar, which the-art Ford and Lincoln show- active MINI City experience at board to be in with the chance further reinforces our posi- room at its new location on Villaggio Mall in Doha. of winning a MINI to drive for tion as the undisputed MINI Airport Road. The MINI City display, open a week, or send a personalised specialists in the region,” said The event was attended by US until October 11, off ers ‘great post card to their loved ones Ihab Allam, general manager ambassador Dana Shell Smith, a value-additions’ to customers from a London post-box. of Alfardan Automobiles. number of VIP guests, custom- looking to purchase the MINI At MINI Beach, fans can MINI enjoyed an excellent start ers, as well as top executives John Cooper Works Country- kick back with a mocktail and to 2016 with the MINI 3-Door from Almana Motors and Ford man as well as the MINI 3-Door experience the laid-back side Hatch, a consistent bestseller, Middle East and Africa, who and 5-Door Hatch. of MINI. MINI Connected is logging an increase of 19% whilst jointly dedicated the 3,652sq The host of special off ers a cozy and connected space the MINI 5-Door variant recorded m showroom that extends over and additional service benefi ts where the latest in VR technol- an upswing of 15% in sales over two fl oors. It features a dedi- include MINI service for fi ve ogy takes visitors on an immer- the same period in 2015. cated area for the Lincoln luxury years/60,000kms and three sive journey, bringing to life the In addition, Qatar’s MINI brand on the mezzanine level. years’ warranty on unlimited MINI experience. At MINI Art, enthusiasts helped Alfardan Almana Motors managing mileage, one year’s free insur- fans can discover their MINI Automobiles to retain its pole director Bader Almana said: ance, registration, window tint- personality and reveal a per- position in the sales of John “This is yet another important ing as well as a folding MINI sonalised message at an RGB Cooper Works models region- milestone for Almana Motors bicycle and a one night’s stay in colour combination wall. And ally by opting for the high-per- for this year, adding to the nu- From left: Bader Almana, Kalyana Sivagnanam, US ambassador Dana Shell Smith, and other dignitaries led the luxurious Marsa Malaz Kem- at MINI Customise, guests who formance range. The all-new merous successes we have al- the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Ford and Lincoln showroom. PICTURES: Hussein Ali pinski Hotel on The Pearl-Qatar. create their own personalised MINI Convertible, which was ready achieved, and I would like The MINI City has fi ve dif- MINI might see their design unveiled in the region at the to congratulate the entire team ferent districts; MINI Dis- chosen to be featured on the Qatar Motor Show, witnessed driving this accomplishment.” trict, MINI Connected, MINI stand’s big screens. an exceptional start to the year “Almana Motors remains fully Art; MINI Beach and MINI “The MINI City, a unique with a 700% rise in sales since committed to Ford and Lincoln Customise. stand that portrays the diff er- its debut in January 2016. customers in Qatar,” Almana added. “We continue to build on the great momentum we have registered this year by invest- ing in new facilities and further developing the sales and service 22 Commercial Bank employees customer experience to com- plement the world-class Ford and Lincoln products available complete training programme across our showrooms.” Ford registered a 35% increase ommercial Bank has in its retail sales in Qatar this recognised the achieve- year, while the overall indus- Cments and develop- try recorded a decrease of more ment of staff who completed than 30% across the board, the the Future Leaders Executive company said in a statement. Training Programme with a Kalyana Sivagnanam, vice certifi cation ceremony. president, marketing, sales and Launched in 2009, the Future service, Ford Middle East and The new Ford and Lincoln showroom on Airport Road opened yesterday. Leaders Programme is one of Africa, said: “Qatar is an impor- Commercial Bank’s proprietary tant market for Ford and through The Lincoln area is among the much-awaited all-new fl agship Thierry Sabbagh, Ford Middle educational and professional ca- Commercial Bank staff who completed the Future Leaders Execu- our partnership with Almana fi rst outlets to receive Lincoln’s full size luxury sedan, the all- East’s Managing Director said: reer advancement programmes, tive Training Programme are seen with off icials. Motors we are confi dent of the new corporate identity, featur- new Lincoln Continental, later “We commend Almana Motors and is delivered in partnership continued growth for both Ford ing an upgraded service lounge this year. for their continued drive for suc- with HEC Paris in Qatar. core of Commercial Bank’s goal develops our employees from and Lincoln in the local market.” and reception area, as well as Welcoming the guests, Al- cess while focusing on the cus- The certifi cation ceremony of building the best bank in within to succeed as future lead- The new showroom is sig- special guest experience points mana Motors General Manager tomer. The team has had a busy marks the end of a 14-month in- Qatar and to be the employer ers of the bank and spearhead a nifi cantly larger than its previ- including a Barista. Ian Partridge said: “The strength year and succeeded in delivering tensive training programme for 22 of choice. People are our most knowledge-based economy.” ous location on Salwa Road. On Lincoln guests can expect to and popularity of the Ford and tremendous growth at a time Commercial Bank employees and important asset and the Pro- CEO and academic dean of show are the latest models from be greeted by staff trained to Lincoln brands in Qatar togeth- when the industry has seen chal- two employees from the Bank’s gramme realises people po- HEC Paris in Qatar, Laoucine the American manufacturer provide personalised service in er with our customer-focused lenging times, and here I’d like Turkish subsidiary, ABank. tential by empowering them Kerbache said: “The Future such as the recently launched the Lincoln way and introduce approach have driven the suc- to congratulate them for their Speaking during the certifi - through world-class training Leaders Programme nurtures all-new Ford Edge that com- them to the new face of Lincoln, cess of our dealership and al- achievement.” cation ceremony, Commercial to fast-track their careers to- and supports Commercial Bank’s plements Ford’s extensive truck and the latest Lincoln products lowed us to create this luxurious Guests can visit the new Bank CEO, Joseph Abraham, wards positions of leadership. employees by providing them and utility vehicle line up, in ad- including the all-new MKX. state-of-the-art showroom to premises between 8.30am and said: “The Future Leaders Pro- The best bank in Qatar needs with the encouragement, skills dition to the full range of Ford The all-new Lincoln MKZ is further enhance our customer’s 9pm, Saturday to Thursday, and gramme is an incredibly valu- the best people to lead it, and and training they need to suc- products. due to launch this month and the experience.” from 4pm to 8pm on Friday. able initiative as it goes to the the Future Leaders Programme ceed in positions of leadership.”

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MEC issues 137 violations The Ministry of Economy from QR5,000 to QR30,000, and Commerce (MEC) in accordance with the issued 137 violations laws and regulations of in September for non- the Consumer Protection compliance with consumer Anti-Commercial Fraud protection regulations. Department. In a press statement The ministry noted that the yesterday, the MEC said violations mostly pertained it carried out intensive to failing to clearly include inspection campaigns all information related last month to monitor if to the displayed product suppliers were abiding by (31), failing to issue bills the obligations stipulated in Arabic (17), failing to by Law No.8 of 2008 on use the Arabic language consumer protection. in declarations and The initiative fell within the statements related to a framework of the ministry’s product (17), using false keenness to monitor and deceptive information markets and commercial when describing, activities to crack down advertising or displaying on price manipulation and a product (16), charging protect consumer rights, the a price higher than what statement noted. was declared (14), selling Fines issued by the MEC and displaying expired to the violating outlets products (13) and failing to included closures and announce product/service financial penalties ranging prices (7), among others. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 9 REGION/ARAB WORLD

Saudi Gulf Shield 1 exercise Houthi attack on ship ‘act of terrorism’, says UAE

Reuters/QNA “The targeting of the civilian The ministry stressed that the Abu Dhabi ship in an international channel Houthi-Saleh militias know very has serious implications for free- well that the civilian ship was dom of navigation, and is an act dedicated for humanitarian mis- he United Arab Emir- of terror,” the UAE foreign minis- sions and that it had not con- ates said yesterday Yem- try said in a statement carried by ducted any military missions in Teni Houthi forces had at- state news agency WAM, without Yemen, which affi rms that these tacked a UAE vessel in a strategic elaborating. militias ignore all international Red Sea shipping lane off the The UAE ministry underlined norms and charters that were coast of Yemen at the weekend that the attack represented a clear agreed upon for wars and interna- Members of Royal Saudi Navy takes part in Gulf Shield 1 exercise, east of Saudi Arabia, in this handout photo received on Tuesday. and called the incident an “act of violation of all international laws tional confl icts. terrorism.” and charters agreed upon for wars “While the Special Envoy of the Hundreds of Emirati soldiers and confl icts. United Nations Secretary-Gener- in a Saudi-led coalition have It said in a statement reported al for Yemen is working to launch been fi ghting Yemen’s Iran-allied by Emirates News Agency (WAM) a new round of negotiations and Houthis, who control the capital, that the ship (Swift) was carry- the reiteration of the Arab Coali- besides training Yemeni troops in ing assistance, wounded Yemenis tion that a peaceful settlement is the port of Aden to help rebuild and passengers, adding that it was its best choice, the Houthi-Saleh Morocco to elect parliament tomorrow a state loyal to exiled president unarmed and had no military pro- militias are working to undermine Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. tection. peace eff orts and insist on disre- AFP some, though not all, of the critics say is a failure to deal with social mores, and aims to bring The vessel, an Australian-built It was passing through the Bab garding all eff orts being exerted,” Rabat king’s powers as regimes fell in corruption. more women into parliament, high speed logistics catamaran Al Mandab Strait like any other the ministry added. Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The party has faced a string of where they hold just 67 out of under lease to the United Arab civilian and commercial ship. The Houthis said their forces Prime Minister Abdelilah scandals within its ranks. 395 seats. Emirates military, was attacked It has been conducting routine had fi red a missile that had de- orocco will elect a par- Benkirane’s PJD says a second It also faces a resurgent lib- The PJD accuses its rival of by Houthi fi ghters near the Bab trips to Aden for one year and stroyed a UAE military vessel that liament tomorrow for term would allow it to continue eral opposition Authenticity and being the party of the palace, al-Mandab strait off Yemen’s that all its crew members are ci- was advancing towards the Red Mthe fi rst time since an its limited economic and social Modernity Party (PAM), formed part of a shadowy “parallel southern coast on Saturday. vilians. Sea port of Al-Mokha. Islamist-led government took reforms. in 2008 by a close adviser to the state” controlling political The UAE said that there were The ministry affi rmed that the The UN yesterday condemned offi ce following Arab Spring Heading a coalition that in- king. life. injuries among civilian crewmen. attack on the civilian ship will the attack on the vessel and said uprisings that toppled leaders cludes communists, liberals and The PAM has poured enor- If it holds on to power, the The foreign ministry did not have serious repercussions on it took threats to shipping around across the region. conservatives, it retains consid- mous resources into a campaign PJD will remain an essen- say how many were wounded but the freedom of navigation if the Bab al-Mandeb “extremely seri- The Islamist Justice and De- erable support among the urban criticising the government’s tial part of Moroccan politics, said they were receiving treat- Houthi-Saleh militias continue ously”. velopment Party (PJD) came middle classes that have largely record as “catastrophic” and “despite the feelings it rouses ment in the UAE. to pursue maritime piracy tactics The Security Council stressed to power in 2011 after swelling abandoned the left in favour of pledging to roll back the “Islami- at the palace and among the The UAE military had previ- and carry out attacks on civilian the need for exercise of freedom protests prompted concessions Islamist parties. sation” of society. globalised bourgeoisie,” said ously said there were no casual- ships dedicated to transporting of navigation in and around the from King Mohamed VI. But it has been weakened by It pitches itself as the defender Pierre Vermeren, a historian of ties in the attack. aid and injured people. strait. A new constitution reduced rising unemployment and what of women’s rights and liberal the Maghreb region.

‘Smashed cranes’ slow aid fl ow to Yemen

AFP heads the UN Offi ce for the Co-ordina- people, displaced 3.15mn and left Riyadh tion of Humanitarian Aff airs (OCHA). about a quarter of Yemen’s population He did not mention the cause of the “not sure where the next meal is com- damage to the cranes, but in August last ing from”, O’Brien said after talks with Smashed cranes” at Yemen’s year he said coalition air strikes on the Saudi offi cials. rebel-held Hodeida port are hin- port were in contravention of interna- His remarks came a day after he said “dering the entry of relief supplies tional humanitarian law. it was “a matter of urgency” that fl ows to ease a deteriorating humanitarian The United States and the European of food, medicine and fuel increase into crisis in the war-torn country, the UN Union at the time expressed concern Yemen. aid chief said yesterday. over the bombing, which the United O’Brien said eff orts were being made On a visit to Saudi Arabia, Stephen States said hit “critical infrastructure” to fi nd “a better unloading capacity, as O’Brien told reporters that aid fl ow at the port. well as make sure there are no admin- needed to increase at the Red Sea port, Saudi Arabia has for 18 months led istrative burdens which are slowing the through which 80 to 90% of Yemen’s an Arab military coalition supporting process”. supplies transited before the war. Yemen’s internationally recognised The Saudi-led coalition has imposed “The real issue is the restriction of un- government against the Houthi rebels a sea blockade on Yemen to prevent loading capacity at the port because the who have seized much of the country. weapons reaching the rebels who it says cranes are smashed,” said O’Brien, who The war has killed more than 6,600 are backed by Iran.

Sudanese doctors to strike

AFP Khartoum

udanese doctors are planning a nationwide Sstrike today to demand higher wages, protection from security forces and better services at government hos- pitals, their association said. The Federal Committee of Doctors said doctors at more than 350 government hospi- tals would stop work. “From tomorrow doctors across all government hos- pitals will be on strike,” the committee said in a state- ment yesterday. “They will attend only emergency cases.” It said dozens of doctors had already stopped working at certain facilities in Khar- toum. An AFP correspondent saw several doctors at two government hospitals in Khartoum yesterday wearing badges saying “Doctors on strike”. They said they were only dealing with emergency cas- es. The committee said to- day’s strike was a protest at low wages, deteriorating services at government hos- pitals and a rise in attacks on doctors by security forces and relatives of patients. Gulf Times 10 Thursday, October 6, 2016 ARAB WORLD Iraq-Turkey tensions rise over Mosul

AFP fears “the Turkish adventure will controlled by the autonomous Ankara turn into a regional war.” region of Iraqi Kurdistan, whose Turkey’s President Recep government has close relations Tayyip Erdogan has warned of with Ankara. raq and Turkey yesterday possible sectarian consequences Anthony Skinner, head of po- summoned their respective arising from the Mosul operation, litical risk at Verisk Maplecroft People walk past damaged buildings in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. Iambassadors in a bitter war prompting the Iraqi foreign min- consultancy, said that military of words between the two neigh- istry to summon the Turkish am- confl ict with Turkey was the “last bours ahead of a planned opera- bassador over “provocative Turk- thing (Iraq) can aff ord”. tion to retake the Iraqi city of Mo- ish statements”. “This, however, is not to pre- sul from militants. Mosul, Iraq’s second city, was clude the possibility that diplo- The dispute centres around seized by the Islamic State (IS) matic measures will be taken by Syria announces surprise Turkish troops deployed near Mo- group in 2014 after multiple Iraqi Baghdad against Ankara,” he said. sul, a presence that Iraqi Prime divisions collapsed in the face of a Erdogan suggested at the week- Minister Haider al-Abadi has militant assault. end that the liberation of Mosul strongly opposed and said he fears But Baghdad is now planning, had to be conducted by those with could lead to “regional war.” with help from a US-led coali- ethnic and religious ties to the easing of Aleppo assault Ankara called in the Iraqi am- tion, a major operation to retake city, objecting to the use of Shia bassador while Baghdad said it the city, which had a population of militiamen or anti-Ankara Kurd- had decided to summon the Turk- 2mn before the IS invasion. ish forces. AFP in the west. Syria’s government centre, the northern outskirts, “paving the way to a ceasefi re in ish envoy following bitter verbal Turkish Deputy Prime Minister As he did with regard to Syria, Damascus announced a large-scale off en- and the southern edges of Aleppo Aleppo and for the local popu- exchanges, the two foreign min- Numan Kurtulmus said the troops Erdogan indicated he was par- sive to capture the whole city on with the backing of Russian air lation to gain access to the hu- istries said. were not planning to be an “occu- ticularly troubled by any use of September 22, ushering in a fe- power. manitarian aid it so needs,” the The Turkish parliament at the pying force”. fi ghters linked to the Kurdistan yria’s military yesterday rocious bombing campaign on But the onslaught has come foreign ministry said. weekend extended by one year a “Where was the Iraqi govern- Workers’ Party (PKK), which has announced a surprise re- opposition-held quarters. under fi erce international scruti- It calls for aid deliveries to the government mandate allowing its ment when Daesh (IS) captured waged a 32-year insurgency inside Sduction in bombardment The Syrian Observatory for ny amid accusations the joint air city’s east and the grounding of troops to deploy on both Iraqi and Mosul in a day. We have diffi culty Turkey and whose paramilitary of rebel groups in devastated Human Rights said 270 people, strikes were destroying the east’s all Syrian and Russian planes in Syrian territory. understanding this decision (of headquarters are in northern Iraq. Aleppo, nearly two weeks after including 53 children, had been civilian infrastructure. that area. The Iraqi parliament con- the Iraqi parliament),” he said. “The game played by Shia mi- declaring an all-out assault to killed in air raids on the eastern French Foreign Minister Jean- The city’s eastern half was demned the decision, calling for Abadi has repeatedly expressed litias and members of the terror- capture the city. districts since the assault be- Marc Ayrault will travel to Mos- offi cially declared a “besieged the withdrawal of the Turkish his opposition to the presence of ist organisation linked to the PKK Aleppo city was once Syria’s gan. cow today and Washington to- area” by the United Nations troops already there. Turkish troops on Iraqi soil and – in complete contradiction of thriving commercial hub, but it Forces loyal to President morrow to try to garner support yesterday, after months of fi erce “We do not want to enter a re- demanded that they be with- the region’s sectarian and ethnic now lies divided between rebels Bashar al-Assad have been wag- for the draft, his offi ce said. fi ghting and lack of access for aid gional confl ict,” Abadi told a news drawn. structure, its cultural sensitivities in the east and regime forces ing their off ensive in the city The resolution is aimed at workers. conference in Baghdad, saying he But the forces are in territory – must be disrupted,” he said. Boat seeking to break Gaza blockade intercepted

AFP in addition to Maguire, a Northern be headed toward the Israeli port of impoverished enclave of 1.9mn peo- Jerusalem Ireland activist. Ashdod. ple. Dubbed “Women’s Boat to Gaza”, Organisers said they had lost com- UN offi cials have called for the it is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla munication with the activists. blockade to be lifted, saying condi- srael’s navy yesterday intercepted Coalition that consists of pro-Pales- It was boarded around 35 nautical tions are deteriorating in Gaza. an activist boat seeking to break tinian boats that regularly seek to go miles from the coast, Israeli public ra- Earlier yesterday, Israel’s military Ithe country’s decade-long block- to Gaza to try to break the blockade. dio reported, citing a navy offi cer. struck several Hamas positions in the ade of the Gaza Strip, saying it was One such operation turned to trag- “Following their refusal, the navy Gaza Strip after a rocket launched boarded without incident and was edy in 2010 when Israeli commandos visited and searched the vessel in in- from the Palestinian enclave hit the being directed to shore. killed 10 Turkish activists in a raid on ternational waters in order to prevent nearby Israeli city of Sderot, with no Thirteen women, including 1976 a fl otilla. their intended breach of the lawful casualties reported on either side. Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead In yesterday’s operation, the Israeli maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip.” In August, Israel carried out doz- Maguire, had been travelling aboard navy said it intercepted the sailboat Hamas denounced the move as ens of retaliatory strikes after a rocket the Zaytouna-Oliva sailboat in the after advising it “numerous times to “state terrorism”. Israel and Pales- hit Sderot, a far larger response than Mediterranean toward Gaza, run by change course prior to the action”. tinian militants in Gaza have fought usual. Hamas. It said its forces had boarded and three wars since 2008. Israeli media reported that attack The Zaytouna-Oliva set sail from searched the sailboat, describing the Israel maintains a blockade to keep was the fi rst time downtown Sderot Barcelona in September and was car- operation as “uneventful”. material it believes could be used for had been struck by a rocket from Gaza rying women of various nationalities The sailboat was now believed to military purposes from entering the since the last war in 2014. US slams new Israeli plan on settlements

Reuters new settlement was “deep Washington in the West Bank,” closer to Jordan than Israel, and would link a string of other he United States Jewish outposts that would strongly condemned divide the Palestinian re- TIsrael’s decision to gion. advance a plan for a new He also noted the “dis- settlement deep in the West heartening” timing of the Bank, the State Department decision shortly after the said yesterday, saying it death of former President would damage prospects for Shimon Peres, a passionate a two-state solution. proponent of an independ- State Department ent Palestinian state along- spokesman Mark Toner said side Israel. the move, which would cre- “Israelis must ultimately ate up to 300 housing units, decide between expanding undermined Israel’s long- settlements and preserving term security interests and the possibility of a peaceful prospects for a peaceful two state solution,” Toner resolution of the Palestinian said. confl ict. “Proceeding with this “It is deeply troubling” new settlement is another that Israel would make this step towards cementing a decision shortly after it one-state reality of per- reached an agreement with petual occupation that is Washington on US military fundamentally inconsistent aid designed to bolster Is- with Israel’s future as a Jew- rael’s security, Toner said. ish and democratic state.” The United States will Washington has con- give Israel $38bn in mili- demned a recent deadly tary assistance over the next wave of Palestinian attacks decade, the largest such aid on Israeli civilians and po- package in US history, un- lice, and urged Palestin- der a landmark agreement ian leaders to refrain from signed on Sept. 15. incitement or provocative Toner said the proposed language. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 11 AFRICA

Outrage as American killed in Mugabe son-in-law named to Ethiopia protests lead airline Reuters Also on Tuesday, crowds and clashes between police and ing with demonstrations, crush- Addis Ababa damaged a factory run by Turk- demonstrators over the past year ing opponents and stifl ing free ish textile fi rm Saygin Dima and or more runs into several hun- speech. DPA the BMET Energy cable plant, dred, according to opposition The Committee for the Pro- Harare US citizen was killed and which also has Turkish inves- estimates. The government says tection of Journalists (CPJ) foreign-owned factories tors, offi cials from fi rms in the such fi gures are infl ated. called on authorities on Tues- Aand equipment dam- area said. Both plants are in the The attacks will cast a shadow day to free Seyoum Teshoume, imbabweans vented their aged during a wave of protests Oromiya area. over Ethiopia’s ambition to draw a blogger critical of the govern- outrage yesterday over the over land and political rights in A third of the Saygin Dima in more investment to industri- ment, who writes for the web- A stewardess stands near a train during the inauguration of Zappointment of President Ethiopia this week. plant in Sebeta, 35km (20 miles) alise a nation where most peo- site Ethiothinktank.com. CPJ the new train line linking Addis Ababa to the Red Sea state of Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law as The US embassy said the southwest of Addis Ababa, was ple rely on subsistence farming, said he was reported detained on Djibouti, in Addis Ababa, yesterday. chief operations offi cer of na- American woman was killed destroyed by fi re, general man- and have been struggling with a October 1. tional airline Air Zimbabwe, a on Tuesday when stones were ager Fatih Mehmet Yangin said. severe drought in the past two Offi cials could not immedi- move seen as strengthening the hurled at her vehicle on the “A large crowd attacked the fac- years or so. ately be reached for comment, autocrat’s control over national outskirts of Addis Ababa, tory,” he said, adding three vehi- The government has been but the government says it only assets. where residents said crowds cles were also destroyed. building new infrastructure, detains people who threaten Air Zimbabwe chair Chipo have attacked other vehicles Yangin said a fl ower farm including an electrifi ed railway national security and says it Dyanda announced Simba guarantees free speech. Ethiopia since a stampede at a week- nearby was also attacked. The connecting the capital of the Chikore’s appointment late on end protest killed at least 55 Oromiya Regional Adminis- landlocked nation with a port The opposition failed to win a Tuesday, describing him as a pi- people. tration said vehicles and some in neighbouring Djibouti, which single parliamentary seat in the lot with “vast experience.” The weekend crush took place machinery at a plant owned by was inaugurated yesterday. 2015 election and had just one in Chikore, who married Mu- when police fi red teargas and Nigeria’s Dangote Cement were At least seven foreign-owned the previous parliament. gabe’s only daughter Bona in fl ower farms in Ethiopia’s Am- Rights group Amnesty In- opens new shots in the air to disperse anti- vandalised. 2014 during a luxurious cer- government demonstrations Oromiya has been a focus hara region, another area where ternational demanded an in- emony, has up until now helped during a festival in the Oromiya for industrial development protests have fl ared, were dam- vestigation into how security to manage the president’s dairy region, south of the capital. that has fuelled Ethiopia’s eco- aged in political violence at the forces handled the weekend farm on the outskirts of the The embassy did not give fur- nomic growth, but locals say start of September. protest that led to the stam- capital, Harare. The government blames rebel pede during a popular cultural rail line to ther details or a precise location they receive little compensation Little else is publicly known for the incident. when land is grabbed. Protests groups and foreign-based dissi- festival in Oromiya, saying it about the 39-year-old’s Oromiya has been a focus for have also increasingly turned dents for stoking violence. had documented multiple com- professional past. demonstrations by locals who to broader issues of political Rights groups and opposition plaints of police using excessive “It’s a matter of public record say land has been seized to build freedom. politicians accuse the govern- force against largely peaceful that Mugabe has several farms and ment of excessive force in deal- protesters. Djibouti factories and housing blocks. The death toll from unrest has interests in some companies,” Masimba Manyanya, a former Reuters the transport time and it’s chief economist in Zimbabwe’s Addis Ababa free from pollution, it uses fi nance ministry, said. renewable energy.” “His relatives are occupying “It’s part of the trans-Afri- key positions and that speaks Congo Kenyan election offi cials quit thiopia opened a new can railway network so it will volumes in a country where pov- train line yesterday give an opportunity for con- erty is rife. It amounts to corrup- Elinking its land-locked necting Ethiopia with other tion and nepotism,” Manyanya demands Reuters were killed, raising concerns Violence has often been a capital to the Red Sea state neighbouring countries,” added. Nairobi of a return to election-related feature of Kenyan elections. of Djibouti, part of Addis Dereje said of the line which Obert Gutu, spokesman of the violence. After the 2007 vote, 1,200 Ababa’s infrastructure pro- will be operated by Chinese opposition Movement for Demo- deportation The government said last people were killed in ethnic gramme aimed at turning the workers until Ethiopians are cratic Change, said the appoint- ll 10 members of Ken- week that a negotiating com- fi ghting. poor, agrarian nation into an trained. ment equalled “plunder of state ya’s election commis- mittee had agreed with IEBC The opposition Coalition industrial hub. Ethiopia’s economic devel- resources.” of S Sudan Asion have resigned, the to “facilitate the orderly for Reform and Democracy Ethiopia’s economy is one opment has long been ham- The future of Air Zimbabwe government said yesterday, and dignifi ed exit of current (CORD), led by former prime of the fastest growing in Afri- pered by poor roads and an has been rocky in recent months, after months of protests by commissioners and ensure a minister Raila Odinga, tried ca, even though it has suff ered ageing fl eet of trucks, which due to regular fl ight cancella- rebels by the opposition which accused seamless transition”. but failed to overturn the re- a severe drought for at least ply the route between the in- tions, the inability to pay salaries the body of bias that made it President Uhuru Kenyatta’s sult of a 2013 presidential the past two years. Growth dustrial heartlands in the cen- and retrenchments. unfi t to oversee elections due chief of staff , Joseph Kinyua, election won by Kenyatta. has been fuelled by construc- tre of the country and Djibou- Mugabe already appointed his UN mission next August. said yesterday all 10 of them had CORD, which organised tion of railways, roads and ti, Ethiopia’s main import and nephew Patrick Zhuwao as youth The resignations at the submitted their resignations. the protests against the elec- hydro-electric dams to power export route. and indigenisation minister and Independent Electoral “The Government... reiter- tion commission, complained industry. The government is facing a his nephew Albert Mugabe as Reuters and Boundaries Commis- ates its unwavering commit- about the failure of electronic Ethiopian Railways Cor- wave of protests, often involv- head of the Zimbabwe National Kinshasa sion (IEBC) are the result of ment to pursuing a seamless voter identifi cation devices poration spokesman Dereje ing clashes with police, over land Road Authority. cross-party talks to address and lawful transition within the and other technical glitches, Tefera said the $4bn, Chi- rights and other political issues. Mugabe, 92, also placed his grievances voiced at weekly IEBC and to having the 8th Au- which they blamed on the nese-built 750km (470-mile) Locals say the authorities grab wife Grace strategically within uthorities from the Dem- protests that began in April gust 2017 general election pro- shortcomings of the commis- electrifi ed line “will minimise land for new industry but off er the ruling party to succeed him. ocratic Republic of Congo in which at least four people ceed on schedule,” Kinyua said. sion and on corruption. the cost of the transport and them little compensation. Ahave issued an ultimatum to the country’s UN peacekeep- ing mission to deport South Sudanese rebels rescued by UN forces, the mission (MONUSCO) said yesterday. Watchdog to Opposition leader Riek Mach- Protests force week-long ar and more than 750 supporters fl ed into Congo in August follow- ing fi erce fi ghting in the South question Zuma Sudan capital of Juba. They were evacuated by MONUSCO from shutdown at SA varsities northeastern Congo to receive medical care and most are being in Gupta probe held on three UN bases in eastern Reuters Congo, the mission said. Johannesburg “There was an offi cial docu- Reuters Presidency spokesman ment that was submitted to the Johannesburg Bongani Majola confi rmed Special Representative of the lashes between police the meeting would take place, Secretary General setting an ul- and students protesting Business Day said. Majola did timatum, in a general manner, for Cabout the cost of educa- outh Africa’s public not respond to a request for the departure of these troops,” tion forced South Africa’s Wits protector will question comment. spokesman Felix Basse told re- and Cape Town universities to SPresident Jacob Zuma Zuma has come under in- porters in the Congolese capital suspend classes yesterday for the this week over allegations he creased criticism in recent of Kinshasa. second time in less than a month. was infl uenced by the wealthy months from opponents and “They must leave Congo – The cost of university edu- Gupta family in making gov- members of his own African Na- everyone knows that,” he said. cation, prohibitive for many ernment appointments, her tional Congress (ANC) party over He did not specify when the black students, has become a offi ce said yesterday. a series of corruption scandals. ultimatum expires, adding that symbol of the inequalities that The Gupta family be- The chairman of AngloGold talks were continuing with the endure in South Africa more came household names in Ashanti, Sipho Pityana, yes- Congolese and South Sudanese than two decades after the end South Africa after Deputy Fi- terday became the latest busi- governments as well as regional of apartheid. nance Minister Mcebisi Jonas ness leader to call for Zuma to organisations to fi nd a solution. Protests fi rst erupted last dropped a political bombshell resign, calling him the “spon- However, no third country has year, then eased off as the gov- earlier this year when he said sor in chief” of corruption. yet stepped up to take them in, ernment froze fee increases they off ered to secure him his “Zuma must go,” Sipho Pity- raising fears that the situation and set up a commission to boss’s job. ana said to a round of applause could threaten regional stability. look into the education funding Zuma says the Guptas are from delegates at a mining con- The infl ux of rebel fi ghters system. But unrest has boiled his friends but denies they ference. “We must seize the mo- from volatile neighbours is a up again since the commission have infl uenced political ap- ment and save South Africa.” sensitive theme in Congo, where said on Sept. 19 that fees would University of Cape Town (UCT) students sing during protests demanding free tertiary education in pointments. Some members of the ANC the fl ow of Hutu militiamen from continue to rise. Cape Town yesterday. Public Protector, Thuli Ma- have also called for a change neighbouring Rwanda after its A spokeswoman for the Uni- donsela, will meet with Zuma of leadership in recent weeks 1994 genocide helped trigger versity of the Witwatersrand, the academic programme,” cle. The university said some a poll last week asking students if today, her spokeswoman said. as internal divisions widened years of regional confl ict in east- known as Wits, and which Shirona Patel said. protesters had earlier pulled they wanted go back to class. “We will hear his version of following the party’s worst ern Congo that killed millions. reopened on Monday after Police on Tuesday fi red stun lecturers out of their offi ces as Some 77% of the 21,730 stu- events and he may have in- ever local election results in Government spokesman Lam- protests last month forced a grenades, rubber bullets and they prepared to restart classes dents who voted supported formation for us that we will August. bert Mende said the government shutdown, said late on Tuesday tear gas after students calling after the shutdown called on the resumption of lessons but need to consider against our Zuma still has the back- has decided that the South Su- that classes would be cancelled for free education at the Johan- September 20. clashes between students over own fi ndings,” Madonsela told ing of the top echelons of the danese must leave Congo but until October 10. nesburg campus threw stones Wits, which has been the epi- whether classes should resume Business Day newspaper in an ANC and millions of diehard declined to provide additional “We have agreed to suspend at police and fl ipped one vehi- centre of the protests, conducted were reported yesterday. interview published yesterday. supporters in rural regions. details on the government’s ul- timatum. The spokesman for Machar’s rebel force, the SPLM-IO, said on Tuesday that it was prepared to receive those that had fl ed Ivory Coast president asks parliament to ‘turn page’ with new charter back in South Sudanese territory that it claims to control. Reuters Ouattara promised during his Nationality was at the heart of bol of exclusion, particularly of Ouattara fi nally won election “Today, the time has come for “We have hundreds of our mil- Abidjan re-election campaign last year a crisis that began with a 1999 northerners like him, whose fam- in 2010, although his victory us to defi ne together what kind itary personnel on (our) side of to remove the constitution’s coup and included a 2002-2003 ily ties often straddle borders. sparked a second war that killed of nation we want to build. The the Congolese border. We want vory Coast President Alassane requirement for presidential civil war that split the West Afri- “This is the occasion to defi ni- more than 3,000 people after time has come to decide what the UN to transport them to our Ouattara called on parliament candidates to have parents who can nation in two for eight years. tively turn the page on the suc- then president Laurent Gbagbo we want to leave behind for our controlled areas,” James Gatdet Iyesterday to approve a new are both natural-born Ivorian The draft constitution submit- cessive crises our country has refused to accept defeat. children,” Ouattara said. Dak said in Nairobi. constitution that he says will draw citizens, a sore point in a coun- ted to parliament by Ouattara sof- known, to write new pages in our Gbagbo is now on trial at the Parliament has until October South Sudan’s government a line under years of turmoil and try that has long attracted im- tens the clause, which had been history by proposing a new social International Criminal Court 15 to approve the text in order applauded Democratic Republic war but which the opposition calls migrants from neighbouring used by his opponents to bar him pact,” Ouattara told lawmakers at accused of crimes against to submit it to the public in a of Congo’s ultimatum. a backward step for democracy. countries. from elections and was a sym- the National Assembly. humanity. referendum on October 30. Gulf Times 12 Thursday, October 6, 2016 AMERICAS Attacks on Trump, Clinton dominate fi ery VP debate

AFP “We see entire portions of weight after winning her crown. Farmville the world, particularly the wid- The two men repeatedly talked er Middle East, spinning out over each over as they clashed of control. The situation we’re about Trump’s failure to release he two candidates for US watching hour-by-hour in Syria his tax records, social security, vice president launched today is the result of the weak how to handle an aggressive Rus- Tbitter attacks on the repu- foreign policy that Hillary Clin- sia, and the prospect of mount- tations and policies of Hillary ton helped lead in this adminis- ing debt, forcing moderator Clinton and Donald Trump yes- tration and create.” Elaine Quijano to intervene. terday during a fi ery debate fi ve For many Americans, the de- “Senator Kaine could not stop weeks from Election Day. bate was their fi rst prolonged ex- interrupting Governor Pence,” Democrat Tim Kaine and Re- posure to the men who would be Trump campaign manager Kelly- publican Mike Pence sought to next in line for the presidency if anne Conway told CBS news af- People queue as they flock to the supermarket to take care of last minute shopping in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew, in Coral Springs, highlight their capabilities as the their side wins in November. ter the debate. “It was really un- Florida, yesterday. men who could be a heartbeat Pence is as modest and polite hinged and really unfortunate.” away from the presidency, but in style as Trump is brash and Kaine, 58, and Pence, 57, are essentially they were on stage insulting, while Kaine, who also about 10 years younger than the fi ghting a proxy war for their has a calm style on Capitol Hill, presidential nominees. They each running mates scrapping for eve- appeared to take a more aggres- have sons serving in the US mili- ry vote on November 8. sive stance than Pence in attack- tary, and they are seen as more Obama warns Hurricane Polls show Clinton gaining ing the rival camp. religious than Clinton and Trump. in the wake of a punishing week He sought to drill down on is- Trump has suff ered from what for her Republican rival Trump, sues that appeared to have given has been seen as a mediocre per- who has been hammered by con- Clinton a bump in the polls de- formance in his fi rst debate with troversies over his taxes and his manding Trump release his tax Clinton, revelations of a $916mn Matthew a ‘serious storm’ treatment of women. returns and mocking the White loss in 1995 that may have meant Kaine, a senator from Virginia, House hopeful for some of his he paid no taxes for several years took aim at Trump from the be- impulsive Twitter missteps dur- and criticism of his demeaning AFP ginning, saying the idea of the ing the campaign. treatment of Machado. Washington brash Republican as command- “Donald Trump can’t start Pence, who spent a dozen er-in-chief “scares us to death”. a Twitter war with Miss Uni- years in Congress, is known for “I can’t imagine how Gover- verse without shooting himself in his discipline. He prepared in- resident Barack Obama nor Pence can defend the insult- the foot,” Kaine said, referring to tensively for the debate, unlike yesterday urged resi- driven, selfi sh, me-fi rst style of Trump’s rants against Alicia Mach- Trump, who did little to practice Pdents in the southeastern Donald Trump,” Kaine said. ado, a beauty queen whom he called for his September 26 encounter United States to prepare for the Kaine sought to portray him- “Miss Piggy” when she gained with Clinton. imminent arrival of Hurricane self as a deeply experienced lo- Matthew and to heed evacua- cal, state and national politician tion orders. who would be the “right-hand “This is something to take person” for Clinton, whom he seriously. We hope for the best, described as trustworthy and but we want to prepare for the more than capable in the role of worst,” he said, describing Mat- commander in chief. thew as a “serious storm” that An imperturbable Pence, gov- could have “devastating eff ect”. ernor of Indiana and a Christian Matthew has already hit Hai- conservative, calmly shot back. ti and Cuba, with fatal results, “You would know a lot about and is barrelling towards Flori- an insult-driven campaign,” he da, Georgia, South Carolina and said, highlighting Clinton’s re- North Carolina. lentless criticism of Trump and “If you get an evacuation or- how she painted half of her Re- Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine, left, and der, just remember that you can publican rival’s supporters as Republican vice presidential nominee Governor Mike Pence debate during always rebuild. You can always “deplorables”. their vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. repair property. You cannot re- store a life if it is lost,” Obama said at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The hurricane forced Obama Yahoo denies surveillance allegations to cancel a visit to Florida yes- terday. Instead, he made the Blockhouse Beach is deserted as a mandatory evacuation was issued for several east coast Florida coun- short trip across Washington to ties ahead of Hurricane Matthew at Patrick Air Force Base south of Cocoa Beach, Florida, yesterday. AFP employees of the Internet fi rm in 2013 by former contractor Ed- FEMA headquarters. Washington as sources, said Yahoo had built ward Snowden. “We’ve already got response US National Hurricane Center stood at nine – five in Haiti 52 years that a Category Four a custom program in 2015 which “There’s still much that we teams and supplies preposi- (NHC). and four in the Dominican Re- storm made landfall in Haiti. scanned all its emails to help US don’t know at this point, but if tioned and ready to help com- Homeowners in Miami and public – but was certain to rise The storm is expected to move ahoo yesterday denied intelligence and the FBI. the report is accurate, it repre- munities in the region,” Obama other cities fl ocked to hardware as the storm bruises its way across the Bahamas through to- conducting mass e-mail According to the Reuters ac- sents a new - and dangerous - said. stores for plywood to board up north. day and near the coast of Florida Ysurveillance after a report count, Yahoo’s top security of- expansion of the government’s “I want to emphasise to the their windows and other essen- A partial assessment of the this evening, the NHC said. alleging it built a special scan- fi cer, who had been unaware of mass surveillance techniques,” public, this is a serious storm. It tials like water, fl ashlights and damage in Haiti that excluded A tropical storm warning re- ning program at the behest of the program, quit after learning the Electronic Frontier Founda- has already hit Haiti with dev- batteries. the department of Grande Anse, mained in eff ect for Haiti, as did US intelligence which sparked an that the company had complied tion said in a statement. astating eff ect. It is now in the People living on barrier is- which was in the direct eye of a full blown hurricane warning outcry from privacy activists. with the request. Bruce Schneier, a cryptogra- process of moving through the lands and in fl ood-prone areas the storm, indicated that 14,500 for Cuba’s eastern provinces. The report, which said the Yahoo initially issued a brief pher and fellow at the Berkman Bahamas. were urged to leave. people had been displaced and Matthew was forecast to US Internet giant had secretly statement which neither con- Klein Center for Internet & So- “Because it’s not going to be “Everyone in our state must 1,855 homes fl ooded. Those dump 38 to 63 centimetres of scanned millions of emails to fi rmed nor denied the claims. ciety who has clashed with the hitting enough land it is going to prepare now for a direct hit from numbers were expected to in- rain over southern Haiti with up help American intelligence, was “Yahoo is a law abiding com- NSA over surveillance, said he be building strength on its way Hurricane Matthew,” Governor crease dramatically once com- to a meter possible in isolated “misleading”, Yahoo said in a pany, and complies with the laws was not surprised by the latest to Florida.” Rick Scott warned. “If you’re munication is re-established areas, and has been blamed for statement. of the United States,” the state- claims. “Even if you don’t get the full able to go early, leave now.” with the area. triggering mudslides. “We narrowly interpret every ment on Tuesday said. “The NSA is spying on the force of the hurricane, we are In South Carolina, more than Matthew made landfall in The country is home to al- government request for user The NSA and FBI declined to internet, they use diff erent tech- still going to be seeing tropical 1mn people living on the coast Haiti shortly after daybreak on most 11mn people, with thou- data to minimise disclosure,” comment to AFP on the report. niques,” Schneier told AFP. force winds, potential for storm were under orders to evacuate, Tuesday as an “extremely dan- sands still living in tents after the company said in a statement The report was described by The report nonetheless would surge and all of that could have a starting at 3pm (1900 GMT). gerous” Category Four storm the massive earthquake in 2010. to AFP. “The mail scanning de- some activists as a “bombshell” be at odds with Yahoo’s trans- devastating eff ect.” But traffi c on highways lead- near the southwestern town of Erosion is especially danger- scribed in the article does not which could, if proven true, re- parency report which claimed Matthew hit Haiti and Cuba ing inland was already reported Les Anglais, packing top winds ous because of high mountains exist on our systems.” veal a new level of surveillance it received a relatively small as a Category Four hurricane to be bumper to bumper hours of around 230 kilometres per and a lack of trees and bushes in The report on Tuesday by Re- by the National Security Agency, number of US government re- but has since been downgraded ahead of time. hour, the NHC said. areas where they have been cut uters news agency, citing former which was roiled by disclosures quests in 2015. to three, on a scale of fi ve, by the Matthew’s overall death toll It marked the fi rst time in for fuel.

Successful escape and landing for Blue Origin’s rocket

AFP would have had a pretty exhila- booster made its way back to Earth Miami rating ride, but a safe ride,” said as if in reverse, its engines fi ring a commentator on Blue Origin’s as it hovered over the ground and live webcast. gradually set itself down, upright. lue Origin, the aerospace Ahead of the launch, Bezos Both Blue Origin and its com- company headed by Ama- said the force of the capsule’s es- petitor, SpaceX, are capable of Bzon.com chief Jeff Bezos, cape would likely spell the end for landing their rockets back on land, ran a successful test yesterday of the booster, or the portion of the as part of a larger eff ort to make an emergency escape function, rocket that propels the capsule to rocket parts reusable in the com- aimed at saving space travellers’ space. ing years. lives in case of catastrophe. “The booster was never de- Bezos said the company plans The New Shepard rocket blast- signed to survive an in-fl ight es- a retirement party for the booster, ed off from a Texas launchpad, cape,” Bezos wrote in a blog post which was Blue Origin’s fi rst to fl y then its unmanned capsule sepa- before the launch, noting that into space and return for an up- rated in mid-air about 45 seconds prior to Wednesday’s launch, the right landing, before putting it on after liftoff , at a height of some booster had already been fl own display in a museum. 4,900 metres. four times. The New Shepard rocket is de- Powered by an escape motor “The capsule escape motor signed to eventually carry space beneath the capsule, the gum- will slam the booster with 70,000 tourists to the edge of space – de- drop-shaped spacecraft tossed pounds of off -axis force delivered fi ned as the Karman line about 100 and tumbled a bit before fl oat- by searing hot exhaust.” above the Earth’s sea level – and ing back to Earth with the help of However, cheers erupted at back, perhaps as early as 2018. parachutes. mission control as the somewhat The cost of a ticket has not yet “All astronauts on board scorched and battered looking been revealed. Jeff Bezos: Amazon.com CEO and Blue Origin founder. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 13 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA Rally for migrants S Koreans issue storm warning

DPA More than 100 fl ights were Seoul cancelled, while sea and rail services were badly aff ected in the areas the typhoon hit. yphoon Chaba caused Carmaker Hyundai Motor havoc in southern parts had to temporarily suspend Tof South Korea yes- production at two of its plants terday, leaving at least three in Ulsan when water got into people dead and three others the facility. still missing, according to the On the island of Geoje, Dae- ministry of public safety and woo Shipbuilding & Marine security. Engineering had to halt opera- A ministry spokeswoman tions at its shipyard. said the authorities were look- In both cases there was no ing into media reports that fi ve major damage. people had died. Chaba was now approach- Thousands of households ing western Japan Wednesday, were without power and trav- with authorities warning of ellers stranded when the storm strong winds, heavy rainfall moved north-eastwards from and high waves. the country’s far south. The season’s 18th typhoon, There was also localised Chaba had already brought heavy fl ooding. torrential rain to some areas Jeju Island, South Korea’s of the south-western islands most popular holiday island, of Shikoku and Kyushu on was hardest hit with power Wednesday morning, the Ja- outages, fl ight cancellations pan Meteorological Agency and disruptions of ship and said. train services. The Ebino-kogen highlands Refugee supporters hold up a banner as they gather in Sydney to mark the milestone of 200 days of continuous protests in the detention camp on the Pacific island of The coastguard was search- on Kyushu island received Nauru. According to refugee support groups, asylum seekers and refugees have held a daily protest since March 20, 2016, against their incarceration on Nauru, but despite ing for a man who fell into Jeju rainfall of 49.5mm per hour, it criticism of its off shore policy, Australia’s conservative government has strongly defended it, saying it has halted the spate of boat arrivals, and drownings, of earlier years. harbour, radio station KBS re- said. ported. Rainfall of up to 200mm is The Korea Times reported that forecast for the Kinki region one woman lost her life on the and Shikoku and up to 180mm island when strong winds blew for northern Kyushu by Thurs- her off the roof of her house. day morning, the agency said. An elderly man died in the Typhoon Chaba hit the industrial city of Ulsan in Okinawa Island region late the south-east of the coun- Monday and early Tuesday, try when he was carried off by downing trees and causing fl oodwaters from in front of power outages. HK activist deported by his home, while a fi reman died In late August, Typhoon during a rescue operation. Lionrock hit north-eastern Streets were under water, Japan, leaving more than 20 with dozens of vehicles dam- people dead. aged, on Jeju and in the cities It was the fi rst typhoon to on the south-east coast. make landfall in the north-east Some 210,000 homes were of the country since the agency Thais ‘at China’s request’ left without power at times, started compiling comparable Yonhap news agency. data in 1951. Wong has been previously barred from felt hopeless scared and tired,” Wong said, wielding umbrellas — in a nod to Wong’s detention “raises further concerns about Malaysia in the same circumstances adding that Thai authorities told him he movement in Hong Kong — in a protest restrictions on peaceful freedom of ex- was “blacklisted”. at a Bangkok campus, shouting “Joshua pression and assembly in Thailand”. AFP Political party Demosisto, co-founded Wong has the right to be here”. Wong had been due to speak at an event Hong Kong by Wong this year, said it “strongly con- Wong has been a perennial thorn in Bei- in Bangkok on Thursday marking the 40th demns the Thai government for unreason- jing’s side since emerging as an unlikely anniversary of a massacre of pro-democ- Chinese rank US as ably limiting Wong’s freedom and right to leader of protests against Chinese political racy students by security forces and royal- ong Kong democracy campaigner entry”. domination of the city. ist militias. Joshua Wong returned home yes- Speculation swirled that Thailand’s Last year he was similarly barred from The Thammasat massacre of October 6, ‘top threat’: survey Hterday after being deported from military government was acting under entering Malaysia, where offi cials sent him 1976, remains a deeply sensitive issue in junta-run Thailand, where he was due pressure from regional superpower China back to Hong Kong citing fears his planned Thailand’s recent history. at events commemorating a massacre of — a key ally who has lavished investment talks would damage ties with Beijing. Wong’s detention also comes almost a AFP to adhere to the rule of law and student activists, as he and his supporters and diplomatic support on a junta lacking The Thai military has also busily sup- year after Hong Kong bookseller Gui Min- Beijing Beijing accusing its ally of in- blamed China for his detention. international friends following its 2014 pressed its own student pro-democracy hai disappeared in Thailand. Gui later re- terference. The bespectacled Wong, 19, famed for coup. protests since its 2014 power grab. surfaced in China, one of a number of men The vast majority of Chi- his galvanising role in the city’s 2014 pro- Thai student activist Netiwit Choti- But it would not be the fi rst time the detained by Chinese authorities over their hinese people believe nese (75%) believe their own democracy “umbrella movement”, was patpaisal, who invited Wong to speak in kingdom’s junta has appeared to act under involvement in the selling of titles critical the United States is country plays “a more impor- held upon arrival at Bangkok’s Suvarnab- Thailand, said police had told him of a pressure from China. of Beijing’s leaders. Cthe “top threat” facing tant role in world aff airs” than humi airport. “written letter from the Chinese govern- “The Thai military government has “I’m lucky to have fi nally returned to their country, a poll showed a decade ago, compared with “I think Beijing (was) the important fac- ment to the Thai government concerning kowtowed to China in the past, to Thai- Hong Kong, if I couldn’t return I can’t yesterday, with most suspect- only 21% of Americans, 23% of tor or motivator for the Thai government this person”. land’s own detriment,” said Thitinan imagine what sort of situation it would ing the world’s number one Europeans and 68% of Indians. to detain me at the airport,” Wong told re- An airport immigration offi cial con- Pongsudhirak, a politics expert at Chu- be...I’m lucky I did not become the economy of trying to “prevent However, this confi dence porters at a press conference late yesterday fi rmed there had been an “order” to detain lalongkorn University. next person to have disappeared,” Wong China from becoming an equal in China’s international stat- in Hong Kong. Wong but declined to say who issued it. He cited Bangkok’s deportation of more had earlier said upon arrival in the city power”. ure contrasts with a growing He previously said he was stopped by But junta spokesman lietenant general than 100 Uighurs who had fl ed China in Wednesday afternoon. A survey by the Washing- sense of unease among many, more than 20 police and immigration of- Sansern Kaewkamnerd said: “There had 2015, a move that drew widespread con- Wong was among three student leaders ton-based Pew Research Cent- the survey showed, with about fi cers after stepping off the plane in Bang- been no instruction or order given, per- demnation from rights groups who say the convicted in August over the 2014 storm- er revealed 45% of Chinese three-quarters of respondents kok at midnight local time and was asked taining to Mr Wong.” Muslim minority are heavily repressed by ing of the forecourt of Hong Kong govern- consider US power and infl u- saying their “way of life needs to hand over his passport. “Mr Wong had been active in resistance Beijing. ment headquarters, an event that preced- ence to be a “major threat” — to be protected against foreign Wong said he was then forced to spend movements against other foreign govern- Deporting Wong will “be counterpro- ed mass protests that brought much of the more than economic instabili- infl uence” — up from 64% in around 12 hours in an airport detention ments, and that if such actions were taken ductive because it will attract global atten- city to a standstill for months. ty (35%), climate change (34%) 2002. room. within Thailand, they could eventually tion,” Thitinan said, adding it will “send a His party Demosisto wants a referen- and the Islamic State (15%). Despite China’s increasing “After they held and kept my passport aff ect Thailand’s relations with other na- signal that Thailand’s space is not open”. dum on Hong Kong’s future, including the However, half of the 3,154 diplomatic infl uence, 56% of and refused my request to contact my tions,” the spokesman added. UN Human Rights Offi ce in Asia option of independence. respondents in the survey had Chinese said they wanted their lawyer and my parents in Hong Kong, I Netiwit later led a few dozen students spokesman Jeremy Laurence said Wong’s a “favourable opinion” of the leaders to focus on the coun- US — including 60% of those try’s own challenges, such as aged between 18 and 34. offi cial corruption, which most Vietnam slashes The news comes as Beijing said was a problem. and Washington are at log- Growing inequality is also a jail term for gerheads over China’s territo- concern, with 37% describing Switzerland government raises pressure on dissident blogger rial claims in the South China the gap between rich and poor Sea, with the US urging China as a “very big problem”. A Ho Chi Minh City court slashed Malaysia over 1MDB ‘Ponzi scheme’ the sentence of a convicted blogger whose family helped Father of dead newborn kills doctor the communist regime during AFP authorities”, following a similar The scandal has prompted allegations, and no immediate the Vietnam War, his lawyer said A paediatrician has been to pneumonia two days after Geneva request earlier this year. calls for the ouster of Malaysian comment was seen from Malay- yesterday, a rare reprieve for a hacked to death by the her birth. After being briefed on Citing new evidence in the Prime Minister Najib Razak — sia’s attorney general, Moham- dissident in the country. Nguyen machete-wielding father of a her death, the timing of which 1MDB case, the attorney gen- who established 1MDB in 2009 ed Apandi Ali. Dinh Ngoc is one of scores of newborn that died at a hospital is not known, Chen returned to witzerland yesterday eral’s offi ce (OAG) said it had — sparked a huge anti-Najib Apandi, who was appointed activists and bloggers behind in eastern China, according to the hospital early Monday with raised the pressure on Ma- “identifi ed further suspect protest in the capital, and trig- by Najib after the scandal broke, bars in Vietnam, which has one of local media reports yesterday. a dagger and a machete in a Slaysia to co-operate with transactions involving the Swiss gered investigations by authori- earlier this year cleared Najib the worst press freedom rankings Laigang Hospital surgeons shoulder bag with the intention its probe into scandal-tainted fi nancial sector.” ties in several countries. of any wrongdoing, provoking in the world. The 50-year-old, battled for five hours to save of finding the doctor. Violent 1MDB, saying new evidence A total of $800mn purport- The US justice department outrage in Malaysia. known by his pen name Nguyen the 34-year-old doctor, who had hospital attacks are reportedly indicated a “Ponzi scheme” edly invested in natural resourc- fi led lawsuits in the United Najib has shut down domestic Ngoc Gia, had his sentence sustained 12 blows to the head on the rise in mainland China. was used to cover up $800mn es by the Malaysian company States in July to recover billions investigations. reduced from four years to three, and three to the body, Beijing In November, six nurses and a in misappropriations from the SRC, a former 1MDB subsidiary, in assets it said were purchased He and 1MDB deny any his lawyer Ha Huy Son told AFP. News reported. Chen Jianli, building manager were killed in Malaysian state fund. “appears to have been misap- by Najib relatives and associates wrongdoing. “The decision was based on the suspected killer, reportedly an early morning knife attack The Swiss attorney general’s propriated”, the statement said. with money stolen from 1MDB. In January, Apandi promised humanitarian reasons,” Son said. felt aggrieved at the hospital’s on a hospital dormitory in the offi ce opened an investigation The fraud “was committed The suits also said an un- to cooperate with the Swiss. Ngoc’s mother sheltered Northern treatment of his daughter, who beach resort town of Beidaihe, into 1Malaysia Development based on a form of ‘Ponzi’ scheme”, named Malaysian offi cial as tak- The OAG did not directly ac- troops during the Vietnam War died of complications related north-eastern China. Berhad (1MDB) in August 2015 the OAG statement added. ing part in the theft. cuse Malaysian authorities for against the US-backed South, and following allegations that some A Ponzi scheme involves pay- A spokesman for Najib’s gov- dragging their feet, but made his soldier sister was jailed by the of the billions of dollars that it ing returns on investments with ernment has admitted that of- clear that its initial request had Americans during the conflict that Monk kills one, injures five alleges were stolen from 1MDB money from other investors, fi cial was the prime minister, not been answered. ended in 1975. Several of his family had passed through Swiss banks. rather than from income gener- while denying he was a target of “The OAG remains confi dent members also died in the war and A fight erupted at a Buddhist Huy, including an unnamed The Swiss attorney gen- ated by the investments them- the US probe. that the two requests for mutual his father was a life-long member pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City woman praying at the pagoda eral initially asked for Kuala selves. The US moved to seize assets legal assistance made to the au- of the Communist Party. “The yesterday that left one person who was killed, the Tuoi Tre Lumpur’s help in January, but The OAG did not provide de- including real estate in Beverly thorities in Malaysia will be ex- family rendered good services to dead and five others injured. newspaper said. The killer was that request was “still pending”, tails of the alleged scheme. Hills, New York and London, ecuted,” the statement said. the regime,” Son said. Ngoc was Thien Huy used a knife to eventually overpowered by said a statement from Switzer- Malaysia has been rocked for artworks by Monet and Van In contrast, Swiss authorities arrested in December 2014 in Ho stab Nguyen Tue, a friend bystanders. land’s top prosecutor, Michael more than a year by allegations Gogh, a Bombardier jet, and noted their “full satisfaction” Chi Minh City and in March this and fellow monk at the Buu The initial investigation Lauber. of a massive campaign of fraud corporate ownership stakes. with co-operation from au- year was convicted of “propaganda Quang Pagoda, the police run concluded that a conflict had Lauber’s offi ce yesterday re- and embezzlement surround- A Najib spokesman did not thorities in Singapore, through against the communist state”, newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan arisen among the monks before issued its call for “mutual legal ing 1MDB that is stunning in its immediately respond to a re- which some of the funds in- which carries a maximum penalty reported. Others intervened Huy began attacking, Cong An assistance from the Malaysian scale and complexity. quest for comment on the latest volved in the scandal moved. of 20 years in prison. but were seriously injured by Nhan Dan said. Gulf Times 14 Thursday, October 6, 2016 BRITAIN King of sting faces jail over evidence tampering

Evening Standard gative journalist”, now accused London of evidence tampering and ly- ing on oath. The jury deliberated for two he glittering career of and a half days at the end of the notorious “Fake a tense two week trial before TSheik” undercover re- convicting both men of per- porter lies in tatters today after verting the course of justice. he was convicted of evidence “Mr Mahmood may be the tampering in the drugs trial of master of subterfuge and de- singer Tulisa. ception, but on this occasion Mazher Mahmood spent it is he, together with his em- 20 years going undercover to ployee, who are exposed”, said target the rich and famous, prosecutor Sarah Forshaw styling himself as the “king QC. of the sting” as he exposed Mahmood, who stayed silent them as greedy, corrupt, and during his trial, is now fac- immoral. ing the end of his 20-year ca- The “master of disguise” reer, having built a legendary in Rupert Murdoch’s news- reputation at the now-defunct paper stable boasted he had News of the World, the Sunday secured 94 convictions, with Times and the Sun on Sun- names like Sven Goran Eriks- day for delivering sensational Health secretary Jeremy Hunt, defence secretary Michael Fallon, chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, and home secretary Amber Rudd son, George Galloway, and the scoops. sit in the audience on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. Duchess of York on his hit list. He took home Scoop of the However, the 52-year-old Year in 2011 for exposing mem- two-time Reporter of the Year bers of the Pakistani cricket now faces a possible spell be- team as match-fi xing cheats. hind bars, after an Old Bailey And his sting of then- jury convicted him of pervert- England manager Sven Goran ing the course of justice. Eriksson, caught on camera The Crown Prosecution letting slip he wanted to sign Service is reviewing cases for Aston Villa, hastened his fuelled by Mahmood’s stings, departure from the FA set- PM May proff ers new and at least 18 of his previous up. targets are now preparing to However, Mahmood’s crit- sue him in the civil courts, it ics have long-said his methods has emerged. are nothing more than entrap- Mahmood, together with ment. his long-time driver Alan Actor John Alford was a ris- Smith, 66, plotted to change ing star in TV’s London’s Burn- a police statement in the trial ing when in 1997 he was stung vision for Britain of former X Factor judge Tu- by Mahmood, arranging a lisa, who faced claims she had drug deal when he was off ered May is trying a new approach to win the underlying causes of why millions of organised for the supply of co- a £1mn movie deal alongside over the working class vote Britons, especially in the former industrial caine. Robert de Niro. north of England, voted against the estab- The singer had been caught Alford, who was subse- Reuters lishment at the June 23 referendum and in on camera by Mahmood and quently jailed, admitted he Birmingham favour of leaving the EU. his team boasting about her was “wrong to sort out the May said that with Labour deeply di- own drug use, and apparently deal”, but added: “If it wasn’t vided since the re-election of leftist leader off ering to cocaine, coded as for Mahmood there would rime Minister Theresa May laid out Jeremy Corbyn, it was time for the Con- “white sweets”, to be delivered have been no drug deal. I her vision for post-Brexit Britain servatives to snatch the opposition party’s to a suite at the Dorchester Ho- wasn’t a drug dealer, I was an Pyesterday, calling for a new approach mantle as “the party of the workers”. tel. actor.” to government that serves working-class “So let’s have no more of Labour’s ab- Mahmood, working under- Mahmood, often called to people who voted to leave the European surd belief that they have a monopoly on cover for the The Sun on Sun- court as the star witness, ar- Union in protest at the elite. compassion... day, was posing as a wealthy gued it was “impossible” to Appointed just three months ago af- Let’s make clear that they have given up Indian fi lm producer, off ering trap his targets as they were ter the referendum on EU membership the right to call themselves the party of the Tulisa a starring role in his next already involved in criminal or forced the resignation of her predecessor NHS (National Health Service), the party movie alongside Leonardo Di- immoral behaviour and he was David Cameron, May sought in her closing of the workers, the party of public serv- Caprio. simply exposing it. speech at the ruling Conservative Party ants,” she said. He handed the covertly However, when the trial of conference to stamp her authority on gov- Since May was appointed prime minis- shot footage to police and Tulisa fell apart in July 2014, ernment. Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip leave the stage after her keynote ter, the Conservatives have maintained an splashed the story on the not only was Mahmood ex- Earlier in the week, she had placated the address. opinion poll lead of around 8 percentage front page, in July 2013, but posed for evidence tampering, eurosceptic wing of her party by vowing to points over Labour. Her own approval rat- as he trial loomed, Mahmood but Judge Alistair McCreath restore sovereignty to Britain and controls British retail tycoon Philip Green who has ordinary, working-class people,” she said. ings as a leader dwarf Corbyn’s. feared loose talk by his long- accused him of lying under over migration in Brexit talks. been blamed for the collapse of depart- After several standing ovations during A poll late last month said only 16% of time driver, Alan Smith, 66, oath. Now she pitched for the centre ground, ment store BHS this year after he sold the the speech — and loud applause when she voters thought Labour was likely to win would scupper the prosecu- “There are strong grounds calling on party members to appeal to mil- business in 2015 to a serial bankrupt. walked on the stage to the Rolling Stones the next election under Corbyn, compared tion case. for believing that Mr Mah- lions of traditional Labour voters who de- It was a clear break with Cameron, who song Start Me Up — many of the Tory with 65% for the Conservatives under Smith had let slip about mood told me lies”, he said. fi ed the opposition party’s pro-EU stance was often criticised for protecting the faithful in the audience praised her call for May. Tulisa drunkenly ranting in “There are also strong and voted for Brexit. “rich and powerful”, some of whom at- change. Some critics say she is only enjoying a the back of his car about hat- grounds for believing that the She wants the Conservatives to shed tended the elite Eton public school with But, at the same time some questioned political honeymoon, but May hopes to ing cocaine and the damage it underlying purpose of these their image as what she has called “the him and moved in similar upscale social whether the former interior minister take advantage of the turmoil in Labour was doing to one of her rela- lies was to conceal the fact that nasty party” that protects the rich and circles. would be able to carry it through such an and the anti-EU UK Independence Party, tives. he had been manipulating the powerful at the expense of the poor. May herself lives in a wealthy village in ambitious agenda. which has lost its new leader after just 18 Between them, Mahmood evidence.” “So if you’re a boss who earns a fortune the bucolic Thames Valley, but was prima- “It’s been more about the establish- days, before an election due in 2020. and Smith plotted to change His enemies have been cir- but doesn’t look after your staff , an inter- rily educated in state schools. ment before, but it is centre-ground now “Change has got to come,” May said, the statement to remove this cling since the collapse of national company that treats tax laws as “(We have) a bold plan to bring Brit- isn’t it? It’s for everybody,” Roy Hewlett, using a phrase she repeated seven times damaging revelation which the Tulisa trial at Southwark an optional extra..., a director who takes ain together, to build a new, united Britain a healthcare worker and long-term Con- throughout her speech. could help the NDubz singer crown court, and solicitor out massive dividends while knowing that rooted in the centre ground, an agenda for servative voter. “Because if we don’t respond — if we beat the charge. Mark Lewis, who brought a the company pension is about to go bust, a new, modern Conservatism that under- “The big problem here is delivering. don’t take this opportunity to deliver the When the plot was uncov- string of claims in the phone I’m putting you on warning,” she said to a stands the good government can do, that The vision was brilliant, but actually change people want — resentments will ered, Tulisa’s trial collapsed hacking scandal, is represent- huge cheer. will never hesitate to face down the power- delivering that vision is going to be really grow. and the spotlight swung on ing 18 people who have fallen “This can’t go on anymore,” May said ful when they abuse their position of privi- diffi cult.” Divisions will become entrenched. to Mahmood, the self-styled victim to Mahmood in the in what was widely seen as a reference to leged, that will always act in the interest of Her aides say the leader is keen to tackle And that would be a disaster for Britain.” “world’s number one investi- past.

Brexit without MPs vote not Picasso in between illegitimate, N Ireland court told

Reuters “It is not illegitimate, unorthodox or undemo- Belfast cratic,” he said, adding that the United Kingdom joined the EU in 1973 by prerogative power and can withdraw in the same way. t is not “illegitimate” for Britain’s prime minis- The politicians pursuing the High Court case ar- ter to begin the process of leaving the European gue that the British government is legally obliged IUnion without parliamentary approval, a lawyer to maintain the statutory recognition of the 1998 representing the government told a Northern Ire- Good Friday Agreement between Britain and Ire- land court hearing yesterday. land, which contains references to the EU. A cross-party group of politicians, including mem- The agreement ended three decades of tit-for- bers of the British province’s two largest Irish nation- tat killings between Catholic Irish nationalists, who alist parties, has brought a high court challenge of want the province to unite with Ireland, and Prot- plans to leave the EU, arguing that a vote in the North- estant unionists, who want to remain part of the ern Ireland regional assembly should also be required. United Kingdom. The confl ict left 3,600 dead. Overall, 52% of voters in the United Kingdom Another applicant in the court challenge, North- voted in favour of leaving the EU in June’s refer- ern Ireland’s Human Rights Consortium, said yes- endum, but a majority – 56% – of those voting in terday that it was deeply concerned that protec- Northern Ireland supported remaining in the bloc. tions people in Northern Ireland enjoy by virtue of Lawyers for the British government, which plans the UK’s membership of the EU will be lost. to start the two-year countdown to exiting the EU Small groups of anti-Brexit protesters also gath- by March next year, have said that it is the preroga- ered outside the court ahead of the second day of pro- tive of the prime minister to do so and the process ceedings, holding placards saying “Respect the 56%”. does not require a vote in parliament. Similar legal challenges have been launched in “Giving eff ect to the referendum decision... and England and London’s high court is due to hear vote is classically within the area of prerogative them later this month. It is expected their outcome power,” lawyer Tony McGleenan, representing Brit- will be appealed to the supreme court, the United Diana Widmaier Picasso, grand-daughter of Pablo Picasso, poses beside a 1938 portrait of her mother entitled Maya in a Sailor Suit at ain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, told Kingdom’s highest judicial body, to deliver the fi nal the National Portrait Gallery in London, yesterday. the Belfast court. verdict on the constitutional question in December. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 15 EUROPE Hanging on Hollande’s tease over 2017 leaves left adrift

AFP which is in open revolt, hav- Paris ing dissented as one over the labour reforms that brought millions into the streets this ill he or won’t he? year. As France’s So- Two former ministers — Wcialists fi ne-tune Macron’s predecessor Arnaud arrangements for their presi- Montebourg and ex-education dential election primary, their minister Benoit Hamon — are deeply unpopular standard among the candidates in the bearer Francois Hollande is left’s primary. keeping everyone guessing After the Republicans’ pri- about whether he will stand, mary, Hollande will have less leaving the left in disarray. than two months — straddling The president, whose ap- the end-of-year holidays — to proval rating is languishing in make his case for nomination, the mid-teens largely because something of a humiliation for of a dismal economic record, an incumbent that underlines will only decide after the his weakness. right-wing Republicans party “It’s totally unheard of that nominates its candidate in late an outgoing president is pre- November. pared to go along with” a nom- “If I go for it, it will be to win, ination contest, said pollster not just to take part,” Hollande Jerome Fourquet. told the Journal du Dimanche The party’s fi rst secretary, (JDD) at the weekend. Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, Yesterday, the Socialists insists Hollande remains the were just getting around to Socialists’ only hope, saying if A migrant hangs from a boat as they wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea. setting up a supervisory body he doesn’t run, the party will for their two-round primary, “explode”. set for January 22 and 29. Five candidates are in the Marine Le Pen, the running so far. undisputed leader of Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen, the far right, is already the undisputed leader of the in full campaign mode, far right, is already in full cam- unencumbered by rivals paign mode, unencumbered by and set for a predicted rivals and set for a predicted fi rst- or second-place fi rst- or second-place showing showing in the fi rst round of the presi- Abortion stir rattles dential vote on April 23. In any case, according to The Republicans’ primary the polls, no Socialist can even next month is shaping up to be make it past the fi rst round, a close race between veteran with a right-wing candidate former prime minister Alain and the unchallenged far-right Juppe and Nicolas Sarkozy, Le Pen virtually assured of who lost the presidency to berths in the May 7 presiden- Hollande in 2012. tial runoff . Poland’s ruling party While Hollande claimed When Le Pen’s father Jean- that his decision would not Marie passed the fi rst hur- Abortion curbs have brought women “I don’t support slogans such as ‘my Critics say doctors would be discouraged while retaining the other current excep- depend on who emerges as the dle in France’s 2002 election, onto the streets in huge numbers pussy, not your issue’ and I don’t support from doing prenatal testing, particularly if tions. Republicans’ nominee, when eventually losing to Jacques abortion on demand but we don’t pro- that carried the risk of miscarriage. “We will now see how the Ordo Iuris asked whether he might stand Chirac, “it was a surprise, al- Reuters tect life by prohibitions but by supporting “There is nothing in that proposal that proposal fares in parliament,” said Karc- aside, the 62-year-old leader most an accident,” Fourquet Warsaw women who are pregnant or have prob- women can support,” said Sylwia, 21, who zewski. told the JDD: “Of course! Oth- said. lems,” she said. took part in the protest in Warsaw and said An opinion poll for the liberal OKO. erwise I wouldn’t wait until Today, 25 to 30% of voters Echoing such sentiments, Natalia, a she may not vote for PiS again. “PiS keeps press showed half of Poles supported December.” say they are for Marine Le Pen, oland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) 30-year-old landscape designer from coming up with ideas which are just un- Monday’s protests against the abortion Whatever Hollande decides, whose popularity is bouyed by party has looked fi rmly in control the western city of Poznan, described supportable.” proposal. the delay has already been tox- Europe’s worst migrant crisis Psince sweeping to power a year ago herself as a practising Catholic but said Such criticism matters for PiS, whose “PiS realises this is an important is- ic for the Socialist Party. since World War II, coupled but it may have pressed its conservative women should be allowed to exercise appeal is based on a blend of Polish na- sue that could have meaningful impact Hollande’s 38-year-old with a string of jihadist attacks agenda too far by initially backing a virtual their personal choice on such important tionalism, Catholic piety and promises to on their government and how long it gov- economy minister Emmanuel in France. ban on abortion. matters. help poorer Poles who have not benefi ted erns,” said Aleksander Smolar, a liberal Macron, bursting with ambi- Le Pen established her cre- Now, rattled by nationwide protests on “What’s important for me is a situation much from a decade of heady economic political analyst with the Stefan Batory tion if rather short on experi- dentials by winning 18% in the Monday by up to 100,000 women dressed when I would be pregnant or have to have growth. Foundation. ence, quit his post in August fi rst round of the 2012 presi- in black, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo’s prenatal testing. Some 40% of women backed the party “They could lose the two sections of the to position himself for a pos- dential vote, behind the in- government is trying to distance itself I would like to have a choice. last year, compared to 38% of the wider electorate that helped them succeed,” he sible presidential run as a cen- cumbent Sarkozy and eventual from a draft proposal backed by the pow- Even if I am religious, I still think it’s a population. said, referring to women and to younger trist. winner Hollande. erful Roman Catholic Church. personal decision, a considered decision. “I want to state very clearly that the PiS Poles who helped PiS broaden its tradi- Prime Minister Manuel Valls Wags say that one way for Worryingly for PiS, the protesters in- The original rules were optimal,” she government is not working on any legis- tional electorate last year and win a parlia- — who has carefully cultivated Hollande loyalists to boost his cluded women who voted for the party in said. lation changing the rules on abortion in mentary majority. his brand as a strict Hollande chances would be to keep Ju- last October’s election but say they may no Poland already has restrictive rules on Poland,” Szydlo told a news conference on But PiS also does not want to antagonise loyalist but who is widely ex- ppe out of the running by vot- longer do so over its attempt to tighten the abortion that allow it only in cases of rape, Tuesday. the Catholic Church, which has lost some pected to run if his boss steps ing for Sarkozy in the Republi- abortion law. incest or if the mother or baby have seri- “There are too many emotions sur- of its sway among Poles after more than aside — had harsh words for cans’ primary — since anyone Ola, a 29-year-old woman who works in ous health problems. rounding this issue. two decades of democratisation and free the upstart. can take part in that vote re- public administration, said she had voted The new proposal, brainchild of the an- The public and politicians should tone market capitalism but remains an infl uen- “At this moment, you can- gardless of their political lean- for PiS but now felt “very deceived” by the ti-abortion campaign group Ordo Iuris, them down,” she said. tial institution. not leave, you cannot desert,” ings, as long as they pay two government. would limit abortion to cases where the Underlining the confusion, the speaker “For PiS, its relations with the Church said Valls, whose support stood euros ($2.25). “I still think liberalism isn’t always mother’s life was deemed in direct dan- of the upper house senate, Stanislaw Karc- hierarchy mean that it cannot agree to any at 23% in a recent hypothetical “It’s a cruel fate for the man right. ger. zewski, said on Wednesday that PiS law- easing of abortion restrictions. lineup.”There is no place for on the left to have to vote on But I wore black on Monday and went Women and doctors could face prison makers had dropped plans to push their It will waver between the status quo and individual adventures.” the right to avoid the worst,” to the protests,” said Ola, who declined to if convicted of causing what the proposed own draft proposal that would ban abor- some tightening,” said Rafal Chwedoruk, Hollande’s party is even the satirical weekly Canard give her surname. rules call “death of a conceived child”. tion of foetuses with Down Syndrome a political scientist at Warsaw University. more exposed on its left fl ank, Enchaine wrote yesterday.

Belgian police off icers stabbed Georgia MP survives Deportation A knife attack on two Belgian police off icers in Brussels yesterday is being bomb attack investigated as a possible terrorist attack, federal prosecutors said. The off icers AFP the state” committed by the were attacked at around Tbilisi country’s “enemies” who “will midday (1000 GMT) in the be held accountable to the full- city’s northern commune of est extent of the law”. Schaerbeek by a man armed eorgia was investigating Police launched an investi- with a knife, who has been yesterday the attempted gation into what deputy inte- identified as 43-year-old Gmurder of an opposition rior minister Besik Amiranash- Hicham D, a Belgian national. lawmaker whose car exploded vili called “attempted murder Neither off icer is in mortal in central Tbilisi just days be- in aggravating circumstances”. danger, the prosecution fore a key parliamentary poll. UNM leader David Bakradze said in a statement. The Givi Targamadze, who is run- said that “no matter who was aggressor was shot in the ning for offi ce for the ex-Soviet behind the car attack, the au- leg by a third police off icer, republic’s main opposition thorities are responsible for but also suff ered no life- United National Movement creating a climate of hatred in threatening injuries. “The (UNM) party, told journalists which opposition politicians provisional results of the that an explosive device planted are being attacked”. inquiry indicate that it could in the back of his car detonated The bombing was not the be a possible terrorist attack,” on Tuesday night. fi rst violent incident to occur the statement said, without Targamadze, who was sitting in the lead-up to the vote. giving further details. in the front of the vehicle, was On Sunday, unknown assail- A judge specialised in unhurt. ants fi red shots during a cam- terrorist issues is to decide Four passers-by were rushed paign rally held by MP candidate whether the suspect will to hospital, one with serious but Irakli Okruashvili in the central be detained further. Also not life-threatening injuries, city of Gori, injuring two men. yesterday the Gare du Nord health minister David Sergey- Saturday’s knife-edge par- A migrant woman and child are forced to board a Turkish vessel in the port of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos to be deported back train station in the Belgian enko said in televised comments. liamentary election will see the to Turkey. The Greek authorities returned from the island of Lesbos to Dikili in Turkey a group of 55 asylum seekers, mostly Pakistanis capital was evacuated early Prime Minister Giorgi Kviri- UNM and the ruling Georgian and Algerians, as part of the EU-Turkey agreement. Among this group are the first 37 failed asylum seekers. Besides 20 Pakistanis, 20 afternoon, in what turned out kashvili yesterday condemned Dream party clash in a bitter Algerians, this group includes five Moroccans, four Afghans, three Bangladeshis, one Sri Lankan, an Iranian and a Palestinian. to be a false bomb alert. the blast as “sabotage against power struggle. Gulf Times 16 Thursday, October 6, 2016 INDIA

DISEASES WATER ISSUE INITIATIVE JUDICIARY APPOINTMENT Govt departments, MCDs Central team to assess Country’s first Medipark to SC to hear plea against Sushil Chandra to take urged to work together Cauvery basin situation be set up near Chennai bail to Bihar legislator over as CBDT chairman

Lt Governor Najeeb Jung yesterday asked The Central government yesterday set Giving a “Make in India” a push in the field The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the Sushil Chandra, member of the Central Board all Delhi government departments and the up a high-level technical team to visit the of medical technology, the central cabinet Bihar government’s petition challenging the of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has been appointed three Delhi municipal corporations to work Cauvery basin area to assess the ground yesterday approved public sector undertaking grant of bail to Raj Vallabh Prasad Yadav, the next chairman of the policy-making body together to eff ectively counter the menace of realities there. Central Water Commission HLL Lifecare to sub-lease its land for setting accused of raping a girl in February 2016. The of the income tax department. He will take mosquito-borne diseases. Jung’s directions chairman G S Jha heads the team, constituted up the country’s first medical devices state assembly member has been suspended over from Rani Singh Nair whose term comes came at a review meeting he held with all by the Ministry for Water Resources, River manufacturing park, an off icial statement from the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal. A to an end on October 31, an off icial statement the stakeholders, including government Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. said. “The cabinet has given its approval to bench of Justice Anil R Dave and Justice L said yesterday. Chandra, an Indian Revenue departments and the capital’s three civic bodies, The team was set up following an October HLL Lifecare to sub-lease 330.10 acres of Nageswara Rao agreed to hear the Bihar Service off icer of the 1980 batch, had joined on outbreak of dengue and chikungunya in 4 Supreme Court order asking the Cauvery land at Chengalpattu, located in the outskirts government’s plea after counsel Gopal Singh as member, CBDT, on December 17 last year. the city. After the meeting, Health Minister Supervisory Committee to visit the river basin of Chennai, to set up a medical devices told the court that the Patna High Court Nair is an IRS off icer of the 1979 batch and has Satyendra Jain told reporters that Jung has area in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to assess manufacturing park (Medipark) through a granted bail even though the trial in the case been heading the policy making body since directed all the departments to work together. the ground situation and report back to it special purpose vehicle,” the statement said. is going on and the victim is yet to depose. August 1 this year. Apart from chairman, the Jain said he told Jung that mosquito breeding by October 17. The team members will meet The shareholding of HLL in the project would Gopal Singh told the bench that the bail was CBDT has six members and is the supreme will increase following the recent spell of rain. in Bengaluru tomorrow for a preparatory be above 50%, it added. The Medipark project granted to the lawmaker, glossing over the body for framing policy and administrative He added that the number of patients suff ering meeting. It will submit its report to the will be the first manufacturing cluster in the reasons advanced by the high court rejecting issues related to direct taxes and the income from dengue and chikungunya has decreased. Supreme Court on October 17. medical technology sector in the country. the bail earlier. tax department. Man dies in Bengaluru building crash Ensure states comply with Food Act, SC tells the govt Swaraj Abhiyan seeks being violated with impunity. (It) cannot be carried on in accord- contempt proceedings is not a small issue.” ance with the constitutional pro- against states and the central The bench asked Narasimha to visions. government explain what he had said in the The Supreme Court’s strong affi davit on the matter. observations came during the IANS Section 16 (1) of the Food Se- course of hearing on the compli- New Delhi curity Act, 2013, says: “Every ance of several court directions Police and rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble at the site of a collapsed under-construction building in Bengaluru, state government shall, by noti- dated May 11, given in the judg- yesterday. At least one person died and two were missing after the five-storey building collapsed. The building is situated in the city’s fi cation, constitute a state Food ment on a public interest litiga- Bellandur neighbourhood which is home to many upscale apartment blocks and off ices of technology companies. The area, which he Supreme Court yester- Commission for the purpose of tion by Swaraj Abhiyan. surrounds a lake of the same name, has seen a construction boom in recent years. Off icials said a security guard had been killed and day slammed the central monitoring and review of imple- The organisation had sought three construction workers remained trapped. Tgovernment for not ask- mentation of this Act.” the court’s intervention for relief ing the states to comply with its However, most state govern- to the poor in drought-aff ected order to supply food grain to the ments, taking recourse to the states, including Gujarat, Bihar poor in drought-aff ected regions act’s Section 18, have saddled and Haryana. under the National Food Security other existing commissions with The three states have resisted Act. additional responsibility of the the suggestion that they de- A bench of Justices Madan B Food Commissions. clare some of their districts as Lokur and N V Ramana said: “We Section 18 provides for the drought-aff ected. Unmarried woman is ‘mother’ will discharge the Union of India designation of any commission Justice Ramana said: “We are (as respondents from the case) if or body to function as the state not getting any feel or visible it is not able to do anything.” Food Commission. change except that funds have The court asked Swaraj Ab- Clearly exasperated over non- been released. The mechanism hiyan, an NGO, to fi le an affi davit compliance with the apex court has failed. The acts of parliament to 22 children in Jharkhand about fi ve or six court directions orders and the central govern- and directions of the (top) court issued on May 11 that were not ment informing the bench that are not being implemented.” IANS formalise the arrangement. The school uniforms and school commodation is found for them. complied with by the drought- it had sent a communication to “Is it possible to monitor the Ranchi rent payments stopped three books. In some cases, Chandramati has hit states across the country for the states on the matter, Justice 13-odd states from here,” Justice years ago as the owner decided “The children are sent to gov- also arranged for their marriages initiation of contempt proceed- Ramana said: “If this is the way Ramana asked as ASG Narasimha he could do without the money. ernment and private schools. when they come of age. ings. the matter is going on, there is urged the court to monitor the handramati Oraon is “I have dedicated my life for We don’t have to pay school fees Chandramati is extremely During the course of hear- no need to hear it. We are wasting implementation of its directions. unmarried and doesn’t this work. I will not get married but we have to make arrange- happy with the talent in the ing, Swaraj Abhiyan’s lawyer your time.” Referring to his experience as Cintend to ever tie the and continue to work for the ments for books, school uni- children and said that the girls Prashant Bhushan said the con- “An act passed by parliament amicus curiae in the hearing on knot, but that hasn’t deterred children,” Chandramati said. forms, food and other things. are brilliant in their fi elds and tempt proceedings should not has to be followed by the states. setting up of fast-track courts her from playing mother to 22 “She has been made House We get support from people and would make their mark in life. only be against the states but also Let them say they don’t bother and enactment of the Consumer orphans who don’t know their Mother of the Ashram consid- NGOs,” Chandramati said, add- She admits that sometimes she the central government. about the act,” Justice Lokur said. Protection Act, Narasimha urged biological parents. ering her past social work. She ing: “We want to increase the has to face diffi culties to make Taking a dim view of the cen- He asked Narasimha: “Is there the Supreme Court to invoke its The seeds for her mission treats the children like her own. strength of the children, but a ends meet but she soldiers on tral government’s approach, Jus- a remedy under the Constitution contempt powers and hold hear- were sown when Chandrama- She has dedicated her life to the resources crunch prevents us with a smile on her face. tice Lokur said: “The moment we if states don’t comply with the ing once a month to secure com- ti, 32, was in Class 8 and took children,” Sushil Kumar, the from doing so.” Chandramati belongs to Bis- ask you questions, it is construed laws passed by parliament?” pliance with its directions. her baby steps in social work. superintendent of the ashram, The current inmates are hunpur of Gumla district. She as if we are attacking the govern- The additional solicitor gen- Bhushan told the court: “The She graduated in 2002 and in who also heads the trust, said. equally divided between boys is the fi fth of six children - three ment of India.” eral pointed to Article 365 which Centre is clearly in contempt for 2006 began what is now called The ashram, which has a staff and girls, with the preference boys and three girls. She comes As Additional Solicitor Gen- says that when a state does not violating the undertaking given the Anchal Shishu Ashram in a of three, including a cook, relies generally being for the latter. from a humble economic back- eral P S Narasimha sought to play comply with the central govern- in the court that it will release fi ve-room building in the Bada entirely on NGOs and the deep The boys are aged between three ground and her brother, the late down the ‘small issue’ of states ment’s orders issued in exercise food grain to meet the additional Talaab neighbourhood of this pockets of Ranchi’s well-heeled, and seven years, after which Chandresh Oraon, was a two- not setting up ‘Food Commis- of its powers under the Constitu- requirements of the drought-hit Jharkhand capital on a monthly who contribute both in cash and they are admitted to various time Bharatiya Janata Party leg- sions’ to monitor implementa- tion, the president can hold that states. Now the Centre is asking rent of Rs1,500. kind to ensure that the inmates hostels. The girls stay till they islator. All her siblings are mar- tion of the act, Justice Lokur ob- a situation has arisen wherein for Minimum Support Price for A trust was formed in 2011 to are well fed and have proper are 12-13 when alternative ac- ried and lead a good life. served: “An act of parliament is the government of the said state releasing additional food grain.”

Armed gang Kerala opposition legislators attacks trains Several passengers were robbed by armed men who boarded their trains near a railway station in end fast, mull fresh action Uttar Pradesh early yesterday, police said. Three passenger trains which had By Ashraf Padanna day when the assembly session agitation, Vijayan told the assem- stopped and were waiting to enter Thiruvananthapuram resumes after holidays).” bly that government had its limi- the Kanpur railway station were The opposition plans ‘janakiya tations on the issue and repeated targeted by gang-members who sadas’ (people’s meetings) in all that he was prepared to hold talks. were armed with knives and guns. ongress-led opposition the 14 districts on October 15 and “The representatives of the Most of the passengers were lawmakers ended their 16 “to expose the government’s managements also said that they asleep when the attacks took C“indefi nite” hunger strike stand in helping profi teers.” are not ready to go back on the place, railway police off icer Ravi over medical education fee hike The standoff appeared to end (earlier) agreement (with the gov- Gautam said. yesterday as the Kerala Assembly on Tuesday after the college ad- ernment on the fee hike),” he said. “The gang of four to five men, adjourned for 11 days. ministrations held a meeting with “So there was no point in contin- went from train to train and The United Democratic Front the opposition leaders and prom- uing talks.” robbed the passengers of their (UDF) was on a warpath after the ised scholarships to fi nancially Former chief minister Oom- bags, purses and valuables. They government steeply increased disadvantaged students. Howev- men Chandy accused Vijayan of beat those who resisted. After fees in private medical colleges. er, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijay- sabotaging ‘consensus talks’ by looting passengers, they fled from Three legislators - Hibi Eden, an allegedly took a hostile posi- putting pressure on the manage- the scene,” he said. Shafi Parambil and Anoop Jacob tion by not reaching an agreement ments not to make any change Witnesses said that about half a - were hospitalised as their health with the managers of the colleges. from the fees agreed upon. dozen passengers were wounded; worsened after seven days of fast “He took an adamant stand that “I don’t trust him,” added Chen- however police claimed only two on Tuesday, following which V T led to the failure of talks between nithala, not hiding his disappoint- were injured. Balram and Roji M John took up the government and managers,” ment with Vijayan who denied “I was jolted out of sleep and the mission. Chennithala said after forcing them a chance to end the agitation saw the men threatening other “There is no point in continu- Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan to on a successful note. “With this, passengers. One hit me with ing the fast there since the House adjourn the House. the poor students were denied the the butt of their revolver and is not in session,” Congress leader The UDF legislators who came opportunity to get reduced fees.” snatched my wallet and mobile,” Ramesh Chennithala told report- to the assembly with banners at- Meanwhile, the young activ- a passenger, his head bandaged ers later. tacked the Left Democratic Front ists of Congress, Muslim League from a knife wound, said. “We will now intensify our agi- (LDF) government for its alleged and Bharatiya Janata Party took Criminal gangs have often tation outside (on the streets). We attitude against reviewing the fee out separate protest marches to targeted trains in northern and will decide on the future course hike despite the prolonged strike. the Secretariat housing the chief central India, although such of action at the UDF parliamen- Rejecting the opposition charge minister’s offi ce demanding a Former chief minister Oommen Chandy meets Congress legislators Hibi Eden and Shafi Parambil attacks have been rare in recent tary meeting on October 17 (the that he was not keen to end the rollback on the fee hike. in hospital. years. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 17 INDIA India tries to hasten defence deals ahead of US polls

Reuters offi ce, government offi cials in end military technology, such as to get as much done as is hu- an interview in March he could from jihadi urban attacks. One served as communications di- New Delhi New Delhi said. a new system to launch planes manly possible. They believe the withdraw US troops from bases can only project co-operation,” rector for Modi’s 2014 campaign, “It is progressing well. The off aircraft carriers, and leaned conditions and the personnel in in Japan, and raised the idea of Phares said. said Trump had sent contradic- aim is to complete the main on other countries to give India both capitals are uniquely fa- letting Japan and South Korea Modi’s offi ce set up a six- tory messages to India. ndia is trying to hasten a deal process in the next few months,” membership in the Missile Tech- vourable at the moment, and are develop their own nuclear arse- member research group in July “On the one hand, he says he with the United States to buy said one of the offi cials, speaking nology Control Regime, which eager to consolidate and institu- nals. to help identify ways to engage values business relations with IPredator drone aircraft for on condition of anonymity. cleared the way for the sale of the tionalise the progress,” said Jeff “It is a serious concern, and with Trump, an aide said. India, but then mimics Indian military surveillance, one of sev- Prime Minister Narendra unarmed Predator. Smith, director of Asia Security may lead to Chinese pre-emi- India’s diaspora in the Unit- call centre workers, and disre- eral defence and nuclear projects Modi has built personal ties with India’s military has also asked Programmes at the American nence in Asia far sooner than ex- ed States, led by the Overseas gards the competitiveness that the two sides are pursuing in the Obama, whose signature foreign for the armed version of the Foreign Policy Council. pected,” said Dhruva Jaishankar, Friends of Modi’s Bharatiya Ja- a partnership with India could fi nal months of the Obama ad- policy move has been a strategic Predator to help target suspected Republican presidential can- a specialist on India-US ties at nata Party, has also opened a line provide the US,” he said. ministration. pivot to Asia from the Middle East. militant camps in Pakistan but didate Donald Trump’s “Amer- Brookings India. to both presidential campaigns. “His unpredictability is wor- India’s request for 22 Predator The United States has dis- US export control laws prohibit ica First” foreign policy state- But Trump adviser Walid The comfort level is much risome in a world that requires Guardian drones made in June is lodged Russia as the top arms such a transfer. ments have raised questions in Phares, an American scholar and higher with the Democratic can- steady and mature statesman- in an advanced stage of negotia- supplier to India. US Defence Secretary Ash- India and other Asian nations expert on radicals and counter- didate, former secretary of state ship.” tions. New Delhi is also on the cusp ton Carter, who visited India in about a US pullback from Asia. terrorism, said India had no rea- Hillary Clinton, said a member The centrepiece of the mili- The two sides hope to make of sealing a US nuclear reactor April, is expected to make a fi nal Trump has said US allies, such son to worry. of the Overseas Friends of BJP tary collaboration is the help enough progress so only admin- deal worth billions of dollars. trip there towards the end of the as Japan and South Korea, should “With India, there is the on- who is based in New Delhi. the United States is giving India istrative tasks remain by the time In return, Washington has year. pay more towards their defence. going partnership against terror Manoj Ladwa, a London- in developing its biggest aircraft President Barack Obama leaves given New Delhi access to high- “The administration is eager He told the New York Times in and both countries have suff ered based political strategist who carrier. 750 bogus call centre workers detained over US tax scam

Agencies building and in the neighbour- Mumbai hood of the middle-class Naya Nagar locality of Mira Road with police collecting telephone and olice said yesterday they computer records and other had detained and ques- pieces of evidence. Ptioned more than 750 bo- According to police, many of gus call centre workers accused these call centres were owned by of stealing millions of dollars diff erent people and operational from American citizens by pos- for over six months. ing as United States tax offi cials. The data base from these call Some 200 offi cers raided centres contained personal and seven premises masquerading fi nancial details of several thou- as call centres in India’s fi nan- sands of foreign and even Indian cial capital Mumbai in a massive nationals which were utilised to operation on Tuesday night fol- trap their victims. lowing a tip-off , a senior police Thane Police Commissioner offi cial said. Param Bir Singh said it is a mat- “A total of 772 employees were ter that involves multiple crimes Bharatiya Janata Party workers stage a demonstration against Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam in Mumbai yesterday. Nirupam had demanded that the government release detained. Out of this 70 were like extortion, forgery and cheat- evidence of the strike. formally arrested and the others ing operated internationally. were released but investigations “The modus operandi of these against them are ongoing,” said call centres is identical but their Sukhada Narkar, a spokesperson owners are diff erent with the for police in the Thane suburb of involvement of hundreds of em- Mumbai. ployees. We shall verify the role Police allege that the accused and antecedents of each and would telephone Americans and every person engaged in this pretend to be offi cials from the racket,” Singh said. ‘Surgical strikes’ video Internal Revenue Service, the US He said if any foreign agency government body responsible approaches them, the Thane po- for collecting taxes. lice would be prepared to share They would tell the person at details of the crime. the end of the phone that they The police are also seeking as- had defaulted on their tax pay- sistance from the Cyber Crimes ments and owed money. Cell, IT experts and Internet given to PMO: minister After duping the victims into companies as VoIP was used to revealing their bank details they make Internet voice calls to the No decision taken yet to handed over to the government Meanwhile, a meeting of the supposed to come back leaving across the LoC. Pakistan has, would then withdraw money victims to avoid tracing back the release footage, says Ahir by the army,” Ahir said. Cabinet Committee on Security as far as possible no evidence however, claimed that no such from their accounts, Narkar said, calling numbers, an offi cial ex- Asked if the government (CCS), chaired by Modi, was behind,” Singh said. attack took place. adding that the fraud had been plained. IANS planned to share the video, he held yesterday during which the “In today’s age, there is The situation has been tense going on for over a year. Many of the callers were given a New Delhi said: “No such decision has situation along the Line of Con- enough electronic equipment on the India-Pakistan border She said police believe that the short training in phone etiquette been taken yet, a call can only trol was reviewed. to track and record to tell what since the September 18 ter- fraudsters were making around and speaking in foreign accents be taken by the prime minister.” Offi cials from the Defence they have achieved, but it is ror attack at an army camp in Rs10mn ($150,000) a day. to gain the victims’ confi dence s the demand for sharing “A nation has its own poli- Ministry, meanwhile, said there not in national interest to put Uri town of Jammu and Kash- “We have booked them under before trapping them into parting evidence of the army’s cies and one needs to practise were no discussions on releas- it in public domain. It has never mir which left 19 soldiers dead. various sections of Indian penal with their personal details. A‘surgical strikes’ across restraint. People like Sanjay ing the video. been done in the past... in fact, India blamed Pakistan-based code and action will be taken US and other foreign fi rms, the Jammu and Kashmir border Nirupam and Arvind Kejriwal The offi cials did not specify it is not even supposed to be Jaish-e-Mohamed militant against these bogus call centres drawn by India’s large, educated grew louder, Minister of State listen to Pakistan. The DGMO if a fi nal stand on the issue has talked about. We must be ma- group for the attack. and their employees,” she added. and cheaper English-speaking for Home Aff airs Hansraj Gan- (director general of military op- been taken. ture enough as a country to be Relations between the two Narkar said Indian police had workforce farmed out a wide garam Ahir yesterday said the erations) did the briefi ng and Former army chief J J Singh, able to ensure that this kind of nations have deteriorated since not worked with US authorities range of jobs from answering bank footage has already been hand- everyone in India believes it,” meanwhile, said sharing a foot- pressure is not put on the gov- the surgical strikes. on the case, although there have client calls and answering train ed over to the Prime Minister’s the minister said. age will not be in national inter- ernment or the army to produce On Tuesday, Indian army been reports in American media timetable inquiries to IT support. Offi ce by the army. He was referring to Del- est. videos,” the former army chief alleged that Pakistan troops about similar-sounding scams, But India recently lost its The minister said a decision hi Chief Minister Kejriwal “I want to tell it loud and said. opened unprovoked heavy fi r- which authorities have said crown to the Philippines and is on making the video public rests and Congress leader Sanjay clear... these are secret and India has claimed a surgical ing in at least three places along might be operated out of India. struggling to maintain its share with Prime Minister Narendra Nirupam who have demanded discreet operations which are strike was carried out on the the LoC and along the Interna- The raids were simultaneously of the global outsourcing mar- Modi. that the government release supposed to be executed with night of September 28 and 29 tional Border in Akhnoor sector conducted at a multi-storied ket. “The video footage has been evidence of the strike. precision, and our people are to destroy militant launch pads in Jammu. Home auctioneers raise gavel on unwanted goods

AFP “Everything will go,” says right pianos, golf clubs and im- “If it is broken we will get it New Delhi Ashok Sood, a professional ported furniture, like Ikea”. fi xed,” the husband shrugs. home sale organiser who arrang- The Swedish homeware brand Despite still holding multiple es weekly auctions at homes or so popular in Europe and other sales each week, Sood and deal- n a scorching rooftop embassies in New Delhi, mostly parts of Asia has yet to open its ers say business has declined in in a smart neighbour- for well-off Indians or expatri- doors in India – although it will recent years. Ohood in New Delhi, 40 ates who are moving on. next year – giving its fl atpack Many now prefer ready-fur- people with an eye for a bargain “There is nothing we cannot designs an exotic allure. nished fl ats, especially in the peer over auction tables creak- sell,” he adds proudly. “The only “Some of it I sell it from my satellite city of Gurgaon, cur- ing with used, broken and half- question is price.” warehouse at my home, some of tailing the circulation of white eaten items, the front line of a Delhi’s second-hand circuit it I sell online,” Chowdhury ex- goods and leading the average thriving second-hand economy. goes far beyond a humble car plains. value of goods traded at auction The auctioneer’s voice rises to boot or garage sale, attended Rural dealers who have trav- to slide from around Rs200,000 a frenzied pitch as the numbers by hundreds of full-time deal- elled to the city to buy furniture to 100,000. soar higher, each item wielded ers who buy to sell on and savvy raise their margins by telling Yet in India as elsewhere, to a rapid bidding war – Rs200, middle-class Indians scouting customers in their villages that there will always be those drawn 300, 700 – as sheaves of notes bargains. the goods were purchased from by the thrill of a bargain. change hands in a fl urry of “In India people recycle more the home of a diplomat, an unas- Auction regular Samir Mah- shouts, winks and the occasional than anywhere in the world. sailable hallmark of quality. mud has so much stuff his fl at is scuffl e. Labour is cheap and brains are Participants bid for items at an auction in New Delhi. One couple exits dragging a running out of space but could Mobile phones missing charg- sharp. Out of three things that large air-conditioner that once not resist purchasing a ham- ers, American shaving foam cans are not working, they make two Walkmans, rarities at the time. ed opening up in 1991 foreign says, followed by furniture. cooled a factory, happy to have mock after prevailing in a fi erce that have lost their pressure and work,” Sood says. “Back then we were selling brands have become more vis- Some can be refurbished, but paid Rs11,000 for an appliance contest with another bidder. expired food packets are all on A grocer by trade, he spot- VCRs, landline phones, tennis ible, but are often much costlier even those beyond repair hold val- that costs around Rs39,000 new. “It’s like an addiction, every- display, together with a vacuum ted the niche at the 1982 Asian rackets. Things that otherwise than in other markets because of ue – a broken smartphone can be It looks heavily used, but they body says this,” he laughs. cleaner, outdated Apple laptops Games in Delhi when he saw only came in through smug- high import duties. sold for parts for a hefty margin. seem unconcerned – auction- “It’s dangerous, I’m really suf- and knock-off designer sun- foreigners being off ered money gling,” he says. These days electronics are the Delhi-based dealer Abishek eers do not guarantee the condi- fering. I have all this stuff , but I glasses – labelled coyly as “local”. for their Nike trainers and Sony Since India’s economy start- most sought-after items, Sood Chowdhury specialises in “up- tion of goods. don’t want to sell it.” Gulf Times 18 Thursday, October 6, 2016 LATIN AMERICA Top names to play pre-polls border concert

AFP despite borders,” said Camila New York Jimenez Villa, co-president and chief content offi cer of the Fu- sion Media Group, Univision’s op names in Latin music English-language division aimed will perform next week at millennials. Tat the US-Mexico border The concert “will celebrate, to send a message in support through the power of music, the of diversity before the racially connectedness of our world and charged US presidential election the positivity that occurs when in November. we show empathy, respect and Leading Spanish-language openness to one another,” she US network Univision yesterday said in a statement. announced that the “RiseUp As The concert will also feature One” concert will take place on appearances by acclaimed Mexi- October 15 at the Cross Border can director Gael Garcia Bernal, XPress, the walkway that con- whose fi lms include the border- nects San Diego and Tijuana’s straddling “Babel,” as well as airport. prominent Hispanics in US tel- Artists to play the live-broad- evision including Mia Maestro cast concert include Colombian and Wilmer Valderrama. superstar Juanes, leading Mexi- Univision, which earlier an- can pop singers Natalia Lafour- nounced the concert without cade and Julieta Venegas, Span- giving details on location or per- ish pop star Alejandro Sanz and formers, said it would broadcast veteran Colombian performer live starting at 4pm California Carlos Vives. time (2300 GMT). The lineup will also include The concert’s hosts will be rising US soul singer Andra Day, Univision’s signature anchor a protegee of Stevie Wonder who Jorge Ramos and television star Residents work clearing a house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, yesterday. is from San Diego. Alejandra Espinoza. The concert will not be overtly Univision has become a major partisan but comes shortly be- player in the US media due to the fore the November 8 presidential clout of the Hispanic commu- election, in which Republican nity, which accounts for 17% of candidate Donald Trump has the country. railed against immigration. In 2015, Univision had a higher Trump has vowed to build a total viewership than any adver- wall along the US-Mexican bor- tising-backed US network ex- Hurricane Matthew der and launched his campaign cept the big four of CBS, NBC, by describing undocumented ABC and Fox. Mexican immigrants in the Unit- Other performers announced ed States as rapists. for the concert include Miguel “The US-Mexico border pro- Bose, Luis Coronel, Lila Downs, vides the perfect stage for this Jorge Drexler, Fonseca, Jesse & amazing event and is a way to Joy, Lupillo Rivera and ensemble batters Haiti, Cuba highlight diversity and inclusion, Los Tigres del Norte.

Reuters Hurricane Center (NHC) said. representative for Haiti, said Les Cayes, Haiti/Guantanamo, The eye of the storm was much of the population had Cuba about 115 miles (185km) south been displaced by Matthew and of Long Island in the Bahamas at least 10,000 were in shelter. yesterday morning and it was “Haiti is facing the largest Homicides set to urricane Matthew, the expected to be very near the east humanitarian event witnessed fi ercest Caribbean storm coast of Florida by Thursday since the earthquake six years Hin almost a decade, evening, the NHC said. ago,” he said. powered toward the Bahamas Maximum sustained winds Heifer International, a non- fall in Honduras and Florida early yesterday after eased to around 115mph (185kph) profi t organisation working with battering Haiti and Cuba with by yesterday morning but farming families in Haiti, said torrential rains and killing at the NHC said it was likely to farmland and businesses caught Reuters atory, said in an interview. least 10 people. strengthen again slightly in the in Matthew’s path had been dev- Tegucigalpa In 2012, Honduras was the The hurricane, which the coming days. astated. world’s most murderous nation, United Nations said created It was diffi cult to assess the The US government said it with a rate of 90.4 per 100,000. the worst humanitarian crisis severity of the impact on Haiti was ready to help the affl icted urders in Honduras are Neighbouring El Salvador is to hit struggling Haiti since a because Matthew knocked out and about 300 US Marines set on track to decline in now more violent, with more than devastating 2010 earthquake, communications in many of the off on the USS Mesa Verde to M2016 even as the gov- 100 homicides per 100,000 in- whipped Cuba and Haiti with worst-aff ected areas, including provide disaster relief in Haiti, ernment’s military drive against habitants last year, statistics show. 140mph (230 kph) winds on the main bridge that links much the Marines said in a tweet. organised crime is running out of Since taking offi ce in early 2014, Tuesday, pummelling towns, of the country to the southwest There were no immediate re- A coastal road between Guantanamo and Baracoa after the passage steam, the Observatory of Vio- President Juan Hernandez has de- farmland and resorts. peninsula. ports in Cuba of deaths, casual- of Hurricane Matthew through the eastern tip of Cuba on Tuesday lence at the National Autono- ployed a new military police force Hundreds of thousands of There was particular concern ties or major damage. afternoon. mous University of Honduras to combat organised crime, and people were evacuated from about Haiti as tens of thousands Cuba’s government has tradi- said on Tuesday. has increased the defence budget. the storm, which caused severe of people are still living in tents tionally made extensive eff orts the central and northwestern that government offi ces in New A report by the observatory, However, after the capture of fl ooding and killed four people and makeshift dwellings due to cope with hurricanes and Bahamas, the NHC forecasts Providence and Grand Bahama which analyses crime statistics local cartel bosses, their second- in the Dominican Republic as to the 2010 earthquake, which authorities spent days organis- showed. had been closed until further in the country, showed 2,568 in-commands have taken over, well as at least six in Haiti, the killed more than 200,000 peo- ing volunteers to get residents to Santiago de Cuba, the sec- notice. violent deaths in the fi rst half of and the gangs are devising new two countries that share the is- ple. safety and secure property. ond largest city, which lies in Hurricane and tropical storm 2016, down 3.4% from the year- ways of evading security forces, land of Hispaniola. Authorities said yesterday two Matthew thrashed the tourist the southeast of Cuba, was not warnings were extended along ago period. Ayestas said. “The strategy of Matthew was a Category people in Haiti were crushed by town of Baracoa in the province badly hit, state media said. the east coast of Florida as the If the pace persists, Hon- using the military against or- Four hurricane through Tues- trees and two were swept away of Guantanamo, passing close to Offi cials in the Bahamas urged storm moved north. duras would end 2016 with ganised crime has exhausted it- day but was downgraded to by swollen rivers. the disputed US Naval base and residents to evacuate to higher South Carolina Governor a homicide rate of 59.1 per self,” she said. Lenin Gonzalez, a Category Three early yester- Mourad Wahba, the UN sec- military prison. ground and the Ministry for Nikki Haley on Tuesday de- 100,000 inhabitants, Migdonia spokesman for the armed forces, day, the Miami-based National retary-general’s deputy special It was on track to mow over Grand Bahama said on Facebook clared a state of emergency. Ayestas, director of the observ- declined to comment. Colombia truce with Farc Street graffi ti to end on October 31: Santos plea for peace

AFP current nemesis Alvaro Uribe at sion that falls to the Farc,” Foreign AFP ent punishment the deal meted Bogota the presidential palace yester- Minister Maria Angela Holguin Bogota out for their crimes. day. told a press conference. But that only fuelled the crea- The high-stakes meeting Santos has named Holguin, tive fi re for people like DjLu, a olombian President Juan comes after Colombians on Sun- de la Calle and Defence Minister pray-paint cans in hand, graffi ti artist known for dotting Manuel Santos said on day narrowly voted against a deal Luis Carlos Villegas to hold talks a generation of street art- central Bogota with black-and- CTuesday that a ceasefi re Uribe had condemned as too with the opposition on salvaging Sists is covering Colom- white messages of peace. with Farc rebels will end on Oc- lenient on the leftist guerrillas the deal. Holguin said the govern- bia’s run-down walls with rifl es “I prefer a twisted peace to a tober 31, as both sides scramble to – throwing the nearly four-year- ment is “fully ready” to listen to that shoot heart-shaped bullets perfect war,” said the secretive fi nd a solution to the half-century old peace process into disarray the deal’s opponents. and rainbow-coloured pleas for artist. confl ict after voters rejected a and giving the former president a She admitted the government peace. DjLu, who prefers not to use peace deal. major victory. was left scrambling by the sur- After half a century of con- his real name, doubles as an art The chief of the Revolutionary Santos is fi ghting on two fronts prise referendum result, which fl ict, the end of which remains professor at Catholic University Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) after the unexpected result: he fl ew in the face of opinion polls. just beyond reach, war and peace of Colombia when he isn’t out Rodrigo Londono, better known must fi nd a compromise solution “There was no Plan B. We have become central themes in spray-painting public spaces as Timoleon “Timochenko” acceptable to both the hardliners believed the country wanted Colombia’s graffi ti art. as a self-described “servant of Jimenez, promptly took to Twit- in Uribe’s camp and the Farc. peace,” she said. A United Na- On the streets of Bogota, corn- peace.” ter to ask “And after that, the war The government and the Farc tions mission tasked with over- cobs that look like grenades and “I wanted to send a message continues?” have had a ceasefi re in place since seeing the disarmament process Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaking at Narino Palace gun barrels sprouting carnations that would open people’s minds,” Just a day earlier, he had vowed August 29, fi ve days after the two was also left adrift. in Bogota on Tuesday. have provided the backdrop as he told AFP of his turn to po- the guerrillas would continue to sides clinched a peace deal fol- “The mandate for the UN polit- the government and the left- litically charged graffi ti a decade observe the ceasefi re despite the lowing fi ve years of arduous nego- ical mission is for a peace deal. At men have a complicated history. Santos will also meet with ist rebels of the Revolutionary ago. referendum results. tiations in Cuba. this point, we don’t have a peace Santos served as Uribe’s de- former president Andres Pastrana Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) “I’m simply human, and as a “I hope we can move forward to The ceasefi re had originally deal,” Holguin told journalists. fense minister from 2006 to (1998-2002), another major op- worked for nearly four years to human I think the confl ict is ab- realise the necessary agreement been intended to be permanent. The meeting between Santos 2009, leading a major army off en- ponent of the peace deal, an hour conclude a historic peace agree- surd.” to fi nd a solution to this confl ict,” The government’s chief peace and Uribe comes after the latter’s sive against the Farc. before Uribe, his offi ce said. ment. The prospect of turning the Santos said in a televised address negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, right-wing party, the Democratic But he shifted gears after suc- Both meetings will be held be- The peace process suff ered a page on more than half a cen- from the presidential palace. has returned to Havana to see Center, snubbed emergency talks ceeding Uribe in 2010, opening hind closed doors. shock setback on Sunday when tury stained by violence is in- As part of his eff orts to salvage whether the Farc is open to revis- that Santos convened on Monday peace talks with the weakened Santos said on Twitter he had voters rejected the resulting ac- creasingly fuelling street art- the peace deal on which he has ing the deal. at the presidential palace to chart rebels – and provoking a falling- invited the two former presidents cord in a referendum, apparently ists’ creativity in Bogota, where staked his legacy, Santos was to “The decision on whether to a way forward with the country’s out with his former boss, who “to dialogue in a constructive resentful of the blood shed by the graffiti is surging as an artistic meet with his former boss and open up the agreements is a deci- top political leaders. The two branded him a traitor. spirit.” Marxist guerrillas and the leni- medium. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

Census possible only in March, court told

The federal government of Pakistan reiterated its stance before the Supreme Court Food shortage as residents yesterday that it would propose to the Council of Common Interests a date for holding population census in the country possibly in March/April 2017 that too if army personnel were available for escorting staff conducting the exercise. fl ee fi ghting in Kunduz But, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar AFP trying to fi nd transportation rejected the government’s Kunduz for hours today, but all cars are stand and said that it should full,” Nasirullah, waiting in the have conducted the census on a bus station with his family of war-footing instead of proposing ood was running short as fi ve, said. dates after dates. forces in Afghanistan bat- Khairuddin, a teacher in the “How can state aff airs be run Ftled Taliban militants for city, said schools, universities without determining the extent of a third day in Kunduz yester- and other private and pub- unemployment or which province day, residents said, with scores lic institutions were shut and needs what resources?” Justice Nisar fl eeing the strategic Afghan city residents were left without observed while hearing a suo motu fearing more violence. electricity as the main power case on the delay in the census. Taliban militants on Mon- station had been destroyed by Comparing the situation with day launched an attack in the militants. the one in developed countries, northeastern city of Kunduz, “The few shops that are open he said that even the number briefl y hoisting their fl ag at the are running out of food items. of patients with heart diseases main intersection, according to We don’t know when the gov- or diabetes was known in many witnesses, before Afghan forces ernment is going to begin their countries of the world but “we backed by Nato drove them into clearance operation to push have not even conducted general the outskirts. them (Taliban) completely out census in the country”. Since late Monday Afghan of the town,” he said. At the last hearing on August 25, forces have been conducting a The main roads to the city are the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics careful clearing operation, with also cut off , he said. (PBS) had taken the plea that offi cials warning that the mili- But Mahmood Danish, troops deployment for Zarb-i-Azb tants may be hiding in civilian spokesman to the Kunduz gov- operation against terrorists and homes as fi ghting continued ernor, said Afghan forces were other security-related tasks had around the city’s edges. moving slowly for fear of civil- made it diff icult for the bureau “We are facing a shortage of ian casualties. to currently avail services of the food in the city. The prices are “We have not launched the armed forces. Therefore, the skyrocketing. A loaf of bread major clearance operation yet, census is not possible before that cost 15 Afghanis ($0.22) because the enemies are hid- March/April next year. is now 40 Afghanis ($0.60),” a ing in people’s houses. But soon In yesterday’s proceedings, PBS resident, Khalid, said. we will drive all of them out the director general Asif Bajwa said that “People have to wait in city.” the bureau was ready to conduct the queues for hours behind baker- As the fi ghting continued An Afghan National Army commando aims his weapon amid ongoing fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in exercise but results of the census, ies to buy bread,” he said. yesterday, two rockets hit the Kunduz yesterday. if held without the involvement of Frightened citizens were still main city hospital late in the the army, would not be acceptable. trying to fl ee amid unconfi rmed day, though they did not cause nately there is no casualty, ployees, wounding four people, A US air strike during the tions in Kunduz, had planned to That was the reason the PBS reports the militants were any casualties, provincial health and the hospital is open and according to the interior ministry. fi ghting hit a hospital operated mark the anniversary on Mon- had scrapped the findings of the building up their presence once director Abdul Hamid Alam operational,” he said. After seizing Kunduz last by Medecins Sans Frontieres on day by sending its country rep- censuses held in 1992 and 2011. more. said. Meanwhile in Kabul an ex- September, the Taliban held the October 3, killing 42 people. resentative Guilhem Molinie and Besides, he said, the bureau still had “Almost all the people in the “We don’t know which side plosion late yesterday targeted city for two days then withdrew The organisation, which has international president Meinie to train 165,000 teachers to enable city want to leave. I have been fi red the rockets, but fortu- a bus carrying government em- from the outskirts on October 15. not since relaunched its opera- Nicolai to the city. them to conduct the census. Ban on Indian Donors pledge $15bn for Afghanistan

content on cable AFP that Afghanistan was making Brussels progress on the economy, cor- ruption and human rights but needed constructive interna- networks sought nternational donors pledged tional support to see the changes $15.2bn yesterday to get Af- through. Ighanistan through the next “Afghans can make peace, we Internews of fi lm producers in India and four years and urged the Taliban will make peace, we are commit- Islamabad the demand made by some ac- to make peace after years of war. ted to constructive politics, not tors in Bollywood to ban Pa- As fresh fi ghting raged in destructive politics,” he said. kistani artists, musicians and the strategic northern city of Fifteen years almost to the eemingly in a move to technicians. Kunduz, Afghan President day since the start of the US-led counter decisions taken The current policy in Pa- Ashraf Ghani was at a confer- operation to topple the Taliban Sby the Indian fi lm indus- kistan allows a total airing of ence in Brussels seeking aid after 9/11, US Secretary of State try, the Pakistan Electronic 10pc foreign content that is from offi cials from 75 coun- John Kerry urged the militant Media Regulatory Authority more than two hours and 40 tries and more than 20 global group to make an “honourable” (Pemra) has asked the govern- minutes in 24 hours while the organisations. peace with Kabul. ment to impose a complete airing of Indian content is lim- Despite donor fatigue due He said they should follow ban on Indian content on cable ited to six per cent which is a to the Syria war, the amount the example of Gulbuddin Hek- TV networks. little less than one hour and 35 pledged is only slightly less than matyar, the notorious Afghan The Pemra Board at a meet- minutes daily. the $4bn a year that the interna- warlord and US-designated ing made the consensus deci- However, both the enter- tional community promised at “global terrorist”, who signed sion to ask the federal govern- tainment/news channels as the last Afghanistan conference a peace deal with the Afghan ment to amend the existing well as the cable operators in Tokyo in 2012. government in September. policy, adding Pakistan should have been exceeding this limit, “I want you to know that you “This is a model for what allow airtime to the Indian and despite repeated eff orts do not make this journey alone,” might be possible,” Kerry added. content only if New Delhi al- Pemra has failed to contain EU International Development EU foreign policy chief Fed- lows airtime to the Pakistani them. Commissioner Neven Mimica erica Mogherini said a dinner content. Similarly, Pemra has been said to applause as he closed the of regional players including The Pemra Board decried striving to end the sale of In- conference. China, India and Pakistan on the policy formulated in 2004 dian DTH across the country “Now is not the time to reduce Tuesday had “found common by the government of Pakistan but the authority has failed to our ambition or our investment ground” for the Afghan peace Ashraf Ghani, left, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Aff airs and Security Policy / Vice-President allowing six per cent airing of muster the support from the in the people of Afghanistan. I process, and that the EU “will of the Commission Federica Mogherini, centre, and Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ar- Indian content. provincial governments and am therefore delighted to an- try to facilitate this as much as rive for a meeting on Afghanistan at the EU headquarters in Brussels yesterday. An offi cial of the authority the FIA to stop the sale of the nounce that we have pledged possible in the coming months”. said that there was no policy Indian DTH. together a remarkable, an She announced that the short and scores fl ed the city, Brussels, donors will expect the grants from the Europe, which in India regarding the Paki- The DTHs are digital decod- impressive amount of $15.2b.” 28-nation bloc will pledge witnesses said. Kabul government to promise it will faces its biggest refugee crisis stani content and artists, and ers that allow viewing of mul- In return for the interna- $1.5bn a year, adding: “There Meanwhile in Kabul a sui- tackle spiralling corruption and since World War II. decisions in this regard were tiple Indian channels directly tional money, Afghanistan will will not be any donor fatigue on cide bomber targeted a minibus waste, while working on political The plan involves possibly made by the relevant industry through the dish antenna. make reform pledges on corrup- Afghanistan.” carrying government offi cials, reform and human rights. building a dedicated terminal themselves. Chairman Pemra Absar tion and human rights, and also The United States and the EU wounding four people, a day af- The United States has spent for deportees at Kabul airport. “We have made this con- Alam said around three mil- agree to take back migrants from currently each provide about a ter a US soldier was killed by a around $110bn on Afghanistan’s EU offi cials have however denied sensus decision to link the air- lion Indian DTH decoders Europe more quickly. third of all international aid to bomb in the east. reconstruction since 2001, more that aid pledges will depend on ing of the Indian content with were being sold in the country, Afghanistan remains depend- Afghanistan, with Japan the next For security, Nato nations al- than the cost of the Marshall Kabul accepting the return of the policy in that country af- and the authority had sought ent on foreign aid and support largest donor. ready committed at a summit Plan that rebuilt a devastated Eu- 80,000 asylum-seekers. ter looking at their treatment the support of relevant agen- from a limited Nato military Afghanistan still needs all the in Warsaw in July to maintain rope after World War II, but with Zubaida Akbar of aid group of our artists and produc- cies to trace the money trail presence, despite having im- help it can get, with violence troop numbers in Afghanistan limited results. Save the Children said the plan tions,” said one of the board to determine the mode of proved key life indicators in- continuing every day across at around 13,000 and uphold On the eve of the conference for forcible returns was “ex- members. payments made to the Indian cluding maternal mortality and the country. Afghan forces bat- a pledge of $5bn a year to fund the EU and Kabul published a tremely concerning” given The member referred to a dealers selling these decoders lifespan. tled the Taliban for a third day local forces until 2020. controversial deal to speed up the violence still wracking decision by the association in Pakistan. Ghani told the conference in Kunduz yesterday as food ran In exchange for the money in Afghanistan’s taking back of mi- Afghanistan. Senators call for building small dams, reservoirs

Internews resolution “recommending that Thatta districts would drown un- Shaikh Aftab admitted that a for introducing land reforms in Jahanzeb Jamaldini, of the ruling party’s members started Islamabad a 250km highway be constructed der sea water in the near future. large part of land in the coastal the country, alleging that big Balochistan National Party- talking about construction of along the coast from Sir Creek to The PPP senator said sea areas had been lost due to sea landlords were exploiting small Mengal, accused the rulers of one big dam. Karachi to serve as a wall against intrusion could be stopped intrusion. However, he said that farmers. The Federal Land Com- not giving priority to the con- Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq akistani Senators have sea intrusion”. through construction of the since the land belonged to the mission had also supported the struction of small dams in the said the underground water level stressed the need for build- The resolution was tabled by highway, otherwise the coast- provincial government, it was need for land reforms, he said. country. had gone down because the respec- Ping more small dams and PPP’s Sassui Palijo after Minister al areas of Sindh would be its responsibility to take steps to Independent senator Mohsin Mohsin Aziz, of the Pakistan tive governments had failed to build water reservoirs for the develop- for Parliamentary Aff airs Shaikh completely annihilated. prevent sea intrusion. Leghari stressed the need for Tehreek-i-Insaf, regretted that reservoirs to save rainwater. ment of the agricultural sector Aftab Ahmed assured the house She said that when it came to He said the federal government improving water management banks were not providing loans Concluding the debate, Min- and to overcome energy issues. that the federal government the aff airs of ports and coasts, it was ready to play its role and help for better crops. to small farmers. ister for National Food Security Before holding a full-fl edged would ask the National Highway became the federal subject, but the provinces in this regard. Usman Kakar, of the Pa- Without naming the contro- Sikandar Bosan asked the prov- debate on the problems being Authority to construct the road when its attention was drawn The senators belonging to op- khtunkhwa Mili Awami Party, versial Kalabagh dam project, inces to also play their role in faced by farmers on a motion once the Sindh government pre- to the submerging of over 3mn position parties criticised the asked the federal government to Ilyas Bilour, of the Awami Na- the development of the agricul- moved by Taj Haider of the Pa- pared feasibility of the project. acres under sea water, the federal government for what they called grant a Rs200bn package for the tional Party, said that whenever tural sector because the subject kistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), the Palijo warned that if the high- government started declaring it ignoring the agricultural sector. construction of small dams in they talked about the need for had been devolved after the 18th Senate unanimously adopted a way was not built, Badin and a provincial subject. The PPP’s Taj Haider called Balochistan. construction of small dams, the constitutional amendment. Gulf Times 20 Thursday, October 6, 2016 PHILIPPINES Call to end military exercises Aquino ‘did sign pact with US’

Manila Times unless terminated by either Makati party by giving one year’s writ- ten notice through diplomatic channels of its intention to ter- ormer president Benigno minate this Agreement.” Aquino 3rd signed and “Therefore, EDCA has a Fratifi ed the Enhanced guaranteed term of 10 years, Defense Cooperation Agree- after which it may be termi- ment (EDCA) between the nated by either party by giv- Philippines and the United ing a one-year advance notice States, contrary to a claim by of the intent to terminate,” the his successor, President Rod- diplomat added. rigo Duterte. The diplomat also noted that Aquino signed the instru- then president Aquino author- ment of ratifi cation of the EDCA ised defence secretary Voltaire on June 6, 2014, which states Gazmin to sign the EDCA on that “I, Benigno S. Aquino III, April 28, 2014, in the same way President of the Republic of he US ambassador to the Philip- Philippines, after having seen pines Philip Goldberg had full and considered the Agreement authority to sign on behalf of US between the Government of the president Barack Obama, under Republic of the Philippines and Article 4 of the Vienna Conven- the Government of the United tion on the Law of Treaties. States of America on Enhanced The diplomat also pointed out Defense Cooperation, do here- that the 1951 Mutual Defense by ratify and confi rm the same Treaty was signed by Philippine and each and every article and secretary of foreign aff airs Car- Demonstrators burn a mock US flag during a rally opposing US-Philippines joint military exercises outside the US embassy in Manila. clause thereof.” los P Romulo and US secretary of A copy of the document was state Dean Acheson. provided by a diplomat to The The visiting forces agree- Manila Times. ment was signed by foreign sec- Duterte, who has stepped up retary Domingo Siazon and US his tirades against the US fol- ambassador Thomas Hubbard. lowing Washington’s criticism “It is not legally necessary or of his bloody war on drugs, on customary these days for heads Sunday warned he would re- of government to personally view the EDCA and end joint sign agreements. Cabinet offi - military exercises between Fil- cials or senior offi cials can sign ipino and US troops. for him, provided the president Declare ‘peace zones’, The president claimed the issues full powers to the sign- document did not bear Aqui- ing offi cial, pursuant to the Vi- no’s signature, and was instead enna Convention on the Law of signed by former defence sec- Treaties,” the diplomat said. retary Voltaire Gazmin and an Malacanang on Tuesday said “aide” in 2014. the government, through the The EDCA allows the rota- Mutual Defense Board, would tional presence of US troops in review EDCA and other de- bishop asks palace agreed locations inside Philip- fence agreements with the US, pine military bases, for training particularly those involving Manila Times nality as long as it is done in accordance said Espinosa was immediately turned posts on Facebook and other places said and related activities such as military exercises, by the end Makati with rules of engagement, reason and val- over to Baybay City Regional Trial Court that “malicious and irresponsible journal- transit and refuelling. of October. ue for human life. that issued the warrant for his arrest. He ists are the true enemies of democracy” In January, the Supreme Pentagon spokesman Navy Tobias said they can also help the police is now detained at Leyte Provincial Jail and that “they should be punished with Court declared the EDCA con- Captain Jeff Davis said the N the face of widespread killings re- in verifying or establishing accuracy of since no bail was recommended for his the full force of the law.” stitutional. The pact did not military was aware of Duterte’s lated to the war on drugs, a Roman their lists of drug dependents and pushers. case. The president himself complained need Senate ratifi cation as it comments. ICatholic bishop has called on Presi- The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of On August 2, Espinosa surrendered about being taken out of context, but nev- is an executive agreement that But “it hasn’t really so much dent Rodrigo Duterte to declare as “peace the Philippines (CBCP) has launched a at the Philippine National Police (PNP) ertheless, apologised to the Jewish people implements the 1951 Mutual translated into tangible actions zones” all barangay (villages) and dioceses nationwide prayer campaign, “A Million headquarters in Camp Crame after Du- who were off ended by the remarks. Defense Treaty and the 1998 that we’ve seen with regards to throughout the country where there are Roses for the World: Filipinos at Prayer for terte announced a 24-hour ultimatum for Those who publicly bullied the two Re- Visiting Forces Agreement be- our actions under the alliance,” drug rehabilitation programmes. the Nation,” amid the alleged killings. him and his son. uters reporters are not doing a service to tween the Philippines and the he said. Novaliches bishop Antonio Tobias made Earlier, the CBCP-Episcopal Commis- He admitted to PNP director Roland de the president they profess to support, and United States. “In as much as our alliance the appeal during the recent launching of sion on Prison and Pastoral Care (ECPPC) la Rosa that Kerwin was involved in illegal in fact, are acting contrary to his request to The diplomat noted that the with the Philippines is con- a national campaign against illegal drugs proposed a “correctional summit” to ad- drug activities in the Visayas. his supporters not to harm journalists and Supreme Court decision ac- cerned, it’s very much solid and dubbed as Mamayang Ayaw sa Anoma- dress illegal drugs and other core issues The National Union of Journalists of the allow them to do their work of independ- knowledged Aquino’s ratifi ca- stable and secure and on track,” lya, Mamayang Ayas sa Iligal na Droga in besetting the National Bilibid Prisons Philippines (NUJP) has defended the right ently reporting on the activities of his gov- tion of the EDCA. he added, pointing to contin- Batasan Hills, Quezon City. (NBP) in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila). of journalists in the country to do their job ernment. The NUJP also took note of this “[P]onente chief justice ued co-operation in military “Is it possible, Mr President, that you CBCP-ECPPC chairman brother Ro- without wrestling with the fear of death unfortunate contradiction. Maria Lourdes Sereno took exercises and assistance with declare as peace zones all dioceses or dolfo Diamante said the summit will help threats from supporters of either side of All journalists have a responsibility to note of the ratifi cation when counter-terrorism operations barangay with ongoing [drug] rehabilita- solve the proliferation of illegal drugs in the issues they report about. carry out their job in a professional, ac- she stated: ‘After eight rounds in the southern Philippines. tion programmes in collaboration with the the NBP through the joint eff orts of Con- “Threatening journalists when their curate and unbiased manner. If errors are of negotiations, the secretary The US embassy in Ma- police?” Tobias said as he expressed alarm gress, the police and non-government reportage is disagreeable or erroneous made, they should be acknowledged and of national defence and the nila urged the Philippines on on the more than 3,000 suspected drugs groups. is criminal, as is helping spread these corrected. US ambassador to the Philip- Tuesday to live up to previous pushers or users who were killed either in Albuera mayor Rolando Espinosa was threats, especially if any harm should be- What the two unfortunate Reuters re- pines signed the agreement agreements. legitimate police operations or by vigilan- arrested yesterday in connection with the fall the subjects of such opprobrium,” the porters are being persecuted for, however on April 28, 2014. President “We will continue to honour tes. P1.9mn worth of shabu and fi rearms found NUJP said in a statement released on Mon- – even to the alarming extent that they Benigno S Aquino 3rd ratifi ed our alliance commitments, and He noted that the increasing number of in his residence in Leyte on August 10, day. have been receiving death threats – is de- EDCA on June 6, 2014,’” said we expect the Philippines to do casualties in government’s war on drugs is 2016. The group was referring to the case of liberate misreporting, which, to people in the diplomat, who asked not the same,” embassy spokes- fast catching up with the recorded 4,000 Espinosa and his son Kerwin were linked Reuters correspondents Karen Lema and the industry who know these two person- to be named because of lack woman Molly Koscina told individuals who were killed during 20 by President Rodrigo Duterte to the illegal Manuel Mogato, who were accused by ally, is not the case. of authority to speak on the AFP. years of martial law. drug trade and asked them to surrender netizens of “deliberately misreporting” There is a diff erence between pointing matter.The diplomat also in- Philippine defence depart- If the president heeded his call, Tobias “on the grounds of drug-traffi cking and remarks made by president Rodrigo Du- out an error or challenging a conclusion voked Article 12 of the EDCA, ment spokesman Arsenio An- said, the vigilante-style enforcement of coddling”. terte regarding the killings under his anti- from clear facts, and threatening to kill which reads: “This Agreement dolong told AFP on Monday the law would end. Kerwin remains at large. drug campaign and the deaths of millions someone for simply doing his or her job. shall have an initial term of ten the military relationship with He reiterated that the church supports Senior superintendent Franco Simbo- of Jews during the time of Hitler. The latter is a criminal act, the NUJP as- years, and thereafter, it shall the US “has not changed as of the campaign against all forms of crimi- rio, Leyte provincial police offi ce director, As the NUJP explained, some of the serted, and we strongly agree with that. continue in force automatically today.”

Rehab Reds hope talks will focus on reforms

Manila Times agriculture and consequently uplifts the crisis-ridden Quezon City economy of the country,” he said. Caser member Randall Echanis, also an NDFP con- sultant, said “the NDFP proposal on social and eco- he National Democratic Front of the Philippines nomic reforms is a product of consultations with revo- yesterday expressed hopes that social and eco- lutionary forces, grassroots organisations of the toiling Tnomic reforms will be the focus of discussion in masses of farmers and workers, professionals and pa- the second round of peace negotiations between the triotic businessmen.” NDFP and the Government of the Philippines (GPH) in “While we expect lively and contentious discussions Oslo, Norway. on Caser, we also hope that both parties are strong- The NDFP, in a statement e-mailed to reporters cov- willed enough to overcome diff erences in order to solve ering the Philippine National Police, said the social and the armed confl ict at its roots,” Echanis added. economic reforms are the “meat of the peace process”. According to the NDFP proposal, the main Caser The statement said land reform and national indus- objectives are: carry out agrarian reform and national trialisation will be tackled by both parties in the second industrialisation; advance the rights of exploited, op- round of peace negotiations from October 6 to 10. pressed, discriminated and disadvantaged sectors of “After almost two decades and two major economic society; uphold, protect, defend and promote econom- crises, the 1997 Asian regional crisis and the 2008 ic sovereignty; and conserve the national patrimony world fi nancial crisis, the two panels are yet to discuss and protect the environment. a key crisis-protection agreement,” Alan Jazmines said Aside from land reform and national industrialisa- in the statement. tion, the government and the NDFP are also expected Jazmines, an NDFP consultant, is the vice chairman to discuss a proposed bilateral ceasefi re agreement and of the Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and an amnesty proclamation in the second round of peace Economic Reforms (Caser). talks. “Now, we have updated our Caser draft especially in The fi rst round of peace talks, which wrapped up last light of the worsening economic crisis brought about August 19, resulted in the resolution of three issues: by neo-liberal policies. However, land reform and na- affi rmation of previously-signed agreements, recon- tional industrialization are still the main content of our stitution of the Joint Agreement on Security and Im- proposal because of these twin economic development munity Guarantees list and acceleration of process for strategies’ proven resilience to the crisis of globalisa- negotiations. tion,” he said in the statement. The second round of peace talks will be held at the According to Jazmines, “[l]and reform and national Holmenfj ord Hotel. industrialisation are inseparable from one another.” The government peace panel is also hoping that a Former drug dependents undergoing rehabilitation make coff ins as part of a local government drug rehabilitation programme “The agriculture sector advances national industri- peace agreement could be reached within nine to 12 for people involved with drugs in Olongapo city yesterday. alisation, and national industrialisation develops the months from the resumption of talks. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Militants receive cheques for return to normal life Two Bangladeshi cal Islamist outfi t Jamaayetul trict of Bogra and broadcast on “We made a mistake. We Islamist militants Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), television. don’t want anyone else to come receive cheques each for blamed for a cafe siege that A string of attacks by Islam- to this path,” Hakim said. 500,000 taka ($6,350) left 20 mostly foreign hostages ist groups targeting religious Three siblings belonging to to restart their lives dead. minorities, secular and liberal another banned outfi t, Hizb- under a new scheme Elite Rapid Action Battal- activists as well as foreigners ut-Tahrir, also surrendered to attempting to halt rising ion spokesman Mufti Mahmud have blighted Bangladesh over police on Monday, authorities Canadian student Tahmid Hasib Khan, centre, walks with off icials after a court appearance in Dhaka extremism Khan said the pair had recently the last three years. have said. yesterday. reached out to police for assist- The government was left Security analyst Shahab AFP ance as part of a new scheme reeling after Islamist militants Enam Khan applauded the Dhaka announced by the national hacked to death and shot the scheme which comes after police chief. hostages in the siege on an up- the government’s hardline “They were involved with market Dhaka cafe in July. crackdown on opposition wo Bangladeshi Islam- the organisational activities The Islamic State organisa- activists that has seen thou- Student cleared over ist militants received of JMB. They issued a plea to tion claimed responsibility but sands arrested and raised Tcheques from the gov- us through their parents to re- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s allegations of human rights ernment yesterday in return turn to a normal life, therefore, secular government blamed the abuses. for pledging to return to nor- we facilitated their return,” JMB. “It is good that the govern- mal life, under a new scheme Khan said. Little is known about the ment is pursuing a liberal pol- Dhaka cafe attack attempting to halt rising Home Minister Asaduz- two recruits, but Hakim told icy rather than only focusing extremism. zaman Khan handed the pair the ceremony he had chosen on hard approaches,” Khan, Police said Abdul Hakim, 22, cheques each for 500,000 taka “a dark path when there was who teaches at Bangladesh’s AFP days after he was released on bail Police had denied the men and Mahmudul Hasan, 17, had ($6,350) to restart their lives in no aim in life and he had no Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka when police dropped the charges, were in their custody before an- been members of banned lo- a ceremony in the northern dis- wish to live”. said. Dhaka Metropolitan court public nouncing on August 4 that they prosecutor Abdullah Abu said. had been arrested. Bangladeshi court yester- “He (Khan) was exempted as Abu said yesterday that Ka- day formally exonerated police had not found any evi- rim, whose family has also de- Aa student at a Canadian dence against him,” Abu said. nied his involvement, remained university of involvement in a “However, police today fi led in jail. Nepal benefi ts from Finnish-Unicef partnership deadly cafe siege, two months another case against Khan of Bangladesh’s national police after he was arrested and non-cooperation with the in- chief has said the two had fallen charged over the carnage. vestigators,” Abu added, al- under suspicion as a result of IANS helped Nepal to achieve re- have been recognised as ODF been one of the major health Security forces named Tah- though police were not going to their “behaviour and actions” Kathmandu markable result. The partner- districts. challenges for the most vulner- mid Hasib Khan as a suspect in seek his re-arrest. during the siege. ship has assisted in increase of able population, children and the weeks following the siege at Khan, a University of To- Reports in local media said national sanitation coverage “Twenty districts benefi ting women, in Nepal. the upmarket Dhaka cafe in July ronto student who was back in Khan was seen holding a fi re- he partnership between from 43% to 87% between 2010 from this partnership have Finnish-Unicef partnership has when Islamist militants killed 22 his homeland on leave, did not arm and Karim strolling with the United Nations Chil- and 2016, Xinhua reports. achieved open defecation further focused on enhancing ac- mostly foreign hostages. speak with reporters as he left attackers on the roof. Tdren’s Fund (Unicef) and “Twenty districts ben- free (ODF) status” cess to child, gender and disabled Khan’s family vehemently court. The siege was by far the Finland over the past fi ve years efi ting from this partnership friendly water, sanitation and hy- protested his innocence, saying Khan and Hasnat Karim, a deadliest in a string of attacks has signifi cantly contributed in have achieved open defeca- The two sides further in- giene (WASH) facilities in schools. he was in the cafe as a customer British national of Bangladeshi claimed by Islamist groups increasing access to water and tion free (ODF) status, which formed that the partnership Earlier in March, the two and was not connected to the origin, were both inside the cafe which have blighted Bangladesh sanitation in Nepal. represents more than half of will continue with a focus on parties had signed an agree- fi ve gunmen who hacked and when gunmen staged their raid over the last three years. Issuing a joint statement the total number of districts four earthquake-aff ected dis- ment to co-fi nance recovery shot to death the hostages in an on July 1, taking a group of main- The IS organisation claimed yesterday, the two partners that achieved ODF status tricts of Dolakha, Kavrepalan- and reconstruction of WASH attack claimed by the Islamic ly Western diners hostage. responsibility but Prime Minis- informed that the 9.8mn euro nationwide”, the statement chowk, Nuwakot and Gorkha. facilities in communities State group. But neither were seen in pub- ter Sheikh Hasina’s government Finnish-Unicef partnership, reads. Access to sustainable wa- and schools aff ected by the The court formally cleared lic after the end of the siege when said the attack was the work of a which started in 2011, has To date, only 38 districts ter, sanitation and hygiene has devastating earthquakes. the 22-year-old yesterday, three commandos stormed the cafe. homegrown Islamist group. Saarc must Lanka to pay $170mn for A350 deal with cancellation: FM

cross-border Reuters ministration has taken several Colombo steps to reduce losses by the national carrier. The government this week ri Lanka will pay $170mn said it has decided to discon- terror: Lanka to AerCap Holdings tinue its budget airlines Mihin SNV, the world’s largest Lanka with eff ect from Octo- independent aircraft leas- ber 30 as part of the restruc- DPA “If we don’t do it, there’s no ing company, for cancelling ture plan, which had posted New Delhi future for Saarc,” Wickremesin- a lease signed by the previ- an accumulated loss of over ghe said, adding, “It will become ous government for four Rs17bn ($116mn) as of January non-functional”. A350s, Finance Minister Ravi 31 since its inception in 2007. ri Lanka said the main South India pulled out of the Saarc Karunanayake has said. Asian group of nations had summit as relations with Paki- The government is in the Sri Lankan Airlines, which Sto address cross-border ter- stan deteriorated following the process of fi nalising a partner has taken on lease seven rorism, or else the bloc would be September 18 attack. to revive the national carrier. Airbus A330-300s since rendered non-functional. The eight-nation bloc was The government cancelled 2012, has debt of around A summit of the South Asian founded in 1985 to foster region- four A350 aircraft it had signed $3.25bn Association for Regional Co- al co-operation, but its working to lease from AerCap. It has operation (Saarc) was called off has often been marred by ten- placed orders for another four Suren Ratwatte, Sri Lankan recently amid tensions between sions between the two nuclear- A350s with Airbus Group SE. Airlines chief executive of- India and Pakistan following a armed neighbours. “The cost will be $170mn fi cer, said the airline will take deadly militant strike on an In- Last week, the Indian army for the cancellation and it will over Mihin Air’s 11 routes and dian army base. carried out retaliatory “surgi- be paid for AerCap,” the fi - will operate as a normal airline Delhi accused Pakistan of cal strikes” against militants in nance minister said. instead of a budget airline. sponsoring cross-border ter- Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Karunanayake told the par- Sri Lankan Airlines, which rorism and backing insurgents claiming to have infl icted sig- liament that state-run Sri has taken on lease seven Air- who carried out the attack nifi cant casualties. Lankan Airlines do not require bus A330-300s since 2012, has which killed 19 soldiers, a charge Pakistan denied the strikes A350s as its longest fl ight time debt of around $3.25bn. Islamabad denied. took place, calling it “cross- is around 10 hours. It posted a group net loss of “Whether you like it or not, border fi ring”. Government offi cials have Rs16.3bn ($113mn) for the fi - (the issue of) cross-border ter- Earlier yesterday, Indian Ex- said the remaining four A350s nancial year through March 31, rorism is on the table, so Saarc ternal Aff airs Minister Sushma are scheduled to be delivered to- narrowing from the Rs31.4bn heads have to look at this and Swaraj called on Wickremesinghe. ward 2020 but the government loss of a year earlier, due to decide how we are going to han- The Sri Lankan prime minister is yet to take a decision on them. lower oil prices. The carrier dle it,” Sri Lankan Premier Ranil will attend the opening plenary Since coming to power in last posted a profi t in 2009, Wickremesinghe told reporters in of the India Economic Sum- January last year, President a year after Emirates sold its Delhi after holding talks with In- mit in New Delhi today before Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, left, shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Narendra Maithripala Sirisena’s ad- stake in the venture. dian counterpart Narendra Modi. leaving for Colombo. Modi during a photo opportunity at Hyderabad House in New Delhi yesterday. Nepal ratifies climate change pact

Nepal has ratified the Paris Nepal had signed the Paris Agreement on climate change, Agreement under the UN Lanka, Switzerland agree to check illegal migration aiming to make a contribution Framework Convention on towards combating global Climate Change in April in New climate change. York. IANS antha Karunatillake said the the rights of migrants and the to Switzerland during a 30-year continued residence in the The Paris Agreement on Climate negotiators of 196 Colombo agreement looks to promote return of persons with unau- confl ict between Tamil Tiger respective other country. climate change was approved parties had adopted the accord bilateral relations between the thorised stay in a secure and rebels and the military. In order to ensure the proper unanimously at a House at climate change talks in Paris, two countries through dialogue dignifi ed manner. The new agreement between implementation and applica- session in the Nepalese capital France, on December 12, 2015. ri Lanka yesterday an- which is the determining fac- The agreement between Sri Sri Lanka and Switzerland serves tion of the agreement and, more Kathmandu. The Paris Agreement on the nounced that it has tor for the prevention of and the Lanka and Switzerland was to formalise in writing the exist- specifi cally, the safe repatriation On Tuesday, Environment climate change will go into Sreached an agreement with fi ght against irregular migration signed between Swiss Justice ing procedures for mutual co- of returnees and their treat- Minister Jayadev Joshi had implementation post 2020, Switzerland to fi ght against ir- and related criminal activities, Minister Simonetta Sommaruga operation with the Sri Lankan ment in compliance with human tabled the Paris Agreement after the expiry of Kyoto regular migration and related Xinhua reports. and Minister of Internal Aff airs S authorities with regard to the rights norms, regular meetings on the climate change Protocol, the only legally criminal activities. The agreement also guaran- B Navinna readmission of persons who no of experts are foreseen by the at the House seeking its binding agreement to fight Government spokesman Gay- tees the eff ective protection of Hundreds of Sri Lankans fl ed longer fulfi l the conditions for agreement. endorsement. climate change. Gulf Times 22 Thursday, October 6, 2016 COMMENT

Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah Production Editor: C P Ravindran The West on the brink

P.O.Box 2888 Doha, Qatar [email protected] amid political changes Telephone 44350478 (news), 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) The tectonic plates of gaining strength in nearly all EU isolationism, and if France abandons Western orientation. Without them, Fax 44350474 member states; externally, Russia Europe in favour of nationalism, Germany could return to a strategic the Western world have is playing great-power politics and the Western world will become no man’s land, which would endanger started to slip, and many pushing for a “Eurasian Union” – a unrecognisable. It will no longer be a Europe, stoke dangerous illusions in euphemism for renewed Russian bastion of stability, and Europe will Russia, and force Germany itself to people have been slow dominance over Eastern Europe – as descend into chaos indefi nitely. deal with unmanageable challenges to realise the potential an alternative to the EU. In this scenario, many would look to confronting the continent. Both of these forces threaten the Germany, Europe’s largest economy. Germany’s geopolitical orientation GULF TIMES consequences EU’s structure of peace, and the bloc But, though Germany would pay the will be a central underlying issue in will be weakened further without highest economic and political price next year’s general election. If German By Joschka Fischer the UK, its traditional guarantor of if the EU collapsed – its interests are Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own Berlin stability. simply too interwoven with the EU’s Christian Democratic Union ousts her The EU is the linchpin of European- – no one should hope for German because of her refugee policy, the party A ‘hard’ Brexit Western integration; so its weakening renationalisation. We all know what will likely tack to the right in an eff ort his year and next, voters in could cause a European reorientation destruction and calamity that can to win back voters it has lost to the leading Western democracies toward the East. bring to the continent. anti-immigrant, populist Alternative will make decisions that Geopolitically, Germany would for Germany (AfD). will hurt UK’s Tcould fundamentally change Internally, be consigned to an uncertain man- But any move by the CDU to co- the West – and the world – as we have in-the-middle status. While France operate with the AfD, or to validate its known it for decades. is clearly a Western, Atlantic, and arguments, would spell trouble. The In fact, some of these decisions have nationalism has been Mediterranean country, Germany, AfD represents German right-wing economy already been made, the main example gaining strength historically, has oscillated between nationalists (and worse) who want to being the United Kingdom’s vote in East and West. return to the old man-in-the-middle June to leave the European Union. in nearly all EU In fact, this dynamic was long a position and forge a closer relationship Britain faces the prospect of a “hard” Brexit that threatens Meanwhile, Donald Trump in the constitutive element of the German with Russia. Cooperation between the to further roil markets after a plunge in the pound to multi- United States and Marine Le Pen member states Reich. The East-or-West question CDU and AfD would betray Adenauer’s in France could very well win their wasn’t fi nally decided until after legacy and be tantamount to the end of year low points this week. countries’ upcoming presidential This outcome would become Germany’s total defeat in 1945. Following the Bonn Republic. Following Britain’s shock referendum vote on June elections. A year ago, forecasting a even more likely if Americans elect the establishment of the Federal Meanwhile, there is similar danger 23 in favour of exiting the European Union, it was not victory by either would have been Trump, who openly admires Russian Republic in 1949, German Chancellor from the other side of the aisle, considered absurd; today, we must President Vladimir Putin and would Konrad Adenauer chose the West. because any prospective CDU-AfD immediately clear what form the separation would take. admit that such scenarios are all too accommodate Russian great-power Adenauer had witnessed the coalition would have to rely on Die But Prime Minister Theresa May has hinted at a hard possible. politics at the expense of European full scope of the German tragedy – Linke (the Left Party), some of whose Brexit that would see Britain’s departure from the single The tectonic plates of the Western and transatlantic ties. Such a Yalta including two world wars and the leading members eff ectively want world have started to slip, and many 2.0 moment would then fuel anti- collapse of the Weimar Republic – the same thing as the AfD: closer market, or tariff -free zone, while also ending the free people have been slow to realise the Americanism in Europe and compound and he considered the young Federal relations with Russia and looser or no movement of people. potential consequences. After the the geopolitical damage suff ered by the Republic’s ties with the West to integration with the West. May yesterday said she wanted a Brexit deal that off ered UK’s Brexit referendum, we now know West. be more important than German One hopes that we will be spared better. Likewise, a victory for the far-right reunifi cation. For him, Germany had this tragic future, and that Merkel will “maximum freedom” to operate in Europe’s single market The UK’s decision was a de facto nationalist Le Pen next spring would to abandon its man-in-the-middle retain her offi ce beyond 2017. The future from the outside as well as emphasising the need for control decision against a European order signal France’s rejection of Europe. position, and thus its isolation, by of Germany, Europe and the West may over immigration into Britain. of peace based on integration, co- Given France’s role as one of the EU’s irreversibly integrating with Western depend on it. - Project Syndicate operation, and a common market and critical foundation stones (along with security and economic institutions. But European leaders have made it clear that any attempts jurisdiction. It came amid growing Germany), the election of Le Pen The post-war Franco-German zJoschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign to limit the infl ux of EU workers into Britain would mean internal and external pressure on that would most likely mean the end of the rapprochement and European minister and vice chancellor from 1998 ejection from the single market. order. EU itself. integration under the EU have been to 2005, was a leader of the German Green Party for almost 20 years. After May on Sunday set an end-March deadline for the Internally, nationalism has been If the UK and the US turn to neo- indispensable elements of Germany’s country to start negotiations to leave the European Union, the pound has slumped to 31-year-lows against the dollar and three-year troughs versus the euro. A study yesterday showed the cost of a hard Brexit for revenues in Britain’s fi nancial services sector could total as much as £38bn ($48bn), risking the loss of up to 75,000 jobs. A halt to British companies being able to sell services freely across the European single market would result also in a heavy loss The International of tax revenues, according to the study Monetary Fund commissioned by on Tuesday cut lobbyists The CityUK. According to its 2017 growth Britain’s fi nancial forecast for Britain, watchdog meanwhile, “passport” rights blaming Brexit allowing 5,500 British- based fi nancial fi rms to operate freely across the European single market are at stake. Some 8,000 fi nancial fi rms based elsewhere in the European Union also do business in Britain via passporting, and their rights are likewise threatened, the Financial Conduct Authority revealed last month. “If Britain wants a hard Brexit, that can be announced German Chancellor Angela Merkel: If Merkel’s own Christian Democratic Union ousts her because of her refugee policy, the party will likely tack to the right in an eff ort now, without negotiation... but it would be dangerous not to win back voters it has lost to the anti-immigrant, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). only for business in the UK but also across Europe,” said Mark Boleat, chairman of City of London Corporation’s policy committee. “There would be the introduction of custom and other trade barriers and problems of movement of workers in and Brain drain exacerbates healthcare crisis in Africa out the UK. There is little enthusiasm in business for a hard By Cesar Chelala to incorporate them into the labour orphans placing social services under United Kingdom and the United States Brexit,” he said. New York force. To achieve that, it is important enormous stress. was close to $2.2bn. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its 2017 to provide them with the basic skills HIV/Aids, however, is not the only According to WHO, of the 57 that would enable them to live up to concern. The recent Ebola epidemic countries recognised to have critical growth forecast for Britain, blaming Brexit, and warned that started travelling to Africa on their earning potential. Unesco and the underscored the shortage of doctors shortages of healthcare workers, 36 the damage could be greater if rocky negotiations lead to public health-related missions at International Labor Organisation (ILO) and the weakness of the health are in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition trade barriers. the beginning of the 1980s. From have recommended that governments, infrastructure in several of the aff ected to doctors, however, a wide array of the beginning, Africa caught my international donors and the private countries. On the positive side, and professionals and technicians has left But May insists that leaving the EU will provide an I interest and my imagination. It is, after sector develop integrated policies to thanks in great part to foreign aid to their countries of origin. opportunity to “reshape” the nation and “bring power all, the continent where my father was create jobs for young people and ease combat the epidemic, basic health Health problems in Africa cannot home”. born – when my Lebanese grandfather the transition from school to work. services in several countries have be considered in isolation. Foreign went to work providing food to miners The emigration of professionals and considerably improved. technical and fi nancial assistance is “This is our generation’s moment, to write a new future in Transvaal. In 1981, I started going young people has had a deleterious South Africa has the highest needed. More eff orts must be made to on the page and to bring power home and to make decisions on public health missions to many eff ect on the economies of African tuberculosis death rate per capita increase access to primary healthcare, here in Britain,” May said in a keynote speech at an annual countries worldwide. Going to Africa countries. Dr Lalla Ben Barka, from the worldwide, followed by Zimbabwe especially in rural areas, accompanied was particularly interesting to me, UN Economic Commission for Africa and Mozambique. The situation is by health promotion, disease conference of the ruling Conservative Party. Leaving the EU since it allowed me to go to places and (ECA) said: “In 25 years, Africa will be exacerbated by the high number prevention and improved health will also give people a chance “to take back control here in see situations that no tourist normally empty of brains.” of cases of multidrug-resistant education activities. Britain, to build an outward-looking trading nation here in sees. Some facts support his assertion: tuberculosis in several countries. Eff ective aid must bypass corrupt From the beginning I realised that since 1990, Africa has been losing In addition, diarrhoeal and respiratory governments and fi nd ways of helping Britain,” she said. Her words sound confi dent but the signs there are two Africas: one normally 20,000 professionals annually; more infections, malaria, measles and people directly. Aid to Africa should so far have not been good. portrayed in the media, a land of than 300,000 professionals reside malnutrition represent big threats to be aimed at strengthening civil society poverty, disease and war; and the outside Africa; there are more African children’s health. Malaria is the leading and community-based organisations. other, a vital, energetic continent scientists and engineers in the US than cause of death among children under 5. Religious organisations have proven to To Advertise of hardworking men and women, a in the entire African continent. The continuing exodus of physicians be extremely helpful in the fi ght against continent of beautiful children and According to the United Nations, and nurses to industrialised countries HIV/Aids. [email protected] young men and young women, a “emigration of African professionals to exacerbates health problems. The World African governments need to provide Display continent of humour and a continent the West is one of the greatest obstacles Health Organisation (WHO) estimates education for all age levels, and they of hope. to Africa’s development.” that 23,000 healthcare workers leave need better trade conditions for their Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 Today, six of the 10 fastest growing In the health area, although Africa annually. Malawi, a country of products. They don’t need loans that Classified economies in the world are in Africa. considerable progress has been made 15.38mn people, has a severe shortage end up in the pockets of those in power. However, despite progress, important in the fi ght against HIV/Aids (South of doctors and nurses. According to They need fi nancial assistance given in a Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 problems remain such as youth Africa will become the fi rst African WHO, there is only one doctor for every carefully planned and responsible way. Subscription unemployment. It is estimated that country to fully manage its HIV care 40,000 people in the country. [email protected] 70% of the population in Sub-Saharan and treatment programme in a few According to a 2011 study by the zCesar Chelala, MD and PhD, is Africa is under the age of 30 and that years), other challenges remain. British Medical Journal, the lost an international public-health 60% of the unemployed are also young It is estimated that more than 2mn investment of domestically-educated consultant. He has carried out health- 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved people. children under fi ve are HIV-positive, doctors migrating from sub-Saharan related missions in 50 countries, many New policies should be developed and there are more than 12mn Aids countries to Australia, Canada, the of them in Africa. Gulf Times Thursday, October 6, 2016 23 COMMENT When globalisation eats its young

Globalisation is beleaguered uniformly levied, and must be haggled and development that would be partly because of decisions over and settled individually in each prohibitively expensive for any case. These discussions are often private fi rm. America’s technological made by governments under politicised and involve high-level superiority since World War II is the auspices of an open government interventions. a direct result of its Cold War-era What is the rationale for these fi nes? military-industrial mobilisation, international order To be sure, Deutsche Bank and other which led to the development of European icons such as Volkswagen satellite technology as well as what By Harold James and British Petroleum should answer would become the Internet. Princeton for, respectively, misdeed in selling Direct state support for high- mortgage securities, systematically tech companies often confl icts with manipulating CO2-emissions tests, international trade rules designed vidence that globalisation is and polluting the Gulf of Mexico. But to encourage neutrality and a level reversing continues to pile while foreign companies may act more playing fi eld. For example, the World up: trade and international aggressively to capture market share Trade Organisation just ruled that Ecapital fl ows are sluggish, in new areas, they are obviously not Airbus, a European company, has and migration is increasingly being the only off enders, as demonstrated received state aid in violation of WTO restricted. These trends emerged in by the wave of outrage against banks rules. According to the WTO, Airbus’s the aftermath of the 2008 fi nancial and American corporations after the successful new Airbus A350 made it crisis, so they can’t be blamed on fi nancial crisis. to market only because of the “direct a new populist backlash against One diff erence is that it is easier for and indirect eff ects” of long-term globalisation. Rather, their source domestic companies to tell their own government support. can be traced to national authorities’ government why they are necessary, The Airbus controversy has failure to take the logic of globalisation how many jobs they create, how many been dragging on for decades, with seriously. vendors and subcontractors they hire, Europeans countering that Boeing, In a year when the United Kingdom and so forth. Domestic companies an American company, is viable only voted to “Brexit” from the European have a home-fi eld advantage when because of its status as a US military Union, and Republicans in the United lobbying to escape or reduce penalties. supplier. Indeed, this lobbying game is States chose Donald Trump as In 2014 for example, Citigroup often a race to the bottom, and foreign their presidential candidate, anti- convinced the US government to halve companies are compelled to establish globalisation populism does seem a fi ne almost the size of Deutsche a local presence so that they can ubiquitous. But while it is tempting Bank’s for the same mortgage abuse. persuade politicians that they are just to see populism as a cause of global Thus, domestic corporate lobbying as benefi cial to the domestic economy economic woes, the movement has, often leads to something akin to as their native competitors. in fact, had only limited political regulatory capture, whereby the Market economies cannot operate successes so far. government privileges national when their established rules are After all, the world economy is Globalisation is beleaguered proceedings against Microsoft were illegally reduced by the Irish corporate interests. The public’s haphazardly enforced, which is not sputtering because Poland and partly because of decisions made by and Google. Whether these cases government, the US fi ned Deutsche ambient suspicion of corporations is what happens when national and Hungary have populist right-wing governments under the auspices of an are about American companies Bank, a German company, $14bn to then focused more directly on foreign international regulators turn into governments committed to reasserting open international order. But, more abusing competitive power, or about settle claims relating to its mortgage- fi rms. advocates for local enterprises and national sovereignty. Left-wing important, it is suff ering as a result of the European Union infl uencing backed securities business prior to the American and EU judicial enemies of foreign businesses. This populism, for its part, has even less to judicial and quasi-judicial decisions technology policy and promoting 2008 crash. authorities are one source of is not the result of a populist revolt; brag about: Fidel Castro is fading away to impose large fi nancial penalties on domestic alternatives to American One could regard these various this new nationalism. Another is but populists in power certainly won’t in Cuba; Argentina is recovering from foreign corporations. companies, depends on where one’s penalties as an eff ective response the institutions responsible for address it. — Project Syndicate catastrophic mismanagement under Judicial actions against loyalties lie. in a world where multinational international trade, especially when the Néstor Kirchner and Cristina multinational corporations are now Likewise, the US can and does take corporations have become extremely new technologies are in play. zHarold James is Professor of History Fernandez de Kirchner presidencies; straining transatlantic relations. action against European companies. skilled at reducing their conventional Many of the fundamental and International Aff airs at Princeton and Venezuela’s economy has In Europe, the European After the EU announced that it would tax liabilities. The problem is that, technological breakthroughs over the University and a senior fellow at the imploded under President Nicolás Commission has been leading the require Apple to pay €13bn ($14.6bn) unlike normal taxes, fi nes against past century have come from large Center for International Governance Maduro. charge with ongoing antitrust in back taxes, which it alleges companies are not predictively or government outlays for research Innovation.

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By Mariette Le Roux, Marlowe Hood/ department of theoretical physics. “topological states,” scientists regardless of the deforming forces AFP A strange universe of fundamental hope one day to transport energy or being applied to them,” said David Paris shapes long existing only in information farther and fastest than Carpentier, a physicist at France’s mathematics, the fi eld was introduced possible today. CNRS research institute. into the physics realm just a few “Pioneers glimpsed that topology “It is exactly this robustness in topologist is a person who decades ago. could have some relevance to physics,” topology that is being examined as a cannot tell the diff erence Indeed, in the mid-20th century said Asorey. basis for constructing the quantum between a coff ee mug and a theoretical physicist George Gamow “But the real practical applications computers of the future.” Adonut -so goes a joke about said topology was one of two became apparent because of these Quantum computers, still on the a little-known scientifi c fi eld crowned mathematical concepts, along with three gentlemen,” -Nobel laureates drawing board, promise superfast Around the world on Tuesday with a Nobel Physics Prize. number theory, that would never apply David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and processing speeds using the properties Weather Weather The quip describes it perfectly: to physics. Michael Kosterlitz - who “realised that of subatomic particles that exist in today Max/min tomorrow Max/min topology explains how a material’s topology was not something visible,” more than one state at once. Athens M Sunny 26/16 Sunny 27/19 shape can be completely deformed he told AFP. But they pose a high risk of Beirut Sunny 28/21 Sunny 27/21 T Storms T Storms 31/25 Today, topology has overheating, which is where Bangkok 32/25 into new one without losing its core “Now people are generalising Berlin S Showers 13/07 M Cloudy 14/07 properties. these ideas to many other fields of topological insulators with an inherent Cairo Sunny 32/22 P Cloudy 32/21 In the metaphor, the mug and the burgeoned into a physics.” stability would come in very handy. Cape Town Showers 17/10 M Sunny 18/11 donut are one and the same. If they Sometimes referred to as “rubber “Two years ago, I would have said it Colombo S T Storms 30/26 P Cloudy 29/26 wide range of physics S T Storms S T Storms 32/26 were made out of rubber, one could be sheet geometry”, topology in physics would take at least two decades to see Dhaka 32/26 Hong Kong M Sunny 31/27 S T Storms 30/27 twisted and stretched into the shape sub-fi elds promising remains in the theoretical and something on the supermarket shelf” Istanbul P Cloudy 21/14 P Cloudy 24/17 of the other without changing its experimental realm for now. resulting from topology research, Jakarta T Storms 32/24 T Storms 32/24 essence. a host of practical But its principles are widely Asorey said. Karachi Sunny 33/26 Sunny 35/26 The two are considered expected to fi nd practical and “Today, I would say one decade, London P Cloudy 14/10 P Cloudy 17/11 Manila T Storms 30/25 T Storms 29/26 topologically equivalent as each has a applications commercial application within a maybe less.” Moscow Cloudy 11/08 Showers 09/07 hole -the ear of the mug and the centre decade or two, particularly in the For Nathan Goldman of the Free New Delhi S Showers 33/26 Sunny 35/25 of the donut. Gamow was wrong. quantum sphere of electronics and University of Brussels, “we are still a New York Sunny 24/14 P Cloudy 23/17 “You can put your fi nger through Today, topology has burgeoned computing. ways from technological applications” Paris M Sunny 16/08 M Sunny 17/08 T Storms Showers 19/13 the hole in a teacup handle, but you into a wide range of physics It is hoped, for example, that new or a revolution in computing. Sao Paulo 23/13 Seoul Sunny 23/15 P Cloudy 24/16 can’t put it through a potato, so sub-fi elds promising a host of materials emerging from this research “The next step will be to create Singapore I T Storms 32/25 T Storms 31/26 these are two diff erent categories of practical applications ranging from will use much less electricity. these objects in the lab and try to Sydney Sunny 27/14 M Sunny 30/19 topological objects,” explained Manuel supercomputing to superconductors. The key virtue of topological manipulate them, performing very Tokyo Clear 30/24 Clear 23/18 Asorey of the University of Zaragoza’s By shaping materials into materials is that they “remain robust simple operations.” Gulf Times 24 Thursday, October 6, 2016 QATAR

Class of 2022 during the new student boot camp.

Wilfredo Santos and Mohamed Althaf at the inauguration of Pinoy Festival yesterday along with other officials and dignitaries. PICTURE: Noushad Thekkayil QU-CMED enrols Pinoy Fiesta begins at LuLu outlets

he 2016 edition of the well as senior executives from have been planned on a number jicamas, dragon fruit, duri- Pinoy Fiesta, organised leading organisations in the re- of imported items in asso- an, pomelo, papaya, tanglad, Tby LuLu Hypermarket tail industry. ciation with brands including kamote (white and violet), ka- 93 new students Mama Sita’s, Ligo, Del Monte, mias, ube, rambutan, pandan Group, got under way yester- Through the festival, the day. The festival will continue group “endeavoured to celebrate CDO, Lucky Me, Selecta, and leaves, pineapple, banana, se- until November 5. the culinary heritage and food UFC Century. norita banana, sweet corn and The fi esta was opened by habits in the Philippines, as well In terms of agricultural pro- hass avocado will be available Philippine ambassador Wil- as to highlight and promote the duce from the Philippines, throughout the festival period. fredo Santos at LuLu Hyper- best-quality Filipino food prod- large stocks of langsat, white A raffl e draw has been organ- to Class of 2022 onion, curly parsley, Philippine ised for customers who buy any market, D-Ring Road, in the ucts and agricultural produce presence of Mohamed Althaf, among the local community”, it mango, garlic, morning glory of the off ered items for QR25. atar University College those were enrolled. For inter- “However, this level of de- director of LuLu Group In- said in a press statement. leaves, bean sprout, paksoi, The participants are entitled to of Medicine (QU-CMED) national students, the cut-off mand should not be the main ternational, and several other “Extensive promotion cam- baby paksoi, saba, calamansi, win 15 “to and fro” air tickets Qhas enrolled 93 new stu- high-school GPA was at a mini- driver and should not compro- LuLu offi cials and dignitaries as paigns and price-buster off ers” guyabano, mangosteen (wild), for the Manila sector. dents, including 58 Qataris, to its mum of 99.0%. They come from mise the quality of education Class of 2022, which began its a wide range of schools in Doha. off ered at CMED, the rigour ex- journey towards the MD degree Additionally, four students from pected from students and edu- last month. medical schools in the UK and cators, or the necessary diligence Compared to last year, there is Saudi Arabia transferred to QU of continuously assessing and an increase of 16% students this College of Medicine. improving the admission crite- year. While 73% of the new ap- QU vice president for Medical ria,” he said. GU-Q to host Arab music concert plicants were accepted into the Education and CMED dean Prof CMED associate dean for aca- fi rst year (General Medicine), Egon Toft said with an eye on the demic aff airs Prof Hossam Ham- eorgetown University in “I fi rmly believe that hosting world. She is known for singing 27% were enrolled as Foundation increase in the number of appli- dy said the programme matches Qatar (GU-Q) will host such events and bringing in re- the works of famous Lebanese students. cants, the admission committee up to date international stand- Gan Arab music concert nowned artists gives us the op- composer Marcel Khalifa and Nine transfer students were is looking into the possibility of ards and outcome competencies featuring Lebanese singer Ou- portunity to relate their crea- Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish, also admitted into Class of revising admission criteria and of a graduate practicing medi- meima El-Khalil and musician tive works to the cultural and among others. 2022, coming from other col- admission processes to ensure cine in 2021. Hani Siblini on October 10 at linguistic topics that we focus Siblini started his career leges within QU and 13 Qatari maintaining a suitable balance CMED acting assistant dean 6pm in its main auditorium. on in our academic fi eld,” said composing commercial music students who were admitted last between quality and individual- for student aff airs Ghada al-Ku- El-Khalil, known for her Abbas al-Tonsi, director of the and documentary background year to the Medicine Foundation ised focus, and to maximise the wari said: “We are very pleased performance of classical Ara- Arab Language Programme at music, and went on to accom- have joined the cohort. number of graduates to meet the to see an increase in the intake bic songs, will take the stage GU-Q. pany the legendary Lebanese All Qatari applicants who high demand in the health care of the College and in the number alongside Siblini, her husband El-Khalil’s roots go back to singer Fayrouz as a pianist. met the criteria were admit- sector for locally trained highly of applicants especially in the and musical partner. Siblini, a the Lebanese city of Baalbek in Siblini understands El-Kha- ted. International applicants qualifi ed medical doctors. number of national students. We talented composer, pianist and the Bekaa valley where she start- lil’s voice capabilities, and has competed for the remaining CMED associate dean for clini- hope this number continues to keyboard player, has worked ed singing at the age of 12. Over composed beautiful melodies seats. The admission process cal aff airs Dr Abdullatif al-Khal rise and that the eff orts the col- with El-Khalil on popular a career extending for more than with creative arrangements this year was highly competi- observed that the estimated needs lege is exerting towards attract- songs such as “A young man 30 years, El-Khalil has become a for her. He has also rearranged tive with 1,009 students apply- of the healthcare sector in Qatar ing Qatari students to the medi- and a young girl,” “Days,” and prominent singer and respected some old Arab classical songs ing. Though 616 of them met the for medical graduates is around cal profession will continue to be Lebanese singer Oumeima the famous hit “I said I will artist with a number of hits and that date back to the early 20th admission criteria, only 15% of 200 new doctors every year. fruitful.” El-Khalil write to you.” a large fan base across the Arab century for her to perform.

Rohit Pandit (COO, Video Home), Changho Lee (LG GF RAF Division general manager), Khalifa al-Haroon (social media entrepreneur), Sajed Jassim Mohamed Sulaiman (vice chairman and managing director, Video Home), C V Rappai (director & CEO,Video Home), Derek Sim (LG MEA Regional Headquarter marketing director) and Mohamed Anis (general manager, Video Home) at the celebration of 30 years partnership. Sajed Jassim Mohamed Sulaiman (vice chairman and managing director, Video Home), and C V Rappai (director & CEO, Video Home), present a memento on the occasion of Jumbo + LG 30 Years partnership celebration to Kevin Cha (LG CEO Gulf) and YG Choi (LG president Gulf). Video Home celebrates 30-year partnership with LG

ideo Home & Electronic it increases their chances of Video Home’s association reach QR500mn in revenue with of dedication and valuable sup- this milestone represents our LG & Video Home together Centre, the sole dis- winning with an additional raf- with LG began in 1986. The fi rst LG brand by 2016. port to make LG, the brand of strong partnership that we have over the years have also part- Vtributor in Qatar for LG fl e coupon. electronics showroom for LG, Yong Geun Choi, president of choice among consumers. We in place and we look forward to nered and sponsored many ac- Electronics, a global leader and The other prizes to be won in- then Goldstar, was opened in LG Electronics Gulf said: “I am look forward to paving the way the next chapter of growth with tivities and prestigious events technology innovator in con- clude LG 60” Ultra HD TVs, LG 1989 in Msheireb, followed by pleased to celebrate our 30-year to celebrate more milestones in LG in Qatar through the open- including the Emir Cup for Foot- sumer electronics, is celebrating Door in Door Refrigerators, LG many other exclusive LG show- partnership with Video Home & the years to come.” ing of our new premium brand ball, Emir Cup for Volleyball, its 30 years’ partnership with LG Cord Zero Vacuum Cleaners, LG rooms. Electronic Center as they have C V Rappai, director and CEO, shop in the Mall of Qatar,” he Schools Volleyball Develop- through a special raffl e off er. HD LED Projectors, LG Air Pu- Over the last 30 years Video been the backbone of Qatar’s Video Home & Electronic Cen- said. ment for two consecutive years A total of 30 winners are to rifi ers, LG Hi Fi Systems, LG K8 Home & Electronic Center has evolving consumer electronic tre, stated that LG Electronics Over the years, Video Home & through Qatar Volleyball As- be picked through a raffl e draw Smart Phones. played a signifi cant role in es- landscape. Qatar is a key mar- as a global consumer electron- Electronic Centre has received sociation, and 3 X 3 Basketball with a grand prize of LG 65” Also customers shopping at tablishing the LG brand across ket to us as local consumers are ics leader and an innovator has numerous awards from LG for Asian Championship conducted OLED TV. To participate in the Jumbo Electronics can get up households in Qatar. Since 2000, very tech-savvy and contribute always strived to live up to the excellence in Sales, Project Busi- by Qatar Basketball Federation. raffl e draw customers have to to 25,000 Jumbo Digits Points the company has achieved a signifi cantly to our growth. We consumers’ expectations. ness, Best Practice, Outstanding Video Home & Electronic buy any LG product. For every which they can use to redeem on compound annual growth rate of would like to thank Video Home “We have enjoyed a great MEA Service, Green & Sustain- Centre has a chain of 15 show- QR1,000 spent on LG products their next purchase. 16.57%. Video Home expects to & Electronic Center for 30 years partnership over these years and able Marketing and many more. rooms across Qatar.