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Patrons may soon be able to monitor restaurant kitchens

SIDI MOHAMED A proposal has been will remain on commercial THE PENINSULA sent to the Minister complexes which sell Ramadan items. The second phase will Office which aims to start with special monitoring of DOHA: In a bid to control viola- oblige the restaurants sweet and fried fruit shops who tions committed by restaurant of fixing cameras at make brisk business in the run chefs, the Ministry of Munici- their kitchen with up to Garangao celebration pality and Environment is set during the middle of Ramadan to make the whole cooking display screens in while by the end of Ramadan the process transparent for dining halls for the slaughter houses will remain customers either through glass customers so that prime focus of inspection and walls between dining halls and monitoring, he pointed out. kitchens of eateries or by using they can see the Regarding Ramadan tents closed-circuit television preparation of food for Iftar, he said there will be a cameras installed in cooking and we are waiting special inspection of them to areas with display screens in for the Minister’s monitor food preparation, trans- dining rooms. porting it and how it is served By these measures, the cus- approval in this to people, because such tents Al Duhail beat Al Sadd to enter Amir Cup final tomers of eateries will be able regard, says official. needed special monitoring as Al Sadd’s Abdelkerem Hassan (centre) vies for the ball with two Al Duhail players during the Amir to follow live cooking while they gather hundreds of people Cup semi-final played at the Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. Al Duhail beat Al Sadd 1-0 to advance to waiting for the food in the dining municipality officials noticed every day. the final. PIC: MOHAMED FARAG halls of the restaurants. that the restaurants which had He stressed that the igno- The move will make the glass walls between eating areas rance of the new employees workers (chefs or waiters) act and cooking stations committed hired at restaurants about health more responsibly due to fear of lesser violations and fewer com- standards of food safety was the monitoring by clients as well as plaints were lodged against biggest challenge for the it would assure people about the them by the customers as com- municipalities. Turkey concerned good hygienic quality of food pared to those eateries where “We call for efforts to raise Qatar wins five gold and being served, an official at the dining halls and kitchens were awareness of this category of by situation on Ministry of Municipality and completely separate. workers, demanding food a silver in ITEX Malyasia Environment told The Peninsula Regarding inspection cam- establishments to rehabilitate Yemen’s Socotra yesterday. paigns in Ramadan, he said that their workers and raise THE PENINSULA Visually Impaired Students by after UAE move “A proposal in this regard due to the rush, some outlets awareness among them about Amna Al Muhannadi, Talla has been sent to the Minister especially sweet shops and food safety.” DOHA: Qatar has won five Amer Al Lawzi, and Nada Esam Office which aims to oblige the eateries, may not give proper The Ministry official also gold medals and one silver also from Al Bayan Secondary AFP/QNA restaurants of fixing cameras at attention to the health standards urged the public to visit shops medal yesterday in ITEX School for Girls won gold their kitchen with display and requirements, so the focus and supermarkets which see Malaysia2018 (International medals. ANKARA: Turkey yesterday screens in dining halls for the will be more on them. more customers instead of the Invention, Innovation & Using Picture Processing for expressed concern over the customers so that they can see “Round-the-clock inspec- ones no one visits, and also Technology Exhibition). Automatic Classification of situation on Yemen’s Arabian the preparation of food and we tions will focus on outlets that avoid shopping while being The Ministry of Education Wastes by Abdulrahman Fahad Sea island of Socotra after the are waiting for the Minister’s receive more visitors during the hungry. He also stressed that and Higher Education Yusef Al Muzafar and Mahmoud Yemeni government said the approval in this regard,” the fasting month. We have divided people must check the products’ yesterday tweeted that “Qatar Albulhamed Al Qassim from United Arab Emirates official added. the inspection drives into three expiry date before buying and has been crowned today Ahamed bin Hambal Secondary deployed troops there without He said that the idea was phases. In the first phase in the not to leave it for a longer time through its students and School and Tariq bin Zeyad informing Sana’a first. conceived when the beginning of Ramadan, focus in the car. schools winning five gold Secondary School for Boys also The Yemeni government medals and one silver medal gold medal. said earlier this month the in the ITEX Malaysia 2018 Other devices were also UAE had sent forces to (International Invention, presented by students including Socotra, which has been Innovation & Technology Device for Voice Recognition spared the violence that has Exhibition) which is taking by Al Dana Al Dawsari, Alyaa ravaged mainland Yemen, place on May 10-12, 2018 at the Al Kuwari and Mazfar without telling President Kuala Lumpur Convention Nuralddin from Al Bayan Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Centre (KLCC) in Kuala Secondary School, Al Maha “We are closely following Lumpur, Malaysia”. Academy and Musaab bin the recent developments in The Ministry of Education Umair Secondary School for Yemen’s Socotra Island,” the also said in its tweet: “Thanks Girls. Turkish foreign ministry said Qatar’s Science and Technology Marine Degradable Plastic in a statement, without Park, member of Qatar Products based on Soybean explicitly referring to the UAE. Foundation for supporting the were presented by Sharif “We are concerned about Qatari team to take part in this Ahmed Al Muhanndi and these developments that pose exhibition, as well ours thanks Thajeya Mohammed Yacob Al a new threat to the territorial to the Qatar’s Ambassador in Hail from Al Khor Secondary integrity and sovereignty of Malaysia, Issa bin Mohammed School for Girls. Yemen,” it added. Al Manaai, for his efforts ITEX is one of the largest The UAE and its ally Saudi provided to our students and international competitions in Arabia have backed the gov- efforts carried out by the the field of scientific inventions ernment of Hadi — which con- embassy for the comfort of the which is being held for the last trols Socotra — in the civil war students and accompanying 28 years. against Houthi rebels. But ana- team”. This year more than 1000 lysts say Abu Dhabi has Smart Alarm for Seizure inventors from 23 different recently taken its distance from Lighted up landmark in Lusail City Patients (SASP) by Sarah Kaml countries participated in the Hadi, with the UAE backing Aldin Hamza and Hassah exhibition’s various scientific separatists who took control of A night view of the Lusail Marina Arch in the Lusail City. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA Nasser Ahmed Al Suwaidi from and technical fields. the south from Hadi in January. Al Bayan Secondary School for Girls; Indoor Navigation for →SEE ALSO PAGE 3 →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Kuwait: Doha Document for Peace in Darfur should be base for peace in region

QNA Permanent Representative of Kuwaiti diplomat who indicated the cooperation between the members of the mission in Liberation and Justice Movement Kuwait at the UN headquarters that the visit organised within the Sudanese government and United accordance to a transitional (LJM) signed a protocol NEW YORK: The State of Kuwait in New York, Ambassador parameters of UNSC resolution Nations-African Union Mission strategy that would ensure that agreement committing them- renewed late on Thursday calls Mansour Al Otaibi lauded the 1591 concerning Sudan. in Darfur (UNAMID), saying that the situation would not deteri- selves to the Document, which for finding a political solution to recent UN Secretariat report on Ambassador Al Otaibi said their efforts facilitated the visits orate in Darfur. is now the framework for the the conflict in the Sudanese the improving security situation that stability and the continuous of missions from the UN and the The Doha Document for comprehensive peace process in region of Darfur, saying that the in the Sudanese region, reported efforts to gather arms should African Union (AU). Peace in Darfur (DDPD) was Darfur. Doha Document should be the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). protect civilians from harm and He also commended finalised at the All Darfur Stake- Many of them subsequently base for peace in the region. A Kuwaiti delegation was lead to the return of displaced measures to facilitate the pullout holders Conference in May 2011, joined the document and were Speaking at the meeting on part of a UN mission’s visit to and refugees to their homes. of the current UNAMID mission in Doha. On July 14, 2012, the involved in the peace process the UN mission in Darfur, Darfur back in April, said the The Kuwaiti diplomat lauded and efforts to replace the Government of Sudan and the and national dialogue. 02 HOME SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 Amir Cup trophy tour receives rousing welcome

DOHA: The Amir Cup trophy tour “Fool-proof security is a must at invite all citizens and residents is continuing across the country all top international sports events to come to the Khalifa Interna- with great success as Qatar’s most and the Amir Cup final is one such tional Stadium and spend an popular football tournament event in Qatar,” Al Kuwari said. extraordinary evening in a spec- reaches the final stages. “We are pleased that we tacular Ramadan atmosphere for In a recent episode of the have the backing of the most the final on May 19th. The Amir highly successful Amir Cup trophy competent security authorities Cup final will impress the fans and tour, a delegation from the Qatar in Qatar for the Amir Cup final,” the participation of families and Football Association (QFA) was he added. The QFA officials and children will add splendour to the received at the Establishments and the Ministry of Interior dele- occasion.” For his part, Brigadier Authorities Security Department gation continued the discussions Ali Khajim expressed his hap- headquarters. The Department of for a lengthy period of time piness over his team’s cooperation National Security at the Ministry of before announcing the details. ahead of the Amir Cup final. “This Interior laid out the plans for QFA, Al Kuwari said: “At the outset, will be the end of the regular confirming fool-proof arrange- I would like to extend my sincere sports season and all eyes will be ments for the Amir Cup final to be thanks and appreciation to Brig- on the Amir Cup final. We are fully played on May 19 at the iconic adier General Ali Khajim Al Adhbi aware of the magnitude of this Khalifa International Stadium. for his team’s continuous efforts event. Our job is to ensure the The Amir Cup recently was to secure the high profile football safety of the guests, players and announced as an event for the clash.” He added: “Our common officials on May 19,” he said. people of Qatar in a show of sol- goal is to stage the event in a glo- “Ours is a highly skilled job idarity with the leadership of the rious manner and with all vistas that requires the greatest amount country and the common man’s of security fully in place. That’s of tactical nuance and prepa- love of football. The QFA dele- the objective when we talk of the ration. We feel proud to be asso- The Qatar Football Association (QFA) delegation led by Khalid Mubarak Al Kuwari (sitting second right), gation was led by Khalid Mubarak Amir Cup final.” ciated with this event,” he said. Director of Marketing and Communication, during the Amir Cup trophy tour. Al Kuwari, Director of the Mar- The QFA official further He explained: “Stadium keting and Communication. The added: “Security at top events is security means the protection of delegation included representa- Farhan and Mousa Haroun), Al Al Adhbi, Director of Establish- replica of the Amir Cup trophy no less a science nowadays. The the public, the safety of sports tives of the Marketing and Com- Gharafa (Ahmed Ala’a) and ments and Authorities Security to the Establishments and QFA and the Ministry of Interior facilities as well as the security of munication Department, Fadala (Ismaeel Mohammed) Al Duhail Department, Captain Mubarak Authorities Security Department are on one page for this final.” competing athletes and officials. Al Fadalah, Abdulrahman Abdul football teams. Amongst those Bilal Al Ali and Captain Burhan as of token of gratitude for the Al Kuwari said: “As the We also provide security around Jabbar and Nabil Qaid as well as who welcomed the QFA dele- Saleh Turki from Stadia security. department’s role in the success countdown to the Amir Cup final the dignitaries who may attend star players from Al Rayyan (Soud gation were Brigadier Ali Khajim Khalid Al Kuwari presented a of the Amir Cup over the years. approaches, we are pleased to various sports events.” Qatari nurses encouraged to develop skills and knowledge

FAZEENA SALEEM Aisha Al Qahtani THE PENINSULA (left), a Qatari DOHA: Nursing profession is nurse at the critical in primary health care Primary Health Care and the importance of its role Corporation’s (PHCC) has significantly changed during the recent times in the country’s Mesaimeer Health healthcare system. Centre, will obtain Its capacity and responsibility to influence the present and her Master’s degree future of health care system is in Nursing from the Zain Ejaz Sikka, Director of Marketing, Brighto Paints, with other officials at Brighto Paints pavilion vital, says Aisha Al Qahtani, a UCQ tomorrow. at Project Qatar 2018 at DECC. Qatari nurse at the Primary PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA Health Care Corporation’s (PHCC) Mesaimeer Health Centre. University of Calgary in Qatar and the opportunities are vast and At present PHCC has 1,900 (UCQ) and by providing wide she encourages more Qatari girls Pakistani manufacturers explore nurses employed and about 1.5 training programs together with to consider pursuing it as a career. percent of them are Qataris. the Ministry of Public Health “Nursing is a noble pro- “Nursing has a unique role in the (MoPH) and Hamad Medical fession and its image in our opportunities at Project Qatar health system as we make direct Corporation (HMC). society should change. I hope AMNA PERVAIZ RAO contact with patients. Nurses not “PHCC is implementing the this will encourage more Qatari table fans, washing machines, all types of stains. Compared to only provide services and help Qatar National Vision 2030 women to take up nursing as a THE PENINSULA air coolers and more. We have oil-based paints, Brighto Stain patients improve their health especially in human devel- profession. We have a very many Qatari clients to whom we Free is 100% water-based and is but they also improve the whole opment. They especially unique opportunity to provide DOHA: Several Pakistani are serving since many years, a low-VOC (volatile organic com- system. Unlike earlier days we encourage the Qatari nurses to care and services for our people companies launched many the new product that we are pounds) paint. We believe in pro- have the facilities and an effi- continue education which will in an environment that is caring, quality products in Qatari going to launch in Qatar is our viding quality products at rea- cient healthcare model at health help us develop skills and innovative and allows one to market this year at the 15th ‘Desert Cooler’ — especially sonable price,” he said. centers that can empower knowledge. There are also many learn life and career skills every edition of Project Qatar exhi- designed for dry and hot places, Zain added: “Blockade nurses,” she told The Peninsula. opportunities given to nurses step of the way. If anyone bition which was held at the this cooler is going to be one of opened door for Pakistani busi- “At several instances nurses such as to take part in training looking to make a profession in Doha Exhibition & Convention our bestsellers soon,” Sukun nessmen to come and invest in can work together with family programs held in collaboration healthcare they should consider Center (DECC). Ahmed, Export Manager at Royal Qatari market. Visa on arrival physicians at some health centres with the MoPH and HMC as well nursing,” she said. Offering quality products, Fans told The Peninsula. Brighto facility by Qatar was a great and support them when needed. as in conferences. Also nurses get Further, as the tireless Hilton Enterprises (dealing in Paints is one of the leading man- facilitation for all of us”. We are also leading in many the chance to take part in training efforts of nurses all over the safety wear and gloves), ufacturers in Asia, offering lead- Brighto also retails painting research initiatives and getting workshops delivered by PHCC,” world are celebrated every year Rafique Engineering Industries free paint products and has won technology such as automated involved in awareness programs said Aisha who will obtain her on May 12, the anniversary of Pvt Ltd (manufacturers of global awards. applicators and associated in educating public,” said Aisha. Master’s degree in Nursing from Florence Nightingale’s birth in Royal fans) and one of the Talking to The Peninsula, products. Brighto Paints creates PHCC is also supporting its the UCQ tomorrow. 1820, Aisha says nurses at the leading paint brands from Zain Ejaz Sikka, Director of Mar- products that are inspired by nurses to further enhance their While many Qatari girls, see Mesaimeer Health Centre will Pakistan, Brighto Paints, par- keting at Brighto Paints said: nature. This extends to colour cus- qualifications and skills by facil- nursing as a challenging pro- be appreciated today for the ticipated in the exhibition with “We launched our products in tomisation, as well as the materials itating them to study at the fession, Aisha says the benefits role they play. the assistance of its local dis- Qatar in February this year, after used. Hilton enterprises is a tributor Unique Trading. signing an agreement Unique worldwide distributor of quality Royal Fans is recognised as Trading Company Chairman gloves, rainwear, safety products Qatar participates in Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference one of the leading brands of Abdul Rahman Mohamed al- and knitted Garments. Pakistan across the country, and Muftah under which Unique “We have been providing SEOUL: The ninth Global Healthcare and Medical Kaabi participated in the conference. is considered the front runner Trading to be the main distributor gloves and safety suits to many Tourism Conference (Medical Korea 2018) was On the sidelines of the conference, bilateral in technological and product of Brighto Paints in Qatar. This clients here; this year we have held on Thursday in the Korean capital Seoul. meetings were held between officials of the minis- innovation in the fan industry. partnership makes our rela- introduced new products like Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic tries of health and Korea Health Industry Devel- “Royal’s ever increasing tionship stronger on the basis of bed sheets etc. We expect of Korea, Dr Park Neunghoo, inaugurated the con- opment Institute (KHIDI) to discuss the promotion range includes over 200+ trust, as we believe in quality.” good response from Qatari ference with the participation of health minis- of joint cooperation. The delegation of the Qatari products in our various product “We launched unique market for our new products,” tries’ undersecretaries from around the world. Armed Forces also discussed with KHIDI the possi- categories: ceiling fans, pedestal products including ‘Brighto Stain said Muhammad Ashraf, Man- Commander of Medical Services of the Qatari bility of holding educational seminars under the aus- fans, exhaust fans, bracket fans, Free’ paint, a unique, eco-friendly aging Partner at Hilton Armed Forces Brig Gen Nasser Mohammed Al pices of the Medical Services in October. stand fans, ventilation fans, paint that is capable of repelling enterprises. Project Qatar concludes with big turnout from international visitors

THE PENINSULA capitalize on its numerous net- Qatar has turned into the perfect real opportunities for companies Conference highlighted the practitioners in the nation. working and learning venue to meet, direct, and foster from around the world, enabling pivotal role of tourism in Qatar’s Around 400 pre-arranged DOHA: The 15th edition of opportunities. business relationship backed by them to present their ventures to socio-economic advancement, business-to-business meetings Project Qatar, the international Celebrating 15 years of solid support from the national gov- the visitors. Participating top- with emphasis on sustainability between lead companies and vis- trade exhibition for construction growth in Qatar, the four-day ernment which seeks to turn the notch manufacturers, distributors, as a growth driver for the hospi- itors were held as well during technology, building materials, exhibition gathered top-level country into a world-class business and contractors, to cite a few, also tality sector. The participants which professionals got to equipment, and environmental delegates from China, Turkey, hub in the region. Project Qatar 2018 engaged with local decision- also took note of the progress of exchange the best practices and technology, ended on Thursday Iran, Germany, Pakistan and was a major success as evidenced makers and their counterparts a novel and integrated per- explore state-of-the-art technol- at the Doha Exhibition and other parts of the world in an by an overwhelming participation through Project Qatar and we are formance-driven approach for ogies that are reshaping the Convention Center. environment charged with opti- from the regional and global happy to note of positive outcomes assessing, benchmarking, and industry landscape. Many of The event registered a big mistic investor sentiment. industry stakeholders.” in these fruitful interactions.” improving the Building Infor- these meetings translated into turnout after egional and Projects Director at IFP Qatar He added, “Project Qatar The fourth and last day of the mation Modelling (BIM)compe- mutually beneficial business global organizations flocked to Haidar Mshaimesh said: “Project 2018 played a key role in offering Future Projects Qatar tency of construction industry deals. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 HOME / MIDDLE EAST 03 Turkey concerned by situation on Yemen’s Socotra after UAE move

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 solution” of the crisis. The UAE foreign ministry Meanwhile, QNA added blamed the Yemeni govern- from Geneva that deaths and ment’s claims over the injuries among Yemeni civilians deployment of the troops on “a jumped to the highest monthly long and repeated series of level so far this year in April, attempts to distort the role of the the UN said Friday, pointing out UAE.” But Yemeni Prime Minister that the military alliance has Quran competition winners Ahmed bin Dagher said dozens been causing most of the harm Winners during the award ceremony of Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani Quran Competition, held at Doha Academy. yesterday. of Emirati troops as well as tanks in the war. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA and armoured vehicles had In April, 236 civilians were landed on the island on April 30. killed and 238 suffered injuries The Yemen war has claimed in the conflict, said Ravina nearly 10,000 lives since Shamdasani, a spokeswoman Riyadh and Abu Dhabi joined of the UN Human Rights Office the conflict in March 2015, trig- in Geneva. In total, the UN office gering what the United Nations has counted nearly 6,400 BDC discussion addresses protracted Yemen war has called the world’s worst civilian deaths and some humanitarian crisis. 10,000 injuries since the con- DOHA: The Brookings Doha Center held a included Baraa Shiban, Middle East and Shiban stated that, “We are in a con- “We think that Yemen... flict intensified in the past three panel discussion in which top policy experts North Africa Caseworker at Reprieve; Elo- flict today not because there are people cannot afford new problems and years. “The vast majority of discussed Yemen’s devastating war, baid Elobaid, a representative of Office of fighting but because the political transition disputes,” said the Turkish foreign these - 10,185 civilian casualties considered to be the world’s worst human- the United Nations High Commissioner for that was supposed to happen was not ministry. It called on “all relevant - were as a result of airstrikes itarian crisis. Human Rights (OHCHR); and Elisabeth implemented. There is no parallel political actors” to respect the Yemeni gov- carried out by the Saudi-led The panel was moderated by Noha Kendall, senior research fellow in Arabic discussion happening right now that says ernment and “avoid steps that coalition,” Shamdasani told a Aboueldahab, a visiting fellow at the and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, we have an alternative plan for what is would further complicate the press conference. Brookings Center Doha. The speakers Oxford University. happening.”

Four students from Kerala receive honours at HBKU graduation event THE PENINSULA

DOHA: Four Students from the southern Indian state of Kerala received the honours during the graduation ceremony of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development (QF), Qatar wins five gold medals at the Qatar National Convention Center recently. Qatari team who won five gold medals and one silver medal in ITEX Malaysia 2018 International This year’s graduation cer- Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. The exhibition, which is emony featured Deputy Prime under way at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), concludes today. Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, as The students who graduated from Hamad Bin Khalifa University keynote speaker. The formal (HBKU), with Centre for Indian Community (CIC) President, K C Abdul convocation was held in the Lathif (right) and Al Jamia Al Islamia Qatar Alumni office-bearers. presence of H E Sheikha Hind Iran minister to meet Europeans bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice- Chairperson and CEO, Qatar Najaz Asainar and Aslam Ilahiya College Tirurkad in Foundation, and Chairperson Taufeeq after graduating from Kerala, received master’s in in Brussels on Tuesday: EU of the board of trustees of Santhapuram Al Jamia Al Islamic Studies. Hamad Bin Khalifa Islamia, received master’s Centre for Indian Com- AFP shortly after Trump’s persuade Trump to stick with University. degree in Islamic Studies while munity (CIC) President K C announcement on Tuesday that the deal negotiated by his pred- Nijas Asainar, Aslam Taufiq, Shafiq Ali another Al Jamia Abdul Lathif and Al Jamia Al BRUSSELS: Iran’s foreign the EU is “determined to pre- ecessor Barack Obama, arguing Shafiq Ali and Yahya Sadiq were graduate, obtained masters Islamia Qatar Alumni office- minister will meet his British, serve” the deal, while EU leaders that it was the most effective among international students degree in Islamic Finance. Yaya bearers were present on the French and German counter- are set to discuss the issue at a way of stopping Iran developing who received the graduation. Sadiq, a former student at the occasion. parts in Brussels on Tuesday to summit in Bulgaria next week. nuclear weapons. discuss US President Donald Mogherini “will on Tuesday But the massive diplomatic Trump’s withdrawal from the 15 May in Brussels host a push ended in failure as Trump nuclear deal with Tehran, the meeting with E3 Foreign Min- — as expected — announced the Kuwait, Philippines sign worker rights deal EU said. isters (Germany, France, UK). This US was pulling out and reim- European Union foreign EU/E3 meeting will then be fol- posing sanctions that had been KUWAIT CITY: The Philippines The Philippines issued a Kuwait can now be assured of policy chief Federica Mogherini lowed by a meeting of that same relaxed in return for Iran aban- and Kuwait have signed a new statement yesterday saying the prompt and effective assistance if will host the talks between the group with the Foreign Minister doning its nuclear programme. agreement regarding Filipino agreement offered “additional needed.” It did not elaborate. so-called E3 powers and Iranian of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif,” The EU has said it will work with laborer rights after the Philip- guarantees that we asked our Kuwait’s state-run Kuna news minister Mohammad Javad the EU statement said. Russia and China, who also pines earlier banned its citizens Kuwaiti friends to extend.” agency later reported that Kuwait Zarif, her office said in a Britain, France and signed the accord, to keep it from working there amid a The statement added: “The signed the agreement with the Phil- statement. Mogherini said Germany led a campaign to alive. diplomatic dispute. more than 250,000 Filipinos in ippines, without elaborating. Iraq holds first parliamentary election today since IS defeat AP his post but faces stiff compe- comes amid a relative lull in An electronic voting system tition from his predecessor, insurgent attacks. Many Iraqis is being used for the first time BAGHDAD: Iraqis vote today in Nouri Al Maliki, and the Fatah are quick to condemn their this year to try to reduce fraud the first parliamentary election alliance of candidates who have current elected representatives and speed up the counting since the country declared close ties to the powerful, mostly because of entrenched cor- process. Results will be released victory over the Islamic State Shia paramilitary forces. ruption and the squandering of within 48 hours of Saturday’s extremist group. Fatah is headed by Hadi al- the country’s significant oil poll close, according to the inde- The balloting is expected to Amiri, a former minister of wealth by previous pendent body overseeing the be a referendum on Prime Min- transport who became a senior administrations. elections. ister Haider Al Abadi’s tenure commander of paramilitary Still, there have been rela- Political power in Iraq is tra- and his pledge to be more fighters in the fight against the tively high rates of voter partic- ditionally divided along sectarian inclusive of Iraq’s Sunni minority. IS group. Many of the candidates ipation, with turnout averaging lines among the offices of prime Entrenched corruption, the on his list were also paramilitary more than 60 percent in pre- minister, president and par- influence of Iran and the future commanders before they cut vious elections despite security liament speaker. Since the first of U.S. forces currently in Iraq their official ties with the force Candidate Zeinab Al Alawi attends the election campaign with her concerns. Security has been elections following the 2003 are other issues that have dom- in order to seek office. supporters, ahead of the parliamentary election in Najaf, yesterday. tightened across Iraq in the days US-led toppling of Saddam inated the run-up to the election. Influential cleric Muqtada before the election. Baghdad, Hussein, the Shiite majority has There are 329 seats at stake, al-Sadr also leads an alliance. He able to win the 165 seats required with clashing interests. The Mosul and other major cities are held the position of prime min- with nearly 7,000 candidates commanded fighters in the war for an outright majority. Instead, current government is similarly imposing curfews on election ister, while the Kurds have held from dozens of different political against IS and headed a powerful the bloc that wins the most seats fractured, making it almost day, and travel between prov- the presidency and the Sunnis alliances. Few foresee a dramatic militia that fought U.S. forces in will have to cobble together a impossible to pass legislation. inces already has been restricted. have held the post of parliament government shake-up, however. Iraq before that, but his cam- majority by getting the support Until a new prime minister As of Friday, airports and border speaker. The most powerful alliances paign has focused on social of smaller alliances. is chosen, al-Abadi will remain crossings will be closed. Islamic The constitution sets a quota expected to win the most seats issues and eliminating gov- The process of choosing the in office, retaining all his power. State militants no longer control for female representation, stating are headed by the same parties ernment corruption. next prime minister is expected Polls open at 7am and close significant pockets of Iraqi ter- that no less than one-fourth of that have dominated Iraqi pol- Because so many different to take months and probably at 6pm. The independent body ritory, but they do maintain a parliament members must be itics since 2003. political alliances are running, result in power being dispersed overseeing the election is esti- grip inside Syria along Iraq’s women. Nearly 2,600 women Al Abadi is seeking to retain no one group is seen as being across different political parties mating high turnout, because it border. are running for office this year. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 1 Gazan dead, 49 injured by Israeli fire in border protest

AP Since the Hamas-led marches began in late March, 41 Palestinian protesters have been GAZA CITY: Israeli troops fired live bullets and tear killed by Israeli fire, including a 40-year- gas yesterday across a border old man shot dead yesterday, according to fence into Gaza where Pales- the Gaza Health Ministry. More than 1,700 tinian protesters threw stones, Palestinians have been shot and wounded, burned tires and flew kites with burning rags attached. One including 49 yesterday. protester was killed and 49 were wounded by Israeli fire, any border breach and has stuck Islamic militant Hamas overran Gaza health officials said. to its open-fire policies, such as Gaza in 2007. It was the seventh weekly targeting “main instigators” and Monday’s inauguration of protest aimed at shaking off a those approaching the fence, the US Embassy comes five decade-old border blockade of despite growing international months after President Donald Gaza, and a preview of what is criticism. Trump recognized Jerusalem as People hold Turkish and Palestinian flags as they gather to march towards Sarachane Square to expected to be a much larger There are growing concerns Israel’s capital, a move that out- protest against US President Donald Trump’s plans to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to border rally on Monday. On that that if Israel and Hamas dig in, raged Palestinians as blatantly day, protests are timed to a widespread border breach in pro-Israel. Jerusalem and to support the ‘Great March of Return’ of Palestinian people, after Friday prayer in coincide with the planned move coming days could lead to large The Israeli-annexed eastern Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. of the US Embassy in Israel to numbers of casualties. sector of Jerusalem is sought as contested Jerusalem, where Pal- Since the Hamas-led a future Palestinian capital - at estinians hope to establish a marches began in late March, 41 least by those supporting future capital. Palestinian protesters have been Hamas’ political rival, West Thousands in Jordan rally Protester Ahmed Deifallah, killed by Israeli fire, including a Bank-based Palestinian Pres- 25, said that President Donald 40-year-old man shot dead yes- ident Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas Trump’s decision to recognise terday, according to the Gaza seeks an Islamic state in the to mourn ‘catastrophe’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Health Ministry. entire historic Palestine, AP move the embassy there “is More than 1,700 Palestinians including what is now Israel, but the Israeli-occupied West Bank. starting today. Helping rein- causing the volcano to spew.” have been shot and wounded, has said it is ready for a long- Jordanian, Palestinian, and force the Israeli blockade, Deifallah, who is unem- including 49 yesterday. Seven term truce. GAZA CITY: Several thousand green Muslim Brotherhood flags Egypt has kept the Rafah ployed, said he is not afraid to of the injured were in serious Another large-scale protest people held rally in Jordan to flew over crowd. crossing point, Gaza’s main die. “We are used to confronting condition, among them a is planned for Tuesday, when mark the 70th anniversary of One man walked onto the gate to the outside world, the (Israeli) occupation with our 16-year-old with a shot to the Palestinians mark their “nakba,” what Palestinians call their stage with an effigy of President closed most of the time since bare chests,” he said, a Pales- head. or catastrophe, referring to their “nakba,” or catastrophe, when Donald Trump dangling from a the Hamas takeover. tinian flag draped around his Israel says it has a right to mass uprooting during the hundreds of thousands were noose. Egypt opens the crossing head. “We are used to wars and defend its border and has Mideast war over Israel’s 1948 uprooted from their homes in Trump’s decision to rec- from time to time, mainly to no one with us but Allah.” accused Hamas of using the pro- creation. Hundreds of thousands the Mideast war over Israel’s ognise contested Jerusalem as allow people in special cate- Gaza’s Hamas leader, tests as a cover for attacking the of Palestinians were driven out creation. Israel’s capital, to be followed gories, including medical Yehiyeh Sinwawr, has said he border. Rights groups say the or fled homes in what is now Palestinian refugees and Monday by the moving the US patients and Gaza residents expects tens of thousands to use of potentially lethal force Israel. More than two-thirds of their descendants now number Embassy in Israel there, has studying abroad, to leave the participate on Monday. He has against unarmed protesters is Gaza residents are descendants several million people in the caused outrage in the Arab territory or return to it. The raised the possibility of a mass unlawful. of refugees. region, including more than two world. upcoming opening was framed border breach, comparing pro- The protests, driven by On Friday, thousands of pro- million in Jordan. Meanwhile, Gaza gov- as a humanitarian gesture ahead testers to a “starving tiger,” despair among Gaza’s 2 million testers gathered in five tent Yesterday’s rally took place ernment officials announced of the Muslim fasting month of unpredictable and full of people, are part of a campaign camps set up weeks ago, each before a large stage with a view that Egypt will open its border Ramadan, which begins next pent-up anger. to break the blockade imposed several hundred meters (yards) of the Dead Sea and with Gaza for four days week. Israel has said it will prevent by Israel and Egypt after the from the border.

Lebanese politician calls Court nullifies suspension of for forming govt fast Nigerian senator AP expected to be re-elected LAGOS: A Nigerian court when the new parliament has nullified the suspension BEIRUT: A senior Lebanese convenes later this month. of a senator from the coun- politician is urging his Berri spoke to The Asso- try’s parliament, saying the colleagues to form a new ciated Press in an interview basis for penalizing the government quickly, in Beirut Friday, a few days lawmaker “violently following general elections after Lebanon held its first violates” the constitution. held last week. parliament elections in nine The court faulted the Parliament Speaker years. In the vote, Berri’s senate for punishing Ovie Nabih Berri says Lebanon Amal group and its allies Omo-Agege after he filed cannot tolerate any delays including Hezbollah won a suit challenging some because of growing regional more than a third of the decisions of the parliament, tensions and a struggling seats, giving them the power asserting that the sus- economy. to veto any legislation. pension amounted to Palestinian demonstrators gather to protest against excavation works by Israel Historical Monuments The powerful Shia poli- Berri called for a unity intimidation and an affront Authority, around the cemetery at the Golden Gate, located on the eastern side of Jerusalem’s old tician has held the post for government that includes all on the court. city wall, yesterday. more than 25 years, and is Lebanese factions.

South Africa probes ‘extremism’ Kenya dam burst: 40 people still missing element in mosque attack NAKURU: Kenyan troops and emergency workers picked JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s elite police unit said yesterday it through mud and debris was investigating an “element of extremism” in a mosque attack in yesterday in search of some 40 which one person died after three people’s throats were slit following people still missing after a dam midday prayers. burst its banks, sending muddy “You can see elements of hatred to a certain religion” in Thurs- waters raging through homes and day’s attack in the mosque’s worship space, Hawks spokesman Sim- killing 45 people. phiwe Mhlongo told The Associated Press. Kenya’s top prosecutor has But Mhlongo said police could not yet say whether the assault ordered a probe into the collapse on the Imam Hussein mosque in the eastern town of Verulam, just of the dam on Wednesday night, north of Durban, could be called a terror attack. as questions mount over the quality The three attackers were still at large. Mhlongo said the two of construction of the private res- other victims were still hospitalised. Worshippers went ahead with ervoir on a vast farming estate. Friday prayers in a house next to the mosque. The attack came A portion of the earthen wall shortly ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which of the dam collapsed, sending begins around May 16. millions of litres of water coursing down a muddy slope, engulfing nearby settlements and 184 soldiers held over suspected FETO links destroying power lines over a stretch of some 10km. ISTANBUL: A total of 184 soldiers were arrested across Turkey “The number of people dead yesterday over suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organi- from this tragedy is 45 after the zation (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup. recovery of the body of a teenage After Istanbul prosecutors issued warrants for 300 soldiers as Kenya Defence Force (KDF) soldiers patrol and inspect through mud and debris in search of bodies boy,” on Friday, said Rift Valley part of a probe of FETO’s infiltration of the military, police arrested of victims after a dam burst its banks, sending muddy waters raging through homes and killing at Regional Coordinator Mwongo 150 of them. The warrants include 211 active-duty soldiers. Chimwanga. Earlier Nakuru least 45 people in Subukia, Nakuru county. At least 13 active-duty soldiers were also arrested in the eastern county governor Lee Kinyanjui Bingol province and two in western Balikesir as part of other FETO said around 40 people were still across the country that have left digging through the mud by hectares), according to Water investigations. A total of 19 soldiers were arrested in 15 provinces reported missing and that at least 175 dead, with no sign of a let-up hand, was disrupted by further Resource Management as part of an eastern Erzurum-centered FETO investigation, one other local dam had “to be in the deluge. heavy rainfall on Thursday and Authority boss Simon according to a statement by the provincial governor’s office, which discharged to avoid disaster”. The search and rescue resumed on Friday morning. Wang’ombe, with a capacity of did not say if the soldiers were on active duty. Weeks of heavy rains have operation, involving emergency The dam is situated on an 200,000 cubic meters (200 Also, in the western Kocaeli province, 10 dismissed police caused flooding and mudslides services as well as volunteers area of about eight acres (three million litres). officers were arrested as part of another FETO investigation. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 ASIA 05 Modi & Oli launch bus service linking Janakpur to Ayodhya IANS “India wants to was also handed over to Modi. Addressing the large gath- MO JANAKPUR: Indian Prime connect Nepal ering, Modi said: “Ayodhya is Minister Narendra Modi and his through projects like incomplete without Janakidham. Nepali counterpart K P Sharma railways, land and Similarly, Nepal is incomplete Oli yesterday inaugurated a without India and India is cross-border bus service linking waterways. We are incomplete without Nepal. Our Janakpur with Ayodhya in Uttar also linking Nepal ties are religious, based of deep Pradesh as part of a “Ramayan through the gas faith and historical and com- Circuit”. plement to each others.” Modi Modi, on a two-day visit to pipeline... We are said Janakpur will be added in the Himalayan nation, began his also working and the Ramayana Circuit while trip by visiting the Ram Janaki Lumbini will be included in the temple. There he performed developing the cross Buddhist Circuit. special “Shodashopachara” border transmission “Our relations do not have prayers with Oli, making him the line,” Modi said. any definition but it is based on first Indian Prime Minister to do language,” he said in Maithli. so. “Our ties are ahead of Modi told Oli that he was diplomacy, strategy and pol- extremely honoured “to be The circuit is a part of Modi’s itics. It is Devniti... Changes in received you the way you wel- vision to build a 650km con- governments do not matter, our India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, inspect comed me here”. nectivity project. On his part Oli relations remain the same.” He a guard of honour in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. “Mere Bhai, this welcome is said that the bus service “would later spoke in Nepali an honour to all Indian citizens,” increase people to people language. We are also working and devel- project and implement it. on President Bidhya Devi Modi said. This is Modi’s third connectivity”. Modi also read out a small oping the cross border trans- Federal government min- Bhandari and hold talks with visit to Nepal since he became Modi then attended a civic paragraph of “Ramcharitmanas” mission line,” he said. isters Ishwor Pokharel, Giriraj Oli. Prime Minister. reception organised by Mayor Lal to describe the relations between Modi also announced Rs Mani Pokharel and Matrika Modi will also lay the foun- Inaugurating the bus Kishor Sah in his honour at the Nepal and India. 1bvb for the development of Yadav were present at the dation stone of Arun III hydroe- service, Modi said: “Ramayan Rangabhumi Maidan. “India wants to connect Province No. 2 and Janakpur programme. lectricity project in Sankhu- Circuit will help boost tourism. He was felicitated with a Nepal through connectivity area after attending the civic After completing his wasabha district in eastern This will act as a foundation for garland weighing 121kg during projects like railways, land and reception. He said that the engagements in Janakpur, Modi Nepal, undertaken by India’s strong people-to-people ties the event attended by thou- waterways. We are also linking central and provincial govern- arrived in Kathmandu where Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam, through between our two countries.” sands. A key to Janakpur city Nepal through the gas pipeline... ments of Nepal will select the he will be pay a courtesy call video conferencing. Narrow escape Tight security in Bengaluru ahead of assembly polls for 120 tourists IANS election in Jayanagar segment Penal Code (IPC) that prohibits including nearly 12,000 critical nomadic tribes to vote. as Andhra boat was countermanded by the gathering of more than five booths,” Raju told reporters here. Over 4.96 crore voters, BENGALURU: Security in the Election Commission due to the people at one place at a time has The southern state has a total including 2.52 crore men, 2.44 crore catches fire nation’s tech hub Bengaluru has death of Bharatiya Janata Party also been imposed across the city of 58,008 polling stations, across women and over 4,500 people who been stepped up ahead of the (BJP) candidate B N Vijaya till 6pm tomorrow to prevent its 224 constituencies. identify themselves as ‘trans- IANS Karnataka Assembly polls today, Kumar on May 4. any untoward incidents,” the Polling will be held for 223 genders’, have registered to vote. Police Commissioner T Suneel Police personnel would be police officer said. constituencies on Saturday after A total of 15.42 lakh voters, VIJAYAWADA: At least 120 Kumar said yesterday. stationed across 7,477 polling Director General and Inspector the election to Jayanagar seat in aged 18-19, have registered to tourists had a narrow escape “A total of 10,500 policemen, stations where voting would take General of Police Neelamani N Raju Bengaluru was postponed. cast their ballot for the first time. when a boat caught fire on 4,500 armed police and 2,500 place from 7am to 6pm. said over 1,40,000 security per- The EC has set up 600 all- The voter turnout in the pre- the Godavari river in Andhra home guards are being deployed “We have identified 1,469 sonnel have so far been deployed women run polling booths to vious Assembly election held in the Pradesh’s East Godavari ahead of the elections on Sat- polling booths as critical (sen- across the state to ensure ‘free and push voter percentage among state in 2013 was 71.45 per cent. district yesterday, police said. urday,” Kumar told reporters here. sitive),” Kumar added. Over 150 fair’ polling. women. Twenty eight special The poll panel hopes the voting The incident occurred Polling will be held across 27 senior-rank police officers would “A total of 585 companies of polling booths bearing an ethnic percentage would surpasses 75 per when the tourists were on a of the total 28 constituencies in monitor security across the city. paramilitary forces are deployed look have also been set up in the ent in 2018, after it held several boat ride to Papikondalu, the state capital, after the “Section 144 of the Indian across over 20,000 polling booths, state to encourage primitive and voting awareness programmes. known for its wildlife sanc- tuary and hills. Some of the tourists were injured as they jumped to safety after the driver brought India, Myanmar sign the boat to the shore. A few tourists became unconscious due to the shock, police said. The fire broke out when seven agreements tea was being prepared on a gas stove. The gas leak appar- ently caused the fire, spreading IANS land border crossing “is a panic among the tourists landmark in bilateral relations including women and children. NEW DELHI: India and between the two countries as it Survivors said the gas cyl- Myanmar discussed a range of will enable people from both inder then exploded, making the bilateral issues and signed countries to cross the land fire spread. Showing presence seven agreements during border with passport and visa, of mind, the driver wheeled the External Affairs Minister including for accessing health boat towards the shore. The pas- Sushma Swaraj’s two-day visit and education services, pil- sengers managed to escape but to the country that concluded grimage and tourism”. the entire boat was gutted. yesterday. “The MoU on restoration of Locals and the police in During the visit, Sushma pagodas at Bagan underlines Veeravarapu Lanka village Swaraj called on Myanmar Pres- the enduring cultural and his- helped the shocked tourists. ident U Win Myint, State Coun- torical links between the two The fire broke out 10 minutes sellor and Minister for Foreign countries,” it stated. after the boat sailed from Affairs Aung San Suu Kyi and “The other MoUs on technical Poshammagudi. Commander-in-Chief of the assistance and capacity building Andhra Pradesh tourism Myanmar Defence Forces Senior reflect India’s continuing support department officials said the General Min Aung Hlaing. to Myanmar in accordance with boat belonged to a private Clouds herald the advent of monsoon According to a statement this country’s own development operator. They have ordered issued by the External Affairs plans and priorities.” an investigation if it was being A boy walks through a damaged boat jetty as pre-monsoon clouds gather above the Vembanad Ministry here, during the India is a key development operated with the permission Lake in Kochi in the south Indian state of Kerala, yesterday. bilateral meetings, boundary aid partner for Myanmar and is of the authorities concerned. and border related issues, peace implementing a number of infra- and security matters, develop- structure projects in that country. ments in the Rakhine State, These include the a including return of displaced transport project connecting Rohingya persons, India’s Mizoram with Sittwe port in development assistance to Myanmar, the Trilateral Collegium sticks to Justice Joseph as SC judge Myanmar, ongoing projects, Highway connecting India with and other issues of mutual Myanmar and Thailand and the IANS The collegium, comprising recommendation of the names a relatively small court with a interest were discussed. Rhi-Tiddim road. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice of Chief Justices of High Courts sanctioned strength of 42 judges The seven agreements According to the statement, NEW DELHI: The Supreme J Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan for elevation as judges of the was a parent high court for signed included one on land Sushma Swaraj also reiterated Court collegium yesterday took Gogoi, Justice Madan B Lokur Supreme Court, for which Justice Kurian Joseph, the Chief border crossing, memorandums India’s readiness and com- an in-principle decision to reit- and Justice Kurian Joseph, took detailed discussion is required”. Justices of three High Courts — of understanding (MoU) on res- mitment to helping the erate its recommendation for the the decision at a meeting here. The next meeting will be Justice K.M. Joseph himself toration and preservation of Myanmar government in elevation of Uttarakhand High “The Chief Justice and other held at 4.15pm on Wednesday. (Uttarakhand), Justice T B Rad- earthquake-damaged Pagodas addressing issues related to court Chief Justice K M Joseph to members of the collegium have, The collegium decided to hakrishnan (Chhattisgarh) and in Bagan, assistance to the Joint Rakhine State in the wake of the the top court. on principle, unanimously agreed reiterate Justice Joseph’s ele- Justice Antony Dominic (Kerala). Ceasefire Monitoring Com- Rohingya reugee crisis. The collegium decided it will that the recommendation for vation to the top court after the There is a perception that the mittee, training of Myanmar Sushma Swaraj’s visit is part resend its January 10 “unan- appointment of Justice K M Joseph Central government on April 26 government was standing in the foreign service officers, setting of the ongoing high-level inter- imous” recommendation for (previously Kerala High Court) as returned the recommendation, way of the elevation of Justice up an Industrial Training Centre action between India and Justice Joseph’s elevation, along a judge of the Supreme Court saying that he stood at number Joseph because of his judgment (ITC) at Monywa, and ITC at Myanmar after that country got a with other names from Calcutta, should be reiterated,” the col- 42 of the all India judges seniority in 2016 striking down the Central Thaton and exchange of letters democratic government in 2016 Rajasthan, and Telangana and legium said. and there were 11 Chief Justices government’s decision to impose on extending a maintenance and can also be seen in the context Andhra Pradesh High Courts that However, it added that the of the High Courts senior to him. President’s rule in Uttarakhand, contract for ITC Myingyan. of India’s increasing engagements would be decided at its meeting said “reiteration should also be The government also said but Law Minister Ravi Shankar According to the ministry with southeast Asia under New on May 16. accompanied by the that the Kerala High Court being Prasad has denied this. statement, the agreement on Delhi’s Act East Policy. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018

Pakistan gets Pakistan imposes new Foreign travel restrictions Minister ANATOLIA on US diplomats KARACHI: Pakistan Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan has been appointed as ANATOLIA US diplomats will the country’s new Foreign now face travel Minister following the KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday restrictions in disqualification of his prede- slapped reciprocal travel cessor Khawah Asif, restrictions on US diplomats Pakistan. Also, they according to state-run stationed in Pakistani cities, a will no longer enjoy Pakistan Television (PTV) tit-for-tat move that is likely to special treatment reports yesterday. put further strain on already icy at the airport or in Khan, a senior parliamen- relations between the two tarian from the northeastern former allies in the so-called general. Apart from Gujranwala district, will likely war on terror, officials and local that, the diplomats hold the top diplomat’s post Policemen and security officers collect evidence at the site of a blast after a motorcycle exploded media reported. for less than three weeks, as will be unable to near a bus terminal in Bannu, Pakistan, yesterday. The move came hours after use tinted glass on the current government of the the Trump administration right-wing Pakistan Muslim imposed a ban on the their official vehicles League (Nawaz group) is set movement of Pakistan dip- or use diplomatic Six dead in Peshawar, KP province blasts to complete its five-year lomats stationed in the US, tenure on May 31. registration plates on AP forcing them to stay within their private vehicles. people in the northwest. blast. Earlier, an explosion For the remaining period 40km of the cities where they The attack on police took caused by a gas leak at a hotel he will continue to hold the are posted. PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb place in a congested bazaar in killed five members of a family defense ministry portfolio as Under the new protocol, notification. Moreover, US dip- struck a vehicle carrying police Bannu, a city in the Khyber and wounded two other people well, PTV reported. which came into effect yes- lomats will need a non- officers in northwest Pakistan Pakhtunkhwa province bor- in the northwestern city of As per the information terday, Pakistani diplomats objection certificate from the yesterday, killing at least one dering Afghanistan, area police Peshawar. According to city given by sources, Asif was must seek permission from the Interior Ministry before renting officer and wounding 13 others, chief Attique Khan said. He said police chief Qazi Jamilur disqualified by the Islamabad State Department five days in any property, local broadcaster police said. the bomb also damaged shops Rehman, a fire followed the High Court earlier this month advance if they plan to visit ARY News reported. The US Also, an explosion caused by and some passers-by were explosion but was extinguished for failing to disclose a United another city. Embassy has been informed a gas leak at a hotel killed five among those wounded by the by firefighters. Arab Emirates work visa. According to a Foreign Min- about the travel restrictions, a istry notification, US diplomats Foreign Ministry official said. will now face similar travel US diplomats are already restrictions in Pakistan. Also, prohibited from visiting high- they will no longer enjoy special security areas like the restive Afghanistan extends deadline for voter registration treatment at the airport or in northwestern tribal belt along AFP general. Apart from that, the the Afghan border. long-delayed parliamentary and during the two-month process. supposed to be held in 2015 but diplomats will be unable to use Diplomatic relations district council elections began “The election commission of has been repeatedly pushed tinted glass on their official between the two sides have hit KABUL: A deadline for Afghans on April 14 and was originally Afghanistan has extended the back due to security fears and vehicles or use diplomatic reg- a low ebb since President to register to vote in the October scheduled to finish in voting registration process for logistical issues within the fragile istration plates on their private Donald Trump took office last 20 legislative elections has been mid-June. one month,” the IEC said in a unity government. The decision vehicles. January. In August 2017, Trump extended, officials said By Thursday, just over 1.5 statement. came as UN figures released All diplomatic cargo will be accused Pakistan of providing yesterday, as figures show million adults had signed up to There are fears that a low Thursday showed 86 civilians strictly checked at the airports, safe havens to militants fighting hundreds of civilians have vote, a spokesman for the Inde- turnout could erode the credi- had been killed and 185 and US diplomats will be unable US forces in Afghanistan, a already been killed or wounded pendent Election Commission bility of the elections, which are wounded in 23 election-related to use biometrically unverified charge Islamabad swiftly in poll-related violence. (IEC) said — a fraction of the 14 seen as a test run for next year’s security incidents since regis- cellphone sims, according to the denied. Enrolment for the million it had hoped to register presidential poll. The vote was tration began.

Four more 34 policemen dead as Taliban attack Afghan bases lawmakers from REUTERS wounding three. In a separate and there has been heavy been heavily involved in the around voter registration PML-N join PTI attack in Farah city, Taliban fighting in areas from Faryab in fighting but have been unable centres set up ahead of parlia- INTERNEWS GHANISTAN: Taliban fighters fighters killed 11 police and the northwest to Ghazni, south to prevent repeated attacks by mentary and district council attacked Afghan bases in the seized a large quantity of of Kabul. Farah, a remote and the insurgents. elections that are due in western province of Farah, weapons and equipment, he sparsely populated province Farah’s Governor resigned October. US and Nato officials ISLAMABAD: Four more killing more than 30 policemen, said. between Iran to the west and in January, claiming political say Afghan forces, backed by lawmakers from the ruling officials said yesterday, as the The latest violence under- the Taliban heartland of interference and corruption, thousands more US military Pakistan Muslim League- insurgents stepped up their lines the extent of the pressure Helmand province in the south, and residents have complained advisers and intensified air Nawaz (PML-N) yesterday offensive in a region with vital faced by the Western-backed has been a key battleground for bitterly about security in the strikes, have been steadily deserted the ruling party and opium smuggling routes into government of President Ashraf the insurgents for months, with province. Since the Taliban improving and are matching joined the Pakistan Tehreek- neighbouring Iran. Ghani, already heavily criticised heavy fighting in Balabuluk announced the start of their and beating the Taliban. i-Insaf (PTI). Farid Bakhtawar, Head of for a spate of suicide bombings district. annual spring offensive last However a recent report by According to PTI’s Infor- the Farah Provincial Council, in the capital, Kabul. The region covers major month, fighting has been intense SIGAR, a U.S. Congressional mation Secretary, Fawad said fighters had stormed a Last week, Taliban fighters, smuggling routes into Iran from in many areas of the country watchdog, said that the number Chaudhry, PML-N MNAs Rana police base overnight in Bal- who challenge government Helmand, source of much of and it is expected to pick up of Afghan security forces per- Umar Nazeer and Raza Hayat abuluk, a district that has been control in almost half the Afghanistan’s opium crop. further once the opium harvest sonnel had fallen by 11 percent Harraj from Gujranwala and under heavy pressure for country, seized a district in the Afghan special forces, is completed in coming weeks. over the past year, even as Khanewal, respectively are months, killing at least 23 and northern province of Baghlan backed by air support, have Violence has also increased fighting has intensified. among those who announced their decision joining the PTI after their meeting with Chairman Imran Khan at his Banigala residence. Family of 7 shot Harraj, who served as a minister in the cabinet of civilian government under military dictator Gen Pervez dead in Australia Musharraf, has joined the PTI a day after some 20 members AP house and the others were of the recently-formed found inside. They all resided Junoobi Punjab Suba Mahaz CANBERRA: A family of seven at the property, he said. entered into an alliance with including four children was Police said they have no the party. found dead with gunshot information that would raise wounds yesterday at a rural concerns about wider public property in southwest Australia safety, suggesting a shooter is New system to in what could be the country’s not at large. “Police are cur- worst mass shooting in 22 rently responding to what I can counter counterfeit years, police and news media only describe as a horrific A Taiwan Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft (left) flying alongside a Chinese People’s Liberation Army mobile phones said. incident,” Dawson said. Air Force (PLAAF) H-6K bomber that reportedly flew over the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan, and The children died with their “This devastating tragedy INTERNEWS over the Miyako Strait, near Japan’s Okinawa Island, in a drill, yesterday. mother and grandparents. The will no doubt have a lasting three generations had moved impact on the families con- in 2015 to Osmington, a village cerned, the whole community ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan China sends fighter jets near Taiwan of fewer than 700 people near and, in particular, the local Telecommunication the tourist town of Margaret communities in our southwest,” Authority (PTA) has launched AFP yesterday morning. It was the independence from the River, to grow fruit, media he added. a mechanism to counter the first time that China’s Su-35 mainland — as a renegade part reported. Police were attempting to spread of substandard phones BEIJING: China sent fighter jets fighters were sent over the Bashi of its territory to be brought Police would not comment make contact with the victims’ being smuggled into the and other military aircraft near Channel, the ministry said, while back into the fold, and has not on the possibility of murder- relatives, Dawson said. He country. Taiwan yesterday in the latest J-11 fighters and early warning ruled out reunification by force. suicide, but said they are not declined to release the names These are devices that are of a series of drills which Beijing aircraft also took part. The Chinese Defence Min- looking for a suspect. or ages of the dead. not registered with the Global has said are aimed at the island’s The ministry assured the istry confirmed in a statement After being alerted by a Philip Alpers, a Sydney Uni- System for Mobile Association “independence forces”. public in a statement that it was yesterday that it was the first phone call before dawn, police versity gun policy analyst, said (GSMA) and may be mass- Taiwan’s Defence Ministry able to fully monitor Chinese time Su-35s flew over the Bashi found the bodies and two guns the tragedy appeared to be the produced by manufactures said multiple H-6K bombers, naval and air drills and “take Channel, hailing it as a “new at the property, Western Aus- worst mass shooting in Aus- who do not comply with reconnaissance planes and effective responsive measures breakthrough, highlighting the tralia state Police Commis- tralia since a lone gunman international standards of transport aircraft flew over the to ensure defence security”. new enhancements to the Air sioner Chris Dawson said. killed 35 people in Tasmania production resulting in the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan, China sees democratically Force’s combat capability”. Police wouldn’t say who made state in 1996, prompting the infiltration of the market by and over the Miyako Strait, near governed Taiwan — which has Beijing has stepped up mil- the call. The bodies of two nation to introduce tough gun counterfeit, possibly haz- Japan’s Okinawa Island, in a drill never formally declared itary patrols around Taiwan. adults were found outside a controls. ardous, mobile phones. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 ASIA 07 Mahathir eyes pardon for foe-turned ally Anwar

REUTERS director of prisons is satisfied... Mahathir said the then he may be released in 2-3 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s king indicated he days. Freedom is easier (than newly-elected Prime Minister was willing to pardon getting a pardon).” Anwar, 70, Mahathir Mohamad said Anwar immediately. A was due to be released on June yesterday that the country’s 8 with time taken off his sen- monarch has indicated he was full pardon by the king tence for good behaviour. He willing to grant a full royal would mean Anwar began a five-year sentence for pardon to jailed politician Anwar can return to active bad behaviour in 2015, a charge Ibrahim immediately. politics. he and his supporters say was The Southeast Asian nation’s politically motivated. political landscape has been Mahathir said he will shaped for decades by a bitter pardon Anwar immediately. A announced a cabinet today that feud between Anwar and full pardon by the king would would include himself, Wan Mahathir, whose decision to sack mean Anwar can return to active Azizah and 10 others, including Anwar as his deputy sparked an politics. the ministers for finance, foreign opposition movement, Before the election, Mahathir affairs, defence and home affairs. Reformasi, or Reform, in 1998. had said he would step down and “Whether Anwar will be part But in 2016, Mahathir aban- give the prime minister’s post to of the cabinet or not will be doned the long-ruling Barisan Anwar when he is pardoned. He decided when the time comes,” Nasional (BN) coalition, and has said Anwar’s wife Wan he said. joined Anwar’s opposition Azizah Wan Ismail will be the Mahathir said his govern- alliance to fight against scandal- deputy prime minister in his ment’s initial policies would hit former premier Najib Razak. cabinet. focus on fulfilling promises made Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (left) talking with Malaysia’s King Muhammad V at the “It is going to be a full Reporters and Anwar sup- in the alliance’s manifesto, National Palace in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. pardon, which means not only porters gathered outside a hos- including the abolition of a goods pardoned, but he is released pital in Kuala Lumpur where he and services tax (GST). immediately and after that he is recovering from a shoulder “In the case of foreign affairs, markets and return billions of the country’s attorney general closed and will reopen tomorrow will be free to participate fully in surgery. His wife, who visited we want to maintain good rela- dollars lost in a graft scandal at was wrong to clear Najib in the , but overseas investors were politics,” Mahathir told reporters Anwar in hospital, later told tions with all countries state fund 1Malaysia Devel- 1MDB probe in 2016. nervous about Najib’s ouster a day after he was sworn to office reporters he could be freed in regardless of their policies,” he opment Berhad (1MDB), which “He, in fact, has hidden evi- after a decade in office. following his alliance’s shock win days and pardoned within a said. “We do not want to favour was a major factor in the election dence of wrongdoing, and that Mahathir said his gov- in Wednesday’s election. week. any country, we want to ensure and in the ouster of Najib, is wrong in law. We have to do ernment would look into At 92, he is the world’s oldest “The Agong (king) wants the that the market for Malaysia is Mahathir’s predecessor and what is permitted by the laws of measures to stabilise the ringgit, elected leader. Mahathir said the pardon to happen as soon as pos- as large as possible.” Mahathir former protege. this country,” Mahathir said. and talk to departments on what king indicated he was willing to sible,” Wan Azizah said. “If the has vowed to reassure financial The new prime minister said Malaysian markets were could be done. Philippine top judge, Japan PM to N Korea: Release Duterte’s critic, citizens abducted decades ago ousted by colleagues AP

AP speaking up for the respect of TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister law and human rights as he has yesterday warned North Korean MANILA: The Philippine led a brutal crackdown on illegal leader Kim Jong-Un that Japan Supreme Court ousted its chief drugs that has left thousands of the Duterte administration to will not provide major economic justice, a critic of the country’s suspects dead. In the nearly two oust her are a threat to assistance unless the North authoritarian president, in an years the brash-talking leader democracy, saying the petition resolves the issue of Japanese unprecedented vote yesterday has been in power, an oppo- that led to yesterday’s vote vio- citizens it abducted decades ago. by fellow judges that she and sition senator has been locked lates the constitution, which Shinzo Abe said in a tele- hundreds of protesters called up on drug charges she says stipulates that top officials like vised interview that Kim should unconstitutional and a threat to were fabricated and other critics her can only be removed by understand that agreements democracy. have been insulted or impeachment. The court also with the United States and South Court spokesman Theodore threatened. ordered Sereno to explain in 10 Korea on better relations and Te said justices voted 8-6 to About 1,800 protesters days why she should not be denuclearization are not enough grant a petition by the govern- gathered to support Sereno sanctioned for discussing the to win Japanese aid, and that the Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting with Toyota ment’s solicitor-general to outside the court in Manila, complaint against her in public abductees must be released. Motor Corp President, Akio Toyoda, at a plant of Toyota Motor remove Maria Lourdes Sereno where anti-riot police blocked and “for casting aspersions and “The key is for the North (pictured) from the 15-member an access road with trucks and ill-motive to the members of the Korean leader to decide,” Abe Hokkaido, Inc in Tomakomai, on Japan’s northern island of tribunal for allegedly failing to iron railings to maintain order Supreme Court.” Duterte’s told the Fuji Television network. Hokkaido, yesterday. file statements of assets and lia- and separate a smaller group of spokesman, Harry Roque, said “It is extremely important for bilities as required by law. anti-Sereno demonstrators. the court decision must be North Korea to normalise dip- abducted at least 17 Japanese acknowledged abducting 13 of Sereno denies the allegation and Sereno is facing a separate respected. One of the justices lomatic relations with Japan to citizens in the 1970s and 1980s them and allowed five to visit refused to participate in the impeachment bid in the House who opposed the petition, walk along the right track as to train agents in Japanese Japan, where they stayed. The vote. of Representatives, which is Marvic Leonen, called it “a legal part of international society, culture and language to spy on North says eight others died, but Sereno has earned the ire of dominated by Duterte’s allies. abomination” that should have while accepting its require- South Korea. After decades of Japanese officials and their fam- President Rodrigo Duterte by She has warned that efforts by been dismissed outright. ments.” Japan says North Korea denial, North Korea in 2002 ilies say that cannot be trusted.

Taiwan court jails 12 Wildlife smuggling over deadly gas blasts kingpin jailed AFP four-year jail term for failing to in Thailand regularly maintain the under- AP TAIPEI: Three government offi- ground pipes transporting cials were among 12 people propene which caused them to jailed yesterday over Taiwan’s rust and damage, leading to the BANGKOK: An anti-traf- worst ever gas explosions blasts. ficking group said a court in which killed 32 and injured The firm failed to conduct Thailand has sentenced a more than 300 four years ago. proper procedures when testing 41-year-old Thai man The disaster in southern for leaks and continued to believed to be a kingpin in the Kaohsiung city saw explosions transport the gas to its factory, illicit wildlife trade to 2.5 rip through underground pipe- which produces chemical years in prison for smuggling lines, sparking massive fires materials and plastics. rhinoceros horns. and leaving trenches running Three employees of a The group Freeland said down the middle of some company contracted by LCY yesterday that the court in A view of Mount Merapi following an eruption as seen from Donoharjo village, near Yogyakarta, on streets, with vehicles thrown Chemical to deliver propene Samut Prakarn province con- the island of Java, Indonesia, yesterday. onto the roofs of buildings. were each sentenced to four victed Boonchai Bach this Three former Kaohsiung years and six months in prison week in the shipment of 11kg city government officials each over their failure to notice (24.2 pounds) of rhino horns Indonesian volcano erupts received four years and 10 irregularities and stop trans- from Africa worth $700,000. months for causing death and porting the gas on the day of the As per the report, the AFP Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s cultural it happened. “There was no sign injury by professional negli- explosions. rhino horns were seized in capital some 30km away. Offi- it would be erupting.” Some 120 gence, the city’s district court The court said the December when a Chinese JAKARTA: Indonesian villagers cials have shuttered the city’s people who were hiking on the said in a statement. defendants “had inflicted huge smuggler was arrested at living in the shadow of one of international airport with two mountain when the eruption The offence is punishable emotional and physical damage Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi the world’s most active dozen flights cancelled fol- happened are safe, the gov- by a maximum five-year jail on the victims” but the sen- airport. volcanoes fled to safety lowing the eruption, which ernment said. term. The court found that the tencing took into consideration The group said a relative yesterday as Mount Merapi began around 7:30am. Merapi previously erupted trio had failed to properly that their companies had settled of Boonchai’s was caught erupted, sending a cascade of It was not clear how many in 2010, killing more than 300 inspect and monitor the with the victims’ families and when he sought to pick up the ash and smoke some 5,000 residents living around Merapi people and forcing 280,000 to pipeline system. compensated them. shipment, leading to Boon- metres into the sky. had left for local shelters, but flee, in what is considered its The officials “have shown “The most important thing chai’s arrest in January. The government ordered around 12,000 people live in its most powerful eruption since no remorse as they denied is for our lives to get back on Rhino horns are used in residents living within a five-kil- immediate vicinity. “Everybody 1930. Despite evacuations, offi- responsibility and blamed each track. Heavier punishment some Asian medicines and ometre radius of the crater on ran here immediately,” resident cials played down the danger, other”, the statement said. wouldn’t really help the viewed as aphrodisiacs. The Java island to leave as ash Familia Ekawati said from a saying it was a phreatic The head of Kaohsiung- wounded or the families of the ultimate buyers of the horns covered surrounding commu- shelter, adding that there was eruption, which happens when based LCY Chemical and five deceased,” Chen Kuan-rong are often in China and nities and even reached parts of little warning of the blast before magma heats up ground water. employees each received a told reporters outside the court. Vietnam. 08 EUROPE SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 Pro-Brexit group fined for election offences REUTERS ‘Remoaners’,” Banks said. “What a shambles. We will see them in LONDON: One of the main court.” Brexit campaign groups was The commission said “We view the Electoral fined $95,000 yesterday by the Commission announcement as electoral commission for it suspected criminal a politically motivated attack on breaking spending rules in Brit- offences may have Brexit and the 17.4 million ain’s EU referendum and police been committed, people who defied the estab- may have to investigate criminal lishment to vote for an inde- offences, the commission said. and the person pendent Britain,” he said. The commission, detailing responsible, Leave. The commission said it had its findings in a 31-page doc- EU CEO Liz Bilney, had found no evidence that Leave. ument, said Leave.EU incor- been referred to the EU received donations or paid- rectly reported what it spent at police. for services from Cambridge the EU referendum, failing to Analytica, a political consultancy Sweet tribute include at least $105,000 in its at the centre of a storm over spending return and thus Kingdom, opponents of Brexit how Facebook data was used in A member of staff at the Hummingbird Bakery showing cupcakes themed with icing depicting the exceeding a spending limit. have questioned what they say political campaigns. Union Flag, the US flag, stars and crowns to mark the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and The documented breaches of is Britain’s biggest mistake since The commission said Leave. US actress Meghan Markle, in central London, yesterday. electoral law are likely to fuel World War II and the methods EU failed to include services it demands from opponents of and funding of campaigners for received from US campaign Brexit for a re-run of the 2016 Brexit. strategy firm Goddard Gunster referendum, though there is little Supporters of leaving the EU in a spending return. The com- sign so far that the vote’s legit- said opponents of Brexit are mission also found Leave.EU imacy has been undermined. trying to water down or even inaccurately reported three “These are serious offences,” stop Brexit with a myriad of loans it had received. May appoints new Grenfell inquiry panel said Bob Posner, the Electoral legal and political ploys that they Leave.EU exceeded the AFP Commission’s director of warn could thrust Britain into a spending limit for non-party Survivors’ groups feared the sure the inquiry delivers truth political finance and regulation. constitutional crisis. registered campaigners by at inquiry risked being a and justice for the loved ones we “Leave.EU exceeded its spending Arron Banks, the founder of least 10 percent, the Electoral LONDON: British Prime whitewash unless May lost in the fire and those that limit and failed to declare its Leave.EU who was pictured with Commission said. Minister Theresa May yesterday appointed a diverse panel that survived,” he said in a written funding and its spending Donald Trump and leading The total alleged overspend bowed to pressure from families would better represent the local statement through campaign correctly.” Brexiteer Nigel Farage outside represented less than 0.1 percent of the 71 people who died in last community to oversee the group Grenfell United. The commission said it sus- a gilded elevator soon after the of overall campaign finance year’s Grenfell Tower fire by investigation. Chaoui was one of those pected criminal offences may 2016 US presidential election, spend, Leave.EU said. appointing new experts to assist Prior to May’s who led a petition signed by have been committed, and the cast doubt on the commission’s Leave.EU and Cambridge an inquiry into the blaze. announcement yesterday the 156,000 people, calling for the person responsible, Leave.EU impartiality. Analytica had previously denied “To best serve the increasing panel was to consist only of panel members to be added. A CEO Liz Bilney, had been Using the term Remoaners working together on the Brexit scale and complexity of the inquiry chair Sir Martin protest by Grenfell United was referred to the police. - which is often used by Brex- campaign. Leave.EU was not the inquiry, I have decided to appoint Moore-Bick. also planned for May 14. In the June 23, 2016 refer- iteers to describe opponents of officially designated “leave” an additional two panel “We should not have had to May said in December 2017 endum, 17.4 million votes, or Brexit such as former Labour campaign group during the members,” she said in a written campaign for it,” Adel Chaoui, she had told Moore-Bick that 51.9 percent of votes cast, Prime Minister Tony Blair - referendum. statement. “The fire in Grenfell who lost four relatives in the she would not appoint addi- backed leaving the EU while 16.1 Banks said he would face the “The Electoral Commission Tower was an unimaginable London fire, said, adding that tional panel members. million votes, or 48.1 percent of commission in court. went big game fishing and found tragedy, and I am determined they were “relieved” by the “I previously indicated my votes cast, backed staying. “The Electoral Commission a few ‘aged’ dead sardines on that justice is done for the move. intention to keep the matter But ever since the shock is a ‘Blairite Swamp Creation’ the beach. So much for the big victims, survivors, bereaved and “This is a huge step for all under review,” she said in the vote which divided the United packed full of establishment conspiracy,” Banks said. the wider community.” of us who are desperate to make same statement yesterday.

Frightened Europe remains ‘defenceless’ against migrants: Hungary Rabbit singer’s AP “Now we are exactly where has seen increasing arrivals in pose a significant security threat Polish Foreign Minister Jacek body found we used to be three years ago,” recent months. (to) Europe.” Czaputowicz said that while atti- ATHENS: Hungary’s foreign he said. Hungary is strongly critical Yesterday’s talks in a resort tudes towards Poland from other AP minister said yesterday that “The European Union is of EU immigration policies, has south of Athens brought together European capitals and “elites” Europe remains threatened by defenceless from the south and built border fences to keep ministers from the so-called have improved, the countries LONDON: Police confirmed unchecked immigration and from the southeast.” migrants out and rejects the Visegrad Group — Poland, the facing similar criticism should yesterday that a body must focus on stopping it, three Szijjarto spoke on the side- bloc’s obligatory quota system Czech Republic, Slovakia and take common defensive action. discovered at a Scottish years after the mass influx of lines of a regional EU foreign for taking in asylum-seekers. Hungary — and Greece, Bulgaria, “Countries of the region, marina is that of Scott about a million people. ministers meeting in Greece that “We should not speak about Romania and Croatia. central and eastern Europe, Hutchison, the singer of indie Peter Szijjarto said that the discussed energy cooperation, how to encourage migration, Visegrad Group members should stay together,” he said. rock band Frightened Rabbit. European Union should screen and the bloc’s expansion before how to manage migration, we strongly object to EU immi- “We have common interests, Hutchison, 36, was asylum-seekers in camps a summit next week in should speak about how to stop gration policies, and resent crit- we cannot accept double reported missing on created outside its own borders, Bulgaria. the migratory flows,” Szijjarto icism over the rule of the law in standards within the European Wednesday after leaving a which he said the bloc should be Greece is a major gateway to said. “Because if the migratory their countries from many EU Union, and we have to defend hotel in South Queensferry, able to police more efficiently. the EU for asylum-seekers, and flows continue then that would partners. our cause.” near Edinburgh. Police Scotland said his body was found on Thursday evening at the nearby Port Edgar marina and his family was Prince Philip spotted for first time after surgery Montenegro urged to probe informed. AP Police did not disclose the attack on journalist cause of his death. REUTERS Hutchison, however, had LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II’s Milo Djukanovic and EU spoken about his struggles husband Prince Philip has made enlargement commissioner with depression, and after his his first public appearance since BELGRADE: The European Johannes Hahn. disappearance his family said leaving the hospital after hip Union warned Montenegro “This has an impact on the they worried he was in a replacement surgery on April 13. yesterday that a shooting attack standing and reputation of the “fragile state.” Hutchison sent Philip was seen in a sports on a journalist would have an country...(It) is on our radar tweets late Tuesday saying utility vehicle at the Royal impact on the country’s EU screen and we expect a proper “Please hug your loved ones” Windsor Horse Show yesterday. membership bid and urged it investigation,” Hahn said after and “I’m away now. Thanks.” He was talking to the queen to fully investigate the incident. visiting Vijesti’s offices and Frightened Rabbit was through the vehicle’s open Olivera Lakic, 49, who meeting Lakic after her release founded by Hutchison and his window. writes about organised crime from hospital. drummer brother Grant more Palace officials have said he for the daily Vijesti, was shot Montenegro wants to join than a decade ago and has plans to attend next week’s and wounded on Tuesday in the EU but to do so it must root released several albums. wedding of Prince Harry and front of her apartment building out endemic organised crime In a statement, Hutchison’s Meghan Markle if he is well in the capital Podgorica. and corruption. relatives said they were enough to do so. The attack sparked a protest It was the second attack on “utterly devastated” at the loss The 96-year-old Philip has by journalists, rights activists Lakic since 2012, when she was Britain’s Queen Elizabeth speaking to Prince Philip at the Royal of the “passionate, articulate largely retired from public and opposition parties in beaten, also in front of her home. Windsor Horse Show, in Windsor, yesterday. and charismatic” singer. duties. Podgorica and was condemned A perpetrator was sentenced to by Montenegrin and foreign offi- nine months in jail but freed cials including President-elect early as part of an amnesty. Call to ban fast-food ad on transport network AFP “Child obesity in London is to ban adverts for harmful junk already bans the advertising of a ticking timebomb and I am food from our entire Tube and high fat, sugar and salt content LONDON: United Kingdom determined to act,” Khan said bus network.” food and drink products in capital’s Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday. Almost 40 percent of media where children make up yesterday proposed to ban “It can’t be right that in a city children in London aged 10 and more than 25 percent of the adverts for foods high in fat, salt as prosperous as London that 11 are overweight or obese, audience. and sugar from the city’s where you live and the income according to official data. “International experience transport network in a bid to you have can have a massive Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and independent research have tackle childhood obesity. impact on whether you have called the plans “a massive and shown an advertising ban would The mayor also suggested a access to healthy, nutritious food bold step forward”. have little impact on the wider ban on new hot-food takeaways and your exposure to junk food Lobby group the Adver- societal issues that drive The front-page of daily newspaper “Vijesti” with a picture of opening within 400 metres of advertising. tising Association pointed out obesity,” a spokesman for the attacked reporter Olivera Lakic is seen during a protest, in Podgorica. schools, his office announced. “That is why I’m proposing that British government group said. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 EUROPE 09

Catalan Putin, Merkel parliament to vote for discuss Iran new leader AFP

BARCELONA: Catalonia’s nuclear deal parliament will start debating today on whether to appoint in Syria and the Ukrainian crisis. staunch independence supporter “When points of view Quim Torra as regional pres- coincide, it can only mean that ident, after deposed leader Putin will have the countries edge at least a bit Carles Puigdemont stepped closer to each other.” aside from the running. further discussions Russia-West relations have This will be the first major on the issue with plummeted to the lowest levels step forward in forming a Merkel and French since the Cold War over Rus- regional government after sia’s 2014 annexation of the months of political limbo fol- President Emmanuel Crimean Peninsula, and the EU lowing a failed independence bid FROM LEFT: Junts per Catalonia (Together for Catalonia) MPs Eduard Pujol, Albert Batet, Quim Torra, Macron when they followed the US in imposing by Catalonia’s separatist leaders Elsa Artadi and Josep Costa applaud as former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont (top second left) visit Russia this economic and financial sanc- last October. appears on a screen during a party meeting at the parliament of Catalonia, in Barcelona, yesterday. month. tions on Moscow. Torra, a 55-year-old father- Ushakov’s statement of-three, is a dyed-in-the-wool regional assembly said in a who are pro-independence, political limbo since Spain’s con- reflected a Kremlin hope that a independence advocate cut from statement yesterday. against 65 who aren’t. servative central government AP rift between Washington and the same cloth as Puigdemont, Lawmakers will vote on his But four of the 70 are from imposed direct rule on the semi- its European allies will offer a who has tasked him with con- candidacy at the end of the the radical anti-capitalist, sep- autonomous region after it uni- MOSCOW: A shared disap- chance of rebuilding ties with tinuing his fight with Spain’s debate. aratist CUP party which has said laterally declared independence proval of the US exit from the Europe’s economic power- central government to achieve Torra needs an absolute it will vote for Puigdemont —and on October 27. Iranian nuclear deal may help houses. Europe is rattled by independence. majority to get through, and if he no one else. The declaration came just bring Russia and European President Donald Trump’s After holding talks with dif- doesn’t, he will get another oppor- If they decide to abstain, he weeks after Catalan separatist nations closer, a top Kremlin decision to re-impose sanctions ferent parties, Catalan parlia- tunity in a second round, likely to will scrape through in the second authorities held a referendum official said yesterday. of Iran that mean European mentary speaker Roger Torrent take place tomorrow, where he round with a simple majority. despite a court ban, which was President Vladimir Putin’s companies must halt business officially proposed Torra as the will only need a simple majority. But if they vote against, he won’t marred by police violence as foreign affairs adviser, Yuri with Iran or face US presidential candidate and called There are currently 70 law- succeed. security forces tried to stop Ushakov, said the Russian pres- punishment. a session today at midday, the makers in regional parliament Catalonia has been in people from voting. ident discussed the situation Ushakov noted Iran’s wants around the 2015 nuclear deal to stick with the deal and that in yesterday’s phone call with Russia is trying to keep it from German Chancellor Angela falling apart. Merkel, and their positions “We are working with Iran UN nuclear watchdog inspections chief resigns were “practically identical.” to encourage it not to make any REUTERS Ushakov added that Putin ill-considered steps and not to International Atomic Energy director general and head of the The UN watchdog has also will have further discussions on exit,” Ushakov said. Agency and head of its Department of Safeguards, repeatedly defended the the issue with Merkel and He added that Putin is set to VIENNA: The chief of inspec- Department of Safeguards, effective immediately. landmark agreement, saying it is French President Emmanuel meet with the chief of the Inter- tions at the UN nuclear watchdog which verifies countries’ com- The accord signed by Iran a gain for nuclear verification. Macron when they visit Russia national Atomic Energy Agency, has resigned suddenly, the pliance with the nuclear Non- and major powers in 2015 “The agency’s safeguards this month. Yukiya Amano, tomorrow to agency said yesterday without Proliferation Treaty, since 2013. imposed strict limits on Iran’s activities will continue to be Merkel is to make a trip to discuss the situation. giving a reason. He will be replaced in an atomic activities to help ensure carried out in a highly profes- Russia next Friday, and Macron He also said that Russia and The departure of Tero Var- acting capacity by the head of they are not put to developing sional manner,” the spokesman is set to meet Putin during a its ex-Soviet allies will sign a joranta comes at a sensitive time, the department’s Iran team, the nuclear bombs in exchange for said. business forum in St. Petersburg previously negotiated free trade three days after the United States Vienna-based IAEA said. the lifting of international sanc- Asked why Varjoranta had the following week. pact with Iran next week. It will announced it was quitting world “Mr Tero Varjoranta has tions against Tehran. resigned, he said: “The agency Ushakov noted that a involve Iran, Russia and other powers’ nuclear accord with resigned effective May 11, 2018,” The IAEA is policing those cannot comment on personnel critical view of the US move members of the Moscow-dom- Iran, raising questions as to an IAEA spokesman said. restrictions and said on matters, which are confidential.” shared by leaders of Russia, inated Eurasian Economic whether Tehran will continue to “The director general has Wednesday that the day after IAEA Director General Yukiya France and Germany will help Union. The grouping includes comply with it. appointed Mr Massimo Aparo, Trump’s announcement, that Amano plans to appoint a per- drive them closer despite their Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia Varjoranta, a Finn, had been acting director, Office for Veri- Iran was still implementing its manent replacement as soon as stark differences over the war and Kyrgyzstan. a deputy director general of the fication in Iran, as acting deputy commitments under the deal. possible, he added.

Victory Day Polish lawmakers okay terror plot in new airport project AP Russia foiled was born out of the right-wing AP government’s efforts to develop WARSAW: Polish lawmakers large-scale trade cooperation MOSCOW: Russian intelli- have approved divisive legis- with China and to help it get a gence foiled a terror attack on lation paving the way for the foothold in Europe. The gov- this week’s massive Victory construction of what they intend ernment argues that Poland’s Day memorial march in will become one of Europe’s economy, which is among Moscow, a top Russian largest airports — and China’s Europe’s fastest-growing, needs diplomat said yesterday. gateway to the continent. new powerful partners and About 1 million people According to the govern- large projects. marched through central ment’s plans, the airport is to During a visit to China last Moscow on Wednesday in the be built in central Poland by the year, Poland’s official in charge annual Immortal Regiment end of 2027, some 40km from of the project, Mikolaj Wild, said rally, carrying pictures of Warsaw and near a highway that Beijing was open to talks family members killed in leading toward Berlin and on the airport as it develops its World War II. President Western Europe. It is initially to “Belt and Road” initiative aimed Vladimir Putin and visiting serve some 45 million pas- at boosting its international Israeli Prime Minister Ben- sengers a year, along with huge trade ties. There have been no jamin Netanyahu joined the cargo traffic between Asia and reports of any Chinese com- march on May 9, the day Europe. Its target capacity is to mitment, though. when Russia marks the end be 100 million passengers a Poland’s opposition parties of the war. year. and many ordinary Poles crit- Deputy Foreign Minister Approval is still needed icise the plan because it calls Oleg Syromolotov said in an Education row in France from the Senate and from Pres- for the closing of the popular interview that several terror ident Andrzej Duda. Frederic Chopin airport, located groups in western Siberia had Police officials stand alert near an examination hall as students of Nanterre University attempt to sit The idea for the new airport in Warsaw. stockpiled weapons for the their examinations, in Arcuil, on the outskirts of Paris, yesterday. Opponents of proposed government attack. Twenty people have education reforms have prevented students of the university from taking some of their examination been detained and 17 homes papers, the venue of which had been relocated to Arcuil because of the ongoing opposition. were searched as part of the investigation, he said. US identifies Hungary passport fraud scheme Czech PM’s party reach coalition deal with left-wing AP WASHINGTON: US officials have identified a passport fraud AFP a confidence vote in parliament If all goes according to plan, European Parliament vote. scheme in Hungary that has allowed people to enter the US under by the end of June. it would be the first time the Campaigning on an anti-cor- false identities. PRAGUE: The ANO (YES) “We made an awful lot of Communists have a role in gov- ruption ticket, ANO won 78 out Officials said that US Customs and Border Protection’s National movement of populist billionaire compromises... to have this ernment, albeit an informal one, of 200 seats in October’s general Targeting Center notified the US Embassy in Budapest of an Interpol Czech Prime Minister Andrej cabinet. We’ll see what stance since the communist regime in election, but Babis has so far notice on an individual who had fraudulently obtained a Hun- Babis yesterday approved a the CSSD will take,” said Babis, the former Czechoslovakia col- failed to form a coalition as garian passport that led to the scheme’s discovery. coalition deal with the left-wing who was a Communist Party lapsed in 1989. Some CSSD party potential partners have shunned The issue was first reported by the Washington Post. The news- CSSD Social Democrats for a member during the 1980s. members oppose the coalition him over the criminal charges. paper reported that about 700 non-Hungarians have fraudulently minority cabinet with informal With just 93 seats between deal with Babis. His previous attempt ended obtained Hungarian passports and that at least 85 of them have Communist backing to guar- them in the 200-member par- Addressing concerns that with a minority government of attempted to travel to the US. antee a parliamentary majority. liament, the possible ANO-CSSD they may torpedo the coalition ANO members and unaffiliated The Post cites a Department of Homeland Security document The CSSD must still approve coalition needs the backing of deal, Babis said an early experts failing to win a parlia- that said 65 of those successfully entered the US. DHS declined to the coalition deal in a party ref- the Communists, who have 15 election could be scheduled for mentary confidence vote in confirm the numbers. But spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said anyone erendum. Babis said he expected seats, to secure a majority. May 2019, along with the January. violating immigration laws is subject to arrest. 10 VIEWS SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 Rift deepens as Europe ESTABLISHED IN 1996 seeks Trump alternatives CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

DANNY KEMP ACTING MANAGING EDITOR AFP MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] deepening transatlantic rift as “flattery” fails to sway Donald Trump has left Europeans in Asearch of new answers, including closer dealings with Russia that only recently would have been EDITORIAL unpalatable, analysts say. The US president’s decision to ignore European pleas to save the Iran nuclear deal is the latest humiliation Boost for real estate sector after his threats to impose trade tariffs, his pull-out from the Paris climate roject Qatar 2018 has concluded opening new doors pact, and his demands for Nato allies of opportunity for a number of local and foreign to pay more. Pconstruction sector companies. The 15th edition of Analysts and officials say Trump four-day international trade exhibition for construction threatens to create all by himself the technology, building materials, equipment, and environ- kind of split between allies that Russia mental technology provided participating companies from and China have tried and failed to China, Turkey, Iran, Germany, Pakistan and other coun- foster for years, with Europe now tries a golden opportunity to explore and develop new relying on Moscow and Beijing to keep business partnerships with Qatari counterparts. the Iran deal alive. During the four-day trade event, around 400 pre- Trump is “uncontrollable” and arranged business-to-business meetings between leading “won’t listen to anyone”, an EU official companies and visitors were held. Many of these meetings who met the president when he visited translated into mutually beneficial business deals. Brussels in May 2017 said. The Qatar National Vision 2030 and the FIFA World German Chancellor Angela Merkel Cup 2022 are major growth drivers for Qatar’s con- warned this week that Europe could struction industry. The Qatari construction sector is the no longer rely on the United States to fastest growing construction market in the Gulf region. “protect” it, while French President The Qatar Government has earmarked as much as Emmanuel Macron said that “we QR200bn to spend in 2018 for the construction of key cannot let others decide for us.” The Europeans now faced a populism that fuelled Trump’s rise to projects in transport and infrastructure, healthcare, edu- Both leaders made humiliating “critical and historic choice” over how power. A strong proponent of this is cation, sporting facilities, water, and tourism. pilgrimages to Washington to beg to react to the Iran deal in particular, European Commission chief Jean- Over 280 international Trump to stick said Ellie Geranmayeh, expert at Claude Juncker, who said that rela- exhibitors from 21 countries with the Iran European Council on Foreign tions between the EU and the United and 126 local companies par- deal, only to see Relations. States were in “crisis”. ticipated in this international him withdraw “The Europeans now need to “Washington no longer wants to trade exhibition for con- -- and on the essentially have a very hard and cooperate with the rest of the world struction technology, building eve of “Europe aggressive negotiating posture with and we are at the stage where we have During four-day materials, equipment and The US president’s Day”, a public the US,” Geranmayeh said to replace the United States,” Juncker trade event, environmental technology decision to ignore holiday for the “The accommodation and com- said in a speech in Belgium earlier this around 400 sector. European pleas EU institutions. promise attitude by the E3 over the week. pre-arranged Minister of Economy and to save the Iran Apart from past few months to reach a deal with While the Iran deal fiasco has Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed the impact on the US has basically failed,” she said created tensions, “the damage may be business- bin Jassim Al Thani, at the nuclear deal is the international referring to Britain, France and the greatest” from the looming trans- to-business inauguration of Project Qatar latest humiliation security, Germany, the three EU sigNatories to atlantic trade war over Trump’s meetings 2018, had rightly said that the after his threats European firms the Iran deal. decision to impose damaging tariffs on between leading huge participation of com- to impose trade stand to be That could increasingly see European steel and aluminium, former panies across the world in badly hit when Europe propelled closer to Russia in ambassador Gardner warned. companies and exhibitions such as Project tariffs, his pull- Trump reim- particular, in spite of deep tensions But the decades of close cooper- visitors were Qatar, reflected the strength out from the Paris poses sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, Syria, and ation across the Atlantic since World held. Many of of Qatar’s economy. climate pact, and on Iran’s the recent poisoning of a Russian War II will prove difficult to abandon “The state’s commitment nuclear pro- ex-spy in Britain. entirely. these meetings to supporting the construction his demands for gramme which “The US withdrawal from the deal “We focus a lot on areas like translated sector has contributed to Nato allies to pay had been sus- could benefit Russia,” Moscow-based climate change, attitudes to Iran, into mutually positioning Qatar as one of more. pended under geopolitical expert Alexey Malashenko where there are clearly very big differ- beneficial the fastest growing markets the deal. said. “Russia could profit by getting ences,” Malcolm Chalmers, deputy in the region and the world,” Former US closer to the EU and saying ‘look, we director-general of the RUSI military business deals. he added. ambassador to the EU Anthony are still in agreement on some issues, think tank in London, said. “Project Qatar has turned Gardner tweeted that Trump’s Iran we agree on this subject, against the “But there are lots of other issues, into the perfect venue to meet, pull-out “made the world a far more United States.” not least in relation to Russia still, direct, and foster business relationship backed by solid dangerous place” and scathingly Many in Europe see the Trump rift where fundamentally the positions are support from the national government which seeks to remarked: “So much for European as a chance to finally leave America’s the same.” Chalmers added that it turn the country into a world-class business hub in the efforts at flattery.” orbit and increase EU cooperation on was “one of the ironies of Brexit” that region. Project Qatar 2018 was a major success as evi- European leaders will discuss the defence and the economy Britain was now, less than a year denced by an overwhelming participation from the Iran deal and trade at a summit next The EU is keen to boost inte- before its departure from the EU, regional and global industry stakeholders,” said Projects week in Bulgaria where EU President gration as it reboots itself after the closer to its European allies on foreign Director at IFP Qatar Haidar Mshaimesh. Donald Tusk said Trump would “meet shock of Brexit -- the British vote to policy issues than it was to the United He also said that Project Qatar 2018 played a key role a united European approach.” leave the bloc fed by the same wave of States than it had been for some time. in offering real opportunities for companies from around the world, enabling them to present their ventures to the visitors. “Participating top-notch manufacturers, distrib- utors, and contractors, to cite a few, also engaged with local decision-makers and their counterparts through Iraq has elections today; they’re a mess Project Qatar and we are happy to note of positive out- HUSSEIN IBISH comes in these fruitful interactions.” incumbent Prime Minister Nuri Al to the largest electoral coalition, as it Project Qatar, for the first time, also hosted the Future BLOOMBERG Maliki, a sectarian Shiite Islamist, was does in virtually all countries with par- Projects Qatar Conference, which kicked off with a panel narrowly defeated by a secular coa- liamentary systems. Instead, the court discussion themed ‘Shaping the Future of Qatar’s fter the US withdrawal from lition led by the former interim prime said, it could go to a bloc that could Construction’. the Iran nuclear deal and the minister Ayad Allawi. assemble the largest coalition after the military flare-up between Allawi, a nonsectarian Shiite election. On this basis and because AIran and Israel along the whose Al Iraqiyya coalition included neither side had won an outright Syrian border, national elections in many Sunnis, got 91 seats in Par- majority, Maliki, with the backing of Iraq this weekend will be a crucial test liament as opposed to 89 for the the US and Iran, was given the first of Iran’s regional influence. But the Maliki coalition. The next largest opportunity and retained his grip on QUOTE OF THE DAY election will also unfold under the group had 70. power. largely unrecognised but ominous Most observers assumed that The result was a disaster. The shadow of one of the worst electoral Allawi would therefore be granted the administration of President Barack court rulings anywhere in recent first opportunity to form a gov- Obama was mystifyingly determined Interest rates are history. ernment. But for their own strategic to stick with Maliki, claiming there the mother and Iraq’s electoral law is a complex reasons, the two dominant foreign were no other real options. Iran also father of all evil. I will and idiosyncratic method of securing powers in Iraq - the US and Iran - pushed for him to stay in power emerge victorious in proportional representation in Par- both wanted a second term for Maliki. because of his sectarian Shiite policies liament. The system tends to favor the After numerous legal machina- and slavishly pro-Iranian attitudes. the battle (June 24 largest parties and solid voting blocs tions, including the attempted disquali- His second term destroyed the gains elections) with the using a process so arcane that vir- fication of several of Allawi’s candi- of the US military surge against al- scourge of interest tually no one outside of professional dates, a formula to keep him in power Qaeda in Iraq and fueled the rise of politicians and statisticians really was finally discovered. On March 25, Islamic State in Sunni-majority areas rates. understands how it works. the federal Supreme Court of Iraq of the country. That’s bad enough. Even worse is issued Opinion 25 of 2010 putting a Maliki’s coalition won the most Recep Tayyip Erdogan that under existing Iraqi judicial novel gloss on Article 76 of the seats in the 2014 election, but he was Turkish President rulings, the most meaningful politics Constitution. so discredited that many of his take place after the voting. The court ruled that right to form a onetime supporters abandoned him, Two elections back, in 2010, the government did not automatically go including the US and Iran. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 OPINION 11 Nigeria’s difficult path to long lasting peace with Boko Haram

hat will make you from others’ fear. Instead, normality capture or death. taught us. We cannot change what a soldier of Allah”, shall be reclaimed in demilitarised Now the imprint of occupation is has happened, only what is yet to declared villages, towns and cities, with cit- being washed away. Boko Haram has come. Mohammed Yusuf, izens going about their daily lives free been degraded and life has returned Present-day Borno state, the “W to Maiduguri (the region’s capital). is “a disavowal of every form of from apprehension. former heart of the insurgency, unbelief”. Among the founder of Boko This is not to discredit the Schools have reopened. Bars and speaks to this purpose. Despite LAI MOHAMMED Haram’s heresies stood democracy achievements of the army, but to rec- nightclubs resound with chatter and Boko Haram no longer controlling AL JAZEERA and the Constitution. It was 2009. The ognise its domain in a democratic music. And the local premier league any local government areas, iso- agitation for an Islamic state in the society. For without security, there team can once again play matches in lated attacks still occur. Fighters northeast of Nigeria had begun. can be little guarantee of justice, their home stadium. These are emerge from hideouts deep in the Then, the prospect seemed human rights and the pursuit of hap- achievements on which we must now forest of Lake Chad to strike. implausible. Yet by the time President piness. A professional and responsive build. Innocent Muslims, Christians and Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated military are their essential lynchpin. And with these gains, the gov- schoolchildren are often the targets in 2015, the group occupied an area As US President Donald Trump ernment has a chance to overturn the of these acts of cowardice and des- three times the size of Lebanon. stated - standing side by side with economic marginalisation that gave peration. Liberation of territory and Today, an “Islamic state” once President Buhari in the White House Boko Haram an audience. Only last degradation of the enemy is not again seems remote: Boko Haram, Rose Garden on April 30 - Nigeria has month, the administration and a enough. We must stop every and by extension, the Islamic State of been the critical force in Boko General Electric-led consortium incident. Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been Haram’s decline in West Africa. For signed an agreement to begin However, nowhere in the world routed from the 24 local areas in our part, the government profoundly revamping Nigeria’s dilapidated rail can these types of attacks be indefi- Nigeria they used to administer. Bol- appreciates American assistance, not network - of which Maiduguri to Port nitely prevented, unless the group stered by international assistance, the only in terms of training and military Harcourt forms one of its two main in question surrender. Terror can Nigerian army has led this regional equipment, but also in the humani- lines. This shall bring jobs and oppor- strike anywhere. Sadly, the streets fight against terrorism. But in pursuit tarian crisis the insurgency has tunity to the region, increase trade of London, Paris and New York, of a final peace, the government - caused. In finding courage to press between the north and south, and nations whose security capacities whom I serve as minister of infor- forward, we must remember from ensure the bounty of the nation is outstrip that of my nation, bear tes- mation and chief spokesperson - shall where we have come. Under Boko shared by all. No longer shall the vul- timony to this truth. In Nigeria, we also look beyond military measures. Haram, the infamous black flag of nerable be seduced by false solutions remain vigilant to intercept and An army presence in civilian com- religious totalitarianism flew; schools to their hardship. prevent these assaults. But a final munities cannot be a long-term were shut down or “reformed” to suit At the same time, all channels guarantor of peace will be Boko solution. It would be an indirect win the terrorists’ purposes; roads were remain open to end the final remnants Haram’s formal renunciation of for terrorists, whose sustenance flows impassable due to the threat of of violence. The administration holds violence in both speech and deed. out its hand for negotiations with The road ahead is long. Boko Haram. Even amnesty for rebel However, the seeds of peace are fighters, if certain conditions are met, being planted on which justice, must remain a possibility. freedom and prosperity can grow. Already, former insurgents who Options must remain open to bring have voluntary surrendered, and a total cessation of hostilities. For deemed not a threat, have been reha- only then can the things we hold bilitated and reintroduced into dear in life flourish. society. Indeed, some will be guilty of The views expressed in this crimes. But Nigeria remains a place article are the author’s own and do where a second chance is granted to not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s those who cast out the poison of their editorial stance. indoctrination. The government is The writer is Nigeria’s Min- giving these Boko Haram members a ister of Information and Culture way out. and chief government That this may be morally spokesperson. repugnant to some is understandable. Barbarism is difficult to encounter and allow to walk free. Sometimes, though, the past must kneel before the future. From the IRA in Ireland to FARC in Columbia, this is what con- flict resolution around the globe has D-RING ROAD POST BOX: 3488 eeling from clashes with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Sharif, who is the PML-N president DOHA - QATAR judiciary and hobbled by led by cricket hero-turned-politician and favourite to replace current Prime [email protected] media restrictions linked to Imran Khan, who has promised a Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. In the the powerful military, Paki- radical change for the poor if he is dynastic world of Pakistani politics, R that has prompted speculation Nawaz EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE stan’s ruling party’s once-wide path to elected as premier. retaining power is narrowing ahead Sharif, a three-time prime min- fears his daughter and presumed heir TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 DRAZEN JORGIC of a general election this summer. ister whose second term was cut short Maryam would lose out in a future REUTERS In the past year, the Pakistan by a bloodless military coup in 1999, succession battle to Shehbaz’s son, Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party has cast the electoral campaign as a Hamza. MANAGING EDITOR battle to protect Pakistan’s fragile Another internal debate is over TEL: 4462 7505 democracy after a decade of uninter- whether to take a more conciliatory rupted civilian rule. line with the military and judges. DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR While no-one is suggesting the One PML-N minister, speaking on TEL: 4455 7769 Blow after blow dims army wants to outright seize power condition of anonymity, said while again, PML-N insiders say Sharif’s Sharif’s tone has hardened in recent LOCAL NEWS SECTION TEL: 4455 7743 relationship with the generals is in months, ties with the military estab- re-election hopes of tatters and accuse shadowy military lishment would have to be repaired if BUSINESS NEWS SECTION networks of working with the judi- the party was to govern again. TEL: 4462 7535 ciary to weaken the party. “The largest political force in the Pakistan’s ruling party Sharif on Thursday said “aliens”, a country - PML-N - should not be at SPORT NEWS SECTION typical coded reference to the military loggerheads with both the judiciary TEL: 4455 7745 establishment, had been calling and the army,” he said. “All sides need PML-N lawmakers and pushing them to let go of their ego and come ONLINE SECTION has seen a prime minister - its to abandon the party or join PTI. The together for the good of the country.” TEL: 4462 7501 founder Nawaz Sharif - and foreign lawmakers were threatened with cor- Pakistan’s judges have denied singling [email protected] minister both ousted by the courts, ruption cases being opened against out Sharif or the PML-N, and instead them if they disobeyed, he said. say they are enforcing accountability, while its finance minister, charged PUBLIC RELATIONS The military, which did not while Sharif’s critics accuse the with corruption, fled the country. On TEL: 4455 7613 respond to a request for comment, veteran leader of making up excuses Sunday, a gunman shot and wounded [email protected] its interior minister. has strongly denied interfering in to try to evade justice over corruption. Two serving PML-N ministers are All of this comes before another politics. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT facing contempt of court charges, court ruling due next month that PML-N officials accuse the mil- TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 could send Sharif to jail for 14 years itary of using its muscle to arm-twist while former Finance Minister Ishaq FAX: 4455 7870 over a corruption case he says is a the media, as TV channels at times Dar went into exile in London [email protected] “conspiracy” against him. mute the sound on Sharif and his mid-way through a corruption trial. An alleged religious extremist has allies if they criticise the judiciary or Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, a CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT been arrested over the gun attack on the military. Newspapers have also Sharif loyalist, was removed from TEL: 4455 7857 Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. omitted Sharif comments on those parliament by a lower court in late [email protected] That appears unrelated to topics. April as he was deemed not “honest” PML-N’s wider problems with the Geo TV, Pakistan’s most popular under a constitutional provision that SUBSCRIPTION & military and judiciary - both of whom station, was taken off the air across the Supreme Court also used to oust DISTRIBUTION deny pursuing a political agenda. But much of the country at the end of Sharif. The courts said both men did In the past year, the TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 the assassination attempt adds to a March and only resumed coverage in not declare salaries drawn from FAX: 44557819 Pakistan Muslim growing list of woes afflicting a party April after striking a deal with military United Arab Emirates companies, an [email protected] League-Nawaz party that less than a year ago was deemed representatives to cease favourable allegation they both dispute. has seen a prime a shoo-in for another five-year term. coverage of Sharif and stop any crit- Sharif has portrayed his party as a Such a series of body blows sug- icism of the Supreme Court and the victim of interference from other state minister - its founder gests the PML-N is unlikely to repeat “establishment”, according to two institutions, while accusing Khan of All thoughts and views Nawaz Sharif - and its success at the 2013 election, which officials who work at the station’s being a pawn of the military, a charge expressed in these columns foreign minister both left it with a majority in the national media group. Geo said it was com- Khan vehemently denies. are those of the writers, ousted by the courts, assembly, with most analysts pre- mitted to an independent editorial Despite the series of setbacks, dicting a hung parliament that will policy. Sharif is still drawing sizeable crowds not of the newspaper. while its finance usher in a coalition government. PML-N has tried to circumvent the at rallies, and a nationwide poll con- minister, charged with “All these other issues that are restrictions by focusing on social ducted in March by Gallup Pakistan All correspondence corruption, fled the thrown up just distract the party from media, livestreaming all rallies on showed PML-N had a 12 point lead regarding Views and country. On Sunday, doing what it needs to do in an Facebook and spreading its messages over PTI. The party’s fate will be election,” said Huma Yusuf, a col- on WhatsApp and Twitter. largely decided by how it performs in Opinion pages should be a gunman shot and umnist and Wilson Center Global Analysts say the party is also ham- the vast Punjab province, long a send to editor-in-chief wounded its interior Fellow. “It makes it an unequal strung by internal divisions. PML-N stronghold that returns 143 of office or mailed to the minister. playing field.” PML-N’s main chal- Sharif is yet to fully throw his the 272 directly contested seats in the lenge is expected to come from the weight behind his brother Shehbaz National Assembly. [email protected] 12 AMERICAS SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 Trump unveils plan to reduce drug prices

AP In Rose Garden banning the pharmacist “gag remarks at the White rule,” which Trump said prevents WASHINGTON: US President House, Trump called druggists from telling customers Donald Trump’s long-awaited about lower-cost options so they plan to bring down drug prices, his plan the “most can save money, and speeding unveiled yesterday, will mostly sweeping action in up the approval process for over- spare the pharmaceutical history to lower the the-counter medications so industry he previously accused patients can buy more drugs of “getting away with murder” price of prescription without prescriptions. and instead focus on increasing drugs for the It’s an approach that avoids private competition and American people.” a direct confrontation with the requiring more openness about powerful pharmaceutical lobby, costs. but it could also underwhelm In Rose Garden remarks at Instead, the administration Americans seeking relief from the White House, Trump called will pursue a raft of old and new escalating prescription costs. his plan the “most sweeping measures intended to improve Perhaps the most threatening action in history to lower the competition and transparency idea under consideration is to Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar, listens as US President Donald Trump delivers a speech price of prescription drugs for in the notoriously complex drug give the private health insurers about lowering prescription drug prices from the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, the American people.” But it does pricing system. Those include a who run Medicare plans more not include his campaign pledge proposal requiring drugmakers negotiating power with drug- US, yesterday. to use the massive buying power to disclose the cost of their med- makers. But administration offi- of the government’s Medicare icines in their television adver- cials offered few specifics on that patients see at the pharmacy according to recent polling by the with appointees who have deep programme to directly negotiate tisements. Health Secretary Alex how that might work. counter it’s not going to be seen Kaiser Family Foundation. ties to the industry. That includes lower prices for seniors. Azar said the Food and Drug “Consumers are ultimately as responsive.” A majority of As a candidate, Trump railed Azar, a former top executive at That idea has long been sup- Administration would immedi- going to be the judge of this Americans say passing laws to against the pharmaceutical Eli Lilly. Azar and other Trump ported by Democrats but is a ately examine requiring that announcement,” said Dan Men- bring down prescription drug industry. But as president he has officials have described the non-starter for drugmakers and information in TV ads. delson, a health care consultant. prices should be a “top priority” shied away from major reforms pricing problem in stark terms most Republicans in Congress. The proposals also include “If they don’t address the cost for Trump and Congress, and staffed his administration and promised bold action.

California student Top Trump aide: Immigrants need path to citizenship detained after REUTERS temporary protected status, or His comments come as the vulnerable to deportation. strengthen the nation’s borders shooting classmate TPS, resulting from natural dis- Trump administration, under the Around 200,000 Salvadorans, and to build a wall along the US- REUTERS WASHINGTON: Immigrants asters or conflict have lived in US Secretary of Homeland 59,000 Haitians and 5,300 Nic- Mexico border. Critics, citing the from Honduras, Haiti, El the United States for decades, Security Kirstjen Nielsen, has araguans will lose their status in nation’s history of immigration, Salvador and other countries and that Congress should act. moved to revoke this special 2019. Protections have also say Trump’s policies are hostile CALIFORNIA: A 14-year-old who were given protected status “We should fold all of the status and to expel tens of thou- ended for 9,000 Nepalese immi- to vulnerable people who work student at a California high to live in the United States should TPS people that have been here sands of protected immigrants. grants and certain immigrants in the fast food, hospitality, child school shot and wounded a have a path to citizenship, White for a considerable period of time Earlier this month, the from Liberia. care and agriculture sectors, fellow student yesterday House Chief of Staff John Kelly and find a way for them to be on Department of Homeland Trump has pursued his often for low wages. Some US morning before being told National Public Radio a path to citizenship,” Kelly, one Security said it would end pro- crackdown on legal and illegal lawmakers want immigration detained by police, the Los yesterday. of President Donald Trump’s top tections for 57,000 Hondurans immigration since becoming legislation before the November Angeles County Sheriff’s Kelly said many of those with aides, said in an interview. in January 2020, leaving them president, promising to midterm election. Department said. The victim, a 14-year-old boy, was hit in the arm and was in stable condition at a hospital. The suspect, also a Guatemala asks Swedish, boy, was detained off campus by officers, who recovered a Venezuelan envoys to leave rifle, according to the department. Deputies responded to Highland High AP days to leave, adding the Scan- School in Palmdale, about 60 dinavian country’s stance and miles north of Los Angeles, at GUATEMALA CITY: Sweden actions “in matters relating to around 7am after receiving looked to Guatemala for an human rights and anti-cor- multiple reports of an armed explanation yesterday after the ruption are well known.” person on campus. Central American country Guatemalan government The initial reports of a asked both the European nation said Guatemala also wants Ven- possible school shooting drew and Venezuela to remove their ezuelan diplomat Elena Alicia immediate attention from ambassadors and accused them Salcedo to depart. But Gua- major news outlets and cable of interfering in its internal temala did not say why it was TV networks. It underscored affairs. expelling Kompass and Salcedo the national debate over gun Sweden’s Foreign Minister beyond alleging “interference control and gun rights that Margot Walstrom says the in its internal affairs.” Sweden’s was reignited by the mass Swedish government will ask TT news agency says Guate- shooting of 17 students and for “further explanations” as to mala’s ambassador to Sweden staff members at Marjory why ambassador Anders has been summoned, but did Stoneman Douglas High Kompass has been given 30 not say when. School in Parkland, Florida.

A geologist inspecting a crack that widened considerably in the past day on Old Kalapana Road in Leilani Estates, Hawaii, yesterday. Colombia sees ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

REUTERS Hawaii residents shaken by quakes “With a regime change, Maduro benefits from state give- which will come and will come aways to voters, a formidable REUTERS from their homes on Hawaii’s been feeling earthquakes. Lots CARACAS: Colombia’s President very soon, the Venezuelan party machine and a divided Big Island. and lots of tremors,” said Cindy Juan Manuel Santos predicted economy, with a bit of good gov- opposition. “The ‘voting’ in Ven- HAWAII: More than a week Fissure activity has paused Conda, whose house lies just yesterday there would be ernance, will take off very fast,” ezuela on May 20th is being after the eruption of the Kilauea but new lava outbreaks were east of Leilani Estates where 27 “regime change” soon in neigh- the centrist Santos said, without done only to provide a phony volcano, Hawaii residents felt expected in or around the hard- homes have been torched by bouring Venezuela, which holds giving details of how such cover for a dictator,” the US tremors and earthquakes hit Leilani Estates area in the lava in the last eight days. a controversial presidential change could come about. Envoy to the United Nations, yesterday as molten rock flowed southeast Puna District, about Conda said that, Hawaiian election on May 20 likely to Maduro, 55, is widely Nikki Haley, said this week. underground towards a rural 20 miles south of Hilo, the Volcano Observatory scientist consolidate socialist rule. expected to win re-election in a Maduro says Washington area where more lava was Hawaii Volcano Observatory Steve Brantley told residents Santos, who has taken an vote which the mainstream and its “lackeys” in the region expected to burst to the surface and local authorities said. that lava that has lain dormant increasingly tough line against opposition is boycotting and like Santos are bent on toppling and threaten homes. Steaming ground cracks in the area since a 1955 eruption President Nicolas Maduro as many foreign countries have socialism in Venezuela via a Fifteen large cracks or fis- from volcanic activity, the first was being forced to the surface tens of thousands of Vene- condemned as unfair. coup in order to take control of sures have so far opened on the signs a fissure may open, closed by Kilauea’s activity. “He said zuelans cross the border to Two of the opposition’s most the Opec nation’s oil riches. eastern flank of Kilauea, one of roads in areas to the northeast ‘That lava’s underneath your escape an economic crisis at popular figures have been “The imperialists have gone the world’s most active vol- and southwest of Leilani Estates, house,’” said Conda. “Really it’s home, was speaking at a barred from standing, the crazy,” he said at a campaign canoes, destroying dozens of where scientists believe the next worrying, we’ve been doing a meeting with businessmen in election board and courts lean rally in western Trujillo state on houses and forcing thousands lava vents may appear. “I’ve lot of praying. Budapest. towards the government, and yesterday. Brazilian dictator personally approved killings in ‘70s: Report AFP Ernesto Geisel ruled Brazil from instructions to the head of the The CIA report noted that to the secretary of state, Henry Jair Bolsonaro to view the brutal 1974 to 1979, toward the end of national intelligence agency that Geisel and the intelligence Head, Kissinger. period with open nostalgia. RIO DE JANEIRO: The President the country’s two decade long such killings should continue. Joao Baptista Figueiredo, decided Memory of the 1964-1985 Spektor wrote that the document under Brazil’s military dicta- military dictatorship. “On 1 April, President Geisel that whenever a potential target military dictatorship has faded was “the most disturbing I’ve torship in the 1970s personally According to the CIA doc- told General Figueiredo that the was apprehended by the army, for most Brazilians but not dis- read in 20 years of researching.” authorised executions of ument — dug up by Matias policy should continue, but that Figueiredo would have to give appeared. Since then, the country A National Truth Commission, “subversives,” according to a Spektor, Head of the Interna- great care should be taken to approval “before the person is has suffered repeated bouts of which revealed the extent of declassified CIA document tional Relations Department at make certain that only dan- executed.” The CIA report was instability, economic crisis and torture and repression, listed 434 published yesterday in the the Getulio Vargas Foundation gerous subversives were exe- issued on April 11, 1974 by then corruption scandals, prompting people executed or who disap- Brazilian media. President think tank — Geisel gave clear cuted,” reads the document. director William Colby and sent some like presidential candidate peared during the dictatorship. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 CLASSIFIEDS 13

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THE PENINSULA become considerably more vol- increasingly divergent from that atile this year, posing a signif- of other major central banks, the DOHA: Given the more chal- icant challenge for EM policy- main driver of the April slump in lenging landscape, with a makers in a rising-rate envi- EM portfolio flows appears to stronger US dollar and rising US IIF has cut its forecasts ronment. Swings in investor have been the breach of 3 percent rates, the Institute of Interna- for 2018 EM non- sentiment have become more by 10-yr US Treasury yields. tional Finance (IIF) has cut its resident capital abrupt and bigger in scale, with Indeed, international forecasts for non-resident port- inflows by $43bn to $1 uncertainty over the trajectory investors withdrew over $6.1bn folio flows to Emerging Markets of the US dollar and US rates from EM debt markets between (EMs). Banking and FDI flows trillion, flat from 2017, resulting in mini “boom-bust” April 16 and May 4 alone. While however should be resilient. but upped its 2019 cycles for portfolio flows. Rate EM equity flows were also hit, the IIF has cut its forecasts for forecast slightly to differentials have become wider: pullback was less sharp, with 2018 EM non-resident capital $1.35trillion. the 10yr Treasury-Bund spread, $3.1bn in equity outflows during inflows by $43bn to $1 trillion — for example, is at its widest in the same period. On a more wor- flat from 2017— but upped its almost 30 years. risome note, the pace of debt 2019 forecast slightly to both FDI and banking flows— Whatever the drivers—the outflows was sharper than that $1.35trillion. non-resident FDI inflows should increase in US inflation expecta- seen during the May 2013 taper “We now see total non-res- come in close to $525bn this tions, the boost to US growth from tantrum, suggesting an increased ident capital flows stable at year, highest since 2015, while exports from a rise in trade bar- 2018-19; election risk remains fiscal stimulus —a renewed focus sensitivity of EM portfolio debt $1.2trillion in 2018, but still the pickup in global trade riers and election risk, particu- significant in both Brazil and on rising US rates and sustained flows to changes in US rates. expect these to increase to volumes has prompted a notable larly for Mexico, Brazil and Mexico, while political risk has US dollar strength would weigh Outflows were mostly from EM $1.35trillion in 2019. The rising increase in cross-border banking Turkey. abated for South Africa; Turkey on the outlook for EM currencies Asia, while other regions have differential between EM and flows to EM. Looking ahead, The impact of US tax reform and Argentina face growing chal- and portfolio debt flows. continued to attract modest mature market growth remains while the rising differential on FDI flows is likely to be lenges; sanctions raise risk Moreover, such an abrupt change inflows. However, in contrast to supportive”, the IIF noted in its between EM and mature market limited,, and there is scope for premia for Russia; rising oil to consensus forecasts of a soft the taper tantrum, EM external latest report. It anticipates a growth should support non-debt higher EM resident outflows as prices have been supportive for US dollar is likely to add to market bond spreads have narrowed in second consecutive year of EM flows, downside risks are still growing middle class popula- flows to some GCC economies; volatility—another reason for EM recent months—even with hard- reserve accumulation—some high—notably, external refi- tions seek portfolio diversifi- and India is still seeing strong portfolio debt investors to be currency debt issuance at record $220bn, mainly in China. nancing risk in the event of sus- cation. Net capital outflows from inflows. wary. levels, making them look rela- The IIF is more sanguine on tained USD strength, a hit to EM China set to remain moderate in Portfolio flows to EMs have With Fed policy seen as tively expensive.

Mexico refuses to be rushed into Lagarde says ready poor Nafta deal: to assist Argentina

Minister AFP Despite the reform efforts, REUTERS the country once again finds WASHINGTON: International itself facing a falling currency, WASHINGTON: Mexico will Monetary Fund chief Christine high debt and soaring inflation. not be rushed into revamping Lagarde said she is ready to aid Recent market turbulence has the North American Free Argentina and wants talks on a rocked Latin America’s third- Trade Agreement (Nafta) just financing package to be finalised largest economy, prompting to get a deal, Economy quickly. President Mauricio Macri to Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Lagarde said she instructed announce Tuesday that he would said yesterday ahead of the IMF team to continue discus- request IMF help as a “prevent- trilateral talks with his US and sions on a loan program with the ative” measure. Canadian counterparts. goal to “reach a rapid Lagarde said she and Guajardo said he would conclusion.” Dujovne discussed “how the IMF meet with Canada’s Foreign “I stressed my strong can best help the authorities International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde (right) with Argentinian Minister Chrystia Freeland support for Argentina’s reforms strengthen the Argentine Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne prior to talks at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC. and US Trade Representative to date, and expressed the Fund’s economy in light of renewed and Robert Lighthizer, and that readiness to continue to assist significant financial market David Malpass, who “reiterated that he welcomed the talks with arrangement which would the three are closer to the government,” she said in a volatility.” strong support for the Macri the IMF. US support is key since provide funds above the normal agreeing new rules for autos statement following her meeting Dujovne also met Thursday administration’s market-ori- it holds veto power in the IMF. loan amount, but officials have that are vital for a deal. with Argentina Economy Min- with US Treasury Under Sec- ented reform program.” Argentina is seeking a high not said how much they are But Guajardo, who is ister Nicolas Dujovne. retary for International Affairs Treasury said in a statement access “stand by” financing requesting. eager to reach an agreement on all the principal aspects of a modernised Nafta before sealing a new deal, said plenty of other issues were Oil slips but holds near multi-year highs on Iran supply concerns outstanding. REUTERS “I have to make very clear abandoning a deal reached in gain and and US crude a 2.1- that other members of the output reached another record (that) the quality of the late 2015 that limited Tehran’s percent rise. Organisation of the Petroleum high last week, hitting 10.7 agreement and the balance NEW YORK: Oil prices slipped nuclear ambitions in exchange Many analysts expect oil Exporting Countries (Opec) will million bpd. of the agreement has to be yesterday, but remained near for the removal of US and prices to rise as Iran’s exports raise output to counter the Iran That is up 27 percent since maintained. So we are not 3-1/2 year highs as the prospect European sanctions. fall. disruption. mid-2016 and means that U.S. going to sacrifice balance and of new US sanctions on Iran Brent crude was down 11 US investment bank Jefferies Jefferies said that Opec has output is creeping ever closer to quality for time,” he said. tightened the outlook for Middle cents at $77.35 a barrel by 11:10 said in a note that it expects the capacity “to replace the that of top producer Russia, “We believe there is a way East supply at a time when global EDT (1510 GMT). On Thursday, Iranian crude oil exports to start Iranian losses” but added: “Even which pumps about 11 million to solve autos,” he said, noting crude production is only just the global benchmark hit $78, its falling in the next few months. if physical supply is held con- bpd. that they had not yet reached keeping pace with rising highest since November 2014. “We expect that around stant ... the market will still be The weekly rig count data a final agreement on the demand. US light crude was down 16 October Iranian exports will be faced with a precariously low from GE’s Baker Hughes division issue. “We are looking at the The United States plans to cents at $71.20, having touched down by 500,000 barrels per level of spare capacity.” is expected at 1 p.m. yesterday. whole set of items we have to reintroduce sanctions against a 3-1/2 year high of $71.89 on day (bpd) and eventually fall by Outside Opec, soaring US The rig count is a forward- solve. So it’s not autos, it’s Iran, which pumps about 4 Thursday. For the week, Brent 1 million bpd,” the bank said. crude oil production could help looking indicator on everything else,” he added. percent of the world’s oil, after was on track for a 3.3-percent There are signs, however, to fill Iran’s supply gap. US oil production. 16 BUSINESS SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018

Apple & Goldman MarketWatch Mazda taps Marumoto Sachs work on credit card as new CEO & President AFP QSE FTSE100 DOW BRENT REUTERS 8,749.65 7,724.55 24,775.11 $70.48 SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is -74.61 PTS +23.58 PTS +35.58 PTS -0.88 TOKYO: Mazda Motor Corp has working with financial giant 0.85% 0.31% 0.14% Dow & Brent before going to press named the head of its Americas Goldman Sachs on a credit operations as its next president card that would carry the and CEO after its current chief iPhone maker’s digital wallet steps down in June, as Japan’s logo, according to a report on fifth-largest automaker seeks to Thursday in the Wall Street Draghi urges eurozone boost profitability in North Journal. America, its biggest market. The move comes as Apple The company said yesterday puts increasing focus on solidarity as Macron that Masamichi Kogai will step revenue from online services down and be replaced by and content, and as Goldman pushes reforms current vice president Akira Sachs seeks to make more AFP Marumoto who now oversees money from consumer operations in the Americas. The banking operations. changes are effective June 26 A joint credit card bearing FRANKFURT: European after Mazda’s annual share- the Apple Pay brand could Central Bank chief Mario Draghi holders’ meeting. launch early next year, and (pictured) yesterday urged poli- Mazda, which has global replace a rewards-card part- ticians to sidestep confrontation annual sales of around 1.6 nership Apple has with Bar- and reach compromise on Mazda Motor Corp’s outgoing President Masamichi Kogai (right) million vehicles, has enjoyed a clays, according to the reforming the eurozone, after with the next President Akira Marumoto in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. run of rising vehicle sales, Journal. French ambitions have expanding in markets particu- Apple, which still gets slammed repeatedly into larly in North America, its “short-tempered” at times, pre- footsteps of his two immediate most revenue from the German taboos. biggest market which accounts viously led Mazda’s corporate predecessors who also held the iPhone, reported a hefty rise “The dichotomy between for nearly 30 percent of total planning and product strategy top job for five years each. He in earnings during the first risk-reduction and risk-sharing sales. But as one of Japan’s divisions before heading its will still be with the automaker three months of this year, that characterises the debate smaller automakers and a tiny Americas operations. and become its chairman, the alleviating worries about the today is, in many ways, arti- suffering through economic player globally, it faces growing He said that growing sales company said. iPhone’s prospects and a hit ficial,” Draghi said in a Florence shocks so they do not fall too competition in the United States, and improving profitability in Earlier this year, Mazda from US-China trade speech. far behind their neighbours in where market growth has the North American market announced that it would invest tensions. “We need policies that the 19-nation currency area. slowed, and where the com- would be his biggest priority, in a new, $1.6bn plant in the US Analysts praised a big make the financial system more But Macron and other pany’s profitability has sagged along with expanding the com- state of Alabama as a joint jump in revenues in Apple’s stable” and “policies that lead reformers have run into due to higher discounting and pany’s brand image as an inno- venture with Toyota Motor Corp. services business, which is to sustainable convergence” in resistance from Germany and slowing demand for sedans. vative car maker. Mazda and Toyota are seen as an important element countries’ economic per- other fiscally conservative The maker of the MX-5 “Given the rapid changes jointly developing affordable of diversification away from formance, he argued. nations like Finland and the Miata roadster and the reputed occurring in the auto industry electric vehicles, pooling having revenues tied to Draghi pressed leaders to Netherlands. Such Northern Skyactiv gasoline engines also at the moment it’s often asked resources to better compete in gadgets. get on with reforms to the European nations fear they faces higher costs to stay com- whether a small company like the race for new car technol- A 31 percent rise in financial system that he says could end up footing the bill for petitive in an industry which is us will be OK,” Marumoto told ogies. As part of this partnership services to $9.2bn was would encourage stability, like private- or public-sector irre- being disrupted by new technol- reporters at a briefing in Tokyo. announced last year, Toyota has credited to revenue gains offering a state financial sponsibility in countries like ogies, including self-driving cars “But before we even con- taken a 5 percent stake in its from Apple Pay, Apple Music backstop for the Single Reso- Greece or Italy. and electric vehicles. sider this we need to show our smaller rival. and other programs. lution Fund used to wind up Some in Germany, like Marumoto, a company strengths, and what makes us Last month, Mazda forecast Goldman Sachs Bank USA failing banks or introducing a newly-installed finance minister veteran with a background in different if we want to grow our a 28 percent drop in full-year last month acquired personal Europe-wide deposit insurance Olaf Scholz, have suggested less engineering who described brand.” Kogai, who became operating profit, hurt by a finance startup Clarity Money. scheme. And he called for an prosperous countries should himself as having a “strict” work Mazda’s president and CEO in stronger yen as well as higher Financial terms of the deal “additional fiscal instrument” allay fears by reducing risks ethic and admitted to being 2013, will be following the spending. were not disclosed. that could support countries before reforms can go ahead.

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CROSSWORD NOVO Pearl Qatar ROYAL PLAZA VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER Life Of The Party 10:20am, 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 & 11:30pm Avengers: Infinity War(2D/Action) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00&11:00pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 2:00, 5:45 & 11:30pm Rampage (2D/Action) 11:00am, 3:20, 7:40pm & 12:00midnight Isle Of Dogs (2D/Animation) 2:15 & 4:00pm I Feel Pretty (2D/Comedy) 1:10, 5:30 & 9:50pm My Pure Land (2D) 4:15pm Bent (2D/Action) 6:00pm Terminal (2D) 11:00am, 3:00, 7:00 & 11:00pm Raazi (2D/Hindi) 5:00 & 11:30pm Overboard (2D/Comedy) 12:50, 4:50 & 8:50pm You Were Never Really Here (Thriller) 7:30pm You Were Never Really Here (2D) 10:00, 2:00, 6:05 & 10:10pm Baskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 8:45 & 11:15pm Bad Samaritan (2D) 11:50am, 3:55, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight Life Of The Party (2D/Comedy) 9:30pm Horoub Moufajee (2D/Arabic) 10:30am, 2:20, 6:10 & 10:10pm Breaking In (2D/Thriller) 7:45pm Terminal (2D/Thriller) 9:30pm Qosty Byogaani (2D) 12:20, 4:10, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight Isle of Dogs (2D) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:20 & 4:00pm Bent (2D) 1:15, 5:15, 6:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:00 & 11:55pm Breaking In (2D) 11:15am, 1:00, 3:00, 3:15, 5:00, 7:15, 10:00, 11:15 & 11:55pm ASIAN TOWN Avengers: Infinity War (2D) 10:15am & 7:00pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, Avengers: Infinity War(3D/IMAX) 12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00&11:50pm 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:00pm Swathan Thryam (2D/Malayalam) 12:30, 3:30 & 9:15pm MALL Raazi (Hindi) 6:30pm Irumbu Thirai (Tamil) 1:00 & 7:00pm Raazi (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 9:00pm Bhaskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 4:00pm Isle of Dogs (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 5:00pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00 & 11:45pm Life of The Party (2D/Comedy) 4:00 & 7:45pm ROXY Terminal (2D/Thriller) 6:00pm My Pure Land 7:00pm Avengers: Infinity War (2D/Action) 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 & Baskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 9:00 Irumbu Thirai (Tamil) 11:30pm 10:30pm Life Of The Party (Comedy) 10:30am, 12:45, 6:00, 8:15 & Bad Samaritan (2D/Thriller) 9:45pm 10:30pm Raazi (Hindi) 10:30am, 6:15 & 10:00pm Avengers: Infinity War (2D/Action) 6:00pm Bent (2D/Action) 11:45pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 10:30am, 1:20, 4:20 & LANDMARK 7:20pm Bhaskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 1:15, 7:00 & 10:20pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 2:15 & 11:30pm AL KHOR Raazi (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 9:00pm Isle of Dogs (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:30 & 6:30pm Avengers: Infinity War (Action) 11:00am, 5:15 & 11:30pm Horoub Mofajee (Arabic) 5:00pm Life Of The Party (Comedy) 12:15, 5:45 & 11:15pm Life Of The Party (2D/Comedy) 5:15 & 7:15pm Bhaskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 12:30, 6:15pm & 12:00midnight Breaking In (2D/Thriller) 7:00pm Kammara Sambhavam (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 8:15pm Bad Samaritan (2D/Thriller) 8:30pm Baskar Oru Rascal (2D/Tamil) 8:45 & 11:30pm Irumbu Thirai (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 8:00pm Raazi (Hindi) 3:30 & 9:15pm Yestserday’s answer You Were Never Really Here (2D/Thriller) 11:00pm

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Avenger: Infinity War 1:45, 2:20, 3:25, 4:40, 5:35, 6:20, 7:35, 8:30, 9:15, 10:30, 11:25pm & 12:10am Isle Dogs 4:00 & 7:00pm Bad Samaritan 3:50, 9:05, 11:20pm & 12:05am Breaking In 2:25, 6:35, 8:30, 10:25pm & 12:20am Incredible Story of The Giant Pear 2:15 & 5:15pm Kammara 3:15, 6:40, 7:50, 10:05 & 11:45pm Life of The Party 1:35 & 7:50pm Masha And The Bear 3:30 & 6:05pm Peter Rabbit 1:30pm Rampage 4:20pm Terminal 6:05 & 10:05pm

Raazi

Raazi is a period-thriller film directed by Meghna Gulzar, starring Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. The story revolves around an Indian spy married to a Pakistani man during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. SPORT Saturday 12 May 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 McLeod vows to This is ‘just do Shanghai hurdle the start’, hero Liu proud says Salah Al Duhail edge 10-man Four uncapped players in Sri Al Sadd 1-0 to reach final Lankan squad CHINTHANA WASALA THE PENINSULA for Windies tour

REUTERS DOHA: Al Duhail rode on a brilliant goal by Almoez Ali against 10-man Al Sadd to make it to the final of the Amir Cup. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka opening batsman In a thrilling semi-final which took place at the Al Mahela Udawatte has been called into Sadd Stadium yesterday, Ali scored the winner in the a 17-man test squad for next month’s 68th minute when he beat Al Sadd goalkeeper Saad tour to West Indies, along with three Abdulla Al Dosari from close range inside the box. other uncapped players, Kasun Rajitha, The semi-final saw the Qatar Cup finalists con- Jeffrey Vandersay and Asitha Fernando. fronting each other in an aggressive manner and several The 31-year-old Udawatte will hope incidents of unwanted confrontations and provoca- to get his first opportunity in the longest tions during the match. format, more than 10 years after his In the 28th minute, Al Sadd’s forward Hassan Al one-day international debut in West Haydos went down in what appeared to be a foul play Indies. by Dami Terawari, and the referee opted to go for the Regular opener Dimuth Karu- Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and the appeal was naratne remains on the sidelines with denied. a fractured finger, and fast bowlers Seconds before the half-time break, Al Sadd suf- Dushmantha Chameera and Nuwan fered a huge blow when their feared defender Pradeep are out with back and ham- Abdelkerem Hassan was shown the red card by the string issues respectively. referee following a rough tackle on a rival player. The national selectors have also The teams were locked goalless at the end of half included senior players Angelo Mathews time. and Suranga Lakmal but their partici- Al Duhail took the advantage of the extra man and pation in the tour is subject to fitness. made several attempts to score in the second half. “Mathews and Lakmal are not unfit Just after Ali scored, Al Duhail almost doubled the as such,” Sri Lanka’s chief selector lead when skipper Luiz Martin Jr. struck from outside Graeme Labrooy told ESPNcricinfo. the box with a brilliant kick in the 70th minute, only “In fact they are fit, but we wanted to see the ball bounce off the goal post. to see if they were match-fit. The team Al Duhail will now eye their third domestic title is at a training camp in Pallekele, so after enjoying the silverware in the QNB Stars League we’ll give them until May 14 before we The referee shows the red card to Al Sadd’s Abdelkerem as well as Qatar Cup. make a final decision on those two Hassan (right) during the Amir Cup semi-final played They will confront the winners of today’s second players.” semi-final between Al Gharafa and Al Rayyan on May at the Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. RIGHT: Al Duhail’s The first of three tests begins on 19. Almoez Ali in action. Pictures: Mohamed Farag June 6 at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain. Full squad: Dinesh Chandimal (captain), Mahela Udawatte, Kusal Mendis, Kusal Janith Ambitious Al Gharafa eye Amir Cup final Perera, Dhananjaya de Silva, Roshen Silva, Angelo Mathews, Niroshan Dick- ARMSTRONG VAS are fully focused on reaching winning their respective Sadd Stadium because this during the QNB Stars League, wella, Rangana Herath, Dilruwan THE PENINSULA the final. All my players are last-16 matches. stadium is air condi-condi LaudruLaudrup pointed out that this Perera, Akila Dananjaya, Jeffrey ready to give their best and Al Rayyan coach MMichaelichael tionedtioned aandnd mmatchatch is completely different Vandersay, Lahiru Gamage, Kasun DOHA: Al Gharafa want to end they are ready for the chal- Laudrup said all the playersplayers makesmakes pplayinglaying ffromrom the League meeting Rajitha, Suranga Lakmal, Lahiru the Amir Cup final drought lenge of Al Gharafa,” he added. are focused in reachingng tthehe conditionsconditions bbecauseecaus of the circumstances Kumara, Asitha Fernando. when they take on Al Rayyan Al GharafaGharafa aalonglong finalfinal ofof AAmirmir CupCuup bbyy betterbetter atat ththisis in wwhichhic the game was played, in the semi-final of the pres- withwith AAll RayyRayyan,an, wwinninginning oveoverr AAll time,”time,” hehe alalongong with the motivation for tigious championship here at Al Sadd and Al Gharafa. ssaidaid dduringuring tthehe playerspla to reach the final Al Sadd Stadium today. Duhail,Duhail, the “We“We are lookinglooking to a press ggame.ame. IPL: Buttler Coach Bulent Uygun’s side firstfirst fourfour fin-fin- qualifyqualify for the final,final, aandnd conference.conference. AskedAs as to whether the finished fourth in the QNB ishersishers ooff thethe I am happyhappy thatthat the OnOn thethe laclackk of silverware for the club leads Rajasthan Stars League and the Turkish QSLQSL were semi-finalsemi-final wiwilllll bbee loss againstagainst Al is caucause of concern, he said: tactician is looking forward to direcltydireclty seeseededded playedplayed at AlAl GharafaGharafa “Not winningw the champi- a fierce and competitive semi- into tthehe Amir CuCupp oonshipnship is not a matter (of to thrilling win final match. pre-quarters. AllAll cconcern)oncer for me alone, the idea AGENCIES “We seek to qualify for our the four sidsideses of a ffootballo team game is not first Amir Cup final in seven livedlived up to the rrelatedelated to only one person, and years. We are fully focused. top billinbillingg byby the offofficial. It is the team as a JAIPUR: Rajasthan Royals rode a heroic The players are ready to play adadvancingvancing whole,who consisting of the batting effort by Jos Buttler to edge out well and attain the goal of iintonto thethe technicaltet and adminis- Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by four qualifying for the final,” Uygun qquarter-uarter- Al Rayyan coach Al Gharafa coach trative staff and wickets in a nail-biting Indian Premier said while speaking on the eve finalsfinals afterafter Michael Laudrup Bulent Uygun players.” League (IPL) encounter at the Sawai of the match. Mansingh Stadium yesterday. “We promise to give our Buttler batted through the innings best and hope the crowds to help Rajasthan overhaul a stiff come in large numbers to 177-run target with just one ball to go. support and we will not dis- Having opened the Rajasthan along appoint them. The support of with England star Ben Stokes, Buttler the fans is an important part,” continued to defy the CSK bowlers even stressed Uygun. as wickets fell at the other end. He “The competition will be remained unbeaten on 95 runs off just fierce and competitive, and we 60 balls, hitting 11 boundaries and a couple of sixes along the way. Despite the defeat, CSK continue to hold on to the second spot with 14 points from 11 matches. They trail league leaders Sunrisers Hyderabad by four We seek to qualify points. Rajasthan are eighth in the for our first Amir 10-team table with 10 points from 11 Cup final in 10 matches. Earlier, a decent batting effort years. We are fully helped Chennai post a fighting total of focused. The players 176/4 against Rajasthan Royals, but it was not enough to prevent Rajasthan are ready to play from winning well and attain the Brief Scores: goal of qualifying Chennai Super Kings: 176/4 (Suresh Raina 52, Shane Watson 39; Jofra Archer Al Gharafa players in action during a training session for the final: Al 2/42) ahead of their Amir Cup semi-final against Al Rayyan Gharafa coach Rajasthan Royals: 177/6 in 19.5 which will be played at the Al Sadd Stadium today. Bulent Uygun overs (Jos Buttler 95 not out, Stuart Binny 22). 18 SPORT SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 Volleyball: Al Ahli aim surprise win over Al Rayyan in Amir Cup final

ARMSTRONG VAS THE PENINSULA

DOHA: A big volleyball feast is on the cards when Al Ahli and Al Rayyan clash in the final of the Amir Cup today at Qatar Volleyball Association Indoor Hall court at 7pm. For Slovenian star Tine Urnaut of Al Ahli Club and Al Rayyan Club’s French player Earvin N’Gapeth, it willbe strange situation as they will be pitted against each other in Qatar but in Italy are team-mates of Modena Volley. Urnaut said of the upcoming final: “It’s the first time that we are playing against each other as Modena teammates. It is a really strange situation. The The players, captains and coaches of Al Rayyan and Al Ahli pose for a picture on the eve of the Amir Cup Volleyball final at Qatar Volleyball Association Indoor Hall today rules are changed in Qatar, at 7 pm. allowing only one pro in a team.” This is the first time that Al had played for Al Rayyan Club N’Gapeth, playing in Qatar Club are hot choice for the title. and keen to finish the season on helped us reach the final. Also Ahli have made it to any final, but they lost the semi-finals to for the first time, said: “I’m happy Al Rayyan Club have ruled a high. coach Igor has prepared all of the last one was in the 2012-13 El Jaish said: “I already knew to be part of the Al Rayyan team the season with an iron fist. They “In every tournament, I set a us for each match well. Con- season. about some players from Al Ahli and the event. I hope we win the just dropped one match against target for the team. I’m very gratulations to all for making “I’m happy to be playing for like Alaoui and Ali Asadi. They final which will be not only a big Qatar Sports Club and have won proud that my team is able to it to the final. Al Ahli Club and the progress till have many young and talented achievement of Al Rayyan Club everything their eyes fell on. match my expectations. The “We’ve a difficult final now has been fantastic. I know players. Also they have good but also for the Qatar Starting from the Super Cup Amir Cup is also a very special against a champion team like that Al Rayyan are the best team coach Igor. He is one of the best volleyball.” victory against Police, they pro- event for us and we’ll try to write Al Rayyan. We want to tell our in the season, having won eve- coaches that I know. Truly, both teams took the gressed to claim the QVA League, a new history,” he added. fans that we’re ready and we rything. We’re confident that “‘The coach has done an game to new levels when they with the prestigious Arab Clubs Captain and coach of Al need their support in the final,” we’ll fight for each ball and point. amazing job to build a strong qualified for the final with 2-0 Championship, the Qatar Ahli Club Assam Ahmed Mahmoud added while talking Also we’ll try to do everything team in Al Ahli. Also I know that wins over Al Arabi Club and National Tournament and the Mahmoud said: “This is the to journalists. that we can and make attempt all our players are ready and Qatar Sports Club. Qatar Cup. first Amir Cup final for us in This is the third final between to win the cup.” committed to make the match Featuring in the 26th final, Al Rayyan coach Carlos 22 years. All the players have Al Rayyan Club and Al Ahli Club Two seasons before, Urnaut memorable,” Urnaut added. the 12-time winners Al Rayyan Schwanke is proud of his team contributed immensely and in the Amir Cup.

Brazilian Alves Olympic champ McLeod vows to out of World Cup do Shanghai hurdle hero Liu proud after knee injury AFP AP In women’s sprinting, two-time world champion Dafne Schippers of SHANGHAI: World and Olympic the Netherlands will be strong SAO PAULO: Brazil right back Dani Alves will hurdles champion Omar McLeod favourite in the 200m in the absence miss the World Cup, leaving the five-time (pictured) wants to put on a blistering of the injured Jamaican star Elaine World Cup champions without one of their display in Shanghai today in homage Thompson.Looming as a tasty battle main leaders and question marks about his to the Chinese city’s athletics hero Liu in Shanghai will be a showdown replacement. Xiang. between pole vaulters Sam Kendricks Alves injured his right knee on Tuesday in Liu is retired but the Shanghai of the United States and his French the French Cup final win with Paris Saint- native remains a Chinese sports icon rival and world-record-holder Renaud Germain. PSG say his anterior cruciate lig- because his 2004 Olympic hurdles Lavillenie. ament detached. The Brazilian Football Con- gold medal was the country’s first in Like McLeod, Kendricks is pur- federation said in a statement yesterday he men’s track and field. suing a Shanghai treble after victories needs surgery, and there won’t be enough time Liu, now 34, was also a 2007 in 2016 and 2017. for him to recover for the World Cup. world champion, though his brilliant Kendricks, 25, went on to land his Brazil’s first game in Russia will be on June career petered out because of per- first six-metre vault last June back 17 against Switzerland. sistent injury and he retired in 2015. home in the United States and then Alves was examined by Dr. Rodrigo But Chinese spectators may see saw off Poland’s Piotr Lisek and Lavil- Lasmar, who said there was no alternative to shades of Liu in McLeod during Sat- and race and hurdle. “He was just an But they will have to upstage lenie to win gold at the world surgery. urday’s Diamond League meeting -- inspiration and I’ve heard that I hurdle current world champion Justin Gatlin championships. “It was noted it is impossible to call Dani the affable Jamaican certainly hopes just like him, so I draw a lot from him,” of the United States. But Lavillenie, the older man at 31 Alves for the period of preparation, friendlies so. said the 24-year-old McLeod, touted Also in a strong field is the and a former Olympic champion, beat and, consequently, the World Cup,” the CBF McLeod, who is chasing a third as a viable successor to Usain Bolt as Canadian speedster Andre De Grasse, Kendricks earlier this year for a third said. successive 110m victory in Shanghai, the pre-eminent Jamaican athletics who is working his way back from a world indoor title. Lasmar and CBF coordinator Edu Gaspar said yeserday: “They show a good star. nine-month hamstring injury layoff Kendricks, who seduced the media were expected to talk about the decision later appreciation for hurdles here and I There will meanwhile be home that ruled him out of last year’s world in Shanghai with his laid-back charm, Friday in Paris. Alves played for Brazil in the want to go out there and show my hope in the men’s 100m in the form championships. said he was anticipating “a dogfight”. last two World Cups and has 107 appearances appreciation for their appreciation of of reigning Shanghai champion Su He could only finish sixth in the But he was full of respect for his for the team since his 2006 debut. hurdles. Bingtian, the world indoor 60m silver 200m in Doha last weekend at the French foe, saying: “It Is always very The front-runners to be his replacement “Liu Xiang was one of the reasons medallist and China’s fastest man, and opening Diamond League meet of the special when I get to answer a were Manchester City’s Danilo, Corinthians’ why I got into running in the streets Xie Zhenye. season. question about Renaud. Fagner, and Bayern Munich’s Rafinha. Refs missed 2 late calls in Celtics win AFP game-tying layup with 14.6 missed a travelling vio- being drafted in 2014 and seconds remaining. lation on Celtics guard suffered a knee injury last NEW YORK: Philadelphia The report said Baynes Marcus Smart with 1.5 season, is expecting to 76ers star Joel Embiid was made “contact to Embiid’s seconds remaining when make great strides after right in thinking he was arm that affects his shot he intercepted Ben staying healthy and playing fouled with 14.6 seconds attempt near the rim.” Simmons’ desperation full- 71 games in the 2017-18 left in his team’s season- “I mean the play court pass from the campaign. ending playoff loss to the unfolded, and I mean the opposite baseline. “This is my first year Boston Celtics, the NBA refs, they had a great game, That call would have going into a summer confirmed on Thursday. I thought they were great given Philadelphia the ball healthy,” he said. “I think In the league’s Last tonight,” Embiid said after back. next year is going to be an Two Minute Report on offi- the game that saw the The despite the disap- MVP type season for me. ciating in the late stages of Celtics advance to play the pointment of their playoff “I want to be a leader. the Celtics’ 114-112 Cleveland Cavaliers in the exit, the young 76ers were Being an MVP candidate triumph, the league said Eastern Conference finals. sounding a note of shows you bring your team game officials missed two “But I mean I felt like optimism after an overa- to where it has to go, and I key calls against Boston. there was something on chieving season that want to be that type of guy. Celtics center Aron that last play, but you can’t included 52 regular-season “I have a lot of room to Baynes should have been really do anything about it. wins and their first playoff grow - post moves, ball JJ Redick (17) of the Philadelphia 76ers fouls Marcus Smart (36) of the Boston Celtics called for a shooting foul But they did a great job the series victory since 2012. handling, passing. But I during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Second Round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs when Sixers big man whole night.” The report Embiid, who missed his think it starts with my Embiid attempted a also confirmed officials first two seasons after body.” at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 SPORT 19

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton during first Rain wipes practice of Formula One Spanish Grand Prix out first day in Barcelona, Spain yesterday. of Ireland’s Mercedes sets the Test debut pace in Barcelona AP DUBLIN: Ireland had a wet welcome to test cricket yesterday with the opening REUTERS the Circuit de Catalunya in could intervene if their rivalry seconds on the soft tyres, a “I have zero comforta- day of its inaugural one-off one minute 18.259 seconds on risks overheating again in remarkable 0.849 faster than bility... I’ll take it for now but Test match against Pakistan BARCELONA: Formula One the soft tyres. Sunday’s race. Hamilton who won from pole in the long term l can’t con- completely wiped out by bad world champion Lewis Australian Ricciardo, Vettel, who will be in Spain last year. tinue to rely on it.” weather. Hamilton returned to the top whose car has some eye- chasing his fourth successive Hamilton has not felt fully Home hero Fernando The Irish will become the of the timesheets in second catching aerodynamic pole position on Saturday, comfortable with his car and Alonso started the weekend 11th nation to play the longest Spanish Grand Prix practice upgrades for the start of the was fourth and Hamilton’s recognised that his champi- a morale-boosting sixth, format, yet heavy overnight yesterday, with the charging European season, ended the team mate Valtteri Bottas onship advantage owes a lot behind Raikkonen, with his showers and further light rain Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo session 0.133 seconds slower fifth. to luck. McLaren displaying a heav- and strong winds in the and Max Verstappen hot on after crashing in the morning Vettel’s team mate Kimi “At the moment, I am ily-revised three-pronged morning prevented the five- his heels. while Verstappen was third. Raikkonen suffered a power punching below my weight nose -- one of several con- day game from starting on The Briton, who leads the The two Red Bulls collided unit problem. and that is not sufficient to spicuous upgrades around the time. championship by four points in Azerbaijan two weekends Bottas set the day’s overall win a world championship,” pit lane. The teams went to lunch from Ferrari’s Sebastian ago and are under close fastest lap in the opening the four-time champion had The Spaniard later slipped without a ball bowled in the Vettel after four races, lapped scrutiny by team bosses who session with a time of 1:18.148 told reporters on Thursday. back to 12th. grounds of Malahide Castle, just north of Dublin. The continuous steady drizzle turned to a huge downpour shortly after 2 p.m. NHL: Jets march local time and the game was called off for the day after a into Western Johnson off to strong start pitch inspection less than an hour later. Conference finals The International Cricket Council awarded Ireland Test REUTERS status in June last year. and shares lead at Players Only 11 Irishmen have NASHIVILLE: Home-ice played Test cricket, one for AFP advantage was no advantage I feel like it would be dreaming, as Australia in the very first Test in the match-up of the NHL’s that’s too hard. This is just the first in 1877. two best regular-season PONTE VEDRA BEACH, UNITED round. I’m going to keep working Fast bowler Boyd Rankin, teams. STATES: Dustin Johnson got off to hard.” who achieved his Test Paul Stastny and Mark a strong start but still has work to Former Players and Masters ambition for England in 2014 Scheifele scored two goals do to hang on to his world number champion Sergio Garcia was seven- and returned to Ireland in each on Thursday night, and one ranking as six players shared under with two holes to play, 2016, is part of the golden the Winnipeg Jets won their the lead on Thursday at The Players thanks in part to a run of five generation of Irish cricketers first Game 7 since moving Championship. straight birdies from the eighth who have been rewarded from Atlanta seven years ago, Johnson headlined the leading through the 12th. with places in the first Test eliminating the Nashville pack on six-under par 66 -- his Garcia then undid his then squad. Predators from the Western lowest opening round PGA Tour bogey-free round in hitting the They include 39-year- Conference semi-finals with score in 13 months. woodwork guarding the island old Ed Joyce, Kevin and Niall a 5-1 verdict at Bridgestone Joining Johnson atop the lead- green at the famed par-three 17th, O’Brien, Gary Wilson and Arena in Nashville, Tenn. erboard at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte his ball disappearing into the water. captain William Tyler Myers also tallied for Vedra Beach, Florida, were fellow A year ago, Garcia had the Porterfield. Winnipeg, while Connor Hel- US Open winner Webb Simpson, crowd roaring with delight on day Pakistan’s team includes lebuyck made 36 saves, Chesson Hadley, Matt Kuchar, one with a hole-in-one at 17. legspinner Shadab Khan, who including 21 in the third Patrick Cantlay and in-form Swede On Thursday he walked off with took 10 wickets in a warmup period. Alex Noren. a double-bogey five and then win over Northamptonshire. P.K. Subban scored the Johnson, who has been world bogeyed the last to finish in a group only goal for the Predators, number one for 64 weeks, is under of 14 players on 68 that also who became the ninth Presi- siege by those ranked from second included third-ranked fellow Bangladesh dent’s Trophy winner in the through fifth, and he answered the Spaniard Jon Rahm and world last 10 years to not win the challenge with a bogey-free round. number five Justin Rose of England. Stanley Cup. Chicago was the “I definitely want to keep the Tiger Woods’s return to TPC disappointed only team to pull off the number one title, but I still have Sawgrass included a 20-foot eagle double in 2013, which was a three more days of golf, and I’m at the par-five ninth. Bu he undid at cancelled lockout-shortened season. going to have to play really well if a solid display in finding the water Myers initiated the scoring I want to keep the number one off the tee at the last on route to Australia tour at 8:41 of the first period with spot,” the 33-year-old said. closing bogey and a level par 72. a wrister from the far right Kuchar, fueled by a birdie- Jordan Spieth struggled in goal line that somehow eagle-birdie run at the 10th, 11th posting a shock three-over 75 that AFP squeezed between the post and 12th, moved to seven-under included a 12th hole eagle promptly and goalie Pekka Rinne, his with birdies at 15 and 16, but a followed by a double-bogey at the DHAKA: Bangladesh cricket third of the playoffs. Stastny bogey at the last dropped him into very next hole. authorities yesterday made it 2-0 at 10:47 with a Dustin Johnson of the leading group. Phil Mickelson, playing expressed disappointment rebound, also at a bad angle. the United States A further six players, including alongside Woods and Rickie after Australia called off a Steady Winnipeg pressure plays a shot on the defending champion Kim Si-woo Fowler, ended his round in tour by the Asian nation this paid off at 17:50 of the second 18th hole during of South Korea and were a stroke shocking style. year because it was not when Blake Wheeler teed up the first round back on 67. The 47-year-old was even par financially viable. Scheifele in the left circle. of The Players Kim, the youngest winner of the after back-to-back birdies at the The Tigers were to play Scheifele wired a wrister past Championship Players, matched the lowest 11th and 12th, but proceeded to post two Tests and three one-day Saros to restore a two-goal in Ponte opening round by a defending a horror run from the 14th of a internationals in Australia in lead. Vedra Beach, champion established by Jack double-bogey, bogey and two August and September. Stastny upped the margin Florida on Nicklaus in 1977. further double-bogeys, including “Australia communicated to 4-1 with a man-advantage Thursday. “I liked my score in the first finding the water at 17, in an to us that the series could not marker at 11:59 of the third round, but I can hit it better,” Kim eventual seven-over par 79. be arranged for financial period, and Scheifele tacked said. It was Mickelson’s highest score reasons. It is very unfor- on his 11th goal of the posts- “I’m fine, good,” he said, but since a similar first round 79 on route tunate as we were hoping eason into an empty net at added he wasn’t yet thinking about to missing the cut in last August’s PGA that the series would be a 17:27. a repeat title. “If I was to win again, Championship. good playing opportunity for our players,” Bangladesh Cricket Board chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury told AFP. ThisThis is ‘just the start’, says Salah Bangladesh have not visited Australia since 2008 AFP player of the season by both “I’m very happy here, eve- Salah, who was last month when they played three the club’s fans and his team- rything is fine,” he said. crowned Professional Foot- one-day internationals. LONDON: MohamedMohamed SaSalahla mates before boarding a flight “Of course I have got ballers’ Association players’ The minnows have not has reassured Liverpool fansfa to collect the Football Writers’ ambitions for the future with player of the year, won the played a Test in Australia hishis stunning ffirstirst season is Association’s award in Liverpool. As you can see we writers’ award ahead of Kevin since 2003. “just thethe bbeginning”eginning” ooff hhisis titimem London. had a great season, now we De Bruyne and Harry Kane. Cricket Australia chief at the club despite speculationspeculatio The 25-year-old has are in the Champions League Speaking in London, he executive James Sutherland over interest ffromrom ReaReall MaMadrid.dri scored 43 goals in all compe- final and everyone is excited. said: “I was here four years ago told the Cricinfo website that TheThe EEgyptiangyptian collectedcollecte titions since arriving from “It is just the start. This is (with Chelsea) and a lot of the Test series could not be awardsawards in LiverpoolLiverpool ono Roma last summer, a return my first year here and it is the people were saying he couldn’t arranged as it coincided with ThursdayThursday aafterft that has seen him heavily same for some other players. play in the Premier League. I Australia’s football season beingb ein linked with Spanish giants It is just the beginning.” left Chelsea but it was always and it was difficult to find a votedvote Real Madrid, who face Liv- Liverpool cannot focus all in my mind to come back to broadcaster. erpool in the Champions of their energies on Real just make them wrong. So I make The BCB chief executive League later this month. yet, with the battle for a place them wrong. said Bangladesh had pro- But Salah, who needs just in next season’s Champions “I’m not the same player. I posed a shorter series but did one more goal to become the League still not settled. improved a lot in Rome but I not get a response from Aus- outright record-holder for the A point in their final match, can’t say everything is me. The tralian authorities. most strikes in a 38-match at home to Brighton on Sunday, team-mates are maybe dif- Bangladesh hosted Aus- season in the Premier League, will be enough to secure a top- ferent. The coach is tough and tralia for a two-Test series Mohamed Salah appears content with life at four finish, after which all eyes they always help me inside and last year which ended in a the club. turn to Kiev. outside the pitch.” draw. 20 MORNING BREAK SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 27 AM New Star Wars film gets kudos after premiere SHOROOK 04. 51 AM AP film set in the “Star Wars” universe. ZUHR 11. 30 AM MAGHRIB 06. 12 PM “Rogue One,” released in 2016, told the ASR 02. 58 PM ISHA 07. 42 PM LOS ANGELES: Hollywood played host story of the theft of plans for the super- yesterday to a few more scoundrels weapon the Death Star, which was than usual for the world premiere of destroyed at the end of the 1977 film WEATHER TODAY “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” that made Star Wars into a global The film tells the story of the early sensation. years of smuggler Han Solo, who was Disney has become known for its played by Harrison Ford in seven elaborate premieres for its “Star Wars” movies in the “Star Wars” franchise. films. It placed an X-Wing replica on The film stars Alden Ehrenreich as Solo Hollywood Boulevard for “Rogue One,” and Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, and a simultaneous debut at several both actors playing younger versions Hollywood theaters for 2015’s “The of the characters made famous by the Force Awakens,” which was the return original “Star Wars” trilogy. of Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill “Solo” also features fan favourites to the franchise after a 30-year hiatus. Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon “Solo” is the biggest role yet for — in its earlier and spiffier days before Ehrenreich, who starred in the Coen being introduced as a grimy, albeit fast, Brothers film “Hail, Caesar!” hunk of junk in the original “Star Wars” While many other characters have film. made cameos in “Star Wars” films that Solo is one of the franchise’s most An overview of the premiere for the movie “Solo: A Star Wars Story” in Los tell stories before the original trilogy, popular characters. Ford’s portrayal of Angeles, California, yesterday. the franchise has stayed away from the gruff smuggler in the original “Star showing Solo as a younger man. The Wars” catapulted him to stardom and Ehrenreich and Glover and the film’s giant replica of the Falcon on Hol- new film also features Glover stepping has become one of the characters most space heist action sequences. Full lywood Boulevard. Glover was seen into a role closely associated with closely associated with the actor. reviews won’t be released until posing underneath the giant prop. another actor: Billy Dee Williams Initial reactions online after the Tuesday. “Solo” will be released May 25. played Calrissian in “The Empire Strikes premiere were positive, praising For the premiere, Disney built a The film is the second stand-alone Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” 29oC 44oC Minimum Maximum R Kelly’s music removed SpaceX delays Falcon 9 rocket launch REUTERS from Spotify playlists Musk’s private launch company, at least 10 times with minimal Expected strong wind and high sea / formally known as Space Explo- refurbishment between flights, thunder rain to the north by night. AP CAPE CANAVERAL: A last- ration Technologies, said they allowing more frequent minute technical glitch would try again today. launches at lower cost — a key

HIGH TIDE 02:00 – 15:30 LOW TIDE 09:15 – 20:45 NEW YORK: Spotify has removed R Kelly’s music from prompted SpaceX yesterday to They will have roughly the to the SpaceX business model. Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department its playlists, citing its new policy on hate content and postpone for at least 24 hours same two-hour-plus launch Enhanced rocket reusability hateful conduct. the first commercial flight of its window running from 4:14pm also is a core tenet of Musk’s A spokesperson said that Kelly’s music is no longer updated Falcon 9 rocket, a to 6:21 pm EDT (2014 GMT to broader objectives for normal- available on the streaming service’s owned and operated launch vehicle tailored for 2221 GMT). ising space travel and ultimately playlists and algorithmic recommendations. His music eventual crewed missions into The precise reason for auto- sending humans to Mars. will still be available, but Spotify will not promote it. orbit. matic shutdown of the final SpaceX so far has safely R Kelly’s management decried the move in a The rocket’s onboard com- launch sequence was not deter- return-landed 24 of its boosters statement. “R. Kelly never has been accused of hate, and puters halted the countdown mined. Launch commanders and reflown 11 of them. the lyrics he writes express love and desire,” the about one minute before the will have to sift through data The Block-5 is the first statement read. newly minted Block-5 edition logs produced by onboard com- rocket from Musk’s California- “Mr. Kelly for 30 years has sung songs about his love of the Falcon 9 was set to blast puters to learn what might have based company to satisfy Nasa’s and passion for women. He is innocent of the false and off from the Kennedy Space gone wrong. standards for its Commercial hurtful accusations in the ongoing smear campaign Center in Florida on its maiden The Falcon 9 Block-5 comes Crew Program to carry agency against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff. He mission, to carry a communica- equipped with about 100 astronauts to the International never has been convicted of a crime, nor does he have tions satellite into orbit for upgrades for greater power, Space Station. any pending criminal charges against him.” Bangladesh. safety and reusability than its But Nasa still requires seven The new policy defines hateful conduct as “some- A few minutes after blast- Block-4 predecessor. successful flights before the new thing that is especially harmful or hateful,” such as vio- off was aborted, mission con- Its recoverable main-stage rocket receives final certifi- lence against children and sexual violence. trollers for billionaire Elon booster is designed to be reused cation for a manned mission.