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Volume VIII - Issue - 11 November - 2019 Qatar,
Congo
establish

Editor-in-chief diplomatic
relations
Ian Shepherd Ankara's march into Executive
Editor signing ceremony for the Mohammad Saif establishment of diplomatic relations Editor hearts of people between Qatar and Congo took place Mohammad Imran Khan A at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission Managing
Editor here is no doubt that if there is of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Mohammad Tarique Saleem New York recently. Permanent Representative Editor
(Film) one nation on the earth which has captured the hearts of the of Qatar to the UN, HE Ambassador Sheikha Aditya Dubey T Alya Ahmed bin Saif al Thani signed the Editor
(Health) people, it must be Turkey. It has not agreement on behalf of Qatar, while Congo's Dr. R.U. Siddiqui been smooth sailing for this brave UN Ambassador Ignace Gata Mavitawa Lufuta Sport
Editor nation. Many of its actions in the past signed on behalf of his country. Javed Khan and present remained under a cloud, Imran Khan (honorary) raising voices of dissent in the Turkey
hopeful
of
Associate
Editor Lawrence Lewis western world and across the globe. Political
Editor But as they say, truth shall prevail. The voices croaking Dr. Mohammad Anwar Hafeez ended in a whimper. It takes vast reserves of courage to Consultant
Editor welcome 3-6 million Syrians. It takes even more courage global
support Afzal Ali Shah Maududi to nip the crisis in the bud. Assistant
Editor President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the worthy leader Zia Mohammad Turkey deserves for his actions match his words. Both News
Editor Alijaan Rounaqe Presidents Donald Trump of the US and Vladimir Putin of uring a phone call with President to return home. The locals, many of whom were Columnist Russia have been told in a rm tone that Ankara means Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently, forced into exile when the YPG took charge, get PRAYER
EVENT Huda Irfan Siddiqui business. In today's world of 'opportunistic' politics when The two sides underlined the keenness on President Trump agreed to transfer the to return to their ancestors’ lands. The proposed Associate
Editor some leaders play war games for their survival, the D strengthening and developing the friendly leadership of the counter-Islamic State campaign safe zone is good for Europe because it will Shazia Saleem President of Turkey does not mince words when he relations and cooperation in the political, to Turkey. address the problem of violence and instability Turkey's
bold
Bureau
Chief
(India) means business. He knows the psychology of his foes and economic, trade and cultural fields. The two in Syria the root causes of illegal immigration Merajuddin Siddiqui American officials have been saying for years can fell even a giant with the timely blows. sides also stressed the importance of and radicalization. Finally, the plan helps Chief
Co-ordinator that their partnership with the terrorist step
in
Syria
establishing bilateral relations in accordance Mohammad Shariq Siddiqui organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Syrian Turkey shelter innocent people from a known with the principles of the UN Charter and Directors affiliate, People’s Protection Units (or YPG), in terrorist organization. eligious minorities in Turkey held a expressed their confidence that the agreement Syed Amjad Ahsan Rizvi the fight against the Islamic State was “tactical.” Erdogan gave the details of Turkey’s “safe zone” prayer event for the soldiers participating Naushad Ahmad Ansari (Bahrain) will contribute to the development of the in Operation Peace Spring in Mohammad Shariq Siddiqui Trump’s latest decision reflects that view. Like plan at the United Nations General Assembly R bilateral cooperation and the consolidation of northeastern Syria. The groups included the Chief
Strategic
Marketing
(North) world peace. the United States, Turkey does not go abroad in last month. Turkey estimates that up to 2 million Roman, Armenian, Jewish, Assyrian and Rajiv K Sejal search of monsters to destroy. But when Syrian refugees will volunteer to live in a 20- Chaldean religious groups. The special event Chief
Advertising
Consultant
(North) monsters aempt to knock down our doors and mile secure area spanning from the Euphrates was held at the Deyruzzaferan Monastery Ashok Chowdhary harm our citizens, we have to respond. Sending River to the Syria-Iraq border. If the safe zone’s located in the south eastern Mardin province Chief
Circulation
Manager recently. Ravikant Vishwakarma HM
King
patronises
young men and women into bale is never an southern border reaches the Deir ez Zor-Raqqa easy decision. line, that number could reach 3 million, Camera
Team including refugees currently in Europe. Turkey Mohammad Asif (Photo Editor) Bahrain
First
festival Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria Mohammad Faheem except to neutralize a long-standing threat will build on its past experiences in northern Mohammad Zeeshan Ansari Syria to keep the safe zone secure and stable. and international organisations, who arrived in Bahrain against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local Printed
at
Bharat
Graphics population from the yoke of armed thugs. We believe that the Syrian people are best C-83, Okhla Industrial Area, at the invitation of HM the King to aend festivities Phase-I, New Delhi marking the centennial of formal education in the Having suffered dozens of casualties in Islamic equipped to govern themselves through elected State aacks, Turkey was the first country to local councils. It is crucial to support and foster Printer
&
Publisher Kingdom. Addressing the festival, HM the King deploy combat forces to fight the terrorists in local political representation in order to prevent Mohammad Su welcomed Arab education ministers and officials who are aended the festivities marking the centennial of Syria. Our country also helped the Free Syrian the resurgence of the Islamic State in Owner formal education in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Army keep thousands of Islamic State militants northeastern Syria. In predominantly Kurdish Mohammad Tarique Saleem With the mass prayer, the groups want to show Cell : +91 7275511170 He wished their conference, which is being held on the behind bars for years. areas, such as Afrin, Turkey oversaw the their support for the soldiers participating in the creation of local governing bodies with a Registered
Office sidelines of the festival, success to aain crucial It is in our interest to preserve what the United operation and express solidarity with the Syrian ED-320, Sector-Q, Aliganj, Lucknow, decisions that contribute to equipping generations with States has accomplished and to ensure that Kurdish majority. The same will go for refugees. Operation Peace Spring was launched Uttar Pradesh, India - 226024 a wealth of knowledge for the future so as to keep history does not repeat itself. It remains to be predominantly Kurdish parts of northeastern on Oct. 9 in order to secure Turkey's borders, aid the safe return of Syrian refugees and ensure Corporate
Office abreast of fast global shift towards digital knowledge- seen whether YPG militants will agree to the Syria. Syria's territorial integrity. The operation, Flat No.5, 2nd Floor, 27/6, Pratap Bhawan based economy and achieve progress and progress for change in the campaign’s leadership. Indeed, Our goal is to supplement those steps with RRMR Marg, Lucknow-226001 is Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al- Arab countries. conducted in line with the country's right to self- Khalifa recently patronised the twelfth they have two options: If they are genuinely international infrastructure investment for defense borne out of international law and the Telefax
: +91522 2746688 edition of the “Bahrain First” Festival He saluted students who are taking part in the annual interested in fighting the Islamic State, they can schools, hospitals, and housing. America has U.N. Email
: [email protected] H Bahrain First festival and expressed royal keenness on defect without delay. Or they can listen to their borne the brunt of the counter-Islamic State staged by the Education Ministry at Bahrain Security Council resolutions, aims to set up Website
: www.arabiantimes.in their participation in the festivities, hailing the show they National Stadium. King Hamad was welcomed commanders, who say that they will fight the campaign for too long. Turkey, which has terror-free safe zone for Syrians return in the Printed at Bharat Graphics, C-83, by the Education Minister Majid bin Ali Al had stage, reflecting their loyalty the homeland which, Turkish forces in which case we will have no NATO’s second-largest army, is willing and able area east of the Euphrates River controlled by Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-1, New Delhi Nuaimi, amid cheers by more than 32,000 which cares for them and strives for their prosperous choice but to stop them from disrupting our to take the lead now and drive it home, bringing the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), by Printer & Publisher, Mohd. Su future . & Owner, Mohd. Tarique Saleem. students. This year's festival coincides with counter-Islamic State efforts. millions of refugees back to Syria in the process. which is dominated by YPG terrorists. The PKK Published from ED-320, Sector-Q, HM the King gave directives, on the occasion of the listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the festivities marking the centenary of formal The world has a vested interest in the success of At this critical juncture, the international Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India education in the Kingdom of Bahrain. centenary, to document 100 years of formal education in U.S. and the European Union has waged a terror the fight against the Islamic State under community must rally behind Turkey’s Title Issued by : Bahrain. He hailed the historic anniversary which campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, Dr. Al-Nuaimi introduced to HM the King Arab Turkey’s leadership. American military advisers, rebuilding and stabilization efforts. Government of India, reflects Bahrain's standing as a beacon of knowledge, resulting in the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, Registrar of Newspaper for India. education ministers, general-directors of regional who have been on the ground for years, deserve including women, children and infants. UPENG/2013/54180 enlightenment, knowledge and civil development. November 2019 | Arabian Times | 3 COVER STORY

Volume VIII - Issue - 11 November - 2019 Qatar,
Congo
establish

Editor-in-chief diplomatic
relations
Ian Shepherd Ankara's march into Executive
Editor signing ceremony for the Mohammad Saif establishment of diplomatic relations Editor hearts of people between Qatar and Congo took place Mohammad Imran Khan A at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission Managing
Editor here is no doubt that if there is of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Mohammad Tarique Saleem New York recently. Permanent Representative Editor
(Film) one nation on the earth which has captured the hearts of the of Qatar to the UN, HE Ambassador Sheikha Aditya Dubey T Alya Ahmed bin Saif al Thani signed the Editor
(Health) people, it must be Turkey. It has not agreement on behalf of Qatar, while Congo's Dr. R.U. Siddiqui been smooth sailing for this brave UN Ambassador Ignace Gata Mavitawa Lufuta Sport
Editor nation. Many of its actions in the past signed on behalf of his country. Javed Khan and present remained under a cloud, Imran Khan (honorary) raising voices of dissent in the Turkey
hopeful
of
Associate
Editor Lawrence Lewis western world and across the globe. Political
Editor But as they say, truth shall prevail. The voices croaking Dr. Mohammad Anwar Hafeez ended in a whimper. It takes vast reserves of courage to Consultant
Editor welcome 3-6 million Syrians. It takes even more courage global
support Afzal Ali Shah Maududi to nip the crisis in the bud. Assistant
Editor President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the worthy leader Zia Mohammad Turkey deserves for his actions match his words. Both News
Editor Alijaan Rounaqe Presidents Donald Trump of the US and Vladimir Putin of uring a phone call with President to return home. The locals, many of whom were Columnist Russia have been told in a rm tone that Ankara means Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently, forced into exile when the YPG took charge, get PRAYER
EVENT Huda Irfan Siddiqui business. In today's world of 'opportunistic' politics when The two sides underlined the keenness on President Trump agreed to transfer the to return to their ancestors’ lands. The proposed Associate
Editor some leaders play war games for their survival, the D strengthening and developing the friendly leadership of the counter-Islamic State campaign safe zone is good for Europe because it will Shazia Saleem President of Turkey does not mince words when he relations and cooperation in the political, to Turkey. address the problem of violence and instability Turkey's
bold
Bureau
Chief
(India) means business. He knows the psychology of his foes and economic, trade and cultural fields. The two in Syria the root causes of illegal immigration Merajuddin Siddiqui American officials have been saying for years can fell even a giant with the timely blows. sides also stressed the importance of and radicalization. Finally, the plan helps Chief
Co-ordinator that their partnership with the terrorist step
in
Syria
establishing bilateral relations in accordance Mohammad Shariq Siddiqui organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Syrian Turkey shelter innocent people from a known with the principles of the UN Charter and Directors affiliate, People’s Protection Units (or YPG), in terrorist organization. eligious minorities in Turkey held a expressed their confidence that the agreement Syed Amjad Ahsan Rizvi the fight against the Islamic State was “tactical.” Erdogan gave the details of Turkey’s “safe zone” prayer event for the soldiers participating Naushad Ahmad Ansari (Bahrain) will contribute to the development of the in Operation Peace Spring in Mohammad Shariq Siddiqui Trump’s latest decision reflects that view. Like plan at the United Nations General Assembly R bilateral cooperation and the consolidation of northeastern Syria. The groups included the Chief
Strategic
Marketing
(North) world peace. the United States, Turkey does not go abroad in last month. Turkey estimates that up to 2 million Roman, Armenian, Jewish, Assyrian and Rajiv K Sejal search of monsters to destroy. But when Syrian refugees will volunteer to live in a 20- Chaldean religious groups. The special event Chief
Advertising
Consultant
(North) monsters aempt to knock down our doors and mile secure area spanning from the Euphrates was held at the Deyruzzaferan Monastery Ashok Chowdhary harm our citizens, we have to respond. Sending River to the Syria-Iraq border. If the safe zone’s located in the south eastern Mardin province Chief
Circulation
Manager recently. Ravikant Vishwakarma HM
King
patronises
young men and women into bale is never an southern border reaches the Deir ez Zor-Raqqa easy decision. line, that number could reach 3 million, Camera
Team including refugees currently in Europe. Turkey Mohammad Asif (Photo Editor) Bahrain
First
festival Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria Mohammad Faheem except to neutralize a long-standing threat will build on its past experiences in northern Mohammad Zeeshan Ansari Syria to keep the safe zone secure and stable. and international organisations, who arrived in Bahrain against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local Printed
at
Bharat
Graphics population from the yoke of armed thugs. We believe that the Syrian people are best C-83, Okhla Industrial Area, at the invitation of HM the King to aend festivities Phase-I, New Delhi marking the centennial of formal education in the Having suffered dozens of casualties in Islamic equipped to govern themselves through elected State aacks, Turkey was the first country to local councils. It is crucial to support and foster Printer
&
Publisher Kingdom. Addressing the festival, HM the King deploy combat forces to fight the terrorists in local political representation in order to prevent Mohammad Su welcomed Arab education ministers and officials who are aended the festivities marking the centennial of Syria. Our country also helped the Free Syrian the resurgence of the Islamic State in Owner formal education in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Army keep thousands of Islamic State militants northeastern Syria. In predominantly Kurdish Mohammad Tarique Saleem With the mass prayer, the groups want to show Cell : +91 7275511170 He wished their conference, which is being held on the behind bars for years. areas, such as Afrin, Turkey oversaw the their support for the soldiers participating in the creation of local governing bodies with a Registered
Office sidelines of the festival, success to aain crucial It is in our interest to preserve what the United operation and express solidarity with the Syrian ED-320, Sector-Q, Aliganj, Lucknow, decisions that contribute to equipping generations with States has accomplished and to ensure that Kurdish majority. The same will go for refugees. Operation Peace Spring was launched Uttar Pradesh, India - 226024 a wealth of knowledge for the future so as to keep history does not repeat itself. It remains to be predominantly Kurdish parts of northeastern on Oct. 9 in order to secure Turkey's borders, aid the safe return of Syrian refugees and ensure Corporate
Office abreast of fast global shift towards digital knowledge- seen whether YPG militants will agree to the Syria. Syria's territorial integrity. The operation, Flat No.5, 2nd Floor, 27/6, Pratap Bhawan based economy and achieve progress and progress for change in the campaign’s leadership. Indeed, Our goal is to supplement those steps with RRMR Marg, Lucknow-226001 is Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al- Arab countries. conducted in line with the country's right to self- Khalifa recently patronised the twelfth they have two options: If they are genuinely international infrastructure investment for defense borne out of international law and the Telefax
: +91522 2746688 edition of the “Bahrain First” Festival He saluted students who are taking part in the annual interested in fighting the Islamic State, they can schools, hospitals, and housing. America has U.N. Email
: [email protected] H Bahrain First festival and expressed royal keenness on defect without delay. Or they can listen to their borne the brunt of the counter-Islamic State staged by the Education Ministry at Bahrain Security Council resolutions, aims to set up Website
: www.arabiantimes.in their participation in the festivities, hailing the show they National Stadium. King Hamad was welcomed commanders, who say that they will fight the campaign for too long. Turkey, which has terror-free safe zone for Syrians return in the Printed at Bharat Graphics, C-83, by the Education Minister Majid bin Ali Al had stage, reflecting their loyalty the homeland which, Turkish forces in which case we will have no NATO’s second-largest army, is willing and able area east of the Euphrates River controlled by Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-1, New Delhi Nuaimi, amid cheers by more than 32,000 which cares for them and strives for their prosperous choice but to stop them from disrupting our to take the lead now and drive it home, bringing the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), by Printer & Publisher, Mohd. Su future . & Owner, Mohd. Tarique Saleem. students. This year's festival coincides with counter-Islamic State efforts. millions of refugees back to Syria in the process. which is dominated by YPG terrorists. The PKK Published from ED-320, Sector-Q, HM the King gave directives, on the occasion of the listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the festivities marking the centenary of formal The world has a vested interest in the success of At this critical juncture, the international Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India education in the Kingdom of Bahrain. centenary, to document 100 years of formal education in U.S. and the European Union has waged a terror the fight against the Islamic State under community must rally behind Turkey’s Title Issued by : Bahrain. He hailed the historic anniversary which campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, Dr. Al-Nuaimi introduced to HM the King Arab Turkey’s leadership. American military advisers, rebuilding and stabilization efforts. Government of India, reflects Bahrain's standing as a beacon of knowledge, resulting in the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, Registrar of Newspaper for India. education ministers, general-directors of regional who have been on the ground for years, deserve including women, children and infants. UPENG/2013/54180 enlightenment, knowledge and civil development. November 2019 | Arabian Times | 3 PM AT FII FORUM US & TURKEY Sharique
Husain Pause
in
military
moves

he United States had an agreement with defined the safe zone as the areas where Turkey to halt the fighting in northern Turkey was now operating, down 30 km in a TSyria in exchange for a retreat by central part of Northeast Syria. "Now, the People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists from Turks have their own discussions going on the planned safe zone area in part because the with the Russians and the Syrians in other U.S. believed the YPG would not be able to areas of the northeast and in Manbij to the hold that area militarily anyway, a top U.S. west of the Euphrates," he said. official said. "Whether they incorporate that later into a “There's no doubt that the YPG wishes that Turkish-controlled safe zone, it was not they could stay in these areas," U.S. Special discussed in any detail," Jeffrey said. That right Envoy to Syria James Jeffrey told pool now is not Turkish controlled territory." Turkey reporters traveling with him. "It is our launched Operation Peace Spring, the third in assessment that they have no military ability to a series of cross-border anti-terror operations in hold onto these areas and therefore we thought northern Syria targeting terrorists affiliated that a ceasefire would be much beer ... for with Daesh and the PKK's Syrian offshoot the trying to get some kind of control over this People's Protection Units (YPG), on October 9. chaotic situation." The operation, conducted in line with the Turkey recently agreed to pause its operation country's right to self-defense borne out of in Syria for five days to let YPG terrorists international law and U.N. Security Council withdraw from a safe zone area Ankara had resolutions, aims to establish a terror-free safe sought to capture, in a deal hailed by the zone for Syrians return in the area east of the Trump administration and cast by Turkey as a Euphrates River controlled by the U.S. backed complete victory. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is Jeffrey said the United States and Turkey dominated by YPG terrorists. Importance
of
harnessing
Integral
part
of
ICTs
for
development
stressed Oman
culture “Dynamic
forum
calendar
of
business
world”

ndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his “The leadership of the Kingdom has worked for core components of rapid economic growth,” he keynote address at Future Initiative the next generation. I would like to congratulate said. IInvestment Forum, said Saudi Arabia Muhammad Bin Salman for his vision. He not Saudi Arabia is looking at making investments radiated 'positive energy' and has converted the only used the word future in the summit, but in India potentially worth USD $100 billion in he Al Ardha camel show was held recently at 'sands of Arabia into gold'. Modi said, “I thank the concept is forward looking and oriented to the areas of energy, refining, petrochemicals, Al Jarda, a village in the Wilayat of Al Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King the future. “As his brother and neighbor it is infrastructure, agriculture, minerals and mining. Mudhaibi, as part of the annual camel event. T Salman and my brother Crown Prince natural to represent one of the world's largest Welcoming the decision he said, “Investment Around 200 participants from various wilayats took Muhammad Bin Salman for inviting me to goring economy in this remarkable forum. and energy were vital for the economy and he part. Hundreds of people also came to watch the participate in the forum.” Extending the Indian government's full support invited companies from the energy sector to event, which was organised by locals in an effort to About the historic ties between India and Saudi to Saudi Arabia's vision 2030 plan, PM Modi, become more involved.” preserve Omani heritage. The camel show was Arabia, Modi said. “Saudi Arabia is the place of during his speech of “Future Investment divided into 20 rounds. Each round saw a batch of the two holy mosques which is the center for Initiative 2019 (FII 2019)” conference said, “India two participants covering a distance of 800 metres. millions of the faithful. This land is a source of would work hand in hand with Saudi to propel he Sultanate stressed the strong role of national strategies adopted since 2011, in order On Al Ardha day, people gather around the race energy for the world economy. Today, in this further the economy of both the nations. harnessing ICTs for sustainable to enhance readiness and to keep pace with the course to watch shows by camel riders that reflect forum in Riyadh, I too am feeling the positive India, he said, shows significant advancement in development while delivering its rapid developments of the technologies of the Omani people’s skill in dealing with the animal. T energy of this land.” He continued, “The theme Artificial intelligence (AI) and achieve the mark address to the Economic and Financial Fourth Industrial Revolution, which included Traditional arts (such as the recitation of poems) also for FII selected in this forum is not only to talk Commiee of the UN General Assembly. Oman Digital Strategy, National Broadband the expectations above and beyond. Now the accompanied the demonstrations. Al Ardha started about the economy of the Kingdom but is to Aseila bint Salim al Hassani from the National Strategy, National Innovation Strategy, E- country is looking ahead in achieving innovative with a display of traditional acts, such as camels understand the emerging trends in the world, Youth Commission (NYC), the Sultanate's Commerce Strategy and National Information technology to make it usable for people in their lying down, riding standing up, joining hands with and to find in them avenues for the welfare of Representative to the UN under the United and Communications Technology Strategy, everyday life. another rider at great speed and other similar humanity. “It is for this reason this dynamic Nations Youth Delegate Programme, said that within the framework of national initiatives actions. While the event was going on the spectation platform has become an important calendar of The Indian PM further said, “India has set a ICT is an important pillar of sustainable launched by the Sultanate to transform and get relished Omani coffee, soft drinks and local fruits. the business world. In less than just three years target of doubling its economy to $5 trillion in development and has become an essential part readiness towards the future. the next five years. Asserting that we could only “Our main objective is to encourage the new this forum has come a very long way. in the development of smart societies and their Al Hassani said that these national initiatives able to make fast strides on the development generation to learn about this traditional show and to “My friend and brother Crown Prince transition to the next generation of and strategies have brought many benefits to front, if we understand the emerging trends in enhance relations between members of community,” Muhammad Bin Salman deserves the heartiest infrastructure, in addition to providing job the Omani society and the business sector, the field.” He reminded that the field of human the organiser saidtold the Observer. congratulations for this success. This forum is opportunities for a generation of young people which is now geing the services provided by resources, with the approbation of international know as “Davos in Desert” and in the last towards the future. the government effortlessly. She said that the The participants must be well prepared at least one investment considerations have now included century the hard work of the people of Saudi She referred to the report issued by the World Sultanate is aware of the importance of night before the event starts. They transfer their criteria for employment and training workers Arabia and the bounties of nature it is blessed Economic Forum on readiness for future qualifying human cadres with training that camels by trucks and 4WD and camp nearby to the with the skills required for the jobs. “Indian with has converted the sands of Arabia into production, indicating that the Sultanate has suits the challenges and requirements of the event venue. During that night, the organisers talent has created distinction in display of skills, gold. achieved high rank in the engines and future. prepare Omani food and host the participants for a law abidance and hardworking that considered components of production, thanks to the dinner feast.

4 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 5 PM AT FII FORUM US & TURKEY Sharique
Husain Pause
in
military
moves
he United States had an agreement with defined the safe zone as the areas where Turkey to halt the fighting in northern Turkey was now operating, down 30 km in a TSyria in exchange for a retreat by central part of Northeast Syria. "Now, the People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists from Turks have their own discussions going on the planned safe zone area in part because the with the Russians and the Syrians in other U.S. believed the YPG would not be able to areas of the northeast and in Manbij to the hold that area militarily anyway, a top U.S. west of the Euphrates," he said. official said. "Whether they incorporate that later into a “There's no doubt that the YPG wishes that Turkish-controlled safe zone, it was not they could stay in these areas," U.S. Special discussed in any detail," Jeffrey said. That right Envoy to Syria James Jeffrey told pool now is not Turkish controlled territory." Turkey reporters traveling with him. "It is our launched Operation Peace Spring, the third in assessment that they have no military ability to a series of cross-border anti-terror operations in hold onto these areas and therefore we thought northern Syria targeting terrorists affiliated that a ceasefire would be much beer ... for with Daesh and the PKK's Syrian offshoot the trying to get some kind of control over this People's Protection Units (YPG), on October 9. chaotic situation." The operation, conducted in line with the Turkey recently agreed to pause its operation country's right to self-defense borne out of in Syria for five days to let YPG terrorists international law and U.N. Security Council withdraw from a safe zone area Ankara had resolutions, aims to establish a terror-free safe sought to capture, in a deal hailed by the zone for Syrians return in the area east of the Trump administration and cast by Turkey as a Euphrates River controlled by the U.S. backed complete victory. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is Jeffrey said the United States and Turkey dominated by YPG terrorists. Importance
of
harnessing
Integral
part
of
ICTs
for
development
stressed Oman
culture “Dynamic
forum
calendar
of
business
world”

ndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his “The leadership of the Kingdom has worked for core components of rapid economic growth,” he keynote address at Future Initiative the next generation. I would like to congratulate said. IInvestment Forum, said Saudi Arabia Muhammad Bin Salman for his vision. He not Saudi Arabia is looking at making investments radiated 'positive energy' and has converted the only used the word future in the summit, but in India potentially worth USD $100 billion in he Al Ardha camel show was held recently at 'sands of Arabia into gold'. Modi said, “I thank the concept is forward looking and oriented to the areas of energy, refining, petrochemicals, Al Jarda, a village in the Wilayat of Al Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King the future. “As his brother and neighbor it is infrastructure, agriculture, minerals and mining. Mudhaibi, as part of the annual camel event. T Salman and my brother Crown Prince natural to represent one of the world's largest Welcoming the decision he said, “Investment Around 200 participants from various wilayats took Muhammad Bin Salman for inviting me to goring economy in this remarkable forum. and energy were vital for the economy and he part. Hundreds of people also came to watch the participate in the forum.” Extending the Indian government's full support invited companies from the energy sector to event, which was organised by locals in an effort to About the historic ties between India and Saudi to Saudi Arabia's vision 2030 plan, PM Modi, become more involved.” preserve Omani heritage. The camel show was Arabia, Modi said. “Saudi Arabia is the place of during his speech of “Future Investment divided into 20 rounds. Each round saw a batch of the two holy mosques which is the center for Initiative 2019 (FII 2019)” conference said, “India two participants covering a distance of 800 metres. millions of the faithful. This land is a source of would work hand in hand with Saudi to propel he Sultanate stressed the strong role of national strategies adopted since 2011, in order On Al Ardha day, people gather around the race energy for the world economy. Today, in this further the economy of both the nations. harnessing ICTs for sustainable to enhance readiness and to keep pace with the course to watch shows by camel riders that reflect forum in Riyadh, I too am feeling the positive India, he said, shows significant advancement in development while delivering its rapid developments of the technologies of the Omani people’s skill in dealing with the animal. T energy of this land.” He continued, “The theme Artificial intelligence (AI) and achieve the mark address to the Economic and Financial Fourth Industrial Revolution, which included Traditional arts (such as the recitation of poems) also for FII selected in this forum is not only to talk Commiee of the UN General Assembly. Oman Digital Strategy, National Broadband the expectations above and beyond. Now the accompanied the demonstrations. Al Ardha started about the economy of the Kingdom but is to Aseila bint Salim al Hassani from the National Strategy, National Innovation Strategy, E- country is looking ahead in achieving innovative with a display of traditional acts, such as camels understand the emerging trends in the world, Youth Commission (NYC), the Sultanate's Commerce Strategy and National Information technology to make it usable for people in their lying down, riding standing up, joining hands with and to find in them avenues for the welfare of Representative to the UN under the United and Communications Technology Strategy, everyday life. another rider at great speed and other similar humanity. “It is for this reason this dynamic Nations Youth Delegate Programme, said that within the framework of national initiatives actions. While the event was going on the spectation platform has become an important calendar of The Indian PM further said, “India has set a ICT is an important pillar of sustainable launched by the Sultanate to transform and get relished Omani coffee, soft drinks and local fruits. the business world. In less than just three years target of doubling its economy to $5 trillion in development and has become an essential part readiness towards the future. the next five years. Asserting that we could only “Our main objective is to encourage the new this forum has come a very long way. in the development of smart societies and their Al Hassani said that these national initiatives able to make fast strides on the development generation to learn about this traditional show and to “My friend and brother Crown Prince transition to the next generation of and strategies have brought many benefits to front, if we understand the emerging trends in enhance relations between members of community,” Muhammad Bin Salman deserves the heartiest infrastructure, in addition to providing job the Omani society and the business sector, the field.” He reminded that the field of human the organiser saidtold the Observer. congratulations for this success. This forum is opportunities for a generation of young people which is now geing the services provided by resources, with the approbation of international know as “Davos in Desert” and in the last towards the future. the government effortlessly. She said that the The participants must be well prepared at least one investment considerations have now included century the hard work of the people of Saudi She referred to the report issued by the World Sultanate is aware of the importance of night before the event starts. They transfer their criteria for employment and training workers Arabia and the bounties of nature it is blessed Economic Forum on readiness for future qualifying human cadres with training that camels by trucks and 4WD and camp nearby to the with the skills required for the jobs. “Indian with has converted the sands of Arabia into production, indicating that the Sultanate has suits the challenges and requirements of the event venue. During that night, the organisers talent has created distinction in display of skills, gold. achieved high rank in the engines and future. prepare Omani food and host the participants for a law abidance and hardworking that considered components of production, thanks to the dinner feast.

4 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 5 Sheeba
Ajaz SEXUAL HARRASMENT OFFENDERS HAPPY HOMECOMING Dr.
Mohammed
Anwar
Hafeez
Sheikh
Hasina
H.H.
Amir
is
safe
&
sound
their constant follow-up of his health, their sentiments, and the genuine wishes they offered. He prayed to Allah to perpetuate blessings of for
extreme
security, safety and prosperity on the beloved State of Kuwait, and guide its people to serve the country at all times. Overwhelming love and support that His Highness the Amir enjoys with punishment
all sections of society was evident in January 2006, when the whole country cheered as a special session of the National Assembly unanimously and constitutionally proclaimed His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as the 15th ruler and Amir of the State of Kuwait. Since his accession, the Amir has a been a unifying source and a fountain of wise leadership in a country more often known for its diverging politics, bickering legislature and revolving-door governments. It is the Amir's firm and fair decisions and resolute actions that have helped Kuwait pull through many a political and social exigency during the past 13 years. Since he began his political career in 1954, His Highness has dedicated his life and energy to he parliament unanimously adopted a problems of Bangladesh but also global sense any abnormal activity, so that we can face ecently Kuwait wore a festive look with going around distributing photos of the Amir the welfare and well-being of Kuwait and its resolution urging all countries to put up problems, Sheikh Hasina said her government it and save people's lives and property," she said. high-rise towers and iconic buildings in and later unleashed a huge balloon decorated people. Following Kuwait's independence in Tresistance against terror aacks and will do whatever is necessary to combat the Calling Nusrat a brave girl, the prime minister the country lit up in colors of the with the Amir's portrait, against a backdrop of 1961, His Highness played a crucial role in sexual harassment. Prime Minister Sheikh menaces. said Nusrat neither bowed down to injustice nor R national flag and portraying images of His tunes of the National Anthem. cementing the country's democratic credentials Hasina has said the government will mete out agreed to withdraw the case filed against the Treasury bench MP, Tofail Ahmed, placed the Highness the Amir; roadside billboards were In a statement released by the Amiri Diwan, His by being a member of the commiee chosen to maximum punishment to sexual harassers, to principal of her madrasa, Sirajaddaula, who proposal in the House, which was passed by festooned with congratulatory messages from Highness the Amir expressed his deepest draft the country's constitution that was enacted prevent the growing incidents of sexual instructed her to be killed. voice vote after a nearly four-hour marathon public institutions and private sector firms; and gratitude to the people of Kuwait and in 1962, and in organizing Kuwait's first harassment. discussion on it. In the resolution, the Jatiya "After the incident, efforts were made to tarnish public places were reverberating with tunes of expatriates for their sincere feelings and the parliamentary elections held in1963. After being If necessary, tougher laws will be enacted, she Sangsad expressed its deep hatred and anger at Nusrat's character. She was burnt to death for the national anthem and patriotic songs being happiness they showed over his arrival in the appointed as Kuwait's foreign minister in 1963, added. "There will be no mercy for those the huge casualties in the terror aacks in New showing this courage," she said. Some leaders of played on state television and radio. The country country after successful medical checkups in the for the next 40 years or so His Highness was the involved in sexual harassment," Sheikh Hasina Zealand Christchurch mosques and Sri Lankan our party were associated with this principal. I was celebrating the safe return to Kuwait of their United States. He appreciated the people of face of Kuwait in the international arena, said at a recent session at the Jatiya Sangsad. "If churches and hotels. instantly directed the police, telling them I do beloved Amir, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Kuwait for their concern and follow-up of his meeting with world leaders and pushing for the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. country's causes and interests at every global necessary, tougher laws will be enacted. The Sangsad also condemned the acts of sexual not want to hear who belonged to which party. medical condition throughout his trip, which in forum. Pointing at the brutal murder of the Feni Alim harassment commied towards Nusrat, and her "Criminals are criminals. They [the leaders] were On his visit to the United States in early reality reflect Kuwait's unity and distinguished examinee and madrasa student, Nusrat Jahan consequent brutal murder by burning her to arrested immediately. Such incidents can never September, and days before he was to meet with moral status. In the years following independence, Kuwait Rafi, she added: "The government will mete out death in Sonagazi upazila of Feni. The prime be accepted," she added. Sheikh Hasina said the US President Donald Trump, His Highness the His Highness the Amir also thanked the leaders was considered one of the most progressive and maximum punishment to those who commit minister renewed her call to the people of the government is firm on taking action against Amir was taken ill and admied to hospital. of Arab nations and other friendly countries for developed states in the Arab world. Not only such crimes." country, asking them to inform intelligence those involved, regardless of their political Following a month of medical was Kuwait the first Arab state The session was a discussion on a resolution agencies instantly if they come to know about affiliations or views. Later, Parliament checkups and recuperation, His in the Persian Gulf to establish a placed in Parliament urging parliaments, any suspicious activity, in order to tackle unanimously adopted the resolution urging Highness returned to the constitution and parliament, it governments and citizens of all the countries of militancy and terrorism in the country. parliaments, governments and citizens of all homeland on Wednesday to a was the first Middle Eastern tumultuous welcome from country to diversify its revenue the world to put up resistance against terror "I would like to urge the people of country to countries of the world to put up resistance citizens and residents. An official away from oil exports, incidents and sexual harassment. Mentioning inform our intelligence agencies instantly if you against terror incidents and sexual harassment. that militancy and terrorism are not only communique on his return establishing the Kuwait announced that His Highness the Investment Authority the layer Unknown's Balegrounds (PUBG) an online game played Amir has returned home, “after world's first sovereign wealth Red
and
green
signals
! mostly by youth went through a brief ban in Bangladesh recently, completing medical examinations fund. amid growing concerns that the game is negatively impacting the P successfully and positively” in the In the 1970s, Kuwait was youth. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), United States. upon police's recommendations, was tasked with carrying out a consistently ranked at the top of government directive regarding the game. The popular Mubarikiya Souk, a all Arab countries on the traditional market in the heart of Human Development Index, However, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar on a Kuwait City, was the venue for with free education, lifelong Facebook post around 11pm said the block was lifted. He confirmed Dhaka Tribune around midnight that the block was lifted after they celebrations organized by the healthcare, employment and reviewed the maer. The minister did not go into the details on why Kuwait Municipality and local social welfare guaranteed to all their decision taken earlier was changed. Earlier, Nazmul Islam, shop owners. A huge portrait of citizens. Art and culture additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's His Highness the Amir adorned flourished in the country cybercrime unit, had told Dhaka Tribune: "We are concerned over the the Al-Gharabally Square in the aracting talent from around psychosocial impact PUBG is having over our youths. center of the souk with the the region, and, in those "We received complaints from guardians, and the Minister for Posts and caption: “A message of heydays, Kuwait's press was Telecommunications Division expressed his concerns to us," Nazmul faithfulness and love from the described as one of the freest in added. Guardians complained that students were geing addicted to people of Kuwait”. The the world. the game, and skipping classes because of it," he continued. "They were organizers of the event were also passing sleepless nights.

6 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 7 Sheeba
Ajaz SEXUAL HARRASMENT OFFENDERS HAPPY HOMECOMING Dr.
Mohammed
Anwar
Hafeez
Sheikh
Hasina
H.H.
Amir
is
safe
&
sound
their constant follow-up of his health, their sentiments, and the genuine wishes they offered. He prayed to Allah to perpetuate blessings of for
extreme
security, safety and prosperity on the beloved State of Kuwait, and guide its people to serve the country at all times. Overwhelming love and support that His Highness the Amir enjoys with punishment
all sections of society was evident in January 2006, when the whole country cheered as a special session of the National Assembly unanimously and constitutionally proclaimed His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as the 15th ruler and Amir of the State of Kuwait. Since his accession, the Amir has a been a unifying source and a fountain of wise leadership in a country more often known for its diverging politics, bickering legislature and revolving-door governments. It is the Amir's firm and fair decisions and resolute actions that have helped Kuwait pull through many a political and social exigency during the past 13 years. Since he began his political career in 1954, His Highness has dedicated his life and energy to he parliament unanimously adopted a problems of Bangladesh but also global sense any abnormal activity, so that we can face ecently Kuwait wore a festive look with going around distributing photos of the Amir the welfare and well-being of Kuwait and its resolution urging all countries to put up problems, Sheikh Hasina said her government it and save people's lives and property," she said. high-rise towers and iconic buildings in and later unleashed a huge balloon decorated people. Following Kuwait's independence in Tresistance against terror aacks and will do whatever is necessary to combat the Calling Nusrat a brave girl, the prime minister the country lit up in colors of the with the Amir's portrait, against a backdrop of 1961, His Highness played a crucial role in sexual harassment. Prime Minister Sheikh menaces. said Nusrat neither bowed down to injustice nor R national flag and portraying images of His tunes of the National Anthem. cementing the country's democratic credentials Hasina has said the government will mete out agreed to withdraw the case filed against the Treasury bench MP, Tofail Ahmed, placed the Highness the Amir; roadside billboards were In a statement released by the Amiri Diwan, His by being a member of the commiee chosen to maximum punishment to sexual harassers, to principal of her madrasa, Sirajaddaula, who proposal in the House, which was passed by festooned with congratulatory messages from Highness the Amir expressed his deepest draft the country's constitution that was enacted prevent the growing incidents of sexual instructed her to be killed. voice vote after a nearly four-hour marathon public institutions and private sector firms; and gratitude to the people of Kuwait and in 1962, and in organizing Kuwait's first harassment. discussion on it. In the resolution, the Jatiya "After the incident, efforts were made to tarnish public places were reverberating with tunes of expatriates for their sincere feelings and the parliamentary elections held in1963. After being If necessary, tougher laws will be enacted, she Sangsad expressed its deep hatred and anger at Nusrat's character. She was burnt to death for the national anthem and patriotic songs being happiness they showed over his arrival in the appointed as Kuwait's foreign minister in 1963, added. "There will be no mercy for those the huge casualties in the terror aacks in New showing this courage," she said. Some leaders of played on state television and radio. The country country after successful medical checkups in the for the next 40 years or so His Highness was the involved in sexual harassment," Sheikh Hasina Zealand Christchurch mosques and Sri Lankan our party were associated with this principal. I was celebrating the safe return to Kuwait of their United States. He appreciated the people of face of Kuwait in the international arena, said at a recent session at the Jatiya Sangsad. "If churches and hotels. instantly directed the police, telling them I do beloved Amir, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Kuwait for their concern and follow-up of his meeting with world leaders and pushing for the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. country's causes and interests at every global necessary, tougher laws will be enacted. The Sangsad also condemned the acts of sexual not want to hear who belonged to which party. medical condition throughout his trip, which in forum. Pointing at the brutal murder of the Feni Alim harassment commied towards Nusrat, and her "Criminals are criminals. They [the leaders] were On his visit to the United States in early reality reflect Kuwait's unity and distinguished examinee and madrasa student, Nusrat Jahan consequent brutal murder by burning her to arrested immediately. Such incidents can never September, and days before he was to meet with moral status. In the years following independence, Kuwait Rafi, she added: "The government will mete out death in Sonagazi upazila of Feni. The prime be accepted," she added. Sheikh Hasina said the US President Donald Trump, His Highness the His Highness the Amir also thanked the leaders was considered one of the most progressive and maximum punishment to those who commit minister renewed her call to the people of the government is firm on taking action against Amir was taken ill and admied to hospital. of Arab nations and other friendly countries for developed states in the Arab world. Not only such crimes." country, asking them to inform intelligence those involved, regardless of their political Following a month of medical was Kuwait the first Arab state The session was a discussion on a resolution agencies instantly if they come to know about affiliations or views. Later, Parliament checkups and recuperation, His in the Persian Gulf to establish a placed in Parliament urging parliaments, any suspicious activity, in order to tackle unanimously adopted the resolution urging Highness returned to the constitution and parliament, it governments and citizens of all the countries of militancy and terrorism in the country. parliaments, governments and citizens of all homeland on Wednesday to a was the first Middle Eastern tumultuous welcome from country to diversify its revenue the world to put up resistance against terror "I would like to urge the people of country to countries of the world to put up resistance citizens and residents. An official away from oil exports, incidents and sexual harassment. Mentioning inform our intelligence agencies instantly if you against terror incidents and sexual harassment. that militancy and terrorism are not only communique on his return establishing the Kuwait announced that His Highness the Investment Authority the layer Unknown's Balegrounds (PUBG) an online game played Amir has returned home, “after world's first sovereign wealth Red
and
green
signals
! mostly by youth went through a brief ban in Bangladesh recently, completing medical examinations fund. amid growing concerns that the game is negatively impacting the P successfully and positively” in the In the 1970s, Kuwait was youth. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), United States. upon police's recommendations, was tasked with carrying out a consistently ranked at the top of government directive regarding the game. The popular Mubarikiya Souk, a all Arab countries on the traditional market in the heart of Human Development Index, However, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar on a Kuwait City, was the venue for with free education, lifelong Facebook post around 11pm said the block was lifted. He confirmed Dhaka Tribune around midnight that the block was lifted after they celebrations organized by the healthcare, employment and reviewed the maer. The minister did not go into the details on why Kuwait Municipality and local social welfare guaranteed to all their decision taken earlier was changed. Earlier, Nazmul Islam, shop owners. A huge portrait of citizens. Art and culture additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's His Highness the Amir adorned flourished in the country cybercrime unit, had told Dhaka Tribune: "We are concerned over the the Al-Gharabally Square in the aracting talent from around psychosocial impact PUBG is having over our youths. center of the souk with the the region, and, in those "We received complaints from guardians, and the Minister for Posts and caption: “A message of heydays, Kuwait's press was Telecommunications Division expressed his concerns to us," Nazmul faithfulness and love from the described as one of the freest in added. Guardians complained that students were geing addicted to people of Kuwait”. The the world. the game, and skipping classes because of it," he continued. "They were organizers of the event were also passing sleepless nights.

6 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 7 Nitin
Sabrangi
EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE MUNA
AL-FUZAI

ARTICLE
370 TRUST
IN
PERIL Itʼs
a
big
word
in
history
Muslims
perturbed
about
welfare

Raghavan also speaks of the continuing dilution emocracy whose foundation lies on of Article 370 through presidential orders that trust, free speech, free support for have made the Constitution of India almost Dpoliticians etc has been given a terrific entirely applicable to J&K. Moreover, his smashing. Dare anyone who raise their voice. argument is bold and intellectually honest, They are labelled “anti-Indian,” “pro-etc.” They especially since in result, it supports the can be beaten, even sent to another world. And governmental argument that Article 370 has dead men tell no tales! A victory at the husting's outlived its shelf life. gives a licence to do what even the creator wouldn't do. Meanwhile most of the media “ Gulzari Lal Nanda, the former home minister, Ask no questions, you'll be told no lies.” described Article 370 as “a tunnel” and presidential orders applying various provisions Kashmiris feel betrayed and humiliated. The of the Constitution of India as “a good deal of manner in which their leaders – the Hurriyat traffic” passing through it. Further proof of its and even the elected mainstream politicians - deliberate use to fully integrate J&K was have been treated by the government of the day provided by Nehru who said in November 1963: has hurt the Kashmiri. “the process of gradual erosion of Article 370 is They were arrested and detained without pity going on... we should allow it to go on.” for their public private posts. How can Kashmiri The extension of Article 356 to J&K, the men and women, and their leaders be picked up Constitution (Application to Jammu and at ungodly hours, arrested under any possible Kashmir) (Third Amendment) Order was passed alibi, imprisoned even in prisons outside their communities of the land except Muslims. This Not a day passes without one incident or the with the concurrence of the J&K government on state, the label of 'anti-national' can be tagged on speech by him was in the context of NRC, where other coming up which accelerates the December 21, 1964. Further, amendments to the to them. he was relaying that the Hindus, Sikhs, apprehensions running deep in the Muslim Constitution of J&K, such as the one that Bollywood has used various Kashmiri locales for Christians will remain safe in India. Why this community of the country. More so, as the rticle 370, creating special status for accede, propped up local leaders and ensured replaced the Sadar-i-Riyasat with the governor in numerous films, yet not one strong voice from blatant omission of the Indian Muslims? Not to murderous aacks on Indian Muslins are geing Jammu and Kashmir, has been said to that the army moved in fast. This made 1965, were made, not as Raghavan states, by the the film industry came in support of the plight overlook the fact that Muslims chose to remain brushed aside by the right-wing rulers of the be the result of Jawaharlal Nehru's administration of Junagadh, a Hindu-majority GoI, although it might certainly have been at its of the Kashmiris. Why this insensitivity? Why in their country, India. They did not want to day. And now there is a fresh wave of Hindutva Apoor negotiating skills, the Congress province with a Muslim ruler, a near- instance. The amendments were legally made in couldn't any of Bollywood's Khans or Khannas cross over to the newly carved country, Pakistan. propaganda– No lynching takes place in and its appeasement policy. If Vallabhbhai Patel impossibility, causing the handover of the state accordance with Article 147 of the J&K or Kumars or speak out in support for the Several who went there, even came back to their modern-day India! It's a 'western' word. The had the final say, it is argued, history would to India. The princely state of Hyderabad's. Its Constitution by the J&K legislative assembly on Kashmiris? What are they scared of – their films country, to live the remaining years of their lives scare is so much that gheoization is increasing have been another thing. location meant that non-accession would result April 10, 1965. The conclusion is inescapable: the and so is the tendency to withdraw from public in it becoming, in his words “an ulcer in the geing censored or sabotaged or sidetracked? It's right here on this soil, to be buried in their own Consider Srinath Raghavan's wonderfully wide- powers that be in J&K were complicit in the space. abdomen of India”. He declared that “If sad and unfortunate. More so because country, India. Many even let go of their ranging lecture titled, “Kashmir: The State and erosion of their own autonomy. Bollywood-wallahs love to ape the West but not mothers and fathers and siblings, who were The Sachar Commiee had focused on the the Status”. He argues that Patel was not only Hyderabad did not behave properly, it would Politicians often tend to favour simplistic here. They have not taken a clue from keen to cross over. They stayed here all alone social- economic-educational and the semi- home minister at the time Article 370 was have to go the way Junagadh did.” explanations ambivalent about the sanctity of Hollywood's superstars who miss no and yet carried no regrets. political aspirations of the Muslim community introduced but also a centre piece in its Patel showed none of this zeal when dealing historical facts. But as facts tend to wither in the opportunity to get critical of Donald Trump and There were hundreds of such Indian Muslim but what happened to the report itself. It has deliberations. Further, that Article 370 was meant with J&K and was content with the Maharaja public discourse, it is even more crucial for right- his policies. men and women but Nida Fazli and Talat been pushed into dusty files. The brasher shout to be temporary only till the J&K Constituent deciding the fate of the state and refused to minded citizens to state them bluntly. The tale Home Minister of India, Amit Shah's speeches Mahmood stand out. Nida Fazli told me that his hoarse that there's no bias. Truth will prevail ! Assembly decided for itself its constitutional conclude a standstill agreement with it. In what that emerges may not be black-and-white. But if come across as though influenced by a RSS entire clan and also his fiancé and her family The sufferings of the oppressed stand but like relationship with India. is perhaps most revealing, at the time of the our past is complex, we must embrace such sore thumb. unification of Kathiawad states, of which spokesperson and not by a democratic republic's had crossed over to Pakistan but he stayed back. Raghavan's conclusion from Patel's involvement complexity and not succumb to an artificial Junagadh was a part, Patel says: “One State politician. In fact, in one his more recent He was buried in Mumbai and lives on through as home minister in the process of drafting of simplification that tells a more compelling tale. speeches he made sure to mention all the other his verse. Article 370 is that Patel is responsible, like Nehru remains which is still causing us some anxiety. It and other ministers, for the special relationship is the State of Hyderabad.” between J&K and India reflected in Article 370 (a news website quotes him as saying Patel is the Chinaʼs
fast
progress
stirs
US “architect of Article 370”). This is a historically unsupported inference. hile it is still too early to make definite weapons. So marked has been this disarray that in a military sense. It can still project and deploy The drafting history of Article 370 demonstrates assessments, 2016 may be seen as one some academics have pointed to 2001, forever overwhelming force relative to any enemy. But that Patel was only a bit-part player. The draft Wof the turning points in the post-1989 remembered for the 9/11 aacks in the US, as with Washington now re-examining its was piloted by N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, the period; Donald Trump was elected US president, being the start of a new “20-year crisis” like the international role under Trump, it is the rise of minister of transport, who had earlier been the and the UK voted to leave the EU. What was so 1919-1939 interwar period. China that is one of the biggest headache global prime minister of Kashmir. His back-and-forth striking about both these events was that two of The case for this argument lies, in part, in the affairs since the collapse of the Soviet Union. with Sheikh Abdullah on the actual drafting was the countries previously known for their political many challenges confronting the US-led Mirroring Beijing's growing economic strength is handled by K.V.K. Sundaram, the law secretary, stability, traditional rule makers of the international order, not just the Korean nuclear an increasingly assertive foreign policy and a and Vishnu Sahay, secretary, Kashmir Affairs. international order, made the world a challenge and international terrorism. Other range of ambitious international initiatives such V.P. Menon, secretary in the ministry of states, significantly more uncertain place. geopolitical fault lines are instability in Iraq, Syria as the Belt and Road project. played a critical role. However, while 2016 may indeed prove to be a and Afghanistan; Russia's annexation of Crimea, The rise of China could be a source of growing Rightly credited for the seamless integration of defining year for historians, significant political and Washington's ties with Moscow being tension with Washington, or it could develop into approximately 550 princely states into India, volatility had been a feature of international stretched any time since the collapse of Soviet a fruitful G2 partnership. Growing rivalry is Patel simply does not appear to treat J&K as his politics for some time before. For much of the communism; and the Israeli-Palestinian peace increasingly likely if Beijing's military power priority. Junagadh, a small princely state in period since the turn of the millennium, process appearing moribund. continues to grow rapidly and China embraces a Saurashtra, became, in the words of his authoritarian states such as Russia have appeared While much has changed since the end of the more assertive foreign policy stance toward its secretary, V. Shankar, an issue of “patriotism and to be in the ascendancy, Islamist terrorism has Cold War, one constant is that the US remains neighbors in Asia. prestige” for Sardar. been a significant concern, and unstable countries the most powerful country in the world mainly such as North Korea have acquired nuclear He manipulated neighbouring princely states to

8 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 9 Nitin
Sabrangi
EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE MUNA
AL-FUZAI

ARTICLE
370 TRUST
IN
PERIL Itʼs
a
big
word
in
history
Muslims
perturbed
about
welfare

Raghavan also speaks of the continuing dilution emocracy whose foundation lies on of Article 370 through presidential orders that trust, free speech, free support for have made the Constitution of India almost Dpoliticians etc has been given a terrific entirely applicable to J&K. Moreover, his smashing. Dare anyone who raise their voice. argument is bold and intellectually honest, They are labelled “anti-Indian,” “pro-etc.” They especially since in result, it supports the can be beaten, even sent to another world. And governmental argument that Article 370 has dead men tell no tales! A victory at the husting's outlived its shelf life. gives a licence to do what even the creator wouldn't do. Meanwhile most of the media “ Gulzari Lal Nanda, the former home minister, Ask no questions, you'll be told no lies.” described Article 370 as “a tunnel” and presidential orders applying various provisions Kashmiris feel betrayed and humiliated. The of the Constitution of India as “a good deal of manner in which their leaders – the Hurriyat traffic” passing through it. Further proof of its and even the elected mainstream politicians - deliberate use to fully integrate J&K was have been treated by the government of the day provided by Nehru who said in November 1963: has hurt the Kashmiri. “the process of gradual erosion of Article 370 is They were arrested and detained without pity going on... we should allow it to go on.” for their public private posts. How can Kashmiri The extension of Article 356 to J&K, the men and women, and their leaders be picked up Constitution (Application to Jammu and at ungodly hours, arrested under any possible Kashmir) (Third Amendment) Order was passed alibi, imprisoned even in prisons outside their communities of the land except Muslims. This Not a day passes without one incident or the with the concurrence of the J&K government on state, the label of 'anti-national' can be tagged on speech by him was in the context of NRC, where other coming up which accelerates the December 21, 1964. Further, amendments to the to them. he was relaying that the Hindus, Sikhs, apprehensions running deep in the Muslim Constitution of J&K, such as the one that Bollywood has used various Kashmiri locales for Christians will remain safe in India. Why this community of the country. More so, as the rticle 370, creating special status for accede, propped up local leaders and ensured replaced the Sadar-i-Riyasat with the governor in numerous films, yet not one strong voice from blatant omission of the Indian Muslims? Not to murderous aacks on Indian Muslins are geing Jammu and Kashmir, has been said to that the army moved in fast. This made 1965, were made, not as Raghavan states, by the the film industry came in support of the plight overlook the fact that Muslims chose to remain brushed aside by the right-wing rulers of the be the result of Jawaharlal Nehru's administration of Junagadh, a Hindu-majority GoI, although it might certainly have been at its of the Kashmiris. Why this insensitivity? Why in their country, India. They did not want to day. And now there is a fresh wave of Hindutva Apoor negotiating skills, the Congress province with a Muslim ruler, a near- instance. The amendments were legally made in couldn't any of Bollywood's Khans or Khannas cross over to the newly carved country, Pakistan. propaganda– No lynching takes place in and its appeasement policy. If Vallabhbhai Patel impossibility, causing the handover of the state accordance with Article 147 of the J&K or Kumars or speak out in support for the Several who went there, even came back to their modern-day India! It's a 'western' word. The had the final say, it is argued, history would to India. The princely state of Hyderabad's. Its Constitution by the J&K legislative assembly on Kashmiris? What are they scared of – their films country, to live the remaining years of their lives scare is so much that gheoization is increasing have been another thing. location meant that non-accession would result April 10, 1965. The conclusion is inescapable: the and so is the tendency to withdraw from public in it becoming, in his words “an ulcer in the geing censored or sabotaged or sidetracked? It's right here on this soil, to be buried in their own Consider Srinath Raghavan's wonderfully wide- powers that be in J&K were complicit in the space. abdomen of India”. He declared that “If sad and unfortunate. More so because country, India. Many even let go of their ranging lecture titled, “Kashmir: The State and erosion of their own autonomy. Bollywood-wallahs love to ape the West but not mothers and fathers and siblings, who were The Sachar Commiee had focused on the the Status”. He argues that Patel was not only Hyderabad did not behave properly, it would Politicians often tend to favour simplistic here. They have not taken a clue from keen to cross over. They stayed here all alone social- economic-educational and the semi- home minister at the time Article 370 was have to go the way Junagadh did.” explanations ambivalent about the sanctity of Hollywood's superstars who miss no and yet carried no regrets. political aspirations of the Muslim community introduced but also a centre piece in its Patel showed none of this zeal when dealing historical facts. But as facts tend to wither in the opportunity to get critical of Donald Trump and There were hundreds of such Indian Muslim but what happened to the report itself. It has deliberations. Further, that Article 370 was meant with J&K and was content with the Maharaja public discourse, it is even more crucial for right- his policies. men and women but Nida Fazli and Talat been pushed into dusty files. The brasher shout to be temporary only till the J&K Constituent deciding the fate of the state and refused to minded citizens to state them bluntly. The tale Home Minister of India, Amit Shah's speeches Mahmood stand out. Nida Fazli told me that his hoarse that there's no bias. Truth will prevail ! Assembly decided for itself its constitutional conclude a standstill agreement with it. In what that emerges may not be black-and-white. But if come across as though influenced by a RSS entire clan and also his fiancé and her family The sufferings of the oppressed stand but like relationship with India. is perhaps most revealing, at the time of the our past is complex, we must embrace such sore thumb. unification of Kathiawad states, of which spokesperson and not by a democratic republic's had crossed over to Pakistan but he stayed back. Raghavan's conclusion from Patel's involvement complexity and not succumb to an artificial Junagadh was a part, Patel says: “One State politician. In fact, in one his more recent He was buried in Mumbai and lives on through as home minister in the process of drafting of simplification that tells a more compelling tale. speeches he made sure to mention all the other his verse. Article 370 is that Patel is responsible, like Nehru remains which is still causing us some anxiety. It and other ministers, for the special relationship is the State of Hyderabad.” between J&K and India reflected in Article 370 (a news website quotes him as saying Patel is the Chinaʼs
fast
progress
stirs
US “architect of Article 370”). This is a historically unsupported inference. hile it is still too early to make definite weapons. So marked has been this disarray that in a military sense. It can still project and deploy The drafting history of Article 370 demonstrates assessments, 2016 may be seen as one some academics have pointed to 2001, forever overwhelming force relative to any enemy. But that Patel was only a bit-part player. The draft Wof the turning points in the post-1989 remembered for the 9/11 aacks in the US, as with Washington now re-examining its was piloted by N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, the period; Donald Trump was elected US president, being the start of a new “20-year crisis” like the international role under Trump, it is the rise of minister of transport, who had earlier been the and the UK voted to leave the EU. What was so 1919-1939 interwar period. China that is one of the biggest headache global prime minister of Kashmir. His back-and-forth striking about both these events was that two of The case for this argument lies, in part, in the affairs since the collapse of the Soviet Union. with Sheikh Abdullah on the actual drafting was the countries previously known for their political many challenges confronting the US-led Mirroring Beijing's growing economic strength is handled by K.V.K. Sundaram, the law secretary, stability, traditional rule makers of the international order, not just the Korean nuclear an increasingly assertive foreign policy and a and Vishnu Sahay, secretary, Kashmir Affairs. international order, made the world a challenge and international terrorism. Other range of ambitious international initiatives such V.P. Menon, secretary in the ministry of states, significantly more uncertain place. geopolitical fault lines are instability in Iraq, Syria as the Belt and Road project. played a critical role. However, while 2016 may indeed prove to be a and Afghanistan; Russia's annexation of Crimea, The rise of China could be a source of growing Rightly credited for the seamless integration of defining year for historians, significant political and Washington's ties with Moscow being tension with Washington, or it could develop into approximately 550 princely states into India, volatility had been a feature of international stretched any time since the collapse of Soviet a fruitful G2 partnership. Growing rivalry is Patel simply does not appear to treat J&K as his politics for some time before. For much of the communism; and the Israeli-Palestinian peace increasingly likely if Beijing's military power priority. Junagadh, a small princely state in period since the turn of the millennium, process appearing moribund. continues to grow rapidly and China embraces a Saurashtra, became, in the words of his authoritarian states such as Russia have appeared While much has changed since the end of the more assertive foreign policy stance toward its secretary, V. Shankar, an issue of “patriotism and to be in the ascendancy, Islamist terrorism has Cold War, one constant is that the US remains neighbors in Asia. prestige” for Sardar. been a significant concern, and unstable countries the most powerful country in the world mainly such as North Korea have acquired nuclear He manipulated neighbouring princely states to

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CONSEQUENCES
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GRETA
THUNBERG Misses
out
on
Feeling
NOBEL
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ngry Greta Thunberg the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist posted on social media. "The haters are as active as ever, recently A"going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my England differences". Anything, she says, rather than talk about the climate crisis. It hasn't stopped her from campaigning. She led another of her climate strikes, heading up a huge demonstration in Montreal, demanding international aviation does more to cut its carbon footprint. But she is clearly very annoyed, accusing critics of "crossing every line to avert the Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid. focus" with, what she calls, lies and conspiracy theories. Over the past year, Greta Thunberg has done a lot for global action on climate than any other single individual. And there is no question the here were at least 61 Durga Pujas in the silk saris. A few new deities will be Jeremy Corbyn, of a mass boyco: “We are unnerving power of her rhetoric comes in part from the fact that she is so UK, according to Sumit Konar, a commissioned from Kumartuli, but most have consulting with members and community young. Tpostdoctoral chemistry researcher at gone into temperature-controlled warehouses colleagues to reconsider the level and nature of A key reason her "How dare you!" message hit home so hard in the UN Edinburgh University. Konar had a digital map since strict environmental rules prevent engagement with Labour representatives going was because she seemed so jarringly out of place in the air-conditioned of the festivities taking place in Edinburgh, immersion in UK waters. forward in the light of the strident position your formality of the UN's New York HQ. It is unusual for young people to Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland, Belfast in Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid, Party and you have taken.” hold the adult world to account so forcefully and so publicly and some Northern Ireland, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, a Tory of Pakistani origin recently impressed It is not unusual for members of the Romantic people clearly don't like it. Newcastle, Leeds, Cambridge, Leicester, Indian voters when he announced that he had Novelists' Association to set their tales in India. Birmingham, Cardiff, Dorset and London. “My Donald Trump is one. The US president appeared to mock Thunberg asked the Royal Mint “to bring forward The former president of the United States of friends who went back to Calcua are missing proposals for a new coin to commemorate America, Bill Clinton, once described Kashmir as recently when he tweeted that she "seems like a very happy young girl charge now. Show leadership!" she said. She certainly did that when she the Edinburgh Durga Puja heavily,” he says. looking forward to a bright and wonderful future". She brushed off his Gandhiji”, in order to mark “Bapu's” 150th birth “the most dangerous place in the world”, but the accused world leaders of "stealing my dreams and my childhood", and Durga Puja gives Bengalis an extra to bonus of anniversary. “When you become chancellor you author, Rosie Thomas, tells me how she came to sarcasm on Swedish television with a laugh, saying she "knew he was warned them that "the eyes of all future generations are upon you. And, going to say something about me". Others have been more offensive, their culture to their United Kingdom-born also become Master of the Mint,” explained set her novel, The Kashmir Shawl. The discovery if you choose to fail us, I say: 'We will never forgive you'". children. The ladies from Prabashi in Hounslow, Javid. “And being in charge of the nation's coins of a Kashmir shawl as a family heirloom takes claiming she's being manipulated by sinister forces. So, how about her mental health? And, while we're about it, does anyone west London, ended the festivities with sindur is not an opportunity I'm going to pass up! In the protagonist, Mair Ellis, on “a quest that will The UK newspaper The Sun has suggested these include "energy giants have the right to comment on it? What's so impressive about Thunberg is khela, while another group, Adda, recreated the recent years, we've had coins to commemorate change her life for ever”. and pushy celebrity parents - including a fame-hungry mum who once how clear-headed she is on the urgent need for action in the light of the spirit of Calcua's Maddox Square in a tent important figures from every walk of British life.” “Why Kashmir ?” “I was there in 2010 trekking appeared on Eurovision". Or how about this: Thunberg is "the deeply science. pitched on the grounds of the Slough Cricket They include the scientists, Stephen Hawking with friends in Zanskar, and when the trip ended disturbed messiah of the global warming movement", said to one Club in Berkshire. There was an “Adda Zone” and Isaac Newton; the novelist, Jane Austen, to in Leh, our driver mentioned that Srinagar was Australian newspaper. I have never seen a girl so young and with so "It makes me feel good that I'm not alone in this fight," she told me, "and where Mitul Chakrabarti had compiled an mark the 200th anniversary of her death; Samuel only two days drive away, via the Lamayuru many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru, wrote the it feels like my life has some kind of meaning lately and I feel that what I evocative collage of photographs from Pepys, 350 years after his last diary entry; Arthur monastery, Fotu La and Kargil, across the columnist Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun. am doing is meaningful." She's famously described her Asperger's as a Dakshineshwar, Shobhabazar Rajbari, Coffee Conan Doyle on his 160th birth anniversary; and mountains. My friends flew home and I booked "superpower", allowing her to cut through the noise and see to the heart House and Durga Puja in Shyambazar. Beatrix Poer's characters, Peter Rabbit, Mrs She explained she first heard the world's climate was changing when she of the issue. the jeep and the driver to do the trip. That was was eight, and couldn't understand why so lile was being done about it. Shinjini Thakur had put up paintings of deities Tilemouse and Flopsy Bunny, to celebrate her the seed of the novel. I spent a fascinating couple By the time she was 11, she was very unhappy indeed. She stopped Dr James Cusack, director of science at the autism charity, Autistica, says done in the Kalamkari art style of Andhra 150th birth anniversary. of weeks in Srinagar, staying on a houseboat on eating. She stopped growing, and she stopped speaking to almost she's been a really important role model for others with the condition. Pradesh. Mita Tewari said her sondesh, kalojam The Labour Party is in a stew with Indian voters Lake Nigeen and researching the shawl trade... I everyone. "Her brave, clear-minded and science-led approach to activism is and roshogolla had all been made at home after its party conference passed a resolution felt safe even though I was travelling alone and inspiring for many people," he says. And, while Thunberg is sometimes "It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the “using nolen gur”. Paroma Banerji, singer flew condemning India over Kashmir. Dozens of unplanned, and it was a great privilege to be in emotional about her cause she says that's because she's appalled and in from Calcua to give a performance, carrying British Indian organizations have just delivered a such a beautiful place amongst welcoming ecological crisis," Thunberg said. "My parents didn't care about it, my frustrated that the world isn't doing enough to tackle climate change. classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean a consignment of hand-block printed Bishnupur furious joint leer warning the Labour leader, people — on both sides of the divide.” nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one." She has the full support of her family. Her father, Svante Thunberg, travelled in America with her - and shared the privations on her She was determined to change the indifference on climate change. First, transatlantic voyage. Her mother and younger sister, Beata, stayed in she persuaded her parents to stop eating meat and even got her mother, Sweden. She's no plans to stop campaigning any time soon. Malena Ernman, a famous opera singer whose career depends on Serious
lapse
-
BJP
Leader travelling, to agree to stop flying. The coming months are crucial, she said, if the world is going to manage to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees above pre- Next came the climate strikes. One Friday just over a year ago (20 August industrial levels. Emissions have to start reducing before the end of next JP is looking into the allegations against the Uarakhand BJP General 2018) Thunberg walked alone on to the steps of the Swedish parliament year, she warns, or we are likely to pass tipping points leading to Secretary (organisation) Sanjay Kumar who has sexually harassed a former building holding her now-famous "Skolstrejk För Klimatet" - school strike uncontrolled climate change. Yet, last year global carbon emissions Bparty worker. While talking to ‘Arabian Times’ the BJP state president Ajay for climate - sign. The rest is history. She rapidly became one of the most increased by 2.7%, hiing a record high of 37.1bn tonnes. Bha said "the party leadership has taken cognizance of the entire issue and celebrated - and reviled - people in the world. appropriate action has been taken as per the set procedure." "Whatever I know Thunberg was upset by the response of the world leaders in the UN HQ. about the incident is through the newspapers. As the maer involves a general She has developed a network of contacts who advise her - including They politely applauded her speech but had no new initiatives that climate scientists and campaigners - but she's the one who calls the shots. secretary it would not be proper for me to comment at the present moment. The would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and most also harassment took place six months ago, it is alleged and till now we did’nt have any Those close to her confirm that she writes all her speeches. She told me failed to acknowledge either her message or the fact that millions of she planned to use the two-week trip across the Atlantic to figure out formal complaint, Mr. Bha said. According to the NDTV reports the Uarakhand people had taken to the streets to demand action just days before. ‘Times’ general secretary Sanjay Kumar has been sacked by the party on the charges of what she was going to say at the UN Climate Summit. magazine had the teenage school girl activist on its cover in May, 2019. UK
BJP
State
President
Ajay
Bhatt
sexual harassment. Sanjay
Kumar
"I will try and communicate the urgency and say that they are the ones in

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Imran
Khan
GLOBAL
CONSEQUENCES
UK
FROLIC Dr.
Mehtab
Ahamd
Warsi

ANGRY
GRETA
THUNBERG Misses
out
on
Feeling
NOBEL
but
party
Bengali of
change

in
ngry Greta Thunberg the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist posted on social media. "The haters are as active as ever, recently A"going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my England differences". Anything, she says, rather than talk about the climate crisis. It hasn't stopped her from campaigning. She led another of her climate strikes, heading up a huge demonstration in Montreal, demanding international aviation does more to cut its carbon footprint. But she is clearly very annoyed, accusing critics of "crossing every line to avert the Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid. focus" with, what she calls, lies and conspiracy theories. Over the past year, Greta Thunberg has done a lot for global action on climate than any other single individual. And there is no question the here were at least 61 Durga Pujas in the silk saris. A few new deities will be Jeremy Corbyn, of a mass boyco: “We are unnerving power of her rhetoric comes in part from the fact that she is so UK, according to Sumit Konar, a commissioned from Kumartuli, but most have consulting with members and community young. Tpostdoctoral chemistry researcher at gone into temperature-controlled warehouses colleagues to reconsider the level and nature of A key reason her "How dare you!" message hit home so hard in the UN Edinburgh University. Konar had a digital map since strict environmental rules prevent engagement with Labour representatives going was because she seemed so jarringly out of place in the air-conditioned of the festivities taking place in Edinburgh, immersion in UK waters. forward in the light of the strident position your formality of the UN's New York HQ. It is unusual for young people to Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland, Belfast in Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid, Party and you have taken.” hold the adult world to account so forcefully and so publicly and some Northern Ireland, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, a Tory of Pakistani origin recently impressed It is not unusual for members of the Romantic people clearly don't like it. Newcastle, Leeds, Cambridge, Leicester, Indian voters when he announced that he had Novelists' Association to set their tales in India. Birmingham, Cardiff, Dorset and London. “My Donald Trump is one. The US president appeared to mock Thunberg asked the Royal Mint “to bring forward The former president of the United States of friends who went back to Calcua are missing proposals for a new coin to commemorate America, Bill Clinton, once described Kashmir as recently when he tweeted that she "seems like a very happy young girl charge now. Show leadership!" she said. She certainly did that when she the Edinburgh Durga Puja heavily,” he says. looking forward to a bright and wonderful future". She brushed off his Gandhiji”, in order to mark “Bapu's” 150th birth “the most dangerous place in the world”, but the accused world leaders of "stealing my dreams and my childhood", and Durga Puja gives Bengalis an extra to bonus of anniversary. “When you become chancellor you author, Rosie Thomas, tells me how she came to sarcasm on Swedish television with a laugh, saying she "knew he was warned them that "the eyes of all future generations are upon you. And, going to say something about me". Others have been more offensive, their culture to their United Kingdom-born also become Master of the Mint,” explained set her novel, The Kashmir Shawl. The discovery if you choose to fail us, I say: 'We will never forgive you'". children. The ladies from Prabashi in Hounslow, Javid. “And being in charge of the nation's coins of a Kashmir shawl as a family heirloom takes claiming she's being manipulated by sinister forces. So, how about her mental health? And, while we're about it, does anyone west London, ended the festivities with sindur is not an opportunity I'm going to pass up! In the protagonist, Mair Ellis, on “a quest that will The UK newspaper The Sun has suggested these include "energy giants have the right to comment on it? What's so impressive about Thunberg is khela, while another group, Adda, recreated the recent years, we've had coins to commemorate change her life for ever”. and pushy celebrity parents - including a fame-hungry mum who once how clear-headed she is on the urgent need for action in the light of the spirit of Calcua's Maddox Square in a tent important figures from every walk of British life.” “Why Kashmir ?” “I was there in 2010 trekking appeared on Eurovision". Or how about this: Thunberg is "the deeply science. pitched on the grounds of the Slough Cricket They include the scientists, Stephen Hawking with friends in Zanskar, and when the trip ended disturbed messiah of the global warming movement", said to one Club in Berkshire. There was an “Adda Zone” and Isaac Newton; the novelist, Jane Austen, to in Leh, our driver mentioned that Srinagar was Australian newspaper. I have never seen a girl so young and with so "It makes me feel good that I'm not alone in this fight," she told me, "and where Mitul Chakrabarti had compiled an mark the 200th anniversary of her death; Samuel only two days drive away, via the Lamayuru many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru, wrote the it feels like my life has some kind of meaning lately and I feel that what I evocative collage of photographs from Pepys, 350 years after his last diary entry; Arthur monastery, Fotu La and Kargil, across the columnist Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun. am doing is meaningful." She's famously described her Asperger's as a Dakshineshwar, Shobhabazar Rajbari, Coffee Conan Doyle on his 160th birth anniversary; and mountains. My friends flew home and I booked "superpower", allowing her to cut through the noise and see to the heart House and Durga Puja in Shyambazar. Beatrix Poer's characters, Peter Rabbit, Mrs She explained she first heard the world's climate was changing when she of the issue. the jeep and the driver to do the trip. That was was eight, and couldn't understand why so lile was being done about it. Shinjini Thakur had put up paintings of deities Tilemouse and Flopsy Bunny, to celebrate her the seed of the novel. I spent a fascinating couple By the time she was 11, she was very unhappy indeed. She stopped Dr James Cusack, director of science at the autism charity, Autistica, says done in the Kalamkari art style of Andhra 150th birth anniversary. of weeks in Srinagar, staying on a houseboat on eating. She stopped growing, and she stopped speaking to almost she's been a really important role model for others with the condition. Pradesh. Mita Tewari said her sondesh, kalojam The Labour Party is in a stew with Indian voters Lake Nigeen and researching the shawl trade... I everyone. "Her brave, clear-minded and science-led approach to activism is and roshogolla had all been made at home after its party conference passed a resolution felt safe even though I was travelling alone and inspiring for many people," he says. And, while Thunberg is sometimes "It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the “using nolen gur”. Paroma Banerji, singer flew condemning India over Kashmir. Dozens of unplanned, and it was a great privilege to be in emotional about her cause she says that's because she's appalled and in from Calcua to give a performance, carrying British Indian organizations have just delivered a such a beautiful place amongst welcoming ecological crisis," Thunberg said. "My parents didn't care about it, my frustrated that the world isn't doing enough to tackle climate change. classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean a consignment of hand-block printed Bishnupur furious joint leer warning the Labour leader, people — on both sides of the divide.” nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one." She has the full support of her family. Her father, Svante Thunberg, travelled in America with her - and shared the privations on her She was determined to change the indifference on climate change. First, transatlantic voyage. Her mother and younger sister, Beata, stayed in she persuaded her parents to stop eating meat and even got her mother, Sweden. She's no plans to stop campaigning any time soon. Malena Ernman, a famous opera singer whose career depends on Serious
lapse
-
BJP
Leader travelling, to agree to stop flying. The coming months are crucial, she said, if the world is going to manage to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees above pre- Next came the climate strikes. One Friday just over a year ago (20 August industrial levels. Emissions have to start reducing before the end of next JP is looking into the allegations against the Uarakhand BJP General 2018) Thunberg walked alone on to the steps of the Swedish parliament year, she warns, or we are likely to pass tipping points leading to Secretary (organisation) Sanjay Kumar who has sexually harassed a former building holding her now-famous "Skolstrejk För Klimatet" - school strike uncontrolled climate change. Yet, last year global carbon emissions Bparty worker. While talking to ‘Arabian Times’ the BJP state president Ajay for climate - sign. The rest is history. She rapidly became one of the most increased by 2.7%, hiing a record high of 37.1bn tonnes. Bha said "the party leadership has taken cognizance of the entire issue and celebrated - and reviled - people in the world. appropriate action has been taken as per the set procedure." "Whatever I know Thunberg was upset by the response of the world leaders in the UN HQ. about the incident is through the newspapers. As the maer involves a general She has developed a network of contacts who advise her - including They politely applauded her speech but had no new initiatives that climate scientists and campaigners - but she's the one who calls the shots. secretary it would not be proper for me to comment at the present moment. The would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and most also harassment took place six months ago, it is alleged and till now we did’nt have any Those close to her confirm that she writes all her speeches. She told me failed to acknowledge either her message or the fact that millions of she planned to use the two-week trip across the Atlantic to figure out formal complaint, Mr. Bha said. According to the NDTV reports the Uarakhand people had taken to the streets to demand action just days before. ‘Times’ general secretary Sanjay Kumar has been sacked by the party on the charges of what she was going to say at the UN Climate Summit. magazine had the teenage school girl activist on its cover in May, 2019. UK
BJP
State
President
Ajay
Bhatt
sexual harassment. Sanjay
Kumar
"I will try and communicate the urgency and say that they are the ones in

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Salim
Nur
Handke
backed
dictator

ustrian author Peter Handke in his obsession. Like other artists before him Colee garden at his house in Chaville near comes to mind Handke turned scandal into fame AParis recently. The politics of Handke, and fame into scandal. who was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize, are Handke also resembles other writers, Nobel indeed shameful laureates in particular, in his awful political That's something to consider following the skock judgment. The late British playwright Harold that's greeted this year's Nobel Prize in literature, Pinter (Nobel, 2005) was only slightly less zealous awarded last week to the Austrian novelist and than Handke in his defense of Milosevic. Günter playwright Peter Handke. Wolfgang Ischinger, a Grass (1999) opposed Germany's reunification former German ambassador to the U.S., called and spent most of his life chiding his countrymen the choice “Shameful!” PEN America said it was for their failure to confront their Nazi past, only “dumbfounded by the selection of a writer who to confess late in life that he had been a member has used his public voice to undercut historical of the Waffen SS. Portugal's José Saramago (1998) truth and offer public succor to perpetrators of was an unrepentant hard-line leftist who, as a genocide.” In The New York Times, Bosnian- newspaper editor, purged and abused journalists American novelist Aleksandar Hemon wrote that who did not tow the Communist Party line. “Handke's politics irreversibly invalidated his Gabriel García Márquez (1982) was a close friend aesthetics.” of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Jean-Paul Sartre Handke's politics are indeed shameful. He (1964) visited the Soviet Union in 1954 and became politically notorious in the 1990s for praised it for its “complete freedom of criticism.” defending Serbia's conduct during the Balkan Given these precedents, why has the reaction to wars a defense that included equivocations, Handke's Nobel been so neuralgic ? nearly to the point of denial, regarding Serb war Handke is considered a fascist (though his full crimes. In 2006, he eulogized Slobodan Milosevic, political views are hardly clear), whereas Pinter, the Serbian dictator principally responsible. Grass and the others were all men of the left, When
Narendra
Modi
Asked about the corpses of Muslims massacred whose fellow traveling with despots could glibly in Srebrenica in 1995, Handke replied, with “Offending the Audience.” That and subsequent be excused, at least by other leftists, as an excess expletives. works (most famously, “The Goalie's Anxiety at of idealism. After Saramago died in 2010, PEN Then again, if Handke's opinions were a cause of the Penalty Kick,” later made into a film by Wim America an organization explicitly dedicated to picked
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praise outrage, it was, in part, because he specialized in Wenders) made him one of Europe's most protecting free expression paid him fulsome outrage: One of his earliest works is a play called celebrated writers long before his Serbia tribute, with no mention of his censorious past. ndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently made the world with exterminate the thousands of mentally ill were replicated in the his plogging video, picking up pieces of plastic from Mamallapuram concentration camps all over to execute the mass killings. Ibeach in Tamil Nadu during a morning walk a less boring place with In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes Jews as “a dangerous bacillus”. A Nazi The
elusive
'Scarlet
Pimpernelʼ its routine work. Plogging in Swedish is “plocka upp”, to “pick up”. The poster for occupied Poland, which looks like that of a horror film, depicts a PM picked up a lot of praise too. But then cleanliness, or swachchhata, as giant louse and a Jewish man with a monster face, and says: “Jews Lice rime Minister and Awami League treasurer of its Chiagong North unit in 1997. the nation knows by now, is crucial to his vision for the country, and Typhus”. President Sheikh Hasina recently He became a presidium member of Jubo League cleanliness is next to godliness. But both perhaps can be stretched to an expelled Omar Faruk from the youth at its congress in 2003, acting chairman of Jubo extreme level. Cleanliness, or hygiene, was taken to its farthest limit by Two questions, though. One, what was the prime minister using to collect P front's chairman post, for his role in corrupt League in 2009, and eventually chairman in Adolf Hitler. He was obsessively clean. He would be washing himself the plastic? It looked suspiciously like a plastic bag itself. According to reports, the bag is a single-use plastic one. practices. At 71 years old, Jubo League 2012. quite often. He was very afraid of germs. He would classify many things Chairman Omar Faruk Chowdhury has been he did not like as germs. Two, when beaches are cleared, by a prime minister or others, where does Amid controversy over allegations of corruption, the oldest chairman in the 47 year history of Omar Faruk Chowdhury has been out of the “Hitler set great store on hygiene. He bathed daily, often several times a the cleared plastic go? The PM handed over his bag to the hotel where he Jubo League. He secured the post at the age of was staying, but according to environmentalists, often the most visible part public eye for about two weeks. He has not day, particularly after meetings and speeches, from which he would 64 in 2012. aended office or responded to phone calls from return sweating,” writes Christa Schroeder, who, as a young woman, of a prominent beach is cleared and the rubbish is dumped onto another side of the same beach. Prime Minister and Awami League President Jubo League activists since facing severe worked as Hitler's secretary from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Sheikh Hasina recently expelled Omar Faruk criticism sparked by crackdowns on illegal Hygiene was also the basis of the racial theory that Hitler endorsed and Taj Hotels shared on Twier a leer of appreciation wrien by Prime from the youth front's chairman post, for his casinos in Dhaka by law enforcement agencies used to kill numberless people. It was called racial hygiene, an official Minister Narendra Modi after his stay at Taj Fisherman's Cove and thanked in corrupt practices. It was decided at a that began on September 18. branch of inquiry into eugenics in the early 20th century, based on the him for leading the “fight against plastic by example”, aaching to its meeting between the Awami League chief and tweets a photograph and a video of Modi plogging on the beach. A number of Jubo League leaders, including idea of a superior race, that is, Aryan/German, which could be central leaders of Jubo League at Ganabhaban, expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president “contaminated” by inferior races. Racial hygiene aimed at keeping the “It's our privilege to host Hon'ble PM Modi @taj_cove. Thank you for according to a Jubo League leader who Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, expelled organizing superior race “pure” by avoiding miscegenation among other things. The leading the fight against plastic by example. With the vision of shaping a aended the meeting. Omar Faruk was not secretary of the same unit, Khalid Mahmud, self- German eugenicist, Alfred Ploe, was one of the main architects of the sustainable future, IHCL is commied to eliminating single-use plastic & invited. proclaimed member and businessman GK theory. cleanliness of our premises,” read the first tweet from the handle Born in 1948, Omar Faruk's political career Shamim, and Jubo League Dhaka North unit Nazis, from the 1930s, invested a lot in genetics research. In 1935, the @TajHotels on Saturday. began with the Biri Sramik League as he was Joint Secretary General Tarequzzaman Rajib, National Socialists enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which forbade sexual This was accompanied by the video that the Prime Minister had shared of an importer of tendu leaves from Myanmar. have been arrested for their links to illegal relations and marriages between the superior Aryan-Germans and non- himself plogging on “a beach at Mamallapuram” early on Saturday He was the general secretary of Chiagong's casinos. Aryans. morning. The second tweet said: “Hon'ble PM #NarendraModi, we're Biri Sramik League in the late 70s and began On October 3, the Bangladesh Financial Racial hygiene also led to a mass sterilization of those who were not humbled with your kind words of appreciation for Taj's legendary service an RMG business in Raujan, Chiagong, in Intelligence Unit sought details of all bank considered worthy enough to pass on their genes to the next generation. @taj_cove. #Plogging at the public beach this morning was motivating. As 1998. Omar Faruk joined Jubo Sanghati, youth accounts held by Omar Faruk. He has not been The number of citizens sterilized in Nazi Germany is estimated around an industry leader, IHCL remains commied to environmental wing of the Jatiya Party, after the late HM aending any political programs since October 4,00,000. They included those suffering from mental illnesses, epilepsy or sustainability.” Ershad assumed power and late Najiur 6, when a travel ban was issued against him. On Rahman Manju became a minister in the 80s. genetic blindness. Aached to this was the leer wrien in Hindi, signed by Modi, about his October 10, Omar Faruk did not aend a Jubo Manju was Faruk's brother-in-law. Finally, the notion of hygiene led to genocide. To retain the purity of the stay at the hotel as well as a photograph of Modi handing a plastic bag League presidium meeting, held at its central German race, Europe was required to be purged of Jews, Romani people, filled with lier to a hotel staff member. After HM Ershad's fall from power, Faruk office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. Poles, Serbs, Blacks and mixed race people. The methods used to joined Awami League in 1992 and was elected

12 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 13 HYGIENE NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE Mahammad
Salim
Nur
Handke
backed
dictator

ustrian author Peter Handke in his obsession. Like other artists before him Colee garden at his house in Chaville near comes to mind Handke turned scandal into fame AParis recently. The politics of Handke, and fame into scandal. who was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize, are Handke also resembles other writers, Nobel indeed shameful laureates in particular, in his awful political That's something to consider following the skock judgment. The late British playwright Harold that's greeted this year's Nobel Prize in literature, Pinter (Nobel, 2005) was only slightly less zealous awarded last week to the Austrian novelist and than Handke in his defense of Milosevic. Günter playwright Peter Handke. Wolfgang Ischinger, a Grass (1999) opposed Germany's reunification former German ambassador to the U.S., called and spent most of his life chiding his countrymen the choice “Shameful!” PEN America said it was for their failure to confront their Nazi past, only “dumbfounded by the selection of a writer who to confess late in life that he had been a member has used his public voice to undercut historical of the Waffen SS. Portugal's José Saramago (1998) truth and offer public succor to perpetrators of was an unrepentant hard-line leftist who, as a genocide.” In The New York Times, Bosnian- newspaper editor, purged and abused journalists American novelist Aleksandar Hemon wrote that who did not tow the Communist Party line. “Handke's politics irreversibly invalidated his Gabriel García Márquez (1982) was a close friend aesthetics.” of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Jean-Paul Sartre Handke's politics are indeed shameful. He (1964) visited the Soviet Union in 1954 and became politically notorious in the 1990s for praised it for its “complete freedom of criticism.” defending Serbia's conduct during the Balkan Given these precedents, why has the reaction to wars a defense that included equivocations, Handke's Nobel been so neuralgic ? nearly to the point of denial, regarding Serb war Handke is considered a fascist (though his full crimes. In 2006, he eulogized Slobodan Milosevic, political views are hardly clear), whereas Pinter, the Serbian dictator principally responsible. Grass and the others were all men of the left, When
Narendra
Modi
Asked about the corpses of Muslims massacred whose fellow traveling with despots could glibly in Srebrenica in 1995, Handke replied, with “Offending the Audience.” That and subsequent be excused, at least by other leftists, as an excess expletives. works (most famously, “The Goalie's Anxiety at of idealism. After Saramago died in 2010, PEN Then again, if Handke's opinions were a cause of the Penalty Kick,” later made into a film by Wim America an organization explicitly dedicated to picked
up
plastic
&
praise outrage, it was, in part, because he specialized in Wenders) made him one of Europe's most protecting free expression paid him fulsome outrage: One of his earliest works is a play called celebrated writers long before his Serbia tribute, with no mention of his censorious past. ndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently made the world with exterminate the thousands of mentally ill were replicated in the his plogging video, picking up pieces of plastic from Mamallapuram concentration camps all over to execute the mass killings. Ibeach in Tamil Nadu during a morning walk a less boring place with In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes Jews as “a dangerous bacillus”. A Nazi The
elusive
'Scarlet
Pimpernelʼ its routine work. Plogging in Swedish is “plocka upp”, to “pick up”. The poster for occupied Poland, which looks like that of a horror film, depicts a PM picked up a lot of praise too. But then cleanliness, or swachchhata, as giant louse and a Jewish man with a monster face, and says: “Jews Lice rime Minister and Awami League treasurer of its Chiagong North unit in 1997. the nation knows by now, is crucial to his vision for the country, and Typhus”. President Sheikh Hasina recently He became a presidium member of Jubo League cleanliness is next to godliness. But both perhaps can be stretched to an expelled Omar Faruk from the youth at its congress in 2003, acting chairman of Jubo extreme level. Cleanliness, or hygiene, was taken to its farthest limit by Two questions, though. One, what was the prime minister using to collect P front's chairman post, for his role in corrupt League in 2009, and eventually chairman in Adolf Hitler. He was obsessively clean. He would be washing himself the plastic? It looked suspiciously like a plastic bag itself. According to reports, the bag is a single-use plastic one. practices. At 71 years old, Jubo League 2012. quite often. He was very afraid of germs. He would classify many things Chairman Omar Faruk Chowdhury has been he did not like as germs. Two, when beaches are cleared, by a prime minister or others, where does Amid controversy over allegations of corruption, the oldest chairman in the 47 year history of Omar Faruk Chowdhury has been out of the “Hitler set great store on hygiene. He bathed daily, often several times a the cleared plastic go? The PM handed over his bag to the hotel where he Jubo League. He secured the post at the age of was staying, but according to environmentalists, often the most visible part public eye for about two weeks. He has not day, particularly after meetings and speeches, from which he would 64 in 2012. aended office or responded to phone calls from return sweating,” writes Christa Schroeder, who, as a young woman, of a prominent beach is cleared and the rubbish is dumped onto another side of the same beach. Prime Minister and Awami League President Jubo League activists since facing severe worked as Hitler's secretary from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Sheikh Hasina recently expelled Omar Faruk criticism sparked by crackdowns on illegal Hygiene was also the basis of the racial theory that Hitler endorsed and Taj Hotels shared on Twier a leer of appreciation wrien by Prime from the youth front's chairman post, for his casinos in Dhaka by law enforcement agencies used to kill numberless people. It was called racial hygiene, an official Minister Narendra Modi after his stay at Taj Fisherman's Cove and thanked in corrupt practices. It was decided at a that began on September 18. branch of inquiry into eugenics in the early 20th century, based on the him for leading the “fight against plastic by example”, aaching to its meeting between the Awami League chief and tweets a photograph and a video of Modi plogging on the beach. A number of Jubo League leaders, including idea of a superior race, that is, Aryan/German, which could be central leaders of Jubo League at Ganabhaban, expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president “contaminated” by inferior races. Racial hygiene aimed at keeping the “It's our privilege to host Hon'ble PM Modi @taj_cove. Thank you for according to a Jubo League leader who Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, expelled organizing superior race “pure” by avoiding miscegenation among other things. The leading the fight against plastic by example. With the vision of shaping a aended the meeting. Omar Faruk was not secretary of the same unit, Khalid Mahmud, self- German eugenicist, Alfred Ploe, was one of the main architects of the sustainable future, IHCL is commied to eliminating single-use plastic & invited. proclaimed member and businessman GK theory. cleanliness of our premises,” read the first tweet from the handle Born in 1948, Omar Faruk's political career Shamim, and Jubo League Dhaka North unit Nazis, from the 1930s, invested a lot in genetics research. In 1935, the @TajHotels on Saturday. began with the Biri Sramik League as he was Joint Secretary General Tarequzzaman Rajib, National Socialists enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which forbade sexual This was accompanied by the video that the Prime Minister had shared of an importer of tendu leaves from Myanmar. have been arrested for their links to illegal relations and marriages between the superior Aryan-Germans and non- himself plogging on “a beach at Mamallapuram” early on Saturday He was the general secretary of Chiagong's casinos. Aryans. morning. The second tweet said: “Hon'ble PM #NarendraModi, we're Biri Sramik League in the late 70s and began On October 3, the Bangladesh Financial Racial hygiene also led to a mass sterilization of those who were not humbled with your kind words of appreciation for Taj's legendary service an RMG business in Raujan, Chiagong, in Intelligence Unit sought details of all bank considered worthy enough to pass on their genes to the next generation. @taj_cove. #Plogging at the public beach this morning was motivating. As 1998. Omar Faruk joined Jubo Sanghati, youth accounts held by Omar Faruk. He has not been The number of citizens sterilized in Nazi Germany is estimated around an industry leader, IHCL remains commied to environmental wing of the Jatiya Party, after the late HM aending any political programs since October 4,00,000. They included those suffering from mental illnesses, epilepsy or sustainability.” Ershad assumed power and late Najiur 6, when a travel ban was issued against him. On Rahman Manju became a minister in the 80s. genetic blindness. Aached to this was the leer wrien in Hindi, signed by Modi, about his October 10, Omar Faruk did not aend a Jubo Manju was Faruk's brother-in-law. Finally, the notion of hygiene led to genocide. To retain the purity of the stay at the hotel as well as a photograph of Modi handing a plastic bag League presidium meeting, held at its central German race, Europe was required to be purged of Jews, Romani people, filled with lier to a hotel staff member. After HM Ershad's fall from power, Faruk office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. Poles, Serbs, Blacks and mixed race people. The methods used to joined Awami League in 1992 and was elected

12 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 13 CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE MIDDLE EAST Mohammad
Tarique
Saleem
PUTIN'S
VISIT Russia
closer
to
Saudi
Arabia,
UAE`

ussian President Vladimir Putin's trip to between Riyadh and Moscow. “We believe that Minister Sergei Lavrov described as the turning the Arabian Gulf to visit Saudi Arabia we can have strategic and strong ties with the point for Saudi-Russian relations having Rand the United Arab Emirates proves United States while we develop our ties with “reached a new qualitative level.” Among 15 Moscow's drive to make strategic political and Russia,” he said. Putin's warm reception in cooperation deals signed between the two economic gains with two traditional US allies Riyadh could only have unnerved the Trump countries then was an agreement for Riyadh to that are also regional powerhouses and fellow oil administration as likely did the reported billions purchase Russian S400 missile defence systems, producers. Just how far Riyadh leans towards of dollars' worth of deals signed between Russian an agreement that has been in limbo and which Moscow and away from Washington will and Saudi entities. Putin publicly reminded the kingdom about probably depend on how much the kingdom can Putin's stop in Riyadh was ironically reminiscent following last month's failure of US-purchased count on Russia's help with its economic of how newly elected US President Donald defence systems to protect against aacks on transformation and coordination with global oil Trump was received when he made the kingdom state oil firm Saudi Aramco's infrastructure. supply reductions. his first official foreign visit in May 2017. Both On Putin's visit to Riyadh, Kremlin spokesman One of the 20-some deals signed during the the US leader and the Saudi government hyped Dimitry Peskov said the Russian president and Russian leader's October 14 visit to Riyadh was the value and abundance of US-Saudi deals Saudi officials discussed “military and technical an agreement to guarantee continued close ties signed during Trump's kingdom visit, some of cooperation.” Prior to accompanying Putin to between OPEC and independent oil producers which are yet to be translated into concrete Riyadh, RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev said the Saudi known as OPEC a group of 24 countries led by projects. Following King Salman's ascension to government had commied to signing $2 billion WHO
Saudi Arabia and Russia that has worked over the throne in January 2015, the Saudi government worth of deals with the RDIF involving Saudi MATTERS Ayodhya
land
dispute
case the past two years on production cuts to support showed an eagerness to cultivate closer ties with investment in Russia's agricultural and crude prices. Putin, as exemplified by then Deputy Crown petrochemical sectors. Signalling its intent to Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed pursue Saudi investment opportunities, the RDIF he Supreme Court has ended its day-to- was the first petitioner to file for ownership of Muslims of Ayodhya, and two parts to Hindu Riyadh has borne the greatest output cuts as part meeting the Russian leader in St. Petersburg in opened an office in Riyadh, its first outside of day hearings in the Ayodhya land dispute the Babri Masjid site. Several petitioners have sides which were Nirmohi Akhara and the next of the deal while Moscow has proved June of that year. Russia. case. The root of the case being fought since been added and the case moved to friend of Lord Ram, Triloki Nath Pandey. In this inconsistent in its production restraint but the T Saudis have needed Russia on board to secure It was announced that the Russian sovereign A forum that pulled together 300 Russian and now can be traced back to seven decades. On the Allahabad High Court in 1989. case, Ram Lalla Virajman, or the baby Lord Ram, greater cooperation from outside of OPEC. wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund Saudi CEOs was scheduled to coincide with night of December 22, 1949, an idol of Ram was An Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered is a petitioner. On its website, the Supreme Court (RDIF), and the kingdom's sovereign wealth Putin's visit, during which the Russian leader seen inside the Babri Masjid. on September 30, 2010, divided the plot where mentions 17 maers tagged to the title suit of “M. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), entered and the Saudi crown prince participated in the By the end of 1950, two suits were filed in a once the Babri Masjid stood into three parts - one Siddiq (D) Thr. Lrs. Vs. Mahant Suresh Das”. The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin into a partnership to “invest in aractive projects inaugural meeting of the Russia-Saudi Economic Faizabad court seeking Hindus' right to worship part was given to Muslims who were represented following are the prominent litigants in this Abdulaziz see the benefit of playing Moscow off in Russia, in areas including infrastructure and Council. The 20-some agreements and contracts at the site of the Babri Masjid. Nirmohi Akhara by the Sunni Central Waqf Board and few local politically sensitive case in the Supreme Court. against Washington as the kingdom seeks to ensure its security in an increasingly perilous agriculture,” with the PIF contributing $10 billion signed between Saudi and Russian entities region while trying to garner investment in to the agreement. So far, the Saudis have covered aerospace, culture, health, advanced THE
HINDU
CLAIMANTS THE
MUSLIM
CLAIMANTS underdeveloped sectors of its economy. reportedly anted up around $2.5 billion of that technology and agriculture sectors. contribution, a sticking point with Moscow. Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Notably, one deal covered mutual investments in Gopal Singh Visharad - A resident of Ayodhya, Visharad was the original plaintiff M. Siddiq - Siddiq was the general secretary of the Jamiat-ul Ulema-i Hind, Uar al-Jubeir downplayed the notion that US-Saudi King Salman made a historic 4-day visit to Nefte Trans Service, a large Russian railway in the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid title suit. He claimed that on January 16, 1950, he had Pradesh and the petition filed by him on behalf of the Jamiat became the title suit in relations would suffer from enhanced ties Moscow in October 2017, which Russian Foreign operator. sought permission to worship at the disputed site. After Visharad's death, his son, the Ayodhya case. After his death, the Jamiat's maulana Ashhad Rashidi became the Rajendra Singh, is the petitioner in the Supreme Court. petitioner. Mahant Suresh Das - Mahant Das represents the Ayodhya-based Digambar Uar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board - The waqf board is leading the Akhara. It seeks the same permission as Virashad, to worship at the disputed site. In Muslim side in the apex court. The board filed a suit in the Faizabad civil court on December 1950, the then mahant of the Akhara, Paramhans Ram Chandra Das, had February 1, 1961, against three pending Hindu cases. The board claims possession filed a petition in the Faizabad court. of the mosque. Nirmohi Akhara - In its 2010 judgment on the land dispute, Allahabad High Mohammad Hashim - Mohammad Hashim Ansari, a local tailor who lived a few Court gave Nirmohi Akhara a third of the disputed site. This akhara is religious metres from the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, was one of the first complainants in the denomination of sadhus belonging to the Ramanandi Bairagi sect. It is also one of 14 case. After his death in 2016, his son Iqbal Ansari took over as petitioner in the akharas recognised by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad. The Nirmohi Akhara Supreme Court. had moved the Faizabad civil court in December 1959 claiming ownership of the Haji Misbahuddeen – In the suits filed by the Hindu parties, apart from the city, Babri Masjid structure. The akhara said it won't contest the Lord's plea if his district and state administration, some prominent Muslim local people of Ayodhya lawyers don't dispute their shebait (maintenance and management) rights. were impleaded as defendants. One of them was Haji Misbahuddeen. His association Shri Ram Janam Bhumi Ayodhya, represented by next friend Devaki with Babri Masjid is of three-generations as his grandfather Shahabuddin and later Nandan Agarwal - In 1989, Devaki Nandan Agarwal, a retired judge of Allahabad his father Ziauddin had earlier contested the case. Misbahuddin is a resident of High Court, filed Suit No. 5, claiming to represent the deity Shri Ram Lalla Faizabad. Virajman and the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi. Ram Lalla and Shri Ram Janmabhumi Farooq Ahmad - Mohammad Zahur was one of the original complainants about were impleaded as the first and second plaintiffs respectively, with Agarwal being the appearance of the idol in the Babri Masjid in 1949. His son Farooq Ahmad the third plaintiff in the suit filed in 1989. Tirloki Nath Pandey, a senior Vishwa represented him till he died in 2014. Farooq's son Mohammad Umar now represents Hindu Parishad leader, became the next friend after Agarwal's death in 2002. With the case in the Supreme Court. Suit No. 5, Lord Ram and the Janmabhoomi also became parties represented by a human friend. Maulana Mahfoozurahman - Khaliq Ahmad Khan, a resident of Faizabad, is the nominee of Mahfoozurahman who was also a petitioner in the case. Khan is Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha - In December 2010, the Hindu Mahasabha associated with the Babri Masjid Action Commiee and a member of the All India in the Supreme Court challenged the 2010 Allahabad High Court order. The Milli Council. Mahasabha sought partial annulment of the verdict and endorsement of the minority judgment that ruled in favour of handing over the entire land to Hindu parties. Shia Central Board of Waqf - In 1946, a trial court had ruled the Babri Masjid to be a Sunni property. The Shia Waqf Board claimed that it wasn't Mughal emperor Convener of Akhil Bharatiya Sri Ramjanam Bhoomi Punarudhar Samiti - Babar, a Sunni, who had constructed the mosque, but Babur's commander Mir The Samiti filed a petition challenging the 2010 high court verdict and it was Baqi, a Shia, who built the mosque. In 2017, the Shia waqf board (which was also a admied in the Supreme Court in August 2011. A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and party in the Allahabad High Court) moved the apex court for ownership challenging R.M. Lodha tagged it with the main case. the 1946 decree in a Special Leave Petition.

14 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 15 CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE MIDDLE EAST Mohammad
Tarique
Saleem
PUTIN'S
VISIT Russia
closer
to
Saudi
Arabia,
UAE`

ussian President Vladimir Putin's trip to between Riyadh and Moscow. “We believe that Minister Sergei Lavrov described as the turning the Arabian Gulf to visit Saudi Arabia we can have strategic and strong ties with the point for Saudi-Russian relations having Rand the United Arab Emirates proves United States while we develop our ties with “reached a new qualitative level.” Among 15 Moscow's drive to make strategic political and Russia,” he said. Putin's warm reception in cooperation deals signed between the two economic gains with two traditional US allies Riyadh could only have unnerved the Trump countries then was an agreement for Riyadh to that are also regional powerhouses and fellow oil administration as likely did the reported billions purchase Russian S400 missile defence systems, producers. Just how far Riyadh leans towards of dollars' worth of deals signed between Russian an agreement that has been in limbo and which Moscow and away from Washington will and Saudi entities. Putin publicly reminded the kingdom about probably depend on how much the kingdom can Putin's stop in Riyadh was ironically reminiscent following last month's failure of US-purchased count on Russia's help with its economic of how newly elected US President Donald defence systems to protect against aacks on transformation and coordination with global oil Trump was received when he made the kingdom state oil firm Saudi Aramco's infrastructure. supply reductions. his first official foreign visit in May 2017. Both On Putin's visit to Riyadh, Kremlin spokesman One of the 20-some deals signed during the the US leader and the Saudi government hyped Dimitry Peskov said the Russian president and Russian leader's October 14 visit to Riyadh was the value and abundance of US-Saudi deals Saudi officials discussed “military and technical an agreement to guarantee continued close ties signed during Trump's kingdom visit, some of cooperation.” Prior to accompanying Putin to between OPEC and independent oil producers which are yet to be translated into concrete Riyadh, RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev said the Saudi known as OPEC a group of 24 countries led by projects. Following King Salman's ascension to government had commied to signing $2 billion WHO
Saudi Arabia and Russia that has worked over the throne in January 2015, the Saudi government worth of deals with the RDIF involving Saudi MATTERS Ayodhya
land
dispute
case the past two years on production cuts to support showed an eagerness to cultivate closer ties with investment in Russia's agricultural and crude prices. Putin, as exemplified by then Deputy Crown petrochemical sectors. Signalling its intent to Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed pursue Saudi investment opportunities, the RDIF he Supreme Court has ended its day-to- was the first petitioner to file for ownership of Muslims of Ayodhya, and two parts to Hindu Riyadh has borne the greatest output cuts as part meeting the Russian leader in St. Petersburg in opened an office in Riyadh, its first outside of day hearings in the Ayodhya land dispute the Babri Masjid site. Several petitioners have sides which were Nirmohi Akhara and the next of the deal while Moscow has proved June of that year. Russia. case. The root of the case being fought since been added and the case moved to friend of Lord Ram, Triloki Nath Pandey. In this inconsistent in its production restraint but the T Saudis have needed Russia on board to secure It was announced that the Russian sovereign A forum that pulled together 300 Russian and now can be traced back to seven decades. On the Allahabad High Court in 1989. case, Ram Lalla Virajman, or the baby Lord Ram, greater cooperation from outside of OPEC. wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund Saudi CEOs was scheduled to coincide with night of December 22, 1949, an idol of Ram was An Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered is a petitioner. On its website, the Supreme Court (RDIF), and the kingdom's sovereign wealth Putin's visit, during which the Russian leader seen inside the Babri Masjid. on September 30, 2010, divided the plot where mentions 17 maers tagged to the title suit of “M. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), entered and the Saudi crown prince participated in the By the end of 1950, two suits were filed in a once the Babri Masjid stood into three parts - one Siddiq (D) Thr. Lrs. Vs. Mahant Suresh Das”. The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin into a partnership to “invest in aractive projects inaugural meeting of the Russia-Saudi Economic Faizabad court seeking Hindus' right to worship part was given to Muslims who were represented following are the prominent litigants in this Abdulaziz see the benefit of playing Moscow off in Russia, in areas including infrastructure and Council. The 20-some agreements and contracts at the site of the Babri Masjid. Nirmohi Akhara by the Sunni Central Waqf Board and few local politically sensitive case in the Supreme Court. against Washington as the kingdom seeks to ensure its security in an increasingly perilous agriculture,” with the PIF contributing $10 billion signed between Saudi and Russian entities region while trying to garner investment in to the agreement. So far, the Saudis have covered aerospace, culture, health, advanced THE
HINDU
CLAIMANTS THE
MUSLIM
CLAIMANTS underdeveloped sectors of its economy. reportedly anted up around $2.5 billion of that technology and agriculture sectors. contribution, a sticking point with Moscow. Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Notably, one deal covered mutual investments in Gopal Singh Visharad - A resident of Ayodhya, Visharad was the original plaintiff M. Siddiq - Siddiq was the general secretary of the Jamiat-ul Ulema-i Hind, Uar al-Jubeir downplayed the notion that US-Saudi King Salman made a historic 4-day visit to Nefte Trans Service, a large Russian railway in the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid title suit. He claimed that on January 16, 1950, he had Pradesh and the petition filed by him on behalf of the Jamiat became the title suit in relations would suffer from enhanced ties Moscow in October 2017, which Russian Foreign operator. sought permission to worship at the disputed site. After Visharad's death, his son, the Ayodhya case. After his death, the Jamiat's maulana Ashhad Rashidi became the Rajendra Singh, is the petitioner in the Supreme Court. petitioner. Mahant Suresh Das - Mahant Das represents the Ayodhya-based Digambar Uar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board - The waqf board is leading the Akhara. It seeks the same permission as Virashad, to worship at the disputed site. In Muslim side in the apex court. The board filed a suit in the Faizabad civil court on December 1950, the then mahant of the Akhara, Paramhans Ram Chandra Das, had February 1, 1961, against three pending Hindu cases. The board claims possession filed a petition in the Faizabad court. of the mosque. Nirmohi Akhara - In its 2010 judgment on the land dispute, Allahabad High Mohammad Hashim - Mohammad Hashim Ansari, a local tailor who lived a few Court gave Nirmohi Akhara a third of the disputed site. This akhara is religious metres from the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, was one of the first complainants in the denomination of sadhus belonging to the Ramanandi Bairagi sect. It is also one of 14 case. After his death in 2016, his son Iqbal Ansari took over as petitioner in the akharas recognised by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad. The Nirmohi Akhara Supreme Court. had moved the Faizabad civil court in December 1959 claiming ownership of the Haji Misbahuddeen – In the suits filed by the Hindu parties, apart from the city, Babri Masjid structure. The akhara said it won't contest the Lord's plea if his district and state administration, some prominent Muslim local people of Ayodhya lawyers don't dispute their shebait (maintenance and management) rights. were impleaded as defendants. One of them was Haji Misbahuddeen. His association Shri Ram Janam Bhumi Ayodhya, represented by next friend Devaki with Babri Masjid is of three-generations as his grandfather Shahabuddin and later Nandan Agarwal - In 1989, Devaki Nandan Agarwal, a retired judge of Allahabad his father Ziauddin had earlier contested the case. Misbahuddin is a resident of High Court, filed Suit No. 5, claiming to represent the deity Shri Ram Lalla Faizabad. Virajman and the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi. Ram Lalla and Shri Ram Janmabhumi Farooq Ahmad - Mohammad Zahur was one of the original complainants about were impleaded as the first and second plaintiffs respectively, with Agarwal being the appearance of the idol in the Babri Masjid in 1949. His son Farooq Ahmad the third plaintiff in the suit filed in 1989. Tirloki Nath Pandey, a senior Vishwa represented him till he died in 2014. Farooq's son Mohammad Umar now represents Hindu Parishad leader, became the next friend after Agarwal's death in 2002. With the case in the Supreme Court. Suit No. 5, Lord Ram and the Janmabhoomi also became parties represented by a human friend. Maulana Mahfoozurahman - Khaliq Ahmad Khan, a resident of Faizabad, is the nominee of Mahfoozurahman who was also a petitioner in the case. Khan is Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha - In December 2010, the Hindu Mahasabha associated with the Babri Masjid Action Commiee and a member of the All India in the Supreme Court challenged the 2010 Allahabad High Court order. The Milli Council. Mahasabha sought partial annulment of the verdict and endorsement of the minority judgment that ruled in favour of handing over the entire land to Hindu parties. Shia Central Board of Waqf - In 1946, a trial court had ruled the Babri Masjid to be a Sunni property. The Shia Waqf Board claimed that it wasn't Mughal emperor Convener of Akhil Bharatiya Sri Ramjanam Bhoomi Punarudhar Samiti - Babar, a Sunni, who had constructed the mosque, but Babur's commander Mir The Samiti filed a petition challenging the 2010 high court verdict and it was Baqi, a Shia, who built the mosque. In 2017, the Shia waqf board (which was also a admied in the Supreme Court in August 2011. A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and party in the Allahabad High Court) moved the apex court for ownership challenging R.M. Lodha tagged it with the main case. the 1946 decree in a Special Leave Petition.

14 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 15 Mohammad

Tarique
Saleem
SPECIAL REPORT SPECIAL REPORT Meeraj
Ahmad
Ansari
TURKEY'S 96th REPUBLIC DAY President
Erdoganʼs
A
look
at
the
role
of
myths Turkeyʼs
Republic
Day

in
TURKISH
politics Republic
Day
Message
Celebration
&
Gaeity
The 96th Republic Day Celebration of Turkey took place in New Delhi would like to unite the various Anatolian resistance movements into a cohesive and recently. Amidst a galaxy of dignitaries, the Turkish Ambassador to congratulate India, Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, paid homage to the Turkish martyrs. ultimately successful national movement. Nevertheless, at this point, as the the Republic Nutuk outlined, the situation for the resistance movements was apparently I Day of our extremely dire the Ooman Empire had been routed and its government was citizens, who live only concerned about saving itself. It was with this backdrop of a supposedly in 81 provinces of degenerate Ooman Sultan and his government that Atatürk stepped in with our country and his messianic call to save the country, as this following passage from the abroad. I thank to Nutuk illustrates: all our friends “Gentlemen, in the face of this situation, there was only one solution. That who share the joy was the creation of a completely independent new Turkish state that is based of this very on national sovereignty. This was the solution that we were thinking before important leaving Istanbul and we implemented it immediately upon seing foot on milestone of our Anatolian soil in Samsun.” history with us. Indeed, one of the key mythic themes in the Nutuk is what Hülya Adak, in I remember with her analysis of the Nutuk, called “the myth of rebirth.” This can be observed respect all our in the Nutuk’s depiction of Atatürk arriving as a savior of the country from heroes, to start the ruins of the Ooman Empire as described earlier. Specifically, this mythic with Ghazi rebirth has two components: it necessitated not only the distancing of the Mustafa Kemal newly-formed Turkish Republic and its aspirations for modernity from the Atatürk, who presumed backwardness of the Ooman Empire, but also the presentation of contributed to the its formation as a salvific enterprise, with Atatürk himself taking a prophetic victory in our role. (L-R) - H.E. Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), H.E Independence Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar. Another passage from the Nutuk, as highlighted by Büşra Ersanlı in her War with a essay on Kemalist historiography, captures both these components well too. century-old The passage depicted the Ooman Empire as an aberration to be eliminated, glorious past and so that a Turkish nation — presumably in existence before the Oomans — to the foundation could emerge again and flourish; or in a way, be reborn figuratively: of our new state. “The Oomans had usurped the sovereignty of the Turkish nation. And they Turkey is a urkey’s Republic Day (Cumhuriyet Bayramı), is celebrated every continued this usurpation for six hundred years. Now the Turkish nation has country that has year to commemorate the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey put an end to this and taken back its sovereignty. This is a revolution.” maintained its on October 29, 1923. On this day, 92 years ago, Mustafa Kemal struggle for independence from beginning till the end through the National T Taken together, the rupture with the Ooman Empire and the salvific Atatürk declared Turkey to be a republic and was elected by the Grand Assembly, which represents the national will. National Assembly of Turkey as Turkey’s first President. establishment of the Turkish Republic that made up the myth of rebirth in the Nutuk probably provided the discursive space for Atatürk to justify his I would like to express my gratitude to all the deputies who have worked for The establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 came with the (L-R) - H.E Ambassador of Turkey, Mr. Sakir (L-R) - Mrs. Nurhan Erdeviren and Mr. Mustafa far-reaching reforms, such as the abolishment of the caliphate in 1924 and the the development, strengthening and progress of our country so far from our Ozkan Torunlar, H.E. Ambassador of Belarus, H.E. Erdeviren, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of conclusion of the 1919–1923 Turkish War of Independence, which saw the adoption of the Latin script for the Turkish language in 1928. After all, by Grand National Assembly, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary (West), Ministry of Turkey, Mrs. Leyla Torunlar, Spouse of the Turkish nationalist movement emerging to resist the Allied occupation of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), H.E. Ambassador Ambassador, H.E. Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary consigning the Ooman Empire to the margins of Turkish history, Atatürk year. I wish Allah's mercy upon our martyrs who paid the price so that we the Ooman Empire following the end of the First World War in 1918. of Uzbekistan. (West), Ministry of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), and those who supported his ideas the Kemalists could then set out to create could live in the most favorite and disputed geographical area of the world H.E Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar. Much of the fighting during the war was between the Turkish nationalists their vision of a modern society based on secularism and a Turkish ethnic for a thousand years. As a nation and as a state, we have been in a historic and the Greeks occupying the western parts of Anatolia. The laer’s identity, without the need to consider the primacy of Islam and the cultural struggle again in recent years in order to protect our existence and our future. military defeat, coupled by the hesitance of the other Allied states to heterogeneity of the Ooman period. intervene, paved the way for the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923, which All the events we have experienced such as the aacks of terrorist recognized Turkey’s sovereignty as a state. Needless to say, the reforms initiated by the Kemalists had a profound organizations, the treacherous coup aempt of July 15th and others are impact on Turkish society. For one, the secularist-Islamist divide in Turkey, a manifestations of this historical struggle. Operation Euphrates Shield, Given the tumultuous transition from the Ooman Empire to the Turkish common trope in commentaries on Turkish politics, can be said to originate Operation Olive Branch and Operation Peace Spring, which we have Republic, it is not surprising that the Turkish War of Independence and in the heavy emphasis on French-style laïcité in the Kemalist reforms. This the formation of the Republic became important components of Turkey’s conducted in Syria, are also parts of this struggle. We are conducting a divide continues to polarize Turks today, and the ensuing debate over issues foundation narratives. The themes of struggle and sacrifice that often struggle similar to our Independence War, which we started a century ago related to modernity and identity remains as heavily contested as ever: How characterized depictions of the above events laid the basis of a shared and crowned by establishing our new Republic, with different images and should Turkey modernize? What makes one a Turk? And how does Islam national identity. methods. factor into all these? All kinds of plots and mischief aimed at disrupting our national unity and (L-R) - Pinak Chakravarty, Former Secretary (ER) (L-R) H.E Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar of This famous photograph of the 1933 Republic Day celebrations in the at Ministry of External Affairs, Aloke Mukerji, Turkey, Mohammad Tarique Saleem, Founder & Much of the varied perspectives on Turkey and Turkish-ness today have also Turkish town of Uşak depicts a placard with the words: Cumhuriyeti biz solidarity are displayed. The security of our borders, our economy and Former Permanent Representative of India to U.N., Managing Editor & Mohammad Saif, Executive been conditioned by the foundation myths themselves that were articulated New York, Sqn. Ldr. Rana TS Chhina (Ret.), Editor (Arabian Times) böyle kazandık. “We won the Republic like this,” it said with the many similar important issues are under multi-faceted aacks which target our during the Turkish Republic’s formative years. The Nutuk’s myth of rebirth, Centre for Armed Forces Historical research Unit. individuals portrayed in the photo with somber expressions suggesting sovereignty and continue uninterrupted. beyond simply casting the Oomans to the ash heap of history, imagines and that it was a motley crew of individuals, working together under Turkey, with its long history, its deeply rooted governing experience and emphasizes a sense of Turkish ethnic purity too. After all, the Turkish nation punishing circumstances, that was responsible for the formation of the that was figuratively reborn is supposed to be an indivisible, sacred whole almost century-long accumulations as a Republic, has the power, capability Republic. with pre-Islamic origins that allegedly stretched all the way back to the and determination to overcome all these problems. As a maer of fact, with The formation of the Turkish Republic subsequently took on more mythic Hiites. the help of Allah, with the support of our nation, we foiled all the traps set expressions, with Atatürk’s 1927 landmark speech that was known simply against our country one by one. I sincerely believe that we will successfully This siege mentality, also known as the Sèvres Syndrome, is embodied as the Nutuk (Speech) one of the most significant examples. Delivered by conclude this important process as well, in accordance with the vision of within the mythos of the Nutuk, under what Aysel Morin and Robert Lee Atatürk over six days to the congress of the Republican People’s Party those who left our Republic to us as a legacy. termed the myths of “First Duty,” “Internal Enemy,” and “Encirclement” in from 15–20 October 1927, the Nutuk was Atatürk’s aempt to explain their analysis of the Nutuk. According to them, the Nutuk portrays the By bringing our country to its 2023 goals, we will give the next generations how Turkey gained its independence and became a modern nation-state. defense of the Turkish nation as the paramount imperative of Turks, who the opportunity to fulfill their 2053 and 2071 visions. Hopefully, we will move In the process, Atatürk elucidated some of the foundation myths that need to be constantly vigilant against traitors and external countries bent on our Republic forward in a much stronger and more prosperous manner. May would form the cornerstone of Turkey’s official historiography. undermining them. Allah's compassion and mercy be upon us. With these feelings, I congratulate Paying homage on the grand occasion of the The Nutuk began with Atatürk’s landing at Samsun, a city on Turkey’s once again the 96th anniversary of the Proclamation of our Republic. May National Day of Turkey in New Delhi Black Sea coast, on 19 May 1919. Subsequently, Atatürk would go on to you be blessed with good health.

16 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 17 Mohammad

Tarique
Saleem
SPECIAL REPORT SPECIAL REPORT Meeraj
Ahmad
Ansari
TURKEY'S 96th REPUBLIC DAY President
Erdoganʼs
A
look
at
the
role
of
myths Turkeyʼs
Republic
Day

in
TURKISH
politics Republic
Day
Message
Celebration
&
Gaeity
The 96th Republic Day Celebration of Turkey took place in New Delhi would like to unite the various Anatolian resistance movements into a cohesive and recently. Amidst a galaxy of dignitaries, the Turkish Ambassador to congratulate India, Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, paid homage to the Turkish martyrs. ultimately successful national movement. Nevertheless, at this point, as the the Republic Nutuk outlined, the situation for the resistance movements was apparently I Day of our extremely dire the Ooman Empire had been routed and its government was citizens, who live only concerned about saving itself. It was with this backdrop of a supposedly in 81 provinces of degenerate Ooman Sultan and his government that Atatürk stepped in with our country and his messianic call to save the country, as this following passage from the abroad. I thank to Nutuk illustrates: all our friends “Gentlemen, in the face of this situation, there was only one solution. That who share the joy was the creation of a completely independent new Turkish state that is based of this very on national sovereignty. This was the solution that we were thinking before important leaving Istanbul and we implemented it immediately upon seing foot on milestone of our Anatolian soil in Samsun.” history with us. Indeed, one of the key mythic themes in the Nutuk is what Hülya Adak, in I remember with her analysis of the Nutuk, called “the myth of rebirth.” This can be observed respect all our in the Nutuk’s depiction of Atatürk arriving as a savior of the country from heroes, to start the ruins of the Ooman Empire as described earlier. Specifically, this mythic with Ghazi rebirth has two components: it necessitated not only the distancing of the Mustafa Kemal newly-formed Turkish Republic and its aspirations for modernity from the Atatürk, who presumed backwardness of the Ooman Empire, but also the presentation of contributed to the its formation as a salvific enterprise, with Atatürk himself taking a prophetic victory in our role. (L-R) - H.E. Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), H.E Independence Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar. Another passage from the Nutuk, as highlighted by Büşra Ersanlı in her War with a essay on Kemalist historiography, captures both these components well too. century-old The passage depicted the Ooman Empire as an aberration to be eliminated, glorious past and so that a Turkish nation — presumably in existence before the Oomans — to the foundation could emerge again and flourish; or in a way, be reborn figuratively: of our new state. “The Oomans had usurped the sovereignty of the Turkish nation. And they Turkey is a urkey’s Republic Day (Cumhuriyet Bayramı), is celebrated every continued this usurpation for six hundred years. Now the Turkish nation has country that has year to commemorate the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey put an end to this and taken back its sovereignty. This is a revolution.” maintained its on October 29, 1923. On this day, 92 years ago, Mustafa Kemal struggle for independence from beginning till the end through the National T Taken together, the rupture with the Ooman Empire and the salvific Atatürk declared Turkey to be a republic and was elected by the Grand Assembly, which represents the national will. National Assembly of Turkey as Turkey’s first President. establishment of the Turkish Republic that made up the myth of rebirth in the Nutuk probably provided the discursive space for Atatürk to justify his I would like to express my gratitude to all the deputies who have worked for The establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 came with the (L-R) - H.E Ambassador of Turkey, Mr. Sakir (L-R) - Mrs. Nurhan Erdeviren and Mr. Mustafa far-reaching reforms, such as the abolishment of the caliphate in 1924 and the the development, strengthening and progress of our country so far from our Ozkan Torunlar, H.E. Ambassador of Belarus, H.E. Erdeviren, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of conclusion of the 1919–1923 Turkish War of Independence, which saw the adoption of the Latin script for the Turkish language in 1928. After all, by Grand National Assembly, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary (West), Ministry of Turkey, Mrs. Leyla Torunlar, Spouse of the Turkish nationalist movement emerging to resist the Allied occupation of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), H.E. Ambassador Ambassador, H.E. Mr. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary consigning the Ooman Empire to the margins of Turkish history, Atatürk year. I wish Allah's mercy upon our martyrs who paid the price so that we the Ooman Empire following the end of the First World War in 1918. of Uzbekistan. (West), Ministry of External Affairs, (Chief Guest), and those who supported his ideas the Kemalists could then set out to create could live in the most favorite and disputed geographical area of the world H.E Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar. Much of the fighting during the war was between the Turkish nationalists their vision of a modern society based on secularism and a Turkish ethnic for a thousand years. As a nation and as a state, we have been in a historic and the Greeks occupying the western parts of Anatolia. The laer’s identity, without the need to consider the primacy of Islam and the cultural struggle again in recent years in order to protect our existence and our future. military defeat, coupled by the hesitance of the other Allied states to heterogeneity of the Ooman period. intervene, paved the way for the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923, which All the events we have experienced such as the aacks of terrorist recognized Turkey’s sovereignty as a state. Needless to say, the reforms initiated by the Kemalists had a profound organizations, the treacherous coup aempt of July 15th and others are impact on Turkish society. For one, the secularist-Islamist divide in Turkey, a manifestations of this historical struggle. Operation Euphrates Shield, Given the tumultuous transition from the Ooman Empire to the Turkish common trope in commentaries on Turkish politics, can be said to originate Operation Olive Branch and Operation Peace Spring, which we have Republic, it is not surprising that the Turkish War of Independence and in the heavy emphasis on French-style laïcité in the Kemalist reforms. This the formation of the Republic became important components of Turkey’s conducted in Syria, are also parts of this struggle. We are conducting a divide continues to polarize Turks today, and the ensuing debate over issues foundation narratives. The themes of struggle and sacrifice that often struggle similar to our Independence War, which we started a century ago related to modernity and identity remains as heavily contested as ever: How characterized depictions of the above events laid the basis of a shared and crowned by establishing our new Republic, with different images and should Turkey modernize? What makes one a Turk? And how does Islam national identity. methods. factor into all these? All kinds of plots and mischief aimed at disrupting our national unity and (L-R) - Pinak Chakravarty, Former Secretary (ER) (L-R) H.E Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar of This famous photograph of the 1933 Republic Day celebrations in the at Ministry of External Affairs, Aloke Mukerji, Turkey, Mohammad Tarique Saleem, Founder & Much of the varied perspectives on Turkey and Turkish-ness today have also Turkish town of Uşak depicts a placard with the words: Cumhuriyeti biz solidarity are displayed. The security of our borders, our economy and Former Permanent Representative of India to U.N., Managing Editor & Mohammad Saif, Executive been conditioned by the foundation myths themselves that were articulated New York, Sqn. Ldr. Rana TS Chhina (Ret.), Editor (Arabian Times) böyle kazandık. “We won the Republic like this,” it said with the many similar important issues are under multi-faceted aacks which target our during the Turkish Republic’s formative years. The Nutuk’s myth of rebirth, Centre for Armed Forces Historical research Unit. individuals portrayed in the photo with somber expressions suggesting sovereignty and continue uninterrupted. beyond simply casting the Oomans to the ash heap of history, imagines and that it was a motley crew of individuals, working together under Turkey, with its long history, its deeply rooted governing experience and emphasizes a sense of Turkish ethnic purity too. After all, the Turkish nation punishing circumstances, that was responsible for the formation of the that was figuratively reborn is supposed to be an indivisible, sacred whole almost century-long accumulations as a Republic, has the power, capability Republic. with pre-Islamic origins that allegedly stretched all the way back to the and determination to overcome all these problems. As a maer of fact, with The formation of the Turkish Republic subsequently took on more mythic Hiites. the help of Allah, with the support of our nation, we foiled all the traps set expressions, with Atatürk’s 1927 landmark speech that was known simply against our country one by one. I sincerely believe that we will successfully This siege mentality, also known as the Sèvres Syndrome, is embodied as the Nutuk (Speech) one of the most significant examples. Delivered by conclude this important process as well, in accordance with the vision of within the mythos of the Nutuk, under what Aysel Morin and Robert Lee Atatürk over six days to the congress of the Republican People’s Party those who left our Republic to us as a legacy. termed the myths of “First Duty,” “Internal Enemy,” and “Encirclement” in from 15–20 October 1927, the Nutuk was Atatürk’s aempt to explain their analysis of the Nutuk. According to them, the Nutuk portrays the By bringing our country to its 2023 goals, we will give the next generations how Turkey gained its independence and became a modern nation-state. defense of the Turkish nation as the paramount imperative of Turks, who the opportunity to fulfill their 2053 and 2071 visions. Hopefully, we will move In the process, Atatürk elucidated some of the foundation myths that need to be constantly vigilant against traitors and external countries bent on our Republic forward in a much stronger and more prosperous manner. May would form the cornerstone of Turkey’s official historiography. undermining them. Allah's compassion and mercy be upon us. With these feelings, I congratulate Paying homage on the grand occasion of the The Nutuk began with Atatürk’s landing at Samsun, a city on Turkey’s once again the 96th anniversary of the Proclamation of our Republic. May National Day of Turkey in New Delhi Black Sea coast, on 19 May 1919. Subsequently, Atatürk would go on to you be blessed with good health.

16 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 17 Ashish
Ghosh EQUALITY MIDDLE EAST

KUWAIT & JORDON Kuwait
handles
things
with
wisdom

Saddam Hussein and remnants of the Iraqi reason is that the party they were praising and that Baath Party will not stop fuelling embers of criminal whose name they were chanting missed the discord at every given chance between their road several decades ago. They have long been nations of residence and Kuwait but the elements of destruction and division within the Arab experience of handling such an issue is simple Ummah, which they took as slogan for their and secondary, and exploiting the issue to everlasting message. They rather made it a divided further strengthen the relationship between ummah without any message, and in that they are Kuwait and those countries takes precedence. like every terrorist group striving to change a Content of the statement issued by the wedding event into a funeral where they will mourn. Jordanian Parliament concerning the nature of Kuwait and Jordan have leaders and influential brotherly ties between the populace and the people who know the meaning of brotherliness, and ordan is too big to be shaken by noise. parliaments of both nations, as well as His they have been making sincere efforts for several However, in what seems to be a blessing in Highness the Amir and his brother King years to rectify the strain in relationship that Jdisguise, statements issued by the Abdullah II have made the mob noise applicable happened once upon a time. Kuwait, as the global Jordanian Parliament, Ministry of Foreign to the poetic quote of Al-Mutanabi, “If my center for humanity, knows how to deal with such Affairs, and the Jordanian Football Association slanderer tells you about my shortcoming, it is imperfection through wisdom. This shows the extent coupled with the public reaction in support of an evidence that I am valid.” of its strength and the weakness of its foe trying to LACK
EQUALITY Kuwait, renewed the meaningful and positive The minority who chose a sporting event to aack the nation at every occasion. However, the relationship enjoyed by the two countries for create confusion by showing their hatred for Kuwaiti-Jordanian ties convoy keeps moving in its the last two decades. Kuwait were only dancing in a wedding of natural course. Insecurity
for
Africa's
There is no doubt that orphans of the criminal which they didn't know the celebrant. The Critical
Not
enough
food
t
women
farmers oversigh to
feed
people Frank Maynard he world leaders recently met at the the University of Florence wrote that “population reported that 82% of American scientists regarded urprising that over 60 percent of all investment in land, especially by women. The more effective in reducing poverty than growth United Nations in New York to review … has become irrelevant for the sustainability of the growing world population as a major problem employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa investment rises even higher among women in other sectors. Moreover, as the Goalkeepers progress toward the UN's 2030 Agenda development, notwithstanding the evidence to because “there won't be enough food and resources.” work in agriculture, yet the region's who are also educated about their land rights, report released last month by the Bill & Melinda T S and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The the contrary.” Yet the huge projected increase in the world's women farmers often reap a meager harvest, highlighting the importance of legal literacy Gates Foundation showed, women are more SDGs, which aim “to end poverty, protect the not because of inclement weather or poor soil programs. likely than men to invest resources under their Between 1960 and 2000, the world's population population this century is avoidable. The size of the planet, and ensure prosperity for all,” are doubled from three billion to six billion. This population in 2100 can be influenced now by quality, but because of their gender, or more Women also lack equal access to inputs, control in meeting their children's needs, such as commendable, and summarize the kind of specifically, because of a dense web of laws, food and education. growth contributed to greater pollution of land, international debate, government programs, and including fertilizer, beer seeds, mechanical world many of us wish to see in 2030. But if lakes, rivers, and oceans, as well as urban individual choices. policies, programs, and customs that put them equipment, and agricultural extension services Making women farmers to control their this vision is to have any chance of at a big disadvantage. overcrowding and a higher demand for More specifically, an additional SDG to dampen that would connect them with information resources is important to achieving not only materializing, governments must now add an agricultural land and freshwater (in turn Closing the gender gap in agriculture will about improved agricultural practices. This United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 18th goal: “Dampen population growth.” population growth would promote funding for encroaching on natural ecosystems). Despite voluntary, rights-based family planning. This require action on three fronts. The first is land inequality is compounded by unequal access to gender equality and empowerment of women The challenges that humanity faces today stem significant technical advances in agriculture, approach has a proven track record of success, not rights. In most of Sub-Saharan Africa, women the credit farmers need to purchase inputs. In and girls but also many others, including mainly from overconsumption and famines killed millions of people over this 40- only in reducing births rapidly, but also in advancing rarely own land. Instead, women farmers Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and eliminating poverty (SDG1) and ending hunger overpopulation. Yet policymakers often fail to year period. And in developing countries, rapid the empowerment of women and spurring economic usually access land through a male relative, Zimbabwe, studies have shown that women are (SDG2). consider the two factors together, and largely population growth left poor people at greater progress. No coercive “population control” measures most commonly a husband, brother, or father. less likely to benefit from financial services. Though some progress has been made on all neglect population growth in particular. The risk of death, injury, and disease resulting from are needed. Rather, wider awareness of the linkage This lapsearrangement leaves them highly Improving access to financial services and three fronts to empower women farmers, it is overall human impact on the global pollution, floods, droughts, and other disasters. between family size and ecological sustainability can vulnerable; a death, divorce, or simply a man's agricultural inputs thus constitutes the second nowhere near enough. To encourage and guide environment is the product of population size There are now 7.7 billion people on Earth. The help parents recognize the benefits of having fewer change of mind can leave a woman farmer front for empowering women farmers. further action, my colleagues at the International and average per capita consumption. The UN's UN forecasts that this figure will rise to 11 billion children. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change landless overnight. Development agencies and NGOs have begun Food Policy Research Institute and I designed by 2100 (and that assumes steady fertility has concluded that population growth and Clearly, population growth cannot be stopped The resulting insecurity affects the way women working to design woman-focused financial the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture declines in many countries that have tended to economic (consumption) growth are the two overnight, nor feasibly by 2030. But we could farm. At constant risk of displacement, long- services and programs to improve access to Index, which measures decision-making power, resist this trend). A population increase on this establish trends toward a population peak and main causes of global warming. Per capita scale would create more pollution, require a term productivity-enhancing investments do not agricultural inputs. African women are also access to resources (including credit), control resource consumption and greenhouse-gas decline in all countries by then. This includes not make financial sense. Why build terraces to helping one another, with a growing number of over income, time burdens, and membership in doubling of global food production under only developing countries, where population growth emissions are highest in developed economies, difficult conditions (including climate reduce erosion and improve soil health if women's organizations, such as microfinance groups. while rapid population growth in developing threatens security, but also rich countries with large someone else can claim the land and its groups, working to improve access to financial disruption), and result in more people suffering ecological footprints, where population decline and The WEAI and a later adaptation, pro-WEAI, countries contributes to the loss of forests and during conflicts and famines. improvements as soon as the work is finished? services, new technologies, and information. For which facilitates project impact assessments is biodiversity. its benefits are resisted because of ill-founded fears of Why plant an orchard if it can simply be taken instance, in Kenya, members of such self-help helping governments, donors, and NGOs to While many researchers and policymakers seem demographic aging. When governments adopted the SDGs in 2015, to regard a rapidly increasing global population away once the final tree is in the ground ? groups are likelier than other women to know design effective interventions. So far, the WEAI Reproductive rights and family planning are many experts were surprised by the lack of as inevitable, ordinary citizens recognize the Over the last two decades, many countries have about climate-smart agricultural practices. (including adaptations) has been used by 99 mentioned in both SDG 3 (good health and aention to population growth. Demographer serious problems and risks that this will cause. In taken important steps to promote and protect The final front is perhaps the trickiest: decision- different organizations in 54 countries. For Joseph Chamie, a former director of the UN wellbeing) and SDG 5 (gender equality), but neither a 2014 survey by the Global Challenges goal explicitly aims to reduce population growth. As women's land rights. For example, Ethiopia making power. In far too many contexts, instance, WEAI insights guided the design of Population Division, expressed concern that Foundation, a majority of 9,000 respondents in introduced joint land registration with the women farmers lack the authority to manage Bangladesh's ANGeL project, which aims to the UN was ignoring the issue. University of they currently stand, the SDGs imply that there is no nine countries (the United States, Brazil, South longer any need to curb the global population names and photographs of both husband and the crops they produce or the income they identify actions and investments in agriculture Cambridge economist Partha Dasgupta and co- Africa, Germany, Poland, Sweden, India, Russia, wife included on certificates thereby formalizing generate. This has far-reaching implications for that will improve nutrition and empower authors concurred, arguing that this omission increase, even though it undermines most of the and China) considered population increase to be goals. women's rights to the land they farm. Such development. women. “should be a point of public concern.” More an actual or potential future threat to mankind. recently, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci of reform has been shown to lead to increased In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is 2-4 times The same year, a Pew Research Center survey

18 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 19 Ashish
Ghosh EQUALITY MIDDLE EAST

KUWAIT & JORDON Kuwait
handles
things
with
wisdom

Saddam Hussein and remnants of the Iraqi reason is that the party they were praising and that Baath Party will not stop fuelling embers of criminal whose name they were chanting missed the discord at every given chance between their road several decades ago. They have long been nations of residence and Kuwait but the elements of destruction and division within the Arab experience of handling such an issue is simple Ummah, which they took as slogan for their and secondary, and exploiting the issue to everlasting message. They rather made it a divided further strengthen the relationship between ummah without any message, and in that they are Kuwait and those countries takes precedence. like every terrorist group striving to change a Content of the statement issued by the wedding event into a funeral where they will mourn. Jordanian Parliament concerning the nature of Kuwait and Jordan have leaders and influential brotherly ties between the populace and the people who know the meaning of brotherliness, and ordan is too big to be shaken by noise. parliaments of both nations, as well as His they have been making sincere efforts for several However, in what seems to be a blessing in Highness the Amir and his brother King years to rectify the strain in relationship that Jdisguise, statements issued by the Abdullah II have made the mob noise applicable happened once upon a time. Kuwait, as the global Jordanian Parliament, Ministry of Foreign to the poetic quote of Al-Mutanabi, “If my center for humanity, knows how to deal with such Affairs, and the Jordanian Football Association slanderer tells you about my shortcoming, it is imperfection through wisdom. This shows the extent coupled with the public reaction in support of an evidence that I am valid.” of its strength and the weakness of its foe trying to LACK
EQUALITY Kuwait, renewed the meaningful and positive The minority who chose a sporting event to aack the nation at every occasion. However, the relationship enjoyed by the two countries for create confusion by showing their hatred for Kuwaiti-Jordanian ties convoy keeps moving in its the last two decades. Kuwait were only dancing in a wedding of natural course. Insecurity
for
Africa's
There is no doubt that orphans of the criminal which they didn't know the celebrant. The Critical
Not
enough
food
t
women
farmers oversigh to
feed
people Frank Maynard he world leaders recently met at the the University of Florence wrote that “population reported that 82% of American scientists regarded urprising that over 60 percent of all investment in land, especially by women. The more effective in reducing poverty than growth United Nations in New York to review … has become irrelevant for the sustainability of the growing world population as a major problem employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa investment rises even higher among women in other sectors. Moreover, as the Goalkeepers progress toward the UN's 2030 Agenda development, notwithstanding the evidence to because “there won't be enough food and resources.” work in agriculture, yet the region's who are also educated about their land rights, report released last month by the Bill & Melinda T S and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The the contrary.” Yet the huge projected increase in the world's women farmers often reap a meager harvest, highlighting the importance of legal literacy Gates Foundation showed, women are more SDGs, which aim “to end poverty, protect the not because of inclement weather or poor soil programs. likely than men to invest resources under their Between 1960 and 2000, the world's population population this century is avoidable. The size of the planet, and ensure prosperity for all,” are doubled from three billion to six billion. This population in 2100 can be influenced now by quality, but because of their gender, or more Women also lack equal access to inputs, control in meeting their children's needs, such as commendable, and summarize the kind of specifically, because of a dense web of laws, food and education. growth contributed to greater pollution of land, international debate, government programs, and including fertilizer, beer seeds, mechanical world many of us wish to see in 2030. But if lakes, rivers, and oceans, as well as urban individual choices. policies, programs, and customs that put them equipment, and agricultural extension services Making women farmers to control their this vision is to have any chance of at a big disadvantage. overcrowding and a higher demand for More specifically, an additional SDG to dampen that would connect them with information resources is important to achieving not only materializing, governments must now add an agricultural land and freshwater (in turn Closing the gender gap in agriculture will about improved agricultural practices. This United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 18th goal: “Dampen population growth.” population growth would promote funding for encroaching on natural ecosystems). Despite voluntary, rights-based family planning. This require action on three fronts. The first is land inequality is compounded by unequal access to gender equality and empowerment of women The challenges that humanity faces today stem significant technical advances in agriculture, approach has a proven track record of success, not rights. In most of Sub-Saharan Africa, women the credit farmers need to purchase inputs. In and girls but also many others, including mainly from overconsumption and famines killed millions of people over this 40- only in reducing births rapidly, but also in advancing rarely own land. Instead, women farmers Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and eliminating poverty (SDG1) and ending hunger overpopulation. Yet policymakers often fail to year period. And in developing countries, rapid the empowerment of women and spurring economic usually access land through a male relative, Zimbabwe, studies have shown that women are (SDG2). consider the two factors together, and largely population growth left poor people at greater progress. No coercive “population control” measures most commonly a husband, brother, or father. less likely to benefit from financial services. Though some progress has been made on all neglect population growth in particular. The risk of death, injury, and disease resulting from are needed. Rather, wider awareness of the linkage This lapsearrangement leaves them highly Improving access to financial services and three fronts to empower women farmers, it is overall human impact on the global pollution, floods, droughts, and other disasters. between family size and ecological sustainability can vulnerable; a death, divorce, or simply a man's agricultural inputs thus constitutes the second nowhere near enough. To encourage and guide environment is the product of population size There are now 7.7 billion people on Earth. The help parents recognize the benefits of having fewer change of mind can leave a woman farmer front for empowering women farmers. further action, my colleagues at the International and average per capita consumption. The UN's UN forecasts that this figure will rise to 11 billion children. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change landless overnight. Development agencies and NGOs have begun Food Policy Research Institute and I designed by 2100 (and that assumes steady fertility has concluded that population growth and Clearly, population growth cannot be stopped The resulting insecurity affects the way women working to design woman-focused financial the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture declines in many countries that have tended to economic (consumption) growth are the two overnight, nor feasibly by 2030. But we could farm. At constant risk of displacement, long- services and programs to improve access to Index, which measures decision-making power, resist this trend). A population increase on this establish trends toward a population peak and main causes of global warming. Per capita scale would create more pollution, require a term productivity-enhancing investments do not agricultural inputs. African women are also access to resources (including credit), control resource consumption and greenhouse-gas decline in all countries by then. This includes not make financial sense. Why build terraces to helping one another, with a growing number of over income, time burdens, and membership in doubling of global food production under only developing countries, where population growth emissions are highest in developed economies, difficult conditions (including climate reduce erosion and improve soil health if women's organizations, such as microfinance groups. while rapid population growth in developing threatens security, but also rich countries with large someone else can claim the land and its groups, working to improve access to financial disruption), and result in more people suffering ecological footprints, where population decline and The WEAI and a later adaptation, pro-WEAI, countries contributes to the loss of forests and during conflicts and famines. improvements as soon as the work is finished? services, new technologies, and information. For which facilitates project impact assessments is biodiversity. its benefits are resisted because of ill-founded fears of Why plant an orchard if it can simply be taken instance, in Kenya, members of such self-help helping governments, donors, and NGOs to While many researchers and policymakers seem demographic aging. When governments adopted the SDGs in 2015, to regard a rapidly increasing global population away once the final tree is in the ground ? groups are likelier than other women to know design effective interventions. So far, the WEAI Reproductive rights and family planning are many experts were surprised by the lack of as inevitable, ordinary citizens recognize the Over the last two decades, many countries have about climate-smart agricultural practices. (including adaptations) has been used by 99 mentioned in both SDG 3 (good health and aention to population growth. Demographer serious problems and risks that this will cause. In taken important steps to promote and protect The final front is perhaps the trickiest: decision- different organizations in 54 countries. For Joseph Chamie, a former director of the UN wellbeing) and SDG 5 (gender equality), but neither a 2014 survey by the Global Challenges goal explicitly aims to reduce population growth. As women's land rights. For example, Ethiopia making power. In far too many contexts, instance, WEAI insights guided the design of Population Division, expressed concern that Foundation, a majority of 9,000 respondents in introduced joint land registration with the women farmers lack the authority to manage Bangladesh's ANGeL project, which aims to the UN was ignoring the issue. University of they currently stand, the SDGs imply that there is no nine countries (the United States, Brazil, South longer any need to curb the global population names and photographs of both husband and the crops they produce or the income they identify actions and investments in agriculture Cambridge economist Partha Dasgupta and co- Africa, Germany, Poland, Sweden, India, Russia, wife included on certificates thereby formalizing generate. This has far-reaching implications for that will improve nutrition and empower authors concurred, arguing that this omission increase, even though it undermines most of the and China) considered population increase to be goals. women's rights to the land they farm. Such development. women. “should be a point of public concern.” More an actual or potential future threat to mankind. recently, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci of reform has been shown to lead to increased In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is 2-4 times The same year, a Pew Research Center survey

18 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 19 NATIONAL
JUBILANT
VOTERS Masood
Hasan Mujeebur
Rehman
'LYNCHING'
FROM
WEST
RSS
chief
Mohan
Bhagwat's
view

use it in the Indian context to defame the country," he said. Bhagwat urged citizens to create harmony, and that everyone should live within confines of the law. "Swayamsevaks are brought up with that sanskar," he said. He said in the past few years, there has been a transformation in the "direction of thought process of Bharat". "There are many people in the world and in Bharat as well, who don't want this. A developed Bharat creates fear in the minds of vested interests...such forces will also not want Bharat to be strong and vibrant," the RSS chief said. "We must be alert in identifying these plots and counter them on intellectual and social levels," he said. He said the world was eager to know if the 2019 elections in such a huge country will be conducted smoothly. "Democracy in India is not something imported from any country, but a practice which has been prevalent here for centuries," Bhagwat said. He said India's borders were now safer than ever, and more focus was needed on coastal security. "The number of guards and check-posts on land borders and surveillance along the maritime Tunisia's
democracy
border, especially on islands, have to be increased," he said. On concerns over the economic sector, he said the slowing down of world economy has left its impact everywhere. at
work
"The government has taken initiatives to tide over the situation in the last one-and-a-half months.” ais Saied assumed office next week as handling Tunisia's chairmanship of the Arab somewhat since the aacks in 2015 but the ashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Maharashtra's Nagpur city. In the morning, Bhagwat performed 'shastra the 6th president of Tunisia, much to the League and EU trade negotiations. French country still maintains a state of emergency and Mohan Bhagwat recently said lynching is He said, "Lynching is not the word from Indian puja' at the Sangh's annual Vijayadashmi event. joy of the young people who backed President Emmanuel Macron has already security forces are still vulnerable to persistent a "western construct" and should not be K R ethos, its origin is from a story in a separate HCL founder Shiv Nadar was the chief guest for him overwhelmingly. His unorthodox style, expressed interest in expanded ties but Saied is assaults. This year, a suicide aack claimed two used in the Indian context to defame the country. religious text. We Indians trust in brotherhood. this year's event. Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, accessibility and frugality inspired an exhausted, likely to insist on outcomes that favor Tunisians lives in the capital, Tunis, reminding all that the He was speaking at the Vijayadashami function Don't impose such terms on Indians." "Lynching Gen V K Singh (retd) and Maharashtra Chief apathetic citizenry seeking momentum in the more than simply puing his signature on any fear of violence retains a grip on a democracy of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in itself is a western construct and one shouldn't Minister Devendra Fadnavis aended the event. resolution of longstanding issues such as deal. This necessitates amendments to foreign still finding its feet. corruption, high unemployment, a stagnant investment laws in order to sustainably increase Saied's anti-terrorism ideas revolve around economy and the fast pace of political inflows, and expanding employment increased education and improved access to In
the
storm
decentralization. opportunities for the educated jobless. water, sanitation and health care as tools to The constitutional conservative Saied and the The economy is not part of the president's neutralize the poison of radicalization and scandal-ridden media mogul Nabil Karoui were portfolio, but his popularity, born partly out of immunize young people against extremism. of
a
teacup
both outsiders, but it was Saied's anti-corruption his calls for social and economic justice, lend Unfortunately, while security is certainly in his message and down-to-earth profile that won the him sufficient heft to influence government purview, improving access or quality of he UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu Poll. It gave young Tunisians a chance to place policy away from punishing austerity toward education, sanitation and health care is not. He an ally in a position of power to defend their more welfare. However, that could run foul of will have a far beer chance reforming law believe the Congress adheres to the ideals and redirect national dialogue to beer the outgoing Chahed government's deal with enforcement, to eliminate its ties to, and support ideology of Mahatma Gandhi, and serves T address their needs. Saied's victory was well- the IMF that required Tunisia to impose of, the Ben Ali regime. the country by following on the path of truth and received, with some remarking that they austerity by reining in public expenditures. non-violence. He called Priyanka Gandhi Vadra With the sweeping overhauls Saied has directly resembled the celebrations that erupted after the The results could affect all other stimulus or tacitly called for, Carthage Palace is probably the "second Indira Gandhi" and a "storm of fall of the Ben Ali regime. change." He said the Congress will win the 2022 programs and substantially hamstring efforts to going to find itself at odds with a legislative The president's role is mainly focused on jumpstart Tunisia's economy, an absolute assembly filled with independents and disparate state assembly polls. He also claimed that the security and diplomacy, while his anti- necessity for achieving campaign goals and political voices. Establishment parties were Yogi Adityanath government in UP "fears" both corruption zeal and promotion of social justice maintaining youth engagement. Failure to do so roundly trounced and no political party holds Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. "Priyanka would be the purview of the prime minister. It is would send Tunisia's youth back on to the more than a quarter of the Assembly's 217 seats. Gandhi is the second Indira Gandhi. She is the not clear how the Islamist Ennahda Party, which streets and increase the number of boats headed Any coalition government to emerge from this storm of change (badlaav ki yeh aandhi, jiskaa holds most seats but not a decisive majority in toward Europe, along with the number of could possibly feature a strange mix bunch of naam Priyanka Gandhi hai). Tunisia's Assembly, will set about forming a tragedies on this perilous journey. secularists, moderate Islamists, social democrats “This BJP government in UP will start sweating," coalition government, let alone with whom, and A disaffected populace also makes for a and, surprisingly, Ben Ali loyalists. he said. Asked whether he will be the CM face of whether that will force a change in the troubling security situation since the desperate The mix of establishmentarians and political the party in the 2022 polls, he said, "No. I am legislative agenda. Ennahda and other liberal and vulnerable are ripe targets for radicalization, outsiders is likely to frown on Saied's calls for only a party worker, and my 'dharma' is to work parties either support Saied or have similar online or otherwise. Already, thousands of radical decentralization, i.e. replacing the party for the party's ideology. Congress has a glorious goals. The trouble is ensuring a crack-resistant Tunisians joined Daesh ranks and the worsening system with direct democracy-style local history of participating in various struggles. And legislative majority that can work closely with situation in Syria is likely to see some return and councils. Such a lofty goal is unlikely to pass him. on the basis of these struggles, history has been possibly recruit or radicalize others. muster because no legislative chamber in its changed." In foreign policy, the new president still lacks a Overall, the security situation has improved right mind will vote for its own dissolution. clear roadmap for the diplomats already

20 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 21 NATIONAL
JUBILANT
VOTERS Masood
Hasan Mujeebur
Rehman
'LYNCHING'
FROM
WEST
RSS
chief
Mohan
Bhagwat's
view
use it in the Indian context to defame the country," he said. Bhagwat urged citizens to create harmony, and that everyone should live within confines of the law. "Swayamsevaks are brought up with that sanskar," he said. He said in the past few years, there has been a transformation in the "direction of thought process of Bharat". "There are many people in the world and in Bharat as well, who don't want this. A developed Bharat creates fear in the minds of vested interests...such forces will also not want Bharat to be strong and vibrant," the RSS chief said. "We must be alert in identifying these plots and counter them on intellectual and social levels," he said. He said the world was eager to know if the 2019 elections in such a huge country will be conducted smoothly. "Democracy in India is not something imported from any country, but a practice which has been prevalent here for centuries," Bhagwat said. He said India's borders were now safer than ever, and more focus was needed on coastal security. "The number of guards and check-posts on land borders and surveillance along the maritime Tunisia's
democracy
border, especially on islands, have to be increased," he said. On concerns over the economic sector, he said the slowing down of world economy has left its impact everywhere. at
work
"The government has taken initiatives to tide over the situation in the last one-and-a-half months.” ais Saied assumed office next week as handling Tunisia's chairmanship of the Arab somewhat since the aacks in 2015 but the ashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Maharashtra's Nagpur city. In the morning, Bhagwat performed 'shastra the 6th president of Tunisia, much to the League and EU trade negotiations. French country still maintains a state of emergency and Mohan Bhagwat recently said lynching is He said, "Lynching is not the word from Indian puja' at the Sangh's annual Vijayadashmi event. joy of the young people who backed President Emmanuel Macron has already security forces are still vulnerable to persistent a "western construct" and should not be K R ethos, its origin is from a story in a separate HCL founder Shiv Nadar was the chief guest for him overwhelmingly. His unorthodox style, expressed interest in expanded ties but Saied is assaults. This year, a suicide aack claimed two used in the Indian context to defame the country. religious text. We Indians trust in brotherhood. this year's event. Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, accessibility and frugality inspired an exhausted, likely to insist on outcomes that favor Tunisians lives in the capital, Tunis, reminding all that the He was speaking at the Vijayadashami function Don't impose such terms on Indians." "Lynching Gen V K Singh (retd) and Maharashtra Chief apathetic citizenry seeking momentum in the more than simply puing his signature on any fear of violence retains a grip on a democracy of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in itself is a western construct and one shouldn't Minister Devendra Fadnavis aended the event. resolution of longstanding issues such as deal. This necessitates amendments to foreign still finding its feet. corruption, high unemployment, a stagnant investment laws in order to sustainably increase Saied's anti-terrorism ideas revolve around economy and the fast pace of political inflows, and expanding employment increased education and improved access to In
the
storm
decentralization. opportunities for the educated jobless. water, sanitation and health care as tools to The constitutional conservative Saied and the The economy is not part of the president's neutralize the poison of radicalization and scandal-ridden media mogul Nabil Karoui were portfolio, but his popularity, born partly out of immunize young people against extremism. of
a
teacup
both outsiders, but it was Saied's anti-corruption his calls for social and economic justice, lend Unfortunately, while security is certainly in his message and down-to-earth profile that won the him sufficient heft to influence government purview, improving access or quality of he UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu Poll. It gave young Tunisians a chance to place policy away from punishing austerity toward education, sanitation and health care is not. He an ally in a position of power to defend their more welfare. However, that could run foul of will have a far beer chance reforming law believe the Congress adheres to the ideals and redirect national dialogue to beer the outgoing Chahed government's deal with enforcement, to eliminate its ties to, and support ideology of Mahatma Gandhi, and serves T address their needs. Saied's victory was well- the IMF that required Tunisia to impose of, the Ben Ali regime. the country by following on the path of truth and received, with some remarking that they austerity by reining in public expenditures. non-violence. He called Priyanka Gandhi Vadra With the sweeping overhauls Saied has directly resembled the celebrations that erupted after the The results could affect all other stimulus or tacitly called for, Carthage Palace is probably the "second Indira Gandhi" and a "storm of fall of the Ben Ali regime. change." He said the Congress will win the 2022 programs and substantially hamstring efforts to going to find itself at odds with a legislative The president's role is mainly focused on jumpstart Tunisia's economy, an absolute assembly filled with independents and disparate state assembly polls. He also claimed that the security and diplomacy, while his anti- necessity for achieving campaign goals and political voices. Establishment parties were Yogi Adityanath government in UP "fears" both corruption zeal and promotion of social justice maintaining youth engagement. Failure to do so roundly trounced and no political party holds Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. "Priyanka would be the purview of the prime minister. It is would send Tunisia's youth back on to the more than a quarter of the Assembly's 217 seats. Gandhi is the second Indira Gandhi. She is the not clear how the Islamist Ennahda Party, which streets and increase the number of boats headed Any coalition government to emerge from this storm of change (badlaav ki yeh aandhi, jiskaa holds most seats but not a decisive majority in toward Europe, along with the number of could possibly feature a strange mix bunch of naam Priyanka Gandhi hai). Tunisia's Assembly, will set about forming a tragedies on this perilous journey. secularists, moderate Islamists, social democrats “This BJP government in UP will start sweating," coalition government, let alone with whom, and A disaffected populace also makes for a and, surprisingly, Ben Ali loyalists. he said. Asked whether he will be the CM face of whether that will force a change in the troubling security situation since the desperate The mix of establishmentarians and political the party in the 2022 polls, he said, "No. I am legislative agenda. Ennahda and other liberal and vulnerable are ripe targets for radicalization, outsiders is likely to frown on Saied's calls for only a party worker, and my 'dharma' is to work parties either support Saied or have similar online or otherwise. Already, thousands of radical decentralization, i.e. replacing the party for the party's ideology. Congress has a glorious goals. The trouble is ensuring a crack-resistant Tunisians joined Daesh ranks and the worsening system with direct democracy-style local history of participating in various struggles. And legislative majority that can work closely with situation in Syria is likely to see some return and councils. Such a lofty goal is unlikely to pass him. on the basis of these struggles, history has been possibly recruit or radicalize others. muster because no legislative chamber in its changed." In foreign policy, the new president still lacks a Overall, the security situation has improved right mind will vote for its own dissolution. clear roadmap for the diplomats already

20 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 21 Mahendra
Singh MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL Aditya
Dubey Modern
museum
of
Prophet's
life

International Organization of Muslim Scholars, The museum will house scientific and research has signed an agreement under the patronage of centers, training, development and translation Madinah Governor Prince Faisal bin Salman for centers, galleries, international conference rooms PAM
a museum. It will occupy an area of 20,000 and scientific seminars, and activity centers with square meters in the Knowledge Economic City a global resource. A memorandum of in Madinah and will come up with modern understanding (MoU) has been signed between museum technologies. MWL and Umm Al-Qura University, Surprised
Al-Issa said that the museum with its represented by Wadi Makkah Technology headquarters reflects its importance and merit, Company, to set up the museum, which will highlighting that Saudi Arabia is the land where form the Al-Faisaliah project. by
Islamic civilization began. MWL has received requests from 24 countries, including Indonesia and the UAE, to set up branches of the museum. Indian “MWL will feature a replica of the museums at Expo 2020 in Dubai,” he added. Al-Issa thanked Prince Faisal for giving his directives to establish r. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the museum in Madinah and continuously
ʻpaper secretary-general of the Muslim World following up on the project, which is linked to DLeague (MWL) and chairman of the the government support to Islam and Muslims.
News

Drones
seen

once
again
he Kuwaiti authorities concerned with the The daily added, the Indian Ambassador Jeeva Indians have died of suicides caused by hunger employment file have responded to Sagar has told the daily he will see the report and and extreme weather conditions and in some Tallegations in an Indian newspaper 'The then comment on it. The sources said PAM was cases ill treatment and torture by their employers. in
Kuwait
Times of India' in its 1st November issue, 2019 taken by surprise by what the report contains APNRT, a government association for Telugu- that about 121 Indians commied suicide in especially since there were several meetings with speaking Indians said “174 Indians from the Gulf Kuwait due to hunger, abuse and other forms of the Indian Foreign Minister and no such cases of countries died between Jan 16, 2018 and Aug 22, skies suffering between Jan 16, 2018 and Aug 22, 2019, criminal/suicide were informed during the and that 70% or 121 of these Indian workers were reports Al-Seyassah daily. According to reliable meeting. from Kuwait.” 'The Times of India' claimed on its sources from the Public Authority for Manpower The 'The Times of India' quoted in its report that website one migrant worker from Andhra few days after the General (PAM) there is coordination between the “121 bodies of Indians working in Kuwait Pradesh died almost every three days in the Administration of Customs ministries of Foreign Affairs and Interior and a returned to India in coffins during the period in Middle East between Jan 16, 2018, and Aug 22, announced the ban on the import of number of official bodies to respond officially to question.” It said the Andhra Pradesh Non- 2019. A the allegations. drones except with the permission of the Resident Telugu (APNRT) Society said many “Maharat”
to
aid
ASD
Ministry of Interior and the approval of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry there ibah Shata a dentist, with special needs schools were not ready for them, so she launched have been reports of unmanned aerial aircrafts By-polls
seats

for
BJP can acquire the skills required to make an alternative education center to support so-called drones seen in the skies of Kuwait, Htheir way in the world has since 2007 transition and inclusion in mainstream schools. reports Al-Anba daily. Although those who fly he ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained three seats in the helped hundreds of children to access mainstream The Maharat Learning Center was set up after the these drones are believed to be amateurs, Assam Legislative Assembly as its nominated candidates won the AY
will
schools in the UAE, equipped dozens of teachers Dubai-Knowledge and Human Development security sources said they still need permission by-polls in Rangapara, Sonari and Ratabari seats. It was a loss for with inclusion skills and raised awareness of Authority began its inclusion strategy in 2016. from the Ministry of Interior. According to T the Congress its Jania Assembly constituency as the All India United developmental disorders across the region. The head
SP
Maharat, which means “skills” in Arabic, covers reports the Operations Room of the Ministry Democratic Front (AIUDF) nominee was victorious in the by-polls. All four noble work won her the Cartier Women's Initiative the full spectrum of learning and support. Courses of Interior received a report that five award 2019. Shata who moved to Dubai in 2001, Assembly seats in Assam were vacated by legislators successfully to take include one-to-one sessions backed up by unmanned aircraft were hovering over Kuwait govt.
in said that her decision to set up the centres began part in the 14th Lok Sabha elections held in April. By-polls for the seats inclusion support services and shadow teaching. Towers and a similar device believed to be took place on October 21 and the results were declared on October 24 last. when doctors advised her to find a special nursery In a regional first, the courses are conducted in fied with a camera was seen over Sabah Al- The saffron victory was however predicted by the political observers in while she awaited a definitive diagnosis for her both Arabic and English. The center is now
2022 Nasser. The source added without going into advance. Vacated by State minister Pallab Lochan Das (presently a BJP then 15-month-old daughter's condition. working with 10 schools across Dubai to launch details said the incidents were reported to the Parliamentarian), Rangapara constituency in eastern Assam was won by Shata's research drove her to look for applied ABA and transition classrooms. The first branch concerned authority for necessary follow-up, behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy and early abroad has opened in Riyadh, and an online the saffron nominee Rajen Borthakur defeating his nearest Congress rival monitoring and action. intervention, which is considered the best platform to scale up and foster research is on the (Kartik Kurmi) by a margin of 49,599 votes. Sonari seat in the far eastern he ex-Uar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party President evidence-based practice in preparing autistic horizon. part of the State, which was vacated by another minister in Sarbananda Akhilesh Yadav recently said he will head the UP government in Sonowal's cabinet Tapan Gogoi (also a BJP member in Lok Sabha), want to 2022. "The SP family has grown and we will surely form the children for mainstream schools. Most clinics had “I see the business growing globally and becoming T long waiting lists, and the country's special needs BJP nominee Nabanita Handique, who defeated her nearest rival Sushil government in the state in 2022," he said and added that more leaders a household name,” Shata said. “There are too from other parties were keen to join the SP. "People have seen though the centers at the time served both mild and complex Kumar Suri of the Congress by 15,430 votes. Similarly, BJP candidate Bijoy many children around the world struggling with BJP's game of making false promises. The BJP has been fooling people but cases without an academic curriculum. Malakar won over his nearest Congress rival (Keshab Prasad Rajak) in developmental disorders. I want to see them has not delivered. There is anarchy all over. The economy is going lower Ratabari Assembly constituency (in Barak valley) by 24,001 votes, which “I had to make a hard choice between moving to improve and grow to be great people.” Although and the youth are unemployed," he said. Assembly elections in UP are another country or staying and doing something the region lags behind more developed countries, fell vacant as the saffron legislator (served as Assembly deputy- speaker) now due in 2022. Akhilesh Yadav also lambasted the state government for to support her and other children. I decided to acceptance of special needs has grown in recent Kripanath Mallah took part in the general elections. The BJP won two seats 'eating up' one crore jobs by restricting the DJs in the state. He also said open an early intervention medical center in 2008, years. Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi hosted the in Sikkim, first time in the Himalayan State, where the third one by the that the land for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rae in collaboration with an international ABA therapy Special Olympics, and by next year, private chief minister (Prem Singh Tamang alias PS Golay). Tamang's party Sikkim Bareli and Gorakhpur was alloed under his government during 2012- provider,” she said. “We started with eight schools in Dubai will be required to cater to Krantikari Morcha is an ally of BJP. He defeated his nearest rival Moses Rai 2017. He said that the BJP wanted to adopt Swadeshi and now they are children and 10 therapists and grew very fast. By special needs children. of Sikkim Democratic Front by a margin of 8,953 votes in Poklok Kamrang engaged in depriving the backward people of their rights. They cannot 2010, we had children ready for school.” But Assembly constituency. form a BJP government in Maharashtra.

22 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 23 Mahendra
Singh MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL Aditya
Dubey Modern
museum
of
Prophet's
life

International Organization of Muslim Scholars, The museum will house scientific and research has signed an agreement under the patronage of centers, training, development and translation Madinah Governor Prince Faisal bin Salman for centers, galleries, international conference rooms PAM
a museum. It will occupy an area of 20,000 and scientific seminars, and activity centers with square meters in the Knowledge Economic City a global resource. A memorandum of in Madinah and will come up with modern understanding (MoU) has been signed between museum technologies. MWL and Umm Al-Qura University, Surprised
Al-Issa said that the museum with its represented by Wadi Makkah Technology headquarters reflects its importance and merit, Company, to set up the museum, which will highlighting that Saudi Arabia is the land where form the Al-Faisaliah project. by
Islamic civilization began. MWL has received requests from 24 countries, including Indonesia and the UAE, to set up branches of the museum. Indian “MWL will feature a replica of the museums at Expo 2020 in Dubai,” he added. Al-Issa thanked Prince Faisal for giving his directives to establish r. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the museum in Madinah and continuously
ʻpaper secretary-general of the Muslim World following up on the project, which is linked to DLeague (MWL) and chairman of the the government support to Islam and Muslims.
News

Drones
seen
once
again
he Kuwaiti authorities concerned with the The daily added, the Indian Ambassador Jeeva Indians have died of suicides caused by hunger employment file have responded to Sagar has told the daily he will see the report and and extreme weather conditions and in some Tallegations in an Indian newspaper 'The then comment on it. The sources said PAM was cases ill treatment and torture by their employers. in
Kuwait
Times of India' in its 1st November issue, 2019 taken by surprise by what the report contains APNRT, a government association for Telugu- that about 121 Indians commied suicide in especially since there were several meetings with speaking Indians said “174 Indians from the Gulf Kuwait due to hunger, abuse and other forms of the Indian Foreign Minister and no such cases of countries died between Jan 16, 2018 and Aug 22, skies suffering between Jan 16, 2018 and Aug 22, 2019, criminal/suicide were informed during the and that 70% or 121 of these Indian workers were reports Al-Seyassah daily. According to reliable meeting. from Kuwait.” 'The Times of India' claimed on its sources from the Public Authority for Manpower The 'The Times of India' quoted in its report that website one migrant worker from Andhra few days after the General (PAM) there is coordination between the “121 bodies of Indians working in Kuwait Pradesh died almost every three days in the Administration of Customs ministries of Foreign Affairs and Interior and a returned to India in coffins during the period in Middle East between Jan 16, 2018, and Aug 22, announced the ban on the import of number of official bodies to respond officially to question.” It said the Andhra Pradesh Non- 2019. A the allegations. drones except with the permission of the Resident Telugu (APNRT) Society said many “Maharat”
to
aid
ASD
Ministry of Interior and the approval of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry there ibah Shata a dentist, with special needs schools were not ready for them, so she launched have been reports of unmanned aerial aircrafts By-polls
seats

for
BJP can acquire the skills required to make an alternative education center to support so-called drones seen in the skies of Kuwait, Htheir way in the world has since 2007 transition and inclusion in mainstream schools. reports Al-Anba daily. Although those who fly he ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained three seats in the helped hundreds of children to access mainstream The Maharat Learning Center was set up after the these drones are believed to be amateurs, Assam Legislative Assembly as its nominated candidates won the AY
will
schools in the UAE, equipped dozens of teachers Dubai-Knowledge and Human Development security sources said they still need permission by-polls in Rangapara, Sonari and Ratabari seats. It was a loss for with inclusion skills and raised awareness of Authority began its inclusion strategy in 2016. from the Ministry of Interior. According to T the Congress its Jania Assembly constituency as the All India United developmental disorders across the region. The head
SP
Maharat, which means “skills” in Arabic, covers reports the Operations Room of the Ministry Democratic Front (AIUDF) nominee was victorious in the by-polls. All four noble work won her the Cartier Women's Initiative the full spectrum of learning and support. Courses of Interior received a report that five award 2019. Shata who moved to Dubai in 2001, Assembly seats in Assam were vacated by legislators successfully to take include one-to-one sessions backed up by unmanned aircraft were hovering over Kuwait govt.
in said that her decision to set up the centres began part in the 14th Lok Sabha elections held in April. By-polls for the seats inclusion support services and shadow teaching. Towers and a similar device believed to be took place on October 21 and the results were declared on October 24 last. when doctors advised her to find a special nursery In a regional first, the courses are conducted in fied with a camera was seen over Sabah Al- The saffron victory was however predicted by the political observers in while she awaited a definitive diagnosis for her both Arabic and English. The center is now
2022 Nasser. The source added without going into advance. Vacated by State minister Pallab Lochan Das (presently a BJP then 15-month-old daughter's condition. working with 10 schools across Dubai to launch details said the incidents were reported to the Parliamentarian), Rangapara constituency in eastern Assam was won by Shata's research drove her to look for applied ABA and transition classrooms. The first branch concerned authority for necessary follow-up, behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy and early abroad has opened in Riyadh, and an online the saffron nominee Rajen Borthakur defeating his nearest Congress rival monitoring and action. intervention, which is considered the best platform to scale up and foster research is on the (Kartik Kurmi) by a margin of 49,599 votes. Sonari seat in the far eastern he ex-Uar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party President evidence-based practice in preparing autistic horizon. part of the State, which was vacated by another minister in Sarbananda Akhilesh Yadav recently said he will head the UP government in Sonowal's cabinet Tapan Gogoi (also a BJP member in Lok Sabha), want to 2022. "The SP family has grown and we will surely form the children for mainstream schools. Most clinics had “I see the business growing globally and becoming T long waiting lists, and the country's special needs BJP nominee Nabanita Handique, who defeated her nearest rival Sushil government in the state in 2022," he said and added that more leaders a household name,” Shata said. “There are too from other parties were keen to join the SP. "People have seen though the centers at the time served both mild and complex Kumar Suri of the Congress by 15,430 votes. Similarly, BJP candidate Bijoy many children around the world struggling with BJP's game of making false promises. The BJP has been fooling people but cases without an academic curriculum. Malakar won over his nearest Congress rival (Keshab Prasad Rajak) in developmental disorders. I want to see them has not delivered. There is anarchy all over. The economy is going lower Ratabari Assembly constituency (in Barak valley) by 24,001 votes, which “I had to make a hard choice between moving to improve and grow to be great people.” Although and the youth are unemployed," he said. Assembly elections in UP are another country or staying and doing something the region lags behind more developed countries, fell vacant as the saffron legislator (served as Assembly deputy- speaker) now due in 2022. Akhilesh Yadav also lambasted the state government for to support her and other children. I decided to acceptance of special needs has grown in recent Kripanath Mallah took part in the general elections. The BJP won two seats 'eating up' one crore jobs by restricting the DJs in the state. He also said open an early intervention medical center in 2008, years. Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi hosted the in Sikkim, first time in the Himalayan State, where the third one by the that the land for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rae in collaboration with an international ABA therapy Special Olympics, and by next year, private chief minister (Prem Singh Tamang alias PS Golay). Tamang's party Sikkim Bareli and Gorakhpur was alloed under his government during 2012- provider,” she said. “We started with eight schools in Dubai will be required to cater to Krantikari Morcha is an ally of BJP. He defeated his nearest rival Moses Rai 2017. He said that the BJP wanted to adopt Swadeshi and now they are children and 10 therapists and grew very fast. By special needs children. of Sikkim Democratic Front by a margin of 8,953 votes in Poklok Kamrang engaged in depriving the backward people of their rights. They cannot 2010, we had children ready for school.” But Assembly constituency. form a BJP government in Maharashtra.

22 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 23 Sipra
Singh SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COURTESY Ahmad-Jarallah

NEW
TECHNOLOGY Astronauts
can
whet
their
taste
buds
Dreams
of
Persian
Shiite
The experiment has ties with US, Khesuani said, using cells provided by Israeli peacocks
evaporate Russian and Israeli companies was and US food-tech companies. carried out in September by Astronauts eat meat on board that is vacuum- HE scene of millions of Iraqi citizens and missiles, but due to the peoples' On the other hand, millions of needy and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in the packed or dried on Earth but this technology demonstrating on Iraqi streets to call for exasperation. Ironically, most Iranian schemes starving citizens in many Iranian cities called station's Russian segment using a could ultimately be necessary for long voyages lifting the Iranian hand from their in the two Arab countries that Iran considers its for remedying their conditions. 3D printer developed in Moscow. T into deep space, said veteran cosmonaut Oleg country is not strange. Despite the fact that own backyard failed. The Iranian regime never The creators say it is the first to The axes have become so obvious. There is no Kononenko. “If we're going to fly further from economic factors sparked the demonstrations, thought that a day would come when these two longer argument about the present condition of create a small amount of artificial Earth to other planets in the solar system, we the Iraqis want to find the reason behind the countries could rebel against its policies. meat in conditions of the Mullah regime which aimed to transform can't take that volume of food with us,” he said. crises they have been facing since the very first Today, fraud collapsed when the Iraqi citizens the region into the Shiite corridor according to weightlessness. “It's one small “In any case we will have to grow and produce day due to the growing influence of the Mullah nibble for man, one giant bite for raised slogans calling for an end to domination the Persian concept covered with the mask of food onboard the spaceship.” “I think progress regime. of the Iranian regime and dismissal of the exporting the revolution. The Persian regime mankind,” said Yusef Khesuani of is developing very quickly, science and 3D Bioprinting Solutions, the This influence is growing not only in Lebanon Revolutionary Guard. This was so obvious commied all sorts of evil in order to knowledge, and I think this will be possible,” he where Hassan Nassrallah revealed in his recent when demonstrators aacked Iranian accomplish such objectives either by instigating Russian laboratory that created the said. bioprinter. The laboratory is the television speeches that he is the supreme consulates in different cities, the last of which sectarian disputes in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, brainchild of Invitro, a large Creating larger amounts of meat in the Russian leader of the current regime in Iraq dominated was Karbala. Kuwait, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon or planting Russian private medicine company. segment will need more complex equipment by sectarian militias. Such crystal clear The Iranian regime has some influence in Syria, Sunni and Shiite terrorist groups in different than the current printer, said Khesuani. “Then domination is reflected in the recent killing of Iraq and Lebanon. Nevertheless, it has never parts of the world. stronauts can eat a roast dinner thanks The Roscosmos space agency part- we can create not just small objects but big ones, civilian demonstrators on Iraqi streets. obtained respect of the Lebanese or Iraqis. Therefore, whenever the Iranian regime sends to a successful experiment using a 3D financed the experiment as of national made of a large mass of cells.” “I hope we will This scene contradicts all the slogans adopted Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is trapped in messages to Gulf countries and talks about the printer to create meat on the importance. “It was really a breakthrough both continue these experiments.” Other space A for Roscosmos and Russia as a whole,” said by the peacocks of extension arrogance for more Syria searching for a way to get out with the importance of concluding compromises for International Space Station. The bio-printer agencies are also carrying out experiments in than 40 years such as “international arrogance” lowest amount of humiliation especially since safeguarding Hormuz Strait, it looks like a produced beef, rabbit and fish tissue using Nikolai Burdeiny, executive director of the state this area as making human tissue in space is or “Big Devil and Small Devil” referring to millions of Syrians rejected the existence of broke trader searching for any penny in his old magnetic fields in microgravity, said a Russian space corporation, which includes Roscosmos. easier than in conditions of gravity. In July, an America and Israel. Days proved that Iranian militias in their country. Even the records. medical technology company. “For us it was the first experience of American 3D printer was launched to the Khamenei and his men in the regime in Tehran projects (bribe) that the Iranian regime has international scientific collaboration in space,” station which can make human tissue. Whoever experienced the Iranian regime will keep on practising dictatorial arrogance, hinted about will not do. not be deceived by such nonsensical talks believing they are above international This realistic image has prompted 90 percent of circulating in Iran. The only way for the Iranian BUSINESS
questioning. They interfere in the affairs of the Lebanese and Iraqis to rush to the streets, regime to prove good intentions is to stop the other countries. This means they play the role of rejecting the control of the gangs of Khamenei bloodshed in Iraq now and then end all the devil in terms of destabilizing nations. over both countries. The same image exists in relations with terrorism. The Iranian regime A
8.8%
hike
to
Dh125m Undoubtedly, the fraud commied by Iran. The former supporters of Khomeini's must admit its crimes against the Lebanese, inhabitants of the Middle Ages ideology caves revolution against the Shah became part of the Iraqis and Yemenis; otherwise, it will continue harjah Islamic Bank recently reported an 8.8 per cent increase in its in the last four decades against their own prominent opposition. Bzar which represents digging its own grave. profits for the third quarter of 2019 as total income rose and general people or some minorities in some Arab the active political power and cultural elite class expenses slid. Profits for the quarter reached Dh124.9 million, S countries has fallen not because of wars, bales expressed their opposition to the regime openly. bringing profits for the first nine months of 2019 to Dh415.4 million up 4.4 per cent year-on-year. The rise in earnings came as total income rose by 5.8 per cent in the third quarter to Dh467 million, and by 12.4 per cent in the first nine months to Dh1.4 billion. Meanwhile, general expenses inched Getting
your
money's
value lower to Dh147.4 million in the third quarter from Dh150.5 million a year earlier. Earnings per share remained flat at Dh0.14 at the end of September re you bore of with the satellite dish or you then plug into the HDMI port on your from a number of apps, including Netflix and 2019. On the balance sheet side, total customer financing rose to Dh25.4 cable and direct-to-home TV television. There are numerous options in this VLC Media Player. Kashmiri
apples
to
hit
billion at the end of the third quarter, while deposits stabilised to reach category, all offering different features and Aprogramming and services ? Many of Your TV smart can link is to connect your Dh26.9 billion. the best TV shows and movies are now found abilities that let you connect to online services, laptop to your TV using an HDMI cable and shelves
in
UAE
online, and can be had, exclusively via including Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV or mirror the content on your laptop to the streaming services like Netflix, Hotstar, and Chromecast. television screen. You can use the laptop as a ashmiri apples will soon be available in the UAE. In a bid to boost Amazon Prime Video. If all you need is a device to cast content or controller and fetch whatever content you want, the economy of the strife-torn region in India, Lulu Group has You can get a dongle or streaming stick that mirror the screen of your Android smartphone, which can be downloaded, through specific Kstarted exporting the fruit to the huge Middle East market. you could apps or even an Internet browser. However, be Recently, it shipped 10 containers (200 tonnes) of three variant apples to potentially make aware that the downside to using a cable to link the Middle East. do with one of a your laptop to the TV is that everyone looking A delegation led by Lulu Group director A.V. Ananth, along with number of at your TV will be able to see your notifications procurement experts toured farms and processing units to oversee the Chromecast and private conversations. packaging and shipment process. This came after many rounds of meeting 'clones' available If you have a Sony Playstation 4 or Microsoft and discussion which they had with top officials and growers there. The both online and Xbox One, or any of their different variants, you initiative is the result of meetings held during the recent visit of Indian offline. These can use these as smart streaming devices. These Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE, where Yusuffali MA, Lulu plug into the consoles connect to the Internet and have apps Group chairman, and prominent Indian businessmen confirmed his HDMI port on available for many of the streaming services, willingness to procure Kashmiri agricultural produce and set up a logistics your TV and including to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, hub in Srinagar for uninterrupted supply. add Miracast Spotify, YouTube, Plex, and Twitch. The other support, leing The Lulu group has also firm orders for saffron and would be soon advantage is that you could also use the bigger you directly sourcing rice, walnuts, pulses and spices from Kashmir. “This shipment of screen for your games. If you already own a mirror the 200 tonnes is actually just the first lot, we expect this to increase in the gaming console then install the right apps and coming days. Soon we will be having a 'Kashmir Promotion Week' in Lulu screen on your you TV instantly becomes smart. Hypermarkets to popularise the high-quality agriculture produce of the Android state, which I am sure will further boost the export and trade sector in smartphone or Kashmir,” said Yusuffali. cast the screen

24 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 25 Sipra
Singh SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COURTESY Ahmad-Jarallah

NEW
TECHNOLOGY Astronauts
can
whet
their
taste
buds
Dreams
of
Persian
Shiite
The experiment has ties with US, Khesuani said, using cells provided by Israeli peacocks
evaporate Russian and Israeli companies was and US food-tech companies. carried out in September by Astronauts eat meat on board that is vacuum- HE scene of millions of Iraqi citizens and missiles, but due to the peoples' On the other hand, millions of needy and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in the packed or dried on Earth but this technology demonstrating on Iraqi streets to call for exasperation. Ironically, most Iranian schemes starving citizens in many Iranian cities called station's Russian segment using a could ultimately be necessary for long voyages lifting the Iranian hand from their in the two Arab countries that Iran considers its for remedying their conditions. 3D printer developed in Moscow. T into deep space, said veteran cosmonaut Oleg country is not strange. Despite the fact that own backyard failed. The Iranian regime never The creators say it is the first to The axes have become so obvious. There is no Kononenko. “If we're going to fly further from economic factors sparked the demonstrations, thought that a day would come when these two longer argument about the present condition of create a small amount of artificial Earth to other planets in the solar system, we the Iraqis want to find the reason behind the countries could rebel against its policies. meat in conditions of the Mullah regime which aimed to transform can't take that volume of food with us,” he said. crises they have been facing since the very first Today, fraud collapsed when the Iraqi citizens the region into the Shiite corridor according to weightlessness. “It's one small “In any case we will have to grow and produce day due to the growing influence of the Mullah nibble for man, one giant bite for raised slogans calling for an end to domination the Persian concept covered with the mask of food onboard the spaceship.” “I think progress regime. of the Iranian regime and dismissal of the exporting the revolution. The Persian regime mankind,” said Yusef Khesuani of is developing very quickly, science and 3D Bioprinting Solutions, the This influence is growing not only in Lebanon Revolutionary Guard. This was so obvious commied all sorts of evil in order to knowledge, and I think this will be possible,” he where Hassan Nassrallah revealed in his recent when demonstrators aacked Iranian accomplish such objectives either by instigating Russian laboratory that created the said. bioprinter. The laboratory is the television speeches that he is the supreme consulates in different cities, the last of which sectarian disputes in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, brainchild of Invitro, a large Creating larger amounts of meat in the Russian leader of the current regime in Iraq dominated was Karbala. Kuwait, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon or planting Russian private medicine company. segment will need more complex equipment by sectarian militias. Such crystal clear The Iranian regime has some influence in Syria, Sunni and Shiite terrorist groups in different than the current printer, said Khesuani. “Then domination is reflected in the recent killing of Iraq and Lebanon. Nevertheless, it has never parts of the world. stronauts can eat a roast dinner thanks The Roscosmos space agency part- we can create not just small objects but big ones, civilian demonstrators on Iraqi streets. obtained respect of the Lebanese or Iraqis. Therefore, whenever the Iranian regime sends to a successful experiment using a 3D financed the experiment as of national made of a large mass of cells.” “I hope we will This scene contradicts all the slogans adopted Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is trapped in messages to Gulf countries and talks about the printer to create meat on the importance. “It was really a breakthrough both continue these experiments.” Other space A for Roscosmos and Russia as a whole,” said by the peacocks of extension arrogance for more Syria searching for a way to get out with the importance of concluding compromises for International Space Station. The bio-printer agencies are also carrying out experiments in than 40 years such as “international arrogance” lowest amount of humiliation especially since safeguarding Hormuz Strait, it looks like a produced beef, rabbit and fish tissue using Nikolai Burdeiny, executive director of the state this area as making human tissue in space is or “Big Devil and Small Devil” referring to millions of Syrians rejected the existence of broke trader searching for any penny in his old magnetic fields in microgravity, said a Russian space corporation, which includes Roscosmos. easier than in conditions of gravity. In July, an America and Israel. Days proved that Iranian militias in their country. Even the records. medical technology company. “For us it was the first experience of American 3D printer was launched to the Khamenei and his men in the regime in Tehran projects (bribe) that the Iranian regime has international scientific collaboration in space,” station which can make human tissue. Whoever experienced the Iranian regime will keep on practising dictatorial arrogance, hinted about will not do. not be deceived by such nonsensical talks believing they are above international This realistic image has prompted 90 percent of circulating in Iran. The only way for the Iranian BUSINESS
questioning. They interfere in the affairs of the Lebanese and Iraqis to rush to the streets, regime to prove good intentions is to stop the other countries. This means they play the role of rejecting the control of the gangs of Khamenei bloodshed in Iraq now and then end all the devil in terms of destabilizing nations. over both countries. The same image exists in relations with terrorism. The Iranian regime A
8.8%
hike
to
Dh125m Undoubtedly, the fraud commied by Iran. The former supporters of Khomeini's must admit its crimes against the Lebanese, inhabitants of the Middle Ages ideology caves revolution against the Shah became part of the Iraqis and Yemenis; otherwise, it will continue harjah Islamic Bank recently reported an 8.8 per cent increase in its in the last four decades against their own prominent opposition. Bzar which represents digging its own grave. profits for the third quarter of 2019 as total income rose and general people or some minorities in some Arab the active political power and cultural elite class expenses slid. Profits for the quarter reached Dh124.9 million, S countries has fallen not because of wars, bales expressed their opposition to the regime openly. bringing profits for the first nine months of 2019 to Dh415.4 million up 4.4 per cent year-on-year. The rise in earnings came as total income rose by 5.8 per cent in the third quarter to Dh467 million, and by 12.4 per cent in the first nine months to Dh1.4 billion. Meanwhile, general expenses inched Getting
your
money's
value lower to Dh147.4 million in the third quarter from Dh150.5 million a year earlier. Earnings per share remained flat at Dh0.14 at the end of September re you bore of with the satellite dish or you then plug into the HDMI port on your from a number of apps, including Netflix and 2019. On the balance sheet side, total customer financing rose to Dh25.4 cable and direct-to-home TV television. There are numerous options in this VLC Media Player. Kashmiri
apples
to
hit
billion at the end of the third quarter, while deposits stabilised to reach category, all offering different features and Aprogramming and services ? Many of Your TV smart can link is to connect your Dh26.9 billion. the best TV shows and movies are now found abilities that let you connect to online services, laptop to your TV using an HDMI cable and shelves
in
UAE
online, and can be had, exclusively via including Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV or mirror the content on your laptop to the streaming services like Netflix, Hotstar, and Chromecast. television screen. You can use the laptop as a ashmiri apples will soon be available in the UAE. In a bid to boost Amazon Prime Video. If all you need is a device to cast content or controller and fetch whatever content you want, the economy of the strife-torn region in India, Lulu Group has You can get a dongle or streaming stick that mirror the screen of your Android smartphone, which can be downloaded, through specific Kstarted exporting the fruit to the huge Middle East market. you could apps or even an Internet browser. However, be Recently, it shipped 10 containers (200 tonnes) of three variant apples to potentially make aware that the downside to using a cable to link the Middle East. do with one of a your laptop to the TV is that everyone looking A delegation led by Lulu Group director A.V. Ananth, along with number of at your TV will be able to see your notifications procurement experts toured farms and processing units to oversee the Chromecast and private conversations. packaging and shipment process. This came after many rounds of meeting 'clones' available If you have a Sony Playstation 4 or Microsoft and discussion which they had with top officials and growers there. The both online and Xbox One, or any of their different variants, you initiative is the result of meetings held during the recent visit of Indian offline. These can use these as smart streaming devices. These Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE, where Yusuffali MA, Lulu plug into the consoles connect to the Internet and have apps Group chairman, and prominent Indian businessmen confirmed his HDMI port on available for many of the streaming services, willingness to procure Kashmiri agricultural produce and set up a logistics your TV and including to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, hub in Srinagar for uninterrupted supply. add Miracast Spotify, YouTube, Plex, and Twitch. The other support, leing The Lulu group has also firm orders for saffron and would be soon advantage is that you could also use the bigger you directly sourcing rice, walnuts, pulses and spices from Kashmir. “This shipment of screen for your games. If you already own a mirror the 200 tonnes is actually just the first lot, we expect this to increase in the gaming console then install the right apps and coming days. Soon we will be having a 'Kashmir Promotion Week' in Lulu screen on your you TV instantly becomes smart. Hypermarkets to popularise the high-quality agriculture produce of the Android state, which I am sure will further boost the export and trade sector in smartphone or Kashmir,” said Yusuffali. cast the screen

24 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 25 Merajuddin
Siddiqui SPORTS CINEMA'S ROLE Pradeep
Chatri SAUDI
bowlers
compete
in
GCC
games
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light
on
Indonesian
society our of Saudi Arabia's top women bowlers competed in the sixth GCC Women's Games, held in Kuwait recently. Mashael Al- ecently, racist insults aimed at a FAbdulwahid, Ghada Nimir, Amani Al-Ghamdi and Hadeel number of Papuan students ignited a Tarmeen was joined by coach Mohammed Al-Najrani, team administrator series of protests in the Papua province. Walid Al-Dosari and manager Razan Baker, all members of the Saudi R The Indonesian government ostensibly asks the Bowling Federation (SBF). people of Papua to forgive, and relies on a The women bowlers part of a Saudi team of 62 female athletes the security approach rather than in-depth Kingdom's largest-ever women's sports delegation took part in an dialogue. intensive training camp led by British coach Mario Joseph before the Not quite long ago, the 60th anniversary of the tournament. The GCC Women's Games was the third international Indonesian National History Seminar was held tournament in which Saudi women bowlers competed. Previously they in Yogyakarta. The three-day seminar had 176 took part in the Arab Bowling Championship in Cairo in February and speakers, but only seven papers discussed race the women's world titles in Las Vegas in August. and ethnicity. This suggests that race and Al-Abdulwahid said that the GCC tournament was a qualification ethnicity have not been given its proper, central program for the World Cup contest to be held in Indonesia. The four aention in Indonesian historiography. Saudi women bowlers also competed in five local tournaments in Riyadh, Alkhobar and Jeddah this year. The lack of discussion of ethnicity, both in the Indonesian historiography and public Al-Ghamdi won a bronze medal at the tournament in Alkhobar earlier discourse brings direct consequences, including this month. The women bowlers are part of a Saudi team of 62 female racism, which subsequently leads to violence athletes — the Kingdom's largest-ever women's sports delegation taking part in the Kuwait games. Teams from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE are competing in the GCC Women's Games in addition to the host country, Kuwait. SBF Chairman Badr bin Abdullah Al-Asheikh said that a men's team from the Kingdom took part in the Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships at the same time as the Kuwait games. Adel Al-Barqi, Prince Mohammed bin Sultan, Sari Al-Jazaeri, Abdullah sometimes lost to history after they become plurality of cinema-goers based on social class, Al-Dulaijan, Abdulrahman Al-Khelaiwi and Bandar Al-Yabah took part marginalised, and historical writing that ignores dialect and ethnicity. She observes that the under the guidance of coach Mario Joseph. marginalised people is a legacy of colonialism. intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class at the The instinct of the colonialists to have full cinema and the problem of ethnicity within it power over their colonies' territory often became a cause of discrimination at film KUWAIT'S
GESTURE Integrative
sports
plans encouraged them to produce knowledge with screenings. Paradoxically, the discrimination the function of perpetuating power. To support created a strong bond among the natives who lasting governance, the social order constructed watched films. he Olympic Commiee of Kuwait has signed a by the colonialists was based on a division of In Ruppin's study, historian JS Furnivall's bilateral agreement with the Olympic commiees and mass protest. The concepts of ethnicity and identity, including ethnicity. categorisation of community groups is still of Spain, Uruguay and Hungary for further race partially overlap. T British historian Anthony Stockwell has said clearly visible, particularly in the ticket pricing cooperation in the field of sports. The event was held in Some ethnic differences may exist in unalterable that Europeans exploited the differences among categories that divide the three classes Doha, Qatar along with the 1st Association of National characteristics, but others can also exist without Olympic Commiees (ANOC) World Beach Games in indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia to control Europeans, Asians from elsewhere and natives. genetic determinism, according to Thomas Qatar 2019. The Heads of Olympic Commiee of Kuwait The distribution of seats in the cinema was also Hylland Eriksen in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Sheikh Fahad Al-Nasser and Spain's Olympic Commiee based on ethnicity. First-class seating was for Anthropological Perspectives. Alejandro Blanco Bravo took part. Europeans. The second and third class seats The notion of cultural uniqueness and social were for Asians from elsewhere. Indigenous Its main aim for the Kuwait's Olympic movement future, people had a place in the lower class seats. and enhancing skills of the athletes as well as more solidarity is associated more closely with ethnic cooperation between sports clubs and associations by categorisation, whereas biological or genetic Given a large number of seats, cinema owners organizing training camps. They also agreed that Spain traits are more closely associated with race, as would make the most profit if the audience will send a technical team in individual and group games wrien by Chris Smaje in a journal article, Not members, from whatever ethnic background, to Kuwait for a comprehensive field survey of the Just a Social Construct: Theorising Race and could pay for the seats they wanted. This technical conditions and requirements for their Ethnicity. So although members of a race may indicates the flexibility of the boundaries of improvement. not have cultural similarities, they remain part ethnicity and socio-economic class in colonial of the same group. cinemas. Until recently, the social engineering The Olympic Commiee of Kuwait also signed a bilateral of the past continued to be reproduced by agreement with its Uruguayan counterpart headed by Boundary markings of a particular group include language, coverage of a specific academics in the post-colonial period. Julio César Maglione with the aim of enhancing them all. From the Indonesian colonial period, geographical area, political organisation, cooperation for developing Kuwait's sports, especially in he noted that the Dutch East Indian Army In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson religion or other visible or invisible aributes. football. (KNIL) recruited the Ambonese from Maluku contrasts anti-colonial nationalist movements in These boundaries then constitute an ethnic because they were considered to have beer the Indies and French Indochina, which were group distinct from others. Sometimes this martial skills than the Javanese. not based on ideology, politics or social class Nadal
confirms
London
ATP
finals
difference is difficult for outsiders to determine, but rather on geography and ethnicity. so it is necessary to use the perception from The number of KNIL soldiers continued to orld number one Rafael Nadal, recovering from injury, confirmed will within the ethnic group itself. But how does a increase because of the need to conduct compete at the season-ending ATP Tour Finals in London from November boundary of ethnicity arise in a region? Several counter-insurgency operations and maintain W10-17. “Recently I had an MRI in Majorca and despite a slight strain to the ethnic groups in the Indonesian archipelago, for Dutch power in the archipelago. Ethnicity left abdominal muscle I will go to London,” tweeted Nadal, forced out of last week's various reasons (migration, trade, war, religion, during the colonial period was a maer of great Paris Masters by the same injury.” Nadal took over as world number one this week etc), have merged or changed their identity for contrast and formed divisions within the from Novak Djokovic who went on to win the Paris Masters. The eight top-ranked economic and political causes. configuration of a hierarchical society. players in the world gather in London for the ATP Tour Finals where Nadal's world number one ranking will be under threat from Djokovic. The Serb would be sure of This can lead to wider (or narrower) boundaries Dafna Ruppin, who examined the emergence of reclaiming the year-end top ranking should he win the tournament and Nadal fail to for certain ethnic groups. Ethnic groups eroded a modern audience for cinema in Java in the reach the semis. by the more dominant group boundaries are late 19th and early 20th centuries, highlights the

26 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 27 Merajuddin
Siddiqui SPORTS CINEMA'S ROLE Pradeep
Chatri SAUDI
bowlers
compete
in
GCC
games
New
light
on
Indonesian
society our of Saudi Arabia's top women bowlers competed in the sixth GCC Women's Games, held in Kuwait recently. Mashael Al- ecently, racist insults aimed at a FAbdulwahid, Ghada Nimir, Amani Al-Ghamdi and Hadeel number of Papuan students ignited a Tarmeen was joined by coach Mohammed Al-Najrani, team administrator series of protests in the Papua province. Walid Al-Dosari and manager Razan Baker, all members of the Saudi R The Indonesian government ostensibly asks the Bowling Federation (SBF). people of Papua to forgive, and relies on a The women bowlers part of a Saudi team of 62 female athletes the security approach rather than in-depth Kingdom's largest-ever women's sports delegation took part in an dialogue. intensive training camp led by British coach Mario Joseph before the Not quite long ago, the 60th anniversary of the tournament. The GCC Women's Games was the third international Indonesian National History Seminar was held tournament in which Saudi women bowlers competed. Previously they in Yogyakarta. The three-day seminar had 176 took part in the Arab Bowling Championship in Cairo in February and speakers, but only seven papers discussed race the women's world titles in Las Vegas in August. and ethnicity. This suggests that race and Al-Abdulwahid said that the GCC tournament was a qualification ethnicity have not been given its proper, central program for the World Cup contest to be held in Indonesia. The four aention in Indonesian historiography. Saudi women bowlers also competed in five local tournaments in Riyadh, Alkhobar and Jeddah this year. The lack of discussion of ethnicity, both in the Indonesian historiography and public Al-Ghamdi won a bronze medal at the tournament in Alkhobar earlier discourse brings direct consequences, including this month. The women bowlers are part of a Saudi team of 62 female racism, which subsequently leads to violence athletes — the Kingdom's largest-ever women's sports delegation taking part in the Kuwait games. Teams from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE are competing in the GCC Women's Games in addition to the host country, Kuwait. SBF Chairman Badr bin Abdullah Al-Asheikh said that a men's team from the Kingdom took part in the Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships at the same time as the Kuwait games. Adel Al-Barqi, Prince Mohammed bin Sultan, Sari Al-Jazaeri, Abdullah sometimes lost to history after they become plurality of cinema-goers based on social class, Al-Dulaijan, Abdulrahman Al-Khelaiwi and Bandar Al-Yabah took part marginalised, and historical writing that ignores dialect and ethnicity. She observes that the under the guidance of coach Mario Joseph. marginalised people is a legacy of colonialism. intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class at the The instinct of the colonialists to have full cinema and the problem of ethnicity within it power over their colonies' territory often became a cause of discrimination at film KUWAIT'S
GESTURE Integrative
sports
plans encouraged them to produce knowledge with screenings. Paradoxically, the discrimination the function of perpetuating power. To support created a strong bond among the natives who lasting governance, the social order constructed watched films. he Olympic Commiee of Kuwait has signed a by the colonialists was based on a division of In Ruppin's study, historian JS Furnivall's bilateral agreement with the Olympic commiees and mass protest. The concepts of ethnicity and identity, including ethnicity. categorisation of community groups is still of Spain, Uruguay and Hungary for further race partially overlap. T British historian Anthony Stockwell has said clearly visible, particularly in the ticket pricing cooperation in the field of sports. The event was held in Some ethnic differences may exist in unalterable that Europeans exploited the differences among categories that divide the three classes Doha, Qatar along with the 1st Association of National characteristics, but others can also exist without Olympic Commiees (ANOC) World Beach Games in indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia to control Europeans, Asians from elsewhere and natives. genetic determinism, according to Thomas Qatar 2019. The Heads of Olympic Commiee of Kuwait The distribution of seats in the cinema was also Hylland Eriksen in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Sheikh Fahad Al-Nasser and Spain's Olympic Commiee based on ethnicity. First-class seating was for Anthropological Perspectives. Alejandro Blanco Bravo took part. Europeans. The second and third class seats The notion of cultural uniqueness and social were for Asians from elsewhere. Indigenous Its main aim for the Kuwait's Olympic movement future, people had a place in the lower class seats. and enhancing skills of the athletes as well as more solidarity is associated more closely with ethnic cooperation between sports clubs and associations by categorisation, whereas biological or genetic Given a large number of seats, cinema owners organizing training camps. They also agreed that Spain traits are more closely associated with race, as would make the most profit if the audience will send a technical team in individual and group games wrien by Chris Smaje in a journal article, Not members, from whatever ethnic background, to Kuwait for a comprehensive field survey of the Just a Social Construct: Theorising Race and could pay for the seats they wanted. This technical conditions and requirements for their Ethnicity. So although members of a race may indicates the flexibility of the boundaries of improvement. not have cultural similarities, they remain part ethnicity and socio-economic class in colonial of the same group. cinemas. Until recently, the social engineering The Olympic Commiee of Kuwait also signed a bilateral of the past continued to be reproduced by agreement with its Uruguayan counterpart headed by Boundary markings of a particular group include language, coverage of a specific academics in the post-colonial period. Julio César Maglione with the aim of enhancing them all. From the Indonesian colonial period, geographical area, political organisation, cooperation for developing Kuwait's sports, especially in he noted that the Dutch East Indian Army In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson religion or other visible or invisible aributes. football. (KNIL) recruited the Ambonese from Maluku contrasts anti-colonial nationalist movements in These boundaries then constitute an ethnic because they were considered to have beer the Indies and French Indochina, which were group distinct from others. Sometimes this martial skills than the Javanese. not based on ideology, politics or social class Nadal
confirms
London
ATP
finals
difference is difficult for outsiders to determine, but rather on geography and ethnicity. so it is necessary to use the perception from The number of KNIL soldiers continued to orld number one Rafael Nadal, recovering from injury, confirmed will within the ethnic group itself. But how does a increase because of the need to conduct compete at the season-ending ATP Tour Finals in London from November boundary of ethnicity arise in a region? Several counter-insurgency operations and maintain W10-17. “Recently I had an MRI in Majorca and despite a slight strain to the ethnic groups in the Indonesian archipelago, for Dutch power in the archipelago. Ethnicity left abdominal muscle I will go to London,” tweeted Nadal, forced out of last week's various reasons (migration, trade, war, religion, during the colonial period was a maer of great Paris Masters by the same injury.” Nadal took over as world number one this week etc), have merged or changed their identity for contrast and formed divisions within the from Novak Djokovic who went on to win the Paris Masters. The eight top-ranked economic and political causes. configuration of a hierarchical society. players in the world gather in London for the ATP Tour Finals where Nadal's world number one ranking will be under threat from Djokovic. The Serb would be sure of This can lead to wider (or narrower) boundaries Dafna Ruppin, who examined the emergence of reclaiming the year-end top ranking should he win the tournament and Nadal fail to for certain ethnic groups. Ethnic groups eroded a modern audience for cinema in Java in the reach the semis. by the more dominant group boundaries are late 19th and early 20th centuries, highlights the

26 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 27 Ashutosh
Sharma COURTESY EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW the new government of J&K made a landmark decision. Between 1950 now in the hands of RSS ideologues who have no clue what and 1952, 700,000 landless peasants, mostly Muslims in the Valley but independence of the judiciary, integrity of the electoral process and including 250,000 lower-caste Hindus in the Jammu region, became sovereignty of the Constitution mean. This causes one to become Sheikh
Abdullah's
granddaughter
peasant-proprietors as over a million acres were directly transferred to sceptical about the integrity of judicial processes. them, while another sizeable chunk of land passed to government-run In an article earlier this year, you had said the revival of “Kashmiriyat” collective farms. is likely to remain in a nebulous state so long as the destiny of reflects
on
Kashmir,
asks,
“Is
it
time
for
By the early 1960s, 2.8 million acres of farmland and fruit orchards were mainstream Kashmiri politicians and separatist politicians is wrien under cultivation, worked by 2.8 million smallholding peasant-proprietor by the calligraphers in New Delhi and Islamabad. Could you please a
new,
regional
order?” households. This metamorphosis of the agrarian economy had dramatic explain it a bit in the current context? political consequences. This revolutionary measure, which greatly One of the biggest problems that exists within Kashmir as well as improved the human development index in the state, would not have Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Pakistan-administered Kashmir is that, in order to gain legitimacy, any been possible without Article 370. the granddaughter of late Sheikh Abdullah speaks on political actor must enjoy the support and blessings of the establishment. Kashmir, wonders if it is time to think of a new, The political logic of autonomy and Article 370 of the Indian Constitution So, a political actor, particularly a mainstream one, in order to be A was necessitated by the need to bring about socio-economic successful in J&K, requires the blessings as well as patronage of the regional order in the Indian subcontinent. Ahead of October 31, when Union Territories Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh transformations. In terms of land rights, mass education, percentage of Government of India. formally come into existence, Kashmiri-American academic people below the poverty line, female literacy rate, percentage of Separatist politicians in J&K would require the patronage of the and author, Nyla Ali Khan—granddaughter of Sheikh immunised children in the state, we were in a much beer position than Government of Pakistan and the military of Pakistan. No political actor is Abdullah, founder of the National Conference and first Prime most Indian states, including Gujarat (on August 5, 2019). eligible to run for office unless he or she enjoys the patronage of the Minister of Jammu and Kashmir—shared her thoughts with The central government is being accused of treating J&K like a real- Pakistani military and the deep state or high-level elements within the Ashutosh Sharma. She is at present a visiting Professor at the estate project. Even the historic progressive steps taken by first Prime intelligence services. So, the depoliticisation of the indigenous political University of Oklahoma and a faculty member at Rose State Minister of J&K, Sheikh Abdullah, like sweeping land reforms have space and criminalisation of dissident politics on both sides of the border College. “I seriously doubt that the revocation of Article 370 been given a communal colour just like the notion of Kashmiriyat. and 35A will strengthen the foundations of democracy and What are your thoughts? secularism in J&K, nor will the distrust between Kashmiris Many policy makers in the Indian subcontinent, political scientists, and and India lessen,” she said and added, “The BJP government economists have acknowledged the effectiveness and rigour of land is in too much of a rush to erase diversity and homogenise reforms in J&K which benefited underprivileged farmers in all three India. parts of the State the Hindus of Jammu, Muslims of Kashmir, and ”What's your reaction to the arrest of your mother and Buddhist and Shia Muslims of Ladakh. In August 1952, the government sister? On the morning of October 15, my mother, of Kashmir reiterated the commitment to the principles of secularism and Suraiya Abdullah Ali, my cousin, Safia, and several of democracy. my mother's former colleagues aempted to gather at Pratab Park, Srinagar, for a silent protest against the lack We maintained that the special position accorded to J&K could alone be of civil and democratic rights in Kashmir. The entire the source of a closer association between the state and mainland India. group of women was accused of violating Section 144 of process. But time and again, provisions of the Constitution of India have The Constituent Assembly of India took note of the special circumstances the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973, which empowers an executive been breached in Kashmir, and the ideals that it enshrines have been in the state and made provisions accordingly. First, the autonomous magistrate to prohibit an assembly of more than 4 people. My mother forgoen. status for Kashmir as envisaged by the Constitution of India was not a and the rest of the women with her, most of whom are highly educated favour to us but an acknowledgement of the special circumstances that The heads of governments cannot avoid their ethical and moral constitute a part of our past and future. Secondly, autonomy was not and professionalised, were first taken to Kothi Bagh Police Station and responsibilities toward the people of states in a federal country. The lives then to Central Jail, Srinagar. They have been put behind bars for the sin meant for Kashmiri Muslims alone but for the Hindus of Jammu, the of those people cannot be torn asunder by paramilitary forces. After all, Buddhists of Ladakh, and the Sikhs and Christians of the state as well. of aempting to peacefully and silently protest the strong-arm methods secularism means that all people have equal rights irrespective of their of the Government of India and its appendages. faith and religious leanings, and that everybody should respect the Many Indian social media users are celebrating the move with What's your reaction to the government's decision to revoke J&K's other's feelings. hashtags such as #ModiIntegratesKashmir and #OneIndia. BJP leaders special status and turn the state into two Union Territories? How does have made shocking remarks that party workers were excited over the Most mainstream political leaders of J&K have been rendered it reflect on Indian federalism? scrapping of Article 370 as it would now enable them to buy land and irrelevant and vulnerable. What will be the ramifications? marry “fair girls” in Kashmir. Your reaction. The unilateral decision to end the autonomous status of J&K and The revocation of our special status, without consultation with the State bifurcate the state into two federally administered Union Territories are The aempts of BJP members to objectify Kashmiri women are Legislative Assembly, makes it clear that parliamentary democracy in flagrant violations of the Constitution of India. These manoeuvres reprehensible and belie their narrative about women's emancipation. is particularly troubling and has led to the brutalisation of Kashmiri India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir. jeopardise the federal structure of India. The erosion of the rights and Given the high rate of sexual and physical violence against women in the society. It, clearly, has and will continue to have long-term damaging The conscious policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cohorts privileges of a state is an unhealthy precedent to set in a diverse and state of Haryana, legitimised by their quasi-judicial bodies (Khap effects. When excesses, whether they are military, religious or political, to revoke autonomy and downgrade the state and democratic federal country. Panchayats), the sordid and vile comments of the Chief Minister of are not curbed, they have terrible long-term damaging effects. institutions in J&K has further alienated the people of the former State. Haryana and other members of the BJP about Kashmiri women didn't In a federal setup, the best way for emotional integration and national In an interview, your mother told The Telegraph she has lost faith in The exposure of some democratic institutions as a brutal facade has surprise me at all. unity is not over-centralisation of power but its decentralisation, leading instigated disgruntlement and antipathy toward democratic procedures Indian democracy. She advocated Kashmir's independence from India, to restoration of power in the hands of the federating units, which have and institutions in the State. Vis-à-vis Kashmir, Hindutva ideology justifies repression of dispossessed saying that the pro-India constituency is likely to shrink in Kashmir. acceded to be a part of the federation of their own volition. But India is classes and other sections of the Kashmiri populace, subjugation of What's your take? The Narendra Modi government has, as you said, rendered mainstream Kashmiri women, and humiliation of the people with the language of gradually tending to be a unitary rather than a federal state and I do not I am proud of my mother for holding her own and voicing her opinion politicians irrelevant and been sending additional troops to the Kashmir affirmative action and good governance. The dominance of the consider this trend as a good omen for the integrity of the nation. courageously. I believe that the key to the solution of problems that Valley. There is a heavy deployment of paramilitary troops in the Valley fundamentalist order is valorised by the political party that enjoys a brute Amid a communication and security lockdown, Panchayat polls are confront India and Pakistan is diplomatic relations and rapprochement and an information blackout that keeps military operations under wraps. majority in the Indian Parliament. being held despite a boyco announced by the NC, the PDP and the It is an egregious mistake and one that has severe ramifications to allow between the two countries. There is no doubt that the progress and Congress. Did you ever imagine this kind of situation in Kashmir? the military of a nation-state to bludgeon its democratic processes. And I Several petitions challenging Modi government's Kashmir move have future development of both these countries rests largely on their ability to been filed in the Supreme Court. Do you expect the judiciary to step I spoke with my parents the other day. In effect, dissenting voices, even cannot emphasise this point enough. proceed hand in hand with each other and cooperate in joint ventures, in? avoiding all wasteful expenditure, including loss of innocent lives, those of legislators and parliamentarians of opposition parties, have been The Modi government, by insisting on the rigidity of its stance which incurred by them on their mutual confrontation, as that would spell stifled. In doing so, the federal government has ignored the statute of doesn't allow political accommodation, encourages malignant I was encouraged by the petition filed by a diverse group of retired doom. limitations and constitutional checks and balances that should have uncertainty, which helps in the institutionalisation of corruption. How bureaucrats, officers from Armed Forces and others in the Supreme prevented over-centralisation of power in J&K. With the suspension of will the institutional and political paralysis in Kashmir do any good? Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the August 5 Identifying areas of common outlook and interest is a process of growth. the Legislative Assembly of J&K and now detention of legislators, the presidential order revoking the special status granted to J&K by a I firmly believe that in order to address wider political, socioeconomic How do you look at Modi government's claims that Article 370 was a space for young people in Kashmir to reflect on strategies, dialogue, and constitutional arrangement. The petition underscored, “The action of the and democratic issues in the subcontinent requires rethinking decision- major hurdle in the economic development of J&K? When compared accommodation, which would bring every stakeholder to the table, has Union of India, without ascertaining the will of the people either through making between State and non-State actors as well as between State and with several other Indian states, J&K has the best human development been seriously conscripted. its elected government or legislature or through public means such as society. Perhaps it is time to seriously consider a new regional order indicators? referenda, has undermined the basic principle of democracy.” I had never imagined this sort of a situation in Kashmir. As I've said on which would be capable of producing cross-economic, political and There was a reason that autonomy was guaranteed to Jammu and other forums, the Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for rule That is the argument that those of us who subscribe to the ideals of cultural interests among the people of the region. Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. On July 13, 1950, of law, independence of the judiciary and integrity of the electoral democracy and decentralisation would make. Unfortunately, India is

28 | Arabian Times | November 2019 November 2019 | Arabian Times | 29 Ashutosh
Sharma COURTESY EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW the new government of J&K made a landmark decision. Between 1950 now in the hands of RSS ideologues who have no clue what and 1952, 700,000 landless peasants, mostly Muslims in the Valley but independence of the judiciary, integrity of the electoral process and including 250,000 lower-caste Hindus in the Jammu region, became sovereignty of the Constitution mean. This causes one to become Sheikh
Abdullah's
granddaughter
peasant-proprietors as over a million acres were directly transferred to sceptical about the integrity of judicial processes. them, while another sizeable chunk of land passed to government-run In an article earlier this year, you had said the revival of “Kashmiriyat” collective farms. is likely to remain in a nebulous state so long as the destiny of reflects
on
Kashmir,
asks,
“Is
it
time
for
By the early 1960s, 2.8 million acres of farmland and fruit orchards were mainstream Kashmiri politicians and separatist politicians is wrien under cultivation, worked by 2.8 million smallholding peasant-proprietor by the calligraphers in New Delhi and Islamabad. Could you please a
new,
regional
order?” households. This metamorphosis of the agrarian economy had dramatic explain it a bit in the current context? political consequences. This revolutionary measure, which greatly One of the biggest problems that exists within Kashmir as well as improved the human development index in the state, would not have Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Pakistan-administered Kashmir is that, in order to gain legitimacy, any been possible without Article 370. the granddaughter of late Sheikh Abdullah speaks on political actor must enjoy the support and blessings of the establishment. Kashmir, wonders if it is time to think of a new, The political logic of autonomy and Article 370 of the Indian Constitution So, a political actor, particularly a mainstream one, in order to be A was necessitated by the need to bring about socio-economic successful in J&K, requires the blessings as well as patronage of the regional order in the Indian subcontinent. Ahead of October 31, when Union Territories Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh transformations. In terms of land rights, mass education, percentage of Government of India. formally come into existence, Kashmiri-American academic people below the poverty line, female literacy rate, percentage of Separatist politicians in J&K would require the patronage of the and author, Nyla Ali Khan—granddaughter of Sheikh immunised children in the state, we were in a much beer position than Government of Pakistan and the military of Pakistan. No political actor is Abdullah, founder of the National Conference and first Prime most Indian states, including Gujarat (on August 5, 2019). eligible to run for office unless he or she enjoys the patronage of the Minister of Jammu and Kashmir—shared her thoughts with The central government is being accused of treating J&K like a real- Pakistani military and the deep state or high-level elements within the Ashutosh Sharma. She is at present a visiting Professor at the estate project. Even the historic progressive steps taken by first Prime intelligence services. So, the depoliticisation of the indigenous political University of Oklahoma and a faculty member at Rose State Minister of J&K, Sheikh Abdullah, like sweeping land reforms have space and criminalisation of dissident politics on both sides of the border College. “I seriously doubt that the revocation of Article 370 been given a communal colour just like the notion of Kashmiriyat. and 35A will strengthen the foundations of democracy and What are your thoughts? secularism in J&K, nor will the distrust between Kashmiris Many policy makers in the Indian subcontinent, political scientists, and and India lessen,” she said and added, “The BJP government economists have acknowledged the effectiveness and rigour of land is in too much of a rush to erase diversity and homogenise reforms in J&K which benefited underprivileged farmers in all three India. parts of the State the Hindus of Jammu, Muslims of Kashmir, and ”What's your reaction to the arrest of your mother and Buddhist and Shia Muslims of Ladakh. In August 1952, the government sister? On the morning of October 15, my mother, of Kashmir reiterated the commitment to the principles of secularism and Suraiya Abdullah Ali, my cousin, Safia, and several of democracy. my mother's former colleagues aempted to gather at Pratab Park, Srinagar, for a silent protest against the lack We maintained that the special position accorded to J&K could alone be of civil and democratic rights in Kashmir. The entire the source of a closer association between the state and mainland India. group of women was accused of violating Section 144 of process. But time and again, provisions of the Constitution of India have The Constituent Assembly of India took note of the special circumstances the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973, which empowers an executive been breached in Kashmir, and the ideals that it enshrines have been in the state and made provisions accordingly. First, the autonomous magistrate to prohibit an assembly of more than 4 people. My mother forgoen. status for Kashmir as envisaged by the Constitution of India was not a and the rest of the women with her, most of whom are highly educated favour to us but an acknowledgement of the special circumstances that The heads of governments cannot avoid their ethical and moral constitute a part of our past and future. Secondly, autonomy was not and professionalised, were first taken to Kothi Bagh Police Station and responsibilities toward the people of states in a federal country. The lives then to Central Jail, Srinagar. They have been put behind bars for the sin meant for Kashmiri Muslims alone but for the Hindus of Jammu, the of those people cannot be torn asunder by paramilitary forces. After all, Buddhists of Ladakh, and the Sikhs and Christians of the state as well. of aempting to peacefully and silently protest the strong-arm methods secularism means that all people have equal rights irrespective of their of the Government of India and its appendages. faith and religious leanings, and that everybody should respect the Many Indian social media users are celebrating the move with What's your reaction to the government's decision to revoke J&K's other's feelings. hashtags such as #ModiIntegratesKashmir and #OneIndia. BJP leaders special status and turn the state into two Union Territories? How does have made shocking remarks that party workers were excited over the Most mainstream political leaders of J&K have been rendered it reflect on Indian federalism? scrapping of Article 370 as it would now enable them to buy land and irrelevant and vulnerable. What will be the ramifications? marry “fair girls” in Kashmir. Your reaction. The unilateral decision to end the autonomous status of J&K and The revocation of our special status, without consultation with the State bifurcate the state into two federally administered Union Territories are The aempts of BJP members to objectify Kashmiri women are Legislative Assembly, makes it clear that parliamentary democracy in flagrant violations of the Constitution of India. These manoeuvres reprehensible and belie their narrative about women's emancipation. is particularly troubling and has led to the brutalisation of Kashmiri India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir. jeopardise the federal structure of India. The erosion of the rights and Given the high rate of sexual and physical violence against women in the society. It, clearly, has and will continue to have long-term damaging The conscious policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cohorts privileges of a state is an unhealthy precedent to set in a diverse and state of Haryana, legitimised by their quasi-judicial bodies (Khap effects. When excesses, whether they are military, religious or political, to revoke autonomy and downgrade the state and democratic federal country. Panchayats), the sordid and vile comments of the Chief Minister of are not curbed, they have terrible long-term damaging effects. institutions in J&K has further alienated the people of the former State. Haryana and other members of the BJP about Kashmiri women didn't In a federal setup, the best way for emotional integration and national In an interview, your mother told The Telegraph she has lost faith in The exposure of some democratic institutions as a brutal facade has surprise me at all. unity is not over-centralisation of power but its decentralisation, leading instigated disgruntlement and antipathy toward democratic procedures Indian democracy. She advocated Kashmir's independence from India, to restoration of power in the hands of the federating units, which have and institutions in the State. Vis-à-vis Kashmir, Hindutva ideology justifies repression of dispossessed saying that the pro-India constituency is likely to shrink in Kashmir. acceded to be a part of the federation of their own volition. But India is classes and other sections of the Kashmiri populace, subjugation of What's your take? The Narendra Modi government has, as you said, rendered mainstream Kashmiri women, and humiliation of the people with the language of gradually tending to be a unitary rather than a federal state and I do not I am proud of my mother for holding her own and voicing her opinion politicians irrelevant and been sending additional troops to the Kashmir affirmative action and good governance. The dominance of the consider this trend as a good omen for the integrity of the nation. courageously. I believe that the key to the solution of problems that Valley. There is a heavy deployment of paramilitary troops in the Valley fundamentalist order is valorised by the political party that enjoys a brute Amid a communication and security lockdown, Panchayat polls are confront India and Pakistan is diplomatic relations and rapprochement and an information blackout that keeps military operations under wraps. majority in the Indian Parliament. being held despite a boyco announced by the NC, the PDP and the It is an egregious mistake and one that has severe ramifications to allow between the two countries. There is no doubt that the progress and Congress. Did you ever imagine this kind of situation in Kashmir? the military of a nation-state to bludgeon its democratic processes. And I Several petitions challenging Modi government's Kashmir move have future development of both these countries rests largely on their ability to been filed in the Supreme Court. Do you expect the judiciary to step I spoke with my parents the other day. In effect, dissenting voices, even cannot emphasise this point enough. proceed hand in hand with each other and cooperate in joint ventures, in? avoiding all wasteful expenditure, including loss of innocent lives, those of legislators and parliamentarians of opposition parties, have been The Modi government, by insisting on the rigidity of its stance which incurred by them on their mutual confrontation, as that would spell stifled. In doing so, the federal government has ignored the statute of doesn't allow political accommodation, encourages malignant I was encouraged by the petition filed by a diverse group of retired doom. limitations and constitutional checks and balances that should have uncertainty, which helps in the institutionalisation of corruption. How bureaucrats, officers from Armed Forces and others in the Supreme prevented over-centralisation of power in J&K. With the suspension of will the institutional and political paralysis in Kashmir do any good? Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the August 5 Identifying areas of common outlook and interest is a process of growth. the Legislative Assembly of J&K and now detention of legislators, the presidential order revoking the special status granted to J&K by a I firmly believe that in order to address wider political, socioeconomic How do you look at Modi government's claims that Article 370 was a space for young people in Kashmir to reflect on strategies, dialogue, and constitutional arrangement. The petition underscored, “The action of the and democratic issues in the subcontinent requires rethinking decision- major hurdle in the economic development of J&K? When compared accommodation, which would bring every stakeholder to the table, has Union of India, without ascertaining the will of the people either through making between State and non-State actors as well as between State and with several other Indian states, J&K has the best human development been seriously conscripted. its elected government or legislature or through public means such as society. Perhaps it is time to seriously consider a new regional order indicators? referenda, has undermined the basic principle of democracy.” I had never imagined this sort of a situation in Kashmir. As I've said on which would be capable of producing cross-economic, political and There was a reason that autonomy was guaranteed to Jammu and other forums, the Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for rule That is the argument that those of us who subscribe to the ideals of cultural interests among the people of the region. Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. On July 13, 1950, of law, independence of the judiciary and integrity of the electoral democracy and decentralisation would make. Unfortunately, India is

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tried to recount (them), my stress levels would go up again.” Another central character in “Official Secrets” is Martin Bright, the journalist at The Observer newspaper who received the leaked memo and broke the story, and is played by actor Ma Smith. “It was immensely exciting,” Bright recalled of the experience. “It's the journalist's equivalent of scoring a goal at Wembley-geing a front page news story in a Sunday newspaper. “I've subsequently felt that this is an extremely important story that risked being forgoen.” Gun said she was initially hesitant about geing involved in the film, fearing another false dawn after numerous failed aempts to make a movie about the dramatic events that have shaped the last 16 years of her life. But after spending several days forensically recounting it all to Hood, a South African-born director whose other politically driven films include “Tsotsi” (2005) and “Eye in the Sky” (2015), both were convinced of the importance of the collaboration. he person responsible for a dramatic leak States in August and hits cinemas in Britain in “I'm telling this story because I think it raises in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq October before being released elsewhere later in interesting questions about loyalty… to what and now the subject of a Hollywood film the year, tells how and why Gun leaked the and to whom do we owe our loyalty?” the T director said. People's loyalty should be to hopes it will refocus light on the flawed memo and the fallout from it. The British evidence that led to war. Ex-spy Katharine Gun- government eventually opted in 2004 not to “fundamental values as espoused by the the lead character in the new movie “Official prosecute Gun after she pleaded not guilty. It American constitution and its bill of rights and Secrets”-believes the dramatization could also would have been forced to disclose key if you step outside of those, you don't have my damage the partially repaired reputations of the documents and decision-making related to the loyalty.” For Gun, the film reminds audiences UK and US leaders behind the military action. Iraq war. of the apparent lack of accountability for Bush and Blair over the Iraq War. Former British premier Tony Blair and US A mother now based in Turkey, she and her president George W Bush criticized for years husband remained living in the shadow of She also sees a correlation between this and the after starting a conflict that killed hundreds of GCHQ, the government eavesdropping centre prevailing political culture in Britain and the thousands of people. But in recent years they in southern England where she had worked as US, where Trump and British Prime Minister appear to have been able to move beyond the a Mandarin translator, until 2011. “All I wanted Boris Johnson are frequently accused of issue. “This film might go some way to to do was just to go back to normal life, and dishonesty. “If they see that other people redressing that-let's see,” Gun, a former that's what I did,” Gun said, who went on to haven't been held to account, it sets an intelligence translator, ahead of the screening at work as a Mandarin tutor-even coaching former extremely bad example,” Gun said. “And the London Film Festival recently. colleagues from GCHQ. “It took me a long time human psychology says that you just emulate what you see.” The 45-year-old leaked a top-secret US to come to terms with the events… every time I intelligence memo in 2003 which requested Britain's help in spying on non-aligned UN Security Council members to win a key vote authorizing war. The revelations caused a political storm at the time and saw Gun, who eventually admied leaking the document, charged with breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act and nearly end up in prison. She said the movie will highlight again that invading Iraq was justified on the false premise Baghdad had illegal weapons of mass destruction (WMD). “There's no rehabilitating two leaders who have had to admit that the whole WMD thing was an absolute fabrication and a manipulation and a lie,” said director Gavin Hood. “It's terrible, this rehabilitation of George Bush only because (current US President Donald) Trump seems worse… We've Demonstrators
wearing
masks
depicting
former
British
Prime
Minister
Tony
Blair
(left)
and
former
US
got to stop this nonsense.” President
George
W
Bush
protest
outside
QEII
Centre
in
London
on
July
6,
2016,
as
they
wait
to
hear
the
outcome
of
the
Iraq
Inquiry.
“Official Secrets”, which opened in the United

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highlighted tried to recount (them), my stress levels would go up again.” Another central character in “Official Secrets” is Martin Bright, the journalist at The Observer newspaper who received the leaked memo and broke the story, and is played by actor Ma Smith. “It was immensely exciting,” Bright recalled of the experience. “It's the journalist's equivalent of scoring a goal at Wembley-geing a front page news story in a Sunday newspaper. “I've subsequently felt that this is an extremely important story that risked being forgoen.” Gun said she was initially hesitant about geing involved in the film, fearing another false dawn after numerous failed aempts to make a movie about the dramatic events that have shaped the last 16 years of her life. But after spending several days forensically recounting it all to Hood, a South African-born director whose other politically driven films include “Tsotsi” (2005) and “Eye in the Sky” (2015), both were convinced of the importance of the collaboration. he person responsible for a dramatic leak States in August and hits cinemas in Britain in “I'm telling this story because I think it raises in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq October before being released elsewhere later in interesting questions about loyalty… to what and now the subject of a Hollywood film the year, tells how and why Gun leaked the and to whom do we owe our loyalty?” the T director said. People's loyalty should be to hopes it will refocus light on the flawed memo and the fallout from it. The British evidence that led to war. Ex-spy Katharine Gun- government eventually opted in 2004 not to “fundamental values as espoused by the the lead character in the new movie “Official prosecute Gun after she pleaded not guilty. It American constitution and its bill of rights and Secrets”-believes the dramatization could also would have been forced to disclose key if you step outside of those, you don't have my damage the partially repaired reputations of the documents and decision-making related to the loyalty.” For Gun, the film reminds audiences UK and US leaders behind the military action. Iraq war. of the apparent lack of accountability for Bush and Blair over the Iraq War. Former British premier Tony Blair and US A mother now based in Turkey, she and her president George W Bush criticized for years husband remained living in the shadow of She also sees a correlation between this and the after starting a conflict that killed hundreds of GCHQ, the government eavesdropping centre prevailing political culture in Britain and the thousands of people. But in recent years they in southern England where she had worked as US, where Trump and British Prime Minister appear to have been able to move beyond the a Mandarin translator, until 2011. “All I wanted Boris Johnson are frequently accused of issue. “This film might go some way to to do was just to go back to normal life, and dishonesty. “If they see that other people redressing that-let's see,” Gun, a former that's what I did,” Gun said, who went on to haven't been held to account, it sets an intelligence translator, ahead of the screening at work as a Mandarin tutor-even coaching former extremely bad example,” Gun said. “And the London Film Festival recently. colleagues from GCHQ. “It took me a long time human psychology says that you just emulate what you see.” The 45-year-old leaked a top-secret US to come to terms with the events… every time I intelligence memo in 2003 which requested Britain's help in spying on non-aligned UN Security Council members to win a key vote authorizing war. The revelations caused a political storm at the time and saw Gun, who eventually admied leaking the document, charged with breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act and nearly end up in prison. She said the movie will highlight again that invading Iraq was justified on the false premise Baghdad had illegal weapons of mass destruction (WMD). “There's no rehabilitating two leaders who have had to admit that the whole WMD thing was an absolute fabrication and a manipulation and a lie,” said director Gavin Hood. “It's terrible, this rehabilitation of George Bush only because (current US President Donald) Trump seems worse… We've Demonstrators
wearing
masks
depicting
former
British
Prime
Minister
Tony
Blair
(left)
and
former
US
got to stop this nonsense.” President
George
W
Bush
protest
outside
QEII
Centre
in
London
on
July
6,
2016,
as
they
wait
to
hear
the
outcome
of
the
Iraq
Inquiry.
“Official Secrets”, which opened in the United

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