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FRIDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10248 October 21, 2016 Muharram 20, 1438 AH

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In brief Some roads need to be

QATAR | Diplomacy Pakistan president due in Doha tomorrow ‘modifi ed At the invitation of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain is arriving in Doha tomorrow on a two-day off icial visit. During his stay, the Pakistan president will call on HH the Emir for safety’ and HH the Father Emir besides holding several meetings with Qatari By Joey Aguilar government off icials. During his HE the Foreign Minister of Qatar Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani participated in the international ministerial Staff Reporter goodwill visit, the Pakistani head meeting on the future of Mosul held in Paris yesterday. of state will also interact with the members of Pakistani community ome roads in Qatar should be in Qatar and meet the local Qatari modifi ed to be safer for both mo- and Pakistani expatriate business Storists and pedestrians, a Swed- communities. Page 2 ish road expert has suggested. “Public Works Authority (Ashghal) Qatar stresses on uniting might need to retrofi t some of these ARAB WORLD | Confl ict old infrastructures,” Swedish National Nearly 500 dead, food Road Consulting AB managing director running out in Aleppo Jonas Hermanson urged. Iraqis in talks on Mosul “Sweden and Qatar face similar The nearly month-long Russian challenges in their eff ort to substan- and Syrian bombing campaign in tially reduce road fatalities and serious Aleppo has had horrific results with QNA dation of extremist sectarian practic- injuries, particularly in dealing with old nearly 500 dead and food rations Paris Qatar FM meets es, and makes no contribution to the infrastructures,” he told a press briefi ng Jonas Hermanson expected to run out by the end of French counterpart demographic change in Iraq. at the embassy on Wednesday. the month, UN Secretary-General He added that there must be a na- The two countries recently inked a “Qatar has great ambition in this area Ban Ki-moon said yesterday. “The E the Foreign Minister of Qa- HE the Foreign Minister of Qatar Sheikh tional framework that brings together deal to further improve traffi c and road and we have a lot to off er in this fi eld,” conflict continues to reach new and tar Sheikh Mohamed bin Ab- Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani the Iraqis on the basis of citizenship safety in Qatar, which has been “very he noted, adding that Sweden and its awful depths,” Ban told a special Hdulrahman al-Thani yesterday met with his French counterpart rather than ethnicity and sectarianism. receptive” in adopting Sweden’s na- embassy in Doha have developed a meeting of the General Assembly participated in the international min- Jean-Marc Ayrault, on the sidelines of The Foreign Minister pointed to the tional road traffi c safety programme close co-operation with the Ministry called by 72 countries in an initiative isterial meeting on the future of Mosul the international ministerial meeting need for the Iraqi government to work dubbed as ‘Vision Zero.’ of Interior (MoI), Traffi c Department, led by Canada. The air strikes on held in Paris. on the future of Mosul held in Paris on ensuring the safety and protection The approach proved to be highly Ashghal, Hamad Medical Corporation, rebel-held eastern Aleppo since The meeting discussed the provi- yesterday. They discussed bilateral of civilians from off ences contrary eff ective in Sweden, which resulted in and other government agencies. the Syrian off ensive was launched sion of humanitarian assistance to relations and means of boosting them in to human values and international lower fatalities and injuries since its In Sweden, 10 specialists conducted on September 22 have been the trapped people in Mosul, the protec- all fi elds, besides the latest regional and humanitarian law, stressing that it inception in 1997. It aims to achieve a total of 6,500 studies on road fa- most sustained and intensive tion of the civilian population, and the international developments, especially should hold accountable all of those zero deaths or serious injury on road talities, each doing between 20 and 30 bombardment of the five-year war, management of the fl ow of displaced the situation in Syria and Iraq. who engage on sectarian practices to accidents. in-depth studies per year, helping au- said Ban. “The results have been people from combat zones. deter anyone considering a repeat of Hermanson, a keynote speaker at thorities develop eff ective remedies on horrific”, said the UN chief, with It also discussed how to restore sta- such practices. a transport safety forum in Doha this various road issues. nearly 500 people killed and about bility in the city of Mosul and its sur- term battle against IS. He noted to the importance of tak- week, stressed that Ashghal has been In Qatar, MoI is working closely 2,000 injured. Page 3 rounding areas, and areas liberated It also underlined the need to devel- ing into account the post-liberation focusing a lot in making Qatar roads with ministries and other stakehold- from Islamic State militant group in op an eff ective plan to achieve stability stage and how to ensure the return of safer for everyone. ers in its campaign to substantially cut general. in Iraq. displaced people as soon as possible as “Ashghal is looking at these new the number of fatalities on the road, AMERICA | Politics The meeting stressed the need to The Foreign Minister, in a speech well as to secure the region from any constructions, it is doing road safety noted Swedish ambassador Ewa Po- Trump stance deepens synchronise military operations to during the meeting, underpinned the threat. audits, looking at forgiving roads and lano, who lauded the ministry’s initia- liberate Mosul, led by Iraq and in sup- importance of the fi ght against terror- HE the Foreign Minister said that (road) signs, among others,” he said. tive in raising public awareness on the Republican Party rift s port of the international community ism according to a national framework the State of Qatar will spare no eff ort Fortysix 4D microwave radar de- importance of road safety and respon- Several prominent Republicans with a comprehensive political agree- that brings together and unites Iraqis, in helping Iraq, pointing out that Qatar tectors have also started operating sible driving. yesterday denounced Donald ment between the Iraqi actors and the preserves the integrity of Iraqi land, Red Crescent has already begun work- in Mesaieed, detecting various road She said they are also open for a tie Trump’s refusal to commit to relevant regional partners in the long- makes no contribution to the consoli- ing with the UN agencies to help Iraqis. violations and slowing down speed- up with driving schools in Qatar in accepting the result of the ing motorists. Several high tech cam- raising the level of skills and compe- presidential election, and some eras were also installed earlier on major tence of learners who are trying to se- worried his stance might make it highways in Doha. cure a driving licence. more diff icult for his party to hold “We have a deep respect for the Qa- “We are developing a new test proce- onto control of Congress. Trump’s tar National Vision 2030, which has dure and theoretical test for next year refusal, which Democratic rival singled out few very important pri- in Sweden and we are going to show Hillary Clinton called “horrifying,” Call to protect Aleppo civilians orities and one of them is road safety,” this to Qatar authorities in the coming was the standout remark of their Hermanson said. months,” Polano added. third and final debate on Wednesday QNA tinued failure to fi nd a fi nal and fast gets, use of indiscriminate weapons, night. It ratcheted up Trump’s claims New York solution to the Syrian crisis and the massacres, obstruction of humanitar- that the election was being rigged insistence of the Syrian regime to ian convoys, prevention of the entry of against him, and became the latest continue its fl agrant violations of basic needs to the besieged areas and flashpoint in an unusually volatile he State of Qatar has demanded the international law, the situation in the adoption of the policy of forced race three weeks before voters go to the UN Security Council to im- the Middle East will deteriorate more migration and demographic change. Mosul fi ghting forces 5,640 the polls. Page 6 Tmediately intervene to protect than today, warning of more serious She also referred to the Security civilians in Aleppo and other Syrian consequences in Syria’s sovereignty Council periodic meetings on the situ- cities, stressing that the current situ- and its territorial integrity as well as ation in the Middle East, including people to fl ee their homes EUROPE | Space ation in Syria poses the biggest chal- the unity of its people, and the secu- the Palestinian issue, expressing be- Crash landing feared as lenge threat to the international com- rity and stability of the region and the lief that achieving peace in the Middle Reuters people were also fl eeing to the east munity. world. East depends on the confl icts parties’ Geneva from the west of the city after heavy air Mars lander still silent This came in a statement deliv- Sheikha Alia said that despite the commitment to the provisions of the strikes and shelling in the west. Thrusters intended to slow a ered by HE Ambassador Sheikha Alia international community’s eff orts, International Law. Nine hundred families from Mosul European lander as it neared Mars Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani, the Perma- represented by the International Syria Sheikha Alia said that there is no he fi ghting around the Iraqi city district, or about 5,400 people, had been on Wednesday fired for less time nent Representative of Qatar to the Support Group, in order to reach a ces- substitute for the two-state solution of Mosul has forced 5,640 peo- taken to a reception centre in the village than expected before contact United Nations, during the Security sation agreement of hostilities which (Palestine and Israel), living in peace Tple to fl ee their homes in the last of Al-Hood in Qayyarah, UNHCR said. with the vehicle was lost, leaving Council meeting on the situation in was approved by the Security Council and security side by side, and the rec- three days, the International Organisa- Another 240 people from Hamdani- scientists uncertain whether it the Middle East, including the Pales- in its resolution 2268, the Syrian re- ognition of the right of Palestine as an tion for Migration said yesterday, most yah district, east of Mosul, had been touched down safely or broke apart. tinian cause. gime continues its violations and at- independent state on the 1967 borders of them in the last 24 hours. transferred to the Debaga reception Page 10 She said that in light of the con- tacks against civilians and civilian tar- with its capital East Jerusalem. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said centre, it said. Page 4 Qatar said to weigh joining $100bn SoftBank tech fund

Bloomberg visited Doha and other parts of the Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment comment. A spokesman for the Pub- Tokyo-based company agreed to in- raise $100bn and will be held by its London Gulf region in recent months to dis- Fund and SoftBank are looking for lic Investment Fund didn’t imme- vest at least $25bn, and Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund, Deputy Crown cuss investments with global inves- additional commitments of about diately respond to messages seeking may put in as much as $45bn over the Prince Mohamed bin Salman said in tors, one of the people said, asking $30bn, the people said. No fi nal comment outside of regular business next fi ve years with other large inves- April. The Public Investment Fund atar is considering investing not to be identifi ed as the information agreements have been reached and hours. tors making up the rest. made a $3.5bn investment in ride- in the $100bn global technol- is private. The sovereign wealth fund talks may still falter, they said. Gold- SoftBank signed a non-binding Gulf countries are looking for new hailing company Uber Technologies Qogy fund formed by SoftBank Qatar Investment Authority is con- man Sachs Group is working as an memorandum of understanding with sources of income as a plunge in oil in June. Group Corp and Saudi Arabia, ac- sidering an investment of billions of adviser on the structure of the new Saudi Arabia this month to create the prices puts pressure on economic The QIA is the ninth largest sov- cording to people familiar with the dollars, which will help diversify its fund, one of the people said. fund, tentatively named the SoftBank growth and increases budget defi - ereign wealth fund in the world with matter. economy away from oil, the people Representatives for the QIA, Soft- Vision Fund, to raise money to back cits. Saudi Arabia is planning to list $335bn in assets, according to the SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son said. Bank and Goldman Sachs declined to technology companies globally. The the Saudi Arabian Oil Co, which may Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. Gulf Times 2 Friday, October 21, 2016 QATAR Pakistan president arriving in Doha tomorrow

By Umer Nangiana During his goodwill visit, the visit,” a senior offi cial of Paki- Pakistani community members long-term sale/purchase agree- Staff Reporter Pakistani head of state would stan embassy said. during his visit to Doha at mul- ment for LNG. also interact with the members President Mamnoon, the 12th tiple levels,” said the Pakistani Pakistan signed with Qa- of Pakistani diaspora in Qatar incumbent President of Paki- embassy offi cial while add- tar $1bn LNG import deal for 15 n the invitation of HH and meet the local Qatari and stan, during his fi rst visit to Qa- ing that the visit will further years during Sharif’s visit. the Emir Sheikh Tamim Pakistani expatriate business tar will start his engagements strengthen the friendly rela- Recently, Qatargas and Paki- Obin Hamad al-Tha- communities. by visiting a Pakistani school to tions between Qatar and Paki- stan-based Global Energy In- ni, the President of Pakistan “It is a goodwill visit and the meet children from Pakistan ex- stan. frastructure Limited signed a Mamnoon Hussain is arriving president of Pakistan was invit- patriate community. In February this year, Prime 20-year LNG sale and purchase here tomorrow on a two-day ed to visit Qatar during HH the He is also expected to meet Minister of Pakistan Nawaz agreement. official visit. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad several Qatari ministers includ- Sharif visited Qatar on the invi- Qatar in June this year signed During his stay, the president al-Thani’s visit to Pakistan in ing the Minister of Defence and tation of HH the Emir and two a contract with Pakistan to pur- of Pakistan will call on HH the March last year. the Minister of Administrative countries signed a number of chase a number of Pakistan Aero- Emir and HH the Father Emir However, unlike Prime Min- Development, Labour and Social memorandums of understand- nautical Complex’s Super Mush- besides holding several meetings ister Nawaz Sharif’s visit earlier Aff airs. ing in the fi elds of health, radio shak (Profi cient) fi xed-gear basic with various offi cials of Qatari this year, there will be no signing “The president will have an and television, education and trainer aircraft. Qatar hosts more President Mamnoon Hussain will also meet Pakistani community government. of MoUs during the president’s extensive interaction with the research besides concluding a than 115,000 Pakistanis. during his visit.

Official

Al-Kuwari meets QC helps Burkina orphans Italian off icials HE Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari, adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate for the director general post at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural start a new chapter in life Organisation (Unesco), met yesterday with Mayor of the city atar Charity (QC) has in Bobo-Dioulasso and was at- of charitable organisations oper- of Rome Virginia Raggi. held an educational tended by 250 orphans. ating in Burkina Faso, the Social During the meeting, Dr al-Kuwari Qcamp and a recreational “The camp aimed at con- Welfare Department organised a presented his vision on the trip for Burkina Faso orphans solidating the spirit of frater- ceremony to honour outstand- role of culture and heritage as well as a ceremony to honour nity among orphans and train- ing orphaned students for 2016 in international relations, and outstanding orphaned students ing them on practical life by in Bobo-Dioulasso city. also spoke in detail about the for 2016. cultivating sound concepts and The top 100 orphaned stu- importance of and the need The director of operations values, providing educational dents from primary and second- to preserve the heritage and management at QC’s Executive lectures, holding dhikr and Holy ary schools were honoured at the regard it anywhere in the world Department of Operations, Kha- Qur’an sessions, holding cultural event. as the heritage and conscience lid al-Yafei, said Qatar Charity competitions and carrying out Meanwhile, the QC offi ce in of humanity throughout history, organised the camp in Burkina sports activities, which brought Ouagadougou, the capital of stressing the importance of the Faso to “build and strengthen joy and happiness into the or- Burkina Faso, organised a “med- Unesco’s role in co-operation the educational and moral values phans’ hearts,” QC said in a press ical day” for 600 orphans at Al with countries and historic cities of the sponsored orphans”. statement. Noor Medical Centre under the as well as the significance of This would also help achieve The Social Welfare Depart- slogan “Health Right for All”. working on the restoration and the humanitarian and devel- ment organised a recreational A representative of the Islamic preservation of heritage. opment goals of the orphans’ trip to Validiko region in Hui Associations’ Union in Burkina The mayor of Rome thanked sponsorship project implement- state, located in the west of Faso and directors of the Relief Qatar’s candidate for his ed by QC in Burkina Faso, it was Burkina Faso, for orphans spon- Organisation, Al Noor Medi- initiative to visit and exchange observed. sored by QC under the slogan cal Centre and QC attended the views with her, wishing the Al-Yafei thanked the people “Entertaining an Orphan is a Re- “medical day”. Qatari candidate success in of Qatar for supporting the or- ligious and Social Duty”. Besides, The number of orphans spon- his quest. She also expressed phans. the orphans visited agricultural sored by QC exceeds 100,000, eagerness to co-operate with The second educational camp areas and a number of activities and the organisation provides him in the future. was held under the theme “To- were held on the occasion. integrated care as well as month- In a related development, the gether towards a Better Tomor- In the presence of the orphans’ ly fi nancial assistance to orphans Qatar’s Unesco candidate met row”, which lasted for seven days sponsors and offi cials and heads in 34 countries. with Diplomatic Adviser to the Italian President Emanuela D’Alessandro who conveyed the president’s wishes for his success. Dr al-Kuwari presented, during the meeting, his vision for the advancement of Unesco, and expressed his thanks to Italy and the attention it attached to his candidacy as well as the opportunity given to him to reach out to Italian institutions and to meet with Italian off icials. The meetings were attended by Qatar’s ambassador to Italy Abdulaziz bin Ahmed al-Malki and Italian off icials.

Qatar-Cyprus ties reviewed

President of the House of Representatives in Cyprus The ‘Together towards a Better Tomorrow’ programme. Honouring outstanding orphaned students. Dimitris Syllouris met Qatar’s ambassador Sultan bin Ibrahim al-Mahmoud. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between Qatar and Cyprus and Expat jailed ways of enhancing them, in QNL provides free access to ‘Made in Qatar’ addition to issues of common for assaulting concern. roommate Chief of staff in additional 25,000 Arabic titles fair refl ects close Morocco talks Doha Criminal Court has atar National Library that discuss various subjects laboration off ers QNL members sentenced a Bangladeshi HE the Chief of Staff of the Qatari (QNL), a member of Qa- from religious and Islamic sci- high-quality Arabic resources Aman to two months in Saudi-Qatar ties Armed Forces Major General Qtar Foundation for Edu- ences, social sciences, pure sci- that may not have been accessible jail for assaulting his roommate, (Pilot) Ghanem bin Shaheen cation, Science and Commu- ence, engineering, the economy, to the community previously.” who suff ered a broken left arm. al-Ghanem conferred yesterday nity Development, has signed history, languages, and arts and Ibrahim Ammar, director of The court convicted the work- QNA exchange amounted to about with Bouchaib Arroub, Inspector a licence agreement with the literature. The agreement is valid the Obeikan Digital Library, er of launching a premeditated Riyadh QR9.6bn, of which QR8.1bn was General of the Royal Armed Obeikan Digital Library, enrich- until the end of December 2016. said, “This agreement with Qa- attack on his roommate. Qatari exports to Saudi Arabia Forces and Commander of the ing its online resources collec- Obeikan Bookstore is one of tar National Library is one of the The victim fi led a complaint and QR1.5bn was Qatari imports Southern Zone in Morocco. tion with an additional 25,000 the largest libraries in the Arab most important steps taken by with the police, alleging that the eneral Manager of Qatar from Saudi Arabia. They discussed issues of Arabic titles to benefi t students, world and the Middle East. It Obeikan Digital Library due to defendant attacked him with an Chamber of Commerce He pointed out that the common concern and reviewed researchers and the wider com- extends to 20 branches across QNL’s huge potential and dis- iron bar and broke his arm. He said Gand Industry Salih Ha- number of Saudi companies bilateral relations between munity of Qatar. Saudi Arabia, with more than tinctive cultural relations with he was sleeping in the room when mad al-Sharqi said that holding operating in Qatar and 100% the two countries and ways of The new online database will 100,000 Arab and foreign titles educational and cultural institu- the defendant arrived and woke the ‘Made in Qatar’ fair for the owned by Saudis reached 315, enhancing them, especially in give QNL members the oppor- available to readers, researchers tions in Qatar and the world.” him up. The defendant, however, fi rst time in Saudi Arabia is a re- while the number of companies military fields. tunity to use the Ethraa Knowl- and students. It also includes a “Obeikan Digital Library aims accused the victim of pouring sult of the fruitful and positive with Qatari partners reached edge database, which includes specialised library for children. to enhance Arabic online content ketchup on his bed, which the lat- co-operation between Qatar and 303 with a total capital of Obeikan original publications Saadi al-Said, director of by publishing more original ma- ter denied, and a quarrel ensued. Saudi Arabia. QR1.234bn. Qatar-Red Crescent and a range of Arabic content by administration and planning terials and by supporting other The colleagues of both persons This came yesterday in a The fair is a platform for publishers in the Mena region. at QNL, said, “Working with publishing houses interested in present at the time of the inci- speech during a press conference gathering factories, companies, ties discussed These new resources include e- Obeikan Digital Library will help the Arabic language, not only in dent took the victim to a hospital held for promoting the fair slated small- and medium-sized en- books, manuscripts, periodicals, QNL to expand the Arabic content the Mena region, but around the for treatment. He later went to the for November 6 to 9 in the Saudi terprises (SMEs) in Qatar under HE the Secretary-General of theses, magazines and journals in the online databases. This col- world,” Ammar added. police to fi le a complaint. capital Riyadh. a single roof, in order to pro- the Foreign Ministry Dr Ahmed Al-Sharqi said that the selec- mote the Qatari products, and bin Hassan al-Hammadi met tion of Saudi Arabia to be the to strengthen the public-private the Undersecretary General for fi rst foreign venue for the fair, sector partnership, al-Sharqi Partnerships at the International stems from the unique relation- said. Federation of Red Cross and Red Court hearing GCC citizen’s rental dispute case ship between the two countries, He pointed out that the exhi- Crescent, Jemilah Mahmood, in in addition to Saudi Arabia’s dis- bition will be held on an area of Doha yesterday. court is hearing a case for three years, with a monthly not be able to continue with the credit in his bank account. tinctive position, at the regional 10,000 sq m, with the partici- They discussed ways to enhance wherein a young GCC rent of QR30,000. contract. However, the owner insisted and international levels. pation of more than 200 Qatari co-operation between Qatar Acitizen is involved in a However, he wanted to ter- He also expressed fear that that the contract be upheld by With regard to the volume of companies and factories, featur- and the International Federation dispute with a house owner over minate the contract due to the the cheques he had given to the tenant. trade exchange between Qatar ing a distinguished presence of of Red Cross and Red Crescent termination of a rent contract. high rent and told the court that the owner would bounce be- The case is still being heard in and Saudi Arabia, al-Sharqi said women, productive families, and Societies. The man had rented a house he was still a student and would cause he did not have enough court. that in 2015 the volume of trade SMEs. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 3 REGION/ARAB WORLD

Saudi prince’s execution is Missiles and air strikes seen as sign of equality

Reuters strain Yemen ceasefi re Riyadh Reuters Aden audi social media users interpret the ex- ecution of an Al Saud prince as a sign of Sequality under Islamic law. 72-hour truce in Yemen Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was found came under pressure yester- guilty of shooting dead another Saudi na- Aday when missiles fi red from tional during a brawl and was executed after a Yemen injured civilians in southern royal order by the Custodian of the Two Holy Saudi Arabia, according to an Arab Mosques King Salman, the interior ministry coalition which launched air strikes said on Tuesday. that Iran-allied Houthi fi ghters said Members of the ruling family have only killed three people. rarely been executed. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab al- A prince who assassinated his uncle, King lies have been fi ghting on behalf of Faisal, was beheaded in 1975 and a princess an exiled Yemeni government against was shot dead for adultery two years later. the Houthi group, which controls the In 2004, a young prince who had gunned capital Sanaa. down an acquaintance was pardoned by the A ceasefi re brokered by the UN took victim’s father at the last minute, after arriv- eff ect late on Wednesday, raising hopes ing at Riyadh’s execution square. of an end to a war that has devastated News of the execution, which comes as the the Arab world’s poorest country and government is asking Saudis to accept unprec- left it on the verge of famine. edented austerity, was welcomed by Saudis on- That brought Sanaa its fi rst night line, including royal family members who said without air strikes in nearly three King Salman had been “decisive” and “fair”. months and the truce was generally Khalid al-Saud, an academic and royal fam- holding across the Arabian Peninsula ily member, wrote on a Twitter account: “This state, residents and offi cials said. is the law of God Almighty, and this is the ap- But rockets were fi red by the the proach of our blessed nation.” Houthi group at Jazan and Najran in “A just ruler of the Islamic nation rules by Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-led military the legitimacy of Islam,” tweeted Saudi jour- coalition said in a statement. nalist Nasser bin Fareon. “(In all) 43 violations were com- Social media users shared a clip of a previ- mitted along the border...in which ous speech by King Salman to Saudi offi cials snipers and various weapons were telling citizens they should not fear suing royal used, including missiles,” it said. family members if they had suff ered injustice. The Houthis said they had Mohamed al-Masloukhi, the imam of the launched attacks on Saudi military Safa mosque in Riyadh, said the family of the camps across the border over the victim had declined to accept hundreds of past two days and that a coalition millions of riyals in “blood money”. airstrike yesterday killed three civil- “God does not diff erentiate between a mer- ians in northern Saada province. chant and a poor man, nor between a prince In the southern city of Zinjibar, Al Boys walks pass a graffiti of artist Murad Subai, depicting a child suffering from malnutrition in a coffin, along a street in Sanaa. The graffiti is part of a and a citizen,” he tweeted. Qaeda militants ambushed a check- campaign by several artists titled ‘Ruins’ which focuses on the issue of malnutrition, hunger and disease because of war. Saudi offi cials say the judicial system is im- point and killed fi ve soldiers and in- partial. jured several others, a local offi cial (AQAP) have exploited the chaos to The Arab coalition said in a state- bility for extension if it holds, open- Several previous ceasefi res have Prominent commentator Jamal Khashoggi told Reuters – a sign of how the war expand their presence in southern ment yesterday it remained com- ing the way for aid supplies to isolat- failed to pave the way for an end to told Reuters Saudis were receptive to the deci- has spiralled out of control. towns and cities close to one of the mitted to the truce despite “ongoing ed regions where hunger and disease the confl ict, although they have sig- sion. “It’s a sign of respect to the Shariah. Peo- Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula world’s busiest shipping lanes. violations”. The truce has the possi- including cholera have spread. nifi cantly slowed fi ghting. ple like that,” he said.

Palestinian ‘stonethrower’ Gaddafi ’s ‘Green Book’ goes from manifesto to mockery shot dead by Israeli troops AFP pressed all dissent and fostered the dis- Gaddafi was killed by rebel fi ghters “masterpiece”. Libyans often point Tripoli content that led to the 2011 uprising. in his hometown of Sirte on October with derision to slogans found which “Just before the 2011 revolt, regime 20, 2011, but residents of the capital Gaddafi presented as original procla- AFP rudimentary weapons, have killed security agents gave me copies of the have not forgotten their disdain for the mations, including: “Woman and man Jerusalem at least 35 Israelis and two visiting ive years since Muammar Gaddafi Green Book. They told me to hand it out strongman or his once-infallible book. are human” and “Woman has periods, Americans in mainly street attacks. was killed in a Nato-backed up- to people around me,” says Ahmad. Sitting behind the counter at his man does not.” At least 223 Palestinians have died Frising, the strongman’s quixotic “I got rid of them recently because Tripoli book store, shop owner Ab- Despite the painful memories the sraeli troops yesterday shot dead in violent incidents in the West Bank, Green Book – once Libya’s sacred and I was afraid it could get my relatives in dessalam says he got rid of all the copies book still evokes, some people have a Palestinian whom they sus- East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. ever-present scripture – is now ridi- trouble,” adds the father of eight. he once had. held on to a few copies for posterity. Ipected had thrown rocks at them Of those, 151 were identifi ed by Is- culed in the confl ict-hit nation. During his chaotic rule, slogans from “My bookshop would be burned “I collected all the editions, they are as they patrolled a main West Bank raeli authorities as assailants, while Published in 1976, it became Libya’s Gaddafi ’s eccentric world view perme- down instantly if I off ered that book for scattered here and there and over the road, the military said. others were killed during clashes and unoffi cial “constitution”, announcing ated every aspect of Libyan daily life. sale,” he tells AFP in a hushed voice, eyes years my family has hidden them,” says The Palestinian health ministry protests. a “third way” between capitalism and In homes, phrases from the book ap- scanning the aisles for eavesdroppers. Maha, a travel agent in her 50s. named him as 15-year-old Khaled Palestinians have accused Israel socialism that shaped political, eco- peared on food labels, since everything “No one here is a supporter of the In spite of his celebrated pomp, Bahar from Beit Umar, near the city of using excessive force and say that nomic and social life in the North Afri- was imported and packaged by the Gaddafi regime but just the fact of pos- Gaddafi never built a statue of him- of Hebron in the southern part of the some of those killed posed no threat can state for close to four decades. state, while in schools they were a key sessing the text...could have disastrous self, so demonstrators during the 2011 occupied West Bank. or had no intention of attacking any- “The Green Book followed us wher- part of curricula. consequences,” said Abdessalam, who uprising looking for an icon to destroy “Rocks were hurled at the sol- one. ever we went, at school, on television Quotations from the Green Book also also declined to give his surname. gathered and set on fi re copies of the diers, wounding one of them lightly. In some cases, Israel has opened and in the street,” says Ahmad, a local adorned the walls in public buildings Since Gaddafi ’s ousting, Libya has Green Book. The force responded to the assault, investigations into whether exces- journalist, who only gave his fi rst name and even the stationery in offi ces. descended into chaos, with rival forces “This book has been witness to one calling on a suspect to halt, fi ring sive force was used. due to the sensitive topic. Gaddafi maxims such as “compulsory vying to control territory and the coun- of the most terrible pages in my coun- warning shots into the air and then Palestinian leaders say the assail- Gaddafi unveiled his much-heralded education is imposed ignorance” were try’s vital oil wealth, and rival adminis- try’s history,” says Maha as she sips her towards the suspect, resulting in his ants are acting out of desperation “third way” seven years after he led a scrawled on the sides of buildings and trations claiming to be the legitimate, small cup of thick, black coff ee. death,” an army statement said. over the collapse in 2014 of peace group of Libyan army offi cers in a 1969 shops had to strictly adhere to the text’s post-uprising government. Ahmad adds: “The Green Book has “The incident is under review,” it talks and the expansion of Israeli coup d’etat that toppled the monarchy. prescribed phrasing or face punishment. Even if the colour has faded, graffi ti disappeared from circulation but you added. settlements on occupied land that His vision, mixing elements of pan- “Most of us didn’t read it and the mocking Gaddafi ’s Green Book can still can still see its eff ects. The misfortunes Over the past year, Palestinians, Palestinians seek for an independent Arabism and anti-colonialism, quickly parts that we knew about we couldn’t been found on the walls along Tripoli’s we live with today are the result of the many acting alone and often using state. gave way to despotic rule that sup- understand,” jokes Ahmad. seafront, with one poking fun at the thinking spread by that book.” Use truce to leave Aleppo, junta tells local residents

AFP The truce was initially de- More than 250,000 civilians AFP said they were eager to leave Aleppo scribed as lasting just 11 hours, have been trapped in the rebel- but wanted more reassurance but Russia’s Defence Minister held east of the city under near- they would be safe. Sergei Shoigu announced yes- continuous siege since mid-July. “I don’t want to risk my life or “humanitarian pause” in terday afternoon it would be ex- The Syrian army has said it is my family’s by being among the the Syrian army’s Rus- tended. opening eight corridors for ci- fi rst to leave,” said Mohamed Shay- Asian-backed assault on “A decision was made to ex- vilians to leave, two of which ah, an unemployed father of four. Aleppo took eff ect yesterday, but tend the ‘humanitarian pause’ by can also be used by rebel fi ghters Amnesty International mean- despite a drop in violence there 24 hours,” he said in a statement, provided they leave behind their while denounced the temporary was little sign residents were leaving unclear exactly when the weapons. truce as “woefully inadequate” heeding calls to leave. truce was now scheduled to end. The Russian defence ministry and urged the UN General As- Moscow said the truce would Syrian soldiers were calling was streaming live video from sembly to act to ensure an end to be extended by 24 hours, and the yesterday through loudspeak- several of the corridors, showing the siege of Aleppo and attacks UN said it hoped to carry out the ers for residents to “seize the waiting ambulances and buses on civilians. fi rst medical evacuations from chance” to evacuate. along empty roads. More than 2,000 people have Aleppo today, after getting clear- Russia announced the cease- An AFP photographer in gov- been wounded since the army ance from all warring parties. fi re earlier this week, amid grow- ernment-held west Aleppo said launched a new off ensive last The unilateral ceasefi re began ing international pressure over eight injured people had crossed month aiming to take the entire at 8am (0500 GMT) with the aim its support for Syrian President via the Bustan al-Qasr crossing city, according to the United Na- of allowing civilians and fi ghters Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to despite the fi ghting. tions. to evacuate the city’s opposition- recapture the city. But AFP correspondents in the Some 400 have been killed. controlled east. More than 300,000 people east visited four crossing points The UN’s humanitarian task- Shortly after the pause began, have been killed since Syria’s and saw no movement through force chief Jan Egeland said yes- gunfi re and artillery exchanges confl ict began in March 2011, and them. terday that Russia, the Syrian erupted around one crossing the violence in Aleppo has been Yasser Youssef of the Nured- government, and rebels had giv- point, with state news agency described as some of the worst of dine al-Zinki rebel group said en permission for medical evacu- SANA saying “terrorist groups” the war. opposition fi ghters wanted ations from Aleppo to start today. had targeted the area “in an at- Russia says the pause is a “nothing to do” with the Russian “We hope that the fi rst medi- Syrian rebel fighters and their families arrive on the outskirts of Idlib, bordering the Hama province, tempt to hinder the humanitar- “goodwill gesture” but rebel initiative. cal evacuations can take place to- following their evacuation from a besieged town southwest of the Syrian capital. ian pause”. groups have said they will not “Who are they to decide to morrow,” he said, adding that the But by afternoon, the clashes abandon their posts and many ci- displace the Syrian people who UN hoped to also deliver food to row but there was no confi rma- tion, with Washington saying the cusation as propaganda and de- had subsided and the east was vilians fear falling into the hands rebelled against the dictator As- the besieged east. tion from Russia. bombardment could amount to a manded that rebels break ranks calm, though the streets were of the regime forces that sur- sad?” he asked. He said Moscow had agreed to The civilian toll in Aleppo has war crime. with the former Al Qaeda affi li- empty. round Aleppo. Some civilians interviewed by extend the truce through tomor- drawn international condemna- Moscow has dismissed the ac- ate, the Fateh al-Sham Front. Gulf Times 4 Friday, October 21, 2016 ARAB WORLD Mosul assault going ‘faster than planned’

Reuters “After Bartella is Mosul, God tion that began on Monday. Baghdad willing.” Mosul is the last big strong- A cloud of black smoke hold held by Islamic State in Iraq wreathed some frontline villages, and around fi ve times the size of he off ensive to seize probably caused by oil fi res, a any other city the group has held. back Mosul from Islamic tactic the militants use to escape The push to capture it is ex- TState is going faster than air surveillance. pected to become the biggest planned, Iraq’s prime minister Iraqi state TV later quoted a battle fought in Iraq since the said yesterday, as Iraqi and Kurd- CTS spokesman saying about 80 2003 US-led invasion. ish forces launched a new mili- insurgents were killed in fi ght- The United Nations says Mo- tary operation to clear villages on ing in Bartella and 11 suicide car- sul could require the biggest hu- the city’s outskirts. bombs destroyed. manitarian relief operation in the Howitzer and mortar fi re The fi ghting around the Iraqi world, with worst-case scenario started at dawn, hitting a group city of Mosul has forced 5,640 forecasts of up to 1mn people be- of villages held by Islamic State people to fl ee their homes in the ing uprooted by the battle. about 10km to 20km from Mosul, last three days, most in the past Some 1.5mn residents are still while helicopters fl ew overhead, 24 hours, the International Or- believed to be inside the city, and according to Reuters reporters at ganization for Migration said Islamic State fi ghters have a his- two frontline locations north and yesterday. tory of using civilians as human east of Mosul. Prime Minister Haidar al- shields. To the sound of machine gun fi re Abadi, addressing anti-Islamic French Foreign Minister Jean- An Iraqi soldier drapes the national flag after the liberation yesterday of Khalidiya village from Islamic State militants south of Mosul. and explosions, dozens of black state coalition allies meeting Marc Ayrault said controls were Humvees of the elite Counter Ter- in Paris by a video link, said: being put in place to check ex- “They are giving targets for north of Mosul, where a Kurdish of the most ethnically and reli- the PMF for behaving badly, this rorism Service (CTS), mounted “The forces are pushing towards tremists were not trying to insert their mortars,” he said. column of armoured vehicles was giously diverse parts of Iraq, and is not true...They are part of the with machine guns, headed to- the town more quickly than we themselves among those fl eeing “Liberating Mosul is impor- advancing in the dusty desert Western countries backing the Iraqi forces and will be disbanded wards Bartella, an abandoned thought and more quickly than Mosul. tant for the security of Kurdis- terrain. assault are concerned that com- afterwards.” Christian village just east of Mosul. we had programmed.” On the northern front, Kurdish tan,” Awni added. “We will have Daesh is an Arabic acronym for munities feel safe as the govern- Prime Minister Abadi said the Militants were using suicide Islamic State denied that gov- forces known as peshmerga shot to fi ght them in the mind as well, Islamic State, also known as ISIS ment forces advance, to avoid Mosul advance demonstrated that car-bombs, roadside bombs and ernment forces had advanced. down a small drone that had fl own to defeat their ideology.” or ISIL, which swept into Mosul revenge attacks or ethnic and Iraqis from all groups could fi ght snipers to resist the attack, and Under the headline “The cru- over from the Islamic State lines. So far, advancing Kurdish troops and other parts of northern Iraq sectarian bloodletting as fi ghters in common cause, noting that it were pounding surrounding ar- sade on Nineveh gets a lousy It was not clear if the drone have moved through villages out- in 2014 and has used extreme are driven out. was the fi rst time in 25 years that eas with mortars, a CTS com- start,” the group’s weekly online was carrying explosives or being side the city, fi nding abandoned violence to administer a self- Western allies have sought to troops from the Baghdad govern- mander said. magazine Al Nabaa said it repelled used for reconnaissance. houses rigged with explosives and proclaimed caliphate there and in limit the role of Shia militia fi ght- ment had entered territory con- Hours later, the head of Iraq’s all attacks on all fronts, killing “There have been times when underground bunkers. parts of neighbouring Syria. ers known as the Popular Mobi- trolled by the Kurdish region to Special Forces, Lieutenant Gen- dozens in ambushes and suicide they dropped explosives,” said In some cases, Islamic State “The objectives are to clear a lization Forces, which human fi ght alongside the peshmerga. eral Talib Shaghati, told report- attacks and destroying dozens of Halgurd Hasan, one of the Kurd- fi ghters appear to have fl ed with- number of nearby villages and rights groups say have carried “Our war today in Mosul is ers at a command centre near the vehicles including tanks. ish fi ghters deployed in a position out putting up a fi ght. secure control of strategic areas out killings and kidnappings of an Iraqi war conducted by Iraqis frontline that troops had sur- A US-led coalition that in- overlooking the plain north of “We did not face resistance to further restrict ISIL’s move- Sunnis in other areas freed from for Iraqis and for the defence of rounded Bartella and entered the cludes France, Italy, Britain, Mosul. from Daesh. They are retreating ments,” the Kurdish general mili- Islamic State. Iraq’s territory,” he said. centre of the village. Canada and other Western na- Ali Awni, a Kurdish offi cer, to Mosul and to Syria. They gave tary command said in a state- After the Paris meeting, Iraq’s “Full Iraqi unity is shining Two soldiers were hurt and tions is providing air and ground kept a handheld radio receiver no resistance,” peshmerga soldier ment announcing the launch of Foreign Minister Ibrahim al- through and more than ever none killed, and they had killed at support to the forces that are open on a frequency used by Is- Ahmed Midhat Abdullah told yesterday’s operations. Jaafari off ered reassurance: “In showing the unity to vanquish least 15 militants, he said. closing in on the city in an opera- lamic State. Reuters in the village of Nawaran, The area around Mosul is one answer to those who criticise terrorism.” Hariri endorses Aoun to end political deadlock

Reuters Beirut

ebanon’s former prime minis- ter Saad al-Hariri said yesterday Lhe would back Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun to become president, a step that may help resolve the coun- try’s political deadlock but which still faces considerable opposition. “This decision comes from the need to protect Lebanon and the state and the people... but it is a decision that depends on agreement,” he said in a speech, describing Aoun as “the only option left”. Lebanon has endured a protracted political crisis since parliament failed to elect a new president more than two years ago, paralysing government, causing a breakdown in many basic services and reviving fears of a slide back towards civil war. However, Aoun will still face big ob- stacles towards his election as presi- dent by the country’s parliament, in- cluding opposition from parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, leader of the Shia Amal movement which is also an ally of Hezbollah. Four prominent members of Hariri’s Future Movement bloc in parliament, including former prime minister Fouad Siniora, told reporters they would not vote for Aoun. Telecom Minister Boutros Harb, an ally of Hariri’s from a diff erent party, said the same. Still, the endorsement by Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister Saad Hariri greets former general Michel Aoun Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim poli- following a press conference in Beirut yesterday. tician who has long opposed Aoun’s Shia ally Hezbollah, represents an two-thirds quorum needed for a vote. 14” alliance against Hezbollah and its important step towards breaking the Under Lebanon’s power-sharing ar- allies, which toppled his earlier admin- prolonged standoff between Lebanon’s rangement among its main sects, the istration from 2009-11 by resigning political leaders. presidency is reserved for a Maronite from it en masse. Hariri hopes to become prime Christian, the premiership for a Sunni Lebanon’s political fractures have minister again if Aoun becomes pres- Muslim and the speaker of parliament been deepened by the war in neigh- ident. for a Shia. bouring Syria, in which Hezbollah has Hezbollah, Lebanon’s most power- The last parliamentary election took militarily supported President Bashar ful political player, released a state- place in 2009 and later scheduled ones al-Assad. ment welcoming moves to fi ll the pres- were postponed because of a failure Hariri has accused Assad of being idency. by the sitting parliament to agree on a behind his father’s death, and gave evi- “In our discussions, we have fi nally new electoral law. dence to an international court trying reached common ground with General Aoun, a former army commander Hezbollah members charged with in- Michel Aoun... He does not want the in his 80s, led one of two rival govern- volvement in the killing. state to fall, and neither do we,” Hariri ments during Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil But he has also said he is prepared to said, pointing to the political dangers war before the Syrian army forced him share power alongside his rivals. facing Lebanon due to the civil war in into exile. The former prime minister’s posi- neighbouring Syria. His main Christian rival for the tion as Lebanon’s leading Sunni poli- Parliament will convene on October presidency, Samir Geagea, endorsed tician has been shaken, however, by a 31 for a session to elect the president, the him earlier this year. fi nancial crisis at his Saudi-based con- 46th such sitting since the term of the Hariri, 46, son of the former prime struction business, raising concerns last president, Michel Suleiman, expired minister Rafi k al-Hariri who was as- he may have lost the support of the in 2014, each of which failed to gain the sassinated in 2005, leads the “March wealthy state. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 5 AFRICA

Arms deals with Europe, Ethiopia arrests 1,645 in Israel fuel S Sudan crackdown on violence war: UN Reuters the government body formed to Activists and opposition mand Post, referring to areas over to investors with minimal a region south of the capital have Addis Ababa deal with the unrest. groups have also accused the se- in Oromiya region, south of the compensation. also been arrested. Ethiopia announced a secu- curity services of using excessive capital. Unrest spread to other areas, The government says that it is AFP rity crackdown on October 8 violence – charges dismissed The security eff orts had now including parts of Amhara re- trying to end poverty in a coun- United Nations thiopian authorities said amid a wave of attacks on mostly by the government which has “restored peace nationwide”, it gion north of the capital, over try still known in the West for a yesterday that they had foreign-owned businesses and blamed the violence on armed added. land rights and wider com- devastating 1984 famine, where Edetained 1,645 people demonstrations over land and groups backed by unnamed for- There was no immediate com- plaints over political freedoms. most people rely on subsistence UN panel of experts has since declaring a state of emer- political rights. eign powers. ment from opposition or protest The command post said 93 farming. found evidence of “well- gency less than two weeks ago in The United States and other “A total of 1,120 ringlead- groups. suspects “who had taken to the Ethiopia is now one of Africa’s Aestablished networks” of a bid to quell mass protests and major donors have raised con- ers of violence that led to the Violence fi rst broke out last bush as bandits” turned them- fastest growing economies but arms suppliers in Eastern Europe violence. cerns about the measures, which destruction of infrastructure year in Oromiya, a region at the selves in in Amhara since the rights groups say the state-led and the Middle East that are Around 1,200 of those were include dusk-to-dawn curfews and property in West Arsi and heart of Ethiopia’s industriali- state of emergency was declared. industrial push has been accom- fuelling the war in South Sudan. described as ringleaders, the in some areas, restrictions on Shashemene have been ap- sation eff orts, as people took to Another 110 people who had panied by a crushing of political In a confi dential report to the rest co-ordinators, suspects and the opposition and curbs on dip- prehended,” said the govern- the streets accusing the state of “co-ordinated attacks” in west- dissent – a charge dismissed by Security Council obtained by “bandits”, in the statement by lomats’ movements. ment body known as the Com- seizing their land and handing it ern Oromiya, and 322 suspects in the state. AFP yesterday, the panel de- scribed the arms deals that are not recent and involve Israeli and Bulgarian fi rms. The council has threatened to impose an arms embargo on Police disperse student protesters outside Zuma’s offi ce South Sudan to try to end the fi ghting that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven Reuters sity of the Witwatersrand (Wits) also 2.5mn from their homes. Pretoria clashed with police at a demonstra- While the arms deals date tion yesterday, a day after similar skir- back to 2014 or earlier, “this mishes at the University of the Western evidence nevertheless illustrates olice in Pretoria used tear gas Cape in Cape Town. the well-established networks and stun grenades to disperse Students took the streets when the through which weapons pro- Phundreds of students gathered government in September recom- curement is co-ordinated from outside South African President Jacob mended that 2017 university tuition fee suppliers in Eastern Europe and Zuma’s offi ces yesterday as yet another increases be capped at 8%, higher than the Middle East and then trans- protest over the high cost of university the current infl ation rate of 6.1%. ferred through middlemen in education turned violent. In a bid to end the protests, the gov- eastern Africa to South Sudan”, Weeks of demonstrations calling for ernment then said it would pay the said the report. the scrapping of university fees, pro- 8% fee increase through a 2.5bn rand The panel said rebel fi ghters hibitive for many black students, have ($180mn) subsidy for more than 70% of loyal to Reik Machar recently highlighted frustration at enduring all undergraduates. turned up in the Democratic Re- inequalities in South Africa more than But this was not enough to appease public of the Congo armed with two decades after the end of white mi- the students who carried on protesting. Israeli-made automatic rifl es nority rule. Their anger has been compounded that were part of a stock sold to Around 300 protesters had gathered by what they say is their unfair treat- Uganda in 2007. in a park outside the building where ment by police and the courts. The weapons were likely taken the government has its seat in Pretoria, The police have not disclosed the from South Sudanese govern- chanting and singing. total number of arrests made since the ment stocks either through bat- “We are here to submit our memo- demonstrations started. Riot police stand guard as students try to gain entry at the Union building – South African President Jacob Zuma’s off ices – tlefi eld capture or defections, randum demanding free education and Yesterday protesters in Pretoria cited during a demonstration demanding free university education, in Pretoria. said the report sent to the coun- the release of the arrested students,” the case of Mcebo Dlamini, a leader of cil last week. said University of Technology in Preto- the #FeesMustFall protests and former The panel said the Israeli- ria student who gave his name as MJ Wa president of Wits’ student council, who made rifl es were likely part of a Azania, 26. was denied bail by the Johannesburg larger group of weapons that was He said police had been waiting for Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. transferred to South Sudan from them, armed and ready. Charges against Dlamini include in- Uganda. Some students hurled sticks and citing violence and assaulting a woman After receiving a tip from bottles at police, who used water can- at one of the protests. Spain, the UN experts are look- non and later tear gas in attempts to Zuma last week formed a ministerial ing into an arms traffi cking net- disperse the crowd. team to resolve the fees crisis, but the work based in Europe that re- Each time the crowd returned to the government has said it could not al- ceived an “extensive list of small park, until they fl ed before armoured locate extra funds to education at the arms, munitions and light weap- police vehicles. expense of health or housing. ons” from the rebels in 2014. The police spokeswoman designated Asked about what the government The deal which also involved to comment on student protests in Pre- was doing to resolve the crisis, Minister a middleman from Senegal pro- toria was not available when contacted in the Presidency Jeff Radebe reiterated vided for shipments that were by Reuters about yesterday’s clashes. yesterday the planned subsidy for poor at least partially delivered, they Students of Johannesburg’s Univer- students. said. A Bulgarian company deliv- ered a shipment of small arms ammunition and 4,000 assault rifl es to Uganda in July 2014, which were later transferred to 850,000 in Madagascar South Sudan. The fi rm, Bulgarian Industrial Engineering, worked through an face ‘alarming’ hunger intermediary in Uganda identi- fi ed as Bosasy Logistics, whose chairman Valerii Copeichin is a Reuters Food stocks from the last harvest ran Moldovan national. Rome out in August and the next harvest is The report said recent arms not due until March. supplies were likely to have been As well as food aid for all of those af- made “through the same modal- early 850,000 people in fected, farmers need drought-tolerant ity”. drought-hit southern Mada- seeds and tools to prepare for the next UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ngascar are experiencing planting season in November/Decem- Ladsous has called on the coun- “alarming” levels of hunger, and more ber. cil to move quickly to cut off the aid is needed to prevent a dire situation “The cost of inaction or further de- arms fl ow, but Russia opposes from becoming a “catastrophe”, U.N laying our response is too ghastly to the move while African coun- agencies said yesterday. contemplate,” said David Phiri, sub- tries have expressed reserva- This is the latest warning by the regional co-ordinator for Southern tions. agencies who have been scaling up their Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture “I think an arms embargo response to a crisis aff ecting more than Organisation. should happen now and that’s half the population in the south of the “If we do not step up our eff orts now, even very late,” Ladsous told re- island nation. this long hunger period will be extend- porters on Tuesday. “The rainy Some 20% of households in the af- ed by yet another year. This would be season is coming to a close and fected areas are now experiencing a catastrophe for a people who already that has frequently been the emergency levels of hunger, according appear to have virtually no food, no time of the year when people go to the latest food survey. seeds and no discernible income,” he back to military operations.” “Emergency” is phase four of a fi ve- added. The council has said it will point scale used by food agencies, Some 90% of Madagascar’s popu- impose an arms embargo if Sec- where fi ve is famine. lation lives on less than $2 a day, and retary General Ban Ki-moon de- “What I saw in the south of Mada- almost half of children are chronically termines that the government in gascar earlier this month alarmed me,” malnourished or stunted – which re- Juba is blocking the deployment said Chris Nikoi, regional director of sults in them being short for their age of a UN-mandated regional the World Food Programme. – the agencies said. force. “These are people living on the very In the current crisis, many children South Sudan descended into brink – many have nothing but wild in the south have been taken out of war in December 2013 after fruits to eat. We must act together now school to look for work, food, wood and President Salva Kiir accused his to save lives,” he said in a statement. water. former deputy Machar of plot- Many households have resorted to “We can and must do better for these ting a coup. begging, selling off their land or pos- children,” said Leila Gharagozloo-Pa- The nearly three-year war has sessions, and eating vital seed stocks kkala, regional director for eastern and been marked by appalling num- in order to survive, the United Nations southern Africa at the UN children’s bers of rapes and killings. agencies said. agency Unicef.

Somalia releases Al Jazeera reporters detained on Tuesday

Al Jazeera journalists arrested in visit to areas held by the radical of the Al Jazeera journalists,” said Somalia on suspicion of researching for Islamist group Shebaab, said a senior Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimu, secretary a “one-sided story” in support of radical intelligence source, who asked not to general of the journalists’ Islamists were released yesterday after be named. union. “But we want more explanations two days under arrest, the National Information Minister Mohamed Abdi from the government on why those Union of Somali Journalists said. Hayir Maareeye told reporters that the journalists were targeted.” Reporter Hamza Mohamed, a crew had entered Somalia without the Hamza Mohamed has frequently cameraman, their driver and a local knowledge of the government and travelled to Somalia over the past few journalist were detained in the capital “wanted to do a one-sided story against years to cover politics, economics and Mogadishu on Tuesday. the government in favour of Shebaab”. culture “with accuracy and integrity”, Al They were questioned about their “We are very pleased with the release Jazeera said in a statement. Gulf Times 6 Friday, October 21, 2016 AMERICAS

Trump’s stance on election results Trump may not deepens rifts in Republican Party Reuters both candidates, made banner the candidate’s unwillingness to Washington/Delaware headlines across the country and say he would accept the result. raised questions about whether “I think if Trump would lose, he was committed to a peaceful he would concede also,” Acker everal prominent Repub- transition of power, a corner- said. licans have denounced stone of American democracy. Millions of Americans watched SDonald Trump’s refusal Democrats jumped to ask Re- the debate in Las Vegas. accept election to commit to accepting the re- publican candidates whether However, although the tel- sult of the presidential election, they agreed with Trump, who evision audience was larger than and some worried his stance is making his fi rst-ever run for that for their second match-up, might make it more diffi cult for public offi ce and against Clinton, it was below their record-setting his party to hold onto control of a former fi rst lady, senator and fi rst debate, according to early Congress. secretary of state. data cited by US media. Trump’s refusal, which Demo- “Do you agree with Donald On Twitter, President Obama cratic rival Hillary Clinton called Trump to question the results of said Clinton had scored an “Out- result if he loses “horrifying”, was the standout the election?” the Nevada Dem- standing 3 for 3 debate sweep”. remark of their third and fi nal ocratic Party asked in a release Obama has described Trump Reuters debate on Wednesday night. targeting Republican Represent- as unfi t for the White House. Las Vegas It ratcheted up Trump’s claims ative Joe Heck. Trump’s words were consid- that the election was being Heck is in a tight race with ered jaw-dropping, but they are rigged against him, and became Democrat Catherine Cortez not illegal, especially given the epublican candidate Don- the latest fl ashpoint in an unusu- Masto, a former Nevada attorney strong guarantee of speech rights ald Trump would not ally volatile race three weeks be- general, for the Senate seat now in the United States. Rcommit to accepting the fore voters go to the polls. held by Harry Reid, the Senate “You have to accept the re- outcome of the November 8 US The Republican candidate re- Democratic leader. sults of the election unless there presidential election if he loses, inforced his comment at a rally Heck recently dropped his are grounds for a recount and at challenging a cornerstone of yesterday in Delaware, Ohio, support for Trump, and polls this point it does not appear that American democracy and send- saying that he would respect the showed it hurt his standing with we’re heading for a close elec- ing shockwaves across the politi- result “if I win”. Republican voters. tion,” Republican strategist Ryan cal spectrum. With Trump trailing in opin- Republican consultant Matt Williams said. Trump’s refusal, which his ion polls, the focus ahead of the Mackowiak said down-ballot Yesterday Trump campaign Democratic rival Hillary Clin- November 8 vote is shifting to candidates would disagree with manager Kellyanne Conway tried ton called “horrifying”, was the Congress, and whether Republi- Trump, which would distance to defend Trump, saying in tel- standout remark of their third cans will keep their narrow ma- them from his comment, but it evision interviews that he was and fi nal debate and ratcheted jority in the Senate or even their was a problem that the issue had “putting people on notice” about up claims he has made for weeks larger advantage in the House of drowned out everything else that voting irregularities. that the election was rigged Representatives. came up in the debate. “We’ll have to see what hap- against him. Senator John McCain of Arizo- “The real cost is that the post- pens,” she told ABC News, add- Asked by moderator Chris na, who lost the 2008 presiden- debate discussion has been con- ing that Trump “was willing to Wallace whether Trump would tial election to Democrat Barack sumed by this, and not by his accept the election absent wide- commit to a peaceful transition Obama, issued a strong state- overall very good debate per- spread fraud”. of power, the businessman- ment saying that accepting the formance and the problems Hil- Trump has stepped up allega- turned-politician replied: “What election result is “the American lary created for herself on a range tions that the election is being I’m saying is that I will tell you Clinton and Trump speak during the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Centre on the way”. of issues,” Mackowiak said. rigged. at the time. I’ll keep you in sus- campus of the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas. “I didn’t like the outcome of A CNN/ORC snap poll said He has not off ered specifi c pense. Ok?” the 2008 election. But I had a 52% thought Clinton won the evidence, and numerous studies Trump’s statement may appeal to Trump, said: “If he loses, it TV interviews yesterday, blasted unwanted advances on women. duty to concede, and I did so debate, while 39% said Trump, a have shown that the US election to his anti-establishment follow- will not be because the system is Trump’s stance as “shocking” In a 2005 video, Trump was without reluctance,” said Mc- real estate developer and former system, which is decentralised ers, but it was unlikely to reverse ‘rigged’ but because he failed as a and a threat to American democ- recorded bragging about groping Cain, who has opened a poll lead reality TV star making his fi rst and run by the states, is sound. opinion polls that show him los- candidate.” racy. women against their will. in his Senate re-election race. “A run at public offi ce, was the vic- Trump’s vice-presidential ing, including in key states that Neo-conservative Bill Kristol, In a debate that for the fi rst “Donald thinks belittling concession isn’t just an exercise tor. running mate, Governor Mike will decide the election. editor of The Weekly Standard time focused more on policy than women makes him bigger. He in graciousness. It is an act of re- Chris Acker, 67, who attended Pence of Indiana, said that “That is not the way our de- political magazine, tweeted: “I character, the two candidates goes after their dignity, their self- spect for the will of the American a Trump rally in Ohio yesterday, Trump “will accept the out- mocracy works,” Clinton said deplore what Trump said and re- nonetheless lashed out at each worth and I don’t think there is a people, a respect that is every said that he was not bothered by come” because he is going to win. during the debate. “We’ve been fused to say about accepting the other. woman anywhere who doesn’t American leader’s fi rst respon- around for 240 years. We’ve had election results. Confi rms one’s Trump, 70, called Clinton know what that feels like,” said sibility.” free and fair elections. We’ve ac- judgement he shouldn’t be presi- “such a nasty woman”, accused Clinton, the fi rst woman to win A few other Republicans, cepted the outcomes when we dent.” her campaign of orchestrating a the nomination of a major US mostly those who have never may not have liked them. And Yesterday Trump campaign series of accusations by women political party. backed Trump, also rejected his that is what must be expected manager Kellyanne Conway de- who said the businessman made The two candidates also had comments. of anyone standing on a debate fended the comment in a round unwanted sexual advances and a spirited exchange on abortion, Aides to House Speaker Paul stage during a general election.” of television interviews, saying said that both she and President gun rights and immigration dur- Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Later she told reporters: he was “putting people on no- Barack Obama, her fellow Demo- ing the showdown. Mitch McConnell declined re- “What he said tonight is part of tice” about voting irregularities. crat, were behind disturbances at Clinton said she would raise quests for comment. his whole eff ort to blame some- “We’ll have to see what hap- his rallies. taxes on the wealthy to help fund Asked on Wednesday night by body else for where he is in his pens,” she told ABC News, add- He said the Clinton Founda- the US government’s Social Se- moderator Chris Wallace if he campaign.” ing that Trump “was willing to tion was a criminal enterprise curity retirement programme. would commit to a peaceful tran- A CNN/ORC snap poll said accept the election absent wide- and as a result she should not She said that Trump, who sition of power, the business- 52% thought Clinton, the former spread fraud”. have been allowed to seek the Forbes says is worth $3.7bn, man-turned-politician replied: US secretary of state, won the US Representative Tom Ma- presidency. would be paying higher taxes too “What I’m saying is that I will debate while 39% said Trump, a rino, a Pennsylvania Republican Clinton, 68, said Trump him- unless he can get out of it. tell you at the time. I’ll keep you former reality TV star making his and early Trump supporter, lik- self had incited violence, belit- “Such a nasty woman,” Trump in suspense. OK?” fi rst run at public offi ce, was the ened it to a television show style tled women and posed a danger said. Trump’s statement, the most victor. “tease” in a National Public Ra- to the United States. Trump and Clinton battled controversial in a debate that at In fi nancial markets, Mexico’s dio interview. She said Trump had in the sharply over the infl uence of times descended into insults by A boy with a campaign poster is seen at the Trump rally in Delaware. peso currency, seen as a measure Trump’s running mate, vice- past also complained that his TV Vladimir Putin, with Clinton of Trump’s prospects, rose to its presidential nominee Mike show was unjustly denied a US calling Trump the Russian presi- highest level in six weeks at the Pence, said that Trump “will ac- television Emmy award. dent’s puppet and Trump charg- end of the debate, suggesting cept the outcome” because he is “I should have gotten it,” ing Putin had repeatedly out- growing investor confi dence of a going to win. Trump retorted. smarted Clinton. Clinton victory. But Republican strategist Ryan Trump said all of the stories Clinton and Trump walked Ex-Christie aide says Trump has vowed to build a Williams found Trump’s state- of sexual misdeeds were “totally straight to their podiums when wall on the border with Mexico to ment “deeply concerning”. false” and suggested Clinton was they were introduced at the Uni- keep out illegal immigrants and “You have to accept the re- behind the charges. versity of Nevada, Las Vegas, he warned governor has said he would make Mexico sults of the election unless there He called her campaign “slea- once again forgoing the tradi- pay for it. are grounds for a recount and at zy” and said: “Nobody has more tional handshake as they did at Mainstream Republicans were this point it does not appear that respect for women than I do, no- the second debate last week in St on ‘Bridgegate’ plot quick to denounce the comment. we’re heading for a close elec- body.” Louis, Missouri. US Senator Lindsey Graham, a tion,” he said. Clinton said the women came This time they did not shake former Republican presidential Democratic vice-presidential forward after Trump said in the hands at the end of the debate Reuters were occurring, and so was candidate who has never warmed nominee Tim Kaine, in a series of last debate he had never made either. Newark Christie. Christie: has insisted that no The next day, Drewniak said, member of his senior staff he met with the Republican had been aware of the bridge 10-year-old Aboriginal girl latest in rash of suicides estimony on Wednes- governor and his chief of staff , closures. day by Chris Christie’s Kevin O’Dowd, and relayed A 10-year-old girl took her own life on Tuesday, the fourth Aboriginal child Tformer press secretary Wildstein’s assertions. Christie, who has denied IS recruiter given 30 to do so this month in a poor, remote region of Canada, the top chief in added to mounting evidence Christie held a news confer- knowledge of the scheme, has the province of Saskatchewan said. that the New Jersey governor ence eight days later to insist not been charged with any The girl was from Deschambault Lake, some 460km northeast of Saska- knew earlier than he has ac- that no member of his senior crime. years imprisonment toon, Saskatchewan, said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sov- knowledged that key members staff had been aware of the clo- The scandal’s fallout, how- ereign Indigenous Nations, an Aboriginal political group in Saskatchewan. of his staff were involved in the sures. ever, damaged his unsuccessful Her death follows three others in the province this month, Cameron said, “Bridgegate” plot to create traf- Christie has said he learned bid for the Republican presi- Reuters radicaliser, recruiter, and fa- adding that he did not have any further details. fi c gridlock as a form of political of Kelly’s possible involvement dential nomination. Los Angeles cilitator” for IS who aspired to Canada’s 1.4mn aboriginals, who make up about 4% of the country’s payback. in January 2014, when e-mails Christie is now advising Re- die a martyr. population, have higher levels of poverty and a lower life expectancy than Michael Drewniak, testify- discussing the scheme became publican presidential nominee Prosecutors argued that other Canadians and are more often victims of violent crime, addiction ing in the conspiracy trial of public. Donald Trump. California man convict- Badawi deserved the same sen- and incarceration. a Christie aide and a Christie The lane-closure scheme On the witness stand, Drew- ed of attempting to help tence as Elhuzayel. Canadian Press has reported that two girls from Stanley Mission and one political ally, told jurors about prompted massive gridlock niak insisted that Wildstein Aa friend travel to the “Their crimes are equally from La Ronge, all aged between 12 and 14, committed suicide this month. a dinner he had on December in Fort Lee to punishment the never confi rmed any political Middle East to fi ght on behalf serious, their prospects for re- The federal health department has begun sending three mental health 4, 2013, with David Wildstein, town’s Democratic mayor for motivation, instead sticking of Islamic State (IS) was sen- habilitation are equally bleak, therapists to Stanley Mission and La Ronge weekly, and this will continue the alleged mastermind of the refusing to endorse Christie’s with what turned out to be a bo- tenced to 30 years in prison on and the need to protect the through December, said spokeswoman Maryse Durette. lane closures at the busy George re-election campaign that year, gus cover story that the closures Wednesday, prosecutors said. public from their future crimes The department was looking into the latest suicide, she said. Washington Bridge in Septem- according to prosecutors. were part of a traffi c study. Muhanad Badawi, 25, was and crimes by others like them The suicides reflect a need to “improve the quality of lives”, Cameron said, ber of that year. Drewniak was the fi rst wit- Wildstein, who has pleaded found guilty of conspiring to is the same,” they wrote in a including better education, housing and mental health. Drewniak testifi ed that Wild- ness called in federal court in guilty and is co-operating with provide material support to the memorandum to the US dis- Earlier this year, a poor Ontario Aboriginal community, Attawapiskat, stein told him that Christie’s Newark by Kelly, who is on trial prosecutors, previously testi- militant group in the form of trict court in Santa Ana, Cali- declared a state of emergency after a rash of suicide attempts, and a deputy chief of staff , Bridget alongside former Port Author- fi ed he told Drewniak about the his recruit, Nader Elhuzayel, fornia, earlier this month. Manitoba indigenous community also appealed for federal help after Kelly, and his campaign man- ity of New York and New Jersey true nature of the plot. who was convicted of conspir- Badawi’s defence attorney, suicides. ager, Bill Stepien, were aware executive Bill Baroni for their Kelly is expected to testify ing and attempting to join a Kate Corrigan of Corrigan, of the lane closures while they alleged roles in the conspiracy. later this week. terrorist organisation. Welbourn, Stokke, had pushed In September, Elhuzayel was for a 15-year sentence, argu- sentenced to 30 years in prison. ing that unlike Elhuzayel, her “The lengthy sentence im- client did not have a ticket in posed today results from the hand to leave the country and defendant’s acceptance of join IS. Survey shows drop in violent crime from 2013 to 2015 ISIL’s murderous ideology and She said she plans to appeal his participation in a scheme the conviction and the sen- designed to betray the United tence. Reuters drop in violent crimes rates from the rate of violent crime, which began, violent crime rates have lication released in September States,” US Attorney Eileen “The real message from Washington 23.2 victims per 1,000 people includes rape, assault and rob- dropped by nearly 76%, and the found that crime rates had risen Decker said on Wednesday, us- today’s hearing is that any- in 2013 to 18.6 per 1,000 people bery, between 2014 and 2015. rate of non-fatal gun violence last year. ing another acronym for IS. one who thinks they want to 2015. Rape and sexual assaults in- has declined from 7.3 victims per John Pfaff , a law professor at In arguing for the 30-year support IS or even dabble in Department of Justice The survey by the Bureau of creased from 284,350 in 2014 1,000 people to 1.1 victims. Fordham University, said the two sentence plus a lifetime of its rhetoric better be ready to survey released yesterday Justice Statistics, an agency of to 431,840 in 2015, the survey Separately, the US Federal surveys use diff erent metrics and supervised release, US pros- serve a lot of time in prison,” Aon criminal victimisation the Justice Department, found no found. Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s one is not necessarily more accu- ecutors said Badawi was “a Corrigan said. in the United States showed a statistically signifi cant change in Since 1993, when the survey Uniform Crime Reporting pub- rate than the other. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 7 ASEAN Suspected IS-inspired militant stabs cops

Reuters banded or driven underground. Jakarta In Indonesia’s most seri- ous attack, militants set off explosives at a nightclub on suspected supporter of Bali island in 2002 killing 202 Islamic State stabbed people. Aand wounded three In- Authorities believe Islamic donesian police yesterday in State has more than 1,200 fol- what appeared to be the latest lowers in Indonesia and nearly violence inspired by the mili- 400 Indonesians have left to tant group in the world’s big- join the group in Syria. gest Muslim-majority nation. Police are on the alert in case The man also threw a pipe more Indonesians return home bomb which failed to explode after Iraqi forces this week during the rush hour attack in launched an off ensive to take Tangerang, on the outskirts of back the Islamic State strong- Jakarta, police said. hold of Mosul. Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn takes part in a ceremony honouring Thailand’s late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Grand Palace in Bangkok yesterday. He was shot and died of his Authorities are monitoring wounds, a police spokesman about 40 returnees, concerned said, while the three victims they could be linking up with were being treated in hospital. existing networks, police chief A second pipe bomb and a Tito Karnavian told Reuters on large IS sticker were found at Monday. the scene, police said. An Indonesian Islamic State Indonesian authorities are group supporter was jailed for increasingly worried about 10 years yesterday for helping a resurgence in radicalism in make a bomb used in a deadly Thais to tackle ‘false’ Southeast Asia’s largest econ- attack in Jakarta, as the coun- omy, driven in part by a new try faces an increase in IS- generation of militants in- linked assaults. spired by Islamic State. Dodi Suridi, 23, was found “Two of (the police) were guilty of committing an act of stabbed in the arm and chest. terror over his links to the at- Then the attacker walked tack in the Indonesian capital around showing off his weap- in January, which killed four reports by media on, walking to the police post assailants and four civilians and shouting, Mohamed Isa and was claimed by IS. Reuters “Please don’t use your imagination to Ansori, deputy police chief of Bangkok report stories without thinking,” he told Tangerang district, told Reu- The attacker, who was born Reuters. ters. in 1994 and unemployed, Prince Vajiralongkorn does not enjoy The attacker, who was born was believed to be a hailand said yesterday it would in- the same adoration his father earned over in 1994 and unemployed, was member of Indonesian form the world about the royal suc- a lifetime on the throne. believed to be a member of militant group Jamaah Tcession following the death of King He has married and divorced three Indonesian militant group Ansharut Daulah Bhumibol Adulyadej after “false” foreign times, and has spent much of his life out- Jamaah Ansharut Daulah media coverage created misunderstanding side Thailand, often in Germany. (JAD), which supports Islamic A second IS supporter, and hurt the feelings of its people. Though the king designated his only son State. 48-year-old Ali Hamka, was The death of the revered king a week ago crown prince in 1972, shortly afterwards The umbrella organisa- also jailed for four years over after seven decades on the throne plunged he also raised the possibility of the eligi- tion, formed last year through the attack for trying to fi nd the country into mourning and heightened bility of a princess becoming the monarch. an alliance of splinter groups guns and ammunition to use in sensitivity about the monarchy. The junta has stepped up prosecution backing Islamic State, is led the assault. The government has said crown prince of lese-majeste cases since the king died, by jailed Islamist cleric Aman The attack — the fi rst Maha Vajiralongkorn will succeed his fa- with police investigating 12 cases. Abdurrahman, who is serving claimed by IS in Southeast ther soon, after an unspecifi ed period of Some angry mourners have attacked a nine-year prison sentence Asia — saw dramatic scenes as mourning. people they deemed disrespectful but for aiding a militant training a suicide bomber blew himself The prince’s formal coronation will take prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha urged camp. up in a Starbucks and security place after the king’s cremation, following people not to take matters into their own Yesterday’s assault comes forces battled gun-toting mili- a year-long offi cial mourning period. hands. after a series of Islamic State- tants. The 96-year-old president of the “The prime minister has a good under- linked attacks beginning in It was the fi rst major attack royal privy council, Prem Tinsulanonda, standing of the feelings of people who are January when four militants in Indonesia for seven years. has been made regent during the inter- completely loyal to the monarchy. mounted a gun and bomb at- Asked whether he accepted regnum. Everyone should be reminded not to tack in Jakarta. Eight people the decision, Suridi was un- The delay in the prince becoming king drag the institution down into various were killed. repentant and told the court: has raised speculation among Thailand confl icts and disagreements,” government In July, a militant blew him- “That’s the risk of being a ter- scholars and analysts that the succession spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd told self up at a police station in the rorist, I accept the verdict.” may not be as smooth as the government reporters. town of Solo, injuring one of- As court offi cials led him has said it will be. People hold pictures of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej during a gathering at Though the country is in mourning, fi cer. away, he yelled slogans and The prince has made no public state- Narathiwat City Hall in the southern province of Narathiwat. shopping malls, markets, cinemas and Police in August arrested fl ashed a smile at journalists. ment since the death of his father but he even some bars have been open. Islamic State supporters plot- The world’s most populous has paid homage every day at Bangkok’s sion and that it is proceeding according to years, most recently by a struggle between The government said overseas tourism ting to launch a rocket at Sin- Muslim-majority country has gilded Grand Palace where the late king is the constitution and royal laws and tradi- the military-led establishment and popu- would not be aff ected and industry targets gapore’s Marina Bay casino long struggled with Islamic lying in state. tions,” it said. list political forces. were unchanged. resort area using a boat from militancy and Indonesians The foreign ministry did not refer to Insulting the monarch, the regent or the Many Thais worry about a future with- “We are confi dent that we will still hit the nearby Indonesian island have fl ocked to fi ght with IS. specifi c news reports or outlets, but said heir, known by the French-language term out him. the mark we set of 32 mn overseas tour- of Batam. Other IS-linked incidents coverage had created misunderstanding “lese-majeste”, is a crime in Thailand that People are dressing in black around the ists,” a deputy prime minister, Tanasak The vast majority of Indone- this year include a foiled plan and it wanted to “prevent further false carries a jail sentence of up to 15 years for country, and huge numbers have streamed Patimapragorn, told reporters. sia’s 250mn people practise a to launch a rocket at an up- coverage”. each off ence. to the Grand Palace to pay their respects. Department of Tourism data showed moderate form of Islam. market Singapore waterfront “We have instructed our ambassadors, King Bhumibol, who was the world’s Government spokesman Weerachon foreign arrivals at Thailand’s fi ve main Small militant groups that district from an Indonesian is- consulates and representatives around the longest-reigning monarch, was revered Sukondhapatipak called for an end to for- airports fell by 2.59% in the week after have periodically mounted at- land and a botched suicide at- world to inform relevant state agencies as a father fi gure and symbol of unity in a eign media speculation “because every- the king died compared with the previous tacks against the state and for- tack on a police station, which and governments regarding the succes- country riven by political crises over the thing is already quite clear”. week. eigners have been largely dis- killed only the assailant.

Giant jade stone Protest in Jakarta Calls for overhaul ‘too big to move’ after ferry disaster

AFP had not yet decided what this AFP fare and resettlement in Saga- Yangon particular fi nd would be used Yangon ing region, told AFP. for — and have no way of “We got 72 dead bodies in moving it anyway. total... 174-tonne piece of jade “Currently the jade stone total of 72 people died 14 men and 53 women were worth millions of dol- cannot be moved as there is no when an overloaded fer- taken from the boat, and an- Alars that was uncovered machine that can do it here, Ary sank in central Myan- other fi ve dead bodies which in Myanmar will have to stay and no road either,” he said. mar, local offi cials said yester- were carried away by the water. where it is for now — because Myanmar is the source of day, calling for an overhaul of “We have concluded our sal- its owners don’t have equip- nearly all of the world’s fi nest the creaking boats that ply the vage today.” ment strong enough to move jadeite, a beautiful green stone river as the search eff ort ended. Family and friends have it. highly prized in neighbouring Scores of teachers, students identifi ed 44 of the bodies, lo- The 5.8m stone was discov- China where it is known as the and workers were packed into cal authorities said, but the rest ered by miners in northern “stone of heaven”. the crowded boat when it cap- were decayed beyond recogni- Kachin state last week, bur- Companies linked to the sized in the early hours of Sat- tion after days in the water. ied up to 60m deep inside a former junta dominate the urday as it chugged along the Four workers on the boat mountain. trade, which Global Witness Chindwin River. were arrested after it sank, but “When the edge of the valued at around $31bn in 2014 More than 150 people were the boat captain and the owner stone was scratched we could alone — equivalent to around rescued alive, but dozens more have fl ed. see the quality of the jade half the country’s GDP. perished as the vessel swiftly Boat accidents are common inside — the quality is very Mining of the stone can ex- sank about 72km north of the in Myanmar, where many peo- good,” said Tint Soe, 56, a lo- tract a high human cost, with city of Monywa. ple living along its fl ood-prone cal lawmaker. fatal mine collapses common Dozens of bloated corpses river systems rely heavily on While some have estimated — around 100 people died in a have been swept downri- often overcrowded ferries for the rock could be worth more major landslide in November ver, while others were found transport. than $170mn, Tint Soe said its last year. trapped inside the broken shell Regional lawmaker Tun value was probably closer to Most of the precious stone Students take part on a rally in front of palace in Jakarta, yesterday, calling on the president to of the boat as rescue workers Tun Win said the central gov- $5.4mn. is smuggled across the border continue to fight the mafias that harm the country and destroy the environment. President Joko hauled it to the surface. ernment needed to upgrade Jade is traditionally used into China, where it is be- Widodo, in power for two years, is desperate to boost slowing growth, especially since the country is “We lifted the whole sunken the boats that operate on the for charms and bracelets, but lieved to bring luck and good in need of funds to finance infrastructure projects and development, AFP reported early this month. boat this morning,” Sa Willy Chindwin River, which most Tint Soe said the company health. Frient, director of social wel- locals rely on for transport. Gulf Times 8 Friday, October 21, 2016 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

POOR ASSESSMENT REVIEW EXONERATED SMOG WOES Aussie reef report card Jail term for ‘democracy’ Australian Tinder date China firms rebuked for paints bleak picture village ex-chief upheld acquitted of murder breaking emission limits

Australia yesterday admitted more needs to A Chinese court yesterday upheld a jail term for A man whose Tinder date plunged 14 floors to her China’s environment ministry has criticised firms in be done to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the former head of a southern Chinese village, death from his high-rise balcony was yesterday Beijing and surrounding provinces for exceeding pollution after a government-backed report once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy, acquitted of murder by an Australian jury in a emission limits during the region’s latest smog painted a bleak picture of the natural wonder. The on graft and other charges. Lin Zuluan’s jail case that gripped the nation. Gable Tostee, 30, crisis. Beijing and Hebei province have implemented giant ecosystem is under pressure from farming sentence last month sparked renewed protests was charged with the August 2014 murder of New rapid response systems to limit traff ic and force run-off , development, the coral-eating crown- in the southern village of Wukan but they were Zealander Warriena Wright, who was on holiday firms to cut production or slow construction work of-thorns starfish and the impacts of climate shut down as heavily armed riot police sealed in Surfers Paradise on Australia’s east coast. The during heavy smog. But investigations over the change. Canberra’s annual report into water the area. The Foshan Intermediate People’s 12-person jury in the Queensland Supreme Court past week revealed that a number of enterprises quality, seagrass and coral gave it a “D” — which Court posted a statement on its website saying struggled to reach a verdict after beginning their were failing to comply with emergency measures, represents “poor” — for the fifth year in a row. the court had upheld Lin’s prison term of three deliberations on Monday, asking the judge several the Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg admitted years and a month and a fine of 200,000 yuan questions before acquitting Tostee of murder and notice yesterday. The ministry said 11 enterprises in more work needed to be done, but said progress ($30,000). Lin was one of the last leaders of manslaughter. The court was told that Tostee left the Hebei and nine in Shandong province were found Fish swim through the coral on Australia’s was being made under the government’s Reef a high-profile uprising in 2011 in the village to apartment after her fall, then called his father and a to have exceeded limits during heavy smog from Great Barrier Reef. 2050 Plan to improve its health. remain in off ice. lawyer and ate pizza, Brisbane’s Courier Mail said. Sunday to Wednesday. North Korea missile fails after launch

Reuters bolster military and diplomatic In June, North Korea launched Seoul eff orts to counter the North’s a Musudan missile that fl ew nuclear and missile programmes, about 400km, more than half the which it is pursuing in defi ance of distance to Japan, a fl ight that orth Korea yesterday UN Security Council resolutions. was considered a success by of- test-fi red a missile that “We strongly condemn the fi cials and experts in South Korea Nfailed immediately after North’s continued illegal acts of and the United States. launch, the US and South Ko- provocation,” the South’s Joint North Korea said yesterday that rean militaries said, hours after Chiefs of Staff said in a state- it would continue to launch satel- the two countries agreed to step ment. lites despite its rival South’s objec- up eff orts to counter the North’s Japan condemned the launch tions, in a statement by its space nuclear and missile threats. and said it would make a formal agency carried by offi cial media. The missile was believed to be protest to the North through its Pyongyang says it has a sov- South Koreans watch a television news report showing file footage of North Korea’s missile launch at a railway station in Seoul yesterday. an intermediate-range Musu- embassy in Beijing. ereign right to pursue a space dan and was launched from the The failed missile launch was programme by launching rockets The North regularly threatens retary Ash Carter reaffirmed sile system to South Korea “as ar weaponisation” and the allies western city of Kusong, where the eighth attempt in seven carrying satellites, most recently to destroy the South and its main that any attack by North Korea soon as possible”. would mobilise “all tools in the the isolated state attempted but months by the North to launch in February, although Washing- ally, the United States. would be defeated, and any use China strongly opposes de- toolkit” to defend themselves. failed to launch the same type of a weapon with a design range of ton and Seoul worry that such US Secretary of State John of nuclear weapons “met with ployment of the US system, say- A US aerospace expert, John missile on Saturday, the US Stra- 3,000km that can be fi red from launches are long-range missile Kerry, speaking before the failed an effective and overwhelm- ing it would impinge on its own Schilling, said this week in a re- tegic Command and South Ko- road mobile launchers, the two tests in disguise. missile launch, said the United ing response,” a joint statement strategic deterrence. port on the 38 North project that rea’s Offi ce of the Joint Chiefs of militaries said. Impoverished North Korea and States would do “whatever is said. South Korean Foreign Minis- despite the failures, the pace of Staff said. North Korea has been pursu- the rich, democratic South are necessary” to defend itself, South As part of the military eff ort, ter Yun Byung-se, also speaking testing could enable the North to The launch came shortly af- ing its nuclear and missile pro- technically still at war because Korea and other allies against Kerry said the United States in Washington before the failed put the Musudan missile into op- ter the United States and South grammes at an unprecedented their 1950-53 confl ict ended in a North Korea. would deploy the Terminal High launch, said North Korea was erational service sometime next Korea agreed in Washington to pace this year. truce, not a peace treaty. Kerry and US Defense Sec- Altitude Area Defense anti-mis- nearing the “fi nal stage of nucle- year.

Back to the wild! Empress ‘shocked’ at headline of Akihito desire to abdicate

Reuters Japanese use extremely formal language to Tokyo refer to the imperial family, and the phrase used for Akihito’s stepping down is literally “abdicate while alive.” apanese Empress Michiko, who turned Hailed as a Cinderella fi gure when news of 82 yesterday, said she felt “shocked and her engagement broke, the most enduring im- Jpained” when she fi rst saw newspaper age of the Empress Michiko for many Japanese headlines about her husband, Emperor Aki- is of her at her husband’s side, whether dressed hito, wanting to abdicate. in slacks and a windbreaker at the ocean, waltz- Akihito, 82, hinted two months ago at ab- ing with him at a party or, in their later years, dication, saying in a rare televised address with her hand at his arm in support. that he worried age might make it hard for But this calm, almost cosy contentment him to fulfi l his royal duties. was hard won for Michiko, who met the Such a step is unprecedented in modern young Akihito on a tennis court and broke Japan and not possible under current law, but centuries of tradition by being the fi rst com- a panel of experts met for the fi rst time this moner to marry into Japan’s imperial family. week to discuss how it might be done. The slender daughter of a wealthy in- In written remarks issued to mark her dustrialist endured reported bullying at the birthday, Michiko — the fi rst commoner to hands of court offi cials that saw her fade into marry into the Japanese imperial family when a silent shadow of her former self several she wed Akihito in 1959 — said she had heard years after her marriage. the emperor’s August video address and knew But eventually she played an integral role he had discussed his decision with their sons, in crafting the postwar image of a family who Crown Prince Naruhito and Prince Akishino. tried to come as close as they could to ordi- “However, when I saw the words ‘abdicate nary Japanese. when alive’ in big letters on the newspaper In later years she became known for chat- front pages, it was a huge shock,” she added. ting to people she met at public events, even “It might have been because I’d never come embracing women who had lost their homes across that expression even in history books, in the 1995 Kobe earthquake — a huge break but for a second or two I was both surprised from tradition in a nation where the emperor and pained. Perhaps I was a little too sensi- was considered divine until the end of World tive.” War II. A giant panda was released yesterday into the wild in Shimian county, Sichuan province, China. Anti-vaccination nurses in Australia face punishment urses and midwives promoting anti- Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) take vaccination messages in Australia their responsibility of public protection very Ncould face punishment, the industry seriously, and will take regulatory action on Australia waters down asylum-seeker secrecy laws regulator warned yesterday, as the country nurses or midwives who promote anti-vacci- tackles recent outbreaks of preventable dis- nation statements to patients and the public,” eases. the regulator said. AFP tors for Refugees this week, the ad- “Nor does it change the abuse cludes the act’s secrecy and disclo- In response to increasing concern about Australian midwife Belinda Henkel told Sydney vocacy group said. and neglect that we witness in so sure provisions,” the department anti-vaccination movements, Canberra last Sydney’s Daily Telegraph she would not re- Others such as teachers and social many of the patients that we hear said in a statement. year introduced a “no jab, no pay” law block- move anti-vaccination messages she had workers could still face jail time if about in the detention centres.” Meghan Fitzgerald of Fitzroy ing parents who refuse to vaccinate their already posted on Facebook despite the regu- he Australian government they disclose information they obtain Amnesty International on Mon- Legal Service, which is bringing children from accessing some government lator’s warning, but would now support in- has watered down contro- while working at detention camps on day released a report alleging wide- the High Court case, said it had benefi ts. dustry practice. Tversial laws that critics say the Pacifi c island of Nauru and Papua spread abuse and an “epidemic of to be reassessed as the amend- The move followed outbreaks of measles “I’m not removing anything that I’ve got stop whistleblowers from speaking New Guinea’s Manus Island. self-harm” at the Nauru centre. ments could remove the grounds in Europe and parts of the United States, and on the site but I’ve agreed to acquiesce to out about alleged abuse at off shore Asylum-seekers trying to reach Conditions in the camps have for a challenge, “but if anything it local whooping cough and measles cases in AHPRA’s request and I have said that I will asylum-seeker detention camps. Australia by boat are sent to the is- been widely criticised by refugee ad- strengthens the resolve to fi ght to Australia. give unequivocal support to the vaccination Doctors yesterday welcomed the lands for processing, but are blocked vocates and medical professionals. remove secrecy veils”. Some of those who reject vaccination fear regime that we have,” she said. move, which comes ahead of a High from being resettled in Australia The immigration department The challenge mounted in July that a triple vaccine for measles, mumps and NMBA did not name individual cases, but Court challenge to secrecy provi- even if found to be refugees. said yesterday the secrecy provi- had argued the laws breached the rubella could cause autism, even though the said sanctions against nurses and midwives sions introduced last year which “We treat (the changes) as a win sions did not stop workers from protection of freedom of political theory has been widely discredited by various include being slapped with a caution and made it a jailable off ence for im- for commonsense,” Barri Phatarfod raising concerns “through appro- communication, and were there- studies. having their ability to practise medicine re- migration department workers to from Doctors for Refugees told re- priate channels” and “has never fore unconstitutional. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Aus- stricted. speak out about conditions in the porters in Sydney. been an instrument to ‘gag’ lawful The government, which has tralia (NMBA) said it issued the warning after Serious cases could be referred to an in- centres. “But it needs to be remembered disclosures in the public interest”. faced a barrage of criticism over reports of a “small number” of practitioners dustry tribunal, where practitioners face The department last month that the amendment to this act “The department’s amendment its asylum-seeker polices and the who “promoted anti-vaccination statements harsher penalties such as having their regis- quietly changed the defi nition of does not cover teachers, social to the determination makes clear secrecy surrounding the Pacifi c to patients and the public via social media tration suspended or cancelled. immigration workers to exclude workers and the various non-med- that health practitioners perform- camps, has defended its overall which contradict the best available scientifi c The board also called on patients and the medical professionals, but only in- ical people that Doctors for Refu- ing services for the department are stance as necessary to stop people evidence”. public to report nurses and midwives they formed lawyers representing Doc- gees gets our information from. not subject to the act — that in- from dying at sea. “The NMBA and AHPRA (Australian had concerns about. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 9 BRITAIN/IRELAND

DECISION LAW AND ORDER DEFENCE PEOPLE CRACKDOWN Scotland floats draft bill on Police probe suspicious Navy to ‘man-mark’ Cheryl and second Landlord fined over flat second independence vote item on London train passing Russian warships husband divorce rented to 18 tenants

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon British counter-terrorism police yesterday Britain yesterday said it would keep a close Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s second marriage was A landlord has been fined more than £150,000 launched a draft bill on a second referendum launched an investigation after a suspicious eye on a fleet of Russian warships approaching brought to an end in 14 seconds yesterday as court after 18 people were found living in slum- on independence from the United Kingdom item was found on a London underground train, British waters on their way to the eastern papers showed she had complained about her like conditions in a Grade II listed property yesterday, saying she wants to protect Scotland’s saying they were keeping “an open mind” about Mediterranean. The Norwegian military husband’s unreasonable behaviour causing her in Kensington. The tenants, many of whom place in the EU single market, “even if the rest the incident. The police were called shortly after on Wednesday released pictures taken by “stress and weight loss”. The 33-year-old singer were migrants working in London hotels, were of the UK leaves.” The draft bill allows Scotland 1000GMT after rail staff reported finding the surveillance aircraft of the fleet, which includes and Jean- Bernard Fernandez-Versini, 35, were crowded into a converted four-bedroom flat in a “to reconsider the question of independence item on a train at North Greenwich underground the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and granted a decree nisi by judge Heather MacGregor mansion overlooking Hyde Park. Landlord Abbas before the UK leaves the EU” and aims to ensure station, east of the Canary Wharf financial the Pyotr Velikiy battle cruiser, sailing in at the short hearing in the Central Family Court in Rasul, 64, of Paddington, charged an average of the Scottish parliament is given “all options to district and close to the O2 entertainment international waters. Defence Minister Michael London. The former Girls Aloud star and X Factor £800 a month in rent from each tenants, netting protect Scotland’s continuing relationship with centre. A controlled explosion of the item was Fallon said the Royal Navy would be watching judge secretly married the French restaurateur in him nearly £15,000 a month. The property Europe,” the Scottish government said. “The carried out to make the item safe and the station closely. “When these ships near our waters we July 2014, after three months of dating. The former in Hyde Park Gate is next door to the Dutch damage to jobs and Scotland’s economy that will remained closed, police said. On social media will man-mark them every step of the way,” couple, who were not in court, did not sign a pre- embassy. The flat was divided using thin pieces be caused by Brexit – especially a hard Brexit – is people posted photos of passengers waiting Fallon said. “We will be watching as part of our nuptial agreement, although he is reportedly not of plasterboard to create 14 bedsits occupied by now plain to see,” Sturgeon said in a statement. outside the station. steadfast commitment to keep Britain safe.” seeking a slice of her fortune. 18 people. Huge rise in Spectacular sight Britons seeking EU citizenship as Brexit looms

Guardian News and Media week of the referendum (129 ap- London plications) and the week after (150 applications). Meanwhile Denmark wit- he number of Britons seek- nessed the highest jump in ap- ing citizenship in other EU plications, increasing from 30 in Tcountries has surged as the fi rst eight months of 2015 to a result of the Brexit vote, with almost 300 in 2016. some member states recording In Ireland, in the year to Sep- near ten-fold increases on 2015 tember there were 351 applica- fi gures. tions for citizenship from Britons Denmark, Italy, Ireland and living in Ireland, up from 61 in the Sweden have all reported a spike same period in 2015. in applications from British citi- In Germany, which is home to zens eager to secure proper status more than 100,000 British ex- in the EU following the June 23 pats, applications are not proc- Bird watchers view huge flocks of wading and sea birds flying over the coastline as seasonal high tides force them off their feeding grounds and to move closer to shore vote that has set the UK on course essed centrally. However, fi gures near Snettisham in Norfolk, Britain, yesterday. to leave. provided by the 10 largest cities Across 18 European countries, show a similar trend. at least 2,800 Britons applied In Berlin, 230 British nationals for citizenship in the fi rst eight applied for citizenship in the year months of 2016 – a more than to August 2016. By comparison, 250% increase on numbers re- just 45 Britons were naturalised in corded in 2015. Compared with the full year of 2015. In Hamburg, last year’s fi gures, numbers have Germany’s second largest city, surged almost ten-fold in Den- 178 Britons submitted citizenship mark and threefold in Sweden. applications in the year to Sep- Several applicants told the tember 7 compared with 52 in all MPs back stripping Guardian that it was the Brexit of 2015. vote that prompted them to take In Cologne, the number in- action. creased from fi ve in the fi rst eight “I started the application proc- months of 2015 to 40 in 2016. Brit- ess on June 24, the day after the ons who want to apply for citizen- EU referendum,” said Ravi Bha- ship in Cologne currently have tiani, 33, who has been living and to wait up to six months to get an Green of knighthood working in Brussels for nine years. appointment. If that was not the “As soon as there was a risk to the case, the number of applications Reuters closed in August, with the loss of ber. A spokesman for Green de- “bring the honours system into case”. Green has said he sold freedom of movement and there- in 2016 would probably already be London some 11,000 jobs. clined to comment. disrepute”. The fi nal decision is BHS to Chappell in good faith fore a risk to my ability to work in triple digits, authorities say. BHS had a £571mn hole in its Opposition Labour lawmaker made by the Queen. but has accepted he was the in Belgium and do the job I enjoy For Belgium, which also han- pension fund, which if not fi lled Iain Wright, chair of parlia- Removal of knighthoods, wrong buyer. doing, I decided to apply for citi- dles naturalisations on a local awmakers backed strip- will leave 20,000 pensioners ment’s business committee, said among the highest honours be- He has apologised to the com- zenship.” level, fi ve of the 10 largest cities ping billionaire Philip facing signifi cant cuts to their of Green in the debate: “he took stowed by Britain for outstand- pany’s former workers and its In order to fi nd out how the provided data on citizenship ap- LGreen of his knighthood income. the rings from BHS’s fi ngers, he ing achievement or service, is pensioners, but lawmakers said number of citizenship applica- plications from British nationals over the collapse of BHS depart- A report by lawmakers in July beat it black and blue, he starved rare. he had run the company in a way tions has changed, the Guardian revealing a similar trend: whereas ment store, in a symbolic move said Green was greedy and dis- it of food and water, he put it on Past cases include Anthony that enriched himself at the ex- contacted the 27 other EU member they received just fi ve applica- yesterday that will raise pressure regarded corporate governance, life support and then he wanted Blunt, a notorious British double pense of the long-term growth states requesting fi gures on appli- tions in the fi rst eight months of on the tycoon over his promises leading to the demise of BHS. credit for keeping it alive.” agent who spied for the Soviets, of the company. cations made by British nationals 2015, there were 33 in the same to resolve the company’s pen- It called him “the unacceptable The vote was symbolic, as de- and Benito Mussolini, who was Green told lawmakers in June and received relevant data from 18. period this year. sion problems. face of capitalism”. Following cisions to remove honours are stripped of an honour awarded he would resolve the pensions Of the countries that respond- Spain, the EU country with the Green owned BHS for 15 years a debate in parliament lasting made by the Honours Forfeiture by King George V in 1923 after issue and in an interview with ed, the numbers were highest in biggest British community, was before he sold the loss-making more than two hours, lawmak- Committee. declaring war on Britain in 1940. ITV News on Tuesday he said Sweden, where more than 1,100 not able to provide recent data 180-outlet chain to Dominic ers backed a call for Green to That committee, which in- Former RBS boss Fred Good- there was some “light in the applications were received from on the number of citizenship ap- Chappell, a serial bankrupt with be stripped of his knighthood, cludes senior civil servants and win, criticised for his role in tunnel to a solution”. But the British nationals between January plications submitted by British no retail experience, for just £1 awarded in 2006 for services to members independent of gov- the bank’s near collapse, was Pensions Regulator said it has and August 2016, more than three nationals. However, other fi gures last year. retail. ernment, can recommend re- stripped of his knighthood in not received a comprehensive times that received in the same indicate that more Britons are It went into administration The motion was unopposed moving honours from people 2012, although the government and credible written off er or period in 2015. They peaked in the preparing to apply for citizenship. in April and the last of its stores by those in the debating cham- who have done something to described it as “an exceptional proposal from Green. Elderly getting raw deal Official visit Redknapp ‘runs over’ wife in ‘freak’ accident at care homes: Age UK London Evening Standard obviously it could have been worse London had a bus been coming at the time.” Guardian News and Media “a raw deal” when they or their though her daughter said that Witnesses said Sandra was London family negotiate the fees for her mother neither wanted arry Redknapp’s wife in agony during the incident in their stay. nor received that service. De- Sandra was yesterday re- Bournemouth on Wednesday “We are worried that too spite raising concern about it Hcovering from surgery in morning. One said: “There was rowing numbers of older many older people who pay for with the care home and being hospital after he accidentally ran a lot of blood on the tarmac and people face increasingly their own care are getting a raw assured that it was a one-off her over in his car. Harry was beside himself. It was a Ghigh care home fees to deal and are unfairly being asked charge, the woman had been Sources close to the former Pre- freak accident.” subsidise the lower fees paid by to pay the price for a failing care billed a second time for “an en- mier League manager said he was Sandra was rushed to hospital councils for those who cannot system,” said Caroline Abra- tertainer”. “low but relieved” as he feared it following the incident in Poole afford to pay, a leading charity hams, Age UK’s charity director. The charity is also worried “could have been worse”. Road, with onlookers describing has warned. about how few legal rights resi- Sandra, 69, screamed in ago- how the former Tottenham, West Last year about 167,000 care “We are worried that too dents have and fear that this ny as she was dragged along the Ham, Bournemouth, Southamp- home residents across the UK many older people who situation, combined with the street when her foot and coat were ton and Portsmouth boss looked were meeting the cost of their pay for their own care are shortage of care home places, caught in the door of her hus- shaken as he cared for his stricken own care, up by 29% on the getting a raw deal and are can deter them or their relatives band’s Range Rover. Redknapp, wife until an ambulance arrived. 130,000 who did so in 2005. unfairly being asked to from complaining. “It seems also 69, had driven his wife to the One shopper told The Sun: Now, 41% of all those receiv- pay the price for a failing crazy that a hale and hearty shops but did not notice she was “I was in a shop and a couple of ing residential care are self- care system” 30-year-old who rents a fl at trapped as he pulled away, it was people came in and said, ‘Crikey, funders. enjoys more security of tenure reported. there’s a lady who’s been dragged They pay between £603 and “They not only often face than an 80-year-old with de- The source said: “She’s had an along the road,’ then someone else £867 a week for their care, de- eye-wateringly high weekly mentia and diabetes who lives in operation. It doesn’t appear any- came in and said it was Harry Red- pending on where in the UK rates, calls to our helpline show a care home,” added Abrahams. thing has been broken — it may knapp who had just dropped his they are, whereas councils pay that some are being asked to pay The number of beds in resi- have been ligament damage. wife off .” much less – between £421 and even more in ways that most of dential homes in England fell “She’s being monitored and Another said: “I was told Harry £624 a week – for those whom us would regard as ‘sharp prac- from 255,289 in 2010 to 235,799 may be kept in for a day or two de- pulled up to let his wife out but be- they support. tice’, as care homes struggle to last month, though the supply pending on her progress. The bang fore she had completely got out, he Age UK fears that the declin- keep the lights on,” she said. of nursing home beds rose from Queen Elizabeth II meets Japan’s ambassador Koji on the head is said to be superfi cial went to pull away and she fell over. ing number of care homes and Age UK cited the example of 205,375 to 224,843 over the Tsuruoka during a private audience at which he damage, nothing serious. The incident took place in the beds available means that some a woman in residential care who same period, the Care Quality presented his Letters of Credence at Buckingham “Harry is low but relieved as Westbourne area, about four miles elderly people going into resi- has Alzheimer’s disease who Commission revealed last week Palace in central London yesterday. it could have been worse — ap- from the couple’s £5mn home in dential accommodation receive was billed for “an entertainer”, in its annual report. parently she fell in a bus lane and the Sandbanks area of Poole. Gulf Times 10 Friday, October 21, 2016 EUROPE Crash landing feared as Mars lander stays silent

Reuters surface for a rover scientists hope Russian-European ExoMars pro- 35mn miles (56mn km) away, is a collect and analyse samples. Human Spacefl ight and Robotic SpaceX is developing a massive Frankfurt/Berlin to send to Mars in 2020. gramme that is seeking signs of notoriously diffi cult task that has Scientists said they had re- Exploration. rocket and capsule to transport Its descent marked only the life. thwarted most Russian eff orts ceived data from the lander cov- Scientists will analyse all the large numbers of people and car- second European attempt to land The primary part of the mis- and given Nasa trouble as well. ering its entry into the Martian data received so far, and also still go to Mars with the ultimate goal hrusters intended to slow a craft on Mars, but it has shown sion this year, bringing the Schi- The US space agency had a set- atmosphere and the deployment hope to re-establish contact with of colonising the planet. a European lander as it no signs of life since it stopped aparelli lander’s mothership into back of its own on Wednesday. of its heat shield and parachute, the lander before its batteries run ESA astronaut Alexander Tneared Mars on Wednes- transmitting around 50 seconds orbit around Mars, was mean- Its Juno spacecraft lost its which were designed to slow it out in a few days. Gerst, who is set to become the day fi red for less time than ex- before Wednesday’s planned while a success. main computer and science in- from a speed of 21,000kph. Britain’s Beagle 2 never made fi rst German commander of the pected before contact with the touchdown. That craft, called Trace Gas struments just before it was due But its thrusters appeared to contact after being sent down by International Space Station in vehicle was lost, leaving sci- “We’ve had two overfl ights Orbiter (TGO), will use an at- to make an orbital pass near Ju- have fi red for only a few seconds, the Mars Express spacecraft in 2018, said the ExoMars mission entists uncertain whether it (by Mars orbiters) and there was mospheric probe to sniff out piter, scuttling highly anticipated much shorter than expected, and 2003. would provide clues on what touched down safely or broke no signal,” the European Space methane and other gases around close-up observations of the scientists are not sure how far Mars’s hostile environment conditions the fi rst humans trav- apart. Agency’s (ESA) Spacecraft Op- Mars linked to organic life. largest planet in the solar system. off the ground Schiaparelli was has not detracted from its al- elling to Mars would face. The Schiaparelli probe, part erations Manager Andrea Ac- It will also act as a data relay Schiaparelli is supposed to test when they shut off . lure, with US President Barack “Eventually, though, we will of a broader mission to search comazzo told journalists yester- station for the rover, which is due new technologies for a rover that “We need to understand what Obama highlighting his pledge to need to go there ourselves as for evidence of life on the Red day. to follow in 2020. will be the fi rst with the ability to happened in the last few seconds send people to the surface by the scientists to fi nd out what is Planet, was to test technologies The disc-shaped 577kg (1,272 Landing on Mars, Earth’s both move across the surface of before the planned landing,” said 2030s. there,” he told Reuters TV late on during the descent and on the lb) Schiaparelli is part of the neighbour and at its closest some Mars and drill into the ground to David Parker, ESA’s Director of Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Wednesday.

People smuggler Putin backs armed OSCE held after police mission to east Ukraine chase

AFP extended to the end of March leadership of the Donetsk Peo- Reuters Moscow 2017. ple’s Republic and the Luhansk Rome Despite Putin’s endorsement People’s Republic,” Pushilin of armed Organisation for Se- said. “It has been confi rmed at resident Vladimir Putin curity and Co-operation in Eu- rallies with several thousand talian police stopped and ar- backs an armed OSCE rope (OSCE) observers, German people that took place on our rested a 39-year-old Italian Pmission to war-torn east- Chancellor Angela Merkel has territories.” Iman who was driving a re- ern Ukraine, the Kremlin said said the process of ensuring lo- In June, more than 5,000 peo- frigerated minivan packed with yesterday, in spite of objections cal elections in the rebel-con- ple took to the streets of the rebel 17 migrants after a high-speed by pro-Moscow rebels. trolled areas needs to advance stronghold of Donetsk to protest chase at the French border, the “Putin agreed to the deploy- before an armed OSCE mission against the presence of OSCE police said yesterday. ment of such a mission during could be put in place. monitors in the war-torn region, The incident took place earlier the talks,” Kremlin spokesman The idea of arming that mis- one of many rallies against the this week. Dmitry Peskov told reporters, sion does not sit well with the monitoring group. Video fi lmed by police shows a referring to Wednesday’s four- separatists’ self-proclaimed The German chancellor said white minivan speeding towards way talks on the confl ict with “people’s republics” in the in- yesterday that that “no mira- the border crossing, where it is the leaders of Germany, France dustrial regions of Luhansk and cles” were achieved on the blocked at the toll gate before and Ukraine. Donetsk. Ukraine crisis during the talks entering into France. “There is an understanding One of the Donetsk separatist but said they had led to some Plain clothes police offi cers on the positive nature of the de- leaders, Denis Pushilin, told AFP progress on ending a deadlock in carrying pistols run towards the ployment of such a mission, but that his self-proclaimed repub- the peace process. van to arrest the driver. it needs to be worked out in the lic was against the measure and Ukrainian President Petro Putin, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Merkel and Poroshenko are seen at the talks on The driver faces charges of framework of the OSCE,” Peskov that it had not been agreed upon Poroshenko said all sides had a stalled peace plan for eastern Ukraine, at the Chancellery in Berlin, on Wednesday. aiding and abetting illegal im- added. in 2015 peace agreements known agreed to draw up a roadmap by migration and inhumane and The OSCE’s Special Monitor- as the Minsk accords. the end of November for apply- Russia, which annexed Cri- confl ict that has claimed nearly tions that it has sent troops and degrading treatment of people. ing Mission (SMM) has 580 un- “The fact that we are against ing the frayed 2015 Minsk peace mea from Ukraine in 2014, is 10,000 lives since it erupted over weaponry across its border to The 17 men of African origin armed staff based in the confl ict an armed OSCE mission is not accords following months of im- backing the pro-Moscow in- two years ago. the separatists to fuel the con- were so tightly packed in the zone and has had its mandate only the personal position of the passe. surgency in eastern Ukraine in a Moscow has denied accusa- fl ict. back of the minivan that one said he thought he was going to die of asphyxiation, the police state- ment said. Another passenger said he had paid €50 ($54.87) to a non-Ital- Spanish Teenager on trial for stabbing offi cer on IS orders ian man at the train station to be smuggled into France. More than 145,000 migrants court Reuters Hanover in February. many by her mother, prosecu- If psychologists ruled that Investigators believe the ac- have arrived in Italy from North Celle, Germany She is charged with attempt- tors said. her cognitive ability was that cused was radicalised in Ger- Africa so far this year, and Euro- ed murder and with being an IS She was 16 at the time. of a 13-year-old, he added, she many by people with ties to the pean Union law says they must overturns supporter. Her lawyer, Mutlu Guenal, would be deemed under Ger- ultra-conservative Salafi strand apply for asylum in the country teenage German-Mo- She travelled in January to said after the fi rst trial session many’s age of criminal respon- of Islam. where they fi rst enter the bloc. roccan girl went on trial Istanbul where she met mem- that Safi a had sent a letter of sibility, which would lead to Authorities believe 820 Ger- But many migrants do not ban on Ain Germany yesterday bers of IS who planned to help apology to the offi cer and that acquittal. man citizens have left to join want to stay in Italy and seek to accused of stabbing a police her enter territory it controls in he hoped psychologists would “I do not rule it out. I’m as- Islamist militants fi ghting in continue their journey onto oth- offi cer on the orders of Islamic Syria, prosecutors have said. confi rm that she lacked the suming that it will end with an Syria and Iraq. er member states. bullfi ghts State (IS) militants, and her While in Istanbul, they said, cognitive ability to recognise acquittal,” Guenal added. A 20-year-old German Syr- The frontier between Italy’s lawyer argued that she lacked she received IS orders to carry her actions were unacceptable. After being returned to Ger- ian, Mohamad K, is also stand- Ventimiglia and Menton in the capacity to know she was out a “martyrdom attack” in “Based on the circumstances, many, Safi a S contacted Islam- ing trial in the same case. southern France is often called Reuters doing wrong. Germany. there are doubts that Safi a had ic State members online and He is accused of having “Mini Calais” after the camp Madrid Safi a S, a dual citizen, has She stabbed and seriously the cognitive faculty needed to asked them to help her plan an known of Safi a’s plan to carry set up near the entrance to the been in prison awaiting trial for wounded the police offi cer after see that what she was about to attack, according to prosecu- out the attack but not inform- Channel Tunnel linking France the attack at a train station in she was brought back to Ger- do was wrong,” he said. tors. ing the police. and Britain. pain’s Constitutional Court has overturned a ban Son bullfi ghting imposed in Catalonia, calling it a cultural asset protected under national law in a ruling likely to fuel po- Legendary French ballerina Chauvire dies aged 99 litical tensions between the re- gion and Madrid. Bullfi ghting, a bloody ritual AFP Opera Garnier 10 years later. (The Shadow), one of the great reper- intended to ennoble both the Paris She was just 24 when the Ukrainian- tory roles of the 20th century to which “torero” and his victim, has been born choreographer Serge Lifar elevated she initiated a number of rising stars. popular in Spain for generations. her to the top rank of etoile (“star”) fol- Her stylistic intelligence and pu- But its appeal has waned as rima ballerina Yvette Chauvire, lowing her stunning performance as the rity of technique were attributed to her animal rights activists and a whose ethereal performances mysterious Babylonian goddess Istar. teachers Carlotta Zambelli of Italy and generation of Spaniards exposed Pcaptivated lovers of French clas- “It’s through intense concentration, the Russians Boris Kniaseff and Victor to less traditional values ques- sical ballet over nearly four decades, has a total giving of yourself, an immense Gsovsky. tion the legitimacy of an activ- died aged 99. faith, that you fl oat in a universe that is In the 1960s, she headlined with the ity that they say is barbaric and The Paris Opera, which she joined as invisible to the naked eye,” she wrote. world’s top ballet companies, starring archaic. a child prodigy when she was 14, an- Recognised as a “prima ballerina as- opposite male legends including Maris Catalonia, a wealthy region in nounced late on Wednesday that Chau- soluta”, a rare distinction accorded to Liepa, Erik Bruhn and Rudolph Nureyev the country’s northeast with its vire had died overnight on Tuesday, and only the best female dancers of their in Moscow, New York, London and Mi- own language and customs and a expressed its sadness. generation, Chauvire was Lifar’s muse lan. strong and active independence Chauvire, whose triumph as Giselle for most of his three decades at Garnier, Chauvire, who was awarded France’s movement, became the fi rst part revived audiences’ appreciation for until the end of the 1950s. highest honour the Legion d’Honneur of mainland Spain to outlaw the 19th-century romantic ballet, had re- Lifar cast her in many of his new bal- in 1988, becoming a Grand Offi cer in This file photo taken on March 3, 1998 spectacle in 2012. tired in 1972. lets, such as David Triomphant in 1937 2010, was co-director of the Paris Op- shows then-French president Jacques But the constitutional court Born April 22, 1917, in Paris, she was and La Peri in 1955. era school in the 1960s, with pupils Chirac awarding Chauvire with the ruled yesterday that the ban was This file photo taken on November 6, admitted to the Paris Opera school aged In his 1944 work The Mirages, Chau- including Sylvie Guillem and Marie- National Order of Merit at the Elysee invalid as bullfi ghting was pro- 1937 shows Chauvire at the Paris Opera. 10, and became a principal dancer at the vire danced the character of “L’Ombre” Claude Pietragalla. Palace in Paris. tected under Spanish law and exempt from prohibition at re- gional level. Having already refused to ac- cept a ruling from the same court invalidating Catalonia’s pursuit Parents can sue cities over creche shortages, German court rules of independence, authorities in the region indicated that they would ignore yesterday’s verdict AFP Under a slew of child-friendly The mothers say that they the hook if they can prove that way for more potential lawsuits, Nevertheless, with the arrival too. Berlin policies aimed at pushing up have lost a combined total of the child-care shortage had the Federation of German Cit- of 900,000 asylum-seekers “There will be no bullfi ghts in Germany’s low birth rate, par- €15,100 ($16,400) in wages be- arisen despite careful planning ies and Towns – an offi cial body to Germany, Europe’s biggest Catalonia again,” said Josep Rull, ents were promised a nursery cause of the shortfall in nursery on their part. representing local governments, economy, is under pressure to a member of the Catalonian par- arents unable to return to place for every child from age places. Financial constraints is not a believed that it would be un- open up more child-care spots. liament. work because they failed one from August 2013. A state court had earlier re- valid reason, said the court, be- likely. The country is also seeing Spanish animal rights political Pto obtain a nursery place But three mothers from the jected their case, but the con- cause under the law, a city “has It noted that around 435,000 more newborns, according to of- party Pacma denounced yester- for their child should be com- eastern city of Leipzig took lo- stitutional court has now over- the responsibility to provide nursery places had been cre- fi cial data. day’s bullfi ghting ruling, posting pensated for any resulting loss in cal authorities to court because turned that ruling. for a suffi cient number of care ated in the last decade for un- Over the last 35 years, Ger- on Twitter: “We will not rest un- wages, Germany’s highest court they were unable to fi nd child- Yesterday’s decision said that places”. der-threes, bringing the total to many had recorded a steady fall til it is abolished in all of Spain.” ruled yesterday. care for their toddlers. local authorities will only be off Although the ruling paves the 720,000. in birth rate. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 11 INDIA Panic grips customers over debit cards security breach

IANS State Bank of India (SBI), have al- In the current scenario, the panies, MasterCard said yester- tions are suspected, they should the networks as a precautionary ware which has a high potential to Mumbai ready started blocking their cus- SBI alone has blocked more than day that its “own systems have contact the bank concerned for measure, though it did not reveal compromise customers data. tomers’ debit cards and re-issuing 600,000 debit cards while as- not been breached.” more assistance. the exact number of cardholders Offi cial fi gures indicate that fresh ones to them free of cost. suring customers that the mal- “We are working on the inves- Anxious customers have who would be hit. the SBI has over 200mn active ver 3mn debit cards of An estimated 3mn debit cards ware-related security breach tigations with the regulators, is- started inquiring with their The SBI emphasised that its debit cards, besides 40.75mn various banks are believed issued by various public and pri- was reportedly detected in the suers, acquirers, global and local banks over the seriousness of the own systems have absolutely not others of its associate banks. Oto be ‘tainted’ following a vate banks are said to be aff ected non-SBI ATM network. law enforcement agencies and problem, whether their personal been compromised and existing In early September, the Na- suspected security breach, spark- by a potential risk of data breach. The move has been under- third party payment networks to data has leaked out and if that cardholders are not at any risk tional Payments Corporation of ing panic among customers ahead Debit or credit cards are prone taken to ensure that customers’ assess the current situation,” a could lead to fi nancial implica- and can continue to use their India (NPCI), Mumbai, which of Diwali festival. to security issues when unauthor- confi dential personal data is MasterCard spokesperson said. tions, especially with Diwali cards as usual. controls all the retail payments Investigations have begun ised people gain access to the con- not compromised while debit or It has advised the consumers round the corner. According to banking circles, systems in the country, had made into the causes behind the secu- fi dential data embedded on them, credit cards are swiped for vari- to review their account state- On Wednesday evening, the several other banks have also ex- it clear that there “is no compro- rity risks. even as they are being swiped in an ous transactions. ments and activity, and if any SBI said it has blocked cards of perienced similar problems as a mise at NPCI and our systems Several banks, including the automatic teller machine ATM. One of the card network com- unusual or fraudulent transac- certain customers identifi ed by few ATMs have been hit by a mal- are fully safe and secure.” Kashmir govt cracks whip on workers over unrest

IANS has crossed all limits of suppres- Srinagar sion. All those sacked are lower rung employees and we will pro- tect their interest at any cost. he Jammu and Kashmir EJAC will provide legal assist- government has sacked ance to these employees,” Wani Tover a dozen employees said, adding that the termination for “anti-national activities” orders violated the employee and fomenting an ongoing street protection laws. unrest in the Kashmir Valley, an “How can you sack an em- offi cial said yesterday, sparking ployee without following a threats of a protest from an em- proper procedure? It is harass- ployees’ group in the state. ment and a move to cow down The offi cial said that “reports the employees who are part and on their anti-national activi- parcel of the society,” Wani said. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists stage a demonstration against Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in Nagpur yesterday. ties prepared by the police were The sacking appears to be part forwarded to the chief secretary, of the government’s strategy to who then directed respective crack down on alleged trouble- heads of departments to issue makers in the valley where nor- orders terminating their serv- mal life has been disrupted for ices.” over three months since the July The dismissed employees in- 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen clude an assistant registrar of commander Burhan Wani. At Kashmir University. The others least 91 people have been killed, Rajnath promises safe are from education, revenue, over 12,000 injured and thou- public health, engineering, pow- sands have been arrested in the er, consumer aff airs and public last 104 days of the ongoing un- distribution departments. rest – the bloodiest the valley “The state government in- has seen in six years. voked Article 126 of the state Meanwhile, a Srinagar jour- constitution to carry out the ac- nalist who runs a news por- release of Johar’s fi lm tion,” the offi cial added. tal said he was questioned and Some of the dismissed em- “harassed” by police over a video Ae Dil Hai Mushkil under Bhatt, president of the Film erupted over Pakistani artistes “He (Singh) said that full out problems as a lot of money ployees have already been ar- statement by Hizbul Mujahideen threat from the MNS for and Television Producers Guild working in India following the protection will be given to all has been put behind it by our rested while others were said to he had published on his website featuring Pakistani actor of India, told reports after the September 18 Uri attack which exhibitors – whether it is sin- producers. have gone into hiding. a month ago. Fawad Khan meeting: “We came to meet killed 19 Indian soldiers in Jam- gle screen or multiplex owners. “From now on, we won’t let The authorities have slapped Vijdan Kawoosa, who also Rajnath Singh because we were mu and Kashmir. The attack They will get 100% police pro- Pakistani artistes work in our the draconian Public Safety Act writes for some international IANS scared that law and order in our was followed by Indian Army’s tection and the government of nation, till the time the situa- (PSA) against some of the ar- websites, said he got the Hizb New Delhi nation, especially in Mumbai, ‘surgical attacks’ across the India will see to it that the fi lm is tion improves. We have a very rested employees. The act allows video through an anonymous e- was getting out of hand. Line of Control. released without any violence.” strong BJP government in Ma- the police to arrest anybody on mail. “We came here to get assur- The subsequent tension be- Justifying Johar’s decision harashtra under Devendra Fad- a mere suspicion of a threat to He said he had run the clip ome Minister Rajnath ance from the Home Ministry tween India and Pakistan had a to rope in Fawad Khan for Ae navis. public safety. The suspect can be with the disclaimer that its au- Singh yesterday as- that they will tell chief ministers spillover eff ect on the film indus- Dil Hai Mushkil, Bhatt said the “The Mumbai police have jailed for two years without any thenticity was subject to verifi - Hsured the Hindi fi lm of all states to keep the law and try on both sides of the border. “climate back then was diff er- clearly said that no one will be charges or trial. cation. industry that Karan Johar’s Ae order intact, and won’t let Ae While the MNS issued an ul- ent. Now, times have changed. allowed to take law and order The dismissal of the employ- On Wednesday evening, he Dil Hai Mushkil will get a safe Dil Hai Mushkil get into trouble timatum to Pakistani artistes to We know how to entertain peo- into their hands. The kind of ees sparked angry reaction from was summoned to the police cy- and secure release in theatres when it releases on October 28. quit India, the Indian Motion ple, we don’t know politics and statements that MNS lead- the Employees’ Joint Action ber cell and accused of sympa- on October 28 – two days before “He (Rajnath) gave us the as- Picture Producers Association don’t wish to get into it. ers have given, it is defi nitely Committee (EJAC) that threat- thising with the militant group Diwali – amid threats from the surance that whatever support passed a resolution asking pro- “The MNS should not spoil not going to be tolerated,” he ened to “hit the roads if the gov- and being “on their payrolls” or Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. we want from the government, ducers to avoid working with Diwali of the families and let the added. ernment does not reconsider its having links with them. Singh gave the assurance we will get it. He said he will talk talent from Pakistan. And Ae fi lm release peaceful.” Supriyo said that producers, decision.” He said all this happened when he met a delegation led to all the chief ministers and tell Dil Hai Mushkil has become the Singer and Bharatiya Janata directors and actors make fi lms The union’s president, Abdul “only because my website was by Mukesh Bhatt, president of a them to maintain law and order, fi rst target. Party politician Babul Supriyo, for the entertainment of people, Qayoom Wani, said the number the fi rst to share their state- fi lm producers’ body. and see that there is no violence Bhatt said while MNS may try who accompanied Bhatt, said: to spread love and “make all the of sacked employees was around ment,” which was also carried by The fi lm is under threat from outside theatres.” to create obstacles in the release “We want to request the MNS festivals even more enjoyable. 40. various media houses in Kashmir the MNS for featuring Pakistani Trouble for Ae Dil Hai Mush- of the fi lm, the “government is to let the fi lms which have been So, they are with the sentiments “The incumbent government and beyond. actor Fawad Khan. kil began when a controversy with us.” made now to get released with- of the entire country.” Govt trying to make India I want to see my child, a Hindu nation: Owaisi says student’s mother IANS Ahmed on the night of October New Delhi 14 night. IANS attended by thousands of people their heads and make any sacri- Meanwhile, protesting stu- Hyderabad including women. fi ce but will never bow to any law dents yesterday let Vice Chan- The speakers made it clear which stops them from obeying he mother of a missing cellor M Jagadesh Kumar leave that Muslims would never tol- the orders of Allah and Prophet Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- after keeping him confi ned to ll India Majlis-e-Itte- erate any attempt to interfere in Muhammad. Tversity student yester- his offi ce for almost 20 hours had-ul Muslimeen chief the Muslim Personal Law. A large number of women also day urged authorities to “help as the Delhi police formed a AAsaduddin Owaisi has Owaisi ridiculed an affi davit attended the meeting, which fi nd my child.” special team to trace Ahmed. alleged that the government fi led by the central government was also addressed by fi ve wom- “Let me see the face of my The Special Investigation is trying to convert India into in the Supreme Court and said by en members of the board. child once. Keep him (after Team (SIT) was set up follow- “Hindu rashtra” (nation) with comparing Indian Muslims with Rehmani clarifi ed that the that) for a month if you like. I ing Home Minister Rajnath its attempt to impose a Uniform the Muslims of Pakistan and oth- board boycotted the question- won’t say a word. But just let Singh’s directions. The police Civil Code (UCC). er countries, the government had naire of the Law Commission as me see him once,” Fatima told earlier in the day announced a The MP from Hyderabad said insulted not just the community it was framed in a manner to give CNN News18 channel. reward of Rs50,000 for any in- by interfering in the Muslim but the entire country. an impression that UCC is a con- Her son Najeeb Ahmed went formation on Ahmed. Personal Law, the government The MP dared the government stitutional process. He, however, missing on October 15 night JNU students carrying pho- was trying to show that Muslims to scrap the special status en- said they were not boycotting from a university hostel after tos of Ahmed went about in were second class citizens. joyed by states like Mizoram and the Law Commission and that a brawl with members of the the neighbourhood inquiring Stating that pluralism and di- Nagaland and abolish the mar- is why the board has taken up a Bharatiya Janata Party-affi li- about him. They also pasted versity were the strengths and riage laws of Goa. signature campaign. ated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi “missing posters” in areas beauty of India, he said any at- He wanted to know if the gov- He said Muslim Personal Law Parishad (ABVP). around the JNU and on various tempt to destroy secularism ernment, by bringing the UCC, was protected by Article 25 of the “I am from a very small roads leading to the campus. would weaken the country. would extend tax rebate enjoyed constitution, which has given place... I want to see my child The protesters, including the Owaisi was addressing a by Hindu undivided families to citizens the right to practice and safe. I don’t know if he has eat- students’ wings of the Marx- public meeting organised by Muslims. preach their religion. en anything or is hungry,” the ist party and the Congress, the All India Muslim Personal AIMPLB secretary Moulana Condemning attempts to de- sobbing woman said. claimed inaction of the admin- Law Board (AIMPLB) to oppose Khalid Saifullah Rehmani said fame Muslims, he said all sur- “My appeal to everyone istration in tracing Ahmed. UCC. Muslim Personal Law is a matter veys show that Muslims have is to help me fi nd my child,” The Left students’ wing has Leaders of all sects of Muslims of life and death for Muslims. the least rate of divorce and po- Muslims attend a rally against a proposed Uniform Civil Code and to said Fatima, who rushed from accused the ABVP of being in- and various schools of Islamic He said Muslims will shed lygamy compared to other com- demand a reservation quota in colleges and in government jobs, in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh after volved in the alleged abduction thought addressed the meeting their last drop of blood, off er munities in the country. Mumbai yesterday. receiving a frantic call from of the undergraduate student. Gulf Times 12 Friday, October 21, 2016 INDIA

DISPUTE POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT CONTROVERSY INVESTIGATION Postpone meeting Attack on AAP govt NH7 music festival Akhilesh supporter asks Five naval staff held on Mhadei: Goa CM dangerous: CPM starts in Shillong today Mulayam to step down for assault in Goa

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has All roads in Meghalaya will lead to Madan A young legislator considered close to Uttar Five Indian Navy personnel were arrested in yesterday urged his counterparts in denounced the “brazen and calculated” onslaught Kurkalang in Bhoirymbong, Ri-Bhoi district Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has Goa for assault late on Wednesday, police said Maharashtra and Karnataka to postpone a by the central government on Delhi’s Aam Aadmi of Shillong today for the seventh edition of asked Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh yesterday. The navy personnel assaulted a meeting to be held today to find an amicable Party government, calling it a dangerous attack NH7 Weekender, one of the biggest music Yadav to step down and let his son take his man in South Goa after they suspected him resolution to the vexed Mhadei inter-state on the democratic and federal structure. “What festivals in India. The two-day festival, which place. Udayveer Singh, a first time member of of allegedly abusing the daughter of another water dispute. In a letter to Devendra has been happening in Delhi is truly scandalous,” will entertain the region’s music enthusiasts, the Legislative Council, wrote a “private letter” naval off icer. The suspects involved are posted Fadnavis and Siddaramaiah, Parsekar said he said an editorial in People’s Democracy, the CPM’s will see many maiden performances by to Mulayam Singh but it has now found its way at INS Hansa. Police said patrolmen Amit would not be able to attend the meeting in mouthpiece. “Ever since the AAP government was international and national artistes. The to the media. Udayveer Singh said yesterday Jaiswal, Jitendra Singh, Shamlal Pakshak and Mumbai today due to “prior engagements”. formed after the February 2015 election, there international artistes expected are Steven that he was merely airing his personal feelings Rajnesh Pachar, led by commandant Anupam Goa and Karnataka are currently battling has been a brazen and calculated attack by the Wilson, Natty, Rhythm Shaw, River, Mali, The which he insisted echoed the views of most Sharma were arrested in connection with the over the controversial Kalsa-Bhandura Dam central government to hamper the elected state Ritornellos and Vertical Horizon. The Indian party colleagues. Udayveer Singh has also assault on Atul Dicholkar, a resident of the project across Mhadei river before a central government,” it said. “The naked use of central part will include Farhan Live, Kumail, What accused Mulayam Singh’s second wife Sadhna port town Vasco, located 35km from Panaji. tribunal. Mhadei, also known as the Mandovi power through the Lt Governor and Delhi police Escapes Me, Elephant In The Elevator and Wild of harbouring ill feeling towards her stepson “The navy personnel suspected that the river, is considered the lifeline of northern (who are under the central jurisdiction) has more Palms. They will perform over the weekend, Akhilesh. He added that Shivpal Singh Yadav, the complainant had abused a minor daughter of Goa. The river originates in Karnataka and or less sidelined the state government and the and are expected to make it a night to state party chief and a brother of Mulayam Singh, their colleague on Tuesday. So they accosted meets the Arabian Sea in Panaji in Goa. elected legislature,” it added. remember for all music aficionados. was jealous of the chief minister’s popularity. and assaulted him together,” the police said.

Blast at Sivakasi Major jolt for fi reworks factory kills eight Congress as

Agencies Chennai

t least eight workers were senior leader killed yesterday in a huge Aexplosion set off by a blaze at a fi reworks factory in Tamil Nadu, police said. Among the dead are six wom- en. Another 20 people were joins the BJP wounded in the blast in the town of Sivakasi, which came days be- Rita Bahuguna accuses Rahul fore the festival of Diwali, which Gandhi not listening to party many celebrate by letting off workers fi reworks. “Eight workers were killed and IANS 15 were injured. Some of them New Delhi have critical burn injuries,” local police inspector Vijaya Lakshmi said. enior Congress leader Rita Emergency workers evacuated Bahuguna Joshi yesterday patients from a nearby hospital Sjoined the Bharatiya Janata fearing the fi re could spread. Party here in the presence of par- “The accident occurred ty chief Amit Shah. She also gave around 2pm when the fi recrack- up her membership of the Uttar ers were being loaded on a truck Pradesh assembly. and one of the bundles caught She accused Congress vice fi re, leading to multiple explo- president Rahul Gandhi of “not sions,” Sivakasi East police sta- listening” to party cadres. Rita Bahuguna Joshi presents a bouquet to BJP chief Amit Shah after tion chief R Perumal said. Joshi’s decision to join the BJP, joining the party in New Delhi yesterday. “Unfortunately, most of the just months ahead of the Ut- victims were from a medical tar Pradesh assembly elections, of the government and of the party has lost its credibility... scanning centre next to the is widely seen as a big jolt to the army. I was also happy when I What can be more unfortunate crackers shop in the town’s Congress, with which she was came to know about the surgical than a party being given out on congested locality. Crackers associated for 24 years. strikes,” she said, adding what contract? Even powerful leaders in the shop and the truck ex- “Soniaji used to understand made her angry was when proof were not allowed to speak freely,” ploded when a spark lit one of us. She might take any deci- of the strikes were sought and she said. the bundles and its fire spread sion but used to listen to us. But words like “khoon ki dalali” were Joshi also took on Uttar quickly around the spot,” said even that is not possible under used. Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Par- Perumal. the leadership of Rahul Gandhi,” The Congress reacted with ty and the main opposition Ba- When crackers in the shop Joshi told reporters after joining predictable disdain to Joshi’s de- hujan Samaj Party. and the truck exploded, emit- the BJP. sertion. “Both the SP and BSP have ting huge smoke and loud noise, In a fi erce attack on Rahul Gan- Uttar Pradesh Congress presi- looted the state. There is mafi a the truck’s diesel tank too dhi, the former Uttar Pardesh dent Raj Babbar said her defec- raj in Uttar Pradesh. UP needs caught fi re and burnt the vehi- Congress chief said: “His leader- tion would make no diff erence to to be freed from both these par- cle down. ship is not acceptable not just to the party in the state just as her ties.” “We have registered a case Uttar Pradesh but to the entire brother’s leaving the Congress in Joshi is the daughter of late Ut- against the agency’s owner and nation. Even senior leaders of the Uttarakhand had no impact. tar Pradesh chief minister Hem- its employees for the explosions state are angry. Joshi also took on Congress vati Nandan Bahuguna and a sis- and causing death and destruc- “The way he should have given poll manager in Uttar Pradesh ter of former Uttarakhand chief tion of public property,” added leadership to a national party, he Prashant Kishor, saying “a poll minister Vijay Bahuguna, who Perumal. failed to do it seriously. His lead- manager can never be a poll di- joined the BJP some time back. Sivakasi is home to some 700 ership is not acceptable to the rector.” Sources said Joshi was up- small factories producing fi re- people.” “After the 2014 Lok Sabha de- set with the party ever since the works that are running at peak Joshi said it was not an easy bacle, the way Congress should Congress named former Delhi production ahead of Diwali. decision for her to quit the Con- have proceeded, it didn’t.” chief minister Sheila Dikshit as The town in Virudhunagar gress but she took it in the inter- Joshi until recently was known the chief ministerial candidate district, about 540km from est of the country. as an ardent supporter of Rahul in Uttar Pradesh and making Raj Chennai is the largest manufac- She hailed the army’s ‘surgical Gandhi. But yesterday, she ac- Babbar, a former Bollywood ac- turing centre of fi reworks and strikes’ across the Line of Con- cused the Congress of handing tor, the state’s party chief. matches in the country. trol, and said Rahul Gandhi’s crit- over the whole election manage- Joshi is likely to be the BJP can- More than 35 people were icism of Prime Minister Narendra ment to Kishor. didate from Lucknow Canton- killed in 2012 after one of the Modi and the Congress demand “Not only the direction of the ment against SP chief Mulayam factories in the town caught fi re A man packs sparklers for sale at a factory ahead of Diwali on the outskirts of Kolkata yesterday. A for proof made her angry. election but the whole leader- Singh Yadav’s younger daughter- leading to a massive explosion. huge explosion set off by a blaze at a fireworks factory in Sivakasi killed eight people yesterday. “It was a big accomplishment ship was handed over to him. The in-law Aparna Yadav.

Dalit man commits suicide Odisha hospital amid protest over land rights owner arrested Agencies A lookout circular was is- Bhubaneswar sued against Nayak and his Reuters been forced out of their village Some Dalits in Junagadh dis- wife, Saswati Das on Wednes- Ahmedabad more than two decades ago for trict were allocated land in 1988, day. Both are trustees of Sik- trying to cultivate grazing land, a said R G Jadeja, another district disha police have ar- sha ‘O’ Anusandhan Chari- move that was opposed by high- offi cial. rested the wanted own- table Trust, which runs the Dalit man has killed him- er-caste villagers. Others had ancestral land that Oer of a hospital after he hospital. self in Gujarat in a fresh They have since been demand- they cultivated, he said, add- turned himself in over a blaze Das is yet to be arrested. Aprotest over land, as a ing alternative land, local media ing that no allocations had been earlier this week that killed 21 “There was no information campaign for land rights for the reported. made since. patients, a top offi cer said yes- about Das. We will interrogate low-caste community widened “What happened is atrocious,” The protest ended after of- terday. all the hospital trustees,” said a across the country. said Paul Divaker, a founder of fi cials said they would look into Manoj Nayak, chairman of police offi cer. Three Dalit men who had been the National Campaign for Dalit the demands for land, he said. the private SUM hospital, pre- Four other staff from the protesting over a lack of land ti- Human Rights in New Delhi. “We will fi nd out who is eligi- sented himself at a police sta- Bhubaneswar city hospital tles in Junagadh in Gujarat had “It is unconscionable that the ble to receive land as per govern- tion late on Wednesday night were arrested on Tuesday and consumed poison earlier this state has delayed allotting land to ment rules, and allot at least two following a two-day hunt for face charges of criminal neg- week, a district offi cial said. them for so many years, land that acres per family by March 2017,” him in the eastern state. ligence and homicide over the Parbat Parmar died in hospital, is legally due to them, and fail- he told the Thomson Reuters “He is the main trustee of the fi re that broke out in the in- while the other two are in a stable ing to protect them from harass- Foundation. hospital. He is the man behind tensive care unit on Monday condition. ment,” he said. Dalit protests that began in the show, he was running the night. In the months since four Dalit At least half of India’s lower- Gujarat after the Una incident hospital,” said Odisha Direc- The fi re took hold in the di- youths were stripped and fl ogged caste population is landless. have since spread elsewhere, tor General of Police Kunwar alysis ward of the hospital be- by upper-caste Hindu men in Landless Dalits are often vul- with rights activist Jignesh Me- Brajesh Singh. fore quickly spreading to other Una, Gujarat, for allegedly skin- nerable to discrimination and vani kicking off a nationwide “He came to the police sta- sections, killing 19 seriously ill ning a dead cow, protests by Dal- attacks by upper-caste Hindus, campaign earlier this month, tion. After his surrender, he was patients who were unable to fl ee its for their rights including land including recent ones by hardline calling for fi ve acres of land for A farmer works in his sugarcane field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. interrogated and he has been the blaze. have spread across the country. “gau rakshak” vigilantes who re- every landless Dalit family in In- Members of the Dalit community are stepping up their campaign for arrested,” he told the Times Two more patients died of Parmar and other Dalits had gard cows as sacred. dia. land rights. Now TV network. injuries suff ered in the fire. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 13 LATIN AMERICA

LAW AND ORDER WEATHER ECONOMY VERDICT OFFBEAT Ex-governor under house Honduras alert Brazil cuts rates for Colombian drug traff icker ‘We are not killers,’ say arrest after year in jail over heavy rains first time in four years gets 20 years in US prison clowns after creepy fad

Manuel Rosales, a former opposition governor Honduras has issued a red alert over heavy rains Brazil cut interest rates for the first time in four A Colombian drug traff icker who the US govern- Clowns from across Latin America meeting at an and presidential candidate in Venezuela, was in the south of the country, ordering evacuations years, opting for a modest 25 basis-point reduc- ment says was the ringleader of an extensive annual convention this week in Mexico City took a granted house arrest after a year in jail, the Su- because of dangerously surging river levels. The tion to launch an easing cycle aimed at pulling network that shipped thousands of kilograms of break from comedy to deliver a serious message: preme Court said without off ering an explanation. 48-hour highest-level alert was for the Choluteca Latin America’s biggest economy out of its cocaine to the United States has been sentenced “We are clowns, not killers!” Some 200 of them in Rosales was arrested in October 2015 upon his province, with the evacuations in at-risk areas worst recession in over a century. The central to 20 years in prison. Maximiliano Bonilla-Orozco, full clown suits and makeup chanted those words return to Venezuela from exile in Peru, six years aimed at “saving lives,” the government’s COPECO bank’s nine-member monetary policy commit- also known as “Valenciano,” was sentenced by US as they took a group picture outside a theatre to after the government of the late socialist leader emergency planning commission said in a state- tee, known as Copom, voted unanimously to cut district judge Sandra Townes in Brooklyn, nearly counter the “creepy clown” craze that has swept Hugo Chavez accused him of illicit enrichment. ment. A second-level yellow alert was issued for the its benchmark Selic rate to 14%, signalling it will five years after he was captured in Venezuela, across the US, Europe and now Mexico. Creepy Under current President Nicolas Maduro, opposi- Francisco Morazan province, where the capital is proceed with a “moderate and gradual” easing prosecutors said. According to US authorities, clown sightings in more than a dozen US states in tion figures including protest leader Leopoldo located, and the southern Valle region. That entailed cycle. However, the bank said in its post-decision Bonilla-Orozco, 44, led an extensive narcotics past weeks have caused a wave of hysteria, forcing Lopez have been jailed on the grounds of stoking monitoring of the situation and some preventive statement that it could opt for steeper cuts in the exportation and transportation organisation that police and schools to scramble to contain spread- violence to overthrow his leftist administration. evacuations from areas close to rivers. The heavy future if the pace of disinflation accelerates and distributed thousands of kilograms of cocaine ing jitters. Last weekend in Mexico, five teenagers Opposition activist Francisco Marquez, who was precipitation came from a low-pressure system, the Congress presses ahead with the approval of from Colombia through Guatemala, Honduras, dressed as clowns were detained in Mexicali after jailed in June was released this week. country’s weather centre said. austerity measures. and Mexico to the US. they frightened people with bats. Argentina man learns he was stolen as baby under dictators

AFP circumstances – to have had the Buenos Aires family that raised me, and then to meet this family that was looking for me.” aximiliano Ruiz was Ramiro is a left-wing activ- not expecting a call ist who worked as a missionary Mfrom Argentina’s Na- in Ethiopia. He was two when his tional Commission for the Right mother was arrested and an aunt to Identity. He already knew his and uncle looked after him. He identity – or so he thought. later spent decades trying to fi nd He was 40, the happy son of the baby his mother had been car- middle-class parents. The fi rst rying in her womb when she was person in his family to become a imprisoned. “When I met Ramiro doctor. there was an immediate charge of Then, in May, the call came. His aff ection – a feeling of happiness, parents, the commission suspect- of overwhelming love. It was as if ed, were not his biological ones. we had known each other all our His younger sister Marina was lives,” Ruiz said. “I am not replac- not his blood sister. His father was ing one family with another. I feel I a Marxist guerrilla, murdered by am expanding my family.” Brazil’s former president of the chamber of deputies, Eduardo Cunha, arrives at the Forensic Medicine Institute in Curitiba yesterday. military dictators. Ruiz has a wife, Maria, a lawyer, The governmental commis- with whom he has two children: sion searches for people who were Mauricio, six, and Carmela, four. taken from their mothers as babies He has told his own children they and adopted by other families un- may soon change their surname. der the 1976-1983 regime. “I told them I had not come out “I was surprised by the call. But of Grandma Monica’s tummy as I was sure it wasn’t me they were they thought, but my mother had looking for,” Ruiz said. “I had not died and the grown-ups did not Cunha arrest has Brazil suspected it. I did not even know tell me, because they did not want that the parents who raised me me to be sad.” were not my biological parents.” The fi rst thing little Carmela Genetic tests were recommend- asked was: “Mommy, did I come ed. The call had sowed doubt in his out of your tummy?” mind, and he agreed. Argentina’s military dictators, Last month the results con- backed by the US in the midst of politicians living in fear fi rmed that he was one of hun- the Cold War, jailed, killed and dreds of so-called “stolen babies” “disappeared” tens of thousands AFP ing over the presidency. mann at the Getulio Vargas Foun- the leak of a recording in which his insider knowledge “the crisis born to left-wing dissident par- of their opponents. Rio de Janeiro But the possibility that the dation in Rio de Janeiro. he appeared to discuss wanting could aff ect the inner core of the ents in custody. Ruiz’s biological parents, he wheeler dealer, often compared “Cunha has a major destruc- to shut down the investigation, government,” said analyst Marco They call him “Grandson learned, were Ana Maria Lanzil- to Frank Underwood in Netf- tive potential,” Alberto Almeida, dubbed Operation Car Wash. Antonio Teixeira at the Getulio Number 121,” the latest to be iden- lotto and Domingo Menna, a med- he jailing of Eduardo lix’s dark political series House director of the Analysis Institute, Although Cunha was a close Vargas Foundation. tifi ed out of around 500 children ical student and commander of a Cunha on corruption of Cards, could co-operate with said. ally of Temer and others in the So far the Temer government thought to have been forcibly Marxist guerrilla group. Tcharges put one of Bra- prosecutors is causing alarm The Petrobras scandal has al- new government, they are likely has reacted with notable caution. adopted under the regime. They are just two of some zil’s most Machiavellian politi- among other politicians, analysts ready put a host of leading politi- to be fearful of what he might Brazilian media reports said that Ruiz learned the results of his 30,000 people that rights groups cians out of play – so why is the say. cians in the crosshairs. Ex-presi- say if prosecutors put him under ministers had been instructed to DNA test on October 3 from the estimate were “disappeared” in country’s elite so nervous about Prosecutors leading the in- dent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the pressure. avoid comment. Grandmothers of the Plaza de Argentina, as did many more un- him? Cunha was jailed yesterday vestigation into a huge embez- mentor of Rousseff , is the subject “I have no doubt that if Cunha Temer, on a trip to Tokyo, Mayo, a renowned rights group der right-wing dictatorships in to await trial on charges of bribe zlement and bribery scheme at of three cases and there is specu- has to choose between saving his would not be drawn on specula- working for victims of the dicta- various other Latin American taking, money laundering and state oil company Petrobras have lation that he could be next to face party’s reputation or his own skin tion that more cabinet members torship. countries. stashing his illicit gains in Swiss repeatedly used plea bargains to arrest. that he’ll opt for his own skin,” could be downed by the Car Wash He learned he had an elder “Here in Argentina it was the accounts. extract new information and ex- However Temer’s government Hartmann said. probe. “For now these are just brother, Ramiro Menna, who looks worst dictatorship around. It used It was a shocking comedown pand their probe. is also reeling from the probe. Even without a plea bargain, allegations,” he said. But Temer just like him, and a long-lost aunt perverse methods,” Ruiz said. “But for the former speaker of the Cunha, the ultimate insider, Three of his ministers facing in- Cunha is keeping Brasilia on its may end up having to sacrifi ce Alba. “This is a happy experience I think on the left too, in those lower house who launched the would potentially be a mother vestigation had to step down soon toes with his promise to write a ministers, Hartmann said. for me. The strongest feeling I armed groups, things were also impeachment of former leftist lode. after he took over the presidency book – something that being in- The priority is “to shield Te- have is one of gratitude,” Ruiz said. done.” Numerous offi cers of the president Dilma Rousseff , leading “Who in Brasilia would be safe in August. carcerated will give him plenty of mer, protect him, because losing “I am grateful to have survived, regime have been jailed for atroci- to his fellow centre-right PMDB from a plea bargain with Cunha?” One of them, Romero Juca, re- time to do. another minister is acceptable as despite being born in diffi cult ties. party member Michel Temer tak- asked law professor Ivar Hart- signed as planning minister after If Cunha spills the beans on long as Temer doesn’t fall.”

Reed boat expedition Probe states $11bn missing Santos to visit Belfast at Venezuela oil company to study peace process AFP there are still sectarian tensions London and paramilitary activity. Reuters SA of corruption, but the company The congressional investigation More than 3,500 people died in Caracas has maintained it is the target of a focuses on 11 cases, ranging from the confl ict. right-wing smear campaign, led known scandals in an Andorran olombian President Juan Two architects of the peace by the US and compliant interna- bank and PDVSA pension funds to Manuel Santos, winner process – David Trimble, a Prot- report by a Venezuelan tional media, to sabotage social- alleged overpricing in purchases of Cof this year’s Nobel Peace estant from the pro-British Ulster congressional commis- ism. Neither PDVSA nor Ramirez, oil equipment. The accusations Prize, will visit Northern Ireland Unionist Party (UUP), and John Asion accused Petroleos de currently Venezuela’s United Na- are based in part on documents in November to learn about its Hume of the mainly Catholic So- Venezuela (PDVSA) of corrup- tions envoy, responded imme- from PDVSA, auditor KPMG and peace process, the Colombian cial Democratic and Labour Party tion, saying about $11bn in funds diately to requests for comment foreign investigations. embassy said yesterday. (SDLP) – were awarded the Nobel went missing from the state-run on the report by the commission Interviews with a KPMG rep- Santos, who is struggling to im- Peace Prize the same year. oil company while Rafael Rami- headed by Guevara. resentative showed the company plement his peace accord with the Santos is seeking a solution to rez was at the helm from 2004- Venezuela is engulfed in a pro- had informed PDVSA’s auditing Revolutionary Armed Forces of the political fallout caused by vot- 14. “It is more than the (annual) tracted economic crisis exacer- committee of “frauds,” the report Colombia (Farc) after it was reject- ers who rejected the peace accord budget of fi ve Central American bated since 2014 by a sharp decline said. ed by voters, will visit the British- negotiated between the Farc and countries,” said Freddy Guevara, in world oil prices. “The representatives of PDVSA ruled region on November 2. the government. comptroller commission president Raising the spectre of default, had FULL KNOWLEDGE of the The embassy said in a state- Santos – who has staked his and a member of one of Venezue- cash-strapped PDVSA said on existence of administrative irregu- ment that the Colombian leader’s legacy on making peace – had la’s hardline opposition parties, Monday it “could be diffi cult” to larities,” the report reads, adding visit was due to Northern Ireland’s extended the army’s ceasefi re to alleging widespread malfeasance pay large looming debt commit- KPMG has not provided further “importance as a model of peace December 31 if no solution to the at the state oil producer. ments if a proposed $5.3bn bond details, citing confi dentiality poli- and reconciliation”. impasse was found by then. “We’re talking about $11bn they swap does not go through. “If PD- cies. Santos will meet offi cials and The Farc, which had criticised cannot justify,” he added, as he VSA is unable to pay its interna- The US justice department has visit the Girdwood community Santos’ deadline, has also con- presented a report by the legisla- tional creditors... it is because they said there is a large, ongoing inves- centre in north Belfast on Novem- fi rmed its willingness to continue tive body that audits the state. robbed this money,” said Guevara, tigation into bribery at PDVSA. ber 3 to discuss peace and recon- negotiations and maintain a bi- PDVSA, which manages the a former student leader and mem- In the most high-profi le case An 18 metres long reed raft is being constructed by ciliation with local residents. lateral ceasefi re. The Colombian world’s largest oil reserves, brings ber of the Popular Will Party. to date, a Venezuelan business- indigenous Bolivians in La Paz. The boat made of reeds His state visit to Britain at the leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in about 95% of Venezuela’s ex- As he addressed his fellow law- man pleaded guilty in a US court in is getting ready to cross the Pacific from South America invitation of Queen Elizabeth II just a few days after voters shot port revenues and has been the makers, he fl icked between slides June to violating the Foreign Cor- to Australia, in a fresh attempt to prove that ancient will begin on November 1. down the historic accord in a ref- country’s fi nancial engine during illustrating what he described as rupt Practices Act for his role in a mariners were capable of making the journey. It will Northern Ireland was riven by erendum that would have ended 17 years of leftist rule in the Opec various cases of wrongdoing at scheme involving PDVSA offi cials. depart from Arica, Chile, on January 2017 and arrive in three decades of confl ict which more than 52 years of confl ict. member nation. PDVSA, repeating: “Where is the US authorities have linked more Sydney, Australia six months later. largely ended with the Good Friday The prize appeared to encourage Critics have long accused PDV- money?” than $1bn to the scheme. peace agreement in 1998, although the peacemakers. Gulf Times 14 Friday, October 21, 2016 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Pakistan bans Anti-India protest Indian content on TV, radio Millions of Pakistanis watch ment, but the diplomatic fall- have apart from watching Indian Indian movies, soap operas; out and New Delhi’s eff orts to dramas?” asked Rubina Jan Mo- Ban comes after India isolate Pakistan internationally, hamed, a 30-year-old maid. blocked Pakistani actors prompted calls in India for a ban “We cannot go out of our in Bollywood; Tit-for-tat on Pakistani actors and actresses homes, our males family mem- content bans linked to anger in the country’s giant Bollywood bers don’t like us going out apart over Kashmir fi lm industry. from for work.” Pakistani cinemas responded Pakistani programmes have in Reuters by banning Bollywood films recent years also grown in popu- Karachi and as the rhetoric against larity across the border, where Pakistani actors in Bollywood Indian Hindi-language speakers surged, Pakistan responded by can understand Urdu, and vice- akistan will ban all Indian enforcing bans on Indian chan- versa. content on television and nels. Pakistani cable operators fear Pradio channels from today, The complete ban will start the severing of cultural ties be- its media regulator said, step- today at 3pm, Mohamed Ta- tween the neighbours will hurt Pakistani Baloch separatists raise guns in an anti-Indian protest in Dera Allah Yar in the support of the Pakistan army. Tensions have ping up media tit-for-tat bans hir, spokesman for the Pakistan profi ts as some viewers have al- spiked since New Delhi said last week it had launched “surgical strikes” on militant posts across the disputed border that divides the that followed a spike in tension Electronic Media Regulatory ready threatened to stop paying Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. between the nuclear-armed Authority (Pemra), said. subscriptions. neighbours. “The public are yelling at us,” The blanket ban drew im- “What entertainment do we said Khalid Arain, chairman of mediate criticism from viewers have apart from watching the Cable Operators Association and cable operators in Paki- Indian dramas?” of Pakistan. “Subscribers are not stan, a nation of 190mn people concerned about the origin of where Indian soap operas and The measure goes further than content.” Afghan displaced crisis may be Sharif Bollywood’s elaborate song- the regulator’s crackdown on In- Arain’s association estimates and-dance sequences are wildly dia media announced this month, there are up to 4mn direct-to- popular. which saw some channels such as home satellite devices in Paki- faces legal Despite being bitter foes, Pa- Star World and Star Sports taken stani homes receiving signals larger than expected, says UN kistan and India have deep cul- down as PEMRA vowed to enforce directly from India. tural similarities dating back to an existing law that limits chan- “How can they be eliminat- challenge before their separation at the nels to air Indian content for just ed?,” he asked Reuters have led to nearly 300,000 Af- That conclusion was echoed end of British colonial rule in 86 minutes each day. Pemra spokesman Tahir said Kabul ghans being displaced within by Chaloka Beyani, a UN expert 1947. The law was often fl outed by the latest measure would over- the country. on internally displaced people, DPA Tension has been high since an entertainment channels and ca- ride a 2006 decree by former In September, the United who just concluded a fact- Islamabad Indian security force crackdown ble operators airing Indian fi lms President Pervez Musharraf that wave of internally dis- Nations and aid organisations fi nding visit to several camps on protests in Indian-controlled and soap operas. allowed Indian TV channels to placed people in Af- called for an emergency infu- around Afghanistan. Kashmir began in July, follow- The sale of Indian direct-to- proliferate. Aghanistan and returning sion of $152mn. “(The numbers) are accurate he Pakistan Supreme ing the killing of a young Mus- home service is also forbidden, Pakistan was created as a refugees in need of aid may be “These numbers far exceed and indicate a growing crisis Court yesterday ordered lim separatist leader by security yet common, in Pakistan. home for the subcontinent’s even bigger than previously projections for this year – and that is on our hands,” he told TPrime Minister Nawaz forces. The removal of the Indian Muslims at the end of British co- feared, UN offi cials warned therefore outstrip the current reporters. Sharif to explain his family’s in- Relations worsened in Sep- channels has not gone down lonial rule in 1947. yesterday as they called for resources of the humanitar- “Humanitarian partners volvement in a fi nancial scandal, tember, when militants attacked well. Though the partition was more money and attention for ian community to meet the warn that many more inter- offi cials said, piling up pressure an army base in Indian-con- “My wife is in grief ever since bloody, and the neighbours have the growing crisis. increased needs,” the United nally displaced people could be on the premier whose govern- trolled Kashmir and killed 18 the ban has come into eff ect,” fought three wars since, two of Nearly 400,000 Afghan Nations said in a report last displaced by the end of the year, ment was twice removed in the soldiers, a raid India blamed on said Saleem Ahmed, 55, an art them over mostly Muslim Kash- refugees have returned from month. yet attention and resources al- 1990s. Pakistan. gallery curator in Karachi. mir, their people share numer- Pakistan alone, according to Now Mark Bowden, UN hu- located to their needs seems to The court gave Sharif two Islamabad denied involve- “What entertainment do we ous cultural links. the United Nations, forced manitarian co-ordinator in be decreasing.” weeks to respond to fi ve peti- out in many cases by pressure Kabul, said even mid-year pro- The Afghan government tions fi led by opposition politi- there. jections, which put the number has yet to fully implement a cians including former cricket In one week in October, more expected to need aid at about national policy to help inter- start Imran Khan. than 50,000 people crossed the 1mn, were “not just accurate, nally displaced people, and Khan also plans to hold a pub- border back into Afghanistan but may possibly be an un- many state agencies “lack lic rally in the capital Islamabad Islamabad welcomes Trump from Pakistan. derestimate of the scale of the resources and capacity to on November 2 to force the pre- Rising violence and eco- problem that we are address- fulfil their functions”, Beyani mier to step down. nomic deprivation, meanwhile, ing”. said. The petitions were filed after it emerged in leaked off er to make peace with India papers – part of the millions disclosed in the so-called Panama Papers leak – ear- AFP can do it,” Trump said. attack on Trump’s “ignorance” lier this year that Sharif’s Islamabad Islamabad said it did not com- in May after the billionaire children bought properties ment on media reports usually vowed that if he won offi ce he in London through offshore but in this case it welcomed the would free a doctor jailed in 2011 companies. akistan yesterday wel- mediation off er. after helping track down Osama Opponents accused the pre- comed an off er by US “We continue to urge our bin Laden. mier of money laundering in PRepublican presidential American friends including Kashmir has been divided be- his one of the previous stints in candidate Donald Trump to ease those in the administration to tween India and Pakistan since power in 1990-93. tensions with nuclear-armed play their due role in resolving their independence from British Sharif said in a statement he rival India over ongoing unrest bilateral issues between Paki- rule in 1947. welcomes the court proceedings in Kashmir, which both claim as stan and India, particularly the India rejects any third party and would respond to allega- their own. Kashmir dispute,” Pakistan’s mediation and the rivals have tions against his family. In an interview with Indian foreign ministry spokesman fought three wars, two of them He can face disqualifi cation if newspaper Hindustan Times last Nafees Zakaria told a weekly over Kashmir. it is proved that he has hidden week, Trump said he would be briefing. Tensions have soared in recent the wealth of his children. pleased to be a mediator between “And defi nitely Pakistan has weeks as India blamed Pakistan The development comes as Pakistan and India. welcomed in the past also any for a raid on an army base in In- the tensions between Sharif and “Well, I would love to see role of mediation, we welcome dian Kashmir on September 18, the powerful military escalated Pakistan and India get along, such off ers,” Zakaria said. which saw New Delhi respond after a report this month that because that’s a very, very hot The comment was a change with what it called “surgical the premier wanted the army to tinderbox....That would be a of tack after Pakistan’s interior strikes” across the border, infu- Afghans, who were displaced by Kunduz fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban insurgents, go break alleged ties with jihadist very great thing. I hope they minister launched a blistering riating Islamabad. about their business at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of Kabul. groups. Pakistan’s ‘cat-eyed’ tea seller sparks national soul searching

AFP It set social media users self as a sociologist based in La- Others expressed concern Islamabad swooning, with the 18-year- hore. about the risk of exploitation of old’s image shared tens of And in a column in the Express a young man so little armed for thousands of times since Oc- Tribune Farahnaz Zahidi mocked success. Pakistani tea merchant tober 14. the “surprise” that someone A local brand was quick to with velvet eyes saw his By Tuesday, the Islamabad poor could be good-looking. publish pictures of him, but Alife changed this week market where photographer “(T)he upper tier bourgeois Khan said he has not signed any when his portrait spread around Javeria Ali took the fateful shot of Pakistan have come to believe modelling contract. the Internet, sparking ardent was swarmed by dozens eager to that even looks and God-gifted The third of 17 children, Khan debates on class, objectifi cation, gawk at the young worker. attributes are co-dependent has never been to school. and the place of ethnic Pashtuns But in a country where women on money and affl uence?” she He said he hoped his new- in society. have long fought for rights and wrote. found fame would allow him to Arshad Khan had no idea he rarely express their feelings pub- Indeed, in his fi rst appearance “move forward”. had set the Internet alight from licly, that fervour soon morphed on television, viewers laughed Vegetable seller Saeed Ahmed Pakistan to India and beyond: he into an intense debate on what it at Khan’s awkward speech and worked in the market alongside has no phone, and cannot read. meant to reduce a poor man to a the Western suit in which he ap- Khan. “His eyes were so beauti- “It was a real surprise,” the beautiful object. peared uncomfortable. ful that we used to make fun of young “chai wala”, or tea seller, “We are more used to seeing “No girl would agree to mar- him and call him ‘cat eyes’,” he said. this happen to women, it is still ry him,” wrote Twitter user @ said. “I was aware that I am hand- creepy when it happens to a boy,” ItsMahah. Even the colour of “But we never even thought some but you can’t do anything feminist columnist Bina Shah Khan’s cool gaze provoked dis- that he would one day become when you are poor,” he said, add- said. comfort in some like columnist famous like this.” ing that the image has “changed “Just because people are bored Amir, who wrote “apparently Indian newspapers were the way I think.” does not mean you can play with there is no expiry date on our co- the first to seize on the “Cin- In the candid photograph, someone’s life.” lonial baggage”. derella story”, bringing frivol- snapped by a passing photogra- Columnist Maria Amir con- Arshad Khan, formerly a ‘chai wala’ (tea seller) by profession, poses for a picture after doing a television Light skin and eyes are the at- ity to recent tensions between pher and posted on Instagram, cluded that “reverse sexism is interview in Islamabad. tribute of many Pashtuns, tribal the rival neighbours with Khan prepares Pakistan’s ubiq- still a form of sexism” on the inhabitants of northwest Paki- tweets calling Khan a “nuclear uitous milk tea, his blue green website of Pakistan’s biggest- But she also echoed many rather than gender. privilege and the objectifi cation stan and southern Afghanistan, bomb”. eyes looking frankly into the selling English language news- in noting that the true “ick “The elite getting excited over of working class men,” tweeted romanticised as warriors by the “I send a message of peace to camera. paper, Dawn. factor” was in social class a hot #ChaiWala reeks of class @nidkirm, who described him- British. my Indian fans,” Khan said. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 15 PHILIPPINES

President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony held in Beijing. Right: A general view shows the Philippines-China Trade and Investment Forum held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping pledged to enhance trust and deepen co-operation. Duterte aligns Philippines with China, says US has lost Duterte seems determined to forces rotational access to bases in the go ahead and move out of the Philippines and further doubts will be American orbit raised about the future of this arrange- ment. Reuters However, a White House spokesman Beijing stressed the traditional bonds between Washington and Manila when asked about Duterte’s comments and stuck to hilippine President Rodrigo Du- a US approach of seeking to play down terte announced his “separation” the Philippine leader’s repeated at- Pfrom the United States yesterday, tacks. declaring he had realigned with China “The US-Philippines alliance is built as the two agreed to resolve their South on a 70-year history, rich people-to- China Sea dispute through talks. people ties, including a vibrant Filipi- Duterte made his comments in Bei- no-American diaspora, and a long list jing, where he is visiting with at least of shared security interests,” spokes- 200 business people to pave the way for man Ned Price said. what he calls a new commercial alliance “We also remain one of the Philip- as relations with longtime ally Wash- pines’ strongest economic partners; ington deteriorate. the current stock of US foreign direct “In this venue, your honours, in this investment stands above $4.7bn.” venue, I announce my separation from A few hours after Duterte’s speech, the United States,” Duterte told Chi- his top economic policymakers released nese and Philippine business people, to a statement saying that, while Asian applause, at a forum in the Great Hall economic integration was “long over- of the People attended by Chinese Vice due”, that did not mean the Philippines Premier Zhang Gaoli. was turning its back on the West. “Both in military, not maybe social, “We will maintain relations with the but economics also. America has lost.” West but we desire stronger integration Duterte’s eff orts to engage China, with our neighbours,” said fi nance sec- months after a tribunal in the Hague retary Carlos Dominguez and economic ruled that Beijing did not have historic planning secretary Ernesto Pernia in a Children hold national flags of China and the Philippines before President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte and China’s President Xi Jinping attend a welcoming rights to the South China Sea in a case joint statement.”We share the culture and ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. brought by the previous administration a better understanding with our region.” in Manila, marks a reversal in foreign China has pulled out all the stops to fully improve things,” Xi said. In 2012, China seized the disputed said Philippine foreign policy was veer- Chinese to bring up the issue rather policy since the 71-year-old former welcome Duterte, including a march- Following their meeting, during Scarborough Shoal and denied Phil- ing towards China. than doing so himself. mayor took offi ce on June 30. ing band complete with baton-twirling which Duterte said relations with China ippine fi shermen access to its fi sh- “I will not go to America anymore. Xi said issues that could not be im- His trade secretary, Ramon Lopez, band master at his offi cial greeting cer- had entered a new “springtime”, Chi- ing grounds. Liu said the shoal was We will just be insulted there,” Duterte mediately be resolved should be set said $13.5bn in deals would be signed emony outside the Great Hall of the nese vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin not mentioned and he did not answer said.”So time to say goodbye my friend.” aside, according to the Chinese foreign during the China trip. People, which is not extended to most said the South China Sea issue was not a question about whether Philippine The same day, about 1,000 anti-US ministry. “I’ve realigned myself in your ideo- leaders. the sum total of relations. fi shermen would be allowed there. protesters gathered outside the US em- China has welcomed the Philippines logical fl ow and maybe I will also go to President Xi Jinping, meeting Du- “The two sides agreed that they will He said both countries had agreed on bassy in Manila calling for the removal approaches, even as Duterte has vowed Russia to talk to (President Vladimir) terte earlier in the day, called the visit a do what they agreed fi ve years ago, coastguard and fi sheries cooperation, of US troops from the southern island not to surrender any sovereignty to Be- Putin and tell him that there are three “milestone” in ties. that is to pursue bilateral dialogue and but did not give details. of Mindanao. ijing, which views the South China Sea of us against the world – China, Phil- Xi told Duterte that China and the consultation in seeking a proper set- Duterte’s tone towards Beijing is in Duterte’s abrupt pivot from Wash- Hague ruling as null and void. ippines and Russia. It’s the only way,” Philippines were brothers and they tlement of the South China Sea issue,” stark contrast to the language he has ington to Beijing is unlikely to be uni- China has also expressed support for Duterte told his Beijing audience. could “appropriately handle disputes”, Liu said. used against the United States, after versally popular at home, however. his drug war, which has raised concern Duterte’s remarks will prompt fresh though he did not mention the South China claims most of the energy- being infuriated by US criticism of his On Tuesday an opinion poll showed in Western capitals about extrajudicial concern in the United States, where the China Sea in remarks made in front of rich South China Sea through which bloody war on drugs. Filipinos still trust the United States far killing. The government of Philippines Obama administration has seen Manila reporters. about $5tn in ship-borne trade passes He cursed US President Barack more than China. President Rodrigo Duterte has made as a key ally in its “rebalance” of resourc- “I hope we can follow the wishes of every year. Obama while alluding to severing ties Duterte on Wednesday said the no formal request to modify its co- es to Asia in the face of a rising China. the people and use this visit as an op- Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the with the old colonial power. South China Sea arbitration case operation with Washington, despite The administration agreed a deal portunity to push China-Philippines Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also On Wednesday, to the cheers of hun- would “take the back seat” during his declared “separation” from the US, with Duterte’s predecessor granting US relations back on a friendly footing and have claims. dreds of Filipinos in Beijing, Duterte talks, and that he would wait for the a offi cial said in Washington yesterday. Super typhoon kills eight

AFP President Rodrigo Duterte said San Pablo, Philippines on Wednesday night all possible preparations had been made for Haima, with tens of thousands ne of the most powerful of people evacuated, but he still typhoons to ever hit the struck an ominous tone. OPhilippines killed at least “We only pray we be spared the eight people yesterday as ferocious destruction such as the previous gales and landslides destroyed tens times, which brought agony and of thousands of homes. suff ering,” Duterte said in Bei- Super Typhoon Haima struck jing, where he was on a state visit. late on Wednesday night with “But we are ready. winds similar to those of cata- Everything has been de- strophic Haiyan in 2013, which ployed.” was then the strongest storm A house stands in a rice field flooded by rain brought by super About 10mn people across the to strike the disaster-prone typhoon Haima in Tumauini town, Isabela province. northern parts of Luzon were at Southeast Asian archipelago and risk, according to the govern- claimed more than 7,350 lives. Dalupan, her two young It weakened overnight as it ment’s disaster risk management Residents take advantage of the gloomy weather to collect washed up clams brought by crashing waves Haima then roared across daughters and husband, were rammed into giant mountain council. due to strong winds of Super Typhoon Haima. mountain and farming commu- forced to fl ee to the highway ranges and by yesterday morning Authorities said two of those nities of the northern regions of along with their neighbours dur- had passed over the western edge killed, aged 16 and 17, were bur- Edgar Allan Tabell, director of 20 major storms each year, many Haima was the second typhoon the main island of Luzon over- ing the height of the storm when of Luzon and into the South Chi- ied in a landslide while sleeping the national government’s dis- of them deadly. to hit the northern Philippines night, causing widespread de- their shanty homes, made of ply- na Sea, heading towards south- in a house in Ifugao, a mountain- aster information coordinating The most powerful and deadli- in a week, after Sarika struck on struction and killing at least wood, were ripped apart. ern China. ous area that is home to stunning centre in Manila. est was Haiyan, which destroyed Sunday claiming at least one life eight people, authorities said. “We were soaked when the The governor of Cagayan, rice terraces that are listed by the But with authorities in many entire towns in heavily populated and leaving three people missing. “We were frightened because roof fl ew off , even my little babies a province of 600,000 people United Nations as a World Herit- devastated areas still unable to areas of the central Philippines in In Hong Kong, the city’s seven of the strong winds. got drenched... neighbouring Isabela where Hai- age site. report back because of power and November 2013. mn residents were preparing There was no power, no help all of our clothes were drenched. ma made landfall, said the entire Two other people were buried communication lines being cut, The national capital Manila for more heavy rain and disrup- coming,” Jovy Dalupan, 20, told We have nothing to change region was without power as he in a shanty in another moun- the death toll was expected to rise. is about 350km south of where tive weather as Typhoon Haima AFP as she sheltered at nightfall into.” reported widespread destruc- tainous region, the disaster risk The Philippine islands are of- Haima struck land. approached, following days of on the side of a highway in San Haima hit coastal towns facing tion. council’s division in the northern ten the fi rst major landmass to be However the city, with about monsoon downpours. Pablo, a badly damaged town of the Pacifi c Ocean with sustained “Almost every house here has Philippines reported. hit by storms that generate over 12mn people, was not aff ected, Airlines in the regional travel 20,000 people in Isabela prov- winds of 225kph, and wind gusts been damaged,” governor Manuel At least eight people had been the Pacifi c Ocean. The Southeast hit only by moderate winds over- hub warned of likely fl ight dis- ince. of up to 315km. Mamba told ABS CBN television. confi rmed dead, according to Asian archipelago endures about night and little rain. ruptions today and tomorrow. Gulf Times 16 Friday, October 21, 2016 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Nepal govt to let citizens seek work in Afghanistan

Thomson Reuters Founda- rity guards at the Canadian tion Embassy in Kabul were killed Kathmandu while on a bus on June 23. Nepal, one of the world’s 10 poorest countries, is still epal will allow its na- reeling from two devastating tionals to go to war- earthquakes in 2015 that killed Ntorn Afghanistan for nearly 9,000 people. work, a labour ministry offi cial Political instability since a said yesterday, ending an al- decade-long civil confl ict end- most four-month ban imposed ed in 2006 has discouraged in- after 13 Nepali security guards vestment, stunted growth and were killed by a Taliban suicide curtailed job creation – forc- bomber in the Afghan capital. ing hundreds of thousands of Labour ministry spokesman Nepalis to migrate overseas in Govinda Mani Bhurtel said search of work. employers would have to make More than 4mn of the coun- adequate security arrange- try’s 28mn population are ments for their stay, travel and working mainly in the Middle work before Nepali nationals East, South Korea and Ma- were given a work permit by laysia as guards, drivers, con- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laying the foundation of the 31-storey ‘Bangabandhu Media Complex’ at the National Press Club in Dhaka yesterday, marking its 62nd founding anniversary. the government to leave Nepal. struction workers or domestic “We’ll allow our people to staff – sending home remit- go to Afghanistan to work only tances which make up nearly with foreign missions and in- 30% of the country’s annual ternational companies located gross domestic product. inside the Green Zone which is But many also face abus- considered safe,” Bhurtel told es such as a lack of freedom the Thomson Reuters Founda- of movement, long working tion. hours, unsafe working condi- “Their security and safety tions and withholding of their No ‘reformists’ in must be ensured by the employ- salaries, activists say, add- ers,” he said, adding the organi- ing that many are traffi cked sations included UN agencies through India and then onward and embassies of the United to these countries. States, Britain and Canada. Bhurtel said it was impera- Nepalis are still banned tive that employers take full from working in other confl ict responsibility for their over- hotspots such as Iraq, Libya seas workers. Awami ruling party and Syria, Bhurtel said. “If there is an accident or at- The impoverished Hima- tack on workers the employing layan nation, which relies company must pay compensa- heavily on remittances from tion and make arrangements its migrant workers, imposed for their evacuation to Ne- the ban after 13 Nepalis and pal during emergencies,” said hierarchy: Hasina two Indians who were secu- Bhurtel. The Awami leader removed names of posts of the central working committee. Dhaka, marking its 62nd founding anni- Chowdhury and president of Bangladesh relatives from a list of councillors “The proposal for turning the ALCWC versary. Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Mon- into an 81-member body was taken as the Sheikh Hasina said her government has jurul Ahsan Bulbul. UN urges Lanka to By Mizan Rahman incumbent party president returned to so far enacted and formulated 18 laws and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Dhaka Bangladesh in 1981 and she was elected rules to ensure facilities for the journalist secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam party president in the same year,” said a community. Alamgir yesterday hailed the ruling Awami reduce army’s grasp leader on condition of anonymity. “It can’t be that you’ll enjoy facilities, League (AL) for inviting them to join its wami League (AL) president Sheikh The meeting also approved the list of but won’t discharge your duties... national council. Hasina has said there is no room in 6,570 councillors, who will elect the next there is a responsibility to the country, He said they will decide at their party in former war zones Athe ruling party for “reformists”, leadership through the 20th council ses- you have to perform that...you have got forum whether they would join it or not. who supported a party shake-up when sion. a responsibility to society, you’ll have to “We thank Awami League for inviting us she was interned in jail during the army- Meeting sources said party president perform it, too,” she said. to attend its council. AFP civilian authorities,” she said. backed caretaker government in the coun- Sheikh Hasina withdrew her name from About Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s We’ll fi nalise it latter whether we’ll join Colombo Government forces still try. the councillors’ list and expunged the claim that now there is no scope for in- it or not,” he told reporters at a press brief- maintain a large presence in “None of them will be in the new execu- names of her daughter Saima Wazed Putul dependent journalism in the country, the ing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central offi ce. the former confl ict zones and tive committee of the party to be formed and Sheikh Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib prime minister said: “There’s enough Earlier in the morning, a fi ve-member UN rights expert yes- keep a close watch on the local through the upcoming national council,” Siddiq Bobby from the same list. freedom for journalism in Bangladesh AL delegation, led by its deputy offi ce sec- terday reiterated calls Tamil population despite the she said. She also directed other central leaders right now.” retary Mrinal Kanti Das, went to BNP’s A for Sri Lanka to step up end of the war in 2009. The 20th national council of Bangla- to avoid becoming councillors from their Hasina said sometimes she has to face central offi ce, and handed over cards to reconciliation eff orts and re- The ethnic Sinhalese-domi- desh Awami League will be held on Oc- respective districts. questions about the scope of journalism Fakhrul inviting him and BNP chief Kha- duce the military’s presence in nated military also runs hotels, tober 22-23 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the “I am withdrawing my name as council- in the country due to the negative propa- leda Zia to join their council to be held on former war zones seven years transport services and other capital. lor from Gopalganj. ganda of the opposition. “In reply, I tell October 22-23. after the end of fi ghting. enterprises in competition The AL president, also the prime minis- You should also withdraw your names them if there’s no freedom of press then Mentioning that no one from AL had UN minority rights expert with local Tamil businesses. ter of the country, was speaking at a meet- from the list of councillors from your re- how they get the scope to speak and how joined BNP’s March 19 national council, Rita Izsak-Ndiaye urged the Tamil rebels fi ghting for a ing of the Awami League Central Working spective districts so that more leaders do they come up with these allegations.” Fakhrul said: “We could have been happy government to press ahead separate homeland for the eth- Committee (ALCWC) that lasted for about from the grassroots level can come for- The prime minister mentioned that had they (AL) joined our council at our in- with healing the wounds of the nic minority were defeated in a fi ve hours at her offi cial residence Ganab- ward as councillors,” said a source quoting some 750 dailies are currently published vitation. Though regretfully, it’s a fact they confl ict, after coming to power fi nal military push after years haban. the AL president as saying. across the country in addition to 23-24 didn’t take part in our council.” last year promising reforms of confl ict. Talking to newsmen, AL offi ce secretary The meeting was told that some 52 for- television channels and some radio sta- He also alleged that the ruling party and reconciliation. She said some 6,000 acres Abdus Sobhan Golap, who was present at eign guests from diff erent countries, in- tions. tried to obstruct their council instead of “The government must put of private land still occupied the meeting, quoted Hasina as saying that cluding Russia, Canada, Australia, Aus- “After hearing talk shows, can one say extending its co-operation. in place some urgent, impor- by the military in the northern those who wanted to exclude her (Hasina) tria, The Netherlands and India would join there’s no freedom of expression, there’s The BNP leader said they have al- tant and concrete measures province, which saw some of from the AL during the 1/11 changeover the forthcoming council session of the AL, no freedom of opinion,” she questioned. ready welcomed AL’s council and wished to clearly demonstrate its po- the heaviest fi ghting, should would not have any seat in the new execu- which was founded on June 23 in 1949 at On the trend of newspaper owners to its all-out success as they do positive litical will and commitment to be swiftly returned. tive committee. Rose Garden on KM Das Lane in Dhaka. become editors, the prime minister said politics.“We hope they’ll take an initia- better protect Sri Lanka’s mi- During a visit by UN secre- The AL chief, however, did not mention The meeting discussed elaborately journalism sometimes faces hurdle be- tive from this council for the restoration of norities,” she said at the end of tary general Ban Ki-moon to any names, Golap added. about the session, which would elect the cause of this. democracy which has been annihilated by a 10-day visit to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka last month, president He also said the party high-ups unani- new leadership for facing the upcoming The Bangabandhu Media Complex will them,” he observed. The government should re- Maithripala Sirisena pleaded mously approved some changes to the challenges and the next parliamentary have a cineplex, library, As his attention was drawn to Awami turn military-occupied land for more time to bring about party constitution and the declaration pa- polls. media museum, guesthouse, dormitory, League general secretary Syed Ashraful and disengage troops from ci- ethnic reconciliation and also per for the council programme. A three-member election commission IT room, and garden, with each of its fl oors Islam’s comment that the current elec- vilian activities, a key demand investigate war crimes. “The ALCWC approved a draft of the was formed to facilitate the party council. having 22,000 sq ft of space. tion system will remain unchanged during of ethnic Tamils in the island’s Sri Lanka had faced inter- party constitution expanding the size zPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina yes- There will also be a helipad on its the next parliament election, Fakhrul said war-battered north. national censure after Sirise- of the working committee, a key policy- terday asked the journalist community to rooftop. the ruling party leaders are making such She also asked Colombo to na’s predecessor Mahinda making body of the party,” he said. sincerely discharge their responsibilities Chaired by National Press Club presi- statements as they still could not realise either indict or free Tamil de- Rajapakse insisted that not a As per the decision, the ALCWC that and duties towards the society and the dent Shafi qur Rahman, the function was the main reason behind the current politi- tainees who have been held in single civilian was killed by had 73 members will now have 81 mem- country. also addressed, among others, by infor- cal crisis. custody for long periods with- troops. Rajapakse also refused bers. The prime minister made the remarks mation minister Hasanul Haq Inu, PM’s He also said there will be no representa- out charge. to investigate allegations that The extension will include four posts of at the foundation-laying ceremony of media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, tives of people and their hopes and aspi- “This includes...taking up to 40,000 Tamil civilians the presidium, one joint general secretary, 31-storey ‘Bangabandhu Media Complex’ Editors’ Council chairman Golam Sar- rations will not be refl ected if the election visible steps to gradually perished in the fi nal stages of one organising secretary and two member on the National Press Club premises in war, general secretary Quamrul Islam system is not changed. transfer military powers to the war. Japanese building plant to get VIP security

By Mizan Rahman zens were found among the 20 victims Mahbub Alam, additional sec- According to the condition, Japan “They have made many more de- zone at Matarbari for more than Dhaka in the Holey Artisan Bakery terror at- retary of the Power Division, told will give more than $4bn as soft loan to mands relating to security. $4bn. tack in July. newsmen: “It is good news for the Bangladesh. But we have agreed to fulfi l all condi- According to sources in the eco- After negotiations with the JICA and nation that uncertainty over the im- Japanese companies Marubeni Corp tions in the interests of the country,” he nomic relations division (ERD), the angladesh has agreed to give potential bidders, the power ministry plementation of the Matarbari mega and Sumitomo Corp are eligible to par- added. plant will borrow $3.7bn from JICA at VIP security to Japanese offi - has instructed the Coal Power Gen- project is over. ticipate in the mega tender. Khalid Mahmud, chairman of the an annual interest rate of 0.1% over Bcials engaged in implementing a eration Company Bangladesh Limited The Japanese offi cials have agreed to Sources said the Japanese are return- Power Development Board (PDB), said: the next 30 years, with a 10-year grace 1,200MW power plant project. (CPGCBL), an enterprise of the gov- return to Bangladesh after a month.” ing with some tough conditions, “The Matarbari mega project is getting period. Uncertainty over the implementa- ernment, to extend tender submission Abul Kasem, managing director of which include VIP security for all delayed. So, we are trying hard to revive The executive committee of the na- tion of the $4bn Matarbari mega project deadline by another month. the Coal Power Generation Company their offi cials. “They have imposed the it.” tional economic council approved the has fi nally ended, said offi cials. The new deadline has been fi xed on Bangladesh Limited, said: “We are condition that two vehicles of security During a visit by the Prime Min- Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal- The Japan International Cooperation November 24, 2016. extending the bid submission date by personnel in plainclothes should follow ister Sheikh Hasina, the Japanese Fired Power Plant project, which is Agency (JICA) had refused to return to The project is scheduled to be com- a month. They (the Japanese agency) them during their movement,” a gov- government had promised to devel- expected to boost power generation in Bangladesh after seven Japanese citi- pleted by June 2020. have agreed to join the project.” ernment offi cial said. op a mega power hub and economic Bangladesh signifi cantly. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 17 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Who are these people?

hose who will enter the Hellfi re and Messenger of Allah say: “Allah says: And who is then come out of it are the people of worse than he who tries to create the likes of My tawheed. They are the ones who do creation. Then let them create a seed, or let them Tnot associate anything with Allah. create a kernel or grain.” However, they have accumulated many sins. Their evil deeds have exceeded the limit and THOSE WHO RELY ON EVIL-DOERS their good deeds have become light on the (DHALIMOON) scale. These individuals will enter the Hellfi re From among the means that cause the because of their sins. Afterwards, they will entrance into the Hellfi re, is the reliance on come out of it due to the intercession of the evildoers, the enemies of Allah, and befriending interceders. By the mercy of Allah, groups of them. people who never produced any good deeds will Allah says (which means): “And incline not be extracted from the Hellfi re. towards those who do wrong, lest the Fire should touch you and you have no protectors other than Sins Punishable in the Hellfi re Allah, nor will you then be helped.” I will mention here some of the sins, which there is evidence for, informing us that those THE WOMEN WHO WILL BE CLOTHED who commit them will be punished by means of YET NAKED AND THE ONES WHO WILL the Hellfi re. WHIP THE BACKS OF PEOPLE Among the types of people that will enter the Splitting Up Into Groups That Oppose Hellfi re, are the evil women who display their The Sunnah beauty indecently. They put the servants of Abu Sufyaan narrated: “The Messenger Allah to trial and do not themselves abide in the of Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) stood obedience of Allah. Abu Hurairah narrated that among us one day and said: the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “Indeed those before you from the People of “There are two types of people from the dwellers the Book divided into seventy-two groups. And of the Fire that I have never seen before. A people this group (Muslims) will divide into seventy- who have whips like the tails of cows by which three. Seventy-two groups will be in the Fire they will be beating the people. And women and one of them will be in Paradise. And it is the who will be clothed yet naked, swaggering and Jamaa’ah.” bent over, their heads will be like the slanted This is an authentic hadith. Al-Haakim, after humps of the bukht camel. They will not enter checking its chains of narration, said about it. Paradise, nor will they sense its odour, even “These chains present evidence in favour of though its odour can be sensed from such and the authenticity of the hadith.” such distance.” Imaam ath-Thahabee agreed with this. Concerning those with whips like the tails of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said: cows, al-Qurtubee said: “The description of the “It is a well known authentic hadith.” ones with whips is visible among us even now, in It has also been authenticated by ash- Morocco.” Shaatibee in his book Al-Itisaam. Shaykh Commenting on the words of al-Qurtubee, Muhammad Naasiruddeen al-Albaanee Sideeq Hasan Khan said: “Rather, they are gathered its routes of narration, discussed their present in every time, at every place, increasing chains, and clarifi ed that it is an authentic day by day among the leaders and the notables. hadith, there being not doubt concerning it’s Thus, we seek refuge from all that Allah hates.” authenticity. I say, we can still see this type of people in However, Sideeq Hasan Khan is of the many of the lands, whipping the backs of people. opinion that the addition to the hadith May they and their likes perish! “All of them are in the Hellfi re except one” And the women who appear naked in spite And similar additions, such as; of their being clothed are many in our time. “Seventy-two are in the Hellfi re” Perhaps their evil has not grown so widespread are all weak additions to the hadith. He before as it has these days. They are just as the cites this claim of weakness from his teacher Messenger of Allah has described them, clothed Imaam ash-Shawkaanee and before him, Abu mercy of the Most Merciful. “Whoever attributes a statement to me of then you will be one of the dwellers of the Fire. yet naked, bent-over and swaggering, and upon al-Wazeer, and before him, Ibn Hazm. And he which I did not say, then let him fi nd his seat in And that is the recompense of the wrong doers.” their heads is the hump of the bukht camel. has approved of the saying, Those Who Hold Back From Hijrah the Hellfi re.” “These additions are from the schemes of the (Migration) Also, the Messenger of Allah said: CONSUMING (RIBAA) INTEREST OR THOSE WHO TORTURE ANIMALS apostates. For indeed, in them are a means for It is not permissible for the Muslims to “Whoever lies upon me intentionally, then USURY The Messenger of Allah said: “The Hellfi re was turning away from Islam and a reluctance from reside in the lands of the disbelievers when let him fi nd his seat in the Hellfi re.” Among the sins that destroy the individual presented to me and I saw in it a woman from the entering into its fold.” there are Muslim lands that exist. This is Among the other hadiths is the one where performing it, is usury. Concerning those who Tribe of Israa’eel who was being punished for a Shaykh al-Albaanee has refuted those especially so if his residence in the lands of Allah’s Messenger said: take interest after knowledge has reached them cat she had. She tied it up and did not feed it, nor who claim that such additions are weak disbelief will involve him in fi tnah (trouble “Indeed a lie upon me is not like a lie of its prohibition, Allah says (which means), “But did she let it go so that it may eat the rodents of from two angles: for his religion). Allah does not accept the upon anyone else. So whoever lies upon me whoever returns to ribaa, such are the dwellers the earth, until it died of starvation.” 1. The rules of hadith criticism regarding the excuse of those refrain from making Hijrah intentionally, then let him fi nd his seat in the of the Fire – they will abide therein.” If this is the condition of the one who tortures additions for the hadith prove its authenticity, (migration). Thus, Allah informs us that the Hellfi re.!” And He says, (which means): a cat, then how is it for the one who is tested by for there is no basis in the statement of the one angels will reproach this group of people at the “O you who believe! Do not consume ribaa, torturing the servants of Allah? And how much who has claimed that it is weak. time of death and they will not accept their PRIDE doubled and multiplied, but fear Allah that you more is it, if the torture is for the righteous ones 2. That those who have graded it authentic excuses when they plead to them saying that Among the major sins is pride. Abu Hurairah may be successful. And fear the Fire which is among them because of their eemaan and their are greater in number and knowledge than they were oppressed in the land. narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: prepared for the disbelievers.” Islam? Ibn Hazm. This is especially the case, since Allah says (which means): “Allah said: ‘Pride is my cloak and greatness The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) he is known among the people of knowledge “Verily, as for those who the angels take in is my lower garment. Whoever disputes with has counted ribaa as one of the seven sins that THE LACK OF SINCERITY IN SEEKING for his severity in such criticism. We should death while they are wronging themselves, me regarding any of these will be cast into the destroy the one performing it. It is recorded in KNOWLEDGE not make use of it (his criticism) when it goes they say to them: ‘In what state were you?’ Fire.’” the Two Saheeh collections that the Messenger Al-Haafi z al-Munthiree cited many hadiths solely among lack of opposition. So how can They reply: ‘We were weak and oppressed in And he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) also of Allah said: “Avoid the seven destructive sins.” which warn against seeking knowledge for other we use it when it is opposed (by other more the land.’ They (angels) say: ‘Was not Allah’s said: “The one who has a speck of pride in his They said: “And what are they, O Messenger of than Allah’s sake. I have chosen only some of knowledgeable scholars)? Earth spacious enough for you to migrate?’ heart will not enter Paradise.” Allah?” So he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: them. The Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever As for Abu al-Wazeer, he rejected the Such men will find their abode in Hell – what So a man said to him: “Indeed a man likes “To associate partners with Allah (shirk), magic, acquires knowledge, by which the Face of Allah additions to the hadith based upon their an evil destination! Except the weak among to have nice clothes and nice sandals.” He killing an individual which Allah has forbidden is sought, and he does not learn it except to meaning, not due to the chain. Sideeq Hasan men, women and children who cannot devise (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “Allah except with due right, consuming interest, attain honour by it in this world, he will not Khan has spoken of this in his book Al- a plan nor are they able to make their way.” is beautiful and He loves beauty. Pride is taking the wealth of the orphan, running away perceive the odour of Paradise on the Day of ’Ibaarah, clarifying that the one who goes by Allah does not accept the excuses from disregarding the truth and belittling the from the battlefi eld, and slandering chaste Judgment.” this addition is stating that those who enter such individuals, except for those who people.” believing women.” Jaabir reported that the Prophet (sallallaahu Paradise from this ummah are few. Meanwhile, are weak and cannot find the method to ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “Do not acquire the authentic and confi rmed texts show that leave, and they are not able to make a way KILLING AN INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT TAKING THE WEALTH OF THE PEOPLE knowledge in order to compete with the those entering Paradise from the ummah by which they will be directed to the land DUE RIGHT UNJUSTLY scholars, nor to argue with the ignorant, nor to will be many, almost reaching half of the of Islam. [Note: this is a general rule that Allah says (which means): “And whoever kills Among the greatest forms of oppression gain mastery over the gatherings. So whoever inhabitants of Paradise. has been under-explained here. One is a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell bringing a guarantee of the Hellfi re is the does that, then: The Fire, the Fire!” encouraged to see what the great wise scholar to abide therein, and the wrath and the curse of consumption of people’s wealth unjustly. This is Ibn ‘Abbaas reported that the Messenger of This may be refuted in a number of ways: Ibn ‘Uthaymeen explained about related Allah are upon him, and the great punishment as Allah says (which means): “O you who believe! Allah said: “Whoever acquires a knowledge for 1. The meaning of the division of this ummah guidelines in the book Explanation of the is prepared for him.” Do not consume property among yourselves other than Allah’s sake, or desiring other than into seventy-three sects is not that the majority Three Fundamental Principles of Islam] The killing of an individual Muslim is not unjustly except it be a trade among you by that, then let him fi nd his seat in the Hellfi re.” of the ummah consists of common folk who do permissible in Islam except for one of three mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves (nor not enter into the fold of these sects. And those Injustice In Passing Judgment cases as has been stated in the following hadith, kill one another). Surely, Allah is Most Merciful THOSE WHO DRINK FROM GOLD, who divide into sects and remain in opposition Allah has revealed His Shari’ah (Divine Law) in which the Messenger of Allah said: “The to you. And whoever commits that through SILVER VESSELS to the Sunnah are fewer in description than for passing judgment between mankind with blood of an individual who testifi es that there aggression and injustice, We shall cast him into Umm Salamah narrated that the Messenger of those who avoid that in its totality. equity. And He has commanded His servants is nothing worthy of worship besides Allah and the Fire, and that is easy for Allah.” Allah said: “One who drinks from a gold or silver 2. Everyone who opposes the carriers of the with justice and fairness. that I am the Messenger of Allah, is not lawful, One who unjustly consumes the wealth of vessel is only gulping the fi re of Jahannam into Sunnah in an issue among the many issues of Allah says (which means): except for one of three cases. They are: A life for people also takes the wealth of the orphan his stomach.” religion does not fall into the category of being “Verily, Allah enjoins al-’adl (justice) and al- a life, a married person who commits adultery, unjustly. Allah has specifi cally mentioned In another similar narration, he (sallallaahu in a sect in opposition to the Sunnah. Rather, ihsaan (benefi cence).” and the one who abandons his religion and their wealth, due to their frailty, the ease at ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “The one who eats and the correct understanding is that they set Thus He has made it obligatory upon the breaks away from the Jamaa’ah.” which their wealth can be consumed, and the drinks from a gold and silver vessel, is only...” up principles by which they become groups rulers and the judges that they rule with justice The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) detestableness of such a crime. Huthayfah reported that he heard the divided among themselves, abandoning much and avoid injustice. also said: “The believer will remain within the “Those who unjustly eat up the property of Messenger of Allah say: “Do not wear silk of the texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah due to Allah says (which means): margins of his religion, as long as he does not orphans, they eat only fi re into their bellies, and garments nor silk brocade. And do not drink it. This is the case with the Khawaarij, the “Allah commands that you should render spill blood illegally.” they will be burnt in the Blazing Fire!” from gold and silver vessels, nor eat from Mu’tazilah and the Raafi dah. back the trusts to those who they are due, and Ibn ‘Umar said: “Of those dilemmas which such bowls. For, indeed, they are for them As for those who establish the Qur’an and that when you judge between men, you judge there is no way out for the one who fails, is the THE PICTURE-MAKERS (disbelievers) in this world, and they are for you Sunnah and do not abandon these two, but with justice. How excellent is the teaching that shedding of blood without a due reason.” The people who will receive the worst in the next.” diff er in an issue from the many issues in He (Allah) gives you! Truly, Allah is the Hearer The Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) punishment on the Day of Judgment are the Islam, they do not fall into any of the sects. of all, the Seer of all.” has warned the Muslims from killing one picture-makers. [Note: There are a number THE ONE WHO CUTS DOWN THE 3. The addition in the narrations is evidence Allah threatens those who do not judge in another. And he has informed us that the killer of crimes in addition to this one, for which LOTE-TREE WHICH SHADES THE that the divided sects will be in the Hellfi re. truth with the Hellfi re. Buraidah bin Haseeb has and the one killed are both in the Fire. the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) PEOPLE However, this does not imply absolutely that narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and Abu Bakr reported that the Messenger of mentioned they would warrant the worst The Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever cuts they will reside in the Hellfi re forever. blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Allah said: “When two Muslims face each other punishment.] They are the ones who compete down a lote-tree, Allah will pour Fire on his What is well known is that some of the “The judges are of three types: One in with their swords, then the killer and the one with Allah’s ability to create. Ibn Mas’ood head.” people of these sects are disbelievers who will Paradise and two in the Hellfi re. As for the one killed are (both) in the Fire.” reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah ‘A’ishah reported that the Messenger of Allah remain eternally in the Hellfi re, such as the in Paradise, he is the one who knows the truth I said: “I understand the killer, but what of say: said: “Indeed, the ones who cut down the lote- hidden extremists. They are the ones who and judges by it. For the one who knows the the one who is killed?” “The people with the worst punishment tree, a molten Fire will be poured on their heads.” make apparent their eemaan, yet hide their truth and does not do justice in his ruling, then He said: “Indeed, he was intent upon killing according to Allah are the picture-makers.” disbelief, such as the Ismaa’ilees, the Drooz, he is in the Fire. And as for the one who passes his companion.” Ibn ‘Abbas said that he heard the Prophet THE RECOMPENSE OF SUICIDE the Naseereeyah and others. judgment between people out of ignorance, Due to this, the righteous servant refrains (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) say: “Every It has been confi rmed in the Two Saheehs Among the sects are those who oppose then he also is in the Fire.” from killing his brother, fearing that he might picture-maker is in the Hellfi re. A soul will that the Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever kills Ahl-us-Sunnah in a major important issues. be of the dwellers of the Fire. And so the killer be placed for him into every picture that he himself with a weapon, then that weapon will However, their diff erences are not based upon Lying Upon The Messenger of Allah will attain his sin and the sin of the one he is fabricated, and Allah will punish him (by it) in be in his hand, stabbing him in the stomach in disbelief. There is not a defi nite promise for Ibn al-Atheer has compiled a chapter in killing. the Hellfi re.” the Hellfi re eternally. And whoever kills himself these people that they will enter Paradise. his book Jaami’ al-Usool in which he lists Allah says (which means): “And recite to ‘A’ishah reported that the Messenger of Allah with poison, then the poison will be in his hand, However, they fall under the Will of Allah. If many ahadith which warn against lying upon them (the Jews) the story of the two sons of said concerning a cushion that had pictures on he will be sipping it in the Hellfi re eternally. And He wills, He will forgive them, and if He wills, the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa Aadam in truth; when each off ered a sacrifi ce to it, “Indeed the makers of these pictures will be whoever throws himself from a mountain and He will punish them. Perhaps they may have a sallam). Among them, is that which has been Allah. It was accepted from one but not from the tormented on the Day of Judgment. It will be kills himself, then he will be falling down in the great number of righteous deeds that will save recorded by Imams al-Bukhari, Muslim and other. The latter said to the former: ‘I will surely said to them: Bring life to that which you have Hellfi re eternally.” them from the Fire.They will also be saved from at-Tirmithi, on the authority of ‘Alee who said kill you.’ The former said: ‘Allah accepts only created.” Abu Hurairah said that he heard the the Fire by the intercession of the interceders. that the Messenger of Allah said: from those who give Him due reverence. If you He (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) also said: Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) And they will enter the Hellfi re and abide “Do not lie upon me. For indeed, the one stretch your hand against me to kill me, I shall “The people who will receive the worst torment say: “The one who strangles himself will be therein as long as Allah wills for them to do so. who lies upon me will be tormented by the never stretch my hand against you to kill you: are those who try to imitate the creation of strangling himself in the Hellfi re. And the one Then they will be extracted from there, due to Hellfi re.” for I fear Allah the Lord of the worlds. I intend to Allah.” who stabs himself will be stabbing himself in the the intercession of the interceders and by the In another hadith the Prophet said: let you draw my sin on yourself as well as yours, Abu Hurairah reported that he heard the Hellfi re.” Gulf Times 18 Friday, October 21, 2016 COMMENT

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P.O.Box 2888 Doha, Qatar [email protected] alliance for Europe Telephone 44350478 (news), 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) The key question facing Europe, but also a major political As for Germany, the centre-right process that has yet to end. Fax 44350474 Europe’s leaders is restructuring, not least in France and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Against this background, a political Germany. is, on the whole, insuffi ciently pro- reshuffl ing is almost inevitable; whether to “give up and A viable institutional vision, which European. Internally, it is limited by the party shifts and confl icts that I described well before the Brexit vote, a conservative wing defi ned by views have characterised the ongoing US leave the European project is to establish “two Europes in one.” that are not compatible with long- presidential election exemplify this. to a slow but certain The eurozone countries would form term progress in Europe. Externally, it But that reshuffl ing could lead to a more deeply integrated “Europe is limited by the far-right Alternative a number of outcomes. To secure GULF TIMES death” or to “transform A,” while another group of countries for Germany (AfD), which has lately a positive, open, and prosperous the EU” would comprise a more diverse and grown in popularity. future for Europe, it is critical that loosely connected “Europe B.” The In this context, even if Chancellor the forces that come out on top are two Europes would be strongly linked, Angela Merkel’s CDU does emerge those that recognise the huge benefi ts By Kemal Dervis with some arrangements diff ering with the most votes next year, it will of politically and economically open Republican Trump’s among the various members of Europe need help to build a new Europe, societies, as well as the need for Washington B. Together, the two Europes would be with more joint responsibilities for national and global public policies to part of the post-Brexit “continental countries in Europe A and fl exible promote more inclusion. n less than three weeks, we partnership,” which might eventually arrangements with countries in But even if progressive centre- scorched-earth tactics will know who will be the next even replace the EU altogether. Europe B. Specifi cally, the pro- right and centre-left forces manage president of the United States. It is a somewhat radical vision, one European elements of the CDU must to overcome their backward-looking IWhat kind of partner that that can be fulfi lled only if political work with allies on the left – namely, counterparts, it will not be enough. have little upside president fi nds in Europe will depend forces are willing to embrace it, not most of the Social Democrats and the The traditional political structure substantially on the outcome of two least in France and Germany. Each Greens. always risks being taken hostage elections in 2017: France’s presidential country’s political leadership would Such an informal coalition has or outfl anked by identity-focused Donald Trump said yesterday he would accept a “clear” election in early May and Germany’s need to be guided – indeed, energised often allowed pro-Merkel projects populists. That is why forward- presidential election result but reserved the right to launch federal election by the end of October. – by the objective of saving “Europe.” to win support in Parliament, thinking political groups must Of course, the United Kingdom’s Specifi cally, that means pursuing despite opposition from right-wing overcome their diff erences in a more a legal challenge, casting the United States into uncharted exit from the European Union will an economic policy that balances elements of the CDU. But, to save structural manner to advance a new political waters and his campaign deeper into disarray. have an impact on the future shape competitive markets and social Europe, it must become deeper and institutional vision of Europe. “I will totally accept the results of this great and historic of Europe. The “hard Brexit” option solidarity, with substantial space for more reliable, with common goals Such a deep political restructuring that has gotten a lot of attention lately local diversity. dominating a shared agenda. aimed at building new progressive presidential election if I win,” the Republican nominee told – particularly since British Prime In both France and Germany, such The need for a realignment of majorities will be diffi cult, and it cheering supporters in Delaware, Ohio. Minister Theresa May announced a political dynamic would depend political forces is not unique to France will not happen overnight. But it is “Of course I will accept a clear election result, but I will her intention to focus on limiting on an alliance of centre-right and and Germany. There is a broad need Europe’s only option. Without it, immigration, even if it means losing center-left pro-Europe forces – one for reformist and realistic globalisers “Europe” will die, and the assault on also reserve my right to contest and fi le a legal challenge in access to the single market – would that could overcome and ultimately to join forces to take on populist economic openness and democratic the case of a questionable result.” by itself change the way Europe dissipate each camp’s more extremist movements seeking to twist nostalgia values will continue to gain traction “I will follow and abide by all of the rules and traditions functions. elements, thereby ensuring that anti- into extreme nationalism, built almost around the world – with potentially As French Prime Minister Manuel European political tendencies cannot exclusively on identity politics. devastating consequences. – Project of all of the many candidates who have come before me,” he Valls recently wrote, the key block progress. To give a concrete – The world has changed substantially Syndicate added. question facing Europe’s leaders and provocative – example of what in recent decades, and Europe is no The fi nal 2016 presidential debate on Wednesday was is whether to “give up and leave such a realignment might look like in exception. It makes little sense to zKemal Dervis, former Minister of the European project to a slow but France: a centre-right President Alain expect the old alignments to be able to Economic Aff airs of Turkey and former dominated by Trump’s refusal to say he would recognise a certain death” or to “transform the Juppé could co-operate with a Prime respond adequately to today’s policy Administrator for the United Nations victory by Democrat Hillary Clinton, 68, who he accuses of EU.” Such a transformation would Minister Emmanuel Macron trying needs or political dynamics. Consider Development Program (UNDP), is conspiring to rig the vote against him. be no easy feat. It would require not to develop a “beyond the past” young how diffi cult it has been for Spain to a vice president of the Brookings only a new institutional vision for centre-left movement. fi nd a new majority – a two-year-long Institution. That stance is unprecedented in modern US political history and has elevated fears of post-election unrest. Trump had one last chance at a nationally televised debate to reach out to the undecided voters he badly needs to keep his presidential campaign viable. He passed on the opportunity. Instead, he chose to stay with the strategy he has employed during recent weeks: Pump Trump’s stance up his hard-core has elevated fears supporters and hope that’s enough to win. of post-election He suggested he unrest might not accept the election result if Clinton wins on Nov. 8, called her a “nasty woman,” and repeated hard-line conservative positions on issues such as abortion and immigration. While that kind of rhetoric was catnip to his passionate, anti-establishment base, it is unlikely to have appealed to independent voters and women who have yet to choose a candidate. “When you’re trailing in the polls, you don’t need a headline the next morning saying that you’re not going to accept the election results,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist who supports Trump. With less than three weeks left in the race, Trump is behind Clinton in most battleground states and is underperforming in almost every demographic voter group compared to the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, four years ago. Party strategists had said before the debate that he needed to use the event to draw in voters beyond his hard-core supporters. Beyond the Paris climate agreement Trump didn’t listen or perhaps didn’t care. His debate was a continuation of his apparent strategy deeper cuts. Rather than establishing move toward greener practices by create an agenda to overcome them. In to ensure his most fervent supporters show up on Election By Bo Lidegaard Copenhagen an enforcement mechanism to keep companies, investors, and capital doing so, it represents a new approach Day, while betting that his attacks on Clinton’s character countries on track to meeting their markets are multiplying, spearheaded to bringing about systemic change, and truthfulness will discourage voting by already sceptical targets, the agreement relies on a partly by business leaders eager to diff erent in two fundamental ways. ow that it has been ratifi ed “facilitative dialogue” on collective profi t from the transformation. But First, the proposed agenda adopts a young and liberal Democrats. by India and the European progress to sustain momentum. But the momentum remains far from more holistic perspective on the green But experts who study voter behaviour warned that his Union, the Paris climate even this provision will not be tested strong enough, and, in general, capital transformation. The report includes attacks on Clinton may backfi re, saying he may instead Nagreement is set to enter until 2018. markets still do not incorporate specifi c recommendations on matters into force. But the hard part is yet to Given the diffi culty of such large- climate and carbon factors when such as how to shift to low-carbon awaken Democratic voters who have so far been uninspired come: turning the agreement’s vague scale intergovernmental cooperation, pricing assets and evaluating risk. systems; but it presents them against by Clinton. political commitments into concrete a more ambitious and binding global With the right approach, businesses the backdrop of broader priorities, “The risk he faces by engaging in a scorched-earth policy action to mitigate global warming. agreement could not reasonably be could not only help to achieve the such as the SDGs. In other words, it The Paris agreement, concluded expected, at least not anytime soon. emissions targets set out in the Paris seeks not just to put the transition is that he activates people rather than turning them off ,” last December, was a major But climate change is not going to agreement; they could also contribute to a green economy at the top of the said Michael McDonald, who runs the US Election Project accomplishment and an unprecedented wait. Its eff ects are already being felt to reigniting growth and delivering on political agenda; it makes it a key at the University of Florida. display of political unity in the eff ort worldwide, with extreme weather the Sustainable Development Goals, component of the response to a broad to tackle one of the most dangerous conditions becoming increasingly approved by the United Nations last range of political, social, and economic It is against this backdrop that Trump has apparently and complicated threats to our future frequent. year. As a recent report released by the challenges. decided to double down on energising his base rather than welfare and prosperity. By including In fact, evidence suggests that the Global Commission on the Economy Second, the recommendations broadening it. the entire international community in eff ects of current concentrations of and Climate emphasises, that approach emphasise the business opportunity its partly binding framework, the deal greenhouse-gas emissions are already should center on investment in presented by the ongoing disruption establishes a new paradigm in global at the upper end of the modelled sustainable infrastructure. of the world economy. If investors To Advertise governance. scenarios. Climate scientists now warn There is no question that recognise the benefi ts of getting in on But, in practical terms, the that the two-degree window is closing the investments made today in the ground fl oor of the new economy, [email protected] agreement is hardly a guarantee of very rapidly, if it is not already shut. infrastructure, as well as in extraction they will be more likely to embrace the Display success. It provides no tools to ensure If we are to have any chance of and utilities – will have important necessary changes, thereby helping implementation of the policies and meeting our climate targets, we need implications for long-term emissions. to drive forward a critical climate Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 measures needed to keep global to take strong action now to reduce The wrong approach could easily lock transition. 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What is at stake is nothing less than the Subscription the deal. business, with investors and companies Green infrastructure, however, can world’s ability to take back control of [email protected] The agreement provides merely a abandoning their cautious approach to form the foundation for a sustainable our future. – Project Syndicate framework for reporting and reviewing the low-carbon transition. economy. on the implementation of disparate There are signs that such a shift The Global Commission report sets zBo Lidegaard, former editor-in-chief 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved national agendas, as well as provisions in mindset is underway. Eff orts and out to identify the main obstacles to of the Danish daily Politiken, is the aimed at nudging countries to achieve initiatives to catalyse a more rapid fi nancing such infrastructure and to author, most recently, of Countrymen. Gulf Times Friday, October 21, 2016 19 COMMENT Gene editing and seed stealing

Over the last few decades, In this case, that “little guy” great strides have been made could be African sorghum growers, traditional medicinal practitioners, in regulating the deliberate forest peoples, or other traditional movement of the genetic communities – people who have created and nurtured biodiversity, but material of animals, plants, never had the hubris or greed to claim and other living things across the genes as proprietary, patented inventions. All it would take is for borders someone to sequence their creations, and share the data in open databases. By Chee Yoke Ling and Edward Yet open access is the mode du Hammond jour in sharing research data. The US Austin, Texas government’s GenBank, for example, doesn’t even have an agreement banning misappropriation. This must our hundred years ago, John change. After all, such no-strings- Rolfe used tobacco seeds attached databases do not just pilfered from the West Indies facilitate sharing; they enable stealing. Fto develop Virginia’s fi rst The question of how to regulate profi table export, undermining the access to genetic sequence data is tobacco trade of Spain’s Caribbean now cropping up in international colonies. More than 200 years later, discussions, including at the World another Briton, Henry Wickham, Health Organisation and the Food took seeds for a rubber-bearing tree and Agriculture Organisation. from Brazil to Asia – via that great Perhaps the most important colonialist institution, London’s Royal forum for such discussions is the Botanic Gardens – thereby setting the Conference of the Parties to the stage for the eventual demise of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Amazonian rubber boom. the main treaty regulating access to At a time of unregulated plant biodiversity. The next meeting (COP exports, all it took was a suitcase full of 13) will take place in Cancún, Mexico, seeds to damage livelihoods and even in early December. entire economies. Thanks to advances Participants at COP 13 must focus in genetics, it may soon take even less. on the need to protect the rights of To be sure, over the last few decades, resource providers. To this end, they great strides have been made in But what if one did not have to infl uenza appears in Asia, scientists gene sequence information from databases thus becomes critically should pursue a careful assessment regulating the deliberate movement send any material at all? What if all collect a throat swab, isolate the virus, organisms to which they do have important to prevent a virtual version of existing policies and craft the of the genetic material of animals, it took to usurp the desired seeds and run the strain’s genetic sequence. physical access. of the theft carried out by Rolfe necessary changes – before synthetic plants, and other living things across was a simple e-mail? What if, with If they then post that strain’s sequence For example, the key traits of a and Wickham. And, indeed, in an biology outpaces legal systems and borders. The 1992 United Nations only gene sequences, scientists could on the Internet, American and drought-resistant maize from a unguarded e-mail released under the renders them impotent. Convention on Biological Diversity, in “animate” the appropriate genetic European laboratories may be able Zapotec community in Oaxaca, US Freedom of Information Act, one Arrangements must be made to particular, has helped to safeguard the material? Such Internet-facilitated to synthesise the new virus from the Mexico, might be reproduced by of the US Department of Agriculture’s supervise access to genetic sequences rights of providers of genetic resources exchanges of biodiversity would clearly downloaded data faster and more editing the genes of another maize top maize scientists, Edward Buckler, in a way that ensures fair and equitable – such as (ideally) the farmers and be much harder to regulate. And, with easily than if they wait for a courier to variety. No major new advance in the called such management “the big issue sharing of benefi ts from their use. indigenous people who have protected gene sequencing becoming faster and deliver a physical sample. The virus technology is needed to unlock this of our time” for plant breeding. Otherwise, decades of work to promote and nurtured valuable genes – by cheaper than ever, and gene-editing can spread faster electronically than it possibility. If agricultural biotechnology conservation and prevent piracy will enshrining national sovereignty over technology advancing rapidly, such does in nature. What is needed is the genetic corporations like Monsanto and be undermined, endangering the biodiversity. exchanges may be possible sooner than More complicated viruses and sequences of thousands of types of DuPont Pioneer – not to mention other biodiversity convention – and those it While some people surely manage you think. some bacteria are in the range of such maize. Those data act as a sort of fi rms that work with genetic resources, protects. – Project Syndicate to evade regulations, laboriously In fact, genes, even entire organisms, techniques today, though wholly roadmap and resource pool, enabling including pharmaceutical companies developed legal systems ensure that can already move virtually – squishy synthesising a higher organism with scientists to compare sequences on a and synthetic biology startups – have zChee Yoke Ling is Director of it is far from easy. The majority of and biological at each end, but nothing a more complex genome, such as computer screen and identify pertinent free access to such databases, the Third World Network, a non-profi t international exchanges of seeds, more than a series of ones and zeros maize, is many years away. But that variations. The selected adjustments providers of the desired genes are very international policy research and plants, animals, microbes, and other while en route. The tiny virus that may not matter, as new gene-editing might then be made to, say, the parents likely to lose out. These are, after all, advocacy organisation involved in biological goods are accompanied causes infl uenza is a leading-edge technologies, like CRISPR-Cas9, of a new Monsanto or DuPont Pioneer wholly capitalist enterprises, with sustainable development issues. by the requisite permits, including a example of technical developments. enable scientists to stitch together maize hybrid. little fi nancial incentive to look out for Edward Hammond is a researcher and material transfer agreement. Today, when a new strain of complicated new organisms, using Managing access to large genomic the little guy. the director of Prickly Research.

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Giving further details, the ministry said in a post on Face- book that the Duhail intersection includes the road that connects the west (Izghawa) to the road heading south on Shamal Road, road connecting Izghawa to the The Duhail intersection. Maps courtesy of MoI The Umm Salal Mohamed intersection. The new three-lane flyover. east (Lusail), road coming from the east (Lusail) towards Izghawa, Road (towards Shamal) heading from the west (Umm Salal Mo- west (Umm Salal Mohamed), road Shamal Road (towards Doha) to- Meanwhile, a new three-lane the south (Doha). Motorists have the fl yover connecting the east east (Lusail) and west (Izghawa). hamed) towards the east (Jeryan going from Shamal Road (towards wards the east (Jeryan Jenaihat) fl yover will also be opened to- been advised to follow traffi c (Lusail) to the south on Shamal The Umm Salal Mohamed inter- Jenaihat), road running from the Shamal) towards the east (Jeryan and west (Umm Salal Mohamed), morrow, connecting Huwaila rules and adhere to the speed Road and the road from Shamal section will include a road running east (Jeryan Jenaihat) towards the Jenaihat) and the road going from according to the MoI. Street and Shamal Road towards limit. Fifth season of farm produce markets begins Qanat Quartier to host he fi fth season of the local farm produce markets yesterday Tbegan at the Al Mazrouah, Al Khor-Al Zakhira and Al Wakrah yards, ‘Family Fun Fridays’ the Ministry of Municipality and En- vironment said in a statement. The yards for selling local vegeta- anat Quartier at The Pearl- tivities, catering mostly to children. events to promote The Pearl-Qatar as bles, fi sh and poultry will be open to Qatar is all set to host another These include balloon twisting, face a family-friendly destination and the customers thrice a week – Thursday, Qedition of the “Family Fun Fri- painting, colouring stations as well as diff erent retail areas housed by the Is- Friday and Saturday – from 7am un- days” series from today. stilt-walkers and mascots, which will land. til 5pm. The yard for selling livestock The initiative by United Develop- be lining up the entire stretch at Qanat UDC said the choice of Qanat at Al Mazrouah will remain open ment Company (UDC), master devel- Quartier. Quartier’s upcoming retail area as a throughout the week, from 7am until oper of The Pearl-Qatar, aims to at- Also during the event, cotton candy, host of this upcoming series “lever- 5pm. Some 80 farms are participating tract hundreds of families in Qatar as popcorn and ice cream will be distrib- ages the recent new opening of bou- in the initiative. well as visitors from other GCC coun- uted free to all participants. The fun- tique-style restaurants, coff ee shops Abdul Rahman al-Sulaiti, general A wide variety of farm produce is available at the yards. tries, until November 11. fi lled event will run for four hours, and convenience stores by creating supervisor, said the yards witnessed “Family Fun Fridays” features a va- from 5pm to 9pm. a nice blend of retail and leisure for a good turnout of visitors on the fi rst those at the central market – due to transactions to ensure compliance riety of entertainment shows, artistic The “Family Fun Fridays” series participants, further showcasing this day and a wide variety of fresh veg- the absence of any intermediary be- with the rates advertised. performances and recreational ac- is part of UDC’s diverse community charming precinct”. etables was on off er. He stressed that tween the farmer and the merchant. The fi fth season will also see the the yards off ered fruits and vegetables Also, the MME supervised the prices opening of two new yards at Muaither at “competitive rates” – lower than of diff erent products and monitored and Ruwais, the statement noted.

The Pearl-Qatar’s Qanat Quartier is all set for the ‘Family Fun Fridays’ series. QU SESRI holds workshop on ‘Advanced Sampling’

he Social & Economic Survey Patricia Berglund (senior research as- ance estimation, or imputation. Research Institute (SESRI) at sociate in the Survey Methodology He further noted that these features TQatar University (QU) held a Programme at the Institute for Social were examined to help participants four-day workshop on “Advanced Research). understand why they make analysis of Sampling” recently to introduce re- They presented the principles of such data more complex. searchers to the principles and prac- survey design and how design features “By hosting this event, SESRI is tice of analysing data from complex aff ect analysis methods as well as the working towards QU’s strategic objec- sample surveys. use of statistical software to do such tive to seek effi cient solutions to issues The event brought together more analysis. They also illustrated meth- that impact the wider community and than 40 participants from across QU ods for analysing survey data with to ensure that research eff orts address to exchange their ideas and knowl- such features through examples using contemporary challenges in Qatar and edge, and share their experiences on an education survey from Qatar, and beyond,” Dr al-Sayed said. complex sample survey data. SESRI implemented such analyses using two “SESRI continues to deliver on its director Dr Hassan al-Sayed delivered statistical software systems – SPSS mission to enhance research capacity the opening remarks. and Stata. by studying and monitoring impor- The workshop was led by Prof James In his remarks, Dr al-Sayed noted tant societal changes, and to provide M Lepkowski (research professor that complex sample surveys are those sound and reliable data to guide policy emeritus at the University of Michi- employing one or more basic sam- formulation, priority-setting and evi- gan and research professor at the Joint pling design or estimation techniques dence-based planning and research in Programme in Survey Methodology at such as weights, stratifi cation, cluster the social and economic sectors,” he the University of Maryland) and Prof sampling, nonlinear estimation, vari- added.

Dr Hassan al-Sayed speaking at the workshop.