SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015 SAFAR 21, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Lawmakers ‘No forgiveness’ New dad Sixers beat endorse draft as Pak hangs Zuckerberg Lakers to end for new school massacre to give away losing skid; juvenile5 law convicts7 fortune27 LeBron18 stunned MP calls for suspending Min 16º Max 29º transactions for Indians High Tide 03:38 & 18:03 Workers’ union wants to abolish kafeel system Low Tide 11:07 & 23:37 40 PAGES NO: 16716 150 FILS By B Izzak MPs: Prosecute Amir patronizes KFAS awards KUWAIT: MP Kamel Al-Awadhi yesterday called on the Interior Ministry to suspend all residency transactions 24 ex-officials for the Indian community in retaliation to the Indian Embassy’s KD 700 deposit rule for domestic helpers. over Dow deal Awadhi, who has been campaigning against the Indian embassy decision, called on the interior ministry to sus- By B Izzak pend family visits for Indians living in Kuwait, but insist- ed that he “respected Indians”. KUWAIT: The National Assembly called on the gov- The row was triggered after the Indian embassy in ernment yesterday to refer 24 former oil officials to Kuwait implemented a decision by the Indian govern- the public prosecution for legal action over the joint ment that every employer of Indian domestic helpers venture with US firm Dow Chemical which was must deposit KD 700 at the embassy to ensure regular scrapped, and as a result, Kuwait paid a $2.2 billion payment of salaries and fair treatment of the workers. penalty. A parliamentary probe report charged the Awadhi said that Kuwaiti authorities should not allow officials, including two former oil ministers and ex- the Indian embassy to act as a court and let disputes be top executives, of squandering public funds and solved by the Kuwaiti judiciary. making illegal profits. During the debate which The lawmaker, who was director of the immigration began on Tuesday, a number of MPs criticized the department, was commenting on an answer by the for- report for being one-sided and failing to include eign ministry to his question about the Indian the main officials responsible for the issue, includ- embassy’s behavior. He said the foreign ministry said ing Cabinet ministers and members of the Supreme that the question is outside its authority. Awadhi said Petroleum Council. that the embassy should take the deposit from the The $17.4-billion-dollar joint venture was signed recruitment offices and not from Kuwaitis, describing with Dow Chemical in 2008 but under political pres- the practice as a violation of Kuwait’s sovereignty. sure from the opposition, the Cabinet scrapped the In a related development, the head of the expatriate deal. The International Chamber of Commerce, act- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (center), flanked by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh office at the Kuwait Trade Union Federation Mubarak Al- ing as an arbitrator, ordered Kuwait to pay a penalty Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, attends an award dis- Ardhi said yesterday the office will continue to defend of $2.2 billion for scrapping the deal. tribution ceremony held by the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for the winners the interests of foreign workers in Kuwait and will focus Continued on Page 13 of 2014 and 2015 at the Salwa Al-Sabah Hall yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 3) in the coming phase on the abolishing of the kafeel or Continued on Page 13 UK set to vote for Syria strikes Cameron urges use of ‘Daesh’ for IS LONDON: Britain’s parliament looked set benches and walkways spoke against air to vote in favor of joining air strikes on strikes while thousands of anti-war pro- News Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria yester- testers are expected to protest outside in brief day despite angry exchanges which have parliament later for the second night exposed deep divisions on military running. A new opinion poll yesterday action. Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that public support for joining Gasoline could see kicked off over 10 hours of debate by air strikes in Syria had dropped signifi- subsidy cut in 2016 urging MPs to “answer the call” from cantly in recent days. A YouGov poll in KUWAIT: Finance Ministry Undersecretary Khalifa allies like France and the US, adding that The Times newspaper found that 48 per- Hamada said that petrol would be the first item to lose bombing the “mediaeval monsters” of IS cent of Britons supported Syria strikes government subsidies before other goods gradually fol- was “the right thing to do”. “The question compared to 59 percent last week. low during 2016. Hamada explained that gasoline is this: do we work with our allies to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who prices in Kuwait were the lowest in the world and that degrade and destroy this threat... or do opposes military action, condemned relatively lifting its subsidies would contribute to saving we sit back and wait for them to attack Cameron’s “ill thought-out rush to war” DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Qatari Emir Tamim considerable funds, as well as solve environmental and us?” he told the House of Commons. and said his proposals “simply do not bin Hamad Al-Thani shake hands during a ceremony yesterday. —AP traffic problems. Hamada stressed that in view of the Ministers and sources in the main stack up”. “The specter of Iraq, current budget deficit, the government’s continuation opposition Labour party believe Afghanistan and Libya looms over this of its current spending patterns would destroy the Cameron will win the vote, paving the debate,” Corbyn added, referring to Russia accuses Erdogan state’s general reserves and those of future generations, way for Britain to join air strikes on Syria unpopular British interventions in for- especially if oil prices remain low for long. “Some subsi- within days or even hours. But many of eign conflicts over the last 15 years. dies reach non-deserving consumers and pressure the the MPs crammed on to the Commons’ Continued on Page 13 of links to IS oil trade budget,” he said. Turkish leader rejects ‘slander’ MoI urges caution MOSCOW: Russia yesterday accused Ankara shot down the jet on its border over foul weather Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Syria on Nov 24, with President KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior yesterday urged and his family of involvement in illegal oil Vladimir Putin accusing Ankara of down- citizens and expatriates to be cautious over bad trading with Islamic State jihadists, ratch- ing the jet to protect oil supply lines to weather conditions. The ministry, in a press state- eting up the heat in a dispute over Turkish territory. But the defense ministry ment, asked people not to hesitate to contact it in Ankara’s downing of one of Moscow’s war- accusations against Erdogan are the first case of emergency. planes. The Turkish strongman accused implicating the Turkish strongman directly. Moscow of “slander” over claims his coun- “The main consumer of this oil stolen from try had bought oil from IS, while Russian its legitimate owners Syria and Iraq is Taleban chief ‘seriously Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to Turkey,” deputy defense minister Anatoly injured’ in internal fight meet his counterpart from Ankara for the Antonov told journalists. KABUL: Afghan Taleban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour first high-level face-to-face talks since the “According to available information, the was seriously injured in a firefight following a heated ferocious war of words erupted last week. highest level of the political leadership of argument at a gathering of militant commanders, offi- Ties between NATO member Turkey the country, President Erdogan and his cials said yesterday, exposing deepening divisions within and Russia have been strained since Continued on Page 13 the fractious militant movement. It was not immediately clear if Mansour survived the clash, which occurred just LONDON: Protesters hold placards protesting against Britain launching four months after he was appointed Taleban supremo in airstrikes against the Islamic State group inside Syria during a demonstration Multiple people killed a deeply acrimonious leadership succession. Five other outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday. — AP Taleban members were killed after a verbal duel cascad- ed out of control, triggering a gunfight at the meeting in Calif mass shooting near the Pakistani town of Quetta, said Sultan Faizi, the SAN BERNARDINO, California: Multiple department, which confirmed there were spokesman for the Afghan first vice president. There was Some Saudi women to people were shot and killed yesterday at a “multiple victims”. The city fire department conflicting information on the location of the confronta- Southern California social services center, said on Twitter that it was responding to tion, with some sources claiming that it took place near with reports of 20 victims at the center that “reports of a 20 victim shooting incident” and the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. get more legal powers provides services for the disabled. Police were was working to clear the scene. Witnesses searching for up to three gunmen, authorities quoted by local media, said the suspects RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will let divorced In a country where men hold legal pow- said. Several law enforcement agencies con- were seen leaving the scene after the shoot- Iran says IAEA nuclear women and widows manage family affairs ers over female relatives in almost all their verged on the scene in San Bernardino, and ing in a black SUV and had left a package bomb probe ‘closed’ without approval from a man or a court interactions with the state, the change will triage units were being set up in the area.