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Qatar Emir to Hand Over Power to Son My Civil ID SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013 SHAABAN 16, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Berlusconi Time magazine US daredevil Nadal sentenced ‘Buddhist Terror’ completes suffers to jail in headline irks Grand Canyon Wimbledon sex10 trial Myanmar13 tightrope40 walk humiliation20 Qatar emir to hand Max 47º Min 34º High Tide over power to son 00:50 & 11:25 Low Tide Sheikh Hamad to address nation • PM may be replaced 06:03 & 19:10 40 PAGES NO: 15850 150 FILS DOHA: The emir of the small but economically strong conspiracy theories Gulf state of Qatar, a major diplomatic broker that has played a key role in the Arab Spring, is set to transfer pow- Before or after er to his son in a first for the Arab world. Crown Prince Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar is to be named the new emir of the state, a palace statement announced late Ramadan? yesterday. The statement said that Qataris will be asked today and tomorrow to “swear allegiance to His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as emir”. “The royal palace announces that Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, will address the Qatari people at 8:00 am (0500 GMT) on Tuesday,” said an earlier statement carried by the official QNA news agency. By Badrya Darwish The palace statement declared today an official holiday in the gas-rich nation which has punched above its weight in recent years. Qatar-based satellite television channel Al-Jazeera said the emir met “with the royal fami- ly and prominent members of Qatari society. He has [email protected] informed the meeting of his decision to hand power over to his crown prince”. “The Emiri Diwan (royal court) will receive citizens tomorrow and the day after to pledge iwaniyas, politicians - anybody who’s interest- allegiance to Sheikh Tamim as the country’s emir,” the sta- ed in politics nowadays - is over-busy with the tion later said. Delection dilemma. And now the talk is about Sheikh Hamad, who used Qatar’s immense gas wealth whether to shift the elections after Ramadan - and to drive its modernisation and transform it into a major even if you shift it after Ramadan - staying within the player on the world’s diplomatic scene, came to power in two-month limit is another dilemma. Meaning it will a coup in which he overthrew his father Sheikh Khalifa in conflict with people’s holidays in the heat of August. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Continued on Page 15 Half of Kuwait has already booked to travel after Eid and it will be very inconvenient to change travel plans. Filipina raped by cops recounts ordeal Let’s say the government has no option but to keep it in Ramadan. Man, it will be awful - nobody will By Ben Garcia raped by two Kuwaiti police officers and relish it. It is a fasting month. People break their fasts an Egyptian finally came out to share her around 7 and will go for taraweeh (extra congrega- Govt puts polls on hold KUWAIT: Amidst the massive crackdown distressing story with the local Filipino tional prayers) around 8. At least, most sects of Islam on expatriates currently ongoing in media yesterday. Rhiza (name changed) perform taraweeh. Even the less-religious perform for court explanation Kuwait, there have been reports of abuses said she was asleep when police officers taraweeh and even candidates and their followers will by security men towards residents. knocked at her door on June 17. The 36- do so. Election date may change Authorities have also deported thousands year-old was alone at the time as her flat- I don’t understand holding on to the constitution of mainly low-paid Asian workers for work- mates were at work on night duties. Fully in trivial matters like shifting the elections for short By B Izzak expressed in the past few days, espe- ing without the correct visa or residency aware about what is going on in Kuwait, times if circumstances arise. I respect the constitution, cially to whether the 2009 Assembly papers or for repeated traffic violations. she immediately thought that the frantic but I don’t see it as a crime if you are flexible with the KUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday put should be reinstated or not in addition A Filipina who was allegedly gang- Continued on Page 15 election laws. After all, constitutions are manmade the election process on hold “as a pre- to the correct legal procedures the and not the Quran or a holy book. Even in advanced cautionary measure” while the country Cabinet should take after the ruling. countries that hold tight to the constitution, certain waits for the constitutional court to One of the most interesting views on clauses are sometimes amended to evolve with the explain its verdict issued last week the court verdict was expressed yester- changing times. amid expectation the election date day by prominent constitutional expert Anyways, the constitutional court is coming could change. The constitutional court, Mohammad Al-Moqate in an article tomorrow with a verdict to explain whether reinstat- whose rulings are final, is scheduled to published in Al-Qabas newspaper. ing the 2009 parliament is constitutional. If it does provide legal interpretations for its ver- Moqate stressed that the court ruling that - I say that half the problem is solved. That means dict which ordered the National meant that the 2009 Assembly must be the old opposition-dominated parliament will be Assembly dissolved and confirmed the revived after the court ruled that the back. This parliament can only be dissolved by the controversial single-vote amendment. Dec 1, 2012 election was “null and void”. Amir, or he can order them to finish their term. If this The Cabinet said after its weekly meet- He said that the 2009 Assembly was happens, it will save Kuwait a lot of disputes and ing that as the court is set to explain its dissolved for the second time on Oct 7, headaches. And it is a way to calm down the opposi- verdict tomorrow, it has decided to 2012. Under Kuwaiti law, fresh election tion and invite them back to the political arena. cease all procedures for the implemen- must be held within 60 days and if they If I compare parliaments, I don’t see that the tation of the verdict including the are not held, the dissolved Assembly is recently-dissolved parliament was better than the decree inviting voters for elections automatically revived. Moqate added 2009 one. What accomplishments did they come up which opens the way for candidates to that the polls were held on Dec 1 last with for Kuwait? They also followed in the footsteps of start registering. year in accordance with the law but the old parliaments to grill and nothing but grill. Oh I The Cabinet’s move came as more were nullified by the court on June 16, KUWAIT: Rape victim Rhiza speaks with Philippine Embassy official Mar Hassan forgot what a great accomplishment they achieved - conflicting interpretations from legal which means as if the election had at a press conference to narrate her ordeal to the local media yesterday. — paying the over $2 billion penalty to Dow! and constitutional experts were Continued on Page 15 Photo by Ben Garcia Lebanon army seizes cleric’s HQ Mystery as Snowden 16 soldiers killed • Assir’s whereabouts unknown vanishes in Moscow SIDON, Lebanon: Lebanon’s army has seized control of the headquarters of a radical Sunni sheikh whose sup- US left gnashing teeth porters have battled the military for two days, killing 16 soldiers, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Sheikh MOSCOW: Fugitive US intelligence leaker Ahmad Al-Assir’s whereabouts are unknown, added the Edward Snowden yesterday vanished in journalist, who accompanied troops into the complex in Moscow after failing to take a flight to Abra, near the southern city of Sidon. The correspon- Cuba on which he was booked, as dent saw abandoned weapons inside the cleric’s head- Washington demanded that Moscow quarters, among them rocket launchers and machine- expel him back to the United States. guns, as well as military clothing. Some of the flats in Snowden, who embarrassed US President the complex were still burning as troops moved in. Barack Obama with his revelations of mas- The area sustained heavy damage in two days of sive surveillance programs, failed to appear fighting that broke out after Assir’s supporters attacked on the Aeroflot flight to Havana from a checkpoint, the army said. The AFP journalist saw bod- where he had been expected to continue ies on the ground, some of them scorched. Troops said to Ecuador and claim asylum. Russia’s it was unsafe to remove them from the area for fear that Interfax news agency, known for its strong they may have been booby-trapped. security contacts, confirmed that he was The violence between supporters of Assir and the not on the Havana flight and quoted an Lebanese army has been among the most serious to hit informed source as saying he was likely Lebanon since the start of the conflict in neighbouring already out of the country. Syria. Despite his marginal role in Lebanese politics, Snowden had arrived in Moscow on Assir has capitalised on powerful Shiite Hezbollah’s Sunday from Hong Kong, from where he increasing notoriety, especially over its involvement in leaked to the media details of secret cyber- fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s espionage programs by both US and British MOSCOW: Light shines through a forces against rebels.
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