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FRIDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10108 June 3, 2016 Sha’baan 27, 1437 AH

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In brief No deal

QATAR | Religion Calls for sighting on Opec Ramadan crescent The Crescent Sighting Committee at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Aff airs has called upon all Muslims living in Qatar to sight the crescent of the blessed month of Ramadan on Sunday evening, Sha’baan 29, 1437 AH, corresponding to June output 5. The committee in a statement yesterday said whoever witnesses the crescent should head to the ministry headquarters located in Dafna (Towers) area to report his testimony. The committee will meet immediately after the Maghrib (sunset) prayer. ceiling the imposition of now-ended West- QATAR | Gesture Reuters Vienna ern sanctions over Iran’s nuclear pro- Yemenis trapped in HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met yesterday at his off ice at Al Bahr Palace with the Chairman of the Board gramme. and CEO of the National Oil Company of Mozambique Omar Mitha, who called on the Emir to greet him on the occasion of his Zanganeh said Tehran would not sup- Djibouti return home visit to the country. pec failed to agree a clear oil- port any new collective output ceiling A vessel left the port of Djibouti output strategy yesterday as and wanted the debate to focus on indi- carrying a group of Yemeni citizens OIran insisted on steeply raising vidual-country production quotas, ef- who were trapped there to return its own production, though Saudi Ara- fectively abandoned by Opec years ago. to their home countries. This was 1,708 female students graduate bia promised not to fl ood the market. “Without country quotas, Opec carried out under the auspices of Tensions between Saudi Arabia and cannot control anything,” Zanganeh the Qatari embassy in Djibouti and Iran had blighted several previous Opec told reporters. in co-ordination with the Yemeni meetings, including in December 2015 He insisted Tehran deserved a quota embassy and relevant Djiboutian when the group fell short of agreeing a - based on historic output levels - of bodies, Qatar’s ambassador to formal output target for the fi rst time 14.5% of Opec’s overall production. Djibouti, Jassim bin Jaber Jassim in years. Opec is pumping 32.5mn barrels per Sorour said. Yemeni returnees have Strains were less acute yesterday, day (bpd), which would give Iran a quo- expressed sincere gratitude to the however, as new Saudi Energy Minister ta of 4.7mn bpd - well above its current State of Qatar for the humanitarian Khalid al-Falih showed Riyadh wanted output of 3.8mn, according to Tehran’s gesture. to be more conciliatory and his Iranian estimates, and 3.5mn, based on market peer Bijan Zanganeh kept his criticism estimates. of Riyadh to an unusual minimum. At its previous meeting in Decem- AMERICA | Politics In a rare compromise, Opec also ber 2015, Opec eff ectively allowed its 13 Clinton blasts Trump as decided unanimously to appoint Ni- members to pump at will. geria’s Mohamed Barkindo as its new As a result, prices crashed to $27 per ‘unfi t’ to be president secretary-general after years of friction barrel in January, their lowest in over Democratic presidential hopeful over the issue. a decade, but have since recovered to Hillary Clinton assailed Republican Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies had around $50 due to global supply out- candidate Donald Trump yesterday tried to propose Opec set a new collec- ages. as “not just unprepared” to be tive ceiling. Yesterday, Brent prices were down president but “temperamentally But yesterday’s meeting ended with 1.5% at $49 per barrel after the Opec unfit” to hold the off ice. Clinton, no new policy or ceiling amid resist- meeting but later rallied on data show- who served as secretary of state ance from Iran. ing a weekly drawdown in US crude under President Barack Obama, Despite the setback, Saudi Ara- stockpiles. blasted Trump for failing to outline bia moved to soothe market fears that That Opec could not agree on a be- a coherent foreign policy doctrine failure to reach any deal would prompt nign deal is a sign that political dif- and for his lack of knowledge about A total of 1,708 female students of Qatar University’s Class of 2016 graduated yesterday at a ceremony graced by HH Sheikha Opec’s largest producer, already pump- ferences are undermining the or- international aff airs. Clinton charged Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim al-Thani, wife of HH the Emir. QU president Dr Hassan Rashid al-Derham along with members ing near record highs, to raise produc- ganisation, said Gary Ross, founder of that Trump could not be trusted to of QU leadership, deans, local dignitaries, parents, faculty, staff , alumni and well-wishers, congratulated the students on their tion further to punish rivals and gain US-based PIRA consultancy. lead the US military or handle its hard work and persistence. Page 20 additional market share. “It is bearish short-term for oil pric- arsenal of nuclear weapons. Page 6 “We will be very gentle in our ap- es. But what is also important is that proach and make sure we don’t shock Saudis are not planning to fl ood the the market in any way,” Falih told re- market,” Ross added. EUROPE | Emergency porters. Zanganeh made a few conciliatory Thousands evacuated “There is no reason to expect that remarks, saying he was happy with the 11 die in labour camp fi re Four killed in Saudi Arabia is going to go on a fl ood- meeting and received no signals from in French fl ood fury ing campaign,” Falih said when asked other producers that they planned to Torrential rain forced thousands of leven people died and 12 in- the causes of the fi re,” MoI added. road accident whether Saudi Arabia could accelerate increase output. people from their homes south of jured in a fi re that broke out on According to community sources, production. For Amrita Sen of Energy Aspects, Paris while the River Seine surged EWednesday in a labour accom- the camp housed hundreds of workers our people were killed in a The market has grown increasingly who like Ross travelled to Vienna to to its highest level for over 30 modation of a company working on but due to the timely intervention of road traffi c accident in Qa- used to Opec clashes over the past two meet Opec offi cials, the meeting sent years in the French capital, shutting Salwa Tourism Project, the Ministry of the Civil Defence and police personnel Ftar on Wednesday. years as political Riyadh and Tehran an encouraging signal about the state down the famed Louvre and Interior (MoI) announced on its Twit- the spread of the blaze was contained Two Kenyans, an Ugandan fi ght proxy wars in Syria and Yemen. of the organisation. Orsay museums and a metro line. ter page yesterday. and several precious lives saved. and a Nepal national were those Saudi Arabia eff ectively scuppered “After the Doha debacle, it actually In Evry-Gregy-sur-Yerre, south of “The fi refi ghting team reached the The nationalities of the victims killed when the bus they were plans for a global production freeze restores market confi dence that Saudi Paris, a man on horseback drowned site in record time and evacuated the could not be ascertained. Some of the travelling in overturned, Kenyan - aimed at stabilising oil markets - in Arabia is committed to Opec. This is yesterday, the prefecture said in a premises and controlled the spread of bodies have been charred beyond rec- news website The Star reported April in Doha. a success compared to three days ago statement. An 86-year-old woman the fi re to adjacent areas,” according to ognition, a source said. yesterday. It said then that it would join the when people had been expecting Falih was found dead in her flooded the MoI. Meanwhile, a fi re that erupted at a The Star said a video obtained deal, which would also have involved to walk out of the Opec room,” said Sen. house in a small town southwest of The charred bodies of the victims portacabin near the Aspire Zone yes- by them showed fi ve people sur- non-Opec Russia, only if Iran agreed to Falih was the fi rst Opec minister to Paris late on Wednesday. Prolonged have been shifted to the Hamad Hospital terday afternoon has been brought un- vived the tragedy. The deceased freeze output. arrive in Vienna this week, signalling heavy rain also pounded parts of mortuary. The injured are hospitalised. der control by fi refi ghters. According to were said to be private security Tehran argues it should be allowed to he takes the organisation seriously. neighbouring Germany. Page 10 “Investigation is under way to identify sources, there have been no injuries. service personnel. raise production to levels seen before BUSINESS Pages 1 & 3 IATA sees substantial airfare reduction this year

By Pratap John 2015 total was distorted downwards by “Airline CFOs and heads of cargo re- Pearce pointed out that economic Governments to earn $118bn in tax ponents, which is a major part of cross Chief Business Reporter the sharp rise of the dollar. ported in April that they had become development worldwide was getting revenues this year: Pearce noted in the border trade today. Dublin New destinations are forecast to rise more positive about future growth in a signifi cant boost from air transport. IATA report governments have also IATA forecasts that the value of in- by more than 2% this year, with fre- air travel, but were less positive about This wider economic benefi t is being gained substantially from the good per- ternational trade shipped by air this quencies up too. cargo. There may be some more price generated by increasing connections formance of the airline industry. year will be $5.5tn (down from 2014 he average return airfares, which “We expect 1% of world GDP to be stimulus to travel, but underlying between cities - enabling the fl ow of Airlines and their customers are fore- only because of the stronger dollar). IATA forecasts to be $366 this spent on air transport in 2016, total- economic activity is fragile, as recent goods, people, capital, technology and cast to generate $118bn in tax revenues Tourists travelling by air in 2016 are Tyear, will be 62% lower than in ling $740bn. The revenue passenger weakness in business confi dence in ideas - and falling air transport costs. this year. That’s the equivalent of 45% of forecast to spend $657bn. Another 1995, the global association of airlines kilometre (RPK), an industry matrix both advanced and emerging econo- The number of unique city-pair con- the industry’s GVA (Gross Value Added, impact on the wider economy comes said in its semi-annual report released that has been growing well above trend mies has shown – we have further low- nections is expected to reach more than which is the fi rm-level equivalent to through the infl uence increased airline in Dublin yesterday. despite a sluggish world economy, are ered our economic growth forecast for 18,000 in 2016, double the connectivity GDP), paid to governments in payroll, activity has on jobs in the sector, in its According to IATA’s chief economist forecast to slow this year but remain 2016. This year will see slower growth, by air some 20 years ago. The price of social security, corporate and product supply chain, and the jobs generated as Brian Pearce, consumers will see a sub- above-trend at 6.2%. as weaker confi dence induces consum- air transport for users continues to fall, taxes. In addition the industry contin- spending ripples through the economy. stantial increase in the value they derive “Falling travel costs have been add- ers and business to save lower energy after adjusting for infl ation. Compared ues to create high value added jobs. These “supply chain” jobs around the from air transport this year, including a ing several percentage points to RPK costs rather than to increase spending,” to 20 years ago, real transport costs Air transport is vital for manufac- world are estimated to have been 62.7mn reduction in what they pay - though the growth over the past year,” he said. the IATA report noted. have more than halved. tures trade, particularly trade in com- in 2014, IATA said. BUSINESS Page 12

Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 3 QATAR

In brief

Emir transfers ambassadors to Foreign Ministry

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday issued Emiri Decision No 24 of 2016, transferring ambassadors to the Foreign Ministry. They are Jabor Ali Hussain al-Dossari, ambassador to Thailand, Yousef Hassen al- Saai, ambassador to Albania, Mohamed Ali Saed al-Nuaimi, ambassador to Bulgaria, Ahmed Jassim Mohamed Ali al-Hamar, HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani holding talks ambassador to Nepal, Mohamed HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani being with Omani Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers Aff airs Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud al-Said in Khater Ibrahim al-Khater, accorded an off icial reception ceremony on arrival in Muscat yesterday. Muscat yesterday. ambassador to Indonesia, Hussein Ahmed Mohamed al- Humaid, ambassador to Cyprus, Ahmed Ibrahim Abdullah al-Abdullah, ambassador to India, Abdullah Ahmed Yousef Premier holds talks with Omani deputy PM Ahmed al-Mutawa, ambassador to Kazakhstan, Mohamed Ismael Mohamed Hussein al- QNA the offi cial delegation accompa- Emadi, ambassador to Liberia, Muscat nying HE the Prime Minister. Mohamed Rashid Mohamed On the Omani side, the ses- al-Humaidi, ambassador to sion was attended by a number Eritrea, Sayar Abdulrahman E the Prime Minister of ministers. Jassim al-Mauda, ambassador and Interior Minister Earlier on arrival in Muscat to Azerbaijan. HSheikh Abdullah bin on a one-day visit, the Prime The Emiri Decision is eff ective Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani and Minister and Interior Minister from the date of issuance and Omani Deputy Prime Minister was welcomed at the Sultani is to be published in the off icial for the Council of Ministers Af- Airport by Omani Deputy Prime gazette. fairs Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Minister for the Council of Min- al-Said held a session of offi cial isters Aff airs Sayyid Fahd bin Emir issues talks at the Premiership head- Mahmoud al-Said, Minister decrees quarters in the capital Muscat Responsible for Foreign Aff airs yesterday. Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, The talks dealt with the rela- Qatar’s ambassador to Oman HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin tions between Qatar and Oman Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, a number Hamad al-Thani yesterday the and ways of developing them of heads of diplomatic missions following decrees: in various fi elds, especially in in the Sultanate, senior civilian 1. Decree No 26 of 2016 on economy and investment areas. and military offi cials and staff the ratification of the Unified The two sides also reviewed members of Qatar’s embassy in Agreement for the Investment of the latest regional and interna- Oman. Arab Capital in the Arab States tional developments. The Prime Minister and In- (modified). The session was attended by terior Minister was accorded an The Qatari delegation headed by HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani holding off icial 2. Decree No 27 of 2016 on the the ministers and members of offi cial reception ceremony. talks in Muscat yesterday. ratification of the agreement on the exemption of visas requirements for holders of diplomatic and special passports and service passports signed Qatar Aeronautical College graduation ceremony between the governments of Emir ratifi es MoU in Qatar and Cuba in Havana on 23/11/2015. 3. Decree No 24 of 2016 on the sports with Pakistan ratification of a memorandum of understanding in the field of sport between the Ministry of QNA kistan signed in Islamabad on Youth and Sport of Qatar and the Doha 23/3/2015. State General Administration of The Emir also issued an in- Sport of China signed in Beijing strument of ratifi cation ap- on 3/11/2014. H the Emir Sheikh proving a draft Memorandum 4. Decree No 25 of 2016 on the Tamim bin Hamad al- of Understanding in the fi eld of ratification of the agreement HThani yesterday issued veterinary health and animal in the legal co-operation field an instrument of ratifi cation production between the Minis- between the Ministry of Justice of approving a Memorandum of try of Municipal and Environ- Qatar and the Ministry of Justice Understanding in the fi eld of ment in Qatar and the Ministry of Romania signed in Bucharest youth and sports between the of Agriculture of Georgia signed on 21/10/2015. governments of Qatar and Pa- in Doha on 28/03/2016. The decrees are eff ective starting from their date of issuance and are to published in the off icial Emir issues law on biological arms gazette. H the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued yester- National Day day the Law No 4 of 2016 on biological weapons. greetings sent H The Law is eff ective and is to be published in the offi cial ga- zette. HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Kyrgyz FM meets Qatar’s ambassador Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Qatar Aeronautical College marked the graduation of 123 students, including 59 Qataris, from various branches. The graduation yrgyz Foreign Minis- During the meeting, they Minister and Interior Minister ceremony on Monday was held under the patronage of HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, ter Erlan Abdyldaev met discussed bilateral relations Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin who attended the ceremony along with a number of the college off icials and parents of the graduates. There were 28 female graduates. Kyesterday with Qatar’s between the two friendly Khalifa al-Thani have sent cables The Minister congratulated the graduates and their families, stressing the continuous support of the ministry to the college in its ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Mo- countries and ways of develop- of congratulations to Italian development eff orts. hamed bin Arar al-Nuaimi in ing them. President Sergio Mattarella on his Bishkek. country’s National Day.

Top honour for Kalyan Jewellers Vodafone award winners of literary contest

odafone held an awards ceremony yesterday to Vhonour the winners of its third literary competition. The competition was launched on December 5, 2015, inspired by the theme of last year’s Qatar National Day cel- ebrations, “Our help carries joy to the aggrieved” - a verse that comes from a poem written by Qatar’s founder Sheikh Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani. Vodafone Qatar COO Moham- ed al-Sadah, director of external aff airs Mohamed al-Yami and the competition’s lead judge, Dr Fatima al-Suwaidi, handed over the trophies and certifi cates to the winners in addition to ap- preciation mementos to those Winners with members of the Vodafone management. who ensured that the initiative was a success. “I would like to congratulate all fi rst place and winners of the QR15,000 prize; and Abdel- In the awards ceremony’s the winners and thank everybody QR50,000 prize; Hanan al- malik Hammouda - third place Kalyan Jewellers has won the Superbrands title for 2016, emerging as ‘the region’s most innovative opening note, al-Yami said: who took part in the competition. Fayed - second place and winner and winner of the QR10,000 and customer centric retailer.’ Mike English, chairman, Superbrands Council and director “Now in its third year, Voda- I would also like to thank the com- of the QR30,000 prize; and Bilal prize. Superbrands ME, presented the award to Kalyan Jewellers overseas operations head N R fone’s literary competition has petition’s judges and everybody Wahb - third place and winner of Vodafone received more than Venkatraman at a ceremony in Dubai. Kalyan Jewellers chairman and managing director T S undoubtedly grown to become who worked on making the com- the QR20,000 prize. 150 submissions for the third Kalyanaraman said: “Winning the Superbrands title in just over two years of our operations in the a successful means to preserve petition a success.” The winners in the poetry edition of the competition, GCC region is highly encouraging. We have always underscored the principle that our customers the Arabic language and encour- The winners in the compe- category are Osama Fouad - which were assessed by an in- are the cornerstones of all our initiatives.” Kalyan Jewellers has 100 showrooms spread across India age creative writing, which are tition’s story collection cat- first place and winner of the dependent panel of judges. The and Middle East. important threads of our Arab egory are Shaimaa al-Sultan QR20,000 prize; Omar Hazza - winning submissions will be culture and tradition. and Ahmed Abdelmalik - joint second place and winner of the posted on Vodafone’s website. Gulf Times 4 Friday, June 3, 2016 REGION/ARAB WORLD Palestinian shot dead trying to stab Israeli AFP It aims to lay the groundwork for an interna- Jerusalem tional peace conference before the end of the year that the Israelis and Palestinians would attend. female Palestinian yesterday tried to The Palestinians strongly support the French stab an Israeli soldier in the West Bank initiative, but Israel rejects it, calling instead for Aand was shot dead, the army said, the direct negotiations. latest in a series of such incidents since Octo- “The way to peace does not go through in- ber. ternational conferences that seek to impose The stabbing bid at a military post around agreements, make the Palestinians’ demands The golden sarcophagus of the ancient Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun displayed in his burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor. Anabta village near the city of Tulkarem came more extreme and thereby make peace more re- on the eve of an international meeting in Paris mote,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- on reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. yahu said in a speech late on Wednesday. “Moments ago an assailant, armed with a Netanyahu has repeatedly said he is ready to knife, attempted to stab a soldier at a military meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at post near the village of Anabta,” the army said any time. in a statement. The Paris meeting follows the swearing in of Tutankhamun dagger likely “Forces responded to the immediate threat hardliner Avigdor Lieberman as Israeli defence by shooting the attacker, resulting in her death.” minister on Monday, forming what has been Palestinian media identifi ed her as Ansar called the most right-wing government in Is- Hussam Harsha, from Qaffi n, north of Tulkar- raeli history. em. The United States said the new coalition made from meteoric iron Violence since October has killed 206 Pales- raised “legitimate questions” about the com- tinians, 28 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean mitment of Netanyahu’s government to a two- and a Sudanese national. state solution with the Palestinians. AFP by British Egyptologist Howard ancient Egyptians attributed great who took part in the study, said Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying Netanyahu and Lieberman have sought to Cairo Carter, contained artefacts in- value to meteoric iron for the pro- he was unable to confi rm whether out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, Israeli allay such concerns, stressing their desire for cluding an 11kg gold mask that duction of fi ne ornamental or cer- ancient Egyptians clearly knew authorities say. peace and saying they support a two-state so- revived global public interest in emonial objects,” said the scien- that this iron came from a meteor. The violence has steadily declined in recent lution to the long-running confl ict. cientifi c analysis of one Tut- Egyptology. tists behind the latest study. “We don’t want to go to other weeks, though attacks have continued. The premier went a step further on Monday, ankhamun’s 3,300-year-old Carter found the dagger on Tu- The dagger’s quality “suggests angles, to symbolic or religious is- Many analysts say Palestinian frustration saying an Arab League-endorsed peace initia- Sdaggers found buried with tankhamun’s right thigh in the a signifi cant mastery of ironwork- sues. These were rocks that were with Israeli occupation and settlement building tive dating to 2002 “includes positive elements him “strongly supports” a theory wrapping of his mummy, accord- ing in Tutankhamun’s time,” said available and were used by hu- in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress that can help revive constructive negotia- it was made of meteoric iron, ac- ing to the authors of the study. the study. mans,” said Halwagy. “Whether in peace eff orts and their own fractured leader- tions with the Palestinians”.Some analysts saw cording to a new study. Along with its iron blade, the In addition, a new term used they had symbolic or religious ship have fed the unrest. Netanyahu’s comments as a means of fending “Our study confi rms that an- dagger’s fi ne gold handle “is deco- in the 19th dynasty, one dynasty uses, this is not unlikely. He was a Israel says incitement by Palestinian leaders off his international critics and perhaps scut- cient Egyptians attributed great rated with cloisonne and granula- following Akhenaten’s, translated king and royalty held a high status.” and media is a main cause of the violence. tling the French initiative by proposing an al- value to meteoritic iron for the tion work, and ends with a pom- literally as “iron of the sky,” and Other iron ancient artefacts France will today host a meeting of foreign ternative. production of precious objects,” mel of rock crystal,” they said. was used to describe “all types of in other parts of the world have ministers from around 30 countries as well as Others however said that his remarks repre- said the Italian and Egyptian sci- The fi ndings match a 2013 scan iron,” according to the study. been identifi ed scientifi cally to be representatives from the United Nations and sented a real opportunity, whatever his motiva- entists who performed X-ray of a 5,000-year-old cemetery in the “The introduction of the new of meteoric origin, the scientists European Union as part of an eff ort to jump- tion. analysis of the dagger, which took Lower Egyptian village of El Gerzeh composite term suggests that the said. start Israeli-Palestinian talks. Palestinian leaders greeted Netanyahu’s place at the Egyptian Museum in which showed the earliest iron ar- ancient Egyptians...were aware These included iron tools made Negotiations have been at a complete stand- comments with deep scepticism. Cairo. tefacts ever found were made from that these rare chunks of iron fell by Inuits in Greenland, the ancient still since the collapse of a US-led initiative in They have focused on a strategy of pursuing Tutankhamun died aged 19 in a meteorite, according to a paper from the sky,” said the authors of “Iron Man” Buddhist sculpture, April 2014. their cause through international bodies, say- 1324BC after just nine years on the published May 20 in the Meteoritics the study. and two funerary bracelets and The meeting will take place without the Is- ing years of negotiations with Israel have not throne. & Planetary Science journal. Mahmoud el-Halwagy, a former an axe excavated in two diff erent raelis and Palestinians in attendance. ended the occupation. His tomb, discovered in 1922 As a result, “we suggest that director of the Egyptian Museum Polish archaeological sites.

Displaced ... Egypt receives fi rst of two French Mistral warships

Reuters that the confl ict in neighbouring Libya Cairo could spill over. The Mistral is known as the “Swiss army knife” of the French navy for its gypt yesterday received the fi rst versatility. Equipped with missile de- of two French Mistral helicop- fence and radar navigation systems, it Eter carriers and said the second can store up to 16 helicopters and has would arrive in September as part of a enough landing pads for six helicopters, deal signed last year. according to Egyptian state television. France agreed last year to sell two The warship, named Gamal Abdel Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for Nasser after the second president of 950mn euros after their sale to Russia Egypt, is headed toward Alexandria was cancelled last August. where it is expected to arrive within “We now have advanced capabili- weeks, state television said. ties in confronting terrorism within In April France signed separate deals our borders and on our shores,” Min- worth about 2bn euros ($2.26 bn) with ister of Defence Sedky Sobhi said at a Egypt during a visit by French Presi- handover ceremony at Saint-Nazaire dent Francois Hollande to Cairo. in France. “It increases our combat The deals included a contract for a capabilities and our ability to carry out military telecommunications satellite long-term missions at sea...and we expected to be built by France’s Airbus are awaiting on the arrival of the sec- Space Systems and Thales Alenia Space. ond in September,” he said. Egypt last year also acquired a French Cairo has sought to boost its mili- frigate as part of a 5.2 bn euro contract Residents flee violence on the outskirts of the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib. tary power in the face of a two-year for 24 Rafale warplanes, France’s fi rst insurgency in northern Sinai and fears overseas export of the fi ghter jet. Mining hub plays key role in Saudi industrial dream

By Katie Paul, Reuters And in coming years, the suc- “Ras al-Khair city overall is He said mining would generate downstream industrial facilities The facility has a port, a Recycling bins, all but non-ex- Ras al-Khair, Saudi Arabia cess of Saudi Arabia’s eff orts to really equipped to expand in so an annual 97bn riyals and create are planned, said Harbi. 2,400-megawatt power and istent elsewhere in Saudi Arabia, build an economy that does not many industries, but I think the 90,000 jobs within fi ve years. Ras al-Khair’s stark rows of in- desalination plant, and a dedi- are in every hallway. rely on oil and state subsidies aluminum will be a major part Saudi Arabia’s commitment terlaced pipes and cleanly paved cated rail line linking it di- Executives say that by linking t a sprawling desert com- will depend partly on what state- of our future strategy,” said Ab- was underlined when the king- roads are a result of vast sums rectly to bauxite and phosphate minerals to top-notch processing plex on Saudi Arabia’s controlled Saudi Arabian Mining dul Aziz al-Harbi, president of dom made the new chief of its spent on the city since its incep- mines. facilities at a single location, they Anortheastern Gulf coast, Co (Ma’aden), which runs the Ma’aden Aluminium, a joint ven- energy ministry, Khalid al-Falih, tion in 2008. Although Ma’aden Aluminum can keep production costs low refi neries, smelters and casting complex, can achieve with it. ture between Ma’aden and US chairman of Ma’aden, fuelling a Ma’aden’s former chief told started off importing raw mate- and boost local manufacturing machines transform dull pink Aluminum is the company’s aluminum giant Alcoa. rally in the company’s stock. a conference last year that total rials, it now uses the railway to businesses. rocks into silver aluminum bars, a single-largest cash generator, at Mining in Saudi Arabia was The fi rm runs a bauxite mine spending had topped $34.6 bn. maintain a Saudi supply chain, “Our target is to be the lowest- symbol of the kingdom’s attempt 4.8bn riyals ($1.3bn) in revenue neglected for decades, apart from at al-Ba’itha in the central prov- In addition to the aluminum sourcing bauxite exclusively from cost producer in the world, which to diversify its economy. last year, and mining is a pillar of some small-scale gold extrac- ince of Qassim and makes semi- project, Ma’aden has a diammo- Qassim. we are already approaching now,” After only two years in opera- Saudi Arabia’s shift away from oil. tion. fi nished products such as ingots, nia phosphate (DAP) plant at Ras It boasts modern environmen- said Harbi. tion, the $10.8bn aluminum project Saudi hopes are pinned on vast But in April, Deputy Crown billets and giant coils of beverage al-Khair. tal technologies: its own man- Ma’aden has captured 8% of at Ras al-Khair, an industrial city untapped reserves of bauxite, Prince Mohammed bin Salman can sheet. The two products together now made wetlands for wastewater the world’s $15bn DAP market 200km north of the oil hub of Dam- used to make aluminum, as well made big promises for the sec- Exports of alumina, an inter- account for 85% of Ma’aden’s recycling, and the only used can and 1% of the $90bn aluminum mam, is already the world’s largest as phosphate, gold, copper and tor as part of a broad economic mediate substance in the pro- revenues, which totaled 11bn riy- reclamation facility in the Mid- market, according to a report by integrated aluminum facility. uranium. reform plan. duction of aluminum, and more als last year. dle East. Deutsche Bank. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 5

AFRICA Nigeria land disputes fuel surge in herdsmen violence

Reuters old widow told the Thomson Reu- predominantly Christian south, ering a bill to establish grazing re- “The farmers will lose their herdsmen in just four Nigerian farms and spending extra on se- Benue, Nigeria ters Foundation, recalling how her farmers and activists say. serves across the country, seeking farms, impunity of the herdsmen states could cost the country at curity is a concern for many farm- husband had relished working on Raids by Fulani herdsmen armed to reduce violence and ease ten- will increase, and there will be least $14bn annually in lost po- ers, said Emeka Nwachinemere, the farm after his retirement. with guns, bows and machetes on sions between the herdsmen and more violence,” he added. tential revenues, according to aid whose land has been raided twice hen Sarah Adaji’s hus- “They wanted to kill every man communities in Benue and Enugu farmers in a nation that is home to Half of people in Nigeria work agency Mercy Corps. in the last three years. band retired as a teach- in my village, and in the area,” she state since February have de- the largest equal mix of Christians in agriculture, which accounts “Farmers in the targeted com- “Building a small farmhouse, Wer two years ago, he said at Ocholonya village in Ni- stroyed villages, killed hundreds and Muslims. for around a quarter of its gross munities keep away from farms having someone stay at the farm kept himself busy tending to their geria’s Benue state. of people and forced tens of thou- Yet opponents of the graz- domestic product (GDP), ac- as a result of attacks... the herds- permanently, buying a motor- farm, hoping to provide food for Hundreds of people like Ada- sands to fl ee, according to the UN ing bill say such a move - forcing cording to the World Bank and men destroy farmlands and crops, cycle and paying for their food... his family and make some money ji’s husband are killed each year refugee agency (UNHCR). farmers off their land and giving Central Bank of Nigeria. making farming impossible,” said that costs a lot of money - around off the produce. in violent clashes over land use The UNHCR said at least 340 it to the Fulani - would defy Ni- Yet rising violence in recent Obodoekwe of the CEHRD. 200,000 naira ($1,000) each year,” Three months ago, Adaji re- between semi-nomadic, cattle- people have been killed so far this geria’s land laws, under which all years has ruined harvests, driven There have been at least 370 he said at his farm in Nigeria’s turned to their home in Nigeria’s herding Fulani people and more year, 70 more than the number of land belongs to the state. many farmers from their land and clashes involving herdsmen and southwestern Oyo state. middle belt region to learn that settled farming communities. deaths infl icted by the Islamist “The bill is a strategy for ter- prevented them from returning. farmers in Nigeria in the last fi ve The violence has uprooted armed herdsmen had stabbed her But the violence has surged this militants Boko Haram in Nigeria ritorial expansion, it is a disserv- Confl ict has also deterred en- years, compared to just 20 in the more than 100,000 people in husband and dragged him through year as advancing desertifi cation, in 2016, according to the Council ice to non-Fulanis,” said Stephen trepreneurs and businesses from 15 years before that, according to Benue and Enugu states, and the fi elds until he died. overgrazing and lower rainfall drive on Foreign Relations’ Nigeria Se- Obodoekwe of Nigeria’s Centre investing in Nigerian agriculture, data from the Lagos-based re- many are staying with relatives “The cattle herders came and the mainly Muslim pastoralists to- curity Tracker. for Environment, Human Rights farmers and activists say. search fi rm SB Morgen. or in makeshift camps, according wiped out my joy,” the 44-year- wards more fertile land in Nigeria’s The Nigerian Senate is consid- and Development (CEHRD). Confl ict between farmers and The prospect of rebuilding to the UNHCR. Amnesty slams Ivory vault Gambia over rights abuse

AFP nation, with at least one unex- Dakar plained death in custody. Meanwhile legislation passed in June 2015 vastly hiked the ritics of Gambia’s gov- deposit required to run for ernment are increasingly president, and imposed stricter Cfearful of arrest, torture rules on campaign finance and and imprisonment as the west residency requirements, which African nation clamps down on Amnesty said was “increasing free speech ahead of polls ex- barriers to political participa- pected to land President Yahya tion.” Jammeh a fi fth term, Amnesty For journalists, a climate of International said yesterday. fear that has worsened since an Opposition politicians, jour- abortive December 2014 coup is nalists, human rights defend- driving many into exile, accord- ers and religious fi gures have ing to the report. all faced a crackdown on their Making use of laws dating right to express themselves and back to British colonial times, organise peacefully, according Gambian authorities have to an Amnesty report entitled charged independent reporters “Dangerous to dissent.” with sedition and forced three “Consistent patterns of vio- diff erent outlets to close since lations have created a broader 2011. climate of fear that extends to Citing the Doha Centre for other sections of society, in Media Freedom estimates, Am- A Zimbabwe National Parks game ranger holds an elephant ivory tusk in the country’s ivory vault which currently holds 90.3 tonnes of ivory in Harare, yesterday. which the dominant response is nesty said 110 journalists had one of self-censorship,” the re- gone into forced exile since port said. Jammeh came to power in 1994. This was driven by fear of in- Alagie Ceesay, manager of the struments of state power such Teranga FM radio station, was as the National Intelligence given as an example of a me- Agency, the country’s notorious dia fi gure slapped with sedition secret police, it said. and “publication of false news” NIA agents “routinely require charges last year for privately people who are arrested to pro- sharing a provocative photo of vide passwords to their e-mails, Jammeh. Buhari cancels visit social media accounts and After being denied bail de- phones, and often obtain these spite serious health problems, through the use or threat of tor- he was heading for a prison sen- ture and other ill-treatment,” tence until he escaped in mid- according to the report. April. The NIA also routinely Elsewhere, despite Jammeh punched, burnt, beat and tor- declaring Gambia an Islamic to restive Niger Delta tured those in custody, it said. state, religious fi gures were far Jammeh seized power in a from immune to the generalised Reuters leaders to end militant attacks on The southern Delta swamps, the south, again at the last minute. Buhari said on Sunday the gov- bloodless coup in 1994 and is climate of fear, Amnesty said. Abuja oil installations. where most of Nigeria’s crude is Posters with his photograph ernment would hold talks with regularly accused of a catalogue Imam Sawaneh, a respected No reason has been given for extracted, have seen a series of had been already hung up to wel- Delta community leaders to ad- of rights abuses. fi gure who presented a petition Buhari’s cancellation. militant attacks on oil and gas come the president, before his dress their grievances. He recently said UN chief Ban to Jammeh’s offi ce, had been igerian President Mu- “We are determined to put right pipelines which have driven down spokesman cited “scheduling” Residents have for years com- Ki-moon and Amnesty could held in incommunicado deten- hammadu Buhari has the wrongs of the past, where the the country’s oil output to a 20- diffi culties. plained about oil industry pollu- “go to hell” for urging an inquiry tion for more than eight months, Ncancelled at the last people of this land were treated year low. Hours after the announcement tion and about being economi- into a protester’s death in cus- the report pointed out. minute a visit planned for yes- unfairly and the environment un- Buhari’s visit would have been of Buhari’s visit to the swamps on cally marginalised by government tody. Calling for an end to all “ar- terday to the oil-producing Niger duly polluted and degraded,” Osin- the fi rst by the former military Tuesday, the Niger Delta Avengers policy. Opposition activists have bitrary arrests, incommunicado Delta that has been rocked by a bajo said in a speech to launch the ruler to the Delta since taking of- militant group, which has claimed Achim Steiner, the UN En- borne the brunt of a crackdown detentions and torture,” Am- spate of militant attacks. programme in the Ogoniland area. fi ce in May last year. several attacks on Chevron and vironment Programme (UNEP) on basic rights, Amnesty said. nesty said bodies such as the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo “The cleanup of this land will Critics have accused Buhari, Royal Dutch Shell facilities, issued executive director who joined Dozens of members of the United Nations and the Eco- visited the restive region in Bu- require change on the part of all a Muslim from the north, of a warning to oil fi rms that their Osinbajo in the ceremony, said the opposition United Democratic nomic Community of West Afri- hari’s place to launch a cleanup those who deal with the Niger neglecting the predominantly “facilities and personnel will bear cleanup “cannot happen over- Party (UDP) were arrested in can States (ECOWAS) needed to programme in an area badly hit by Delta environment - particularly Christian south. the brunt of our fury.” The Aveng- night” but he hoped the govern- April and May following rare be much fi rmer with Jammeh’s oil spills, and said the government the oil companies and our com- Last month he skipped a visit to ers have accused Buhari of ignor- ment, oil fi rms and locals could protests in the tiny west African regime. was working with community munities.” the commercial capital Lagos, in ing local problems. work together to reduce pollution.

Eight women die in Witchdoctors banned Mauritania stampede

Reuters that the crowd of women had after albino killings forced their way through the Nouakchott entrance,” he said. AFP have authority to speak to the complainants who also has an A number of women fell to Blantyre, Malawi media, said the court made the albino cousin, said in his af- ight women were tram- the ground during the crush ruling after three local resi- fi davit that he “verily believes pled to death in a stam- and were trampled upon, wit- dents sued two witchdoctors. that all the killings (albino) are Epede to receive alms be- nesses said. Malawi court has banned Albinos, who have white skin stemming from witchdoctors” ing distributed by a charity in Ramadan, Islam’s holy witchdoctors from op- and yellow hair as a result of a who use albino body parts in Mauritania ahead of the Mus- month of fasting, begins this A erating in the impover- genetic disorder, are regularly their prescribed concoctions. lim holy month of Ramadan, week. ished southern African country killed in several African coun- “After the request of the hospital sources and the event’s Wednesday’s charity distri- following a spate of albino kill- tries for their body parts for use three concerned Malawians to organiser said yesterday. bution was meant to be an act ings linked to witchcraft, ac- in witchcraft. ban activities of witchdoctors A large crowd had gathered of Zakat, a form of alms-giving cording to a court ruling seen Malawian police have re- in order to eliminate issues of on Wednesday to receive the that constitutes one of the reli- yesterday. corded at least 65 attacks, ab- albino attacks and killings, this equivalent of around $30 per gion’s fi ve pillars. Judge Dingiswayo Madise ductions and murders of albi- court grants the order,” ruled person that was to be handed Issa said that Ould Cheikh out by wealthy businessman Ahmed, a well-known busi- granted an order late Wednes- nos since the end of 2014. the judge in the northern city of Zeine Abidine Ould Cheikh ness figure in the west African day stopping “all traditional Of the three victims who Mzuzu. Ahmed in the capital Nouak- nation where nearly a quarter healers, witchdoctors, charm sued, one had been promised The court also ordered news- chott. of the population lives on less producers..., magic users and that a lover who had abandoned papers to stop carrying witch- Mohamed Mahmoud Issa, than $1.25 per day, had visited fortune tellers from operating her would come back. doctors’ adverts. the director of Ould Cheikh the victims of the stampede. in the country to eliminate is- Another said she had been The United Nations warned Ahmed’s charity foundation, “He distributed the sum of sues of albino attacks and kill- guaranteed by the witchdoctor in April that the country’s es- said that upon arriving at the 4mn ouguiyas (around $12,800) ings,” according to a judgement that a robber would return her timated 10,000 albinos face scene he had gone in search of to each of the families of the read out to AFP by a court of- stolen goods. “systematic extinction” if police reinforcements to con- eight dead and paid for the fi cial. When they failed to get re- they continue to be murdered This file photo taken on April 17, 2015 shows Catherine Amidu, a trol the crowd. healthcare for the 20 injured, The offi cial, who cannot be sults, they turned to the courts. for their body parts for use in 12-year-old Malawian albino girl, posing in a maize field, in the “It was on the way that we who have incidentally left the named because he does not Oswald Phiri, one of the witchcraft. traditional authority area of Nkole, Machinga district. were informed by the police hospital today,” he said. Gulf Times 6 Friday, June 3, 2016 AMERICAS

CLAIM POLICY ENTERTAINMENT OFFBEAT LEGAL Prince died of ‘opioid Govt cracks down on Madonna wins copyright Canada loses former Prosecutor reviewing painkiller overdose’ payday lending abuse lawsuit over Vogue song Tunisian leader’s relative Cincinnati Zoo gorilla case

Pop legend Prince died from an overdose of The US government yesterday proposed a Pop singer Madonna prevailed in a copyright Canadian authorities were unable to locate the Prosecutors are reviewing a police investigation painkillers, a report said yesterday quoting rule to protect consumers from payday debt lawsuit over her song Vogue that alleged brother-in-law of deposed Tunisian president into the parents of a three-year-old boy who fell the ongoing investigation. The Star Tribune traps that includes requiring lenders to make a producer copied a fraction-of-a-second Zine El Abidine Ben Ali when it was time to into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo last newspaper in Prince’s hometown Minneapolis sure borrowers have the ability to repay their segment from an earlier song. The 9th US deport him last month, a judicial source revealed. Saturday, prompting the killing of an endangered quoted an anonymous source as saying that loans. The proposal by the Consumer Financial Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a general Belhassen Trabelsi and his family flew in a gorilla. A statement on the website for Hamilton the singer had overdosed on opioid pain Protection Bureau marks the first time the audience would not recognise the 0.23-second private jet to Montreal in January 2011, following county prosecutor Joseph Deters said the earliest medication. Off icials declined comment and federal government has moved to regulate snippet in Vogue as originating from the song a mass uprising that swept Tunisia. He requested he would conclude his review would be today. said that there were no plans to release Prince’s payday lending, which is outside the banking Love Break. Attorneys for the plaintiff , VMG but was denied asylum last year. Canada Border Cincinnati police have said the child’s parents and autopsy findings right now. The 57-year-old sector and generally overseen by states. Salsoul, could not be reached for comment. Services Agency (CBSA) off icials were scheduled family were the target of the probe and not the Purple Rain star was found dead at his Paisley In addition to payday loans – small-money A producer of Vogue, Shep Pettibone, also to meet with Trabelsi on May 24 in preparation operation or safety of the zoo. Deters’ off ice did not Park estate outside Minneapolis on April 21, advances typically due to be repaid from the recorded Love Break in the early 1980’s. VMG for his deportation to Tunisia a week later. But he return a call for comment beyond the statement. days after his plane made an emergency next paycheck – the CFPB proposal covers other Salsoul owns the copyright to Love Break and “disappeared and even his lawyers say he cannot A 17-year-old western lowland silverback gorilla landing that was also reportedly due to a credit products such as auto-title loans in which alleged Pettibone sampled the “ hit” from the be found,” the immigration authorities said in named Harambe was shot and killed by Cincinnati painkiller overdose. the car or truck is put up as collateral. earlier work and added it to Vogue. federal court documents dated May 26. Zoo staff after the boy fell into the enclosure. Baby swapped at birth in El Salvador returns home

Guardian News and Media the hospital and they all insisted Dallas and said no, this is your baby,” Casanellas said. “So I was like, okay, this is my baby.” British man and his Salva- But her suspicions persisted doran wife whose baby was and, four months later in Texas, Aswapped in hospital have Casanellas had a DNA test. It been able to bring their son back showed there was zero chance home – more than a year after he that she was the baby’s mother. was born. The couple returned to El Sal- Richard Cushworth and Mer- vador to alert the authorities and cedes Casanellas’s ordeal began search for their child. He was nine months ago when a DNA test found quickly after DNA testing found the baby they had brought on the babies of other new moth- home to Texas from El Salvador ers who had shared the ward with was not related to them. Casanellas. But although authorities in the She told local media at the Central American country were time: “I have a beautiful baby at able to fi nd their son, Moses, rela- home. It’s not mine and maybe tively quickly, it took months of there’s another mother suff ering bureaucracy and a lengthy legal the same as I am and perhaps I battle to get him out of the coun- have her baby.” try. The babies were swapped back Moses has now spent his sec- on September 7, 2015. But while Students and others are searched by security off icers after the campus shooting at the University of California’s Los Angeles campus (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California. ond night in his family home in Casanellas described that as the Dallas, Texas, and charges against most diffi cult part of the process, the doctor who treated Casanellas Cushworth said the nine-month have been dropped, but she and battle to get the legal papers al- her husband still want answers. lowing them to take their son Cushworth told the Today pro- home was toughest. gramme on Radio 4 yesterday: A key issue were footprints tak- “The investigation is still ongo- en of both babies after their birth. ing. I really would love to see jus- Neither conclusively proved the Woman found dead was tice in this situation. I’d like to identities of the children. After know what happened; how did British diplomatic pressure, a this happen?” Salvadoran judge accepted DNA When the swap was fi rst discov- evidence instead, which defi ni- ered, Cushworth and Casanellas, tively proved who were the right- who are Christian missionaries ful parents of each child. on UCLA shooter ‘hit list’ working in Latin America, feared At the same time, charges that their son had been snatched were brought against Alejandro Reuters professor, who was unharmed, The attack appeared to be The anger refl ected in the have sparked heavy police re- for sale to child traffi ckers. Guidos, the doctor who treated Los Angeles and the woman, he said. provoked by Sarkar’s belief that March blog contrasted with sponses and lockdowns at US In May 2015, Casanellas was in Casanellas. He was the one who “In the residence in Minne- Klug had stolen computer code earlier online records indicat- schools because of the nation’s El Salvador alone while her hus- told her she would need an emer- sota, we found multiple items, from him, according to a March ing Sarkar had gotten along with history of mass shootings. Last band was away for a month, when gency caesarean while her hus- he man accused of fatally including extra ammunition and blog post by a person of the same Klug. In a copy of his 2013 dis- October nine people were shot doctors told her she needed an band was away, and she claimed shooting a University of also a note with names on it indi- name. sertation posted online, Sarkar and killed at Umpqua Commu- emergency caesarean fi ve weeks he had been unusually close to her TCalifornia, Los Angeles, cating a kill list,” Beck told KTLA. “Your enemy is my enemy. thanked Klug. nity College in southwest Or- before her due date. during the pregnancy. The charg- professor in a murder-suicide Police investigated the wom- But your friend can do a lot more “I would like to thank my ad- egon. The 2007 attack at Virginia “Immediately, when he was es have since been dropped and had written a “kill list” that in- an’s home in a nearby town in harm,” Sarkar wrote in the post. viser, Dr William Klug, for all his Tech where a gunman shot dead taken out of me he was just by authorities say the mix up was a cluded a woman who has been Minnesota and found she had “Be careful about whom you help and support. Thank you for 32 people was the deadliest mass me and I gave him a kiss and then genuine mistake. found dead in Minnesota, Los been shot to death, Beck said. trust.” being my mentor,” Sarkar wrote. shooting in US history. they took him to the nursery, and Bernhard Garside, the British Angeles police chief Charlie Beck “Professor Klug’s name was on Reuters was not immediately Klug, 39, was a married father Students took to social media that was the last time I saw him,” ambassador to El Salvador, helped said yesterday. that list, as was another UCLA able to confi rm the authentic- of two children, UCLA said in a to ask the university to resched- Casanellas said on Today. the couple with their legal fi ght. Investigators found the list professor who was alright,” Beck ity of the post. The Los Ange- statement yesterday. ule fi nal exams, saying they were Medics told Casanellas they He told Today: “The bureaucracy while searching the suspect’s told the station. les Times quoted an unnamed “Our entire UCLA family is rattled by the incident and need- were taking her child to the hos- of the Salvadoran system often home in Minnesota, Beck told Mainak Sarkar, 38, shot dead university source as saying the mourning the loss of professor ed more time to prepare. pital nursery overnight and that seemed to conspire against us, Los Angeles television station engineering professor William claims made in the blog were Klug, a respected, dedicated and Students said on social media they would bring him back the but with the help of a supreme KTLA, adding that the investiga- Klug, then killed himself, au- “untrue” and “absolutely psy- caring faculty member,” Gene on Wednesday that they had hid- next morning. When a boy was court judge and some good, old- tion extended to Minnesota after thorities said, in an attack that chotic.” Block, the university’s chancel- den behind doors that could not returned the next afternoon, she fashioned diplomacy we fi nally fi nding a note at the crime scene. prompted a two-hour lockdown University offi cials did not re- lor, said in a statement. be locked while police searched realised it was not the same baby. managed to get leverage and we The list also contained the name of UCLA’s sprawling urban cam- spond to requests for comment Reports of shots fi red, or even the campus to make sure there “I started to yell all the staff in got the result we wanted.” of another, unidentifi ed UCLA pus. yesterday. sightings of possible gunman, were no other gunmen.

Canadian lands top Trump out to ‘scam job at Met Opera

AFP honoured, humbled also,” he said America’, says Clinton New York via video link at an online an- nouncement event at the Met. “For me to be in the footsteps Guardian News and Media false from the beginning,” Clinton being commander in chief. annick Nezet-Seguin, a of the giant James Levine, who Washington said during a rally at Rutgers Uni- “I know how hard these deci- 41-year-old Canadian has always been my hero and my versity in Newark, New Jersey. sions are,” Clinton said, recount- Ywith a youthful fl air, was inspiration, is something which is “This is just more evidence that ing a moment in the White House yesterday named as music direc- really a dream come true – I dare illary Clinton has termed Donald Trump himself is a fraud. situation room when she encour- tor of New York’s Metropolitan say, a childhood dream,” he said. Donald Trump as a He is trying to scam America the aged Obama to carry out the raid Opera to succeed legendary con- With his jack-in-the-box-like H“fraud” who would “scam way he scammed all those people in which Osama bin Laden was ductor James Levine. expressiveness as he conducts, America the way he scammed at Trump U.” killed. The Met announced Nezet- Nezet-Seguin has become a fa- all of those people at Trump U” A series of recent polls found “This election will determine Seguin just weeks after Levine, vorite of audiences and musicians – referring to the Republican’s Clinton and Trump neck and neck what direction this country heads citing health concerns, said he as he delivers energetic interpre- defunct business training pro- in a prospective general election in and there could not be a more would retire after 40 years defi n- tations of symphonic and opera gramme that is at the centre of a match-up, though her campaign stark and important diff erence ing the job, one of the most pres- works. class action lawsuit. has attributed the closeness to the because every day we learn more tigious in the opera world. He is also identifi able for his The Democratic frontrun- fact that Clinton is still running and more about Donald Trump,” Nezet-Seguin, a Montreal na- boyish looks and has a tattoo on ner seized on the fi ndings from a a primary race. Her campaign Clinton said. tive who was just one year old his right shoulder from a trip to batch of documents made pub- has said it expects to clinch the Clinton trained her fi re on when Levine became music di- Tahiti of a baton-wielding turtle. lic by a judge that describe how Democratic nomination on June Trump as she continues to fend rector of the Met, also leads the “I have a mysterious job to be- Trump staff targeted prospective 7, when New Jersey and California off her Democratic challenger, Philadelphia Orchestra where he gin with, but everything has to students’ fi nancial weakness to vote, believing her lead to be in- senator Bernie Sanders, who has has developed a reputation for do with using the right amount get them to enrol in his high- surmountable. narrowed the primary race in lively performances. of psychology and diplomacy,” priced real estate courses. During her remarks Clin- California. Speaking from Osaka where he said in a 2014 interview with “Trump and his employees ton also hit Trump for his pro- During the Newark rally Clin- he had just conducted the Phila- Philadelphia magazine. took advantage of vulnerable nouncements on foreign policy ton made no mention of her Dem- delphia Orchestra, Nezet-Seguin A child piano prodigy who Americans, encouraging them to and national security, saying his ocratic challenger, having turned said he had long felt a connection initially became a conductor of max out their credit cards, empty support for pulling out of Nato, long ago to face Trump, her likely to the “greatest opera orchestra in choral music, he revealed that his their retirement savings, destroy expanding the use of torture and general election opponent. She the world” at the Met. tastes extended to R&B music, their fi nancial futures – all while banning Muslims from entering left Sanders to the speakers intro- Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton enters “I can’t recall a day in my life with a love of Usher and the late making promises they knew were the US “disqualifi es” him from ducing her. Omar’s Cafe after a campaign event in Newark, New Jersey. where I’ve been more joyful, more Whitney Houston. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 7 ASEAN Families of Endangered Sumatran elephant gives birth MH17 crew sue airline AFP Yesterday’s filing in Malay- Under the 1999 Montreal Kuala Lumpur sia blames the airline for the Convention, next-of-kin have tragedy, saying it “dispatched until the second anniversary of and executed the MH17 flight an air disaster to fi le lawsuits amilies of six Malaysia over an area known to be under against the carrier involved. Airlines crew members armed conflict, which posed an Chong Seng See, whose sister Fwho were killed when unreasonable risk of harm and Chong Yee Pheng is one of the fl ight MH17 was shot down over death”. six crew members mentioned in Ukraine nearly two years ago the suit, said in a statement is- fi led a lawsuit yesterday blaming Malaysia Airlines sued by his lawyers that families the carrier for the tragedy. “dispatched and executed have endured deep pain due to The suit accuses the airline of the MH17 fl ight over an area the “horrifi c manner” of their negligence and breach of con- known to be under armed loved ones’ deaths. tract and is believed to be the confl ict, which posed an MH17 had a total crew of 15. fi rst fi led against the company unreasonable risk of harm Malaysia Airlines already over the 2014 disaster, said Balan and death” is facing lawsuits by scores of Nair, a lawyer representing fam- families over the disappearance This handout photo taken on June 1, 2016 and released yesterday by Tesso Nilo National Park shows a newly born female calf ilies of the six Malaysian crew Balan did not give a compen- of MH370 and could face legal staying close to its mother at Tesso Nilo National Park on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has members. sation amount being sought, action from more MH17 next- given birth to her third calf in Indonesia, an off icial said It comes two weeks after a saying that would be decided by of-kin. suit by 33 next-of-kin from the courts. MH370 vanished en route Australia, New Zealand and Ma- He said the airline had of- from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on laysia was fi led against Russia fered to settle for an undisclosed March 8, 2014 - just four months 8 Vietnamese and President Vladimir Putin in amount, but families rejected before the MH17 tragedy - with the European Court of Human the proposed sum. 239 passengers and crew aboard. killed in bus Rights. He did not rule out an eventual Small pieces of wreckage explosion All 298 passengers and crew out-of-court settlement. found on Indian Ocean islands Thai tiger temple monk - the majority of them Dutch - Malaysia Airlines meanwhile and the east African coast have Eight Vietnamese were killed and died when the Boeing 777 was said it is yet to be served with confi rmed MH370 went down, dozens of others were injured hit by a Russian-made BUK the mentioned suits and that the but no crash site has been locat- yesterday when a passenger anti-aircraft missile over war- MH17 fl ight route complied with ed and the reasons for the plane’s caught fl eeing with skins bus exploded in eastern Laos in torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, International Civil Aviation Or- disappearance remain a baffl ing unknown circumstances, a border 2014. ganisation regulations. mystery. guard said. AFP and amulets in a car which was ing huge profi ts from selling The bus, which was also Bangkok trying to leave the temple,” Ad- animals and tiger parts on the carrying some timber, burst into isorn Noochdumrong, the dep- black market for use in Chinese flames in the early morning, uty director of Thailand’s parks medicine. a guard from central Nghe hai authorities uncov- department, said. The temple has always de- An province told AFP on the Indonesian minister hits back ered a trove of animal He said around 10 tiger fangs nied traffi cking allegations and condition of anonymity, without T parts and intercept- were also found in the truck, says it provides higher quality elaborating. ed a monk trying to leave a and that some of the hundreds care for the animals than offi cial It is common for passenger buses in communist massacre row controversial “tiger temple” of amulets contained tiger park facilities. in the remote region to be packed with skins and fangs yes- parts. Repeated efforts to shut with goods. terday, the latest discovery In addition to skins that were down the site over the years According to VNExpress news AFP Rights groups have called for coup blamed on communists in to fuel accusations that the later found in monks’ quarters, have been delayed and com- site, the 35-seat bus was 10km Jakarta an offi cial apology for the mas- 1965, and over several months zoo is involved in the illegal offi cials discovered a living lion, plicated by the fact that secu- from the border with Vietnam sacres, in which at least 500,000 local militias backed by the mili- wildlife trade. hornbill, sun bear and banteng lar Thai authorities are often when the incident happened. people died, but Ryacudu noted tary carried out one of the worst Dozens of police and park of- (an endangered species of wild reluctant to intervene in the “After a huge bomb-like explosion, ndonesia’s defence minis- that US President Barack did not mass killings of the 20th century. fi cials have been stationed at cattle) inside the temple com- affairs of the clergy. the bus was torn into pieces,” the ter said yesterday suspected say sorry for the nuclear bomb- Suharto rose to power on the the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua tem- pound, he said. Park authorities said they site quoted passenger Pham Dinh Icommunists killed in 1960s ing of Hiroshima on a recent trip back of the bloodshed and dur- ple in western Kanchanaburi They also uncovered around have removed 84 tigers so far Tu as saying. military-backed massacres to Japan. ing his 32-year rule it was pre- province since Monday after 20 containers of preserved ti- this week and are transferring “I was in a back seat, sleeping, “deserved to die”, as a backlash “Millions of people died be- sented as necessary to rid the receiving a court order to re- ger parts holding “both whole the animals to nearby breeding when I was thrown out and felt mounts against eff orts to resolve cause of the bomb, and that was country of communism. move over 100 adult cats from bodies and organs to be used for centres. timber fall on my body. one of the darkest chapters in the war,” he said, adding that those Calls have mounted for the the complex. medicines,” Adisorn said. Police said they have not fi led I fainted and later woke up to find country’s history. killed in the 1960s massacres killings to be re-examined since For decades the infamous The discovery comes after any criminal charges yet and are myself in an ambulance,” he told Hardline ex-general Ryamizard had mounted an “uprising” so the dictator’s 1998 downfall. temple has been a popular stop authorities found dozens of still investigating the temple. the news site. Ryacudu made the comments to a the victims “deserved to die”. In April the government took for tourists who pay a steep fee dead tiger cubs inside a freezer Previous raids of the temple The report added that Laos gathering of former military fi g- His comments were greeted some steps, backing for the fi rst to pet and be photographed at the temple on Wednesday. revealed that dozens of horn- authorities confirmed the dead ures and nationalist groups con- with applause by the hundreds time a series of discussions into with the predators - which ani- Animals rights groups and bills, jackals and Asian bears were Vietnamese nationals vened in response to moves by the attending the event. the killings and announcing it mal rights groups say are heav- conservationists have long ac- were also being kept at the working in Laos. government to come to terms with The massacres began after would exhume sites that activ- ily sedated. cused the temple of secretly sanctuary without proper per- Several other injured victims are the mass killings. General Suharto put down a ists say are mass graves. “Today we found tiger skins acting as a tiger farm and reap- mits. reportedly receiving care at a hospital in Vietnam.

Indonesian quake Cambodia opposition causes injuries, Myanmar gem fi rms say $100mn damages buildings leader hiding in party A powerful earthquake off Indonesia’s Sumatra island yesterday sent panicked people ‘missing’ from industry fund HQ to avoid arrest fleeing for higher ground and left eight people injured and scores of buildings damaged. AFP Reuters tions also voiced alarm at the The 6.5-magnitude quake Yangon Phnom Penh tension between Hun Sen’s hit around dawn, waking up party and the opposition, in residents of the major port city n embezzlement probe particular the arrest or at- Padang on Sumatra’s west coast has been launched after Cambodian opposi- tempted arrest of politicians. and sending them running from Anearly $100mn vanished tion leader has been The government says crim- their homes. from a fund set up by Myanmar’s Aholed up in his party’s inals should face punishment No tsunami warning was issued gem companies, a trade body headquarters for seven days and denies the charges are po- after the tremor, which struck said yesterday, raising corrup- to avoid arrest on charges litical. around 140km from Padang, tion fears in an industry notori- he says are trumped-up as Supporters are prepared for according to the US Geological ous for its shady dealings. Prime Minister Hun Sen looks a long stay. Survey. Mining - especially for jade to neutralise his opponents They took delivery of food In Padang two people were - was fi rmly in the hands of the ahead of a 2018 election. and water donated by sup- seriously injured by falling debris, military and their ‘crony’ elites About 100 supporters of the porters yesterday and erected said disaster agency spokesman during the fi nal years of junta politician, Kem Sokha, have a shelter in front of the head- Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. rule, but remains cloaked in se- gathered at the headquarters quarters. He said in a nearby district six crecy despite reforms under a of the Cambodia National “He will stay here forever,” people were injured, while 54 quasi-civilian government that Rescue Party (CNRP) as ten- said CNRP lawmaker Eng houses and a hospital suff ered came to power in 2011. sion runs high in the capital Chhay Eang. mostly light damage around the The fund, drawn from a 1% after police visited the build- Kem Sokha would only region. levy on profi ts from the multi- ing last week in a bid to arrest come out if there was a solu- An 80-year-old man died of a billion-dollar extractive trade, him. tion with the veteran prime heart attack in Padang following has $7.8mn left from a high of Kem Sokha faces an accusa- minister’s ruling Cambodian the quake, but it was not clear $104mn, according to the Myan- tion of procuring a prostitute. People’s Party (CPP), he said. if his death was linked to the mar Gems and Jewellery Entre- The case that has dominat- “We are here to protect him, tremor, Nugroho said. peneurs Association. ed politics for weeks. no matter what happens, we Ade Nelvi, a woman living in “But we don’t know anything The opposition says Hun are ready to die,” said Kem Padang, said she was woken by (about the money). How was A man checking a Myanmar jade stone at a market at Yangon. Sen is using the judiciary to Sarun, 51, a farmer who travels the tremor. it managed and where did the weaken them and avoid a re- 70km a day to Phnom Penh for “It was strong and my house money go?” association member jade, sapphires and rubies, say (for transparency) in the terms of Large amounts of jade are sold peat of a close-run 2013 elec- the vigil. was shaking, so I ran to my kids’ Kyaw Kyaw Oo told reporters. the fund was set up to help de- the old government,” he added. to China through illegal mines tion that nearly cost him the The party and its trade un- bedroom to wake them up and He did not say how many years velop local gem markets and as- Last year corruption watch- and in rebel-held areas. premiership. ion allies have threatened to we ran out of the house,” she said. the fund was collected for, name sociations. dog Global Witness said Myan- While the price of jade has CNRP leader Sam Rainsy, a stage protests if Kem Sokha is Electricity cut out in some places the contributors or speculate “The members are worried mar’s jade industry alone was slipped in recent months, poor former fi nance minister, lives arrested. after the quake but was restored what has happened to the cash. about mismanagement of the worth an estimated $31bn in migrant workers still risk their in self-imposed exile to avoid Hun Sen’s party said there shortly afterwards, and people But he said a parliamen- funds,” Kyaw Kyaw Oo said, 2014, with most profi ts going to lives to comb unstable pits in arrest after authorities last would be no compromise and were not ordered to evacuate tary commission is probing the adding the group hopes the powerful military and ex-junta northern Myanmar for valuable year reactivated an old defa- politicians must be held ac- their homes. whereabouts of the cash and will country’s newly installed dem- fi gures instead of the state cof- fragments. mation case for which he had countable. Indonesia experiences frequent soon publish its fi ndings. ocratic government, presided fers. Scores of people have died in received a pardon. “This can’t stop the en- seismic and volcanic activity due The group, which includes over by Aung San Suu Kyi, will That estimated value would recent months in landslides at The European Union called forcement of law, whether it is to its position on the Pacific “Ring major mining companies that deliver transparency. amount to almost half of the im- open pits in Kachin State, which this week for a halt to “judicial sooner or later, it will happen,” of Fire,” where tectonic plates dominate the country’s trade in “We did not have any chance poverished country’s GDP. are also awash with drugs. harassment”. The United Na- CPP lawmaker Sok Eysan said. collide. Gulf Times 8 Friday, June 3, 2016 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

‘DRUM LINE’ REDIRECTED RHETORIC NO RISK TO HUMANS ROAD FATALITIES Shark caught, dies after China cyber spies hack N Korea mass mobilisation Japan suspends Australian Ground-level traff ic lights surfer attack in Australia Taiwan ruling party kicks off new 5-year plan cattle imports over infection for smartphone users

A great white shark was captured and Mainland hackers were likely to be behind an Tens of thousands of North Koreans, brandishing Japan has temporarily suspended live cattle Ground-level traff ic lights for pedestrians died yesterday off a West Australian beach, attack on the website of Taiwan’s ruling party, red flags and chanting slogans, paraded in imports from Australia after “some” cows were constantly looking down at smartphones are set in the same area where a surfer lost his leg a US-based security firm said yesterday, as the Pyongyang to celebrate the start of the Stalinist found to have a gastrointestinal disease, the to be trialled in Sydney as Australian authorities in a shark attack two days earlier. The shark island warns of growing cyber threats. regime’s latest five-year economic plan, agriculture ministry said yesterday. The infected seek to drive down the road death toll. It comes was caught on a drum line set by Cross-strait relations have turned increasingly frosty state media reported yesterday. The “mass animals arrived in Japan by air and tested amid alarm about rising road fatalities this year, Fisheries off icers near Falcon Bay Beach, since Taiwan’s new President Tsai Ing-wen of the mobilisation” took place on Wednesday in the positive for Johne’s disease, also known as with off icials launching the “Towards Zero” south of Perth, and later died on the line China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) sprawling Kim Il-Sung square in the North Korean paratuberculosis, while in quarantine, a ministry advertising campaign this week to increase and was dumped out at sea, local TV reported. won elections in January and took off ice last month, capital. It marked the beginning of a 200-day off icial said. Tokyo imposed a temporary ban awareness about accident rates. “Pedestrians are The great white was seen in the same with Beijing wary the new government may seek campaign aimed at boosting productivity to on May 27, he added, but would not disclose the less protected in a road crash, and are therefore area where Australian Ben Gerring, 29, had independence. The party’s website came under jump-start the new economic plan, which was exact number of cattle aff ected. Japan imports more likely to be seriously injured or killed,” New been surfing on Tuesday when a shark bit attack in early April, redirecting visitors to a fake announced at a rare ruling party congress last some 10,000 live cattle from Australia annually South Wales Centre for Road Safety’s executive off one of his legs. He remained in critical website, California-based FireEye said yesterday. month. Video footage showed the crowd shouting for consumption while 400 additional animals director Bernard Carlon said in a statement sent to condition in a Perth hospital. The beach in Administrators fixed the problem the next day but the vows aff irming their commitment to becoming are used to breed milk cows. There was no risk AFP yesterday. He said the trial is expected to start Mandurah has been closed since the attack. website was compromised again a few days later. “honourable victors in the 200-Day Battle”. to humans, the off icial clarified. in December at five sites and last for six months.

Flooded! Beijing denies discrimination in Xinjiang

Reuters Beijing

hina said yesterday there was no re- ligious discrimination in the far- Cwestern region of Xinjiang and there would be no interference in the Muslim fast- ing month of Ramadan, despite criticism from rights groups. Ramadan, which begins next week, is a sen- sitive time in Xinjiang, where deadly attacks in recent years blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants have left hundreds dead. Authorities in Xinjiang in the past have stepped up controls on the practice of Islam followed by the Uighur ethnic minority dur- ing Ramadan. There has been criticism of people having been banned from worship and that restau- rants had been forced to stay open. “During the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, whether to close or open halal restaurants is completely determined by the owners them- selves without interference,” a government re- port on religious freedom in Xinjiang said. “No citizen suff ers discrimination or unfair treatment for believing in, or not believing in, any religion,” the report said, adding that “re- ligious feelings and needs are fully respected”. Local residents make their way through a flooded street in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province. A heavy rainstorm hit Wuhan on June 1 with a rainfall of 115mm. Those pledges appeared to be at odds with some local policies. Legal and religious offi cials in Khorgos city, near the border with Kazakhstan, in late May ordered inspections of more than 30 ethnic restaurant operators and had them “guarantee normal business during Ramadan”, a state- ment on the government’s website said. An offi cial at the Khorgos government pub- licity department told Reuters he could not comment. China to US: Don’t let allies Rights groups and exiles say one of the ma- jor problems in Xinjiang is government con- trols on Uighur culture and Islam, which stoke ethnic tension, such as regulations banning overt signs of religious observance, like veils or beards. Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uy- set South China Sea policy ghur Congress, the main Uighur exile group, said in an e-mail that the United States had a Reuters The United States says the patrols “In fact the United States is not a na Sea and promote a lowering of the an “unsafe” intercept of a US mili- responsibility to pressure China to respect Ui- Beijing are to protect freedom of navigation. claimant in the South China Sea dis- temperature on this issue.” tary reconnaissance aircraft over the ghurs’ religious beliefs during bilateral talks in China claims most of the South pute, and its said it takes no position China’s top diplomat, State Coun- South China Sea. Beijing starting on Monday. China Sea, through which $5tn in ship- on territorial disputes,” Zheng said. cillor Yang Jiechi, will take this up Denouncing people in the United China’s “lies could not cover up the truth” he United States should not de- borne trade passes every year. The Phil- “So we hope the US can stick to its with US Secretary of State John Kerry States who viewed China as a threat, about its openly restrictive and prohibitive re- cide its policy on the South Chi- ippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and promises and not choose sides, but can at their talks, Zheng added. which he believed was not a main- ligious policies, he said. Tna Sea based on what its allies Brunei have overlapping claims, as well set its position based on the rights and The South China Sea is also ex- stream US view, Zheng said the two Shoket Imin, a member of the ruling Com- think, and should stick to its promises as close military ties with Washington. wrongs of the case rather than whether pected to loom large at Asia’s biggest countries had proved they can co- munist Party’s standing committee in Xin- not to take sides in the dispute, a senior Speaking at a forum ahead of next somebody is an ally,” he added. security summit starting in Singa- operate well on joint issues of global jiang, told reporters that children below the Chinese diplomat said yesterday ahead week’s high-level meetings with US “I think if they can do this, and if pore today, attended by a senior Chi- concern, like North Korea and Syria. age of 18 must not go to mosques, a policy of Sino-US security talks. offi cials in Beijing, Chinese Vice For- they can stop provocative acts tar- nese admiral. “China’s development won’t critics say is an attempt to weaken religious China has been angered by what it eign Minister Zheng Zeguang said his geted at China’s sovereignty and se- Last month, Beijing demanded an threaten any country,” Zheng said.”I sentiment. views as provocative US military pa- country had every right to protect its curity interests, then the US can play end to US surveillance near China hope certain people in the United China says it protects freedom of religion, trols close to islands China controls sovereignty and maritime rights in a constructive role in maintaining after two Chinese fi ghter jets car- States set themselves straight and but it allows only state-recognised religious in the South China Sea. the South China Sea. peace and stability in the South Chi- ried out what the Pentagon said was spurn Cold War thinking.” institutions to operate.

After fi ve decades, Australian soldiers killed in Vietnam War brought back home

By Matt Siegel, Reuters public petition that drew more Sydney than 40,000 signatures. For family members and vet- erans in attendance, it was a bit- he remains of 33 Austral- tersweet moment more than 50 ian soldiers killed dur- years in the making. Ting the Vietnam War and “When I saw the smoke of the buried in Malaysia and Singapore nose wheel of the second aircraft returned to rest in Australia yes- I thought, they’re at home,” Vi- terday, in one of the country’s etnam veteran Lieutenant Colo- largest single repatriation opera- nel Ian Henderson told the Aus- tions. tralian Broadcasting Corp The soldiers, who were bur- “The Army went to great ied overseas under an interment lengths to discover those who policy that was scrapped in 1966, had been missing in action, at were fl own into a military airfi eld great lengths to fi nd their bodies around 40km west of Sydney on- a couple of years ago. This is right board two military transport jets. that this ought to happen and They were met by around 100 bring them back as they have.” family members, veterans and More than 60,000 Australians dignitaries, including Defence served in Vietnam between 1962 Minister Marise Payne and Gov- and 1972. Over 500 Australians ernor-General Peter Cosgrove, a were killed during the deeply un- Vietnam veteran who now rep- popular war between the Soviet- resents Australia’s head of state, backed Communist government Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. of North Vietnam and South A priest, accompanied by Vietnam’s US-backed regime, a Scottish piper, led the fl ag- which ceased to exist after the draped coffi ns in a sombre pro- fall of Saigon in 1975. cession from the lowered tail- After the private ceremony section of the two C-17 transport the coffi ns were loaded onto 10 planes and into a nearby hanger, hearses, which drove slowly un- where family members held a der police escort down roads private ceremony. lined with men and women, The Australian government some wearing service medals, last year announced that it would who had come out to pay their fund a repatriation programme respects. for the fallen soldiers follow- The individual remains will be ing pressure from families and a buried privately by their families. A woman carries a placard as hearses carrying remains of 33 Australian troops killed in the Vietnam War pass during a procession in Parramatta area of Sydney. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 9 BRITAIN Cyclist died ‘after three ambulances couldn’t fi nd velodrome’

London Evening Standard administered fi rst aid and tried to having been updated with new development and are reliant on LAS’s medical director Dr works in the area. In addition, our and provided medical support, in- London restart his heart as they waited for roads built in the Olympic Park individual postcodes being regis- Fenella Wrigley said: “We re- response mapping books and a cluding with a defi brillator, till an London Ambulance Service (LAS) after the 2012 Games. tered in a timely fashion.” sponded to reports of a patient number of our systems now detail ambulance arrived. Sadly, he died paramedics. This is despite the velodrome, A 999 call at 5.19pm on August with chest pain at Lee Valley Vel- the surrounding area.” later in hospital.” cyclist died after a sat-nav The LAS control room dis- where Team GB won seven gold 18 last year reported that the cy- oPark last August. We are very Vibrant Partnerships, which Details of the tragedy were dis- failure left three ambu- patched two emergency ambu- medals, being clearly visible from clist was suff ering chest pains. By sorry for the delay in reaching operates the venue on behalf of closed this week in an LAS annual Alances unable to locate the lances and an advanced paramedic the A12 and surrounding roads. the time the fi rst paramedics ar- him. Lee Valley regional park authority, review that reported 62 serious Olympic velodrome, the Standard in a fast-response vehicle but the The LAS report said: “The ac- rived at 5.46pm, he had gone into “Following this, we have looked said: “A man of 60 was taken ill at incidents last year, up 41% on revealed yesterday. fi rst ambulance took 27 minutes cess to E20 Olympic Park (in par- cardiac arrest. into the circumstances around the Lee Valley VeloPark on August 18. 2014. The 60-year-old man collapsed to arrive — more than three times ticular the velodrome) is diffi cult, The man is believed to have delay and taken steps to improve He had completed a track cycling No inquest was held, de- in the changing room and suff ered the eight-minute NHS target. LAS especially for crews not used to been eventually taken to the Barts knowledge of the area to minimise session in the velodrome. spite coroners having repeatedly a cardiac arrest after a session on documents reveal the problem the area. LAS sat-navs are updat- Heart Centre in Smithfi eld but future risk. “After he returned to the chang- warned that future deaths will the track, regarded as the fast- was caused by the satellite navi- ed on a regular basis but may not was formally pronounced dead in “All our staff have been made ing room he began to feel unwell. occur unless LAS improves its re- est in the world. Velodrome staff gation system in ambulances not keep up with the pace of property hospital. aware of the changes to road net- Staff at the centre attended to him sponse times.

Banknote thrusts Not racist to Churchill back into EU debate worry about

Reuters Woodstock immigration, he Bank of England (BoE) yesterday unveiled its fi rst Tplastic banknote, featur- ing World War II leader Winston Churchill and giving campaigners in Britain’s European Union ref- erendum an opportunity to renew says Corbyn their skirmishes. The central bank said in 2013 London Evening Standard that there “certainly would” be sue that must be discussed”. And that Churchill would appear on its London higher tariff s on British goods former shadow cabinet member next fi ve-pound banknote, which sold in Europe if the UK votes Mary Creagh warned: “The dan- will be the fi rst to be made from a for Brexit. Remain campaigners ger is a Labour leader making a very thin plastic. eremy Corbyn yesterday ad- said his admission showed jobs speech and thinking everybody The BoE said the polymer notes mitted there is “real pressure” would be lost. has heard it.” will be more durable and harder to Jon some communities caused Cultural fi gures including Ar- The head of one of the biggest forge than paper ones. by mass immigration as the La- senal football manager Arsene unions said the Remain campaign “By adopting polymer, we’re bour leader made a long-awaited Wenger, Abba pop star Bjorn Ul- risked losing the June 23 refer- aligning with international best speech urging Britons to remain in vaeus and chef Raymond Blanc endum unless Labour did more practice, alongside Australia, New the European Union. wrote a “love letter” to British to make its voters turn out at the Zealand, and Canada,” BoE gover- The Left-winger said it was not voters urging: “Britain, please polls. nor Mark Carney said. “racist” for people to feel con- stay.” GMB boss Tim Roache said La- “As Churchill did, we may have cerned about “disconcerting” lo- Corbyn, speaking in central bour had been “silent” on key is- to wait a while for the Americans cal changes but said they should London, also insisted that the sues and needed to be “bolder and to join up,” he said, alluding to the blame the government and not blame lay not with migrants or braver” in making the case for im- US entering the war in 1941, more the EU. with EU free movement but with migration. “The reality is that the than two years after Britain. His comments followed pres- the government, and he urged more people that stay at home, the Carney was speaking as the sure from a chorus of MPs and people to embrace the benefi ts of more likely it is that we will leave bank showed off its fi nal design for a trade union leader to speak up European protection for worker the EU,” he said. the new note at Churchill’s birth- more loudly on the issue or risk rights, consumers and a cleaner Shadow work and pensions place, the 18th-century Blenheim a low turnout of Labour voters in environment. secretary Owen Smith said Palace, eight miles north of Ox- heartland areas, potentially cost- He stressed: “It is not migrants Roache was “right” about “the ford. ing the Remain camp victory in that undercut wages but unscru- danger that Labour voters will see Inevitably, the appearance of the referendum. pulous employers.” this as something that Tories have Churchill on the notes was seized “Some communities can Before his speech, former been banging on about for the last upon by campaigners ahead of the change dramatically and rapidly chancellor Lord (Alistair) Dar- 30 years and not something that June 23 EU referendum. and that can be disconcerting ling said immigration was “an is- bothers them”. Veterans for Britain, a group for some people,” he said. “That representing former service per- doesn’t make them Little Englan- sonnel which wants a so-called ders, xenophobes or racists. More Labour leader’s supporters boo BBC editor Brexit, pressed its claim that the people living in an area can put The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg the Institution of Engineering wartime prime minister saw Brit- real pressure on local services like has been booed by Labour and Technology. He did not ain as friendly towards a develop- GPs surgeries, schools and hous- supporters at a speech by react for several seconds as ing union in Europe after the war, ing.” Jeremy Corbyn, leading to Kuenssberg prepared to ask but separate to it. In other key developments in the party leader shushing the her question, but then put up “It’s wonderful that Church- the EU battle yesterday: crowd before the broadcaster’s his hand to quieten the crowd. ill is on the fi ver - it will remind O Tory former defence secre- political editor could ask him a Journalists on Twitter said the people to put the country’s in- tary Liam Fox said “uncontrolled question. Kuenssberg was called atmosphere in the room after terests fi rst on June 23,” Andrew immigration” from the EU was to ask a question after Corbyn’s the speech was hostile. Financial Roberts, a history professor at threatening the Green Belt and speech but was prevented Times journalist Jim Pickard Kings College London, said in a said Britons would “pay a much from speaking for several said the reaction was “pathetic”. statement sent to media by the more subtle and long-term price seconds by hissing and then Kuenssberg has come under group. than money can measure” with- boos from people in the crowd. repeated attack from Corbyn Rival campaigners who want to out curbs. Corbyn was making a pro-EU supporters who accuse her of keep Britain in the EU have also Corbyn answers a question at an event after stating why he wants to remain in the EU, in London A senior Leave economist, speech on workers’ rights at holding anti-Labour views. previously invoked Churchill. yesterday. Sir Patrick Minford, admitted Ex-Ukip councillor to pay Leading horse to water Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking

£80,000 in libel damages Guardian News and Media ate binding policy, but represents London a signifi cant defeat for the SNP so soon into this new parliamentary Guardian News and Media The judge also ruled that Vines up with her.” The two MPs, along term. Beamish said: “The SNP London should pay the MPs’ legal costs for with the MP for Rotherham, Sarah he Scottish parliament has government must now clarify the 18-month libel action, order- Champion, are taking legal action voted narrowly in favour whether or not they will respect ing him to pay £30,000 of this up- against the Ukip MEP for York- Tof a ban on fracking, af- the will of parliament and intro- he former leader of Ukip front within 28 days. shire and the Humber, Jane Col- ter Scottish National party MSPs duce an outright ban on fracking. in Rotherham has been or- In a statement, Healey and Bar- lins, for libel and slander after she abstained following a debate that It would be outrageous for this im- Tdered to pay £80,000 in ron said they were very pleased made similar accusations that lo- gave a strong indication of the portant vote to be ignored. damages to two local Labour MPs with the full vindication that the cal MPs “knew many of the details changed nature of the new Holy- “There is no doubt about the for falsely alleging that they knew judgment gave them. “After 18 of what was happening”. rood chamber. science – to meet our climate about the city’s child sexual ex- months we’re relieved at last this Collins made the comments in Scottish Labour had tabled an change goals and protect our en- ploitation scandal but failed to act. fi ght to defend our reputation is a speech at her party’s conference amendment in support of a full vironment we need to develop low Speaking to Sky News in Janu- over,” they said. in September 2014. She has since ban as part of an environment de- carbon sources of energy, not an- ary last year, Caven Vines, the “Caven Vines’s lies have been attempted to claim immunity from bate headed by the new Cabinet other fossil fuel. Labour’s position former leader of Ukip on Rother- allowed to run for too long, but the the charges because of her status secretary, Roseanna Cunningham. is clear: no ifs, no buts, no frack- ham council, claimed that the MP high court has ruled comprehen- as an MEP. The SNP announced a morato- ing.” for Wentworth and Dearne, John sively against him. Legal action Lawyers for Healey and Barron rium on fracking in Scotland last The SNP Energy Minister, Paul Healey, and the MP for Rother Val- should never have been needed said they had not pursued the case January, but has stopped short of Wheelhouse, insisted the govern- ley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what but he has refused to apologise or for money – it was about estab- an outright ban to allow for further ment remained “deeply scepti- was going on”. admit his allegations against us lishing the truth. Speaking in court consultation and a public health cal” about fracking and that there A ruling from the high court on Sky News were totally untrue, last month, Gavin Millar QC said: impact assessment. would be no fracking in Scotland deemed Vines’s comments to so he left us with no other option “We know Vines is not a wealthy After SNP members abstained, unless there was clear evidence have been defamatory and Justice than to force him to face up to the man and this is not about getting the motion was passed by 32 votes that it would cause no harm. A Warby awarded Barron and Healey truth and to clear our name. money. The claimants have made to 29, with Scottish Greens and number of Scottish Conserva- £40,000 each in damages. He said “Now we look forward to se- clear their reasons for pursuing Liberal Democrats joining Labour tives spoke in favour of frack- the ruling “strikes an appropriate curing a similar judgment in the this case doggedly. to defeat the Conservatives. ing, including the newly elected balance between the need to vin- linked case against Jane Collins “He still wants to maintain the Scottish Labour’s environment Maurice Golden, who argued dicate the claimants’ reputation MEP, who is trying to hide from truth of the very, very grave allega- spokesperson, Claudia Beam- that a “leftwing cabal” of Labour, and compensate them fairly for the British justice by claiming protec- tion he made and the only way, in A member of the traveller community takes his horse for ish, who tabled the amendment, Greens and LibDems was ignoring harm done, and the need to avoid tion of the European parliament. the teeth of an opinion like that, a wash in the river Eden during the horse fair in Appleby- immediately called on the SNP scientifi c evidence and the poten- overchilling freedom of speech in She may delay but she cannot stop they can get vindication in the in-Westmorland, northern Britain, yesterday. government to clarify its position tial of the process to boost jobs and the political arena”. the British courts from catching public arena is to pursue this.” after the vote, which does not cre- the economy. Gulf Times 10 Friday, June 3, 2016 EUROPE

CONVICTED CRACKDOWN REIMBURSEMENT MISHAP ROYAL CRIICISM ‘Lone wolf’ jailed for Ukraine targets corrupt Russian man sues his ex for 4 dead as rescue chopper King lashes out at ‘huge’ foiled Sweden attack judges with new laws money spent on romance crashes in Moldova Nobel centre project

A Stockholm court yesterday handed a five-year Ukraine yesterday overhauled its long-criticised A man has taken his ex-girlfriend to court to A Romanian SMURD emergency service It’s too big, it’s in the wrong place, and the colour jail term to a 20-year-old student for plotting a legal system by adopting Western standards recover $595 he spent on wooing her including helicopter crashed yesterday after carrying is too dominant. At least that is what King Carl suicide bomb attack. Described by prosecutors that limit the immunity of judges and establish a romantic break to Crimea. The woman, Nina missions in neighbouring Moldova, killing all XVI Gustaf, Sweden’s usually reserved monarch, as a “lone wolf” militant, Aydin Sevigin an anti-corruption court. The raft of measures Zgurskaya, told Business FM radio station their four crew, the interior ministry said. It said an thinks of the proposed Nobel Center to be built acknowledged that he supported the Islamic aims to bring the former Soviet republic closer relationship had initially gone well with dates (Eurocopter) EC135, which lifted off in the morning on the waterfront in central Stockholm next State group. He insisted he had not planned to to its ambition of applying for EU membership and gifts. But she broke up with him while they from the northern Romanian city of Iasi in the year. “It does not have to be so gigantic, of this carry out an attack in Sweden. Sevigin tried to by 2020. The war-scarred country has been were on holiday in Crimea. “It was discussed morning, crashed near a forest in the Cantemir huge volume,” Carl XVI Gustaf told Swedish travel to Syria via Turkey in June last year but criticised for having a corruption-riddled justice as a romantic trip, that he would propose to district. Ministry spokeswoman Monica Dajbog daily Dagens Nyheter in an interview published was expelled twice by the Turkish authorities. system that has put up roadblocks to foreign me - which didn’t happen,” she told Siberian said the accident occurred at midday, close to yesterday. The new centre, designed by British Frustrated, he then decided to carry out an investment and benefited engrained political channel CTC-Prima. “I got mad and left.” When the border with Romania after a couple of short architect David Chipperfield, will host all of the attack in Sweden, prosecutors said. He was interests tied to a handful of powerful tycoons. she got back to their home city of Krasnoyarsk, flights to rescue an 85-year-old woman with Nobel Foundation’s activities, including the arrested in February after his mother found “We are restoring Ukrainians’ right for the truth, she found an even more unwelcome surprise: a pulmonary disease. Romanian television channel annual Nobel Prize ceremony. Construction on bomb-making material, including bottles of the right for justice,” President Petro Poroshenko court summons and a demand to return more Digi24 quoted local off icials saying unfavourable the 1.2bn kroner ($180mn) brass-clad building is acetone, and and tipped off the authorities. told lawmakers in Kiev. than 40,000 roubles ($595). weather conditions were reported at the scene. set to begin in 2017. German parliament passes Armenia ‘genocide’ motion

AFP In the public gallery of the Bundestag, onlook- Berlin/Ankara ers including members of the Armenian commu- nity held up banners saying “thank you” when the result of the vote was announced to applause. urkey yesterday recalled its envoy to Ger- Acknowledging Turkey’s fury, German politi- many and threatened further measures af- cal leaders argued however that a clear recogni- Tter the Bundestag described the massacre tion of historical facts was a key step to healing of Armenians by the former Turkish empire as old wounds. genocide. “We are not looking to put Turkey in the dock. The lower house of the German parliament Instead, this is about making clear that taking re- yesterday massively approved a non-binding res- sponsibility for the past is indispensible for rec- olution on the 1915-16 killings, in a move touch- onciliation,” said Franz Josef Jung, speaking for ing a notoriously raw nerve in Turkish-European Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. relations. But Ankara was not appeased, and Erdogan had Only one MP voted against and another ab- telephoned Merkel over the text ahead of the vote. stained. Merkel backed the resolution, her spokeswom- The use of the word “genocide” goes to the an said, even though she did not attend the vote heart of a long-running battle for world opinion due to other offi cial engagements. between Armenia and Turkey. Sidestepping a question on the Bundestag de- Armenia has led a decades-long campaign to cision, Merkel said yesterday at a press confer- have the bloodshed characterised as genocide, ence with Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg that her French firefighters evacuate residents from a flooded area in Longjumeau, southern Paris. while Turkey argues that the term is a gross injus- government will “do everything to foster dialogue tice - it argues that the killings were a collective between Armenia and Turkey”. tragedy in which equal numbers of Turks and Ar- Berlin had until now not taken a clear position menians died. on the massacre, and President Joachim Gauck Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandi- had been the highest-ranking German offi cial an paid tribute to Germany, singling out its “val- who used the term of genocide. uable contribution, not only to the international His speech last year during commemorations recognition and condemnation of the Armenian of the 100th anniversary of the killings had drawn Genocide, but also to the universal fi ght for the fi re from Turkey, but was also rejected by German prevention of genocides, crimes against human- Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. France lashed by ity.” Steinmeier has said he hopes the Bundestag But Turkey reacted with fury, recalling its am- resolution will not derail eff orts to reconcile Tur- bassador to Germany for consultations and sum- key and Armenia. moning the German charge d’aff aires to a meeting The issue is particularly sensitive in Germany, at the foreign ministry in Ankara. which has special ties with Ankara not least due to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the its 3mn strong ethnic Turkish population which motion would “seriously aff ect” ties. settled following a massive “guest worker” pro- Deputy Prime Minister and government gramme in the 1960s and 1970s. torrential rains spokesman Numan Kurtulmus called it a “his- Revealing the pressure that lawmakers came toric mistake” and “null and void”. under over the vote, parliament speaker Norbert Reuters Museums scramble to protect treasures More than 20 nations, including France and Lammert said that “many threats were sent to Paris Russia, have already recognised the massacre as colleagues, particularly those with Turkish back- The Louvre museum in flood-hit situated in areas vulnerable to both institutions have detailed a genocide. ground, including death threats”. Armenians say Paris said it would close today flooding to safety by moving them emergency flooding plans. But yesterday’s vote comes at a particularly up to 1.5mn of their kin were killed between 1915 orrential rains across to evacuate artworks held in its to higher floors,” the Louvre said These give the Louvre 72 hours awkward time. and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart. France yesterday forced underground reserves as the River in a statement. and the Musee d’Orsay 96 hours Germany and the European Union are relying But modern Turkey - the successor state to Tthousands of people from Seine began to burst its banks. Only hours before, the museum to get works held in their under- on Turkey to help stem a record infl ux of migrants the Ottoman Empire - says 300,000 to 500,000 their homes and saw stranded The riverside museum - the most had played down the threat to its ground reserves to safety. even as tensions are rising between both sides Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife motorists rescued by soldiers as visited in the world, home to vast underground stores which Both museums have organised over human rights and other issues. when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman fl ood waters rose, while in Paris a everything from the Mona Lisa to are fitted with anti-flood pumps drills this year to deal with floods. The resolution, put forward by the ruling left- rulers and sided with invading Russian troops. metro line was shut. priceless Egyptian artefacts, took and sealed waterproof doors. In one such exercise in March, right coalition and the opposition Greens, is en- Referring to the atrocities against the Arme- An 86-year-old woman was the radical action after days of tor- But as the Seine swelled to the Louvre evacuated the whole titled “Remembrance and commemoration of the nians, the German resolution says: “Their fate found dead in her fl ooded house rential rain in the French capital. more than 5m above its usual lev- of the underground section of its genocide of Armenians and other Christian mi- exemplifi es the mass exterminations, the ethnic in a small town southwest of Par- The Musee d’Orsay, which faces els Thursday, and burst its banks new Islamic art galleries in a day. norities in 1915 and 1916”. cleansing, the expulsions and indeed the geno- is late on Wednesday, apparently the Louvre on the opposite bank in places, its management decided The Louvre has plans to move The text carries the contentious word through- cides that marked the 20th century in such a ter- the fi rst casualty from the heavy of the river, closed early yesterday to close its galleries entirely. its vast stores from its vulnerable out and also puts partial blame on the German rible way.” rains that caused the Loire and to put its own “protection plan” The Musee d’Orsay said a crisis riverside site to a new building Empire, then allied with Turkey’s Ottoman em- It also states that the “German Empire bears Seine rivers to burst their banks. into place. management team had been put near its satellite museum at Lens pire and which failed to prevent the atrocities. partial responsibility for the events”. President Francois Hollande Its galleries hold the world’s in place to organise the moving of in northern France in 2019. declared a state of emergency greatest collection of Impression- its most vulnerable treasures to its The Musee d’Orsay has already in the worst aff ected areas and ist masterpieces, including the upper floors if the Seine rises more moved many of its reserves off - promised money to help local finest paintings by Renoir, Manet, than 5.5m. By some estimates, the site, and says it has an emergency authorities deal with the fl ood Van Gogh and Degas, as well as 24 river could rise today to 6m above generator on its roof in case floods damage. works by Gauguin. its usual height. cut the electricity supply to the Rare giant panda born in Belgium “Since yesterday it’s just been “The aim is to move works According to the Musee d’Orsay, building. a deluge,” said Jerome Coiffi er, an inhabitant of Longjumeau, less By Ines Kagubare, Reuters than 20km south of Paris, where ated, as fl ood water crept towards along the river and is used by ice said the greater Paris region Brugelette, Belgium fi remen wading thigh-deep in the second story of buildings in tourists to reach the Eiff el Tower had in May endured its wettest water rescued inhabitants using the town centre. and Notre-Dame Cathedral. month since 1960. infl atable boats. He called the situation “tense”. In the Loire valley, the Cham- In the Loiret region, where lo- baby giant panda was born yesterday in a Bel- Prime Minister Manuel Valls In the French capital, the Seine bord castle, a Unesco heritage cal offi cials called on the army to gian zoo, a rare event for an endangered spe- visited Nemours, 75km south of rose above 5m, forcing the rail site, found itself surrounded by help evacuate motorists trapped Acies that numbers barely 2,000 worldwide. Paris, where at least 3,000 out of operator SNCF to close an under- water. on the A10 motorway, the fl oods “It’s a boy!” the director of the Pairi Daiza 13,000 inhabitants were evacu- ground commuter line that runs The national weather serv- are the most severe in 100 years. wildlife park, Eric Domb, told a news conference at the zoo in southern Belgium. “Everything went exceptionally well.” Yet to be given a name, the cub emerged in the early hours to six-year-old Hao Hao following an artifi cial insemination from her mate Xing Hui, Comet orbiter returns after ‘dramatic’ silence supervised by Chinese and local experts. Hairless, blind and weighing just 171gm, the infant was described as “a little pink sausage”, by AFP the agency’s Rosetta blog. Ground controllers sent gust 2014 after a 10 year, 6.5bn the park’s zoological director, Tim Bouts. Paris In orbit around comet 67P/ “blind” commands to the orbiter, km journey from Earth. The cub gave a loud cry before being scooped Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Ro- without knowing at fi rst whether In November that year, it up in its mother’s mouth. “Hao Hao, who is a setta is now some 428mn km from they were received or executed, sent down Philae, a 100km lab fi rst-time mother, she was amazing,” Bouts said. urope’s trailblazing space- Earth and 468mn km from the Sun to realign the star trackers which equipped with 10 instruments The pregnancy was confi rmed only a couple of craft Rosetta has resumed - somewhere between the orbits of were subject to a similar dust- for comet sniffi ng and prodding. weeks ago and, with pandas notoriously reluctant Eits exploration of a comet Mars and Jupiter - travelling at a related mishap in April 2015. After bouncing several times, to mate in captivity, the team were cautious even hurtling through the Solar Sys- speed of 17.65km per second. “It was an extremely dramatic the robot lab ended in a ditch then about if and when Hao Hao would give birth. tem after a “dramatic weekend” “Preliminary analysis by our weekend,” said spacecraft opera- shadowed from the Sun’s bat- Mother and baby were now doing well, but Giant panda Hao Hao holds her cub in her mouth in which contact with Earth was fl ight dynamics team suggests tions manager Sylvain Lodiot. tery-replenishing rays. Bouts said the newborn was still in a risky period at the Paira Daiza zoological park. lost for nearly 24 hours, mission that the star trackers locked onto Contact was reestablished But it managed to run about 60 for any young panda. control said yesterday. a false star,” said Martin, as Ro- by Monday and the spacecraft’s hours of experiments and send Hao Hao, whose name means “kindly”, could be highlands where they survive almost entirely on a The orbiter’s navigation sys- setta descended to within 5km location pinpointed, which al- home reams of valuable data be- seen later in the day resting in her open enclosure. diet of bamboo, more than 300 pandas now live in tem, which works by tracking the of the frozen space rock blasting lowed fl ight manoeuvres to be fore running out of energy and The zoo has hosted the pair since 2014 under an zoos, mostly in China. position of stars, likely became out jets of icy dust. performed to move it away from entering standby mode. arrangement with the Chinese authorities. They struggle to reproduce in captivity, how- confused after mistaking dust par- The spacecraft, perhaps best the comet, into a 30km orbit. As 67P neared the Sun on its It can keep the cub for four years before it ever - though artifi cial breeding techniques and ticles near the comet surface for known as the mothership of sur- “I confi rm the spacecraft sta- elongated orbit, Philae emerged would be returned to China if all goes well. better knowledge of their needs has seen an in- faraway heavenly bodies, the Eu- face probe Philae, entered “safe tus is back to normal mode, with from hibernation in June 2015 World nature organisation WWF says a survey crease in births in recent years. ropean Space Agency (ESA) said. mode” as communication with instruments back in science op- and sent a two-minute message in 2014 found only 1,864 giant pandas living in Pairi Daiza said Belgium had become the third “We lost contact with the Earth was severed, and switched erations,” Martin told AFP yes- to Earth via its mothership. the wild, almost double the numbers in the late country in Europe to see the successful reproduc- spacecraft on Saturday evening off its science instruments, in- terday. The lander went permanently si- 1970s and 17% up in a decade. tion of pandas after Austria and Spain. for nearly 24 hours,” mission cluding cameras, radar, and Rosetta, with Philae riding lent in July 2015 after eight intermit- As part of eff orts to save the species, which has The last successful birth in Europe was at Ma- manager Patrick Martin said on chemical gas analysers. piggyback, arrived at 67P in Au- tent communications with Earth. been hit hard by human encroachment on the drid three years ago. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 11 INDIA Kashmir militants wage selfi e war against crackdown

Reuters who is winning public sympathy rity forces has contained a sepa- Farooq, a hereditary religious a crackdown on a wave of street Both parties say their alliance hands but circulating videos is Tral, Jammu and Kashmir in a battle that once again risks ratist revolt in Kashmir that fi rst leader and advocate of a peaceful protests that peaked in 2010. of opposites is working, but their not violence - it’s propaganda,” destabilising the northern state. fl ared in the 1990s, with Paki- path to independence. “It’s troubling - there should development agenda - includ- said Khurram Parvez, an offi cial “He is on a pious path and we stan’s backing, but is now mainly Separatist leaders accuse not be this level of alienation,” ing a road building campaign to of a civil society grouping. ebels like Burhan Wani, are proud of him,” said Mohamed homegrown. New Delhi of keeping people in said Naeem Akhtar, the state’s upgrade infrastructure ruined by Wani, who remains at large, more adept at spreading Muzaff ar Wani, the father of the But the backlash it has provoked Kashmir under the heel of up to education minister and a leader decades of neglect - has yet to featured in a recent video, Rtheir message via smart- militant who shot to notoriety refl ects what many Kashmiris 750,000 security forces. of the People’s Democratic Party deliver. warming his hands by a forest phone than wielding an assault with pictures of his group on so- call the refusal of Prime Minister At the same time, they say, it (PDP), that has run Jammu and Human rights advocates say campfi re, chatting and laughing rifl e, are becoming a rallying cial media last year, along with Narendra Modi’s two-year-old is pursuing a long-term strategy Kashmir in an unlikely coalition the militants are not capable of with colleagues. point in Kashmir for youth who speeches calling Kashmiris to government to engage in a mean- to eff ectively annex the region of with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata launching serious attacks, pre- In recent months, outpour- reject the authority of India’s arms. ingful dialogue over the fate of In- 12.5mn people demographically, Party (BJP) since last year. ferring instead to play cat and ings of sympathy for the mili- government. “All of Kashmir supports his dia’s only Muslim-majority state. religiously and economically. “We should try and build emo- mouse with security forces, who tants have escalated, with stone- Wani, a 22-year-old com- cause,” Wani, the headmaster of “The government of India has The result, both moderate and tional bonds between Jammu and outnumber them by more than throwing crowds gathering at mander of separatist group a school, said at the family home decided that they want to engage hardline separatists warn, will Kashmir and the rest of the coun- 3,000 to one, to make a political the site of gun battles to thwart Hizb-ul Mujahideen, personi- in Tral in southern Kashmir. with the problem militarily, not be the further radicalisation of a try,” added Akhtar.”It will take point. eff orts to kill or capture the gun- fi es a new generation of militant A massive crackdown by secu- politically,” said Mirwais Umar generation already brutalised by time, but I think we are on course.” “They have guns in their men. BJP seeking to contain Congress in RS elections

IANS leader Kapil Sibal. He has been New Delhi nominated by the Congress, which can barely push one of its candidates, with each successful he ruling Bharatiya Janata candidate requiring 36 votes in Party is assured of win- the 403-member house. But the Tning at least 17 seats in the party only has 29 members. upcoming biennial elections to In Haryana, where the BJP 57 seats in the Rajya Sabha. does not have adequate numbers The party is seeking to win to get two candidates elected, some bonus seats with extra has nominated federal minister votes it has in fi ve of the 15 states Chaudhary Birender Singh as going to the polls on June 11. its candidate. With extra votes The BJP’s eff ort is not only in hand, the BJP has supported to increase its own numerical media baron Subhash Chandra, strength in the upper house of who has fi led nomination as an parliament where the govern- independent candidate for the ment lacks majority but also to second Rajya Sabha seat from ensure that the Congress is not the state. able to win any extra seat, ana- Senior lawyer R K Anand has lysts say, pointing out that sev- also fi led his nomination in Hary- An accused hugs his son before entering the court in Ahmedabad yesterday. eral key legislations, including ana as an independent candidate the GST Bill, are pending in the and has support of the main op- Rajya Sabha blocked by the Con- position Indian National Lok Dal. gress. In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP The BJP has announced the has nominated Anil Madhav names of 18 candidates from 14 Dave and M J Akbar as its two states so far among which it is as- candidates for the three vacant sured of winning 17 seats. Other seats. With an eye on the third than this, the ruling party is eye- seat, the party has fi elded Vinod Court convicts 24 in ing one seat each from Jharkhand, Gotiya, a state BJP offi ce bearer, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya as an independent candidate. Pradesh and Uttarakhand. This move of the BJP is seen In Jharkhand, where the BJP as a ploy to thwart the election is assured of federal minister of Congress candidate Vivek Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi being Tankha, who is short of one vote. elected, it has chosen its second A total of 58 votes are needed Gujarat massacre case nominee in Mahesh Poddar, an to win each Rajya Sabha seat from industrialist. Madhya Pradesh. While the BJP 36 acquitted for lack of But the latest verdicts are un- Muslim minority as victims stormed the Gulbarg Society, Rupa Mody, whose teenage Two of the six Rajya Sabha will safely win the fi rst two seats, evidence likely to have an impact on the have alleged. killing the Muslims who were son went missing during the seats in Jharkhand are falling the party will have 50 legislators premier who was cleared in 2012 “I am happy 24 accused were hiding there. massacre and whose body was vacant this time with BJP’s M J remaining for the third seat. Agencies by a Supreme Court-ordered convicted but sad that 36 others Among those killed was never found, said she was left Akbar and Congress’s Dheeraj With eight votes short for Ahmedabad investigation of any wrongdo- have been acquitted. This is in- former opposition Congress disappointed. Sahu completing their respec- Gotiya’s victory, the BJP is aim- ing. complete justice and I will fi ght Party MP Ehsan Jafri whose “After such a long wait I feel tive terms. ing to garner the support of Celebrations erupted in the till the end,” Zakia Jafri, whose wife, Zakia, claims that he re- this is half justice. I am sad Uttar Pradesh, where 12 can- Bahujan Samaj Party and inde- court yesterday con- courtroom in Ahmedabad amid husband was killed in the mas- peatedly called police for help that after 14 years of strug- didates are in the fray for 11 va- pendent members. victed 24 Hindus over tight security after the verdicts sacre, told reporters. but none came. gle 36 accused are free. We cant seats, the BJP will win one The BJP has 166 legislators A a massacre during reli- were read out, but some victims “We gave names, we identi- Zakia is fi ghting a separate le- will continue our struggle and easily. The party has named its while the Congress has 57. The gious riots 14 years ago when and their families were left dis- fi ed people, yet it took the po- gal battle demanding that Modi challenge the acquittals,” she state unit vice president Shiv BSP has four legislators. There Prime Minister Narendra appointed. lice, the courts, 15 years... It has and others be held responsible said. Pratap Shukla as its nominee. are also three independent Modi was chief minister of Judge P B Desai found 11 of been a long and hard journey, for failing to stop the riots. The trial into the massacre The BJP with 41 legislators members in the assembly. Gujarat. the Hindus guilty of murder and it is not over yet,” said the The violence was triggered by only began after the Supreme will need 37 votes to get its Rajya In Uttarakhand, where the Sixty-nine Muslims were and 13 of lesser charges, with all slain lawmaker’s son Tanvir Ja- the death of 59 Hindu pilgrims Court ordered in 2009 a rein- Sabha nominee through. With BJP’s move to dislodge the Har- hacked and burnt to death as of them set to be sentenced on fri. in a train fi re on February 27, vestigation into some of the four additional votes, the BJP ish Rawat government did not they sheltered at the Gulbarg Monday. Among those convicted 2002 that was initially blamed worst incidents of the riots. has supported independent can- pay off , it has not nominated Society residential complex in But Desai acquitted another are rightwing Vishwa Hindu on Muslims. But one year later the same didate Preeti Mohapatra, who is any candidate. However, its two Ahmedabad, in one of the single 36 people for lack of evidence Parishad leader Atul Vaidya. Hindus bent on revenge ram- court issued a stay on any fi- the wife of a Gujarati industri- leaders Gita Thakur and Anil worst massacres of the week- including a former local police More than 300 witnesses paged through Muslim neigh- nal verdict from the trial after alist considered close to Prime Goel have fi led nominations as long violence. inspector on negligence charges gave evidence during the years- bourhoods in some of India’s a petition was filed seeking a Minister Narendra Modi. independents against Pradeep The riots that left more than and Bipin Patel, a local organ- long trial that began in 2009 but worst religious riots. probe into whether Modi and The nomination of Mohapatra Tamta, the joint candidate of the 1,000 people dead in total have iser of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya was delayed by legal challenges More than 100 people have others played a role in the vio- was proposed by some BJP legis- Congress and Peoples Demo- long dogged Modi who was ac- Janata Party. and several of the original ac- already been convicted over the lence. lators, members of smaller par- cratic Front - the latter is sup- cused by human rights groups The judge also stated the cused died. riots, including one of Modi’s The court only lifted its ties and independents. The BJP’s porting the Rawat government of turning a blind eye to the massacre was a spontane- Prosecutors had been seek- former state ministers who was order last year when a lower move to support Mohapatra is in the state. The BJP has 28 leg- violence as chief minister of ous attack, not a pre-planned ing life in prison for all of the jailed for instigating some of the court upheld a rejection of the seen as a bid to stop Congress islators in the state. Gujarat. criminal conspiracy against the accused after a rampaging mob killings. petition.

India, US sign deal to boost energy Court defers hearing security, clean energy co-operation of legislator’s bail plea

IANS Access through Clean Energy ergy, petroleum and natural gas, IANS which remanded her in 14-day New Delhi (PEACE) expansion; energy ef- power and energy effi ciency, Patna judicial custody. fi ciency including space cool- sustainable development and She is currently lodged in the ing; renewable energy, energy the Partnership to Advance Gaya Central Jail, along with ndia and the US yesterday security, and accelerating in- Clean Energy-Research (PACE- he Patna High Court has her son Rocky Yadav who alleg- signed an agreement here novation on clean energy,” the R). deferred to Monday the edly shot dead on May 7 Aditya Ito enhance co-operation on statement added. During the Dialogue, it was Thearing of a bail appeal Sachdeva, the son of a business- energy security, clean energy At the India-US Ministe- also agreed to explore addition of of Janata Dal (United) legisla- man, for overtaking his SUV. and climate change, ahead of rial Energy Dialogue held in smart grids and energy storage tor Manorama Devi, who is Also lodged in the same jail Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Washington last September, for grid application as the fourth accused of sheltering her son is her husband Bindi Yadav, a Washington visit. co-chaired by Power Minis- stream under PACE-R. after he allegedly killed a teen- well-known criminal-poli- The Memorandum of Under- ter Piyush Goyal and US En- Discussions were also held in ager in Gaya district of Bihar. tician, who is also accused of standing was signed by Power ergy Secretary Ernest Moniz, the working groups on financ- Manorma Devi, a member of helping his son evade arrest. Secretary P K Pujari and US the ministers reviewed the ing of clean energy technol- the legislative council (MLC), The family’s palatial resi- ambassador Richard Verma, a progress made by the six work- ogy as well as on innovative on Tuesday fi led the appeal in dence is hardly half a kilometre statement here said. ing groups of the energy dia- financing for renewable energy the high court after a previous from the jail. The priority initiatives un- logue and identified new areas microfinance and micro enter- petition was rejected by the The fi rst information report der the MoU would be, among for co-operation. prises. Gaya district court in May. (FIR) also mentioned Teni Ya- others “US-India Energy smart The six working groups in- Modi will be in Washington She had evaded arrest for dav, a cousin of Rocky, who Cities Partnership; Greening clude groups on coal, new on a bilateral visit on June 7 Power Secretary P K Pujari and US ambassador Richard R Verma several days before surrender- surrendered on May 16 and was the Grid; Promoting Energy technology and renewable en- and 8. sign the MoU. ing on May 17 in the Gaya court remanded in judicial custody. Gulf Times 12 Friday, June 3, 2016 INDIA

INVESTMENT OFFBEAT POLITICS PROTEST MYSTERY Diplomats urged to Underprivileged youth Harsimrat attacks Rahul Police association Building collapses promote Karnataka become entrepreneurs on Amethi food park leader arrested after crude bomb blast

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Donning crisp aprons and trained by French Shiromani Akali Dal leader and federal Food Authorities yesterday arrested Karnataka state A non-operational Integrated Child Development yesterday invited seven senior Indian diplomats volunteers, young adults from underprivileged Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur police association leader V Shashidhar for Services (ICDS) building in West Bengal’s to be ambassadors of the state to promote it backgrounds are turning into entrepreneurs and Badal yesterday launched a veiled attack planning to spearhead a strike on June 4, in Birbhum district collapsed after a crude bomb at various international forums. “You are the taking charge of their life by serving up delectable on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi protest against exploitation, low pay and poor blast early yesterday, police said. “A side of the ambassadors and high commissioners of India. European fare at the one-of-a-kind restaurant- for “failure” to operationalise the Amethi working conditions. “A case has been registered Anganwadi building in Lokpur was damaged in While you proudly represent our great country school Cafe Toto in Kolkata. The restaurant-school Mega Food Park. “The mega food park was at Yelahanka New Town police station and the blast. The roof caved in and the structure at various forums, I call upon you also to be the is a collaboration between NGO Tomorrow’s sanctioned in 2010 but till 2014 he had not Karnataka police association president collapsed. No one was injured as there was ambassadors of Karnataka. Help us promote Foundation and the French NGO Life Project 4 ensured that even a single brick was laid,” Shahidhar has been arrested and presented nobody inside,” Birbhum district police chief our state, even as you promote our nation,” Youth (LP4Y). It was launched on April 29. “We Badal said. She said the “elected member of before local court which remanded him in Mukesh said. Local residents said the blast Siddaramiah said at a meeting in Bengaluru. are now training 14 youngsters aged between parliament” from Amethi could have done his judicial custody till June 16,” Bengaluru Police occurred between 1.30am and 2am. Mukesh said Siddaramiah also invited the senior diplomats 18-24 years in a one-year course divided into three part and ensured setting up of the park. The Commissioner N S Megharikh said. On Tuesday, debris from the blast has been collected and the to the next Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, to be held sections spanning five days a week, where they minister defended the decision to cancel the the Karnataka government had warned against matter is under investigation. “It is diff icult to say in January 2017. According to Siddaramaiah, learn English, IT skills, communication, personal park but added that following fresh requests, the planned agitation. Despite the warning, the how many crude bombs exploded. It seems as Karnataka is third among Indian states in skills and a micro-economic activity which in Uttar Pradesh may soon get a few mega food police association which includes a 60,000 if some anti-social elements had left them there. attracting FDI while its GDP grew at 7% to reach Toto’s case is cooking,” Constance, a volunteer parks as new proposals have already come in. constabulary force has decided to push ahead The remnants have been collected for further $120bn in 2015. from France who is the coach for the project, said. The state holds assembly elections next year. with their en masse leave tomorrow. probe,” Mukesh added.

Traditional festival Lotus ‘blooms’ Govt focus on in Kerala assembly IANS development Thiruvananthapuram

he ‘lotus’ fi nally bloomed on the fl oor of the Kerala Tassembly when 86-year- old veteran Bharatiya Janata Party of eastern leader O Rajagopal took oath as a legislator yesterday. The fi rst session of the 14th Kerala assembly opened yes- terday, and the day was devoted to the swearing-in of members. The two-day session ends today, states: Modi which has been kept for the elec- tion of the speaker. The prime minister says In the May 16 assembly poll, eastern are blessed with the Communist Party of India natural resources, but still (Marxist)-led Left Democratic people go to western states in Front won 91 seats, with the rival search of jobs Congress-led United Democratic Front ending up with 47. IANS CPM leader Pinarayi Vijayan, Bhubaneswar 72, was sworn in as chief minister along with 18 cabinet ministers on May 25. The LDF and UDF had rime Minister Narendra time and again claimed in their Modi yesterday said the poll campaign that the BJP would Pgovernment was empha- not win a single seat. sising on the development of the Yesterday morning, Rajag- economically backward eastern opal was the cynosure of all eyes states in a bid to wipe out poverty when along with party workers from the region. he paid tribute at the statues of “We don’t want any state or Vivekananda, Ayyankal and Mar- any region in the country to Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a BJP rally in Balasore tyrs Column and made a quick be devoid of development and district of Odisha yesterday. tour of his Nemom assembly change. In the western part of constituency. India, there is economic devel- intentions may have been right. set about gender equality must Rajagopal took his seat next to opment. But, why is there no I am not doubting that. But their change. “We are still diff erenti- former chief minister Oommen development in states like Bihar, path was wrong. As a result, pov- ating between son and daughter. Chandy in the front row. West Bengal, Odisha,” Modi said erty increased.” We are living in the 21st century, Watching him take the oath at a massive gathering at Bala- He said the earlier govern- but at times, our mentality is that was his state party president sore in Odisha. ments thought they were running of the 18th century,” he said. Kummanem Rajasekheran and He said Maharashtra, Gujarat, the country, but his government In order to empower the poor, other senior leaders of the BJP. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, was trying to provide governance he said the government has given “I will work as a responsible Chhattisgarh and Haryana were with people’s participation. loans to hundreds of thousands and constructive opposition leg- more developed than the eastern Highlighting the various of families to start business un- islator on the fl oor of the assem- states of Bihar, West Bengal, As- schemes launched by the central der Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yo- bly,” said Rajagopal. sam and Odisha. government, Modi said he was jna. He said the government was The 139 legislators of the as- He said states in the east in- in Odisha to present the balance committed to electrifying every sembly were sworn in by pro-tem cluding Odisha were blessed with sheet after two years in offi ce. village within 1,000 days. Speaker and senior CPM legisla- natural resources, but still people “Has any government come here “Our aim is to electrify 18,000 tor S Sarma. from the region go to western to present the balance sheet of villages in 1,000 days in the The legislators were sworn in states in search of jobs. governance in past years? I have country. Seven thousand villages according to the alphabetical or- “The states have abundant come here,” he said, adding that were connected with electricity der. The ruling LDF has named natural resources. Despite that the government was accountable within 300 days and our eff orts two-time legislator P Sreera- why is poverty still chasing us? for every paisa to the citizens of are on to connect the rest of the makrishnan as its candidate for Eastern India needs more de- the country. villages with power.” speaker, while the opposition velopment. And that is why all He said the death of mother Indirectly attacking the Biju Ja- UDF has decided to fi eld young our developmental plans have and child during delivery was nata Dal (BJD) government in Od- legislator V P Sajeendran as their emphasised on eastern states in- a cause of concern, adding the isha, he termed it “Soi Hoi Sarkar” candidate. cluding Odisha,” the prime min- government has launched several (government in deep slumber). Though the victory of Sreera- ister said. schemes to address the problem. “Wherever we are in power there makrishnan is a foregone conclu- In his address, Modi also took a He said Indra Dhanush Yojana is development, we are not in sion, all eyes are on the stand to jibe at the previous governments has been implemented for infant power in Odisha and you can see be taken by Rajagopal and seven- for failing to eradicate poverty in immunisation across the coun- the plight of the people here. BJP time legislator P C George, who A boy takes part in a race during a traditional annual horse racing festival in Bodhgulla village, the country. try. (Bharatiya Janata Party) is dedi- in the past was with the LDF and some 80km south of Kolkata yesterday. Some 40 horse owners from across the district “The previous governments Speaking on the Beti Bachao cated for development. BJP has UDF but this time won the polls participated in this traditional event. were shouting slogans of ‘Garibi Abhiyan (save the daughter initi- become synonymous with devel- as an independent candidate. Hatao’ (remove poverty). Their ative), Modi said people’s mind- opment,” said Modi. 16 die in Lucknow hospital Pranab in Shimla

as doctors go on strike IANS Shimla IANS decision to cancel their admis- based on the new criteria. Lucknow sions, made in April, for MD/ The strikers and protest- MS/diploma courses and make ers have stalled admissions resident Pranab Mukherjee was ac- fresh admissions by revising the through the revised merit list, corded a ceremonial reception yes- ixteen patients have died merit list of the UP Postgradu- demanding that the state gov- Pterday on his arrival in the Himachal at King George’s Medi- ate Medical Entrance Exam. ernment wait for the hearing of Pradesh capital on a six-day sojourn. Scal University (KGMU) in Those given admission in their review petition by the Su- He was given a guard of honour at the Lucknow since Tuesday after April had already started work- preme Court. Kalyani helipad near here where Gover- junior resident doctors went on ing from May 1 as junior resi- Those who are set to benefi t nor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Vir- strike in protest against revis- dent doctors. from the revised merit list, on bhadra Singh and his cabinet colleagues ing the criteria for admission to Some of them stand to lose the other hand, have blamed were present to receive him. post-graduate courses, sources their seats because of the gov- the government for not provid- Offi cial sources said Mukherjee would said yesterday. ernment decision which is ing them adequate security and stay at The Retreat, the president’s sum- More than 2,000 patients based on an interim order of allowing the disruption in the mer holiday resort, just 15km uphill from have been turned away by the Supreme Court that said conduct of admissions. Shimla where Congress president So- KGMU because of a shortage up to 30% of additional marks Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram nia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Vadra is of doctors and only very criti- weightage be given to doctors Naik on Wednesday requested building a cottage. cal patients were seen by senior who have served in rural areas. the striking doctors to come His daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee doctors, the sources said. The interim order of the top back to work on humanitarian accompanied the president. Two dozen surgeries sched- court, which aff ects over 300 grounds and had also asked the Mukherjee will also preside over the uled for Wednesday were post- MBBS graduates, came on May state government to break the convocation of the Indira Gandhi Medical poned, they said. 12. impasse. College and Hospital at Peterhoff , a herit- The junior resident doc- The government then can- MBBS graduates who join age hotel that was fi rst occupied in 1876 by tors and MBBS graduates at celled the old merit list and post-graduate courses like MD, the then Viceroy, Lord Lytton. KGMU are agitated over the admissions and published a MS and MDS are known as ‘jun- President Pranab Mukherjee is received by Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh on his arrival at Later in the evening, he will attend the Uttar Pradesh government’s revised merit list on May 27 ior resident doctors.’ Kalyani helipad in Shimla yesterday. state banquet at Raj Bhawan. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 13 LATIN AMERICA

Panama’s indigenous tribes launch drones to fi ght deforestation

Thomson Reuters Foundation covered with tropical rainfor- high resolution spatial images.” fi rst started using drones to ethnic tribes in Panama. Up to tools like drones to help them non-profi t organisation. Bogota est, home to various indigenous Indigenous people make up monitor their ancestral lands three representatives of each protect their forests is also one Across Latin America and the groups who rely on the forests nearly 13% of Panama’s popula- last year, the FAO said. tribe, including women, are way to reduce carbon dioxide Caribbean nearly 2mn hectares to survive. “The main objec- tion of 4mn, with about 200,000 The current FAO drone project trained to use drones, download emissions caused by deforesta- of rainforest disappear every ndigenous people in Panama tive of monitoring with drones living on autonomous tribal began in February and is being and interpret images, produce tion, the FAO said. year, largely due to illegal log- are using drones as a new is to identify changes in specifi c lands, known as comarcas. carried out through the UN’s Re- detailed maps and collect data. For Panama’s indigenous ging, the FAO says. Iweapon to monitor deforest- points of the forest cover,” the “These tools enable us to bet- ducing Emissions from Defor- The project’s fi rst drone fl ight groups, like others in the world, Since the 1980s Panama has in- ation on their lands as thousands UN Food and Agriculture Organ- ter know the forests’ character- estation and Forest Degradation was last month, the FAO said. forests are a key source of water and troduced legislation to protect in- of hectares disappear every year isation (FAO) said in a statement. istics and resources we have in Programme (UN-REDD), in part- Drones can be used year-round food. Panama loses about 20,000 digenous rights and land, including in one of the world’s most biodi- “The monitoring is carried our territories,” Eliseo Quintero, nership with Panama’s environ- and can also help indigenous hectares each year to deforesta- a 2008 law that gives indigenous verse rainforests, the United Na- out in areas under deforesta- a leader of the Ngabe-Bugle ment ministry and the non-gov- groups to monitor forest fi res, crop tion, according to the National As- communities living outside the tions said. tion and degradation pressure, tribe, said in a statement. ernmental Rainforest Foundation. harvests and water sources, it said. sociation for the Conservation of comarcas the right to request offi - More than half of Panama is which are only observable with Panama’s indigenous groups The project focuses on seven Giving indigenous groups Nature (ANCON), a Panamanian cial recognition of their lands. Mystery over Anger at food shortages Australian missing in Rio deepens

AFP been injured by (cuts from) sea Rio de Janeiro shells and said he had arrived on the island by swimming.” However, “we searched all ystery deepened over around the island... but found no the fate of an Austral- one,” she said. Mian backpacker who She said Hunt had been taking vanished 11 days ago in Rio de synthetic drugs and was suff er- Janeiro, with police fearing he ing a psychotic episode in which may have drowned swimming to he had become dangerously par- an uninhabited island while high anoid. on drugs. Hunt and a fellow Australian Rye Hunt’s May 21 disappear- backpacker been partying in Rio ance in Rio, host of the Olympic for several days, and the drugs Games this August, has baffl ed they were taking caused them to Brazilian police and his family, behave erratically, police said. which launched the #fi ndrye so- The pair went to the Rio’s cial media campaign to boost the Galeao International Airport to People argue with members of the National Guard as they try to line in front of a supermarket in Caracas yesterday. The oil-dependent nation faces severe food and search. try to fl y to Bolivia, the next stop medicine shortages. Police revealed that the on their tour of Latin America. 25-year-old from Tasmania was They had been meant to fl y last spotted by a fi sherman on days later and when they got to tiny, uninhabited Contunduba the airport they argued and sep- island near Rio’s famous Co- arated, police said. pacabana beach, which will host Hunt was seen on airport se- several Olympic events. curity footage, wearing a green Reports emerged in British Boston Celtics basketball shirt and Australian media outlets and a dark hat. that he had been found alive on He took a cab back to the city the island. alone and rented a short-let Venezuela’s Mercosur However, Rio police appeared apartment in Copacabana, a to deny this, saying in a state- tourist-friendly area. ment that they were “continu- The family said that “at ap- ing to work to try and locate the proximately (6.20pm) Rye left missing Australian citizen.” the apartment leaving a number The family issued a statement of personal items in the room saying it had not been given the including a laptop, travel bags, presidency ‘faces’ hurdle news from offi cial sources. a camera and a number of other “We are seeing the same re- items.” Reuters Under suspended Presi- taking what he called ideologi- of the Temer government’s ef- pend Venezuela from Mercosur. ports in the media — that Rye The apparent drug-fuelled Brasilia dent Dilma Rousseff and her cal stances driven by Rousseff ’s fort to open up Brazil’s econo- That would require invoking has been found. We have no con- swim took place soon after. predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula leftist Workers Party. my, one of the most closed in the Ushuaia Protocol, which fi rmation of this,” the statement However, police only got a phone da Silva, Brazil gave strong, al- Latin America because of high provides for the suspension of said. call from the fi sherman on Mon- he Brazilian government though recently quiet, support That move has yet to be tariff s and a lack of trade agree- a member country if there is a There was also criticism on day, more than a week after may help block Venezue- to Venezuela’s former president decided and has not been ments. breakdown in democratic order. the Find Rye Hunt page on Fa- Hunt’s disappearance. Tla from taking the rotat- Hugo Chavez and his successor discussed with other There are two ways Brazil Venezuela’s critics say that cebook about inaccurate news Although the search continues, ing presidency of the Mercosur Maduro, who took over when members of Mercosur, could try to block Venezuela is clearly happening as Maduro reports and “spin.” Souto indicated rescue services trade group this month, a move Chavez died in 2013. The pos- an aide to Brazil’s interim from taking over the Mercosur has threatened to suspend the The island sighting report already fear the worst. “We are it would make in part to prevent sible move against Venezuela President Michel Temer presidency, said the presidential National Assembly as the op- was a breakthrough in attempts monitoring ... all unidentifi ed, beleaguered Venezuelan leader would further pivot Brazil’s for- said aide, who requested anonymity position calls for a recall refer- to unravel the mystery, but the unclaimed corpses,” she said. Nicolas Maduro from strength- eign policy to the right under because plans were preliminary. endum on his presidency. news was not necessarily good, Hunt’s uncle and his partner ening his grip on power. Temer. Serra also wants to see Brazil Brazil could work to cancel or Paraguay last week asked for police cautioned. were due to arrive soon from That move has yet to be de- Temer’s Foreign Minister freed from the Mercosur rule delay the meeting this month, an emergency Mercosur meet- Offi cer Ellen Souto said in a Australia to meet Brazilian police cided and has not been discussed Jose Serra has said he wants banning members from signing which would temporarily keep ing, scheduled for next week, to televised press conference that and consular offi cials, the family with other members of Merco- to focus Brazil’s foreign policy bilateral trade deals unless all Uruguay at the head of the trade discuss the political situation in the fi sherman who briefl y saw said in a statement on their Fa- sur, an aide to Brazil’s interim more on trade with the US and members agree. bloc. Or it could try to win the Venezuela and consider a possi- Hunt said the backpacker “had cebook page. President Michel Temer said. the European Union and less on That rule stands in the way votes of other members to sus- ble suspension. Fujimori in the lead as Three die in prison riot Brazil recovery on track: Temer aide

Peru prepares to vote Reuters the end of July, before Brazil’s Brasilia holds the Olympic Games in August. Reuters despite her repeated promises Kuczynski’s technocratic style. “I am not worried about the Lima to respect the democratic insti- “As an economist he’s used to nterim President Michel impeachment vote, but we tutions he trampled before his numbers and can be frigid in that Temer’s eff orts to bring Bra- have to work hard to make sure government collapsed in a vast sense,” said Kuczynski’s running Izil out of its worst economic the economy starts to grow ess than a decade af- corruption scandal in 2000. mate Martin Vizcarra, a former recession since the 1930s are again, which appears to be the ter Peru imprisoned its Alberto Fujimori, the son of governor of a copper-mining re- going ahead as planned despite case,” Padilha said. The Temer Lformer president Alberto Japanese immigrants, is serving gion in southern Peru. the loss of two ministers to a plan to revive the economy Fujimori, voters will decide a 25-year sentence for graft and Kuczynski is one of the few corruption scandal, his chief of includes a ceiling on public on Sunday whether to put his human rights abuses committed high-profi le politicians in the staff said yesterday. spending, a reduced role for 41-year-old daughter back in during a crackdown on a bloody global minerals exporter unbur- Presidential chief of staff the state and more room for the presidential palace where leftist insurgency. dened by corruption and money Eliseu Padilha said in an in- private investment. she once served as his fi rst lady. “Voting for Fujimori would be laundering allegations. terview that the government Latin America’s largest econ- Keiko Fujimori has a fi ve per- legitimising the dictatorship,” While he is widely viewed as enjoys a solid two-thirds ma- omy shrank for a fi fth straight centage point lead over her rival said Eduardo Leon, a 34-year- honest and experienced, he is jority in both chambers of quarter in early 2016 as political Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ahead of old restaurant owner who plans seen as less supportive than Fuji- Congress to push through turmoil and the sweeping cor- the run-off vote, helped by her to vote for Kuczynski. mori of the social safety network legislation needed to plug ruption scandal centered on tough stance on crime and years Both candidates are free- that millions of poor Peruvians the record defi cit it inherited Petrobras weighed on activ- of campaigning in poor villages market champions who defeated rely on despite nearly two dec- 20 days ago from suspended ity. Gross domestic product fell in the populist style of her right- leftist rivals in a crowded April ades of robust economic growth. President Dilma Rousseff . 5.4% from a year earlier and un- wing father. 10 fi rst-round vote as Peru rein- Fujimori has also eclipsed him Padilha said the Temer gov- employment has hit 11.2%. But with pollster Ipsos esti- forced the recent trend of South with her iron-fi st approach to ernment is very confi dent the Within the space of one mating a fi fth of voters tend to American countries turning the leading voter concern, crime, senate will vote to convict Rous- week, Temer had to drop Plan- remain undecided until election away from left-wing policies. by backing a proposal to declare seff for breaking budget laws in ning Minister Romero Juca, day, Kuczynski, a 77-year-old Fujimori’s brand of popu- a state of emergency in Lima af- an impeachment trial, and it a key fi gure in getting aus- former investment banker, could list conservatism is rooted in ter a wave of homicides. hopes this will happen as quick- terity measures approved by stage a late surge. her father’s decade-long rule She also supports the death Police watch as relatives of inmates gather outside the Topo ly as possible to remove any Congress, and the minister in It is Fujimori’s second bid to when a bloody leftist insur- penalty for rapists of children Chico prison in the northern city of Monterrey in Mexico doubt about Temer’s legitimacy. charge of fi ghting corruption, become Peru’s fi rst female presi- gency was quashed and new and has vowed to build pris- yesterday. At least three people died in a riot in a Mexican “The government will then Fabiano Silveira, after leaked dent. Her critics fear a return to schools and roads were brought ons high in the Andes to isolate prison where 49 inmates were killed in a massive brawl four have more political authority recordings suggested they had the days when her father ruled to far-flung towns. That dangerous criminals, a proposal months ago, authorities said. to act,” Padilha said. He hoped tried to derail the Petrobras in- the Andean nation by decree, stands in stark contrast with Kuczynski dubbed “cruel.” the vote could come as soon as vestigation. Gulf Times 14 Friday, June 3, 2016 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

Storms kill 34 in Pakistan, snap power lines CM seeks help to bring back DPA prolonged power outages, per hour, he added. said Bilal Ahmed Faizi, ing a 12-hour power breakdown same region killed 44 people, Islamabad officials said. At least 16 people died in spokesman for the provincial in parts of the province, Faizi prompting the government In Islamabad, 10 deaths were Rawalpindi near the capital and added. to warn that more needed Pakistani boy reported and more than 50 peo- around 65 hospitalised, rescue “It should serve as an eye The meteorological depart- to be done to tackle climate trong thunderstorms ple were injured, police offi cial offi cial Farooq Butt said. opener for policy makers” ment in Islamabad predicted change. hit the Pakistani capi- Saqib Mehmoud said. Eight people died in the more storms and heavy rains in “It should serve as an eye from India S tal and adjacent re- Most victims were hit by fall- north-western province of Khy- rescue agency. the north-western region yes- opener for policy makers,” me- gions on Wednesday night, ing trees and signboards, with ber-Pakhtunkhwa and up to 30 The storm uprooted electric- terday. teorological offi cial Mohamed killing 34 people and causing winds gusting around 150km were being treated for injuries, ity pools in many areas, caus- A storm last year in the Hanif said at the time. Internews Islamabad

hyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Pakistan Peacekeepers Day Minister Pervez Khattak Khas asked the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs to contact the In- dian authorities and help reunite Militants kidnap the missing child from the prov- ince’s Charsadda district with his family. On the recommendation of the Special Assistant on Infor- mation and Public Relations 17 Hazaras in Mushtaq Ghani, Khattak has written to the Foreign Offi ce that the seven-year-old Tufail Ismail, son of Zafar Ali, of Char- sadda, who went missing on June 6, 2014, has been seen on social Afghanistan media to be in the Indian Rajas- than and his details as per media Reuters in the area was detained by Af- for the mass killing of Hazaras reports can be collected from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan ghan forces during a clash. in the 1990s but the militants, Ganga Nagar Police Station. “The Taliban may have ab- fi ghting to oust the Western- A police report in respect of ducted the passengers to ex- backed government of Presi- the disappearance of the child unmen have kidnapped change them with their local dent Ashraf Ghani, have largely was already registered in Prang 17 members of Afghani- commander,” Rahmani said. avoided targeting Shia Muslims police station in Charsadda but Gstan’s Hazara commu- A series of kidnappings over recent years. the family seemed to be poor and nity, offi cials said yesterday, the against the mainly Shia ethnic A rise in Afghanistan in the might fi nd themselves helpless latest incident involving mem- Hazaras last year fuelled fears number of militants claiming United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during Pakistani Peacekeepers Day, at to reach their child in faraway bers of the Shia Muslim minority that the community was be- allegiance to the Islamic State, a the UN headquarters in New York, on June 1, as Maleeha Lodhi, Permanent Representative of India. highlighting the risk of sectarian ing targeted in a country long hard-line Sunni movement that Pakistan to the United Nations, looks on. Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday expressed his outrage at However, the chief minister violence. divided by ethnic and political emphasises purging Shias, and is terrorist attacks against the United Nations in Mali’s city of Gao, which killed one Chinese said that it was the duty of the The men were abducted on rivalries. a rival to the Taliban, may change peacekeeper and injured a dozen UN personnel. government to help reunite the Wednesday afternoon from a The Taliban were responsible that. child with his family. He has also bus in the northern province of directed the local civil adminis- Sar-i-Pul, with offi cials blaming Militants kill three aid workers in Afghanistan tration to remain in touch with Taliban militants. the said family. “The passengers, all our Haz- The anti-government armed Humanitarian Assistance, ara brothers, were travelling to- militants have killed at according to Khaama Press. HEALTH wards the city centre when their least three aid workers in He said the victims included US military sees Afghan talks van was stopped by the Taliban northern Parwan province of two men and a woman who New law to ban and taken away,” said Zabihullah Afghanistan. were deployed to Sheikh use of tobacco Amani, spokesman for the pro- According to the local Ali district for humanitarian with new Taliban leader unlikely vincial governor. government off icials, the three assistance project. at public places “We have launched an op- aid workers were shot dead by Sami further added that the eration to free them but it didn’t the militants after their vehicle militants managed to flee the Reuters lah Akhtar Mansour, in a drone has publicly said it still sup- The government in Pakistan’s Khy- help, so now the elders are trying was stopped in Sheikh Ali area after opening fire on the Washington strike in Pakistan. ports Afghanistan in ending ber Pakhtunkhwa province has to free them,” Amani added, re- district. aid workers. “I don’t believe that we will the confl ict through a peace prepared a draft law to prohibit ferring to village leaders. The district administrative chief No group including the Taliban see peace talks any time in and reconciliation process with use of tobacco at public places, Mohamed Noor Rahmani, Noor Aqa Sami has confirmed militants has so far claimed US military spokesman the short-term with Mullah the Taliban. its sale near educational institutes head of the provincial council, that the three aid workers responsibility behind the said on Wednesday that Haibatullah,” US Army Briga- Akhundzada, however, has and promotional activities by said the kidnapping happened a were serving with the Focus incident so far. Atalks with the Afghan dier General Charles Cleve- vowed, in an audio recording, the manufactures to safeguard day after a Taliban commander Taliban on ending the war in land, a spokesman for US that there will be no return to non-smokers against its potential Afghanistan are unlikely any forces in Afghanistan, said in a peace talks. eff ects on health. time soon after the militant media briefi ng. Cleveland said that while The draft bill, submitted to the Pak president opposes military solution to Afghan conflict group chose a conservative US offi cials say that the Akhundzada was “not really a provincial assembly for approval, religious scholar as its new hardline Akhundzada has lit- military guy, and really not a seeks ban on tobacco advertise- Pakistan’s President Mamnoon based Afghan representatives to the Quadrilateral Co-ordination leader. tle incentive to negotiate, with money guy,” he should not be ments in all forms including Hussain has said there was no Islamabad in late April to discuss Group of Afghanistan - China, It was the first time that the Taliban making steady bat- underestimated. sponsorship, sampling, display military solution to the problem prospects for peace talks. Pakistan, the US and Afghani- an American military official tlefi eld gains against Afghan The general added that while audio, visual and uses of brand in Afghanistan and emphasised However, the Afghan govern- stan - to facilitate talks between has publicly voiced doubts security forces and the Obama he was not optimistic about names, stickers, symbol, logos and the need for political dialogue to ment also did not sent its delega- the Afghan government and the that US President Barack administration still aiming to senior Taliban leaders joining colours on non-tobacco merchan- resolve the issue. tion following the April 19 deadly Taliban. Obama will realize a key for- withdraw more US forces from negotiations, there is hope that dise to reduce its consumption His comments at the opening of attack in Kabul. “Although some recent incidents eign policy goal of bringing Afghanistan. lower level Taliban members and enable the people to live a parliament session came amid “Peace and stability in Afghani- in Afghanistan have hindered this the Afghan Taliban to the While the Pakistani military, would engage in talks. healthy life. increased violence in Afghani- stan is imperative for peace in process, we are still confident that negotiating table after years widely regarded as the Afghan The Quadrilateral Co-ordi- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prohibi- stan after the Taliban refused the region. This objective can these eff orts will succeed,” the of war before he leaves office Taliban’s patron, publicly sup- nation Group, made up of of- tion of Smoking/Tobacco Products to join the peace talks and be achieved through reconcili- Pakistani president said. Senior in January. ports peace talks, it has done fi cials from Afghanistan, Pa- and Protection of Non-Smokers launched their annual fighting ation among the stakeholders diplomats from the QCG group Last week, the Afghan Tali- little to bring the insurgents to kistan, the United States and Health Bill, 2016 embodies penal- season last month, Xinhua news and there is no military solution met in Islamabad last month and ban selected Mullah Haibatul- the negotiating table, the US China, has been trying to fa- ties, including fine and jail. The law agency reported. to this problem,” Hussain told agreed that “negotiations remain lah Akhundzada as their new offi cials and independent ex- cilitate direct talks between the is aimed at applying brakes on the Pakistan encouraged the Taliban parliament. the sole option for a political set- leader after the United States perts say. Afghan government and the promotional tactics pursued by to send a delegation of its Qatar- He also referred to the eff orts by tlement in Afghanistan”. killed their former chief, Mul- The US State Department Taliban. owners of tobacco industry. How to spot a militant: Pakistani army removes roofs

AFP erwise intact, their interiors ex- “Rs400,000 is not a suffi cient Shakai, Pakistan posed to the elements, though it amount even to build one room,” was unclear how many had been said Haji Mohamed, 55, a tribal removed by the military and how elder from Makeen. ouse after house fl icks by many had been damaged by the “My family, especially wom- hundreds of feet beneath weather and fi ghting. en, are anxiously waiting to go Ha military helicopter, The Rah-e-Nijat operation back but it may not be possible,” many distinguished by one ar- was launched by the military he said. resting feature: their roofs have against the Tehreek-e-Taliban When asked if the funds al- been removed by the army to al- Pakistan (TTP) and its then- located were enough to rebuild a low an “aerial view” of militants leader Baitullah Mehsud in house, development head Imran who may take refuge there. 2009, displacing more than said: “I can’t answer to the ques- South Waziristan was once 72,000 families, according to the tion.” a stronghold of the Pakistani military. A senior military offi cial told Taliban, where the extremists Seven years later, some 42,000 AFP some $285mn is needed to operated with impunity, but the families have been sent back, tackle reconstruction in FATA, military says the region in the head of development Colonel but the government has so far country’s mountainous north- Muhammad Imran told journal- released only $48mn, with west has been cleared of its last ists during a briefi ng earlier this $12.5mn of that distributed to militant stronghold. month in Shakai town, with an- displaced families. Now the district, part of Pa- other 30,000 expected by the Mohamed Aslam, from Kan- kistan’s Federally Administered end of 2016. igurm, said the security situa- Tribal Areas (FATA) on the bor- Pakistani authorities have re- tion was “peaceful” and “under der with Afghanistan, is wel- built roads, constructed health complete control of the military”. coming thousands of displaced facilities and schools and rein- But only two rooms in his families back to their homes, forced the water supply in vil- three-story house are still many of which no longer off er lages in the area. standing, he said - adding that shelter. “We are trying to make all the he and the 20 members of his Some were damaged by facilities available for IDPs (in- extended family are “lucky” to weather, said a military of- ternally displaced people) before have that much. fi cial who fl ew with media on their return,” Imran said. The 32-year-old told AFP the army-controlled helicopter But the lack of shelter, resi- $15,000 in compensation would trip earlier this month over the dents warn, will be a serious is- be enough for the average home. towns of Makeen, Ladha and sue. In neighbouring North Kanigurm. Traditionally roofs in South Waziristan, resident Malik But not all. “(The) military has Waziristan are built of wood Mohamed Ghulam said “the removed the roofs of the houses and iron sheets to hold off heavy majority of the houses” in the to have a better aerial view and winter snows, but from the heli- region’s administrative head- stop militants taking refuge in copter hundreds could be seen quarters Miranshah had been these abundant, fort-like mud with their wooden skeletons demolished. houses,” the offi cial told report- bared and interiors exposed. “Authorities implement cur- ers. The government says it is few from 7pm to 7am...we can- From the helicopter, journal- providing up to Rs400,000 not even go to the market.(They) ists could see scores of homes ($4,000) to families for the re- tell us not to leave the compound In this photograph taken from a Pakistani army helicopter on May 20, 2016, empty houses whose roofs have been removed by the army with no roofs but appearing oth- building of their homes. of our house.” during an operation are seen in the South Waziristan tribal district on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 15 PHILIPPINES Warming of Philippines, China ties ‘possible’

By Manila Times “China and the Philip- Manila pines properly handling dis- putes through direct dialogue and consultations is helpful for ncoming president Rodrigo breaking a deadlock in the bi- Duterte may be the key to lateral relations in recent years,” Ithe thawing of frosty ties be- Wang added. tween the Philippines and Chi- He was in Ottawa for meetings na, analysts said yesterday. with his counterpart Stephane Professor Jay Batongbakal, Dion and Canadian Prime Min- director of the University of the ister Justin Trudeau. Philippines’ Institute for Mari- Duterte on Tuesday described time Aff airs and Law of the Sea, Xi as “a great president,” in a hint said a recent exchange of friend- that frosty relations between the ly remarks between the coun- Asian neighbours could soon tries’ leaders ushers in the pos- warm. sibility of better ties. With a ruling expected in the “At this point, it’s really coming weeks, the Philippines’ too early to tell. But of course, response will probably be left to there’s a possibility given that Duterte, who takes offi ce on June Duterte agrees to what China is 30. asking for,” he said. Unlike Aquino, the incom- Professor Richard Javad Hey- ing Philippine president has ex- darian of the De La Salle Univer- pressed willingness to engage sity, said China is warming up to China in bilateral talks on the Duterte’s friendly overtures. issue. “Clearly the incoming admin- He, however, has also played istration is exploring ways to re- to Filipinos’ nationalist senti- store frayed relations with China ment by saying he would ride a Philippines’ president-elect Rodrigo Duterte speaks to journalists in Davao City yesterday. to pave the way for improved jet ski to plant a Philippine fl ag bilateral investment ties and a on the disputed islands in the mutually satisfactory modus South China Sea. vivendi in the west Philippine In Beijing, China’s for- Sea. We already see that China, eign ministry spokesman Hua reportedly after Duterte met the Chunying hailed Yasay for his Chinese ambassador, has relaxed recent conciliatory note that its restriction on Filipino fi sher- tensions in the West Philippine Can’t protect journalists men traversing the Scarborough Sea can only be eased if Manila Shoal area as a gesture of (sup- holds bilateral talks with Beijing. posed) good will to the incom- “I don’t think there is any oth- ing Duterte government, which er way of resolving this except has signalled less dependence on talking to each other,” Yasay said America and more engagement in an interview earlier this week. with China,” Heydarian said. Hua said “the Chinese side from killers, says Duterte Duterte had described Chi- welcomes the remarks by Yasay” nese President Xi Jinping a great and urged the new Philippine AFP terte told a late-night news con- organisations outraged by his intent on stopping a rival’s elec- Duterte has named Salvador leader, while incoming Foreign government to work with China Davao, Philippines ference yesterday in his southern seeming rationalisation of the tion challenge. Panelo, the former defence law- Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said to properly deal with the fester- hometown of Davao. country’s many media mur- More than 100 people are on yer for the Ampatuans, as his recently the maritime dispute ing sea row. “It’s like soldiering. If you ders. trial for the massacre, including presidential spokesman, a nom- between the two countries may She noted that the two coun- ncoming Philippine presi- join the army, there is always a “You know guys you think too many members of the Ampatuan ination criticised by the victims’ be resolved through bilateral tries have agreed in meetings dent Rodrigo Duterte yes- chance that when you go out to- much of your yourselves,” he family accused of orchestrating families and journalism organi- talks. and political documents to Iterday warned journalists day for a patrol, you get into (a said. it. sations. Duterte’s policy on China veers peacefully resolve the maritime he would be unable to guar- fi refi ght and) you’re killed.” Duterte said he knew three from the stance of the Aquino dispute through direct and bilat- antee their safety, brushing Duterte won this month’s kinds of journalists. They in- US expects to continue strong Manila alliance administration, which ruled out eral talks. off criticism over his previous elections by a landslide largely clude those who tell the truth bilateral talks after fi ling a protest Such agreement, Hua said, comments that murdered cor- due to an explosive law-and-or- and “do not accept money”, the The United States expects Washington took its treaty at an international arbitral tribu- was also outlined in the Declara- rupt reporters deserved their der platform in which he pledged “mouthpieces” or publicists of to maintain its strong alliance with the Philippines nal questioning Beijing’s claim on tion on the Conduct of Parties in fate. to end crime within six months vested interests including busi- security relationship with “very seriously.” “It’s long almost the entire West Philippine the South China Sea (DOC). Duterte had said on Tuesday by killing tens of thousands of nessmen and politicians, and the Philippines, including a standing, it is, we say, ironclad,” Sea (South China Sea). “It is hoped that the new gov- there was justifi cation for killing suspected criminals. “the low-life journalists” who recent accord on the rotational he told reporters. “They have a Chinese Foreign Minister ernment of the Philippines will journalists who took bribes or The politician, who gener- extort money or get paid by stationing of US forces, US new government there and we Wang Yi said in Canada he wel- abide by the relevant consen- engaged in other corrupt activi- ously spices up his talk with ex- criminal gangs. off icials said yesterday, despite look forward to working with comed a possible warming of re- sus and commitment, return to ties, touching off fears this could pletives, has launched a series Duterte said his government, signals from the incoming them, talking with them about lations with the Philippines. the track of bilateral dialogue, incite more murders of media of post-election tirades against which starts its six-year term on Philippine president that he our alliance, about security Speaking after Duterte heaped work with China to properly deal workers. criminals and repeated his vows June 30, wished to protect those will chart a more independent aff airs in the region.” Asked praise on Chinese President Xi with the relevant diff erences and The Philippines is one of the to kill them - particularly drug journalists who were true to the course. US Defence Secretary about an Enhanced Defence Co- Jinping, Wang Yi told a news strive for the sound and steady most dangerous nations in the traffi ckers, rapists and murder- ideals of their profession. Ash Carter, speaking en route operation Agreement (EDCA) conference in Ottawa that “the development of bilateral rela- world for journalists, with 174 ers. However, he said he could not to a security conference in he signed in Manila weeks ago door of dialogue between China tions,” she added. murdered since a chaotic and Duterte’s threats were backed aff ord to assign security to each Singapore at which a case giving the US rotational access and the Philippines is always Outgoing Foreign Aff airs Sec- corruption-plagued democracy by his rule in Davao, where he and every one of them. over disputed South China to five bases in the Philippines, open.” retary Jose Almendras agreed replaced the dictatorship of Fer- has been accused of running One of the world’s deadliest Sea territory brought by Carter replied: “Our plans for “If the Philippines sincerely that the Philippines and China dinand Marcos three decades or tolerating death squads that attacks against journalists took the previous Philippine EDCA and implementation are wants to come back to the track can settle their long-standing ago. killed more than 1,000 suspects. place in the Philippines in 2009, government against China on track; we haven’t changed of dialogue and negotiations, we maritime row through arbitra- “I cannot protect all journal- Yesterday he rejected criti- when 32 journalists were among will be a key talking point, said our plans at all.” welcome that,” he said. tion. ists all over the Philippines,” Du- cism by local and foreign news 58 people killed by a warlord clan President-elect faces Exiled rebel chief hopes to return home

fl ak for wolf whistle AFP Sison, now 77, fl ed to Europe Manila soon after Philippine peace talks failed in 1987 and has stayed AFP in so many levels,” husband groups WeDpro, said Duterte’s abroad since, while the insur- Manila Raff y Tima wrote. “Some wolf whistling was a form of he leader of the Philip- gency continued to claim thou- jokes are funny and should be sexual harassment. “Catcalling pines’ communist insur- sands of lives. laughed at but disrespecting treats women as sex objects... Tgency yesterday said he Duterte has maintained ties hilippine president-elect women is defi nitely not one of some say it’s a way of being expects to end nearly 30 years in with Sison, his former university Rodrigo Duterte was yes- them.” cute but it’s wrong,” Santos exile by returning from Europe to professor, while the latter has Pterday accused of sexual Duterte has previously been said. Manila as early as next month. lived in exile in the Netherlands. harassment and disrespecting criticised for comments about Duterte and his aides have While running for offi ce last Sison said his homecoming women after wolf whistling a women. On the campaign trail repeatedly said such contro- month, Rodrigo Duterte, now was contingent on the Oslo talks female journalist on a nation- he made a joke about wanting versial comments and actions the newly-elected president, producing a ceasefi re, as well as ally televised press conference. to rape a “beautiful” Austral- should not be taken too seri- said Jose Maria Sison, the rebel Duterte releasing jailed com- Duterte, 71, interrupted a ian missionary who had been ously: that he is a straight- leader and Communist Party of rades, which the rebel group said question from television re- sexually assaulted and mur- talker and an authentic charac- the Philippines founder, would currently numbered 543. porter Mariz Umali on Tuesday dered in a 1989 prison riot in ter who likes to joke and speak be welcome to return home to Duterte, 71, whose govern- night about his Cabinet ap- his hometown of Davao. When the language of the streets. participate in peace talks. ment will offi cially begin its term pointees with a light-hearted his daughter reacted to those His spokesman Salvador The comments raised hopes on June 30, has named two allies comment about her trying to comments by revealing she had Panelo said yesterday that of ending the 47-year-old in- of the rebel group as prospec- get his attention, then wolf been raped, Duterte described women should consider the surgency, one of Asia’s longest, tive members of his Cabinet, and whistling and breaking into a her in jest as a “drama queen”. president-elect’s wolf whis- which has claimed an estimated pledged to free ailing or ageing short serenade. Duterte dismissed the criticism tling as a compliment and a 30,000 lives since the 1960s. communist rebels ahead of for- Umali continued trying to at a fresh news conference late sign of “fondness”. “I want to visit (Manila) in July mal peace talks. ask her question as Duterte yesterday, saying wolf whis- Supporters also point to his or August to hold serious talks Sison warned the rebels will smiled and some other report- tling was “not a sexual thing”. pro-women policies in Davao, with President Duterte,” said continue their attacks against ers laughed. “There has to be sexual un- which he has ruled as mayor for Sison, who now styles himself government forces until a cease- In an interview with her dertones but if I am just whis- most of the past two decades. as a consultant for the rebels’ fi re is struck. GMA network yesterday, Umali tling, that kind of (criticism) However Duterte’s jokes negotiating body, the National The communists’ armed wing, described his remarks as “im- is intruding into freedom of sent messages to society, ac- Democratic Front. the New People’s Army, is be- proper”. While Umali said she expression,” he added. Duterte cording to Elizabeth Angsioco, Sison, speaking to Manila re- lieved to have fewer than 4,000 would not ask for an apology had signed a local women’s national chair of the Demo- porters at a news conference via gunmen, down from a peak of and sought not to infl ame the rights ordinance in 1997 which cratic Socialist Women of the Skype, added that the Philippine 26,000 in the 1980s, according controversy, her journalist classifi ed whistling at women Philippines. government and rebel emissaries to the military. husband took to Facebook to as sexual harassment in Davao. “His words and actions rein- were set to meet in Norway from However it retains support criticise Duterte. Aida Santos, president of force looking at women as sec- Jose Maria Sison (on screen) answers questions from journalists mid-June to lay the groundwork among the deeply poor in rural “Catcalling my wife is wrong Manila-based women’s rights ond-class citizens,” she said. during a press conference in Manila yesterday. for formal peace talks. areas. Gulf Times 16 Friday, June 3, 2016 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Sri Lanka to gradually ban maids abroad amid abuses

Reuters tures for foreign employment Colombo declined by 12.4% last year to 263,307, partly due to the slowdown of economic activi- ri Lanka will gradu- ties in the Middle East. ally stop sending house- Sri Lanka is already en- Smaids abroad, mainly to couraging sending skilled the Middle East, due to rights male workers abroad instead abuses, social costs and a local of low-skilled females and labour shortage, government housemaids. spokesman Rajitha Senaratne In 2013, around 1,650 Sri said on Wednesday. Lankan housemaids com- Sri Lanka’s expatriate work- plained of being physically ers, mainly housemaids and and sexually abused by their unskilled labourers, send back employers mainly in the Mid- remittances - the island na- dle East, the latest data from tion’s main foreign exchange the Foreign Employment Bu- earner - that help earn around reau showed. $7bn a year for the $82.2bn In 2013, the Saudis behead- economy. ed a young Sri Lankan house- Senaratne said President maid for killing an infant left Maithripala Sirisena had ap- in her care, rejecting repeated pointed a committee to study appeals by the island nation strategies to reduce the num- against her death sentence. bers gradually and fi nally stop Colombo recalled its am- sending maids abroad. bassador from Riyadh in pro- “We want to discourage the test. housemaids category in the After their Sri Lankan maid Bangladesh’s Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is seen on television during his unveiling of the annual budget in parliament as a Bangladeshi man browses TV channels in foreign employment because complained of too much work Dhaka yesterday. the social cost is very high,” he in 2010, a Saudi couple tor- told Reuters. tured her by hammering 24 Human rights abuses and nails into her hands, legs and social costs due to rapes, drug forehead. addiction and child abuse in The maid returned home. many families of housemaids, Last year, however, Sau- and labour shortage locally, di authorities reduced a Sri have prompted the govern- Lankan maid’s sentence for ment to take such a decision, adultery from death by ston- Bangladesh cuts taxes he said. ing to a three-year jail term The total number of depar- after an appeal.

India gifts cycles to Nepal girl students The Indian government bicycles to the poor students for garments industry has gifted 2,000 bicycles was aimed at enhancing the to poor Dalit girls studying literacy rate among girls in Nepal Finance Minister Muhith uct) growth is expected to edge the jobs market every year. garment) sector from 35 % to 20 The minister said the econ- in government schools in and also to encourage girls unveils $43bn budget up to 7.05 % this fi scal year,” Fi- Muhith said the garment in- %.” omy would expand by 7.2% in Banke, Siraha, Dhanusha and from such families to enrol in nance Minister A M A Muhith dustry - which has continued to Bangladesh exported more 2016-17 off the back of increased Sarlahi districts of Nepal to schools, the embassy said. The AFP told lawmakers as he unveiled thrive despite recent deadly dis- than $26bn worth of garments spending in infrastructure and stem the dropout rate. These government of India extended a Dhaka the budget. asters and political strife - was and clothing in 2015, with in- the energy sector and a hike in bicycles were handed over financial assistance of Rs8 crore Although a quarter of its crucial to the prospects of keep- creased orders from Western private investment. during functions organised under its Small Development 160mn people still live below ing growth ticking along and retailers such as Walmart and In the last few years, Prime in the respective districts by Project scheme. The literacy angladesh yesterday un- the poverty level, Bangladesh generating employment. H&M fuelling a rise in shipments Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gov- senior Indian embassy off icials, rate in various districts of the veiled plans to cut taxes has registered annual growth of “Acknowledging this, Bang- of around 10%. ernment has led a major drive to including Deputy Chief of Nepali Terai is low and the region Bfor the crucial garment around 6% in nearly every year ladesh government is providing Muhith said budgetary spend- construct bridges, roads, power Mission Vinay Kumar. Students requires special attention in industry as it unveiled a whop- since the turn of the millennium. substantial tax benefi ts to this ing for the fi nancial year begin- plants and ports. in the Terai region of Nepal the fields of basic education, ping $43bn budget and targeted But the World Bank sector,” he said. ning in July would be 3.406tn Muhith also announced an ex- mostly pedal to schools since community awareness and growth of more than 7% for the says it needs at least 8% “As part of our continued taka ($43.3bn), an increase of pansion of VAT and plans to pay bicycles are an aff ordable means women empowerment, the second year running. growth to provide work for support, I propose to reduce the nearly 30% on the previous 12 pensions to staff in the private of conveyance. The gifting of mission said. “GDP (Gross Domestic Prod- the 2mn people who enter tax rate of the RMG (ready made months. sector for the fi rst time.

Monks hold Sufi s live in fear after prayers for machete slaughter landslide

AFP victims Dhaka

AFP ach time he hears of the Kegalle, Sri Lanka latest deadly machete at- Etack, Ashraful Islam can’t help but think of his father’s ri Lankan Buddhist monks gruesome murder and fear his held funeral prayers yes- fellow Sufi Muslims will never Sterday for more than 100 be safe again in Bangladesh. villagers buried in a landslide “The killings are not declin- two weeks ago, as rescuers for- ing, they’re getting worse. And mally ended the search for their every one reminds me what bodies. happened to my father,” said In a solemn ceremony near the the 30-year-old medical stu- A decorated gate is seen in front of a Sufi’s house in Dhaka side of the collapsed mountain dent. where nearly 100,000 Sufis are expected to attend an annual northeast of Colombo, dozens of “I’ve no idea why they are do- congregation. saff ron-robed monks conducted ing this but if they aren’t stopped last rites for the victims of the then our future is doomed.” suspected members of banned duty” to kill Khan. rain-triggered landslide that de- Islamists have claimed re- militant group Jamayetul Muja- No one has yet been convicted stroyed two villages. sponsibility for around 40 kill- hideen Bangladesh (JMB). for the killing and there have “The families of the victims ings in the last three years of Khan had around 2,000 fol- been few arrests in the other have told us there is no point in foreigners, secular bloggers, gay lowers, many of whom would murders. digging through tonnes of mud activists, Hindus and Christians. turn up at weekly prayers at the Most have been claimed by anymore,” said Major General Many have been slaughtered family home in Dhaka. the likes of JMB or militants such Sudantha Ranasinghe who led with machetes. On the night of his killing, he as the Islamic State organisation the search and rescue eff ort in Former Bangladeshi prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia waves But no group has suff ered as had arranged to meet prospec- or Al Qaeda’s South Asia wing. Kegalle district. as she leaves after a court appearance in Dhaka yesterday. much as Sufi s, who are often de- tive tenants for a vacant apart- While more than 90% of “Since there is no prospect nounced as “infi dels” for their ment underneath the family’s Bangladesh’s 160mn population of fi nding anyone alive, we have mystical traditions, including own fl at. are Muslims, it is an avowedly stopped the search operation,” worshipping at shrines. But he went downstairs to an secular state. he said. Fourteen have died since De- ambush by a gang who cornered For most of the fi rst four dec- More than 46 bodies have cember 2014 in religiously moti- him in a bathroom and then ades after winning the 1971 in- been pulled from the landslide Court defers Khaleda case vated attacks, including Islam’s hacked at his neck until he bled dependence war with Pakistan, which struck on May 17. father Khizir Khan. to death. Bangladesh had a reputation But rescuers have now stopped By Mizan Rahman Court 3 passed the adjourn- Sanaullah Miah filed a peti- More than 100,000 Sufi s are The killers then burst into the for religious tolerance and Sufi looking for another 103 villagers Gulf Times Correspondent / ment order following a peti- tion saying she was ill and expected in Dhaka today to at- upstairs living room, tying up Muslim services drew tens of still listed by the Disaster Man- Dhaka tion filed by the defence. could not appear in the court. tend an annual congregation, Khan’s family, who later man- millions of worshippers. agement Centre as missing and Khaleda appeared before This is the fifth time that which this year is both a celebra- aged to escape. But Islamist groups, discred- presumed buried in the debris. the special court at 10.55am to the court has deferred the tion and an act of defi ance. “It was my mother who dis- ited by their war-time allegiance Ranasinghe said a small group Dhaka court yesterday place her self-defence state- hearing. It comes less than a month covered the body in the bath- to Pakistan, grew in strength of troops will remain in Kegalle adjourned the hear- ment in the graft case. On August 8, 2011, the Anti after local Sufi leader Mohamed room. The head was partially over the decades. to help residents salvage any A ing till June 23 of BNP On May 19, the court had Corruption Commission filed Shahidullah was found hacked severed. The largest Islamist party, property from the disaster. chairperson Khaleda Zia’s warned that it would issue a case against the Zia Charita- to death under a mango tree in “It was such a shocking thing. Jamaat-e-Islami, became a key And the military will erect self-defence statement in the an arrest warrant against Zia ble Trust with Tejgaon Police the northwestern Rajshahi dis- Every now and then my mother ally of the mainstream oppo- 550 tents in the district to house Zia Charitable Trust graft if she failed to appear before Station accusing four people, trict. still breaks down.” sition before being banned by residents who lost homes in the case. it on June 2 to place her self- including Zia, of raising funds The deep wounds in his neck Police soon arrested fi ve sus- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in landslide or are living in areas Judge Abu Ahmed Jama- defence statement. for the trust from unknown echoed Khan’s murder last Oc- pects who allegedly told inves- a move critics say pushed its fol- considered at high risk of further dar of Dhaka Special Judge’s The same day Zia’s lawyer sources by abusing her power. tober when he was killed by tigators it was their “religious lowers towards extremism. landslides. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 17 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Women’s liberation through Islam

oday people think that women are liberated in the West and that the women’s Tliberation movement began in the 20th century. Actually, the women’s liberation movement was not begun by women but was re- vealed by Allah (God) to a man in the seventh century by the name of Mu- hammad, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sal- lam. The Qur’an and the Traditions of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, are the sources from which every Muslim woman derives her rights and duties.

Human Rights: Islam, 14 centuries ago, made women equally accountable to Allah in glorifying and worshipping Him - setting no limits on her moral progress. Also, Islam established a woman’s equality in her humanity with men. In the fi rst verse of the chapter entitled “Women”, Allah Says (what means): “O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Aadam), and from him (Aadam) He created his wife [Hawwaa (Eve)], and from them both, He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you.” [Qur’an 4:1] Since men and women both came from the same essence, they are equal in their humanity. Women cannot be by nature evil (as some religions believes) or then men would be evil also. Similarly, neither sex can be superior because it would be a contradiction of equality. Allah Says (which means): “O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable of you with Allah is that (believer) who is the most pious of you. Verily, Allah is All- Knowing, All-Aware.” [Qur’an 49:13] A night view of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab Mosque. PICTURE: Thajudheen Allah also Says (what means): “Verily, the Muslims men and women, sallam, said: “Seeking knowledge is Who created male and female; Verily, large – a legal share.” [Qur’an 4:7] and the man whose resources are A wife must also guard her the believers men and women, the a mandate for every Muslim (male your efforts and deeds are diverse.” restricted, let him spend according husband’s property. She must men and women who are obedient and female).” [Ibn Maajah] This [Qur’an 92:3-4] to what Allah has given him. Allah safeguard his home and possessions, (to Allah), the men and women who includes knowledge of the Qur’an and In these verses, Allah declares Rights of a Wife: puts no burden on any person beyond to the best of her ability, from theft are truthful (in their speech and the Hadith as well as other religious that He created men and women Allah Says (what means): “And what He has given him. Allah will or damage. She should manage the deeds), the men and women who are knowledge. Men and women both to be different, with unique roles, among His signs is this, that He grant after hardship, ease.” [Qur’an household affairs wisely so as to humble (before their Lord), the men have the capacity for learning and functions and skills. As in society, created for you wives from among 65:7] prevent loss or waste. She should and women who give charity, the understanding. Since it is also their where there is a division of labour, yourselves, that you may find repose Allah tells us in the Qur’an that not allow anyone to enter the house men and women who observe fasting, obligation to promote good behavior so too in a family; each member has in them, and He has put affection and men are guardians over women and whom her husband dislikes nor incur the men and women who guard their and condemn bad behavior in all different responsibilities. Generally, mercy between you; Verily, in that are are afforded the leadership in the any expenses of which her husband chastity (from illegal sexual acts), and spheres of life, Muslim women must Islam upholds that women are signs for people who reflect.” [Qur’an family. His responsibility for obeying disapproves. the men and women who remember acquire the appropriate Islamic entrusted with the nurturing role, 30:21] Allah extends to guiding his family to A Muslim woman must co- Allah much with their hearts and education to perform this duty in and men, with the guardian role. Marriage is therefore not just a obey Allah at all times. operate and co-ordinate with her tongues. Allah has prepared for them accordance with their own natural Therefore, women are given the right physical or emotional necessity, but A wife’s rights also extend beyond husband. There cannot, however, forgiveness and a great reward (i.e. talents and interests. of financial support. in fact it is a relationship of mutual material needs, as she has the right be cooperation with a man who is Paradise).” [Qur’an 33:35] While maintenance of a home, Allah Says (what means): “Men rights and obligations based on to kind treatment. The Prophet, disobedient to Allah. She should not providing support to her husband, are the protectors and maintainers divine guidance. Allah created men sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, said: fulfill his requests if he wants her to and bearing, raising and teaching of women, because Allah has made and women with complimentary “…The best of you are those who are do something Islamically unlawful. Civil Rights: of children are among the first and one of them to excel the other, and natures, and in the Qur’an, He laid best (in treatment) to their wives.” A husband also should not take In Islam, a woman has the very highly regarded roles for a because they spend (to support them) out a system of laws to support [At-Tirmithi, Ibn Maajah and Al- advantage of his wife, but rather basic freedom of choice and woman, if she has the skills to work from their means...” [Qur’an 4:34] harmonious interaction between the Bayhaqi] he should consider her needs and expression based on recognition of outside the home for the good of the This guardianship and greater sexes. Allah Says (what means): “... Allah tells us that He created mates happiness. her individual personality. First, community, she may do so (if she has financial responsibility is given to They are your garments and you are and put love, mercy, and tranquillity the non-Muslim woman (from to) as long as her family obligations men, requires that they provide their garments.” [Qur’an 2:187] between them. Both men and women the people of the Book) is free are met, and as long as there is no women with not, only monetary Clothing provides physical have a need for companionship Conclusion: to maintain her religion. Allah intermingling between her and men support, but also physical protection protection and covers the beauty and and sexual needs, and marriage is Allah Says (what means): “It is not Says (what means): “There is no in the workplace. and kind and respectful treatment. faults of the body. Likewise, a spouse designed to fulfil those needs. For for a believer, man or woman, when compulsion in religion. Verily, the Islam recognises and fosters the The Muslim woman has the is viewed this way. Each protects one spouse to deny this satisfaction Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad) Right path has been made distinct natural differences between men and privilege to earn money, the right the other and hides the faults and to the other, temptation will rise to have decreed a matter that they should from wrong path.” [Qur’an 2:256] women despite their equality. Some to own property, to enter into legal compliments the characteristics of seek satisfying it elsewhere. have any option in their decision. Women are encouraged in Islam types of work are more suitable for contracts and to manage all of her the spouse. And whoever disobeys Allah and His to contribute their opinions and men and other types for women. assets in any way she pleases. She To foster the love and security Messenger, he has strayed in a plain ideas. There are many traditions This, in no way, diminishes either’s can run her own business and no that come with marriage, Muslim Duties of a Wife: error.” [Qur’an 33:36] of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi effort nor benefit. Allah will reward one has any claim on her earnings wives have various rights. The first With rights come responsibilities. The Muslim woman was given a wa sallam, which indicate women both sexes equally for the value including her husband. Allah Says of the wife’s rights is to receive Therefore, wives have certain role, duties and rights more than would pose questions directly to him of their work, though it may not (what means): “And wish not for Mahr (marriage dowry), a gift from obligations towards their husbands. 1,400 years ago that most women do and offer their opinions concerning necessarily be the same activity. the things in which Allah has made the husband, which is part of the Allah Says (what means): “…The not enjoy today, even in the West. religion, economics and social The success of a society can be some of you to excel others. For men marriage contract and required righteous women are devoutly These are rights granted by Allah and matters. traced to the mothers. The first and there is reward for what they have for the legality and validity of the obedient (to Allah and their are designed to keep balance in the A Muslim woman chooses her greatest influence on a person comes earned, (and likewise) for women marriage. husbands), and guard in the society; what may seem unjust or husband and keeps her family name from the sense of security, affection, there is reward for what they have The second right of a wife is husband’s absence what Allah orders missing in one place is compensated after marriage. A Muslim woman’s and training received from the earned, and ask Allah of His bounty. maintenance. Despite any wealth she them to guard (i.e. their chastity, for or explained in another place. testimony is valid in legal disputes. mother. Therefore, a woman having Surely, Allah is Ever All-Knower of may have, her husband is obligated their husband’s property, etc.).” Indeed Islam is a complete way of In fact, in areas in which women children must be educated and everything.” [Qur’an 4:32] to provide her with food, shelter and [Qur’an 4:34] life. are more familiar, their evidence is conscientious in order to be a skilful Furthermore, a woman inherits clothing. He is not forced, however, A wife is to keep her husband’s Article source: http://www. conclusive. parent. from her relatives. Allah Says (what to spend beyond his capability and secrets and protect their marital islamweb.net/emainpage/ means): “There is a share for men and his wife is not entitled to make privacy. Issues of intimacy or faults a share for women from what is left unreasonable demands. Allah Says of his, that would dishonour him, are Social Rights Economic Rights: by parents and those nearest related, (what means): “Let the rich man not to be spread by the wife, just as The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa Allah Says (what means): “By Him whether, the property be small or spend according to his means, he is expected to guard her honour. Man has only one enemy – Satan here are many among us who the meanest ones.’ FIRST VICTIMS: Adam and “Satan threatens you with to Adam because he felt humbled Almighty is Omnipotent. If the man, the do not take Satan seriously. (Iblees) said: ‘Respite me till the Eve were thus his fi rst victims and poverty and orders you to commit before him. He continues to harbour sinner calls Him, He does come to the There are still others who Day they are raised up (ie the Day of unfortunately for all of us, they fell in sins; whereas Allah promises you enormous enmity to all of us; the fury rescue. The Qur’an tells us many stories Tsimply laugh to scorn at the Resurrection).’ Satan’s lap like a ripe apple. Their error Forgiveness from Himself and bounty. of his wrath, the tempo of his hatred is of this kind of divine help and succour idea. For those who wish to know (Allah) said: ‘You are of the of judgment cost them their peaceful And Allah is All-Suffi cient for His ever on the increase. Man’s ignorance to those who lost their way through the truth about Satan and his clan respited.’ abode in Heaven – they were thrown creatures’ needs, All-Knower.” (2:268) is only aiding and abetting Satan’s ignorance and earned their freedom and their technique, we quote from (Iblees) said: ‘Because you have out: Adam to execute God’s plan and Ordinarily one would not fall in passion. Satan is out to harm man out of once again through Divine Mercy. the Qur’an – the book of “assured sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait to establish His kingdom on earth and Satan’s trap but there are ever so desperation because of the fatal blunder Satan is in hot pursuit of us as long certainty.” against them (human beings) on Your Satan to try his worst to undo it. many who are not so careful. Satan that he committed in disobeying Allah’s as we are alive. The sooner it is realised “And surely We created you and straight path.’ (7:11-16) is in our blood; he races with it in our command to honour Adam. Hence the the better for all of us. Man is not an then gave you shape, then We told the After going through the above THE TUSSLE: The tussle which veins as observed by the Holy Prophet repeated warning of the Holy Qur’an to eternal sinner nor is he “born in sin.” Angels ‘Prostrate to Adam’, and they verses there could be no reason to be started with the fi rst man goes on with (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam – peace us that we should beware of Satan who He is a sublime being born out of a prostrated, except Iblees, he refused sceptical about Satan. He is one who ever-increasing fury. Satan’s fi rst step be upon him). The Prophet (peace be is our worst enemy. noble parentage and possesses a proud to be one of those who prostrate. defi ed his Lord out of sheer arrogance. is to put man off his guard and then upon him) has also said that Satan sits heritage. We come to know all of this (Allah) said: ‘What prevented you He thought too highly of himself and to lead him to the wrong direction to stooping over the heart and injects ONLY ONE ENEMY: As explained from the Qur’an. The Prophet (peace (O Iblees) that you did not prostrate too contemptuously of Adam who he pursue the path of divine disobedience. venom through his fang. above, man has only one enemy – be upon him) in his last Pilgrimage, when I commanded you?’ Iblees said: took to be a murky creature made of His second step is to demoralise him Why Satan has a way with us is Satan. If he surrenders himself to him, exhorted his Companions gathered ‘I am better than he (Adam). You clay. He overlooked the fact that the through open and concealed threats as that he knows fully well our principal he will fi nd himself surrounded by a there and through them to all of his created me from fi re and him You Lord had made Adam with His own the Holy Qur’an says: weakness and he exploits it to the host of hostile herds each one as sharp followers to the last day, to hold fast to created from clay.’ hands and had breathed into him His “(Satan) commands you only what utmost, namely man’s craving for and shrewd as a double-faced crook the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah – the (Allah) said: ‘Get you (O Iblees) Word. Satan was humbled for his is evil and sinful and that you should supremacy. He entices us away as he ready to hamstring him the moment he two sources of certain success. Let us down from this, it is not for you to be haughtiness, declared an outlaw and say against Allah what you know not.” cunningly prevailed upon Adam and steps out. Once in their clutches, he can therefore take them in right earnest to arrogant here, get out, for you are of avowed enemy of Adam and Eve. (2:169) brought about his fall. He bore enmity only sink deeper and deeper. But Allah keep away the Satan from our midst. Gulf Times 18 Friday, June 3, 2016 COMMENT

Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah Production Editor: Amjad Khan Leveraging Islamic fi nance

P.O.Box 2888 for sustainable development Doha, Qatar [email protected] Islamic fi nance has countries’ fi nancial systems could with partners to help realise these example, some 90% of Syrian refugees Telephone 44350478 (news), play an important role in helping them reforms. Furthermore, it has have access to smart phones, through 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) important advantages over to meet their development goals – introduced investment projects that which they could access fi nancial Fax 44350474 conventional fi nancial especially if Islamic fi nance is used to use Islamic fi nancing across the services. Eff orts must be made to its full potential. region. The World Bank Treasury has ensure that we make the most of such products Islamic fi nance has important issued a variety of Islamic fi nancial technologies. advantages over conventional fi nancial instruments, including two Sukuk Finally, there are humanitarian By Mahmoud Mohieldin products. Its prohibition of interest (bonds that meet Islamic strictures on objectives. And, indeed, work is Washington, DC and requirement that investments be interest), which have raised $700mn. already underway to address how waqf linked to the real economy, together Similarly, the Bank’s private-sector (charitable endowments), zakat (the GULF TIMES with its approach to profi t- and arm, the International Financial obligatory alms tax), and a variety of oughly one-third of those loss-sharing, add stability to the Corp, has established the IFC Sukuk Islamic fi nancial instruments can be suff ering from extreme fi nancial sector. Islamic fi nance also Company, which issued $100mn in channelled eff ectively and effi ciently poverty worldwide live can enhance fi nancial inclusion, as it trust certifi cates in 2015. to meet humanitarian needs. Rin member states of the incorporates people who, for cultural The Bank’s political risk insurance Islamic fi nance can help deliver The road to Mosul, Organisation of Islamic Co-operation or religious reasons, are excluded from arm, the Multilateral Investment much-needed solutions to the Muslim (OIC). In 21 of those 57 countries, the traditional fi nancial system. This Guarantee Agency (MIGA), has world’s development challenges. Its fewer than half of the population has is perhaps one reason why Islamic provided a $427mn Shariah- ability to enhance fi nancial stability, access to adequate sanitation. Four per fi nance has been expanding at 10-12% compliant investment guarantee for promote fi nancial inclusion, and the ultimate prize cent of infants born in these countries per year over the last decade or so. an infrastructure project in Djibouti drive sustainable development could die before they reach the age of fi ve. If Islamic fi nance is to play its full and $450mn in political risk insurance spark transformative change across Simply put, despite great potential, part in revitalising and diversifying for a telecommunications investment the region. To realise this potential, many OIC countries have struggled the economies of the OIC countries, in Indonesia. And, together with the Islamic fi nance, no less than its to achieve broad-based development. governments will need to undertake Islamic Development Bank Group, the conventional counterpart, needs an in war against IS For many countries, the infamous important reforms. Topping the UN, and other donors, the World Bank appropriate enabling environment, “resource curse” is at work; in others, list is the need for stronger legal has created a joint facility to assist the one characterised by a level playing weak leadership and failed institutions institutions that protect property countries hardest hit by instability fi eld, an adequate regulatory Raqqa in Syria and Fallujah in Iraq face military are to blame. It does not help that rights and ensure that contracts with concessional fi nancing, framework, and eff ective partnerships. campaigns bent on further eroding the Islamic State’s the vast majority (some 71%) of the are enforced. If people are to have which includes an Islamic-fi nance – Project Syndicate/Mohamed Bin hold. Both operations are sure to be complicated, 125mn people aff ected by confl icts full confi dence in Islamic fi nancial instrument for Lebanon and Jordan to Rashid Global Initiatives, 2016. and natural disasters reside in OIC products, moreover, the industry will help them bear the costs of supporting lengthy endeavours. Civilian tolls are likely to be countries. Instability places enormous need to be standardised and regulated. refugees from Syria. zMahmoud Mohieldin is the World devastatingly high, and after all the fi ghting is done, strain on national budgets. National tax policies will also need to New technology can play a vital Bank Group’s Senior Vice President there may not be much left standing in either city. But these countries have options. be tweaked, to prevent discrimination role in making fi nancial systems more for the 2030 Development Agenda, UN The cities also represent major moments in a two- In particular, the capital that has against Islamic fi nancial instruments. inclusive, particularly for groups that Relations, and Partnerships, and is a accumulated in some of the OIC The World Bank Group is working face greater barriers to access. For former minister of investment of Egypt. year war against Islamic State. Raqqa is the group’s de facto capital and a key supply hub. Fallujah, the fi rst stronghold Islamic State established in Iraq, perches perilously on the doorstep of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad. They are not, however, the ultimate prize. That distinction belongs to Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Retaking Mosul would rob Islamic State of the largest urban area under its control. Overrun by the group’s militants in June 2014, Mosul was a conquest that, more than any other, forced the world to take notice of this new, grave threat. It’s a city of 1mn and an economic hub that made the militant group vastly wealthier, thanks to the millions of dollars that it swiped from Mosul’s central bank branch. Mosul’s capture also gave Islamic State a materiel bonanza – rather than stand and fi ght, legions of Iraqi soldiers and police left behind their Kalashnikovs, US-supplied Humvees and armoured vehicles and fl ed. Tackling Fallujah, while important, has sidetracked at least temporarily the bid to kick Islamic State out of Mosul. Iraq had started building up its forces outside of Mosul in anticipation of a battle royale to retake The cities the city this year. But represent major with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi now moments in a switching the focus to Fallujah, that buildup two-year war has stalled. If the battle against Islamic for Fallujah drags on, US President Barack Obama State may have to shelve his goal of nearing the recapture of Mosul by the end of the year. In Fallujah, the challenge isn’t just about entrenched Islamic State fi ghters geared up for street-by-street, house-by-house warfare. Alongside Iraqi soldiers and police converging on the predominantly Sunni Muslim city are fi ghters from Iran-backed Shia militias, which have a long, post-Saddam history of persecuting the country’s minority Sunni population. Germany’s rash rush for Russian gas Washington would rather see the Shia militias sidelined, in part because of their allegiance to Tehran. But given the ramshackle shape the Iraqi army is in, By Juraj Mesík Europe’s current demand. According revenue, which will weaken them spending was fi nanced by selling oil Bratislava to Gazprom’s own data, Russia in 2015 economically and make them more and gas to Europeans. Abadi’s Shia government leans heavily on help from exported slightly more than 100bn vulnerable to Kremlin pressure. So it is we Europeans who fi nance these Shia militias. The US can only hope that the cu m (bcm) of natural gas to Western The only real winner is Russia, Russia’s wars in Ukraine and Syria, its militias will stick to their pledge to remain on the n the right circumstances, we Europe – far below half of existing which will secure more European military occupation of Crimea, South outskirts of Fallujah and let Iraqi soldiers do the dirty can all be gullible fools – which capacity. money for a longer period of time. Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria, will be the case if the European The EU’s consumption of natural New Western investment in new and the provocative fl ights of Russian work inside the city. IUnion welcomes the Nord Stream gas does not justify building a 55 bcm pipelines would commit Europe’s military aircraft in the Baltic and Raqqa has a similar snag. The US-backed Syrian 2 project to double the delivery of pipeline. In 2014, consumption fell energy system to sticking with elsewhere. The more Russian gas Democratic Forces advancing toward the Arab- natural gas from Russia via the Baltic 23%, to 387 bcm, from its 2010 peak Russian natural gas, and perhaps we burn, the more money Vladimir majority city are made up primarily of Kurdish fi ghters. Sea to Germany. According to the fi ve of 502 bcm, reaching its lowest level discourage the transition to efficient Putin has for military modernisation European companies involved in the since 1995. Indeed, Nord Stream’s energy use. and “hybrid warfare,” when Russia If and when the Kurds retake Raqqa, someone will need project (each with a 10% stake), their capacity-utilisation rate was just 43% Corporate and Russian propaganda augments conventional forces with to govern the city. And the Arab population in Raqqa partnership with Russia’s Gazprom in 2013, 65% in 2014 and 71% in 2015. would have the German public irregular troops and cyber weapons. isn’t likely to welcome Kurdish overseers. The bid for (which owns the remaining 50%) Some will argue that Europe’s believe that Nord Stream 2 is to be The question that Germany and Raqqa will work only if Arab fi ghters in large numbers is simply a commercial business consumption of gas will grow. a kind of energy cordon sanitaire, its leaders must ask themselves is initiative. In fact, it is much more – Really? Just seven West European insulating Germany from the whether they are serious about peace. join the invading force. dangerously more – than that. countries (Germany being the biggest) troubles of its eastern neighbours, If they are, it is essential that they stop So far, Abadi has shown no signs of including Sunnis A decade ago, when the fi rst Nord account for some 80% of total EU even though they may be fellow EU fi nancing Russia’s armies – in or out in government in any signifi cant way. Involving Sunnis Stream pipeline deal was announced, gas consumption, and all have strong members. But Nord Stream 2 would of uniform. in Iraqi governance, however, is paramount to a lasting Poland’s then-foreign minister, Radek energy-effi ciency and renewable- make those troubles inevitable. A But are Germans serious about the Sikorski, compared the venture to energy programmes. Unless Europe poorer Ukraine would be an even EU, which has ensured seven decades strategy to defeat Islamic State – and more broadly, to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact decides to waste cheap natural gas, easier victim of Russian aggression of peace in what previously was by far long-term stabilisation of one of the most important (the non-aggression treaty between the decline in its consumption will than it is today. And the Kremlin’s the most violent part of the world? Are nations in the Middle East. Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet continue. On the other hand, doubling hold on Belarus would be even they serious about fi ghting climate Union). As the EU signed off on Nord Stream’s capacity to 110 bcm tighter should Yamal close down. change and defending the future of the the deal, Sikorski was accused of would in theory enable Europe to Moreover, Germans and other planet? If so, they must surely burn grotesque hyperbole. import all of Russia’s gas, via Nord Europeans would not be spared the much less, not more, natural gas. To Advertise Today, in the wake of Russia’s Stream alone. consequences. By committing to buy Nord Stream 2 stands against annexation of Crimea, and ongoing That, of course, is the danger if more Russian gas than necessary, and everything that the German [email protected] subversion of Ukraine’s sovereignty, Nord Stream 2 is built. Within a very for a longer time, the EU would be government says it values most: the Display Sikorski’s words don’t seem so short time, both the Brotherhood helping to fi nance Russia’s military survival of the EU, peace in Europe, Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 outlandish. Indeed, Gazprom today is and Yamal pipelines – which link build-up, which represents a direct and the environment. German even more of a tool of Kremlin policy Russia with, respectively, Ukraine threat to peace in Europe. politicians would do well to recall Classified (and source of revenue), with its gas and Poland – will almost certainly According to the Global the words of another Kremlin ruler: Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 deliveries repeatedly used for political begin to collapse as businesses. Militarisation Index of the Bonn “These capitalists,” Lenin reputedly extortion, particularly to keep ex- Without the transit fees that are International Center for Conversion, said, “will sell us the rope with Subscription Soviet republics like Ukraine in line. the heart of their business, lack of Russia is among the most militarised which we will hang them.” – Project [email protected] The argument for Nord Stream 2 maintenance will quickly lead to countries in the world. Some 37% Syndicate is that it will meet the EU’s growing serious decay. Poland, Slovakia, of Russia’s federal budget in the demand for gas. Yet the capacity of Belarus, and Ukraine – with fi rst quarter of 2016 was spent on OJuraj Mesík is a climate and energy 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved existing pipelines between the EU and their 100mn people – will be the country’s military and security adviser at the Slovak Foreign Policy Russia is already more than double stripped of an important source of forces – and the vast majority of that Association. Gulf Times Friday, June 3, 2016 19 COMMENT The high stakes of hypertension

Hypertension aff ects a risk factor – now accounts for the help nurses in decision-making; to highest disease burden globally and ensure seamless connections among staggering 1bn people is the main cause of death in most screening points, community-health worldwide, and is LMICs. workers, and physicians at the referral Some of the reasons for sites; and to empower patients to take responsible for nearly hypertension’s rising prevalence more responsibility in managing their 10mn deaths annually are easy to discern. Increased life own health. expectancy is causing the share of A second innovative model for elderly people to grow, while economic addressing hypertension, introduced By Ann Aerts development and urbanisation by the Novartis Foundation and Basel reduce physical activity and increase its partners in Vietnam, is the Ho consumption of processed food, Chi Minh City Communities for alcohol, and tobacco. There also seem Healthy Hearts Program, which aims ost of us know about to be other factors at play that are not to shift screening and treatment hypertension – at yet fully understood. to the community through social least we think we do. What is clear is that people entrepreneurs. As with ComHIP, MWe understand that in LMICs are not really aware of digital health technology empowers abnormally high blood pressure puts hypertension, owing to its lack of patients in their self-management and us at greater risk of heart attacks and visible symptoms. And those who increases patient-to-provider contact. stroke. And we also know that it is know they have high blood pressure What is needed now is to test these linked to diet and lifestyle, and can be may not know that it is linked to innovative approaches to healthcare treated with the right medication. But stroke and other cardiovascular delivery, build evidence of their many would say that hypertension is diseases. This makes it all the more eff ectiveness, and apply their lessons primarily a “rich-country” problem, diffi cult for health services in LMICs to other initiatives. We hope to hone implying that most aff ected people – which are often under-resourced, our models so that they can be scaled have access to the right knowledge and equipped solely for acute care, and up to provide countrywide coverage treatment. That is not the case at all. overwhelmed by high maternal and and address not just hypertension, Hypertension aff ects a staggering child mortality and the persistent but also other non-communicable 1bn people worldwide, and is battle against infectious diseases – to diseases. Moreover, we plan to work responsible for nearly 10mn deaths address hypertension and other non- with local and international partners annually – as many as all infectious communicable diseases. to adapt successful models to serve diseases combined. Furthermore, Yet international donors have as the basis of programmes in other most of the disease burden from not stepped in to pick up the slack. countries, with a focus on urban areas. hypertension occurs in low- and Less than 5% of global development Last month, World Hypertension middle-income countries (LMICs), aid was allocated to fi ghting non- Day provided a subtle reminder that where people develop the disease at communicable diseases in 2013. hypertension is, indeed, a problem a younger age and experience worse On a recent visit to a hospital aff ecting the whole world. Like any outcomes than in high-income in Accra, Ghana, I saw fi rsthand global problem, it requires a global countries. You are far more likely the suff ering and grief caused by solution. Specifi cally, international to die from hypertension-related hypertension. Hospital wards are fi lled actors must work together with local complications in Ghana, Mongolia, with dozens of debilitated or dying families, but also high healthcare costs mechanisms to deliver care in a way – to the local community. communities to build innovative new or Vietnam than you are in Britain, young adults – working-age people and weakened productivity. The loss that is patient-centered and can be Beginning in the eastern region models that work even in diffi cult France, or the US. who are responsible for families of economic output related to non- integrated over the long term into the of Ghana, our Community-based or under-resourced environments. According to the World Health – suff ering the eff ects of stroke or communicable diseases, including health system and the local economy. Hypertension Improvement Only then can we successfully tackle Organisation the rates of hypertension other complications of hypertension. hypertension, is projected by the One potential solution, being pursued Programme (ComHIP) trains local the scourge of non-communicable in LMICs, are already the highest in Similar scenes play out throughout the WHO to total roughly $7tn between by the Novartis Foundation (which I businesses and health-care workers diseases. – Project Syndicate the world, and are set to continue to LMICs. 2011 and 2025. head) and its partners, is to shift the living in the community to screen rise rapidly. Cardiovascular disease – The result is not only untold The key to addressing this crisis patient’s point of access to care from and support hypertensive patients. zAnn Aerts is Head of the Novartis for which hypertension is the leading suff ering for the sick and their will be to develop innovative hospitals – often distant and crowded Digital health-care tools are used to Foundation.

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OFFSHORE DOHA Wind: W-NW 05-15 KT By Alan J. Heavens Waves: 2-4 Feet INSHORE DOHA Tribune News Service Wind: NW-SW 05-15 KT Waves: 1-2 Feet ere are some tips Around the region on electrical safety. Weather Weather (Remember, these apply to today Max/min tomorrow Max/min life year-round.) Abu Dhabi Sunny 37/24 Sunny 39/26 H zNever handle electric appliances Baghdad Sunny 41/26 Sunny 42/27 with wet hands, or use them in damp Dubai Sunny 36/26 Sunny 38/27 conditions unless they are rated for Kuwait City Sunny 42/28 Sunny 43/29 Manama Sunny 37/29 Sunny 36/28 such use. Muscat Sunny 39/29 Sunny 37/30 zSecure electric sockets around Riyadh Sunny 42/27 Sunny 41/27 toddlers and babies. All outlets within Tehran Sunny 31/21 Sunny 34/22 reach should be protected with plastic closures that fi t snugly and cannot be removed easily. zEliminate defective or worn electric wires. Cords should not be loose or frayed, and should have a grounding prong intact if so equipped. zNever pour water on an electrical fi re. You must use a fi re extinguisher that is rated Class C for use on them. zLeave wiring to the professionals. Employ the services of a licensed professional who can do the job safely and correctly. zWatch for overheating bulbs and lights. Never exceed the maximum wattage specifi ed. Consider replacing bulbs with lower-wattage bulbs. zWhen doing work on electrical equipment, ensure that all sources of power to the appliance are turned off . Around the world zWhen working on or near outlets Weather Weather or overhead lights, or cutting into today Max/min tomorrow Max/min drywall, be sure to shut off the correct Athens Sunny 32/20 M Sunny 31/21 circuit breaker. A simple voltage tester Beirut Sunny 29/25 M Sunny 33/24 can be purchased for home use at a S T Storms 33/27 Bangkok 34/27 S T Storms local electrical-supply store. Berlin M Sunny 27/15 P Cloudy 28/14 Cairo Sunny 44/28 Sunny 43/26 zDon’t misuse extension cords, Cape Town P Cloudy 18/12 Sunny 19/11 and never use them as permanent Colombo T Storms 30/26 S T Storms 31/26 substitutes for additional outlets. Dhaka M Sunny 33/26 M Sunny 33/26 zNever cover cords and wires. They Hong Kong P Cloudy 31/27 S T Storms 32/27 Istanbul P Cloudy 26/18 I T Storms 25/18 radiate heat, and a fi re could result. Jakarta S T Storms 32/25 S T Storms 33/25 zProtect electric outlets close to Karachi P Cloudy 34/27 Sunny 35/26 sources of water. Those in bathrooms, London Cloudy 17/13 Rain 23/12 kitchens, laundry rooms, and garages T Storms S T Storms 31/26 Manila 31/26 should be ground-fault circuit- Moscow T Storms 23/13 S T Storms 24/11 New Delhi Sunny 41/29 Sunny 42/29 interrupter outlets to reduce the New York Rain 23/17 P Cloudy 28/19 chance of electric shock. GFCI outlets Paris Cloudy 16/13 S Showers 20/14 are required around pools and spas. Sao Paulo S T Storms 22/14 Rain 19/17 zKeep ladders at least 10ft from Seoul P Cloudy 28/17 P Cloudy 28/16 Singapore P Cloudy 33/27 T Storms 32/27 power lines. Sydney Showers 18/13 Rain 19/16 zNever touch a downed power line Tokyo Rain 24/14 Cloudy 27/16 or go near one. Call your utility to report it at once. Gulf Times 20 Friday, June 3, 2016 QATAR

Female graduates of Qatar University’s Class of 2016 with HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim al-Thani and QU president Dr Hassan Rashid al-Derham. 1,708 female students graduate at Qatar University ceremony total of 1,708 female stu- dents of Qatar Univer- Asity (QU)’s Class of 2016 graduated yesterday at a cer- emony graced by HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim al-Thani. There were 204 top-achieving students of GPA 3.50 and above, with highest scorers Arabic lan- guage student Ayesha Siddika Nurul-Hoque (College of Arts & Sciences), economics student Yousra Rahmaha Hussein Emam (College of Business & Econom- ics) and Dawa student Rokaia Alameldin Chalabi (College of Shariah & Islamic Studies) achieving GPA 4.0. The ceremony also saw the graduation of the fi rst co- horts of several academic pro- grammes - 16 BA Policy, Plan- ning and Development, 19 BA Psychology and 19 BSc Public Health (College of Arts & Sci- ences); 10 BBA Economics and 2 BBA Management Information Systems (College of Business & Economics); and 42 BEd Sec- Dr al-Derham honouring a graduate. A graduate with her parents. ondary Education (College of Education). women in Qatari society. “The QU president Dr Hassan university is committed to em- Rashid al-Derham, along with powering young women with the members of the QU leadership, necessary knowledge and skills, deans, local dignitaries, par- enabling them to take their place ents, faculty, staff, alumni and in the national development well-wishers, congratulated process.” the students on their Dr al-Derham went on to dis- hard work and persistence cuss the organisation’s achieve- towards achieving this impor- ments during the year, which tant goal. included establishing the Health “We are very proud of you, Education Cluster that merges distinguished students, and the college of health sciences, you have made yourselves very medicine and pharmacy; ac- proud in staying the course and creditation achievement for the emerging confi dent and ready colleges of education and law; to achieve even more success,” growing positions in interna- Dr al-Derham said, further ex- tional ranking; continued suc- pressing pride in Qatar Univer- cess in the area of research and sity on its long journey of suc- more. Graduates take a selfie after the ceremony. The QU president with vice-presidents and deans at the ceremony. cess since its establishment 40 “Today, QU is one of the top years ago. universities in the region, pos- search portfolio and enhanced the years, being the fi rst choice graduates to continue to seek “You are our distinguished your continued success.” He highlighted the impor- sessing a vibrant teaching/ undergraduate and graduate for Qatari students, parents and new horizons, develop their tal- ambassadors and the next Valedictorian Maryam Khalid tance of the event, which he said learning environment, a well- programmes. We have also had a employers.” ents and strive for excellence in generation of leaders and we al-Zahra of College of Law also is testament to the active role of developed academic and re- steady increase in students over Dr al-Derham encouraged the their undertakings. look forward to hearing of spoke. Russian National Day celebrated ‘Masters of Illusion’ presents restored copies of classics

oha Film Institute (DFI)’s ongoing Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain/Mexico/ special presentation series, “Mas- US/2006) screens at 5.30pm today, The Dters of Illusion” - a part of DFI Cin- Matrix (US/Australia/1999) at 9pm today, ema, is presenting the restored versions of The Mummy/The Night of Counting the three cult classics, The Mummy/The Night Years (Egypt/1969) at 5.30pm tomorrow of Counting the Years (Al-Mumia’), Mirror and 8½ (Italy/France/1963) at 9pm tomor- and 8½’ row. The series also includes a free family The initiative highlights the importance screening of Alice in Wonderland (US/2010) of visual illusions in fi lmmaking to provide at 2.30pm tomorrow. a real sensory experience, DFI has said in a Two of the fi lms have already been statement. screened - Mirror (Russia/1975) yester- The special programme at Katara Drama day and The Prestige (US/UK/2006) on Theatre explores the world of visual per- Wednesday. ceptions created by master fi lmmakers to A still from Alice in Wonderland. DFI’s Thematic Series, a part of DFI Cin- provide audiences with a cinema experi- ema, provides cultural and creative discov- ence that tricks the mind through the art of ings of the restored copies of Federico eries for audiences in Doha all year long. deception. Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e Mezzo) and Andrei The initiative is aimed at strengthening ap- Included in the line-up is The Mummy/ Tarkovsky’s Mirror for the first time in the preciation for the arts and contributing to HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi, HE the The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mu- Gulf region. the evolution of Qatar’s cultural fabric, and Assistant Foreign Minister for Foreign Aff airs Sultan bin Saad al-Meraikhi and Russian ambassador mia’) from Egyptian master Shadi Abdel Other titles included in the programme off ers audiences in Doha the opportunity to Nurmakhmad Kholov cut a cake in Doha at a ceremony to celebrate Russian National Day on Salam, which has been restored by Martin are The Matrix by the Wachowskis, Guill- view fi lms that may not necessarily reach Wednesday as Qatar Ministry of Foreign Aff airs protocol director Ibrahim Fakhroo looks on. Scorsese’s Film Foundation World Cinema ermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Pres- commercial cinemas. PICTURE: Ebrahim al-Muftah Project. tige by Christopher Nolan and Tim Burton’s For ticket prices and more details, one The programme also includes screen- Alice in Wonderland. can visit www.dohafi lminstitute.com