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WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10162 July 27, 2016 Shawwal 22, 1437 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir arrives in Colombia Qatar’s tourism In brief industry set for REGION | Record Solar plane in epic trip Solar Impulse 2 became the first solar-powered aircraft to circle the globe when it touched down in Abu cruise ship boost Dhabi early yesterday, the mission’s team said. The single-seat, solar- The Doha Port is being agents to create a supportive frame- of 10 ships to arrive in Doha. powered aeroplane began its redeveloped to become a full-time work for businesses to introduce Three of the ships had made their journey in Abu Dhabi in March cruise terminal new products and services that cater maiden voyages to Qatar, namely the 2015 and stopped in countries to cruise visitors. Japanese “Peace Ship”, the German including Egypt, India, Spain, China, ore than 50,000 tourists are “Working hand-in-hand with our MS Artania, the American MV Sea- Australia and the US. During its expected to arrive in Qatar partners, we will ensure all our ef- bourn Sojourn. round-the-world journey, the plane Maboard 32 ships during the forts, whether those related to in- More than 4,000 tourist visas were spent the equivalent of 25 days in 2016/2017 cruise season, providing frastructure, visa processes or tour issued to cruise passengers through- the air. On June 23, Solar Impulse a further fillip to the country’s tour- operations, are well coordinated for out. 2 made history by becoming the ism industry. an optimal tourist experience,” the The Qatar National Tourism first solar-powered aircraft to cross Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) spokesperson said. Sector Strategy 2030 identifies the Atlantic Ocean, flying 70 hours yesterday said that they were pre- He added that the number of the cruise industry as a focus area from New York to Seville in Spain. paring to receive such a large number ships had tripled while the expected in coming years, with the outlook Page 4 of visitors during the coming cruise number of passengers had increased for Qatar to become an emerging HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived in Colombia yesterday on season, which starts in October and by more than 1,000% from the cruise destination exceptionally a three-day off icial visit. The Emir and the delegation accompanying him were ends in April next year. 2015/16 season. bright. ASIA | Tension welcomed upon their arrival at Catam Military Airport by Colombia’s Deputy “The surge in tourists arriving on All cruise ships under 250m in The GCC is among the top three N-test plan depends Foreign Minister for Multilateral Aff airs Francisco Echeverri, Qatar’s ambassador to Qatar’s shores offer a great opportu- length will dock at the Doha Port, cruise destinations worldwide dur- Colombia, Batal Mojab al-Dosari, Colombia’s ambassador to Qatar, Faihan al-Fayez, nity for the entire tourism industry which is being redeveloped to be- ing the winter months, offering tre- on US, says N Korea and a number of ambassadors of Arab countries, senior off icials in Colombia and in the country,” said a QTA spokes- come a full-time cruise terminal and mendous opportunity for Qatar’s North Korea’s foreign minister members of the Qatari embassy. Page 2 person, adding they wanted tourists tourist attraction. tourism sector and overall economy. said yesterday that whether it to experience a memorable stay. Ships over 250m, including the QTA recently signed an agreement conducted another nuclear test QTA is also collaborating with 333m MSC Fantasia, will dock at the with TUI Cruises through which depended on the behaviour of Mwani Qatar – Qatar Ports Man- Hamad Port until the Doha Port’s the German cruise liner will be in- the United States, South Korea’s agement Company, the Ministry of redevelopment is complete. cluding Qatar in its itineraries for Yonhap news agency reported. Interior’s Immigration Office and The 2015/2016 season wrapped the 2017/18 season, bringing seven The minister, Ri Yong Ho, said, Qatar condemns armed the General Customs Authority as up in May with the berthing of cruise ships with up to 17,500 visi- however, that the United States well as tour operators and shipping the Seabourn Sojourn, the last tors to Qatar. had destroyed the possibility of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. attack on French Church North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, triggering tough new international sanctions. QNA, AFP South Korean off icials and experts Doha/Paris believe it can conduct a fifth test at Demand for travel any time. atar yesterday expressed its condemnation and denuncia- JAPAN | Violence Qtion of the armed attack on a Knife attacker kills church in Rouen, north-west of Paris. insurance increases In a statement, the Foreign Ministry 19 in their sleep stressed that “this criminal act is con- A knife-wielding man broke into a tradictory to all human values, ethical Women reacting near flowers and By Peter Alagos travel insurance for families,” the Switzerland are quite strict when facility for the disabled in a small principles and divine teachings”, reaf- candles at the town hall in Saint- Business Reporter source said, adding that the same it comes to travel insurance,” he town near Tokyo early yesterday fi rming Qatar’s position “that clearly Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, which pay demand was recorded in 2014. stressed, adding that around 70% and killed 19 patients as they slept, rejects violence and terrorism regard- tribute to Father Jacques Hamel, who He noted that demand increased of Qataris and 30% of expatriates authorities said, Japan’s worst less of the reasons and motives”. was killed in yesterday’s church attack. emand for travel insurance 20% to 30% in 2015 compared to studying in Europe were required to mass killing since World War Two. The ministry affi rmed Qatar’s soli- policies jumped 50% in the the previous year but he stressed have travel insurance. At least 25 other residents were darity with France, calling for the in- One of the nuns managed to escape Dfirst half of the year com- that for the first half of 2016, there For the first six months of 2016, wounded in the attack at the ternational community to combine and call police, who, upon arrival, tried pared to the same period in 2015, was already a 50% surge in demand a leading travel agency in Doha said Tsukui Yamayuri-En facility for their eff orts in order to ensure “the to negotiate with the hostage-takers according to industry sources. for travel insurance policies. that demand for travel insurance mentally and physically disabled eradication of this dangerous epidemic through a small door. At the same time, the demand is “Many people overlook the im- had increased 20% to 30% com- in Sagamihara town, about 40km from its roots”. Molins said police were unable to expected to increase further for the portance of owning a good travel pared to the same period last year. southwest of Tokyo. Page 11 The statement expressed Qatar’s launch an assault on the church as rest of the year following the spate insurance policy; certain illnesses “Some travellers are not apply- “sincere sympathy and condolences” three hostages were lined up in front of of recent terror and horror attacks or accidents could happen during ing for travel insurance unless it is to the French government and people. the door. in France, Germany and other Eu- trips, and these incidents are a big required by the country they are For Advertising please contact: 50640827 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 www.facebook.com/Dineoutgulftimes Yesterday’s attack saw two men Two nuns and one worshipper then ropean countries, a popular travel hassle for a traveller while he or she visiting,” another travel agency em- storm a church in the Normandy town exited the church followed by the two agency told Gulf Times. is in a foreign country. But recently, ployee said. of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray and slit attackers, one carrying a handgun. Depending on the policy, trav- we’ve observed that many people But he noted that due to terror a priest’s throat. Both attackers had on them a “fake el insurance provides a range of are now aware of the advantages of and horror attacks in Europe, his The attack, which also saw three explosive device covered in aluminium benefits such as reimbursement having travel insurance,” he said. agency was expecting a 40% to 50% other people taken hostage, was later foil”. of medical treatment, coverage for He also said some Asian countries increase in demand for travel insur- claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. The priest was found dead with his lost or delayed baggage or personal and non-Schengen areas had start- ance for the rest of the year. French Prosecutor Francois Molins throat slit, and an 86-year-old worship- belongings and compensation for ed adopting the policy of requiring He said the top European holiday later named one of two militants as per had severe knife wounds, said Molins. losses due to a delayed or inter- travel insurance, the likes of Turkey, destinations for Qataris were Lon- 19-year-old Adel Kermiche. France has been shaken to the core rupted flight. Australia and Malaysia and for “long don, Germany, France, Switzerland, Kermiche was known to security by a series of terror strikes, and the lat- A leading insurance company in drives” or cross-border trips to Saudi Austria and Italy. services, having twice been arrested on est comes less than two weeks after the Doha said that in 2013 travellers Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and Dubai. Since 2015, Europe was plagued his way to Syria, and was under house truck massacre in Nice, which killed 84 bought travel insurance policies as “But generally, people get travel with attacks such as the Charlie arrest and wearing an electronic moni- people and was also claimed by IS. a requirement to visit Schengen ar- insurance for peace of mind and Hebdo attack in January and the toring bracelet at the time of the attack. The head of the European Commis- eas like Spain, Italy, Paris, Germany security. However, some countries Paris attacks in November. This Molins said Kermiche and an un- sion pledged “Europe’s solidarity and and Sweden. like Russia, Maldives and the UK year, the bombings in Brussels and known accomplice, armed with knives, co-operation in the fi ght against bar- “At that time, we were process- are now requiring tourists to bring the Nice terror attack in France and TODAY’S EDITION INCLUDES had stormed the church, taking hostage barity”, in a letter to French President ing a minimum of three policies per travel insurance. similar incidents in Germany had GUIDE “DINE OUT” THE WEEKLY 4-PAGE the 86-year-old priest, three nuns and Francois Hollande after the church at- day. In a year that would translate “Schengen areas like Spain, It- undermined security and safety in two worshippers. tack. Page 15 to more than 900 but that excludes aly, the Netherlands, France and European countries.

The Middle East ‘needs 216,000 new cabin and cockpit crew by 2035’

By Pratap John imately 617,000 new commercial air- “Cabin crew is an integral part of of new markets opening in Cuba and would increase hiring over the next 12 a year ago, which was the “largest Chief Business Reporter line pilots, 679,000 new commercial operating an airline, and while Boe- Mexico, and demand in Europe has months,” the International Air Trans- increase” among various regions in airline maintenance technicians and ing does not train cabin crew like pi- increased as a response to a strong port Association said in its mid-year the world. 814,000 new cabin crew. lots and technicians, we believe the intra-European Union market. report on the “Economic perform- Capacity increased 15.6%, however, he Middle East will require The 2016 outlook shows a growth of industry can use these numbers for In an earlier report, IATA, the glo- ance of the airline industry”, which and load factor dropped 2.4 percent- 58,000 pilots, 66,000 techni- approximately 11% over the 2015 out- planning purposes.” bal trade body of airlines, said air- was released at the 72nd IATA AGM in age points to 71.9%. Growth in capac- Tcians and 92,000 cabin crew look for pilots and maintenance tech- The outlook represents a global lines were expecting to continue Dublin in June. ity has now exceeded traffic growth in over the next 20 years, Boeing said in nicians. Demand is driven by changes requirement for about 31,000 new the “strong pace of hiring” over the IATA estimates that total employ- 18 of the past 20 months, IATA said in its outlook released yesterday. in fleet mix and overall fleet growth. pilots, 35,000 new technicians and coming year and expected the total ment by airlines will reach 2.61mn in its passenger traffic report. Globally, Boeing projects a demand “The Pilot and Technician Outlook 40,000 cabin crew annually. employment by airlines worldwide 2016, a gain of almost 3% compared All segment-based passenger for more than 1.5mn pilots and tech- has become a resource for the indus- The Asia-Pacific region comprises would reach 2.61mn this year. to 2015. routes to and from the Middle East led nicians over the next 20 years. try to determine demand for success- 40 % of the global need due to the “Growth in employment was In another report, IATA said Mid- by the three big Gulf carriers - Qatar Boeing forecasts that between 2016 ful airline operations” said Sherry growth in the single-aisle market strong in 2015, and IATA’s survey of dle East carriers had registered an Airways, Emirates and Etihad - saw and 2035, the world’s commercial Carbary, vice president, Boeing Flight which is driven by low-cost carri- airline CFOs in April showed a ris- 11.8% rise in demand in the pas- “solid gains” during the first five aviation industry will require approx- Services. ers, while North America is the result ing net balance of those saying they senger market in May compared to months of 2016, IATA said. Gulf Times 2 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 QATAR

Red-carpet welcome for Emir in Colombia FM meets Colombian counterpart

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived in Colombia yesterday on a three-day off icial visit. The Emir and the accompanying delegation were welcomed at Catam Military Airport by Colombia’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral Aff airs Francisco Echeverri, Qatar’s ambassador to Colombia Batal Mojab al-Dosari, Colombia’s ambassador to Qatar Faihan al-Fayez and a number of ambassadors of Arab countries, senior off icials in Colombia and members of the Qatari embassy. The Emir is accompanied by HE the Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, holding talks with his an off icial delegation. Colombian counterpart María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar in Bogota yesterday.

Ashghal announces temporary Qatar NHRC calls for road closures in Al Khor condemns he Public Works Au- attacks in thority (Ashghal) has Tannounced temporary road closures and traffi c diver- Somalia more clarity in sions in three locations in Al Khor, starting from tomorrow (July 28). QNA It said the changes are due Doha to laying sewage pipes in the northern town. foreign medical The fi rst closure takes place atar has expressed its on Bilal Bin Rabah Street(see strong condemnation map), where part of the road Qand denunciation of the will be fully closed in both di- attack that targeted the area rections. Traffi c will be divert- around Mogadishu airport, in ed to Al Tamiyah Street and Al which several people among the treatment rules Arab Street until the work is African Union peacekeeping completed towards the end of troops, private security forces he National Human Rights based on uniform and objective The report also points to the October. and civilians were killed and in- Committee (NHRC)’s an- standards. absence of a proper link between The second closure will oc- jured. Tnual report has called for Besides, the NHRC said there school education and the re- cur along 251 metres of Ein al In a statement yesterday, the more transparency in the regula- was no mechanism in place on quirements of the local labour Haitan Street in one direction Ministry of Foreign Aff airs re- tions followed in providing med- how to deal with complaints and market. of the road. Traffi c will be di- iterated Qatar’s solidarity with ical treatment to Qataris abroad. petitions in this regard. As for private schools in the verted to Abu Bakr al Siddiq Somalia, and the mission of the According to local Arabic daily The report has stressed the country, the report said most stu- and Al Tawwash streets until African Union, especially in light Arrayah, the report said approv- need for more eff ective control dents there were weak in the Ara- mid-November. of its role in establishing peace als were given for 2,231 cases of and monitoring of the service bic language and some other sub- Ashghal will implement and stability in Somalia, and foreign treatment for citizens in providers abroad to make sure jects. Also, there is clear disparity a diversion in one direction maintaining its unity and sov- the fi rst half of last year. that patients get the necessary among the curricula followed in of Street 211 as well, extend- ereignty, and standing with the Nationals are allowed to se- services in a hassle-free man- diff erent schools. ing from Al Thakhira Main people of Somalia. cure the necessary medical ner. Meanwhile, the report praised Road (see map) in front of the The statement renewed Qa- care, which is not available in While acknowledging the im- the eff orts of Qatar University in emergency entrance of Al tar’s fi rm position rejecting vio- Qatar. provements and developments making the newly launched Col- Khor Hospital. lence and terrorism in all their At the same time, the NHRC made in the fi eld of public and lege of Medicine a success and The traffi c diversion will last forms and manifestations, and reviewed a number of com- private education in the coun- supporting the students enrolled until August 16 and during the whatever their sources and mo- plaints regarding alleged dis- try, the report expressed con- there. period motorists can use In- tives. crimination in providing this cern over the poor performance NHRC was established in ac- dustrial Roundabout 2 as an The statement expressed con- service, the daily said. of students at all stages in local cordance with Decree Law No alternative way. dolences to the families of the The committee criticised the Independent schools in subjects (38) for the year 2002 to promote Closures will help laying victims and to the government, dearth of approved regulations such as mathematics, English and consolidate the state of law, sewage mains as part of Al people of Somalia and the Afri- to determine how to respond to and science, according to the rights, freedoms and institu- Thakhira Sewage Treat- sociated pipelines. Road low the signs displayed on the can Union, and wished the in- requests for treatment abroad daily. tions in Qatar. ment Plant Works and as- users have been urged to fol- aff ected roads. jured a speedy recovery.

Volvo off ers ‘brand new used cars’ QA to operate 137 fl ights oha Marketing Services The offer is included on 2015 customers with the best cars Company (Domasco), the model year of XC60, XC 90, and best offers to enhance Dauthorised distributor for S60, S80 and V40 pre-owned their Volvo experience. Cus- to Saudi Arabia weekly Volvo in Qatar, has announced cars with “amazing” prices and tomers are invited to our “astonishing” off ers on Volvo finance options from July 19 to showroom to learn about our pre-owned cars. September 30, 2016. Offer also advantageous prices and ac- atar Airways has an- creased services to these two Qatar Airways has launched A statement issued by the includes free one year war- commodating finance op- nounced an increase in cities within Saudi Arabia. this year, which include cities company said Volvo selects only ranty. tions to get a brand new used Qservices to Jeddah and By adding an extra 21 fl ights a all around the globe, such as the best available cars and im- Commenting on the off er, Volvo.” Madinah, connecting travellers week we are giving travellers Los Angeles, Boston and At- proves them through Volvo ap- Faisal Sharif, Managing Direc- Customers can purchase their from Saudi Arabia to more than even more fl exibility to explore lanta in the USA, Adelaide in proved checks and makes them tor at Domasco said: “We are Volvo XC60 brand new used Volvo at the 150 worldwide destinations the world through our hub, Australia, and Marrakech in even better with the latest soft- committed to making sure our main Domasco showroom on and enabling football fans to Hamad International Airport, Morroco. Qatar Airways will ware upgrades. customers are 100% satisfi ed one year free warranty.” Khalifa Street near the National conveniently travel to support in Doha. soon off er service to Pisa, Italy; Every Volvo car has to pass with their pre-owned Volvo Andrew Parrott, Head Mosque and TV Roundabout. Al Ahli, the Kingdom’s much- “As the official sponsor of Helsinki, Finland; Windhoek, 120 point quality checks to meet cars. That’s why every single car of Sales and Marketing for The showroom is open from Sat- loved football team. the Jeddah-Based club, the Namibia and Sarajevo, Bosnia, Volvo’s safety, performance and goes through a very extensive Volvo at Domasco said: “We urday to Thursday, from 8am to From August 1, 2016, Qatar addition of two more daily with dozens more destinations appearance standards. quality control and comes with make sure to present our 8pm. Airways will double its fre- flights to Jeddah – to a total planned to start over the next quencies to Jeddah, increas- of four daily flights – will also 12 months. ing from 14 fl ights a week to enable Al Ahli Saudi FC fans to With the increase in fl ight 28, between King Abdulaziz travel to watch their favourite frequency, Qatar Airways will International Airport and Ha- team play, while also open- also have more First Class seats mad International Airport in ing up a world of more than available, allowing even more 5-year jail for passenger Motorist fi ned QR10,000 Doha. 150 destinations to customers passengers to experience the From September 1, 2016, the who want to travel abroad.” airline’s award-winning pre- airline will introduce an ad- mium class service. found carrying hashish for causing fatal crash ditional seven fl ights a week “By adding an extra 21 Qatar Airways, the na- to Madinah’s Prince Moham- fl ights a week we are tional carrier of the State of med bin Abdulaziz Airport, in- giving travellers even Qatar, is one of the fastest Doha Criminal Court has full manual search of the lug- motorist has been fi ned the road. The accident resulted creasing its total fl ights into the more fl exibility to explore growing airlines operating sentenced an Indian pas- gage and a number of small QR10,000 by a Doha in the death of the driver of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to 137 the world through our one of the youngest fleets Asenger to fi ve years in plastic bags were found hidden ACriminal Court for reck- other vehicle and injuries to two weekly. hub, Hamad International in the world. Now in its 19th prison for carrying illicit drugs inside it among packs of dried less driving that caused the other persons in the vehicle. Qatar Airways Senior Vice- Airport, in Doha” year of operations, Qatar in his bag. fruit. death of another motorist and Defending his action, the ac- President Commercial GCC, Airways has a modern fleet The court also directed him It was later confi rmed that the injury to two other passengers. cused said he was driving in his Levant, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Af- Travellers from Saudi Arabia of 189 aircraft flying to more to pay a fi ne of QR200,000, ac- bags contained half a kilogram of The court found the motorist lane but wanted to go into a byroad rica & Indian Subcontinent, can take advantage of the in- than 150 key business and cording to local Arabic daily Ar- hashish. guilty of not taking the neces- after taking the necessary precau- Ehab Amin, said: “We are creased frequencies to visit any leisure destinations across rayah. sary precaution while driving tions, and after the crash hap- pleased to announce our in- of the new destinations that six continents. The man was convicted of try- on public roads, which posed pened he fell unconscious and did ing to enter the country through serious risks to other road us- not know what happened next. Hamad International Airport ers, local Arabic daily Arrayah Besides the fi ne of QR10,000, 12 in the dock for illegally collecting samples from archaeological site with around half a kilo of hash- reported yesterday . he was ordered to pay a sum of ish. According to the prosecution, QR200,000, in collaboration A Customs offi cer got suspi- the defendant suddenly changed with the insurance company A Doha Misdemeanour Court is hearing a case The defendants are of diff erent nationalities and cious after the scanning machine the lane to enter a byroad and concerned, as blood money to in which 12 people are accused of collecting aged between 23 and 55 years, according to revealed the presence of some due to his carelessness and lack the legal inheritors of the victim. samples from an archaeological site without local Arabic daily Arrayah. object hidden in plastic bags in- of attention, crashed his vehicle Further, the court ordered the proper authorisation of the authorities Hearing of the case is still under way in the side his luggage. into the front of another vehicle suspension of his driving licence concerned. court. Accordingly, he conducted a coming from the other side of for three months. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3 QATAR

Qatari leaders Message from Bavarian minister Liberian president meets Qatari envoy greet president of Maldives

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani sent cables of congratulations to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on his country’s Independence Day. Real estate transactions The total value of trading in real estate sales contracts registered with the Real Estate Registration Department at the Ministry of Justice from July 17 to 21 amounted to 558,012,736 Qatari Riyals. According to the HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti received a written weekly bulletin issued by the message from Germany’s Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria and Bavarian Minister for Economic Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf receiving the outgoing ambassador of Qatar Mohamed Ismail department, the list of properties Aff airs, Media, Energy and Technology Ilse Aigner. Germany’s ambassador in Qatar Hans-Udo Muzel al-Emadi in Monrovia yesterday. They reviewed relations between Qatar and Liberia and ways of that were traded by sale includes handed the message, during a meeting with the Minister. They reviewed bilateral relations, enhancing them. The Liberian president wished al-Emadi success in his future assignments and further multi-purpose open plots of land, particularly in the transport and communication fields. development and prosperity in relations between the two countries. houses, multi-purpose buildings and a residential complex. Ministry issues QIB announces summer fi nance campaign winners

atar Islamic Bank place in the presence of both existing and new QIB home, cover the cost of a (QIB) has an- representatives from QIB customers. home renovation, fi nance advisory for crews Qnounced the sec- and the Ministry of Econ- “I would like to congrat- a new business venture, or ond round of winners of omy and Commerce. QIB ulate the second round of require funds in emergency. its “Boost Your Salary” will announce the win- winners in this year’s ‘Boost QIB Personal Finance summer fi nance campaign. ners of the last round in Your Salary’ campaign. We is off ered at a competitive As part of the promotion, August. hope that gaining an addi- rate, with no administra- QIB is rewarding fi ve win- All QIB customers who tional month’s salary will tion charges, up to three ners each month to receive apply for a minimum of help our winners fulfi l their months grace period and of marine vessels cash prizes equal to one QR50,000 in fi nancing fi nancial goals this sum- free for the fi rst year the month’s salary, up to a total during the eligibility period mer, whatever those may QIB-Qatar Airways co- he Ministry of Inte- spreading awareness among thy by ensuring the correct they should not approach of QR25,000 per person. qualify for the draw. be,” said D Anand, general branded credit card. rior (MoI) has issued sea-goers. weight, in line with its size and restricted areas or oil & gas The three-month The larger the fi nance manager for QIB Personal QIB provides an easy Tan advisory for the The crew must produce length, and having the proper fi elds and platforms. “Boost Your Salary” cam- amount, the more chanc- Banking Group. and fast way of applying crew and operators of ma- identifi cation documents navigational lights, according “All vessels shall have paign will run until July es of winning – each QIB off ers Shariah-com- for personal fi nance, with a rine vessels as part of its ef- along with the required to the advisory. maritime positioning sys- 31, 2016. The winners for QR50,000 of fi nance dur- pliant fi nance products to straightforward application forts to maintain safety and papers and permits for the The MoI has stressed that tems, such as GPS, elec- June are now published on ing the campaign period support life’s big or small process, quick approvals, prevent border violations. vessel at Coast Guard reg- crews and operators of ves- tronic maps, etc, and Rules QIB’s website. They were entitles the customer to one events whether customers and the ability for custom- The measures listed in the istration centres in Doha, Al of the Road (ROR) systems”, selected through an elec- entry into the draw. The need to fi nance the pur- ers to transfer their liabili- advisory are to be followed Safl iya, Al Aaliya, Al Wak- “All vessels shall have the advisory further said. tronic draw, which took promotion is available to chase of a new vehicle or ties from other banks. during fi shing as well as rah, Al Khor and Al Ruwais. maritime positioning Boat users should also pleasure trips, the ministry All vessels should have systems, such as GPS, preserve the maritime envi- has said. the necessary maritime electronic maps, etc, ronment and avoid causing According to an announce- communication sets and and Rules of the Road any type of pollution, the ment posted on the MoI’s so- safety equipment, such as (ROR) systems” ministry added. cial media outlets yesterday, life jackets, life rafts, lifebu- In conclusion, the ad- the General Administration of oys and boats, which should visory reiterates that all Coasts & Borders Security has be available in adequate sels should respect mari- crews and operators of ma- urged the “crews of vessels of numbers for passengers and time borders between Qatar rine vessels must follow the all types and sizes to abide by crew on board. and neighbouring states instructions issued by the the tips, guidelines and in- Boat users must also make and must not cross or ap- General Administration of structions” with the aim of sure that the vessel is seawor- proach the same. Besides, Coasts & Borders Security. HMC raises awareness on preventing viral hepatitis

amad Medical Cor- “Every child born in Qa- in more severe complica- poration (HMC) tar is vaccinated against tions. His raising aware- hepatitis B as part of the “Pregnant women should ness about preventing viral government’s childhood be tested for hepatitis, so hepatitis, which is vital to immunisation programme. that if they are infected, achieving the World Health Vaccination at birth is the protective measures such Organisation’s (WHO) glo- reason for the marked de- as the hepatitis B vaccine bal strategy of eliminating cline in the prevalence of and immunoglobulin can be the disease by 2030. hepatitis B in countries that given to the newborn baby. HMC ensures all aware- have implemented this vac- Otherwise, there is a 90% ness activities addressing cine,” said Dr al-Soub. risk that the child will be- viral hepatitis are a step to- The WHO describes viral come infected.” wards elimination, greater hepatitis as an infl amma- Dr al-Soub advised peo- awareness, increased di- tion of the liver caused by a Dr Hussam al-Soub ple travelling to countries agnosis and key interven- viral infection which aff ects where viral hepatitis is prev- tions. Ongoing activities millions of people world- titis A and E are typically alent to observe precautions include vaccination, blood wide and causes close to transmitted through con- such as getting vaccinated and injection safety, harm 1.4mn deaths every year. taminated food or drinks. at the Mesaimeer Health reduction and cutting-edge Dr al-Soub explained that Hepatitis B and C can be Centre. “The available vac- treatment. viral hepatitis is caused by contracted by needle shar- cines are eff ective in pro- Dr Hussam al-Soub, sen- fi ve main viruses, referred ing. “Hepatitis can also be tecting against viral hepati- ior consultant, HMC’s In- to as types A, B, C, D and caused by the transfusion tis. Other ways to avoid the fectious Diseases Unit, said E. “Viral hepatitis is con- of contaminated blood or disease are to ensure proper HMC is already on the path sidered a “silent killer”. An blood products, especially hygiene and sanitation in toward eliminating viral infected person may show in places where blood is not living areas, safe drinking hepatitis in Qatar. The Cor- limited or no symptoms. tested properly; through a water and properly cooked poration has been imple- When there are symptoms, mother to her child during food. It is also advised to menting treatments for the they include, dark urine, pregnancy; and by sexual avoid food from street ven- disease with good results extreme fatigue, nausea, contact,” he explained, add- dors.” and there have been no re- vomiting and abdominal ing that people with hepa- Every year, July 28 is ob- cent major incidences of the pain,” said Dr al-Soub. titis B can also get infected served as World Hepatitis disease in the country. He explained that hepa- with hepatitis D, resulting Day.

REDTAG’s Back-to-School collection on sale

etail chain REDTAG costly time for parents essentials “that will be the While picking up chil- has announced that across the region. Once talk of playground”. dren’s essentials, customers Rits Back-to-School again, REDTAG has come “Pick up a matching fi ve- can also check out RED- collection is now available to the rescue with a fantas- in-one kit that includes a TAG’s ladies collection for across the GCC states. tic collection that will suit wheelie schoolbag, pencil “new go-to pieces for the The collection includes all budgets,” the statement case, lunchbox, Tupperware school run”, including a school bags, lunchboxes noted. and a water bottle for the range of soft palazzo pants, and pencil cases along with Popular animated char- most stylish school year yet,” T-shirts and draped maxi “fashionable clothing at af- acters such as Minions, the statement said. “The col- skirts”, the statement adds. fordable prices” for children Iron Man, Cinderella, An- lection also off ers the most The Back-to-School col- of all ages, the company said gry Birds and the princesses comfortable in school foot- lection is available at select in a statement. from Frozen feature across wear with smart lace-ups REDTAG stores in Qatar and “This can be a busy and the collection with school and dainty Mary-Janes.” other GCC countries. Gulf Times 4 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 REGION Solar plane completes epic trip

AFP luted only because people are Its average speed was 80km an Abu Dhabi scared to think in another way.” hour (50mph). Hours earlier, UN Secretary The pilots breathed oxygen at General Ban Ki-moon lavished high altitude and wore specially olar Impulse 2 made his- praise on the team in a live- designed suits to cope with ex- tory yesterday as the fi rst streamed conversation. treme conditions -- temperatures Sairplane to circle the globe “My deepest admiration and ranging from minus 20 degrees to powered only by the sun, opening respect for your courage,” he said. plus 35C (minus 4 degrees to plus Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, piloted by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard, lands in Abu Dhabi to finish the first around the world up new possibilities for the future “This is a historic day, not only for 95F). flight without the use of fuel yesterday. of renewable energy. you but for humanity.” Nestle Health Science, which Cheers and applause broke out Swiss vice president Doris Leu- provided their tailor-made meals, diffi cult because of the high tem- as it touched down before dawn thard said Si2’s success “comes at said its research could help de- peratures. in Abu Dhabi after the fi nal leg of a moment where the world needs velop “convenient, highly-nutri- But he showed little sign of fa- a marathon trip which began on optimism” and “gives hope... tious food” for elderly people. tigue after landing. March 9 last year. there’s reason for optimism, rea- Piccard has said he launched “It was a project that was very Swiss explorer and project di- son to work for a better life”. the project in 2003 to demon- diffi cult, a lot of people doubted rector Bertrand Piccard was in the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh strate that renewable energy “can we could do it, so of course for cockpit during the more than 48- Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan achieve the impossible”. the team it’s fantastic but also hour fl ight from Cairo, crossing tweeted: “We hope the success His dream took much longer for all the people who believe in the Red Sea, the vast Saudi desert of @solarimpulse helps to deliver than planned. clean technologies,” Piccard told and the Gulf. Abu Dhabi’s message about the The attempt was initially ex- reporters. It capped a remarkable 43,000- need to invest in clean energy and pected to last fi ve months, in- “The biggest challenge is to km (26,700-mile) journey across encourage innovation.” cluding 25 days of actual fl ying. have an airplane that can fl y per- four continents, two oceans and Dubbed the “paper plane”, So- But Si2 was grounded in July petually, days and nights without three seas, accomplished in 23 lar Impulse 2 circumnavigated the last year when its batteries suf- refuelling, because there is no days of fl ying without using a globe in 17 stages, with 58-year- fered problems halfway through fuel.” drop of fuel. old Piccard and his compatriot the trip. While the pilots do not ex- “The future is clean, the fu- Andre Borschberg taking turns at The project was also beset by pect commercial solar-pow- ture is you, the future is now, let’s the controls of the single-seater. bad weather and illness, which ered planes soon, they hope take it further,” Piccard said after Last year Borschberg, 63, delayed the fi nal leg. the project will help spur wider landing. smashed the record for the long- In the air, the pilot was con- progress in clean energy. “One thing I would like for est uninterrupted solo journey in stantly in contact with mission On the Solar Impulse blog, you to remember: More than an aviation history between Nagoya, control in Monaco, where weath- Borschberg voices hope that achievement in the history of Japan and Hawaii -- nearly 118 ermen, mathematicians and en- “electric propulsion will increas- aviation, Solar Impulse has made hours and 8,924km. gineers monitored the route and ingly become the norm”. an achievement in (the) history of No heavier than a car but with prepared fl ight strategies. “I am very happy to see that energy. the wingspan of a Boeing 747, the A psychiatrist who made the large groups such as Airbus and “We have enough solutions, four-engine, battery-powered fi rst non-stop balloon fl ight Nasa are starting to work on elec- Pilots Andre Borschberg (left) and Bertrand Piccard pose with Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber (centre), chief enough technologies. We should aircraft relies on around 17,000 around the world in 1999, Piccard tric propulsion. The ball is roll- executive off icer of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), after the arrival of Solar Impulse 2, a never accept the world to be pol- solar cells in its wings. had warned the last leg would be ing!” solar powered plane, at an airport in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Bahrain to try scores Saudi court of ‘terror’ suspects sentences 2 to death Reuters ons and attacks on security forces. Dubai The group includes 86 suspects Reuters currently in custody in the Gulf king- Dubai dom and 52 on the run between Iraq ahrain prosecutors said yester- and Iran, chief prosecutor Hamad day scores of people will stand Shaheen said in a statement on the of- Saudi court sentenced two men Btrial next month on charges of fi cial BNA news agency. it said were Al Qaeda followers setting up a “terrorist organisation”, They are charged with forming and Ato death on charges of decapitat- espionage and armed attacks on police overseeing the so-called “Zulfi qar ing a Saudi intelligence service colonel offi cers. Brigades”, joining the group, causing in 2007, local media reported yesterday. The case pertains to Bahrain’s al- bombings, possessing explosives and The men attacked Colonel Nasser legation last year that Iranian Revolu- undergoing weapons and explosives al-Othman at his farm near the city of tionary Guards helped fugitives from training, he said. Buraidah in northern Saudi Arabia, tied the Gulf kingdom join forces to set up a They are also accused of “spying for him up and severed his head because Shia militant group called the Zulfi qar a foreign country”. they viewed him as an apostate, online Brigades to destabilise the state. A criminal court is due to start news website sabq.org said, citing the Bahrain has witnessed a series of hearing the case on Aug. 23, the state- court ruling. bomb attacks since 2011 that the gov- ment said. Between 2003 and 2006, Al Qaeda ernment says has killed nearly 20 po- Tensions have risen in Bahrain fol- carried out a campaign of attacks in the lice offi cers, as well as continued, spo- lowing a series of government security kingdom against Western and Saudi radic Shia unrest. moves including the dissolution of the targets that killed hundreds of people. In a statement posted on social me- main opposition Al-Wefaq group and Since stamping out the insurgency, dia, the public prosecutor’s offi ce said the arrest of rights campaigner Nabeel Saudi Arabia has convicted and sen- it had completed an investigation into Rajab over tweets he allegedly made tenced hundreds of people to prison or the Zulfi qar Brigades and transferred about the Gulf Arab kingdom’s prison death for militancy. the case to court. system and its involvement in the war It executed dozens on January 2. Bahrain accuses government-sanc- in Yemen. In yesterday’s verdict a third man was tioned groups in Iran of supporting Bahrain has also since revoked the sentenced to 30 years in jail for attempt- militants trying to topple its kingdom, citizenship of the spiritual leader of ing to kill the commander of emergency a charge the Islamic Republic denies. the country’s Shias, Ayatollah Isa forces in Saudi Arabia’s northern Qas- The prosecutor’s statement said a Qassim, and charged him with col- sim region, Dubai-based al-Arabiya total of 138 suspects had been referred lecting funds without a permit and television channel said. to courts on various charges, including money laundering. Isa Qassim denies The court ruling, published by al- contacts with a “foreign power” -- an the charges. Arabiya on its website, did not identify allusion to Iran, possession of weap- His trial is due to start today. the three convicted men.

Emirates aircraft makes emergency landing in Mumbai

An Emirates Boeing 777-300 aircraft heading to the Maldives made an emergency landing in Mumbai yesterday because of a “technical fault”, the airline said in a statement. “Emirates can confirm that flight EK652 from Dubai to Male was diverted to Mumbai due to a technical fault,” the airline said, adding that the passengers had disembarked safely. “The aircraft has been serviced and will continue its journey to Male with a six-hour delay,” it said, without elaborating. Indian media reported that smoke had been detected on board. Emirates serves more than 153 destinations from its hub at Dubai International -- ranked the world’s busiest airport for international passengers last year. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5

REGION/ARAB WORLD Libya’s rival govt forces threaten oil tankers

AFP/Reuters tional Accord (GNA) based in the out any conditions”, the NOC Benghazi/Tripoli capital Tripoli attempts to revive statement said. Libya’s all-important oil sector. The Tobruk parliament has re- Labourers load mud bricks onto a truck at a brick factory on the outskirt of Sanaa. His comments are a blow to fused to hold a vote of confi dence orces loyal to Libya’s par- hopes that the sector would be in the GNA, formed as the result allel government yester- strengthened by an agreement ear- of a UN-backed accord in De- Fday threatened to bomb oil ly this month between rival leaders cember. tankers approaching the Libyan of the NOC to unify their ranks. Meanwhile, Libya’s UN- coast without permission from He said his threat was a re- backed government said yester- Yemen’s ancient art of authorities in the country’s east. sponse to an agreement between day it had summoned France’s “We cannot allow Libyan oil UN envoy Martin Kobler and Ib- ambassador to protest over the to be exported except via the rahim al-Jadhran, the leader of presence of French special forces National Oil Company in Beng- militia set up to guard the coun- in eastern Libya. hazi,” said General Abdulrazzaq try’s main oil facilities, to reopen The summons came after France confi rmed last week that brickmaking endures war al-Nadhouri, chief of staff for the key Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra forces loyal to the rival govern- export terminals. three of its soldiers had been ment based in the eastern city of Jadhran’s militia backs the killed when a helicopter crashed Reuters The burning period ranges between 15 and parents and family with his wages. Tobruk. GNA and has joined GNA-allied near the eastern city of Benghazi. Sanaa 20 days. “This work doesn’t need a certifi cate or “We will target any boat that forces fi ghting the Islamic State France said they had been con- Yemen, a poor country awash with weap- qualifi cation. It needs muscles to be able to approaches the Libyan coast group in Sirte, 450km (280 miles) ducting intelligence operations. ons where the rule of law is weak, is no work here,” he said. without prior agreement with east of Tripoli. Special forces teams from raditional mud brick tower houses stranger to confl ict. “It’s the work we’ve inherited from past the NOC in Benghazi,” he said. The terminals were closed af- countries including France, Brit- have always been a source of pride to But the war that erupted last year brought generations. I’ve been working here since I Oil is Libya’s main natural re- ter an attack by IS early this year. ain and the United States have TYemenis, and over a year into a devas- widespread destruction in Sanaa and beyond was 12.” source with reserves estimated In a statement released yester- been on the ground in western tating civil war, they are also providing some in air strikes. Despite the threat of destruction, a dec- at 48bn barrels, the largest in day, the NOC in Tripoli said the and eastern Libya to fi ght Islam- much-needed jobs in the ancient capital The traditional houses of Sanaa, a Unesco ades-long spread of concrete construction Africa. Libyan oil and gas sector “should ist militants. Sanaa. world heritage site, have been spared - mostly. and tight wartime budgets, the appeal of the But production was hit hard be kept aside from political con- The French have been working At his traditional mud brick factory outside Coalition air strikes killed at least six peo- ancient art remains strong. in the wake of the 2011 revolt fl icts”. alongside forces loyal to eastern the city, Ali al-Sabahi oversees the process as ple and levelled several tower houses in the “The brick’s fl exibility and ease to be cus- that ousted dictator Muammar It said NOC offi cials had met commander Khalifa Haftar. it has was always been done, in happier days Qasimi quarter, one of the city’s oldest, in tomised for geometric shapes makes it at- Gaddafi . representatives of international “The GNA considered the and now in dire ones. June. tractive for customers for construction and Like many state institutions, oil companies including Italy’s French presence in Libya’s east- Workers mix clay with straw, animal dung The war has taken livelihoods as well as decoration,” said brickmaker Mohamed al- the country’s oil company was ENI and France’s Total in Vienna ern region as a breach of inter- and water and leave this to dry in the sun lives, but brickmaking is a rare bright spot Amari. split into two as rival govern- between Thursday and Sunday. national norms and sovereignty for several days before settling it into square in Yemen, which has been pushed into a hu- Through his eff orts the city’s homes might ments emerged. Those present agreed on “the which it rejects,” a statement moulds. manitarian disaster by the civil war. yet maintain its distinctive beauty-its ochre Nadhouri’s threat came as the urgent need to end the closure of from the Government of Nation- After drying once more, they are loaded Working in a brick kiln in Sanaa, 25-year walls glow amber and their whitewashed UN-backed Government of Na- the oilfi elds and terminals with- al Accord (GNA) said. into the kiln to be fi red. old Ibrahim al-Omari is able to support his shining white at sunset - for generations. Noted Egyptian fi lmmaker Mohamed Khan dies at 73

AFP actresses, denouncing the oppression Cairo of Egyptian women and fi ghting so- cial ills in fi lms that were acclaimed by critics and the public alike. elebrated Egyptian fi lm director In his 1987 fi lm The Wife of an Im- Mohamed Khan died in Cairo portant Man, Khan portrayed a police Cyesterday aged 73 after a prolifi c offi cer who is intoxicated by power and career making socially engaged fi lms. involved in the repression of oppo- Khan has been one of Egypt’s lead- nents of the regime. ing cinematic fi gures since the 1980s, The fi lm in 2013 made it onto the making a string of movies tackling Dubai International Film Festival’s top social issues that have often revolved 100 Arab fi lms of all time. around female central characters. The same year, Khan’s fi lm Factory Egyptian director Mohamed Khan. Khan died in a Cairo hospital early Girl won two prizes at the same fes- yesterday following “health problems”, tival, including a prestigious critics Chaos, Disorder won the Special Jury state-owned al-Ahram newspaper said. award. Prize at the Dubai International Film His family was not immediately The fi lm tells the story of Hiyam, a Festival in 2012. available for comment. young factory worker living in a lower- Despite being widely celebrated as a A British national born to an Egyp- middle-class neighbourhood of Cairo, great fi gure in Egyptian and Arab cin- tian-Italian mother and a Pakistani who falls in love with her supervisor. ema, Egypt only granted Khan nation- father in Cairo in 1942, Khan studied Khan leaves behind his wife Wessam ality in 2014. in Britain and worked as an assistant Souleiman, who wrote the screenplay Egyptian women married to for- director in Lebanon before returning to for several of his fi lms including Fac- eigners were not allowed to pass on settle in Egypt. tory Girl. their citizenship to their children prior He directed 24 feature fi lms star- His daughter Nadine Khan is also to a 2004 amendment to the national- ring the country’s leading actors and a fi lm director and her feature debut ity law. S Sudan swears in new VP as incumbent still missing

DPA ties – are dealt with peacefully, said Juba Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in New York. outh Sudanese President Salva A fresh outbreak of violence be- Kiir swore in opposition leader tween soldiers and opposition sup- STaban Deng Gai as his vice presi- porters erupted across the country dent yesterday, less than 24 hours after just as South Sudan marked the fi fth dismissing Riek Machar, the man who anniversary of its independence from held the offi ce until he went missing Sudan on July 9. earlier this month. The UN refugee agency said yes- There was no immediate reaction terday that more than 37,000 South from Machar, opposition spokesman Sudanese have fl ed to Uganda over the William Ezekiel said shortly after the past three weeks due to the renewed swearing-in ceremony in the capital, violence. Juba. The clashes dealt a blow to hopes Deng was until recently the confl ict- Newly appointed Vice President of of peace that had grown after Kiir ridden East African nation’s mining South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai speaks and Machar signed a peace agree- minister and was the opposition’s chief at State House, in Juba yesterday. ment last year and formed a national negotiator in diffi cult, months-long unity government in April, which peace talks with government. is meant to step aside from the vice saw Machar appointed as vice presi- Deng was appointed as opposition presidency once Machar returns to the dent. leader on Thursday. capital. A power struggle between Kiir and Machar’s whereabouts have been The United Nations warned all par- Machar escalated into a military con- unknown ever since his Juba residence ties to maintain the ceasefi re and en- fl ict in December 2013, killing tens of was attacked earlier this month. sure that any division -- whether thousands and displacing more than According to the opposition, Deng within the opposition or between par- 2mn people. Gulf Times 6 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 ARAB WORLD Summer camp trains young Gazans for war

By Adel Zaanoun/AFP Hamas’s attempts to prepare the Gaza City population for “the battle of lib- eration of Palestine”, a member of Al-Qassam said. s if from nowhere, a dozen “Our message to this (young) young people surge out generation is that the future is Aof a tunnel, Kalashnikov yours,” he said, his face con- assault rifl es in hand, to launch cealed by a black balaclava.”It a surprise assault on a military is thanks to you that we will be post. victorious.” This is the Gaza Strip, the Khalil al-Haya, another Ha- Palestinian enclave that has mas offi cial, argued that “there seen three wars with Israel since is no choice but the gun”. 2008, but this time the attack is “The enemy destroyed houses not real. and imposed a blockade hoping The young people, aged be- that people would turn against tween 15 and 20, are taking part us, but the people closed ranks in a summer training camp for around the resistance and Al- the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Bri- Qassam and send their children gades, the armed wing of Hamas. to our camps,” he added. Such camps in the enclave of Rights activists are deeply Residents inspect a damaged site after an air strike on Aleppo’s rebel held Al-Mashad neighbourhood yesterday. 1.9mn people have been heav- concerned by the camp, how- ily criticised by rights groups ever. concerned with young people’s “We are completely opposed welfare. to children’s participation in It is the fi rst time that Jihad, military camps,” said Issam 16, has entered one of the under- Younis, who heads the Gaza- ground tunnels, which Hamas based Al-Mezan Centre for Hu- considers a major strategic as- man Rights. set in its confl ict with Israel and “Children are meant to have which are usually kept well hid- fun and learn to develop their UN eyes late August den. thinking. The young Palestinian comes They must absolutely be kept from Shejaiya, a Gaza neigh- away from violence and anything bourhood ravaged by war two that may disrupt their childhood.” years ago, and is carrying out a The camps take place every drill to kidnap fake Israeli sol- summer, but this year Al-Qas- diers. sam has also opened the doors to At the Yarmuk base of the Al- some of its bases for other inter- for new Syria talks Qassam Brigades east of Gaza ested local residents. City, dozens of young men de- Rows of weapons are dis- AFP to salvage diplomatic eff orts to or in Damascus,” he said. 280,000 people dead and forced control of Aleppo’s Leramun scend 20m (66ft) from a tower played to the hundreds of people Geneva end more than fi ve years of bru- The Geneva meeting came half the population to fl ee their district after heavy clashes, and on ropes, as others navigate who fl ock to see rockets, missiles tal confl ict. hours after higher-level nego- homes. reported fi ghting for neigh- burning roadblocks. and drones emblazoned with the “Our aim is to proceed with tiations on the sidelines of an Kerry held marathon bouring Bani Zeid, which is also The base is near the sensitive “Qassam Manufacturing” sym- he UN’s Syria envoy a third round of intra-Syrian Asia summit in Laos. talks with Russian President held by rebels. border between Israel and Gaza, bol. voiced hope yesterday talks towards the end of Au- In Vientiane, Kerry said Vladimir Putin and Lavrov in The two areas have been used which has been controlled by Debris from tanks and Israeli Tthat peace talks could gust,” de Mistura told reporters Washington was “making Moscow last week. by rebels to launch rockets into Hamas for around a decade and drones allegedly shot down or restart next month, as US Sec- after the meeting. progress” with Russia on Syria They agreed “concrete steps” government-held districts in is subject to a strict Israeli block- captured in the 2014 war are also retary of State John Kerry said While de Mistura has said he co-operation following a meet- to revive the ceasefi re and tackle the west of the city. ade. displayed. there had been “progress” in would prefer to negotiate with ing with Russian counterpart militant groups in Syria, al- Aleppo has been roughly di- In a week, Al-Qassam says it Members of Al-Qassam’s eff orts to salvage an urgently- a real ceasefi re in place, he con- Sergei Lavrov. though details have not been vided between government con- will train nearly 30,000 young communications branch wel- needed ceasefi re. ceded that may not be realistic. Russia and the United States made public. trol in the west and rebel control people in basic fi ghting tech- come young people and explain UN envoy Staff an de Mistura “The talks are not going to support opposing sides in Kerry said yesterday bilat- in the east since mid-2012. niques. the diff erent divisions: there are has struggled to keep the peace wait for improvement in Aleppo Syria’s civil war, which has left eral work was inching forward In recent weeks, regime ad- These young recruits to the infantry, snipers, and missile and process alive amid a surge in and that an updated diplomatic vances around the city’s out- summer camps are a key part of rocket brigades, among others. fi ghting between Syrian Presi- Aid convoy enters besieged rebel enclave plan for Syria could be unveiled skirts have severed the only dent Bashar al-Assad and rebel “somewhere in early August.” remaining route into the rebel- groups. A 48-truck convoy, the Engineers were on board to “What we’re trying to do held eastern neighbourhoods, The fi ghting persisted yes- second-largest during Syria’s support local teams repairing is strengthen the cessation of eff ectively placing them under terday, with government forces five-year conflict, has entered water facilities in the enclave. hostilities, provide a framework siege. seizing a rebel-held neighbour- a besieged rebel-held area The Talbiseh enclave is the which allows us to actually get Opposition forces have re- hood on the northwest outskirts near the central city of Homs, last major rebel stronghold to the table and have a real ne- sponded by fi ring barrages of of Aleppo, tightening their siege the International Committee in government-held central gotiation,” he said. missiles into government dis- of the opposition-controlled of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Syria and has been under siege The UN-brokered talks have tricts, killing scores of civilians. parts of the city. yesterday. since 2012. In April, a 35-truck so far been deadlocked over As- Government forces eff ective- The government also car- Food aid for some 40,000 aid convoy entered the area. sad’s fate. ly severed the opposition’s Cas- ried out renewed barrel bomb people was on board the The convoy is the latest in The government has ruled tello Road supply route on July attacks on opposition-held convoy organised by ICRC, a number to have crossed out negotiations on Assad’s 7, when they advanced to within districts, a day after bombard- the Syrian Arab Red Crescent government lines since the possible departure, while the fi ring range. ments that killed at least 24 and the United Nations, the expiry of a June 1 deadline set main opposition High Negotia- They have tightened the en- people, a monitor said. international humanitarian by the United States, tions Committee has said it will circlement of the rebel-held As the bloodshed contin- organisation said. Russia — an ally of the Syrian not agree to any deal that leaves east since then, taking parts of ued, de Mistura met with US The convoy was also carrying government — and other Assad in power. the road itself and prompting Syria envoy Michael Ratney and medical aid, bedding and countries for the facilitation of The Britain-based Syrian food shortages and spiralling A Palestinian woman fires at a target during a training session for deputy Russian foreign minister kitchen equipment. deliveries to besieged areas. Observatory for Human Rights prices in opposition neighbour- the families of Hamas off icials, organised by Hamas-run Security and Gennady Gatilov, part of a bid said loyalist troops had full hoods. Protection Service, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel razes 11 homes in Qalandia Palestinians seek

AFP whose home was destroyed, to sue Britain over Qalandia, Palestinian Territories said Israeli authorities “warned us Monday afternoon that they were going to destroy our hous- sraeli authorities early yes- es, some which were still under 1917 vow to Jews terday destroyed 11 Palestin- construction.” Iian homes in an area on the Piles of rubble and metal rods outskirts of Jerusalem divided could be seen in the area yes- AFP and elsewhere came to settle in from the city by Israel’s separa- terday where houses previously Ramallah Palestine at the expense of our tion wall, residents and an NGO stood. people, whose ancestors have said. Residents sought to collect lived for millennia on the soil of A convoy of Israeli security mattresses, electronic equip- alestinian leaders are our land,” he said in Monday’s vehicles and bulldozers carried ment and furniture still intact. seeking Arab League sup- speech delivered on behalf of out the overnight demolitions in Imad Abu Shalbek, whose Pport for a complaint they Palestinian President Mahmoud Qalandia, presumably because brother’s home was destroyed, intend to fi le against Britain Abbas. authorities allege the owners did said a notice had been posted for its 1917 Balfour Declaration Malki did not say to which body not have building permits. by authorities behind the house backing a Jewish homeland in a complaint would be made. Israeli authorities did not re- that they had not seen until after Palestine. Israeli foreign ministry chief spond to requests for informa- the demolition. “Almost a century has passed Dore Gold called the proposal “a tion on the demolitions. Shalbek was planning to take since 1917,” Palestinian Foreign desperate eff ort to delegitimise Two of the homes are consid- in his nephews for the time being. Minister Riyad al-Malki said in Israel”, on his Twitter account. ered part of the occupied West “The father invested all his life an address to an Arab League In 2012, the Palestinians won Bank and nine part of annexed and his savings in that house and meeting in Mauritania, seen by the status of an observer state in east Jerusalem, Israeli NGO Ir now he doesn’t know where he is AFP yesterday. the United Nations. Amim said. going to go,” Shalbek said. “On the basis of this prom- In 2015 they joined the In- Two of the east Jerusalem Israel this year has ramped ise made by a party which did ternational Criminal Court and homes were inhabited, it said. up demolitions of Palestinian not possess (the land) to a party formally asked it to investigate Clashes broke out during the structures it says lack permits. undeserving of it, hundreds of Israel for alleged war crimes demolitions, leaving several Pal- Permits are however nearly thousands of Jews from Europe during the 2014 Gaza war. estinians wounded, according to impossible for Palestinians to A Palestinian man walks atop the rubble of a house, that was demolished by Israeli army bulldozers, in the NGO. obtain in the part of the West the village of Qalandia, next to Israel’s controversial separation barrier, between the Israeli occupied Among the structures de- Bank under full Israeli control, West Bank town of Ramallah and East Jerusalem yesterday. Israel reopens Palestinian camp entrance stroyed was a two-storey build- which amounts to some 60% of ing, leaving 44 people homeless, the territory, UN offi cials say. contiguity of Palestinian east well as a residential building in run toward the guards, who sev- Israel reopened the main Hebron had been closed off for at including 11 children, said Ir Demolitions in east Jerusalem Jerusalem with the West Bank Ras al-Amud, the NGO said. eral times ordered her to stop,” a entrance to a Palestinian camp least 26 days as part of measures Amim. and the West Bank so far this pose a severe threat to the two Meanwhile, Israeli private se- police statement said. in the occupied West Bank taken by the army after an “The family claims to have re- year have already surpassed the state solution,” it added. curity guards at an east Jerusa- “When she did not comply yesterday after keeping it closed attacker shot at an Israeli car on ceived a building permit in 1983 amount for 2015. Beyond the Qalandiya demo- lem checkpoint yesterday shot and drew close to them they fi red for nearly a month in response to a nearby road on July 1, causing a from the Jerusalem municipality In east Jerusalem alone this litions, others were also carried and wounded an 18-year-old at her legs and neutralised her,” it a series of attacks. crash that killed the driver. covering an area of 4,000 sq m, year, 78 demolitions have oc- out in east Jerusalem yesterday. Palestinian suspected of plan- said. The United Nations had accused The shooter, who is believed to only half of which has been de- curred compared to 74 in 2015, Ir They included a home under ning to stab them, police said. She was found to have been the Israeli army of collectively be still at large, was not from veloped,” it said. Amim said. construction and an auto repair “At the Qalandia checkpoint carrying a knife in her bag, it punishing the 9,500 residents. Fawwar but reportedly from the Mohamed al-Jouri, a resident “These eff orts to break the business in the Issawiya area as a young Arab woman started to added. The Fawwar refugee camp near nearby town of Dura. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 7 AFRICA

Court gives Zuma 45 days to pay $500,000 bill Twin suicide bombs South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has 45 days to pay back kill 13 near airport $500,000 of public money spent Racism charges fl y a refurbishing his private home, a lawyer said yesterday, after the in Mogadishu Constitutional Court approved the sum, AFP reports from Johannesburg. AFP called AMISOM peacekeepers The court found in March that Mogadishu are stationed,” it said, refer- the president had violated the week before SA poll ring to the African Union mis- constitution by defying an order sion to Somalia. to repay some of the money in AFP invoking the name of former t least 13 people were An AFP journalist at the one of several scandals that have Johannesburg president Nelson Mandela at its killed yesterday in twin scene heard gunfi re after the dogged his government. rallies and in election adverts. Abombings near UN and explosions tore through the The treasury last month valued “The DA is a haven for rac- African Union buildings ad- area. the non-security upgrades - ists, and its upper echelons joining Mogadishu’s airport, The city’s airport is heavily including a chicken coop - at he fi rst black leader of dominated by individuals who police said, in what the Al fortifi ed and adjoins the capi- Nkandla, Zuma’s traditional South Africa’s main op- hark back to the days of apart- Shebaab group claimed as a tal’s main base for AMISOM, homestead, at 7,814,155mn rand Tposition party yesterday heid,” the statement said. suicide attack. the 22,000-strong force back- ($542,000). accused the ruling African Na- The DA has fought back, say- The Al Qaeda aligned She- ing the government in the bat- “This court signifies... its approval tional Congress (ANC) of run- ing it now represents Mandela’s baab group is blamed for a tle against Shebaab insurgents. of the amount,” said a letter ning a racist election campaign legacy better than the ANC string of bloody assaults in AMISOM troops were de- signed yesteday by the court’s ahead of fi ercely-fought mu- party that he led in the struggle Somalia and neighbouring ployed to Somalia in 2007 registrar. nicipal polls. against apartheid. Kenya, and is fi ghting to over- to defend the government Dylan Cron, one of the lawyers Democratic Alliance (DA) On Monday, the opposition throw Mogadishu’s interna- against attacks by the She- involved in bringing the case, leader Mmusi Maimane is hop- unveiled an election poster in tionally-backed government. baab. confirmed receiving the letter and ing to lead his party to a break- Tshwane – another key municipal- “At least 13 people were “Around 9am there was an said that the president has to pay through result on August 3, ity up for grabs – reading “Honour confi rmed to have died in two explosion outside one of our back the money “within 45 days” as the country struggles with Madiba’s dream. Vote DA”. explosions, one of the vehicles gates, about 200m away,” mis- as the court ordered in its original record unemployment and fl at- Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, greeting the Madiba was Mandela’s clan went off near a security check- sion spokesman Joe Kibet said. judgement. lining economic growth. supporters during a rally at the Johannesburg City Hall yesterday. name. point and another close to a “It looks like an attack, they “They say if you are black, “When the ANC falls, UN compound,” said Bishaar intended to attack. Now the sit- you must vote for the (ANC) Zuma has been engulfed by a Speaking at a weekend rally Madiba will always stand be- Abdi Gedi, a police offi cial. uation is calm and our person- Congo rumba star party,” Maimane told an election series of graft scandals as well in the coastal city of Port Eliza- cause Madiba was bigger than “The security forces have nel are working on it,” he added. rally in central Johannesburg. as anger over the country’s poor beth, which the DA also has just the ANC. He was the father managed to intercept the at- Shebaab were forced out of held in kicking row “That’s not the South Africa economic performance, fuel- ambitions of seizing, President of this nation,” Maimane said tackers and foiled the attacks,” the capital fi ve years ago but Star Congolese rumba singer we want. To me that rings and ling DA confi dence that the all- Zuma accused the opposition on Tuesday in front of a blue Gedi said. continue to carry out regular Koff i Olomide, who was expelled sounds like racism.” powerful ANC could be dealt a party of having the “same ha- banner reading “We can win”. A Shebaab statement said attacks on military, govern- from Kenya at the weekend President Jacob Zuma last major blow at the election. tred” as the apartheid govern- The radical leftist Economic it was a suicide attack by its ment and civilian targets. after allegedly kicking one of his week told black voters to rally The DA is polling about fi ve ment. Freedom Fighters (EFF) party militants. In recent months they have dancers, was arrested yesterday behind the ANC party, de- points ahead of the ANC in Jo- “They don’t believe black is also seeking to make a ma- “The two explosions were claimed attacks on bases of at his home in Kinshasa, police nouncing the DA – widely hannesburg, the economic pow- people can lead,” Zuma said. jor impact in its fi rst municipal carried out by two brave Mu- the African Union peacekeep- said, AFP reports from Kinshasa. seen as a party of middle-class erhouse of South Africa, where The ANC yesterday released elections. jahedeen suicide bombers and ing mission in Somalia (AMI- The city’s police chief, General whites – as the “spawn” of the the ruling party’s grip on power a statement calling the DA a All three main parties hold they have targeted two diff er- SOM) as well as civilian targets Celestin Kanyama, said he apartheid government. has been steadily slipping. “white supremacist party” for their fi nal rallies this weekend. ent locations where the so- including hotels. had been arrested early in the morning on “a warrant from the prosecutor who wants to interrogate him”. Nigeria flags off new standard gauge train service The 60-year-old entertainer, who has recorded 26 albums, was thrown Nigerian President Muhammadu Capital Territory and Kaduna transport in Nigeria, recalling the restoration of rail transport out of Kenya on Saturday where Buhari yesterday flagged off state, a corridor which has a that between 1963 and early system which today’s occasion he was due to stage a concert after commercial train services on huge potential for industries, 80s, the nation had a vibrant symbolises,” he said. being filmed on arrival in Nairobi the the country’s first ever standard agricultural activities and a rail system which conveyed Buhari said his government day before, kicking out and lunging gauge rail track linking the growing labour force,” Buhari agricultural products, livestock would rehabilitate the existing at one of his dancers. capital Abuja with the northern said at the ceremony in Abuja. and solid minerals to seaports in 3,505km narrow gauge rail lines Video footage of the incident has city of Kaduna, AFP reports from The president had a 20-minute Lagos and Port Harcourt in the and build new standard gauge since gone viral. Abuja. ride after the off icial launch south for exports. lines across the country. His lawyer later said he was in “The Abuja-Kaduna train and described it as a “standard “It is our vision and hope that The 186 km project was built fact trying to step in to resolve a service will provide the much gauge railway train service that those good old days will soon by China Civil Engineering dispute between his dancers and needed alternative transport will be safe, fast and reliable.” be back with us and indeed in Construction Company at a cost Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari flagging off the newly commissioned that his foot had slipped. link between the Federal He lamented the collapse in rail a more prosperous way with of $1.08bin. fast train service from Abuja-Kaduna in Abuja yesterday. Gulf Times 8 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 AMERICA Democrats seek way past discord

Reuters Jess McIntosh, director of communica- Philadelphia tions outreach for the Clinton campaign, did not confi rm this on CNN but said, “It wouldn’t surprise me that talks like that are illary Clinton was yesterday set to happening.” become the fi rst woman presidential In a show-stealing speech on Monday Hnominee of a major US party, a his- night, Michelle Obama linked that coming toric moment that Democrats hope will help landmark nomination to her own husband’s eclipse rancor between supporters of Clinton role as the fi rst black US president, saying and her rival in the primary contests, Bernie that: “Because of Hillary Clinton, my daugh- Sanders. ters and all our sons and daughters now take The party sought to burnish Clinton’s bi- for granted that a woman can be president of ography and make its formal nomination on the United States.” the second day of a convention that began Sanders, who drew a fervent following of on Monday with anti-Clinton feeling among youth and liberals during a primary cam- die-hard Sanders supporters on full and vo- paign that called for a tough hand on Wall cal display. Street and more aggressive steps to counter Sanders, one of the main speakers on the social inequality, struggled on Monday to get fi rst evening, portrayed Clinton as a fellow his own supporters in line. soldier in his fi ght for economic equality, but At a meeting before the convention began, some of his supporters booed the mere men- he was jeered by his own delegates when he tion of her name. urged them to back Clinton and focus on de- He and the other main speakers on Mon- feating Trump, a man he called a “bully and day, liberal favourite US Senator Elizabeth a demagogue.” Warren and fi rst lady Michelle Obama, of- “We want Bernie!” they shouted in anger fered stirring endorsements of Clinton as the at both Clinton’s victory in the race for the party tried to push through the discord and Democratic nomination and emails leaked fi nd a common goal in beating Republican on Friday suggesting the party leadership Donald Trump in the November 8 election. had tried to sabotage Sanders’ insurgent The furor in Philadelphia was a setback campaign. to Democrats’ hopes that their convention “Brothers and sisters, this is the real world would contrast with Trump’s sometimes that we live in,” Sanders pleaded. chaotic White House campaign and show Clinton representatives yesterday sought the party moving beyond the bruising pri- to put the boos and chants in a positive light. mary battle between Sanders, 74, a US sena- “It’s something we respect,” campaign tor from Vermont, and former secretary of communications director Jennifer Palmieri state Clinton, 68. said of the Sanders delegates’ noisy support Supporters see Clinton’s Washington cre- for him. dentials — she has also been a fi rst lady and a “It is also something that I think has made US senator — as showing she has the experi- our party’s nominating process...much more ence needed for the White House. substantive.” Detractors view her as too cozy with the Trump reveled in the Democrats’ opening establishment, and with political baggage day disorder, and made a pitch for Sanders dating back to the start of her husband’s fi rst voters to turn to him. term in 1993. “Sad to watch Bernie Sanders abandon his Opinion polls show Clinton as deeply un- revolution. We welcome all voters who want popular with some Americans. to fi x our rigged system and bring back our Recent polls have given her “unfavour- jobs,” Trump said on Twitter. able” ratings that average 55.4 %, according Sanders had “totally sold out” to Clinton, to the RealClear Politics website. he added in another tweet. Trump has a similarly poor number, with A Clinton campaign offi cial noted yester- First lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday night. “unfavourable” ratings averaging 56.9 %. day that while Sanders had backed Clinton, The convention’s second day was aimed at the runner-up in the Republican primary vention “bump,” he pulled just chairwoman of the Democratic Na- egates as the convention opened Democratic National Commit- highlighting Clinton’s work on issues such contest, US Senator Ted Cruz, refused to en- ahead of her in at least one survey on tional Committee. urging them not to interrupt the tee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman as women, families and healthcare and as the dorse Trump at his party’s convention last Monday. In the opening hours of the con- proceedings. Schultz resigned, eff ective at the end country’s top diplomat, campaign offi cials week. “We have an enormous task ahead vention on Monday, party offi cials Several speakers pleaded for peace of the convention, over the email said. Trump, a 70-year-old New York busi- of us,” Democratic leader Donna struggled to carry out business as between the factions. controversy. NBC and CNN reported yesterday that nessman who has never been elected to pub- Brazile told a gathering yesterday of angry Sanders supporters roared Comedian Sarah Silverman, a The committee issued an apol- talks were under way to have Sanders take lic offi ce, has lagged Clinton in most national women delegates. their disapproval, drawing a deafen- Sanders supporter, said she would ogy on Monday to Sanders, his sup- part in the nomination process, in a sign of opinion polls for months. “This is not going to be an easy ing response from Clinton delegates. support Clinton “with gusto” and porters, and the whole party for the party unity. Benefi ting from a traditional post-con- election, but it’s an election we will Sanders tried to head off the dis- sternly added, “To the ‘Bernie or Bust’ e-mail fl ap and said it would take ac- win with dignity,” said Brazile, a vice ruptions, sending an email to del- people, you’re being ridiculous.” tion to ensure it never happens again.

NBA legend Michael Jordan condemns gun violence

AFP “DO NOT SLEEP ON MJ,” tweeted by the International Association of Monday, called Jordan’s statement Los Angeles fi lmmaker Spike Lee. Chiefs of Police, while the Legal De- and donation “brilliant”. A wave of police killings of Afri- fense Fund was originally established “He is our face,” Anthony said. can Americans and deadly attacks in 1940 to work for civil rights as part “He is a very powerful African asketball icon Michael Jordan, against police offi cers prompted Jor- of the National Association for the American, so for him to step up in long reluctant to speak out on dan’s public stand. Advancement of Colored People. the midst of these times right now Bsocial issues, on Monday con- “As a proud American, a father “Although I know these contribu- was very big.” demned violence fuelling rising ra- who lost his own dad in a senseless tions alone are not enough to solve His comments are a far cry from cial tension in America and pledged act of violence, and a black man, I the problem, I hope the resources his past reticence. $2mn toward eff orts to build trust. have been deeply troubled by the will help both organizations make a He once famously said “Republi- “I know this country is better than deaths of African Americans at the positive diff erence,” he said. cans buy sneakers, too” in explain- that, and I can no longer stay si- hands of law enforcement and an- Now the only African-American ing his reluctance to comment on lent,” Jordan said in a letter released gered by the cowardly and hateful majority owner of an NBA club, the thorny political issues. via theundefeated.com, a website targeting and killing of police offi c- Charlotte Hornets, Jordan has joined In 2015, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar backed by ESPN. ers,” he said. a wave of social commentary in US took Jordan to task, saying in an in- It was a watershed moment for a “I grieve with the families who sports sparked by a spate of police terview that he “took commerce superstar who throughout his play- have lost loved ones, as I know their shootings of unarmed black men — over conscience,” although Jordan ing career, in which he led the Chi- pain all too well.” and the shooting deaths of police has in fact quietly backed political cago Bulls to six National Basketball His father, James Jordan, was shot offi cers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton candidates, including donating to Association championships between and killed in 1993 at a highway rest Rouge, Louisiana. Obama’s senatorial and presidential 1991 and 1998, was criticised for his area, not long after his son led the Current NBA stars LeBron James, campaigns. hesitance to wade in on politics. Bulls to a third NBA title. Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and “The problems we face didn’t His unexpected move was widely Jordan announced grants of $1mn Dwyane Wade opened the recent happen overnight and they won’t be welcomed. each to two organisations working to ESPYs sports awards show urging solved tomorrow,” Jordan said. “Change happens when one improve relations between law en- their peers to take the lead in com- “But if we all work together, we American at a time can no longer forcement and the communities in bating racial injustice and gun vio- can foster greater understanding, stay silent. Thank you Michael Jor- which they work — the Institute for lence. positive change and create a more dan for speaking up!” Valerie Jar- Community Police Relations and the Anthony, leading a town hall peaceful world for ourselves, our rett, a senior adviser to US President NAACP Legal Defense Fund. meeting including citizens, police children, our families and our com- Barack Obama said on Twitter. The fi rst was launched in May and politicians in Los Angeles on munities.”

Three in detention after Florida nightclub shooting

Reuters The three young men were ar- tims, bandaging some with tourni- a festival that attracts thousands of Fort Myers, Florida rested after fl eeing the scene in two quets to stop bleeding, he said. people in zombie costumes. vehicles and were charged in con- Paramedics took some victims Before the latest shooting, Club nection to that pursuit, according to to the hospital while others drove Blu, located in a partially vacant lorida police said on Monday the Lee County Sheriff ’s Offi ce said themselves. strip mall, was hosting a “swimsuit they had taken three people in a statement posted on Facebook. At least 19 people, ranging from glow party” for people of all ages, Finto custody but were search- According to the statement Der- 12- to 27-years-old, were treated at according to a fl yer posted on Twit- ing for additional suspects in con- rick Church, 19, was charged with local hospitals, said Lisa Sgarlata, ter by television station WINK. nection with a shooting outside a assault on a law enforcement offi cer chief administrative offi cer for Lee The nightclub said on its Facebook nightclub just after midnight that after accelerating his vehicle toward Memorial Hospital. Three patients page that the shooting occurred when left two teenagers dead and more a sheriff ’s deputy. remained hospitalised at Lee Memo- the venue was closing and parents were than a dozen people wounded. Church was shot in the stomach rial as of Monday afternoon, two of picking up their children. The page lat- The shooting took place shortly by the deputy during that alterca- whom were in critical condition. er appeared to have been removed. after 12.30am EDT (0430 GMT) on tion, but was treated and had been The shooting came six weeks after “We tried to give the teens what Monday in the parking lot of Club released from a hospital, the sheriff ’s a massacre at a nightclub in Orlando, we thought was a safe place to have Blu, which was hosting an event department said. in central Florida, where a gunman a good time,” the nightclub’s post open to teenagers, the Fort Myers Demetrius O’Neal, 19, and Tajze who sympathised with Islamist ex- said, adding that armed security Police Department said. Battle, 22, were taken into custody tremist groups killed 49 people in guards were present inside and out- Police said Stef’An Strawder, an on suspicion of resisting arrest, ac- the deadliest mass shooting in mod- side the club. “It was not kids at the 18-year-old high school basketball star, cording to the statement. ern US history. party that did this despicable act.” and Sean Archilles, 14, were killed. Two “This was not a terrorist act,” Fort Despite the recent violence, Florida Jean Archilles, 37, the father of the other people were critically wounded. Myers interim Police Chief Dennis Governor Rick Scott said the state’s 14-year-old killed, said his son loved Police offi cials in Fort Myers, lo- Eads said at a news conference. crime rates were at a 45-year low. sports, especially basketball. cated on Florida’s Gulf Coast, said He said offi cers responding to the Fort Myers, about 150 miles “It happened for a reason. I don’t terrorism was not a factor in the shooting found chaos at the scene. southwest of Orlando, was the scene know what the reason is,” he said in a state’s latest outburst of gun vio- “No one really knew what was go- of another shooting incident last telephone interview, adding that he lence this summer, but provided no ing on or what happened,” Eads said. October when one person was killed had not been told details about his details about a possible motive. Offi cers provided fi rst aid to vic- and several wounded by gunfi re at son’s death. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9 AMERICAS Raging wildfi re engulfs California homes, fi lm set

AFP as of Monday morning, according to “We were able to save it. They bala Preserve, was also forced to Santa Clarita Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl couldn’t destroy the beast,” he added. move 340 of its more than 400 resi- Osby. Forest fi res are a fact of life in much dents, including Bengal tigers and a Around 3,000 fi refi ghters and 26 of California but have become far mountain lion, according to the Hol- housands of fi refi ghters bat- helicopters have been deployed to worse because of bone-dry condi- lywood Reporter. tled Monday to contain a blaze tackle the inferno, which blackened tions, with the Golden State gripped “Please say a prayer for all resi- Ttearing through suburban Los the skies over Los Angeles over the in its fi fth year of drought. dents in the path of the #SandFire. Angeles, destroying homes and a weekend. The Sand Fire has turned out to be My Moms place Shambala is be- popular fi lming location and threat- Many roads and highways were one of the worst in this region in dec- ing evacuated,” the actress Melanie ening actress Tippi Hedren’s animal partly closed. ades. It spread fast as it was fuelled Griffi th, who is Hedren’s daughter, sanctuary. The ferocious blaze destroyed over the weekend by high tempera- tweeted on Sunday. The so-called Sand Fire in the much of Sable Ranch in Santa Clar- tures and strong wind. Hedren, who founded the sanctu- Santa Clarita Valley has scorched ita, which has Western-style build- Most people have abandoned their ary in the desert community of Acton more than 142sq km of brush, threat- ings used for movie locations. homes in Sand Canyon. in 1972, kept a lion in the family home ening at least 2,000 properties and “We’ve had fi res before here and Mary and Bill Sloan were out of when Griffi th was a teenager. forcing an estimated 20,000 resi- we had always been able to defend it. town in Las Vegas and rushed back Around fi ve hours later she added: dents to fl ee. But this one, this one was a beast. It when they heard about the fi re. “Mom is safe! Shambala is safe. Now About 10,000 homes have been was a big fi re. You could hear it com- Their son was home but he man- sending love and thanks to all the fi re- evacuated since the fi re broke out ing. You could hear the ‘ff frrrrrrrr,’ aged to evacuate. fi ghters who saved her and the cats...” Friday near Sand Canyon Road in the grumbling and the rumbling,” “The fence melted some of our Meanwhile a wildfi re about 500km Santa Clarita, according to law en- owner Hunt told AFP. furniture. It had to been thrown into up the coast, outside the Big Sur tour- forcement offi cers. Hunt’s father and grandfather did the pool because it caught on fi re,” ist region, has grown to more than 23 Around 20 homes have been de- the construction work in the 1970s. Mary Sloan told AFP. square miles, destroying 20 homes stroyed, offi cials said, including two The ranch has been the site of various “I have asthma. I could not and threatening at least 1,600 more. belonging to fi refi ghters. television and fi lm shoots, including breathe. My baby could not breathe. In May, fi res near Los Angeles Police are investigating the death 24, The A-Team, Robin Hood: Men in My baby is so sick and kept crying,” pushed 5,000 people out of their of a badly charred unidentifi ed man, Tights, and Maverick. said Rehab Moawad, 39, who was at homes in the affl uent Calabasas area, found in a car parked in the driveway The only showbiz structure left a Red Cross shelter set up at a school an LA suburb which is home to many of a house in the fi re zone. was a giant metal dinosaur that was with his 14-year-old son Badr. celebrities including members of the A fire fighter battles the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles. The blaze was just 10% contained going to be used on a Netfl ix series. Hedren’s animal sanctuary, Sham- Kardashian family.

Migrant dies after arrest in Canada Somali immigrant to Canada died after being hospital- ised in critical condition following his arrest by Cana- Adian police, Ontario’s police watchdog said on its Twit- ter account on Monday. Media reports cited witnesses saying the man was beaten by a number of police offi cers as he tried to run into an apartment building during the incident on Sunday. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) launched an in- vestigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the man in an Ottawa neighbourhood. “SIU can confi rm the 37-yr-old man in Hilda St incident in Ottawa has now died,” the agency posted on Twitter. The man was identifi ed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) news channel as Abdirahman Abdi, a Somali im- migrant. The unit said on Sunday that Ottawa police offi cers had been called in the morning with reports of a man causing a disturbance. Shortly after offi cers responded there was a confrontation during which the man “suff ered medical dis- tress”. He was taken to hospital in critical condition. Video posted on the National Post newspaper’s website appears to show a man in a bloodied shirt lying face down on the ground with his hands cuff ed behind his back and his pants pulled down before paramedics arrived and began ad- ministering CPR. Neighbours can be heard yelling at the po- lice in the background. The man’s brother told CBC that Abdi had been “sick” and rarely spoke to other people, while other media reports said he may have been on the autism spectrum. Abdi’s brother told CBC he had lived in Canada for eight years.

First women join special forces wo women will soon be the fi rst female soldiers to un- dergo training to become members of the Green Berets, Tthe US Army’s special forces, the military said Monday. “They are the fi rst two women who have been selected for special forces assessment” following the elimination of the ban on women in combat roles, said Major Melody Faulken- berry, a spokeswoman for the United States Army John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. She did not give additional details about the candidates. President Barack Obama’s administration decided in 2013 that all combat positions should be open to women by 2016, including the infantry and special operations forces. The Marines had requested some exemptions, but these were overruled by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Two female Marines were assigned to frontline infantry roles in May, though it will take some time before they are placed in their new roles. Rules stipulate that a female “lead- ership cadre” needs to be established in their units at least three months beforehand. Although women warriors have frequently found them- selves in combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, they had previously been barred from joining frontline combat roles. Currently, women account for 15.6 % of the 1.34mn active duty personnel in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. Gulf Times 10 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 ASEAN

Malaysia jails nine 16 coffi ns readied ahead Filipinos over 2013 of executions ‘this week’ ‘sultan DPA ecutions could be carried out as However, yesterday Indone- of Sulu’ Jakarta early as Friday, Detik.com news sian authorities gave 72 hours’ website reported. notice that they will execute the A funeral offi cial for a local drug convicts, a diplomat said, invasion ixteen coffi ns have been church told Detik.com that po- despite protests from govern- taken to an Indonesian lice had transported 16 coffi ns to ments and rights groups. Sprison island where drug the execution site. Syed Zahid Raza, the deputy Reuters/AFP traffi ckers on death row are ex- “I have been asked to bathe Pakistani ambassador in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur pected to be executed this week, the bodies of Christian (con- told AFP that the convicts, who according to media reports yes- victs),” Suhendro Putro was include a Pakistani, could face terday. quoted as saying. “Each body the fi ring squad around mid- Malaysian court jailed Prosecutors and families of will be bathed by two people.” night on Friday after yesterday’s nine Philippine militants the convicts visited the Nusa The attorney general’s offi ce meeting between Indonesian Afor life yesterday for their Kambangan prison complex off has not announced a date for offi cials and diplomats to signal involvement in a 2013 invasion the coast of central Java, where the executions or how many will the start of the countdown. of a Malaysian state on Borneo 14 convicts faced fi ring squads be executed, saying only that Nationals from Pakistan, In- island, in a dispute stemming last year, a sign that the ex- “preparations are under way”. dia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe are from 19th century British colo- expected to be executed along- nial rule. side Indonesians. The militants were found Offi cials say no Europeans or guilty of waging war against the Australians will be included in Malaysian king during the Feb- the third round of executions ruary 2013 invasion of Sabah under President Joko Widodo. state that ended in bloody skir- Indonesia sparked interna- mishes with Malaysian forces tional outrage with its last batch after a month-long stand-off . of executions in April 2015 when The High Court in the state it put to death seven foreigners, capital of Kota Kinabalu ruled including two Australians. Family of death row prisoners ride a ferry boat to the prison island of Nusa Kambangan for a visit, in that there were no grounds to But Widodo has insisted Ja- Cilacap, Central Java. justify the death penalty as there karta is fi ghting a war against was no evidence the nine had drugs and traffi ckers must be step normally taken ahead of ex- The attorney general’s of- Utami, who is among the group. been directly involved in the harshly punished. ecutions. fi ce, which oversees executions, Rights group the Nation- skirmishes, Malaysia’s Bernama Authorities have been step- Raza said Indonesian offi cials would not confi rm any details. al Commission on Violence state news agency reported. ping up preparations in recent had given the notice period at Pakistan has raised concerns Against Women say the former “The off ence had badly af- days, with several death row a meeting in Cilacap, the town about the looming execution of domestic worker was tricked fected the lives of the residents drug convicts transferred to closest to the prison island, its national, Zulfi qar Ali, saying into traffi cking heroin. ... as well as the families of the Nusakambangan prison island which included diplomats from he did not receive a fair trial. About 121 people are currently deceased security personnel,” A protester holds placards reading ‘save MU’, one of the inmates on – where executions take place – several countries and lawyers. Rights groups have claimed on death row in Indonesia, in- the judge, Stephen Chung, told death row, and ‘Jokowi (Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo) let MU and security strengthened in the It is a legal requirement in Ali, sentenced to death in 2005 cluding 35 foreigners, mainly the court. live’ during a demonstration yesterday against the death penalty area. Indonesia to give a minimum for heroin possession, was beat- convicted of drug-related At least 27 people were killed in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta. Yesterday Indonesian Fourteen prisoners have been notice period of 72 hours be- en into confessing. crimes, according to the justice as Malaysian troops backed by authorities gave 72 hours’ notice that they will execute a group of placed in isolation cells on the fore executions, and authorities There have also been con- ministry. fi ghter jets stormed the camp set drug convicts including foreigners, a diplomat said, despite protests island this week, state-run typically put people to death just cerns over the case of a female up by the Philippine fi ghters in from governments and rights groups. Antara news agency reported, a after midnight. Indonesian drug convict, Merri „ See also page 19 the Lahad Datu district. The key people behind the in- vasion have not been brought to justice, the news agency cited Chung as saying. The fi ghters were from a group Activists Most Thais are undecided from the southern Philippines that has demanded recognition, and an increased payment from charged Malaysia, for their claim to be on charter vote: pollster the rightful owners of Sabah, which an ancient sultanate over army leased to British colonialists in By Amy Sawitta Lefevre, draft charter, curbing debate cided chunk of the population.” the 19th century. Reuters ahead of a vote that will be the The NIDA released a survey Malaysia dismisses the de- torture Bangkok fi rst big test of its popularity. this week showing nearly 60% mands. But a one-sided information of 1,500 people polled around The fi ghters declared loyalty campaign has left many people Thailand were undecided, 32% to the late self-proclaimed Sul- report ost Thais are unde- dithering about how to vote and would vote in favour of the draft tan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram, in the cided about how they liable to make impulsive deci- constitution and about 6% Philippines. Mwill vote next month sions, said Suwicha Pao-aree, planned to vote against it. N Sivananthan, counsel for AFP in a referendum on a new con- head of polling at the National The military government, the Filipino militants, told AFP Bangkok stitution that the military gov- Institute of Development Ad- which has promised an election Students doing military service take a break yesterday during a on Monday that among those ernment says will promote sta- ministration (NIDA) university. next year, says the proposed campaign in Bangkok encouraging the public to vote in the found guilty was 53-year-old bility but which critics say will “Anything could happen,” constitution will heal divisions upcoming referendum on Thailand’s draft constitution. Amir Bahar Hushin Kiram, the hree prominent Thai entrench military infl uence, a Suwicha told Reuters. after years of rivalry between son of the late self-styled sultan. rights defenders were pollster said yesterday. Suwicha said that prepara- election-winning populist po- up to the referendum has been stability in the short term. Jamalul claimed to be the heir Tcharged yesterday with The August 7 referendum is tion for Thailand’s referendum litical forces and a military- diffi cult to gauge because of a “This would be the least bad to the Islamic sultanate of Sulu, criminal defamation over a rare an important step for the gov- was very diff erent to the cam- dominated establishment wary ban on campaigning, includ- outcome from a short-term which once controlled parts of report describing torture suf- ernment that took power after paign in Britain for a vote last of challenges. ing a law stipulating 10 years in perspective as at least a road- the southern Philippines and fered by detainees in the restive a 2014 coup as it tries to shape month on whether to stay in the Critics of the charter, includ- prison for criticising the draft’s map to nominal democracy part of Borneo. south, police said. a political system after a decade European Union or not. ing some major political parties content or disrupting the vote. would be in sight,” BMI Re- A total of 800,000 Filipinos Thailand’s southern tip is a of turmoil in Southeast Asia’s “There has only been infor- and activist groups, say it would While activists say that the search said in a note yesterday. live in Sabah, making up about hotbed of violence, with more second-biggest economy. mation from one side whereas empower pro-establishment charter would not heal under- Prime Minister Prayut Chan- one-quarter of the population than 6,500 – mostly civilians – The government has stifl ed in Britain both sides were al- institutions at the expense of lying rivalries, some analysts ocha has said an election will be of the state, which is just a short killed in a 12-year insurgency by dissent and is particularly sen- lowed to take to the boxing ring political parties. have said a vote in favour of it held in 2017 regardless of the boat ride from the southern Muslim rebels against the Bud- sitive about criticism of the and fi ght. The result is an unde- Public opinion in the run- would be most benefi cial for referendum outcome. Philippines. dhist-majority state. But the near-daily shootings and bombs make few interna- tional headlines, and watchdog Islamic State loyalists plead guilty groups say rights abuses are to grenade attack in Malaysia frequent in the shadowy region Abu Sayyaf blamed for abducting ship crew governed for a decade by emer- Two Islamic State (IS) loyalists pleaded guilty on Monday to eight gency laws. counts of attempted murder over a grenade attack last month at a Three activists behind the DPA Sayyaf members, said Inspector with it as well as contacting us ing those of several Malaysian bar outside the Malaysian capital, a government prosecutor said. landmark report on torture al- Kuala Lumpur General Khalid Abu Bakar. the police,” he said. “If they do and Indonesian hostages who The two men each face up to 14 years in prison, prosecutor Roslan legedly carried out by soldiers in “The fi ve tugboat crew have not want to follow our advice were released only after ran- Mat Nor said. the south are now facing jail time been kidnapped by the kidnap- and do as they want especially soms amounting to millions of Sentencing was scheduled for September 21, and the men were after the military charged them he Malaysian crew of a for-ransom group from the when they are in a dangerous ar- dollars were paid. denied bail. with defamation, which carries tugboat missing since southern Philippines,” he told eas, the risk of security threat on Abu Sayyaf are still holding Eight people were injured in the June 28 grenade explosion at the a two year prison sentence, and Tlast week were abducted reporters. them is high.” seven Indonesians, whom they Movida Bar and Lounge in Petaling Jaya during a live Euro 2016 violating the computer crimes by an Islamist militant group in Khalid said Malaysian au- Two weeks earlier, Abu Sayyaf seized three weeks ago also in broadcast, the first confirmed attack by IS loyalists in Malaysia. act, which carries three years. the southern Philippines, Ma- thorities have already discussed militants from the southern the Sulu Sea-Celebes Sea area. The two were also charged with terrorism, which has a maximum Rights groups say that both laysia’s police chief said yester- procedures for boats sailing in Philippines seized three Indo- The defence ministers of the penalty of 30 years imprisonment, for propagating Islamic State broadly-worded laws are rou- day. the waters between Malaysia nesian fi shermen in the area. Philippines, Malaysia and In- ideology. tinely used by powerful interests The fi ve crew members were and Philippines to avoid such Abu Sayyaf has been blamed donesia are scheduled to meet They did not enter a plea for that charge, and a separate trial was to silence critics. taken from their boat off the kidnappings. for at least fi ve kidnappings in in Jakarta in August to discuss set for September 26. “All three denied the charges coast of the northern state “We have called tugboat op- the Sulu Sea-Celebes Sea area, security challenges in their bor- Malaysian police have been relentless in their crackdown against and will submit written testimo- of Sabah, which lies near the erators and told them the risks which borders the Philippines, ders, including the increasing Islamic State supporters, charging dozens of suspected loyalists in nies later,” Winyou Tiamrat, the Philippines, by suspected Abu they were facing and how to deal Malaysia and Indonesia, includ- number of abductions. courts. police offi cer handling the case Nearly 100 Malaysians are believed to have travelled to Syria and in the southern province of Pat- Iraq to fight alongside Islamic State militants, according to the tani, said of Pornpen Khongka- Malaysia’s home aff airs ministry. chonkiet, Anchana Heemmina, and Somchai Homlaor. Their report, based on inter- Widodo set to announce cabinet reshuffl e Vietnamese girls switched at birth views with 54 former detainees, described a host of physical and returned to biological parents mental torture tactics allegedly Reuters ter confi rmed that a reshuffl e would solidate support from parties that used by soldiers and police. Jakarta be announced today. have been keen to join the ruling Two Vietnamese girls switched at birth have been returned to their Beatings, threats at gunpoint, Neither source said which minis- coalition. biological parents after three years, local media reported yesterday. sensory deprivation and partial ters would be replaced. “There is the need to acknowledge The baby girls were accidentally given to the wrong parents at suff ocation were all routine dur- ndonesian President Joko Wido- Widodo met a number of his min- the support of parties like Golkar a hospital in southern Binh Long province after their births on ing detention, the report said. do is expected to announce his isters late yesterday at the presiden- which have thrown their weight January 10, 2013, Thanh Nien newspaper reported. The military, which denied the Isecond cabinet reshuffl e in less tial palace in central Jakarta. behind his government,” said Keith The switch was discovered when the grandfather of one of the report’s allegations, has in the than two years today, two sources The reshuffl e comes nearly a year Loveard of Jakarta-based Concord babies saw a child in a nearby town in May who had a striking past admitted rights abuses but close to the matter said. after Widodo replaced key members Consulting, referring to Indonesia’s resemblance to his daughter and her husband. prosecutions of soldiers are ex- When asked whether the an- of his economics team in an eff ort second biggest political party. After learning that another couple had their child at the same tremely rare. Widodo: met a nouncement would be made on to boost investor confi dence over a “Assuming his choices are good hospital on the same day, the parents took their girls to Ho Ch Minh The insurgents have also em- number of his Wednesday, a palace offi cial, who fl agging economy. ones the public will accept this as City for DNA tests, which confirmed their true parentage. ployed brutal tactics includ- ministers late declined to be named because of the A year on, analysts say this week’s part of fi ne-tuning and a normal “It breaks our hearts that we have been unable to care for our real ing shootings, beheadings and yesterday at the sensitivity of the issue, said: “Yes.” reshuffl e is likely to be politically part of the political process,” he daughter for the last three years. We both feel ill thinking about it,” bombings. presidential palace. A second source close to the mat- motivated as Widodo seeks to con- added. 36-year-old father Vu Dinh Khien said. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 11 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA Baby dies in laughing gas mix-up

DPA June and July of this year but Sydney the wrong gas connection was only discovered last Thursday after a paediatrician raised ne baby died and an- concerns about the unex- other was left with se- pected death of the newborn Overe disabilities after baby. they were mistakenly given The mother of the baby laughing gas in a Sydney hos- who died, Sonya Ghanem, pital, local media reported yes- was told her son had died terday. after waking from an anaes- Instead of being given oxy- thetic following an emer- gen, the newborn babies re- gency caesarean, according to ceived nitrous oxide because local media 9News. a gas line had been wrongly “I was just looking at him, connected at Bankstown- shaking. My son ‘wake up’ I Lidcombe Hospital, accord- would tell him,” she told the ing to New South Wales state programme. Health Minister Jillian Skin- “’Wake up, wake up, what ner. have they done to you?’” “I deeply regret these fami- Another baby, born in June, lies have suff ered through such was also given the gas and re- a devastating error,” Skinner mains in a critical condition said in a statement. with signifi cant brain damage, The incidents happened in according to 9News.

A facility for the disabled where the attack took place. White humpback whale spotted

AFP gorgeous whale, thank you for Japan knife attacker Sydney being here for us today’,” Ali- son Reid, who saw Migaloo on a whale watching cruise, told n extremely rare white national radio. humpback whale was “He’s amazing. It was just Aspotted yesterday off an incredible sight, it was so the Australian coast as he mi- unreal.” grates towards warmer tropical Oskar Peterson, who runs kills 19 in their sleep waters to mate. the Australian-based White The albino is widely be- Whale Research Centre, said a The last murder in the area was 10 “obliterate 470 disabled people”, Kyodo door at a time, and stabbed sleeping peo- themselves,” Fujimura said, referring to lieved to be Migaloo, the study by Southern Cross Uni- years ago news agency reported. He said he would ple one by one,” Kuroiwa said.”I just can’t the victims.”That’s why so many died. It world’s best-known all-white versity in 2004, which man- kill 260 severely disabled people at two ar- believe the cruelty of this crime. makes you weep to think of somebody just humpback who has built up a aged to get skin samples from Reuters eas in the facility during a night shift, and We need to prevent this from ever hap- murdering them.” loyal following in Australia the whale, had shown Migaloo Sagamihara would not hurt employees. pening again.” The dead ranged in age from 19 to 70 since first being sighted in was male. “My goal is a world in which the severely Staff at the facility called police at and included nine males and 10 females, 1991. He was now believed to be disabled can be euthanised, with their 2.30am local time (1730 GMT Monday) Kyodo said. Migaloo is an Aboriginal around 30 years old. The whale knife-wielding man broke into a guardians’ consent, if they are unable to with reports of a man armed with a knife Police had recovered a bag with several word meaning “whitefella”. is expected to gradually make facility for the disabled in a small live at home and be active in society,” Ue- on the grounds, media reports said. The knives, at least one stained with blood, a He was seen and photo- his way as far north as Cook- Atown near Tokyo early yesterday matsu wrote in the two letters given to the man wore a black T-shirt and trousers, the Kanagawa prefecture offi cial said. graphed off Byron Bay on town in the Australian tropics and killed 19 patients as they slept, au- speaker of the lower house of parliament, reports said. At least 29 emergency squads responded Australia’s east coast, head- before the return trip to Ant- thorities said, Japan’s worst mass killing Kyodo reported. The 3-hectare (7.6 acre) facility was es- to the attack, Kyodo reported, with those ing north on his annual mi- arctica later in the year. since World War Two. Uematsu was committed to hospital af- tablished by the local government. wounded taken to at least six hospitals in gration from Antarctica to However, there are be- At least 25 other residents were wound- ter he expressed a “willingness to kill se- Surrounded by tree-covered mountains the western Tokyo area. warmer waters in Queensland lieved to be only two or three ed in the attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri- verely disabled people”, an offi cial in Sag- and on the banks of the Sagami River, it Such mass killings are extremely rare in state. white humpbacks in the En facility for mentally and physically amihara told Reuters. cares for people with a wide range of dis- Japan and typically involve stabbings. “I cried. I screamed ‘You world. disabled in Sagamihara town, about 40km He was freed on March 2 after a doctor abilities. Japan has strict gun laws and possession southwest of Tokyo. deemed he had improved, the offi cial said. The facility’s website said the centre of fi rearms by the public is rare. “This is a very heart-wrenching and Uematsu lived near the facility, and a had a maximum capacity of 160 people, Eight children were stabbed to death at Fossil of marsupial identified shocking incident in which many innocent neighbour described him as a polite, young including staff . their school in Osaka by a former janitor in people became victims,” chief cabinet sec- man who always greeted him with a smile. Japan has one of the lowest crime rates 2001. A new species of extinct first creature to be formally retary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news “It would be easier to understand if in the world and residents of Sagamihara Seven people died in 2008 when a man flesh-eating marsupial identified from a range of conference in Tokyo. there had been a warning but there were said they were in shock. drove a truck into a crowd and began stab- that terrorised Australia’s strange new animals whose Prime minister Shinzo Abe later told a no signs,” said Akihiro Hasegawa, 73.”We The last murder in the area was 10 years bing people in Tokyo’s popular electronics forests some 5mn years ago remains have been found at gathering in Tokyo: “The lives of many in- didn’t know the darkness of his heart.” ago. and “anime” district of Akihabara. has been identified from a a fossil site in Queensland. nocent people were taken away and I am The suspect apparently began changing “This is a peaceful, quiet town so I never A revision to Japan’s Swords and Fire- recently discovered fossil site, “W tomnpatrichorum had greatly shocked. We will make every eff ort about fi ve months ago, said Yuji Kuroiwa, thought such an incident would happen arms Control Law was introduced in 2009 scientists said yesterday. The very powerful teeth capable to discover the facts and prevent a reoc- the governor of Kanagawa prefecture, here,” said Oshikazu Shimo, one of many in the wake of that attack, banning the animal, weighing 20 to 25kg of killing and slicing up the curance.” where the facility is located. residents of the town who gathered near possession of double-edged knives and and named Whollydooleya largest animals of its day,” said The suspect was a 26-year-old former “You could say there were warning the facility. further tightening gun-ownership rules. tomnpatrichorum, is a University of New South Wales employee of the facility who gave himself signs, but it’s diffi cult to say if this could Taxi driver Susumu Fujimura said of the Members of a doomsday cult killed 12 distant and bigger cousin professor Mike Archer, the lead up to police. have been prevented,” he told reporters. attacker: “He said ‘we should get rid of dis- people and made thousands ill in 1995 in of Australia’s largest living author of a study into the find The man, Satoshi Uematsu, said in let- “This was not an impulsive crime...He abled people’ but he’s the worthless one.” simultaneous attacks with sarin nerve gas flesh-eating marsupial — the published in the Memoirs of ters he wrote in February that he could went in the dark of the night, opened one “That kind of person can’t defend on fi ve Tokyo rush-hour subway trains. Tasmanian Devil. It is the Museum Victoria. TV shows abuse of teens in Australian detention

Guardian News tory sentencing, law and order politics law and order agenda and its culture of Sydney and “lock ‘em up and throw the key incarceration”. away attitudes”. “The detention centre images will “We are rapidly reinforcing the no- damage Australia’s international ustralia’s prime minister has tion that we are a nation of jailers — we standing, not to mention the Northern launched a public inquiry after constantly incarcerate the Aboriginal Territory’s position as a place that has Athe broadcast of footage of chil- people.” supposedly emerged from the old cow- dren in detention being abused, hooded Dodson called on the government to boy culture.” and bound in a manner likened to Abu take a broader look at the justice sys- The deputy prime minister, Barnaby Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. tem and detention not just the Don Joyce, said “this is not Australia”, but Malcolm Turnbull announced a royal Dale centre. He said John Elferink, the insisted the Northern Territory senator commission hours after the airing of Northern Territory’s attorney general, and Indigenous aff airs minister, Nigel shocking footage showing the treat- should immediately be stood aside until Scullion, would have acted if he had ment of the children at the Don Dale the inquiry takes place. known about it. detention facility outside Darwin in the Dodson told ABC’s AM radio pro- Peter O’Brien, lawyer for Dylan Northern Territory. gramme it was “a matter of utter Voller and former prisoner Jake Roper, The prime minister said that he was This frame grab from ABC Four Corners programme broadcast in Australia shows a teenage boy hooded and strapped into shame” and showed problems revealed said: “Dylan Voller is in an adult prison, “deeply shocked... and appalled” at in- a chair at a youth detention centre in the Northern Territory city of Darwin. Right: Youth being assaulted in the facility. by the royal commission into deaths in in a form of segregated imprisonment, stances of abuse at the centre, revealed custody continued. right now. He needs to be released to- by an investigation by the national 2014 and 2015. The programme also Within a couple of hours of the show the Northern Territory for some time. Staff at the Don Dale juvenile deten- day … We act for him, and Jake Roper, broadcaster ABC on Monday. examined long-running issues and in- ending, more than 3,000 people had Asked whether the royal commission tion facility used teargas on youths who in a suit against the Northern Territory In one scene that the Four Corners stances of mistreatment in the North- signed a petition calling for a royal would consider the Northern Territory were reportedly attempting to escape government for assault, battery and programme compared with images ern Territory youth justice system. commission. justice system generally, Turnbull said on 22 August 2014, although CCTV vi- false imprisonment, arising from their from Guant namo Bay or the Abu Gh- CCTV footage showed the restraint In announcing the royal commission, inquiries needed a “clear focus so you sion showed only one boy had escaped treatment within the NT youth deten- raib jail in Baghdad, 17-year-old Dylan and spit-hooding of one youth, as well Turnbull said the Don Dale centre had to get the answers to the specifi c problem”. and of the six boys who were exposed tion system. Voller was shown hooded and tied in a as another being stripped and physi- be examined specifi cally but the inquiry Turnbull said children in detention to the gas, fi ve were locked in their cells “He must be released immediately. restraint chair for two hours. cally held down by guards. would also consider “whether there is a should be treated humanely but did not and not all were misbehaving. The impact of these years of brutali- Voller — who was featured repeat- Indigenous youths make up 96% of the culture that spreads across the deten- call for Don Dale to be immediately shut After the programme was broadcast, sation must be immediately measured edly suff ering apparent mistreatment young prison population in the North- tion system in the Northern Territory, down. but before Turnbull announced the royal and he needs immediate assistance.” at the hands of guards — and fi ve other ern Territory, and Indigenous people are whether it was specifi c to that centre”. He said the royal commission would commission, Ken Wyatt, a federal MP In a press conference yesterday Adam former Don Dale prisoners are to sue overwhelmingly represented in the NT “The important thing is to get to the be established and report as soon as and assistant minister for health, said he Giles, the Northern Territory’s chief the Northern Territory government. prison system across the board. bottom of what happened at Don Dale, possible and be conducted jointly with was “angry, stunned and ashamed” that minister, insisted he had not seen the The chairs are among items recently Indigenous people make up 30% of and there may be other matters con- the Northern Territory government. such treatment could occur in Australia. footage before it was broadcast and including in a widened list of “ap- the overall population of the NT. nected to that to be looked into.” Patrick Dodson, Labor’s shadow as- Stephen Gray, an associate of watched it with “horror”. He said he was proved restraints” under laws passed The revelations cast a new spotlight on The precise terms of the royal com- sistant minister for indigenous aff airs, Monash University’s Castan Centre for taking over the corrections portfolio by the adminstration. Australia’s treatment of Indigenous peo- mission remain unclear and many said the royal commission should con- Human Rights Law, says the revela- from controversial NT attorney general The footage broadcast in the Four ple in general, and also on the NT govern- commentators and politicians protest- sider law reform because “laws may be tions over the past 24 hours are an un- John Elferink and acknowledged there Corners programme was recorded in ment’s hardline approach to crime. ed that the issue had been prominent in part of the problem”, including manda- surprising outcome of the NT’s “strong was a “culture of coverup” in the system. Gulf Times 12 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 BRITAIN

PEOPLE CRIME VERDICT LEGAL OPINION British Council boss Man held as Mr Scotland Conman jailed for £20,000 ‘Drunk’ Canadian Call to release attacks Prince George bodybuilder found dead fraud on letting agency pilots freed on bail thousands of prisoners

The British Council yesterday launched a A man has been arrested after a bodybuilder A conman who stole more than £20,000 from a Two Canadian pilots charged with being drunk and The chairman of the parole board has called disciplinary investigation into allegations that a who recently won the Mr Scotland title was family-owned lettings agency by posing as the disorderly as they prepared to fly a passenger jet for changes that could lead to the release senior director had ranted on Facebook about found stabbed to death on an industrial estate. manager has been jailed for a year. Adam Braiki, from Glasgow to Toronto were yesterday released of thousands of prisoners on indeterminate Prince George. Angela Gibbins, the council’s Police Scotland said yesterday they had detained 33, withdrew £10,000 from the accounts of Drury on bail by a Scottish court. Jean-Francois Perreault, sentences, describing the current rules as a “blot director of property, is also alleged to have a 43-year-old man after Michael O’Hanlon was and Cole and tried to transfer another £10,850 39, and Imran Zafar Syed, 37, were arrested on July on the system”. Nick Hardwick, who took over as commented that his smile showed he knows he fatally injured beside a car repair workshop at an by pretending to be manager Adam Cole. He got 18 as they were due to pilot an Airbus A310 plane, chairman in March, said releasing such prisoners is “royal, rich (and) advantaged”, according to industrial estate in Stevenston, near Irvine, at about Lloyds Bank to send him a new card in Cole’s name, which carries up to 250 passengers, for Canada’s would help reduce overcrowding in prisons in the Sun. The council said it would investigate: midday on Monday. Attempts by paramedics to then withdrew two lots of £5,000 from the Notting Air Transat. In their first court appearance on England and Wales. The coalition government “In accordance with our code of conduct we are resuscitate him failed and he was declared dead Hill branch of Lloyds on September 17 last year. The July 19 they were remanded in custody, but in a scrapped indeterminate sentences for public following disciplinary procedures.” The social at the scene. O’Hanlon, 45, ran the Musclebox £10,850 transfer was stopped by the bank when second private hearing yesterday they were given protection (IPPs) in 2012 after the European court media profile on which Gibbins is said to have bodybuilders and supplements shop in the east suspicions were raised that Braiki did not work for bail on condition they give up their passports. of human rights ruled that they were “arbitrary and made the comments is private and not related to end of Glasgow with his partner Eileen Kirkwood, the Morden-based lettings agency. Braiki denied Perreault, from Ontario, and Syed, from Toronto, unlawful”. But 4,000 prisoners are still being held her British Council work. The Standard attempted and had won the National Amateur Body-Builders’ four counts of fraud but was jailed for 12 months were charged under transport safety legislation on IPPs because they have to prove they would not to contact Gibbins but did not receive a reply. Association Mr Scotland title. after being found guilty by an Old Bailey jury. covering alcohol and drug limits in aviation. be a risk to the public before they are released. MP censured Tough times for bringing children to parliament

Kirsty Blackman usually both took it fairly well,” Black- leaves her two young man writes. children in the care of their “I did make them run af- father in Aberdeen while terwards though, and I made she travels to London for the it into the division lobby with Commons working week only moments to spare.” “I also took them through the lobby Guardian News and Media with me. This is defi nitely not London supposed to happen. But I have yet to work out what the House expects us to do with small chil- n Scottish National Par- dren who are not allowed in the ty MP has called for the lobby. AWestminster parliament “How do I explain to a two- to adopt a more family friendly year-old that she has to stay approach after she was censured with adults she has never met by Commons authorities for so I can vote? The system is bringing her children to a com- nonsensical and overdue for re- mittee hearing. form.” Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in London yesterday. Corbyn, an anti-war campaigner who is sharply to the left of most Labour MPs, was Kirsty Blackman usually Blackman also took her chil- only elected last September but has been battling for his job since the Brexit vote in last month’s EU referendum. leaves her two young children in dren to a Scottish aff airs select the care of their father in Aber- committee meeting last Tues- deen while she travels to London day, where they sat at the back for the Commons working week. of the room drawing pictures and playing with an iPad. Blackman explains: “This worked really well until Rebecca started falling asleep. She had been up until nearly 11pm the night before because the Trident vote was late at night. Green threatens to sue “I couldn’t really leave her sleeping slumped in her chair so I picked her up and took her back to my seat.” “How do I explain to a two- After the meeting, the year-old that she has to stay 30-year-old MP received a cau- with adults she has never tion from clerks for breaching Field over ‘Maxwell slur’ met so I can vote? The rules. system is nonsensical and Blackman concludes her ar- Guardian News and Media partment store group went into reads: “In that interview you apology in relation to the al- let down,” he said. “Sadly, one overdue for reform” ticle by calling for the removal London administration in April leav- alleged that our client had sto- legation” and a reply within 24 cannot turn the clock back. of barriers faced by parents of ing a £571mn pension defi cit. len money, specifi cally from hours. “The other remedies to The disposal of BHS was made But last week she experienced young children in carrying out Green had sold BHS for £1 just the BHS and Arcadia pension which our client is clearly en- 100% in good faith and I still childcare diffi culties because their duties as members of par- ir Philip Green has in- over a year earlier to a consor- funds. This statement is highly titled will very much depend believe that we provided Re- parliament’s summer recess fol- liament. structed lawyers to de- tium led by Dominic Chappell, defamatory and completely on form and manner of your tail Acquisitions and Chappell lows English school holidays, “We must push for change to Smand an immediate apol- a serial bankrupt. false. response and in the meantime, with the appropriate finance while Scottish schools break up ensure that Parliament is more ogy from Frank Field, one of the After the report was pub- “Our client has never stolen all of our client’s rights are re- ... I am trying to find a solution at the beginning of July. family friendly and that parents senior MPs who led an inquiry lished Field went on to make any money from BHS, Arcadia served,” it adds. for the BHS pension and am Writing in yesterday’s Daily of young children fi nd it easier into the failure of BHS. several even more critical com- or the pension funds and you Field himself revealed the continuing to work with the Record, the member for Aber- to stand for Parliament and eas- The billionaire retail tycoon ments on BBC Radio 4’s Today know that. In particular, there existence of the legal letter, regulator to achieve an out- deen North, who was one of the ier to undertake their roles.” launched a fi ghtback after he programme, without the pro- is nothing in the recent Re- telling the BBC that he thought come ... I do not believe that cohort of fi rst-time SNP MPs “There are all sorts of other was heavily criticised in a re- tection of parliamentary privi- port of the Work and Pensions Green’s conduct was “dis- this story is being in any way elected in May 2015, described barriers to parents in Parlia- port by two House of Commons lege aff orded by the report. and Business, Innovation and placement therapy”. “Instead of fairly portrayed.” the often comical diffi culties she ment — the government sets committees, one of which is Field alleged Green was the Skills Committees, (the Report) writing a big cheque he is fi ring It also emerged that Green is faced when she was left with no the recess dates and can give chaired by Field. principal character in the col- (of which you were one of the off lawyers’ letters. He needs to threatening legal action against choice but to bring two-year- little notice of these, the House The report by MPs triggered lapse of BHS and “worse than Chairs) to support your allega- stop messing around and write Chappell and the other mem- old Rebecca and fi ve-year-old business is only set a week in calls for Green to be stripped Robert Maxwell”, saying he was tion. a big cheque,” the Labour MP bers of his consortium, Retail Harris to her place of work. advance so we cannot easily of his knighthood. It found the somebody “who behaves like “Clearly an allegation that said. Acquisitions. “The chief issue is the ri- plan our travel to take account former owner of the chain had Napoleon”, plundered BHS, and our client is a thief is likely to A separate statement from Green alleges that Retail Ac- diculously archaic voting sys- of vital votes, plus lack of ad- “systematically extracted hun- must now pay out to fund the cause him serious harm. Fur- Green on the contents of the quisitions misused BHS funds tem. MPs have to physically be hoc childcare and the afore- dreds of millions of pounds pensions hole left behind. ther, in relation to the recent work and pensions committee and that Chappell falsely rep- present to vote … As the division mentioned summer recess is- from BHS, paying very little Lawyers for Green from City parliamentary hearings and the report says it is the “predeter- resented his business creden- bells rang to signal (an unex- sue.” tax and fantastically enriching law fi rm Schillings are chal- report and allegations made mined and inaccurate output of tials. The legal letter, sent by pectedly early vote on Wednes- “My children can’t attend himself and his family, leaving lenging the MP’s statements, there you were protected by a biased and unfair process”. Green’s solicitors at Linklaters, day), both my children were on Parliament’s nursery, for ex- the company and its pension claiming they are defamatory privilege. That does not apply “With the benefit of hind- warns Chappell and his asso- the toilet. ample, as they are not based in fund weakened to the point of and false and warning that they to the interview (or any others sight, clearly Retail Acquisi- ciates that they could be sued. “I’m sure ‘hurry up’ is the last London full-time. We need to do the inevitable collapse of both”. must not be repeated. you intend to make).” tions and Chappell were a very Green declined to comment, thing anyone wants to hear dur- what we can to highlight these All BHS stores will close by The letter to Field, sent to the The letter goes on to demand bad choice as purchaser on while Chappell did not respond ing a bowel movement, but they issues and improve them.” the end of August after the de- Guardian by advisers to Green, “an immediate and fulsome many fronts and I feel badly to requests for comment.

Star could have died in accident, court told Hollywood star Harrison Ford could have been killed by a hydraulic door on a Star Wars movie set, a court heard yesterday, as the Disney-owned production company admitted to safety breaches. Ford, then aged 71, suff ered a broken left leg on the set of the Millennium Falcon spaceship after he was pinned down by the heavy, metal-framed door during filming at Pinewood Studios near London. The court heard that in the incident on June 12, 2014, Ford had been walking backwards through the portal, believing the set was not live and the vertically-sliding door would not close — but it was remotely activated by someone. The actor had to be airlifted to hospital in Oxford. “It could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn’t was because an emergency stop was activated,” prosecutor Andrew Marshall told the court in Milton Keynes, a town near London and the film studios. Ford, who was reprising his role as Han Solo in the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, spoke about the incident on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross Show last year. The actor said he had been hit by “a great hydraulic door which closed at light speed”. Foodles Production, which pleaded guilty to a breach of duty towards employees and a breach over non-employees, will be sentenced on August 22. “The safety of our cast and crew was always a top priority throughout our production,” a spokeswoman for the company said. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 13 BRITAIN/IRELAND

Couple fi ghts to stop Australia deporting sick daughter to UK

London Evening Standard speech and balance and offi cials England if appeals to allow her to happened. The rest of the family were frightening, with sugges- to Immigration Minister Peter with people.” The family received Sydney have decided she is a burden on the remain are rejected. can stay here — but Sienna can’t. tions that Sienna might not fully Dutton. a glimmer of hope yesterday, country’s health system and, un- Her parents, who live in Lennox And if she has to go, it means we develop into an adult. “With this, “I and my wife have had our ap- when migration lawyer Nathan like parents Kai Tippett and Hay- Heads on the north coast of New will all have to go. It was in late our world came crashing down. plications for permanent residency Willis said they appear to have a former London couple are ley Niedzielska, who emigrated South Wales, were told that Sienna 2012 that we started to notice Si- We couldn’t understand how this approved, but my daughter’s has good case. He told the Australian locked in a desperate battle with her six years ago, she cannot had to go because a review signed enna, then 18 months old, was not could happen to us.” been refused. It’s a gut-wrenching Broadcasting Corporation: “This Awith the Australian govern- stay. by an unnamed doctor stated that meeting her developmental mile- Kai, who has plans to invest all feeling”, he said. “Sienna is learn- would seem to be one of those ment to prevent their six-year-old It means that despite having she doesn’t meet “criteria”. stones and had delayed speech. of the family’s money into prop- ing Auslan sign language, which is sorts of situations where the min- daughter being deported to the settled into a new life when Sienna Kai Tippett said : “We had a per- As time went on we noticed her erty development, to turn over only for Australia. So if she went ister should intervene for the sake UK — because she has a mystery was just six months old, the family, fect start to our ‘dream come true’ balance and co-ordination were £250,000 a year, has launched an back to England she would have of ensuring a just outcome for medical condition. including her siblings Charley, 16, life in Australia — idyllic, we were unsteady.” appeal that is attracting thousands to learn a complete new language some people who have already got It aff ects Sienna Tippett’s and Abbie, 13, will have to return to all living the dream. And then this He said medical tests on her of signatures and will be presented to even be able to communicate a pretty diffi cult situation”.

Close links between Britain should Ireland, Britian vital: May deliver ‘full

Reuters London Brexit’ soon, trong will exists in both Brit- ain and Ireland to preserve Sfree movement between the countries following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said says top Tory yesterday after meeting her Irish counterpart. Reuters parliament like Redwoood, who control of our borders, control of May, who visited the province London are determined to force her to de- our money, and those things are of Northern Ireland on Monday, liver a Brexit in line with their de- not going to be negotiated — they has said she does not want to see sire to control immigration. cannot be. a return to past border controls ritain should leave the Eu- May, who won the top job in “It said on the ballot paper with the Irish Republic, which will ropean Union quickly and the political chaos unleashed by ‘Leave’ and that is what people be Britain’s only land frontier with Bnot be drawn into a discus- last month’s referendum vote to voted to do.” the EU. sion about watering down the leave the EU, insists that “Brexit Redwood said that after Brexit, “We benefi ted from a common voters’ clearly expressed wish means Brexit”. But she will not Britain was likely to keep tar- travel area between the UK and the for limits on immigration, sen- invoke Article 50, the part of the iff -free trade with the other 27 Republic of Ireland for many years ior Conservative lawmaker John EU’s Lisbon Treaty that allows members of the EU as they would before either country was a mem- Redwood said. member states to leave, before face tariff s on exports to Britain if ber of the EU,” May said at a joint Redwood, an intellectual leader the end of the year. they did try to erect barriers. news conference with Irish Prime of the Brexiteers in Prime Minister EU leaders are refusing to The best option, Redwood Minister Enda Kenny in London. Theresa May’s ruling Conservative countenance a “Europe a la said, would be to keep the current “There is a strong will on both party, said a swift exit that ensured carte” by letting London select tariff -free trading relationship sides to preserve it and so we must tariff -free trade with the rest of the the parts of its future relation- including so called passporting now focus on securing a deal that EU was achievable. ship that it likes while dispensing — which allows fi nancial services is in the interests of both of us.” Mapping out options for with EU principles such as the fi rms in London to do business in The pair said they had agreed Brexit, Redwood said parliament free movement of people. Europe — without getting into a that the peace process in Northern could accelerate the process by Merkel says Britain needs discussion over controls on free- Ireland, which ended three dec- repealing the 1972 European time to put together a negotiat- dom of movement. ades of fi ghting between Catho- Communities Act and then sim- ing stance before triggering the “Ideally we just keep tariff - lic nationalists seeking a united ply notifying the EU of the deci- formal divorce. But she has also free trade and passporting and all Ireland and Protestant unionists sion to leave, potentially moving cautioned that Britain cannot the other arrangements we have who wanted to keep the province towards an exit within months. cherry-pick the parts of the EU at the moment and I think it is British, must not be undermined “I want the full Brexit and I that it wants to keep. very likely we will keep that be- by last month’s referendum result. would get straight on with it,” Red- French President Francois cause I think they want them as Northern Ireland voted to stay wood said in a telephone interview, Hollande and other EU leaders, much as we want them,” he said. in the EU, with 56% voting ‘Re- adding that opponents of Brexit have urged May to deliver Brexit “I would suggest they take main’, putting it at odds with the had underestimated the strength soon and say Britain should not what I would hope is our very United Kingdom’s overall 52%- of Britain’s hand in talks over its have full access to the European generous off er of having tariff - 48% result in favour of leaving. EU divorce. Single Market of 500mn con- free trade and carry on with no Some have demanded a refer- “There are an awful lot of peo- sumers without accepting free- interruption,” he said. endum to split Northern Ireland ple who want to make money out dom of movement. He said that if the EU refused from the United Kingdom so it of Brexit by making it much more May has said British voters to agree to tariff -free trade then can remain in the EU as part of a complicated than it need be and made it clear they want controls Britain would have to impose united Ireland. yes some people absolutely want over freedom of movement. tariff s under World Trade Organ- Asked about the prospect of a to water it down.” But Redwood, who supports isation rules, which he said limit united Ireland, Kenny said he re- The comments indicate the May, said there should be no ne- such tariff s to an average of 3.5 %. spected Britain’s decision to leave delicacy of the domestic balanc- gotiation over whether to limit “It is up to the other 27 to sit the EU and the job now was to ing act May will have to perform freedom of movement. “We down and see whether they can work through the Brexit process in as she prepares to negotiate with shouldn’t negotiate over free- agree on what barriers they wish “as practical, as imaginative and leaders such as German Chancel- dom of movement, or getting our to impose on their trade with us. as creative a manner as is possi- lor Angela Merkel on pulling the money back or having our own And I’d be a bit surprised if they ble”. world’s fi fth largest economy out laws: We are quite happy with came up with a set of barriers but Kenny also said while many of the EU. the current tariff -free trading ar- if they did they would have to be obstacles lay ahead, it was in Ire- With a parliamentary major- rangements,” he said. WTO-compliant and we would land’s interests to see its neigh- Prime Minister Theresa May poses for the media with Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Downing Street in ity of just 17, May will have to take “We voted to take back control. then obviously retaliate under bour prosper outside the EU. London yesterday. notice of the views of members of That means control of our laws, WTO rules.”

‘I’m loving it’ Police urged to tackle New blow for family Pokemon Go criminals facing deportation London Evening Standard the Met and the mayor to look at London the idea after a successful trial by police in south Leicester. Offi c- Guardian New and Media week to fi nd another job, put that initially came to Scotland in 2011 ers were stationed at a PokeStop Edinburgh in place and get the paperwork to- on Kathryn’s student visa while cotland Yard should deploy in a park where they off ered free gether. We are looking for a miracle she took a course in Scottish his- “Pokemon plod” to tackle SmartWater phone tagging, which at this point.” tory at the University of the High- Scriminals who are targeting makes it easier to trace stolen de- he Australian family facing The family’s MP, Ian Blackford, lands and Islands. They intended players of the hit game, politicians vices. “Augmented reality” game deportation say they are confi rmed that he had made con- to move on to a two-year, post- urged yesterday. Pokemon Go has become a world- T“looking for a miracle” after tact with the new Immigration study work visa after she com- London Tories are calling on wide craze. Players use their mo- the job off er in the Scottish High- Minister Robert Goodwill, who pleted her course. But the Home the Met to station offi cers near key biles to fi nd their way to real sites, lands they were basing their last- had been “helpful and under- Offi ce cancelled the scheme, citing “PokeStops” — locations where where they can discover and cap- ditch visa application on was un- standing up to a point” regarding widespread abuse, forcing them gamers collect items that help ture digital creatures. expectedly withdrawn. Gregg and the family’s predicament. to apply for the far more stringent them catch more monsters. Gamers also head to PokeStops, Kathryn Brain – who have lived in Blackford said that he was now tier 2 visa. It follows a reported wave of often located at places of interest Dingwall, in the Highlands, with spending his time trying to fi nd Gregg Brain said it was only in Pokemon-related crime in the such as historical sites or artworks, their son Lachlan, seven, since another opportunity for the cou- 2012 that the couple became aware UK and US, mainly consisting of where they can collect PokeBalls, 2011 – were granted leave to re- ple that will fi t the necessary visa of the cancellation of the scheme, phone theft but also violent inci- which are used to capture the main in the UK until August 1 fol- requirements, and is confi dent which was fi rst announced in dents. Conservative London As- monsters. lowing a series of appeals at Holy- that if one is found then the Home March the previous year, and he sembly member Steve O’Connell This month three students were rood and Westminster in May. Offi ce will look favourably on the reassured his wife that such a said: “Lots of people are talking robbed at knifepoint while chasing A local distillery owner off ered application timescale. move could not be retrospective. about Pokemon Go. It would be virtual monsters around a park in Kathryn Brain employment and “The only thing that matters is He told the committee: “It great to see the Met taking advan- Manchester. A Greater Manches- agreed to take on the sponsorship getting a job for them,” Blackford would seem to me a natural jus- tage of this craze and encouraging ter police email alerted offi cers to a role required by the Home Offi ce, told the Guardian. “In fairness, I tice issue when people have made community offi cers to visit popu- “potential new crime trend” with but the family learned last week don’t think that the UK govern- the decision (to move countries) lar PokeStops — you even could players “wandering into areas they that the off er had fallen through. ment wants to see them deported, and the signifi cant life changes call them Pokemon plod. are not normally familiar with, in Their case gained national at- but the reality is that this is what based on what was off ered. In a “The game provides a unique a distracted state, holding their tention after the post-study work will happen if a job opportunity country that prides itself on being opportunity for neighbourhood phones out in front of them”. visa scheme that initially attracted isn’t found in time.” the birthplace of the rule of law, to policing teams to get involved It warned some are being lured them to Scotland was retrospec- Earlier this month, the Brains assume you will be dealt with ethi- within the community and, at the into traps by fellow players, who tively cancelled. gave evidence to the home aff airs cally and honestly by the UK gov- A boy runs through a fountain in central Belfast, North- same time, tag many more phones use the game’s geolocation feature Gregg Brain told the Guard- select committee, during which ernment should simply be beyond ern Ireland. that could be recovered if lost or to anticipate a victim’s location ian: “Essentially, now we have one Gregg described how the family question.” stolen.” He said he would push then rob them. Gulf Times 14 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 EUROPE

German man jailed Turkey crackdown nets for life for killing generals at UAE airport migrant AFP Turkish authorities blame on re- With 143 generals and more were stopped by crowds of civil- toddler Ankara clusive Pennsylvania-based Is- than 3,000 soldiers arrested on ians and loyalist security forces. lamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. suspicion of links to the coup, At least 270 people were killed Veteran journalist Nazli Ilicak there are gaping holes in the on both sides. Reuters urkey widened its crack- was detained yesterday at a traf- command structure which will A bridge over the Bosphorus Potsdam down yesterday after a fi c checkpoint in the southwest- have to be fi lled. Strait in Istanbul – which saw Tfailed coup, detaining top ern region of Bodrum, a day af- The government says the some of the fi ercest fi ghting – is generals serving in Afghanistan ter the authorities issued arrest stringent measures are needed to be renamed July 15 Martyrs’ German man was jailed as well as prominent journalists. warrants for over 42 reporters, to clear out the infl uence of Gu- Bridge after the victims of the for life yesterday for mur- In a move apparently refl ect- Anadolu said. len from Turkey’s institutions, failed coup bid, Prime Minister Adering two young chil- ing a shift in diplomatic strat- According to the Dogan news claiming he has created a “paral- Binali Yildirim said. dren last year, including a four- egy, Turkey also announced agency, eight of the 42 have now lel state” inside Turkey. Thousands of Erdogan sup- year-old refugee boy whom he that President Recep Tayyip Er- been detained including Ilicak Gulen – who lives in a com- porters continue to fi ll city had kidnapped from Berlin’s dogan will meet Russian leader and the former pro-Gulen Za- pound in rural Pennsylvania and squares across Turkey every main migrant registration cen- Vladimir Putin next month after man newspaper writer Hanim whose foundation runs a glo- night with the president telling tre. months of chill between the two Busra Erdal, who was picked up bal network of schools, chari- them to stay until further notice The man, identifi ed only as countries. in the western city of Manisa. ties and media interests – has in a “vigil” for democracy. Silvio S, confessed last year to Two senior Turkish generals This photo taken on December 31, 2014 shows Major General Bakir Also held in the coup inves- strongly denied the accusations. The crackdown and an- abducting, sexually abusing and serving in the Nato force in Af- during a ceremony to hand over responsibility to a Turkish unit at tigation was former governor of In an apparent sign of Turkey’s nouncement of a three-month killing Mohamed Januzi, a Bos- ghanistan were detained at Du- Kabul International Airport (KAIA) in Kabul. Two Turkish generals Istanbul Huseyin Avni Mutlu, post-coup diplomatic strategy, state of emergency has prompt- nian boy whose family was seek- bai airport on suspicion of links serving in Afghanistan have been detained in Dubai on suspicion of Anadolu said, while a Turkish Erdogan will visit Russia on Au- ed sharp exchanges with the ing asylum in Germany, pros- to the attempt to overthrow Er- links to the failed coup against Erdogan. Bakir and Brigadier General offi cial said two senior foreign gust 9 to repair ties harmed by European Union, which Turkey ecutors said. dogan, an offi cial said, speaking Sener Topuc were detained at Dubai airport. ministry diplomats have been the downing of a Russian war- has for years sought to join but He also admitted kidnapping on condition of anonymity. removed from their posts. plane by Turkish jets last year, which has sternly warned An- a six-year-old boy called Elias The source named the pair as agency added, saying the pair coup plotters, reports said. According to Anadolu, more offi cials said. kara to obey the rule of law. near the child’s home in Pots- Major General Mehmet Cahit were now being taken to Turkey. The attempted putsch of July than 47,000 civil servants have He will meet President Erdogan took a swipe at the dam outside Berlin and murder- Bakir, the commander of Tur- “The Turkish contingent con- 15 has sent shockwaves through lost their jobs since the coup, Vladimir Putin, Turkish deputy EU yesterday, accusing Brussels ing him in July 2015, the lawyers key’s task force in Afghanistan, tinues its mission,” a spokesman all aspects of life in Turkey, with including almost 43,000 in the premier Mehmet Simsek said, of not paying its way under a added. and Brigadier General Sener for the Nato force in Afghanistan institutions from the police to state education sector. after talks with Russian coun- deal to send Syrian refugees back The disappearance of Elias Topuc. said, without further comment. Turkish Airlines and the media. A major shake-up of the Turk- terpart Arkady Dvorkovich. across the Aegean. had triggered widespread media The detentions followed co- In a separate development, Some 13,000 people have been ish armed forces is expected to Turkey has undergone a seis- “The (European) governments attention. operation between Turkish in- police personnel were search- detained and over 9,000 of them be announced tomorrow when mic shift since the night of are not honest,” Erdogan told The court in Potsdam said the telligence and UAE authorities, ing a naval academy just outside remanded in custody ahead of the country’s Supreme Military July 15, when renegade soldiers German public television station 33-year-old had acted in a “very the state-run Anadolu news Istanbul in an investigation into trial over the coup, which the Council meets. sought to topple Erdogan but ARD. cruel” way towards the two chil- dren and ruled out the possibil- ity of parole after 15 years due to the severity of the off ence. However, the judge did not or- Freedom on show der preventative detention – an King ‘concerned’ indeterminate sentence handed to individuals who are consid- ered a danger to public safety – following the recommenda- about Spain’s tion of an expert who said the man did not have an inclination to commit similar crimes in the future. political deadlock Silvio S, 33, remained silent for most of the trial but expressed his remorse to the relatives of his AFP push a coalition government victims in a short statement. Madrid through a parliamentary vote “There are no words in the of confi dence. world that could describe how Acting Prime Minister Mari- sorry I am. If I could make it ing Felipe VI is “con- ano Rajoy, head of the con- undone, I would. I can’t even cerned” about Spain’s servative Popular Party (PP) forgive myself,” German media Kpolitical paralysis, a that won the largest number reported him as saying. lawmaker who met him said of seats in June elections, is the Yesterday he remained silent yesterday as the monarch be- obvious candidate. while the verdict was read, oc- gan a fourth round of talks with But, in another echo of the casionally shaking his head and party representatives to try and December election outcome, later crying, said Khubaib-Ali agree on a government. leaders of other parties have Mohammed, lawyer for the vic- The country has been with- refused to back Rajoy and he tims. out a fully-functioning gov- has hinted he may not put him- The Bosnian boy disappeared ernment for seven months af- self forward without the sup- on October 1 while waiting out- ter December elections failed port he needs. side Berlin’s central registra- to give any party an absolute That would leave Pedro tion offi ce for migrants with his parliamentary majority. Sanchez, head of the Socialist mother and two siblings. Eff orts to forge a coalition Party that came second in June Silvio S was arrested at the end were unsuccessful, prompting elections, the second-most of October after his own mother repeat elections in June with obvious candidate of choice – told police that he had told her a similar result, and political just like he was after the De- he was involved. parties have once again been cember polls. The child’s body was later forced to the negotiating table At the time, Sanchez took found packed in cat litter in the with no positive outcome in on the task of forming a gov- boot of his car. sight. ernment, but failed to garner German prosecutors said the “I found the head of state enough support as far-left up- suspect had admitted to taking more concerned than last start Podemos – which came Mohamed to his fl at and sexually time,” said lawmaker Pedro third – refused to back him, abusing him. Quevedo, who won a parlia- prompting the repeat elec- He strangled the child the mentary seat for the small, re- tions. following morning when he gional Nueva Canarias party in Sanchez would face a similar People visit the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s exhibition The Poetics of Freedom during its opening yesterday at the Cathedral of wouldn’t stop crying. the June polls. uphill struggle this time round. Cuenca. An installation by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei consisting of six hulking, iron boxes and containing sculptures depicting During questioning, Silvio S He was the fi rst to meet with As the stalemate continues scenes from his 81-day incarceration in China in 2011, is on show in the nave of cathedral of the central Spanish city of Cuenca. also confessed to the murder of the king, who is due to hold and concern grows that Spain Elias. talks with party leaders until may need to hold a third elec- tomorrow and will appoint one tion, lawmaker and PP spokes- of them as the prime ministeri- man Pablo Casado warned Slovenia finds 12 al candidate tasked with form- yesterday that “Spain needs a ing a government. stable government soon”. migrants on ship The leader selected by the “A new government is the Berlusconi primes potential political heir king will need to get enough only thing that will avoid hold- Slovenian police said yesterday support from other parties to ing new elections,” he said. that they found 12 illegal migrants on a cargo ship arriving from Reuters of moderate Italians in the po- ing director of industry lobby Turkey, in what is thought to be Rome litical sphere”. Confi ndustria. Spain’s ruling PP to go on trial over laptops the EU country’s first case of its After months of relative calm Although his only elected ex- kind. in the often turbulent world perience is as a city councillor Spain’s party of acting government, the People’s Party (PP), will go The nine stowaways from Syria ormer prime minister Sil- of Italian politics, tensions are in Milan, he was previously a on trial for destroying two laptops used by a former treasurer who is and three from Iraq embarked vio Berlusconi has anoint- once again building ahead of a technocratic economic adviser already being tried for his involvement in an alleged party slush fund, with the help of two Turkish Fed Stefano Parisi, a former referendum on constitutional to both centre-left and centre- a Madrid court said yesterday. crew members who have Internet executive and govern- reform set for the autumn. right prime ministers in the The PP would be treated as an individual and brought to trial with the been detained, police said in a ment economic adviser, as his Centre-left Prime Minister 1990s. party’s new treasurer Carmen Navarro on charges of perverting the statement. political heir, giving him a man- Matteo Renzi, 41, has said he Known for his soft-spoken course of justice and destroying the two laptops, the court ruled. The illegal migrants, discovered date to relaunch Italy’s splin- will resign if he loses the vote. moderate tone, Parisi will need The court is at present trying six PP members including the former on Monday in the Adriatic port of tered centre-right. With the latest opinion polls to develop a strategy for work- party treasurer Luis Barcenas on charges of organised crime, falsify- Koper, have applied for asylum Parisi, 59, narrowly lost a running against him, there is a ing with the anti-immigrant ing accounts, influence-peddling and tax crimes. and were taken to an asylum mayoral election in Milan last risk that general elections might Northern League, Berlusconi’s Barcenas has said the two laptops mentioned in the new court ruling centre. month, impressing friends and have to be held more than a year long-standing populist ally in yesterday belonged to him when he was party treasurer. foes alike with an upbeat cam- ahead of schedule. government. A party spokeswoman declined to comment on the case. paign that came close to knock- Surveys show that if the con- The League polls at around The party has denied charges of involvement in corruption. Man shot in mall ing the centre-left from power servatives unite behind a single 13-14% nationwide and consid- Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s PP has been trying to clean up in the country’s fi nancial capi- leader they could win roughly erably higher in the north, but its image after a spate of corruption scandals, some of which have in Swedish city tal. the same support as Renzi’s the antics of its leader, Matteo involved the party’s leadership in Madrid. Looking to build on that ex- Democratic Party and the anti- Salvini, have off ended moder- Spaniards’ disgust with graft and corruption cases that have tainted An unidentified assailant shot and perience, Parisi said last week establishment 5-Star Move- Berlusconi: wants Parisi to ates. both the PP and its arch-rivals, the Socialist Party, led to the rise of wounded a man in a shopping that he wanted to unite Italy’s ment. ‘come up with a project to On Monday, he raised fresh new parties that split the vote in a general election in December. mall in the Swedish city of Malmo disparate conservatives and “If Renzi loses the referen- relaunch and renew the hackles by comparing the wom- However, despite the shadow of corruption that lost him 2.5mn votes yesterday, police said. has now secured the blessing of dum, then we will need a can- position of moderate Italians in an speaker of parliament to an in May’s local and regional polls, Rajoy’s PP picked up an extra 13 A Malmo police statement said Berlusconi, who asked him carry didate for the premiership and I the political sphere’. infl atable sex doll. seats in a second general election in June this year. the victim was shot in the leg and out a profound review of his own want it to be you,” La Repubblica Under Berlusconi the centre- Having fallen short of the required majority of 176 out of the 350 seats taken to a local hospital. Forza Italy (Go Italy!) party. newspaper quoted Berlusconi as conviction for tax fraud in 2013, right never won a national elec- in the Spanish lower house of parliament, Rajoy is in discussions with His condition was not Berlusconi, who is 79 and un- telling Parisi. but despite the internal chaos it tion without the support of the other parties to reach an agreement to form a government. immediately known. derwent major heart surgery in There was no immediate con- remains a pivotal group on the Northern League, and in recent PP employees wiped and disposed of hard disks from the laptops Police said they had not identified June, said in a statement yes- fi rmation from Forza Italia. fractured centre-right. public remarks Salvini has been after Barcenas was barred from entering the party’s central Madrid a suspect or motive in the terday that he wanted Parisi to The party has been in disar- Parisi is a former chief ex- cool towards the idea of Parisi as headquarters in early 2013, the court document said. shooting and had made no “come up with a project to re- ray since Berlusconi was banned ecutive of Internet and telecoms the new leader of the conserva- arrests. launch and renew the position from public offi ce following a company Fastweb and manag- tive bloc. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 15 EUROPE Merkel faces hot summer over stance on refugees

AFP ferring to attacks in France and out an Islamist motive. Seehofer leads the Christian Merkel, who has led Europe’s lenburg-Western Pomerania, on Berlin Germany claimed by the Islamic The violence reignited politi- Social Union, the sister party to economic powerhouse for nearly September 4 followed by Berlin’s State (IS) group. cal friction that had eased as the Merkel’s conservative Christian 11 years, sought to project calm state election on September 18. “The chancellor must once number of new arrivals to Ger- Democrats, and has long been a by remaining at her holiday cot- The AfD, which gained sup- rash of attacks in Germa- again fear that she will be pun- many slowed to a trickle in recent vocal critic of the refugee infl ux tage north of Berlin this week. port after a spate of sexual as- ny has emboldened po- ished by the voters,” with two months due to the closure of the for which Bavaria was the pri- But she has since called for a saults on New Year’s Eve in Co- Alitical rivals of Chancellor pivotal state polls looming in Balkans migration route and an mary gateway. news conference tomorrow “on logne blamed largely on Arab and Angela Merkel, blaming her lib- September. EU deal with Turkey to take back He ordered tightened security current domestic and foreign North African men, aims to make eral asylum policy for exposing Merkel’s aides were quick to migrants. at airports and railway stations policy issues” in an apparent ac- a strong showing in Mecklen- the country to a shocking week of point out that three of the four “What we always warned of following the suicide bombing knowledgement that her absence burg-Western Pomerania, which bloodshed. assailants arrived in Germany has now happened,” Frauke Pet- near a music festival in Ansbach was causing anxiety. would deal Merkel a powerful Four brutal assaults in Germa- before the record infl ux that ry, head of the rightwing populist that wounded 15 people and an The country’s top-selling blow one year ahead of a general ny’s south, three of which were brought in more than 1mn refu- AfD party, said in a statement. axe attack that injured four pas- newspaper, Bild, which has gen- election. carried out by asylum-seekers, gees and migrants last year. Horst Seehofer, conservative sengers on a train in the city of erally backed Merkel’s stance on Martin Emmer, professor of have rattled Germans and revived The fourth, a teenager who premier of Bavaria state which Wuerzburg and a passer-by. refugees, praised her cool-head- political communications at Ber- a backlash against Merkel’s deci- went on a shooting rampage in saw three of the attacks, called But while Thomas de Maiziere, ed approach. lin’s Free University, warned that sion last year to open the borders Munich on Friday killing nine be- into question the principle that Merkel’s federal interior minis- “Our state works better than Merkel’s hyper-rational style to those fl eeing war and persecu- fore turning the gun on himself, asylum-seekers should never be ter, pledged to boost spot checks most and ... our people are quick could be found lacking if fear tion. was born and raised in Germany, sent back to war zones. in border regions, Berlin made a to support each other in times takes hold in the wake of the at- “It all appeared to be going the son of Iranian asylum-seek- He later backtracked, citing point of resisting calls for a raft of extreme stress,” it said. “Our tacks. pretty well for Merkel but the ers who arrived in the 1990s. international law. of new security laws. state and our society should “Politics has to cover both situation has changed dramati- Investigators say he was ob- However, he insisted: “We “I will propose appropriate therefore give us confi dence to aspects – this emotional side Merkel: has called for a news cally in the 10 days between the sessed with mass killings, in- must seriously consider how amendments when I think them overcome our fears.” in which you credibly pledge to conference tomorrow ‘on Nice attack and Sunday’s suicide cluding Norwegian right-wing such people should be treated necessary,” he told reporters, But analysts warned the strat- protect citizens, and fact-bound current domestic and foreign bomber in Ansbach,” the daily fanatic Anders Behring Breivik’s if they violate the law or can be while warning against blanket egy was risky, with a poll in Mer- policies that are able to ensure policy issues’. Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote, re- 2011 massacre, and have ruled considered a danger.” suspicion of refugees. kel’s political fi efdom, Meck- that,” he told AFP.

Analysts say mental instability connects four German attacks Priest

DPA lence,” the group said. Berlin All of the crimes were com- mitted “with the goal of stok- ing tensions in the country and sychological instability accelerating the polarisation slain in is the single factor that of German society”, the group Punites four men who said. committed attacks in Germany Despite unprecedented fears over the past week, a group of in Germany about a wave of risk analysts said yesterday, terrorist acts similar to the one adding that there is “little in France, senior analyst David reason” to fear a large-scale, Lea says that “there is little organised terrorist attack on reason to believe that the next church Berlin. organised, effi cient and highly- An axe-and-knife attack on motivated terror cell ... will at- a Bavarian commuter train, a tack Berlin”. mass shooting in Munich, a deli Control Risks said it con- A police off icer cordons the site next to the body of one of the two men who stormed a French church and knife attack in Reutlingen and siders the Ansbach suicide at- slit an elderly Catholic priest’s throat in the Normandy town of Saint-etienne-du-Rouvray. a suicide bombing in Ansbach tack as the greatest cause for – all carried out last week in concern, because the attacker identifi cation of the two suspects Muslim leader mourns slain priest ‘friend’ southern Germany – have lit- used a sophisticated explosive attack was still underway and it was tle in common, London-based device, indicating that he may too early to jump to conclusions The imam of the mosque in the northern French town where a church Control Risks said in a report. have had accomplices or been Reuters the law to fi ght the group. about a possible link. was attacked yesterday said that he was “stunned” by the murder of the “All four attackers seem to backed by a terrorist network. Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France The president called it a Former president Nicolas local priest, who he described as a friend. have had mental health disor- Fifteen people were injured “dreadful terrorist attack” and Sarkozy, who is expected to enter “I don’t understand, all of our prayers go to his family and the Catholic ders that resulted from their in the attack outside a music told reporters that the attackers a conservative primary soon for community,” said Mohammed Karabila. background. festival venue late on Sunday. ssailants loyal to the Is- had pledged allegiance to the Is- next year’s presidential election, Karabila said he was “stunned by the death of my friend. He was someone “Increasing global instabil- Most of them were struck by lamic State (IS) group lamic State, against which France jumped on the latest incident to who gave his life to others. We are dumbfounded at the mosque”. ity seems to be making it easier shrapnel that the 27-year-old Aforced an elderly priest has launched air strikes in Syria accuse the Socialist government He said that he and Jacques Hamel, who was in his eighties, had met on for these people to want to ex- attacker carried in his rucksack to his knees before slitting his and Iraq. of being soft on terrorism. several occasions and had been part of an inter-faith committee for the press themselves through vio- alongside the explosive device. throat and took several worship- News agency Amaq, which is “We must be merciless,” past 18 months. pers hostage in a French church affi liated with the Islamic State, Sarkozy said in a statement “We talked about religion and how to live together. It has been 18 months yesterday before police shot the said that two of its “soldiers” to reporters. “The legal quib- that civilians have been attacked, now they are attacking religious sym- attackers dead. were involved. bling, precautions and pretexts bols, using our religion as a pretext. It is no longer possible,” he said. It was the latest in a wave of “The threat remains very for insuffi cient action are not The town’s mosque was inaugurated in 2000 on a piece of land gifted by attacks in Europe inspired by the high,” Hollande said. acceptable. I demand that the the Catholic parish. Patient slays doctor Islamist militant group based in The White House condemned government implement without It was in this mosque that the funeral ceremony was held for Imad Ibn Iraq and Syria that is on the de- the attack and commended the delay the proposals we presented Ziaten, a 30-year-old parachutist who was killed on March 11, 2012 by fensive against a US-led military French police for their “quick and months ago. There is no more militant Mohamed Merah. before killing himself coalition in which France is a ma- decisive response”. time to be wasted.” “It is a total shock, it brings back the pain,” said his mother Latifa Ibn jor partner. The attack was the latest in The centre-right opposition Ziaten, who launched an association to fight Islamic radicalisation after The knifemen entered the a string of deadly assaults in- wants the government to put all his death. Reuters in the southwest of the city and church during morning mass cluding the mass killing in Nice, Islamist suspects subject to a Like other towns around the city of Rouen, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray has Berlin died shortly afterwards. near the northern city of Rouen, southern France, on Bastille Day confi dential security notice un- a growing problem with radicalisation, she added. They added that the situa- northwest of Paris, killing Father 12 days ago and four incidents in der administrative detention to “There are a lot of families that come and see me because their children tion at the hospital in Berlin’s Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old Germany, most recently a suicide avert potential attacks. are radicalising,” she said. patient shot a doctor Steglitz district was now “un- parish priest, and taking four bombing at a concert in Ansbach Far-right National Front lead- in a university clinic in der control” and investigators other people hostage, one of on Sunday. er Marine Le Pen, who is also ex- ABerlin yesterday before were on the scene to determine whom was seriously wounded. The Islamic State has called on pected to run for the presidency, Vatican spokesman Father Fed- “Everything is being done to killing himself, but there were the background to the crime. “They forced him to his knees its supporters to take action with said both major parties had failed erico Lombardi said. trigger a war of religions,” tweet- “no signs at all” of a link with “There is currently no dan- and he tried to defend himself any available weapons targeting on security. The attack heaped yet more ed Jean-Pierre Raff arin, a former Islamist militancy, police in the ger,” police said on Twitter. and that’s when the drama be- countries it has been fi ghting. “All those who have governed pressure on Hollande to regain conservative prime minister who German capital said. Winfrid Wenzel, a spokes- gan,” Sister Danielle, who es- The anti-terrorist unit of the us for 30 years bear an immense control of national security, with now heads the Senate’s foreign Germany is on edge because man for Berlin police, said the caped as the attackers murdered Paris prosecutor’s offi ce is inves- responsibility. It’s revolting to France already under a state of aff airs committee. of a spate of violent attacks crime took place in the jaw the priest, told RMC radio. tigating the attack. watch them bickering!” she said emergency 10 months ahead of a Hollande visited the Norman- on civilians by men of Middle surgery area of an outpatient “They fi lmed themselves. Police said one person had on Twitter. presidential election in which he dy town with Interior Minister Eastern or South Asian origin clinic where the doctor was in It was like a sermon in Arabic been arrested. Hollande insisted that the gov- is widely expected to seek a sec- Bernard Cazeneuve, meeting since July 18 that have killed 10 a treatment session with the around the altar,” the nun added. Several French media reported ernment must stick to the rule of ond term. survivors of the church attack people. patient. Police shot the attackers dead that one of the knifemen was a law, which he said was the hall- The Normandy attack came and members of the emergency Islamic State (IS) militants “In the course of the consul- as they emerged from the church local man who had spent a year mark of a democracy. less than two weeks after a services. claimed responsibility for two tation, the patient pulled out a in the Normandy town of Saint- in jail on his return from Turkey Pope Francis condemned what 31-year-old Tunisian, Mohamed Cazeneuve has come under fi re of those four attacks. gun and fi red several shots at Etienne-du-Rouvray. after being intercepted trying to he called a “barbarous killing”. Lahouaiej Bouhlel, ploughed his from conservative politicians for Berlin police said the doctor the doctor. The attacker then Speaking at the scene of the travel to Syria, but had been freed “The fact that this episode heavy goods truck into a crowd not doing enough to prevent the had sustained life-threatening directly turned the gun on attack, President Francois Hol- on bail with an electronic tag took place in a church, killing a of revellers in the French Riviera Nice attack, which prompted injuries in the attack at the himself and died as a result of lande said the Islamic State had pending trial for alleged terror- priest, a minister of the Lord and city of Nice, killing 84 people. lawmakers to approve a six- Benjamin Franklin campus of the shots,” Wenzel told Reuters declared war on France, which ism off ences. involving the faithful, is some- The Islamic State claimed that month extension of emergency the Charite university hospital TV. should “use all its means” within The prosecutor’s offi ce said the thing that aff ects us profoundly,” attack. rule. World Youth Day kicks off

By Stefan Kruse, DPA services and discuss themes like sacrifi ce largest gatherings in the world of young Krakow and refl ection. people aged 16 to 35. “It is crazy here; it is just fantastic to be Offi cers could be seen patrolling with au- experiencing this sense of community,” said tomatic weapons while a helicopter could be assive crowds of young people Maximilian, a student from Dresden, Ger- seen making frequent circles above the city. gathered to kick off World Youth many. “Faith can move a lot.” The archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Sta- MDay (WYD) yesterday, an event Across the city, young pilgrims could be nislaw Dziwisz, is due to take part in the hosted by the Catholic Church in the Polish seen bursting into song and dance, taking opening ceremonies. city of Krakow. selfi es and waving the fl ags of their home Pope Francis is expected to deliver a wel- More than half a million pilgrims from 187 countries. come address at a prayer service today, ac- diff erent countries registered to participate The event is also a chance for Poland’s cording to the event website. in the event. conservative ruling government, whose re- Francis is also expected to visit the shrine Organisers estimate there will be at least forms have faced criticism for the EU for of Czestochowa, home of the Black Madon- 1.5mn participants by the time the event breaching standards on rule of law, to dem- na icon of the Virgin Mary, tomorrow. ends on Sunday. onstrate openness to people from around After that, he is scheduled to go to Ausch- “We’re not just here to see Pope Francis,” the world. witz, the site of a former German extermi- said 21-year-old Rosane from Minas Ge- “We want this young, modern Poland to nation camp, where he will meet with Holo- rais, a state in eastern Brazil. “In this world, enchant the world during WYD,” said Prime caust survivors on Friday. where so many crazy things happen, we Minister Beata Szydlo. Started in 1986, World Youth Days are should all be using our strength to reach one Krakow mobilised approximately 25,000 staged every two to three years. goal: Simply peace.” security forces to ensure the safety of par- The last two events were in Rio de Janeiro, Pilgrims in rain coats play during heavy rain on World Youth Day at the main square in Krakow. Participants are expected to attend prayer ticipants in the event, which is one of the Brazil, in 2013 and Madrid, Spain, in 2011. Gulf Times 16 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 INDIA

INVESTIGATION DEFENCE PILGRIMAGE PROTEST POLITICS Judicial custody of No plan for women First Haj flight from UP Police foil march of RJD not to contest IS suspects extended in army combat role to take off on August 10 Congress leaders UP assembly polls

A court in Hyderabad yesterday extended the There were no plans to induct women for The first flight from Uttar Pradesh for Haj this Tension prevailed at the opposition Congress Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav judicial custody of seven Islamic State suspects. combat roles in the Indian Army, Defence year will take off on August 10, off icials said Party’s off ice in Hyderabad as police stopped yesterday said his party won’t contest assembly They were produced before the judge through Minister Manohar Parrikar said yesterday. yesterday. The flights will continue till August 21. its top leaders from going to the Mallanna polls in Uttar Pradesh and hinted he may video conferencing from Cherlapally jail. The “Presently, there is no proposal to raise a Every day three flights will take off from the state Sagar project site in Medak district. Police support the ruling Samajwadi Party. “The RJD National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 29 women’s combat unit in the army,” Parrikar carrying 300 passengers each, district magistrate detained former central minister S Jaipal Reddy, will not contest the Uttar Pradesh elections next claimed to have busted a suspected IS group by said in the Rajya Sabha. He also said there Raj Shekhar said while reviewing preparations opposition leader in the Telangana assembly K year,” Yadav told reporters in Patna. His remarks detaining 11 men. Five of them were arrested, was no ‘gender discrimination’ in the army. for the pilgrimage to Makkah. The vaccination Jana Reddy, opposition leader in the legislative came ahead of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish the others were let off after questioning. The “There is no gender discrimination in the of Haj pilgrims selected this year began at the council Mohamed Ali Shabbir and others as Kumar’s scheduled public rally in Lucknow investigating agency on July 12 arrested two of armed forces as the working conditions, State Haj Committee off ice and more than 100 they left for Medak district, which is witnessing today. Nitish Kumar and Yadav are allies in the six released earlier. The NIA said the men, promotion prospects, pay and allowances pilgrims have been vaccinated for meningitis. protests over land acquisition for the proposed Bihar. Yadav said his party’s focus was to defeat all residents of the old city of Hyderabad, were and service conditions of women off icers are Nodal off icials said adequate security and traff ic irrigation project. Senior leaders Mallu Batti the “BJP-RSS” in the elections and strengthen conspiring to commit terrorist acts in various the same as those of the male off icers,” he arrangements have been made for the expected Vikaramarka, M Sashidhar Reddy, Sunitha secular forces. “My only agenda is to defeat the parts of the country. They were allegedly planning said. Last week Parrikar had referred to the rush at the Haj House in the state capital Lucknow, Lakshma Reddy, Mallu Ravi, Anjan Kumar Yadav BJP and RSS in the country.” Nitish Kumar, who to target public places, including religious sites induction of three women fighter pilots in the and all amenities for the pilgrims and those who and others were taken into custody and shifted is also president of the Janata Dal-United, has and sensitive government buildings. Indian Air Force. come to see them off have been put in place. to diff erent police stations in Hyderabad. already started to campaign in Uttar Pradesh. ‘Iron Lady’ of Manipur to end fast after 16 years Irom Sharmila to contest commit suicide by refusing food. election She also declined an off er from the Aam Aadmi Party to be its A family waits for transport as taxis on strike are parked at the main railway station in New Delhi yesterday. Agencies candidate for the national elec- Imphal tion that year. Two years on, the announce- ment has left her supporters sur- uman rights campaigner prised. Irom Sharmila announced “We are trying to speak to her Auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers Hyesterday she will end her to get a sense of how she wants 16-year-long hunger strike to fo- to take struggle forward. Of cus on contesting upcoming elec- Sharmila: wants to get married course if she wants to end her tions in Manipur. and stand for election fast, it is totally her prerogative Sharmila, known as the ‘Iron but it is also important to carry strike against app-based cabs Lady’ of Manipur for her un- Sharmila stopped eating and the struggle forward,” said Bab- wavering and non-violent pro- drinking after allegedly witness- loo Loitongbam, an activist and IANS test against e-rickshaws.” And these taxis have come in, we make had deployed 300 buses to ferry test against rights abuses in the ing the army kill 10 people at a bus close associate. New Delhi pointing fi ngers at the Bharatiya only Rs300-Rs 500. Who can be people from railway stations but northeast region, said she would stop near her home in Manipur, Babie Shirin, a student at an Janata Party, Jain, a confi dant of blamed for this but the app-based it was clearly not enough. break her fast on August 9. which is subject to the Armed Imphal college, said: “If Sharm- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, taxis?” asked Soni. Delhi’s Joint Commissioner Sharmila has been kept in ju- Forces Special Powers Act (AF- ila enters politics and crusades ver 100,000 auto-rick- said the Delhi government was Even before the app-based of Police Garima Bhatnagar dicial custody almost since she SPA). against AFSPA, it will be much shaw and taxi drivers aware who were inciting the services were introduced, auto- said there was a heavy footfall began fasting in 2000 to back The act, which covers large more eff ective. The fast has gone Olaunched an indefi nite auto-rickshaw drivers. rickshaws had lost a chunk of in buses and Metro due to the her demand for the withdrawal parts of the northeast and Jammu on for too long and hasn’t had the strike in New Delhi yesterday The situation is likely to business to Delhi Metro. strike. She said no case of vio- of special powers wielded by se- and Kashmir, gives security forces desired eff ect.” against the increasingly popular worsen as members of the Joint Sanjay Chawla, president of lence had been reported. curity forces in the insurgency- sweeping powers to search, enter Sharmila’s brother, Singhajit, app-based taxi services, causing Action Committee of Auto and another auto-rickshaw union, But residents reported stray wracked region. property and shoot on sight, and said her family backed her new hardship to tens of thousands of Taxi Unions (JACATU) have said the Delhi government must incidents of attacks on auto- She has been confi ned to a hos- is seen by critics as a cover for hu- fi ght. commuters. vowed to go on a hunger strike fi x the rates for the app-based rickshaws which defi ed the pital ward in Manipur’s main city man rights abuses. “Whatever she does we will An estimated 90,000 auto- from today if the Delhi govern- taxi services “so that they do not strike to ply. In most cases, Imphal on criminal charges of The government says security support her as a family. Even our rickshaws and 15,000 traditional ment does not meet their de- harm our business.” however, the strikers stopped attempted suicide – and is force forces need the powers to help mother is hoping for the day when yellow top taxis ply in Delhi, and mand. “As of now, these cabs adver- the few auto-rickshaws that fed via a plastic nasal drip several them battle multiple rebel groups the Act is abolished and Sharmila union leaders said almost all of “This time we will show the tise their rates at Rs6-7 per km were plying and ordered the times a day. whose long-standing demands wins the cause she has been fi ght- them had joined the crippling government our power. We want but charge Rs14-15. By doing passengers out. “I have decided to end my 16- range from secession to greater ing for,” Singhajit said. protest. the government to fi x the rates this, they woo our customers Sandeep Roshan, who is year fast on August 9 and con- autonomy and land rights. Media reports suggest that the Only a few auto-rickshaws of these app-based taxi servic- and hurt our business,” he said. works for a law fi rm, said he opt- test the 2017 state elections as Sharmila has often been re- central government was having plied, but mostly within resi- es,” JACATU president Rajendra The strike severely aff ected ed for Metro because he feared an independent candidate,” the leased from custody after ap- ‘back channel’ talks with Sharm- dential areas. The yellow top Soni said. hundreds of thousands of com- Ola and Uber would charge more 44-year-old said outside a mag- pearing in court fl anked by police ila, trying to persuade her to end taxis remained off the roads. The steadily increasing muters who use auto-rickshaws due to high demand. istrate’s court in Imphal. - only to be re-arrested almost her fast. The Delhi government re- number of app-based taxis, par- daily to travel. Most opted for Triveni Sood, a PR executive, “My fi ght so far has been all immediately on fresh charges of Manipur will hold assembly fused to talk to the strikers until ticularly from Ola and Uber, has Delhi Metro or buses, which too preferred Metro. Normally, alone and so I have decided to trying to kill herself. elections in 2017. the protest was withdrawn. captured a major part of busi- were overcrowded yesterday. she takes an auto-rickshaw. wage a war against the act demo- The maximum punishment for Born in 1972, she is the young- “This is unacceptable,” ness that was until recently with The worst hit were those Delhi Metro said no extra cratically by becoming a lawmak- attempting suicide is one year in est of nine siblings who grew up in Transport Minister Satyendra the auto-rickshaws and the yel- reaching the capital by train, crowd was noticed on the trains. er instead of continuing with my prison. Manipur. Jain said. “They can’t just go low top taxis. The strikers resent with auto-rickshaw and taxi “We keep monitoring the rush. fast,” she said. She also told the In 2014, she pulled off the nasal She gave up her dreams of be- on strike like this. Today they this. drivers at railway stations stag- If there is extra rush, we will in- court – where she is required to tube after being released on orders coming a doctor and decided to are ranged against app-based “Earlier we used to earn ing noisy protests. crease the frequency of trains,” a mark attendance every 15 days – from a court, which said there was fi ght against the human rights cabs, tomorrow they will pro- Rs1,500-Rs2,000 a day. But since The Delhi government said it Metro offi cial said. that she wants to marry. no evidence that she was trying to violation in Manipur. Modi still on ‘mute’ as BJP’s hate brigade runs amok f there is an advice that Prime which soon took a still nastier But this is too little too late. Members of parliament be- close your eyes for a bit to let the Minister Narendra Modi is in misogynistic turn. So while Modi Loss in UP could well be the be- longing to the Congress Party moisture in. Chowdhury seems Idire need of listening to, it is kept haranguing the Congress at ginning of the end for Modi. He were rightfully agitated at what to have conveniently forgot- this: “Physician heal thyself.” almost every public rally, many of Delhi Diary had set his eyes on retaining pow- had happened in Gujarat. They ten that Gandhi had not exactly In the run-up to the 2014 gen- his party men went about mouth- er in 2019 but that dream could charged the BJP government, both walked in from the heat but had eral elections, Modi had boasted ing inanities about beef and cow By A K B Krishnan quickly vanish. But he has still not in the state and at the Centre, of been driven in from his air-con- of his 56-inch chest that is capa- protection, ‘love-jihad’ and said anything that can be con- being anti-Dalit just to appease ditioned house in his air-condi- ble of confronting any adversity. something called “ghar waapsi” Gulf Times Correspondent strued as condemnation of these the upper caste Hindus. tioned car, the total exposure to He may have been quite honest which loosely translates into acts. No amount of economic Several Congress members like outside weather being just a few about it. But the problem begins “bringing them back home,” a progress, even if possible, will do K C Venugopal from Kerala, who seconds. If for that he needs to when you yourself create those not-so-smart reference to large- public by BJP goons because they bad, a Haryana town which shares any good if there is no social har- was sitting right next to Gandhi in “retain moisture” in his eyes, he adversities. scale reconversions to Hinduism. skinned a dead cow. boundaries with Delhi. He did not mony. The healing process, like the second row, Deepender Hooda may better see a doctor. Modi’s oft-repeated refrain be- The likes of Sakshi Maharaj, Sad- For Modi, the chickens – or in speak after two Muslim cattle- charity, has to begin at home, in from Haryana and Gaurav Gogoi Jyotiraditya Scindia, like Gan- fore, during and after those elec- hvi Niranjan Jyoti, Sadhvi Prachi this case the cows – have come herders, one of them just 13, were this case the BJP. This physician from Assam were up on their feet dhi the scion of a rich and famous tions was a “Congress-mukth and Yogi Adityanath, the saff ron home to roost. hanged to death by cow vigilantes has to heal himself. shouting at the top of their voices family, had a third opinion about Bharat” (Congress-free India). faces of the BJP, and even Sanjay The Indian media has not been in the eastern state of Jharkhand decrying the BJP’s attitude. But why the Congress vice-president He nearly got what he wished for Balyan, one of Modi’s ministers very friendly with the prime min- in March this year. This when Rahul Gandhi sat head slightly had his eyes closed while all hell when his Bharatiya Janata Party who created a major controversy ister. The disapproval though is technology savvy Modi takes to Forty views on bowed with his right hand on his was breaking loose around him. (BJP) won a humongous 282 seats during the Muzaff arnagar riots, mutual. But then, as the saying Twitter and other social media to Rahul’s 40 winks forehead. During the 59-day sabbatical on its own and confi ned the Con- had shot off their mouths without goes, it is better to have an enemy express his views on a variety of Explanations for Rahul’s mo- that Gandhi had in Myanmar gress to just 44. any let or hindrance. who honestly hates you than to topics. And now the public fl og- tionless and emotionless posture and elsewhere last year, he had But then nothing exists in vacu- The latest incidents of over- have a friend who secretly puts ging in Gujarat and the Mayawati Did Rahul Gandhi really go to came thick and fast. Noted lawyer learned to meditate so as to um. If India is rid of the Congress, the-top crassness exhibited by you down. The Indian media, or incident. sleep during last week’s parlia- and party spokesman Abhishek clear his mind and compose his something else will take its place. the BJP’s self-appointed guard- at least a large section of it, hon- Observers predict that this sin- ment session? If so what, ask Manu Singhvi told the media later thoughts. So he was simply prac- If Modi believed that all of India ians of morality and the cow estly hates Modi. But it also hon- gle case of describing a Dalit po- some Congressmen. No, let him that Gandhi was checking his cell tising meditation in Lok Sabha, will one day come under the BJP came from Uttar Pradesh and estly tells Modi to be more vigilant litical leader as a prostitute will sleep, we didn’t miss him anyway, phone for messages. (The BJP said said Scindia. rule, he must be deluding him- Gujarat. No less a person than against his so-called friends who cost the BJP next year’s UP elec- says the BJP. he must have been playing Poke- The BJP simply wondered why self. There are few nations in the the vice-president of the UP unit are putting him down at every op- tion. The party seems to agree. The House was discussing mon Go!) Gandhi chose to meditate/mois- world that are as diverse as India of the BJP, Dayashankar Singh, portunity they get. It has moved quickly to control the beating up of the four Dalit Renuka Chowdhury, who can ten his eyes/check his cell phone and even its birth – or independ- described former state chief Modi did not say a word when the damage. After getting Da- youths in Gujarat by Hindu zeal- hold her own against the best and do anything else when the ence, if you want to be politically minister and head of the Bahu- Mohamed Akhlaq was lynched on yashankar Singh to apologise to ots for the “crime” of skinning a of the opposition, took a more matter that was under discussion contextual – was a story of almost jan Samaj Party (BSP) Mayawati the outskirts of the nation’s capi- Mayawati, which she did not ac- dead cow. Lok Sabha TV, which motherly view with a touch of was a serious one and he himself unparalleled blood and gore. as a prostitute who would sell tal in September last year for al- cept, the BJP promptly sacked has exclusive rights to telecast medical knowledge to it. You see, was scheduled to visit the four Somewhere along the BJP’s her party tickets for next year’s legedly possessing beef. A month him from his post as well as the House proceedings, panned the she said, the heat outside is un- Gujarat youths and their families all-conquering march to power assembly elections to the high- later two Dalit children were party itself. He is now on the run benches and caught Gandhi sit- bearable. When you come into the very next day. Pokemon or two years ago, the 56-inch chest est bidder. In Gujarat, four Dalit burnt to death allegedly by an up- as the state police are seeking to ting head bowed for an inordi- an air-conditioned hall like the not, politicians can play games of became a symbol of machismo youths were tied and beaten up in per caste Hindu mob in Farida- arrest him. nately long time. Lok Sabha, it is but natural to their own for sure! Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 17 INDIA

Changes to child labour law will disadvantage vulnerable groups: UN

Reuters amendments to a three-decade- est among tribal and lower caste school,” said Unicef India’s Chief turing - embroidering clothes, separate category for adoles- tertainment and sports, if it does New Delhi old child labour prohibition law communities at almost 7% and of Education Euphrates Gobina. weaving carpets or making cents aged between 15 and 18, not aff ect their education. on July 19. 4% respectively, Unicef said “Secondary enrollment is still match sticks. as well as stiffer jail terms and In addition, children aged 15 The bill is expected before the the changes could have an ad- lagging behind, especially for the Children also work in restau- fines for those employing chil- to 18 will be permitted to work, he United Nations says lower house Lok Sabha in the verse impact on these especially most vulnerable children, many rants and hotels, and as domestic dren. except in mines and industries changes to India’s child coming weeks. marginalised and impoverished who are working,” she added in a workers. While child rights activists where they would be exposed Tlabour law which permit But the UN Children’s Agency communities. statement issued late on Monday. The government wants to have welcomed the changes, to infl ammable substances and children to work for their fami- (Unicef) said that allowing chil- “Under the new Child Labour A 2015 report by the Interna- change the current law by ex- there has been growing concern hazardous processes. lies and reduce the number of dren to work for their families Act, some forms of child labour tional Labour Organisation (ILO) tending the ban on child labour over other amendments pro- The government says the ex- banned occupations for adoles- legitimised family work, while may become invisible and the puts the number of child workers under 14 to all sectors. posed by Prime Minister Naren- emptions aim at striking a bal- cents will disadvantage vulner- limiting the number of profes- most vulnerable and marginal- in India aged between fi ve and 17 Currently only 18 hazardous oc- dra Modi’s government. ance between education and In- able groups such as tribals and sions considered as hazardous ised children may end up with at 5.7mn, out of 168mn globally. cupations and 65 processes, such For example, children will be dia’s economic reality, in which lower-caste communities. would result in more unregulat- irregular school attendance, More than half of India’s child as mining, gem cutting and cement allowed to work in family busi- parents rely on their children to The Rajya Sabha, India’s up- ed child labourers. lower levels of learning and workers labour in agriculture manufacturing are outlawed. nesses, outside of school hours help with farming or artisanal per house of parliament, passed With child labour rates high- could be forced to drop out of and over a quarter in manufac- It also proposes including a and during holidays, and in en- work to fi ght poverty. Harvard economist to be Kerala CM’s adviser

By Ashraf Padanna pecially changes in archaic Thiruvananthapuram laws that drive away investors, offi cials said. She has already made her ita Gopinath, a pro- views clear on the land acqui- fessor of international sition bill which the commu- Gstudies and econom- nists opposed. She advocates ics at Harvard, has accepted groundbreaking reforms to at- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi tract investors. Vijayan’s invitation to join his Gopinath said her mandate team as an adviser. was to respond to any requests In a statement issued from from the chief minister for ad- Cambridge, Gopinath said vice on the impact on Kerala’s Kerala has made substantial economy of global, national progress on social indicators and state events and policies. like health and education and “Given my location, I an- she hoped to contribute to- ticipate most of this will be wards further developing sus- done remotely, rather than in tainable policies. person,” she said. Motorists and pedestrians return to downtown Srinagar streets after authorities lifted a curfew in the city yesterday. The appointment of Gopi- “I hope to play a convening nath marks a signifi cant shift role to connect various state from the dogmatic approach departments to the knowledge of the previous Left govern- leaders from around the world ment to embrace “neo-lib- in sectors relevant to Kerala eral” policies followed by the like public fi nance, manage- national governments of the ment, labour and develop- Congress and Bharatiya Janata ment economics and entre- Party. preneurship.” Srinagar curfew lifted Gopinath had praised Prime Given this advisory nature Minister Narendra Modi’s re- of the appointment and her form measures, dubbed by location, Gopinath said, she leftist economists as disas- did not anticipate frequent trous for the poor, and com- interactions with the media to plemented his government’s explain government policies eff orts to improve fundamen- or her opinion on those. but protests continue tals of the economy. “I am humbled by the op- Former Kerala Planning portunity to contribute my Four militants killed, one ern areas, where most of the 50 the killing on July 8 of Hizbul to address a gathering during leged arrest and beating up of Board vice-chairman and skills and eff ort to the devel- caught alive in Kashmir deaths have occurred. Mujahideen rebel leader Bur- the day. four youths, including three Marxist economist Prabhat opment of Kerala. I am hope- Hundreds of angry residents han Wani in a gunfight with People during the day had teens. Patnaik criticised her appoint- ful that under (Vijayan’s) Agencies rallied in the city yesterday to soldiers. gathered in the town in large The youngest arrested is said ment while Finance Minister T leadership, the state will make Srinagar protest against Indian rule, The wide-scale protests have numbers but were chased away to be 13 years old. M Thomas Isaac, who is also a great strides in achieving its shouting slogans for freedom also left thousands injured. by police and paramilitary Protesters alleged that the development economist, re- development goals,” she said. and clashing with police who Anantnag in south Kashmir troopers. youths were arrested for throw- fused to comment. She also stresses that it is uthorities lifted a curfew fi red tear gas canisters to dis- witnessed protests on Monday Separatist leaders Syed Ali ing stones. They said police and Many believe her appoint- an honorary position, in that from most parts of Kash- perse them, a witness said. night as thousands of angry men Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar paramilitary troopers brutally ment could under- “there is no remuneration, no Amir yesterday after 17 Shops, schools and businesses and women rallied against civil- Farooq were detained earlier in beat up the youth. mine Isaac’s role in expectation that I will move days of lockdown, but protest- remained shut in the city while ian killings. the day in Srinagar as they de- Meanwhile one militant was policy formula- to Thiruvananthapuram ers continued to clash with po- vehicles were off the roads. Witnesses and offi cials said fi ed police restrictions in a bid to caught alive and four were killed tions of the Com- to engage on a daily basis lice in the main city of Srinagar Separatist leaders opposed the fresh protests in Anantnag march to Anantnag. by security forces yesterday. munist Party of with the government or following two weeks of deadly to Indian rule have extended an town, some 50km from Srinagar, Offi cials said that some during Local media, quoting offi cial India (Marxist)- be involved in all its eco- violence. ongoing strike to Saturday, but began in the dead of the night the nocturnal march set on fi re a sources, reported that all the led government. nomic policy decisions.” “There will be no restrictions have appealed to shopkeepers when people in large numbers state irrigation building that lies militants were Pakistani nation- Gopinath’s role “Instead, I will contin- in any part of district Srinagar to open for a few hours each day came out of their homes and on the Hindu pilgrim route to the als. is also clearly de- ue as a full-time pro- today on 26 July,” top admin- to allow people to buy essential marched on the streets. Amarnath cave shrine. “Catching a militant live is fi ned, and it goes fessor at Harvard istrative offi cial Farooq Ahmad supplies. Police and security forces The protests continued till a big success as it exposes the beyond ornamen- University and Lone said in a statement. “We will open shops after had earlier moved back to their early yesterday morning. game plan of Pakistan,” minis- tal but rather she carry on my com- Mobile and Internet networks 2pm,” Umer Ahmed, a shop- camps after they success- Protests were also held in the ter of state for home Kiren Rijiju would be calling mitments includ- remained suspended in Srinagar keeper in the old quarter of Sri- fully foiled a separatist-called nearby Achabal town where told reporters in Delhi, terming the shots on many ing research and and across the state, while a cur- nagar said. march to the Anantnag town thousands of people surrounded the arrest a “big success” for the crucial areas, es- teaching.” few was still in force in south- The unrest was triggered by square where they had planned a police station against the al- security forces. Over 1mn people hit as Teenage girl dies after second sexual attack

fl oods worsen in Assam Agencies student in Haryana was gang- New Delhi raped by fi ve men who had raped her three years Reuters sponse Force, State Disaster Re- lagers and distribute food aid ago. Guwahati sponse Force and Indian army such as rice, lentils and oil. 14-year-old Dalit girl Police said they have arrested are helping the district admin- Offi cials said more than 60% died after being allegedly two new suspects in the case. istration in evacuating aff ected of the state’s famed Kaziranga Araped by the same man The woman was found un- ore than 1.2mn people people to safe places and distrib- National Park, home to two- twice, police said yesterday. conscious by a highway on July in Assam have been hit uting aid, it added. thirds of the world’s endangered The victim succumbed to her 13 and told police she had been Mby fl oods which have The Brahmaputra, Assam’s one-horned rhinoceroses, is also injuries in a hospital in north abducted and assaulted by the submerged hundreds of vil- main river which is fed by Hima- under water, leaving the animals Delhi at the weekend, days af- same fi ve men accused of at- lages, inundated large swathes layan snow melt and monsoon more vulnerable to poaching. ter a similar case was reported tacking her in 2013. of farmland and damaged roads, rain, has been overfl owing in India usually experiences from the neighbouring state of Three of that group were ar- bridges and telecommunications many areas along its course. monsoon rains from June to Sep- Haryana. rested last week on suspicion of services, local authorities said The disaster management tember, which are vital for its ag- The teenager was kidnapped gang-raping the woman. yesterday. authority said the fl oods had af- riculture. from her home in Burari area in However, police said yes- Incessant monsoon rains in fected 18 districts. But in states like mountain- May by her neighbour who had terday they had registered a the tea and oil-rich state have More than 2,100 low-lying vil- ous Assam, the rains frequently also attacked her in December, separate case, arresting two forced the burgeoning Brah- lages and almost 100,000 hec- cause landslides and fl ooding local police chief Satbir Singh men who are not connected to maputra river and its tributaries tares of crops have been partially that devastate crops, destroy said. the gang implicated in the prior to burst their banks – aff ecting or totally submerged in upper As- homes and expose people to dis- “The girl’s parents have al- incident, raising the possibility more than half of the state’s 32 sam, which includes the districts eases such as diarrhoea. leged that the 20-year-old man that the latest assault was un- districts. of Dhubri, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Experts say decades of tortured her and forced her to related. “District authorities have Morigaon, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Barp- mass deforestation have led to drink corrosive chemicals which “We have arrested two men opened 220 relief camps and eta and Dibrugarh. soil erosion where sediment caused her death,” Singh said. on charges of rape. They weren’t 130 relief distribution centres The fast-fl owing waters have is washed downstream from “We have re-arrested the man. named by the victim in her that house a total of 88,133 in- also breached embankments and mountainous areas. We are awaiting the medical re- complaint but we found hard mates,” the Assam State Disaster eroded dykes, leaving some parts It ends up in rivers where it ports, following which he may evidence against them to arrest Management Authority said in a of national and state highways builds up on the river bed, rais- A rescued three-month-old male rhino calf found in a face murder charges as well.” them,” Rakesh Arya, police chief statement. inaccessible and compounding ing the level of the water far flood-aff ected area of Kaziranga National Park is fed at an animal There was outrage in India last of Rohtak, the victim’s home The National Disaster Re- eff orts to rescue marooned vil- higher than normal. nursery in the park in the northeastern state of Assam. week after a 21-year-old Dalit district, said. Gulf Times 18 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 LATIN AMERICA

LAW AND ORDER ECONOMY MEDICAL VERDICT ARCHAEOLOGY Rio police off icers arrested Brazil’s external deficit Human tests start on Colombian model jailed Huge dinosaur footprint after alleged kidnapping bigger-than-expected controversial cancer pill for 15 years over drugs found in Bolivia

Two armed police off icers accused of briefly Brazil’s current account deficit came in much Human testing has started in Brazil on a An aspiring Colombian beauty queen has been A huge dinosaur footprint measuring 1.2 kidnapping and looting a New Zealand jiu-jitsu larger-than-expected for June as a stronger controversial anti-cancer medicine that has convicted of drug smuggling by a Chinese court metres (nearly four feet) in diameter has been athlete in Rio de Janeiro have been arrested, real reduced the gains of local exporters, been distributed in the country for years and sentenced to 15 years in jail, state-run media discovered in Bolivia, a researcher said. The Brazil’s military police (PM) said. “The case is central bank data showed yesterday. The without having gone through proper trials. The reported yesterday. Juliana Lopez Sarrazola, 23, dinosaur, from the Abelisaurid family, would under rigorous investigation and if proven, the commodity-exporting nation recorded drug, a synthetic phosphoethanolamine known was caught in possession of a laptop with 610 have left the track some 80mn years ago, two off icers will face disciplinary administrative a currency account gap of $2.479bn, a widely as “the cancer pill,” was beginning grammes of cocaine hidden inside at an airport said the local palaeontologist who found it, proceedings that will judge whether they bigger shortfall than the $1.5bn expected by testing with 10 patients at the Sao Paulo Cancer in the southern city of Guangzhou in July last Omar Medina. He made the find in southeast should be excluded from corporation,” said economists in a Reuters poll. The country Institute, the Sao Paulo state health department year, the Yangcheng Evening News said. She Bolivia, a hotbed of dinosaur fossils. “It’s one a PM statement. According to Lee, he was attracted $3.917bn in foreign direct investment said. None of those taking part in the trial are was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday, of the largest prints ever found” in the South returning from a jiu-jitsu tournament in a in June, below forecasts of $4bn in a Reuters being treated with any other drugs, a statement according to the report, which described her as American country, he said. He estimated the rental car when he was stopped by two men poll. Brazil posted a current account surplus said. The pill was created by Sao Paulo a model. Videos posted online show Sarrazola dinosaur that left it, a carnivorous biped, would in police uniform riding motorbikes. They of $1.2bn for May and a deficit of $2.563bn for University professor Gilberto Orivaldo Chierice seeking a place in the 2014-15 Senorita Antioquia have been about 15 metres tall. Huge dinosaur demanded 2,000 reais ($608) as a fine, saying June 2015. The nation’s trade surplus shrank to in the 1990s. Despite claims of a miracle cure, beauty contest, the winner of which has a chance prints measuring up to two meters across have his documents were not in order. $3.970bn from $4.530bn a year earlier. there has been little evidence of its eff icacy. to compete to represent Colombia at Miss World. also been found in France and Argentina.

Colombia Drug trafficking case says Zika Ecclestone’s epidemic on the decline mother-in-law

Reuters Bogota ‘kidnapped olombian health offi cials have declared that the Cworst of a Zika outbreak in the Andean nation had passed just 10 months after its arrival, raising questions about how the virus is aff ecting parts of Latin in Sao Paulo’ America diff erently. Vice Health Minister Fernan- London Evening Standard nals have already been in touch four decades. He left school at do Ruiz told journalists that the Rio de Janeiro with the Ecclestone family. Fa- 16 and gained a love of speed number of infections in Colom- biana is said to be close to her as a promising car and motor- bia has been falling by 600 cases mother and the pair have been cycle racer. However, a crash a week. he mother-in-law of For- pictured together on trips to at Brands Hatch in 1951 ended While Zika is still circulating mula One chief Bernie London and at Formula One his competitive career. He re- in the country, Colombia con- TEcclestone has been kid- race days. mained on the fringes of the siders the drop-off suffi cient to napped in Brazil and criminals In a Facebook post on Moth- motor racing sport until the say it has moved into an endemic are demanding £28mn for her er’s Day Fabiana wrote: “Happy Sixties when he became the phase from the epidemic phase. return, according to reports. Mother’s Day to all mothers, and manager of Jochen Rindt, who “We can declare that the epi- Aparecida Schunck, the especially mine. There are no won the Formula One drivers’ demic is ended. Colombia is the mother of Ecclestone’s third words to thank so much love and championship posthumously fi rst country on the American wife, Fabiana Flosi, was report- dedication. Thank you Mum, I in 1970, having crashed at the continent to declare an end to edly seized on Friday night near love you.” Italian circuit of Monza. the epidemic,” Ruiz said. Zika has her home in Sao Paulo. Her kid- In 1971, he bought the Brab- struck hardest in Brazil, where nappers are demanding the ran- ham racing team and became a the outbreak was fi rst detected som — thought to be the biggest key fi gure as he and other team last year, and has since spread in Brazilian history — be paid in leaders tried to gain control of rapidly through the Americas. pounds sterling. TV rights. In 1978, he became The disease can cause the dev- The kidnapping is another chief executive of the Formula astating birth defect microceph- blow to Brazil ahead of the One Constructors’ Association aly, a condition defi ned by ab- 2016 Rio Olympics, which are and gradually assumed power normally small head size which beset with fears over the Zika over the sport. can lead to severe developmental virus, law and order and ter- He was hugely successful problems in infants, as well as rorism. promoting Formula One not other neurological problems. The Games are due to open just as a sport but as a brand, Brazil has reported more than in less than two weeks with the Ecclestone, 85, one of the making it enormously valu- 1,600 cases of microcephaly country experiencing its worst most powerful men in able to sponsors and advertis- linked to Zika, a spike not repli- economic crisis for decades. sport, married Fabiana, 38, ers, and spreading the Grand cated elsewhere to date. Ecclestone, 85, one of the most in 2012, three years aft er Prix circuit to new parts of the Colombia’s Zika outbreak has powerful men in sport, married meeting her at the Brazilian world. been closely monitored by infec- Fabiana, 38, in 2012, three years Grand Prix By the late Nineties, Eccle- tious disease experts to under- after meeting her at the Brazilian stone possessed Britain’s largest stand whether the virus will af- Grand Prix, where she was vice- There has been no confi rma- self-made fortune and he is now fect other countries in a similar president of marketing. tion of the kidnap from authori- the fourth-richest person in the manner to Brazil. Colombia has The Brazilian press has re- ties in Brazil or word from the UK, with an estimated £3.2bn reported nearly 100,000 cases of ported that Schunck, 67, was Ecclestone family. fortune. He divorced his wife of infection, with 21 cases of Zika- snatched on Friday night near A source close to the fam- 25 years, Croatian model Slavica related microcephaly. her home in the Interlagos dis- ily said Ecclestone’s daughter Radic, with whom he had Ta- Some disease experts say they trict of Brazil’s biggest city. Petra, 27, was currently in Los mara and Petra, to marry Flosi, a are reluctant to say the worst of The criminals are reportedly Angeles and was quite possibly Brazilian. the outbreak has passed in Co- demanding a ransom of £28mn unaware of the news. A spokes- Kidnapping was common in lombia, particularly with mos- for her release and have stipu- man for her sister Tamara, 32, Brazil a decade ago, with several quito season due to resume in the lated that the money be split said she did not want to com- people seized each day and often country within a few months, and French national Christophe Naudin is escorted to a courtroom to have the charges into four plastic bags, a source ment. ransomed for only a few hundred the many unknowns surround- against him read in a drug traff icking case involving two French pilots, in Santo Domingo, close to the police investiga- Ecclestone, who was born in dollars. A crackdown by police ing the fi rst mosquito-borne vi- yesterday. Naudin is involved in the escape of French pilots Pascal Jean Fauret and Bruno tion told Brazilian magazine Suffolk, the son of a trawler- dramatically cut the number of rus that can also be transmitted Odos, convicted of drug traff icking. Veja. man, has been the hands-on abductions and the crime has through sexual contact. It is claimed that the crimi- supremo in Formula One for become rare today Colombian drug kingpin Design fears as ship sentenced to 35 years jail hits Panama Canal Reuters for the vessels and workers. Houston The Panama Canal Author- Reuters translator before the sentence which Barrera laundered, and ity said its operations team was New York was imposed, Barrera said he protected by dozens of armed investigating the latest incident. wanted the opportunity to be guards and enforcers, many of Chinese container ship The Lycaste Peace, the fi rst released from prison someday whom at his direction threat- hit a wall of the new lane LPG tanker to pass through the Colombian drug king- and see his grandchildren. ened or killed individuals who Aof the Panama Canal, a new section of the canal, ripped pin was sentenced to “I ask for my family’s for- owed money or posed a threat, Canal Authority offi cial and a off a fender during a collision in A35 years in a US prison giveness for all of the suff ering prosecutors said. local ship agent said, the third late June, causing some minor for engaging in a multimillion I have caused them,” he said. Barrera was extradited from such incident since the expand- damage to the railing of the ship, dollar scheme to manufacture According to authorities, Colombia in July 2013 to the ed waterway opened one month according to a source familiar hundreds of tonnes of cocaine Barrera, 48, had been one of the US, where he faced three sepa- ago amid design concerns. with the incident. that he traffi cked throughout most prolifi c drug traffi ckers of rate indictments in Manhattan, Thomson Reuters ship track- The Panama Canal Author- the world. the last two decades before his Brooklyn and Miami. ing data showed the Xin Fei ity did not respond to a request for Daniel Barrera Barrera, also capture in Venezuela in 2012 Ruben Oliva, Barrera’s law- Zhou, owned by China Shipping comment about the Lycaste Peace. known as “Loco” (Crazy), was following years in hiding. yer, in court called the sentence Container Lines, was anchored The authority has confi rmed sentenced by US district judge Prosecutors said that from “unreasonable and greater than outside the canal after a photo- that the Cosco Shipping Panama, Gregory Woods in Manhattan 1998 to 2010, Barrera ran a co- necessary.” graph published by the maritime the container ship that made the after pleading guilty to various caine manufacturing and traf- He had sought leniency given online news site gCaptain.com inaugural journey through the narcotic-related charges and to fi cking syndicate that produced that his client attempted to co- showed the vessel with a sizeable canal, also made contact with its having conspired to engage in an estimated 5,000kgs of co- operate with authorities, in- gash in its hull. fenders, which a spokesman for money laundering. caine a month, resulting in more cluding off ering information to The ship agent said it was the authority said was normal. Woods, who also fi ned Barrera than 720 tonnes of cocaine being locate a Farc bomb maker and undergoing repairs. The latest A representative for MC- $10mn and ordered him to for- produced during the scheme. by encouraging other drug traf- incident comes after two other Seamax Management Ltd, the feit the same amount, called the Barrera bought raw cocaine fi ckers to surrender. vessels have reportedly made manager of the Cosco Shipping Colombian national a “smart, paste from the leftist rebel But assistant US attorney contact with the newly expand- Panama, said it suff ered no dam- talented, maybe even gifted group Farc and processed it in Soumya Dayananda said author- ed canal since the $5.4bn project age. While contact with fenders man” who went from working as laboratories in areas controlled ities declined to extend any co- was inaugurated on June 26. may occur in transit, the three a farm hand to heading a violent by a now-demobilised para- operation agreement to Barrera. The expansion, which triples events together are likely to renew drug traffi cking organisation. military group, the United Self- “The magnitude of the de- the size of ships that can pass concerns about the safety of mov- “Simply put, the scope of Defence Forces of Colombia, or fendant’s violence and drug Royal Dutch Shell’s Maran Gas Apollonia tanker, transporting the through the waterway, has drawn ing expensive vessels through the the off ence here is staggering,” AUC, authorities said. traffi cking outweighed any co- first US shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to pass through the criticism from industry groups expanded canal, which experts Woods said. The drug empire gener- operation he could provide,” expanded Panama Canal, navigates the waterway in Cocoli, on the that claim its design makes the say has less space for manoeuvres Speaking through a Spanish ated tens of millions of dollars, she said. outskirts of Panama City. transit of larger ships unsafe than the original locks. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Two held over suggestions Turkish fi rm to take over Gulen Pakistan army seize power schools in Pakistan

Reuters “We cannot allow such a sen- Karachi sitive exercise where you put Internews the world where the school politicians on one side and the Islamabad system belonging to Gulen has army on the other when there been working. akistani authorities is an elected political govern- The Turkish government have arrested two men ment and independent judiciary he government of Pa- had contended that Fatehullah Pin different parts of the present in the country,” the po- kistan has decided to Gulen is patronising terrorism country for suggesting that lice chief said. Toblige Turkey’s demand through his educational facili- the army seize power from the Last week, another man, pertaining to closing down the ties and his schools system is civilian government of Prime Mohamed Kamran, the head school system and Rumi Fo- also part of that. Minister Nawaz Sharif, police of a little known party called rums in Pakistan belonging to The Turkish government said yesterday. Move on Pakistan, was arrest- Imam Fatehullah Gulen, but in asked the countries housing Pakistan, a nuclear-armed ed in the capital, Islamabad, a diff erent way. Gulen schools to close down nation of 190mn, has been ruled after putting up posters sug- Highly placed diplomatic them immediately. by the military for almost half gesting the army chief seize sources revealed yesterday At the same time Turkey its history and has repeatedly power, a police spokeswoman evening that all such educa- asked the United States to swung between democracy and said. tional and cultural facilities extradite Fatehullah Gulen to military rule. The spokeswoman said Kam- would be handed over to a Turkey, who is living in exile Sharif was toppled in a coup ran was being questioned. Turkish company that is be- in Pennsylvania and he has be- in 1999 and returned to power Sharif has faced criticism over ing conceived and registered come American national. after winning a 2013 election recent months, since documents in Pakistan shortly. The US authorities have asked but his relations with the pow- released as past of the Panama The Turkish entity, author- Turkey to provide evidence with erful military have been testy at Papers data leak showed his ised by the Turkish government, regard to the terror activities of times, and both sides are sensi- children owned several off -shore will ensure the government Gulen and his involvement in the tive about talk of military inter- companies and used them to buy here that it would continue to attempted coup in Turkey early vention. Pakistani commuters drive past posters of army chief General Raheel Sharif in Peshawar on July 12, 2016. properties in London. provide educational facilities this month. The arrests came after posters Posters begging Pakistan’s powerful army chief to launch a coup appeared in major cities including the He denies wrongdoing, as do to the students who are already The sources pointed out appeared in 13 cities seeming to capital Islamabad overnight July 12, raising eyebrows in a country that has been ruled by the military for his children. enrolled in these schools. that Turkey’s ambassador to invite army chief General Ra- more than half its history. The criticism and occasion- The Turkish government Pakistan Sadik Babur Girgin heel Sharif, who is due to retire al strains in his relations with took up the matter with the had meeting with Foreign Sec- in November, to step in and rule lation to the prime minister, the northwestern town of Ban- army to step in. the army have raised questions government here soon after retary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry the country. has said he would step down as nu on Monday after he staged Bannu police chief Qasim about prospects for his govern- the recent failed attempt of and other high-ups here in the A military spokesman disa- planned. a poll on a street, asking people Ali Khan told Reuters Khan had ment. coup in that country. Foreign Offi ce to communicate vowed the posters. Police arrested one of the whether they were satisfi ed with been detained and charged with Pakistan’s next general elec- Ankara made similar re- the position of his government General Sharif, who is no re- men, Mohamed Islam Khan, in the government or wanted the a public order off ence. tion is due in 2018. quest to all countries across early this month.

Gunmen kill two military offi cials in Karachi Diplomatic eff orts stepped up for

Reuters Pakistani convict in Indonesia Karachi

Internews was summoned to the Foreign Gurdip Singh, retracted his unmen yesterday killed Islamabad Offi ce over the expected execu- statement against Ali, saying two Pakistan army of- tion. the confession had been co- Gfi cials in Karachi, where “Indonesian ambassador in erced from him. paramilitary forces have been he government of Paki- Islamabad was also called in The JPP said the Indonesian cracking down on Islamist mili- stan has intensifi ed its by the ministry and asked to police had been unable to bring tants and criminal gangs for Tdiplomatic eff orts for convey the government of Pa- forward any material evidence almost three years, police and saving a Pakistani national, kistan’s concern to his authori- to support their charge against media said. Zulfi qar Ali, who is facing im- ties,” Foreign Offi ce spokesman Ali. The killings are the latest at- minent execution in Indonesia Nafees Zakariya said. “Despite this, the Pakistan tacks in the busy port city of after being convicted of drug- After languishing in jail for 12 embassy in Jakarta has received 20mn people riven by political, related charges in a controver- years, Ali is set to be executed in a notifi cation that Ali will be ethnic and sectarian violence, sial trial. Indonesia. executed in the near future and where one of the most popular Adviser to the Prime Min- The Justice Project Pakistan that the family will be given a singers of Sufi devotional music, ister on Foreign Aff airs Sar- (JPP), a human rights law fi rm, 72-hour notice,” it said. Amjad Sabri, was shot dead last taj Aziz, who is in Laos for an has requested the president to Ali was arrested at his home month. Police and soldiers secure the area around an army vehicle after two army personnel were killed by Asean (Association of South- take up the matter with the In- without a warrant in Indone- Police said the soldiers, who attackers on a motorcycle in Karachi yesterday. east Asian Nations) Regional donesian government to save sia’s West Java province. belonged to an intelligence Forum meeting, has sought a the life of ‘an innocent Paki- Ali’s wife, Siti Rouhani, has agency, were patrolling a crowd- lanes,” senior police offi cer Raja the second was confirmed by cesses of the crackdown, al- meeting with his Indonesian stani’. pinned her last hopes on the ed area of the southern city when Umar Khattab told Reuters. a doctor at the city’s Jinnah though two days before Sabri’s counterpart Retno Marsudi on Ali, 52, was arrested in No- government. their vehicle was attacked. Karachi police chief Mushtaq Hospital, which received both killing, the son of the provincial the issue, according to a dip- vember 2004 in connection “If I get some support from “The attackers were on a mo- Mehar said one of the victims bodies. chief justice was kidnapped from lomat. with a 300-gram heroine case Pakistan, something may hap- torcycle and managed to escape died and the other was in criti- Better security in Karachi has an upscale shopping area. Meanwhile, Indonesian am- in Jakarta. pen and my husband may be through the congested narrow cal condition, but the death of been one of the showcase suc- He was rescued later. bassador Iwan Suyudhie Amri A co-accused in the case, saved,” she said. Afghanistan weighs IS threat after Kabul attack

Islamic State commander says Hazara targeted over support for Syria; Afghan forces with US air strikes kill hundreds of fighters; Off icials say more high profile attacks by Islamic State likely

Reuters Kabul

slamic State is threatening more attacks against Afghani- Istan’s Hazara minority after Saturday’s suicide blasts in Kabul that killed 80 people, pledging to retaliate against support by some in the mainly Shia group for the Assad regime in Syria. But assessing the threat from Daesh, as Islamic State is known in Afghanistan, is diffi cult. Some question whether it was really responsible for Saturday’s blasts and some offi cials ask whether the ultra-radical Sunni movement, hitherto largely con- fi ned to an area near the border Afghan security forces patrol during ongoing clashes between security forces and Islamic State militants in Kot District in eastern Nangarhar province yesterday. with Pakistan, poses a wider challenge. “We can and we will strike Nevertheless, Saturday’s at- Afghan ground forces. Those militants have also been action or worse. launched its fi rst major off ensive A Daesh commander who uses them again.” tack on the Hazara minority “Having a couple of people hit hard by the Pakistani mili- Some even doubt Islamic since the holy month of Ram- the name Abu Omar Khorasani The government says it has adds a dangerous complication that you’ve hired put on a sui- tary, according to an Afghan se- State’s claim of responsibility. adan in Nangarhar. said the bombing of the rally by been hitting Daesh hard even to the war the Western-backed cide vest and sneak into a crowd curity report seen by Reuters. “There is no evidence to prove According to the interior min- thousands of Hazaras protesting before Saturday’s blasts, one of government in Kabul has been of many thousands really is not While the movement may Daesh’s involvement. It could istry, 654 Daesh and Taliban about the route of a new power the most deadly attacks in the fi ghting with Taliban insurgents. that sophisticated,” said US mil- have been limited to eastern Af- have been others,” said Dawood fi ghters, including several senior line was in retaliation for the country since the beginning of As well as the risk of dragging itary spokesman Brigadier Gen- ghanistan, that need not stop it Naji, one of the organisers of commanders have been killed support off ered by some mem- the Taliban insurgency in 2001. Afghanistan into Islamic State’s eral Charles Cleveland. from seeking to spread violence Saturday’s rally. in Nangarhar in the last two bers of the community to the re- It said government forces had wider campaign in the Mid- On the ground, the Nato- and raise its profi le with more “I don’t think Daesh would be months. gime in Syria. killed hundreds of insurgents in dle East, it raised the spectre of led force advising government attacks on civilian targets, offi - a major concern for Afghan peo- On Monday, Afghan special Many Hazaras have gone the past two months in assaults sectarian violence, something troops estimates the number of cials said. ple because they are not very ac- forces killed Sahad Emarati, a through Shia-governed Iran on Daesh strongholds in the Afghanistan, a majority Sunni Daesh fi ghters at between 1,000 “That’s our concern, these tive and have no foothold.” senior Daesh commander and to fi ght for the government of eastern province of Nangarhar, country, has largely been spared and 3,000, many of them former high profi le attacks, they are ef- With President Ashraf Ghani’s destroyed training camps during President Bashar al-Assad, a fel- which straddles the highway during decades of war. members of militant groups like fective because they’re not that unwieldy national unity govern- a fi refi ght in the province, said low Shia, against Islamic State. from Kabul to the Pakistani city But while seeing the threat, the Pakistani Taliban, the Islam- diffi cult to achieve,” Cleveland ment riven by infi ghting, their Attahullah Khogyani, a spokes- “Unless they stop going to Syria of Peshawar. officials are cautious about ic Movement of Uzbekistan and told reporters in Kabul. anger adds an unpredictable new man for Nangarhar’s governor. and stop being slaves of Iran, we In the latest fi ghting, at least whether the attack repre- the Afghan Taliban. The Hazara, who have long threat of political instability. “We think that Daesh is un- will defi nitely continue such at- 122 insurgents were killed in the sents a real turning point for Many of the Daesh fi ghters suff ered violence and discrimi- Government and Nato force der pressure,” Cleveland said.”As tacks,” the militant commander past 24 hours, it said on Tuesday. Daesh, which has been un- operating in Afghanistan are nation in Afghanistan, have re- offi cials insist, however, that Is- their terrain gets restricted, you told Reuters by telephone from an The numbers could not be in- der heavy pressure this year from the Orakzai tribe on the Pa- sponded with fury to the attack, lamic State is being hit hard. see them trying to conduct more undisclosed location. dependently confi rmed. from both US air strikes and kistani side of the border. accusing the government of in- The Afghan army has external operations and attacks.” Gulf Times 20 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 PHILIPPINES Defence treaty with US legal, says top court

Manila Times tion questioning the January 12 EDCA aims to improve inter- With a vote of 9-4, the tri- Anakpawis and Kabataan. the Philippine government. dential legal counsel, respectively. Manila ruling of the high court in fa- operability between the Philip- bunal denied appeals fi led by In the ruling penned by Chief However, Sereno and eight Those who concurred with vour of the Enhanced Defence pine and US militaries and im- former senators Rene Saguisag Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, other judges held that the EDCA Sereno were Justices Antonio Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) prove the Armed Forces of the and Wigberto Tañada, Mary the SC ruled that there were no is merely an executive agree- Carpio, Presbitero Velasco Jr, Di- he Supreme Court yester- signed by the previous Aquino Philippines’ capacity to mod- John Mananzan, Pacifi co Agabin new arguments presented to ment that implements the 1951 osdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, day affi rmed the consti- administration. ernise as well as carry out exter- of the University of the Philip- warrant the reversal of the Janu- Mutual Defence Treaty, and does Mariano del Castillo, Jose Perez, Ttutionality and legality of The decision came on the day nal defence, according to a gov- pines, Francisco Nemenzo, Har- ary decision. not need Senate concurrence. Jose Mendoza and Bienvenido an agreement bolstering military US Secretary of State John Kerry ernment statement. ry Roque and Evalyn Ursua. The petitioners insisted that Associate Justices Francis Reyes. exercises between the Philip- arrived in the Philippines for a Other objectives include mar- Other petitioners were the EDCA violated Article 18, Sec- Jardeleza and Alfredo Benjamin Those who dissented were pines and the US. two-day visit, and amid tensions itime security, maritime domain Makabayan party-list bloc: tion 25 of the Constitution, Caguioa inhibited, as they han- Justices Teresita Leonardo-de A majority of judges voted to between Manila and Beijing over awareness and humanitarian as- Bagong Alyansang Makabay- which requires ratifi cation by the dled the case when they were still Castro, Arturo Brion, Estela Per- junk motions for reconsidera- the South China Sea. sistance and disaster response. an, Gabriela, ACT Teachers, Senate of treaties entered into by solicitor general and chief presi- las-Bernabe and Marvic Leonen. Philippines, Pilipinas Shell files for IPO China must turn page on row: Kerry

Agencies Philippine Foreign Secre- Vientiane, Laos tary Perfecto Yasay told re- porters that he supported that approach, describing the he Philippines and tribunal case as a dispute just China should “turn the between Beijing and Manila. Tpage” and hold talks “The other countries are not over contested areas of the part of our fi ling of the case South China Sea after a tribu- before the arbitral tribunal so nal shot down Beijing’s claims why would we insist that it be to the strategic waterway, US put in the Asean statement,” Secretary of State John Kerry Yasay said. said yesterday. China has repeatedly Relations between the Phil- blamed the United States for ippines and China hit a nadir stoking tensions in the region earlier this month after Beijing through its military patrols, refused to recognise a UN- and of taking sides in the dis- backed ruling invalidating its pute, accusations Washington claims to much of the sea. denies. The Philippines, which says In an address to foreign Residents transport commuters and soda bottles on tricycles past a Shell petrol station in Las Pinas, Metro Manila, yesterday. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation has filed it owns areas claimed by Chi- ministers, including Kerry, at for an initial public off ering (IPO) of shares that may raise as much as 29.7bn pesos ($629mn) in one of the Philippines’ largest stock market listings. The unit of Royal Dutch na, took the case to a Hague- the gathering in Vientiane, Shell plans to launch the IPO in October involving up to 330mn primary and secondary shares at up to 90 pesos per share, with a listing on the Philippine Stock Exchange based tribunal for arbitration. Wang criticised the United tentatively set for November 10. Kerry reiterated Washing- States, Japan and Australia for ton’s stance that the tribunal’s a joint statement on the issue decision to favour the Philip- they released late on Monday. pines was binding, but added The statement “continued that it was time to seek new to hype up the South China ground. Sea issue and play up ten- “I would encourage Presi- sions,” he said. dent Duterte to engage in dia- “Now is the time we will logue, in negotiations,” Kerry test whether you are protec- told reporters in Laos, refer- tors of peace or agitators.” ring to the tough-talking new Speaking to reporters on a Visaya orders stop to Philippines leader. conference call, a senior US Kerry later fl ew to Manila administration offi cial said at for talks with Duterte. the end of a visit to China by Kerry’s call for fresh talks National Security Adviser Su- between Manila and Beijing san Rice that she had empha- comes at the request of his sised all parties should take Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. steps to reduce tensions and anti-rebel operations “The foreign minister said use the ruling to reinvigorate very clearly the time has come regional diplomacy. NDF sets conditions before pines. both sides should be able to ex- necessarily connected with the his decision to declare a unilat- to move away from public ten- Rice also told Chinese offi - agreeing to truce He stressed, however, that the change ceasefi re declarations release of all current political eral ceasefi re with the CPP was sions and turn the page,” Kerry cials, who included a top mili- military “shall continue to per- when peace talks fi nally resume prisoners under the amnesty made by the Cabinet, not just told reporters. tary offi cer, that US military Agencies form its mandate of protecting on August 20 to 27 in Oslo, Nor- proclamation to be issued by himself. “And we agree with that. operations were designed to Manila the communities and its people way. President Duterte and concurred Duterte said he is “a president No claimant should be acting contribute to peace and stabil- from terrorist groups.” Jalandoni wrote to Silvestre in by a majority of Congress,” it that seeks peace with everyone,” in a way that is provocative, ity wherever they happened, Duterte declared the cease- Bello, chief negotiator of the added, pointing to such an ar- and mentioned peace eff orts no claimant should take steps including in the South China he head of the Philippine fi re on Monday ahead of the re- Government of the Republic of rangement under the Oslo Joint with the CPP founded by his that wind up raising tensions.” Sea, the offi cial said. military yesterday or- sumption of peace talks aimed the Philippines (GRP) panel, that Statement between Duterte’s former professor Jose Sison, and The two envoys met on the “Those operations are law- Tdered a stop in off ensive at ending one of Asia’s longest- the NDF welcomed Duterte’s peace negotiators and the NDF rival Muslim rebel groups - the sidelines of a regional security ful, they will continue, they’ve operations against communist running leftist insurgencies in ceasefi re declaration, the organ- on June 15. Moro Islamic Liberation Front forum of the 10-member As- been longstanding, and again rebels after President Rodrigo August. isation said in a statement. There are at least 557 political (MILF) under Al-Haj Murad and sociation of Southeast Asian they’re designed to impart Duterte declared a unilateral However, the National Demo- “He averred that the (NDF) prisoners all over the country, the Moro National Liberation Nations (Asean) that has been confi dence and stability,” he ceasefi re with them. cratic Front (NDF), the political would be able to respond to or based on fi gures from human Front (MNLF) under Nur Mis- dogged by the issue of the added. Ricardo Visaya, who became arm of the Communist Party of reciprocate the unilateral cease- rights group Karapatan. uari. South China Sea. Earlier, Kerry had said that the Armed Forces of the Philip- the Philippines (CPP), set two fi re declaration of the GRP soon The president yesterday “I have to start with releas- The Philippines had been China’s dismissal of the inter- pines chief of staff this month, conditions before reciprocating: after receiving its full text. He promised to grant safe conduct ing the leaders, not on anything, expected to push for the bloc national court ruling as “ille- also directed troops to cease receipt of the text of the govern- assured Bello that the (NDF) passes to top communist and but safe conduct pass for Sison, to support the tribunal ruling gitimate” presented a challenge “combat manoeuvres that may ment’s ceasefi re declaration and would study it carefully and Muslim rebels, but said the army Misuari. There’s no problem in a punchy joint-statement. when the international com- be construed as provocative the release of its detained mem- make the appropriate response,” will be ready in case of “instant with Murad,” Duterte said. But the bloc shied away munity, including the United acts” against the New People’s bers. the NDF said. failure” in peace talks. The MILF signed a fi nal peace from a diplomatic confronta- States, sees it as legally binding Army, the armed wing of the The NDF, quoting its chief “Jalandoni assumed that the Speaking to the military at deal with the previous govern- tion with China. and a matter of law. Communist Party of the Philip- negotiator Luis Jalandoni, said GRP ceasefi re declaration … is Fort Magsaysay, Duterte said ment in 2014. Policeman killed in Soldiers’ pay to Quezon City drug bust be hiked: Duterte Manila Times salary, you will get it,” the presi- Palayan City, Nueva Ecija dent added, without giving de- Manila Times food chain in Fairview, Quezon 200g were found inside Cas- tails on the schedule of instal- Manila City at 3.30am when he sensed tillo’s car. ments. The soldiers cheered. that he has been set up. Eleazar said at least fi ve resident Rodrigo Duterte Duterte, the country’s com- Sensing that he was about to packs of methamphetamine yesterday announced that mander-in-chief, was at Fort police offi cer assigned be arrested, Castillo sped off in hydrochloride or “shabu,” Pthe salaries of soldiers Magsaysay, home of the Philip- with the Quezon City his car and exchanged fi re with worth at least a million pesos will be hiked, but in instal- pine Army’s 7th Infantry Divi- A Police District (QCPD) police. were recovered from Castillo’s ments, starting next month. sion led by Maj Gen Angelito de District’s Anti-Illegal Drugs Police blocked Castillo’s vehicle. Duterte made the promise to Leon. (DAID) was killed by fellow car at the corner of Regalado Supt Elizabeth Jasmin, the government troops in the coun- Before meeting the soldiers, policemen during a buy-bust Avenue and Bulova Street in spokesperson for the Criminal try’s biggest military reservation, Duterte attended a command operation at dawn yesterday in Greater Fairview where a fi re- Investigation and Detection just days after Budget Secretary conference with offi cials of the Quezon City, a police offi cial fi ght ensued. The police of- Group (CIDG) of the Philippine Benjamin Diokno said there was 7th Infantry, the Special Opera- said. fi cer sustained several gunshot National Police, said the oper- no money for the pay hike. tions Command, the Army Ar- Senior Supt Guillermo wounds and died on the spot. ation was conducted jointly by “I told Secretary Diokno, ‘I tillery Regiment, Combat Arms Lorenzo Eleazar, acting direc- Supt Roghart Campo, chief members of the District Spe- will lose face before the soldiers.’ School, Training and Doctrines tor of the QCPD, identifi ed the of the District Special Opera- cial Operations Unit and CIDG I told him, ‘You have to look for a Command, and the Army Avia- slain police offi cer as Senior tions Unit (DSOU) who spear- as part of the campaign of the way.’ Starting next month, there tion Battalion. Inspector Ramon Castillo. headed the operation against PNP to rid its ranks of drug us- will be an incremental increase Duterte reassured soldiers Castillo is suspected of Castillo, said the pursuing ers and pushers. in your salaries,” Duterte said, that he will protect them, par- having recycled seized illegal policemen tried to get Castillo Meanwhile, an offi cial said with National Security Adviser ticularly if they are charged in drugs and selling them on the alive but he preferred to put up yesterday the Armed Forces Hermogenes Esperon and De- court as they carry out orders. street. a fi ght. of the Philippines (AFP) will fence chief Delfi n Lorenzana, “If it is in the performance of He was about to sell P1mn The P1mn worth of shabu open its camps for the reha- behind him. your duty … I will protect you,” worth of shabu in front of a with an estimated weight of bilitation of drug users. Duterte: promise to soldiers “I promised to double your he said. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL

Two more Bangladesh police kill nine held over boy’s killing

AFP extremists in gun-battle Dhaka

AFP world’s third-largest Muslim angladesh police said yes- Dhaka majority nation. terday they had arrested But a police offi cial said the Btwo more textile workers wounded survivor who was over the death of a nine-year-old angladeshi police killed rushed to Dhaka Medical Col- boy who was tortured, appar- nine suspected Islamist lege Hospital after Tuesday’s ently as punishment for breaking Bextremists in a gun-battle raid claimed that all of those factory rules. yesterday after storming a hide- inside the hideout were IS Sagar Barman’s family say out where they said a new mass followers. workers at Zubaida Textile Mills attack was being planned. “His name is Hasan. He said forced the hose from an air Police said they belonged to they are IS members,” the po- compressor into his rectum and a Bangladeshi group blamed for lice offi cial said on condition of turned it on, causing internal an attack on a Dhaka cafe ear- anonymity, adding the 25-year- injuries that later killed him. lier this month in which 20 hos- old was a cook and hailed from Local police chief Ismail Hos- tages, mostly foreigners, were the northern district of Bogra, sain said it appeared the boy - killed and had been planning home to two of the fi ve cafe who by law should not have been another large-scale assault. attackers. employed - was being punished “Nine Islamist militants were But Hoque stressed that the for using the device to remove killed after a two hour-long nine killed in Tuesday’s op- the bits of cotton that stuck to gunfi ght,” deputy commission- eration had no connection with workers at the mill, a banned er of Dhaka Metropolitan Po- Islamic State jihadists even practice. lice (DMP) Masud Ahmed said, though they were wearing the “It seems they did it as a kind adding another extremist was group’s signature black robes of punishment to the child,” Hos- shot and arrested during the and turbans. sain said. “They did not realise raid in the capital’s Kalyanpur “We think they are all JMB that it would end so tragically.” neighbourhood. members... We have not found One worker was arrested on National police chief A K M any link with IS. They are all local Monday and yesterday police Shahidul Hoque told report- Bangladeshi militants,” he said. arrested two more, including ers they suspected all 10 were Hoque added that they had a line supervisor suspected of members of the homegrown rented a fourth-fl oor fl at and witnessing the incident. extremist group Jamaatul Mu- were planning to launch a large- “In all, three people have now jahideen Bangladesh (JMB), scale attack. been arrested over the murder which was blamed for the “From police intelligence and will be remanded for ques- Dhaka cafe attack. sources we learnt that they tioning,” police inspector Jasim Five gunmen stormed the were planning to carry out a Uddin, who is investigating the Holey Artisan Bakery in the up- major incident. We conducted case, said. scale Gulshan neighbourhood the operation to foil any such Police patrolling the area near the house where nine suspected Islamist extremists were killed in a gun-battle in Dhaka yesterday. Zubaida is one of Bangladesh’s on July 1 and killed two police- incident,” he said. largest mills and sells yarn to men and 20 hostages, including Police said they cordoned lice and the elite security force Police said they have arrested Bangladesh is reeling from a a gun attack at the country’s clothing makers who export their nine Italians and seven Japanese off an apartment building after Rapid Action Battalion. the son and wife of the landlord wave of deadly Islamist attacks. largest Eid prayer rally where products to top Western brands nationals, before commandos suspects threw a small hand “This morning police who rented out the fl at in the The government and police around 250,000 people were and retailers. ended the siege. bomb at offi cers who were con- launched Operation Storm 26 Kalyanpur neighbourhood to the say homegrown extremists are marking the end of Ramadan. Police said they were looking Islamic State (IS) group ducting a “block raid” in the and was able to destroy the mili- suspected JMB extremists. responsible for the deaths of At least three people and a for the owner of the factory and claimed responsibility for the area after midnight. tants. We’re now sweeping the And in a separate raid, police some 80 secular activists, for- gunman were killed in the attack. its senior managers, who fl ed af- attack and posted gruesome The Islamist gunmen ex- place,” Dhaka additional police arrested two suspected Islamist eigners and religious minorities The government of Prime ter the boy’s death and who face images of the carnage before the changed fi re intermittently commissioner Sheikh Maruf extremists in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh since 2013. Minister Sheikh Hasina has charges of employing hundreds military stormed the cafe. throughout the night and Hasan, who led the raid, said. neighbourhood, local police Both IS and a branch of Al since launched a nationwide of child labourers. Bangladeshi authorities shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God “Their dress and their slogans chief Quddus Fakir said. Qaeda have claimed responsi- man-hunt for Islamists, arrest- Offi cers who raided the fac- have rejected the claim, say- is the Greatest”) as the neigh- before and after the attack all “We’ve recovered explosives bility for many of the attacks. ing more than a dozen suspect- tory on Monday rescued 27 child ing international jihadist net- bourhood was sealed off by proved that they are members of and jihadi books from their After the cafe siege, suspected ed extremists including one of workers, many of them aged works have no presence in the hundreds of heavily armed po- an (Islamist) militant force.” hideout,” he said. Islamist militants also launched JMB’s regional heads. under 14, who were paid far less than the minimum wage. Millions of children are em- ployed to do hazardous factory work in impoverished Bangla- desh, even though owners are BB: Probe into cyber barred by law from hiring work- Quake survivors struggle with ers under the age of 18. A 13-year-old boy was killed theft nearly complete in the same way last August in the southwestern city of Khulna, sparking furious protests. Two debt, raising traffi cking fears Reuters counterpart assured him last men were sentenced to death Dhaka week that the Manila end over that case. of the investigation into the Nationwide demonstrations Thomson Reuters Foundation limited and indebtedness their employers to be allowed Nepal is both a source and a cyber heist, the biggest in were also held in July last year Kathmandu makes them more vulnerable to return home, going without destination country for victims he Bangladesh central banking history, was nearly over the lynching of a 13-year- to exploitation,” said Nandita wages for several months while of human traffi cking with some bank said yesterday its completed. old boy who was tied to a pole Baruah, Asia Foundation’s spending money on rebuilding, 8,500 Nepalis traffi cked every TPhilippine counterpart “We are hopeful that the and beaten to death after he was undreds of Nepalis who deputy country representative Baruah said. year, according to the country’s had nearly completed an inves- fi ndings of the investigation accused of stealing a bicycle. had borrowed money in Kathmandu. “These are workers who human rights commission. tigation into how $81mn of its will be in our favour and that Six men were sentenced to Hto rebuild their lives af- “Their desperation makes pay 200,000-500,000 rupees Women are typically traf- money wound up in a Manila the anti-money laundering death for that killing in the city ter two earthquakes left them them take greater risks, such as ($1,850-$4,640) to go abroad fi cked for sex work, domestic bank, and that it hoped for the council of Philippines will hold of Sylhet. homeless are at risk of being traf- sending their children away for in the fi rst place, and are very work and forced marriages to swift return of the stolen funds. RCBC as liable,” Kabir said at a fi cked or duped into selling their what they think are better lives, likely still paying off that debt,” India, the Middle East, China Governor Fazle Kabir told news conference to announce kidneys to pay off their debts, or even selling their kidneys,” she said. and South Korea - while men reporters he hoped the Phil- a new monetary policy. BNP to hold protest an international development she told the Thomson Reuters “The quakes exacerbated are made to work in construc- ippine authorities would fi x Bangladesh would be able organisation said. Foundation in an interview. their indebtedness,” she said. tion, as drivers and in hotels responsibility on the Ma- to get all its money back if The main opposition Bangladesh Nepal received $4.1bn in “We’re going to see an up- Activists say there are signs in India, the Middle East and nila-based Rizal Commercial the Philippine bank was held Nationalist Party (BNP) has pledges from donors for recon- tick in people moving out to of an increase in the number Southeast Asia. Banking Corp for disbursing responsible for the suspi- announced a countrywide struction after quakes last April earn money as their debts be- of Nepali women and children Some victims are duped the stolen funds that landed in cious accounts into which the demonstration today to protest and May killed 9,000 people, come due. Some of them will be being traffi cked after last year’s into selling their kidneys and accounts there. money was transferred be- the conviction of party’s senior injured at least 22,000 and traffi cked,” Baruah added. disaster. brought to India, where a Hackers broke into Bang- fore being sent to casinos and vice chairman Tarique Rahman in damaged or destroyed more Nepal’s economy is highly Anti-traffi cking charity chronic organ shortage has ladesh Bank’s (BB) computer gambling agents, he added. a money laundering case. than 900,000 houses in the dependent on remittances Maiti Nepal said it stopped 745 fuelled a black-market trade in systems in February and trans- In May, RCBC announced The demonstration will be held at Himalayan nation. sent back by its migrant work- women and children - suspect- illegal transplants, activists say. ferred $81mn from its deposit its president, Lorenzo Tan, all divisional, district and upazila More than a year on, recon- ers, which make up about 30 ed victims of human traffi cking Nepal’s economy is fore- at the Federal Reserve Bank of had resigned but cleared him level headquarters simultaneously, struction has been slow with percent of its gross domestic - at the Nepal-India border in cast by the Asian Development New York into four RCBC ac- of any responsibility in the BNP senior joint secretary general unrest over a new constitution product. the three months following the Bank to have grown only about counts in a Manila branch. The money laundering scandal. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed told the adding to the delays. Unable to Following the earthquakes, earthquakes. 1.5% in the fi scal year to mid- accounts in the names of indi- A Bangladesh Bank delega- media at the party’s Nayapaltan fi nd work, hundreds of Nepa- hundreds of migrant workers That compares with 615 July after reconstruction delays viduals had been opened with tion will soon visit the Philip- central off ice in Dhaka. lis are deep in debt, the Asia returned to Nepal to help their such interceptions in the three and trade disruptions. A recov- a $500 deposit and remained pines to try and hasten eff orts Earlier on Saturday, the party Foundation said yesterday. families. months before the quakes, their ery is dependent on the pace of inactive for a year. to recover the funds, offi cials observed a similar programme on “Their ability to pay is very Many are likely to have paid data showed. reconstruction, it said. Kabir said his Philippine in Dhaka, the capital, said. the same issue. Selfie time ICRC presses Sri Lanka on fate of 16,000 war missing

AFP Of 395 families surveyed by appeared during the 37-year war Colombo the Red Cross, just over one third including after being arrested by believed their loved ones were security services, while thou- dead while another third were sands more died in military he International Red convinced they were still alive bombardments. Cross yesterday urged somewhere. The remaining third Thousands of people also went TSri Lanka to disclose the were unsure. missing during a crackdown by fate of more than 16,000 people “The survey found that these security forces and pro-govern- still offi cially missing since the families primarily want to know ment vigilante groups on Marxist island’s ethnic war ended seven the fate and whereabouts of rebels between 1987 and 1990. years ago. their missing relative and that The ICRC said it has regis- The Geneva-based organisa- they also face economic, legal tered 16,000 people as missing tion released a 14-month sur- and administrative diffi culties in since setting up a presence in Sri vey conducted across Sri Lanka their daily lives,” it said. Lanka in 1989. The database in- showing thousands of mainly Government forces crushed cludes more than 5,100 security ethnic Tamils were still search- Tamil rebels fi ghting for a sepa- personnel listed as missing. ing for their loved ones. rate homeland for the ethnic President Maithripala Sirise- The survey and resulting minority, in a brutal off ensive na has taken steps to reconcile 34-page report titled “Living in 2009. Some 40,000 people with the Tamil community since with Uncertainty” called on Sri are thought to have been killed coming to power last Janu- An off icer from the US Navy’s USS New Orleans vessel taking a selfie picture with Sri Lankan navy off icers next to an armoured Lankan authorities to “clarify in the fi nal few months of the ary, including by setting up a vehicle during a visit at Colombo port yesterday. the fate and whereabouts of confl ict alone. missing persons offi ce to help missing persons”. Huge numbers of Tamils dis- families seek compensation. Gulf Times 22 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 COMMENT

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P.O.Box 2888 Doha, Qatar [email protected] Telephone 44350478 (news), 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) Fax 44350474 GULF TIMES App aims to stop mobile phone use while driving

Distracted driving has become a serious threat to road safety everywhere in the world with the widespread use of mobile phones. Family members mourning during the funeral ceremony in Ropica, Kosovo, of Diamant Zabergja, a 21-year-old victim of the shooting at the shopping centre in Munich. If you are using a mobile phone while driving, you David Ali Sonboly, 18, shot dead nine people at a Munich shopping mall before turning the gun on himself, having spent a year planning the rampage. Most of the are approximately four times more likely to be involved victims of July 22 attack were foreigners, including three Turkish nationals, three people from Kosovo and a Greek. Police said that Sonboly, a German-Iranian, was in a crash than a driver who is not using a phone, “obsessed” with mass killers like Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik. according to a study. Text messaging appears to have an even more severe impact on driving behaviour and crash risk. In Qatar, as in many countries, it is illegal to use a The world on the edge as mobile phone held in the hand while driving. Despite that one sees so many drivers are doing just that on Qatar’s roads. Two of the main causes for road traffi c accidents in Qatar are the use of mobile phones and speeding, a turmoil reigns everywhere senior offi cial working with the National Campaign for Road Accidents Prevention said recently. He warned that the use of mobile phones whether for talking, Many Western countries are In almost every country, there as overseas in entities such as the UK Despite all that, however, it’s worth texting or any other purpose considerably diverted the socially divided on a scale are some deeply disturbing political Labour Party.) noting that on some fronts things are trends. In short, it’s entirely possible not getting worse. attention of motorists and negatively aff ected their not seen in decades if not Even without deliberately co- the rest of the year will continue Migrant arrivals in the European performance on the road. generations ordinated attacks by militants like IS, along similar lines to the fi rst half, Union have dropped signifi cantly from An application that can restrict people from using there seems to be a worrying tendency with periodic unpleasant and often last year, giving European governments violent events – even if only carried a much-needed respite even as they mobile phones while behind the wheel should be for more erratic individuals to become By Peter Apps politically radicalised and conduct out by one or a handful of people struggle with the militant threat. a great boon in this context. The Qatar Mobility Reuters sometimes devastating attacks – a – continuing to raise the political The market turmoil from the UK Innovation Centre (QMIC) deserves praise over its common thread that looks to run from temperature in a variety of locations. referendum has yet been less than the Nice attack through many of the Even without that, political crises many feared. plans to launch such an application. n some ways, the most worrying mass shootings in the United States to will continue and with that bring And while political parties may QMIC, which has been working on the project since thing about 2016 is that there are the apparently politically-motivated a rising risk of unorthodox – and continue to polarise and divide, 2014, plans to embed still more than fi ve months of it killing of British parliamentarian Jo sometimes very unpleasant – political opinion polls generally show that a new technology in Ileft. Given just how much bad Cox in June. outcomes. voters in the West – and the United In Qatar, as in news has been packed into the year These political divisions are getting Brexit is a clear example of this, a States in particular – are hungry for a a mobile through a so far, the question has to be asked – more dangerous in part because the Trump victory could yet be another. much less partisan, more consensual many countries, software that can detect what else could go wrong? centre ground in many countries has And, of course, we have elections in approach. whether the person is The answer, of course, is a lot. been drastically eroded. both France and Germany next year. In many ways, the years to come it is illegal to use It may well be that the mass Both countries have seen the rise could be among the most dangerous driving or not. casualty assaults in Paris, Brussels, In many ways, the of the far right, with Germany’s in recent human history, particularly a mobile phone The adaptability of Nice, Munich and Orlando – as well “Alternative for Deutschland” with the risk of both outright collapse the technology remains as a smattering of smaller attacks in years to come could party winning a share of the vote and great power confl ict higher than held in the hand a major problem, France and Germany in particular – unthinkable since the Nazis. they’ve ever been. are only the beginning. be among the most Summer seasons often also throw Many of the drivers that had been while driving however. QMIC does Not all are necessarily linked to up their own unexpected dramas, both seen delivering greater stability – not expect many people Islamist militant groups, but in each dangerous in recent confl ict-related and fi nancial. globalisation, international consensus, case they are raising the temperature Russia could yet decide to make a move to the political centre in many would be willing to use this app on their phones. of local domestic politics in a human history another land grab against its countries – are now under threat or Therefore, it has decided to focus on enterprises distinctly dangerous way. neighbours, perhaps non-Nato have unravelled completely. for its wider adoption. With this technology, the In the Middle East, Islamic State is In the British EU referendum, one of Ukraine and Georgia or even the Baltic Things will hopefully be okay. enterprises, it is hoped, can control the phones of their unquestionably losing ground in Iraq the things that was both striking and states. But it looks likely to be one hell and Syria, but that may not make the disappointing was that neither side We don’t yet know how China will of a ride, with some more distinctly employees. group any less likely to strike out. seemed willing to acknowledge that react to this month’s international unpleasant – as well as deeply, deeply To make the programme successful, each enterprise This recent bombing in Kabul – as the other might have a point. court decision pushing back against its uncertain – days to come. must have a policy or regulation of restricting the well as other similar incidents in That’s true in many other places as territorial claims. Iraq and elsewhere – act as a savage well, from the United States to Turkey. At worst, such confl icts could yield zPeter Apps is Reuters global aff airs drivers and employees from using the phone while reminder that the level of terror When the centre ground vanishes, nuclear war. columnist, writing on international driving. The managers can set the phones and instruct attacks in the West remains incredibly there’s inevitably a tendency for those We could also yet see another aff airs, globalisation, confl ict and the employees when to use the phone and when it low in comparison. on all sides to be pushed more towards Lehman Brothers 2008-style market other issues. He is founder and Nor are these the only – or extremes and absolutes. crisis, perhaps triggered by an incident executive director of the Project for cannot be used. The software can detect any violation necessarily even the greatest – Even when that doesn’t lead to in the eurozone or the UK fi nally biting Study of the 21st Century; PS21, a on the part of the employees. dangers. Tensions with both Russia violence, it makes consensus and the bullet on invoking Article 50 to non-national, non-partisan, non- Meanwhile, in an encouraging move, the Ministry and China could well ratchet higher. decision-making that much more quit the EU (although this now looks ideological think tank in London, New The European Union remains in diffi cult. (That’s even true within more likely to be put off until next York and Washington. of Interior has launched a discussion forum on its turmoil – it’s not just Brexit; the established political parties, as year). The collapse of the euro – still Since 2016, he has been a member of website to address the risks of using mobile phones eurozone crisis remains entirely evidenced by infi ghting within both entirely possible if a country like Italy the British Army Reserve and the UK while driving. It shows that the ministry is fully aware unresolved. The number of countries the Republicans and Democrats as well leaves – could be even worse. Labour Party. of the dangerous trend and is in search of measures to suff ering some kind of internal political crisis is also alarmingly high. stop it. Russia must deal with a falling oil “It’s a widespread practice to use mobile phones for price, China with potentially fl agging talking, texting or using applications while driving a growth. Many Western countries, including car. This wrong behaviour has great risks, which may the United States, the UK, France and end in disastrous consequences,” says the ministry, Germany, are socially divided on a scale noting that despite the eff orts made by traffi c not seen in decades if not generations. And, of course, it’s still far from authorities and prohibiting the use of mobile phones impossible that the United States will while driving, the practice is on the rise, especially elect Republican presidential nominee with the spread of diff erent apps and smartphone Donald Trump to the White House in games. The discussion forum seeks suggestions and November. On balance, of course, comments from the public. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton remains the favourite – although polls from the Republican convention last week suggest her lead might be slipping. To Advertise Attacks like those in Brussels and Orlando have tended to help Trump. [email protected] So, quite possibly, might a string of Display recent attacks on US police offi cers – Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 although the widespread outrage over killings of often unarmed African- Classified Americans may also boost turnout for Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 the Democrats. It’s hard to escape the conclusion Subscription that the worse the rest of the world [email protected] looks, the more it likely plays into Trump’s narrative – even though it’s equally diffi cult to conclude he would 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved be anything other than disastrous at A woman crying during a memorial service outside a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, where two people were killed and at handling those crises. least 15 were wounded in a shooting attack yesterday. Three people were detained for questioning after the shooting. Gulf Times Wednesday, July 27, 2016 23 COMMENT Global co-operation as a life-and-death issue

An estimated 700,000 support more effi cient use of be measured, not only so that antibiotics. policymakers, companies, and health people are losing their * Implement country-level targets systems can be held accountable, but lives to drug-resistant focused on reducing unnecessary also so that others can emulate their use of antibiotics in agriculture and successes. To this end, we may need infections each year humans. new metrics for calculating the impact With our fi nal report complete, of AMR. While this sounds technical By Jim O’Neill the Review will now continue to (and it is), the reality is that top AMR London make the international case for scientists think that agreeing on action directly to political leaders. common measurements could change For example, in my capacity as the way individual countries set their he uncertainty generated the Review’s chairman, I recently own targets and improve our capacity by the United Kingdom’s discussed our recommendations at to measure progress in the coming recent vote to leave the the World Health Assembly in Geneva years. TEuropean Union – which and with United Nations and United Finally, to account for changing has sent shockwaves through global States policymakers in New York and political priorities and personalities, markets – has been dominating Washington, DC. we need a constant champion in the headlines. But, as we prepare to In these discussions, policymakers’ fi ght against AMR. face new political trials, we must growing awareness of the danger For example, a UN envoy on AMR not lose sight of the challenges posed by AMR stood out. Just two could be appointed, to continue we already face, especially global years ago, the topic of drug-resistant making the international case for health challenges like the rise of infections would usually be met addressing the issue and to challenge antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with questions like “What is AMR?” countries to meet their targets. which has no regard for economic or, “Why would a fi nance minister Without such a consistent reminder performance or political stability. take charge of a health crisis?” Few of the need to tackle AMR, not to As it stands, an estimated 700,000 understood the scale and multifaceted mention transparency about progress, people are losing their lives to drug- nature of the challenge, and thus the the world could become sidetracked resistant infections each year. By 2050, need for a comprehensive approach. I and miss the rapidly closing window this fi gure could skyrocket to 10mn asked myself similar questions when of opportunity to deliver the changes per year, at a cumulative cost to world former British prime minister David needed to stop the rise of drug- GDP of $100tn. Cameron fi rst asked me to lead the resistant infections. To avoid that outcome, in May Review on AMR. Over the last couple of years, the Review on AMR that I lead The situation has changed governments, industry and published its strategy for tackling considerably since then. Policymakers international organisations have made such infections, laying out proposals from countries with a wide variety of important strides in meeting the AMR to ensure the development of the economic and political systems are threat. But the really hard decisions necessary new antibiotics, and to use engaging on the AMR problem, with must be taken now. existing antibiotics more effi ciently some countries already taking steps to If we are to prevent the slow- in humans and agriculture. Of the ten tackle it. All of this provides grounds motion car crash of rising AMR, our major interventions we proposed, four for hope that 2016 may be the year leaders must take evasive action now. are particularly important: when real change gets underway. We know what we have to do; now we * Launch a global campaign, tailored But hope is one thing; action is must get on with doing it. - Project for diff erent regions, to improve public another. While high-level meetings far from certain that they will match a reality, with an agreement to reduce particular circumstances and needs, Syndicate awareness of AMR. and speeches about AMR send the the scale of the problem. the unnecessary use of antibiotics but there must be some provisions * Address the market failure in the right message, they will mean nothing At the G20, the needed agreement in agriculture, and to spearhead a to ensure that all are pulling their zJim O’Neill, a former chairman of development of new antibiotics by if we do not manage to translate the should focus on developing a global global awareness campaign. Increased weight. For starters, efforts to Goldman Sachs Asset Management, introducing lump-sum market-entry current momentum into concrete mechanism to re-invigorate the funding for research and development fight AMR should be incorporated is commercial secretary to the UK rewards to developers of successful action, beginning at the G20 and UN market for new antibiotics that are of new antibiotics and diagnostics to into broader economic- Treasury, honorary professor of new drugs, while ensuring global meetings this September. And while globally aff ordable, accessible, and fi ght AMR is also vital. development strategies, including economics at Manchester University, a access. my most recent discussions suggest used as effi ciently as possible. Crucially, the agreements must the implementation of the UN visiting research fellow at the economic * Advance innovation and improve that agreements are likely to be At the UN, the goal should be to turn have teeth. Countries should set Sustainable Development Goals. think tank Bruegel, and chairman of the use of diagnostic technology to reached at both of these meetings, it is the mantra of “access, not excess” into their own objectives to fit their Moreover, progress should Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. Letters Weather report Three-day forecast

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The short fi lm projects are with the marriage, or keep her their magical powers to reach rectors for its Qatari Film Fund chosen through two annual calls blue world and the voices in her the moon. Along with her cous- for the Spring 2016 cycle. The for funding up to QR182,500. head. Her choice strains rela- in, she leaves the house in search grant will support development, Fatma al-Remaihi, chief ex- tions with her mother, whom of the Afternoon Donkey, which production, post-production, ecutive offi cer, DFI, said: “The Hend considers the most she strongly believes in, while mentorship, equipment and Qatari Film Fund is one of our important person in her life. her cousin wants to prove to her production of the fi lms. key initiatives to foster a culture Elevate is about Latifa, a that the creature does not ex- The fi lms selected for the of home-grown fi lmmaking and young Qatari woman in her 20s ist. While walking in the neigh- grant include The World is Blue talent development. It off ers the who is always accompanied by bourhood, they mistake a poor by Amna al-Binali; Elevate by platform for Qatari fi lmmakers Rosie, her Filipino maid. One old woman for the Afternoon Hamida Issa; Ya Hoota by Lat- to develop their short and fea- day, they get stuck in an eleva- Donkey. ifa al-Darwish and Abdulaziz ture fi lm projects with the sup- tor and fi nd that, while they are Boy Meets World narrates the Yousef; and Boy Meets World by port and guidance of the fi lm isolated from the material world, story of nine-year-old Jassim Naif al-Malki. professionals at the Institute.” they are also liberated from who lives in a time that is rapidly DFI received 12 projects from The World is Blue is the story social constraints. changing. He seems full of sur- Qatari directors for the grant. of Hend, a 19-year-old Qatari Ya Hoota portrays the life of prises, but to Jassim, becoming a The Qatari Film Fund is dedi- woman, who sees in blue, and a curious little girl, determined superhero is his destined future, cated to supporting short and hears whispers that stop only to save the moon from a lunar so he works hard to achieve it. feature fi lmmaking by Qatari when she reads. Her mother apocalypse so she can fi nd out The fi lm depicts his environ- directors. It is committed to the believes that marrying off her what happens next in the story ment, and his attempts to face development of up to four fea- daughter will cure this strange her grandmother tells her. The up to his biggest challenge of ture fi lms, and the development, condition. During her engage- girl seeks out the mythologi- fulfi lling his destiny. A scene from Al Johara, one of the recipients of 2015 Qatari Film Fund grant. Malabar Gold names draw winner Turkish Airlines and Aqua Park donate prizes for radio programme

qua Park Qatar and Turkish Airlines have Asponsored prizes for the winning participants of the Ra- madan radio programme, ‘As- far’, prepared and produced by Qatar Charity (QC). The programme has been broadcast live on Sawt Al Khaleej radio station during Ramadan for two consecutive years and re- ceived a large number of listen- ers, according to a statement. Aqua Park supported the programme by contributing 250 free tickets, each valued at QR180 and valid until Novem- ber 18. The prizes were distrib- uted over 15 episodes. Each prize consisted of fi ve tickets, allowing families to en- joy Aqua Park as a tourist des- tination in Qatar this summer. Turkish Airlines off ered pre- mium prizes for four winners in the form of tickets awarded to lucky programme contribu- The Qatar Charity-Turkish Airlines initiative in Nigeria. tors. Each ticket is valid on the Doha-Istanbul-Doha route. Asfar is a live radio pro- such as travelling through cities provides information for the The airline also supported gramme off ering competitions around the world, journey into benefi t of listeners. These in- QC in providing Iftar meals that cover various cultural and the ancient times, and exploring clude giving out details of non- during Ramadan in Nigeria, general knowledge areas. Pre- the great minds of people who traditional projects undertaken Joshua C K, second raff le draw winner of the ‘Win up to 10 kilos of gold’ campaign by Malabar Gold covering 2,000 benefi ciaries, as pared by Hamed Aladdin and contributed to humanity’s de- by QC such as mobile applica- & Diamonds, receiving the prize of 250gm gold from Yahiya Gafoor, deputy branch head, in the part of its social responsibility presented by Ahmad al-Ali and velopment through key inven- tions and youth initiatives that presence of other off icials from Malabar Gold & Diamonds. and community development Mohamed al-Enezi, the pro- tions and social innovations. seek to develop communities in eff orts. gramme consists of sections Moreover, the programme innovative ways.

Saudia Hypermarket holds raffle draw Mannai Auto and GMC host loyal fl eet clients

annai Auto and GMC pend on strong support as well including VIP security and In Qatar, the GMC portfo- have hosted a special as added value from the local transportation. lio features the Terrain small Mappreciation dinner dealership, which will enhance All fl eet orders are custom- SUV, the Acadia crossover, the for fl eet customers. the service they off er to end ised to the needs of each client fl agship Sierra pickup and the Noting that their fl eet divi- users.” and supported by a compre- Yukon and Yukon XL full-size sion had registered a year-on- Mannai Auto supports many hensive after-sales programme, SUVs, all available in Denali year growth of 23.36%, Mannai commercial fl eets represent- the company has stressed in a luxury trim. Auto Group general manager ing law-enforcement agen- statement. GMC vehicles bearing the Mohamed Helmy said: “We are cies, rent-a-car companies, On the night, Mannai Auto Denali nameplate “reinforce hosting this event in recogni- luxury hotels and other large also honoured its top customers GMC’s legacy of rugged ca- tion of the strong bond between commercial enterprises. GMC in a number of categories with pability, practical refi nement Mannai Auto and our fl eet cus- vehicles are also used by secu- special awards in recognition of and incredible power with elite tomers whose operations de- rity and emergency services, their partnership. luxury”, the statement adds.

The draw for Saudia Hypermarket Group’s Dream Drive Mega Raff le Draw promotion for one Mercedes-Benz GLE 400 SUV, three Audi A3 2016 cars and other prizes (such as electronic goods and home appliances) has been held at the Saudia Hypermarket main branch on Umm al Dhoom Street. The draw was conducted under the supervision of inspectors from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and in the presence of the group’s management off icials, staff and customers. Attendees at the event. Retail outlets banking on festival to boost sales

By Joey Aguilar and shopping promotions locat- especially those from Saudi year. Shoppers can get raffl e as it gives shoppers a chance they could hardly maintain the female dress shop shares the Staff Reporter ed mostly at major malls. It will Arabia. tickets for buying items at par- to win valuable prices, as well momentum set from the second same experience saying footfall be held from August 1 to 31. GCC visitors have been regu- ticipating malls such as Hyatt as enjoy additional stays in 56 week of Ramadan up to the third had become lesser nowadays and The increasing popularity larly travelling to Qatar with Plaza, Al Khor, Dar Al Salam, La- hotels. day of Eid al-Fitr. people preferred to spend their arment shops and other of Summer Festival’s shopping their families and children to at- goona, Gulf, Ezdan, City Center Garment shops have started to “We are very hopeful because money on food items. outlets have expressed promotions has been attracting tend the annual festival. Doha and Landmark. feel the pinch of the off peak sea- we still have regular customers She said their sales have Goptimism that the up- not only Qatar residents but also “A substantial percentage of QTA has been promoting the son as sales have slowed down who have always been interested dropped after Eid al-Fitr holi- coming Qatar Summer Festival visitors from neighbouring GCC our sales come from Arab cus- festival in other GCC countries despite off ering various promo- in availing of our promotions,” days since a large number of res- (QSF) 2016 would boost their countries. tomers from abroad; they buy in to attract more people to the tions and price reductions. he noted. idents took a break abroad. sales next month. An employee of a popular bulk so they can get more tickets country, which has become a A manager of a boutique in He explained that many gar- But with the new promo- The month-long Summer boutique operating at one of for the weekly raffl e draws,” she top family destination in the another mall said they try to at ment shops in the country, as tions and special off ers in Au- Festival organised by Qatar the major malls in Doha said said. region. least lessen the impact of the well as those which operate in gust, she believes residents Tourism Authority (QTA) off ers that she expected sales to The festival will be giving The Summer Festival is also ‘after-Eid dilemma’ through the GCC countries, expect sales in Qatar will be enticed to a wide range of entertainment improve next month due to away four Jaguar cars and cash expected to boost hospitality special off ers. to be very low during this period. visit and spend for clothes at activities, live performances, the infl ux of foreign visitors prizes worth QR800,000 this and retail sectors in the country However, he admitted that An employee of a leading all- participating malls.