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Akilled and over 90 is keen to implement His Majesty Mr Al Jowdar asserted that the es - wounded in an explosion in YKing Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s tablishment of modern stadiums will Baghdad’s Sadr City district directives to provide all kinds of support support clubs and boost the game in yesterday, an Iraqi police to the youth and sports movement and Bahrain. source said.An interior min- to develop the infrastructure of national MP Bu Majeed, in his statement, lauded istry spokesman said in a clubs, Youth and Sports Affairs Minister HM King Hamad’s constant care for Bah- brief statement the blast was Hisham Al Jowdar said yesterday while raini youth through the infrastructure the result of the detonation patronising the foundation stone-laying projects implemented for sports clubs of an ammunitions cache ceremony of a football stadium for the across the kingdom, paying tribute to the and that security forces had Umm Al Hassam Club. Youth and Sports Affairs for supporting opened an investigation. The Ministry is also exerting tremen- the Umm Al Hassam Club through the Authorities did not offer dous efforts to translate the strategy BD 286,000 staduim. an explanation of the dis- of the Representative of HM the King Umm Al Hassam Club’s Chairman, Dr Mr Al Jowdar speaks to club officials after the ceremony. crepancies between the two for Charity Work and Youth Affairs, Hisham Abdulrahman Al Binali, said that statements, neither of which Supreme Council for Youth and Sports mittee Chairman, HH Shaikh Nasser high-quality infrastructure for clubs so the minister’s patronage of the ceremony gave casualty figures. Chairman and Bahrain Olympic Com- bin Hamad Al Khalifa, on providing that they could attract talented youth reflects his support for national clubs. Sadr City is a stronghold of nationalist cleric Moqta- da al-Sadr, whose political bloc won a May 12 parlia- mentary election. Pak journalist Don’t shed crocodile tears! released Qatar is accused of funding and promoting terrorism; intervening in the domestic affairs of Gulf countries Sheikh Tamil bin Hamad Al Saudi and UAE Thani, was handed a list of de- • mands by the quartet, which he Losses all the way officials have said that has to meet in order to end the Doha has yet to meet crisis, and declare his country he blockade has affected Qatar very badly. Qatar Airways Lahore 13 demands made safe. said on Tuesday that the airline may incur losses for by the four states, Instead, the Qatari govern- Tthe second consecutive year. Qatar Airways has been Pakistani journalist including closing the ment decided to deepen the cri- banned from operating in or flying over 18 cities in the United A and rights activist who sis by accusing the Arab coun- Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt. Economic openly criticised the mil- state-funded Al Jazeera tries of suppressing opposition, Intelligence Unit white paper has recently highlighted the risks itary and its alleged med- television station and creating humanitarian crises, of doing business in Qatar. The unit also warns the crisis will Where was this dling in politics was freed reducing ties to Iran. intimidating citizens and using affect Qatari riyal, making it volatile in the long run. early yesterday, several Gulf unity which media to promote propaganda hours after being abducted. he claims when to discredit Qatar. The journalist, Gul Riyadh Qatar tore in it “The information in our Bukhari, who is a dual Pa- like a fatal cancer hands today does not indicate kistani-British national, has aud Al Qahtani, an advis- for 21 years? any glimmer of hope for a solu- been a vocal critic of Paki- er at Saudi Arabia’s Royal tion now, as the matter does not stan’s powerful military on SCourt has slammed Qatar’s SAUD AL QAHTANI happen suddenly,” Foreign Min- social media and in her ar- former Foreign Minister Hamad ister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad ticles in the run-up to a July bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani which he claims when Qatar Al Khalifa had told a foreign 25 general election. who tried to hold the anti-terror tore in it like a fatal cancer for newspaper recently. She has also defend - quartet responsible for the Gulf 21 years?” Qahtani said. After initially disrupting Qa- ed ousted Prime Minister crisis, Al Arabiya reported. On June 5, 2017, Egypt, Saudi tar’s imports and triggering the Nawaz Sharif, who clashed “He cries crocodile tears on Arabia, UAE and Bahrain decid- withdrawal of billions of dollars with the military before the the GCC and claims that we vi- ed to cut diplomatic ties with from its banks by depositors Supreme Court forced him olate the council’s regulations Qatar, after years of unstable from the four states, the world’s from office last year over an that must be unanimous. He relations. Qatar was accused top exporter of liquefied natu- undeclared source of income. says these silly statements to by the quartet of funding and ral gas quickly developed new more than half of the GCC coun- promoting terrorism and inter- trade routes and deployed tens tries which boycotted him,” he vening in the domestic affairs of of billions of dollars from its was quoted. the quartet countries. sovereign wealth fund to pro- Qatar was heavily dependent on Saudi imports “Where was this Gulf unity Subsequently, Qatar’s Emir tect its domestic lenders. DON’T MISS IT MIGHTY HEART Fighter pilot saves villagers, dies heroic death Family faces eviction threat New Delhi ficer of the Test Pilots’ School. 03 He also commanded a fighter n a tragic incident, an Indi- squadron of the IAF,” said one of an Air Force Jaguar aircraft the officials. A tribute to crashed on Tuesday morning 2 “He was awarded the Vayu the symbol of Ikilling its pilot Air Commodore air force pilots were Sena Medal in 2010,” he said. Sanjay Chauhan. The incident killed in March after Among other similar incidents 04 wisdom took place at around 10:30 in the a microlight aircraft in the country, two air force pilots morning in the Mundra taluk of crashed in Assam. were killed in March after a mi- the Kutch region in northwestern crolight aircraft they were flying Artisans in Gujarat. Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan in crashed at Majuli district in According to sources, Commo- Assam. danger of dore Chauhan took off the air- craft when the incident occurred added. the village, locals said. Later in April, an Mi-17 chop- disappearing craft from Jamnagar Airbase for because it was over the village “The plane, which was on a Chauhan, aged around 50, was per crashed in Uttarakhand’s Ke- 06 a routine training mission when and could have taken many lives. routine sortie, crashed near Bare- a decorated and highly experi- darnath in April, injuring six. An the fighter jet crashed near Bareja A Court of Inquiry into the in- ja village,” said an official in Gu- enced fighter pilot. IAF chopper also crash landed in village. cident has been ordered by the air jarat. “During his service, Chauhan Jammu and Kashmir’s Natha Top Sources said Commodore headquarters to investigate the The plane’s debris was strewn had held several important posts on May 23. However, all passen- Chauhan didn’t eject from the air- cause of the accident, the sources far and wide on the outskirts of such as the Commanding Of- gers and the crew were safe. THURSDAY, June 7, 2018 03 THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2018 big story Family faces eviction threat Salem family has been living in the building for four generations now Mohammed said he was taken aback• when the ministry officials later produced a letter in court which said the family had agreed to be part of the project and is willing to vacate the house. TDT|Manama Thamer Tayfoor Bahraini extended family is preparing themselves to sleep on the streets as Athe Housing Ministry is allegedly planning to take over their house. They say the ministry intends to demolish the building leaving them without shelter. Mohammed Salem who lives in Hoora on the Exhibition Road, says he is helpless. He heads the family consist- ing of his wife and children, two sisters, Sara, a widow, and Shaikha, a disabled, along with two sons of his deceased brother Abdulla. “Two days before Ramadan we received a letter from the ministry asking to vacate the building within 45 days or else we would be forcibly evicted. We have been living in this Two days building for four generations before now,” he told Tribune. Ramadan we According to Mohammed, it was around six years ago received a the ministry decided to ac- letter from quire the land which hosts the ministry the building for a project asking to comprising 14 apartments. vacate the “Officials from the ministry building came to us and told us that The home ownership document within 45 our house was part of the pro- ject and we will be given a days or else temporary apartment until the we would project gets completed.” be forcibly “The officials also told us that evicted.