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FRIDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10948 September 21, 2018 Moharram 11, 1440 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Deputy Amir meets Lord Mayor of City of London Qatar hails US In brief appreciation of QATAR | Defence Amiri, Indian naval forces conduct joint exercise its role in fi ght Qatar Amiri Naval Forces yesterday carried out a joint maritime exercise with their Indian counterparts in the territorial waters of Qatar. The Directorate of Defence against terror Communications at the Ministry of Defence said the exercise included O Doha has a holistic training on how to implement sea approach which aims transit, maritime manoeuvres and formations, passing surface and at treating the socio- aerial communications as well as economic and political storming and inspecting vessels and His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met at the Amiri Diwan off ice Lord Mayor combating maritime piracy. Page 16 of the City of London Alderman Charles Bowman and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, they reviewed roots of violent extremism a number of issues of mutual concern especially those related to co-operation in the field of economy and investment by spreading hope through SPORT | Soccer between the two friendly countries. promoting more inclusive Qatar jumps four spots policies: HE Alkhater in FIFA rankings Qatar has moved four spots to 94 By Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka in FIFA world rankings, according to Editor-in-Chief the world governing body. Belgium has climbed to the top of the FIFA/ Europeans at UN urge Israel HE Lolwah Alkhater Coca-Cola World Ranking, alongside E the Spokesperson for the 2018 FIFA World Cup winners France, Ministry of Foreign Aff airs, comes the fi ndings mentioned in the which means that the top spot is HLolwah Alkhater has welcomed US report, which highlights the sig- currently being shared for the first not to raze Palestinian village the US State Department’s apprecia- nifi cant co-operation between Qatar time in the table’s 25-year history. tion for Qatar’s contributions to the and the United States of America in the Agencies “would severely threaten the viability near Israeli settlements and along a global fi ght against terrorism in its fi elds of combating terrorism and dis- AFRICA | Tragedy United Nations of the two-state solution”. road leading to the Dead Sea. country reports for 2017 released on rupting terrorism fi nancing fl ows. “We therefore call upon the Israeli There have been warnings that con- Wednesday. To a question about Qatar’s contribu- Over 40 killed in ferry authorities to reconsider their deci- tinued Israeli settlement construction tions to the fi ght against terrorism, she capsize in Tanzania ight European countries at the sion to demolish Khan al-Ahmar,” the in that area could divide the West Bank said the report itself has acknowledged More than 40 people died yesterday United Nations including fi ve countries said in a joint statement re- in two and cut it off from Jerusalem, GT EXCLUSIVE Qatar’s contributions on a multilateral when a ferry capsized in the south ESecurity Council members yes- leased ahead of a council meeting on killing off the prospect of amassing level to end terrorism in the region and of Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, a terday called on Israel to reverse its de- the Middle East. contiguous land for a viable future worldwide. “I would also like to em- Tanzanian government spokesman cision to demolish a Palestinian village On September 5, Israel’s Supreme Palestinian state. Asked for her comments on the phasise Qatar’s holistic approach which said. The MV Nyerere ferry sank with in the West Bank. Court upheld an order to raze the vil- Meanwhile, Israeli authorities yes- “2017 Country Reports on Terrorism aims at treating the socio-economic an unknown number of passengers Britain, France, Germany, Italy, lage on grounds that it was built with- terday approved plans to construct Prepared by the US Department of and political roots of violent extrem- yesterday near Ukara Island, Sweden, Belgium, Poland and the out the proper permits. 610 illegal settlement units in Jeru- State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and ism by spreading hope, awareness and according to Tanzania’s Electrical, Netherlands warned that the demoli- The community of roughly 200 salem and Ramallah, Israeli media Countering Violent Extremism”, HE through promoting more inclusive poli- Mechanical and Services Agency. tion of the village of Khan al-Ahmar people is located in a strategic spot sources said. Alkhater said the State of Qatar wel- cies.” To Page 2 Gulf Times 2 Friday, September 21, 2018 QATAR

PM checks on educational process in schools

HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani visited a number of public schools to monitor the progress of the educational process for the academic year 2018-19. During the visit, the PM was briefed on the level of preparation of schools for the new academic year and was briefed on the eff orts made to promote education in order to achieve the aspirations and goals of the state’s educational system. HE Sheikh Abdullah issued a directive to all those involved in the education process to co-operate and exert their maximum eff orts to promote the academic performance, which will lead to results that will contribute to the development path in the State. The PM was accompanied by HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi. – QNA

Al-Sulaiti meets Portugal Minister Secretary-General meets envoy group Official

Chairman of QMC meets charge d’affaires of Iraq embassy

HE the Chairman of Qatar Media Corporation (QMC) Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani met yesterday with charge d’aff aires at the Embassy of Iraq in Qatar Abdulsattar Hadi al-Janabi. During the meeting, both sides discussed the media relations between the two brotherly countries and ways of enhancing them.

HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti met yesterday with the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure in charge for Transport Aff airs of Portugal Pedro HE the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs Dr Ahmad bin Hassan al-Hammadi met Marquez. During the meeting, they discussed relations between the two friendly countries and yesterday with a group of ambassadors of European countries to the State. The meeting discussed Awqaf, means of enhancing them, especially in the field of transport, as well as a number of issues of ways of promoting prospects of joint co-operation, as well as issues of mutual concern. — QNA common concern. — QNA EAA launch scholarship programme

Qatar University spearheads QNA Doha

ducation Above All rep- resented in Al Fakhoura Eprogramme and General Administration of Awqaf of the research with 442% growth Ministry of Awqaf and Adminis- trative Aff airs launched an initia- QNA launching a roadmap in 2014 and enhance research in the universi- A quick review of the most im- fers all kinds of technical, and nological systems to provide tive for off ering scholarships for Doha setting its research priorities for ty and to strengthen its ties with portant research centres at the advisory support to faculty, re- high-quality animal husbandry residents, the fi rst of its kind in the the next fi ve years. The fi elds, the Qatari society. Researchers university shows the relevance of searchers and students within and veterinary care. State. the university said it will focus try to fi nd sustainable solutions these research centres to national Qatar University. The unit meets For its part, the social and eco- The programme, which be- atar University has made on, was energy, environment, to many of the issues facing the priorities in the medical, techno- all their scientifi c and labora- nomic institute conducts aca- gan this academic year, focuses great leaps recently in resource sustainability, social Qatari society and the world. She logical, survey, social, environ- tory needs, as well as the needs of demic surveys covering citizens on allowing resident youth in the Qthe fi eld of scientifi c re- change, identity and popula- said that the number of research mental and other fi elds. public and private sector institu- and residents in the State and 17-25 age category who spent the search, after its rate increased tion, healthcare, information and works published in academic For example, the biomedical tions, the industrial sector and the region through telephonic majority of their lives in Qatar 442% in the last eight years. communication technology. journals increased 442% at the research centre plays an impor- employers in Qatar. or face to face interviews . It has to continue their higher educa- The growth in the research The university has launched end of last year. tant role in improving the health In the fi eld of environmental produced a rich set of survey tion in educational institutions sector in recent years has result- seven research centres interested The university published of individuals in Qatar by con- research, the Environmental Sci- data that can be used for policy in the country. These educational ed from the university’s focus on in the above four issues to ensure around 1,400 research papers in ducting research, training and ences Centre conducts research formulation, prioritisation and institutions are Qatar Univer- establishing specialised research the implementation of its re- academic journals. providing services in the fi eld of and studies that contribute to evidence-based planning in the sity, North Atlantic University, centres, including the establish- search strategy. These centres are She added that international biomedical and applied medical achieving sustainable environ- social, health and economic sec- Stenden University and the Uni- ment of 17 research centres that Biomedical Research Center, Ad- partnerships were the foundation research in two main areas: met- mental development in the State tors. versity of Calgary. The partner covered all issues related to the vanced Materials Center, Central of Qatar University’s strategy. abolic diseases and infectious of Qatar and co-operates with The institute’s research areas educational institutions have national priorities. These issues Laboratory Unit, Environmental The university has signed more diseases. The advanced materi- partners from the public and include studies on education, so- identifi ed their own requirements included traffi c safety, health- Science Center, Laboratory Ani- than 400 projects in co-opera- als centre specialises in materials higher education sectors from cial roles, health, employment, and criteria for accepting applica- care, gas treatment, population mal Research Center, and the Ibn tion with local and international science. The main research areas Europe and the US. policy and integration and stud- tions from the scholarship pro- surveys and conservation of the Khaldun Center for Human and institutions and has launched of the centre are nanotechnology, The Animal Research Centre ies in survey methodologies. gramme supported by the Minis- marine environment among oth- Social Sciences. new grant schemes such as col- sustainable materials, polymers, for its part is the fi rst and only Many of these centres have try of Awqaf and Islamic Aff airs. er issues. Vice President for Research laborative research grants and composite materials, corrosion centre in Qatar to provide a ster- gained international accredita- Director-General of the Gen- Qatar University has con- and Graduate Studies Dr Mariam high impact research grants. The studies, mining and renewable ile environment for rodents used tion certifi cates as they continue eral Administration of Awqaf at fi rmed its growing role as a re- al-Maadeed said that the estab- total amount of grants awarded energy. in biomedical research, which is their work on resolving some of the ministry HE Sheikh Dr Kha- search engine in the region by lishment of the centres was to by Qatar University is QR 11mn. The central lab unit of QU of- based on state-of-the-art tech- the important national issues. lid bin Mohamed bin Ghanem al- Thani said that the joint project refl ects the importance of Waqf in the Islamic civilisation, and its role in developing societies in diff erent eras. He noted that Ooredoo to off er eSIM technology Qatar hails US appreciation of the administration dedicated six Waqf banks that will fund the scholarships of those who join oredoo announced an- ness numbers in a single phone fering and investing in the best the programme. He said that the other breakthrough for without needing to physically services for our country and our its role in fi ght against terror agreement signed with Educa- Othe company, as it has swap cards in the phone. people, which is why we are one tion Above All will focus on de- successfully tested the fi rst live eSIM will also be crucial for of the leading telecommunica- From Page 1 counterterrorism and security loopholes in the international fi - veloping both basic and higher eSIM on its world-class Supernet the ‘Internet of Things’. With- tions operators in the world. concerns,” she said. nancial system to fund their op- education. He added that the network. out the need for a physical SIM “Alongside our amazing 5G Commenting on the US re- When her attention was erations. For example, some pri- agreement will see the opening eSIMs are embedded SIMs card, many small devices, such as roll-out, eSIM technology will port that highlighted the nega- drawn to the problem of ter- vate citizens in several European of new schools, and up to 120 that will enable Ooredoo to off er watches and other wearables, can enable our customers to seam- tive impact of the Gulf crisis in rorists exploiting the informal countries used welfare benefi ts scholarships within four years. a fully digitised user experience be connected to the mobile net- lessly switch between personal the fi ght against terrorism, the fi nancial system in a number of they received from their respec- Chief Executive of Education without having to insert the nor- work, completely transforming and business accounts, enjoy foreign ministry spokesperson Gulf countries, she said: “ Qa- tive governments to fund ISIS Above All Fahad al-Sulaiti said mal SIM card in the smart device. the digital experience at home or data like never before and take said Qatar agreed with the ob- tar is actively working to resolve operations. The diff erence here that the project refl ects the insti- With this advanced technology, at the offi ce. Ooredoo’s chief ex- advantage of our crystal-clear servation that the blockade had this matter and is constantly re- is that the world is co-operating tution’s investment in youth and customers will be able to switch ecutive Offi cer Waleed al-Sayed voice services on our Supernet a negative impact on regional vising its regulations to ensure to resolve the issue of terror fi - the commitment to focusing their between their private and busi- said, “Ooredoo believes in of- network.” co-operation to fi ght terrorism. they are in line with interna- nancing, while our neighbours energy on developing their soci- “The unexpected blockade tional standards. don’t see the value of dialogue ety. He noted that the standards has made it impossible to initi- However, this problem isn’t and co-operation, even though and requirements to get accepted ate dialogue on basic issues of exclusive to the Gulf, as ter- what unites us is far greater from into the scholarship is to have a mutual importance, let alone rorists have been trying to fi nd what divides us.” residency, to complete 70% of ed- ucation inside Qatar, in addition to acceptance from university in an academic discipline demanded Ministry of Defence announces parachute jump in Sealine area by the labour market. Executive Director of Al Fa- khoura programme Farooq Bur- The Ministry of Defence area, from 6am to midnight, of Defence called on those ney said that the institution un- announced that the Qatari from September 30 until who frequently visit the area to derstands the capabilities that armed forces will carry out October 11. The Directorate of take precautions for their own young residents have that ena- parachute jump drills in Sealine Moral Guidance at the Ministry safety. bles them to become an active part of shaping Qatar’s future. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 3 QATAR/REGION/ARAB WORLD

Amir receives message from Peru Ashghal focus is on timely delivery of projects: offi cial shghal is committed to bilities and defi ne our place on timely delivery of its the map of progress and growth. Aprojects by focusing on It also supports Ashghal in its cost reduction and quality im- transition from an author- provement, president Saad bin ity entrusted with awarding and Ahmed al-Muhannadi said yes- executing effi cient sustainable terday. infrastructure projects for the He was speaking at a meeting state to an entity that focuses on to discuss about the projects to the operation and maintenance be implemented in the two re- of the state’s road and drainage maining quarters of the fi nancial networks and delivering quality His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday received a written message from the President of the Republic year ending on March 31, 2019. services and solutions in manag- of Peru, Martin Vizcarra, pertaining to the bilateral relations and the means to boost and develop them. HE the Secretary-General The Public Works Authority’s Ashghal president Saad bin ing projects and assets,” he said. of the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al-Hammadi received the message during a meeting yesterday with Peru’s directors, managers and several Ahmed al-Mohannadi “We still need to overcome ambassador to Qatar Carlos Velasco. other employees also made a re- addressing the meeting. some of the challenges to meet view of the performance of vari- timely delivery, focusing our ef- ous departments for the fi rst and mission, themes and corporate forts on cost reduction and qual- second quarters of the current objectives. ity improvement. Therefore, we year, under Ashghal Strategy In order to provide a clear will continue our works relying 2018-2022. framework for its corporate ob- on our resources and ensuring Under the strategy, Ashghal jectives, Ashghal is keen to fol- that the corporate objectives we aims to achieve its vision of “ex- low its four strategic themes: have set are up to the mark on cellence in delivering and man- health and safety; excellence in par with best practices locally Syrian Kurds hand over and internationally. Thus, it is aging effi cient sustainable infra- delivery; developing capabili- structure” as envisioned in the ties, and focus on customers and important to continue our per- Qatar National Vision 2030. stakeholders, al-Muhannadi formance review that we have To achieve this vision, Ash- said. started as part of our corporate ghal’s president is keen on re- “Reviewing the level of our transition, so that we live up to IS militant, baby to Sudan the expectations of the State viewing the progress in im- business performance and our plementing the strategy and way of implementing the cor- of Qatar and always deliver the AFP The Kurds “decided to hand her over to captured in Syria remains controversial, measuring the performance level porate strategy in all our works best, as “Qatar deserves the Qamishli, Syria her country’s embassy” after Khartoum re- with only rare countries agreeing to take consistent with the new vision, helps us to develop our capa- best,” al-Muhannadi added. quested the transfer, Kurdish foreign aff airs back their detainees, mostly women and offi cial Abdel Karim Omar said. children. yria’s Kurds said yesterday they have “She was arrested on January 10, 2018, “We will not try any IS fi ghter,” Omar handed over a Sudanese woman ac- on the accusation of belonging to IS,” Omar said. Scused of belonging to the Islamic State said, without providing further details. “We are trying as much as possible...to group and her baby to a Sudanese diplomat IS extremists swept across large parts of pressure governments to carry out their du- while hundreds more foreigners remained in Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, declar- ties and take their citizens back.” their custody. ing a “caliphate” in territory they held, but Among the most infamous detainees Kurdish authorities controlling swathes have since lost most of it to various off en- are Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Ashghal off icials at the review meeting. of northeastern Syria have detained alleged sives. el-Sheikh, two survivors of a four-man IS IS members from dozens of foreign coun- In Syria, Kurdish fi ghters have formed the team who carried out beheadings and were tries since the jihadist group’s so-called backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces dubbed ‘The Beatles’ because they were caliphate crumbled last year. (SDF), an alliance backed by the US-led co- British. But their home countries have been alition that has expelled the jihadists from Syria’s Kurds have also captured several overwhelmingly reluctant to claim them, swathes of the country. alleged IS members from France, and last with public opinion hostile to repatriating “Around 520 Daesh mercenaries, as well month an Italian accused of being part of the Hezbollah defi es Israel, them. as 550 women and around 1,200 children extremist group as he attempted to cross the Yesterday, the Kurdish authorities in from 44 countries” are still in Kurdish cus- border to Turkey. northeast Syria delivered a Sudanese wom- tody, Omar said, stressing they were all In August, Washington said the SDF had says has ‘precision missiles’ an and her one-month-old baby to a Suda- “foreigners”. handed over two Americans accused of sup- nese diplomat in the northeastern city of “It’s a heavy burden that we can’t carry porting IS to US authorities. Qamishli, an AFP correspondent and an of- alone,” he said. Lebanese members of IS have also been AFP military there and to keep Hez- he will receive a blow he cannot fi cial said. The fate of alleged foreign IS members transferred to Beirut. Beirut bollah from acquiring sophisti- even imagine,” Netanyahu said in cated arms. a statement. “Attempts in Syria to block the Late Monday, an Israeli raid hit ebanon’s Hezbollah said way towards this (missile) capa- Syria’s coastal province of Lata- yesterday it had acquired bility” have failed, Nasrallah said. kia to prevent what it said were L“precision missiles” despite “If Israel imposes a war on deliveries of materials for ad- Court grants bail to Mubarak’s sons extensive eff orts by neighbour and Lebanon, it will face a fate that it vanced weaponry to Hezbollah. foe Israel to prevent the movement never would have expected.” The same evening Syrian air developing this capability. Israel has fought several con- defences downed a Russian mili- AFP people of failing to notify the Since the 2011 ouster of Hosni for a number of alleged crimes, “It has been done. The resist- fl icts against Hezbollah, the last tary plane by mistake, killing all Cairo stock exchange of agreements to Mubarak, a number of legal pro- the two sons had several spells ance now owns precision mis- in 2006. 15 on board. Russia backs Syria’s acquire majority stakes in sev- ceedings have been launched in provisional detention. siles” as part of its weaponry, The Israeli military believes government militarily and it was eral banks through front com- against the three-decade ruler They have been free for the Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasral- Hezbollah has between 100,000 the worst case of friendly fi re be- he two sons of former panies. and his relatives. past three years. lah said in a televised address. and 120,000 short-range mis- tween the two allies since Moscow Egyptian president Hosni A Cairo court ordered their Gamal Mubarak had headed Alongside their father, Alaa Israel this month acknowl- siles and rockets, as well as sev- intervened in the confl ict in 2015. TMubarak were released on release on bail of 100,000 a key ruling party committee and Gamal Mubarak were sen- edged carrying out more than eral hundred longer-range mis- On Tuesday, Netanyahu said bail yesterday, days after being pounds ($5,550), lawyer Farid and was long seen as his father’s tenced in May 2015 to three 200 strikes over the past 18 siles. his country was “determined to arrested for alleged stock market el-Dib told AFP. A new hearing successor. years in jail for diverting more months in war-torn Syria, where Israeli Prime Minister Ben- stop Iranian military entrench- manipulation, according to a ju- is scheduled for October 20. Older brother Alaa stayed out than $11.5mn in public money Hezbollah fi ghts alongside Is- jamin Netanyahu said Nasrallah ment in Syria, and the attempts dicial source and their lawyer. On Sunday, following their of politics but is accused of hav- to maintain presidential pal- rael’s arch-foe Iran in support of should not think twice but “at by Iran, which calls for the de- Gamal and Alaa Mubarak arrest, Egypt’s stock market ing amassed a fortune through aces. the Damascus regime. least 20 times” before deciding struction of Israel, to transfer to were detained last Saturday and suff ered its worst day since Feb- his father’s contacts. Their sentences were covered Israel has said it is working to whether to attack Israel. Hezbollah lethal weaponry (to be accused along with three other ruary. After being arrested in 2011 by time already served. stop Iran from entrenching itself “If he seeks confl ict with us, used) against Israel”.

Egypt commemorates the rescue of ancient monuments UN must condemn

By Antoinette Chalaby- the table but, too costly, they At a ceremony on September Israeli threats: Iran Moualla, AFP were quickly put aside. 22, 1968 to mark the comple- Paris Eventually a Swedish-Egyp- tion, Unesco director general tian proposal was selected. Rene Maheu said it was “the fi rst Agencies Nations to force Israel to join Work was launched on April time that we have seen inter- Tehran the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ne of the world’s biggest 1, 1964 with the construction of national co-operation in action Treaty (NPT) and bring its nu- archaeological rescue a temporary dam to protect the on such a scale in the sphere of clear programme under supervi- Ooperations was success- site and the excavation of the culture.” ran has asked the United sion of the International Atomic fully concluded 50 years ago af- cliff around the two temples. It was an “unparallelled un- Nations to condemn Israeli Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN ter a massive ancient Egyptian The Abu Simbel temples dertaking, in which over fi fty Ithreats against Tehran and atomic watchdog. temple complex was dismantled were cut into 1,035 blocks each countries...have combined their to bring Israel’s nuclear pro- Israel, which is outside the and hoisted to higher ground to weighing between 20 and 30 eff orts to save the artistic and gramme under its supervision, NPT, neither confirms nor de- prevent its fl ooding by the dam- tonnes. historical treasures of the tem- state media reported yester- nies having the bomb, a dec- ming of the Nile River. The four seated statues of ples of Abu Simbel.” day. ades-old “ambiguity” policy The groundbreaking Unesco- Ramses II and six others of the The original site is today Israel’s Prime Minister Ben- that it says keeps hostile neigh- led project to relocate around king standing up were sawn into completely submerged by Lake jamin Netanyahu used a visit to bours in check while avoiding 20 gigantic monuments in Abu Tourists visit the Ramses II complex at the ancient Egyptian temple pieces. Nasser. a secretive Israeli atomic reactor the kind of public provocations Simbel complex was offi cially of Abu Simbel. Jacks, cranes and powerful An operation — also part of in August to warn the country’s that can spark regional arms concluded on September 22, winches hoisted the enormous U’s Nubia Campaign — to save enemies that it has the means to races. 1968, after an eight-year inter- The temples are among the the dam wall, requiring the re- stone weights to the top of the the temple complex on Philae destroy them, in what appeared Israel is trying to lobby world national eff ort involving hun- jewels of the ancient Nubia re- settlement of tens of thousands cliff , 64m from their original lo- island, around dozen kilometres to be a veiled reference to its as- powers to follow the United dreds of workers. gion that extended down the of indigenous Nubians from vil- cation. upstream from Aswan, started sumed nuclear arsenal. States in exiting their 2015 deal The two Abu Simbel tem- Nile from Aswan in southern lages in the area and also threat- There the blocks were reas- in 1972. “The United Nations’ mem- with Iran that capped the Is- ples — named after their village Egypt into present-day Sudan. ening monuments. sembled to reconstitute the two Involving 40 archaeologi- bers should not turn a blind eye lamic Republic’s nuclear capa- location — were carved out of In the 1950s, Egypt’s presi- Pharaonic and Greco-Ro- temples exactly as they were. cal missions from around the to these threats and must take bilities in return for lifting of cliff s overlooking the Nile in the dent Gamal Abdel Nasser man temples including those Artifi cial hills were then cre- world, it ran for eight years and fi rms actions to eliminate all sanctions. time of Ramses II, the ruler of launched a project to dam the of Abu Simbel risked being ated around the site as a protec- cost more than $30mn. Israeli nuclear weapons,” Fars The Israelis deem the agree- Egypt from 1298-1235 BC. mighty Nile at Aswan in order submerged. tive barrier against the river. About 20 temples, statues news agency quoted Iran’s am- ment insuffi cient for deny- The larger has four colos- to generate electricity for the In 1960, Unesco, the UN or- For four years about 800 la- and monuments known as “the bassador to the United Nations ing their arch-foe the means sal statues of a seated Ramses II region, increase cultivable land ganisation dedicated to preser- bourers and 100 technicians jewel of the Nile” were disman- Gholamali Khoshrou as saying in to eventually get the bomb — at the entrance, through which and reduce fl ooding. vation of culture, launched an worked in the desert under a tled and transported, stone-by- letters to the UN secretary gen- something that Tehran, which there are succession of rooms and The construction would cre- appeal to save the temples. red-hot sun to complete the stone, to the nearby Agilkia is- eral and the security council. is a signatory to the NPT, denies galleries stretching back 63m. ate a huge artifi cial lake behind Several projects were put on project, which cost $36mn. land, on higher ground. Khoshrou asked the United wanting. Gulf Times 4 Friday, September 21, 2018 AFRICA Extremists murder 9 villagers in Nigeria AFP Kano

ine people were killed and nine others injured when NBoko Haram fi ghters raided two villages in northeast Nigeria, the civilian militia said yesterday. Militants in pickup trucks at- tacked Kalari Abdiye and nearby Amarwa, some 20km from Bor- no state capital Maiduguri, on Wednesday evening. “The gunmen, who were obvi- ously Boko Haram fi ghters, killed nine people and injured nine more in the attacks,” Ibrahim Liman, from the Civilian Joint Taskforce (CJTF) told AFP. “They attacked the villag- es around 8.30pm when it was rain- ing and people were indoors.” Frightened residents rushed out of their homes but when they did so they were shot “indicrimi- nately”, said another CJTF leader, Babakura Kolo. “The two villages were com- pletely burnt by the attackers,” he added, giving a similar toll. Both villages are in Konduga, a district of Borno state that has suf- fered repeated attacks in a nine- year insurgency which has left more than 27,000 dead. Last December six people were killed in a suicide attack on a crowded market in Amarwa, while 10 people lost their lives in April Women sift through the remains of a market blown up during an attack in Amarwa, some 20km from Borno state capital Maiduguri. when two female suicide bombers attacked the village. It was not clear long-time leader, Abubakar Shek- lamic state group and known as ISWAP said to have taken over the ISWAP Cross health worker who had been which of the two Boko Haram fac- au, have indiscriminately targeted (Islamic State West Africa Province) leadership, prompting fears of an kidnapped with two of her col- tions was behind the attacks and civilians, particularly using suicide has focused more on attacking military upsurge in violence against the lo- leagues in a raid six months earlier, there was no claim of responsibility. bombers and hit-and-run raids. and government targets. cal population. stoking fears for the other hostages Fighters loyal to the group’s A separate faction backed by the Is- But more radical elements are On Monday, ISWAP killed a Red being held.

Ex-councillor charged for racially abusing SA president former city councillor has been arrested that the rant did not deserve attention and that Landmark law to secure and charged with making racial insults Nair needed support from friends and family, ac- Aafter he abused South African President cording to local media. Cyril Ramaphosa in a video posted on social me- “He was arrested on Wednesday in Durban. ancestral land rights dia, police said yesterday. He was charged with public violence and crimen The viral video shows the man identifi ed as injuria. He will appear in court today,” Brigadier former Durban councillor Kessie Nair openly call- Hangwani Mulaudzi told AFP. passed in Liberia ing Ramaphosa a “kaffi r” — a derogatory term used Nair’s nephew, Krishnan Nair, released a state- against black people during the racist apartheid era. ment on behalf of the family saying “we distance “I Kessie Nair...do hereby call for that kaf- ourselves from such utterances”. By James Giahyue, Reuters accelerated policies that granted fi r state President Mr Cyril Ramaphosa — Yes I South Africa remains deeply divided along ra- Monrovia natural resource concessions to for- mean the kaffi r state president Cyril Ramaphosa cial lines 24 years after Nelson Mandela came to eign companies. — to be charged for frauding this nation,” he said power vowing national reconciliation following Foreign palm oil concessions were in the nearly fi ve minute-long rant. the end of white-minority rule. iberia has passed a landmark at the heart of reforms which were “For oppressing this nation, for high treason, In 2016, South African estate agent Penny law that will help communi- credited with making Liberia attrac- for failing and he’s the source to all crime, vio- Sparrow likened black beach-goers to monkeys Lties fi ght foreign land grabs by tive to agricultural investors — but lence, poor healthcare, poverty that prevails in a in a social media outburst and was fi ned 150,000 giving them ownership of ancestral also caused violent confl ict. so-called true democracy. rand ($10,500). Last month a South African man, territory, offi cials and activists said The Land Rights Act was one of “I’m ready to go to jail for the rest of my life or take Adam Catzavelos, faced a backlash from across yesterday. Weah’s fi rst major moves since being a bullet, I just want to say that the truth will hurt.” the political spectrum after he used the racial President George Weah signed the elected in December. Presidential spokeswoman Khusela Diko said slur in a holiday video he posted online. Land Rights Act into law on Wednes- In a statement, the president day night after four years of debate called it a “key component” of his in the legislature, his offi ce said in a plans to develop the country. Madagascar says plague outbreak ‘under control’ statement yesterday. However, the head of the govern- The topic has been contentious ment agency in charge of land policy Madagascar’s seasonal outbreak of plague, which we had already had 54 confirmed cases”. since most of the population has no said implementation would be dif- has so far killed two people, is “under control”, “For now, there is no need to talk of an epidemic formal rights to their land, and the fi cult. Health Minister Yoel Rantomalala said yesterday. or to restrict public meetings,” said Charlotte state has signed away more than “The Liberia Land Authority has “We have recorded from August 1 to September Ndiaye, local representative of the World Health 40% of national territory in conces- been given the authority to imple- 17, 13 suspected cases of plague, three of which are Organization. sions for logging, mining and agri- ment the act but we do not have re- confirmed and caused two deaths,” Rantomalala General elections take place on November 7 with culture, according to rights groups. sources, we do not have the technical said. a second round scheduled for December 19. “This is a landmark victory not expertise to implement this law,” said The first fatality was recorded in Fiadanana, Madagascar has suff ered bubonic plague out- only for the government, but for the executive director Stanley Toe. “The north of the capital Antananarivo, while the second breaks almost every year since 1980. entire citizenry of our country,” said excitement will soon go but the big- was reported in Ambalavao in the Indian Ocean The disease tends to make a comeback each hot James Otto, a campaigner at Liberia’s gest work lies ahead.” island’s interior. rainy season, from September to April. Sustainable Development Institute Under the law, communities can “For the moment, the situation is under control, On average, 300-600 infections are recorded (SDI). claim ownership of customary land we are on the right track,” he told reporters. annually among a population approaching 25mn “For the fi rst time in our history, a by presenting evidence such as Last year more than 200 people were killed people, according to UN estimates. law is fi nally saying that communi- oral testimonies, maps, and signed before bubonic and pneumonic plague epidemics The germ Yersinia pestis can be transmitted to ties that have lived on their land for- agreements with neighbours, the were brought under control in November. humans from infected rats via fleas. ever and ever are now owners of that government said. The disease spread to urban centres includ- It can also be transmitted human to human land,” he told the Thomson Reuters A maximum of 10% of the cus- ing the capital last year, taking the authorities by through cough droplets from a person with a pneu- Foundation. tomary land in each community will surprise. monic form of the disease. Following the West African na- be set aside as public land, it added, “We learnt the lessons of last year’s epidem- Pneumonic plague can prove fatal in 24 to 72 tion’s second civil war, which ended and a nationwide survey will be con- ic,” the minister added. “Last year in September hours while the bubonic form is less dangerous. in 2003, the previous government ducted within two years.

Kenya assembly backs halving of fuel tax amid anger at living costs

Reuters proval by acclamation, chanting er who sat in his empty vehicle at a gets were set by the IMF when it posals that the VAT measure is Nairobi “zero, zero”. bus terminal in downtown Nairobi. granted a precautionary credit consistent with the government’s But speaker Justin Muturi re- “The customers don’t under- deal two years ago that expired this aim to avoid a huge funding gap in fused their demand for a formal stand and they quarrel with us. We month. the budget. enya’s parliament yester- vote on the measure. are operating at a loss.” Legislators must approve the The fi nance ministry had budg- day backed the halving “The clause which was under The tax is part of a government VAT proposal before Kenyatta can eted for 35bn shillings ($347.74mn), Kof a new value added tax consideration at that point was bid to fi nance key priorities pru- sign this fi nancial year’s budget which it expected to collect on oil products, bowing to com- carried,” Muturi said amid protests dently while narrowing a fi scal into law. through the tax in the fi nancial plaints by Kenyans squeezed by by lawmakers demanding the re- defi cit that the Treasury forecasts Foreign investors are watching year to the end of next June, the high prices, but the move drew moval of the tax. at 5.9% of economic output this the events keenly. committee said, adding the halved protests from some lawmakers Earlier parliament’s fi nance year. “Kenya should be a country of rate will allow the Treasury to col- who want the levy scrapped al- committee had backed the plan, Like other frontier economies, concern for investors at the mo- lect 17.5bn shillings. together. proposed by President Uhuru Ken- Kenya has found it tough to secure ment,” Charles Robertson, chief Kenyatta said last week that fur- The government has faced a fuel yatta, to halve the 16% tax. external funding as emerging mar- economist at Renaissance Capital, ther delaying the tax, which was dealers’ strike, anger among com- Operators of public transport kets from Turkey to Argentina are told a conference in Nairobi. passed into law in 2013 but never muters and a lawsuit after trans- minibuses, locally known as mata- buff eted by turbulence and tum- He cited the challenging ex- implemented, would compromise port and fuel prices jumped when tus, said the new tax, even at 8%, bling currencies. ternal fi nancing environment for the government’s ability to fund the 16% value-added tax on all would hurt demand for their serv- Kenya’s challenge was com- frontier African economies and planned social welfare and devel- petroleum products entered into ices, and called for its total remov- pounded by last week’s expiry of the risk that the shilling currency opment programmes. force on September 1. al. an International Monetary Fund could weaken steeply in the near The fi nance committee also Some lawmakers opposed to the “We can’t increase bus fare too stand-by loan arrangement for term. supported Kenyatta’s proposal to 8% levy on the grounds it would much. No one will board the vehi- balance of payments support. The fi nance committee said in increase taxes on some fi nancial hike living costs objected to its ap- cle,” said Maxwell Njuguna, a driv- The fi scal defi cit reduction tar- its report on the president’s pro- services. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 5 AMERICAS Several fatalities in

Police off icers block off roads after an unidentified assailant opened Maryland shooting fire at a warehouse complex north of Aberdeen, Maryland. AFP/Reuters A law enforcement source products, including pharmaceu- reau of Investigation (FBI) also “We do not believe there is an “We have our businesses offi cer, at a Pennsylvania court Washington told Reuters that offi cials believe ticals, for delivery to more than responded, the agencies said. additional threat anywhere to locked down, so we’re closed. building before he was killed by the suspect had a work-related 2,500 stores. Johns Hopkins Bayview Hos- the Harford County community,” There’s not any way to get out of police, according to Pennsylvania grievance. The shooting took place a few pital spokesman Raymond Fang Gahler added. the area.” State Police. n unidentifi ed assailant “I can confi rm multiple miles from the Aberdeen Prov- said four adults had been brought Police, fi refi ghters and other Deadly shootings are common And fi ve months before, an opened fi re yesterday at a wounded and multiple fatali- ing Ground, a large Army facility in with gunshot wounds, accord- emergency responders arrived in the United States, where the Iran-born female animal rights Awarehouse complex north ties,” Jeff rey Gahler, the sheriff of where military technology is de- ing to local station WBAL-TV. within minutes of receiving a call right to bear arms is protected by activist gunned down three of Baltimore, killing and wound- Harford County, Maryland, told veloped and tested, according to Other victims were taken to at 9.06am. the US constitution. people before killing herself at ing multiple people in the latest reporters. Harford County’s website. Christiana Hospital in Newark, “We got completely bom- The incident is the latest in an YouTube’s California headquar- US mass shooting, authorities US media said that three peo- Governor Larry Hogan said his Delaware, it said. barded by – I’m not exaggerat- epidemic of gun violence that has ters. said. ple were killed and two others offi ce was “closely monitoring “The lone suspect in this in- ing – 20-30 cops, and then am- struck schools and workplaces Maryland made grim head- There were reports that the wounded in the incident, which the horrifi c shooting”. cident is in custody and in criti- bulances and everything started almost at random across the lines in June when fi ve employees incident was a rare mass shoot- unfolded around 9am (1300 “Our prayers are with all those cal condition at a local hospital,” pouring in,” one man told WBAL- United States. of Capital-Gazette newspapers ing by a woman, but police would GMT) at a distribution centre for impacted, including our fi rst re- Gahler said. TV. “At that point, they blocked Attacks by women are ex- died after a gunman stormed not confi rm the gender of the the Rite Aid drugstore chain in sponders,” Hogan wrote on Twit- He said the assailant was ap- us in and we tried to turn around. tremely rare, however, account- their Annapolis offi ce. attacker, merely reporting that Perryman. ter. “The State stands ready to parently armed with a single They’re telling us that there is an ing for less than 5% of the total, The man that police say is they were in a critical condition The Rite Aid centre sits among off er any support.” handgun “and no shots (were) active shooter.” according to law enforcement of- responsible had harassed the at a local hospital. a number of warehouses. Agents from the Baltimore of- fi red by any offi cers responding David Graf, a local business- fi cials and academics. newspapers’ employees for years An NBC reporter, Pete Wil- The facility has nearly 1,000 fi ces of the Bureau of Alcohol, to the scene” – most likely indi- man, said police “have the whole The shooting occurred a day over an article about criminal liams, said sources told him the employees, company spokesman Tobacco, Firearms and Explo- cating that the shooter’s injuries area blocked off . We’ve not been after a man shot and wounded stalking charges against him, the shooter was a woman. Pete Strella said, and processes sives (ATF) and the Federal Bu- were self-infl icted. able to get in or out. four people, including a police Baltimore Sun reported.

Trump launches Deadline looms for Kavanaugh’s accuser Canadian

Reuters TV show renewed attack Washington rapped over he woman accusing Brett on A-G Sessions Kavanaugh, President TDonald Trump’s US Su- stereotypes preme Court nominee, of sexual DPA that he was “very disappoint- assault faced a deadline today to Washington ed” in him. decide whether to testify before Reuters He also expanded his criti- a Senate panel as Republican Washington cisms of him by suggesting that lawmakers and the accuser re- S President Donald the attorney general, known to mained locked in a high-stakes Trump has launched be extremely anti-immigrant, stand-off . Canadian reality TV show Uone of his fi ercest was not being tough enough of Kavanaugh, the conserva- that follows participants broadsides on Jeff Sessions to on immigration. tive federal appeals court judge Aas they visit indigenous date, complaining in an inter- “I’m not happy at the border, nominated by Trump in July for communities across the coun- view with Hill.TV released on I’m not happy with numerous the lifetime job as a Supreme try has been accused of further- Wednesday that “I don’t have things, not just this [the Russia Court justice, and Christine ing stereotypes and bolstering an attorney general”. investigation],” Trump said. Blasey Ford, a psychology pro- “white privilege”. Trump has long complained Analysts say the comments fessor at Palo Alto University in First Contact aired last week about his attorney general’s mean Trump is preparing to set California, have been invited to on the non-profi t Aboriginal decision to recuse himself from out a case for fi ring Sessions. testify on Monday at a Senate Peoples Television Network, an investigation into Russian The attorney general did Judiciary Committee hearing. which pitched the three-part se- interference in the 2016 elec- not immediately respond to It remained uncertain as to A protester voices opposition to Kavanaugh and her support for Dr Christine Blasey Ford, the woman ries as “a compelling exploration tions. Trump’s latest attack on him. whether Ford would agree to who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, during a demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington. into indigenous culture”. The US president has fre- In August he issued a rare appear. The show’s trailer promised quently suggested that by mak- statement when Trump ac- Chuck Grassley, the com- committee only if the Federal The Senate is narrowly con- adding: “The rush to a hearing to challenge perceptions of the ing the March 2017 decision to cused him of failing to take mittee’s Republican chairman, Bureau of Investigation (FBI) trolled by Republicans, who is unnecessary, and contrary to country’s indigenous communi- hand control of the probe by control of the Justice Depart- on Wednesday sent a letter to fi rst investigated her allegation. have embraced the idea of a the committee discovering the ties as “lazy”, “alcoholics”, and special counsel Robert Mueller ment, saying: “I took control of Ford’s lawyers giving her until The FBI has said it is not in- quick vote on Kavanaugh’s truth.” “welfare cheats” – but indig- to his deputy Rod Rosenstein, the Department of Justice the 10am (1400 GMT) today to sub- vestigating, a decision backed nomination if Ford does not to Democrats, who opposed Ka- enous writer David Alexander Sessions had failed to protect day I was sworn in.” mit prepared testimony if she by Republicans. testify. vanaugh’s confi rmation even Robertson said that it “feeds into him. “While I am attorney gen- intended to show up on Monday. On Wednesday, a lawyer for “We got a little hiccup here before Ford’s allegation sur- white privilege and an entitled In his latest remarks, which eral, the actions of the Depart- A group of about 40 pro- Ford said her client was willing with the Kavanaugh nomina- faced, meanwhile pressed ahead attitude”. were recorded on Tuesday, ment of Justice will not be im- testers, most of them women, to co-operate with the com- tion, we’ll get through this and with demands for an FBI inves- “This show creates the expec- Trump said what Sessions had properly infl uenced by political clogged the lobby of Grassley’s mittee, but criticised its plan to we’ll get off to the races,” Re- tigation. tation that we owe it to settlers to done was “very unfair” and considerations,” he added. Senate offi ce yesterday. have only Ford and Kavanaugh publican Senator Dean Heller, “For this to be a fair, deliber- prove to them that we are not the Many wore buttons with the testify. who is running for re-election ate and open process, we need stereotype, that it’s our burden words “I believe Dr Christine The confi rmation fi ght has in Nevada, said in a call with to let the FBI do its job and al- to show them that we should be Blasey Ford”. unfolded just weeks before No- the state Republican Party on low agents to conduct a full in- viewed as human beings worthy They asked to speak to Grass- vember 6 congressional elec- Wednesday, the Nevada Inde- vestigation of the allegations of respect,” he told the Thomson ley and were told the senator is tions in which Democrats are pendent news website reported. bravely brought forward by Reuters Foundation. in Iowa, according to Marcie seeking to take control of Con- Ford came forward with the Dr Ford,” Democratic Senator Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wells of Las Vegas, a member gress from the Republicans. allegation in an interview pub- Chris Coons wrote on Twitter has pledged to improve the lives of the Women’s March organi- Kavanaugh’s confi rmation lished in the Washington Post yesterday. of Canada’s indigenous people, sation that has been outspoken would solidify conservative last Sunday. Republicans backed Grass- who make up about 4% of the in opposition to Kavanaugh’s control of the Supreme Court She accused Kavanaugh of ley’s approach. population and face higher lev- nomination. and further Trump’s goal of attacking her and trying to re- “Chairman Grassley has done els of poverty and violence and Ford has said that Kavanaugh moving the high court and the move her clothing while he was a masterful job, demonstrat- shorter life expectancies. sexually assaulted her in 1982 broader federal judiciary to the drunk at a party when he was 17 ing fi rmness and fairness to all A 2015 report by the Truth when both were high school right. years old and she was 15. concerned, amidst attempts to and Reconciliation Commission students in Maryland, an al- Trump’s fellow Republi- Ford’s lawyer Lisa Banks said hijack the nomination proc- of Canada found that a now- legation Kavanaugh has called cans appear to be counting on on Wednesday in a statement ess by mob rule,” Senator John defunct policy of forcibly sepa- “completely false”. her failure to agree to testify that lawmakers should include Cornyn, a member of the Senate rating aboriginal children from Her lawyers said on Tuesday on Monday as a boost for Ka- testimony from multiple wit- Republican leadership, wrote on their families and sending them Trump: I’m not happy with numerous things. that she would testify before the vanaugh’s chances. nesses to the alleged assault, Twitter. to residential schools amounted to “cultural genocide”. In a debate largely playing out on social media, critics of the show echoed Robertson’s view that indigenous people should not have to dispel stereotypes Flooding expected to worsen in Carolinas about themselves. “Prove you are not sub-hu- man to racists who think you are. Reuters pect to see more,” he said. “No the plant in Southport, about 30 There is no way indigenous or Kinston, North Carolina pun intended, it’s a fl uid situa- miles (48km) south of Wilming- any group of people should have tion.” ton. to do that. Degrading,” wrote Winslow said that some pa- One megawatt can power one man who called himself Pete looding from rain-swollen tients have hurricane-related about 1,000 US homes. Quily on Twitter. rivers was expected to problems after going days with- As fl oodwaters continue to Others however said that au- Fworsen across the Caro- out power or drinkable water. rise, concerns are growing about diences can gain from the les- linas in the aftermath of Hur- At least 36 deaths have been the environmental and health sons of the white participants. ricane Florence, which killed 36 attributed to the storm, includ- dangers lurking in the water. Michael Redhead Champagne, people in three states, forecast- ing 27 in North Carolina, eight in The fl ooding has caused 21 one of the indigenous people ers said. South Carolina and one in Vir- hog “lagoons”, which store ma- featured on the show, said the Twenty fl ood gauges showed ginia. nure from pig farms, to overfl ow, experience was “constructive”. some level of fl ooding in North Some 2,600 people had been creating a risk that standing The programme allows the Carolina, South Carolina, and rescued by boat or helicopter in water will be contaminated, ac- public to “gain an understanding Virginia, where some major wa- North Carolina alone since the cording to the state’s Depart- of what indigenous people have terways, well above their fl ood storm made landfall, and about ment of Environmental Quality. to face both historically and on stages, were expected to rise 10,000 people remain in shel- North Carolina is one of the a daily basis”, said Champagne, a through the weekend before ters, according to state offi cials. leading hog-producing states in member of the Shamattawa Cree they crest, the National Weather More than 121,000 custom- the country. community. Service (NWS) said. Residents walk along the edge of a collapsed road that ran atop Patricia Lake’s dam after it collapsed in ers were without power across Several sewer systems in the The producers of First Contact “People in fl ood prone areas the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina. North Carolina, and more than region also have released un- – which was modeled on an Aus- or near waterways need to re- 2.1mn customers across the treated or partly treated sewage tralian progamme of the same main alert as rivers crest and ally the calm before the storm,” In Lenoir County, North rector of North Carolina Emer- southeast United States were af- and storm water into waterways name – said that they welcomed stay above their banks in coming he said. Carolina, where the rising Neuse gency Medical Services, helped fected by the storm, according to over the last week, local media the public debate. days,” North Carolina Governor Florence dumped up to 36” River has fl ooded some roads, set up the mobile emergency utilities. reported. “This is obviously a conver- Roy Cooper said in a statement. (91cm) of rain on parts of North emergency medical workers room during a downpour on Duke Energy Corp started to Experts have said that climate sation that most people have “Stay alert and stay safe.” Carolina and many areas re- have been running a “mobile Saturday night. return its Brunswick nuclear change has increased the likeli- been willing, if not eager, to Touring the area on Wednes- mained cut off by fl oodwaters disaster hospital” to provide ur- They have received 20 to 30 power plant in North Carolina to hood of more massive, sluggish participate in,” they said in an day, US President Donald Trump and inundated roads. gent care to those residents who patients a day so far, he said, but service yesterday. storms like Florence, capable of e-mailed statement. “For those warned South Carolina that The slow-moving storm made were cut off from the nearest expect to be busier as the river The company shut both reac- dropping record amounts of rain who have reservations about our “water is coming your way”. landfall last Friday as a Category hospital. crests. tors at the 1,870MW facility be- and touching off catastrophic approach, we appreciate all per- “Now it looks nice but it’s re- 1 hurricane. Tripp Winslow, medical di- “Once we get isolated we ex- fore Florence hit the coast near fl ooding. spectives.” Gulf Times 6 Friday, September 21, 2018 ASIA

Singapore committee proposes new govt powers to tackle ‘fake news’

AFP state is among several countries proposed reforms to empower allow the fi ling of criminal cases has to be adequately urgent and committee was created to give port’s release, the government Singapore looking to rein in the spread of authorities to take down false against purveyors of falsehoods serious as well,” said Law and political cover for what the Sin- said in a statement it accepted falsehoods over the Internet, reports, limit or block exposure that cause serious harm, it said. Home Aff airs Minister K Shan- gapore government wanted to do the committee’s recommenda- but critics have warned legisla- to them, disrupt accounts run The committee said it had mugam, a committee member, anyway, which is use the excuse tions in principle and would Singapore parliamen- tion could be used to exert fur- by bots or trolls and discredit received evidence pointing to as the report was released. of ‘fake news’ to move full throt- look at their implementation. tary committee yesterday ther control over the media and sources of fake news. “foreign state-sponsored infor- But human rights groups crit- tle to censor what Singaporeans The committee heard from doz- Aproposed broad govern- clamp down on political rights. Government powers should mation campaigns” being car- icised the committee’s recom- see online,” he told AFP. ens of individuals and organisa- ment powers to combat “fake The committee, which held apply to both open and closed ried out against Singapore, also mendations. “The fundamental The powers proposed by the tions including Internet giants news” online, calling it a threat hearings on the issue in March, platforms, the committee said, warning that social faultlines in problem is the Singapore gov- committee could have a “devas- Facebook and Google, but free- to national security, but rights recommended the government adding however that communi- the multi-ethnic society could ernment has a very biased idea tating chilling eff ect on the free- speech activists who appeared groups denounced the meas- have “powers to swiftly dis- cations which are private and of be exploited to sow discord. of what is a ‘falsehood’,” said Phil dom to inform”, said Daniel Bas- before the committee said they ures as a threat to free speech. rupt the spread and infl uence limited circulation “will be re- “The problem is urgent, it is se- Robertson, Asia deputy director tard, Reporters Without Borders’ were harassed and misrepre- The tightly-controlled city- of online falsehoods”. Its report spected”. Legislation should also rious and I think our response at Human Rights Watch. “This Asia-Pacifi c head. After the re- sented. World ‘won’t rest’ on Rohingya crisis, UK’s Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt looks from the helicopter window as he travels to Maungdaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar.

ADB approves $110mn for Bangladesh healthcare Hunt tells Suu Kyi The Board of Directors of the running of the system,” Chin Asian Development Bank was cited as saying by Xinhua AFP (ADB) approved an additional news agency. Naypyidaw, Myanmar loan financing of $110mn for a According to the ADB project that is improving access statement, the new financing to urban primary healthcare will build on previous eff orts ritish foreign minister Jer- services in Bangladesh through towards climate change emy Hunt yesterday called public-private partnerships. mitigation by adopting solar Bfor justice on the Rohingya “ADB’s support to the panels, rainwater harvesting crisis after his visit to Myanmar’s government-led Urban Primary systems and flood drainage. Rakhine state, telling embat- Health Care Services Delivery The Urban Climate Change tled leader Aung San Suu Kyi the Project approved in 2012 Resilience Trust Fund, financed world “won’t let it rest”. Hunt’s has been filling a vacuum by the Rockefeller Foundation rallying cry for accountability created by the lack of urban and the governments of comes at the end of a busy two- public primary healthcare by Switzerland and Britain, will day visit during which he vis- increasing access to quality provide a $2mn grant, to be ited Rakhine – the epicentre of services, especially for poor administered by ADB, the a brutal military campaign that households,” ADB Social Sector statement said. drove out more than 700,000 Specialist Brian Chin said in a The Bangladesh government Rohingya Muslims – and met statement. will contribute $30mn towards with Suu Kyi. “The new financing will focus the cost of the additional “Burma needs to know the on strengthening the service financing, while the UN international community won’t delivery system, building on Population Fund (UNFPA) let it rest,” said Hunt using My- the results of the 2012 project will provide $1.5mn in-kind anmar’s former name. Myanmar and two previous projects, technical support, it added. The has set up an “independent” to meet unmet demands and project completion date is in commission to address the ar- develop self-reliance in the March 2023. my’s crackdown against the Ro- hingya, rejecting the UN probe and calls for the International In each of the three other lo- due to her failure to address the Criminal Court to investigate. cations Hunt was shepherded to, Rohingya crisis. Her supporters “If we don’t see that process he found a pre-selected group of say her hands are tied by a still happening, we will use all the locals waiting to speak to him. powerful military, which con- tools at our disposal to make Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt meets with local residents in Maungdaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar, yesterday. At Pan Taw Pyin village, the fi - trols a quarter of parliament’s sure there is justice ... the world nal stop, he walked off to try seats and three ministries. is watching,” Hunt said after fl ed to neighbouring Bangla- Suu Kyi his “concerns” on the Suu Kyi, who endured a total which included the Taung Pyo to speak with nearby residents UN investigators say her gov- the meeting, which he said was desh, where they joined about jailing of two Reuters journal- of 15 years of house arrest under Letwe returnee reception centre, about their experiences despite ernment’s “acts and omissions” “lively” and “frank”. 300,000 already in cramped ref- ists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the previous junta-led regime, opened to receive the refugees the heavy security presence. contributed to the “atrocity The British foreign minister’s ugee camps, carrying accounts who were sentenced earlier this said last week Wa Lone and Kyaw even though virtually no Ro- The military has consistently crimes” in the crisis. Hunt will visit came the same week UN of extrajudicial killings, extreme month to seven years each un- Soe Oo’s sentencing upheld the hingya have come back. Bang- denied nearly all wrongdoing, head to New York next week for investigators released a damn- sexual violence and arson. der the state secrets act. The pair rule of law. “She said she would ladesh and Myanmar signed an and Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN General Assembly, where ing and meticulous report de- The evidence warrants the had uncovered the extrajudicial look into it,” Hunt said yesterday. agreement last year to repatriate the UN on Tuesday slammed the he will chair a foreign ministers’ tailing why six Myanmar gen- charges of genocide, crimes killings of 10 Rohingya men in Before the meeting, the for- the Muslim minority but it has UN probe as “one-sided” and meeting Monday on Myanmar. erals should be prosecuted for against humanity and war the Rakhine village of Inn Din – eign minister was led on a stalled as they fear returning to “fl awed”. Suu Kyi, a former pro- Suu Kyi will not be travelling to genocide against the Rohingya crimes, UN investigators said. something the army has since three-hour, tightly-managed Rakhine without their safety and democracy icon, has seen a sharp New York for the UN top meet- Muslim minority. The Rohingya Hunt also brought up with acknowledged. tour of Rakhine via helicopter, rights guaranteed. fall from grace internationally ing.

Anwar to seek return to frontline politics Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting Anwar Six Thais acquitted Malaysia former PM hit with 25 Ibrahim will seek to return to frontline politics by contesting a local election to become a lawmaker next month, after being accused of off icials said yesterday, a key step on his new charges over 1MDB scandal journey from prison to the premiership. torching king portraits Anwar, whose alliance won a shock election victory in May, is expected to AFP sacking senior fi gures in his co- easily win the October 13 poll which was AFP ers, according to Thai Law- Kuala Lumpur alition who dared criticise him triggered after an MP quit parliament Bangkok yers for Human Rights. The and jailing political opponents. to open up a seat for the veteran court ruling on the royal in- The attorney-general later politician. Prime Minister Mahathir sult charge said the defend- alaysia’s ex-leader cleared Najib of any wrong- Mohamad, 93, has pledged to step ix young Thais accused ants’ actions were aimed at Najib Razak was hit doing, saying the money was aside within two years to hand power of setting portraits of causing damage to the arches Mwith 25 new charges of a personal donation from the to Anwar, his former nemesis with Sthe royal family on fi re only, the rights group said. money laundering and abuse of Saudi royal family, and closed whom he teamed up to oust scandal- have been granted rare ac- While lese majeste cases power linked to the 1MDB mega- down domestic investigations. plagued Najib Razak and his long-ruling quittals, their lawyer said shot up under the ruling scandal yesterday, including al- 1Malaysia Development coalition at the election. Following the yesterday, escaping strict junta that seized power in legations hundreds of millions Berhad was set up in 2009 and poll, Anwar, 71, received a royal pardon royal defamation charges Thailand in 2014, convic- of dollars were transferred to his overseen by Najib, with the to allow his release from prison where that can carry 15 years in jail. tions have declined in recent personal bank account. purported aim of promoting he was serving a sentence for breaking Thailand has some of the months, suggesting a change As hundreds of banner-wav- Malaysia’s former PM Najib Razak. economic development in Ma- laws against sodomy in a case that harshest royal insult legis- in attitude towards the strict ing supporters gathered outside laysia, but accusations quickly his supporters said was politically lation in the world and has defamation law. “The pros- the Kuala Lumpur court, Najib factor in the defeat of his long- series of transactions. Many of mounted that it was a vehicle motivated. He needs to be elected policed aggressively any ecution of 112 cases has been pleaded not guilty to all counts, ruling coalition to a reformist the transfers happened ahead of for the leader and his cronies to to parliament to qualify to succeed perceived slight to the ultra- very low this year, to the which represented the most se- alliance headed by Mahathir a hotly contested national elec- loot state coff ers. Mahathir. Danyal Balagopal Abdullah rich family, whose portraits point that it’s nearly non- rious in a string of charges he Mohamad. After being charged tion in 2013, which Najib’s coa- The US Department of Jus- from his People’s Justice Party in the are plastered across bill- existent,” Pawinee Chumsri, has faced over the alleged loot- yesterday, Najib gave a defi ant lition won comfortably. tice, which is seeking to recover Port Dickson constituency, south of the boards around the kingdom. a lawyer for the rights group ing of state fund 1MDB. press conference outside court: Najib was fi rst charged over assets allegedly bought with capital Kuala Lumpur, quit parliament The law, known as 112, that represented the defend- Najib, whose shock election “I pray I will clear my name. I 1MDB in July and August, over stolen 1MDB money, estimates last week to open up a spot for him. carries a maximum sentence ants, told AFP. defeat in May ended his coali- hope the rule of law exists in allegations he pocketed money that $4.5bn in total was looted The Election Commission set the date of 15 years per count and tri- She added that that ver- tion’s six-decade stranglehold this country. from a former unit of the fund, from the fund. for the by-election for October 13, with als are often shrouded in se- dicts now trend towards ac- on power in Malaysia, was ac- “We shall fi ght till the end but the latest counts are the Najib and his luxury-loving campaigning to begin on September crecy behind closed doors. quittals or charges that carry cused of abusing his position and God will guide us all along most signifi cant yet as they re- wife Rosmah Mansor became 29, off icial news agency Bernama But the six Thais were lesser jail time. “It’s some- to receive funds totally 2.3bn the path of truth,” he added, as late to key chapter in the saga. hated fi gures, symbols of the reported. Once tipped as Mahathir’s acquitted on appeal earlier what good progress to see ringgit ($555mn) between 2011 his supporters cheered. He was For each count of abuse of pow- rot in a corrupt elite that had successor in the 1990s, ex-deputy this week after being arrest- 112 cases are not easily pros- and 2014. The suspicious trans- released after agreeing to post er, Najib faces up to 20 years in ruled Malaysia uninterrupted premier Anwar fell out bitterly with his ed in 2017 for allegedly van- ecuted,” she said. Yingcheep fers to his accounts were a key bail of 3.5mn ringgit. prison and for each count of since independence from Brit- former boss, leading to his jailing on dalising ceremonial arches Atchanont, from the legal chapter in the scandal, and Na- Mahathir, 93, who is in his money laundering, he faces up ain in 1957. charges of sodomy and corruption in bearing pictures of the cur- monitoring group iLaw, said jib has previously insisted they second stint as premier after to fi ve years. When reports sur- A political blue-blood whose 1999. He was released but later jailed rent and former king in the there have been four acquit- were a donation from Saudi coming out of retirement to faced in 2015 that huge sums father and uncle were both again for sodomy in 2015 during Najib’s northeastern province of tals this year and no new cas- royalty – an explanation that take on scandal-mired Najib, from 1MDB fl owed into Najib’s prime ministers, Najib’s de- rule. Anwar forged an unexpected Khon Kaen. They said they es. Analysts say the law could was widely derided. has ramped up probes in the bank accounts ahead of the poll, feat was a shock that almost no alliance with Mahathir to challenge the had been hired to do the job. be wielded diff erently under Allegations that Najib and 1MDB scandal and vowed to it dramatically ratcheted up pundits predicted as his rul- then-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition Initially convicted in Janu- the new reign of King Maha his cronies pilfered huge sums have the ex-leader prosecuted. pressure on the leader and his ing Barisan Nasional coalition after Najib became embroiled in a ary, they still face jail terms of Vajiralongkorn, who took the from 1MDB and spent them on The raft of charges fi led ac- inner circle over the scandal. appeared to have a fi rm grip scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB. three to nine years for crimi- throne in 2016 after the death everything from high-end real cused Najib of receiving vast As pressure mounted, Najib on power and was accused of Najib has arrested and charged over nal association charges and of his much-beloved father estate to artwork were a major amounts of money in a complex lurched sharply to the right, widespread electoral fraud. the scandal since his poll defeat. burning the property of oth- Bhumibol Adulyadej. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 7 ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Two Koreas’ leaders in mountain show of unity

AFP joining up road and rail links, Seoul and bid jointly for the 2032 Ol- ympics. At a performance of the im Jong-un and Moon North’s spectacular “Mass Jae-in visited the spir- Games” propaganda display, Kitual birthplace of the Ko- Moon made an unprecedented rean nation yesterday for a show address by a South Korean lead- of unity after their North-South er to a Northern crowd, telling summit gave new momentum to them that Koreans had lived to- Pyongyang’s negotiations with gether for 5,000 years. “I pro- Washington. The North Ko- pose we move forward toward rean leader agreed to shutter the the big picture of peace in which Tongchang-ri missile-testing the past 70-year-long hostil- site in the presence of interna- ity can be eradicated and we tional observers, a move the US can become one again,” he said, welcomed by saying it was ready prompting rapturous applause. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon for immediate talks aimed at de- Yesterday, Moon and Kim, ac- Jae-in walk together during a visit to Samjiyon guesthouse near nuclearising the North. companied by their wives, vis- Mount Paektu in Samjiyon yesterday. Pyongyang also said it could ited Mount Paektu on the Chi- dismantle its best-known nu- nese border. The 2,744m peak is Il-sung, the North’s founder, have been granted access from clear facility at Yongbyon, if the considered sacred by all Koreans was fi ghting Korea’s Japanese the North Korean side, most- US takes “corresponding meas- as the birthplace of Dangun, the colonial occupiers. But overseas ly for research purposes. Kim ures”, as Kim and the South Ko- legendary founder of the fi rst historians say Kim Jong-il was and Moon raised their clasped rean president held their third Korean kingdom. According to born in the Soviet Union, where hands aloft on the crater rim summit this year. It is an impor- Pyongyang’s narrative, it is also his father was in exile. and the South Korean president tant caveat – Moon told report- where Kim Jong-un’s father South Korean tourists fl ock to expressed hopes many of his ers on his return to Seoul that the Kim Jong-il was born, at a secret see the mountain via China but countrymen would follow in his US would need to “end hostile camp where his own father Kim only a handful of Southerners footsteps. relations with North Korea and Ri Sol-ju, wife of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, bids farewell to Kim Jung-sook (right), wife of South provide security guarantees for Korean President Moon Jae-in, on Moon’s departure from North Korea at Samjiyon airport yesterday. the North Korean regime”. But the declaration appeared January 2021, Pompeo added – North Korea specifi cally. For its Jeff rey Lewis tweeted. “They to break the North’s logjam with the end of Trump’s fi rst term. part, Pyongyang – which wants don’t meaningfully constrain Washington. President Don- Kim was hoping for a second a formal declaration the 1950-53 North Korea’s nuclear pro- ald Trump welcomed the move, summit with Trump “at an early Korean War is over – has con- gramme.” tweeting that Kim had “agreed date”, Moon said in Seoul after demned demands for its unilat- Their main purpose, he add- to allow Nuclear inspections, concluding his three-day trip, eral disarmament as “gangster- ed, was “to appease Trump, so subject to fi nal negotiations”, adding he would take the US like”. that Moon and Kim can keep adding: “Very exciting!” president a message from Kim Experts remain scepti- their engagement alive.” Secretary of State Mike Pom- when he meets him himself next cal, pointing out that closing At their Pyongyang summit, peo also praised the “important week. The nuclear discussions Tongchang-ri, also known as Moon and Kim agreed that the commitments”, saying he invited had stalled after the fi rst historic Sohae, would have no impact North Korean leader will visit his North Korean counterpart to summit between Trump and on the North’s ability to manu- Seoul “at an early date”. It would talk next week on the sidelines of Kim in Singapore in June, when facture rockets. Pyongyang has be the fi rst such trip by a North the United Nations General As- Kim declared his backing for de- used several other locations for Korean leader since the Korean sembly, and representatives of nuclearisation of the peninsula missile launches and has repeat- War ended in an armistice, leav- both sides to meet “at the ear- but no details were agreed. edly said it has no need for fur- ing the peninsula divided and liest opportunity” in Vienna – Washington and Pyongyang ther testing. technically still in a state of war, home of the International Atom- have subsequently sparred over Many also believe the North and Moon said the historic jour- ic Energy Agency. Washington what that means and how it will has other covert nuclear facili- ney could happen later this year. was ready to “engage immedi- be achieved, with the Trump ad- ties. “The North Koreans are of- The two leaders also agreed to ately in negotiations” to achieve ministration consistently refer- fering gestures that mimic dis- open a permanent facility for North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju bid farewell to South Korean President Moon the North’s denuclearisation by ring to the denuclearisation of armament,” arms control expert family reunions, work towards Jae-in and his wife Kim Jung-sook at Samjiyon airport yesterday.

Hunt on for Aussie driver seen mowing down emus

Sickening footage showing a man examined by authorities. type of behaviour, as it clearly laughing as he mows down emus Australia’s leading animal welfare shows a disregard for the lives of Abe vows to tweak Japan’s with his car has been described group, the Royal Society for the these vulnerable native animals.” as “horrific cruelty” by Australian Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The ostrich-like Emu is native animal welfare authorities. The (RSPCA), appealed to the public to Australia. Standing up to 2m culprit can be seen driving a for information. “Such horrific (6.5ft) tall, it is the country’s four-wheel drive vehicle down cruelty clearly has no place in largest bird. The fast-running pacifi st charter after victory a dirt road, before ploughing our society,” the RSPCA said. flightless bird, with its distinctive into at least a dozen of the birds, “Our inspectors are currently grey feathers, is widely found in counting each time he hits one. examining the footage to try and rural areas. The RSPCA warned AFP “F#$%$%$ emus,” he can be heard determine when and where it was that penalties for off ences like Tokyo saying. “This is f#$%&* great!” filmed.” that committed in the video are The video was posted on It added: “The RSPCA punishable by up to five years in social media and is now being unequivocally condemns this prison. hinzo Abe vowed yes- terday to press on with Srevising Japan’s paci- fi st constitution after win- ning a historic third term as party head that set him on course to become the coun- Australia supermarket try’s longest-serving premier. The 63-year-old conservative secured 553 votes against 254 won by former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba, a hawkish self- bans needles amid confessed “military geek”, in a two-horse race for leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. “I will fi nally embark on strawberry crisis constitutional revision, which has never been achieved in the 70 years since the end of the AFP war, and start building a new Sydney nation as we look to the future,” Abe told reporters after his vic- tory. ewing needles were taken He said his election had off the shelves at a major given him “strong support” Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader, attends SAustralian supermarket to suggest changes to the text, a news conference after he won the ruling party leadership vote at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, chain yesterday amid a national which he would submit to par- Japan, yesterday. panic over sharp objects being liament at the next session, found inside strawberries and expected to take place in the after he managed to survive a sists any changes would merely the economic outlook, Abe said other fruit. Police nationwide next few weeks. The election series of cronyism and cover- remove the country’s well- he plans to introduce “bold” have received reports of more win hands Abe three more years up scandals. Reconfi rmed in equipped Self-Defense Forces stimulus measures to ease the than 100 alleged incidents of as party leader, giving him the power, Abe will head to New from the constitutional para- expected impact of a tax hike pins and needles being found chance of breaking the record York this weekend to attend the dox whereby they should not scheduled for October next in fruit since the scare began in for the nation’s longest serving UN General Assembly and hold technically exist. year. Queensland state earlier this premiership held by Taro Kat- a summit with US President But any changes to the text Japan’s economy has been month. sura, a revered politician who Donald Trump. would be hugely sensitive in expanding for the past few Most are thought to be pranks served three times between Abe and Trump, who enjoy pacifi st Japan and almost cer- years at a slow pace thanks to or jokes on social media, but 1901 and 1913. each other’s company on the tainly greeted with fury in the Bank of Japan’s ultra-loose at least two minors have been To loud cheers of “banzai” golf course and are close dip- China and the Koreas, 20th- monetary policy and huge gov- questioned by police for carry- – the Japanese equivalent of lomatic allies, are expected to century victims of Japanese ernment spending, which have ing out hoaxes. “three cheers” – from party analyse the latest inter-Korean military aggression. Even if led to a weak yen – a key posi- Woolworths, one of the coun- members, a grinning Abe said: summit as well as trade dis- Abe manages to force a revision tive element for Japanese ex- try’s big two supermarkets, an- Braetop Berries strawberry farmer Aidan Young holds a strawberry “The battle is over. Let’s build a putes between them. The pre- through parliament, he would porters. But analysts warned nounced that it had “taken the as he poses amid strawberries he will destroy following a nationwide new Japan by joining hands and mier said he would seek a face- face a referendum, raising the US-led trade wars could be a precautionary step” of tempo- needle scare, on his farm in the Glass House Mountains in uniting.” Shinichi Nishikawa, to-face meeting with North prospect of a Brexit-style polit- major risk factor for an econo- rarily withdrawing needles from Queensland yesterday. professor of politics at Meiji Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un ical meltdown if the people vote my still struggling to win a long sale, as police struggled to fi nd University in Tokyo, told AFP to solve the sensitive issue of against him, said Yu Uchiyama, battle against defl ation. Abe the original culprit amid a spate several times in the last few their support for farmers. that the vote was eff ectively Japanese citizens kidnapped by political scientist from the Uni- confi rmed he plans to reshuffl e of copycat episodes. days. His government has suc- Opposition leader Bill Short- a referendum on Abe’s record Pyongyang in the 1970s. versity of Tokyo. his cabinet, reportedly on Oc- “The safety of our custom- cessfully raised the maximum en appeared in parliament to ask that he successfully negoti- Nationalist Abe has fre- In addition, surveys show tober 1. ers is our top priority,” the re- prison sentence for fruit tam- Australians to buy “a punnet for ated. “But he can’t wholeheart- quently voiced his wish to that tinkering with the le- However, he is expected to tailer said, without discuss- pering from 10 to 15 years, with yourself and a punnet for the na- edly welcome the result as he rewrite the charter, imposed gal text is far from top of most retain Vice Prime Minister and ing further the reasons behind parliament passing the legisla- tion”. couldn’t win overwhelmingly.” by the victorious US occupi- Japanese voters’ to-do list, Finance Minister Taro Aso, a its decision. The fruit scare tion yesterday. Australian poli- The prime minister also Public support for Abe – a ers, which forces the country as the country faces an age- political ally who has backed has been given a national and ticians of all stripes have been shared a recipe for strawberry political thoroughbred whose to “forever renounce war” and ing and declining population his “Abenomics” strategy to international profile by new quick to appear in front of a pavlova used by his wife, which grandfather and father both dictates that armed forces will and a still-sluggish economy. stimulate the world’s third- Prime Minister Scott Morrison, camera eating, cutting up and he declared “the best pav I’ve held power – has recovered “never be maintained”. Abe in- Acknowledging concerns over largest economy. who has addressed it publicly picking strawberries to show ever had.” Gulf Times 8 Friday, September 21, 2018 BRITAIN

INVESTIGATION LITERATURE DECISION LAW AND ORDER PROJECTION Teens held in Kent over 2018 Man Booker Major rail transport Police off icer warned London ‘will need 844,000 far-right terror off ences shortlist announced review to be launched over death in custody new homes in next 25 years’

Two teenagers have been arrested in Kent on The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Britain is to launch a major review of its much- A Thames Valley police constable has received The number of homes in London will need to rise suspicion of far-right terrorism off ences, police was announced yesterday. The list features two criticised railways after months of disruption to a written warning after he was found guilty by a quarter within 25 years to cope with its rising have said. The boys, both aged 15 and from debut novels, including one from the youngest passengers caused by strikes, timetable changes of misconduct for failing to properly observe population, off icial figures showed. In a dramatic Ramsgate in Kent, were arrested at their homes author ever to make the list, in addition to a and problems with the franchising system first Leroy Junior Medford, 43, who died in custody indication of the scale of the challenge, the Off ice on suspicion of preparing for terrorist acts, novel in verse from an award-winning poet. The introduced in the 1990s. The “root and branch” last year from an overdose of heroin. Medford for National Statistics said an extra 844,000 new Kent police said. They are being questioned shortlisted works are: Milkman by Anna Burns, review will be headed by Keith Williams, a former was arrested near Reading on April 1, 2017, by households will be formed here by 2041 if current at a police station in south-east England after Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, Everything British Airways chief executive and current Thames Valley police. After he became unwell, trends continue. That amounts to a 24% increase being held under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act. Under by Daisy Johnson, The Mars Room by deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, off icers took him to Royal Berkshire hospital. on the existing total and would give London – Detective superintendent Nigel Doak said: “We Rachel Kushner, The Overstory by Richard the transport department announced yesterday. After he was discharged and returned to custody which now has about 3.4mn households – a new are committed to tackling any and all ideologies Powers and The Long Take by Robin Robertson. Implementation of any reforms it recommends at Loddon Valley police station, he was found total of 4.3mn households. Many of the boroughs which pose a threat to the public’s safety and The list was announced by this year’s chair of will start from 2020. Williams and his panel will unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead. with the greatest predicted growth are in east security. We treat the threat from the extreme judges, Kwame Anthony Appiah, who remarked consider all parts of the rail industry, from the The off icer tasked with watching Medford was London. The main reasons are migration and the right in exactly the same way as any other threat.” that “each of these novels is a miracle of stylistic franchising system and industry structures, subject to a misconduct meeting on Monday. increasing gap between the number of births The arrests follow warnings that the UK has not invention in which the language takes centre accountability, and value for money for In a statement, Medford’s family welcomed the and deaths, which together are pushing up the “woken up” to the threat posed by the far right. stage.” passengers and taxpayers. findings. population. London serial cat killer turns out to be a fox

Daily Mail carried out on three cats and two London rabbits in June. Dr Henny Martineau, head of veterinary forensic pathology cotland Yard is closing a at the Royal Veterinary College long-running investigation who assisted the Hertfordshire Sinto the so-called Croydon inquiry, concluded that the mu- cat killer, saying the most likely tilations had been caused by culprits are foxes. “predation and/or scavenging” The Metropolitan Police an- and said fox DNA had been found nounced the fi ndings yesterday around the wounds on all fi ve after reports that a serial cat bodies. killer was behind the slaughter In addition, the police review and mutilation of up to 500 pets uncovered three cases of CCTV across the UK. showing foxes carrying bodies or For nearly three years, po- body parts of cats. lice and animal activists have In June last year, a cat’s head been hunting for a culprit, also was found in a school playground dubbed the M25 cat killer, who in Catford. CCTV showed a fox was suspected of bludgeoning carrying it into the playground. animals to death before dissect- The following month a witness ing their corpses. found the body of a cat with no At one point a team of 15 Scot- head or tail next to her property. Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker attend the European Union leaders informal summit in Salzburg, Austria, yesterday. land Yard offi cers was deployed Suspecting that the cat had on the trail of the suspect, who been placed there, she checked was even likened to Jack the Rip- CCTV and saw a fox drop the cat per. in the position in which it was Animal activists put up a found. Police also took note of £10,000 reward for his or her expert opinion, including a re- capture, while animal-lovers cent New Scientist article, which such as actor Martin Clunes highlights how wildlife is known urged the police chiefs to step up to scavenge roadkill, often re- EU criticism of Chequers their search. moving the heads and tails of Scotland Yard yesterday an- dead animals. nounced that a review of all the The Met says it cannot say how evidence had found no trace of much was spent on the investi- human involvement, with no gation, emphasising that all the CCTV sightings, no witnesses offi cers who worked on the case and no forensic leads. The force also had other duties. Last year plan a ‘negotiating tactic’ revealed that a vet who had the force admitted that it had carried out post-mortem ex- funded 10 post-mortems on cats Guardian News and Media tumn. restive Conservative party at its remains the only serious and there on the other side”. aminations of six “suspicious at a cost of £7,500. London May had met Tusk after annual conference next month. credible proposal on the table The French President Em- cat deaths” had “reassessed” In a statement the Met said: the other EU leaders had dis- But the response of Tusk for achieving that objective,” manuel Macron said of Cheq- his findings of human involve- “Following a thorough exami- cussed Brexit in her absence left May on the defensive, giv- she said. uers: “We all agreed on this ment. nation of the available evidence, heresa May was forced to over lunch, amid signs that they ing her an hour to prepare for a The prime minister also said today, the proposals in their Initially, the veterinary pa- offi cers working alongside ex- insist her Chequers plan were attempting to harden their press conference in which she she would present a counter- current state are not accept- thologist had concluded that perts have concluded that hun- Twas not dead and accused stance. But she tried to down- appeared visibly nervous, and proposal to resolve the impasse able.” Critics on the right of the the cause of death was blunt dreds of reported cat mutila- European Union leaders of en- play their unexpectedly strong forced to repeat that her pro- over the Irish backstop, an EU Conservative party repeated force trauma, and that the bod- tions in Croydon and elsewhere gaging in “negotiating tactics” criticisms of her Chequers plan. posals could still form the ba- proposal stipulating that if a their concerns about Chequers ies had been dissected with were not carried out by a human after she was ambushed at the “I have always said these sis of negotiations at the EU’s free trade agreement cannot be before the summit ended. Dav- a sharp instrument. Now the and are likely to be the result end of Salzburg summit when negotiations were going to be October summit and a likely signed after Brexit then North- id Davis, the former Brexit sec- same vet has re-examined the of predation or scavenging by Donald Tusk declared that her tough,” May told reporters. emergency summit in Novem- ern Ireland would remain in the retary, said in a speech yester- bodies and found puncture wildlife.” proposals would not work. “And at various stages of these ber. customs union, creating a trade day that the EU “will demand wounds he had not noticed be- An RSPCA spokesman said: The prime minister acknowl- negotiations, tactics would be May repeatedly defended border down the Irish Sea. But more concessions” beyond fore, concluding they were like- “The RSPCA has supported the edged that she had had a “frank used as part of those negotia- Chequers, which proposes she would not say when the pro- Chequers to get a deal. ly to have been hit by cars and Metropolitan Police in its in- bilateral” with Tusk an hour be- tions.” that the UK share a common posals would be made public. “Concessions on free move- then scavenged by foxes. vestigation into a number of cat fore her end-of-summit press May had hoped that EU lead- rulebook for goods and serv- The premier tried to shift ment, fi nancial contributions Scotland Yard highlighted deaths over the past three years. conference in which she was ers would give her Chequers ices after Brexit, because that the burden for future conces- and ECJ jurisdiction. The fi - similar cases investigated by of- We hope that the conclusion of forced to defend Chequers and plan a warm reception – or at would help ensure that trade sions on to her EU counter- nal deal is likely to look an aw- fi cers in Hertfordshire, where this case will reassure cat owners maintain that it was possible least not actively criticise it – could fl ow freely across the parts, saying a deal could be ful lot like membership,” Davis post-mortem examinations were in London and further afi eld.” to reach a Brexit deal in the au- 10 days before she has to face a Irish border. “Our white paper reached “if political will is claimed.

Helping hand Prison Service chief Corbyn aide’s ‘deep state’ claim rubbished told to step down Daily Mail union boss Len McCluskey and London was the founding chairman of the Stop the War Coalition, from 2001 Guardian News and Media hand by the government as it is address and none of those whom and 2011. London possible to deal”. Michael has served so faithfully ecurity chiefs yesterday re- In a New Statesman article The announcement of his de- have delivered. Anyone who buked one of Jeremy Cor- on Wednesday headlined “Is the parture comes after a series of thinks the problems in our pris- Sbyn’s closest aides over his ‘deep state’ trying to undermine he head of the prison serv- damning prison inspections. ons can be solved by a change of suggestion that the “deep state” is Corbyn?” he denied any links to ice, Michael Spurr, has Spurr, who has been with the leader is deluding themselves.” working to block a Labour govern- the Russian regime and wrote: Tbeen told to step down prison service for 35 years, in- The formal process to appoint ment. Security Minister Ben Wal- “Someone else is doing the hard from the role amid an ongo- cluding nine years leading it, has Spurr’s successor will start next lace dismissed the claim by Unite work — possibly someone being ing crisis in jails in England and faced criticism over the mount- month, although it is understood offi cial Andrew Murray, saying paid by the taxpayer. I doubt if Wales. ing crisis, with the parliament’s the permanent secretary is to re- British intelligence agencies would their job description is preventing Although Spurr will remain justice committee attacking his view the top management struc- not “waste their time” on him. the election of a Corbyn govern- chief executive of HM Pris- “lack of leadership”. ture of the Prison Service. Murray suggested in an article ment, but who knows? ons and Probation Service until He joined the service as a pris- In a statement, Heaton said: that the “deep state” was behind “We are often told that the days the end of March next year, the on offi cer in 1983 before working “Michael is an exceptional pub- newspaper reports that he had of secret state political chicanery Guardian understands he was his way up through a series of lic servant. His commitment to been barred from the Ukraine for are long past and we must hope so. told by the ministry of justice’s posts as a governor and then be- the organisation he leads and to three years over his alleged links But sometimes you have to won- permanent secretary, Richard coming head of the service. a humane and eff ective off ender to Vladimir Putin’s “propaganda der — this curiously timed episode Heaton, he had to go. Peter Dawson, director of management system has been network”. He also questioned why seems less rooted in a Kiev secu- A source said: “He’s not been the Prison Reform Trust, said: unfl inching, through a period his year-old application for a pass rity scare than in a political stunt without his critics. A change of “Spurr will be an extraordinar- when the system has faced ex- to enter Parliament had been met closer to home.” direction was needed.” ily hard act to follow. He is an traordinary pressures, challenges by a “stoney silence”. Labour’s deputy leader Tom However, prison reform cam- exceptionally principled and and constraints. But Wallace tweeted: “Oh dear. Watson expressed doubt over his paigners praised Spurr’s eff orts knowledgeable leader who has “Michael’s leadership has Sorry to pop the vanity of your claim, saying the comments were and said ministers were “delud- selflessly served an endless been exemplary. But we now own self-importance Andrew but “a bit John le Carre”. He told Radio ing themselves” if they thought a succession of short-term min- need to look ahead, building on our spooks don’t waste their time 4’s Today programme: “I genuine- change of leader would fi x over- isters. Michael’s work and developing pumping out stories to the Mail on ly don’t know why he has reached crowded and under-resourced “Whoever takes over will face a strategy for the next decade. I Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, helps to prepare food at an Sunday about someone no one has that conclusion. If he thinks the prisons. the same fundamental problems have therefore decided that April event to mark the launch of a cookbook with recipes from ever heard of. They are too busy intelligence services are in some And former Labour justice of overcrowded and under-re- 2019 is the right time to ask a new a group of women aff ected by the Grenfell Tower fire at trying to stop terrorism and Rus- way trying to undermine the offi - secretary, Charlie Falconer, said sourced prisons. Those are prob- chief executive to take on this Kensington Palace in London, yesterday. sian assassination attempts.” cial opposition, he should provide Spurr had been “dealt as lousy a lems which only ministers can important role.” Murray is chief of staff to Unite evidence.” Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 9 EUROPE

Probe launched after German military sets moorland on fi re Four children die in

DPA Pistorius criticised the army’s Hanover communications. “The Bundeswehr’s infor- mation policy is incomprehen- rosecutors in the north- sible,” he told state parliamen- Dutch rail collision ern German state of tarians in Hanover. PLower Saxony have Around 1,000 personnel AFP The electric cart, known as a mit that he was “deeply aff ected launched an investigation into from the Bundeswehr fi re serv- The Hgaue Stint, features a Segway-type by the incredibly sad news from a fi re caused by a military ex- ices, civilian fi re services and standing area for the driver at the Oss where four young children ercise that is still burning af- technical assistants were on back and a large plastic box at the have died in a horrible accident”. ter more than two weeks on a hand yesterday. our young children from a front where children sit. “I wish everyone involved moorland testing range. “For the most part it’s burn- Dutch daycare centre were Reports in Dutch media said much strength with this heavy The fi re services have at- ing underground, in the moor Fkilled yesterday when a the 32-year-old woman driving loss,” Rutte said. tempted to douse the fl ames itself,” the army spokesman train smashed into their electric the wagon had screamed for help Queen Maxima of the Nether- from the air, but the blaze, said. cart at a crossing, in an accident after somehow ending up be- lands said she and King Willem- caused by a rocket fi red from a Meta Janssen-Kucz of the described as the “worst night- tween the closed barriers of the Alexander “have no words” and helicopter, has spread beneath Green party in the state leg- mare of any parent”. level crossing, and that children’s that their “thoughts go out to all the surface of the moorland. islature called for the military Another child and the woman rucksacks could be seen fl ying families who have lost their chil- The area aff ected totals 800 exercises on the range, which driving the vehicle were critically in the air when it was hit by the dren”. hectares, or the equivalent of has been in use for the purpose injured in the crash in Oss, a town train. The head of the Dutch rail in- 1,000 football fi elds. since 1876, to be halted imme- near the German border around The cart had just dropped frastructure fi rm Pro Rail said it The German weather service diately. 110km (65 miles) southeast of the some children off at a local school was a “day of mourning and sad- predicted high winds for the “Protecting people and na- capital Amsterdam. and was on its way to another ness”. region today. ture has absolute priority,” she Police said they were inves- when the crash happened. “This is a rare blow. There will “A cold front will spread said. tigating reports that the brakes Local police chief Dianne van be a thorough investigation, and across the region,” meteorolo- Dirk Toepff er, head of the had failed on the wagon, which Gammeren refused to confi rm Members of the emergency services are seen at the site of the crash we will do our utmost to never let gist Markus Eifried. “Gusts of Christian Democrats (CDU), was taking children from daycare that the driver had tried to stop in Oss. this happen again.” around 75kph are possible.” the junior partner in the grand to school, as it approached the but the brakes did not work, say- It was the sixth such accident A spokesman for the Bun- coalition governing the state, level crossing. ing: “I cannot comment on that I just have to go to Oss,” he was Offi cials had earlier said that at the crossing since 1975, ANP deswehr, the German military, demanded an explanation from Two of the children who were at the moment, which is part of also quoted as saying by the ANP the children were on a cargo bike, said. said that the fi re was out in the army. killed were aged four, while the the inquiry.” news agency. which is similar but smaller and In July the Dutch safety board some parts, but not in others. “I expect the Bundeswehr to others were aged six and eight, Edwin Renzen, the founder of Around 3,000 Stints are in use relies on pedal power. OVV slammed as “unacceptable” “The fi re cannot spread fur- explain why rockets were used ANP news agency said. the Renzen company that makes throughout the Netherlands to The train, which was carry- the fact that 11 people die in ac- ther,” he said. under extremely dry condi- Two of the dead youngsters the Stint wagons, was quoted by transport around 60,000 chil- ing 57 passengers from the east- cidents on level crossings every Water is being pumped into tions and whether all the safety and the injured child, who is 11, NOS broadcaster as saying that dren weekly, according to Ren- ern town of Nijmegen to nearby year on average. the soil to put out subterranean regulations were observed,” he come from the same family. “this is the worst nightmare of zen. Den Bosch, was equipped with It said that “the Netherlands is sources. said. “Today, every family is hit, and any parent”. They are used by many daycare a front-mounted video camera the only country in Europe with a “Channels were dug, and ex- The fi re has led to an in- the accident leaves a big gap in “This is incomprehensible. centres to ferry children around that will be used in the investiga- high volume of train traffi c and a isting channels fi lled with wa- creased atmospheric particu- families, the daycare centre and We are parents and spent years towns in the Netherlands, which tion, offi cials said. large number of level crossings – ter,” he said. late count, with higher levels school,” said Wobine Buijs, the developing the Stints ourselves. has a huge network of bicycle Dutch Prime Minister Mark two features that do not go well Fire breaks have been cut. measured on Tuesday and mayor of Oss. I don’t know what I can do, but paths that they can take. Rutte tweeted from an EU sum- together”. “Off ences related to fi re, in Wednesday at metering sta- particular arson, and possible tions in the north of the state of environmental off ences, es- Lower Saxony, the state envi- pecially where protected areas ronment ministry said. like nature conservation areas The levels declined again Freedom rally are involved, fall under consid- yesterday. French offi cers seize eration,” Alexander Retemeyer, The fi re broke out on Sep- a spokesman for state prosecu- tember 3, when an army heli- tors in the city of Osnabrueck, copter was test-fi ring a rocket. Eiff el Towers in raid said in announcing their inves- Fire service offi cials believe tigation. it could burn for another two State Interior Minister Boris weeks. Nine questioned over tower The sight of terrifi ed men trinkets as Paris clamps suddenly gathering up their down on illegal souvenir street displays of Eiff el Tower Polish president appoints 10 judges trade trinkets and sprinting off while tourists look on confused is a Polish President Andrzej Duda has appointed 10 new Supreme By Angelique Chrisafis common fi xture around Paris’s Court judges, despite the threat of EU sanctions. Guardian News & Media most popular attractions. The judges were appointed to the newly created disciplinary This week, a joint investiga- chamber, a statement from the president’s off ice said. tion involving French immi- Legal experts say that the panel could be used to intimidate judges rench police have seized gration authorities led to a raid critical of the government. 20 tonnes of miniature on three Chinese wholesalers The ruling conservative and nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) is FEiff el Towers in a crack- suspected of importing mini- accused of politically influencing the country’s top court, in which down on the illegal souvenir ature Eiff el Towers and sup- 44 out of nearly 120 positions are set to be filled by new people. trade in Paris. plying a network of vendors in The posts are being filled with candidates lacking the necessary Nine people – includ- Paris. qualifications, charged the deans of 10 Polish law schools, including ing vendors, wholesalers More than 1,000 boxes, con- the ones in Warsaw and Krakow, in a letter published yesterday. and intermediaries – were taining a total of 20 tonnes of They also charged the government of undermining judiciary questioned and could face miniature Eiff el Towers, were independence. fast-tracked trials after a long- seized from two depots and As part of its reforms, PiS starting forcing Supreme Court justices to running police investigation three shops in the Paris region, take early retirement in July. Since then, 21 judges were forced to go. into the French capital’s lu- a security offi cial confi rmed to Opponents accuse the ruling party of trying to get rid of critical People gather during a protest yesterday demanding freedom for jailed Catalan leaders, outside the crative black-market trade in Agence France-Presse. voices on the bench of the country’s top court. Barcelona economy headquarters of Catalonia’s regional government. Separatist groups have called trinkets. The haul was estimated to be The European Commission agrees and has criticised Poland’s a demonstration marking the first anniversary of a protest held near the state economy headquarters, Beneath the Eiff el Tower, or worth up to €800,000. judicial reforms for the past two years. during which Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, key members of the team alleged to have organised the in parks near museums such Cars were also seized in the In 2017 it started unprecedented legal proceedings against Poland October 1, 2017 vote on independence, were arrested and eventually sent to prison. as the Louvre, scores of peo- raids. for violations of EU law and basic values. ple are regularly found sell- Guillaume Fauconnier of ing armfuls of miniature Eiff el Paris police’s organised crime Towers to tourists. department told Le Paris- The trinkets – from keyrings ien: “The 20 tonnes [of Eiff el to ornaments – can sell for as Towers] are worth between little as €1 for fi ve and up to €500,000 and €800,000 of France’s Le Pen ordered to undergo psychiatric tests €10 for the largest models. merchandise. Searches also But those selling the mini- found machines for counting ature Eiff el Towers are often notes and coins. That gives an AFP tion of violent messages. that will drive back the far right,” migrants forced to fl ee from idea of the scale of this mar- Paris But there were howls of indig- wrote Melenchon. police checks. ket.” nation from Le Pen’s supporters Le Pen shared the IS images in and allies. response to a French journalist rench far-right leader Ma- Italy’s powerful far-right In- who drew a comparison between rine Le Pen expressed out- terior Minister Matteo Salvini the religious extremist group and Frage yesterday after being tweeted his sympathy for Le Pen. her party. ordered to undergo psychiatric “A prosecutor has ordered One of the pictures showed the tests for tweeting pictures of psychiatric tests on Marine Le body of James Foley, an American atrocities committed by the Is- Pen. There are no words. Soli- journalist beheaded by the Sunni lamic State (IS) group. darity with her and those French extremists. She shared the gruesome im- people who love liberty,” wrote Another showed a man in an ages in December 2015, a few Salvini, whose League party is in orange jumpsuit being run over weeks after IS extremists killed an alliance with Le Pen’s faction. by a tank and the third showed 130 people in attacks in Paris, Her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Jordanian pilot being burned sparking widespread condemna- Le Pen: Just how far will they go? who founded the National Front alive in a cage. tion in France. before being pushed out by his “Daesh is this!” Le Pen wrote The 50-year-old leader of the understanding remarks and an- by the state and would defy the daughter as she sought to mar- in a caption, using an Arabic ac- National Rally (formerly the Na- swering questions”. order. ginalise his more infl ammatory ronym for IS. tional Front), who lost to Em- “It’s crazy,” fumed Le Pen, her- “Of course I won’t go and sub- style, came to her support. She later deleted the picture manuel Macron in last year’s self a trained lawyer. mit myself to this psychiatric “The insolence of some mag- of Foley after a request from his This file picture shows a souvenir vendor selling Eiff el Tower presidential vote, was stripped of “I thought I had been through evaluation,” she declared, daring istrates has no limits,” he said of family, saying she had been una- models in front the Eiff el Tower, at the Trocadero in Paris. her parliamentary immunity over it all: well, no! For having con- the investigating magistrate to the ruling. ware of his identity, but she has the pictures and charged with demned Daesh (IS) horrors in “force” her. Even some of Le Pen’s fi ercest denounced the case against her circulating violent messages that tweets, the ‘justice system’ is Under French law there is no opponents also expressed mis- as a violation of her freedom of Italy secures release of woman who can be viewed by minors. putting me through psychiatric legal mechanism for forcing a givings about the tests. expression. Yesterday she tweeted copies tests! Just how far will they go?” person to comply with such an Her leftist nemesis Jean-Luc If convicted, she faces up to said she’s being forced into marriage of a court order requiring her to she asked, repeating her view order. Melenchon, the France Unbowed three years in prison and a fi ne of undergo a psychiatric evaluation. that it was part of a government The prosecutor’s offi ce in the leader who once called Le Pen €75,000 ($87,000). A woman who said she was tricked by her family into going to Dated September 11, it calls plot to discredit her. Paris suburb of Nanterre, where “half-demented”, tweeted his Another National Rally law- Pakistan for a forced marriage is on her way back to Italy after an for the tests to be carried out “as Speaking to reporters in the the court is located, said that “total disagreement” with the maker, lawyer Gilbert Collard, intervention from the Italian foreign ministry. soon as possible” to establish halls of the National Assembly, such examinations were routine court order. has also been charged for tweet- Menoona Safdar has been put on a plane to Italy “putting an end to whether Le Pen “is capable of Le Pen said she felt “persecuted” in cases involving the dissemina- “It’s not these kind of methods ing pictures of IS atrocities. a grave violation of [her] fundamental rights”, the ministry said in a statement yesterday. The woman, who according to the Ansa news agency is 23, was Accused of plagiarism, Spain prime minister recognises ‘error’ in book “held against her will in Pakistan by her family”, but the Italian embassy in Islamabad secured her release, the ministry said. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Austria, where EU leaders were gathered. economist in 2013 reproduced, without According to Ansa, Safdar lived in the northern Italian province has acknowledged an “error” in a book of The news comes as a Madrid university is quotation marks or any reference, entire of Monza until July 2017, when her family convinced her to go to his which reportedly reproduces parts of embroiled in a “Mastergate” scandal that pages of a speech made by a Spanish Pakistan to visit relatives. a diplomat’s speech without referencing has seen several high-profile politicians, diplomat even including a mistake in the Upon arriving, they took away her documents and left her in the him, just a week after being accused of including the head of the opposition original text. country, with the idea of forcing her to marry a local. plagiarising his thesis. Popular Party, accused of being gifted The book – The Spanish economy’s new The woman wrote to her old high school in Italy to ask for help. “There was an error in a reference which degrees without attending lecturers. diplomacy – includes Sanchez’s 2012 The school reported the case to police and prosecutors. Sanchez: There was an error in a reference will be corrected in a new edition,” Spanish daily El Pais reported that the doctoral thesis as well as additions which The story was picked up by Italian media earlier this week, which will be corrected in a new edition. Sanchez told reporters in Salzburg in book written by Sanchez and another include the diplomat’s speech. prompting the interest of politicians and of the foreign ministry. Gulf Times 10 Friday, September 21, 2018 INDIA

POLITICS DEFENCE CRIME LAW AND ORDER FALLOUT Mayawati ties up with Ballistic missile Youth kills mum Six arrested in Delhi Defence expert held for Jogi in Chhattisgarh test fired successfully in row over food for robbery, assault remarks against Odisha

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) yesterday India successfully test fired the surface-to-surface Angry over the delay in serving food, a youth killed The Delhi Police yesterday arrested six persons, Defence expert Abhijit Iyer-Mitra was jolted the Congress by announcing an short-range tactical ballistic missile Prahaar his mother with a cricket bat and injured his sister, including a domestic help, for assaulting, arrested in New Delhi for making a series electoral pact with former chief minister Ajit from the Odisha coast amid a heavy downpour police in Hyderabad said yesterday. The incident robbing and holding captive the wife and of derogatory remarks against Odisha Jogi in poll-bound Chhattisgarh. As per the yesterday. The missile developed by the Defence occurred in Nandinagar in Banjara Hills on Monday daughter of a former chief justice of the Delhi and its culture. He was initially detained at agreement between the two parties, Jogi’s Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) but came to light yesterday after N Sakkubai (55) High Court. “The accused have been identified as Nizamuddin police station. Later, the Odisha Janta Congress Chhattisgarh will contest 55 of was test fired from launching complex-III of succumbed to her injures. According to the police, Dinesh, Dheerender, Upender Rai, Ram Swaroop, Police arrested Abhijit in New Delhi and the 90 Assembly seats in the state while the the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore at N Gopi returned home late on Monday night in an Deepak and domestic help Sandeep. They were produced him in Saket court, said police BSP will field candidates in the remaining 35 about 1.35pm. The missile was launched from inebriated condition. After serving him the food, arrested from diff erent areas of their native sources. Meanwhile, a House committee segments. BSP chief Mayawati said that Jogi a road-mobile launcher, defence sources said. Sakkubai, who works as a domestic help, went to state Jharkhand,” said deputy commissioner of of Odisha Assembly has been formed by will be the chief minister in case the alliance The Prahaar missile has a strike range of 150km. sleep. When he demanded more food, his sister police Chinmoy Biswal. The incident occurred Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat in an all-party won the state polls. She said that the “historic Fuelled by solid propellant, it is about 7.32 metres asked him to go to kitchen and take it. Angry at his on Monday night when their recently hired meeting to probe the derogatory remarks by alliance will bring development and prosperity long and its diameter is 420mm. Its launch sister, Gopi hit her with a bat. Hearing her screams, domestic help Sandeep called the other accused Abhijit on Odisha, its people and culture. The to the downtrodden, the poor, Dalits, minorities, weight is about 1.28 tonne and it can carry a Sakkubai tried to intervene but was also hit on her to the former chief justice Dalip Kapoor’s committee will submit its report on the first tribals and marginalised sections of society”. payload of 200kg. head, causing grievous injury. residence in New Friends Colony. day of the next session of the state Assembly. Maiden trial commercial fl ight lands at Kannur airport

By Ashraf Padanna will be held here on September Thiruvananthapuram 29. It will consider the proposal to raise additional equity capital of Rs2.83bn. ir India Express yesterday Currently, the state govern- conducted a test fl ight to ment holds 32.86% equity, the Athe Kannur international cost of land, while institutional airport ahead of its likely launch investors and others, including next month. “I’m glad we are the NRIs, have a 67.14% stake. fi rst commercial fl ight to land It has a paid-up capital of Rs at this airport,” A Srinivasa Rao, 10.65mn which will go up to Rs who piloted the Boeing 737-800, 13.48bn, pending an AGM ap- said after a smooth landing. proval. The 180-seat fl ight took off The fi rst trial landing of an Air from the Thiruvananthapuram Force fl ight was held two years international airport at 9.47am ago after the runway was ready Congress leaders Sachin Pilot, Rahul Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot attend a public rally in Sagwara, Rajasthan, yesterday. and reached Kannur at 10.30am. during the previous dispensa- It touched down on the runway of tion headed by then chief minis- Kerala’s fourth international air- ter Oommen Chandy. However, port around 11.25am after hover- changes at the top management ing above the airport and following level delayed works. touch-and-go procedure six times. The airport has a runway of Offi cials said inspections of 3,050 metres, which will be ex- security systems and other as- panded to 3,400 metres in an- pects were satisfactory. The other 18 months in the second Insults fl y as Congress, fl ight also completed trial dock- phase and eventually to 4,000 ing at an aerobridge in the apron. metres subject to land availability The airport received the fl ight More international airlines have with a water salute. More air- expressed interest in fl ying to the lines are expected to conduct new airport in the northern part of trial landings in the coming days the state, home to a large number beginning with Indigo. of expatriates and an emerging BJP spat intensifi es Offi cials from the directorate international tourist destination. general of civil aviation (DGCA) The airlines include Emirates, Air IANS dismissing as false Gandhi’s diversion and deception are the to the party has caused “loss” 2018. NPA’s now stand at Rs12tn”. were on the fl ight as part of the li- India, Etihad, Gulf Air, Air Asia, New Delhi claims of Prime Minister Modi desperate tools of a ‘Lying -Jait- to the exchequer and “endan- Wondering if Jaitley lied in censing process. The aviation of- Oman Air, Air Arabia, fl ydubai waiving off Rs2.5tn of loans of LIE’,” Congress spokesperson gered” national security. his blogpost or in Parliament, fi cials have been here for the past and SriLankan Airways. 15 industrialists. Randeep Singh Surjewala said Besides approaching the the Congress dared him to pub- two days completing inspections The airport’s 1.033mn sq.ft he war of words between “The world’s largest de- in a statement. comptroller and auditor general licly state the amount of loans on aspects like ground handling. passenger terminal with 48 the BJP and the Congress mocracy must seriously intro- The Congress demanded of India (CAG) Rajiv Mehrishi given in the last 52 months of Airport authorities expect fi - check-in and 16 emigration, im- Tover the Rafale deal and spect whether public discourse Jaitley to coherently answer po- for a special and forensic audit the Modi government along nal clearance without delay and migration and customs counters bank NPAs (non-performing should be allowed to be polluted litically-relevant issues instead and demanding a joint parlia- with details as to how much of are planning offi cial inauguration each is ready with world-class assets) got uglier yesterday with by the falsehood of a ‘clown of “hiding behind the cloak of mentary committee (JPC) probe those loans have become NPAs. by the end of the next month fol- facilities. There will be three Finance Minister Arun Jaitley prince’,” he wrote. expletives for the opposition”. into the deal, the Congress has “How much worth of loans lowed by commercial operations. conveyor belts, 12 escalators and calling the Congress president a Jaitley said the amount re- It posed 10 questions to Jaitley also sought the resignation of were ever-greened and re- “It’s the fi rst trial as per the 15 elevators while a 750-metre “clown prince” and in turn get- ferred to by Gandhi was lent by on the “Rafale scam” that include Defence Minister Nirmala Sith- structured. How much worth DGCA guidelines,” V Thulasidas, fl yover to the terminal will take ting dubbed a “court jester” by the banks prior to 2014 during as to why Hindustan Aeronau- araman over the issue. of loans became defaults and managing director of the airport passengers to diff erent levels. the grand old party. the UPA (United Progressive tics Ltd (HAL) was “superseded” Alleging Modi government’s wilful defaults. How many wil- company, Kannur International This would be the fourth big- Countering Congress’ re- Alliance) regime, which then for Rs300bn contract to benefi t “collusion with bank looters”, ful defaulters escaped from In- Airport Limited (KIAL), said. gest airport in the runway length lentless attack on the Naren- “kept rolling over the loans to cronies, why transfer of technol- the Congress also posed fi ve dia and with how much amount “We are ready with all the man- when it is extended to 4,000 me- dra Modi government over the conceal them (as) loans despite ogy was “sacrifi ced” and why questions on the issue of surg- of money during 52 months of datory tests.” tres. France-made jets and bad loans the default”. “national security was compro- ing bank NPAs. Modi government?” the party The airport board chaired by SpiceJet and Indigo have inked of banks, Jaitley took to the so- “The truth is that your gov- mised” by reducing the number Countering Jaitley assertions asked. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a deal to operate daily fl ights cial media to accuse Gandhi of ernment allowed the banks to of aircraft from 126 to 36. of NPAs being a UPA legacy, the “How many economic of- who is expected back in the state from Kannur to Kochi, Thiru- “concocting lies” on the twin be looted,” alleged Jaitley. “Since your answers to the 10 Congress pointed to fi nance fenders, defaulters and looters next week after surgery in the vananthapuram, Chennai, Ben- issues and blamed him for “pol- The Congress lost no time questions are zero, cuss words ministry’s July 2018 reply in par- did you bring back to India and US, is meeting here later this galuru, Hubli, Goa, Ghaziabad luting” public discourse. in getting back at the fi nance are your only refuge,” said the liament claiming “NPA’s stood jail” the party said yet again at- month to fi nalise the dates. and Delhi. Besides, Jet Airways “His strategy is simple, con- minister. “Jaitley is desperate party which has been gunning at Rs2.5tn when demitted power tacking Jaitley over his “meet- The ninth annual general and GoAir will fl y to Dammam coct a lie and repeat it as many in his attempt to stay relevant for the Modi government over and they have increased to a ing” with now fugitive busi- meeting of the airport company and Abu Dhabi. times as possible,” said Jaitley as a court jester to Modi. Abuse, the Rafale deal which according whopping Rs9.6tn by March nessman Vijay Mallya. Vatican suspends Crew error injures 30 air passengers bishop accused of rape IANS and kept under observation Mumbai after undergoing various tests. A hospital offi cial said the ve fi Agencies saying he wanted to defend his mentum with Christian bodies, were suff ering from “mild New Delhi name. activists, writers and locals join- t least 30 passengers conductive deafness”, a tem- He wrote to the Vatican on ing in and notching up demand on a Jet Airways fl ight porary condition which would Sunday asking to step down for the bishop’s arrest. Asuff ered ear and nose be cured within a week or so. he Vatican has accepted temporarily as protests and calls Kottayam superintendent of bleeding due to low cabin pres- The passengers have been ad- a request from a bishop for his arrest grew in the state. police Harishankar told the me- sure early yesterday. Following vised to refrain from fl ying till Tin India to be temporarily The bishop’s lawyer was not dia they had planned to com- the incident, the government recovery, the offi cial said. relieved of his pastoral duties as immediately reachable. plete Mulakkal’s interrogation ordered a safety audit plan for Airport sources said the in- the Kerala police questioned him “Having considered all cir- yesterday itself but could not do airlines, offi cials said. cident could be a result of the for a second day over accusa- cumstances, the Pope has ac- so. “He has been asked to report Jet Airways later said it has crew’s alleged failure to activate tions that he raped a nun. cepted this request,” the letter at 10.30am today. We are now derostered the cockpit crew what is called a “bleed switch” In a letter posted on the web- said. verifying all the things that he concerned, who will remain off before take-off , leading to dis- site of Catholic Bishops’ Confer- The Vatican typically does has told us and there is no con- duties pending investigation. turbance in the cabin pressure. ence of India, its president Car- not announce temporary fusion. Several passengers on the Taking a serious note of the dinal Oswald Gracias said Pope changes, only permanent res- “We have also sought legal Mumbai-Jaipur fl ight 9W-697 incident, Civil Aviation Minis- Francis had received the bishop’s ignations by bishops, after they consultations on the anticipa- - carrying 166 persons and fi ve ter Suresh Prabhu ordered the request to be temporarily re- are accepted by the pope and tory bail plea that he has moved crew on board - complained director general of civil avia- lieved of his pastoral responsi- become official. and we expect to get the advice of severe headache and pain tion (DGCA) to prepare a com- bilities. The case comes at a time when on this today,” Harishankar in the ears after the take-off prehensive safety audit plan The Vatican had accepted the the Christian community, which said around 6am from the Chhat- involving safety parameters request, the letter said. accounts for 19% of the state’s “By today, we will be able to rapati Shivaji International on all airlines, airports, fl ying A Vatican spokesman had no population, is reeling under an complete the interrogation,” he Airport (CSMIA). training schools, and main- comment on the situation. erosion of trust as sexual abuse said. The fl ight was forced to re- tenance, repair and overhaul A nun from Kerala has accused cases involving the clergy pile The police had earlier said turn soon after, a Jet Airways (MRO) facility immediately. Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who up. there were contradictions in the spokesperson said. He also directed that the heads the diocese of Jalandhar, A group of Catholic nuns statements of the survivor, wit- The ailing passengers were safety audit must start im- of raping her repeatedly over a launched a rare street protest nesses and the accused. deboarded and rushed to the mediately and the report sub- period of two years. almost a fortnight ago in Kochi, The Kerala High Court has al- terminal building where they mitted to him within 30 days The bishop has not been the state’s fi nancial hub, de- ready agreed to hear Mulakkal’s were administered fi rst aid. and corrective action taken on charged, but has given inter- manding justice for the nun. anticipatory bail plea on Sep- Oxygen masks deploy after loss of cabin pressure on a Jet Airways At least fi ve passengers were defi ciencies found during the views denying wrongdoing and The protest has gathered mo- tember 25. flight, from Mumbai, yesterday. taken to the Nanavati Hospital audit. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 11 LATIN AMERICA

CRIME DECISION ECONOMY ALLEGATION OFFBEAT Three geologists killed Colombia guerillas Brazil holds interest rates, Mexican armed forces Mexico’s president-elect by former Farc rebels free kidnapped minor hike likely if outlook worsens accused of unlawful killings stranded at airport

Canadian miner Continental Gold yesterday said Leftist ELN guerillas freed a teenager who was Brazil’s central bank held interest rates at an Mexican troops and police committed two Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez three of its geologists were killed in Colombia’s kidnapped two weeks before in northwestern all-time low but said it could gradually raise extrajudicial killings while confronting presumed Obrador, who has vowed to sell the presidential jet northern Antioquia province in an armed attack Colombia, the country’s ombudsman said. The them if the outlook worsens, highlighting how fuel thieves in the central state of Puebla in May and fly commercial after taking power, was stuck attributed to dissident members of a former rebels handed the girl over to a commission the upcoming presidential vote is increasingly 2017, a Mexican human rights group said, adding on the tarmac for several hours after bad weather rebel group. Three others were also injured in from the ombudsman’s off ice, after abducting weighing on monetary policy. Concern about the to allegations of abuse against the military. A closed the capital’s airport. Bad weather in Mexico the attack, a company spokesman said. The her on September 7 from her home in Orupa, elections has already helped depress the Brazilian report by the National Human Rights Commission City, temporarily closed the airport on Wednesday. incident took place in the town of Ochali in the in the jungle region of Choco. A National real to near record lows and could soon trigger (CNDH) said police and troops manipulated the The president-elect, who won a landslide victory municipality of Yaramul, Antioquia, which is Liberation Army (ELN) rebel fighter by the name the first interest rate rise in three years depending scene by placing high-calibre firearms beside in July, has vowed to run an austere government. located within the boundaries of Continental’s of Comandante Uriel, who heads the regional on the result. The bank’s nine-member monetary the two bodies. Eight other people died and 13 He has promised to turn the presidential palace Berlin project, the company said. The Colombian guerrillas, said in a message sent to journalists policy committee, known as Copom, kept the people, including four minors, were detained into a cultural centre, and sell the presidential army said in a statement one person was missing on Saturday that the teen was kidnapped benchmark Selic rate at 6.50% for a fourth straight with excessive force, the report said. Neither the plane. “I’m not going to change my mind because after the incident, which it said was carried out because she was “an armed forces informant,” meeting, the last before October’s vote. Double- defence ministry nor the Puebla police force of this, I won’t get on the presidential plane,” Lopez by former members of the Revolutionary Armed and that she would be released after “routine digit unemployment and widespread idle capacity responded to requests for comment. The state Obrador said while stuck on the commercial jet, Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebel group. procedures.” have kept underlying inflation subdued. government declined to comment. videos on local media showed.

Eight run over by truck Far-right VP candidate’s remark on crime irks Lula

AFP Meanwhile, a new poll yester- Rio de Janeiro day showed that Bolsonaro had gained ground over his rivals in the fi rst round of Brazil’s presidential razil’s jailed former presi- election set for October 7, though dent Luiz Inacio Lula da it remains unclear who he will face BSilva has strongly criti- in an expected run-off vote on cised the far-right vice presi- October 28. dential candidate who blamed Bolsonaro is backed by 28% of social problems among youth on the voters surveyed by polling fi rm the absence of a father fi gure. Datafolha, a gain of two points Reserve general Hamilton since the previous poll a week ago. Mourao is running alongside far- The Workers Party’s candidate right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, a Fernando Haddad surged into frontrunner in the heated upcom- second place with 16% of the vot- ing election for president. ers surveyed backing him, a three On Monday he said “social percentage point rise, but he is problems” take root “from the statistically tied with Ciro Gomes, moment a family is broken up.” a centre-left populist. “The poor areas, where there is no Datafolha surveyed 8,601 vot- father or grandfather, but moth- ers across Brazil on September 18 Eight people died and 14 others were injured in an accident between the municipalities of Guaduas and Puerto Salgar, in the Colombian department of Cundinamarca. ers and grandmothers, are facto- to 19. The poll, published by the The tragedy occurred when a truck ran over people who were assisting victims of a previous accident which happened two hours earlier. ries for non-integrated individu- newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, has a als who tend to enter the ranks of margin of error of two percentage drug traffi ckers,” he said. points. Lula — who recently gave up Haddad replaced jailed former his audacious bid to stand in the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva October 7 fi rst round-presidential on the ticket nine days ago. election from prison — struck Gomes’ support remained at back. “General Mourao, do not 13%, according to Datafolha. judge grandmothers and poor With no candidate projected to mothers with your mediocre ideas win a majority in the fi rst ballot, Amnesty accuses Caracas about the human race,” he said in the two best-performing hope- a letter written from his cell that fuls will meet in a run-off . Gomes was released by his Worker’s Party. is the only candidate projected to “My seven brothers and I were beat Bolsonaro in a second-round raised by an illiterate woman vote, according to the poll. named Dina Lindu, and I do not Gomes, a former Ceara state think anyone in Brazil has ever governor would defeat Bolsonaro of executing thousands educated her children better than with 45% of the votes against 39% she. General, take lessons in hu- for the right-winger, Datafolha DPA in 2014 to 2,379 in 2016. some cases, have used lethal force ka Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty’s “(Thousands) of young men manism.” said. Bolsonaro, a former army Buenos Aires An Amnesty press release put with the intent to kill,” Amnesty Americas director. The South living in poverty are dying each Mourao has been on the front captain who favours easing gun the number of extrajudicial ex- said. American country is among the year in a spiral of violence that the lines of his party’s campaign since controls, may have trouble win- ecutions at 8,292 between 2015 Human rights violations that most violent in the world, with a state has failed to stop,” the rights ex-army captain Bolsonaro — ac- ning a second round race against mnesty International and 2017 alone. Amnesty has documented in homicide rate of 89 per 100,000 group said. cused by his detractors of racism, Haddad as they are tied at 41% yesterday accused Ven- Venezuela’s attorney general’s Venezuela since the late 1990s people, according to the report. More than 90% of homicides sexism and homophobia — was each, according to Datafolha. Aezuela’s security forces offi ce, meanwhile, said that 4,667 include cases of torture, ill-treat- “The number of homicides in in Venezuela go unpunished, ac- hospitalised after being stabbed Bolsonaro shot ahead early in of thousands of extrajudicial ex- people died at the hands of secu- ment and extrajudicial executions Venezuela is higher than those in cording to the report. on the campaign trail. the race by tapping the anger of ecutions targeting mainly poor rity offi cials in 2016. by security forces. countries at war,” Amnesty repre- The response of the authorities The right-wing vice presiden- Brazilians fed up with political young men. Last year, 1,848 people died in Such cases are often attributed sentative Esteban Beltran said at a to addressing the proliferation tial hopeful in 2017 made head- corruption and rising crime. COFAVIC, a Venezuelan non- the same circumstances between to armed confrontations and the press conference in Buenos Aires. of fi rearms has meanwhile been lines after saying that if corrup- The poll indicated that Lula’s governmental organisation rep- January and June, the Amnesty victims are branded as criminals, The majority of the victims “weak and has failed to control tion scandals continued to plague strategy of convincing his sup- resenting relatives of victims, has report quoted the offi ce as saying. although in reality they were pro- killed by both the security forces access to guns or reduce armed Brazilian politics the army would porters to vote for Haddad, a documented 6,385 cases of extra- “(In) the context of security testers or unarmed people, ac- and criminals are young men violence,” Amnesty said. be forced to step in. former mayor of Sao Paulo, is judicial executions that occurred operations, state offi cials, adopt- cording to the report. from poor neighbourhoods. More than 2.3mn people are es- Bolsonaro has spoken fondly working well and his stand-in between 2012 and 2017, according ing a militarised approach to “Venezuela is going through In 2017, 95% of the victims timated to have left Venezuela due of the military dictatorship that could well reach the second- to the report. policing, have regularly used ex- one of the worst human rights were boys and men aged between to its massive economic crisis and ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. round vote. The cases increased from 1,018 cessive and abusive force and, in crises in its history,” said Eri- 12 and 44 years, Amnesty said. violence since 2014.

Drug suspect arrested Peru’s Congress renews Offi cial fi red in row over truck with 300 bodies confi dence in Vizcarra truck to an empty lot in another AFP Guadalajara, Mexico poor neighbourhood far from the Reuters dismissed one Cabinet, he would vote. “The four bills must be ap- city centre, until residents there Lima also have been able to call new leg- proved.” protested. islative elections in response. Vizcarra’s proposals, which re- state government in Mex- Offi cials then moved it to a Vizcarra called for unity after quire modifying the constitution, ico has fi red a prosecutor prosecution storage facility in eru’s opposition-run Con- the vote. “There are not winners or include a new system for select- Aover a spectacle in which the city centre, where it remains gress renewed its confi - losers here,” Vizcarra said on Twit- ing judges, a return to a bi-cameral a fetid-smelling tractor trailer parked for now. Pdence in the government ter. “Only Peru wins.” Congress, stricter campaign fi - carrying 273 bodies was driven News outlets broadcast footage of centrist President Martin Viz- Vizcarra had called for a vote nancing rules and a ban on the re- around aimlessly for lack of room on Wednesday of the open trailer carra late Wednesday, averting a of confi dence late on Sunday to election of lawmakers. in the morgue. of the truck, with piles of bodies political crisis that would have force passage of legislation aimed He pitched the proposals in July “I am not willing to tolerate this in black bags and a man in white cost him his Cabinet and trig- at curbing entrenched graft and after an infl uence-peddling scan- kind of mistake, which shocks and boots stepping on the bags. gered new legislative elections. rebuilding trust in public insti- dal in the judiciary triggered street horrifi es public opinion,” said the Offi cials have said the bodies The 82-22 vote in favour of tutions following back-to-back protests and anger at the political governor of western Jalisco state, were of victims of violent crime, Vizcarra’s six-month-old gov- scandals in the past year-and-a- class. Aristoteles Sandoval, as he fi red so under Mexican law they cannot ernment commits lawmakers to half. Popular Force has denied try- prosecutor Raul Sanchez. be cremated. passing his judicial and political Critics of Popular Force had ing to stall the legislation, arguing The state’s chief coroner was Authorities said they were look- reforms by October 4, a rare vic- pressured Vizcarra to take a more that parts of it were not as urgent fi red earlier in the week over the ing for a longer-term solution. tory over the conservative oppo- confrontational stance toward the as other matters, such as rebuild- sad drama in the state capital, The coroner who was fi red over sition party, Popular Force, that opposition party after it helped ing areas aff ected by severe flood- Guadalajara. this case, Luis Octavio Cotero, said controls Congress. to topple his predecessor, former ing last year. The bodies were in the refriger- the state government was working Earlier, Popular Force leader president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Fujimori told a crowd of sup- ated truck because the morgue in on a site to bury 800 bodies out- Keiko Fujimori, a twice-defeated Kuczynski resigned due to graft porters on Wednesday that Viz- Mexico’s second-largest city was side Guadalajara. The number of presidential candidate and the allegations on the eve of a second carra called for the confi dence vote full. Offi cials originally put the murder victims in Mexico has ex- daughter of former autocrat Al- impeachment vote backed by Pop- to cover up potentially damaging number of bodies at 157 but it has ploded in recent years. berto Fujimori, accused Vizcarra ular Force in March. revelations from ongoing graft now been raised to 273. Since the government deployed of trying to stage a legislative coup Vizcarra, his vice president, took probes. “What this kind of threat The truck was parked for two the army to fi ght the country’s d’etat. offi ce to replace him with promises shows is nervousness,” Fujimori weeks at a warehouse in a down- powerful drug cartels in 2006, Under Peru’s constitution, a to fi ght graft “at any cost.” said in a video of her speech to Nestor Baez Alvarenga, wanted in Brazil for suspected trodden neighbourhood on the Mexico has been hit by a wave of vote of no-confi dence would have “I have total confi dence in re- supporters posted on Facebook. drug traff icking and money laundering, is escorted by city outskirts until residents com- violence that has resulted in more forced Vizcarra to replace his en- ceiving the vote of confi dence,” “No matter what they try to a Paraguay police off icial after being arrested at his plained of the stench and the fl ies than 200,000 murders. tire Cabinet. Vizcarra told journalists sur- do...all Peruvians must know the house in Asuncion yesterday. it attracted. Last year, the country registered But since Congress has already rounded by his Cabinet before the truth,” she said. The authorities then moved the a record 28,702 homicides. Gulf Times 12 Friday, September 21, 2018 PAKISTAN

Committee sends Cake Govt to axe 450 public to Oscars

Internews Islamabad development schemes sim Abbasi’s directorial debut Cake, that received Internews ly Rs4.3tn, offi cials added. sembly that the budget alloca- ment on basis of Rs675bn allo- The government plans to slash be removed from the PSDP. Acritical as well as com- Islamabad Over 60 projects of the Na- tion for the PSDP has been cut cation. a minimum of Rs13bn out of the Roughly one and half dozen mercial acclaim in Pakistan and tional Highway Authority to Rs575bn. Under the previous It had not fi nalised the revised Rs90bn for the military estab- fi nance ministry projects valued beyond, has managed another (NHA), with a total cost of Rs1tn, National Assembly, it was Rs- PSDP as of yesterday, despite the lishment and the TDPs. at Rs38bn will be dropped from feather in its cap. he Pakistan Tehreek- will be removed from the scope 800bn. announcement of the revised Rs15 billion could be saved the PSDP. The fi lm that features Aamina e-Insaf (PTI) govern- of the public fi nancing. With the Rs575bn in annual budget a day earlier. by abolishing Rs10bn of the PM The Higher Education Com- Sheikh, Sanam Saeed and Adnan Tment has decided to drop Most of the projects are lo- allocations, it will require an av- The situation will get sorted funds, and Rs5bn of gas infra- mission’s (HEC) three dozen Malik in pivotal roles, has been nearly Rs1.6tn ($13.11bn) worth cated in Punjab, which the last erage of seven and half years just out before the end of the week, structure funds. projects worth Rs40bn will be shortlisted for Oscar consid- projects from the Public Sec- Pakistan Muslim League – Na- to complete ongoing projects. an offi cial of the planning min- The government will cut a axed from the PSDP, although eration in the Foreign Language tor Development Programme waz (PML-N) government had Umar told the National As- istry said. minimum of Rs15bn from the Umar gave assurances that the Film Award category at the up- (PSDP), with the aim to divert included in the PSDP despite the sembly that in addition to the The ministry had projected NHA budget, Rs5bn of the Sus- HEC projects would be protect- coming 91st Academy Awards. public funds towards schemes fact that these were provincial Rs575bn PSDP allocation, an- only a Rs125bn cut in its PSDP tainable Development Goals, ed. The selection has been made that are already being imple- roads. other Rs150bn will be spent, to document, compared with the and about Rs10bn from the Around 70 interior ministry by the Pakistani Academy Selec- mented. During the PML-N tenure, the be covered by funds raised from Rs225bn cut announced by planning ministry allocations. projects, costing Rs41bn, will be tion Committee, which is led by The government has decided number of schemes under the the private sector, bringing total Umar. Another Rs20bn are planned dropped from the PSDP. two-time Academy Award and to exclude nearly 450 schemes PSDP swelled to close to 1,280, size to Rs725bn. And out of this Rs125bn, Rs- to be saved by diverting funds Similarly, three-dozen unap- Emmy winning documentary from fi scal year 2018-19’s PSDP, which would require about He said that out of this Rs- 45bn will be saved by excluding against the schemes that are ap- proved health ministry schemes fi lmmaker Sharmeen Obaid- which will reduce the overall Rs5.9tn. 725bn, the NHA would raise 450 unapproved schemes. proved but where work has not costing Rs50bn are also on the Chinoy. number of schemes to close to The move to reduce the Rs100bn off the budget to fund A total of Rs23bn is proposed commenced. list of schemes to be excluded. Director Abbasi took to social 850, said planning ministry of- number of PSDP schemes has its projects, while the Karachi to be cut from the fi nance min- The federal government will Nine Pakistan Railways media to post the announcement fi cials. been taken as part of the PTI Infrastructure Development istry-administered schemes un- drop over 32 projects for edu- schemes worth Rs40bn will be and expressed his gratitude, and The cost of about 450 government’s plans to introduce Company will generate Rs50bn der the PSDP. cation and health being admin- removed. thanked the entire cast and crew schemes, all of them unapproved fi scal adjustments aimed at im- through Public Private Partner- This will hit the allocations of istered by the defunct Capital Nearly a dozen projects of the attached to the project. but part of the PSDP, is Rs1.6tn. proving the overall macroeco- ship to fi nance Karachi projects. the military establishment, the Administration Division, which Power Division, worth Rs26bn, “Hallelujah! I won’t get too ex- The government move will re- nomic situation. Confusion remains, however, temporarily displaced persons would have cost Rs90bn. and 15 water resources schemes cited as all the masters (Koreeda, sult into reduction in the PSDP’s On Tuesday Finance Minister in the planning ministry, which (TDPs), and the prime minister’s Five commerce ministry costing Rs51bn, will be excluded Ceylan, Farhadi, Pawlikowksi, fi nancing needs by 27%, to near- Asad Umar told the National As- is still preparing the PSDP docu- special initiatives. projects costing Rs12bn will also from the PSDP. Cuaron) are in the running this year and will likely be eating this Cake en route to nominations, but still truly humbled to be rep- resenting Pakistan,” he said on his offi cial Facebook handle. Islamabad invites “My deepest gratitude for my Cake family, who worked so hard and with so much belief to bring Saudis to join CPEC this fi lm to the audiences,” he added. “2018 is proving to be a great year for Pakistani cinema. Reuters Chaudhry said that a Saudi “May it continue to grow and Islamabad delegation will be coming to may we always fi nd the courage Pakistan in the fi rst week of and the vision to tell our stories October, including the Saudi our own way.” slamabad has invited Saudi minister for fi nance and en- Adnan Malik, who has an im- Arabia to become the third ergy, and that should lay down portant and rather unconven- Ipartner in the Beijing- a “foundation for a very big tional role in the fi lm, shared his funded Belt and Road cor- partnership”. sentiments. ridor of major infrastructure “God willing, very big in- He wrote: “Belief, persever- projects inside Pakistan, Pa- vestments will be coming to ance and passion can take you a kistan’s information minister Pakistan from Saudi Arabia this long way! Thank you Pakistan’s said yesterday. way,” he added. Oscar submission committee for The announcement comes Khan’s term began with new nominating Cake for best foreign on the back of a two-day trip to doubt over the CPEC projects, picture! And thank you Asim Saudi Arabia by Prime Minis- when his commerce minister Abbasi for believing in yourself ter Imran Khan, who had been was quoted as saying that Paki- and all of us.” expected to push for fi nancial stan would suspend them for a Many people from the enter- assistance from Islamabad’s year and review them. tainment fraternity as well as ally to help Pakistan deal with a The minister later said his outsiders are happy with the de- brewing currency crisis. comments were taken out of cision to send Cake to the Oscars. Information Minister Fa- context, and Pakistani offi cials They include director Me- wad Chaudhry did not reveal if reassured Beijing that there hreen Jabbar, actor Ali Kazmi, Saudi Arabia would be loaning would be no delay. Imran meets singer-songwriter Meesha Shafi , money to Pakistan to help top Pakistan has in the past sug- thespian Sunil Shanker, musi- up its dwindling foreign cur- gested that others could join crown princes cian Saif Samejo (who produced rency reserves, but said he ex- the CPEC, but the response has the soundtrack), and many oth- pected Saudi Arabia to invest in been lukewarm due to concerns Above: This handout image ers. Pakistan in a major way. that China would dominate any provided by the Centre for Cake is a family drama that “Saudi Arabia is the fi rst relationship. International Communication (CIC) follows the story of a family country whom we have invited Saudi Arabia has a history of of the Saudi media ministry whose members are at odds with as third country partner in the bailing out Pakistan fi nancially. yesterday shows Prime Minister each other for reasons hidden in CPEC,” Chaudhry said, refer- In 2014, six months after Pa- Imran Khan with Saudi Crown their past. ring to the China-Pakistan kistan obtained its last Inter- Prince Mohamed bin Salman in After a series of arguments Economic Corridor (CPEC), national Monetary Fund (IMF) Jeddah on Wednesday. and fi ghts, their relationships the Pakistan leg of China’s vast bailout, Saudi Arabia loaned begin to change once the truth is Belt and Road infrastructure it $1.5bn that the government Right: This handout image provided unfolded. initiative. used to strengthen its rupee by the United Arab Emirates News The fi lm explores multiple im- Beijing has pledged $60bn currency. Agency (WAM) yesterday shows portant subjects including sib- to build power stations, major Ahead of Khan’s visit to Sau- Prime Minister Khan with Abu Dhabi ling rivalry, love, relationships, highways, new and upgraded di Arabia, speculation was rife Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin familial ties, ageing parents, and railways and higher capacity that Islamabad will be asking Zayed al-Nahyan during a much more. ports, to help turn Pakistan into for a loan to help Pakistan avoid reception at the Presidential Airport Speaking of Cake, commit- a major overland route linking being forced to seek another in Abu Dhabi. tee member Hadiqa Kiani noted: western China to the world. IMF bailout. “Brilliantly showcasing the im- portance of responsible parent- ing and communication, Cake shows viewers that Pakistani fi lms possess quality and sub- stance.” India, Pakistan foreign ministers to hold rare meeting Another panelist, Kamila Shamsie, praised the fi lm in these words: “Beautifully fi lmed, DPA/AFP received from Modi earlier this top diplomats on the sidelines A spokesman for India’s ex- the table has proved tricky over Former military ruler Pervez acted and written, Cake is both Islamabad/New Delhi month that sought meaningful of the United Nations General ternal aff airs ministry said that the years. Musharraf restarted the talks in layered and aff ecting – and it’s and constructive engagement Assembly in New York later this the New York tete-a-tete be- The countries have fought 2004. even better on second viewing.” between the two countries, the month, Pakistani news broad- tween India’s Sushma Swaraj three wars, and confl ict still They were suspended again The Academy of Motion rime Minister Imran Khan ministry said yesterday. caster Geo TV reported. and Pakistan’s Shah Mehmood rages in the disputed Hima- in 2008 when 166 people were Picture Arts and Sciences will is seeking the revival of “PM has responded to PM Offi cials in New Delhi later Qureshi did not represent a shift layan valley of Kashmir where killed in a commando-styled choose the fi nal nominees for all Pdialogue with India, the Modi, in a positive spirit, recip- announced that the foreign min- in New Delhi’s relations with Is- hundreds of soldiers and civil- gun-and-bomb attack in the award categories, including Best foreign ministry in Islamabad rocating his sentiments. Let’s isters of India and Pakistan will lamabad. ians have been killed in clashes Indian city of Mumbai, allegedly Foreign Language Film, in Janu- said, a decade after peace talks talk and resolve all issues,” Dr hold a rare meeting in New York. “This does not indicate any across the de facto frontier. by militants from a group based ary 2019. between the nuclear-armed Mohammad Faisal, spokesman High-level talks between In- change in our policy on cross- Former prime minister Nawaz in Pakistan. The complete and fi nal list neighbours were suspended. for the ministry, wrote on Twit- dia and Pakistan are rare. border terrorism,” spokesman Sharif initiated peace talks with Pakistani and Indian lead- will be announced on January Khan sent a letter to Indian ter. Indian media described the Raveesh Kumar told reporters in Indian premier Inder Kumar ers have since tried to revive the 22, with the presentation for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Khan has also called for a slated meeting as the fi rst in the Indian capital. Gujral in 1997, but they did not talks, but no headway has been awards scheduled for February in response to a communique he meeting between the countries’ nearly three years. Bringing the two countries to last long. made. 24. Supreme Court overturns decree for compulsory Arabic teaching

Internews ernment challenging the October any evidence for the purpose of teaching of Arabic up to second- enforcement of the recommen- the FSC, adding that the subject as well as in the Khilafat period, Islamabad 22, 2012 FSC verdict for being any notice or action under Arti- ary and higher secondary levels. dation of the Islamic Ideological of education that was previously the non-Arab Muslims were not ineff ective and without jurisdic- cle 203-D of the Constitution. The FSC had issued notices to Council against Article 203-D of contained as a legislative entry in subjected to compulsory learning tion. The FSC had issued the ver- the federal and provincial gov- the Constitution. the concurrent legislative list was of Arabic language,” the petition he Supreme Court of Pa- Representing the province, dict on a letter written by Dr Za- ernments, but after conducting a And the FSC’s reliance on the not present in the Constitution added. kistan has overturned the Additional Advocate General for hoor Ahmad Azhar on December single hearing, it announced the principles of policy for issuing any more. It said the main sources of TFederal Sharia Court (FSC) Punjab Qasim Ali Nawaz Cho- 14, 2010 to its chief justice, who judgment the same day, on Octo- a mandamus was also irrational The petition argued that Azhar Sharia, like the Quran, Sunnah decree for compulsory teaching han argued that the FSC order converted the letter into a peti- ber 22, 2012. and unreasonable in view of the in his letter had not quoted any and Fiqah, had been translated of Arabic up to secondary and was not a judgment in the eyes of tion and fi xed the case for hear- The petition fi led by Punjab clear mandate of the Constitu- verses of the Quran or Sunnah from Arabic to Urdu and to Eng- high secondary school levels in the law, but rather a reproduction ing. argued that the FSC order was tion, it emphasised. which ordained Muslims, es- lish by top Arabic language ex- the country. and compilation of many reports In his letter, Azhar had re- against the constitutional provi- Most importantly, the peti- pecially those of non-Arab ori- perts and Muslim scholars hav- A Sharia appellate bench of on the subject. quested that the FSC issue a di- sions, without jurisdiction, and tion said, the omission of the gin, to learn the Arabic language ing high degree of expertise in the apex court, headed by Justice The petition argued that the rective for the federal and pro- not sustainable in law, and hence concurrent list under the 18th compulsorily. the Arabic language, so that the Mushir Alam, had taken up an reports on the basis of which the vincial governments to make needed to be set aside on the Constitution Amendment was “Even in the life time of the knowledge of Islam was easily appeal fi led by the Punjab gov- verdict came also did not contain arrangements for compulsory grounds that Azhar had sought not taken into consideration by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) available to people. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 13 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Allah burdens not any soul The sacred month Moharram beyond its

uslims must fear Allah showed him the great signs (miracles). people and drowned Pharaoh and scope and take lessons from But (Pharaoh) belied and disobeyed; his people. Moosa observed fast out Our understanding of religious texts what Allah has told us in then he turned his back, striving hard of gratitude, and we also observe it.” and rules of Islamic Law (Shari’ah) Mthe Qur’an regarding the against (Allah). Then he gathered his Upon this, the Messenger of Allah said, sometimes causes us to seek to free Prophets and Messengers of Allah and people and cried aloud, saying, ‘I am “We have more right and we have a ourselves from necessary duties the previous nations. you lord, most high.’’’(An-Naazi’aat closer connection (awlaa) to Moosa and responsibilities and lean toward Allah said (which means): 79: 15-24) than you have.” So Allah’s Messenger neglect, abandonment, and seeking “Indeed in their stories, there is a Pharaoh claimed that the signs fasted (on the day of ‘Aashoorah ) and excuses for ourselves. When we read lesson for men of understanding. It Moosa brought were only magic and gave orders that it should be observed. the words of the Most High: Allah (the Qur’an) is not a forged statement, that he had magic that would overtake (4) burdens not any soul (person) beyond but a confi rmation of Allah’s existing the magic of Moosa. So Pharaoh According to Muslim, the Prophet its scope [Soorah Al-Baqarah 286], books (the Torah, the Injeel, and gathered magicians from his kingdom (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said of we attempt to interpret the aayah as a other Scriptures of Allah), a detailed and they presented their magic, and fasting on ‘Aashoorah that “It is an licence to refrain from being burdened explanation of everything, and a Moosa presented what he had from the expiation (of sins) for the previous with obligations so we use it when we guide and a mercy for the people who signs, which Allah had given him. year.”(5) are asked to perform any particular believe.” (Yusuf 12: 111) Allah said (which means): According to many authentic task. And among the stories that Allah “Thus truth was confi rmed, and all ahadith, fasting on ‘Aashoorah was We make the excuse that it is not within has narrated to us in His Book is what that they did was made of no eff ect. obligatory, but later made voluntary our ability or power while we forget happened in Allah’s month,(1) the So they were defeated there and then, when the obligation of fasting the that the aayah actually obligates us to sacred month of Moharram,(2) and and were returned disgraced. And the month of Ramadan was revealed in the the utmost of our human capacity. It that is the story of Prophet Moosa, sorcerers fell down prostrate. They Qur’an.(6) is a proof upon the slave (al-’abd) for and Pharaoh the tyrant of Egypt, in the said, ‘We believe in the Lord of the The Prophet fasted on the day of the necessity of expending maximum Qur’an, Allah tells us this story, which ‘Aalameen (i.e. all that exists), the Lord ‘Aashoora and commanded that people eff ort and capacity to perform all moral means, of Moosa and Haaroon (Aaron).’” (Al- should fast on that day. The sahaabah obligations. All who seek excuse from “We recite to you some of the news A’araf 7: 118-122) (his companions) said, “Messenger performing legal and moral obligations of Moosa and Pharaoh in truth, for At that time Pharaoh decided to of Allah, it is a day which the Jews look at the relief in the aayah for those a people who believe (i.e. those who try a diff erent plan - fear, force and and Christians hold in high esteem.” who are incapable, but they are blind to believe (ie those who believe in this retaliation. Allah told Moosa to get Thereupon the Messenger of Allah what it obligates up to one’s capacity. Qur’an and in the Oneness of Allah). every believer out of Egypt and direct said, ‘“When the next year comes, Most remarkable is the (mis) Verily, Pharaoh exalted himself in them to where Allah would tell him. inshaa ‘Allah, we would fast on the 9th understanding of al-war’a. This (al- the land and made its people sects, Pharaoh gathered his army and forces, (i.e. the ninth as well as the 10th in war’a) has a precise meaning applicable weakening (oppressing) a group (Bani which were around one million soldiers order to diff er from the disbelievers).” in particular to those who are the Israa’eel) among them, killing their according to the seerah, and he chased But the Messenger of Allah died most persevering, and forbearing in sons and letting their females live. Moosa and his people, hoping to before the advent of the next year.(7) eemaan (faith) among the imaams and Verily, he was of the mufsidoon (those destroy them completely. Moosa ended Therefore we should fast that day and scholars who never fell short in the who commit great sins and crimes, up at the sea with Pharaoh and his one day before it (the 9th), following performance of obligatory duties or oppressors and tyrants). And We army behind him. The believers were the Prophet’s Sunnah and looking for even recommended ones, nor did they wished to do a favour for those who afraid because the sea was in front of the reward from Allah.(8) neglect abandonment of that which is were weak (and oppressed) in the land, them and the enemy was behind them. We also benefi t from the story of disliked or forbidden. They did so to the and to make them rulers and to make Allah says (which means): Moosa by learning that the Sunnah point that they left every superfl uous them the inheritors, and rulers and “And when the two hosts saw each of the Prophets is to thank and praise deed that had neither benefi t for the to make them the inheritors, and to other, the people of Moosa, said, ‘We Allah in times of peace and when they Hereafter or was unnecessary for this establish them in the land, and We let are sure to be overtaken. (Moosa) said, gain victory over their enemies. Moosa life. Pharaoh and Haamaan (a minister of ‘Nay, verily! With me is my Lord and fasted on the 10th, the day on which Pharaoh) and their hosts receive from He will guide me!’” (Ash-Shu’araa 26: Allah made his followers victorious The unfortunate result them that which they feared.” (Al- 61-62) over Pharaoh; and this is another This thin defi nition is applied by some Qasas 28:3-6) Whoever is close to Allah, Allah will sign that the truth will always defeat to the degree that you will fi nd those Pharaoh dominated the nation of never let him down or leave him on his falsehood. who apply abandonment of doing Israa’eel and enslaved them, killing own. Allah ordered Moosa to strike the The Prophet fasted on this day something for fear that it may possibly their newborn sons but letting their sea with his staff . Moosa did so and the thanking Allah for the victory of the be detestable (makrooh) in Allah’s females live. The reason he committed sea opened up for them to cross: people of the truth over the people of sight, harmful, or even leading to this criminal act was the fear of the Allah says (which means): falsehood. The victory in that time either. However they do not abandon truth coming out from one of those “And indeed We inspired Moosa was for Moosa, but the Sunnah of not doing something for a particular newborn males. The nation of Israa’eel (saying): ‘Travel by night with ‘Ibaadi the prophets is one. This is the jihaad reason! Meaning, that a person may used to know, according to what came (My slaves) and strike a dry path for against the disbelievers - to make the be inclined to abandon things that to them from Prophet Ibraheem, them in the sea, fearing neither to Allah said (which means): “Pharaoh (which means): Word of Allah the highest on earth. may seem similar to what is detestable that someone from his lineage would be overtaken (by Pharaoh) nor being said, ‘Believe you in him (Moosa) “We fl ing (send down ) the truth Victory always comes from Allah and or forbidden but they will not lean destroy the king of Egypt. These glad afraid (of drowning).” (Taaha 20: 77) before I give you permission? Verily! against the falsehood, so it (truth) victory is a ni’mah (bounty) from Allah toward acting upon something that tidings were famous among the nation Moosa walked across the path that He is your chief who taught you magic. destroys it, and behold, it (falsehood) is for which we must thank Allah by may be similar to what is commendable of Israa’eel; and the news of it was opened in the sea and the last of his So surely I will cut off your hands and vanished.” (Al-Anbiyaa 21: 18) being obedient to Him. (mustahabb) or obligatory (waajib). made known to Pharaoh. Pharaoh people left the sea and every soldier of feet on opposite sides, and I will surely We also learn that Allah tests the Some people nowadays create bid’ah There are many who avoid particular ordered his soldiers to kill all newborn Pharaoh’s army was inside the path. crucify you on the trunks of palm- prophets and the believers, and the (innovation in the deen), and deviant foods, drinks, clothing or deeds boys of the nation of Israa’eel; on order At this time Allah ordered the sea to trees, and you shall; know which of tests are sometimes very diffi cult, but slogans and hold demonstrations. fearing that within them may be that to secure himself from destruction. collapse upon them, drowning Pharaoh us, (I, Pharaoh) or the Lord of Moosa in the end, victory is for the prophets Islam has forbidden this. which would detract from or mar their However, all of the precautions that and his army. (Allah) can give the severe and more and the believers. Allah is with the righteousness. This is well and good. he made were not enough to protect That was the victory of the truth lasting torment.’ prophets and the believers in victory NOTES: However, you will not fi nd anything him from what Allah wanted, which over falsehood. The promise of Allah They said, ‘We prefer you not over and guidance. 1 The Prophet said, “The most which mars or detracts in doing da’wah was for this newborn boy to be raised was true - He made the people of the clear signs that have come to us, Allah says (which means): excellent fast after Ramadan is or jihaad, correction or ordering good in the house of Pharaoh. The will Moosa victorious over Pharaoh and his and to Him (Allah) who created us. So “Truly, Allah is with those who fear Allah’s month, Moharram, and the and forbidding evil, giving charity in of Allah cannot be stopped by any army. From this story we see how the decree whatever you desire to decree, him, keep their duty unto Him, and most excellent prayer after what is the way of Allah or rushing to perform precautions and His ability conquers truth is victorious, regardless of the for you can only decree (regarding) this those who are Muhsinoon (doers of prescribed is praying during the night.” acts of good and righteousness. One anything. So Allah chose for the size or seeming power of falsehood. life of the world.’ good, those who perform good deeds (Saheeh Muslim, Volume 2 page 569 may associate this as a particular Prophet Moosa to be born safely, to be Falsehood has its own limited time, ‘Verily! We have believed in our solely for the sake of Allah and in no.2611 ) obligatory duty upon a person. You saved from being killed, and also to be but the truth is always victorious. This Lord, that He may forgive us our faults, accordance with the Sunnah of the 2 The sacred months are four: may fi nd actions that are not actually raised in Pharaoh’s own home under story should enrich the hearts of the and the magic to which you did compel Prophet).” (An-Nahl 16: 128) Dhul-Qa’dah, Dhul-Hijjah, Moharram commendable however they may the protection of Allah until he was an believers and make them steadfast in us. And Allah is better (as regards in As Muslims, we should always fear and Rajab. See Qur’an, At-Tawbah 9: associate them as such. Yet you don’t adult. the face of their enemies, regardless of comparison to your punishment).’ Allah and consider these lessons and 36-37. Waging war, killing and plunder fi nd anyone inclined toward doing what Later Moosa accidentally killed a size or seeming power of their enemies. Verily! Whoever comes to his not follow the ways of those who were are prohibited during these months. may be associated with an obligation person from Pharaoh’s people. Moosa The believer should also benefi t Lord as a mujrim (criminal, sinner, disobedient to Allah; but rather to obey It is prohibited to intentionally violate or that which may be commendable. was afraid that he would be captured from this story by understanding that polytheist, disbeliever in the oneness the Prophet and follow his guidance as the sanctity of one of the months and Why? and be killed for this, so he fl ed to the people of falsehood claim that of Allah and in His messengers) then Allah told us, which means, then make up for it, as the pre-Islamic It is because we have come to prefer the land of Madyan and abided there they are on the right path and are surely, for him is Hell, therein he will “Indeed in the Messenger of Allah Arabs used to do in order to give sitting and neglect and lightening for some time. He married there and calling people to the truth. In fact, the neither die nor live. (Muhammad) you have a good example themselves a military edge. However, burdens and responsibilities! It then returned to Egypt. On the way opposite is true-they rely on lies and But whoever comes to Him (Allah) to follow for him who hopes in (the if you are attacked during one of these has become easier for us to not do back Allah talked to him (by wahy) deception. as a believer (in the oneness of Allah) meeting with) Allah and the Last Day months, it is permitted, as mentioned something out of precaution of (3) revelation and told him he was a Pharaoh said to his people, and has done righteous deeds, for such and remembers Allah much.” (Al- in the ayah 2:194 to attack them as you harming our deen but not easy to act as prophet and the Messenger to Pharaoh. “I guide you only to the path of right are the high ranks (in the Hereafter).” Ahzaab 33: 21) were attacked. a means of al-war’a or precaution. Allah told him many signs by which he policy!” (Ghaafi r 40:29) (Taaha 20:71-75) This great event - the victory Allah 3. by revelation A true defi nition will be known as the prophet of Allah But he was a liar. From this story we We also derived from this story the gave Moosa and the believers over 4 Saheeh Muslim, Volume 2 page 551 The true defi nition of al-war’a is and they would show that he was a true also see that whoever knows the truth lesson that falsehood, regardless of Pharaoh and his army - occurred no. 2520 doing that which is similar to and prophet. and truly believes in it will not lose, how big or the number of its adherents, on the 10th of the sacred month of 5 Saheeh Muslim associated with the obligatory or Moosa went to Pharaoh and showed regardless of what he or she endures will be defeated by the truth and the Moharram and the day is called Yaumul 6 Saheeh Muslim, Volume 2 page the commendable, and abandoning him the signs of Allah but Pharaoh was of torment, torture or even death. An people of the truth are patient with Aashoorah (the day of ‘Aashoorah). It 548 no. 2499 what is similar to or associated with arrogant and stubborn. example is of the magicians. When whatever they are facing. This is an is a day that has great merit. Prophet 7 Saheeh Muslim, Volume 2 page 552 the forbidden or the detestable. In Allah says (which means): they knew the truth, they believed in example of an arrogant tyrant with Moosa fasted on that day, and ordered no. 2528 the hadeeth related by An-Nu’maan “Has there come to you the story Allah and in the message of Moosa. power, an army and a kingdom which the people to fast that day. 8 We may only single out this day Ibn Basheer that is mutafaqun ‘alaihi of Moosa? When his Lord called Allah says (which means): he ruled, who pursued a few who Ibn ‘Abbass reported that when the as a day of fasting and not a day of (agreed upon as authentic by Al- him in the Valley of Tuwaa. ‘Go to “So the magicians fell down had no munitions or other means (of Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi celebration. Abu Moosa reported that Bukhari and Muslim), the Prophet Of Pharaoh, verily he has transgressed all prostrate. They said, ‘We believe in the defence), but Allah was with them and wa sallam) arrived in Madinah, he the people of Khaybar (most of them Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) bounds (in crimes, sins, polytheism Lord of Haaroon and Moosa.’” (Taaha they had the force of Imaan in their found the Jews fasting on the day of were Jews) observed fast on the day said: Verily the halaal is clear and the and disbelief). And say to hi, ‘Would 20:70). hearts. Allah gave them His victory, Aashoorah. The Messenger of Allah of ‘Aashoorah and they treated it as haraam is clear, and between the two you purify yourself (from the sin of Pharaoh threatened to crucify them, His guidance, His help; and in a single asked them, “What is the signifi cance “Eid and gave their women ornaments are doubtful matters about which not disbelief and by becoming a believer). but they were strong in their belief moment the forces of falsehood were of this day that you fast on?” They and beautiful dresses to wear. The many people know. And that I guide you to your Lord, so and refused to return to disbelief after destroyed. Pharaoh’s forces were said, “It is the day of great signifi cance Messenger of Allah said, “You (only) Therefore, whoever fears and avoids you should fear him?’ Then (Moosa) believing. destroyed in the sea and as Allah said when Allah delivered Moosa and his fast on this day.” (Saheeh Muslim) doubtful matters clears his deen of fault and whoever falls into the doubtful matters falls into the haraam as the shepherd who herds his fl ock near a sanctuary is feared to possibly stray into it... Therefore, whoever does what Answers to some soul-searching questions could be considered or associated with the detestable will indeed fall into it in actuality and consequently he Truth constantly provides provision from them. (i.e. provision for Qur’an (which is translated as follows): they are holding fast?, Nay! They down to Ibrahim (Abraham), Isma’il possibly into the forbidden. Whoever you with a clear view, helps themselves or My creatures) nor do I “O Man! Verily, you are returning say: “We found our fathers following (Ishma’il), Ishaque (Isaac), Ya’qub abandons doing what is similar to the you to treat the anxiety inside ask that they should feed Me (i.e. feed towards your Lord – with your deeds a certain way and religion, and we (Jacob), and Al-Asbat [the twelve sons commendable will also fall into that your soul. The answers for themselves or my creatures). Verily, and actions (good or bad), a sure guide ourselves by their footsteps. of Ya’qub (Jacob)] and what was given and will possibly not do what is truly T commendable and as a consequence the following questions are from The Allah is the All-Provider, Owner of returning, –so you will meet (i.e. And similarly, We sent not a Warner to Musa (Moses), ‘Iesa (Jesus) and the Noble Qur’an. Power, – the Most strong.” surah 51: the results of your deeds which you before you (O Muhammad) to any Prophets from their Lord. We make end up neglecting necessary What is the clear concept of God? verses 56-58. did), Then, as for him who will be town (people) but the luxurious ones no distinction between one another obligations. The Almighty said in the Noble given his Record in his right hand, He among them said: “We found our among them and to Him (Allah) The true believer must hold strongly to Qur’an (which is translated as follows): What is the purpose of my life surely will receive an easy reckoning, fathers following a certain way and we have submitted (in Islam), And the Qur’an and possess the readiness “Say: He is Allah (the) One. Allah-us- and my existence? And will return to his family in joy! religion, and we will indeed follow whoever seeks a religion other than to act just as much as possessing the Samad (The Self-Suffi cient Master, The Almighty said in the Noble But whosoever is given his Record their footsteps. “(The warner) said: Islam, it will never be accepted of him, readiness to abandon. Yes, a part of whom all creatures need, He neither Qur’an (which is translated as follows): behind his back, He will invoke (his) “Even if I bring you better guidance and in the Hereafter he will be one of giving obedience to Allah involves the eats nor drinks). He begets not, nor “And it is He who has made you destruction, And shall enter a blazing than that which you found your fathers the losers” surah 3: ayah 84-85. slave of Allah (al-’abd) relinquishing was He begotten. And there is none generations coming after generations, fi re, and made to taste its burning.” following?” They said: “Verily, We The Almighty Allah said in the his relaxation and comfort with the co-equal or comparable unto Him.” replacing each other on the earth. And surah 84: ayah 6-12. disbelieve in that with which you have Noble Qur’an (which is translated as resulting eff ect of then exerting eff orts chapter (surah) 112. He has raised you in ranks, some above been sent.” surah 43: ayah 21-24. follows): “There is no compulsion in in work seeking the pleasure and others that He may try you in that Is it enough to follow my religion. Verily, the Right Path has acceptance of Allah ta’alaa and getting Why has God – Allah – created which He has bestowed on you. Surely parents’ beliefs or the majority of What is the true way for become distinct from the wrong path. closer to Him, even if this involves me? your Lord is Swift in retribution, and people without thinking whether Salvation? Whoever disbelieves in Taghut [anything some hardship and toil. The Almighty said in the Noble certainly He is Oft-Forgiving, Most they are in the right path or not? The Almighty said in the Noble worshipped other than the Real God Action and abandonment are a part Qur’an (which is translated as follows): Merciful.” surah 6: ayah 165. The Almighty said in the Noble Qur’an (which translated as follow): (Allah)] and believes in Allah, then he has of deen (Islam), and for this reason, “And I (Allah) Created not the jinns Qur’an (which is translated as follows): “Say (O Muhammad): “We believe grasped the most trustworthy handhold ordering good (al-amr bil-ma’roof) and and humans except they should What will happen to me after death? “Or have We given them any Book in Allah and in what has been sent that will never break. And Allah is All- forbidding evil (an-nahy ‘anil-munkar) worship Me (Alone), I seek not any The Almighty said in the Noble before this (the Qur’an), to which down to us, and what was sent Hearer, All-Knower.” surah 2: ayah 256. are at its root. Gulf Times 14 Friday, September 21, 2018 COMMENT

CHAIRMAN Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka 21 -09-2018 Deputy Managing Editor K T Chacko P.O.Box 2888, Doha, Qatar [email protected] 44350478 (News), 44466404 (Sport), 44466636 (Home delivery) 44350474 facebook.com/gulftimes twitter.com/gulftimes_Qatar GULF TIMES 2008 - 2018 – 10 years that changed world A decade ago, in September 2008, the world entered a deep fi nancial crisis, which brought the global economy to the brink of a collapse. It started when the US housing bubble burst, leading to a credit crunch that spread rapidly overseas. Global businesses, ranging from banks to carmakers, required bailouts and the global economy slid into a recession. The collapse of fi nancial services fi rm Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 triggered the meltdown of the fi nancial markets in the United States, but the contagion Greece’s man in the soon engulfed many global economies. At the centre of the crisis was skyrocketing levels of debt, facilitated through the banks’ use of fi nancial products such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) - whose value was based on another security. Stuff ed to the gills with bad mortgages, it sustained migrant morgue heavy losses as housing prices dropped, and imploded after multiple acquisition deals fell through. have all kinds of fi sh in the river, and northeastern Greece is a challenge. The collapse set off a chain reaction of bank failures that By Sarah Souli/ IRIN Her body, like that of many others Athens they eat the skin postmortem.” “My problem is contact with the whose bodies are left behind in Greece, required unprecedented federal action to unwind. By the time bodies show up in family. These parents are in (places is buried in the village of Sidiro, a Mus- It is worth looking again at the scale of the crisis. The Pavlidis’ morgue, most are beyond like) Afghanistan or Pakistan; they lim enclave in Evros. Bodies deemed to human cost of the fi nancial crisis was the obliteration of avlos Pavlidis has spent nearly recognition. don’t know where Alexandroupoli is be Muslim are sent to the village, where more than 7mn jobs across the world since the second two decades examining and He turns on his computer and starts or who I am,” he says. “It’s easier if the they receive an Islamic burial. In July identifying the bodies of mi- clicking through dozens of horrifi c family is already here in Europe. I can when IRIN visited, there were three quarter of 2008. grants and asylum seekers who images. In one, a man’s face is a black take DNA from them to make a familial empty graves, recently dug and await- The crisis required a write-down of over $2tn from P have died attempting one of the least oval, the skin completely peeled off match.” ing bodies. fi nancial institutions alone, while the lost growth resulting known but deadliest routes into Europe. and frozen into a never-ending scream. Of all the corpses he’s catalogued, Non-Muslims are buried in a local from the crisis and ensuing recession has been estimated at So far, that’s 359 bodies – a grim The cause of death was hypother- only 103 have been identifi ed. Christian cemetery. over $10tn. count and occupation. Pavlidis is tall, mia – a relatively quick death, two or Pavlidis works with the Greek police The car and van journey towards with sloping shoulders and a cigarette three minutes. Hypothermia usually and the International Committee of Thessaloniki, where many migrants 2009 became the fi rst perpetually affi xed to his hand. He has preserves the face, but in this case, the the Red Cross, and is in close contact are headed, is equally dangerous, The crisis year on record where the gentle but clinical demeanour of man’s face was burned from the sun, with the Pakistani embassy in Athens; thanks to unsafe cars used by smug- global GDP contracted in someone used to delivering bad news, and his eyes had been eaten by birds. In Iraq and Syria have missions there too. glers (who sometimes force migrants required a write- real terms. The process but would rather see what he does as another photograph, a body is bloated But the closest Afghan embassy is in to drive themselves), and even police of responding to the bringing answers to the living. like a drum, the skin stuck to the metal the Bulgarian capital Sofi a, and com- chases. down of over $2tn “For me, it’s very important that I gurney in transparent sheets. munication is more diffi cult. In early June, a van carrying 16 Ira- crisis, the subsequent give an answer to people,” says Pavlidis, After 18 years in the morgue, Pav- In some cases, the identifi cation nian migrants crashed in the mountains from fi nancial deep recession and the who is in his mid-fi fties and personally lidis is hardened against the images; he part of his job turns into a bureaucratic near Kavali, killing six people, including impacts on governance inspects every body that washes up on says he has to be. nightmare. Once, Pavlidis dealt with three children. During IRIN’s time in institutions alone of the global fi nancial the Greek side of the muddy banks of Pavlidis collects anything that might the body of a Chinese man who was Evros, a sedan carrying 10 people from system – and the the Evros River that divides Greece and help with identifi cation, but he often found with his credit cards and other Syria and Iraq, including two children, eurozone in particular Turkey. “It’s not a good answer. It’s a has little to go on. “Because of the forms of identifi cation. With the help crashed on the main highway criss- tragedy – but at least it’s an answer.” length of time spent in the water, their of the ICRC, Pavlidis contacted the crossing northern Greece, killing two – took the better part of At fi rst glance, the river where most personal items or documents are dam- Chinese government. Two years later, adults on impact. The mother of the the decade to implement before there was a reliable return of the corpses come from looks quaint aged,” he says. an offi cial response came: there were children died upon arrival to Alexan- to growth across the US and Europe. and harmless enough. Sunfl ower fi elds Pavlidis also takes DNA from each too many people in China with the droupoli hospital. New economic challenges have arisen over the last dot the banks, local tavernas serve up body (teeth, usually), and gives each same name to identify him. It was the worst car accident the hos- decade. Advanced economies’ importance in the global the water’s main catch, a meaty catfi sh, person a unique identifi cation number. That man died in a traffi c accident, pital had seen in 2018, and it brought and the water itself is just a couple With the help of one nurse, he highlighting one of the absurd realities the hospital’s director-general to tears. economy has shrunk dramatically, from 69% to 60% of dozen metres wide. meticulously documents each corpse, of the Evros crossing – the danger Despite the dangers, there will be global GDP. But this is one of the deadliest bor- photographing the body and carefully doesn’t stop once migrants reach the more deaths. People will continue to Technology has created new markets for data, while der crossings in Europe. Until 2010, it placing any salvaged personal items in Grecian banks of the river. They must cross Evros, and some will succumb to threatening mass unemployment and an end to a was riddled with 25,000 anti-person- little plastic bags he stores in his offi ce. walk for several kilometres to reach the the river or roads. And waiting for them manufacturing-based development model. nel and anti-tank landmines, buried by He keeps each corpse for months – nearest village, and many follow the will be Pavlidis, resolute in his duty to Greece in 1974. Today, all but 12km of shelved in refrigerators maintained at train tracks into town. provide them a last glimmer of dignity Meanwhile, the demographic transition of advanced the border are fenced off . a chilly -20 degrees Celsius – in the Stoic by professional necessity, one from a basement morgue in a small port economies has continued apace as their populations age, This spring brought a surge of peo- hope that someone will show up to case particularly rattled Pavlidis: in city. leading to strains on pensions and healthcare systems. ple from Syria and Iraq trying to cross claim them. 2015, a Syrian family was walking along “These families can’t wait for a life- It is 10 years since the global fi nancial upheaval, but did the Evros – 2,700 people traversed Pavlidis can collect and catalogue the train tracks when a six-year-old time,” he says. “It’s an ethical respon- we learn much from the most signifi cant fi nancial and its waters in April alone, surpassing the bodies with care, but connecting girl let go of her father’s hand and ran sibility and an ethical satisfaction to do sea arrivals in Lesvos for the fi rst time with the families from a small city in into an oncoming train. this work.” economic upheaval since the Great Depression? since 2012. The UN’s refugee agency A decade later, many economists believe there will never says at least 9,840 people crossed the be a return to the old ‘normal’. river in the fi rst seven months of 2018. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told the BBC Along with the thousands who recently that risks still remain for both the global economy managed to enter Greece across the Evros this year, 29 didn’t make it; and the UK although regulators have done a lot to fi x the their bodies brought to a hospital in global fi nancial system. Alexandroupoli, the largest city in the He said China is at the “top of the list. And in the UK, a Evros region, and to Pavlidis’ basement “no deal” Brexit could bring about a housing market crash morgue. and a surge in the UK’s unemployment rate and “could be Because the river isn’t very wide and appears calm, many migrants don’t see as catastrophic as the fi nancial crisis” for the economy. the danger coming. But Pavlidis says Carney said regulators around the world needed to the river’s current is deceptively strong remain vigilant and that any fragmentation of global and diffi cult for even a seasoned swim- standards to try and gain competitive advantage would be mer to navigate. dangerous. Smugglers pile families into tiny infl atable boats and, since they rarely allow luggage, many people wear three or four pairs of trousers and shirts, To Advertise adding extra weight. Unlike in the Mediterranean, where [email protected] the salt helps keep bodies intact, the Display freshwater Evros decomposes them quickly. Bloated corpses are found 44466621 44418811 after several weeks or months by lo- cal fi shermen, the EU border agency Classified Frontex, or local police. Pavlidis says 44466609 44418811 that children, their tiny bodies bogged down by sediment and fallen trees, are Subscription almost never found. “The bottom of the river is very [email protected] muddy,” he explains. “There are a lot of branches from the trees and the bodies get stuck...The fi bres of the clothes get © 2018 Gulf Times. All rights reserved soft and disintegrate. And the fi sh – we A plastic boat caught in the trees of the Evros river. Gulf Times Friday, September 21, 2018 15 COMMENT Do democrats have a better strategy now?

By Cas Mudde Democrats and Republicans will have And while it is useful to have a Washington, DC to be proven in November, but it is not fundamental debate on how much unlikely. redistribution is desirable, and Still, while voters in the rest of the whether we should have Obamacare n November 8, 2016 Donald country might be ready for a liberal or universal healthcare, we are so far Trump won the US presi- representative, even a non-white one, away from implementing even the dency. But it was also the voting for a socialist might be a step most modest proposals. Oday the Democratic party too far. To do that, Democrats first have to went awol. This is the case, for example, in defend the liberal democratic system, Almost two years later, the Demo- Georgia, where the Democrat Stacey which requires a basic agenda that crats are still not to be found. Abrams takes on Republican Brian can be supported by both camps They have no clear leader, or even Kemp for the governorship. within the Democratic party as well leadership team, no convincing analy- Abrams, an African American wom- as the (fast-decreasing) section of sis of why they lost the election, and, an, has her main support in the city liberal democratic Republicans. consequently, no strategy to do better of Atlanta, while Kemp, a white man At the very least, this agenda next time. who is channelling his inner Trump, is should include three types of re- In a July 2017 Washington Post-ABC strongest in the white rural parts of the forms. News poll a majority of Americans state, which decades of gerrymander- First, Democrats on both sides (52%) said the Democratic party “just ing have given disproportionate power should develop a coherent and com- stands against Trump”, while just a mi- in Georgia politics. prehensive programme to ensure free nority (37%) believed the party “stands Abrams is often seen as an exam- and fair elections. for something”. ple of “identity politics”, but this This includes concrete propos- I seriously doubt these numbers will says more about the writer than the als for non-partisan districting, have changed much since then. candidate. to prevent partisan and bipartisan As Democratic leaders limit their As Briahna Gray has argued con- gerrymandering, but also campaigns interventions to anti-Russia and anti- vincingly, Abrams actually represents and legislation to minimise voter Trump platitudes, they might rally a much more traditional Democratic suppression. their partisan core, but they lose the position, built on a liberal agenda and a Neither proposal should be parti- bigger base – including millennials. multiracial coalition. san, even if Democrats have, at least Now, before you start shouting “fake Which is exactly why she is com- in the short term, more to win from news” or “uninformed voters”, do you petitive in a state like Georgia. it. really know what the Democratic party Running both liberal and “socialist” Second, and related, Democrats stands for? I don’t. candidates is the best strategy for the have to come together on campaign Sure, the Democratic party has Democratic party at this point. finance reform. always had diff erent factions. Just like Stacey Abrams: identity politics They have to cater to an increasingly Obviously, this is a divisive internal the Republican party it is a “big tent” polarised country, in which the po- issue, with “Wall Street” Democrats party. Democrats have won many of the local The fact that some of these candi- ultimately unsuccessful primary chal- larisation is no longer just between the profiting more from the current In fact, the 2016 presidential elec- and state races that have been held. dates, often more outspokenly leftwing lenge was both arrogant and petty, he two parties, but also within them. system. tions showed that the US has four But they glance over the fact that and/or non-white, like my district’s was at least partly right to say that, so However, an electoral victory in the But this advantage is primarily potential main parties, forced by an these races were won with many dif- representative, Deborah Gonzalez, far, the insurgent progressive wave is midterm elections can only be trans- internal, ie in fighting off primary unforgiving electoral system into two ferent candidates and positions, some (Georgia House district 117) neverthe- “not even a ripple”, at least if he speaks lated into a political victory if the two challengers, as the money floodgates actual parties. diametrically opposed to each other. less won their seat, shows how insular with regard to the United States rather camps can fi nd common ground that opened by Citizens United primarily But because the Republicans hold Moreover, some races were won the party establishment is. than the Democratic party. goes beyond anti-Trump platitudes. benefit Republicans candidates. the presidency, they have less of a despite, rather than because of the Does this mean that the Democratic There is little doubt that in certain Lacking this, they can at best hope At the same time, within the Re- problem with presenting a clear face Democratic party. party should embrace “identity poli- parts of the country, most notably the to slow down the Republican onslaught publican party, it has strengthened (if not necessarily position) to the In several races the local (or national) tics – ie cater to a variety of specifi c Democratic strongholds on the coasts, on the political system. the hand of a small group of rather American voter. party establishment worked against identity-based groups – and “demo- so-called “democratic socialists” Obviously, liberals and “socialists” extreme donors, from free market The Democrats don’t have this candidates they believed might scare cratic socialism” to regain political (read: social democrats) are success- should stop attacking each other with zealots like the Koch brothers to luxury. away the “moderate Republican” – the power? Not necessarily. fully challenging the Democratic petty personal insults, of which the supporters of the right-wing Israeli Democratic partisans will counter political unicorn that was to bring Hil- While Andrew Cuomo ’s response establishment. New York gubernatorial primary was a government like Sheldon Adelson. - that, since Trump came to power, lary Clinton the presidency. to Cynthia Nixon’s much-hyped but Whether they can defeat both sad example. Guardian News and Media Moon Jae-in is gambling with N Korea Three-day forecast dismantlement of the nuclear facilities Standing shoulder to shoulder with impulsive comments make North Korea TODAY By Michael H Fuchs Maximum Temperature : 380c Seoul at Yongbyon, as the United States takes Moon will reduce the opportunities for believe that Trump has already agreed corresponding measures in accordance North Korea and China to drive a bigger to moves that are still being negoti- Minimum Temperature : 320c with the spirit of the 12 June US-DPRK wedge in the US-South Korea alliance ated while sending the signal that only SATURDAY magine you are the president of Joint Statement.” Exactly what “corre- and keep the chances for a diplomatic Trump’s words matter. Maximum Temperature : 380c South Korea. Your country relies on sponding measures” the US would have breakthrough alive. The result? North Korea publicly Minimum Temperature : 310c its alliance with the United States as to take, of course, is unclear. And no approach to North Ko- singles out US offi cials as obstacles to SUNDAY a deterrent against a nuclear-armed While the US is concerned about rea – whether tradeoff s in diplomacy Trump’s own wishes. Maximum Temperature : 380c I Minimum Temperature : 310c North Korea. North Korea’s nuclear programme, or maintaining deterrence – will be Trump is also unable to pursue a South Korea has to live next door, and successful without a united Seoul and consistent strategy. Donald Trump criticises your country Fisherman's forecast over trade, spent the better part of a many there want an improved North- Washington. After a year of threatening war, he year threatening military strikes against South relationship regardless of progress The US should ride the wave of announced a summit with Kim, then WARNING North-South diplomacy by supporting cancelled the summit in a pique of anger Inshore : Expected poor vis- North Korea, and reportedly even on the nuclear issue. ibility at places by early drafted a tweet ordering the withdrawal And so, Moon is gambling. a non-binding declaration to end the at North Korean rhetoric only to rein- morning of the family members of US military If he improves the relationship with Korean war – which both Koreas are stitute it days later after Moon patched Offshore : Nil stationed in South Korea, which would Pyongyang without tangible progress pushing, and which Trump report- things up. WEATHER Inshore : Misty at places by early have been interpreted as a prelude to on the nuclear issue, that could cause a edly promised Kim in Singapore – in Trump then again abruptly cancelled morning, becomes war. serious rift with Washington. exchange for the verifi able closing of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip hot & relatively humid What would you do? You’d rush to China would support the South’s nuclear facilities that Kim put on the to Pyongyang mere hours after it was daytime. Humid by night. ease tensions with North Korea as fast engagement with the North, further table with Moon. announced in September. as you could, while trying to mediate driving a wedge between Washington This would be a signifi cant step for- Further complicating things are Offshore : Fine between the US and North Korea. and Seoul. ward on which both sides could build. Trump’s hardline advisers including WIND Inshore : Northwesterly-North- And that’s exactly what the world Japan’s anxiety over the threat from While Kim’s intentions remain Vice-President Mike Pence and Na- easterly 04-14 KT witnessed this week in the third summit North Korea would increase, and its unclear, a key question is whether or tional Security Adviser John Bolton, who this year between South Korean Presi- opposition to diplomacy could push not the US is capable of advancing continue to look for ways to scuttle talks. Offshrore : Southeasterly-North- dent Moon Jae-in and North Korean Seoul and Tokyo – two American allies – diplomacy. In diplomacy with North Korea there easterly 03-12 KT leader Kim Jong-un. further apart. While Trump has thrown the US are always plenty of risks. Visibility : 4-8/3 KM Mission accomplished - for the mo- A strong alliance with the US and head-fi rst into diplomacy with North The South Korean government may ment. progress on denuclearistion are nec- Korea – and may be the only top US very well be unrealistic about what Offshore : 1-3 FT offi cial who supports the process – he diplomacy can achieve (the agreement In Pyongyang this week Moon and essary to maintain popular support Around the region Kim announced a variety of inter- for diplomacy in South Korea Moon is also uniquely incapable of taking to seek a joint bid for the 2032 Summer Weather Korean agreements ranging from recognises that detente with North advantage of complicated diplomatic Olympics seems pollyannaish at best). Weather tomorrow Max/min easing military tensions to more family Korea will only go so far without negotiations, and seems only interested North Korea’s asking price for today Max/min P Cloudy 43/25 reunions, and Kim agreed to become the progress on denuclearisation, as past in the appearance of success. progress may be too high. And the US Baghdad Sunny 43/26 Sunny 44/30 fi rst North Korean leader to visit South rounds of North-South diplomacy Trump continues to fall for Kim’s administration may not be equipped to Kuwait City Sunny 44/30 Sunny 39/30 Korea. have shown. fawning praise by regularly responding succeed in this round of diplomacy. Manama Sunny 39/31 Sunny 32/27 Taken together, these steps could A strong alliance with the US and to one of the world’s most repressive But these diplomatic opportunities Muscat Sunny 31/27 Sunny 29/19 reduce the chances for a confl ict and will progress on denuclearisation are neces- dictators with comments like: “Thank are rare, and without a strong US-South Tehran M Sunny 28/18 keep the diplomacy moving. sary to maintain popular support for you to Chairman Kim. Korea alliance there will be no way to Any progress in addressing North Ko- diplomacy in South Korea and the lever- We will both prove everyone wrong! address the threats that North Korea rea’s nuclear programme, however, was age necessary to extract concessions There is nothing like good dialogue from poses. much less certain: “The North expressed from Kim. two people that like each other!” Trump The United States must give peace a its willingness to continue to take addi- While far from perfect, the US should playing the role of North Korea desk chance, and that means giving Moon a tional measures, such as the permanent back Moon’s diplomatic eff orts. offi cer undercuts his own diplomats: his chance. - Guardian News and Media Live issues Yoghurt may contain more sugar than soft drinks Around the world Weather Weather today Max/min tomorrow Max/min Athens Sunny 30/19 Sunny 31/19 QNA The recommended daily allowance of Beirut M Sunny 28/24 Sunny 28/25 London sugar is 30g. Bangkok S T Storms 33/26 S T Storms 32/26 The researchers from Surrey and Berlin M Sunny 29/18 Rain 31/11 Leeds Universities wrote: “While yo- Cairo Sunny 34/22 Sunny 34/23 ome supermarket yoghurts may ghurt may be less of a concern than soft Cape Town Sunny 15/09 M Sunny 17/11 contain more sugar than soft drinks and fruit juices, the chief sources Colombo T Storm 29/25 T Storm 28/25 drinks despite being regarded of free sugars in both children and Dhaka T Storm 33/27 S T Storms 33/26 Sas “healthy”, a new study has adults diets, what is worrisome is that Hong Kong P Cloudy 28/24 M Sunny 28/24 warned. yoghurt, as a perceived “healthy food”, Istanbul Sunny 26/21 P Cloudy 26/19 Researchers have found that fewer may be an unrecognised source of free Jakarta S T Storms 33/25 S T Storms 33/25 than one in ten categories of yoghurt and added sugars in the diet”. Karachi P Cloudy 30/26 P Cloudy 32/26 sold in British supermarkets qualify “While the organic label refers to London Cloudy 21/11 Cloudy 17/09 as low-sugar, with brands labelled production, the well documented Manila T Storm 32/26 S T Storms 31/25 “organic” or those marketed at young health-halo eff ect means that consum- Moscow Sunny 23/11 Sunny 25/13 children among the most sugary. ers most often underestimate the calor- New Delhi Sunny 36/25 S T Storms 32/25 A typical yoghurt contained more Under the traffi c lights nutritional products. The total average sugars ic content and perceive the nutritional New York P Cloudy 23/18 Cloudy 26/21 than half an adult’s daily recommended labelling system, products with less included in organic yoghurt was 13.1g contents of organic products, including Paris P Cloudy 27/17 Rain 19/10 sugar allowance. than than 5g of sugar per 100g can be per 100g and in children’s yoghurts it yoghurts, more favourably,” they said. Sao Paulo S T Storms 26/18 P Cloudy 24/17 The researchers assessed the nutri- given the green rating, while those with was 10.8. Yoghurts do contain naturally oc- Seoul Rain 21/18 Rain 22/16 ent content of almost 900 yoghurts and 22.5g per 100g are considered high in There is 10.6g of sugar per 100ml of curring sugar, called lactose, but UK Singapore S T Storms 31/25 T Storm 30/24 yoghurt products, which were available sugar. Coca Cola. labelling laws do not require manu- Sydney S Showers 16/08 Sunny 19/09 from fi ve major UK online supermarket However, only those labelled “natu- A millilitre of water weighs the same facturers to declare added sugars, the Tokyo Cloudy 24/20 Rain 23/17 chains in in late 2016. ral” or “Greek” qualifi ed as low-sugar as a gram. authors said. Gulf Times 16 Friday, September 21, 2018 QATAR ‘European Day of Languages in Qatar’ to celebrate diversity

By Joey Aguilar Europe and in many countries in diff erent countries around the Staff Reporter around the world every year, also world, not only in Europe but provides participants access to also in Africa and the Caribbean,” information on all the language she said. he third edition of the ‘Eu- courses, organised throughout For her part, Swedish ambas- ropean Day of Languages in the year in Qatar. sador Ewa Polano said the Swed- TQatar’ will celebrate culture The Eunic cluster in Qatar en- ish language course will also off er and linguistic diversity of Europe courages residents, especially some cultural understanding of on September 26 at the French In- students, to take advantage of the Sweden, as well as Swedish food stitute in Qatar. opportunity to start learning a “to broaden the feeling for Swe- “We are very happy to have a new language at the event, which den.” rich culture and diversity of lan- witnessed an increasing number “Swedish is a small language guages in Europe with over 200 of participants annually since its but if people learn it they can go languages altogether, 24 offi cial inception. around in the Nordic countries languages, which is an impor- More than 120 have registered because all the Nordics under- tant tool in our day-to-day life in so far and the number is expected stand the Scandinavian languag- Europe and elsewhere,” Austrian to increase especially during the es so we have close co-operation ambassador Willy Kempel told a event. on that,” she added. press conference yesterday at his Kempel also announced that Other EU ambassadors residence in Doha. the staging of the 1st European stressed the importance of learn- The one-day event, organised Film Festival in Qatar, scheduled ing a foreign language saying that by the European Union National to open on October 18 at the Mu- it gives people a deeper under- Institutes for Culture (Eunic) seum of Islamic Art Auditorium. standing of the cultures of diff er- cluster in Qatar (composed of 17 Dutch ambassador Dr Bahia ent countries. EU countries), off ers free crash Tahzib-Lie noted she was de- “You can compare it to having courses in 12 European languag- lighted that the European Day access to a theme park, so you es. of Languages is being held this can get to more attractions. The envoy said participants September – a month where the If you know more languages, can attend several introductory Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign you will be exposed to many cul- classes (from 5pm to 9.30pm) Aff airs celebrates ‘Diversity and tures and experiences,” Belgian of European languages of their Inclusivity’. ambassador Dr Bart D Groof said. choice: Bulgarian, Dutch, French, “We are very proud that Dutch While German is the widely German, Greek, Hungarian, Ital- lessons are being given at a spoken language in the EU, Bul- ian, Polish, Portuguese, Roma- school here in Qatar for children garian ambassador Metin Kazak nian, Spanish, and Swedish. and youth, we have a community said the Bulgarian language is the The ‘European Day of Lan- of about 1,400 Dutch people here only language in Europe which Ambassadors and representatives from EU embassies in Doha attend the ‘European Day of Languages in Qatar’ press conference yesterday. guages’, widely celebrated in and the language is also spoken uses Cyrillic alphabets. PICTURE: Jayaram INS Mumbai concludes Qatar visit ndian Naval Ship (INS) Mumbai sailed out of yoga by the Indian embassy was conducted on- Hamad Port yesterday morning after com- board the warship on Wednesday. Ipleting a successful three-day visit to Doha, The warship undertook co-operative engage- the embassy said in a statement. ments with the Qatar Navy and a Passage Exer- The visit witnessed multiple professional and cise between INS Mumbai and QENF ships was social engagements, enhancing bilateral relations conducted off Doha yesterday. between the two friendly countries. The aim of this exercise was to ensure that both Captain Amit Srivastava, commanding offi cer navies benefi t from each other’s experiences to- of the ship, called on the Indian ambassador P wards incorporating ‘Best Practices’. Kumaran on Tuesday and Brigadier (Navy) Faisal Bilateral ties between Qatar and India have al-Binali, head of operations, Qatar Amiri Naval grown signifi cantly over the last few years as both Forces (QNEF) on Wednesday. nations share a common vision of global peace Apart from offi cial calls, joint harbour training, and harmonious co-existence. sporting events and inter-ship visits were organ- The visit of INS Mumbai, after the participa- ised during the ship’s stay. tion by INS Kolkata in Dimdex-18 in March this Children from various Indian schools also vis- year, is testimony to the growing relations be- ited the ship. tween the two nations, added the embassy state- In addition, demonstration and workshop on ment.

Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al-Sulaiti honours graduates at a ceremony. Katara honours graduates of traditional handicrafts programme atara – the Cultural Vil- “I was surprised to see the public and conducting work- “We had three categories of lage Foundation has hon- large number of participants in shops to educate the new genera- traditional handicrafts in our Koured graduates of the tra- the programme as these tradi- tion to pursue the ancient skills programme, such as gypsum ditional handicrafts programme tional handicrafts had started to and handicrafts. decoration and embroidery, and organised by Katara between De- vanish. It was a successful pro- Speaking at the ceremony, we also had some courses in cember 2017 and April this year. gramme and we are pleased to Salma al-Nuaimy, cultural con- handicrafts especially for wom- Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al-Su- receive these creative individuals sultant and head of the Heritage en”, she explained. laiti, general manager of Katara, here,” Dr al-Sulaiti said. Committee at Katara, welcomed The programme hosted 36 honoured the graduates at a cer- He emphasised the keenness the graduates and hailed the in- trainees who successfully passed emony and praised the eff orts of of Katara to preserve and main- terest of the youth to enter this the intensive handicrafts courses trainers who took part in the ini- tain the heritage of Qatar through signifi cant fi eld of Qatari herit- and fared well in the training, Ka- tiative. raising awareness among the age. tara said in a statement. INS Mumbai leaving Hamad Port yesterday after its 3-day visit of Qatar. DFI to host practical labs on sound editing, mixing

ilm aspirants in Qatar will The sound mixing workshop ing Actors. The fi rst is conclud- have the opportunity to covers its importance to fi lm and ing today. Ftake part in Doha Film In- the working methodologies used The workshop on ‘Directing stitute’s (DFI) practical labs on in a professional environment. Actors’, being held from Sep- sound editing and sound mixing It will give trainees the tools tember 23 to 28, will focus on in October, with applications due and knowledge to appreciate the improving the directing skills of online by September 24. artistic details required when fi lmmakers by highlighting the The two training initiatives are making a fi lm sound track. importance of adapting their organised in collaboration with The six-day programme to scripts for shooting. La Femis, Institut Francais Qa- commence on October 26 is open Participants will learn fi rst- tar, the French embassy in Doha, only for six sound editors, who hand how vital it is to contex- FNAC and Fifty One East. will learn to tell a story through a tualise their scripts, and how to “One of the core commit- fi lm’s soundtrack. best prepare before directing a ments of DFI is to strengthen the The trainees will work in pairs scene. skillsets of aspiring fi lmmakers on three diff erent sequences of Both the workshops are men- through intensive training ses- two to three minutes each, expe- tored by Brice Cauvin, a fi lm di- sions. Over the years, we have riencing all the steps involved in rector and a writer who studied organised practical labs, led by sound mixing in a practical envi- literature, linguistics and cinema expert mentors, who provide ronment. at La Sorbonne Paris and is cur- comprehensive and practical in- On the fi nal day, the three rently the head of the directing sights on diverse disciplines in mixed sequences will be analysed department at la Fémis; and Afef fi lmmaking,” DFI CEO Fatma al- by the tutors. Ben Mahmoud, a Tunisian direc- Remaihi said. Both intensive training ses- tor and actress. “The sound editing and sound sions will be mentored by Severin Applications for both Sound mixing workshops will add tre- Favriau, a sound designer, sound Editing and Sound Mixing labs are mendous value to the trainees supervisor and music composer, open until September 24. The fee and contribute to building a nominated twice for the Best for each is QR1,000 and applica- home-grown talent pool of ex- Falah Hannoun Sound Cesar (the French Acad- tions must be emailed to train- perts in diff erence disciplines of emy awards) and Falah Hannoun, ing@dohafi lminstitute.com. cinema,” she added. post-production environment tell a genuine story with a sound- a sound recordist and sound La Fémis, the French nation- The sound editing work- and understand the sound theory track. designer who currently works al fi lm school, was founded in shop familiarises the trainees on and its dedicated tools. In addition to learning the at DFI recording and designing 1986 and is currently chaired by all technical and artistic skills The workshop, to be held for technical aspects of sound edit- short fi lms, and also conducting award-winning director Raoul needed to master post-shooting six days from October 19, is open ing and sound design, they will labs and workshops. Peck. soundtrack production. for only six sound editors. also be trained on how to prepare The DFI is currently hosting Each year, the school selects Upon completion, they will be They will work on a two to all the necessary tracks for the fi - two other six-day practical labs and trains 50 students in the var- Severin Favriau self-suffi cient technically in the three-minute scene and learn to nal mix. – Acting for Camera and Direct- ious disciplines of fi lmmaking.