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FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 • 13 MOHARRAM 1438 • Volume 21 • Number 6949 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Ministry clamps GCC & Turkey flay UN inaction on Aleppo down on erring QNA/AFP RIYADH: Turkey’s foreign minister and his Arab counterparts in the Gulf yesterday condemned “indiscrim- restaurants inate” air strikes on Syria’s Aleppo and expressed “deep regret” at the UN’s inability to stop the raids. The concerns came in a state- The Municipality said that storing ment closing a meeting in the Saudi and preparing food in such envi- capital between Ankara’s Foreign Keeping food in ronment increases the possibility Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his stores located of contamination. GCC counterparts. Since the stores are located Foreign Minister H E Sheikh inside labour camps inside the camps, they could escape Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani invites punishments the routine inspections conducted participated in the fifth joint minis- by the Municipality at the eateries. It terial meeting for strategic dialogue ranging from fines will go undetected if expired or con- between GCC and Turkey, which took to jail term and even taminated food is kept in the stores place yesterday at the GCC general deportation in case and this poses a major health risk, secretariat in Riyadh. said the municipality. It stressed the depth of GCC ties of an incident of Transporting cooked food from with Turkey and reviewed means poisoning. the camp to the eateries also poses of boosting relations between the danger, if the necessary health two sides in implementation of the requirements are not met. mutual working plan between them. The Municipality said that stores “Ministers condemned the esca- Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani along with other GCC Foreign Ministers By Sidi Mohamed functioning in such places will face lation of military operations in and Turkish ministers in Riyadh yesterday. The Peninsula permanent closure, while legal Aleppo by the regime and its sup- action will be taken against the err- porters through indiscriminate air ing restaurant or company. raids against the civilian population about the use of “sectarian militia group jihadists. The foreign min- Sergei Lavrov in the Swiss city of The Municipality urged all res- and infrastructure,” the GCC-Turkey forces” as part of an imminent Iraqi isters along with Cavusoglu, are Lausanne tomorrow for the latest DOHA: Several eateries have been taurants and food outlets to meet communique said. operation to retake that country’s to join US Secretary of State John diplomatic push to settle the conflict. caught for keeping food in stores the health conditions and prepare Ministers expressed concern Mosul city from the Islamic State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister → See also page 3 located inside labour camps, which and store food only in designated is a serious violation of the law, a places. Eateries have been asked source at the Ministry of Municipal- to cook food only in minimum ity and Environment said yesterday. required quantities considering Guterres elected Such violation could invite their space and nature. severe punishment, including fine Commenting on the issue, the Pedestrian crossings to get a as new UN and jail for the owners/operators of ministry official told this daily that the erring outlet, and even depor- some eateries commit such viola- tation in case any food poisoning tions for various reasons, including Secretary-General incident is reported from the eat- ignorance about the rules and the leg up with new designs soon ery concerned. punishment, as well as the health UNITED NATIONS: The UN Gen- In the latest such incident, the and safety regulations. Some oth- eral Assembly appointed Antonio Health Monitoring Section at Doha ers find it a cheaper option to hire By Mohammed Osman suggest a majority of the partici- The ministry also mentioned that Guterres as the new secretary- Municipality caught two food stores in labour camps at low rents. The Peninsula pants, 71%, are not happy about the it has prepared 50 designs to be used general of the United Nations, in stores at a labour accommodation Punishment for such offense pedestrian crossings. However, 21% as models and some designs have a shift towards a more high-pro- in Najma area that were being used range from fines to jail and even of the respondents expressed positive already been submitted to Ashghal. file leadership of the world body. by restaurants, said a statement. deportation in case of an incident views about walking in Qatar’s streets. The study in Arabic and English is The 193-member states The stores were discovered dur- of poisoning. DOHA: A comprehensive survey to A total of 650 people from 64 nation- conducted among samples picked up adopted by consensus a resolution ing an inspection campaign and the “We have seen many other cases assess the need for pedestrian cross- alities responded to the survey until from several gathering points includ- formally naming the former prime erring eateries were found storing like this. We come to know about ings across the country and develop now. The study is due to finish by the ing six malls, the Museum of Islamic minister of Portugal as UN chief. and preparing food inside the labour the existence of such stores through their designs is under way by the end of this year. Arts park, Katara, and The Pearl- The socialist politician, who also accommodation in unhealthy con- complaints or information from Ministry of Transport and Commu- This was disclosed by a represent- Qatar. The survey plans to assess the served as UN refugee chief for a ditions. Necessary legal procedures other sources,” said the official. nication, in collaboration with the ative of the Ministry of Transport and current situation, public opinion, anal- decade, is expected to play a more have been initiated against the err- Meanwhile, the Doha Munici- Public Works Authority (Ashghal), Communication, who was invited to ysis of GIS information (pedestrian prominent role as the world’s dip- ing facilities, it added. pality shut down a vegetable and Ministry of Municipality and Envi- a discussions session of the Central evaluation review system) and review lomat-in-chief than Ban Ki-moon. The eateries were located else- fruit shop in Najma area for 15 days ronment, Ministry of Interior and the Municipal Council (CMC) related to of regional and global experiences. → See also page 12 where, but they were using part for selling expired food that was Private Engineering Office. its proposal on establishment of sev- → Continued on page 2 of the labour camp as their stores. found unfit for human consumption. Initial findings of the survey eral pedestrian bridges and sub-ways. Thailand’s beloved king dies at 88

Winners of second Katara Prize for Arabic Novel named BANGKOK: Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has By Raynald C Rivera During this period Egyptians were fostering the presence of Arab novel died at the age of 88, leaving a The Peninsula exposed to tremendous turbulence; globally, encouraging and supporting divided nation bereft of a rare six governors ruled the country — creative Arab novelists and attracting figure of unity. Most Thais have two of whom were killed,” said Iraq. further interest in the Arab narrative. known no other monarch and he When the idea of the novel came During the awards ceremony has been portrayed as a guiding DOHA: A historical novel inspired by to mind, the Dubai-based writer Katara General Manager Dr Al Kha- light through decades of political an important yet neglected period in immersed himself to the concept of lid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti presented turmoil, coups and violent unrest. Egyptian history has won the nod of reading nearly 50 books. On top of the to Abdullah Ahmad Mohareb, Head → See also pages 2 & 6 the jury to bag the top honour at the monetary award, the novel is set to be of Arab League Educational, Cultural second Katara Prize for Arabic Novel. turned into a dramatic piece as well as and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) “Al Azbakia’ by Egyptian novel- translated to several languages prom- Katara’s initiative to mark October 13 Nobel Literature ist Nasser Iraq bagged the $200,000 ising great international exposure. as Arabic Novel Day. Ali Ahmad Al prize for Drama in published category “Winning this prize and trans- Rifai won the top prize of $100,000 Prize for Bob Dylan during the awards ceremony held at lating it to drama is something very for the unpublished category for his the conclusion of the Katara Arab special and important to me. The novel “Mero Family genes”. Novel Festival on Wednesday at the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel plays The top five awardees for pub- STOCKHOLM: US music legend Opera House. Set during the French a crucial role in promoting Arab cul- lished novel category included Bob Dylan won the Nobel Litera- invasion of Egypt led by Napoleon ture and enhancing Arab creativity. Ibrahim Nasr Allah (Kilmanjaro ture Prize, the first songwriter to Bonaparte in 1798, the novel chroni- It encourages the new generation Souls), IlyasKhori (Sons of Gitto), win the award in a decision that cles seven years of tumult combining of novelists and honours those that Eman Hamedan (Fifty grams of stunned prize watchers. He was real and imaginary characters. came before them. It contributes to heaven), Nasser Iraq (al Azbakia), and honoured “for having created “I chose this period because it spreading Arab culture internation- Yahia Yakhalf (Wind rider). They will new poetic expressions within Katara General Manager Dr Al Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti (left) was the most dangerous in modern ally through translation,” he said. each be awarded $60,000. the great American song tradi- Egyptian history — a very important The prize has cemented a strong tion,” the Swedish Academy said. presenting the award to Nasser Iraq. moment yet neglected to some extent. position in the region’s literary map in → Continued on page 2 → See also page 16 02 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 HOME

Dr Al Kawari meets Chinese Minister Emir condoles Headaches call with Thailand’s QNA Crown Prince

for medical BEIJING: H E Dr Hamad bin DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and of condolences to Crown Prince of Qatar’s candidate to the post of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, Director-General of the United on the death of his father, King attention: Expert Nations Educational, Scien- Bhumibol Adulyadej, reports QNA. tific and Cultural Organization Deputy Emir H H Sheikh (Unesco) met yesterday with Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani secondary. If it is secondary, it is China’s Minister of Culture Luo and Prime Minister and Interior caused by another condition. The Shugang. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Multifarious reasons term secondary is used to distin- During the meeting, the Qatari Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a said to be behind guish it from the primary headache candidate expressed his thanks similar cable to the Crown Prince disorders like migraine, tension- to the government of China for of Thailand. condition. type headache, or cluster headache. inviting him to visit and present Headache can be caused by his programme as Director-Gen- Chief of Staff meets general medical conditions such eral of Unesco. H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari with China’s Minister of Culture as severe hypertension, or by con- Dr Al Kawari highlighted French counterpart By Fazeena Saleem ditions that affect the brain and its Qatar and China’s strong cultural Luo Shugang. The Peninsula coverings. Infections of the head ties, reflected in the two coun- and neck, head trauma, even mild, tries’ holding of a year of culture expressed his best wishes for the of Culture and the government as PARIS: Chief of Staff Air Vice- can often lead to headache. Any- in 2016. He then discussed his Qatari candidate and added that a whole. Qatar’s Ambassador in Marshal H E Ghanim bin Shaheen thing that takes up space inside the vision for Unesco. Dr Al Kawari can expect strong China Sultan bin Salmeen Alman- Al Ghanim met yesterday with DOHA: For certain severe or com- head can cause headache, includ- The Chinese Minister support from the Chinese Ministry souri attended the meeting. French Chief of the Defence Staff, plicated headaches, patients should ing tumour. Blood vessel problems Gen Pierre de Villiers, reports consult their doctor so that the can also lead to severe headache, QNA. underlying condition can be accu- said Dr Uthman. rately diagnosed and treated, says Among the primary headaches US envoy praises an expert. migraine is a common type which QU-CMED hosts workshop on Red flags prompting an urgent mostly affects women. Its symptoms visit to the doctor or emergency include a pounding headache, nau- Qatar for hosting department include headache sea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light onset after age 50, getting the worst and is treated with headache reme- health care communication cycling worlds headache of life, a change in typi- dies include pain relievers. cal pattern of headaches, a history However, women with migraine The Peninsula of cancer, fever, visual loss, double are at risk of developing a stroke The Peninsula tional and training settings. Themed Marwan Farouk Abu-Hijleh, and vision, a change in personality, said if they use contraception pills or “A Contextual Model of Health- Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Dr Basim Uthman, Vice Chair and smoke, says Dr Uthman. care Communication: Challenges Assistant Medical Director of Pro- DOHA: Qatar has made history Professor of Clinical Neurology and To date, there is no specific for Description and Assessment”, fessional Development Dr Ameeta as the first country in the Middle Professor of Clinical Neuroscience data regarding headaches in Qatar. DOHA: Qatar University College of the forum brought together health Patel, as well as CMED faculty, staff, East region to host the 89th UCI at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar However a study on ‘Frequency of Medicine (QU-CMED) held on Octo- care professionals and research- and students. Road World Championship. The (WCM-Q). headache and migraine in Qatar’ ber 11 a workshop aimed to present ers from several colleges within The programme agenda included US Ambassador to Qatar, Dana “If a person experiences a head- was conducted in 2006 by the a contextual model of communi- QU, Hamad Medical Corporation lectures delivered by Prof Srikant Shell Smith, said that this cycling ache for the first time after the age Hamad Medical Corporation. cation which can be mapped on to (HMC), and Weill Cornell Medicine- Sarangi, Director of Danish Insti- event made clear that “Qatar has of 50 and if it worsens upon wak- The study found that headache professional expertise in an inte- Qatar (WCM-Q). tute of Humanities and Medicine established itself as a major stop in ing up and gets better some minutes disorders constitute a public health grated manner, and to outline the Participants included QU VP (DIHM) at Aalborg University, Den- the global sporting arena,” adding later, or if the person experiences a problem in Qatar, due to fast urban- theoretical and descriptive under- for Medical Education and CMED mark, on “An Overview of Concepts “this is a source of pride for Qatar, change in the nature of the head- isation. It was also found that the pinnings of such an integrated Dean Dr Egon Toft, CMED Associate & Themes in Healthcare Communi- the region, and its friends — espe- ache, he should consult a doctor,” incidence of headache and migraine perspective on communicative Dean for Academic Affairs Dr Hos- cation” and “Analyzing Healthcare cially the US.” he told The Peninsula. in Qatar is higher than in Western expertise while considering the sam Hamdy, CMED Head of Basic Communication Data from a Con- At yesterday’s reception Headaches can be primary or and African countries. challenges of assessment in educa- Medical Science Department Prof textual Perspective”. for the American cyclists and their supporters, Smith hailed the involvement of American cyclists in Qatar as a clear sym- Allergy and bol of strong bilateral relations. Qatari Ambassador to Mozambique Ambassador presents credentials “Your participation here provides Immunology another layer of meaningful depth to the already deep and broad US- Service to be Qatari relationship,” she said. She went on to congratulate several relocated American cyclists for their wins during the first days of the World Championship. The Peninsula International DOHA: Hamad Medical Cor- arbitration meet poration’s (HMC) Allergy and Immunology Service will be relocated in Hamad Bin Khalifa to begin on Oct 18 Medical City tomorrow. It will move from its current The Peninsula location on the second floor of the Outpatient Department in Hamad General Hospital to Level four, Flat DOHA: The second inter- B, Building 310, Hamad Bin Khal- national conference on ifa Medical City. arbitration is to kick off on Octo- Patients with existing appoint- ber 18, said Ibrahim Shuhaibak, ments scheduled on or after Secretary-General of the Qatari October 23 with the Allergy and International Center for Concil- Immunology Service should iation and Arbitration (QICCA). visit the new location for the The conference will be held appointment. under the patronage of Prime Min- For any queries related to ister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh existing allergy and immunol- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al ogy appointments, patients can Thani. It will be attended by H E Dr call HMC’s Nesma’ak customer President of Mozambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi received the President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev received the credentials Hassan Lahdan Saqr Al Mohan- helpline on 16060. credentials of Qatar’s Non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary of Qatar’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to nadi, Minister of Justice, Prince The new location will provide and Plenipotentiary to Mozambique Yousef bin Mohammed Al Bulgaria Rashid bin Ali Al Khater. The Ambassador conveyed the Bandar bin Salman Al Saud, Hon- four consultation rooms dedicated Mahmoud. The Ambassador conveyed the greetings of Emir greetings of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the orary President of GCC Lawyer’s to the Allergy and Immunology H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the President of President of Bulgaria, wishing him good health and happiness, Association, Renaud Sorieu, Director Service, which will mean patients Mozambique, wishing him good health and happiness, and and the government and people more progress and prosperity. Secretariat of the UN Commis- have access to more spacious the government and people of Mozambique more progress The Bulgarian President entrusted the Ambassador to convey sion on International Trade Laws facilities, equipped specifically for and prosperity. The President of Mozambique entrusted the his greetings to the Emir and his wishes to the Qatari people for (UNCITRAL), and Brooke Daley, purpose. Building 310 is also home Ambassador to convey his greetings to the Emir and his wishes further prosperity and progress. Deputy Secretary General of the to the Internal Medicine Ambula- to the Qatari people for further prosperity and progress. International Court Permanent for tory Care Clinics. Arbitration. Traffic diversion CMC recommends bridges and 105 GCC entries for Katara Prize for Arabic Novel on Mesaieed Road Continued from page 1 subways for pedestrians categories: unpublished novels (732), published The Peninsula novels (234), and literary criticism (38). Continued from page 1 give priority to safety of complexes and Furjan In the unpublished category the winners It covered a wide literary geography with 375 pedestrians and take into markets. As all these facil- were Salmi Al Nasser- (Blue tongues), Saad submissions from Egypt and Sudan, 260 from Iraq DOHA: The Public Works Author- The Central Municipal account the needs of peo- ities are closer and within Mohamed Raheem (Desire banks), Ali Ahmad and the Levant, 257 from northern Arab African ity, Ashghal, has announced that Council (CMC) recently ple with disabilities, said walking distance, safe cor- Al Rifai (Mero Family genes), Mohamed Al Gharbi countries, 105 from the GCC countries and Yemen it will close part of the exist- submitted a recommen- the CMC. ridors for pedestrians are Omran (Heights queen), and Mostafa Al Hamdawi and 7 from non-Arab countries. ing diversion on Mesaieed Road dation to the Ministry of The proposal was required, said Al Jufairi in (princess shadows). Each of them will receive The second edition of the Katara Arabic Novel towards Al Wakra and road users Transport and Communi- based on a suggestion her suggestion to the coun- $30,000. Festival comprised events and activities focused will be diverted on to a two lane, cation to establish several made by Sheikha bint cil. During the discussion, Katara’s prizes for research and studies went on the latest in Arab narrative including panel 2.6-km long newly built road bridges and subways for Yusuf Al Jefairi, repre- members of the coun- to Dr Ibrahim Al Hajri, Dr. Hassan Al Mowadn, Dr discussions in addition to three concurrent exhi- before continuing on their jour- pedestrians. sentative of constituency cil said that due to lack of HossamSafan, Dr ZohorKaram and Dr Mohamed bitions namely Youth Novel, Naguib Mahfouz, and ney. The diversion will commence The civic council called 8, who is also head of the safe pedestrian crossings Abo Azza. Pens› Collectibles. on October 16 and last for a year, on the ministry to prepare legal committee at CMC. and delays in implemen- The top five unpublished studies in the The Pens Collectibles expo displayed a wide in coordination with the Traffic a comprehensive guide on Al Jufairi indicated that tation of such projects, research, evaluation and literary criticism cate- collection of pens and writing instruments that Police Department. all pedestrian passages, the areas 45, 42 , 47, 46, and people face the danger of gory will each be awarded $15,000, while, the top belong to renowned writers, in addition to 24 The diversion is required subways and bridges in the 44 includes many public being hit by speeding cars five in the unpublished young-adult novels cate- mural paintings inspired by their novels. to facilitate the construction of current roads and future and services facilities like or waste their time and gory will each be awarded $10,000. Dignitaries and renowned novelists, intellec- an interchange on Ashghal’s Al projects at the national schools, markets, health effort to cross the roads For this edition, Katara received a total of tuals, and the jury members attended the awards Wakra Bypass project, part of its level. The designs should institutions, business using cars. 1,004 entries, which was split into three major ceremony. Expressway Programme. HOME/MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 03 FM calls for no-fly zone to protect Syrian civilians

the ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution and to foreign powers for support, per- the ‘Acheson Plan,’ which provides petuating the bloodshed,” Sheikh “Qatar calls on the a means of circumventing a dead- Mohammed bin Abdulrahman added. members of the Security locked Security Council and enabling He said that there remain alter- Council to set aside the United Nations to enact collective natives in light of the current status, their geopolitical resistance to aggression. drawing examples from Rwanda and Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul- Bosnia. “After the United Nations calculations and honour rahman said that Syrian President failed to intervene to prevent geno- their commitment to Bashar Al Assad has not acted alone cides in the 1990s in Rwanda and at protect the lives of the and that he had support from foreign Srebrenica (during the Bosnian war), defenceless in Syria,” powers that share responsibility with Nato took action to stop an imminent him for death and destruction. massacre in Kosovo. Justifying the says Foreign Minister “But he has also had enablers, Nato action, President Bill Clinton H E Sheikh Mohammed bin those who have stood aside and done said, ‘If the world community has the Abdulrahman Al Thani in nothing as the slaughter has contin- power to stop it, we ought to stop gen- an Op-Ed in ued. Red lines have been drawn, ocide and ethnic cleansing.’” and Assad has crossed them with- “When innocent civilians are New York Times. out consequence. Cease-fires have being mercilessly massacred whether been declared, and regime forces they are Christians, Tutsis, Serbs or have violated them with impunity,” Muslims it is the responsibility of the the Qatari foreign minister said in international community to take col- QNA his piece. lective action. Six years after Kosovo, He warned that “time is not on the United Nations endorsed this our side,” adding that while world resolve with the Responsibility to leaders hesitate, thousands more Protect. Now it’s time to protect the WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister H E could die in Aleppo. The international innocent in Syria. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman community, bearing the failures in Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) “There are those who will argue Al Thani called on Security Council Rwanda and Bosnia on its conscience, Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Riyadh, yesterday. that it would be a mistake to inter- members to set aside their geopolit- cannot afford to fail again. vene in another conflict in the ical calculations and honour their Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul- exactly what they are doing,’ said. Council has also failed, despite multi- now being inflicted on Aleppo illus- Middle East, citing the American- commitment to protect the lives of rahman said: “Earliera this month Ban. They know they are committing ple resolutions, to use all means at its trates the consequences of the United led occupation of Iraq from 2003. the Syrian people. health centre in Aleppo, run by Qatar war crimes,” Foreign Minister said. disposal to stop the atrocities being Nations’ failure. But the invasion of Iraq was a war In an Op-Ed in New York Times Red Crescent was struck by bombs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul- committed against the Syrian people. “Syria is not the only place where of choice. There is no choice in Syria: under the title “How the UN can dropped from an helicopter. Two rahman Al Thani said that five The principle of the Responsibility the Security Council has selectively Saving civilians from being slaugh- save Aleppo,” Sheikh Mohammed patients were killed, eight others years after Assad’s shockingly bru- to Protect, endorsed by all mem- ducked its responsibility to protect tered by the Assad regime is a moral bin Abdulrahman urged the Secu- were wounded and half the facility tal response to the peaceful protests ber states of the United Nations in innocent civilians and prevent war responsibility. rity Council to immediately create was destroyed. Qatar was forced to of his people, the tally of war crimes 2005 to prevent war crimes and crimes in the Middle East. In Gaza “The world has the power to ‘safe havens’ in northern and south- close the centre. Dr Hashem Darwish, in Syria is growing. crimes against humanity, should in 2014, it failed to restrain Israeli stop the bloodshed in Syria. Under ern Syria and enforce a no-fly zone in the head of the health programme “About half a million people have formed the basis for a United aggression against the civilian pop- the auspices of the Responsibility to order to protect the defenceless pop- at the Qatar Red Crescent mission have died, and millions more have Nations-led intervention in Syria. ulation: Of 2,251 Palestinians killed, Protect and Chapter VII of its charter, ulation of the country, warning of a in Turkey, called the attack a war fled their homes and their country “During the past five years, 1,462 were civilians, including 551 the United Nations has the author- repeat of the international commu- crime.” to escape the barrel bombs and chlo- however, enforcement of the Respon- children and 299 women. ity to take action. Qatar calls on the nity’s failures in Rwanda and Bosnia. “This was the very phrase the rine gas that Assad has unleashed on sibility to Protect has been blocked “The lack of impartiality and members of the Security Council to The foreign minister argued that Secretary-General of the United his own citizens. The regime’s eth- repeatedly by certain members of accountability in the work of the set aside their geopolitical calcula- in case the Security Council failed Nations, Ban Ki-moon, used a few nic cleansing and crimes against the Security Council for political Security Council has disillusioned tions and honour their commitment to agree on such basic actions, the days earlier to describe the escalating humanity have only intensified in reasons. The deadlock, in turn, has many in the Middle East who seek to protect the lives of the defence- United Nations General Assembly violence deployed by the Syrian gov- their viciousness and cruelty as the allowed the Syrian regime to con- peace and justice. In the absence of less in Syria,” H E Sheikh Mohammed should demand the implementation ernment and its allies. ‘Those using war has dragged on,” he said. tinue to massacre its citizens with international leadership, some gov- bin Abdulrahman Al Thani concluded of Resolution 377A, also known as ever more destructive weapons know “The United Nations Security impunity. The humanitarian disaster ernments in the region have turned his article. GCC nations designate FETO US missiles destroy Houthi radar sites in Yemen terrorist outfit

AP authorized to be named and spoke and East Africa. Still, its announce- Anatolia & Reuters on condition of anonymity. ment hours after the American strike The destroyer USS Nitze launched appeared aimed at sending a signal the cruise missiles, the official said. to the United States. RIYADH: Foreign ministers of Gulf WASHINGTON: US launched Toma- President Barack Obama Iran says it supports the Houthis, Cooperation Council (GCC) mem- hawk cruise missiles destroyed three authorised the strikes at the recom- though it denies arming the rebels. ber states yesterday designated coastal radar sites in Houthi-con- mendation of Defence Secretary Ash The US Navy says it has intercepted the FETO group, led by US-based trolled territory on Yemen’s Red Sea Carter and the chairman of the Joint shipments of weapons from Iran Fetullah Gulen, a “terrorist organ- Coast early yesterday, officials said, Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, bound for Yemen. isation”, stressing their support for a retaliatory action that followed two Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook Meanwhile, Yemen›s state news the Turkish government’s recent incidents this week in which missiles said in a statement. US officials had agency Saba— under Houthis› con- moves against the group. were fired at US Navy ships. said earlier that the US was weigh- trol— quoted an unnamed military The decision was announced at The strikes marked the first US ing what military response to take. official as saying that US accusations a GCC-organised meeting in Riy- strikes targeting the Houthis in Yem- “These limited self-defense that a US destroyer had come under adh attended by Turkish Foreign en’s long-running civil war. The US strikes were conducted to protect our attack from areas under control of Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who previously only provided logistical personnel, our ships and our free- Houthis were false. He said, “all these arrived in the Saudi capital yes- support and refuelling to the Saudi- dom of navigation in this important claims are totally untrue and that the terday, and his Gulf counterparts. led coalition battling Yemen’s Shiite maritime passageway,” Cook said popular committees (Houthi militias) The joint announcement also called rebels known as Houthis and their following the US action. “The United have nothing to do with such action.” for the adoption of new strategies allies, including supporters of Yem- States will respond to any further He added, “such claims are aimed at fighting terrorism ema- en’s former president, Ali Abdullah threat to our ships and commer- part of the general context of cre- nating from pseudo-religious “cults” Saleh. cial traffic, as appropriate, and will ating false justifications to escalate such as FETO, or the Fetullah Ter- While the US military has been continue to maintain our freedom of assaults and cover up the continuous A destroyed vehicle bearing a radar antenna in the Yemeni port city rorist Organization. focused on Al Qaeda in Yemen, the navigation in the Red Sea, the Bab crimes committed by the aggression Gulf foreign ministers also Houthis had not been a primary al-Mandeb and elsewhere around against the Yemeni people, along of Hodeidah, yesterday. stressed their support for Turkey’s target of American forces until the the world.” with the blockade imposed on it, and stability under the leadership of missile launches from Houthi-con- In a sign of the regional nature of after the increasing condemnations directly after failure of the Saudis.” operations in the region with the USS President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, trolled territory this week. the Yemen conflict, the Houthis› ally to such barbaric and hideous crimes He said that the army never tar- Ponce, an amphibious warship. Nei- along with Turkish actions taken No information on casualties Iran announced Thursday that it was against Yemenis.” gets ships outside the territorial ther missile got near the ship, said a against FETO since the latter’s from the US missiles was provided deploying two warships into the Bab Loai Al Shami, a Houthi spokes- waters and only those that enter the US military official. failed July 15 coup attempt. by American officials. The three Al Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. man, had earlier declined to Yemeni waters come under attack. The missiles were fired from radar sites were in remote areas, The semi-official Tasnim news comment on the US strike. Sharaf Early on Wednesday, two mis- the Yemen coast, near the location where there was little risk of civil- agency said the deployment of the loqman, spokesman for the Yemeni siles were fired at the USS Mason, an used Sunday when two missiles were Turkey sacks 109 ian casualties or collateral damage, Alvand and the Bushehr was part of a army, called it an “American farce to Arleigh Burke class of guided missile launched at the same two ships, said military judges said a military official who was not regular anti-piracy patrol off Yemen find a reason to interfere in Yemen destroyer that is conducting routine the official.

ANKARA: The Turkish Armed Forces sacked 109 military judges yesterday, the defence ministry Saudi oil stoppage not related Syrian govt approves UN said, further extending a crack- down which has targeted tens of to differences on Syria: Sisi thousands of state employees as aid plan but not for Aleppo part of an investigation into an attempted coup in July. Reuters Judicial authorities also sus- Reuters a weekly meeting of the humanitar- The UN has tried for weeks to pended another 184 judges and ian task force, composed of major evacuate the wounded and chron- prosecutors, adding to a stream of and regional powers. He gave no ically sick from eastern Aleppo, but a dismissals and arrests which Ankara CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said yesterday that a sus- details. ceasefire is required to do so, Ramzy says are aimed at rooting out sup- pension of Saudi petroleum aid to Egypt was not related to his country’s GENEVA: The Syrian government “Of course, the approval of the said. porters of US-based cleric Fethullah vote on Syria at the UN Security Council and the motives for the stoppage has partially approved a United plan is not sufficient, you know there “Capacity to treat emergency Gulen. Gulen denies accusations he were unclear. Nations aid plan for October but are other steps that need to be taken so cases is minimal, and that is why we was behind the coup, during which “Some observers imagine that the stoppage of petroleum cargoes not its request to deliver urgently that deliveries can be made,” Ramzy are working on a plan for medical more than 240 people, including from Saudi Arabia was a response to this but this is not true because needed supplies to the rebel-held told reporters. evacuations,” he said. “I think more civilians, were killed as rogue sol- the oil cargoes come as part of a commercial agreement signed in April part of Aleppo, diplomats and a UN “And we call upon all parties to than 200 are in a critical situation but diers used jets, helicopters and tanks and we do not know the situation of the companies and will take the official said yesterday. help in ensuring that these steps are I also heard the figure of 400 children to bomb government institutions, appropriate response,” the official news agency quoted Sisi as saying Damascus has given a green light taken as soon as possible so the UN that need to be evacuated.” including the parliament. in a speech to the military. for convoys to 25 of 29 besieged and will be able to deliver on its October Ramzy’s boss, UN Syria envoy Some 32,000 people have At a UN Security Council meeting on Saturday, Egypt voted for both a hard-to-reach areas across Syria, plan as soon as possible.” Staffan de Mistura, will join foreign been jailed pending trial and French draft resolution on Syria, which was vetoed by Russia, and a subse- they said, but not to eastern Aleppo The situation for 275,000 people ministers - including US Secretary of 100,000 members of the secu- quent Russian draft, which dropped calls for an end to the bombardment and three parts of the Rural Damas- trapped in eastern Aleppo, encircled State John Kerry and Russia’s Sergei rity and civil services, teachers of Aleppo, and failed to pass. cus province. by government and allied forces, Lavrov - meeting to discuss Syria in and others have been fired or Though the oil aid was suspended before the vote, diplomats and ana- Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, deputy remains “dire”, he said. He noted, Lausanne on Saturday, Ramzy said. suspended from work in the lysts have said Saudi Arabia was angered by Egypt’s position. Sisi said that UN Special Envoy for Syria, con- however, that the water supply had He declined to give details on what crackdown. Egypt would not bow to pressure from anyone. firmed receipt of the approvals after been partially restored. their focus would be. 04 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 ISLAM Prophet and religious plurality

What Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) achieved was not less than opening a new chapter of tolerance and justice in world history.

he general policy in Islam is to guarantee full rights to non- Muslim populations and therefore people subscribing to other religions were granted full civic rights by the virtue of the Quran and Tthrough the application of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Non- Muslim populations living within Muslim communities were granted peaceful and pros- perous life through guaranteeing security for both their lives and properties and were given the appellation of “ahl al Dhimma” which denotes those people with whom Muslims have an agreement or the responsibility of their personal safety and security of their property are undertaken by the Muslim state. The basic guidelines which were laid by the Prophet (PBUH) in the early stage in Madinah where he estab- lished a city-state formed a blue print of how Muslims should deal with Christians and Jews among many other adherents to different religions. Granting minority rights to different religious groups through pledges, documents and mutual agreements succeeded in creating a healthy atmosphere for the development of both spiritual and material growth of the different religious groups living under the Islamic rule. In order to achieve and grant full rights for different religious minorities living in Madinah, the Prophet (PBUH) initiated a historical charter which was later known as of Najran which was delivered to Christians of Najran new converts into Islam but actually was meant to rectify protection of the interests of the citizens and securing “the Charter of the Madinah”. and it surrounding area. the crooked way of looking and thinking of other human justice for all regardless of their colour or creed. The scru- By the virtue of this charter, preventive measures The document reads, “ To the Christians of Najran and beings who do not happen to share the same social sta- pulous observation and literal adherence of the Muslims to were in place to avoid blood feuds and crimes among its surrounding territories, the security of God and the tus or religious affiliation. Once some Chrisitan Fathers the terms of the pacts, treaties, alliances and agreements different Arabian tribes composed of all creeds. The uni- pledge of His Prophet (PBUH) is extended for their lives, came to visit the Prophet in his mosque at Madinah to with non-Muslims was a foundational step into establish- versality of the Islamic creed was meant for the totality religion and their property- to the present as well as the discuss the merits of a true religion, but during their stay ing an effective system of international law. of human beings and this necessitated fair treatment and absent, and others besides, there shall be no interference they couldn’t find a church to offer their prayers so the By setting clear rules for war engagements and pro- full equality to those who chose not to subscribe to the within the practice of their faith or their observance nor Prophet (PBUH) offered them his mosque to pray in it. On hibiting Muslims soldiers from excesses in war fares, Islamic view on life. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) made any change in their rights and privileges, no bishop shall another occasion there was a delegation from the tribe Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) left indelible imprint on the a historical move of abolishing religious and social ine- be removed from his bishopric, nor any priest from his of Thaqif visiting the Prophet (PBUH) so a tent was fixed annals of humanity. In his endeavour to establish rules quality. The sixth year of the Hijra was considered a year priesthood, nor any monk from his monastery, and they up for them within the premises of the Prophet’s mosque. of justice and freedom for different religious groups, of emancipation for Christians as the Prophet (PBUH) shall continue to enjoy everything great and small as here- When it was pointed that the visitors were polytheists, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) emphasised in different granted the Charter to the Fathers of the Monastery of St tofore no image or cross hall be destroyed, they shall not the Prophet (PBUH) said in reply that no one was such occasions that “whoever oppresses a dhimmi, shall find Catherine; an act which secured Christians with privi- oppress or be oppressed; they shall not practice the rights but he made himself one. me to be their advocate on the Day of Judgment (against leges and amenities. of blood-vengeance as in the Days of Ignorance, nor shall The pinnacle of religious tolerance and clemency the oppressing Muslim)”. Muslims were prohibited under severe penalties they be required to furnish provisions for the troops”. was provided by the Prophet (peace and blessings of The Prophet (PBUH) also warned the Muslims against from violating and abusing the provisions of the Char- The treaty of Najran is an illuminating proof of how Allah be upon be upon him) upon his victorious entry to abusing Dhimmis as he stated: “Remember, one who is ter. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was adamant to ensure Islam unreservedly conferred upon the Scripturalists not Makkah after long years of suffering and persecution by unjust to a dhimmi, breaks his word with him, overbur- religious freedom to non-Muslims across the Islamic state only social and religious freedom but also granted them the non- Muslim Makkans. The Prophet (PBUH) and his dens him or dispossesses him, I shall plead against him and for this reason he sent instructions to distant Mus- the power to decide their own civil matters through estab- companions endured redicule and scorn poured on them on the Day of Judgment”. lims governors not to tax them unfairly or enforce them lishing judicial autonomy which was not only pertinent by the Makkans who had implacable hatred and enmity Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was sent as a mercy to the to abandon their faith. Their churches and sanctuaries to personal status but also covers civil, penal and all life against Muslims. world to establish the true meaning of brotherhood among could not be pulled down and replaced by mosques or affairs. Religious freedom and independent judicial sys- The long years of bitter, cruel and sustained persecu- humans as they should all stand united regardless of their houses for Muslims. Moreover, Muslims were asked to tem laid the foundation of a true confederacy which had tion, all the fighting, the hardship and suffering and the skin colour or theological belief. He succeeded in liberating cooperate with Christians should they need an assist- a constitution through which different religious groups loss of a lot of dear and devoted companions; all these man from the bondage of man. He gave the dynamic con- ance for the repair of their churches or monasteries or became an integral part of a political arrangement by were laid aside at the moment of triumph, banished from ception of an undivided humanity, the family of Man, the any other matter related to their religion. means of a social contract. mind and forgiven in the name of the Lord. The clemency children of Adam. He managed to raise the ambitions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was keen to grant reli- The integration of non-Muslims in the political life of the Prophet (PBUH) was unparalleled in the history of people from the limited confinements of national identity gious minorities sufficient judicial autonomy which was a through becoming real contributing players marked a mankind for the accused were told that they were free. to the liberal wide-open meaning of humanity. basic characteristic of the Islamic legal system. Through milestone in the history of human rights. For instance, Giving a pledge to this effect, the Prophet (PBUH) informed The world is passing through a dark phase of moral granting religious freedom to different religious groups, Jews and Christians had the right to join the services of the the Makkans they were free and there was no reproof bankruptcy, social disintegration and parochial loyalties the Prophet (PBUH)meant to set guidelines on how we state. They had the privilege of being consulted on impor- against them”. The glorious act of unconditional forgiv- which helped in inciting wars and increasing the weight of should treat each other fairly which leads to the preven- tant matters. They were sometimes deputed to embassies ing has no similar act available on record. There occurred the roaring voices calling for enmity and hatred. Prophet tion of blood shed and wars among nations. in foreign countries. They exercised the right to vote. Their no retaliation, no dispossession, no enslavement, no exe- Muhammad’s (PBUH) message sanctified the life of all The Prophet (PBUH) throughout his life had a tenac- opinions were thought on the administrative affairs of the cution, no looting and no kidnapping and dishonoring of human beings irrespective of their racial origin or reli- ity of the purpose of establishing peace among nations state. Above all, non-Muslims continued to live in both women by the conquerors. gious affiliation. He taught us the true meaning of mercy through signing different pacts, and treaties to ensure Makkah and Madinah and there are reports of Chris- What Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) achieved was not to all and came to confirm the essence of the three Abra- peaceful coexistence and security to all people. This is tians being buried by their Muslim children in Madinah. less than opening a new chapter of tolerance and justice hamic faiths; an essence based on dispassionate love for proven through pacts like the Peace of Hudayibiyah and Eradicating injustice and ill treatment to different in world history. Establishing an independent judiciary humanity regardless of colour, culture or creed. the Treaty of Taif. Another famous example is the treaty social and religious groups was not meant as a bait to lure system free from external influences guaranteed the Source : Daral Ifta

Sayings of the Prophet A balanced diet prescribed in the Quran Patience

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The he Quran has not restricted The usefulness of fresh milk is likes not those who waste in extrava- example of a believer is that of a fresh tender plant; itself in merely mentioning the stressed in these words: “And verily gance.” (7:31) Islam, being a complete permissible and impermissible in the cattle there is a lesson for you. The Best of Teachers and the Mercy from whatever direction the wind comes, it bends it, foods but goes to the extent of We give you to drink of that which is in of the Worlds Prophet Muhammad religion, also teaches and but when the wind becomes quiet, it becomes straight Tgiving useful tips regarding a balanced their bellies, from between excretion (peace be upon him) is reported to advises the believer as to again. Similarly, a believer is afflicted with calamities diet, a diet which contains most if not and blood, pure milk, palatable to the have clarified the meaning and limit but he remains patient till Allah removes his difficul- all the useful ingredients required for drinkers.” (16:66) of moderation in a tradition in which what the best method of ties. And an impious wicked person is like a pine tree the growth, strengthening and repairing The benefits of fruits as good nour- he is reported to have said that one’s eating is. The believers are which keeps hard and straight till Allah cuts (breaks) it of the human body. These ingredients ishment can be understood from this worst weakness is one’s belly. If you advised to be moderate in down when He wishes.” include animal protein, fat, calcium, verse: “And from the fruits of date palms must eat make sure you fill one third iron, salts, etc. The most balanced diets and grapes, you desire strong drink and of your stomach with food, one third every aspect of life. Sahih Al Bukhari – Book 70 Hadith 547 consist of meat, fish, fresh milk, cheese a goodly provision.” (16:67) with water and leave one third for air and fruit. Both direct and indirect ref- Similarly there are verses which i.e. leave it empty. Narrated Ata bin Abi Rabah: Ibn ‘Abbas said to me, erences have been made regarding the cover the whole range of fruits, sal- In another narration, the reason eating habits among his followers. He “Shall I show you a woman of the people of Paradise?” afore mentioned. ads, and vegetables which also play an for moderation has been clearly stated. asked the companions to wash their I said, “Yes.” He said, “This black lady came to the The reference regarding the impor- important role in a nutritious, balanced The Holy Prophet (PBUH) is reported to hands before and after, to start eating Prophet (peace be upon him) and said, ‘I get attacks tance of meat protein in the human diet diet: “It is He who sends down rain from have said: “The stomach is the tank of with the praise of Allah, to eat using the is given in the following verse: the sky, and with it We bring forth vege- the body and the veins go down to it. right hand, not to eat until they really of epilepsy and my body becomes uncovered; please “And the cattle, He has created them tation of all kinds, and out of it We bring When the stomach is healthy the veins felt hungry, not to eat and drink exces- invoke Allah for me.’ The Prophet (PBUH) said to for you, in them there is warmth (cloth- forth thick clustered grain. And out of come back in a healthy condition, but sively. Finally, by praising and thanking her, ‘If you wish, be patient and you will have (enter) ing) and numerous benefits, and of them the date palm and its spate come clus- when it is in a bad condition, they return Allah for the food and drink, for mak- Paradise; and if you wish, I will invoke Allah to cure you eat.” (16:5) ters of dates hanging low and near, and diseased.” ing it easy to swallow and for producing you.’ She said, ‘I will remain patient,’ and added, ‘but I In this verse special reference has gardens of grapes, olives and pomegran- In short, believers are advised to an exit for it. become uncovered, so please invoke Allah for me that been given to the importance of eating ates each similar (in kind) yet different always take care of their stomachs and From all that has been mentioned, I may not become uncovered.’ So he invoked Allah for despite having said, (in variety and taste). Look at their fruits refrain from foods and practices that the importance of healthy eating, a “…numerous benefits…”.Reference when then begin to bear, and the ripe- might pollute the stomach with vari- balanced diet and hygiene can be her.” regarding other types of meat has also ness thereof.”(6:99) ous diseases. In order to do so the Holy understood in the light of the Quran Sahih Al Bukhari – Book 70 Hadith 555 been given such as the meat of fowls in Islam, being a complete religion, also Prophet (PBUH) is reported to have and Sunnah. Islam has stressed on the the following verse: “And the flesh of teaches and advises the believer as to advised believers to always stop eating importance of these things right from Narrated Anas bin Malik: I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, fowls that they desire.” (56:21) what the best method of eating is. The before their stomachs are completely the start unlike health authorities etc., “Allah said, ‘If I deprive my slave of his two beloved Fish has always been considered as believers are advised to be moderate in full i.e. stop eating when the urge to eat which have just recently begun to stress things (i.e., his eyes) and he remains patient, I will let a food of very high protein and is very every aspect of life. Direct reference has more is still present. its importance. This could be counted important for human consumption. been made in the Noble Quran regard- Islam teaches us many other eti- as just another gem that manifests the him enter Paradise in compensation for them.’” Allah says: “And from them both (fresh ing moderation in eating and drinking. quette’s of eating and drinking. The Holy perfection of Islam. Sahih Al Bukhari – Book 70 Hadith 557 and salt water) you eat fresh tender meat “And eat and drink, but waste not Prophet (PBUH) made a point of devel- (fish).” (35:12) in extravagance, certainly He (Allah) oping remarkably clean and healthy Islamiclife.com ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 05

UK backs EU sanctions call Ethiopia unrest against DR Congo officials

opposition groups say is President “We cannot stand by and watch Joseph Kabila’s plan to postpone a violence, such as that on 19 Septem- We cannot stand by November vote and stay in office ber, continue and not take action.” and watch violence beyond his two-term limit. Officials in Congo, a former Bel- Kabila’s government has said the gian colony, are thought to hold most and not take action: election must be postponed because of their assets in Europe. UK Official of logistical problems. Human Rights Watch onThurs- The United States has already day urged the EU to impose imposed sanctions on a general as sanctions, saying that it could help well as former and current senior prevent a broader crisis. Reuters police officials, but Europe has been The vast, mineral-rich central divided. African state has never experienced France has said it is time to con- a peaceful transition of power. The sider imposing EU sanctions. United Nations said this week that DAKAR: The United Kingdom said “The UK believes sanctions the current crisis poses a great risk yesterday it backs targeted European would play a useful role in influ- to the country’s stability and is likely Union sanctions against officials in encing the DRC Government and to spark large-scale violence. Democratic Republic of Congo to end security forces to desist from Kabila’s term is set to expire in government repression and encour- human rights abuses and suppres- 2016 per the constitution, adopted in age a peaceful transition of power. sion of fundamental freedoms,” a 2006. Officials have suggested elec- Children stand in a destroyed cargo truck in Sebeta, yesterday. After a stampede occurred in Bishoftu Dozens of people have died in spokesperson for the UK Foreign tions will be held November 2016. over a week ago, protesters took to the street to vandalise property thought to belong to the clashes between security forces and Commonwealth Office said in Talk has also focused on the need government. and protesters angered by what an email. for a census before holding elections.

UN calls to ban Zuma moves to block anti-graft report China rejects British concerns ‘fastest growing’ over ‘legal interference’ in HK Reuters president has applied for a court that implicated him. But Madonsela greenhouse gases interdict,” Zuma’s spokesman Bon- said the president had been given gani Ngqulunga said. all the evidence implicating him on Reuters mainland China under the “one Times Live, an online news October 1, and urged Zuma to answer country, two systems” arrange- Reuters JOHANNESBURG: South African website, quoted a source within the questions to aid the probe. ment under which Hong Kong President Jacob Zuma has asked a public protector’s office as saying the The main opposition Democratic returned to China in 1997. court to stop the release of results report could not be released until a Alliance party said in a statement BEIJING: China expressed anger Chinese Foreign Ministry of an anti-corruption investigation court had made a ruling on request. that Zuma was “worried about what yesterday after Britain’s foreign spokesman Geng Shuang said KIGALI: The world will not for- into alleged political interference by Although Zuma and the Guptas is contained in this report, and des- minister said he continued to have China was “resolutely opposed” give leaders gathered in Rwanda his wealthy friends, the presidency deny wrongdoing, the allegations perate to stop it from being made concerns about legal interference to Britain’s report, and that it could this week if they fail to back a said yesterday. have damaged the president, who public”. by Beijing in Hong Kong despite not accept its “unfounded criti- proposed agreement to cut green- Public Protector Thuli Madon- was separately forced to repay part The row over the report adds to pledges to the contrary. cism” of China. house gases, a top UN official said sela was due today to release her of the cost of a lavish upgrade to his pressure on Zuma, whose govern- British Foreign Secretary He said Hong Kong people yesterday, calling the deal an easy preliminary findings in a probe private residence as a result of an ment was rocked this week when Boris Johnson said in a report on enjoyed full rights and freedom one to achieve. into the Guptas, an Indian-born investigation by Madonsela. prosecutors ordered Finance Min- its former colony that he had spe- under law. Representatives from about family accused of using their close On Monday, Zuma asked Madon- ister Pravin Gordhan to appear in cific concerns about the “integrity “Hong Kong is China’s domes- 150 nations heard the appeal as ties with Zuma to influence cabinet sela not to report her findings until he court on November 2 to hear fraud of Hong Kong’s law enforce- tic affair. Foreign countries have they opened negotiations on a appointments. has had a chance to question other charges against him, news that sent ment” which is separate from no right to interfere,” Geng said. deal to reduce the use of factory- “I can confirm that the witnesses and reviewed any evidence markets reeling. made hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, which are used in refrigera- tors, air conditioners and aerosols. US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Rwanda yesterday Death toll rises as Myanmar battles attackers evening and will join the talks. US officials said they were optimis- tic an agreement could be reached at the meeting, which ends today. Reuters Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, “No one, frankly, will forgive and have clashed with groups of up to you if you cannot find a compro- 300 men, armed with pistols, swords 30 dead and mise at this conference,” said and knives, according to reports. 57 hurt in Central Erik Solheim, executive director YANGON: Myanmar’s security Human rights groups and advo- of United Nations Environmen- forces have now killed at least 26 cates for the stateless Rohingya Africa violence tal Program (UNEP). people in response to attacks on have voiced concern that the civil- “This is one of the cheapest, police that have sparked a dra- ian population may be caught up in one of the easiest, one of the low- matic escalation in violence in a the authorities’ violent response. BANGUI: Thirty peo- est-hanging fruits in the entire Muslim-majority region along its Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung ple were killed and 57 arsenal of climate mediation,” border with Bangladesh, accord- San Suu Kyi said that her govern- hurt when fighters from he told the opening session in the ing to reports in state media. ment was “exercising the rule of a mainly-Muslim militia Rwandan capital Kigali. Armed men believed to be law” in dealing with the attacks, group attacked civil- Scientists say a quick reduc- from the long-oppressed Rohingya the state-run Global New Light of ians and clashed with UN tion of HFCs could dramatically Muslim minority launched a coordi- Myanmar newspaper said yesterday. peacekeepers in Central slow climate change, avoiding nated assault on three border police Authorities had not yet con- African Republic, the UN perhaps 0.5 degree Celsius of a posts in the early hours Sunday, kill- firmed who was behind the attacks, mission said yesterday. projected rise in average temper- ing nine police, injuring five and Suu Kyi said on Wednesday. Twelve militia fight- atures by 2100. making off with dozens of weap- The military’s official newspa- ers were killed by UN Solheim said failure to act ons and more than 10,000 rounds per, Myawady, said that another 10 troops in the clashes on would contribute to more extreme of ammunition. alleged attackers were killed, and a Wednesday. An armed Myanmar police officer stands guard at the Aung Mingalar droughts and stronger storms of Military personnel and police rifle was seized, in a clash on Tues- The violence in the the type that hit Haiti last week, ward, a confinement area for the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority reinforcements have poured into day morning at Kyetyoepyin village, central market town of killing about 1,000 people. in Sittwe capital of Rakhine State, yesterday. the Muslim-majority township of Maungdaw Township. Kaga Bandoro began when a member of the mainly Muslim ex-Seleka militia was killed as he and three others tried to Excavator rescues trapped elephants steal a generator from a Japan to expand army local radio station.

Reuters base in eastern Africa Vietnam ‘no’ to foreign military Reuters presence in Djibouti, and it is neces- BEIJING: Rescuers in China used a sary for Japan gain more influence,” large excavator to break down a con- base on its soil said one of the sources, with knowl- crete wall and free three elephants edge of the plan. stuck in a water-filled reservoir for TOKYO: Japan will lease additional China in February began con- more than two days, state media HANOI: Vietnam said land next year to expand a military struction in Djibouti of its first reported. yesterday it would base in Djibouti, eastern Africa, as overseas military facility, a coastal The two adult elephants and calf not allow other coun- a counterweight to what it sees as logistics base that will resupply were discovered on Sunday in the tries to set up military growing Chinese influence in the naval vessels taking part in peace- five-metre deep reservoir in south- bases there, just days region, three Japanese government keeping and humanitarian missions. western Yunnan province by forest after Russia said it was sources said. Djibouti, which is about the size rangers, but heavy rains filled up the considering reopening China is seeking closer ties with of Wales, is strategically located at pool and delayed rescue efforts at the Soviet-era bases in Viet- African nations that could help it the southern entrance to the Red hilltop location. nam and Cuba. gain access to natural resources Sea on the route to the Suez Canal. The two adult elephants helped “Vietnam’s consistent and provide new markets. Beijing The tiny, barren nation sandwiched the calf keep afloat as the water lev- policy is not to engage said late last year it would pump between Ethiopia, Eritrea and els rose, with more than 10 other a military ally or engage $60bn into development projects Somalia, also hosts US and French elephants roaming around the tank, with any country to on the continent, cancel some debt bases. CCTV footage showed. oppose a third country,” Foreign Ministry spokes- and help boost agriculture. Since 2011, a Japanese Self Rescuers, who brought food for Two elephants with a baby elephant heading into the forest after man Le Hai Binh told a Earlier this year, Japan also Defence Force contingent of 180 the trapped animals, used a heli- being freed from a reservoir where they had become trapped in pledged to increase its support troops has occupied a 12 hectare copter and firecrackers to scare news briefing. Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province. to infrastructure, education and site in Djibouti, next to Camp Lem- away the nearby elephants, before “We (government) will healthcare projects in Africa, com- onnier, the US base at the country›s bringing in a large excavator to also not allow any other mitting an extra $30bn in public and international airport. break the wall of the reservoir on which is used by local villagers to Around 300 Asian elephants are countries to set up a mili- private support. A Japanese Defence Ministry Tuesday. irrigate plants, and the two adults, thought to inhabit China with most tary base in Vietnam, ” he “China is putting money into spokesman confirmed discussions Local authorities believed the a male and a female, went in to found in Yunnan, which borders added. new infrastructure and raising its were taking place. calf had fallen in to the reservoir, help. Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. 06 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Duterte seeks Thailand king dies after 70-year reign investments in Beijing Vajiralongkorn, 64, is the king’s named successor, but the country’s Crown Prince Maha military junta chief Prayut Chan-O- AFP Vajiralongkorn is Cha said the prince informed him he was not yet ready to assume the the king’s named throne. successor, but the “He asked for time to prepare for MANILA: Philippine President military junta chief legal processes in order to proclaim Rodrigo Duterte heads to China him on the throne at the appropri- next week seeking billions of dol- Prayut Chan-O- ate time,” Prayut told reporters after lars in investments and buckets of Cha said the prince meeting the prince. respect, as he pivots angrily away Most Thais have known no other from traditional ally the US. informed him he monarch than Bhumibol and he was Chinese President Xi Jinping was not yet ready to portrayed as a guiding light through is set to give the mercurial leader decades of political turmoil and a warm welcome, after Duterte assume the throne. coups. threatened to end a decades-long The palace said he died at 3:52pm alliance with the United States and after a long illness, causing large gave Beijing a timely boost in its AFP crowds to erupt in mourning outside quest for more control over the the hospital where Bhumibol spent strategically vital South China Sea. most of the last two years. Duterte, 71, has said he is try- “How will Thailand live without ing to wean the Philippines off an BANGKOK: King Bhumibol Aduly- you, father?” cried one distressed unhealthy reliance on its former adej, long a unifying figure in young man as others chanted “Long colonial ruler, although he has politically fractious Thailand, died Live the King!” signalled the shift is also due to yesterday and uncertainty over the Prayut, the former army chief his outrage at US criticism of his succession quickly arose as his crown who heads the ruling junta, quickly deadly war on crime. prince reportedly sought a delay in affirmed Vajiralongkorn as chosen Analysts believe Duterte’s taking over. successor. A supporter of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej holds a picture bearing his image at Siriraj Hospital, in attraction to a rising China is The death of the 88-year-old But the delay in officially pro- Bangkok, yesterday. typical of his ultra-pragmatic gov- Bhumibol, the world’s longest-reign- claiming him king will fuel concerns erning style, following repeated ing monarch, removed a revered over a potentially messy succession. stage a slow and careful transition. speeches from him highlighting father figure in a country where The Crown Prince is yet to attain “But any delay is worrisome as it what he believes is the United political tensions are still raw two his father’s widespread popularity, creates suspicion and the Thai peo- World leaders pay tribute States’ diminishing economic and years after a military coup. spending much of his time overseas. ple are concerned anyway about the military might. Crown Prince Maha Analysts said elites likely want to monarchy’s future under Vajiralong- BANGKOK: World leaders paid to improving the lives of his “He is a results-oriented korn,” said Paul Handley, author of tribute to Thailand’s King Bhumibol subjects. person, Machiavellian, too,” Uni- the unauthorised biography “The Adulyadej yesterday as a champion Neighbouring Singapore and versity of the Philippines political King Never Smiles”. of his people during a momentous Malaysia both expressed their sor- science professor Clarita Carlos “It’s maybe too early, but it almost seven-decade reign, as observers row at his passing, with the island said. creates a power vacuum.” warned his death could plunge the city-state describing the king as “The guy knows if he can find Speaking earlier on television, country into renewed turmoil. “an outstanding and deeply revered markets for our bananas, pine- Prayut said Thailand would hold a UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed monarch... worked tirelessly for the apples, and create employment, one-year mourning period and that the king’s “long dedication to his betterment of the Thai people”. whether it’s China, Russia or Mali, the country’s notorious entertain- country and his legacy as a uni- President Vladimir Putin sent a that’s where we are going. What- ment functions must be “toned down” fying national leader... respected telegram of condolence, saying that ever works.” for a month. internationally”. “during the decades of his reign he Duterte is bringing along a Trading on the Thai stock “The Secretary-General won the sincere love of his subjects delegation of hundreds of busi- exchange would continue, however. expresses his hope that Thailand and high prestige abroad”. nessmen, including many of Bhumibol’s death is a major test will continue to honour King Bhu- British Prime Minister Theresa the Philippines’ most powerful for Prayut’s junta, which seized mibol’s legacy of commitment to May said Bhumibol “guided the tycoons, in a bid to capitalise on power in 2014. universal values and respect for Kingdom of Thailand with dignity, the warming of relations that have The coup ended a decade of strife human rights,” his spokesman said. dedication and vision throughout taken place due to his efforts to between Thailand’s two major politi- President Barack Obama his life. He will be greatly missed”. placate Beijing on the South China cal factions, exacerbated by the king’s praised the monarch as a “close Indian Prime Minister Naren- Sea row. declining health as jostling elites friend” and partner of the US. dra Modi tweeted: “People of India Duterte has also signalled he competed for power. He paid tribute to the king and I join the people of Thailand wants to go to Beijing to enjoy The palace’s announcement as a “tireless champion” for in grieving the loss of one of the some respect, following relent- this week that the king was gravely Thailand’s development, prais- tallest leaders of our times, King less criticism from the West about Well-wishers hug as they weep outside the hospital. ill sent stocks and the currency ing his “unflagging devotion” Bhumibol Adulyadej”. alleged extrajudicial killings in his tumbling. war on crime. China urges Australia to be ‘IS inspired’ Aussie teens charged

‘cautious’ on disputed sea AFP Three Koreans Reuters can speak and act cautiously, and found shot dead that its words and deeds match”, the ministry paraphrased Fan as saying. SYDNEY: Two 16-year-old boys were near Manila He did not elaborate. charged yesterday with planning an BEIJING: China hopes that Aus- China claims almost the entire imminent terror attack after being tralia acts and speaks with caution South China Sea where about $5 arrested with “bayonet-type” knives SEOUL: The bodies of on the South China Sea and that its trillion sea-borne trade passes in Sydney, with police saying the three South Koreans with words and actions on the matter annually. pair were inspired by the so-called gunshot wounds to the match each other, a senior Chinese China has been angered by US Islamic State group. head have been found in officer told the visiting head of the freedom of navigation patrols in The boys, who were not named, the Philippines, a South Australian Defence Force. the South China Sea, while China’s were seized in the city’s south- Korean foreign ministry Australia, a staunch US ally, building of artificial islands there west after buying the weapons in official said yesterday, the has previously drawn criticism including new airstrips has rattled a shop, renewing fears about youth latest in a string of killings from China for running surveil- nerves around the region. radicalisation. of Koreans in the south- lance flights over disputed islands China says much of the building They face life imprisonment if east Asian nation. in the South China Sea and sup- and reclamation work it has been convicted on charges of “acts done The bodies of two porting US freedom of navigation doing in the South China Sea is to in preparation, or planning, terror- New South Wales Police Commissioner Catherine Burn and Australian men and a woman, all exercises there. benefit the international commu- ist acts”, and membership of a terror older than 40 and all However, Australia has not nity, including for civilian maritime organisation. Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan address the media with gunshot wounds to conducted a unilateral freedom of navigation. “We don’t have any specific after two 16-year-old boys were charged with terror-related offences the head, were found on navigation voyage of its own. In July, an arbitration court in information of a particular target in Sydney, yesterday. Tuesday in Bacolor out- Meeting in Beijing, Vice Chair- the Hague said China’s claims to where we will allege that there was side the capital, Manila, man of China’s Central Military the waterway were invalid, after a going to be an imminent attack,” alleging “the attack was inspired now prevented 11 terror attacks on the ministry official said. Commission Fan Changlong told case was brought by the Philippines. said New South Wales Deputy Police by Islamic State”. home soil in the past two years. But Australia’s Air Chief Marshal Mark Beijing has refused to recognise the Commissioner Catherine Burn. “The charge that relates to mem- several have taken place, includ- Binskin that China hopes to push ruling. “What we do know, though, is bership of an organisation, we will ing the murder of a Sydney police Child finds tip of forward the healthy and stable Australian Prime Minister Mal- that the actions, we will allege, were allude to their association or alle- employee last year. development of bilateral military colm Turnbull discussed the South enough to say they were preparing to giance with Islamic State,” she said. Counter-terror police have made sliced finger in ties, China’s Defence Ministry said China Sea with Chinese President do an attack although we don’t know They were refused bail by a chil- a series of arrests since late 2014, late on Wednesday. Xi Jinping last month, stressing specifically where that attack was dren’s court and are due to reappear with the young age and radicali- Japanese noodles China “hopes that on the South the importance of complying with going to take place.” in December. sation of many of those detained a China Sea issue the Australian side international law. She added that police were Australian officials say they have growing concern for authorities.

TOKYO: A child who was tucking into noodles at a popular Japanese res- taurant found some extra topping in the bowl -- Philippine leader forms panel to probe media violence the tip of a sliced finger, a health official said. A female customer Reuters cabinet ministers, police, defence or hamstrung by lack of witness input from non-governmental Thirty-one journalists were complained to staff when and justice officials would spend a testimony. sources, such as human rights and among 57 people killed in a massacre her child made the grue- month compiling an inventory of “The reason why the president journalist groups. in 2009 in the southern province of some finding at a “ramen” outstanding cases before pursu- wanted this administrative order It would also monitor media per- Maguindanao while covering a local noodle outlet run by MANILA: Philippine leader Rodrigo ing investigations, said Presidential number 1 is because he cares for you, sonnel in danger and provide them election, in what was one of the most Kourakuen Holdings in Duterte has issued an administra- Communications Secretary Martin for us,” he told a regular briefing yes- with protection, Andanar said. deadly incidents involving media in Shizuoka last month. tive order to create a presidential task Andanar. terday. “And he believes in freedom Scores of journalists have been the world. It turned out to be a force to protect journalists and inves- The Philippines enjoys one of of the press.” killed in the Philippines in the past The Committee to Protect Jour- piece of “nail with thick tigate attacks on media, in what is the most liberal media environ- The order was signed by Duterte three decades, with many of the vic- nalists ranks the Philippines fourth skin”, according to Masa- one of the world’s most dangerous ments in Asia, but violence against on Tuesday and includes the for- tims radio broadcasters, often for in the world in its impunity index, shi Goto. countries for the press. journalists is common and probes mation of an oversight panel to coverage of provincial-level poli- which tracks deaths of media mem- A special unit comprised of into killings are often inconclusive scrutinise the probes and gather tics, which is notoriously dangerous. bers whose killers go free. PAKISTAN FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 07 Cabinet grants power to PM to approve projects

over Rs30m ($0.29m) before the The request would then be for- fields but more than the said amount sector, construction and rehabili- Additional funding and throw- upcoming elections under the gov- warded to the division commissioner depleted. Despite that, the cabinet tation of farm to market roads was forward will not be permissible. Prime Minister was ernment’s three-year development concerned or relevant executing approved of laying additional pipe- approved. Savings against the schemes com- given discretionary package called ‘Wazeer-i-Azam agencies for processing. lines to give more connections to new It was also decided to construct or pleted will be surrendered powers to approve Qaumi Taraqiati Programme 2016- Schemes costing Rs0.5m to customers. repair roads in district or provinces. immediately on completion of the 18’. According to officials, the cabinet Rs30m would be entertained, while The cabinet also decided to lay The cabinet observed that the scheme without waiting for closing development projects has also approved the set of package projects over and above Rs30m the missing gas infrastructure to pro- PPRA rules would be followed of the financial year. worth over Rs30m. for development schemes. would require approval of the prime vide more gas connections under wherever applicable and divi- Expenditure will not be incurred Although the cabinet was minister. parliamentarians’ scheme, subject sional commissioner and executing on purchase of equipment, vehicles, informed that the development The cabinet was further informed to availability of gas, duly certified by agencies would be responsible for furniture, salaries, printing of diaries, programme was of a non-political that electrification schemes would the Ministry of Petroleum and Natu- ensuring the quality of work and holding of official meetings. Internews nature, the prime minister was given also be launched to provide elec- ral Resources. furnish to the cabinet division the Similarly, no administrative over- discretionary powers to approve tricity connections to more villages Concerning the social sector, monthly progress on physical work heads will be charged by any agency development projects worth over and rehabilitation of electricity dis- it was decided to construct new and use of funds. for execution of schemes. Rs30m. tribution infrastructure projects schools, upgradation or uplifting of Moreover, schemes identified Also, no new schemes will be ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet During the meeting, it was also would also be initiated under the existing schools including provision for a specified financial year will be entertained against savings of the of Pakistan has given discretionary informed that at least 15 residents programme. of missing facilities. completed within the same year. No originally funded schemes. The funds powers to Prime Minister Nawaz of an area or civil society or organ- During the present govern- In municipal sector, water supply cost overrun will be admissible and distribution would be subject to nor- Sharif to approve gas, power schemes isation would make the request for ment’s tenure, 500mmcfd gas was schemes and filtrations plants would there will be no cushion available to mal accounting and audit procedures and infrastructure projects worth intervention. added into the system from new gas be set up while in the infrastructure meet any extra cost on any account. of the government of Pakistan.

Supreme Court delays Spanish diplomat found dead at blasphemy appeal Islamabad home after judge steps down ISLAMABAD: A Span- ish diplomat was found dead yesterday at his AFP calling for Bibi’s death. Islamabad home in what Rehman was chief justice on the authorities suspect is a Islamabad High Court which heard suicide, police said. Qadri’s appeal in 2011, according to The 60-year-old man ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court local media. The Supreme Court did was found in his bedroom delayed an appeal into a blasphemy not immediately set a new date for by a domestic servant case against a Christian mother on Bibi’s appeal. with a revolver by his death row yesterday after one of the Observers have called the case a side, said police officer judges stepped down, with thousands battle for Pakistan’s soul as the state Iftikhar Chatha. of security forces deployed following walks a line between upholding A doctor at threats from clerics. human rights and appeasing hard- Islamabad’s Federal Gov- Police and troops had been sta- liners. Clerics at the influential Red ernment Services Hospital tioned across Islamabad as the court Mosque in Islamabad warned they said the man died of a readied to hear a final appeal in the would launch a nationwide protest if gunshot wound to the case of Asia Bibi, who has been on Bibi is released. “Anyone who defends head. But the doctor, Ashiq Masih(centre), husband of Asia Bibi, who faces the death sentence for blasphemy, leaves the Supreme death row since 2010. Observers had or protects a blasphemer of the who spoke on condition warned of “tremendous” repercus- Prophet will themselves be consid- Court in Islamabad yesterday. of anonymity because he sions in the case. ered guilty of blasphemy,” spokesman wasn’t authorised to brief But one of the three-judge bench, Hafiz Ihtesham Ahmed said. Rights groups complain the con- become the first person in Pakistan decision to uphold Qadri’s death sen- the media, said there Justice Iqbal Hameed ur Rehman, He warned against foreign dip- troversial legislation is often abused to be executed for blasphemy. tence, justices had to sneak out the would be no ruling on told the court he had to recuse him- lomats lobbying for Bibi’s release, to carry out personal vendettas, The repercussions for minori- back door of the court. whether the death was self, claiming a conflict of interest. saying in a statement that cler- mainly against minority Christians. ties, human rights and the blasphemy “It’s a sensitive case. I think they suicide until an autopsy “I was a part of the bench that ics would mobilise the public if she Bibi was convicted and sentenced laws in Pakistan would be “tremen- (the judges) have realised that if had been performed. was hearing the case of Salmaan was freed and “everyone will become to hang in 2010 after an argument dous”, said Shahzad Akbar, a human Asia Bibi (is) acquitted, they may be There was no imme- Taseer, and this case is related to Qadri”. “All the foreign powers should with a Muslim woman over a bowl of rights lawyer. putting their own lives on the line,” diate reaction from the that,” he told the court, which was keep in mind that we won’t let them water. Her supporters maintain her Zohra Yusuf, chair of the inde- Yusuf said. Spanish embassy. Catha overflowing with journalists, law- succeed in their nefarious designs,” innocence and insist it was a personal pendent Human Rights Commission Prosecutor Ghulam Mustafa said the embassy had yers, activists and clerics. Ahmed said at the court yesterday. dispute, and the Vatican has called of Pakistan, said the appeal delay Chaudhry said that he wanted the been informed and Taseer, a liberal provincial gover- Police said up to 3,000 security for her release. was “regrettable”, noting that Bibi case to be decided “on merit and not embassy officers had vis- nor, was gunned down in Islamabad forces had been sent out across the But successive appeals have been was already being held in soli- any foreign pressure”. ited the scene. in 2011 after speaking out for Bibi. capital. Bibi’s lawyer Saif-ul-Mulook rejected, and if the Supreme Court tary confinement due to security “Asia Bibi has been convicted and His assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, was called the Red Mosque threat “big”. bench eventually upholds Bibi’s concerns. proven guilty not by one court but hanged earlier in 2016 in a step liber- “I hope the government takes it very conviction her only recourse will The judges may be “apprehen- two courts, and I hope things will KP plans new als hailed as progressive, but which seriously and takes care of our secu- be a direct appeal to the president sive”, she said, adding that after remain the same in the Supreme brought hardliners into the streets rity,” he told media outside the court. for clemency. If that fails, she could the Supreme Court announced its Court of Pakistan,” he said. exam system

ISLAMABAD: Elemen- Interior Minister defends travel ban on journalist tary and secondary education depart- ment of The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Reuters government committee’s inquiry officials called for the military not step was taken to prevent Almeida to respond to. “We do not want to has decided in princi- into the story, which authorities have to interfere if law enforcement from leaving the country while the pressure him — if he says he does not ple to introduce a new repeatedly denied. authorities tried to arrest mem- inquiry was ongoing. want to share his source, then should examination system for The committee would decide if bers of anti-India militant groups Calling the committee “infor- we extract it from him with a stick? fifth and eighth grades ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani govern- anyone was to be prosecuted in rela- such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and mal”, Khan said it was gathering No,” said Khan. “But we want to share in the province. ment yesterday defended its decision tion to the story. Almeida, a leading Lashkar-e-Taiba. evidence and would complete this some evidence with him, whether he The system appli- to place a travel ban on a prominent columnist and assistant editor at one The government has issued three task in about four days. “If this com- owns or disowns it.” cable to government journalist over an article he wrote of Pakistan’s most respected Eng- denials of the story, and yesterday mittee feels that there is enough Khan said the travel ban was and private educational about an alleged rift between the the lish-language dailies, filed a story Khan reiterated them. Almeida’s evidence to prosecute, then a for- placed on Almeida because he was institutions will take country’s powerful military and its on Oct ober 6 that gave an account newspaper Dawn stands by the story, mal (law enforcement) committee due to fly to Dubai on October 11, effect in the next aca- government. of a tense, high-level security meet- saying it was verified with multiple will be made.” suggesting that he was fleeing the demic session and in Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan ing between civilian and government sources. The government placed a Khan said Almeida’s name could country. Almeida said his travel plans phases, officials in the told reporters that Cyril Almeida officials. travel ban on Almeida late on Monday be removed from the Exit Control List to Dubai had been made a month education department would not be allowed to leave the Quoting anonymous sources, under the Exit from Pakistan (Con- once the inquiry committee had pre- in advance, and were for a family said. country until the completion of a the story said civilian government trol) Ordinance 1981. Khan said the sented unspecified “evidence” to him vacation. Fed up with no sewers, residents go on a self-help basis

Reuters “We are fed up with stench of Known locally as “katchi abadis”, Khan, observed how many commu- wastewater and frequent mosquito- the first informal settlements emerged nities were self-organising to fill the borne diseases like malaria and in the wake of the Indo-Pakistan war gap in services — from building homes dengue fever. So, we have decided to of 1947, which led to a huge influx of and schools to water delivery — and KARACHI: For Sultana Javed, one lay a sewerage pipeline in our street refugees. launched the Orangi Pilot Project of dozens of residents living with- on a self-help basis,” Javed, 45, told the Unable to cope with the num- (OPP). out proper sanitation on her street in Thomson Reuters Foundation. bers — by 1950, the population had Now globally renowned, the the Orangi Town slum, the final straw Orangi is widely cited as Asia’s increased to 1 million from 400,000 — project has not only led the DIY sewer- came when her toddler daughter fell largest slum and sprawls over 8,000 the government issued refugees with age projects which continue to expand into the soak pit where the family dis- acres — the equivalent of about “slips” giving them permission settle to this day, but has built a network to posed of their waste. 4,500 Wembley football pitches on any vacant land. manage a plethora of programmes Since moving to the Gulshan-e- — in Karachi. The settlement’s pop- Since then, land has also been that range from micro credit to water Zia area of the slum in Karachi nine ulation exploded in the early 1970s, traded informally, usually through supply, to women’s savings schemes. years earlier, Javed had poured waste when thousands of people migrated middlemen who have subdivided plots OPP’s director Saleem Aleemud- Sultana Javed shows sewer pipes bought recently on self-help basis into the soak pit, a porous chamber from East Pakistan after the 1971 of both government and private land din said that when activists began for her street in Gulshan-e-Zia colony in Orangi Town, Karachi. that lets sewage soak into the ground war of independence, which led to and sold them on to the poor. working in the area in 1980, the lack and is often used by communities that the establishment of the Republic of By the 1970s, when Orangi›s pop- of sanitation was the most “obvious” lack toilets. Bangladesh. ulation exploded, the settlements had and “problematic” area for residents. — but has developed a network of young people as are programmes that Javed, whose son caught dengue Today, Orangi’s population is won a quasi acceptance from the gov- Nearly three decades on, the OPP collaborators drawing in skills from equip community architects, techni- fever from mosquitoes near the pit believed to have reached around ernment, which was unable to provide has not only managed to ensure that a wide variety of other non-govern- cians and surveyors to work in the outside their home, began mobilising 2.4 million although no one knows services or enough housing. more than 90 percent of Orangi Town’s ment organisations. area. So far, say OPP activists, around others among 22 families on her street the exact figure since Pakistan’s last In 1980, the development expert nearly 8,000 streets and lanes have Training to map and document 553 of the more than 2,700 Orangi to install their own sewerage system. national census was held in 1998. and entrepreneur, Akhtar Hameed sewer pipes — all installed by residents drainage channels is provided to Town settlements are documented. 08 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL UN official is right Long history of US interfering

he comments of United Nations Human Rights with elections elsewhere Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein about Donald Trump have come at a time the Republican presidential nominee is struggling with assaults on his character Latin America and fomented elections in 1957 with briefcases and morals from all sides. A few weeks before, the coups against democratically- After the end of full of cash. Trecalcitrant Trump was catching up with Hillary Clinton in the elected populists. the Cold War, the In Chile, the US success- election sweepstakes where a small difference in percentage The most infamous epi- fully prevented Allende from sodes include the ousting of winning an election in 1964. points may spell doom or bloom. Then came the first debate in United States has Iran’s Prime Minister Moham- “A total of nearly four million the wake of his tax returns fiasco, and Trump faltered. med Mossadegh in 1953 — whose largely brought dollars was spent on some fif- A resurgent Hillary took on the New York real estate baron, government was replaced by an its covert actions teen covert action projects, decimating him before the nation and the world — giving a authoritarian monarchy favoura- into the open with ranging from organising slum boost to her chances of getting elected on November 8. But ble to Washington — the removal dwellers to passing funds to more was yet to be spilled against the bruised Republican, and assassination of Congo- organisations political parties,” detailed a often at odds with his own party for his offensive tirades and lese leader Patrice Lumumba in like the more Senate inquiry in the mid- By Ishaan Tharoor 1961, and the violent toppling of 1970s that started to expose controversial slurs. The Washington Post Chile’s socialist President Salva- benign National the role of the CIA in overseas His outrageous comments against dor Allende, whose government Endowment for elections. When they couldn’t the modesty of women, though made was swept aside in 1973 by a mili- Democracy, which defeat Allende at the ballot box By criticising in 2005, went viral across the world tary coup led by the ruthless Gen. in 1970, Washington decided to Trump, the UN and were universally derided. Not only ne of the more Augusto Pinochet. seeks to bolster remove him anyway. would they cost him votes, his ratings alarming narra- For decades, these actions civil society “I don’t see why we need to tives of the 2016 were considered imperatives stand by and watch a country human rights took a sharp plunge. The second debate chief has not American elec- of the Cold War, part of a glo- and democratic go communist due to the irre- saw Trump again at the receiving end tion campaign is bal struggle against the Soviet institutions in sponsibility of its own people,” overstepped of Hillary’s attacks and the intransigent thatO of the Kremlin’s apparent Union and its supposed left- Kissinger is said to have quipped. his jurisdiction. Republican actually sounded defensive. meddling. Last week, the United ist proxies. Its key participants around the world Pinochet’s regime presided over Now, Al Hussein’s attack on Trump States formally accused the Rus- included scheming diplomats through grants and years of torture, disappearances just close to four weeks before the sian government of stealing and like John Foster Dulles and Henry other assistance. and targeted assassinations. (In a elections shows how egregious the businessman’s approach to disclosing emails from the Dem- Kissinger, who advocated aggres- recent op-ed, Chilean-American ocratic National Committee and sive, covert policies to stanch the novelist Ariel Dorfman called on the campaign has been. The UN human rights chief’s assertion the individual accounts of prom- supposedly expanding threat of Hillary Clinton to repudiate Kiss- that Trump’s election to the most powerful office on the planet inent Washington insiders. communism. inger if she wins the presidential will be dangerous from an international point of view is quite The hacks, in part leaked by Sometimes that agenda also and helped ensure their elec- election.) natural. From the plan to erect a wall on the Mexican border to Wikileaks, have led to loud dec- explicitly converged with the toral victory against a leftist After the end of the Cold War, barring Muslims from entering the United States to proffering a larations that Moscow is eager interests of American business: coalition, anchored by one of the United States has largely hand of friendship to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump for the victory of Republican In 1954, Washington unseated the most powerful communist brought its covert actions into the nominee Donald Trump, whose Guatemala’s left-wing President parties in Europe. CIA opera- open with organisations like the has been saying things that would be considered outlandish and rhetoric has unsettled Washing- Jacobo Arbenz, who had had tives gave millions of dollars to more benign National Endow- outrageous in the least. ton’s traditional European allies the temerity to challenge the their Italian allies and helped ment for Democracy, which seeks Al Hussein’s scepticism over Trump’s election is justified. The and even thrown the future of vast control of the United Fruit orchestrate what was then an to bolster civil society and dem- criticism that the UN official has faced from some quarters for Nato - Russia’s bete noire — into Company, a US corporation, unprecedented, clandestine ocratic institutions in around the taking on Trump is unwarranted. doubt. with agrarian laws that would propaganda campaign. world through grants and other Torture is illegal under any circumstances even if used to Leading Russian officials be fairer to Guatemalan farm- This included forging assistance. Still, US critics see meet the ends of justice. Trump has declared that he would have balked at the claim. In an ers. The CIA went on to install documents to besmirch com- the American hand in a range of interview with CNN on Wednes- and back a series of right-wing munist leaders in fabricated more recent elections, from Hon- approve of torture and give legal recognition to waterboarding day, Foreign Minister Sergei dictatorships that brutalized the sex scandals, starting a mass duras to Venezuela to Ukraine. if elected, deserves the strongest condemnation. Almost all Lavrov dismissed the suggestion impoverished nation for almost letter-writing campaign from Meanwhile, the threat of countries have signed and ratified the UN Convention Against of interference as “ridiculous,” half a century. Italian-Americans to their com- foreign meddling in Ameri- Torture and Al Hussein is well within his rights to criticise the though he said it was “flatter- A young Che Guevara, patriots, and spreading hysteria can elections is not restricted to maverick candidate. ing” that Washington would who happened to be travel- about a Russian takeover and fears over Russian plots. In the By slamming Trump’s remarks, the UN official has not tried point the finger at Moscow. At ling through Guatemala in 1954, the undermining of the Catho- late 1990s, the specter of illicit a time of pronounced regional was deeply affected by Arbenz’s lic Church. Chinese funds dominated con- to interfere in the domestic politics of a member country that he tensions in the Middle East and overthrow. He later wrote to his “We had bags of money cerns over Democratic campaign is not supposed to in his capacity. Torture being an international elsewhere, there’s no love lost mother that the events prompted that we delivered to selected financing. But some observers issue, Al Hussein’s stance against Trump is laudable. between Kremlin officials and him to leave “the path of reason” politicians, to defray their polit- cautioned others not to be too their American counterparts. and would ground his conviction ical expenses, their campaign indignant. To be sure, there’s a much in the need for radical revolution expenses, for posters, for pam- “If the Chinese indeed larger context behind today’s over gradual political reform. phlets,” recounted F. Mark Wyatt, tried to influence the election bluster. As my colleague Andrew Aside from its instigation of the CIA officer who handled the here... the United States is only Roth notes, whatever their gov- coups and alliances with right- mission and later participated in getting a taste of its own med- ernment’s alleged actions in wing juntas, Washington sought more than two-and-a-half dec- icine,” said Peter Kornbluh, the 2016, Russia’s leaders enjoy cast- to more subtly influence elections ades of direct support to Italy’s director of the National Secu- Quote of the day ing aspersions on the American in all corners of the world. And so Christian Democrats. rity Archive, which is affiliated democratic process. did Moscow. This template spread eve- with George Washington Uni- We are absolutely committed And, in recent years, they Political scientist Dov Levin rywhere: CIA operative Edward versity, in a 1997 interview with to strengthening our counter- have also bristled at perceived calculates that the “two pow- G. Lansdale, notorious for his the New York Times. “China has terrorism cooperation. We need American meddling in the politics ers intervened in 117 elections efforts to bring down the North done little more than emulate of countries on Russia’s borders, around the world from 1946 to Vietnamese government, is said a long pattern of US manip- Canada in the Middle East, in most notably in Ukraine. 2000 — an average of once in to have run the successful 1953 ulation, bribery and covert Africa, at the United Nations, While the days of its worst every nine competitive elections.” campaign of Philippines Presi- operations to influence the everywhere where such crises behaviour are long behind it, the In the late 1940s, the newly- dent Ramon Magsaysay. political trajectory of countless threaten stability and our United States does have a long established CIA cut its teeth Japan’s center-right Liberal countries around the world.” security. history of interfering and some- in Western Europe, pushing Democratic Party was backed times interrupting the workings back against some of the con- with secret American funds The author writes about foreign of democracies elsewhere. tinent’s most influential leftist through the 1950s and ‘60s. The affairs for The Washington Post. Manuel Valls It has occupied and inter- parties and labour unions. In US government and American oil He previously was a senior editor French Prime Minister vened militarily in a whole swath 1948, the US propped up Italy’s corporations helped Christian at TIME, based first in Hong Kong of countries in the Caribbean and centrist Christian Democrats parties in Lebanon win crucial and later in New York.

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By Alasdair Soussi Al Jazeera

he new British prime minis- ter, Theresa May, has enjoyed something of a honeymoon period since her elevation to the top job in July following Tthe resignation of her predecessor, David Cameron, after the United Kingdom’s decision to quit the European Union. But the Conservative Party leader put herself on a headlong collision with many of Britain’s human rights groups earlier this month after she announced plans for a British military opt-out to parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) during future conflicts - an entirely separate matter from the Euro- pean Union. This change in policy was officially announced by British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon at the October Conserva- tive Party conference where he said that such a reform would protect UK troops from “spurious” legal claims of military misconduct. The UK Ministry of Defence has spent over 100 million pounds ($123m) on Iraq- related investigations and compensation cases since 2004. This move came only weeks after the UK government’s new Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss reaffirmed a long-held Conservative commitment to scrap the Human Rights Act in favour of a new Brit- ish Bill of Rights. Prime Minister Theresa May greets troops as she visits 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) at their barracks The 1998 Human Rights Act , at Bulford Camp near Salisbury, England. introduced by Tony Blair’s Labour gov- ernment, enshrined into UK law the Martin Howe, who worked on reform of Conor Gearty, a professor of human rights ‘run’ by Strasbourg. Even though this straightforward — though it appears that ECHR, a treaty to which Britain has been human rights laws as a member of the law at the London School of Economics’ court has got nothing to do with the there will be no move to withdraw from a signatory since 1951, but which — until UK Coalition Government’s Commission department of Law. European Union.” the ECHR itself. the act came into force in 2000 — had no on a Bill of Rights, told Al Jazeera. “How- “That infringes on sovereignty by However, in an article for The Guard- application in UK law. ever, the main problem with the Human choice: It is an international agree- British Bill of Rights ian, Gearty wrote that a British military Rights Act is not the rights themselves, ment that Britain has made and is just That said, many see any repeal of opt-out to parts of the ECHR was an Reflections of sovereignty but the interpretation of those rights by the same as world trade,” Gearty said. the Human Rights Act and its proposed ominous sign ahead of any repeal of the Before the introduction of the act, the court in Strasbourg.” “They have chosen to restrict themselves replacement with a British Bill of Rights Human Rights Act. individuals in Britain wishing to seek Howe added: “This country has the for the broader general good. That is not as a chance to deliver something uniquely The Irish-born professor, author of redress for a perceived human rights longest continuous history of the protec- an invasion of sovereignty, but a reflec- better — and crucially more libertarian On Fantasy Island - Britain, Strasbourg violation could not make a plea to the tion of fundamental rights of any country tion of sovereignty.” than what is currently on offer. and Human Rights, describes as “polit- European Court of Human Rights at in the world, and it seems rather strange With many UK human rights groups, Luke Gittos, a British solicitor and law ically naive” the suggestion that the Strasbourg, France, until they had that we can’t do better on the interpre- such as Liberty, campaigning to save editor of the online current affairs mag- Conservative Party would seek to style exhausted all legal options at home. tation and the protection of rights than the Human Rights Act, and Scotland’s azine, Spiked, said that while the Human any British Bill of Rights on the famed Blair made it possible for them to via this rather strange institution in first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, vow- Rights Act “provides a certain minimal United States Constitution. fight for their rights in their own domes- Strasbourg.” ing to block any UK-wide repeal in the baseline protection for some of our free- “Are [libertarian proponents of the tic courts, giving all those concerned, say Howe pointed to Britain’s ban on Scottish parliament — Gearty contends dom, it doesn’t go nearly far enough in Human Roghts Act repeal] seriously its proponents, better access to justice. prisoner voting, which the European that the roots of hostility towards the defending our freedom”. suggesting that the Conservatives will Yet, many have argued against Court of Human Rights has repeatedly act are easily traced. They began “long Any proposed repeal of the act “pro- actually deepen human rights protec- the benefits of the Human Rights Act, ruled as unlawful, as “a direct logger- before Eurosceptics thought they could vided an opportunity to think outside the tion?” Gearty asked Al Jazeera.“Empower accusing it of infringing upon UK parlia- head conflict between parliament and get away with leaving the European human rights parameters about what we the courts to strike down laws that they mentary sovereignty. “I fully support the the Strasbourg court” and typical of the Union,” he said. want freedom to look like,” Gittos said. will be enacting? Give the courts a remit protection of rights as contained in the type of issue encountered by the West- “This was initially a kind of proxy war “I think if we did have a Bill of Rights, over [Conservative] austerity? It’s just not European Convention on Human Rights,” minster parliament. on Europe through the Human Rights it should take as its inspiration the Amer- in the land of the norm.” Advocates of the act, however, see lit- Act,” Gearty said. “And the reason it was ican Constitution,” he added. “A British tle to support the accusation that it has a ‘proxy war’ was because the Human Bill of Rights — to be really radical and Alasdair Soussi is a Scots-born freelance UK aims to scrap Human Rights Act repeatedly attacked the sovereignty of Rights Act contained within it a European pro-freedom — should say things like, journalist and writer, with a special interest and parts of European Human Rights Britain. Convention on Human Rights. ‘No law will be created that interferes in in the Middle East and the Islamic world, “What does affect sovereignty is that And the Conservatives who hated people’s freedom of speech’. It would be and the Scottish political scene. An honours Convention in favour of new British the UK has signed up to the [ECHR], which Europe got a tremendous head of steam our First Amendment.” graduate from the University of Glasgow, Bill of Rights. means that the country has promised to up in the mid-2000s about this, saying Details outlining government propos- he has worked in the likes of Beirut, Cairo, implement [the court’s] decisions …” said how awful it was that we were being als to go ahead with the scheme are not Amman and Freetown. Africa’s population boom fuels ‘unstoppable’ migration to Europe

fertility rates and bring down popu- of the people-smuggling business. Reuters has seen. It said Niger’s lation (by educating and empowering He spent $700 on police and mili- security forces make almost half a women).” tary checkpoints along the way. million CFA francs ($850) from every Niger, a vast, largely desert nation His is precisely the kind of ambi- round trip by a smuggling truck—just to the north of Nigeria, presents the tion the German chancellor would from migrants alone, not including starkest example of Africa’s chal- like to discourage. payoffs from the gangs. The govern- lenges. With an average of 7.6 “I want to work in a car factory ment did not respond to a request for children born to each woman, its in Germany,” he said in a dimly lit comment. population is projected to more restaurant in Agadez, his few pos- Agadez, a desolate town of sandy than triple to 72 million by 2050, sessions — spare trousers, shoes, streets and mud houses, is booming. from about 20 million now, accord- water and a Bible — crammed into Touts flock to fresh migrants at the ing to the latest UN figures. By then, a small bag. bus station. For $10, they offer space By Tim Cocks and run, than a development package — Africa will have more than doubled The International Organisation in padlocked courtyards where Edward McAllister bringing Niger’s population growth its population to 2.4bn, the United for Migration (IOM) expects migra- arrivals sleep on dirt floors. Land- Reuters down from 3.9 percent, the highest Nations says. tion through the Agadez region this lords might squeeze 40 migrants into in the world. Frequent droughts in Niger year to reach 300,000, more than one yard, making hundreds of dollars Though he gave no details on how cause hunger, and low investment twice the 120,000 it estimates came a night. Money changers and motor this could be achieved, demography in education means a dearth of through in 2015. oil vendors throng the streets. hen German Chancel- clearly holds the key both to Europe’s skills. Yet somehow it must hugely EU officials hope to deter “Pretty much the whole popula- The International lorAngela Merkel toured migration crisis and to the African increase food production just to stay migrants like Diallo by making clear tion of Agadez now lives off providing Wthree African nations this poverty feeding it. As long as pop- where it is. that life as an illegal immigrant in services to migrants in transit,” said Organisation for week for talks on curbing migration ulation growth in African countries Ironically, Niger’s location in the Europe is hardly better than staying Richard Danziger, IOM regional to Europe, the leader of the world’s outstrips their ability to educate, largely unpoliced sands of the Sahara in Africa. But that message has yet director for West and Central Africa. Migration (IOM) poorest country, Niger, suggested it house and employ their citizens, also makes it a draw for migrants. to filter down. “What we can’t do right now expects migration would take a “Marshall Plan” of mas- large numbers of people will con- They come from across Africa hop- Diallo was swindled out of is offer real alternatives,” he said, sive aid to stop people coming. tinue to brave the deserts and seas ing to be smuggled to a better life in 150,000 CFA francs ($256) he paid adding that “a mixture of devel- through the Agadez Merkel politely declined the to escape. Libya or Algeria — or over the Med- smugglers in Agadez to reach cen- opment aid and job creation is the region this year request, expressing concern about “You can’t resolve this by just iterranean to Europe. tral Libya. Desperate, he has given his only way forward”. According to how well the aid would be spent and paying money,” said Owoeye Olu- In doing so, the migrants last 50,000 CFA to a gang he hopes a theory popular with investment to reach 300,000, noting that, at a summit in Malta mide, a demographer at Bowen bring cash to Niger, a country will come good. “(In) Europe ... I can bankers and management consult- more than twice last year, the European Union had university in southwest Nigeria, one that has repeatedly proved una- save and earn money. I cannot return ants, Africa’s population woes will already earmarked €1.8bn for a trust of the world’s most densely popu- ble to feed itself. back. I have nothing there,” he said solve themselves. Africa, they say, the 120,000 it fund to train and resettle migrants. lated regions. Ousmane Diallo, 38, travelled for of his native Sierra Leone. will reap a “demographic dividend” estimates came But Niger’s President Mahatma “There are going to be too many 10 days by bus from Sierra Leone on In 2013, Niger’s corruption inves- as its bulging youth population drives Issoufou also proposed something people ... the development you need the Atlantic coast to Agadez, a Saha- tigators did a study on smuggling innovation and consumer markets— through in 2015. perhaps more significant, in the long will not be possible. You have to lower ran town in Niger at the crossroads that was never published, but which as happened to Asia in decades past.

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In lighter vein Opinion poll Muslim bodies shows Congress leading in Punjab reject move on IANS

NEW DELHI: If Punjab goes to polls today, the Congress will Uniform Civil Code emerge as the largest party but will fall short of a majority, an opinion poll showed yesterday. Modi government had deliberately The opinion poll by Axis-My- thrown up this issue now to “hide India for India Today group said Muslim organisations its failures in the last two-and-half the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will yesterday rejected years”. be in second place, and the ruling The development comes days Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shi- the Law Commission’s after the Union government told the romani Akali Dal (SAD) alliance questionnaire on the Supreme Court that ‘triple talaq’, will trail at third position. Uniform Civil Code, ‘nikaah halaal’ and polygamy were The opinion poll gave the Con- not integral to the practice of Islam gress 49 to 55 seats, while the AAP calling it “misleading”. or essential religious practices. got 42 to 46 seats. Subsequently, the Law Commis- The BJP-SAD combine got 17 sion on October 7 put up on its website to 21 seats as per the opinion poll. a questionnaire, comprising 16 ques- On the vote share, the poll said IANS tions, to seek public opinion on the The Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel (left) speaks with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley the Congress is likely to get 33% civil code issue. votes, the AAP 30% and the BJP- at a seminar in Mumbai, yesterday. Other prominent Muslims who SAD alliance may get 15% of the represented their respective organ- votes. NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim isations at the press conference here Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and included Maulana Arshad Madani a number of other prominent Mus- (Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind), Mohammad lim organisations yesterday rejected Jafar (Jamaat-e-Islami Hind), Maulana the Law Commission’s questionnaire Asghar Imam Mehdi (Markazi Russia and India to sign missile deal on the Uniform Civil Code, calling it Jamiat Ahle Hadith), Maulana Mah- “misleading”. mood Madani (Jamiat Ulema Hind), Calling the questionnaire “mis- M Manzoor Alam (All India Milli Reuters & IANS South Africa. Indian Defence Min- Meanwhile, Russain President He underlined India-Russia leading and divisive”, AIMPLB General Council), Naved Hamid (All India Maj- istry sources said in December that Vladimir Putin yesterday said Rus- partnership in the development of Secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani lis-e-Mushawarat) and Maulana Abul India’s Defence Acquisition Coun- sia remained the top supplier of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile said Muslims will not respond to it. Qasim Naumani (Rector, Darul Uloom cil had cleared the purchase of five advanced weapons and defence and building of a new fifth-gen- “We will boycott this question- Deoband). MOSCOW: Russia and India will S-400 air defence systems from technology to its “privileged stra- eration fighter aircraft as “the naire. No Muslim will respond to it Besides, Barelvi cleric Maulana sign an agreement on Saturday Russia in what one source said was tegic partner” India and added that successful joint projects” of the two because it is misleading and deceit- Tauqeer Raza Khan of Ittehad-e-Mil- for Moscow to deliver advanced a deal costing around 300bn rupees Moscow and other BRICS nations countries. ful. The Uniform Civil Code is divisive lat Council and Shia cleric Maulana S-400 surface-to-air missile sys- ($4.47bn). were determined to back New Del- The President, who will be in and will lead to social unrest,” he told Mohsin Taqvi were scheduled to tems to New Delhi, a Kremlin aide Ushakov did not say how many hi’s fight against terror. Goa for the five-nation BRICS Sum- media persons here. attend the presser but could not make said yesterday. S-400s were being sold or for how “Russia remains in the lead in mit this weekend, said many of the “The uniform code is not suited it, AIMPLB member Kamal Farouqi Yuri Ushakov, the aide, said much. An agreement to build frig- terms of both direct supplies of Russian projects in India not only for this nation. There are so many said. the agreement would be signed ates for the Indian Navy would also most advanced weapons and mil- have commercial importance but cultures in India and they have to be Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President at an India-Russia summit due to be signed on Saturday, as well as a itary equipment and conducting also play a significant social and respected. A uniform code is against Maulana Arshad Madani said: “The take place in Goa where President deal to set up a joint venture in India joint researches with India as well economic role for the economies the spirit of the Constitution, which Muslim Personal Law is based on Vladimir Putin will hold talks with to build multi-task Kamov-226 hel- as producing goods for military of the two partners. Such projects, safeguards the right of citizens to Quran and Hadith and we cannot Indian Prime Minister Narendra icopters, he said. purposes. Our countries actively he said, “harmoniously fit in the practise their culture and religion,” alter it.” Modi. India has long bought military collaborate in the military techni- new Indian industrialisation pro- he said. “Modi-ji (Prime Minister Narendra India is also hosting a BRICS hardware from Russia and the two cal field,” Putin said in an exclusive gramme”, a reference to Prime Questioning the timing of the Modi) wants to impose dictatorship in summit in Goa this weekend involv- countries hold join war games every interview to IANS and Sputnik news Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in move, Rahmani said the Narendra the name of democracy,” he added. ing Brazil, Russia, India, China and year. agencies. India” initiative.

Winter session of Parliament to Panneerselvam takes charge of Jayalalithaa’s portfolios begin on Nov 16 IANS Public, Indian Administrative Serv- time with a difference. In the first two Constitution’s Article 166, allocated Minister J Jayalalithaa’s health, police ice, Indian Police Service, Indian instances, Jayalalithaa had stepped the subjects hitherto dealt with by said here. IANS Forest Service, General Administra- down as the Chief Minister due to Jayalalithaa to Panneerselvam on T Maniselvam and S Balasun- tion, District Revenue Officers, Police legal troubles and Panneerselvam her advice. daram were taken into custody CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Finance Min- and Home. replaced her. “This arrangement has been separately. The police had arrested NEW DELHI: The winter session ister O. Panneerselvam has taken The officials said that it is Jayalalithaa, 68, was admitted to made as per the advice of Chief two persons earlier on the same of Parliament will be held from charge of the portfolios earlier han- just reallocation of portfolios, a hospital here on September 22 for Minister and will continue until Jay- charge. November 16 to December 16, dled by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, that is, files that were sent to treatment of fever and dehydration. alalithaa resumes her duties. She will Police said around 50 complaints the Cabinet Committee on Par- officials said yesterday. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for Doctors said she needed a longer continue to be the Chief Minister,” the have been received for spreading liamentary Affairs decided here This was also reflected on the approval earlier will now be sent stay at the hospital as she was suf- statement said. Panneerselvam will rumours about Jayalaltihaa’s health yesterday. The winter session is state government’s official website to Panneerselvam. fering from infection and put her on also preside over the state Cabinet and investigations were on. normally convened in the third or which listed the portfolio’s handled Panneerselvam, who visited the respiratory support. meetings. Police have warned that strict fourth week of November but this by Jayalalithaa but now put under state secretariat on Wednesday and On October 11, a Raj Bhavan Meanwhile, two more persons action would be taken against any- year the government has decided Panneerselvam’s name. Thursday, is stepping into Jayalalith- statement said Governor Ch. Vidyasa- were arrested yesterday for spread- one spreading “baseless rumours” to advance it. Jayalalithaa held the portfolios of aa’s shoes for the third time, but this gar Rao had, under Clause (3) of the ing rumours about Tamil Nadu Chief about Jayalalithaa’s health. “An early winter session of Parliament will help the quick passage of the central GST bill and also the Integrated GST Bill. Centre seeks report By first week of December, the Beautification project Kerala to frame laws government wants to clear paper from Kerala govt on work vis-a-vis legislative mat- to prevent nepotism ters,” a government source said. BJP worker’s murder Yesterday’s meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamen- in government jobs tary Affairs also decided to push IANS at least 12-14 important legislation besides the GST, the source said. The government is also con- NEW DELHI: The central govern- IANS office, the Vijayan government’s sidering advancing the budget ment yesterday sought a report stock took a heavy beating follow- session by a month or so starting from the Kerala government on ing the appointment of P.K. Sudheer, from January next year. the killing of a 25-year-old BJP son of CPI-M Lok Sabha member The monsoon session of Parlia- activist in Kannur district. KOCHI: Caught in a bind over the P K Sreemathy and a nephew of ment saw the passage of numerous In a communication, the Union appointment of the kin of senior Jayarajan. important bills by both houses. The Home Ministry has asked the state CPI-M leaders to top government Neither Sudheer — who was winter session is, however, expected government to provide details of posts, the Pinarayi Vijayan govern- appointed Managing Director of the to have high voltage debates related the incident and steps taken to nab ment yesterday decided to frame Kerala State Industrial Enterprises to the recent terrorist attacks and and punish those responsible for new laws to prevent recurrence of (KSIE) Ltd — nor another niece of the army’s surgical strikes on Paki- the incident. BJP activist Ramith nepotism. Jayarajan — who was appointed Gen- stani territory. was allegedly hacked to death at a In the first cabinet meeting eral Manager of the Kerala Clay and village in Dharmadam, the home since the controversy over nepo- Ceramics Ltd -- had the experience constituency of Kerala Chief Min- tism charges against state Industries or the qualifications for the appoint- Four children ister Pinarayi Vijayan, in Kannur Minister E P Jayarajan surfaced, ment. Following the huge media district on Wednesday. Vijayan took a strong stand against outcry, both have quit their posts. die in Mumbai The Home Ministry has also what had transpired and decided to Along with these, the children of asked the Kerala government to frame a new set of laws to prevent three top CPI-M leaders were also building crash inform it about the steps taken for such things from happening again. given top appointments in state security of political workers in the After the cabinet meeting, Vijay- public sector undertakings and all state, official sources said here. an’s office issued a statement that of them came under heavy attack MUMBAI: At least four minor The BJP organised a statewide new laws would be framed to pre- in the social media. children were killed when a ‘bandh’ in Kerala yesterday to pro- vent similar happenings. Meanwhile, a Public Interest Lit- five-storey building collapsed in test the killing of its party activist, “It has also been decided to ask igation was filed against Jayarajan Behrampada slums in Bandra East which they alleged have been done Chief Secretary S.M. Vijayanand to at a Vigilance Court here on Thurs- here last afternoon, officials said. due to «political vendetta”. review all the appointments that day over the appointments he had Another eight to nine persons BJP President Amit Shah had have been made. From now on, made. The court has listed the case were still feared trapped under on Wednesday said: “Murder of appointments to all top posts in for hearing on Friday. the debris of the building, situ- Ramith in Pinarayi’s home town is the state public sector will be done On Thursday morning, Vigilance Artisans work on a 45-feet high statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ated near the National School on disturbing. Attacks on BJP workers by an expert committee and those Director Jacob Thomas met Vijayan. A K Marg. a part of the government’s Rs830m beautification project, along in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijay- selected for the post will need to He was later briefed by legal experts Five fire tenders, the NDRF the most commonly used approach road to the Golden temple an’s home constituency is a matter secure clearance from the Vigilance and, according to reliable informa- and other agencies were engaged in Amritsar, yesterday. of grave concern and smacks of Department,” said the statement. tion, he was likely to announce a in relief and rescue operations. political vendetta.” Within four months of assuming probe into the matter. EUROPE FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 11

Baby offered Battle over Brexit reaches High Court for sale on

between the courts and the eBay prompts government. The move could The case seeks to challenge May’s Scottish leader unveils independence plan German probe delay Brexit if assertion that she has the right to trigger notification of Article 50 of successful and set up the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which would AFP an unprecedented spark two years of negotiations on AFP pushing for a “hard Brexit” and stir- leaves EU if that is necessary to pro- Britain’s departure from the bloc. ring up “xenophobia” with proposals tect our country’s interest.” constitutional The government says it has “royal to cut EU immigration. Reacting to Sturgeon’s BERLIN: German police said yes- face-off between prerogative”—a type of executive GLASGOW: Scottish First Minister “I can confirm today that the announcement, a spokesman for terday they were investigating a privilege—to negotiate Brexit without Nicola Sturgeon yesterday unveiled independence referendum bill will Prime Minister Theresa May’s office refugee couple after their one- the courts and the needing a legally-binding parliamen- plans for a new independence refer- be published for consultation next said: “This issue was addressed in month-old baby was put up for government. tary vote. endum in case her demands for more week” in the Scottish parliament, 2014. We should focus on working sale on the online auction plat- “The issue in this case is not autonomy and for Scotland to stay in Sturgeon said at Scottish National together on the best deal for the UK”. form eBay for €5,000 ($5,500). whether this country should remain Europe’s single market are not met. Party’s annual conference. “Scotland didn’t choose to be Police launched an investi- a member of the EU, or leave the EU,” Sturgeon said she would publish “I am determined Scotland will in this situation. Your party put us gation into the possible human AFP argued lawyer David Pannick, acting a draft referendum bill next week, have ability to reconsider question of here,” Sturgeon said, addressing trafficking after they were tipped for several different individuals who accusing the British government of independence and to do so before UK May. off about the advertisement which brought the challenge. appeared online for around 30 “The question is whether the gov- minutes on Tuesday. LONDON: The battle over Brexit ernment may take action unilaterally “Notification has the conse- A man holding an EU flag shouted passed by parliament. The 40-day-old girl has been reached the High Court yesterday in to notify, or whether it needs parlia- quence of depriving individuals of “Parliament must vote!”, while Gina Miller, co-founder of invest- handed to child protection offic- a legal challenge to Prime Minister mentary approval to do so.” rights which they currently enjoy another distributed leaflets urging ment fund SCM Private, wants ers, police from the western city Theresa May’s right to start nego- He said deploying the royal pre- under the 1972 act,” he said. people to “Uphold the Brexit vote”. parliament to legislate on the terms of Duisburg said in a statement. tiations for Britain to leave the EU rogative was unlawful because under A few protesters for and against But those behind the legal chal- of Brexit before May can trigger Arti- Police raiding the cou- without a vote in parliament. the European Communities Act the legal action rallied outside lenge—including an investment fund cle 50. “This is not about whether we ple’s apartment also took away The move could delay Brexit if 1972, it was for parliament to decide the court in London as lawyers manager, a hairdresser and an expa- should stay or leave—this is actu- material potentially serving as successful and set up an unprec- whether or not to maintain the rights and claimants arrived for the first triate living in France—argue such a ally about how we leave,” Miller told evidence, the statement said. edented constitutional face-off contained within it. hearing. process cannot begin without a law reporters on Wednesday. Preliminary investigations show that the advertisement was put up using the internet connec- tion of the couple, identified by police only as “refugees”. Rains in France Far-left militants However, police said the internet connection was also in use by other members of the family, adding that the probe claim Athens blast was ongoing. The Bild daily reported yes- terday that the online connection AFP as a “symbolic act.” Tsatani works as was not secured and could be a prosecuting magistrate in the Ath- used even in the neighbouring ens court of appeal. apartments. The group accused Tsatani of “That’s why other witnesses ATHENS: A far-left militant group having buried legal cases impli- will have to be questioned,” said yesterday claimed responsibility for cating right-wing politicians and of the tabloid, adding that the baby a small bomb that exploded in heart opposing release from jail of a part- is the couple’s only child and that of Athens, saying it had targeted the ner of one of the group’s members. they have been in Germany for a home of a “vindictive” prosecutor. “Magistrates’ vindictive tenden- year. Greek police said earlier they cies against our comrades’ families When questioned by police, believed a right-wing bookshop on is a choice for which they will pay the 28-year-old father and the ground floor of the the prose- heavily,” it warned. 20-year-old mother reportedly cutor’s apartment building, outside In the past 10 years, hundreds of confirmed that the photos posted of which the bomb went off on arson and bomb attacks in Greece online were of their baby. Wednesday night, was the target. have hit financial, diplomatic and Several pictures of the black- The blast, caused by a small political targets. haired infant were seen in the explosive device that caused minor Such attacks have grown rarer advertisement, which was titled damage, came after a phone call in recent years, however, with sev- “40-day-old child named Maria was placed to a left-wing newspa- eral fringe groups now dismantled. ...for sale”, according to local per warning of imminent attack, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, listed as media. leading police to cordon off the area. a terrorist organisation by the United An eBay spokesman told In a statement posted on alterna- States, was very active in first decade national broadcaster ZDF that Cars drive on a flooded road during heavy rains in Palavas-les-Flots, southern France, yesterday. Many tive Indymedia website, Conspiracy of of this century, when it sent par- employees from the company roads were cut in the Herault region and one of the departments was placed under an orange alert Fire Nuclei, some of whose members cel bombs to European leaders and had alerted authorities after because of storms and wind. have been convicted of bombings, embassies and carried out a wave of noticing the advertisement on said it had targeted Georgia Tsatani arson and bomb attacks. Tuesday.

French judge rebukes Hollande German authorities under fire over Syrian suspect’s suicide for comments AFP life in the Leipzig prison hospital,” points.” “But he was not under watch how jihadists—particularly those In Bakr’s case, guards were moni- the government of the eastern, ex- day and night, even though the sui- who suspected of plotting or having toring suspect at hourly intervals and on judiciary communist state of Saxony said in a cide risk was known,” he said. carried out attacks—should be mon- not round the clock, said Bild. DRESDEN: German authorities were statement, without elaborating. The death in custody showed a itored in custody. Deploring the incident, Chris- under pressure yesterday to explain “I am incredibly shocked and “complete loss of control by authori- In France, Salah Abdeslam, the tian Democratic Union party’s legal Reuters how a Syrian suspect detained over in disbelief that this could have ties” in Saxony, the conservative wing suspect in the blast that killed 130 expert Jan-Marco Luczak said: “The a bomb plot could have committed happened,” Bakr’s lawyer Alexan- of Social Democratic Party said in a people in Paris in November, is held suspect could have given lots of val- suicide in jail, hampering investiga- der Huebner told Bild daily, which statement. in isolation and continuously moni- uable information about activities or PARIS: France’s top magistrate tions into the alleged planned attack. reported that the suspect hanged Green lawmaker Konstantin von tored by special guards. structure of the Islamic State group. took an unusual step of publicly The suspect was discovered himself with his T-shirt. Notz told Deutschlandfunk radio that Authorities are anxious to prevent “In such a sensitive situation, the berating the president yesterday hanged in his cell in the eastern city Huebner said his client had been a close look must be taken to iden- any attempts at jail break, but also monitoring should have been air- after disparaging comments about of Leipzig, reported Germany’s Bild on hunger strike since his arrest on tify who was responsible for what he suicide, as such suspects are believed tight,” he said, noting that given that the judiciary Francois Hollande daily and national news agency DPA. Monday, and had already “smashed branded a “fiasco”. to be sitting on a gold mine of infor- Bakr was already on hunger strike, “a reportedly made to journalists “Jaber al-Bakr took his own lamps and manipulated power Debate has been raging over mation on jihadists’ modus operandi. suicide attempt is not so far-fetched.” emerged in a book published this week. The spat with the judiciary is just one of the embarrassments the book, A President Shouldn’t African migrants jump border fence Say That written by two jour- nalists from daily Le Monde, has caused. AFP some years been a flashpoint for migrants rescued at sea should be Speaking from the gilded migrants trying to enter Spain. taken to centres in north Africa where grand chamber of centuries-old They are the only two land their claims for asylum in European court of justice in central Paris, borders between Africa and the Union countries can be studied. France’s highest ranking magis- MADRID: Some 100 African European Union. De Maiziere made the sugges- trate Bertrand Louvel told newly migrants managed to clamber over The migrants who got across yes- tion as he arrived for a Luxembourg appointed judges the comments the fence between Morocco and the terday were taken to a temporary meeting of EU interior ministers who attributed to Hollande were Spanish enclave of Melilla yesterday reception centre where they have are trying to slow the migrant flow degrading and dangerous for the under heavy rain, police said, in the the right to ask for asylum. from Libya to Italy after a March institution. latest rush onto the border system. Few manage to get this status, deal with Turkey sharply reduced “The President of the Repub- “At eight (0600 GMT) this morn- though, as they are often considered the influx to Greece. lic has let comments be published, ing, there was an organised assault economic migrants. “People who are rescued in the without denying them, in which and Moroccan forces were over- According to the International Mediterranean should be brought he calls judiciary a ‘cowardly whelmed,” a spokesman for Spain’s Organisation for Migration, more back to safe accommodation facili- institution’ where some ‘hide Guardia Civil police force told AFP. than 4,600 migrants and refugees ties in northern Africa,” de Maiziere away’, ‘play virtuous’ and ‘dislike “200 people were held back, but from Asia, Africa and the Middle East told reporters. politics’,” said Louvel, wearing tra- 100 managed to get to Melilla.” arrived in Spain by land or by sea in “Their need for protection would ditional fur-lined red robes. The young men from sub-Saha- the first six months of the year. be verified and we would put into place “His predecessor had before ran Africa managed to get through But associations regularly a resettlement to Europe with gener- likened magistrates to ‘small, a border system that is composed of denounce the way migrants are ous quotas, fairly divided between tasteless peas’,” the judge said, two 20-feet-high fences, with a criss- treated, and particularly the prison- the European countries,” the minis- referring to comments made by cross of steel cables in between. like conditions in Spain’s seven ter said. The others have to go back to former president Nicolas Sarkozy. In order to get across, migrants immigration detention centres, which their home countries,” he added. “This renewed outrage against often use hooks and shoes studded are meant for people who are in the EU countries, confronting opposi- judiciary, at a time where all with nails. process of being deported. tion to refugees, have long feuded over A group of immigrants, some of whom climbed over the boarder fence authorities should show coher- Melilla and Ceuta, another Span- Meanwhile, in Luxembourg, Ger- quotas for relocating asylum seekers ence, poses an institutional ish enclave nearly 400km away on man interior minister Thomas de from Greece and Italy as well as for between Morocco and Spanish enclave of Melilla celebrate in Melilla at problem,” Louvel said. the north coast of Africa, have for Maiziere proposed yesterday that resettling people from refugee camps. the Temporary Centre for Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, yesterday. 12 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 AMERICAS Portugal’s Guterres elected UN Secretary-General

AP organisations and operations to In addition to “deep and solid and an honest broker to help find Antonio Guterres will better meet these unprecedented political experience” including two solutions that benefit everyone challenges,” Obama said in statement. terms as Portugal’s prime minister, involved,” he said. take over as UN chief Guterres, who was High Commis- Ban said, “his political instincts are Guterres stressed that he would UNITED NATIONS: The UN Gen- on January 1 when sioner for Refugees from 2005-2015, those of the United Nations — coop- do his best “to serve the cause of eral Assembly yesterday elected was nominated by the Security Coun- eration for the common good and peace” and he urged all countries Antonio Guterres (pictured) as the Secretary-General cil last week after its sixth informal shared responsibility for people and — a significant number on opposite next Secretary-General of the United Ban Ki-moon’s poll. He topped all six polls, which the planet.” sides of conflicts including in Syria — Nations, a post he pledged to use to be included a total of 13 candidates — Guterres said he is fully aware to join together in promoting peace. “a bridge-builder” and to promote a second five-year seven women and six men. of the challenges the United Nations He said he will promote a new new “diplomacy for peace.” term ends. Guterres’ selection disappointed faces and the limitations surround- “diplomacy for peace” to press for The 193 UN member states many who had campaigned for first ing the secretary-general. dialogue to settle disputes. elected Guterres by acclamation, fol- woman or the first representative “The dramatic problems of “We must make sure that we are lowing Security Council’s nomination from an Eastern European country today’s complex world can only able to break this alliance between of the 67-year-old former Portuguese ninth secretary-general in the organ- as diplomats broke into applause. to lead the world body. inspire a humble approach, one in all those terrorist groups, or vio- prime minister and UN refugee chief isation’s 71-year history. In Washington, President Barack Secretary-General Ban, recalling which the secretary-general alone lent extremists on one side, and the by acclamation last week. Assembly President Peter Obama congratulated Guterres on Guterres’ decade as the UN’s refu- neither has all the answers nor seeks expressions of populism and xeno- Guterres will take over as UN Thompson introduced the resolu- his election. “Mr. Guterres has the gee chief, told the assembly that he to impose his views, one in which the phobia on the other side, Guterres chief on January 1 when Secretary- tion to elect Gutteres, said members character, vision, and skills needed is “best known where it counts most, secretary-general makes his good said. “These two reinforce each other, General Ban Ki-moon’s second wanted it adopted by acclamation, to lead the United Nations at this on the front lines of armed conflict offices available working as a con- and we must be able to fight both of five-year term ends. He will be the and banged his gavel in approval critical moment and to reform its and humanitarian suffering.” vener, a mediator a bridge-builder them with determination.”

Mexican state to Michelle Obama fund inspection blasts Trump of site where remains found AFP claim, saying he made unwanted advances against them in years past. AP He has apologised and, trying to reverse his deficit in national polls WASHINGTON: First Lady Michelle to the 68-year-old Clinton, has MEXICO CITY: A woman who Obama yesterday launched an sought to minimise the comments has spent 12 years searching for impassioned attack on Don- as “locker room talk”—a remark her daughter in a northern Mex- ald Trump over his “intolerable” that went too far for the first lady. ican state bordering Texas said attitude toward women, as the “This wasn’t locker room ban- yesterday that the governor has Republican nominee rejected media ter. This was a powerful individual promised to devote resources to reports of sexual misconduct as speaking freely and openly about thoroughly inspect a site where “outright lies.” predatory behaviour,” said the thousands of bone fragments have Obama—who does not normally 52-year-old Obama. been found. relish the political spotlight—burst “It doesn’t matter what party Silvia Ortiz, who is also into the White House race with 26 you belong to—Democrat, Repub- spokeswoman for Grupo Vida, a days to go before Americans go to lican, independent—no woman group of families looking for miss- the polls to choose a successor to her deserves to be treated this way. No ing relatives in Coahuila state, said husband, offering a fiery takedown one deserves this kind of abuse.” they plan to resume their search of the real estate mogul. She lashed out at what she Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets people at a campaign office in San Francisco, California, this weekend at the rural site The 70-year-old billionaire called Trump’s “cruel” and “fright- yesterday. where the fragments were found took the stage in swing state Flor- ening” attitude towards women, and meet again with Governor ida shortly after Obama finished her while deliberately never using his Ruben Moreira. stump speech for Hillary Clinton, name. “It has shaken me to my core women are totally and absolutely “We published newsworthy infor- his opponent, declaring her a crim- The families have been scour- and decried the Democratic nomi- in a way that I couldn’t have pre- false. And the Clintons know it very mation about a subject of deep public inal who should be prosecuted for ing the desert location called El nee as complicit in a media attempt dicted,” she said. well,” Trump told a rally in West Palm concern,” the paper’s assistant gen- endangering national security by Patrocinio since April 2015, when to derail his campaign. “This is not normal. It is not pol- Beach. “They’re pure fiction. And eral counsel David McCraw said in a using a private email account while they first reported their discovery Claims by at least six women have itics as usual. This is disgraceful. It they’re outright lies.” letter to Trump’s legal team. secretary of state, and deleting some to authorities. At least some of the come to light in accounts reported is intolerable.” “These attacks are orchestrated by “If Mr Trump disagrees, if he 33,000 messages that Clinton said remains have been confirmed as by The New York Times, NBC, People With his campaign in free-fall the Clintons and their media allies.” believes that American citizens had no were personal and not work-related. human, and prosecutors believe Magazine and other outlets, most of since last week’s release of the Trump’s campaign threatened to right to hear what these women had “After getting the subpoena to the hyper-violent Zetas cartel is them after Trump asserted in Sun- damning tape, Trump lashed out, sue The New York Times, which pub- to say and that the law of this country give over your emails and lots of responsible. day’s debate with Clinton that he denying any of the alleged incidents lished the accounts of two women, forces us and those who would dare other things, she deleted the emails,” “They put them in 200-litre never assaulted women. took place, while his legal team unless the paper retracts the article. to criticize him to stand silent or be a fired-up Trump told supporters in drums and they poured diesel Trump’s accusers, who include branded the Times story “libelous.” His lawyer Marc Kasowitz said the punished, we welcome the opportu- Lakeland, Florida. on them and left them cooking,” a beauty queen, a journalist and a “These vicious claims about story “constitutes libel per se.” But the nity to have a court set him straight.” “She has to go to jail,” he added, Ortiz said. After the fire was out, sales representative, countered that me of inappropriate conduct with Times refused to back down. Meanwhile, Trump slammed to rousing cheers. the bones were broken up and the fragments scattered about, she said. Ortiz added that gov- ernment attention to the remains has been sporadic up until now, 911 operator accused of hanging up on thousands of calls and that they have never had the resources — personnel or forensic expertise — to collect everything AP KPRC-TV reported Williams was manager was fatally shot. questioned in June 2016, she told recalled. He told her his wife had that is there. involved in thousands of “short calls,” A security guard called 911 on them she often hangs up on calls passed out and needed an ambu- Coahuila prosecutor Homero lasting 20 seconds or less, between March 13 to report two motorists because she didn’t want to talk with lance, the operator said OK then Ramos Gloria reported to the state October 2015 and March. Joe Laud, driving recklessly at high speed on anyone at that time. hung up. legislature this week that more HOUSTON: A Houston 911 operator the Houston Emergency Center a Houston freeway. One caller, Buster Pendley, said He got help after a second 911 call than 4,600 bone fragments have accused of hanging up on thousands administration manager, said yes- Police said that Williams was Williams hung up on him March 1 and his wife, Sharon Stephens, sur- been collected from the 26-acre of emergency calls is charged with terday she was placed on indefinite the 911 operator and cut short the when his wife collapsed and lost vived, but the experience still makes site in the township of San Pedro, two counts of interference with an suspension and fired August. 4. call before the caller could provide consciousness. her angry. outside Torreon, since April 2015. emergency telephone call. In one incident, Williams hung his name. Pendley said he tried to perform “I would have gotten from my Shell casings and clothing have Harris County court records show up on a caller reporting a robbery in According to a recording of the CPR on his wife with one hand while hospital bed and gone to 911 and find also been found. 43-year-old Crenshanda Williams of progress at a convenience store. call, Williams hung up then said: calling 911 with the other. out who did that to me,” she said. On one visit to the site in May Houston was charged on October 5 The man called back and spoke “Ain’t nobody got time for this. For “The 911 operator answered the If convicted, Williams could be 2015, authorities found three sets and freed on $2,000 bond. She faces to a different operator, but by the real.” phone, and she said, ‘This is Cren- sentenced to up to a year in jail and of remains in addition to hundreds a court appearance next week. time police arrived, the store Police said when Williams was shanda, may I help you?’” Pendley $4,000 fine for each count. of fragments, Ramos said. Clashes as Venezuela protesters seek Maduro recall

AFP rallies, seeking to show its strength of his socialist “revolution.” brink of collapse, MUD has settled by having protesters sign largely “Today the revolution is going on on a recall referendum as the best symbolic petitions calling for him the offensive toward the years 2017, strategy to get rid of Maduro. to face a recall referendum. 2018 and beyond. What’s ahead for But electoral authorities have CARACAS: Clashes broke out The rallies amounted to a dress- the right are dark days of collapse, already dashed the opposition’s between supporters and opponents rehearsal for an official petition defeat and division,” he said. hopes of ending 17 years of leftist of Venezuelan President Nicolas drive later this month, when the The speaker of the opposition- rule. Maduro as opposition protesters opposition will have just three days majority legislature, Henry Ramos They ruled in September that a sought to show momentum in their to gather the four million signatures Allup, fired back with equally strong recall referendum could only be held push to oust him in a referendum. required to force a recall vote. words. after January 10 -- the cut-off date to Sticks, stones and punches flew That process, scheduled for Octo- “Watch out: the people are mobi- trigger a new presidential election, on the Caribbean island of Margar- ber 26 to 28, will be overseen by lised to get rid of this band of thugs rather than simply transfer power ita as red-clad Maduro supporters electoral authorities at 1,356 desig- that’s looting Venezuela,” he said. to Maduro’s hand-picked vice presi- tried to block opponents determined nated sites across the country. The clashes in Villa Rosa were dent until the end of his term in 2019. to march on the town of Villa Rosa. But the opposition is hoping to the only immediate report of Seven in 10 Venezuelans want a Several protesters were score a symbolic victory before then. violence. change in government, according to wounded, said the center-right “If we get seven or eight million The town was also the scene of a recent poll. opposition coalition, the Demo- (signatures), it will send a message to an anti-government demonstration But the fragmented opposition cratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), Maduro that we want change now,” that embarrassed Maduro in Sep- has struggled to stop the powerful which accuses Maduro of steering said Ismael Dacorte, a 51-year-old tember, when he was greeted during political machine launched in 1999 Venezuela into an economic crisis lawyer, at one rally in the capital a visit by residents banging pots and by Maduro’s mentor, the late presi- marked by severe shortages of food Caracas. pans in protest. Some 30 people were dent Hugo Chavez. and medicine, spiraling inflation, Maduro supporters held rival ral- arrested in the aftermath. Rumours have swirled in recent Venezuelan Government’s supporters (right) clash against President and rampant crime. lies of their own across the country. As plunging crude prices have days that Maduro could use the The scuffles came as the oppo- Addressing the main one, in pushed OPEC-member Venezue- Supreme Court to block a recall Maduro opponents during a demonstration to demand a recall sition held nationwide anti-Maduro Caracas, Maduro hailed the strength la’s oil-dependent economy to the referendum. referendum against Maduro, in Margarita islan, Venezuela, yesterday. CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 13

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08:00 News 10:10 Harley And The 10:05 Tanked 13:05 Star Darlings 08:30 Rewind Davidsons 11:00 Dogs/Cats/Pets 13:10 Austin & Ally 09:00 11:50 14:00 Al Jazeera World Extreme Car 101 Liv And Maddie 10:30 Inside Story Hoarders 14:50 11:55 Bondi Vet Dog With A Blog 11:00 News 12:40 Built To Survive 15:15 Jessie 12:50 The Lion Queen 11:30 The Stream 13:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:40 Bunk’d 12:00 14:20 13:45 Gator Boys 16:05 News Misfit Garage 14:40 Star Darlings 12:30 101 East 15:10 Deals, Wheels And Man-Eating Super 17:00 Backstage 13:00 NEWSHOUR Steals Snake 17:25 16 Wishes 14:00 News 15:35 Deals, Wheels And 15:35 Tanked 19:00 Descendants 14:30 Inside Story Steals 16:30 Wildest Africa Wicked World 15:00 Living Beneath 16:00 The Island With 17:25 River Monsters 19:05 Best Friends The Drones Bear Grylls: USA 18:20 Predators Up Whenever Yesterday’s answer 16:00 NEWSHOUR 16:50 The Island With 19:30 Close With Joel Jessie Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle 17:00 News Bear Grylls: USA 19:55 Liv And Maddie Lambert based on a 9×9 grid. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in 17:30 The Stream 20:10 The Island With 20:20 Austin & Ally the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3×3 box 19:15 18:00 NEWSHOUR Bear Grylls: USA Tanked 21:10 contains the same number only once. 20:10 H2O: Just Add 19:00 News 21:00 Wheeler Dealers Wildest Africa Water 19:30 Fault Lines 21:50 Misfit Garage 21:05 Predators Up 22:00 Binny And The 20:00 News 22:40 How It’s Made: Close With Joel Ghost 20:30 Inside Story Dream Cars Lambert 22:50 Sabrina Secrets 21:00 NEWSHOUR 23:05 How It’s Made: 22:00 9-1-1 Encounters Of A Teenage 22:00 News Dream Cars 22:55 Gator Boys Witch 22:30 UpFront 23:30 Built To Survive 23:10 23:50 River Monsters Hank Zipzer 23:00 Shadow War In 01:10 Wheeler Dealers 23:35 Binny And The 00:45 9-1-1 Encounters MEDIUM SUDOKU The Sahara 02:00 Misfit Garage Ghost BABY BLUES BABY

Yesterday’s answer NOVO SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER Laaf Wa Dawaraan (2D/Arabic) 10:00am & 2:40pm TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 The Duel (2D/Thriller) 12:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight I.T. (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:15, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:15, 11:00pm & 12:00midnight CROSSWORD Storks (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00 & 4:00pm Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2D/Comedy) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm The Riot (2D/Action) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight A. Ire (5) S. Form (5) Jungle Master 2: Candy Planet (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 1:45, 5:30 & 9:15pm A. Editorial (7) S. Trap (5) Disappointments Room (2D/Horror) 11:45am, 3:30, 7:15 & 11:00pm A. Astonish (7) S. Purloined (6) Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (2D/Family) 11:00am, 4:00 & 9:00pm B. Occupied (4) S. Raucous (8) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2D/Action) 2:30, 6:30 & 11:30pm D. Haul (4) T. Military vehicles (5) Masterminds (2D) 11:00am, 3:10, 7:20 & 11:30pm E. Teacher (8) T. Curt (5) Deep Water Horizon (2D/Action) 1:00, 5:10 & 9:20pm E. Enclosed territories (8) T. Large drum (7) Inferno (2D/Thriller) 11:20am, 12:00noon, 1:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:20, 7:40, H. Environment (7) T. Perfidy (7) 8:40, 11:00 & 12:15am IMAX 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight H. Concealed (6) T. Shudder (6) I. Whole number (7) T. Melodies (5) L. Involvement (7) T. Tropical cyclone (7) MALL M. Strength (5) V. Winner (6) Jungle Master 2: Candy Planet (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 4:30pm M. Play charades (4) V. Observant (8) Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2D/Comedy) 3:30 & 5:15pm Paoulo (2D/Malayalam) 1:30 & 8:45pm S. Remnant (5) Z. Nil (4) The Duel (2D/Drama) 5:00 & 11:30pm Oppam (2D/Malayalam) 6:00pm Inferno (2D/Thriller) 7:00 & 11:30pm I.T. (2D/Drama) 7:00 & 9:15pm Eedu Gold Ehe (2D/Telugu) 8:45pm Rekka (2D/Tamil) 11:00pm

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Jungle Master 2: Candy Planet (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:00 & 5:30pm Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2D/Comedy) 5:00 & 7:00pm I.T. (2D/Drama) 7:15, 9:45 & 11:30pm Inferno (2D/Thriller) 7:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm Paoulo (2D/Malayalam) 2:15 & 7:00pm Rekka (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 11:15pm The Duel (2D/Drama) 5:00 & 9:15pm ALL IN THE MIND ROYAL PLAZA

Jungle Master 2: Candy Planet (2D/Animation) 2:00, 3:30 & 7:30pm Paoulo (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 8:45pm Rekka (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 11:00pm Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2D/Comedy) 5:00 & 7:00pm Inferno (2D/Thriller) 5:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm The Duel (2D/Drama) 5:00 & 11:30pm I.T. (2D/Drama) 7:00 & 9:15pm ASIAN TOWN

Oppam (Malayalam) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30pm & 12:30am Paoulo (Malayalam) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00pm & 01:00am Remo (Tamil) 1:00, 7:00, 10:00pm & 01:00am Rekka (Tamil) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30pm & 12:30am Eedu Gold Ehe (Telugu) 3:30pm A VIEW TO A KILL, DIE ANOTHER DAY, DR NO, GEORGE LAZENBY, GOLDENEYE, GOLDFINGER, HONEY RYDER, JAMES BOND, JAWS, LIVE AND AL KHOR LET DIE, MAGDA, MONEYPENNY, MOONRAKER, Oppam (3D/Malayalam) NAOMI, NICKNACK, ODDJOB, PIERCE 11:00, 11:30am, 2:00, 2:30, 5:00, 5:30, BROSNAN, ROGER MOORE, SEAN CONNERY, 8:00, 8:30, 11:00 & 11:30pm Inferno (3D/Thriller) TEEHEE, THUNDERBALL, TIFFANY CASE, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm & 12:00midnight Yesterday's answer VARGAS, WHISPER.

PRAYER TIMINGS WEATHER Minimum: 25o C Maximum: 36o C

FAJR 04.15 am ZUHR 11.20 am MAGHRIB 05.10 pm HIGH TIDE 03:15 - 15:30 Hazy to misty/foggy at places at first especially the SHOROOK 05.31 am ASR 02.40 pm ISHA 06.40 pm LOW TIDE 08:45 - 22:00 highways of the country with Dukhan, Mesaieed and Al Khor becomes relatively hot daytime.

16 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016 HOME / MORNING BREAK

ONLINE CHART BUST ‘Ride of Health Bicycle Fest’ at Lulu www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

MOST READ This fest is organised as a part of Lulu’s ‘Breakfast with Zunira’ provides a platform for endeavour to upkeep 1 women to connect the team spirit Observatory: Shells kill four children in govt-held and solidarity with 2 Aleppo UCI Road World Damascus, Moscow press deadly bombing Championships. 3 of rebel Aleppo

The Peninsula TWEET OF THE DAY

DOHA: Lulu outlets have launched the amazing ‘Ride of Health Bicycle Fest’, which will run until 31st of this month. This is being organised as a part of their endeavour to upkeep the team spirit and solidarity with UCI Road World Championships and the nationals of State of Qatar with a view to promote the best practices of sports. This promotion will encom- pass almost all categories of bicycles for men, women and children includ- ing mountain bikes, foldable bicycles, sports bicycles, stunt cycles and cycle with big wheel etc. Different varieties of bicycles on display at Lulu. This is one of the mega annual promotions as per Lulu’s calendar of events and it is much-awaited by the but also the importance of healthy eat- healthy food, healthy living, and Lulu prizes namely cooler, grill, sleeping bag bicycle-lovers especially children. ing. With this in mind Lulu is always Group is the first hypermarket chain in and tent etc. This will continue until 25th Keep track of the Apart from bicycles, all bicycle acces- looking to add to their ever-extend- the region to promote organic, fat free, of this month and mega draw will be sories namely jerseys, helmets, gloves ing range of organic/gluten free and gluten-free and specialty foods. They held on the 27th of October. latest events and body armor etc. are also available sugar free products along with low fat are making every attempt to source the Lulu Group has conceived the on display. Lulu has launched this pro- and low cholesterol foods. They organ- best quality premium products from strategy of launching ideal and wor- Open Snapchat and motion in all their outlets in the Qatar ize regular promotional activities and genuine sources through their well- thy promotions for a bigger and better region. deploy specialists in store to promote known supply chain. shopping experience to the shoppers. scan the Snapcode to Lulu has fully conceived the con- the best practices of healthy eating and Nestle has also launched an inno- They strongly believe that this will follow The Peninsula. cept of sports and fitness, and it stable diets to ensure a longer health- vative promotion in coordination with remain live forever in the hearts of conducts Health & Fitness Promo- ier living. More importantly it gives the Lulu Group wherein customers those their customers. Customers are also tions regularly every year and take message that good food does not need who are purchasing Nescafe products benefitted more by adding another efforts not only to educate the com- to be expensive. worth QR.30/- are entitled to get a cou- savings if they do their purchase on munity about the necessity of fitness Lulu’s philosophy is to promote pon to win a Quad bike and other related Lulu-Doha Bank Credit Card.

Ministry of Interior celebrates Galaxy count may new batch of police recruits now top 2 trillion across universe

The Peninsula AP

DOHA: The Ministry of Interior yesterday celebrated the gradua- CAPE CANAVERAL, FLOR- tion of the third class of police recruits, in a ceremony held in the IDA: Thought the universe was Police Training Institute and in the presence of Director-General crowded with 100 billion to 200 of Public Security Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi and a number of billion galaxies? Try 1 trillion or ranking officials at the Ministry. even 2 trillion galaxies and more. The class included 400 trainees from different ranks. The Direc- That’s the latest census, tor-General of Public Security congratulated the graduates and wished reported yestersday. An astro- them, stressing that they will be a qualitative addition to all secu- physics professor at the University rity sectors. He called on the new graduates to remain committed to of Nottingham in England led the their oath and enforce the law with a high-level of professionalism. international team that came up Speaking to the press after the ceremony, the Director-Gen- with the mind-boggling esti- eral said that the new class was the latest of the Ministry’s efforts mate of 2 trillion galaxies in the in improving their ability to enhance security and stability. universe. Professor Christopher He also added that “the training period for this batch continued Conselice said that represents a for six months, through it the graduates have learned many theo- minimum tenfold increase. retical concepts and practical application in the fields of policing, In a phone interview, Con- administration and law. selice said he was surprised by The Police Training Institute this year has imparted 105 train- the results. He anticipated two or ings to 2156 trainees from the Ministry of Interior and 237 trainees three times more galaxies, per- from other companies. haps, but “10 is quite high” and it In addition, theoretical tests were conducted for 1647 Ministry could prove to be even greater. employees seeking promotion. Director-General of Public Security Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi and other officials at the graduation ceremony. The scientists based their gal- axy head count on deep-space surveys already conducted by Hubble Space Telescope and ground observatories. They turned the images into 3-D and Lyricist Bob Dylan wins Nobel literature prize used new mathematical models for the update. “It boggles mind that over 90 Reuters American song tradition” - now finds is still writing songs and is often on Vietnam War protests. percent of galaxies in universe himself in the company of Winston tour, performing his dense poetic Awarding the 8m Swedish crown have yet to be studied,” Conselice Churchill, Thomas Mann and Rud- lyrics, sung in a sometimes rasp- ($930,000) prize, the Swedish Acad- said in a statement. “Who knows yard Kipling as Nobel laureates. ing voice that has been ridiculed by emy said: “Dylan has the status of an what interesting properties we will STOCKHOLM: Bob Dylan (pictured), The announcement was met with detractors. Some lyrics have reso- icon. His influence on contemporary find when we discover these gal- regarded as the voice of a genera- gasps in Stockholm’s stately Royal nated for decades. music is profound.” axies with future generations of tion for his influential songs from Academy hall, followed - unusually Blowin’ in the Wind, written in Swedish Academy member Per telescopes?” Even scientists have the 1960s onwards, has won the - by some laughter. 1962, was considered one of the Wastberg said: “He is probably the trouble wrapping their minds Nobel Prize for Literature in a sur- Dylan’s songs, such as Blowin in the most eloquent folk songs of all time. greatest living poet.” around such huge numbers. prise decision that made him the only Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin, The Times They Are A-Changin, in Asked if he thought Dylan’s Nobel According to Conselice, 2 trillion is singer-songwriter to win the award. Subterranean Homesick Blues and which Dylan told Americans “your lecture - traditionally given by the roughly equivalent to the number of The 75-year-old Dylan - who won Like a Rolling Stone captured a spirit sons and your daughters are beyond laureate in Stockholm later in the seconds in 1,000 average lifetimes. the prize for “having created new of rebellion, dissent and independence. your command”, was an anthem year — would be a concert, replied: The findings are being poetic expressions within the great More than 50 years on, Dylan of the civil rights movement and “Let’s hope so.” reported in Astrophysical Journal.