SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017 JAMADA ALTHANI 30, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Tourism aids Leader of India’s QIA to invest Kuwait Times youth role in biggest state £5bn in UK, infographic: development, boosts Hindu open office in NBA Power boosts 4revenues right12 agenda Silicon21 Valley Rankings18 Cabinet seals extradition Min 17º Max 25º deal with United Kingdom High Tide 12:27 Low Tide Dosari confirmed MoI undersecretary • Jassar named CSC chief 06:25 & 18:35 40 PAGES NO: 17181 150 FILS KUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday approved an extradi- Controversy over tion agreement with the United Kingdom, which was Jordan hosts 28th Arab Summit signed in December and subsequently referred to the citizenship law as National Assembly. Speaking to KUNA after the Cabinet’s routine meeting, Minister of Justice and govt forms panel Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Falah Al-Azab said that the Cabinet has approved the extradition deal By B Izzak with Britain. KUWAIT: The National Assembly is expected to He said the agreement is imperative since it sup- debate today amendments that allow legal recourse ports efforts to bring convicts and fugitives to justice, when the government revokes citizenship amid a con- which in turn will help ameliorate Kuwait’s ties with troversy on whether the changes should be expand- the UK. The extradition deal was co-signed on Dec 15 ed. The Cabinet meanwhile formed an independent by Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah panel headed by an advisor to HH the Amir and for- and British Minister for the Middle East and Africa mer Assembly Speaker Ali Al-Rashed to look into the Tobias Ellwood. process of reinstating citizenship of several opposition Meanwhile, the Cabinet approved a draft decree pro- figures revoked in the summer of 2014. moting Maj Gen Mahmoud Al-Dosari as Undersecretary The panel comes following a deal to resolve the of the Ministry of Interior, Minister of State for Cabinet issue of revoked citizenship after a group of lawmak- Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- ers visited HH the Amir a few weeks ago and said he Sabah said. The draft decree was approved during the has agreed to reinstate the citizenships. It also comes weekly Cabinet meeting, said Sheikh Mohammad, who after opposition MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei vowed that doubles as acting minister of information. Dosari was an he will file to grill the prime minister if the govern- acting undersecretary of the interior ministry and ment does not reinstate the citizenship of opposition undersecretary of the special security unit. figures by April 3. Several other MPs have also made a The Cabinet also approved appointing former similar threat because of a delay in the process even Electricity and Ahmad Khaled Al-Jassar as Chairman of after the meeting with the Amir. the Civil Service Commission (CSC). The ministers The panel will study the issues of former MP approved a draft decree appointing Jassar in the post, Abdullah Al-Barghash and around 57 members of succeeding Abdulaziz Al-Zaben, who submitted his res- his extended family and that of Saad Al-Ajmi, who AMMAN: Jordanian King Abdullah II (center) and his brothers Prince Faisal (left), Prince Ali (second left), ignation earlier, Sheikh Mohammad told KUNA. The was deported to Saudi Arabia after his citizenship Prince Hamzeh (second right), Prince Hashem (third right) and their cousin Prince Rashed are seen at Cabinet expressed gratitude and appreciation to was revoked. Marka airport as they wait for the Saudi king’s arrival yesterday ahead of the 28th Summit of the Arab Zaben’s efforts during his tenure, wishing him lasting Continued on Page 13 League. — AFP (See Pages 3 & 8) good luck, Sheikh Mohammad noted. — KUNA News Bahrain busts Iran-linked terror cell in brief UAE donates $54m to Kuwait reiterates solidarity with Manama Interpol Foundation ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates announced yes- DUBAI: Bahrain said yesterday it had broken an Iranian- majority Shiites. BNA said that six of the arrestees received matic weapons. Bahrain in February executed three terday it has donated $54 million to the Interpol linked “terrorist cell” suspected of involvement in a bomb military training in camps under Iranian Revolutionary men convicted in the death of three policemen, includ- Foundation, as the country prepares to host a joint attack on a police bus in February and plotting to assassi- Guard supervision, five had been trained by the Iraqi ing an Emirati officer, in a 2014 bomb attack. Bahrain forum on global security. The funds will go towards sev- nate senior officials, state news agency BNA reported. The Hezbollah group and three received training in Bahrain. frequently accuses Iran of being behind bomb attacks en Interpol projects including counter-terrorism, cyber- agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying that They are suspected of a bomb attack on a bus in targeting security services and fomenting Shiite crime and drugs, an official statement said. “The threats the 14-member cell was working under direct supervision February that injured five police officers, the agency protests. Iran denies interfering in Bahrain, although it posed by terrorism, organized crime and cybercrime are from two exiled Bahrainis living in Iran, one of them recently said. The group is also suspected of plotting to attack acknowledges support for opposition groups seeking more complex and global than ever, requiring Interpol designated by the United States as a “global terrorist”. “senior officials”, the statement said but gave no further greater rights for Bahrain’s Shiites. to play an even stronger role in international police Kuwait yesterday reaffirmed its solidarity with and details. It said weapons, locally-made explosives and Yesterday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi cooperation,” said Interpol secretary general Jurgen absolute support for Bahrain, and backs all steps being communication equipment had been seized from the received Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa in Cairo, Stock. The news came on the eve of a three-day Unity taken by Bahraini authorities to maintain the kingdom’s homes of the suspects. The statement said the cell was meeting him at the airport before holding “extensive” for Security forum in Abu Dhabi. The conference is the security and stability. This was announced by an official being financed and directed from Iran by Qassim talks alongside aides in the presidential palace. Egypt lat- first such venture organized jointly by the UAE and the source of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Abdullah Ali and Mortada Majid Al-Sanadi. The US State er expressed its solidarity with Bahrain in confronting ter- intergovernmental police organization Interpol. The source prayed that Bahrain would have everlasting securi- Department in March labelled Sanadi and another rorism, condemning “in the strongest terms” all attempts UAE last May announced it had signed an agreement ty and stability. Bahraini identified as Ahmad Hasan Yusuf as “Specially to destabilize the security and stability of the kingdom with the Interpol Foundation for Abu Dhabi to host the Tensions have been rising in the kingdom since last Designated Global Terrorists”. and supporting all its efforts to fight them. In a foreign group’s world bureau headquarters. year after authorities stepped up a crackdown on dissent, Earlier this month, Bahrain announced it had uncov- ministry statement yesterday, Egypt said it was stating its banning the main opposition group Al-Wefaq, arresting a ered a group comprising 54 members suspected of position in light of the arrest a day earlier of the “terrorist leading activist and critic of the government and revoking involvement in attacks on security forces, including cell” that had been planning assassinations and attacks Kuwait to adopt new the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the country’s organizing a prison break in January, and seizing auto- on several vital targets in the kingdom. — Agencies equities benchmark KUWAIT: Kuwait’s stock exchange will introduce a new equities benchmark next year after complet- Singaporean couple jailed ing a reorganization of its listed companies into new market categories, the bourse’s chief execu- for starving Filipina maid tive officer told Bloomberg. Boursa Kuwait will group companies in segments according to crite- SINGAPORE: A Singapore couple who what they saw as lenient penalties for ria including market capitalization and average starved their Philippine maid until she the couple, who will remain free on bail daily traded volume as part of a program to boost weighed just 29 kg were ordered jailed pending the prosecution appeal for liquidity and draw new investors and issuers, CEO yesterday in a case described as “shock- tougher penalties. Khaled Al-Khaled said on Sunday. The allocation of ing” by prosecutors who vowed to seek Both were convicted last year of vio- stocks to new categories is expected in the first stiffer sentences. Trader Lim Choon lating employment laws by failing to pro- quarter of next year, advancing a program to Hong, 48, was sentenced to three weeks vide enough food for their maid, Thelma in jail and fined Sg$10,000 ($7,200), while Oyasan Gawidan, over a 15 -month peri- revamp post-trade and settlement systems that’s his wife Chong Sui Foon, also 48, was od in 2013 and 2014 at their condomini- already underway, Khaled said, citing estimates on jailed for three months, the couple’s um in the posh Orchard Road area. State timing from the Capital Markets Authority. The lawyer told AFP. Critics were outraged by prosecutors, who have described the sys- reorganization will enable investors to select the tematic starvation as “downright shock- market segment with the volume and activity lev- ing in its extremity and severity”, are els most desirable for their needs.