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MONDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10146 July 11, 2016 Shawwal 6, 1437 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Eid programmes conclude Tourist In brief

PALESTINE | Occupation arrivals ‘to Israel ‘strengthens’ its settlements Israel’s government yesterday approved nearly $13mn in financing for the West Bank settlements of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, off icials cross 3mn said. The decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet will see some 50mn shekels ($12.8mn) allocated to “strengthen” the communities. Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal this year’ under international law and major stumbling blocks to peace. Tourism has been identified Qatar Tourism Authority to help The United States, the European as one of the key areas of drive a cohesive, national campaign Union and many others in the Eid al-Fitr celebrations held at malls under Qatar Tourism Authority’s “Capture Joy” initiative concluded yesterday after diversification for the Qatari to boost infrastructure, market- international community have treating the country’s inhabitants, as well as visitors, to five days of fun-filled entertainment shows and activities. One of the economy ing, and accessibility, in order to in- called for a halt to settlement highlights of the family entertainment programmes at malls was Iftah Ya Simsim (Arabic version of Sesame Street), which crease absolute tourist numbers, BMI building. Page 5 was staged at Hyatt Plaza. Up next is the 2016 Qatar Summer Festival, which will be held from August 1 to 31. Page 24 By Pratap John said. Chief Business Reporter Underlining the Qatari authori- ties’ commitment to boosting tour- ARAB WORLD | Militancy ism flows over the long term, 2014 IS territory ational initiatives to enhance saw the launch of the Qatar National shrinks 12 % tourism flows into Qatar are Tourism Strategy 2030. Nshowing positive results with As part of the strategy, Qatar wants The Islamic State (IS) group lost Portugal win Euro 2016 inbound arrivals expected to reach to boost the number of international, 12 % of the territory it holds in 3.1mn this year, a 7.2% leap from 2015, non-regional tourists travelling to Iraq and Syria in the first half of a new report has shown. the country and promote sustainable 2016, according to an analysis by Growth will remain strong until tourism, as well as growing business British think-tank IHS. The analysis 2020, when inbound arrivals are ex- and medical travel. published yesterday says the on Eder’s extra-time goal pected reach 4mn, BMI Research has “Growth over the next five years militant group, which proclaimed said in a report. is expected to be strong, as ties with its self-styled “caliphate” in the two DPA, AFP Qatar’s inbound tourism total is ex- regional neighbours increase and countries in 2014, is continuing Paris pected to rise by 5.4% over 2016, the plans to become a tourist and travel to lose ground after a string of Fitch Group company said. As well as hub continue to advance,” the report setbacks last year. Page 4 increasing the ability and demand for noted. ortugal overcame an injury of tourism into the country, there has Tourism has been identified as one superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to also been work done to make it easier of the key areas of diversification for BRITAIN | Inquiry Pcapture their fi rst major football to enter and visitors from some 33 the Qatari economy, and the tour- Prescott calls Iraq title when they beat hosts France 1-0 countries are now eligible for a tour- ist industry is beginning to catch up yesterday from an extra-time winner ist visa upon arrival. with the more developed industries invasion illegal from substitute Eder. The government has made moves of its neighbours. Britain broke international law Eder, who plays at French club Lille, to increase travel from the Asia Pacif- BMI also notes the priority given to when it invaded Iraq in 2003, its beat Hugo Lloris with a low shot into ic market by decreasing bureaucracy, promoting tourism by the local au- deputy prime minister at the time, the bottom left corner in the 109th such as in Taiwan where travellers can thorities and believes t`hat this, in John Prescott, said yesterday in minute. now apply for visas online. tandem with Qatar’s hosting of the the wake of a critical report on the The goal came shortly after Raphael Work within the Gulf Co-operation FIFA World Cup in 2022, is likely to decision to go to war. A seven-year Guerreiro had hit the crossbar with a Council (GCC) has also led to a Gulf- see a rise in inbound tourism over our inquiry concluded last Wednesday free-kick, but Portugal were lucky as wide visa that allows for a Schen- forecast period to 2020. that former British prime minister France substitute Andre-Pierre Gig- gen style travel within participating Qatar is currently a business des- Tony Blair’s justification, planning nac was denied a winner by the left countries, making travel within the tination, but BMI said there are and handling of the Iraq War post in stoppage time before the extra Portugal’s forward Eder tumbling over France’s midfielder Blaise Matuidi during region much easier and more conven- “strides being made” to strengthen involved a catalogue of failures, but period. the Euro 2016 final football match at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of ient. the cultural and leisure aspects of the did not rule whether the war was Ronaldo, meanwhile, hurt his left Paris, yesterday. Europe and America will remain the industry. legal. Page 12 knee in a collision with Dimitri Payet, dominant source markets for Qatar in The hosting of international sport- and after trying to play eventually France in 11 games and since a 1975 The 31-year-old Real Madrid strik- general. Diversifying the country’s ing events will help put the country had to leave in the 24th minute on a friendly, and only their sixth overall er played in the Portugal side that lost source markets is seen as essential for in the world’s eye as a tourist desti- SOUTH SUDAN | Security stretcher and in tears. in 25 meetings between Cristiano Ro- the 2004 European Championship fi - Qatari tourism’s sustainability. nation which will also lead to a di- Heavy fi ghting Portugal fulfi lled their dream of naldo suff ered new heartbreak in the nal 1-0 to Greece. The recent fall in oil price may af- versification in the hotel market as a fi rst major title at last after they fi nal, stretchered off in tears. Ronaldo crying in defeat has re- fect the amount of inter-regional companies look beyond the high-end erupts in Juba had lost the 2004 decider at home Payet fl oored Ronaldo with a heavy mained one of the enduring images of travel in the future, and as such the hotel market in anticipation of a wid- Heavy fighting erupted in South against outsiders Greece, with a then challenge in the eighth minute. The that tournament. country must appeal to a wider range er source market. Sudan’s capital, Juba, yesterday 19-year-old Ronaldo. Portuguese superstar rolled on the He had said before the Paris fi nal of markets (whilst s till attracting re- Additionally, it said the govern- as former rebels and government France lost a match at home for the turf in agony, was led off for treat- that he wanted to be “crying for joy” gional travel). ment has continued to improve air soldiers exchanged fire two days fi rst time since a 2-0 defeat against ment and came back. After hobbling this time. Growth in the longer term will be links into the country to encourage after gun battles left at least 150 Czechoslovakia in the match for third for several minutes, Ronaldo went off Ronaldo was replaced by Ricardo aided by further international events travel. fighters dead. Regional airline place in 1960 - going unbeaten in 18 again to have his left leg bandaged. Quaresma and disappeared for treat- providing an influx of tourists, but The Qatari government is also Kenya Airways suspended flights to games, with 17 wins, en route to ti- After trying to accelerate, Ronaldo ment. beyond this there are significant trying to boost entrepreneurship Juba, citing the “uncertain security tles at Euro 1984 and the 1998 World sat down in tears in the 24th minute He emerged again when referee plans in place in order to strengthen within tourism in order to encourage situation”, while the US embassy Cup, plus the run into yesterday’s fi - and signalled he could not carry on. Mark Clattenburg blew the whistle for all aspects of the industry. private sectors to innovate to meet in Juba warned its citizens to stay nal. He took off the captain’s armband 90 minutes to encourage his exhaust- The National Tourism Strategy demand in the market, BMI said. indoors. Page 6 It was Portugal’s fi rst win against and was carried off on a stretcher. ed teammates for extra time. 2030 has been implemented by the Business Page 1 Ministry issues swimming safety guidelines Expats urged to he Ministry of Interior (MoI) has preferable to have someone with you issued a slew of safety guidelines who could provide fi rst-aid.” Tfor those heading for a beach or a It has also reminded people not to swimming pool for a dip in the summer. use water rings of any type if the water carry RP card In a post on its Facebook page yes- is deep. terday, the MoI noted that many peo- For watercraft users, the MoI has ple love to have a holiday or weekend said people should ensure that the he Ministry of Interior (MoI) has tion system, according to the ministry. outing on Qatar’s beaches, where they craft is safe to ride and must wrap the reminded expatriates of the need This is subject to the condition that swim and play with children. lanyard (a safety device) around their Tto carry the Residency Permit the person concerned does not ex- As this is a preferred holiday activ- wrist. (RP) card at all times, particularly while ceed the six-month period for which a ity for many, the advisory stressed the People without experience and leaving and entering Qatar, and pro- resident is allowed to stay outside the need to follow certain safety precau- children below the legal age should duced before the authorities concerned country. tions while spending time on a beach The Ministry of Interior has stressed the need to follow safety precautions while not ride a watercraft, the advisory as and when demanded. If the resident has exceeded the six- or in a swimming pool. swimming in a pool or the sea. highlighted. The “new RP card is the sole identity month period, s/he will be required to The MoI has advised people to keep The MoI also reiterated that people proof” of an expatriate resident and get a return visa processed by the em- a watchful eye on children, especially “Never leave a young child unat- alternative for constant supervision. should avoid riding in areas meant for his/her valid residency document in ployer/sponsor to enter the country. the younger ones, because they are tended near the water and do not trust The advisory also points out that swimming and diving, lanes used by the country, the MoI said in a post on Otherwise, s/he will be referred to the not aware of the risks involved. “Don’t a child’s life to another child; teach plastic water wings and rings are not ships/fi shing vessels and areas speci- its Facebook page yesterday. authorities concerned for violating get engaged in reading, swimming, children to always ask for permission designed to keep swimmers safe, and fi ed for marine activities. Besides, If someone loses the card while re- Residence Law No 4/2009, and legal browsing your mobile, etc, when they to go near the water.” should never be used in place of a life they must not engage in acrobatic ex- turning from a trip abroad or does not measures will be taken accordingly, the accompany you,” the advisory said. The ministry said swimming pools jacket.“Make sure that kids are always ercises that may endanger theirs’ and carry it, s/he will be allowed to enter MoI has said. The guidelines further stressed that should be secured with appropriate wearing life jackets when playing in others’ safety, it added. Qatar with a return visa issued directly “In any case, the person should have children should not be left unattended barriers. water, are next to it or even on a boat.” Boating enthusiasts can follow at the port of entry without having to a valid passport and the validity of his even for a moment as “seconds count At the same time, it remind- People should avoid swimming further guidelines at https://goo.gl/ resort to the employer, and the RP card Residency Permit should not have ex- in preventing death or disability”. ed them that barriers are not an alone, the ministry said, adding: “It is L3WLxT will be marked as lost in the immigra- pired as well,” the post added. Gulf Times 2 Monday, July 11, 2016 QATAR

Corniche clean-up In brief

Emir receives phone call from Yemeni leader

QNA Doha

H the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al- HThani received a tel- ephone call yesterday from Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi during which he congratulated the Emir on the advent of Eid al-Fitr. Discussions also dealt with The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) said in a tweet that it had cleared the Doha Corniche of garbage left behind by visitors during the Eid al-Fitr holidays and “made it look beautiful as usual”. It bilateral ties as well as the latest also urged people to use litter bins. PICTURES: MME Twitter page developments in Yemen and the region in general. WISE invites projects for Fishermen advise residents to Accelerator Programme be wary while visiting beaches By Ramesh Mathew the group, the daughter of one people have lost their lives in Staff Reporter of the victims, was rescued by diff erent conditions over the By Joseph Varghese some visitors, recalled Francis. last 4-5 years. Most of them Staff Reporter “Most people cannot properly died owing to their unfamili- eteran fi shermen with read the water levels as the tides arity with the water levels, he years of experience have are unpredictable,” he said, add- added. he World Innovation Vurged Qatar’s inhabitants ing that water levels that may Thursday’s tragedy in the Summit for Education to exercise due caution while appear low in the morning may inland sea area was reported T(WISE), a global initiative visiting the country’s beaches. rise signifi cantly in the evening. around 2.30am. of Qatar Foundation for Educa- Their appeal comes after a “However, some visitors think Expressing similar views, an- tion, Science and Community 46-year-old Indian expatriate that the water levels along the other fi sherman – Sahaya Sel- Development, has invited edu- drowned near Khor Al Udeid coast remain more or less the varaj – said there was a greater cational projects for the WISE after falling into a whirlpool same,” he said. As as result, the need to educate beachgoers on Accelerator Programme 2016-17. last Thursday. The victim was a chances of people drowning are the risks involved. Applications must be sub- member of a 15-member group higher late in the evenings or “There should be boards along mitted in English through www. that had gone to the beach, lo- early in the morning, stressed the coastline warning visitors wise-qatar.org/wise-accelera- cated in the southeast part of Francis. about the sea conditions.” tor by September 8. the country, to spend their Eid The fi sherman said about 15 All education projects that holiday. use or link technology to their Some other members of the projects can apply for the pro- group also had a close shave and gramme. The projects will be were saved thanks to the timely selected in November and an- intervention of some locals and Body of drowning nounced in December. other people who came to their The WISE Accelerator is a Edutechnoz from Canada, one of the projects selected for the WISE Accelerator Programme 2015-16. rescue. programme designed to support Speaking to Gulf Times, Indian victim fl own home the development of innovative creates opportunities to share for growth; a dedicated team, innovation, strategy and man- fi sherman Thomas Francis said projects in the fi eld of education. knowledge and fi nd support with an established physical agement as well as development most picnickers who visit the It relies on the expertise of quali- from donors and investors. space or offi ce; deep knowledge beyond proof of concept and po- beach have no knowledge of the he body of Indian expa- in his native parish church at fi ed mentors and partners to pro- Ideal candidates for the pro- of the market or educational tential for growth. depth of the sea in that area. “In triate Thomas John, who Kuzhikkala, in Kerala’s Pathan- vide projects with eff ective strate- gramme are existing projects context and of their benefi ciar- The year-long programme aims particular, people tend to forget Tdrowned to death on July amthitta district. gies and concrete support in order at an early stage of develop- ies’ or customers’ needs; clear to assess and suit project needs as the risks involved in entering the 7 was fl own home last night. John (46) lost his life when he to ensure their development. ment. They could be projects future objectives and motivation precisely as possible to take them sea when they visit such places Earlier in the day, when the fell into a whirlpool in the in- Each year, fi ve projects are established for at least two years to develop further and good un- to the next stage in their success- in groups,” he observed. body was brought to Emmanuel land sea, along with a few oth- selected to join the programme. with a signifi cant and growing derstanding of the project’s cur- ful development. The programme Francis was honoured by the Mar Thoma Church at the In- ers while swimming along the These are followed for one year, number of benefi ciaries or cus- rent challenges in scaling. off ers a kick-off week of activities, Indian Community Benevolent ter Denominational Church beach near Khor Al Udeid area during which they benefi t from tomers with a record of activities The WISE Accelerator Com- needs assessment, tailor-made Forum in 2008 with the “Best Complex (IDCC), Mesaimeer, in the country’s southern re- tailor-made mentorship to ad- of a product or service that has mittee, composed of leading mentorship, the opportunity to Humanitarian Worker Award” for the community members to gion. All others were rescued dress their specifi c needs. In been successfully implemented experts in education and social participate in international events, for his services to expatriates. pay their last respects, scores of by some locals who turned up addition, the WISE Accelera- and beyond proof of concept. entrepreneurship, will conduct ongoing communication and in- In a tragedy that struck the people from diff erent walks of there. tor serves as an intermediary to The other attributes of the the selection process. ternational visibility, pitching with Indian expatriate community on life were present. John, who worked at the Qa- connect the selected projects to projects could be existing, stable Applications will be assessed partners, investors and donors as July 9, 2004, three male mem- Jyothish Sam, parish priest tar Engineering and Construc- an international network that revenues, and new opportunities on the criteria of solution and well as progress assessment. bers of a family lost their lives and other priests of the ecu- tion Company (Qecon) for about when they lost balance and menical church led the prayer 20 years, leaves behind his wife slipped into the sea near Palm services. Elizabeth Thomas and two chil- Tree Island. A fourth member of Today, John will be buried dren, Steve and Joanna. Ahlibank names winner of Expat gets jail for trading in Strong winds, poor visibility QR1mn savings scheme prize narcotics hlibank has announced due to dust forecast for today the winner of its “Al Doha Criminal Court ARabeh Savings Scheme” has sentenced a Nige- QR1mn prize draw for the sec- Arian expatriate to 20 trong winds are again ex- Above-normal temperatures places at times. ond quarter of 2016, the bank years in jail and imposed a fi ne pected during the day were also likely in Qatar during Meanwhile, the highest tem- announced in a statement. of QR200,000 on him for being Salong with poor visibility this period. perature in Qatar yesterday was The winner of the prize draw, involved in narcotics trade. in some places due to dusty con- The forecast for inshore areas 47C, which was recorded in Me- which was conducted in the According to local Arabic daily ditions, the Qatar Met depart- today says it will be “hot to very saieed, followed by 46C in the presence of the Ministry of Arrayah, the court also ordered ment has said in its forecast for hot” during the day with some Qatar University and Doha air- Economy and Commerce (MEC), his deportation upon serving the today. clouds and slight to blowing dust port areas, Al Rayyan, Wakrah was Qatari citizen Waleed Mu- jail term. Besides dealing in mar- Off shore areas, too, are likely at times. and Turayna. barak Aman. ijuana, the man was also con- to see strong winds and high seas Slightly dusty conditions are The maximum temperature Hassan al-Efrangi, Ahlibank victed for drug consumption. today, according to the weather also expected in off shore areas, forecast in the country today is deputy CEO (Retail Banking), Meanwhile, another Nigerian report. where the sea level may rise to 9ft. 45C in places such as Doha, Me- said: “I am delighted to congrat- man who was accompanying the On Saturday, the Met depart- According to the forecast, the saieed, Wakrah and Al Khor. ulate and present the Q2 2016 fi rst defendant during his ar- ment had said fresh to strong wind speed may reach a high of In view of the expected condi- winners cheque for QR1mn to rest was sentenced to one year in northwesterly winds were ex- 36 knots in some inshore areas tions, the Met department has Waleed Mubarak.” jail and directed to pay a fi ne of pected to aff ect most parts of during the day before decreasing urged people to be cautious and “We are proud of the posi- QR200,000 for consuming nar- the country – at daytime – until by night. In off shore areas, it will avoid exposure to direct sun- tive feedback provided by Mr cotics. The court also ordered his tomorrow due to the extension go up to 28 knots. light as well as venturing into the Mubarak, a long standing cus- subsequent deportation. of the “Indian monsoon low” Visibility, meanwhile, may sea during the period of strong tomer of 11 years, about the The matter came to light when over the region. drop to 3km or less in some winds. products and services we pro- the fi rst defendant off ered to sell vide to our customers. This is a small amount of marijuana for another example of our com- Hassan al-Efrangi, Ahlibank deputy CEO (Retail Banking), hands over QR5,000 to an undercover police mitment to provide the best a cheque worth QR1mn to Waleed Mubarak Aman. source. Accordingly, the source banking services for our cus- proceeded with the operation after tomers and to be at the heart of lent customer service. I will monthly, and quarterly – with an getting permission from the au- GCC citizen fi ned for assaulting boy the community.” continue saving at Ahlibank.” additional prize draw entry for thorities concerned, the daily said. Mubarak said: “I was de- Ahlibank customers are eligi- each QR500 invested. The two parties met at the des- lighted when I received a call ble for entry into the prize draw They also enjoy regular in- ignated time and place, somewhere Doha Criminal Court defendant went to help his son from the bank, which informed by depositing QR500 for a mini- terest on their savings - the in Mamoura, with the police keep- has fi ned a GCC citizen and, in the process, hit the other me that I had won the quar- mum of seven days in either an highest interest rate compared ing an eye on the proceedings. AQR2,000 for assaulting a boy. terly QR1mn prize. I have been Al Rabeh Savings Account or by to similar savings schemes of When the defendant handed over neighbour’s son. The victim sustained slight dealing with Ahlibank for more investing in a savings certifi cate this type. the contraband to the source and According to local Arabic daily bruises in the incident. than 11 years, and I am very (This is the shortest qualifying Additionally, customers took the money, he was arrested. Arrayah, the incident took place The matter was brought to satisfied with my relationship period and the lowest balance can take part by purchasing Al A search of his vehicle revealed when the defendant sought to the attention of the authorities and the services they provide. required for a bank prize draw of Rabeh Savings Certifi cates in more amounts of marijuana as intervene in a fi ght involving his concerned and the defendant I believe Ahlibank has been this kind in Qatar). QR500 units from any Ahlibank well as some hashish. Eventu- 15-year-old son and the victim, admitted to being involved in the transparent with customers Customers with an Al Rab- branch. Every QR500 repre- ally, the court convicted both the also a teenager. soon it took a serious turn. As the incident. and offers the best products, eh Savings Account have the sents a chance to win under the men based on the fi ndings of the The two teenagers had an ar- two started attacking each other Accordingly, the court con- services and provides excel- chance to enter the weekly, scheme. investigation and police reports. gument over some issue and physically as well as verbally, the victed him. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 3 QATAR/REGION

Bin Laden son vows Smartphones revenge for killing his father see surge in

Reuters Dubai sales during he son of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Thas threatened revenge against the United States for as- sassinating his father, according to an audio message posted on- line. Eid holidays Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the global militant By Peter Alagos toys were also popular gift items fered during that day,” she ex- group’s fi ght against the Unit- Business Reporter among shoppers, as well as plained. ed States and its allies in the men’s, women’s, and children’s She also said sales of a leading 21-minute speech entitled “We apparel. South Korean smartphone brand Are All Osama,” according to the martphones, which saw a But smartphone sales wit- soared on Eid al-Fitr after it of- SITE Intelligence Group. 10% increase in sales in the nessed the highest growth, es- fered a QR700 discount for one “We will continue striking you Spast week, have outsold pecially on the fi rst day of Eid, of its high-end models. On the and targeting you in your country other popular gift items during according to a salesperson of a fi rst day of Eid, the brand sold and abroad in response to your Eid al-Fitr, it is learnt. leading brand. more than 120 units of diff erent oppression of the people of Pal- In the run-up to Eid, stores models. estine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and major hypermarkets off ered “Many expatriates A merchandiser for laptops Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the diff erent promotions and dis- made the most of the said he was able to sell 25 units of Muslim lands that did not survive counts to lure shoppers, many of discounts and promos a single brand on the fi rst day of your oppression,” Hamza said. whom were vacation-bound and for smartphones and Eid. Across all brands, the store “As for the revenge by the Is- were looking for gifts at bargain other electronic gadgets, was able to sell as many as 120 lamic nation for Sheikh Osama, prices. which make suitable laptops on the same day. may Allah have mercy on him, Abdul Manaf K P, deputy gen- gift s, especially for those Since July 6, more than 300 it is not revenge for Osama the eral manager of LuLu Hyper- who left Qatar for their tablets from a leading South Ko- person but it is revenge for those market on D-Ring Road, said Eid annual vacation” rean brand have been sold, an- who defended Islam.” “is a season for gift giving,” and other merchandiser said. While Osama bin Laden was killed products like smartphones, ap- The salesperson said she sold demand was high this year, he at his Pakistani hideout by US parel, confectionery and toys top more than 50 smartphones by a noted, however, that sales of commandos in 2011 in a major most shoppers’ list. leading Chinese manufacturer tablets slumped 20% compared blow to the militant group which Compared to 2015, sales of on the fi rst day of Eid compared to 2015 due to low stocks of other carried out the September 11, smartphones rose 10% this year, to only 15 units of the same brand models. 2001 attacks. Manaf told Gulf Times. during regular days. “During last year’s Eid, I was Documents recovered from “Many expatriates made the “Sales of smartphones usu- able to sell at least 40 tablets a bin Laden’s compound and pub- most of the discounts and pro- ally tail off in the succeeding day. We had four high-end mod- lished by the United States last mos for smartphones and other days but it is usually during the els and four other low-end mod- year alleged that his aides tried electronic gadgets, which make first day of Eid that we experi- els available to customers during to reunite the militant leader suitable gifts, especially for ence a surge in sales not only that time. But this year, only the with Hamza, who had been held those who left Qatar for their because it is a popular occasion high-end models have stocks, under house arrest in Iran. annual vacation,” he said. but many people think that which is why sales are less im- Hamza, now in his mid-twen- Customers line up for smartphones, which saw an increase in sales during Eid al-Fitr. Manaf added that children’s rock-bottom discounts are of- pressive,” he explained. ties, was at his father’s side in Afghanistan before the 9/11 at- tacks and spent time with him in Pakistan after the US-led inva- sion pushed much of Al Qaeda’s senior leadership there, accord- ing to the Brookings Institution. Hadi threatens to Introduced by the organisa- tion’s new chief Ayman al-Za- wahiri in an audio message last year, Hamza provides a younger voice for the group whose ageing boycott peace talks leaders have struggled to inspire militants around the world gal- vanised by Islamic State. AFP not agreed a timetable or the formed their own Supreme Aden steps needed to implement it. Revolutionary Committee to The government had already rule Yemen. Iranian MP hurt in expressed doubts this month Ould Cheikh Ahmed has emeni President Abd- about the UN-backed eff orts. urged both sides to make con- attack, driver killed Rabbu Mansour Hadi Hadi’s government wants cessions to end the confl ict, An Iranian lawmaker and a local Yyesterday threatened to to re-establish its author- which has cost more than 6,400 off icial have been wounded boycott peace talks with Iran- ity across the entire country, lives since March 2015 when a and their driver killed in an backed rebels if the UN envoy much of which is rebel-con- Saudi-led coalition intervened assassination attempt in a Kurdish- insists on a roadmap stipulat- trolled, and restart a political to push back the rebels. speaking province in the west of ing a unity government that transition interrupted when Hadi’s visit to Marib comes the country, media said yesterday. includes the insurgents. the Houthis seized Sanaa in as fi ghting raged on between Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh UN-sponsored talks be- 2014. loyalists and rebels in the prov- – who represents the town of tween Hadi’s Saudi-backed The rebels have conditioned ince’s northern oil-rich region Islam Abad Gharb in Kermanshah government and the Houthi their withdrawal on both sides of Sarwah. province – was visiting the area rebels and their allies are agreeing on a new president to Late Saturday, Saudi-led with an unidentified local off icial scheduled to resume on Friday manage the transition. coalition defence systems in- when four gunmen in a vehicle in Kuwait after a two-week In his speech, published on tercepted a ballistic missile opened fire on their car, the ISNA break. the offi cial sabanew.net web- fi red by the rebels at Marib city, news agency reported. More than two months of site, Hadi insisted that the a military source said. Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is escorted by special forces during a visit to the country’s After the attack the assailants set negotiations have failed to rebels were using the Kuwait Coalition forces have sent northern province of Marib yesterday. fire to their own car and fled the make headway to end the dead- talks to “legitimise their coup military reinforcements in- scene on foot, ISNA said, quoting ly confl ict. d’etat,” and rejected the UN cluding troops, tanks and other Drone hits Al Qaeda suspects in Yemeni province Farhad Tajari, a parliamentarian “We will not return to the proposal for a unity govern- armoured vehicles into the from the town of Qasr-e Shirin on talks in Kuwait if the United ment. province in recent days in what A suspected US drone strike In a six-hour visit, he met not comment on drone strikes the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. Nations tries to impose the lat- “The UN has tried to con- military sources described as wounded four Al Qaeda commanders of a Saudi-led in Yemen. Photographs shared Ahmad Safari, a lawmaker est proposal by mediator Ismail vince us to form a coalition preparations to retake Sanaa fighters in Yemen’s central coalition backing him in a civil in Yemeni media showed a from Kermanshah city, told Ould Cheikh Ahmed,” Hadi government. We said we would and surrounding areas. Marib province yesterday, conflict in which thousands crowd of men looking at black Mizan Online that the attackers said during a visit to inspect issue a statement declaring our In Nahm, northeast of Sanaa, local tribesmen and media have died. “Four Al Qaeda smoke rising from the remains belonged to the Party of Free Life troops in Marib province, east boycott of the Kuwait consul- coalition air raids and fi ghting said, hours after the Yemeni members were wounded of a Landcruiser. Nearly half of of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iranian of the rebel-held capital. tations,” Hadi said. have killed six rebels and three president flew in to meet Arab when a US drone targeted Yemen’s 22 provinces are on Kurdish group with close links Ould Cheikh Ahmed has “The Yemenis will not al- loyalists over the past 24 hours, military leaders in his war a car they were travelling in the verge of famine, according to Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan put forward a peace roadmap low Yemen to be turned into a military sources said. against the Houthi rebels. The Jabul, east of Marib city,” said to the UN World Food Workers’ Party (PKK). that would see the formation state” in Iran’s orbit, he said, Other clashes have taken drone strike happened on the the tribesman who requested Programme, as result of the Since mid-June, Iranian forces of a unity government and the vowing to recapture Sanaa place in Jawf province near the same day as President Abd- not to be named. Yemen’s war in the Arab world’s poorest have frequently clashed with withdrawal and disarmament “soon.” border with Saudi Arabia. Rabbu Mansour Hadi arrived government did not respond country where conflict has militants on the country’s of the rebels. In February last year the The fi ghting in Yemen has in Marib city, about 120km to a request for comment on drawn in regional powers and predominantly Kurdish western He said the negotiators had Houthis dissolved the gov- continued despite a ceasefi re east of the capital Sanaa. the strike. Washington does killed at least 6,000 people. borders. welcomed his proposal but had ernment and parliament and coming into eff ect on April 11.

Iran bids farewell to late film director Several thousand cinema or curiosity toward Iranian lovers joined top artists in cinema, it is owed to the steps Turkish Airlines celebrates UEFA Euro 2016 fi nal Tehran yesterday to bid that you took in those diff icult farewell to renowned Iranian times,” Farhadi said. film director Abbas Kiarostami “Thank you for not abandoning urkish Airlines, the of- Live matches were available to and the executive committee, following his death last week this land despite all the neglect fi cial airline partner of watch on Turkish Airlines planes said: “Turkish Airlines con- in Paris. and lack of gratitude,” he said. TUEFA Euro 2016, has cel- and fans and tourists were able gratulates UEFA and the French Kiarostami, who won the Kiarostami, who died in France ebrated the competition’s fi nal. to enjoy branding across some of authorities on conducting such coveted Palme d’Or at the aged 76, had been making The match between France Paris’s most famous landmarks, a successful event. This year’s Cannes Film Festival in 1997 films outside Iran for years due and Portugal, which took place including the Champs-Elysees. European Championship has for Taste of Cherry, emerged to restrictions and diff iculties last night, was aired live on Turkish Airlines also “ignited brought together fans from all from the Iranian New Wave of working in the Islamic republic. Turkish Airlines planes. passion” in Europe’s football over the world in celebration the late 1960s to become one Despite the global attention In a statement, Turkish Air- fans by taking David Guetta’s of the football spirit and we are of the world’s most revered given to his films, Kiarostami lines said it is the fi rst airline UEFA Euro 2016 anthem to the glad to have been a part of this directors. did not enjoy off icial support partner in the 55-year history 24 competing nations, the state- journey.” “Thank you for paving the and his films were rarely shown of the European Championship ment noted. Turkish Airlines has extensive tough road of globalisation in Iranian cinemas or on state and had launched a number of Meanwhile, Turkish Airlines sponsorship of many sporting for Iranian cinema,” director television. initiatives for fans throughout cabin crew brought their cus- and cultural events, includ- Asghar Farhadi - whose A Some at the memorial service this summer’s tournament. tomer service to the football ing European Professional Club Separation won the country’s held posters reading “First The carrier’s #EuropesBest fi eld by featuring two hostesses Rugby, Turkish Airlines Basket- only Academy Award to date in Welcome, Last Farewell” - a campaign highlighted the best at all 51 matches of the compe- ball Euroleague, Turkish Airlines 2012 - told a morning memorial reference to the lack of off icial football fans from across the A Turkish Airlines plane painted in the off icial UEFA Euro 2016 livery. tition. Open golf tournament and the service. attention Kiarostami received continent for UEFA Euro 2016. M Ilker Ayci, Turkish Air- leading equestrian event, CHIO “If there is any enthusiasm in his homeland. It included television commer- cials, plane liveries, ticket givea- ways and a dedicated microsite. lines’ chairman of the board Aachen. Gulf Times 4 Monday, July 11, 2016 ARAB WORLD Family of killed US Rebel bid to journalist sues Syria

Reuters The suit alleged the attack said in a statement released Beirut was part of a plan orchestrat- by US human rights group ed at the highest levels of the the Center for Justice and Ac- reopen supply Syrian government to silence countability (CJA) which filed he family of American local and international media the case for the Colvin family. journalist Marie Colvin, “as part of its effort to crush Advocacy group Reporters Journalist Marie Colvin in a Twho died in Syria in political opposition”. The Without Borders said it sup- June 4, 2011 file photo. 2012, has filed a wrongful lawsuit included as evidence ported the lawsuit. death lawsuit in a US court, a copy of an August 2011 fax The group’s secretary-gen- as an interested party in the accusing the Syrian govern- which it alleges was sent from eral, Christophe Deloire, said case, said it will submit the route into ment of deliberately killing Syria’s National Security Bu- Reporters Without Borders Colvin family’s US lawsuit her. reau instructing security bod- “hopes these efforts will help to the judge in charge of the Colvin and French pho- ies to launch military and in- to expose the truth, namely French investigation today. tographer Remi Ochlik were telligence campaigns against that these journalists were de- Colvin and Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian “those who tarnish the image liberately targeted and killed both prize-winning report- city of Homs in 2012 while re- of Syria in foreign media and because they were providing ers of wars in the Middle East, porting on the Syrian conflict, international organisations”. information about the Syrian Asia and elsewhere. Aleppo foiled now in its sixth year. “This case is about carry- army’s crimes against civil- The Britain-based Colvin, The lawsuit, filed in Wash- ing on Marie’s work,” plain- ians.” who lost an eye while work- AFP range of the key supply line. cluding food and fuel starting to ington on Saturday and seen tiff Cathleen Colvin, Marie A murder and attempted ing in Sri Lanka in 2001, was Beirut By Saturday, regime soldiers run low and fears of a lengthy gov- by Reuters, said Syrian of- Colvin’s sister, said. murder investigation was working for the Sunday Times were within 500m of the road and ernment siege. ficials deliberately targeted “We are seeking truth and launched in France in 2012 into at the time of her death. fi ring on any vehicle trying to use Syria’s government has been rockets against a makeshift justice not just for her, but for the death of Ochlik and wound- The Syrian Foreign Minis- yrian regime forces have it. accused of using sieges to pres- broadcast studio where Colvin thousands of innocent Syr- ing of another journalist, Edith try, to whom the lawsuit was repelled a fi erce assault by The Observatory said at least sure rebel forces, and the UN says and other reporters were liv- ians tortured or killed under Bouvier, in the same attack. addressed, could not immedi- Sopposition fi ghters seeking one car was targeted on the road nearly 600,000 Syrians live in ing and working. the Assad dictatorship,” she Reporters Without Borders, ately be reached for comment. to reopen their only supply route early yesterday, adding that it was besieged areas, most surrounded into Aleppo city, killing at least 29 unclear if it carried civilians or by government forces although rebels, a monitor said yesterday. fi ghters. The regime also shelled rebels also use the tactic. The off ensive sought to push the road later Sunday, it said. In the wake of the government regime forces back from the Cas- On Friday, a man and his two advance, rebel forces on Friday tello Road that leads into the sons were killed by regime forces retaliated with waves of rocket opposition-held eastern half of on the road, the monitor said. fi re into the regime-held west of IS lost 12% of its territory Aleppo city, which is now eff ec- An AFP correspondent in east- Aleppo, killing 45 people, accord- tively besieged by government ern Aleppo said opposition fac- ing to Syria’s state news agency troops. tions were preventing civilians SANA. Residents there praised the The Syrian Observatory for from using the route. regime advance but worried about Human Rights said 29 fi ghters Ongoing government artillery rebel fi re into their neighbour- since start of 2016: IHS from the Islamist Faylaq al-Sham fi re and barrel bomb attacks were hoods. rebel group and Al Qaeda affi li- reported in the east of the city “We’re not leaving home, but ate Al Nusra Front were killed in early yesterday. even staying at home has become AFP in 2014, is continuing to lose Russian forces, an Arab-Kurdish routed from the ancient Syrian fi ghting or by mines laid by gov- About 200,000 people remain dangerous,” 25-year-old Abdel Beirut ground after a string of setbacks alliance backed by a US-led coa- city of Palmyra and in June from ernment troops. in the eastern part of Aleppo, Wahhab Qabbani said. last year. lition, and rebel forces. the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The Britain-based monitor said which has been divided between The latest violence came de- “In 2015, the Islamic State’s In Iraq, coalition-backed se- In 2015, the group lost Tal there were also deaths among government and rebel control spite the army’s announcement he Islamic State group caliphate shrunk by 12,800 sq curity forces, working with pro- Abyad, a key border post on the government troops, but had no since shortly after fi ghting in the on Saturday of a 72-hour exten- lost 12% of the territory it km to 78,000 sq km, a net loss of government militia groups, have Syrian-Turkish border, as well as immediate toll. city erupted in mid-2012. sion to a nationwide ceasefi re that Tholds in Iraq and Syria in 14%,” IHS said. dealt the jihadists a series of de- the Iraqi city of Ramadi. “The attack has ended and the President Bashar al-Assad’s began on Wednesday but has pro- the fi rst half of 2016, according to “In the fi rst six months of feats. In May the Pentagon said that road remains completely closed,” forces have been trying to cut the duced little respite. an analysis by British think-tank 2016, that territory shrunk again IS forces are currently un- IS had lost some 45% of the ter- Observatory chief Rami Abdel Castello Road for more than two As well as the fi ghting in Alep- IHS. by 12%. As of July 4, 2016, the der siege in the Syrian town of ritory it held in Iraq and between Rahman said. years in an attempt to pressure po, the Observatory said at least The analysis published Sun- Islamic State controls roughly Minbej, which lies on their main 16 and 20% of its territory in The Castello Road was ef- rebel forces in the city. four civilians were killed in regime day says the jihadist group, 68,300 sq km in Iraq and Syria.” supply route between Syria and Syria. fectively severed by govern- Their advance on Thursday has air strikes overnight on the rebel- which proclaimed its self-styled In Syria, IS is under pressure Turkey. The IHS report did not include ment forces on Thursday when left residents of the east cut off , held town of Douma, east of Da- “caliphate” in the two countries from regime troops backed by In March the militants were percentages by country. they seized a hilltop within with supplies of basic items in- mascus. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 5 ARAB WORLD Egypt’s foreign minister meets Israeli premier in rare visit

AFP stressed the need for “serious state to sign a peace treaty with Jerusalem steps to build confi dence” toward Israel after years of confl ict, and it the two-state vision. remains an infl uential player in the Netanyahu welcomed Egyptian region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry after giving a joint statement prior to their gypt’s foreign minister met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s However, ties have been formal- meeting at his Jerusalem off ice yesterday. Shoukry met Netanyahu in Jerusalem for talks on reviving peace eff orts with the Palestinians, in the first Israeli Prime Minister Ben- “recent off er of Egyptian leader- ly cold over Israel’s policies toward such visit in nearly a decade and the latest sign of warming ties. Ejamin Netanyahu yesterday ship and eff orts to advance peace the Palestinians, and relations on reviving peace eff orts with the with the Palestinians and a broad- further soured after the June 2012 Palestinians, the fi rst such visit in er peace in our region”. election of the Muslim Brother- nearly a decade and the latest sign He also called on Palestinians hood’s Mohamed Mursi as Egyp- of warming ties. to engage in direct negotiations, tian president. The trip came amid talk of re- as he has repeatedly done in the After president Hosni Mubar- newing an Arab peace initiative past. ak’s ouster in the 2011 revolution, Palestinian Authority demands and with Israel’s military having An Israeli offi cial said that dur- protesters stormed Israel’s em- recently saluted “unprecedented” ing the meeting, Netanyahu asked bassy in September that year amid intelligence co-operation with for Egypt’s help in returning the clashes with police. Egypt to combat the Islamic State bodies of two Israeli soldiers held Mursi was ousted in July 2013 Israel to lift Gaza Strip siege group. by Hamas in Gaza, as well as two by then army chief Sisi, who was Speaking to journalists along- Israeli civilians detained by Hamas elected Egypt’s president in 2014. side Netanyahu before their in the Palestinian enclave. In June, representatives from 28 Agencies and the horrors of the war which the Gaza reconstruction confer- The northern Gaza Strip, run meeting, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry responded in the af- Arab and Western countries, the Ramallah/Gaza City left more than 2000 Palestin- ence held in Cairo following the by Hamas, shares a border with Shoukry said it was a “crucial and fi rmative, the offi cial said. Arab League, European Union and ians dead, half of them are chil- ceasefi re, to meet their obliga- Israel. challenging juncture for the Mid- Netanyahu and Shoukry were the United Nations met in Paris dren and women. tions to reconstruct and reha- Hamas as well as Islamic Ji- dle East”. to meet again later for talks over to discuss ways to help advance he Palestinian cabinet He called on the world to put bilitate the strip. had and other groups maintain a Resolving the decades-old Is- dinner at the premier’s Jerusalem peace eff orts. yesterday demanded Is- an end to their silence and ef- A tunnel collapse in the Gaza tunnel network within the Pal- raeli-Palestinian confl ict would residence. Israel strongly opposes that Trael to lift the siege on fectively intervene to end the Strip yesterday killed a mem- estinian enclave. have a “far-reaching and dramatic Palestinian leaders say years of initiative, which is being promoted the Gaza Strip and end all forms collective punishment imposed ber of militant group Islamic Since January, more than a and positive impact on the overall talks with Israel have not ended by France. of violations, which aff ect all on the Gaza Strip. Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in dozen Gazans have been killed conditions of the Middle East re- the occupation, and have instead Netanyahu has at the same time aspects of Palestinians’ liveli- Al-Mahmoud said the Israeli the latest in a series of such in- in tunnel collapses. gion”, he said. pursued international diplomacy spoken of reviving a long-dor- hoods. government is trying to main- cidents. The Gaza Strip has been “Egypt remains ready to con- to promote their cause. mant Arab peace initiative dating According to Palestinian tain the ongoing state of war in The collapse occurred in the under an Israeli blockade for tribute toward achieving this goal.” On June 29, Shoukry met Pales- to 2002. WAFA news agency, Palestinian Gaza and the rest of the Pales- northern Gaza Strip, the Al- around a decade and its border Shoukry also warned of the tinian leaders during a visit to the That proposal essentially calls Authority spokesperson Yousef tinian territories through main- Quds Brigades said in a state- with Egypt also remains largely “constant deterioration” of the West Bank city of Ramallah. for Israel to withdraw from the al-Mahmoud said in a press re- taining the siege, threatening ment, without providing further closed. situation on the ground since the Sisi said in May there was a occupied territories and resolve lease issued to mark the second and assaulting Palestinians after details. Egypt has also destroyed last round of Israeli-Palestinian “real opportunity” for an Israeli- the issue of refugees with the Pal- anniversary of the war on the turning Gaza into a large prison. It identifi ed the person killed Palestinian tunnels used to peace talks collapsed in April 2014. Palestinian deal that could lead to estinians, leading to the creation Gaza Strip that the eff ects of the He concluded by calling on as Ibrahim Hassan al-Masri, 28, smuggle in commercial goods, He said the current lack of warmer ties between his country of a Palestinian state, in exchange vicious war on Gaza continue to world organisations and gov- of Al-Quds’s northern com- cash, people and, allegedly, process towards peace was “nei- and Israel. for normalised relations with Arab manifest in the ongoing siege ernments, which took part in mand. weapons. ther stable nor sustainable”, and In 1979, Egypt was the fi rst Arab countries. Gulf Times 6 Monday, July 11, 2016 ARAB WORLD Child labour doubles in Iraq as violence hits incomes

Reuters in northern and western Iraq. Baghdad Nearly one in fi ve schools is closed due to confl ict and almost 3.5mn children of school-age are ore than half a million missing out on an education, Iraqi children are es- Unicef said in a report on June Mtimated to be at work 30. rather than at school as violence In total, at least 3.6mn chil- and displacement hurt the in- dren in Iraq are at risk of death, come of millions of families, serious injury, sexual violence, according to the United Nations abduction and recruitment into children’s agency Unicef. armed groups, an increase of The number of children cur- 1.3mn since the past 18 months, rently working, more than according to Unicef. 575,000, has doubled since “I wish to go back to school 1990, the year when Iraq at- and play with my friends,’’ South Sudanese policemen and soldiers stand guard along a street following renewed fighting in South Sudan’s capital Juba, yesterday. tacked Kuwait, setting off a Khudhair said. “I would be glad chain of events that led to the to go back and learn to read and 2003 US-led invasion and the write; I will be ashamed to have sectarian strife that continues to say that I can’t read when I to this day. grow up.” “I used to go to school and About 4.7mn Iraqi children work here for half a day with a need humanitarian aid, while low salary,’’ 12 year-old Ali Hus- many families now face deterio- sien Khudhair, who works the rating conditions following mil- Thousands fl ee Juba as angle grinder in a blacksmith’s itary operations against Islamic shop in Baghdad, said. State, according to Unicef. “I quit school and started “I’m working and learn- working full time here and he ing the craft, it’s better than (the owner) gives me full wages,” school. What rights do gradu- he told Reuters TV. ates have? They are selling water Unicef said since the begin- on streets,” 14 year-old Karrar heavy fi ghting erupts ning of 2014, almost 10% of Iraqi Jaff ar, who works in a car me- children — more than 1.5mn — chanic’s shop, said. AFP ernment was “in full control of The battles were the fi rst have been forced to fl ee their “The government does noth- Juba Juba” even as shooting could be since Friday when brief but homes because of violence. ing. It’s better for me to learn a heard in parts of the city. heavy exchanges of fi re left an In 2014, the Islamic State craft,” he said, his hands smeared Makuei said President Salva estimated 150 soldiers dead on group took control of large areas with brake fl uid. housands fl ed renewed Kiir would call for a ceasefi re both sides. heavy fi ghting in South later in the day. There were no immediate de- TSudan’s capital yesterday “We are expecting his excel- tails of casualties from yester- as former rebels and govern- lency the president will issue day’s violence. ment soldiers exchanged fi re in a unilateral ceasefi re, binding South Sudan has seen more several parts of the city. on his forces. We hope the First fighting than peace since in- The battles began on the Vice President Riek Machar will dependence in July 2011, western outskirts of Juba where follow suit,” he said. with civil war breaking out both former rebels and govern- The violence comes a day af- December 2013 when Kiir ment soldiers have bases at the ter the world’s youngest coun- South Sudan President Salva Kiir (left) and First Vice President Riek accused Machar of plotting a foot of the Jebel Kujur mountain try marked its fi fth independ- Machar. coup. close to a UN camp. ence anniversary, and is a fresh An August 2015 peace deal Fighting was heard in several blow to a peace deal that has during the course of the day. A steady stream of fearful ci- was supposed to end the con- other parts of the city through- failed to end the civil war that UN House, a site close to vilians, clutching children and fl ict but observers say the peace out the day, including in Gudele broke out in December 2013. where the fi ghting began, is possessions, headed for the process has stalled while fi ght- – where rebel leader turned vice City residents hunkered down home to roughly 28,000 people hoped-for refuge of another UN ing has continued despite the president Riek Machar is head- or began fl eeing their homes as previously uprooted by the war base close to the city’s airport, establishment of a unity gov- quartered – and central Tong- the UN reported the use of mor- and living in fl imsy makeshift only to fi nd fi ghting erupting ernment. ping near the international air- tars, rocket-propelled grenades houses. there too. This week’s clashes are the port, with gunfi re intensifying and “heavy ground assault Aid workers said rounds had There were also reports of fi rst between the army and and subsiding at diff erent times. weaponry”. Helicopter gunships landed inside the UN camp, hundreds of South Sudanese former rebels in the capital — Regional leaders, including and tanks were also deployed wounding some civilians. crossing into neighbouring where the war broke out — since from Kenya and Sudan, have Uganda. both established positions there urged an end to the fi ghting and Bashir urges restraint in South Sudan The US embassy in Juba in April as part of the peace plan to hold a special summit in warned its citizens to stay in- agreement. Nairobi today. President of Sudan Omar political conflicts which might doors. Tens of thousands have died The renewed confl ict was al-Bashir urged both his South contribute to disrupting peace “The situation in Juba has in more than two years of civil condemned by the UN and oth- Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir and development in the state signifi cantly deteriorated. war, close to 3mn have been ers with UN Secretary-General Mayardit and the opposition of South Sudan. There is serious ongoing fi ght- forced from their homes and Ban Ki-moon saying he was leader Riek Machar to practise Clashes re-erupted between ing between government and nearly 5mn survive on emergen- “shocked and appalled”. The UN self-restraint for the good of forces loyal to Kiir and Machar opposition forces, including cy food rations. Iraqis wave their national flag as they demonstrate yesterday at the Security Council was to hold a the South Sudan people. in several regions in the world near the airport, UNMISS lo- The humanitarian crisis has site of the suicide-bombing in Baghdad’s Karrada district against closed door meeting on the cri- Bashir, in two telephone calls newest country, including the cations, Jebel and elsewhere unfolded alongside an econom- the Iraqi government and demanding the security forces to take sis later yesterday. with Kiir and Machar, called capital Juba. throughout Juba,” the embassy ic one with the currency col- responsibility for the lack of surveillance in the neighbourhood. Speaking yesterday after- for joining eff orts for the Sources in the South Sudan posted on its Facebook page. lapsing and infl ation spiralling The Baghdad bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed noon South Sudan’s informa- region’s stability, pointing to Health Ministry said that death Airline Kenya Airways sus- out of control. 292 people, many of whom were trapped in blazing buildings and tion minister Michael Makuei the need to stop the bloodshed toll in the clashes rose to 272, pended fl ights to Juba yesterday, The country’s mainstay oil burned alive. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden blamed the former rebels for the to spare the region tribal and 33 of them were civilians. citing the “uncertain security industry is in tatters and re- minibus on July 3, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday. fi ghting and insisted the gov- situation”. gional towns have been razed. Unesco meets on heritage under shadow of extremism

AFP And this is transmitted through Istanbul heritage.” The committee will examine pro- posals to inscribe more than two he UN’s cultural agency met dozen sites on Unesco’s World Her- yesterday in Istanbul to con- itage List. Tsider adding over two dozen Natural sites under considera- new sites to its prestigious global tion range from extinct volcanoes heritage list, and called for a strong in France, to an underwater marine global response to the threats posed reserve in Sudan. by extremism. Cultural sites include works by The meeting of the World Herit- the Franco-Swiss architect Le Cor- age Committee of Unesco comes busier, the historic centre of Pana- less than two weeks after the main ma City and mediaeval tombstones airport in Istanbul was hit by a tri- An aerial view of a part of the ancient city of Palmyra. in the Balkans. ple suicide attack that left 47 people A closely watched candidate from dead. controlled by Christian Byzantines that at a time when cultural heritage the host country is the once great The strike was blamed on Islamic and since the Ottoman conquest by and values were being destroyed by but now ruined Armenian city of State (IS) militants who have al- Muslims – was a “strong symbol” of war “an even greater responsibility Ani which lies just inside eastern ready destroyed irreplaceable her- support to Turkey. and bigger task falls upon Unesco.” Turkey opposite its closed border itage in Turkey’s neighbours Syria “The fact we are here in a city Deputy Prime Minister Numan with Armenia. and Iraq. which is a bridge between East and Kurtulmus meanwhile told the Turkey has no diplomatic ties Unesco director general Irina West is an important message to ceremony Unesco could work in a with Armenia due to the dispute Bokova told the opening ceremony share with the world when we see “more eff ective way” to protect glo- over the mass killings of Armenians of the 11-day session that world violent extremists target human bal heritage. in World War I. heritage was under threat in coun- rights and cultural diversity,” she Bokova paid tribute to those who “What is at stake is more than tries riven by unrest from Mali to said. had risked their lives to preserve adding new sites on the lists,” Bok- Yemen. She said ancient sites such as the cultural heritage, in particular the ova said. “Our response should be strong remains around Palmyra in Syria expert caretaker of Palmyra in Syria, “It is about affi rming human val- on the ground and also strong in a and Mosul in Iraq — ravaged by IS Khalid al-Assad, who was murdered ues and human rights. It is about moral sense,” she said. militants — had been “destroyed by IS in 2015. healing wounded memories, har- Bokova said the fact the com- and laid waste for military goals.” “It reminds us that human beings nessing heritage to regain confi - mittee was holding the meeting Turkish Prime Minister Binali are not only made of fl esh and blood dence, to recover and to look into in Istanbul – a city for centuries Yildirim said in a video message but also values to be transmitted. the future.” Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 7 AFRICA

4 terror suspects Zimbabwe protests signal arrested in S Africa

AFP growing risks for Mugabe Johannesburg AFP “The spontaneous acts we are cause they were getting salaries Harare witnessing now may escalate or using state infrastructure to our people suspected of into mass uprisings.” engage in petty corruption are involvement in terror re- A national “shutdown” strike now among the discontented,” Flated activities in Johan- treet protests, national closed many businesses, shops said Mukundu. nesburg have been arrested, work boycotts and Inter- and schools on Wednesday, Even the police and army - South Africa’s serious crime Snet activism are on the with public transport and some essential to Mugabe maintain- unit, the Hawks, told local media rise in Zimbabwe - off ering government departments and ing power - have been aff ected, yesterday. hints that opposition to ageing courts also ceasing to function. with both forces paid about The United States and Brit- President Robert Mugabe could The strike followed days of 12 days late last month. ain warned last month of pos- be building towards a boiling sporadic protests triggered by “As things stand, there is no sibly imminent “terrorist” at- point. a sudden outbreak of demon- capacity to address the crisis,” tacks by Islamic extremists in the Public shows of dissent have strations on the outskirts of Ibbo Mandaza, head of the re- country’s major cities. been rare under Mugabe’s dec- Harare over police road blocks gional think-tank Southern The suspects, in their early ades-long oppressive rule, but accused of extorting cash from Africa Political and Economic 20s, were identifi ed after they they have erupted regularly in motorists. Series, said. attempted to travel to Syria in recent months as the battered That unrest, in which at “Nothing short of political 2015, said Brigadier Hangwani economy has ground to a virtual least 113 people were arrested, and economic reforms will stop Mulaudzi, without providing halt. started on a small scale among the crisis. It will continue like details of why the arrests were Banks have run short of cash, public minibus drivers but soon this until the end comes.” made at this stage. government salaries have been spread, with rocks thrown at But Mugabe has proved a “Investigations showed they delayed and many basic im- police and tyres burnt in roads tough survivor since coming to intended to join terrorist group ports banned at a time when as unemployed young men power when the country won Isis,” Hangwani told News24. the country has also suff ered joined in. independence in 1980, and he National Hawks chief Lieu- a severe drought that has left The riots revealed the long- is expected to fi ght to retain his tenant General Mthandazo millions hungry. bubbling frustration normally grip on the country. Ntlemeza, said the arrests were With the 92-year-old presi- kept under strict control by His rule has been defi ned by a “very big step forward in the dent’s health increasingly un- Mugabe’s ruthless security antagonism towards the West, A protester shouting anti-Mugabe slogans in front of burning tyres during a demonstration on July 6, in fi ght against terrorism”. certain and the ruling ZANU-PF forces in a country where 90 and authorities have accused Makokoba, Bulawayo Zimbabwe. Hangwani said two of the sus- party riven by a succession bat- percent of the population are unnamed “Western embassies” pects would appear in court in tle, Zimbabwe could be head- not in formal jobs. of sponsoring groups organising warire, a Baptist pastor, shot The government is desper- wages and is rated among the Johannesburg today on terrorist ing for a period of turmoil - and A few days earlier, around the protests. to instant fame after he posted ately seeking an IMF loan, but most corrupt nations worldwide. related charges, while the oth- perhaps a long-awaited new 70 people were arrested in the One target of that jibe is a video of himself on Facebook international donors are wary of “Security forces have reacted ers would appear separately on chapter. town of Beitbridge at the bor- thought to be the #ThisFlag venting against state corruption support that could prolong the heavy-handedly (to protests), fi rearms and explosives related “People are beginning to ask der with South Africa during internet movement, which has and the government’s failure to regime rather than encourage including beatings and arbitrary charges. who the source of their prob- protests over a ban on imports grown rapidly as Zimbabweans provide basic services. reform. detentions of activists,” Robert South Africa, which has a lems is. The anger is mounting,” of commodities such as canned have embraced social media as Now the hashtag has become Zimbabwe, which abandoned Besseling, head of EXX Africa Muslim minority of around 1.5% Rushweat Mukundu, a political vegetables, powdered milk and a relatively safe and open way a unifying symbol for the vari- its own currency in favour of US risk intelligence, said in a note. in a population of some 53mn, analyst with the Harare-based cooking oil. to express their opposition to ous strands of protest, and Ma- dollars in 2009 to end hyperin- “A military coup or other has so far escaped the jihad- Zimbabwe Democracy Institute “Civil servants who were Mugabe. warire has suggested another fl ation, spends more than 80% form of political intervention is ist attacks seen in several other think-tank, said. loyal to the government be- ThisFlag founder Evan Ma- national shutdown next week. of its revenue on state workers’ increasingly likely.” African countries. Ethiopia Zambia suspends election blocks social campaigning over violence

media AFP tion has been marred by skir- released late on Saturday. reconsider how they have been Lusaka mishes between supporters No public rallies, meetings, treating the opposition. of the ruling Patriotic Front processions or door-to-door “The police have been biased AFP (PF) of President Edgar Lun- campaigning would be allowed, in that they give the PF time to Addis Ababa olitical campaigning in gu and the opposition United Akufuna said. campaign but the UPND has Zambia’s capital Lu- Party for National Develop- Hichilema advisor Douglas to struggle to get a permit,” he Psaka has been suspended ment (UPND) led by Hakainde Syakalima said the decision to said. thiopia has blocked social for 10 days because of violent Hichilema. suspend campaigning had been “And if they get that permit media sites for the next few clashes ahead of next month’s On Friday, police opened fi re made “in bad faith” and was the PF will go there and fi ght Edays, after questions from national elections, the electoral on UPND supporters, killing taken to avoid embarrassment them and in the end the po- Faustin-Archange Touadera: “The international community is end-of-year exams were posted commission announced at the one, after the party refused to for Lungu, as his meetings were lice also join in harassing the tired of bearing responsibility for our political mistakes” online last month, sparking a weekend. cancel a campaign meeting in poorly attended. opposition,” Changala said. national scandal and leading to The ban comes less than Lusaka’s Chawama area. “The reason why he has sus- He described the levels of their annulment. three weeks after Zambia’s big- “The electoral commission pended the campaigns is be- violence that the country has A government spokesman gest independent newspaper, of Zambia has observed with cause he is scared that Lungu, experienced ahead of the polls said the ban was aimed at stop- The Post, was shut down by the dismay the rise in political vio- the one you call a president, as “ugly and unprecedented”. ping students taking university authorities over a tax dispute lence in some districts which can’t have crowds in Lusaka,” Police inspector general Ka- CAR still entrance exams this week from - a move seen as an attempt to has regrettably resulted in in- Syakalima said. koma Kanganja said he regret- being “distracted.” silence it before the August 11 jury, loss of life and property,” Human rights activist Breb- ted the killing of a party sup- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram vote. commission spokesman Cris ner Changala said police should porter and pledged an inquiry and Viber have been inaccessible The run-up to the elec- Akufuna said in a statement use the break in campaigning to into the shooting. in the Horn of Africa nation since in danger, Saturday morning. “It’s blocked. It’s a temporary measure until Wednesday. Social media have proven to be a dis- traction for students,” govern- warns ment spokesman Getachew Reda said. Ethiopia is one of the fi rst Af- rican countries to censor the In- ternet, beginning in 2006 with president opposition blogs, according to experts. Prominent blogger Daniel Ber- Bangui States as well as that from the hane denounced the move as a AFP UN, the European Union, the “dangerous precedent. African Union and others. “There’s no transparency on Touadera, who still teaches who decides why it’s necessary he Central African at the University of Ban- or who decides for how long,” he Republic (CAR) re- gui, called for “a total lifting said. Tmains “in danger,” of the embargo on the dia- “This time it’s for a few days with entire regions con- mond trade,” which he said but next time it could be for trolled by armed groups, had “deprived the country months (...) They’re fl exing President Faustin-Archange of enormous resources and their muscles. They got mul- Touadera warned yesterday encouraged illicit traffi cking.” tiple tools and they’re testing as he marked 100 days since Challenges facing Touad- them.” his election. era include disarming armed Last week, the UN Human Touadera was elected in groups, rebuilding the army, Rights Council passed a resolu- a peaceful vote in February helping over 300,000 refu- tion condemning the blocking seen as a step toward recon- gees in Cameroon and Chad, of internet as a human rights This file photo taken on April 19, shows Zambian Police patrolling near the Chawama Compound where residents have attacked and ciliation after years of sec- as well as 415,000 people violation. looted foreign-run shops in Lusaka. tarian violence, helped by a internally displaced inside 12,000-strong UN force but the country, which has a while drawing down France’s population of some 4.5mn. military presence. French President Francois He took offi ce in March, but Hollande visited the coun- the long-restive country has try in May, his fi rst trip since Sister of Pistorius grateful for judge’s sentencing decision seen a resurgence of violence February 2014 when France’s since mid-June. Sangaris military operation “The country is in danger. had just been deployed to Reuters that she was “grateful” to the (for) and the thing I really appre- list Pistorious fatally shot his en belief that an intruder was We have to save it by all legal help quell inter-communal Johannesburg judge. ciate is the emphasis she made to girlfriend four times through hiding behind it. means ... As I speak, entire violence. Judge Thokozile Masipa has distinguish a diff erence between a toilet door at his Pretoria The track star, who had the regions of the country have The operation is due to end been criticised by women’s the facts and the truth in terms home and has already served lower part of his legs amputated become sanctuaries for armed in December, after a progres- he sister of South Af- and other rights groups for ac- of this is not a gender-based vi- 12 months in prison, but the when he was a baby, was freed groups,” said the former maths sive draw-down. From a peak rican Paralympic star cepting the defence argument olence situation,” Aimee Pisto- original manslaughter convic- from prison last October after teacher. of 2,000 troops at the height TOscar Pistorius, who that a lesser sentence than the rius said in an interview with the tion was increased to murder by almost a year behind bars. “The international commu- of the crisis, their number was sent back to jail for six 15-year minimum term sought eNCA television news channel. the Supreme Court of Appeal in He was to serve the remain- nity is tired of bearing respon- is down to 650, a French years on Wednesday in what by prosecutors was appropri- “It’s a terrible accident where December. der of the original fi ve-year term sibility for our political mis- aide said. In due course the many viewed as a lenient ate for the 2013 murder of Reeva Oscar had no intention of Pistorius says he fi red four under house arrest at his uncle’s takes,” he said, while hailing remaining French forces sentence for murdering his Steenkamp. shooting Reeva,” she said. shots into the toilet on Valen- house in a wealthy suburb of the help from countries includ- will join the UN’s Minusca girlfriend, said yesterday “The thing I’m most grateful Paralympic gold medal- tine’s Day 2013 in the mistak- South Africa capital. ing France, Italy, the United peacekeeping operation. Gulf Times 8 Monday, July 11, 2016 AMERICAS Rodeo Queens Democrats to continue the fi ght for gun reform

Guardian Americans supported gun con- Washington trol measures. Their constituents wanted to see action on gun violence, and ouse Democrats took had welcomed the Democrats’ the fl oor yesterday af- sit-in for gun control with Hternoon to push Re- gratitude and enthusiasm. publicans to allow votes on gun Republicans should not be control legislation. afraid to put their votes on Rodeo Queens from various communities line up before taking the stage during the Calgary Stampede rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. Some Democrats were con- gun control measures on the ciliatory. record. Connecticut representative Some of the Democrats, in- John Larson, who was sched- cluding Chicago representa- uled to meet with speaker of tive Robin Kelly, read aloud the House Paul Ryan later in the names of constituents lost the day to talk about the gun to shootings, in an attempt to control standoff , hailed Ryan as broaden the conversation from a “honest and forthright man” the toll of mass shootings, like who is “not just speaker for the the one last month at an Orlando Republican conference” but LGBT nightclub, to gun violence “speaker of the entire house”. that claims lives every day. Trump’s campaign He said the Democrats “pre- Kelly read the names of 79 vail on the good nature of the people lost to gun violence in speaker” and the “decency” of Chicago in the past month, a Republicans to allow a vote on total larger than even the 50 two Democrat-supported gun killed in Orlando, the largest control bills. mass shooting in US history. Larson said that the House Maryland representative has not made any substantive Donna Edwards noted that says it raised $19mn votes on gun control legislation one analysis of mass shootings for more than three and a half found that the majority were There are still some grey areas to the any one person can give to a presidential Trump has until 20 days after he is for- all the good things” while fellow Louisiana years, since after the Sandy sparked by domestic or family funding declaration campaign is $5,400, the max donation to mally nominated in Cleveland to convert congressman and senate candidate John Hook Elementary School violence. Trump Victory Fund is $449,000. his campaign loans from the primary elec- Fleming said there was “a lot of positive shooting in 2012. She argued that gun violence Guardian The $25mn also included money raised tion to donations. Otherwise, it happens energy” and “the entire conference was Others Democrats were less took a unique toll on American New York in the last week of May in addition to the automatically. uniting behind Donald Trump”. forgiving. women and that domestic vio- month of June. The total represents a sig- However, he is not required to fi le a for- In his remarks, Trump reportedly ad- Rhode Island congressman lence and background check nifi cant improvement over Trump’s past mal report with the FEC about his June dressed a number of policy issues while David Cicilline slammed the laws should be tightened. onald Trump’s presidential cam- fundraising. fundraising until 20 July, which will be also harping on what he felt was unfair “tyranny of the majority” and Democrats mentioned a paign announced that the pre- The presumptive Republican nominee during the convention and likely after media criticism over his praise for Sadd- Republicans’ number of diff erent potential Dsumptive nominee had raised had raised only $17.4mn so far in his entire Trump offi cially becomes the GOP stand- am Hussein killing terrorists in recent “deliberate inaction in the gun control measures, includ- $51mn in June both on his own behalf campaign, much of which had come from ard bearer. days. face of 33,000 deaths caused ing a new federal ban on assault and on behalf of the Republican National selling hats and other merchandise. In Republican opponents of Donald Trump His grievances were shared by many in by gun violence each year”. weapons. Committee. May, Trump only got $3.1mn from donors. in Congress have described meetings with the room. “We just celebrated Inde- Kelly invoked Martin Luther However, the fundraising haul comes In a statement, Trump touted that he the presumptive GOP nominee as awk- Represenative Trent Franks of Arizona, pendence Day,” Texas Demo- King Jr and said that “Certainly, as the Federal Election Commission (FEC) had given an additional $3.8mn to his ward on Thursday and sparred with him, a self-described “former critic” of Trump crat Lloyd Doggett said.“How there is no place for assault ri- confi rmed to the Guardian that Trump campaign, raising his total contributions while Trump’s supporters raved about his complained to reporters afterwards that about the Republicans declar- fl es in the beloved community”. had yet follow up on his late June promise for the cycle to $55mn. visit to Capitol Hill. “you missed all the ugly things he said ing independence from the House Democrats are cur- to convert over $45mn in loans to his cam- FEC documents show that Trump has Trump held separate meetings with about Saddam Hussein but if he says he gun lobby, just once, in a very rently pushing just two bills: paign to donations. only contributed $46m to his campaign, al- both the house and senate caucuses on a [Saddam] kills terrorists he’s in love with small, modest way?” one that would bar suspected Trump bragged that he had done so in most all of which have been through loans. sweltering summer day as he tried to con- Saddam Hussein. Of all the stupidity and Since their rebellious 26- terrorists from buying guns, a 23 June announcement in order to boast Even adding in the additional $3.8mn, tinue to unify the GOP behind him. misappropriation of the truth.” hour sit-in before the Inde- and one that would expand donors’ confi dence in his eff orts and reas- it leaves a $5mn discrepancy between The Republican nominee, accompa- Although Trump received multiple pendence Day recess, house background checks to private sure those worried that he would use cam- Trump’s stated and reported contribu- nied by his daughter Ivanka, son-in-law standing ovations, he may not have been Democrats have pledged to sales at gun shows and over the paign funds to reimburse himself. tions to his campaign. Jared Kushner and chief strategist Paul the most popular member of his family in keep fi ghting for votes on gun internet, according to leader In a somewhat convoluted statement, Trump’s campaign, though, did not re- Manafort, started the day by meeting with the room. control legislation. Nancy Pelosi’s offi ce. Trump announced through fundraising port how much cash the presumptive Re- House Republicans at the Capitol Hill When representative Peter King of New On Tuesday, the fi rst day Ryan has agreed to a vote on e-mails his campaign had raised $19mn publican nominee had on hand — as of his Club. York said members had their choice who to the House was back in session, only one gun-related measure, and the Trump Make America Great Again May campaign fi nance report, Trump only Cable news pundit Larry Kudlow in- take a picture with, they fl ocked towards Democrats did not initially as part of a broader anti-ter- Committee, a joint eff ort of Trump and the had $1.3mn. In contrast, rival Hillary Clin- troduced Trump, who also joked and ex- Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. stage freewheeling acts of civil rorism package. RNC, had raised $6.6mn. ton had $42mn on hand. changed hugs with speaker Paul Ryan, “She’s the star,” King said But there disobedience. That proposal, similar to a The campaign said that 94% of donors In a statement released on 1 July, Clin- who has long been unenthusiastic about were also critics in the room. Instead, they fi lled the day senate measure backed by the to this eff ort gave less than $200. ton announced that she had raised $68mn the real estate developer’s candidacy. South Carolina representative Mark with a long series of state- National Rifl e Association, Further, through high-dollar fund- in the month of June, of which $40mn had Some house members left the private Sanford mocked Trump afterward for ref- ments on gun violence. Their would let the attorney general raising events held by the Trump Victory gone to her campaign. meetings giving a highly positive account erencing article XII of the Constitution speeches were short, many just delay a gun purchase by a sus- Fund, a combined eff ort of Trump, the The remainder went to the DNC and to of Trump’s comments. in response to a question about article I, a minute long. pected terrorist for three days, RNC and state Republican parties, more state parties through the Hillary Victory Representative Ralph Abraham of which delineates Congress’s powers. But they hammered the and let law enforcement of- than $25mn had been raised. Fund, a fundraising vehicle similar to the Louisiana said his party’s nominee talked There are only seven articles in the Con- same themes over and over: fi cials ask a judge to block the Despite the fact that the maximum that Trump Victory Fund. about “growth, security and prosperity, stitution. polls showed the majority of purchase altogether.

Canada pledges $440mn to Kabul

QNA Kabul

he government of Canada has pledged a total of $440mn in aid to Afghanistan to support the Afghan TNational Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and civilian development projects. The offi ce of the chief executive in a statement said Can- ada will provide the aid to support Afghanistan in coming three years, Khaama press reported. The statement further added that the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the commitment during a meeting with President Mohamamd Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah on the sidelines of the Warsaw summit in Poland. He said Canada will continue to support Afghanistan in military and economic sectors and pledged $170mn for the Afghan military and $270mn for the civilian sectors. The Canadian PM also added that Canada will increase its support to Afghanistan and assured President Ghani in this regard.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with spectators during Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 9 AMERICAS Shooter was planning more attacks

AFP But a search of Johnson’s Dal- Dallas las-area home after he was ulti- mately killed by police turned up bomb-making materials and a he shooter in the Dallas manual in which he wrote about ambush had been practis- military tactics. Ting detonating bombs and Police now believe he had been planned some kind of major at- planning something long be- tack even before the sniper-style forehand, and that the two kill- assault in which he killed fi ve ings last week were a trigger that police, the city’s police chief said prompted him to act, Brown told yesterday. CNN. Releasing chilling new details of Investigators believe “based the attack by Micah Johnson, po- on evidence of bomb-making lice chief David Brown said John- materials and a journal that the son taunted police as he negoti- suspect had been practising ex- ated with them during an hours plosive detonations and that the long standoff — “playing games, materials were such that it was laughing at us, singing” — asking large enough to have devastat- how many cops he had killed and ing eff ects throughout our city saying he wanted to take out more. and our north Texas area,” Brown And at one point, Johnson, said. apparently wounded, wrote the “We’re convinced that this A protester shouts “Look at me” towards a NYPD police off icer during a march against police brutality in Manhattan, New York. letters “rb” in his own blood on suspect had other plans,” he a wall at the community college added. where he holed up during the “And we believe that the shooting last Thursday. deaths in Minnesota and the Seven other cops and two ci- deaths in Louisiana just sparked vilians were wounded. his delusion to fast-track his Brown said it was not clear plans and saw the protest in Dal- what those letters meant. las as an opportunity to begin Johnson, who was black, also wreaking havoc on our offi cers,” insisted on speaking only to a Brown said. Protesters arrested black police offi cer when he be- Johnson was a private in the gan negotiating with the police, army reserve and had served in Brown said. Afghanistan. The 25-year-old army vet He knew the route of the Dal- opened fi re with a powerful rifl e las march, and his military train- during a peaceful protest Thurs- ing apparently benefi ted him day evening in Dallas against the during the shooting, as he ef- shooting deaths just days earlier fectively triangulated police and as tensions heat up of two black men, in Louisiana started taking them out with his and Minnesota. high calibre rifl e, Brown said. Protests are continuing despite the However protests were unruly in Baton stration on Periscope.”We aren’t blocking per spray to disperse stone-throwing pro- attack in Dallas Rouge, where Sterling was killed, and St the street or anything.” testers. Paul, where Castile died. “No justice, no peace, no racist police!” And in Rochester, New York, 74 people AFP Hundred protesters in St Paul blocked activists chant, as police cruisers follow were arrested over a sit-in protest. Dallas a highway intersection for several hours the group. President Barack Obama tried Saturday late Saturday and hurled fi recrackers, Then suddenly the video is interrupted.” to reassure a shocked country, insisting Calls mount for Ryan rocks and bottles at police. The offi cers, “City Police. You’re under arrest — that the United States can overcome its ra- olice arrested scores of people in equipped with clubs and gas masks, used don’t fi ght me,” a voice says. cial divisions, and rejecting comparisons demonstrations overnight in several smoke grenades and pepper spray to break Pictures on social media show McKes- with the civil unrest of the 1960s. to move bill on Zika PUS cities, as racial tensions simmer up the crowd. son with his hands behind his back being Obama, scheduled to visit Dallas next over the killing of black men by police. St Paul police said on Facebook that taken away by police. week, described the gunman as a “de- Protesters led by the Black Lives Matter protesters also threw a molotov cocktail, A Louisiana state police offi cer told a mented individual” who in no way repre- Guardian News for transmission of the disease. movement are demanding justice for two and someone “dropped a large chunk of reporter with The Advocate, a Baton Rouge sented the African-American community. London “One week left — and if speak- African-American men shot dead by cops, concrete onto an offi cer’s head from a publication, that McKesson was arrested “I fi rmly believe that America is not as er [Paul] Ryan cannot get a bill their dying moments captured in video bridge”. because he had been blocking the road — divided as some have suggested,” he said to the president’s desk it will that went viral online. Five police offi cers were injured. even though in his video McKesson said during a Nato summit in Warsaw.”There is he head of the Cent- be a colossal failure to address The demos also come after 25-year-old “Thankfully the injuries were not serious,” there was no sidewalk. sorrow, there is anger, there is confusion... ers for Disease Control, a crisis.” black army veteran Micah Johnson used police said. “We wouldn’t arrest people who are but there is unity.” Tcongressional Demo- “Would you believe that just a high-power rifl e to kill fi ve police offi c- St Paul police promised to provide de- quietly protesting off the roadway,” the of- US politicians have sought to come crats and the second-in-com- yesterday we had 11 new cases ers and wound seven in a sniper attack at a tails soon on the number of arrests. fi cer told The Advocate in a video posted across as unifi ers after the week of vio- mand at the Department of in Florida,” said Democratic protest in Dallas, Texas late Thursday. A jailer at the local detention centre es- online. lence. Homeland Security called for senator Bill Nelson. Johnson told negotiators before police timated that between 60 to 80 people had An activist who was a witnesses told “White Americans need to do a better Republicans to bring a Zika He and fellow Floridian, killed him that he wanted to murder white been detained. The Washington Post that McKesson was job of listening when African Americans funding bill to the fl oor — Republican Marco Rubio, at- cops in revenge for the black deaths. Separately in Baton Rouge, local media “clearly targeted”. talk about the barriers they face,” Demo- again. tempted to bring a $1.9bn bill Dallas was still on edge Saturday. reported that several dozen people were Police across the country were on edge cratic White House hopeful Hillary Clin- The call comes two weeks to the fl oor earlier this year. Following an anonymous threat, SWAT arrested in at least two demos, includ- as it emerged that offi cers had been target- ton tweeted. after a measure passed the The new diagnoses, Nelson teams swarmed the police headquarters ing one where members of the New Black ed in at least two incidents — in Tennessee That message was echoed by prominent house around 3am, loaded with said, “brings the state’s total to while offi cers investigated reports of a Panther activist group confronted police. and Wisconsin — by individuals appar- members of the Republican Party, which unrelated provisions Demo- 263, which includes 43 preg- suspicious person — fi nally giving the all- The sheriff ’s department would not ently angered at the recent fatal shootings has often jumped to defend law enforce- crats called “poison pills”, and nant women”. clear around two hours later. confi rm arrest fi gures when contacted by of black men by police. ment amid accusations of racial bias. after the senate attempted to “It’s been 136 days since the The nationwide wave of protests was AFP. Hundreds also marched peacefully Sat- “It is more dangerous to be black in advance a $1.1bn bill. president requested just under triggered by the shooting deaths of Alton One of those arrested reportedly in- urday in Los Angeles, including in South America,” said Newt Gingrich, a Republi- “We’ve got one week left,” $2bn in emergency funding,” Sterling in the southern state of Louisiana, cluded DeRay McKesson, a prominent Central, the epicentre of violent 1992 riots can former House speaker tipped as a pos- said Kathy Castor, a Democrat- Nelson said. “Compare that it and Philando Castile in the midwestern activist in the peaceful Black Lives Matter following the acquittal of white police of- sible White House running mate for Don- ic representative for the Tampa took just 38 days to get $6bn state of Minnesota. movement. fi cers in the videotaped beating of black ald Trump. Bay area, along Florida’s Gulf for Ebola, and it took just 49 Protesters held large and peaceful march- “Police have been provocateurs all motorist Rodney King. “Sometimes it’s diffi cult for whites to Coast. days to get $2bn to respond to es in several major US cities, including New night,” McKesson says as he walks on the There were nasty scenes late Friday in appreciate how real that is. It’s an every- The locality is at high risk the swine fl u in 2009.” York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. side of a road, livestreaming the demon- Phoenix, Arizona, where police used pep- day danger.” Ice Cube leads rap defi ance against police brutality

AFP The 1988 song by his former group, gang- more on entertaining and proving his outrage at the suggested connection, say- Quebec City sta rap pioneers N.W.A., initially stunned bona fi des. ing it was no diff erent than blaming The listeners with its merciless indictment of po- “I don’t care about the rain; I can do this Beatles after California commune killer lice treatment of African Americans yet has all night!” the 47-year-old rapper turned Charles Manson seized on their song Hel- ce Cube co-wrote one of the defi ning pro- become one of the best-known songs in hip- actor said as he showed off his strut. ter Skelter. test songs against police brutality and, hop. Ice Cube invited “the ladies” of Quebec “Personally I have always had some re- Iat a moment of soaring tension with US But Ice Cube’s decision to play the song was City to dance to Kool and the Gang’s infec- spect for police offi cers as humans. But law enforcement, the rap legend did not hold especially defi ant two days after a sniper shot tious Jungle Boogie and, after performing their system of law is fl awed,” Chuck D back. dead fi ve offi cers in Dallas amid demonstra- his classic It Was a Good Day, left the stage tweeted. “The police tried to tell us what we can’t tions over the latest two killings of African to James Brown’s The Boss, an appropri- The festival, known in French as the play!” Ice Cube, likely referring to past rather Americans by police. ate closing song with its blend of funk and Festival d’ete de Quebec, runs for 11 days than present bids to muzzle him, told a rain- Ice Cube on social media has kept the focus audacity. across the historic city. soaked crowd Saturday night at Quebec City’s on police brutality, sharing stories of abuses The Dallas killings have brought con- The coming week will feature pop star summer music festival. and urging President Barack Obama to rein in demnation from the Black Lives Matter Selena Gomez, funk rockers Red Hot Chili Ice Cube ripped into ***** Police and, police, declaring his campaign with the hash- movement and a number of artists who Peppers and British pop all-stars Duran to the delight of the predominantly youth- tag #Theorisation. have championed the protesters. Duran. ful and white fans, asked them to raise their Yet Ice Cube relegated ****** Police to Pop superstar Beyonce — who had urged Saturday was devoted to hip-hop, with hands as images of armed offi cers fl ashed on early in his set in Quebec City — which he fans to contact lawmakers to end the “war other acts including Mississippi broth- a screen. aff ectionately called “QC” — as he focused on people of colour and all minorities” — ers Rae Sremmurd who managed to put voiced grief for the slain offi cers, saying, on their fast-paced, leg-contorting dance “No violence will create peace.” routine amid persistent rain. “To eff ect change we must show love in The evening began with Belly, the the face of hate and peace in the face of vi- Palestinian-born, Ottawa-bred rapper olence,” she wrote to her more than 77mn who in May cancelled a coveted appear- Instagram followers. ance on late-night US show Jimmy Kim- Snoop Dogg, who like N.W.A. emerged mel Live because presumptive Republican from Southern California’s gangsta rap presidential candidate Donald Trump was scene, led a peaceful march to the Los An- present. geles Police Department and appealed to Belly — who would be aff ected if Trump new recruits for dialogue. is elected and goes ahead with his vow to “Let’s talk about it, because once the close the United States to foreign Muslims talking is over with, there ain’t nothing to — invited the Quebec crowd to raise their talk about,” he said. hands and shout a profanity against the Professor Griff of Public Enemy, along billionaire. with N.W.A. a defi ning political force in Among the lesser-known but hardest- hip-hop, forcefully declared that he does working acts at the festival, Toronto punk not advocate killing police after a photo, band The OBGMs also led a chant against apparently a selfi e, emerged of him with Trump as frontman Densil McFarlane as- Dallas shooter Micah Johnson. siduously whipped a mostly uninitiated Public Enemy frontman Chuck D voiced crowd into a frenzy. Gulf Times 10 Monday, July 11, 2016 ASEAN

Gunmen kidnap three Indonesians off Sabah

Reuters Kuala Lumpur

unmen kidnapped three Indonesian members of Ga tugboat crew off Ma- laysia’s eastern state of Sabah, police said yesterday, the lat- est in a string of abductions in a region noted for kidnappings by militants. It was not immediately clear whether the men were seized by Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to Islamic State that is responsible for recent beheadings of Western hostages and notorious for the extortion of millions of dollars in ransoms. The tugboat, with a crew of seven, was in waters off the east coast of Sabah on Borneo island, about 3.6 nautical miles from a nearby Kampung Sinakut beach, Sabah police commissioner Ab- dul Rashid Harun said, when it was attacked by armed men in a white boat late on Saturday. He said that based on early in- vestigations, the three men kid- napped were 34-year-old Lorens Koten, 40-year-old Teo Dores Kopong and a 46-year-old iden- tifi ed only as Emanuel. Abdul Rashid said they are likely to be in the southern Phil- Cambodians walk alongside a car transporting the body of independent political and social analyst Kem Ley who was shot dead at a convenience store earlier in the day in Phnom Penh yesterday. ippines now but did not elabo- rate. Four other crew members were left behind by the kidnap- pers who came in a speedboat. “Victims released also said while the kidnappers were on their tugboat for nearly 30 min- utes, no violence took place,” he Prominent Cambodian critic told reporters at a press confer- ence in Lahad Datu. The fi ve abductors were armed with rifl es and also had a grenade launcher, the police added. In Jakarta, the Indonesian for- eign ministry said it had no in- gunned down in daylight hit formation yet on the abductions. The Abu Sayyaf militant group AFP ered as police cordoned off the The opposition Cambodia has beheaded two Canadian na- Phnom Penh area, some crying, others visibly National Rescue Party described tionals recently after its ransom angry as they refused to let po- the murder as a “heinous” act deadlines expired. lice remove the body. and called on the authorities to It is still holding men from prominent Cambodian After a standoff lasting many bring those involved to justice. Japan, the Netherlands and political analyst known hours, Kem Ley was eventually Hun Sen also described the Norway. Afor his trenchant criti- taken in his own car to a near- killing as “heinous” and called cism of the government was by Buddhist temple fl anked by on police to better enforce gun shot dead yesterday morning at hundreds of supporters for the laws. a convenience store, police said. start of funeral rites. Kem Ley was critical of both Vietnam eyes Hague The daylight slaying of Kem Local media also showed pic- the government and opposition ruling on ‘South Ley comes at a time of height- tures of the alleged suspect be- parties, advocating for a new era China Sea’ dispute ened tensions between strong- ing taken into custody. of clean politics in a notoriously man premier Hun Sen and the He appeared to be injured corrupt nation which is expect- Hanoi is closely watching the country’s political opposition, with blood running down the ed to hold a general election in verdict from an arbitration court who accuse the prime minister left-hand side of his face. 2018. But the bulk of his criti- on territory disputed between of launching a fresh crackdown The killing will do little to cism was aimed at Hun Sen’s the Philippines and China, against them. lower already simmering ten- ruling party. Vietnam insiders said. “Obviously Police said Kem Ley, a popu- sions inside the impoverished The prime minister, a former if the Philippines wins the case, it lar commentator and grassroots Southeast Asian nation, which army commander who defect- would be good for Vietnam too,” campaigner, was gunned down has been dominated by Hun ed from the Khmer Rouge, has said Duong Danh Di, Vietnam’s as he drank coff ee at a conven- Sen for the past 31 years in a held power alongside a small former consulate general in ience store attached to a gas sta- reign marred by accusations of but powerful coterie of political Guangzhou. Manila asked the tion in the capital Phnom Penh. corruption, electoral fraud and allies that have become enor- Permanent Court of Arbitration in “He was shot dead at a mart rampant rights abuses. mously wealthy. the Hague to intervene over the just before 9am,” said Kirt Scores of government critics A report published by Glo- Spratly Islands and Scarborough Chantharith, national police and rights workers have been bal Witness last week detailed Shoal off its shores, both claimed spokesman. arrested in recent months while how Hun Sen’s family alone had by Beijing as part of a large A suspect was arrested near- others have been tied up in on- amassed a multi-million-dollar swathe of territory that extends by and confessed to killing the going legal cases. business empire spanning the far into the South China Sea. analyst over an unpaid debt, Phay Siphan, a government impoverished country’s most A verdict in the Philippines’ Kirt Chantharith said. spokesman, described the as- lucrative sectors during his rule. favour could delegitimise China’s “But we don’t believe him yet. sassination as “a vulgar and Last week, Kem Ley gave a claims to most of the South Chi- We are working on this case,” he cruel act that is unacceptable”. lengthy radio interview wel- na Sea, Di said. Hanoi has its own added. Cambodian women cry outside a convenience store where independent political and social analyst “His killing will further coming the report, saying it claim over the Paracel Islands Cambodia has a long a tragic Kem Ley was shot dead in Phnom Penh. deepen the complexity of the would enable both local voters chain, which belonged to the history of rights and labour ad- political situation,” he said, and foreign investors to have then-South Vietnam government vocates being murdered with An AFP photographer at the metal table inside the conven- rushed to the scene and could be adding that all sides of Cambo- a better idea of how Cambo- before China seized it in 1974. their killers rarely brought to scene said Kem Ley’s body lay ience store. seen sobbing outside the store. dia’s political divide needed to dia’s political elite have become justice. in a large pool of blood below a His heavily pregnant wife Hundreds of onlookers gath- remain calm. so rich. Hundreds march in Yangon over offi cial label for minority

DPA bouring Bangladesh. About 500 Kaung Wai Yan said as he and his Yangon people, including monks from seven friends joined the march. the Buddhist nationalist Organi- “They are Bengali. They must sation for Protection of Race and be called Bengali,” he shouts. everal hundred people Religion, better known as Ma Ba The Kaman, or Kamein, are marched in Myanmar’s Tha for its Burmese acronym, Muslims and belong to an ethnic Scommercial capital Yangon were marching from the central group in Rakhine that is offi cially yesterday to protest the govern- Shwedagon pagoda to demand recognised by the government. ment’s new term to describe the the government use the term Organiser Win Ko Ko Latt of stateless Muslim minority group “Bengali.” the Myanmar National Network in western Rakhine state. The 1mn or so Rohingya Mus- said the government must cancel The government presented a lims in western Rakhine state the proposed new term for Ben- proposal last month to the Hu- are described by the UN as the gali Muslims in Rakhine state. man Rights Council in Geneva world’s most persecuted minor- “The government should be that the “Muslim community in ity group. wise in handling the Rakhine Rakhine state” should be used “We can’t accept the use of issue. No one would accept the instead of the controversial new term for these illegal immi- new term,” he said by telephone. terms “Rohingya” or “Bengali” grants. That’s why we joined the “They would face a series of to describe the approximately march,” said 24-year-old engi- demonstrations until they re- 1mn Muslims in Myanmar. neering student Kaung Wai Yan. voke the term and call them Ben- “Bengali,” a term used by most “I am a Rakhine Buddhist. I gali,” he said. Myanmar people, suggests that know there are ethnic Muslim “We are planning a march in the self-identifi ed Rohingya groups in Rakhine state, like the Mawlamyaing of Mon state next Muslims in troubled Rakhine Kaman. But Bengali is diff erent week.” state are not members of coun- from them. Thousands joined the march- try’s 135 ethnic groups, but il- They are not our ethnic- es across Rakhine last week over Buddhist monks take part in a rally near Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon yesterday in a show of opposition to a recent government edict. legal immigrants from neigh- ity. They are not our citizens,” the issue. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 11 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

Scientists say Aids beaten Abe bloc wins landslide in Australia

DPA Sydney in upper house election ustralia’s top scientists declared “the end of Aids” as a public health Reuters nomics. We’d like to continue with our Aissue, the broadcaster ABC report- Tokyo eff orts to achieve what we’ve prom- ed yesterday. ised,” he said on TV. Researchers said the number of Aus- Kyodo news agency put turnout at tralians being diagnosed with Aids each rime Minister Shinzo Abe’s rul- about 54%, a bit above the record low year is now so small that the age of the fa- ing coalition yesterday won a of 52.61% seen in the last upper house tal syndrome was over. Plandslide victory in an election poll three years ago. Scientists from several Aids research for parliament’s upper house, despite The opposition Democratic Party groups told the ABC the number of Aids concerns about his economic policies linked up with three smaller parties in- deaths had fallen from a peak in the early and plans to revise the nation’s post- cluding the Japanese Communist Party 1990s of about 1,000 a year to practically war pacifi st constitution for the fi rst to try to stop the pro-constitutional zero. time. reform camp getting a super majority. “These days we don’t even monitor Media projections showed Abe’s Abe’s coalition already has a super- it, it’s a transitory thing for most people; coalition, like-minded parties and in- majority in the lower house. people have Aids, then they go on treat- dependents had won the two-thirds Conservatives see the constitution ment and they don’t have Aids anymore,” “super majority” needed to try to re- as a humiliating symbol of Japan’s de- said Professor Andrew Grulich, head of vise the constitution’s restraints on the feat in World War II. Its admirers con- the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention military, a step that could strain ties sider it the source of post-war peace Programme at the Kirby Institute, part of with China, where memories of Japan’s and democracy. Revising the charter the University of New South Wales in Syd- past militarism run deep. needs the approval of two-thirds in ney. Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party both houses of parliament and a ma- The ABC reported that although the (LDP) fell short of winning a simple jority in a public referendum. fi ght against HIV is still ongoing, Profes- majority, which would have increased “We think the constitution is some- sor Grulich said the change to the inci- its clout within the coalition. thing that puts limits on power, but dence of Aids had been “nothing short of Earlier projections had shown it was sadly, that’s not what the LDP’s (re- miraculous.” within their grasp for the fi rst time vised draft) does,” Yukio Edano, Dem- “It’s pretty much dealt with as a public since 1989. ocratic Party Secretary General, said health issue. The only cases we see of Aids Nevertheless, the overall victory on TV. “If there is no common agree- these days are people undiagnosed with will still bolster Abe’s grip over the ment on this point, then there is no HIV, and so they can’t be treated,” Grulich conservative party that he led back to platform on which we can debate indi- said. power in 2012 promising to reboot the vidual articles.” Professor Sharon Lewin, director of the economy with hyper-easy monetary Ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Eriko Imai celebrates her victory with Japanese Prime Minister and LDP Surveys show most voters see no need Peter Doherty Institute, part of the Uni- policy, fi scal spending and reforms. president Shinzo Abe (L) at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo. to revise the constitution and the LDP’s versity of Melbourne, told the ABC anti- Any attempt to revise the constitu- dovish coalition partner, Komeito, is re- retroviral medications had been game- tion will still be politically fraught and away from reviving the stuttering Yoshihiko Takeda, a 36-year-old IT might replace Finance Minister Taro luctant to change its pacifi st Article 9. changers, allowing someone with HIV to LDP heavyweights have suggested that economy. company employee. Aso, 75, among others. The party’s secretary-general, live a long and healthy life. amending the pacifi st Article 9 would “The key question will be whether Abe had cast the election as a ref- His minister for Okinawa, Aiko Shi- Yoshihisa Inoue, said on TV that views “I’ve actually seen a dramatic trans- not be the fi rst priority. he can carry out (economic) structural erendum on “Abenomics”. With signs majiri, lost her seat, along with Justice in the party on possible changes had formation of HIV from a universal death Abe told a TV broadcaster it was too reforms,” said Nobuhiko Kuramochi, the strategy is failing, the government Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki. “not come together” yet. sentence to now a chronic, manageable early to talk about specifi c revisions to chief strategist at Mizuho Securities. plans to compile a post-election stim- The loss in Okinawa is a slap at a Still, Abe, whose deeper agenda has disease,” Lewin said. the constitution and his No.2 in the “If Abe fails to do so despite the politi- ulus package that could exceed 10tn US-Japan plan to relocate a controver- long centred on revising the US-draft- Don Baxter, international offi cer for the party said separately that talks with cal freedom he has gained, that will be yen ($99bn). Abe declined to say how sial US-Marines airbase on the island, ed charter, may be tempted to push Australian Federation of Aids Organiza- the opposition were needed. negative for foreign investors’ appetite big the package might be. reluctant host to the bulk of America’s ahead. tions, told the ABC it was vital to support “I have two more years to my term for Japanese stocks.” Economists worry the government military forces in Japan. “With these numbers...he (Abe) nations who had not yet beaten the Aids (as LDP president) and this is a goal of Some voters who backed Abe’s LDP will choose big-ticket infrastructure Abe said he had won a mandate for is going to want to see what he can epidemic. the LDP, so I want to address it calmly,” also said the economy’s health was projects rather than implement tough his economic policies in the election, achieve,” said Columbia Univer- “We are seeing very few countries actu- Abe said. their biggest concern. structural reforms. although the assertion could be weak- sity professor emeritus Gerry Cur- ally reducing that rate of infection at this In Japan, some fi nancial market “Especially since I see economic Abe said he would reshuffl e his cabi- ened by low turnout. tis. “That means less attention to the stage, and we don’t see the political will of players fear trying to amend the con- growth as the priority, I have little net but did not say when or how. “We were given approval for our economy and a lot of spinning over the those governments as we’ve had in Aus- stitution could divert Abe’s energy hope for the opposition parties,” said There has been speculation that Abe mandate to powerfully pursue Abe- constitution.” tralia,” Baxter said. Turnbull faces tough HK takes aim at China for trash on beaches AFP road after re-election Hong Kong ong Kong’s leader yesterday blamed a huge rise in rubbish blighting the AFP potentially two more, in the 150- from the two major parties could Hcity’s beaches on refuse washed Sydney seat House of Representatives, cause gridlock. ashore from the mainland, and pledged talks according to national broadcaster Even so, Turnbull faces an up- with Chinese authorities to stem the tide. ABC’s projections. hill task to get the Senate to pass Environmentalists have posted images ustralia’s Prime Minister But the Australian leader has two bills about restoring a con- on social media of trash covering sev- Malcolm Turnbull yester- won the support of three inde- struction union watchdog. eral beaches, including plastic bottles and Aday declared victory for the pendent MPs on budget matters He had used the Senate’s block- packaging with labels written in simpli- ruling conservatives after the La- and on votes of no confi dence, ing of the bills to trigger a double- fi ed Chinese characters — used in mainland bor opposition conceded defeat, paving the way for him to form a dissolution election, but could China but not Hong Kong. but faced a tough time ahead after minority government if necessary. now face an even more hostile up- Speaking after a visit to a coastal area the narrow mandate in the closely Labor has won 66, and with fi ve per house. yesterday morning, Leung Chun-ying said fought election. independents elected, the opposi- There are also question marks the refuse had been washed up in the city The declaration ended eight tion does not have suffi cient seats over whether his multi-billion after heavy rain and fl oods struck southern days of uncertainty about the new to govern in Canberra, according dollar plan to cut corporate tax an- China. government’s identity. to the projections. nounced in the May budget would “A lot of domestic garbage was washed A tight race between the two The need for Turnbull to court get support from the smaller par- towards Hong Kong from the mainland... major parties left neither of them the support of those outside his ties and independents, who were predictably due to heavy rainfalls and with the 76 or more seats required party saw him stress that he val- elected on more populist agendas. fl oods in the past few weeks,” he told re- for a parliamentary majority fol- ued every parliamentarian’s con- The two seats the coalition porters on Lantau Island. lowing polls on July 2, with vote tribution, even though he had hopes to pick up are among fi ve The extra waste put an increased bur- counting still ongoing. warned Australians not to vote for in the balance, with the elector- den on cleanup crews, he added, with the “We’ve won the election, that’s minor parties and independents al commission still completing amount collected on beaches and other what we’ve done,” Turnbull told during the election campaign. the painstaking task of counting coastal areas “multiple times” what was reporters in Sydney, adding that “It is vital that this parliament postal votes and others cast out- seen over the same period last year. he received a call from Labor lead- works,” Turnbull said, adding that side people’s normal electorates. “This is an extraordinary situation...we er Bill Shorten congratulating him Australia faced numerous chal- Both Turnbull and Shorten said will follow this up with Guangdong rel- on his re-election as prime min- lenges including a rocky transi- they supported an inquiry into evant authorities,” he said referring to the ister. tion away from a dependence on electronic voting, amid the pro- mainland province neighbouring the city. But he immediately faced ques- mining-driven growth. tracted counting process. Flooding is common during the sum- tions about whether he would be “Every member of the House “I have been an advocate of mer monsoon season in southern China, able to govern successfully, with and the Senate deserves respect electronic voting for a long time... but rainfall has been particularly heavy this Labor increasing its lower house because they have been elected by yes, this is something we must year and many areas have been lashed by Hong Kong’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying helps to pick up refuse washed ashore at seats and a higher number of mi- the Australian people.” look at,” Turnbull said. torrential rains this week. the top of a beach in Hong Kong yesterday. nor party and independent sena- Shorten pledged earlier yester- Shorten added earlier: “I will “If you actually look at the trash...it does tors to contend with in the upper day in his concession speech that be writing to Mr Turnbull and not look like stuff you fi nd in supermarkets But he added it is not “a chance to bash record on recycling eff orts and cleanliness house. his centre-left party wanted to saying, ‘really, we’re a grown-up here...this is not like our normally trashed China”, as the city should also tackle its are dire,” he said. Turnbull’s ruling Liberal/Na- work well with the government, democracy, it shouldn’t be taking beaches,” Hong Kong-based green activist own waste problems. Domestic waste is deposited in landfi ll tional coalition is currently ex- amid concerns the close result and eight days to fi nd out who’s won Gary Stokes, of Sea Shepherd Conservation “Hong Kong creates more trash per sites but also litters country parks, coastal pected to secure 74 seats, and higher number of lawmakers not and who’s lost’.” Society, said on Facebook. capita than anywhere on earth, our track areas and waterways. Beijing braces for South China Sea escalation

By Joern Petring, DPA The resource-rich territory, mere reefs or shoals. In the latter Opinion pieces in state-run swallow the bitter pill of humili- the formations in the disputed liances in the region, and perhaps Beijing which includes major shipping case, their status is determined media have been defi ant, with ation” without taking action, it areas, he said. send its navy through the area lanes, overlaps with competing by their location less than 200 the Global Times calling for the said. Beijing could also be expected more often to underline the free- claims by Vietnam, Malaysia, Tai- nautical miles (370km) from the military to prepare for a con- Beijing “has to plan for the to extend its Air Defence Identifi - dom of traffi c, as it has been doing. potential fl ashpoint be- wan, the Philippines and Brunei. Philippine coast, placing them frontation, and make the United worst.” Even without open con- cation Zone to cover the disputed Neighbouring states could feel tween China and the Philip- Beijing has been bolstering its in that country’s exclusive eco- States pay a “high price” if it frontation, tensions will prob- maritime area, he said. “China encouraged to follow the Philip- Apines is the subject of a rul- claims by building installations, nomic zone — if not in actual weighs in with force. ably increase. could also confront, ram or de- pines’ example, if the tribunal ing expected this week thousands including landing strips and mil- Philippine territory. The People’s Daily said the US “Escalation is likely in several tain at sea more ships from other views its claim favourably, and of miles away in the Netherlands. itary facilities, on several shoals If they are true islands, then and Philippines were using the respects,” Thomas Eder of Ber- nations more frequently,” he said. make claims of their own. China has declared its claim and islets in the region. their proximity to the Philippines proceedings as “an opportunity lin’s China Institute Merics told The other interested parties Either way, Eder said, the to a swathe of territory extend- Manila has asked the Per- is moot, and does not constitute to reinforce their portrayal of DPA. with claims in the region will all ruling next week will not end ing far into the South China Sea, manent Court of Arbitration in a defence against China’s claim. the country as an outcast from a China might build up new is- be watching closely. the confl ict in the South China sometimes referred to as the the Hague to rule whether the In China, Beijing has already rules-based international com- lands and push forward with The US could in response also Sea.”If the crises escalates, a re- nine-dash line because of the Spratly Islands and the Scarbor- said it will not recognize the munity.” exploitation of fi sheries and gas campaign against China through gional problem might well be- way it is often marked on maps. ough Shoal are true islands, or fi ndings of the tribunal. “It is naive to expect China to fi elds, or even militarise some of its strong diplomatic ties and al- come a global one,” he said. Gulf Times 12 Monday, July 11, 2016 BRITAIN

Woman on death row may be spared as new evidence surfaces

Guardian News and Media mony from key witnesses. Carty has always protested her at trial by a defence lawyer who hope yet that she might secure a During last week’s hearing, In the affi davit, Mathis recount- Washington Linda Carty, 57, has a high innocence on charges that in 2001 spent only two weeks preparing retrial. Goldberg spent eight hours cross- ed how he had recruited Carty as a profi le in Texas as one of just six she commissioned three men to the case. Michael Goldberg of the law examining Connie Spence, the confi dential informant who could women facing execution in the carry out the kidnapping and mur- Close observers say that this fi rm Baker Botts, who has been lead prosecutor in the case who provide useful information to the British woman who has state and as a British citizen by der of her neighbour, Joana Rod- week’s hearing before a single Carty’s lawyer for the past 13 years, still works as a supervisor for the DEA on drug dealing in the city been on death row in Texas dint of her birth in St Kitts at riguez, in a plot to steal the victim’s judge appointed by the Texas said that it was highly unusual that Harris County district attorney’s given her expertise as a trained Afor 14 years has been given a time when the Caribbean is- three-day-old baby. court of criminal appeals takes his client had even reached the offi ce in Houston. pharmacist. He said that when he renewed hope that she might be land was still a British colony. Previous attempts to appeal her plea of innocence to another stage of a post-conviction eviden- Part of that cross-examination told Spence that he did not want spared execution by an appeal Her case has been highlighted in her death sentence have failed, level. The hearing, that is likely tiary hearing. “We were very hap- related to the explosive affi davit to testify at trial against Carty, the hearing at which devastating ev- documentaries and championed despite the absence of any fo- to be concluded with the judge’s py when the court of criminal ap- given in 2014 by Charles Mathis, a prosecutor threatened to concoct a idence was presented that pros- by the likes of Bianca Jagger and rensic evidence against her and opinion in early September, peals granted us this hearing, since former agent of the Drug Enforce- story about him having had an af- ecutors had coerced false testi- the British government. the fact that she was represented presents her with the greatest it rarely does in Texas,” he said. ment Administration (DEA). fair with the defendant. Blair could face contempt motion over Iraq invasion

Guardian News and Media its salt tolerates being misled,” London Scotland’s former fi rst minister told ITV’s Peston yesterday. He said Blair’s promise to ony Blair could face a mo- George Bush that he would be tion of contempt in the “with you, whatever” meant THouse of Commons over Blair had been “saying one thing the 2003 invasion of Iraq – a to George W Bush in private, motion that Jeremy Corbyn has and a totally diff erent thing to said he would probably support. parliament and people in pub- The Conservative MP David lic”. He said Blair’s actions were Davis, backed by the SNP’s Alex “a parliamentary crime, and it’s Salmond, has said he will present time for parliament to deliver the on Thursday the motion accus- verdict”. ing the former prime minister The prospect of a contempt of misleading parliament. MPs vote has opened a rift between could debate the issue before the Corbyn, the Labour leader, and summer if it is accepted by the Angela Eagle, the former shadow Commons Speaker, John Bercow. business secretary who is chal- lenging him for the leadership. “It’s a bit like contempt Asked about the potential vote, of court, essentially by Corbyn told Marr he would prob- Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday. deceit. If you look just at ably back the motion. “Parliament the debate alone, on fi ve must hold to account, including diff erent grounds the house Tony Blair, those who took us into was misled” this particular war,” he said. Eagle hinted that she would Sir John Chilcot said in his not support it. Explaining that long-awaited report on the Iraq she had not yet seen the motion, invasion that the legal basis for she told the BBC’s Sunday Poli- the war was reached in a way that tics: “We have to make certain Corbyn not a leader, was “far from satisfactory”, but he that we don’t spend our time did not explicitly say the war was in parliament just exacting re- illegal. venge. I think Blair has been put, Davis told BBC1’s Andrew rightly, through the mill about Marr Show yesterday that the the decisions he took. The Chil- motion would say Blair held the cot report did that. house in contempt over the 2003 “We would be far better learn- says challenger Eagle invasion. He said that if his mo- ing the lessons and making certain tion was accepted by Bercow it that we don’t fall into the same AFP ter David Cameron’s ruling Con- “He cannot continue in the job would struggle to achieve. rior Minister Theresa May and could be debated before parlia- mistakes if there should be a fu- London servative party have been plunged because he’s lost the confi dence There is debate within the par- junior Energy Minister And- ment’s summer recess. ture situation where these deci- into turmoil by Britain’s shock of the Parliamentary Labour Par- ty as to how its leadership chal- rea Leadsom means Britain will Davis said: “It’s a bit like con- sions are made.” referendum vote to leave the EU ty and he’s hiding behind a closed lenge rules should be interpreted. have its fi rst female prime min- tempt of court, essentially by John Prescott, who was depu- eremy Corbyn, the embattled last month. door, denying that this is a fact. “I’m expecting to be on the ister since Margaret Thatcher. deceit. If you look just at the ty prime minister at the time of head of Britain’s main oppo- Corbyn faced criticism from That’s not leadership.” ballot paper,” Corbyn told BBC Corbyn also indicated he debate alone, on fi ve diff erent the 2003 invasion, has claimed Jsition Labour Party, is “hid- within the party for his luke- Corbyn said he was “disap- television. would back a motion to fi nd grounds the house was misled – the Iraq war was illegal. ing” and refusing to accept that warm campaigning in favour of pointed” by Eagle’s challenge He said if the NEC decided Labour former prime minister three in terms of the weapons of Writing in the Sunday Mirror, his support among colleagues has Britain staying in the EU. In a and urged her to “think for a he needed nominations, “I will Tony Blair in contempt of par- mass destruction, one in terms the Labour peer says: “I will live vanished, leadership challenger vote of confi dence on June 28, moment” about her actions. challenge that if that is the view liament over his role in the war of the UN votes were going, and with the decision of going to war Angela Eagle said yesterday. Corbyn received the backing The leadership contest will they take”, adding: “I’ve taken in Iraq. one in terms of the threat, the and its catastrophic consequences Eagle, who will today for- of only 17% of his colleagues in hang on whether the party’s much soundings from lawyers”. “Parliament must hold to risks. He might have done one of for the rest of my life. In 2004, the mally launch her bid to take over parliament. National Executive Committee Conservative party members account, including Tony Blair, those accidentally, but fi ve?” UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, the left-of-centre party, said “I don’t think he’s been able (NEC) decides Corbyn should will also vote later this year to those who took us into this par- Salmond said he believed Cor- said that as regime change was the Corbyn was “not a leader” and to communicate with the elec- have an automatic place on the elect a successor to Cameron, ticular war.” Asked if he would byn’s support would mean the prime aim of the Iraq war, it was she wanted to “heal” Labour’s torate,” Eagle, the party’s former ballot and does not require a who announced he would quit back the motion, he said: “I motion had enough cross-party illegal. With great sadness and an- divisions. business spokeswoman, told minimum number of MPs sup- after losing the EU vote. haven’t seen it yet, but I think I support. “No parliament worth ger, I now believe him to be right.” Both Labour and Prime Minis- ITV television. porting him — something he The choice between Inte- probably would.”

Finding Dory premiere ‘LeBlanc should be new MPs to vote on Trident Top Gear host: Evans renewal on July 18 Agencies ahead so I think it makes sense to London hold this vote, to hold this vote London Evening Standard “Not only does he eat, sleep, such an intense production, he al- now to put it beyond doubt.” London breathe and dream engines, prop- ways had time for everyone, espe- The announcement came amid shafts and trail-braking, but the cially the crew. Ps will vote on replacing reports that Labour’s defence re- overwhelming quality that struck “The simple truth is he and Top the ageing submarines view will leave open the option x-Friends star Matt LeBlanc me about him is that he’s just such Gear were made for each other.” Mcarrying the Trident of retaining the UK’s nuclear de- is the “captain” that Top a pro. Evans said working on the pro- nuclear missiles on July 18, David terrent despite Corbyn’s lifelong EGear needs going forward, gramme for a year had been a Cameron has announced. support for unilateral disarma- Chris Evans has insisted as he “dream” and “the Top Gear ship Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is ment. admitted his tenure at the wheel has been steadily refl oated” fol- opposed to nuclear weapons and The review is expected to set “was not meant to be”. lowing the departure of Jeremy the Commons vote could prove a fi ve tests for the UK’s continued The Radio 2 DJ, who quit Top Clarkson, James May and Richard further blow to his authority in the status as a nuclear power, in- Gear after one series, said the mo- Hammond. party if his backbenchers support cluding whether it makes a “de- toring show and the Friends star He also paid tribute to the pro- the renewal programme. monstrable contribution” to the “were made for each other” and duction team for their work on The prime minister said the defence of the country and if it heaped praise on LeBlanc for his bringing the popular programme parliamentary vote would confi rm represents value for money. dedication to the programme. back on screen. support for the replacement of the The BBC’s Newsnight pro- Evans described working on Top “The Top Gear gang are the full fl eet of four submarines. gramme reported the draft con- Gear as an “honour, privilege and a most driven (forgive the pun) “The nuclear deterrent remains clusions from the review had pleasure” and he had tried his best, and dedicated I have ever worked essential, in my view, not just to been accepted by Corbyn and but said his stint in the driving seat with,” he said. Britain’s security but to the overall could be considered formally at had not worked out. “The whole time I worked “There is nothing those guys security of the Nato alliance,” he the party’s conference in Sep- It comes after weeks of reports with him, he never once won’t do to make every second of said. tember – after the Commons that the pair’s relationship had looked at the clock, was on-air content shine to its maxi- With just eight weeks left in vote on the issue. broken down amid fl agging audi- never late on set, knew his mum potential.” offi ce, Cameron rejected sugges- Under the proposals, Labour ence numbers and unfavourable lines inside out and back to The BBC said it has no plans to tions that he should have left the would also have to consider the reviews for the fl agship BBC Two front” replace Evans when Top Gear re- vote to his successor to announce. impact on jobs and regional de- programme. turns for a 24th season. “It is a manifesto pledge to have a velopment, whether it would Writing in the Mail on Sunday, “The whole time I worked with However attention now turns US actress and television host Ellen DeGeneres and actor fully fl edged deterrent, to replace contribute to the party’s support Evans said: “For me, he is the man. him, he never once looked at the to Clarkson, Hammond and May, and director Dominic West pose for photographers as all four submarines. We need to get for multilateral disarmament, He is the captain Top Gear truly clock, was never late on set, knew whose new venture with Amazon, they arrive to attend the UK premiere of the film Finding on with that,” he said. and whether the deterrent would needs going forward, the perfect his lines inside out and back to the Grand Tour, is expected to be Dory in London’s Leicester Square yesterday. “We need certainty about it so stand the test of time in the face torso for the rest of TG’s limbs. front and, most importantly on released in the autumn. the investment decisions can go of new technology. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 13 BRITAIN Sterling’s fall could batter fi sh and chip shops, feel experts

Reuters of the June 23 vote to leave the which also include roughly 950 bream from Turkey and Greece, exported. Many UK fi shermen sons raised its salmon fi llet prices and Norwegians who send white London European Union, leaving it 13% fi shmongers, according to esti- tuna from Sri Lanka and swordfi sh hoped a Brexit would free them “months” ago, and Tesco followed fi sh don’t think the price they’re weaker against the dollar. mates by research fi rm Seafi sh — from Brazil. He reckons shellfi sh from EU fi shing quotas, but the suit recently, increasing the price getting is good enough, it won’t That may make imports pricier, are more exposed. costs could rise 20%, but knows impact on the sector, which has of 2 fi llets to £3.50 from £3. come here at all,” Boyers said. rices of salmon and squid including the cod and haddock “We tried to buy some shellfi sh he would lose customers if he tried a large showing in pro-EU Scot- Martyn Boyers, chief executive Britain is Norway’s third-big- have soared as disease used by roughly 10,500 fi sh and this morning...and our suppliers to pass that on. land, is unclear. of the fi sh market in the northern gest market for seafood, worth 7% Pand weather hurt global chip shops in the 380mn meals advised us to buy now because “What we have to try and do Norway, the world’s top salm- port town of Grimsby, says the of total sales in 2015, with a value supplies, and British fi sh sell- they serve up each year. the price is going to go up,” Gary is switch the consumer into local on exporter, is benefi ting from pound’s weakness, which is also of about 5bn Norwegian crowns ers say the Brexit-related drop Large retailers like Tesco and Hooper, owner of GCH Fishmon- fi sh,” he said. salmon prices that are 60% higher down about 10% against the Nor- ($591.90mn). in its currency may be the next Asda have long-term supply con- gers in Bedford, England, said. “If The vast majority of the fi sh than a year ago, due to disease and wegian crown, could reduce Brit- Norway sells mostly salmon to scourge. tracts and hedges that shield them I had a big freezer I’d buy it now.” Britons eat is imported, mostly a prevalence of sea lice in south ain’s lure as a market, even for cod Britain (3.4bn crowns), followed The pound has fallen to a 31- from near-term volatility. Hooper spends at least £3,000 from Norway and Iceland, while America. and haddock. by cod (600mn crowns) and had- year low on fears about the eff ect But independent players — a week on fi sh, including bass and much of the domestic catch is Supermarket chain Wm Morri- “In the end, if the Icelandics dock (450mn crowns).

Hospital Black Lives Matter holds rally fi ghts Leadsom aides plan to axe heart surgeries downplay

London Evening Standard London ‘motherhood’ ritain’s biggest heart and lung hospital has vowed to Bfi ght “reckless” plans to axe surgery for patients born with life- threatening heart disease. The Royal Brompton launched an immediate public off ensive controversy after NHS England said it was preparing to end child and adult Guardian News and Media lier this week that he was priori- our future outside the EU and she congenital heart surgery at the London tising his family. “So is he criticis- wants to make that work.” hospital to improve safety. ing other tennis players who don’t Duncan-Smith also dismissed It said the Brompton did not have children? Would we be hav- suggestions that pro-EU Tory meet new national standards for ndrea Leadsom’s campaign ing this conversation if this was MPs could seek to form a new par- the number of operations carried manager has hit back fol- two men?” ty were Leadsom elected leader. out each year and was “extremely Alowing criticism of an Iain Duncan Smith, the former “I have a simple message to unlikely to be able to do so” by the interview in which she implied work and pensions secretary who them, which is, calm down, this 2021 deadline. motherhood gave her an edge is one of Leadsom’s most high- is a leadership election and people Hospital sources said it was yet over Theresa May in their battle profi le supporters, said she was come to regret the silly things they to be decided whether legal action to replace David Cameron at No “genuinely mortifi ed” despite say during a leadership election. would be launched. 10, saying it was her children who her defi ance on Saturday over the I’ve seen this all before,” he said. The Brompton secured a High were the driving passion behind Times story. “If Andrea was so unqualifi ed, Court victory in 2011 to defeat a her leadership attempt. “But she is really passionate and we’ve had a real black opera- previous attempt to remove its Leadsom, who faces off with about children in general and her tion to denigrate her, what was the ability to perform the surgery. May to win the support of Con- children,” he told ITV’s Peston prime minister doing making her a It tweeted: “Astonished by reck- servative members who will de- yesterday. “But it is easy for her senior government minister?” less @NHSEngland suggestion cide the next prime minister, to let her guard down and slip into Part of May’s “clean campaign” to move congenital heart services sparked a furious reaction on talking about this because it is a pledge, which she has urged Lead- from #RoyalBrompton. We will Saturday after she implied in an big issue for her and really talking som to sign, also commits the fi ght for our patients #CHD” interview with the Times that be- candidates “not to co-operate in The move is the latest attempt ing a mother meant she had more “Genuinely I feel that being any way with other political par- in 15 years to improve standards of invested in the country’s economy a mum means you have ties”. care in the wake of the Bristol heart and stability. May does not have a real stake in the future Leadsom has denied any links scandal 25 years ago when at least children. of our country, a tangible with Ukip, despite being vocally 29 babies died or suff ered brain “Genuinely I feel that being a stake” backed by Leave.EU’s funder Ar- damage. mum means you have a real stake ron Banks. It does, however, safeguard the in the future of our country, a tan- about your family shouldn’t be a Writing in the Mail on Sunday, continuation of services at the two gible stake,” she said. crime in politics. And if you talk Nigel Farage said Leadsom had the other London hospital performing Tim Loughton, Leadsom’s about your family it shouldn’t be “guts” to take on Brussels. But he paediatric congenital heart opera- campaign manager, said it was that you are juxtaposing it against acknowledge her success could tions — Great Ormond Street and “the establishment trying to get somebody else.” take away support from his own Evelina London, part of Guy’s and Andrea” and that she should not Loughton denied Leadsom’s party. St Thomas’ NHS trust. be deterred from making her fam- support base among MPs was the “Like most of the rest of the The new rules require hospitals ily part of her appeal as a candi- traditional party attempting to country, I hardly knew anything to have three congenital cardiac date. undo some of the more socially of Andrea Leadsom before she surgeons in place now and at least “That’s what fi res her up,” he liberal reforms of Cameron’s lead- signed up for Leave,” Farage said. four by 2021 to ensure 24-hour told the BBC1’s the Andrew Marr ership. “The fi rst time I observed her was cover. Each of these surgeons show. “People are fi red up and “There’s nothing traditional at a debate way back in March. should perform a minimum of 125 inspired by diff erent things. I’m about Andrea. This is not about There were fl ashes of a keen mind such operations an year. godfather to Andrea’s eldest son, trying to take back control of and an honest and pragmatic be- NHS England was unable to ex- her children are the things that the Conservative party,” he said. lief in Brexit.” plain where the Brompton, which fi re her up. What she is saying she “This is a fresh candidate in And- In contrast, he said the home performs more than 500 such op- Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march through central London is passionate about her kids. Since rea Leadsom, who has much more secretary was “very cold”, adding: erations a year and is understood yesterday during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the US. Police when has it been a crime to be experience outside of politics than “I’ve never met anyone, no matter to have four paediatric cardiac arrested scores of people in demonstrations overnight Saturday to Sunday in several US proud about your children?” other candidates. She is a fresh how long or how closely they have surgeons, was failing to meet these cities, as racial tensions simmer over the killing of black men by police. Tennis star Andy Murray, face, who made a virtue out of ab- worked with her, who can claim to standards. Loughton said, told reporters ear- solutely passionately believing in know her, or what makes her tick.” ‘Defrauded’ divorcee Singer sues police, BBC over raid footage seeks bigger payout AFP lowed. That means that, save in London exceptional circumstances, people should never be named unless and London Evening Standard the marriage broke down and they to fi nd out if there has been fraud- until they are charged. London fi nalised the divorce in 2005. ulent non-disclosure of assets that eteran pop star Cliff Rich- “As everybody has accepted, At that time Norman was earn- could add up to some £300,000, ard yesterday confi rmed there were no such ‘exceptional ing six-fi gure sums, having worked given that the lump sum paid to Vhe will sue the BBC and the circumstances’ in my case.” divorcee is demanding a for City fi rms including Barclays, her was just £6,000. police after a raid on his home was After the BBC got wind of the bigger payout from her Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, but “The application by the wife broadcast live on TV. investigation, South Yorkshire Po- Abanker ex-husband after his wife, of Epsom, Surrey, was out is to set aside the capital element Richard, 75, was told last month lice cut a deal with the broadcaster claiming she was duped into ac- of work and on state benefi ts. (of the divorce settlement) on the that he would face no charges over in a bid to delay them breaking the cepting just £6,000 out of his Norman has accused her of be- basis of material non-disclosure allegations sexual abuse dating story. £1mn family fortune. ing work-shy and in search of an or fraud. back decades, following an inves- The BBC was tipped off about Tina Li Norman, 52, has accused “indefi nite meal ticket”, but Tina “The assertion that the wife tigation that took two years, due to the raid on Richard’s home and fi nancier Robert Ellis Norman, has asked for their divorce settle- makes is that there are now known lack of evidence. was outside in advance to fi lm de- 48, of “dishonestly” hiding assets ment to be reopened as she seeks to her four or fi ve capital elements The South Yorkshire Police tectives sweeping in, broadcasting worth £300,000 when they di- more of a payout. of the husband’s fi nances that force was severely criticised by the search live from a helicopter. vorced in 2005. She got to keep her Her barrister, Jeff rey Littman, were materially not known to her lawmakers over its handling of the The BBC has said it is “very sor- Surrey home and received £1,000 a said the banker hid a third of the at the time of the making of the case after it struck a deal with the ry” for causing the singer distress month in maintenance from Nor- family fortune and Tina wrongly consent order.” BBC to broadcast the police raid on but stood by its decision to report man until last year, but accepted a believed their joint property and The judge added: “There has Richard’s home. the investigation. lump sum payout of £6,000 under capital was only worth about been an earlier fi nding that the The Mail on Sunday newspaper South Yorkshire Police also the terms of the split. £700,000. Norman, who lives husband indeed failed to disclose said Richard’s case could be worth apologised to the star. Tina Norman told the Court in riverside Vauxhall Walk, had investments, was earning when he more than £1mn. Richard, who burst onto the pop of Appeal she wanted “fi nancial been “dishonest” and “misled the said he wasn’t and was fi t to work “My life was eff ectively turned scene in the late 1950s, is the third independence”, but says she was court” at earlier hearings, he said. when he said his mental state pre- upside down and my reputation, biggest-selling artiste in British “defrauded” by her ex-husband as In his ruling, Lord Justice Mc- vented him. worldwide, was unnecessar- singles chart history, behind The she did not know the true extent of Farlane opened the way for a “The husband, in county court, ily damaged. I would not want the Beatles and Presley. his wealth. reevaluation of the divorce set- has deliberately misled the court. same to happen to others whether There has been a wave of ac- The couple were college sweet- tlement, saying: “Given the level The wife simply hasn’t had her day in the public eye or not,” Richard cusations of historical sex abuse hearts since studying together at of dishonesty that has been found in court on these matters, when said in a statement. against prominent fi gures in Brit- Southampton University in the against Norman on previous occa- there was a strong argument for “I fi rmly believe that privacy ain since 2012, when the late BBC Eighties and married in 1993. sions, it does seem to me that the these matters to be more fully in- should be respected and that po- presenter Jimmy Savile was re- However, after less than a decade wife should have her day in court vestigated.” Cliff Richard: reputation damaged lice guidelines are there to be fol- vealed to be a serial paedophile. Gulf Times 14 Monday, July 11, 2016 EUROPE

Migrant killed in Italy attack is mourned

AFP steal a car, and only assaulted Nnamdi after Rome the latter hit him fi rst with a road sign. He also defended his use of the term “mon- key” as not racist but simply an expression undreds of mourners yesterday at- commonly used at the football stadium. The tended the funeral of a Nigerian deadly incident was met with outrage but also Hmigrant who was killed by a right- questions on how to tackle xenophobia in a wing football fan in a racist attack which country where prominent right-wing politi- has sparked much soul-searching in Italy. cians have also been known to use the term. “He came to live in peace, he found death”, In perhaps the most high-profi le case, read one of the many messages left with fl ow- Cecile Kyenge, a DR Congo-born Italian ers for Emmanuele Chidi Nnamdi, whose MEP, was minister for integration in July widow, dressed all in white, sat near his rose- 2013 when a senator from Italy’s anti-im- topped coffi n in the cathedral of Fermo. migration Northern League party publicly Nnamdi, 36, died in hospital after he was compared her to an orangutan. punched by farmer Amedeo Mancini dur- Despite widespread outrage over the ing a fi ght in the town on Tuesday which slur, the Italian senate blocked legal ac- broke out after Mancini called Nnamdi’s tion against the politician. Nnamdi’s fu- wife Chinyere an “African monkey”. Man- neral was attended by parliamentary rela- cini, 39, who was arrested, admitted to po- tions minister Maria Elena Boschi and the lice that he had insulted the woman, but president of the lower house of parliament, said he believed the pair had been about to Laura Boldrini.

GPS tracker scam busted Relatives hold a banner bearing the portraits of the victims during a memorial ceremony yesterday in Ankara commemorating the seven-month anniversary of the October 10, 2015 Ankara bombings. One hundred and three people were killed and more than 500 wounded on October 10, 2015, AFP police said in a statement. “The scam has evolved in twin suicide bombings targeting a pro-Kurdish peace rally in Ankara. Madrid The arrested were Span- since the fi rst case was de- ish, Portuguese and Co- tected in Brazil in 2013, ex- lombian nationals. tending to Europe and Tuni- panish police said The group allegedly sold sia under diff erent names.” yesterday they had GPS trackers to investors. Police searched seven Sbroken up a crime The investors were properties in Madrid and group suspected of cheat- awarded points depend- the western city of Merida ing over 8,000 people in ing on the amount they as part of the operation, over 70 countries of around invested which they could seizing documents related 25mn euros ($27mn). exchange for objects such to “international pyramid Kurd militants hit Twenty-one people were as cars and luxury houses. scheme” as well as jewel- arrested in Spain over the “A large part of the mon- lery, mobile telephones and scam which involved the ey invested by the group over 60,000 euros in cash, sale of GPS trackers. was destined to promote the statement said. Another four suspected the scam, carrying out sev- The documents revealed members of the group were eral events like free trips, the group had over 50 bank arrested in Brazil, France concerts and meetings in accounts in several tax havens and Portugal as part of the major hotels where they and may have had over 8,000 southeast Turkey operation carried out with convinced those in attend- investors in over 70 nations, European Union law en- ance to invest their money,” earning around 25mn euros in Reuters Since then, thousands of PKK iltepe, near the Syrian border, police overnight, killing one soldier and a forcement agency Europol, police said in a statement. profi t, it added. Diyarbakir fi ghters, security force members and clashed with PKK fi ghters, killing two member of the state-sponsored vil- civilians have died in fi ghting across militants and capturing two more lage guard militia, the army said. the region. alive, other security sources said. It said 10 soldiers and fi ve village Russia slams Nato ‘demonisation’ wo Kurdish militant bomb In the latest violence, a roadside Six police offi cers were wounded guards were wounded. attacks ripped through a bomb planted by PKK guerrillas tore in the fi ghting. Also along the border with Syria, ussia has accused Nato of “demoni- stead accusing Nato of demonising the coun- Tmilitary outpost and an army through a military vehicle and killed The attacks came after reports PKK guerrillas staged a car bomb sation” after the military alliance try in a bid to detract from its own destructive vehicle yesterday, killing seven four soldiers on the road between that senior PKK commander Feh- attack around midday on Saturday Rpledged to up the number of troops role in global confl ict, according to a Foreign members of the armed forces, the Semdinli and Aktutun in Hakkari man Huseyin was killed on Friday in targeting a military installation in on its eastern fl ank in the face of what Mos- Ministry statement released yesterday. military said, as a confl ict which province, along the border with a bomb attack on a car in which he Mardin province, killing two sol- cow claims is a “non-existent” threat. “The alliance is concentrating its eff orts fl ared a year ago continued to rage in Iraq, an army statement said. was travelling in northeast Syria. diers and a civilian and wounding At a summit on Friday, Nato approved the on containing a non-existent threat from southeast Turkey. Another soldier wounded in the The report by Turkey’s state-run dozens, security sources said. rotational deployment of four battalions the east,” the statement said. It was the third such attack in the attack later died, security sources Anadolu Agency has not been con- More than 40,000 people have from next year to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Nato ambassadors are scheduled to last 24 hours in the mainly Kurdish said, adding army border units were fi rmed. been killed in the confl ict since the and Poland, where unease has grown in the meet their Russian counterpart Alexander region, where a two-year-old cease- put on alert and an air-backed op- Elsewhere in southeast Turkey, PKK, designated a terrorist group by face of the easternmost member states’ in- Grushko in Brussels on Wednesday to in- fi re between the Kurdistan Workers eration was launched to fi nd those PKK militants carried out a car Turkey, the United States and Euro- creasingly powerful neighbour. form Moscow about the decisions taken at Party (PKK) militant group and the responsible. bomb attack on a military outpost pean Union, began its insurgency in But Russia has denied posing any threat, in- the Warsaw summit. state collapsed last July. Further west in the town of Kiz- in the Ercis district of Van province 1984.

AfD must root out extremism: leader Guns and roses

AFP who said Holocaust denial was a le- a keen eye on the AfD and individuals Berlin gitimate expression of opinion. from this party,” Thomas Strobl, con- “It is an existential question servative interior minister of Baden- whether we succeed in credibly dis- Wuerttemberg, told the Frankfurter leader of the anti-immigrant tancing ourselves from extremism Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Alternative for Germany (AfD) and anti-Semitism,” Meuthen told Regional intelligence agencies were Ayesterday warned that his Tagesspiegel am Sonntag.“If we suc- already watching AfD lawmakers ac- party risked disintegrating if it failed ceed, we can go over 20% (of votes). If tive in other radical groups, the news- to root out extremism as mainstream we don’t, we will go under.” paper reported. politicians called for intelligence The right-wing AfD has seats in “This has been established in some services to monitor some of its mem- eight of Germany’s 16 assemblies. individual cases. There is a link to the bers. Many commentators expect it to right-wing and Islamophobic scene,” The AfD was founded in 2013 to enter parliament in the 2017 federal Burkhard Koerner, head of Bavaria’s oppose European bailouts but gained election. intelligence agency told the paper. support in the past year as more than Denial of the Nazi Holocaust, in Meuthen has clashed with the oth- 1mn refugees arrived in Germany. which 6mn Jews were killed, is a er AfD co-leader Frauke Petry over It has recently suff ered in the polls crime in Germany. the Gedeon row as Petry backed those due to a power struggle among its The row has hit AfD ratings with an who had let him stay. leaders and a public row over anti- Emnid poll yesterday showing sup- Gedeon quit last week. Semitism. port slipping one point to 10%, its Meuthen said Petry and he “don’t AfD co-leader Joerg Meuthen left lowest level since January. have to love each other but we must the party’s parliamentary group in the It also has prompted calls for the work together pragmatically”. The Revellers attend the Nashestvie open-air festival of Russian rock music that also exhibits military transport and state Baden-Wuerttemberg last week domestic intelligence agency to mon- two issued a joint statement at the equipment in Tver, Russia. after he failed to win support to ex- itor radical members of the AfD. weekend saying they wanted to work pel AfD lawmaker Wolfgang Gedeon, “The intelligence agency should keep together in future. 80 years on, Spain struggles to heal civil war wounds

By Patrick Rahir, AFP the army in the Spanish protec- the towns under bombardment”, Priests and nuns were also tar- fray, arming the Republicans. But militarily inferior and to its dead, but those who died Madrid torate of Morocco. American writer Susan Sontag, geted for their perceived close- The civil war had evolved into a weakened by divisions, the Re- on the opposite side were largely He promptly gained the sup- who also wrote about photogra- ness to upper classes, and more clash between fascism and com- public slowly lost ground and forgotten and dumped in mass port of German and Italian dic- phy, said in The New Yorker. than 6,500 were killed, most at munism. the Barcelona-based govern- graves. ighty years ago, civil war tators Adolf Hitler and Benito On the ground, there was may- the hands of Republicans. “Our foes are the Reds, the ment eventually went into exile When Spain transitioned to broke out in Spain, a pain- Mussolini, whose planes trans- hem. “We must create an atmos- Madrid asked its neighbours Bolsheviks of the world,” sang in March 1939 along with some democracy after his death, au- Eful, bloody wound that has ported troops onto the mainland phere of terror...by eliminating for help, in vain. the young pilots of the Condor 400,000 Spaniards. thorities opted for a “pact of for- yet to heal. in what is known as the world’s all those who don’t think like us Britain and France refused, Legion sent by Hitler. Five months later, World War II getting” to put the past and its A dark prelude to World War II, fi rst major airlift. without any misgivings or hesi- scared of being dragged into an- Soviet dictator Joseph Sta- erupted. bloody divisions behind. the confl ict unleashed passions The planes would go on to tation,” rebel general Gonzalo other world war. lin jumped on the occasion to Back in Spain, Franco declared Then in 2007 as more and around the world for close to regularly bomb cities around the Queipo de Llano called in a radio They opted instead for a “pact strengthen his infl uence, sending victory on April 1, 1939 and ruled more people clamoured for the three years and led to a decades- country, and destroy the town of address in July 1936. of non-intervention” to which advisers and organising Interna- Spain until his death in 1975. war and its aftermath to be ad- long dictatorship. Guernica in the Basque Country, As the rebels progressed, left- Italy and Germany also signed up, tional Brigades. In his book “The Spanish Hol- dressed, Spain passed a law to It all started on July 18, 1936, made famous by Picasso’s haunt- wing lawmakers, unionists, So- even as they continued to openly Some 50,000 volunteered ocaust”, historian Paul Preston help relatives willing to exhume when army generals staged a coup ing painting. cialist activists, supporters or help the nationalist rebels. from all over the world. calculates that 20,000 Repub- and recover the remains of loved against a fl edgling republic that For the fi rst time, civilians their families were executed in The confl ict moved people the “They saw fascism as an inter- lican supporters were executed ones. had been established fi ve years were direct targets. their thousands. world over. national threat, and the Brigades after the war. But Prime Minister Mariano prior in a restive, poor country. The fi ghting and violence were On the Republican side, armed With the inaction of Western appeared to off er the best way of He estimates that 200,000 Rajoy has boasted of not having The coup failed but divided the reported around the world. gangs chased the wealthy and democracies, intellectuals took fi ghting it”, writes historian An- people died in combat during the spent one euro to put it into ef- country between those who sup- Thanks to new portable camer- those suspected of being on the the side of the Republic, from tony Beevor. They helped the Re- confl ict, and another 200,000 fect. ported the Republic and the “na- as the war was “the fi rst to be wit- side of the rebels were executed. novelist John Steinbeck to India’s public score rare victories, hold- were murdered or executed — His conservative party, found- tionalist” rebels. nessed (...) by a corps of profes- Some were taken away at night Nobel Literature laureate Rab- ing onto Madrid in a winter 1936 150,000 of these at the hands of ed by Franco’s former ministers, Among these was General sional photographers at the lines for a “walk”, a car ride from which indranath Tagore. Soon enough, battle or defeating Italian bri- nationalists. doesn’t want to “stir the ashes of Francisco Franco, in command of of military engagement and in no one ever returned. the Soviet Union entered the gades sent by Mussolini in 1937. Franco’s regime paid tribute the past”. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 15 EUROPE Merkel expects Remembered ... new premier to launch formal Brexit talks

Reuters gration from the rest of the EU, espe- Berlin cially the much poorer member states of ex-communist eastern Europe. The ‘Leave’ campaign also homed ermany expects Britain to trig- in on voters’ concerns about Europe’s ger article 50 of the European migrant crisis, which has seen more GUnion’s Lisbon treaty to begin than one million people, mostly Mus- the formal process of leaving the bloc lims fl eeing confl icts in the Middle once it has picked a new prime min- East, move to the EU, especially Ger- ister, Chancellor Angela Merkel said many, over the past year. yesterday. Asked if she felt she bore any re- Merkel also told German broadcaster sponsibility for the Brexit vote due to ZDF in an interview that Britain would her open-door migrant policy, Merkel not be allowed to “cherry pick” what it told ZDF that Europe had a responsi- wants to keep from its EU membership bility to protect migrants fl eeing war. Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich and CEO and national director of Anti-Defamation League Jonathan while jettisoning aspects of the rela- She also defended her decision to Greenblatt (left) attend a ceremony yesterday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the pogrom of Jews in the tionship that it does not like. Merkel ... time to move on work closely with Turkish President village of Jedwabne in northeastern Poland. “The decision (of Britons to leave Tayyip Erdogan in seeking to stem the the EU) has been taken ... and the next Theresa May and junior energy min- fl ow of migrants via Turkey into the step is — and Britain will do this only ister Andrea Leadsom, are competing EU. when they have a new prime minister to replace Cameron. The new prime Under a controversial deal, Tur- — to invoke Article 50,” said Merkel, minister is expected to be chosen on key has agreed to take back migrants Europe’s most powerful leader who September 9. heading to Europe from its shores in will play a key role in shaping Lon- May, the current favourite, has return for accelerated EU membership don’s future relationship with the EU. made clear she will not rush to invoke talks and an end to a visa requirement MPs say German troops must “I expect that to happen. I deal with article 50 as the tight timeframe it en- for its citizens visiting the EU. reality and I fi rmly expect that appli- visages could weaken London’s bar- “I cannot say I think everything cation will be made,” Merkel added gaining hand. that is happening domestically in when asked if she thought there was a But British and EU fi rms and inves- Turkey is right...but we have a mutual return if Turkey blocks visit chance that Brexit would not happen. tors want clarity as soon as possible on interest (in tackling the migrant cri- British voters backed Brexit in a future trade ties. sis),” she said. June 23 referendum. “We have spoken to Britain and Commenting on the parlous eco- Reuters gered by the broadcast of a satirical continue to work on this, the solution Prime Minister David Cameron has made clear there will be no nego- nomic state of some euro zone mem- Berlin song about him on German televi- is not yet there,” she told broadcaster announced his intention to step down tiations with Britain until they have ber countries in southern Europe, sion and in April launched legal action ZDF in an interview. and has said it will be for his successor made their application, and there will Merkel repeated her call for structural against the comedian who wrote it. Merkel met Turkish President Tayy- to invoke article 50 which will launch be no cherry picking,” said Merkel. reforms along with budget discipline, everal German lawmakers said The Armenian resolution last ip Erdogan on the sidelines of a Nato two years of divorce negotiations. Many British voters backed Brexit adding that not enough had been done yesterday the country’s soldiers month, which prompted Ankara to re- summit in Warsaw on Saturday. Two women, interior minister due to fears over uncontrolled immi- to cut youth unemployment in the EU. Sworking at Turkey’s Incirlik air- call its ambassador, compounded the She said the atmosphere was con- base should be brought home if Ankara rift. structive but the diff erences remained. continued to prevent parliamentarians A leader of Germany’s opposition Andreas Scheuer, General Secre- from visiting the station. Greens, Cem Ozdemir, who is of ethnic tary of the Bavarian Christian Social Turkey, angered by a resolution Turkish origin, told ARD television the Union (CSU) who are part of Merkel’s passed by the German parliament last situation was unacceptable. conservative bloc in parliament, said Seized by the Nazis, Degas drawing is month that branded the 1915 massa- “As lawmakers who send soldiers to lawmakers had to be allowed to visit cre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a places, we must know where they are, soldiers. genocide, has denied German lawmak- how they are and be able to talk to the “As a result of his behaviour, Turkish auctioned off for whopping $511,000 ers access to the base. soldiers. If that is not possible in Tur- President Erdogan is risking the with- Chancellor Angela Merkel said the key then the soldiers must come back drawal of the German army,” he told parliamentarians must be allowed to to Germany,” he said. the Tagesspiegel daily in comments to AFP An Italian collector purchased the It was found in 1951 in a closet of the visit the 250 soldiers at the base who Lawmakers approve military spend- be published today, according to ex- Paris 1898 drawing, titled “Trois Danseuses former German embassy in Paris, and are taking part in Nato operations ing and investment in infrastructure at tracts sent in advance. en Buste” by telephone, according given to the Louvre Museum before it against Islamic State militants in Iraq the base. Turkey accepts that many Christian to the Osenat auction house in Fon- was identifi ed as the property of the but she stopped short of threatening to Asked if she would consider with- Armenians living in the Ottoman Em- drawing by Edgar Degas that tainebleau near Paris. Dreyfus family. withdraw the soldiers. drawing troops from Incirlik if no pire were killed in clashes with Otto- was seized by Nazi Germany in The work had been valued at be- “We received a gift from heaven Relations between Germany and agreement were reached, Merkel said man forces during World War One but it A1940 and returned to its right- tween 350,000 and 450,000 euros. when we learned that they found the Turkey, crucial partners in the eff ort to she was focusing on resolving the mat- denies that up to 1.5mn were killed and ful owner in May fetched 462,500 The drawing was confi scated in Degas drawing,” Dreyfus’s daughter stem mass migration to Europe, have ter by talking. that the killings constitute a genocide. euros ($511,000) at auction yesterday, August 1940 from the Paris home of Viviane told AFP. “It’s as if my father been strained in recent months. “A way must be found for the law- It also says many Muslim Turks died organisers said. Maurice Dreyfus, a doctor. gave us a gift from beyond the grave.” President Tayyip Erdogan was an- makers to visit the soldiers. We must in the clashes. Serbia under migrant pressure as Hungary govt cracks down

By Katarina Subasic, AFP makeshift camp at the Kelebija bor- Humanitarian organisations led Horgos, Serbia der crossing is home to several hun- by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) dred more migrants, while some 300 deliver aid to migrants, but sanitation have taken shelter in a state-run re- conditions in the Horgos camp are xhausted but hopeful, hun- ception centre in the nearby town of extremely poor: there are few toilets dreds of migrants defy sum- Subotica, double its capacity of 150. and no bathrooms in the camp. Emer heat in a makeshift camp The numbers arriving in Serbia The only water tap is mobbed by on the Serbia-Hungary border, de- are well down from the 4,000 to people trying to wash and do laun- termined to reach the EU member 5,000 a day seen in 2015 and early dry. nation despite tough new measures 2016, after the so-called “Balkan Some of those in the camp have aimed at stopping them. route” to wealthy northern Europe already tried to sneak across the A few metres from the metal fence was eff ectively shut down to mi- border — unsuccessfully. topped with barbed wire which grants in March. “I tried to enter Hungary ille- marks the border, dozens of tents, But Serbian authorities voiced gally, there were 15 of us in a group, many cobbled together from blan- alarm at the number of people still a smuggler cut the fence, we walked kets and branches, off er the only arriving in their country, saying that for about 30 minutes and than police A man dressed as a ‘Toro de Fuego’ (bull of fire) chases people during the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. shelter to some 600 migrants and 102,000 migrants had been regis- caught us and sent back to Serbia,” a refugees from the Middle East, Asia tered since the start of the year — 23-year-old Afghan told AFP, ask- and Africa. more than 500 a day. ing not to be named due to fear for They wait near the Horgos-Rosz- “That means that Western Bal- his family’s safety back in Kabul. ke border post in hope of being let kans route still exists,” Serbia’s La- According to Hungarian Hel- into Hungary’s transit zone to seek bour Minister Aleksandar Vulin said sinki Committee (HHC), more than Two gored in Spain bull-run asylum, but that has become even on Friday, adding that “Serbia will 17,000 irregular migrants have been more diffi cult since Budapest tight- not allow to be the space where mi- apprehended by Hungarian authori- ened its rules for asylum-seekers grants will crowd.” ties since the beginning of the year. Reuters ticipating in a village event were killed Three others suff ered trauma-related and decided to return all those The UN has warned that the lat- Some migrants are fi nding that Pampalona in two of the many summer festivals in injuries. caught within 8km of the border. est measures taken by Hungary — even after shelling out huge sums to Spain. Authorities said on Sunday that a “As a result of new legislative whose right-wing Prime Minister people smugglers, their dreams of San Fermin is the most famous of the 65-year-old man had died in a bull-run measures in Hungary, which took Viktor Orban has taken a tough line reaching the EU to claim asylum are wo people were gored yesterday on festivals, attracting thousands of revel- the previous night in the small town of eff ect on 5 July, the number of refu- on Europe’s migrant crisis — “will hitting a wall. the fourth day of the San Fermin lers who visit from around the world to Fuentesauco close to the university city gees and migrants on the Serbian further aggravate the situation”. In Turkey “I paid 5,000 euros Tfestival in northern Spain, where witness the bull runs spread over eight of Salamanca. side of the border has doubled over The UN said a total of only 30 ($5,500) to go to Germany, but only bulls chase red-scarved runners through days along an 825m route through Pam- The man was pronounced dead in the last few days to above 1,300, the asylum-seekers have been allowed made it to Bulgaria. There I paid the streets of Pamplona. plona’s old town. hospital after the bull’s horn pierced his majority of them women and chil- to enter Hungary each day, while 3,000 euros more to go to Austria, but A man also died after being injured in a The two men were gored in the neck chest three times when it caught him in a dren,” the UN team in Serbia said in “hundreds more have had to wait for only arrived to Serbia. Now I don’t local bull-run the night before, the same and chest respectively, the festival’s or- blind alley, a local newspaper, La Opinion a statement. weeks out in the open in often des- have money any more,” 22-year-old day as a bullfi ghter and another man par- ganisers said on their Twitter account. de Zamora, said. Some 40km to the west, another perate and inhumane conditions”. Iranian Husein Apposi said. Gulf Times 16 Monday, July 11, 2016 INDIA Tamil Nadu She was a princess, says father of car crash victim Roundup IANS lost the battle for life on Satur- Radhika was brought in an Rajesh, who was driving the friends, whose parents are law- By Umaima Shafiq Hyderabad day night after being on ventila- ambulance to the hospital to Santro car, died on the spot. yers. tor for nine days. see her daughter for the last Doctors said Ramya had Ramya’s father Venkat Rao The family, which also lost time. She fell unconscious become brain dead and was inconsolable as younger amily and friends yester- another member in the acci- after kissing her on the fore- her stem cell reflexes had daughter Nishita in his lap was Chocolates day bid a tearful adieu to dent, is seeking exemplary pun- head. stopped. yet to understand the gravity of Fa 10-year-old Hyderabad ishment to the off enders. The accident occurred on Shravil, 20, who was at the the tragedy. laced with girl, who died nine days after Ramya’s uncle Rajesh,35, July 1 in Banjara Hills area wheels of the i10, escaped un- “She was a princess. I have drugs sold a tragic accident caused by a a software engineer, died on when Ramya was returning hurt while fi ve friends accom- lost my princess. Whatever may drunk youngster driving a car the spot while her mother, home with her family mem- panying him sustained minor be the dress she wears, it used to to children rashly. grandfather and another un- bers in their car. injuries. They were all allegedly look as if it was meant for her,” The death of Ramya, who cle sustained grievous inju- A car coming from the op- drunk and were returning after he said. Police have unearthed a drug- was returning home along ries. posite direction being driven watching a fi lm. Ramya’s family is seek- pedalling racket in Chennai, with family members after her Ramya’s grandfather Mad- by an engineering student Shravil was arrested and ing stringent punishment for where marijuana-coated sweets first day at school when the husudhana Chary is battling under the influence of alcohol charged with culpable homi- Shravil and his friends who were and chocolates were being sold accident occurred, left every- for life while her mother Ra- lost control and rammed into cide not amounting to murder. accompanying him. outside many schools. body in tears. dhikha remained in serious the divider, was flung into the According to police, he did not “They are not students. They The matter came to light when a A large number of people at- condition with multiple frac- air and fell on to the car car- even have a driving licence and are killers. They don’t even have teenage boy from a government tended the burial of Ramya, who tures. rying Ramya and her family. was driving the car of one of his remorse,” said Venkat Rao. Ramya: tragedy school in Tondiarpet fainted after eating such a sweet. His three classmates also showed similar symptoms and were admitted to the Institute of Child Health Penance after controversy in Egmore. Forensic reports confirmed the presence of refined tobacco or cannabis in the sweet. Sharp dip in Shopkeeper Suresh Mohite was arrested along with many others, as police raided several roadside shops, canteens and eateries in Korukkupet, Washermanpet, Broadway, Sowcarpet, Perambur, Ashok illegal assets Nagar and Purasawalkam high road. The police confiscated 187kg of sweets from 81 shops and issued a state-wide alert. Child rights activists and politicians demanded strict by Indians action against the off enders. Investigations are underway. ED summons Chidambaram’s abroad: Jaitley son over scam

Former finance minister P IANS received through International a later stage and this made the Chidambaram’s son Karti Ahmedabad Consortium of Journalists and regular taxpayer feel cheated,” has been summoned by the Panama Papers are being dealt Jaitley said. Enforcement Directorate (ED) with strictly. These three cases The minister said the gov- over an alleged multi-million ederal Finance Minister virtually landed in our lap. Then, ernment was working out an rupee illegal transaction under Arun Jaitley yesterday said through the compliance win- ideal tax regime through vari- the Prevention of Money Fthere was a sharp fall in il- dow for black money holders, we ous experiments based on dig- Laundering Act. legal holdings of Indians abroad got Rs4,500 crore at the rate of ital mode to ensure least diffi- The case dates to 2011, when two owing to stringent measures and 60%,” Jaitley claimed. culty to the taxpayer. “Today, consultancy firms - Advantage tax reforms taken by the govern- “There are reports of a sizea- 94% IT returns are filed digit- and Chess Global - where Karti ment. ble dip in Indian holdings abroad ally. Efforts are on to allow as- was a director, bought 150,000 “Today there is panic among in the last two years,” the minis- sessees to reply to queries by shares at throwaway prices from people who hold illegal assets ter said, adding that steps were e-mail,” he said. Congress leader G K Vasan’s firm. abroad. The cumulative eff orts being taken to ensure availability Jaitley said the government’s Karti reportedly gained Rs2.6mn of last 65 years would not be even of real time information about attempt was to ease taxation that he later used in the Aircel- a minuscule percentage of what international money transac- process and widen tax base to Maxis deal that is part of the 2G the government has done in two tions and a mechanism was be- generate maximum income to telecom spectrum allocation years,” Jaitley said. ing worked to make the creation implement welfare schemes. scam. He was responding to ques- of black money inside the coun- “With all the ease, the assessee However Karti insisted on his tions from the audience at a try virtually impossible. must understand he is paying innocence, while Chidambaram seminar here on Income Dis- “G-20 countries, which con- tax for the country’s good,” he alleged ‘malicious onslaught’ closure Scheme, 2016, about trol 85% of world economy, are added. against his family. He rubbished Prime Minister Narendra working on this on the PM’s “In developed countries which media reports of approving the Modi’s poll promise to curb appeal a year-and-a-half ago provide quality life, tax avoid- deal during his government’s black money, given that noth- at a meeting in Brisbane. We ance and evasion are considered tenure in 2006. ing had happened to illegal have signed an agreement with the same and we are going to take assets outside the country in the US as the first country to a cue from them,” Jaitley said. 65 years. do so for real time exchange of Gujarat Chief Minister 3D printers help The fi nance minister said the information on illegal transac- Anandiben Patel was happy that patients with fi rst decision of Modi on as- tions. Illegal Indian asset hold- the fi rst such seminar was being suming the prime minister’s of- ers abroad are in panic,” said held in her state. damaged organs fi ce and also of his cabinet was Jaitley. “Gujaratis are global traders. to set up a Special Investigation He said the government was The state’s share in income tax In a medical development, three- Team on black money according not being vindictive nor want- in last fi scal year was Rs34,865 dimensional (3D) printing service to Supreme Court’s directives, ed to scare people but to give crore with 30 lakh tax payers and providers are making replicas which was delayed by the pre- them the opportunity to come 1.57 crore PAN card holders,” she of diseased organs to be used vious Congress government for clean. said. by patients as a camouflage in three years. “However, the government Federal Revenue Secretary Chennai and other cities. The fi rst action against black can’t let the honest taxpayer to Hasmukh Adhia explained the A Times of India report money holders were the 600 odd have less privilege than to the disclosure scheme. The presi- said earlier 3D printers Aam Aadmi Party leader H S Phoolka washes utensils as part of sewa - voluntary service - at the cases of HSBC Bank. not-so-honest one who dis- dent of the Institute of Char- manufactured organ models Golden Temple in Amritsar yesterday. The move came after the AAP courted controversy when “Assessments of Rs8,000 closes his income at a later stage. tered Accountants, a partner of fractured human parts that the cover page of its ‘Youth Manifesto’ carried a picture of the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, Harmandar crore were completed in those In an earlier version of the dis- in awareness campaign for the were used by surgeons to Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, along with the party’s election symbol of a matters while prosecution was closure scheme in 1977, the gov- scheme, M Devraj Reddy, and guide them during the actual broom. fi led in a couple of hundred cas- ernment had allowed less tax for Ficci vice president Pankaj Patel operations. The same concept es. After this, the information those who declared income at were present. is now being used to model damaged eyes, ears, nose and other external organs. The printers use bio ink, a mixture of cells and hydrogel that is printed onto tissue-like architectures that are then grown Govt trying to curtail freedom in bio-reactors. Eff orts are taken to match the exact skin colour and shape of the damaged part before final fitting or grafting. to propagate religion: IUML Scientists feel that these 3D organs will help alleviate the shortage of custom-made organs. By Ashraf Padanna propagation of one’s religion were investigating the role of a know that offi cials from central Thiruvananthapuram impossible. Everybody who Kochi-based group in indoc- agencies are also here. We will believes in religious freedom trinating the young men and now register more cases in the Two die trying should react to this,” IUML women, all in their early 20s. coming days,” he said. to escape he Indian Union Muslim general secretary E T Mohamed They are also looking into Meanwhile, former home from robber League (IUML), an ally of Basheer, a lawmaker and former the possibility of them join- minister and Congress leader Tthe opposition Congress minister, said. ing a spiritual centre in Sri Ramesh Chennithala said yes- Party, yesterday alleged there He also played a video clip- Lanka where they lead a terday all missing people can- A woman and a man died while was an aggressive move to cur- ping in which Naik was seen spartan life. not be linked to the IS. trying to escape from thieves at tail freedom to propagate one’s describing the IS as anti-Islam- The police are yet to confi rm “Just because they are miss- Neelankarai in Chennai last week. religion enshrined in the Con- ic and those who kill innocent the missing people’s wherea- ing does not mean they all have Nadhini, a 24-year-old school stitution. people as anti-Muslim. bouts or make any public state- joined the IS,” he said. teacher, and Gayathri, a college The party said the “propa- “None will kill innocent peo- ment except that they could not According to reports, most student, were returning on their ganda” that IS terrorist recruits ple and those who do it cannot confi rm any terrorist links to of the missing appeared to have scooter after withdrawing cash from India were infl uenced by be Muslims,” Naik says in a re- the disappearance. had close links with 35-year- from an ATM counter when a leading preacher Dr Zakir Naik corded video. However, the relatives sus- old Abdul Rasheed, an engineer biker snatched Gayathri’s bag. was part of this move by Prime Basheer also distribut- pect they are already in an IS by profession who has been Nadhini chased him, but the biker Minister Narendra Modi’s ed copies of the Malayalam territory as stated in the text missing since May. who was riding parallel gave her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). translation of Naik’s book and voice messages which have Another person reported a hard push. Nadhini lost balance, There were reports that Stop Terrorism. a political tone rather than spir- missing is a medical doctor, Ijaz hit a pavement and knocked Naik’s speeches infl uenced Naik’s name was linked to the itual. Ahamed, who got his medical down Shekar, a pedestrian, some of the Bangladeshi mili- alleged recruitment of 17 peo- The missing people are most- degree from China and till re- returning from his night walk. tants who killed 22 people, ple, including fi ve women and ly from Kasargode in northern cently worked in a hospital near Both Nadhini and Shekar died mostly foreigners, at an upscale two children, from Kerala, by Kerala. Kozhikode. on the spot, while Gayathri restaurant early this month. the IS. Their parents received Kasargode police chief Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi- sustained hip fractures. The Bangladesh government messages from them last week Thomson Jose said they have jayan has said that reports on The incident sparked outrage also banned Naik’s Peace TV saying they were with the IS registered two cases. the missing people, including Rightwing activists stage a demonstration against Islamic preacher until police intervened. They channel yesterday. where “Islamic Shariah is im- “What we are told is there are women, was a serious matter Zakir Naik in Mumbai. Naik is under the scanner following revelations vowed to track the biker who was “This is part of the (Indian) plemented completely.” 17 people missing from Kasar- and that the police were doing that two of the five young militants who massacred 22 people at a wearing a helmet. government’s move to make Meanwhile, police said they gode. We have also come to their job. popular cafe in Dhaka drew their inspiration from his speeches. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 17 INDIA India, Tanzania to boost food, energy security co-operation

IANS level talks, including two on wa- Dar-es-Salaam ter supply and water resource management. Modi spoke of public health ndia and Tanzania yester- as another important priority in day agreed to deepen their India’s engagement with the east Ipartnership in agriculture African country. and food security and work to- “We are ready to meet the gether in the development and healthcare priorities of the use of natural gas as New Delhi Tanzanian government, includ- committed more aid for the east ing supply of medicines and African country’s water supply equipment,” he said, adding an projects. Indian radio-therapy machine “We agreed that our common was being installed at Bugando desire of economic prosperity Medical Centre in the country’s for our societies is creating new Mwanza city to treat cancer pa- opportunities for expanding our tients. co-operation,” Prime Minister The prime minister said edu- Narendra Modi said in a joint cation, vocational training and press statement with Tanzanian skills development were other President John Magufuli fol- areas of priority in which India Protesters clash with police in Srinagar yesterday. The death toll from unrest in Kashmir climbed to 21 yesterday despite authorities imposing a harsher curfew in a bid to lowing delegation-level talks was willing to off er assistance. prevent new demonstrations. here. “Being neighbours across “For this, both of us felt that Indian Ocean, president and I we need to: One, deepen our agreed to deepen our overall de- partnership in agriculture and fence and security partnership, food security, including through especially in the maritime do- enhanced export of pulses from main,” Modi said. Tanzania to India; two, work to- “Our in-depth discussions gether in development and use on regional and global issues of natural gas; three, partner in refl ected our considerable con- building of industrial economy, vergence on issues of common Kashmir toll rises to capacities and institutions in interest and concern.” Tanzania; and four, deepen our Modi said both sides agreed to trade and investment partner- work closely, bilaterally, region- ship by encouraging greater in- ally and globally, to combat the dustry-to-industry ties,” Modi twin threats of terrorism and cli- said. mate change and described Tan- The partnership in the area zania as a “crucial partner” in of natural gas development and the India-initiated International 21 as clashes continue use is significant as Tanzania Solar Alliance.. has been emerging as a gas gi- Prior to yesterday’s talks, Authorities call on people to In fresh protests yesterday, Three policemen were miss- been repeatedly accused of this our neighbour, are trying to cre- ant with a series of finds since Modi was accorded a ceremo- maintain peace and calm a policeman drowned after a ing. crime in Kashmir,” the Jammu ate disturbances. This is not go- 2011. nial welcome at the State House mob attacked a police vehicle Akhtar called on people to Kashmir Coalition of Civil So- ing to help,” Naidui said. In March this year, a Dubai- here. Agencies and rolled it down into a river in maintain peace and calm. ciety, a rights group, said in a “India is willing to work with based company said it has dis- Modi also played a traditional Srinagar Anantnag district, state minis- “We appeal to parents to stop statement. Pakistan and would like to have covered 2.7tn cubic feet of gas drum along with Magufuli, add- ter and government spokesman their children from getting in- Police say protesters have friendship with the country. But in Ruvu Basin in the country’s ing a local and informal touch to Naeem Akhtar told reporters. volved in protests and stone- set police stations on fi re and if Pakistan continues to do such coastal region. the ceremony. uthorities in Jammu and Security forces shot dead two pelting, which is forcing the thrown rocks at army camps in things, the (Indian) government Modi said that India was al- Later, he interacted with a Kashmir have imposed a demonstrators in Pulwama dis- security forces to fi re and re- the south of the state. has to think about its own poli- ready a substantial economic group of 30 African ‘Solar Ma- Acurfew and appealed for trict after crowds took to streets sulting in loss of innocent lives,” It is the worst civilian vio- cy. Pakistan should give up such partner of Tanzania and the mas,’ rural women who have calm as six more people died in shouting anti-Indian slogans. he said. lence to hit Kashmir since 2010, tactics...,” Naidu said. whole range of economic ties been trained in harnessing solar protests yesterday over the kill- Another protester was killed Wani, 22, joined the rebels when mass protests broke out “(Wani) was a Hizbul Muja- were healthy and on the up- energy under Indian government ing of a militant leader, taking in fi ring in the same region at 15 and became one of the re- against Indian rule. hideen commander. How can swing. programmes. the death toll in the violence to when a mob attacked the para- gion’s most wanted militants, The government said it was any Indian have sympathy for “Our two-way annual trade The prime minister also met 21. military forces, police said. featuring prominently in prop- also trying to arrange fl ights to such people? Really surprised to stands at around $3bn, Indian members of the Indian com- Burhan Muzaff ar Wani, a com- A total of 21 people, including aganda and recruiting material fl y out thousands of tourists see that some people are trying investments in Tanzania al- munity, which numbers around mander in the Hizbul Mujahideen 20 civilians and one policeman, on social media. stranded in the valley due to the to support those so-called pro- ready total around $3bn and 50,000 in Tanzania. group, was killed along with two were killed during the protests. Protests erupted soon after violence. testers sympathising with a ter- Indian businesses in Tanzania At a banquet hosted in his other militants on Friday, trig- The curfew covered all 10 dis- news of Wani’s death spread In New Delhi, Home Minister rorist,” the minister said. continue to grow and expand,” honour by President Magufuli, gering clashes in the state. tricts of the Kashmir Valley. as his funeral was attended by Rajnath Singh spoke to Jammu “Terrorism and violence he said. he described the Indian com- Security forces opened fi re on Troops erected barricades thousands in his hometown of and Kashmir Chief Minister are not acceptable at all in any Modi described as a “good munity as an important link be- Saturday when police stations and placed barbed wire to pre- Tral. Mehbooba Mufti, off ering all form.” achievement” completion of tween the two countries. and paramilitary camps were vent further protests, and mo- There were also reports of se- help from New Delhi. Senior offi cials expressed the a water supply augmentation After completing his engage- targeted by mobs in a dozen ar- bile Internet services were curity forces attacking hospitals Also Information and Broad- hope that the situation in Kash- project in Dar-es-Salaam with ments in Tanzania, Modi left eas in southern Kashmir, where blocked. and ambulances treating the casting Minister M Venkaiah mir would return to normal the Indian aid of $I00mn. for Kenya on the fourth and last the slain militant was based. Additional troops were wounded. Naidu accused Pakistan of in- soon. “We have just now also signed leg of his four-nation African While 10 protesters died in rushed to the troubled areas. “Attacking hospitals and am- fl uencing sympathisers of Wani, Separatists have called for a an agreement on water sup- tour. the clashes on Saturday, seven More than 200 people were bulances is a crime under the and warned it of a policy rethink three-day protest strike in the ply project in Zanzibar for a line The prime minister arrived in more succumbed to injuries in injured in the protests, 96 of international humanitarian law on Delhi’s part. region until today in protest of of credit of $92mn,” the prime Tanzania on Saturday night from hospitals yesterday. them security personnel. and Indian armed forces have “Some people, inspired by Wani’s killing. minister said. South Africa on the third leg of “We are also working on a his Africa visit. number of other water projects This was the fi rst prime min- for 17 cities. And for this, India is isterial visit from India to Tanza- willing to consider an additional nia in fi ve years since the trip of $500mn line of concessional then prime minister Manmohan 15 die as monsoon fl oods credit.” Singh in 2011. India and Tanzania signed fi ve Modi started his fi ve-day trip agreements after the delegation- with a visit to Mozambique. hit Madhya Pradesh

Agencies the danger mark in the Hoshangabad Bhopal region. “Any one in distress can dial 1079 for help,” the chief minister added. t least 15 people were killed af- “Food packets have been sent to ter heavy monsoon rains trig- Bhopal to deal with any untoward Agered fl oods in the s central incident. The National Disaster Re- state of Madhya Pradesh, lief Force is also present there to help offi cials said yesterday. those in need. In these circumstances The fl oods damaged roads, bridges we are trying to provide the best pos- and homes in the state and as many sible relief. The rescue measures are in as 500 villagers were moved to relief place so that people may not suff er.” camps by the army. Federal Home Minister Rajnath “A total of 15 people have died in Singh spoke to Chouhan on the fl ood drownings and landslides in fl oods situation in the state. and heavy rains in the state in the past “Spoke to CM Madhya Pradesh three or four days. who apprised me of the fl ood situ- Three more people are missing,” ation in the state. Rescue and relief state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh operations are in full swing,” Singh Chouhan told reporters. tweeted. State agencies were placed on alert Chouhan also tweeted: “Highly as heavy rains were expected to contin- thankful to central government for ue over the next couple of days, he said. valuable support and assuring all Narmada, the state’s main river, possible assistance to deal with the was in spate and was fl owing above crisis.”

Four held for securing call detail records

Delhi police yesterday arrested four “Rathore charged money from these people said to be members of an detective agencies and forwarded inter-state gang involved in illegally the targeted mobile phone numbers getting call detail records (CDRs) to Narender who procured the and then selling them to various CDRs from various nodal agencies people. A Crime Branch off icial and passed them on to Rathore in said private detective agencies return for money,” the off icial said. procured the CDRs for their clients The rates charged for CDRs varied through one of the arrested person, from Rs5,000 to Rs30,000 from Jaiveer Singh Rathore, who in turn people who approached private got these records from Constable detective agencies for surveillance in Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Tanzanians as he arrives at Narender posted in the Surveillance matrimonial and financial disputes, the State House during the official welcoming ceremony in Cell at Inspector General of Police love aff airs, civil and legal cases, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday. off ice in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. match-making and others. Gulf Times 18 Monday, July 11, 2016 LATIN AMERICA

DISINVESTMENT SECURITY DECISION APPOINTMENT COMMENT Sao Paulo, Rio airport Brazil armed forces Ecuador starts deporting Peru president names Macri defends energy rate sale being eyed: Temer patrol Olympic sites Cubans hoping to get to US Zavala as prime minister hikes after court injunction

Brazil’s government will consider selling airports Brazil’s armed forces rolled out armoured Ecuador has deported 29 undocumented Peru’s president-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski President Mauricio Macri has defended his in Sao Paulo and Rio to help to reduce a large vehicles and heavy weapons to patrol key Cubans who asked the government to transfer confirmed yesterday that Fernando Zavala move to hike Argentina’s energy rates as fiscal deficit next year, interim President Michel tourist areas like Copacabana beach ahead them to Mexico en route to the US, the interior will be his prime minister after he takes off ice a “painful” but necessary part of fixing the Temer told the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper of Rio de Janeiro’s hosting of the Olympics ministry said. The 20 men and nine women July 28. In an interview with local broadcaster economy after years of mismanagement yesterday. The paper said that the previous in under a month. That could come as could not justify their presence in Ecuador, RPP, Kuczynski praised Zavala, 45, as well- under his leftist predecessor. Macri’s remarks government’s objections to a potential sale reassuring to some: just last week, members and were returned to Cuba on an air force qualified for the job after holding positions in came days after an Argentine court halted of the Santos Dumont airport in Rio and of a huge police force sent to secure crime- plane, the ministry said. The dozens of Cuban the finance ministry, the antitrust regulator and price increases for gas and electricity, hurting Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo are not echoed ridden Rio before the games came under migrants returned home were part of a group the private sector. “He has broad knowledge of his drive to narrow the fiscal deficit by cutting by Temer, nor the government’s economic team. gunfire. The shooting incident in the troubled of 99 Cubans demonstrating outside the what’s going on in Peru and knows how public energy subsidies. The dispute will likely end “It is possible that we end up selling them...It north of Rio de Janeiro underlined the Mexican embassy in Quito this week, seeking administration works,” Kuczynski said. “He’s up in the Supreme Court. “If there had been would give us a good sum,” Temer was quoted challenge to ensuring safety for the 10,500 humanitarian visas so they can move forward regarded as objective and I think his presence is an alternative I would have taken it, but there as saying. Congonhas is the second-largest athletes and 500,000 tourists expected at in their effort to reach the US. After the Cubans going to be very positive.” Zavala said on Twitter was no alternative,” the president said. Macri airport in Sao Paulo behind Guarulhos, which the August 5-21 Olympics, the first ever to be were removed from the embassy area, they that he was honoured by the appointment and cut energy subsidies and hiked power rates in has already been sold to private investors. held in South America. started protesting in a nearby park. would strive to make Peru better. January shortly after taking office Venezuela’s In search of food energy woes spread to close ally Cuba

Reuters diesel and liquefi ed petroleum Houston/Caracas gas (LPG). But overall shipments to Cuba, including both crude and enezuela’s falling crude products, still declined 19.5% to output and fi nancial woes 83,130 bpd in the fi rst half of this Vhave left it struggling to year. It is unclear if Cuba is look- maintain a 15-year-old oil as- ing to secure new sources of sup- sistance programme to its clos- ply amid the shortfalls. est ally, Cuba. The barter arrangement for State-run oil fi rm PDVSA has Venezuelan oil has been a huge slashed its exports to Cuba this boost to Cuba’s economy and it year, according to the company’s would have to pay much more in internal trade data. the open market. The shift signals an unravel- Meanwhile, PDVSA has been ling of the oil diplomacy pio- scrambling to limit its own pur- neered by Venezuela’s late so- chases of expensive light crude cialist leader Hugo Chavez and and naphtha needed to dilute its helps explain why Cuba, which extra heavy Orinoco crude, and generates electricity from fuels, is opting to keep more of a me- Thousands of Venezuelans cross the Simon Bolivar bridge from San Antonio de Tachira, Venezuela, to Cucuta, Colombia, yesterday to take advantage of a 12-hour recently ordered some joint ven- dium crude known as Mesa 30 at opening of the bridge after it was closed by the Venezuelan government 11 months ago. Venezuelans rushed to Cucuta to buy food and medicines which are scarce tures and state-owned fi rms to home to use as a diluent. in their country. reduce power usage. Mesa 30 has for long been the It also comes as Cuba im- main crude received by Cuba. proves its relations with the US The oil now arriving is heav- after decades of antagonism ier, making it harder for Cuban and a US economic embargo refi neries to produce the ideal while Venezuela, mired in triple- mix of fuels for its economy, ac- digit infl ation and acute prod- cording to a source with the Cu- uct shortages, is in a prolonged ba-Venezuela commission that standoff with Washington. oversees their treaties. Cuba, long reliant on Ven- Venezuela has the world’s ezuela as its top energy supplier, largest crude reserves though 14 people shot dead in has received some 53,500 bar- output has declined in recent rels per day (bpd) of crude from years because of underinvest- PDVSA this year, a 40% decline ment. Given a slump in oil prices from the fi rst half of 2015, ac- and a mounting economic crisis cording to the company’s data. at home, PDVSA is straining to When it was fl ush with cash keep up investment and produc- from oil exports, Venezuela’s tion. Mexico ‘gang dispute’ socialist government won po- Numerous oil analysts believe litical support in Latin America the country’s oil output this year AFP Gunmen burst into a home two rival gangs in the city,” Gar- as, is a major transit route for in May, Mexican football for- and the Caribbean by sending will fall to its lowest level since a Ciudad Victoria, Mexico in the Lopez Mateos district at za Palacios said. drugs shipped to the US. ward Alan Pulido — who plays oil on advantageous terms to al- devastating strike at PDVSA in 7am (1200GMT), killing two Helicopters overfl ew Ciudad Last month, police killed in Greece for Olympiakos — was lies. 2002 and 2003. men, four women and fi ve girls, Victoria following the shoot- eight gunmen who attacked kidnapped in Ciudad Victoria Cuba, which receives some PDVSA said this month its unmen killed 11 relatives, he said in a video message. ings, rattling nerves in the capi- them on a road in the town of after leaving a party. 4% of Venezuela’s total oil ex- sales revenue fell more than 45% including fi ve girls, in a Some 45 minutes later, armed tal of Tamaulipas. San Fernando. Police freed him 24 hours lat- ports, has been the biggest ben- in 2015. Despite Venezuela’s long Gnorthern Mexican city men stormed the other family’s Tamaulipas is one of the In March, government forces er after Pulido beat up one of the efi ciary of the programme and track record of paying its foreign plagued by drug cartels while home in the Revolucion district, country’s most violent states, killed 10 criminal suspects in kidnappers and called an emer- until this year was spared the debts, there are growing con- three people from another fam- killing a man and two women where the Gulf and Zetas drug the border city of Reynosa as a gency number. fallout from PDVSA’s growing cerns among Wall Street inves- ily were murdered in a second and wounding four others. cartels have fought ultra-vio- gang blocked roads with burn- More than 100,000 people cash fl ow problems, which al- tors over whether it will be able attack. State and federal authorities lent turf wars for years. ing vehicles in a bid to thwart an have been killed or gone miss- ready undermined oil supplies to pay PDVSA’s and the coun- The two shootings are be- are investigating the crimes and The Gulf cartel has been hit anti-cartel operation. ing across Mexico since 2006, to Uruguay, Jamaica, Dominican try’s bondholders. lieved to be related to a dispute seeking the killers, the offi cial by infi ghting following the ar- The state’s roads are consid- when the government escalated Republic and Curacao. Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino between rival gangs in Ciudad said. rests or killings of several lead- ered so dangerous that police its battle against drug cartels. Venezuela has partially off set said there is no signifi cant de- Victoria, said Herminio Garza “According to our prelimi- ers, while the Zetas have been have a programme off ering to Some 28,000 people are re- the smaller crude shipments to cline in production, but output is Palacios, secretary general nary investigation, it is pre- weakened by the capture of its escort motorists from the bor- ported missing in the country, Cuba by boosting exports of re- already well off a peak of 3.24mn of Tamaulipas state, without sumed that those events were capos. der to Ciudad Victoria. 5,000 of them from Tamaulipas, fi ned products such as fuel oil, bpd in 2008. identifying the groups. a product of a dispute between The state, which borders Tex- In a high-profi le kidnapping according to offi cial fi gures. Uruguay wins case Guzman rumours denied Allende eyes Chile against US tobacco fi rm presidential bid Reuters atives of the ruling party whose Santiago popularity has not sunk alongside AFP of the US company, said in a warnings to cover 80% of pack- President Michele Bachelet’s. Montevideo statement. ets’ surfaces. Bachelet’s approval rating hit Philip Morris had “never The Uruguay verdict adds to sabel Allende, a ruling par- an all-time low last month amid questioned Uruguay’s author- Philip Morris’s legal losses as ty senator in Chile and the widening student unrest, the ruguay has won an ar- ity to protect public health,” it seeks to defend its business Idaughter of deposed ex-pres- resignation of her cabinet chief bitration case against he added. The case was more from increasingly tough anti- ident Salvador Allende, said she and a sluggish economy. UUS tobacco giant Philip about getting “clarifi cation” smoking laws in several coun- is considering running for presi- Allende’s remarks come a day Morris, which sued the state under international law about tries. dent in next year’s elections, a lo- after Lagos, president from 2000- claiming its strict anti-tobacco “an important, but unusual, set The European Union’s top cal newspaper reported. 06, said he was eyeing participat- law harmed the cigarette mak- of facts,” he said. court ruled in May that new Allende’s possible bid for the ing in the 2017 presidential race. er’s business, both sides said. Philip Morris sued Uruguay laws in the bloc on plain to- top job in Chile could pit her “I’m thinking about it,” Lagos “The Uruguayan state has in 2010 for $25mn over legisla- bacco packaging and a ban on against ex-president Ricardo said on local broadcaster Puda- emerged victorious and the tion enacted in 2006 banning menthol cigarettes were legal, Lagos, another member of the huel. “There are days when I feel tobacco company’s claims smoking in public and tobacco rejecting a challenge by Philip socialist ruling party who has like I must do it.” have been roundly rejected,” advertising. Morris and other cigarette expressed interest in running. Allende and Lagos would have Uruguayan President Tabara Uruguay became the fi rst companies. Allende, whose father was to compete for their party’s nomi- Vasquez said in a televised ad- Latin American country and Britain and France imposed ousted by former dictator Au- nation in primary elections early dress. fi fth in the world to ban smok- neutral packaging soon after, gusto Pinochet in a coup in 1973, next year. The general presidential He was citing a decision by ing in public places under with retailers in both countries said she has been leaning toward election is in November of 2017. the World Bank’s arbitration Vazquez, an oncologist who given months to sell existing making a bid at the insistence of Another ex-president, con- body, the International Center was serving a previous term as branded cigarette stocks. Chileans, according to local daily servative Sebastian Pinera, has for Settlement of Investment president (2005-2010) before Norway and New Zealand El Mercurio. “For me it’s an hon- also said he is considering run- Disputes. returning to power last year. said in May that they would our to know that people think I’m ning again. Bachelet cannot run Philip Morris reacted by say- The company argued the law follow suit. Faced with social media rumours of a third escape from an option. There’s also a potent for another term in 2017 because ing “we respect” the verdict, violated an investment treaty The international move to- prison by Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, symbolic element, that there be of constitutional term limits. which is binding in any case. between Uruguay and Switzer- ward plain packaging comes the government has released a picture of what looks like him another Allende,” she was quoted The Allende surname still “For the last seven years, we land. as Philip Morris last year lost a in a prison in Ciudad Juarez. Interior Minister Miguel Angel as saying in El Mercurio. resonates strongly in Chile more have already been complying Specifi cally, it complained four-year struggle to overturn Osorio Chong published the picture on his Twitter account She did not immediately re- than four decades after Salva- with the regulations at issue about a ban on vendors sell- legislation in Australia requir- with the short phrase: “For the rumours, an image...” The spond to requests for comment. dor Allende committed suicide in the case, so this outcome ing diff erent types of the same ing cigarettes to be sold only picture shows Guzman sitting at a table in what looks like an Allende, a distant relative of the in the presidential palace rather doesn’t change the status quo,” brand of cigarettes, and ex- in logo-free packs featuring indoor common area with white walls. well-known author of the same than surrender to armed forces Marc Firestone, vice president panding anti-smoking health graphic health warnings. name, is one of the few represent- mounting a coup. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

‘No one deserves Eidhi’s eyes give vision Nobel Peace Prize to two blind persons more than Edhi’ Internews Internews well,” said a family member. Islamabad Karachi According to the Pakistan Eye Bank Society, there is a dire need to launch a movement for eye akistan’s teenage Nobel octors at the Sindh In- donation in Pakistan as blind- laureate Malala Yousaf- stitute of Urology and ness was on the rise in the coun- Pzai has said she nomi- DTransplantation (SIUT) try. nated the country’s celebrated in Pakistan’s Karachi city on “We receive some 300 to 400 humanitarian and philanthro- Saturday transplanted corneas eyes annually from Sri Lanka In- pist Abdul Sattar Edhi for the of the country’s greatest charity ternational Eye Bank, Colombo, Nobel Peace Prize, British me- icon, Abdul Sattar Edhi, into two for which we are much indebted dia reported yesterday. blind people who were waiting to them, but our annual require- “As a Nobel Peace Prize for an eye donation, said SIUT ment is in thousands,” said the winner, I hold the right to offi cials and the Edhi family. society. nominate people for the prize In his will, the widely respect- The SIUT offi cials said Pakistan and I have nominated Abdul ed social worker had wished was ranked among the nations Sattar Edhi,” said Malala. She Malala Yousafzai that his organs be donated to the with record of least organ dona- added that no one deserved needy after his death. tions. “We need tens of thousands the Nobel Prize more than to Edhi, it is our responsibil- “While other organs could not of organ donations, which, de- Edhi. ity to leave a legacy of service be given away due to his poor spite a bigger possibility, we can’t Edhi, who breathed his last to humanity and if we want health, his eyes have been donat- achieve only to see hapless people on Friday in Karachi, was Pa- to pay tribute to him, it is our ed,” said Faisal, the late Edhi’s son. die,” said SIUT director Dr Adeeb- kistan’s greatest humanitar- responsibility to follow in his “The very philosophy behind ul-Hassan Rizvi. ian. Malala, who received the footsteps,” said Malala. Edhi’s will was to inspire oth- He said every year Pakistan peace prize in 2014, main- She added that she could ers to donate their organs af- needed 25,000 kidneys, 100,000 tained that one must remem- never meet the great philan- ter death and boost the culture livers, 7,000 hearts, 2,000 pan- ber that even the coveted No- thropist but feels proud and of organ donation in a coun- People read The Holy Qur’an and pray in memory of philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi at Memon mosque creases and as many lungs for its bel prize cannot be a befi tting honoured that she had the try where this trend is yet to be in Karachi yesterday. ailing population. tribute to Edhi’s services for opportunity to talk to Edhi set,” explained Faisal Edhi. The According to the SIUT, around humanity. over the phone a number of SIUT offi cials said doctors oper- of the SIUT ophthalmology de- SIUT pledging organ donation donation will encourage others 150,000 Pakistanis died of end- “If we wish to pay tribute times. ated upon Edhi’s body late Fri- partment. No details were re- after their death. to save the lives of patients of stage organ failure including day evening after his death and leased about the age and gender “The Edhi family donated end-stage organ failure,” said the renal, liver, lung, pancreas and Plea to rename new Islamabad airport secured corneas, which, they of the two people who received both his eyes after he died at the SIUT offi cial. heart failure every year. Dr Rizvi added, were transplanted into the donation. SIUT and fulfi lled his will,” said a The Edhi family said the said there was potential for sal- An online petition to rename as Edhi International Airport, two young patients yesterday. However, the offi cials said spokesman for the hospital. founder of the country’s larg- vaging organs from the people New Islamabad International Islamabad” almost a month “The doctors transplanted they would be able to see for the He said Edhi died after re- est charity was not pleased with declared brain dead as long as Airport after Abdul Sattar Edhi ago on Change.Org when Edhi’s corneas into two patients fi rst time in their life some 10 ceiving treatment for the past people’s reluctance to donate they were hooked to ventilat- has been gaining signatures news media flashed reports who had been waiting to see the days after the surgery. 10 years at the SIUT. Since 2013, their organs. “Now the way peo- ing support equipment. He said at a dizzying pace. about the serious nature of the world for the fi rst time,” said an “Edhi sahib was among the he had been on dialysis thrice a ple have reacted over his death, a dying human could donate at The petition continues to ailment suff ered by the great SIUT offi cial. The surgery was fi rst of the 2,000 donors who got week, he added. one can hope they will follow least 17 organs to help as many gain new backers with nearly philanthropist. It got momentum performed by a team of surgeons themselves registered with the “We all hope Edhi sahib’s him in donating their organs as needy patients. 21,000 signatures by 8:30pm after the demise of Edhi Friday on Saturday. A Pakistani, S A night. Within 24 hours, the Kazmi, set up the petition “New petition received endorsements Islamabad Airport be named from 21,000 Pakistanis. Edhi family, staff continue to serve humanity

Internews busy watching the live transmis- Sindh Institute of Urology and remember the most about him; us Rs3, 000 each and ask to shop Woman hides lover in Karachi sion of his funeral prayers on a Transplantation (SIUT) dialysis lack of pomp and display,” she from wherever we wanted,” said TV channel. centre. said. Humaira, who other girls said All too often, someone breaks “He was still wearing the same Humaira and other workers at was the closest to Edhi. trunk, suff ocates him he Bilquis Edhi Home in into tears or comes up with a old kurta and shalwar that Mum- the Edhi Home maintained that “I used to click pictures with Mithadar is silent around story about how Edhi sahib said my [Bilquis Edhi] had bought for it was the robbery at the head him, in my new Eid dress, and TSaturday afternoon. this or did that to make each him earlier,” said Humaira, who offi ce in October 2014, in which used to tease him by speaking AFP on the trunk. But her in-laws As most people from the other smile. has been working with the Edhi’s gold and cash worth Rs30mn to him in English whenever he Multan came to search the room and neighbourhood including some The children, who were sleep- for the past 13 years. was stolen in broad daylight that called me,” she added and then Baloch was forced to cry out staff had gone for Abdul Sattar ing at the time, are said to have “got to him”. Although he was stopped as tears welled up once for help as he was suff ocating, Edhi’s funeral, the remaining been crying one after the other “There’s no way we could asked by his son, Faisal Edhi, to again. Pakistani woman who police said. staff was busy working in usual since morning. pacify them. They keep increase security at the place “Basically for us, wherever was having an aff air with They did not open the trunk manner. “There’s no way we could asking about Edhi sahib, as and put up CCTV cameras at en- there’d be goodness; there’d be Aher cousin accidentally and he died within 15 minutes, Snuggled within a maze of pacify them. They keep asking they used to spend some try points but Abdul Sattar Edhi Edhi sahib,” added Afshan. suff ocated him in a trunk after police added. streets in Mithadar, this par- about Edhi sahib, as they used time with him before their refused. Outside the head offi ce, an hiding him there when other The incident took place in ticular place, head offi ce of the to spend some time with him aft ernoon nap, and want to The staff ers said Edhi sahib’s ambulance driver, Raziq Shah, relatives woke up late at night, the suburbs of the central Pa- Edhi Foundation, is a safe haven before their afternoon nap, and see him” fi ve children - two sons and three said that a few weeks back, when police said yesterday. kistan town of Muzaff argarh, for many of the orphaned or, in want to see him,” said a young daughters - followed their father he was taking Edhi sahib to the Married father Mushtaq late Saturday night. most cases, abandoned women girl outside a pink-coloured “The last time he got back for many years. But Faisal Edhi hospital, the philanthropist Ahmed Baloch, 22, was hav- “We have arrested Bibi’s and children. room where most of them were from the dialysis centre, he said and Qubrah Edhi are the two apologised to him. Edhi sahib ing an aff air with his cousin father-in-law and his two sons Every Sunday, around 50 girls now sleeping. he’s going to beg on the streets to people every staff er kept saying said, he quoted, “If I had said Rani Bibi, a mother of two, on murder charges,” local po- are married off to men selected Humaira Faiz Mohamed, 30, get enough money for his charity would carry the torch forward. anything to you or made you feel and came to her house at night lice station chief Sardar Mu- either by them or the Edhi ma- responsible for the 36 children but he was asked not to go,” she “They don’t know any oth- bad about yourself; please for- while her family was sleeping, hammad Idrees said. triarch, Bilquis Edhi. She, too, at the centre, is sitting on a sofa added. er way,” said Afshan Ghani, a give me.” police said. He said that Bibi’s hus- always maintains that the girls away from the TV set. “Abba recently got new slip- former staff er, also present at the Still surprised by the gesture, The noise as Baloch entered band was not at home as he are free to come back to them if Sitting with her is Edhi’s pers for himself; only because he Edhi head offi ce. “The grand- Shah added that he hailed from the house woke up Bibi’s fa- had a job in the southern port they fi nd the men “not good to granddaughter, Maryam Faisal lost the only one pair he had for children - Saad, Rabia, Maryam Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ther- and brothers-in-law, city of Karachi, some 900km them”. Edhi. many years during his last visit and Moosa - are the same. They and “Edhi sahib believed I prompting her to hide him in away. On the second fl oor, women Both of them begin at the to the hospital. His cap also had give to others before taking any- should feel at home and not be a large tin storage trunk in her Muzaff argarh district police and children who had come to same time, speaking about the holes in it but he just wouldn’t thing for themselves,” she added. considered a stranger in a city room. chief of Awais Ahmed Malik refer to Edhi sahib as abba are last time they saw him at the buy a new one. That’s what I’d “During Ramazan, he’d give where I eke out a living.” She then placed a padlock confi rmed the details. Unruly militias add to Afghan government woes

Reuters northern province of Faryab and forces in fi ghting the insurgents, ployees,” said Asadullah Jamali, Kabul shared widely on social media. the power that gives their com- a prominent tribal elder in the He accused Ghani’s govern- manders can create its own se- province. ment of “trying to weaken my curity threat. The situation in Balkh, where fghanistan recently sent a constituency and repeating the Investigators on the recent Atta remains in the governor’s team of offi cials to inves- mistakes of the past govern- trip north said that both Dos- palace despite eff orts by Ghani Atigate alleged abuses by ment.” tum’s Junbish party and Jamiat- to oust him, is similar, said Shu- militias loyal to two rival strong- Ever since a US-led campaign e-Islami, a party in which Atta is jauddin Shuja, deputy head of men in the country’s north, drove the Taliban from power one of the most powerful fi gures, the provincial council. underlining concern that ten- in 2001, Afghanistan’s Western were undermining central au- Atta spokesman Munir Ah- sions there are undermining the allies have feared the return of thority. mad Farhad denied that the authority of the government in former warlords with private ar- “Local commanders loyal to Balkh governor was involved in Kabul. mies fi ghting for control of trade Junbish and Jamiat have been any wrongdoing or that he was Fighters under fi rst vice Presi- routes and lucrative contracts in involved in a number of kill- arming a private militia force. dent General Abdul Rashid Dos- their fi efdoms. ings, extortion from the public, Dostum, a general in the Af- tum, a veteran of Afghan politics But the timing of the latest land grabbing, armed robbery, ghan army during the Soviet war and war since the 1980s, have dispute is worrying for Ghani harassment collection of ushur in the 1980s, has been an integral clashed repeatedly with those and his international partners, (illegal levies) and other activi- part of the political scene in the controlled by Atta Mohamed who meet at a Nato summit in ties for the advantage of their years since, with a power base in Noor, acting governor of the Warsaw this week to decide on respective political parties,” the the Uzbek minority of the north northern province of Balkh. extending military support for inspectors noted. and an image polished by the The rivalry has simmered for Afghanistan. Key police and local govern- TV cameras that accompany his years, but according to a confi - “A political confrontation is ment offi cials have been put in frequent trips to the frontline in dential report drafted by the in- the last thing Afghanistan needs place on the basis of personal combat fatigues. vestigators and seen by Reuters, as it endeavours to cope with its loyalty rather than competence, On Sunday, a delegation of areas of the north have descend- current challenges,” the outgo- the inspectors added. tribal elders from the northern ed into lawlessness. ing United Nations Special Rep- A spokesman for Dostum dis- province of Sar-e-Pul came to The deterioration comes as resentative for Afghanistan, Ni- missed suggestions that he was Kabul to plead with the govern- Dostum has publicly voiced cholas Haysom, told the Security Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and his two vice-presidential candidates Abdul building a private militia to chal- ment to intervene and rein Dos- frustration with President Council in June. Rashid Dostum, a former Uzbek militia leader, and Sarwar Danish (right) attend the first day of the lenge the central government, tum in. Ashraf Ghani and as other poli- Pressure has been building on presidential campaign in Kabul February 2, 2014. blaming such allegations on ri- “We’ve had it up to the neck ticians question the longer term the unity government headed by vals seeking to undermine him. with the militias,” said Junat Gul, legitimacy of the awkward unity Ghani and his former rival, gov- the new constitutional settle- ber deadline, the potential for that kills thousands of soldiers, Some regional elders say it is a resident of Qaisar district in government formed after a dis- ernment Chief Executive Abdul- ment to be reached now appear political destabilisation is ris- police and civilians each year Dostum, not the government, the northern province of Faryab puted 2014 election. lah Abdullah. unlikely. ing as opposition groups call for and prevents an economic re- who is in charge in parts of Far- on the border with Turkmeni- “They (Kabul) decide what- District and parliamentary Despite assurances by US Sec- change. covery after decades of war. yab. stan, where militias and Taliban ever they want and later I am elections that were originally retary of State John Kerry that Afghanistan needs a stable While local militias like Dos- “Everyone in those areas bows insurgents have been battling for informed,” Dostum said in a due to be held this year and Ghani’s government should re- government as armed forces try tum’s often take the place of to Dostum and he is the one to months. video recorded last week in the which would be necessary for main in offi ce past the Septem- to contain a Taliban insurgency badly stretched government hire and fi re government em- “There is no one to stop them.” Gulf Times 20 Monday, July 11, 2016 PHILIPPINES Experts divided over response to Court likely to ruling in sea row acquit Arroyo DPA national law to protect its own elicit strong statements from Manila interests.” other countries,” he said in a She also said the reclaimed statement Friday.“While we facilities Beijing has been pursue diplomatic initiatives, xperts in the Philippines building should be used “as re- the Philippines needs to take are divided over how the search stations and not as mili- steps to protect itself from any Ecountry should respond tary garrisons.” adverse Chinese reaction. to a tribunal in the Hague, even “Let scientists from all over On a medium term, we need in plunder case before the court gives its ruling the world study the ocean and to make peace and foster a new expected tomorrow on islands use the facilities there.” era of relations with China By Jomar Canlas poses despite a defi cit in the charity agency. contested with Beijing in the Foreign Secretary Perfecto based on mutual respect,” he Manila Times Arroyo’s lawyers had decided not to present South China Sea. Yasay this month told report- said. evidence before the Sandiganbayan on the Political and defence analyst ers that the Philippines would Stratbase ADRi Trustee and belief that the prosecution, the Offi ce of the Clarita Carlos said she expects push for the implementation of International Criminal Court n overwhelming majority of Supreme Ombudsman, had a weak case against the the Philippines to continue to the tribunal’s decision through Justice Raul Pangalangan said Court (SC) justices are inclined to ac- former president. engage China either way but “peaceful negotiations.” fi ling the case was a game Aquit detained former president Gloria When the SC resumed work in an en banc does not see Manila pushing “We should make our state- changer for the Philippines, Macapagal-Arroyo of a plunder charge in- session after a month-long recess in May, Beijing to vacate reclaimed ter- ments in a manner that will not which would have been at a volving her supposed misuse of Philippine Arroyo’s case was included in the agenda for ritories. be provocative or exacerbate disadvantage in a bilateral ne- Charity Sweepstakes Offi ce (PCSO) funds. June 7. “As Asians, we don’t kick tensions, especially when the gotiation setup. Associate Justice Lucas Bersamin has be- At the time, it was listed in the agenda un- somebody who is already on ruling could be in the favour of “In a David-versus-Goliath gun circulating a draft decision junking the der “Item No 91” for the deliberation of the the ground,” she said on Friday. the Philippines,” he said. scenario, the Philippines would criminal case for plunder against Arroyo, justices. “That’s why I like the guidance “We would like to hope that have been helpless,” he said. now a representative of Pampanga, by grant- This was rescheduled to June 14 and called of (President) China will respect the deci- “By fi ling the case, we have ing her plea for a demurrer to evidence, un- two weeks later, on June 28. Duterte not to fl aunt and not sions, especially since there is shifted it from a two-party set- impeachable sources at the high court told This case has again been scheduled for de- to mock or to taunt.” equal possibility that the ruling tlement and submitted it to a Manila Times. liberation and voting in July. New President Rodrigo Du- could be in its favour,” he said. third-party decision-maker in Arroyo’s demurrer to evidence, denied by There are three petitions in the SC involv- terte has said the Philippines “Nobody wants war. The the tribunal.” the Sandiganbayan last year, is a motion to ing Arroyo. has no interest in armed con- Philippines doesn’t want war. Pangalangan added that the dismiss the case because of weak evidence The fi rst case is handled by Associate Jus- fl ict whatever the verdict and China doesn’t want war. The arbitration case highlights the presented by prosecutors. tice Marvic Leonen, involving the determi- has called on Filipinos not to United States doesn’t want war. primacy of international law Once granted by the High Court, all other nation of probable cause in the plunder case gloat or be provocative if their Japan doesn’t want war. and undermines the military related cases will be considered moot, which of Arroyo after she was charged for her al- cause is favoured by the court. The rest of the international aspect of the dispute. will eventually release Arroyo from detention leged participation in embezzling PCSO in- “To China, face is very im- community does not want war.” “It will provide our neigh- at the Veterans Memorial Medical Centre in telligence funds. portant and it doesn’t want to Dindo Manhit, president bours in Asia and our allies Quezon City. An SC source said this case no longer had lose face in the international of Manila-based think tank abroad a neutral ground upon A favourable SC ruling will have the eff ect any bearing after a presentation of evidence community,” Carlos said. “But Stratbase Albert Del Rosario which to take a position on the of acquitting Arroyo. before the Sandiganbayan. it’s got to do something, stop all Institute (Stratbase ADRi), issue,” he said. The case cannot be refi led by the ombuds- The second case, which is the demurrer to its provocative building of arti- said the Philippines should “In other words, without man under the principle of “double jeop- evidence plea set to be decided by the SC, will fi cial islands and the destruc- make the most of its moment states saying ‘China is right’ or ardy.” be the “supervening event” once the decision tion of our reefs.” if it wins. ‘Philippines is right,’ we pro- The Manila Times made a head count Arroyo: likely acquittal? comes out. Even though the ruling will “On an immediate term, the vide even the erstwhile hesitant of several SC justices, who asked not to be The third case involves review of petition not be enforceable or binding, Philippines must capitalise on Asean states an opportunity named, and found that they were poised to cia recommended to “grant” the petition for for bail of the former president, which was China should be encouraged to the international interest in to take a decision without ril- clear Arroyo of the supposed embezzlement certiorari of Arroyo for demurrer to evidence also junked by the Sandiganbayan. heed it, she said. “Because at the case to garner international ing China’s sensitivities,” he of P366mn in PCSO intelligence funds from and “annuls and sets aside” the resolution The case has reached the 15-man tribunal a later time, it will need inter- support for its position and added. 2008 to 2010. issued by the Sandiganbayan under Criminal and the decision is supposed to be written by One source said several magistrates were Case No SB-12-CRM-0174 on April 6, 2015, Associate Justice Jose Catral Mendoza. inclined to favour the draft decision of Ber- and the First Division of the Sandiganbayan This will also be mooted once the SC votes samin, which states that the Sandiganbayan on September 10, 2015. on Arroyo’s demurrer to evidence. “acted capriciously … gravely abusing its Also expected to be cleared is former President Rodrigo Duterte had off ered to discretion amounting to lack or excess of ju- PCSO Budget and Accounts manager Be- pardon Arroyo once elected to Malacanang. risdiction.” nigno Aguas, who was said to have certifi ed The former president, however, declined as The source said the Bersamin draft ponen- the availability of funds for intelligence pur- this would mean admitting guilt. Cagayan governor claims offi cials protecting drug rings

By Leander C Domingo drop-off points of drugs com- to the recovery of at least 180 whoever he supports usually Manila Times/Tuguegarao City ing from China or Taiwan. kilograms of shabu worth wins. He identified the towns of P900mn purposely buried in Known to be the man behind Claveria, Abulog, Ballesteros, a resort where Tumaneng was every successful candidate in overnor Manuel Mamba Lasam and Pamplona in the arrested. Claveria, Tumaneng was also accused some local offi - second district, where illegal In March last year, a sha- tagged as the leading drug lord Gcials of being protectors drug activities are rampant. bu laboratory was raided and there. of international drug syndicates Recently, operatives of vari- yielded a stash of liquid shabu Meanwhile, authorities said and blamed them for the drug ous government agencies of with a street value estimated at they are looking at other coast- problem in the province. Regions 1 and 2 hauled some P1.9bn. Police said the labora- al towns in Cagayan province Mamba, a former repre- 210 kilos of shabu in two sepa- tory could produce a tonne of being used as transshipment sentative of the third district rate incidents in Claveria. The shabu daily. points of illegal drugs using of Cagayan, said one of the big- provincial police office here Mamba said these two in- foreigners camouflaging as gest drug busts carried out in said it is possible that the drugs cidents in the coastal town of fishermen. the region yielded about P1bn could have been smuggled from Claveria placed the province in In May, 18 Vietnamese in worth of methamphetamine mainland China or Taiwan. the map of illegal drugs. three fishing boats and 10 Chi- hydrochloride (shabu) in Clav- On June 24, a barangay “I believe that big time pro- nese were apprehended for il- eria town is only the tip of the chairman – Marzan Victor Tu- tectors who are politicians are legal poaching off Cagayan and iceberg. maneng of Barangay Centro behind these illegal drug trade Batanes provinces on separate The governor pointed out 4 and his three accomplices in the province. These drug occasions. that the illegal drug trade has – were arrested with 30 kilo- people are kingmakers who The 10 Chinese paid a fine of festered because local officials grams of shabu they negotiated could manipulate election re- over P9mn for poaching, while had not resolved to run after with a poseur-buyer for sults in Claveria,” Mamba said. the 18 Vietnamese reportedly the syndicate operating here. P150mn in Barangay Culao, He said Tumaneng’s strate- escaped from detention using Fishermen take a break after returning from a fishing trip in the South China Sea, on the shores of Infanta He said the coastal towns Claveria town. gic role in Claveria during elec- one of their fishing boats as a town, Pangasinan province, northwest of Manila. in Cagayan have been used as A follow-up operation led tions could be clearly seen, as getaway vehicle. Religious group’s conference to Lapena eyes revamp of anti-drug agency discuss revival of death penalty By Nelson S Badilla not elaborate since Lapena is still Manila Times conducting a thorough study of the PDEA, but indicated that By William B Depasupil penalty would hurt the Philippine gov- Batocabe, not every Filipino on death Church holds that executing off enders PDEA has a signifi cant number & Llanesca T Panti ernment’s eff orts in pleading for the lives row abroad were victims like Veloso who is no longer an absolute necessity, as the he new head of the Phil- of rogue agents. Manila Times of overseas Filipino workers on death row should be spared from death penalty. modern state already has various means ippine Drug Enforcement Mapalad noted that former in other countries. “Saving OFWs from death row should to protect human lives and prevent TAgency (PDEA) is set to PDEA chief Arturo Cacdac Jr, had At least 88 Filipinos are facing the only be made on meritorious cases. Cer- crimes. At the opening of the three-day reorganise the agency’s entire dismissed 12 offi cers from the he revival of the death penalty is death penalty abroad, mostly on drug- tainly, there is no reason for us to save a CBCP plenary assembly at Pope Pius XII force as the Duterte adminis- agency in 2015 for being unde- high on the agenda as the Catholic related cases, including 31-year-old notorious Filipino drug traffi cker from Catholic Centre in Manila on Saturday, tration intensifi es its campaign sirable offi cials. Cacdac also filed TBishops’ Conference of the Philip- Mary Jane Veloso, who was supposed to death row,” Batocabe told Manila Times. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates against illegal drugs. administrative charges against pines (CBCP) tackles the socio-political be executed by fi ring squad by the Indo- Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, Villegas said the Church will maintain its fi ve erring personnel of the landscape on the third day of its biannual nesian government last year, but got a President Rodrigo Duterte’s choice for moral stance even if it ended up “alone in Lapena’s plan to agency in 2015.Mapalad said the plenary assembly. last-minute reprieve upon appeal of the the next Speaker of the House of Rep- the wilderness.” reorganise the agency “PDEA must deliver to be worthy The Church hierarchy will likely issue previous Aquino administration. resentatives, and Capiz Rep. Fredenil Villegas, the CBCP president, clashed is perceived as a vital of the president’s expectations.” a strong statement against a bill reintro- “Without the death penalty, the Phil- Castro have fi led a bill seeking the death with Duterte during the election cam- cleansing of PDEA so that it During the turn-over ceremony ducing capital punishment for heinous ippine government has great moral au- penalty by lethal injection for heinous paign over the former Davao City may- can regain its credibility of the agency’s leadership on July crimes, sources at the CBCP said, in a thority to invoke humanitarian grounds crimes including illegal drugs, plunder or’s unconventional rhetoric. 9, Lapena vowed to lead the PDEA prelude to a looming clash with the Du- and implore foreign governments for and car theft. During election, Duterte lashed out at Glenn Mapalad, PDEA pub- in carrying out the orders of Du- terte administration that has pledged to them to show mercy to Filipinos who are Duterte, however, wants death penalty the Church, calling it the “most hypo- lic information offi ce chief, told terte to end the drug menace. wipe out crime and illegal drugs in three about to be put to death,” Buhay party- by hanging. Church teaching, strictly critical institution.” Villegas indicated Manila Times that PDEA Direc- Lapena’s plan to reorganise to six months. list representative Lito Atienza said in a speaking, does not exclude the death that looming clashes with the new gov- tor General Isidro Lapena will the agency is perceived as a vital Yesterday, an anti-death penalty law- statement. penalty. ernment over moral issues like the death reshuffl e the offi cers of diff erent cleansing of PDEA so that it can maker warned that reimposing the death But for Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Rodel But the Catechism of the Catholic penalty would be nothing new. units of the agency. Mapalad did regain its credibility. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL US off ers Bangladesh bans TV expertise on station, tracks pupils combating AFP Dhaka terrorism

angladesh moved to coun- By Mizan Rahman Bangladeshi government’s ter a deadly wave of Is- Dhaka eff orts to counter terrorism Blamist attacks yesterday, and violent extremism. ordering an Islamic television She will also meet with the station to stop broadcasting embassy community, local and telling schools to report any he US has off ered ex- business and other diplomatic missing students. pertise in building representatives. The measures come after sev- TBangladesh’s counter- Bangladesh has witnessed eral suspected Islamist extrem- terrorism capabilities as the a spate of Islamist attacks in ists were reported to be fans of country experienced a string recent days. the television channel, while of terror attacks. others were found to be from The US off er was conveyed The US off er was elite universities but had been by Nisha Desai Biswal, US conveyed by Nisha Desai missing for months. Assistant Secretary of State Biswal, US Assistant A Bangladesh cabinet com- for South and Central Asian Secretary of State for mittee decided to ban Peace TV Aff airs, to Bangladesh For- South and Central Asian from the country, Information eign Minister A H Mahmood Aff airs, to Bangladesh Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told Ali and Foreign Secretary M Foreign Minister A journalists yesterday. Shahidul Haque in Dhaka H Mahmood Ali and The station is run by Indian yesterday. Foreign Secretary M doctor-turned-preacher Zakir Biswal, Washington’s point Shahidul Haque Naik, the founder and president person for South Asia, off ered of Mumbai-based Islamic Re- US expertise in building Bang- Twenty people, including search Foundation, and its pro- ladesh’s counter terrorism 17 foreigners, were killed in grammes are aired from Dubai. capabilities in the wake of the the brutal late-night attack at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina July 1 terror attack in Dhaka, the Holey Artisan Bakery in earlier in the day called on every BD News reported. Gulshan area of the capital on school, college and university to “Our commitment to Bang- July 1. During a joint comman- “create a list of absent students ladesh remains as robust as do operation, six of the attack- and publish it”. ever,” Biswal said. ers were killed. Bangladesh has been reeling Her two-day visit comes a The Islamic State has from dozens of attacks, mainly Policemen frisking a man near the restaurant where the militant attack took place in Dhaka yesterday. After a video where three Bangla-speaking week after two recent terror claimed responsibility for targeting secular activists or re- men are seen commending Dhaka’s cafe attackers and threatening more attacks in Bangladesh went viral on social media, police have warned of attacks in the Muslim-major- the attack. However, Bang- ligious minorities. stern action against those sharing any such content which indulges militant activity. ity country, including one on ladesh government says the “We will be rigorous,” the a cafe in Dhaka and another at attacks were carried out by premier said. “We must uproot bers of society has sparked fears regarded university participated for the siege at the Dhaka cafe. foreign minister Mahmood Ali. the country’s biggest Eid gath- homegrown terror outfi ts. militancy and terrorism from that Islamism has spread far be- in a deadly attack in northern Authorities, meanwhile, have She off ered US expertise in ering at Sholakia in northern Seventeen foreigners, in- Bangladesh.” yond disenfranchised youngsters Bangladesh on Thursday that launched a publicity blitz, urging par- building Bangladesh’s counter- Kishoreganj district. cluding an Indian and Ameri- Three of the alleged jihadists being radicalised in madrasas. killed at least three people at a ents to closely monitor their children. terrorism capabilities, the Amer- Biswal would also meet can of Bangladesh origin were who participated in an attack on School authorities would now huge prayer gathering marking Television channels have broadcast ican embassy in Dhaka said in a Home Minister Asaduzzaman among the victims. a Dhaka cafe last week, in which have to provide information on the start of Eid. photos of missing students and adver- statement. Khan Kamal. Biswal, earlier, visited Dha- 20 hostages were murdered, at- any students who have an un- Police said both attacks were tisements to deter extremism. “We will continue our as- Earlier, the State Depart- ka in May following the killing tended top schools and universi- explained absence of 10 days or carried out by a banned local US Assistant Secretary of sistance in combatting the glo- ment said Biswal will meet with of a US embassy staff , Xulhaz ties in the Bangladeshi capital. more, Education Minister Nurul militant group, despite vocal State Nisha Biswal fl ew to Dhaka bal threat of terrorism that our government offi cials to discuss Mannan, by Islamists. Man- The revelation that the attack- Islam Nahid said. claims from the Islamic State yesterday to discuss the secu- countries both confront,” she “issues of shared concern” nan was a leading campaigner ers were educated, well-off mem- Another student of a well- group that they were responsible rity situation with Bangladesh said. and off er US assistance to the for LGBT rights. UK citizen ‘tortured’ in Lanka returns

By Diane Taylor, GNS the family home in Jaff na, north to an empty house somewhere rested and detained is that he and that it was only because of London Sri Lanka, his family said two in Jaff na that I believe is used for was previously involved with the involvement of the Foreign men arrived on motorbikes, beat torture. There was dried blood LTTE when he was living in Sri Offi ce and campaigners in the him up in front of his mother and on the walls. I was beaten with Lanka as a teenager. UK that Renukaruban had been British citizen who says older sister and then bundled wooden sticks and a metal bar on Renukaruban, who arrived taken from Jaff na prison for he was tortured in Sri him into a van. He was accused my head and face and leg and I at Heathrow airport earlier this treatment. ALanka and detained by of being involved with LTTE, lost consciousness.” week, was limping and com- The most recent Home Offi ce authorities after travelling there a militant group known as the The men accused him of being plained of severe headaches. guidance on the human rights to get married last month, has Tamil Tigers, which fought to involved with the LTTE. “I kept Doctors who treated him for his situation in Sri Lanka, published returned to the UK following a break away from the Sinhalese telling them that I had lived in injuries urged him to seek medi- in May 2016, includes reports campaign to secure his release. majority in Sri Lanka. He was the UK for many years and have cal treatment as soon as he ar- from various human rights or- Velauthapillai Renukaruban, then taken to Jaff na prison. nothing to do with LTTE. But rived back in the UK. He went to ganisations and the US Depart- 36, who lives in Ealing, west Lon- He was only located several they didn’t listen. I thought I was Ealing hospital on Tuesday and ment of State. There is a warning don, was freed from detention days later, after his family made going to die.” He was later taken was referred for a brain scan that of “a growing climate of fear” as by the government in the South extensive inquiries about his to Jaff na prison. he hopes to have in the next few well as incidences of arbitrary Asian country after the Foreign whereabouts. He had injuries Following pressure from his days. arrest and torture in the report. Offi ce, a top human rights law- consistent with torture, accord- lawyer, he was taken to Jaff na The medical records state: Renukaruban was married yer in Sri Lanka and a campaign ing to Anton Punethayanagam, hospital supervised by guards “Assault in custody, multiple July 3 and hours later boarded by his family in London helped to the Sri Lankan human rights and received treatment for his lacerations and haemhorragic the plane back to the UK. secure his freedom. lawyer his family engaged to injuries. contusions.” “When I went to Sri Lanka to Renukaruban arrived in the represent him. Renukaruban, who has lived in Renukaruban’s sister, Velau- get married I thought this was Velauthapillai Renukaruban country of his birth on June 1 to A Foreign Offi ce spokeswom- the UK for 16 years, appeared at thapillai Lalitharuby, 26, who the beginning of new happiness marry Thajeepa Vinayagamoor- an said: “We are continuing to Jaff na magistrates court charged lives in London, campaigned for for me,” he said. “Instead ter- Renukaruban’s UK lawyer, torture. The Sri Lankan gov- thy, 27, in an arranged marriage. provide support to a British na- with assault, but there was no her brother’s release and return rible things happened and I was Kulasegaram Geetharthanan, ernment must pay compensa- They planned to marry on June tional who was detained by the victim of the alleged assault in to the UK. “I’m so happy he’s frightened and sad on my wed- condemned the Sri Lankan au- tion to the victim. We intend 8 and a small family party had Sri Lankan authorities.” court and details of how, when back safe,” she said. “But I’m ding day. I had to leave quickly thorities and said the Foreign to commence an international been arranged. Renukaruban Renukaruban said: “I was ar- and where the assault had taken scared that he has a serious brain before we could get a visa for my Offi ce should have done more to lawsuit against the Sri Lankan was planning to return to the UK rested at my mother’s house and place were sketchy. The case was injury.” wife. She is now in hiding in Sri help him. authorities,” he said. on 23 June with his wife. put inside a van where the men later thrown out. Punethayanagam said it was Lanka and I hope I can bring her He said: “We intend to take The Sri Lankan high com- But soon after Renukaruban, who arrested me started punch- Renukaruban’s family believe unusual for torture victims to be here soon. I will never return to this case further as we have very mission in London declined to who is a Tamil, arrived back at ing and beating me. I was taken the real reason why he was ar- treated in hospital in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka again.” strong evidence of abuse and comment. Unesco World Heritage Site Nepal set to get fi rst woman chief justice

IANS Ahead of her approval, she Kathmandu had furnished her reply against six complaints registered against her at the committee. fter getting its fi rst While furnishing her reply, woman president and she committed that she will try Afi rst woman parliament her best to clean up the judici- speaker in 2015, Nepal is all set ary, keep it out from corruption to get its fi rst woman chief jus- and do her best to give steadfast tice with Justice Sushila Karki justice. expected to take formal charge President Bidhya Devi at the Supreme Court of Nepal Bhandari will announce Karki’s next week. appointment to the post and A meeting of Parliamentary deliver the oaths of offi ce and Hearing Special Committee secrecy. (PHSC) yesterday unanimously Justice Sushila Karki Karki said Nepal’s judiciary endorsed Chief Justice-nominee is facing a chronic shortage of Karki for the vacant position acting chief justice for three judges and asked parliamen- of chief justice at the country’s months. The constitutional tarians to speed up the hearing A Nepalese man sits at the Bhaktapur Durbar Square in Bhaktapur, some 12kms southeast of Kathmandu. Bhaktapur, a Unesco World apex court, making her the fi rst council, headed by Prime Minis- process of remaining 11 Justices Heritage Site, is famous for fine architecture and pottery making, and was once the capital of Nepal during the great Malla kingdom woman to lead the judiciary in ter K P Sharma Oli, had forward- whose names were forwarded until the second half of the 15th century.. this Himalayan nation. ed her name as next chief justice for appointment by the judicial She has been offi ciating as on April 10. council. Gulf Times 22 Monday, July 11, 2016 COMMENT

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From the euro’s decline in “act together to generate strong, SDRs, eliminating the cumbersome Fax 44350474 2014-2015 to the US dollar’s decline sustainable, and balanced global negotiations required to secure credits opportunity to improve after the Federal Reserve signalled a growth”. or raise member quotas. macroeconomic postponement of its rate increases Among the most notable obstacles And SDRs could support to the British pound’s recent drop, has been the inability to compel some development; for example, they could co-operation and launch spurred by uncertainty surrounding surplus economies to pursue growth- be allocated in a larger proportion major reforms of the global the recent referendum on EU stimulating policies, which would to developing countries, which have membership, major currencies have compensate for the recessionary greater demand for foreign-exchange GULF TIMES monetary system been all over the map in recent years. eff ects of adjustment in the defi cit reserves. Some have even mooted suspicions of countries. China’s G20 leadership could be the By Jose Antonio Ocampo competitive devaluation. This failure is perhaps most impetus the group needs to initiate New York At a time when a policy change in pronounced within the eurozone, this shift. Zhou Xiaochuan, governor one country reverberates throughout where Germany and the Netherlands of the People’s Bank of China, was the global economy, stronger co- have failed to reduce their surpluses, among the fi rst to question the Cities must seek operation could be vital to enhancing even as the defi cit economies have dollar’s role, some seven years ago, n the run-up to this September’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, overall stability. And, indeed, to some undergone massive adjustments. As and China has been working steadily China, there has been much extent, world leaders have already a result, the eurozone has gone from to internationalise the renminbi. That Italk about strengthening global recognised this imperative. having an overall defi cit in 2008 to eff ort reached a milestone in 2015, solutions to macroeconomic co-operation and being a major surplus region – a shock when the IMF Board agreed to add the reforming the international monetary Macroeconomic that has subtracted about 1% from renminbi to the basket of currencies system. global demand. that determines the SDR’s value. While this is far from the fi rst co-operation clearly Macroeconomic co-operation Beyond the push to use SDRs tackle food waste time these topics have come up – in clearly must be made more eff ective. more actively in IMF programmes, 2011, for example, France pushed for must be made more But, as recent exchange-rate governments could issue SDR- monetary reform, but was waylaid by volatility has shown, even that will denominated bonds. Moreover, private Cities are places of plenty, with the most the eurozone crisis – the time may be eff ective not be enough to stabilise the global banks could increase their use of this opportunities and material comforts, yet they are ripe for genuine progress. economy. Monetary reform is also monetary unit, just as some European Today’s global economy is plagued Since the global fi nancial crisis needed. banks used the so-called European often also where things go to waste. Roughly one- by uncertainty. Inconsistent data erupted in 2008, many initiatives Such reform must include a Currency Unit, helping to pave the third of the food produced globally for human have lately raised questions about aimed at boosting macroeconomic co- reconsideration of the US dollar’s way for the euro. consumption is lost or wasted - about 1.3bn tonnes the strength of the United States’ operation have been undertaken. For outsize role in shaping the The G20’s China summit represents economy. When it comes to Japan, example, the G20 launched the Mutual international monetary system. In an an important opportunity to improve per year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture the data are even more erratic. The Assessment Process, whereby member increasingly multipolar world, would macroeconomic co-operation and Organisation. European Union faces not only a still- countries are evaluated on the basis of it not be more appropriate to build launch major reforms of the global The UN has estimated that 54% of the world’s weak recovery, but also the possibility agreed indicators. a multicurrency system and make monetary system. For the sake of of losing the United Kingdom as a The International Monetary Fund’s greater use of the only global currency balanced growth in developed and population lives in urban areas, a proportion that member. surveillance of macroeconomic that has ever been created: the IMF’s developing countries alike, it must not is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. There is The emerging world, meanwhile, policies has also been enhanced, with Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)? be squandered. - Project Syndicate therefore a direct correlation between the population is experiencing a sharp economic the implementation of a new set of Establishing the SDR as the slowdown. China, in particular, poses multilateral surveillance tools that leading global reserve currency zJose Antonio Ocampo, a professor at of cities and the amount of food waste generated, a signifi cant risk, with many fearing focus on major economies. These would have far-reaching benefi ts. It Columbia University and Chair of the according to Mervyn Jones, director of Sustainable that its downturn will be more severe reforms, it has been said, make for the would allow all countries – not just UN Economic and Social Council’s Global Resources. than initially anticipated. This has most elaborate system of multilateral major economic powers – to enjoy Committee for Development Policy, spurred many to move their capital macroeconomic co-operation in “seigniorage,” or the profi ts brought was minister of finance of Colombia The issue will be examined at the Clean Enviro out of the country, generating strong history. by money creation. Moreover, as and United Nations under-secretary- Summit running in Singapore from today until downward pressure on the renminbi. And yet the G20 still fi nds it the IMF economist Jacques Polak general for economic and social Wednesday, in conjunction with the World Cities This highlights another source extremely diffi cult to fulfi l its suggested long ago, the IMF could affairs. Summit and the Singapore International Water Week. The trio of events will analyse challenges related to the development and management of urban centres around the world. The world, it is estimated, will need about 60% more calories per year by 2050 in order to adequately feed the projected population of more than 9bn people. Such activity would lead to an increase in carbon emissions as lands are cleared for crops and more machinery is used in The UN has agricultural work. The impact can estimated already be seen: rapid that 54% of deforestation in Indonesia to make way the world’s for palm oil plantations population lives have triggered what Nasa last year described in urban areas as possibly the worst fi re disaster ever recorded, with smoke and haze spreading to neighbouring countries. In South Africa, Food Bank South Africa collects surplus food from retailers and wholesalers, and prepares meals for those in need, thus reducing food China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng attending the opening ceremony of the G20 trade ministers meeting in Shanghai on July 9. China hosts the G20 summit in waste and tackling food poverty in one fell swoop. The September this year. group says it distributed 3,350 tonnes of food last year. In South Korea, the government has taken to charging residents disposal fees according to the weight of the food that they discard. Some individuals practice freeganism: instead of Globalisation suff ers a new blow buying food, they do “dumpster diving”, salvaging discarded but still edible food from bins. Elise Lecamp, By Carmen Reinhart With its systemic negative eff ects London was host to a rapidly international capital markets, and a 33-year-old translator in Paris, says she goes to Cambridge on fi nance, trade, and labour mobility, growing global fi nancial industry, concerns about private and public Brexit marks a major setback for as it had been since the time Britain insolvency took centre stage. market once or twice a week, where she is able to pick globalisation. emerged victorious from the The fi nancial crisis resulted in the up food that vendors discard at the end of the day. She he United Kingdom’s Brexit The fallout from Brexit probably Napoleonic Wars. steepest synchronous drop in world also checks bins once every two weeks. The food that referendum has shaken won’t spread as quickly as in World War I ended this earlier wave trade since the Great Depression of the equity and fi nancial markets outright fi nancial crises, such as of globalisation; and, even with the 1930s. she salvages are enough to feed herself and a fl atmate. Taround the world. As in the 2008 fi nancial meltdown or the return to peace, the world never really And global trade still has not “As freegans eat food from dumpsters, or food that prior episodes of contagious fi nancial 1997 and 1998 Asian episodes. But recovered. recovered its earlier trajectory: since was going to be thrown away, this food is saved and turmoil, the victory of the “Leave” the aftereff ects also won’t subside The economic depression of the 2008, export volumes have risen at only vote sent skittish global investors anytime soon. 1920s in Britain, and of the 1930s in about half the average annual rate of consumed instead of going to the landfi ll. toward the usual safe havens. US The UK’s trade, fi nance, and the rest of the world, ushered in a the pre-crisis period. Europe itself has I eat almost exclusively from what I fi nd,” she says. Treasury bonds rose, and the dollar, immigration arrangements are far global wave of protectionist, inward- experienced an even sharper slowdown. There is also a focus on waste-awareness education. Swiss franc, and yen appreciated, most too complex and entrenched to be looking policies and beggar-thy- The world fi nancial crisis dealt markedly against sterling. renegotiated quickly. neighbour competitive devaluations. a signifi cant blow to globalisation, In the UK, national campaigns like Love Food, Hate When it became clear that the The last nail had been hammered especially in terms of trade and Waste target householders and help educate them not “Remain” camp had lost, the pound’s Financial markets into the coffi n of globalisation even fi nance. just about reducing food waste and healthier diets, but slide seemed to be on track to match before the outbreak of World War II. Now Brexit has dealt another the historic 14% depreciation of the do not handle While not the original or singular blow, adding labour mobility to the also about collections. 1967 sterling crisis. cause of the worldwide slump, there list. Financial markets do not handle But it is unlikely that food waste will ever be But the rollercoaster outcomes that uncertainty well is widespread agreement among uncertainty well. we’re now seeing in global capital economists and historians that With the world already facing completely eliminated. Because of that management markets are not unique to the Brexit In the meantime, many cross- policymakers at the time made a bad anaemic growth and low levels of of waste must be optimised. episode. border transactions in goods, services, situation signifi cantly worse. investment, any adequate damage- What is unique, and particularly and fi nancial assets are likely to be After WWII, global integration control plan must include prompt far-reaching, is the precedent Brexit placed on hold. fi nally began anew, fi rst in trade and resolution of the new rules of the game To Advertise sets for other countries (or regions) to Even if there are no other “exit” then, since the 1980s, in fi nance. for Britain and its relationship with “exit” from their respective political moments elsewhere in Europe, a During this time, London’s fi nancial the EU. [email protected] and economic arrangements – protracted period of uncertainty in centre awoke from its long slumber Any delay will cause further Display whether it is Scotland and Northern global capital markets seems likely. and helped the UK become one of frustration and increase the odds of Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 Ireland in the UK, or Catalonia in It’s worth recalling that the pillars of a new, deeply integrated retaliatory policies from EU members. Spain. globalisation did not begin with the international political economy. The last thing anyone needs is a tit- Classified The borders of existing nation- current generation. Prior to the 2008-2009 global for-tat process of political divorce Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 states could be redrawn, or fenced off The latter part of the nineteenth fi nancial crisis, most indicators of that only serves to deepen the global entirely if disgruntled member states century, despite its technological global trade and fi nance had reached economy’s already-widening fault Subscription submit to internal nationalist impulses limitations, was an era of rising global new peaks, and European unifi cation lines. - Project Syndicate, [email protected] and give up on the multi-decade trade. contributed signifi cantly this. experiment in European unifi cation. Major waves of immigration But, with the onset of the crisis, zCarmen Reinhart is professor of (And, as Donald Trump’s presidential radically diversifi ed the demographic cross-border fi nance in Europe the international fi nancial system at 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved campaign in the United States shows, makeup of the US and other parts of shrank as highly leveraged eurozone Harvard University’s Kennedy School this impulse extends beyond Europe.) North and South America. economies began to lose access to of Government. Gulf Times Monday, July 11, 2016 23 COMMENT The key to campaign success? The microphone

Monopolising the Loudness, and his absolute microphone may be a key to entitlement to it, is even a staple of Trump’s rants to the press. political success When asked by the Washington Post about his treatment of protesters By Virginia Heff ernan at rallies, Trump dilated on a single Los Angeles Times/TNS demonstrator - one who had the temerity to try to be heard above Trump’s wall of sound. odern campaigning “We’ve had some very bad people can seem hopelessly come in. We had one guy - and I said it technical. A life of - he had the voice - and this was what Mpublic service now I was referring to - and I said, ‘Boy, I’d appears to require a postdoc in like to smash him.’ You know, I said Snapchat, Pinterest and Bitcoin - the that. I’d like to punch him. This guy “Finnegan’s Wake” of currency. was unbelievably loud. He had a voice But politics can also be downright like Pavarotti.” primitive, a game the loudest voice Shouting battles sound petty - wins. but they’re also elemental, politics It might be that the most signifi cant at their simplest and rawest. After technology of this rally-heavy 2016 all, deafening vocal attacks on US presidential election is the one incompetent or immoral individuals fi rst prototyped in 600 BC: the are where politics started. microphone. In the marketplace of ancient With the microphone, amplifying Athens, Plato raised his voice to a message like “Make America harangue rich Greek mall-rats and Great Again” does not depend on compulsive shoppers. Did they have retweets, but on ancient materials any idea what life’s even about? such as copper, magnets and sintered Sickos! That full-throated name- bronze. calling - as Plato did it - became All this mined stuff expands the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaking at an event in Philadelphia: although Clinton professes to prefer small unamplified gatherings to rallies, what’s known as Western philosophy. soundwaves made with good old she’s managed to stay discreetly loud by choosing wireless and lavalier microphones that let her move closer to interlocutors, talkshow-style, without forfeiting her And politics. flesh and capillaries, larynxes and volume edge. The BC youth of Plato’s day lungs, so that those waves land gathered around to see those resoundingly on sensitive eardrums, microphone may be a key to political and lavalier microphones that let Willaford gained control of his podium Trump can’t conceal his impatience to moneybags ponces dressed down, as willing or not. success. her move closer to interlocutors, and his mic. make his volume great again, even if later AD youth would cheer to hear This is not software. We typically attend to politician’s talkshow-style, without forfeiting her In March, Thomas Dimassimo, a that means hushing his supporters. Bernie Sanders rail against entitled This is power exerted, mouth to ear, words - the “message” - but merely volume edge. protester at a Donald Trump rally, At a rally in Florida in January, bankers. human body to human body, by way of having the mic gives any message a Even as these encounters look more planned to take Trump’s microphone Trump showed what he’d do to anyone The candidate who manages to metals and minerals. shot. egalitarian than a rally, Clinton’s and say “Donald Trump is a racist”. He who came for his mic. Interrupting his grab the Big Mic in November will, of From the weird Hannibal Lecter And the bulk of mic-monopolising clucks of sympathy are still the was arrested before he got anywhere. speech on the country’s plight, Trump course, have to take it from its current mouth-masks that bullhorned may be simply claiming a microphone loudest sounds in the room. Trump is fiercely committed to turned to a problem closer at hand: “I owner. domineering voices through the to begin with - and fending off anyone The volume monopoly at political his mic monopoly. At the podium, don’t like this mic,” he said abruptly. Other US presidents have been amphitheatres of ancient Athens; to else who comes for it. gatherings is crucial - and to challenge with a powerful multidirectional “Whoever the hell bought this mic reluctant to give up their volume Edison’s carbon microphones, which One year ago, Hillary Clinton faced that monopoly is destabilising. microphone squarely at chin level, he system - don’t pay the son of a b**** advantage, but in May Obama hinted debuted at the Metropolitan Opera a crowd in New York with a bum mic; The most disruptive protesters bellows while the crowd falls silent, that put it in.” he knew he couldn’t hold on forever. in 1910; to the coveted Neumann u47 after much fumbling a new one was at rallies this year have not been their cheers reduced in the sound He couldn’t stop: “Stupid mic keeps Saying goodbye at the White House microphones used by Audible, The handed her - by her husband. The would-be assassins but would-be mix from a roar or incantation to a popping. Do you hear that, George? Correspondents’ Dinner, he said he Beatles and Hitler, microphones have passing of the mic. microphone-seizers. kind of hahhhh. Don’t pay ‘em. Don’t pay ‘em. You had just two words: “Obama out.” And been the key to holding a room in awe. And although Clinton professes to In Seattle last summer, Bernie Some politicians (President Barack know, I believe in paying, but when with that, he dropped the mic. Or a stadium. prefer small unamplifi ed gatherings Sanders was cast into abjection and Obama, for one) like to listen, wait and somebody does a bad job - like this Or Nuremberg. to rallies, she’s managed to stay silence when protesters Marissa grinningly bask in enthusiastic sounds stupid mic - you shouldn’t pay the zVirginia Heff ernan’s new book is In fact, monopolising the discreetly loud by choosing wireless Johnson and Mara Jacqueline from a crowd - “oh, go on” - but bastard.” Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art. Letters Weather report Three-day forecast

TODAY A celebrated Prize. In 2006, the Institute of the bodies of people who die on foundation was giving a dignifi ed High: 45 C Business Administration Pakistan footpaths to bury them there. burial to the bodies retrieved from Low : 36 C humanitarian conferred an honorary doctorate The foundation has collected streets. Strong wind and high sea on him. In 2010, Edhi was also the fingerprints of every person The best tribute to Edhi will Dear Sir, awarded an honorary doctorate by buried there and through computer be to carry on with his legacy of the University of Bedfordshire. In records, one can identify any humanitarian service to the needy TUESDAY Pakistan remains in shock and 1989, he received the Nishan-e- buried person later. with greater zeal. High: 44 C grief after the death on Friday of the Imtiaz honour from the Pakistan The foundation has a wide network Low: 34 C prominent charity worker, Abdul government. In 2014, he was voted of free centres. Qualifi ed doctors are Ramesh G Jethwani Cloudy Sattar Edhi. All Pakistanis held Edhi in the 2013 Person of the Year by the available in these centres. (e-mail address supplied) high esteem. readers of The Express Tribune. He Thousands of people attended his was recommended for a Nobel Peace Khawaja Umer Farooq WEDNESDAY funeral in Karachi on Saturday. Among prize by Pakistan’s former prime [email protected] Please send us High: 44 C those present were the president, minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Low: 33 C army chief and a number of senior Edhi started his charity work just your letters M Sunny offi cials. Edhi, who was born in a poor with a few rupees, working from Carry on family, started his charity work at an a small tent pitched in front of his Edhi’s legacy By e-mail Fishermen’s forecast early age. house. The Edhi Foundation now has [email protected] He led a simple life despite the largest network of ambulances and Fax 44350474 OFFSHORE DOHA the Edhi Foundation having a runs orphanages, child centres and Dear Sir, Wind: NW 18-28 KT budget of millions of dollars. Edhi old-age homes. Public donations are Or Post Waves: 5-7/9 Feet served humanity without any the main source of the foundation’s With the death of Abdul Sattar Letters to the Editor INSHORE DOHA Wind: NW 16-26/36 KT discrimination, irrespective of income. Edhi, the world has lost a champion of Gulf Times Waves: 2-4/5 Feet religion, creed, ethnicity, caste The organisation has held the humanity who re-defi ned services for P O Box 2888 and sect. His work in Pakistan and Guinness record for world’s “largest the poor and helpless. Doha, Qatar Around the region abroad had won wide acclaim. The volunteer ambulance organisation” The Edhi Foundation provides Weather Weather Edhi Foundation was one of the first since 1997. exemplary humanitarian support today Max/min tomorrow Max/min charity groups to provide aid to the The foundation takes part in and relief to thousands of poor All letters, which are subject Abu Dhabi M Sunny 40/31 Sunny 40/30 people of New Orleans after the disaster relief activities in several and displaced people, looks after Baghdad Sunny 44/26 Sunny 44/28 to editing, should have the Dubai devastating hurricane there in 2005. Asian and European countries. the elderly and mentally ill, feeds M Sunny 42/31 Sunny 39/31 name of the writer, address Kuwait City Cloudy 48/32 Cloudy 47/31 Together with his wife, Bilquis The Edhi foundation runs the hungry, rehabilitates drug addicts and phone number. The Manama Cloudy 41/34 Cloudy 40/33 Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Maatch Goth graveyard in Karachi. and offers shelter homes for women Muscat M Sunny 39/31 M Sunny 37/30 Magsaysay Award for Public Service. All burial services there are and children who have no place to writer’s name and address Riyadh Sunny 44/30 M Sunny 43/28 He was also the recipient of the free. This graveyard has 65,000 go to. may be withheld by request. Tehran Sunny 38/24 Sunny 38/23 Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan unknown graves. Volunteers collect The most notable deed of the Live issues Developing a sense of humour can save relationships

By Judi Light Hopson, One of Fred’s fraternity brothers sat a joke of such bad luck incidents, you we’d be ready to cry by the time we sat Emma H Hopson and Ted Hagen down to have a serious talk with him. can’t crack a joke properly. down to eat,” Mariah explains. “I told Tribune News Service “He graciously explained to me that Consider a woman we’ll call Mariah. Ted I’d grill certain body parts of his if humour was ointment for the pressures “My husband, Ted, was so sombre and he didn’t lighten up. Then, I explained of college life,” Fred explains. “He really obsessive-compulsive that he’d make I’d take his picture and post it on id you grow up in a went out of his way to tell me I was a backyard cookout a painful event. Facebook.” humourless household? going to snap if I didn’t lighten up. It If you burned his steak, he’d kill Ted has been serious throughout his Was laughter or acting a took time, but I learned to give and take you!” laughs Mariah. life, Mariah told us. So, his laughter Around the world Dlittle goofy frowned upon? humour quite well.” They spent 14 torturous years lessons didn’t catch fi re overnight. Weather Weather If so, you may have failed to develop together before Mariah started using But, he knew Mariah was no longer today Max/min tomorrow Max/min emotional protection we all need. outrageous hyperbole to make Ted willing to live such a humourless Athens Sunny 34/24 Sunny 34/24 Having a healthy sense of humour Having a healthy lighten up. lifestyle. Beirut Sunny 30/24 Sunny 31/25 S T Storms 31/26 provides a cushion between you and This started a couple of years ago. “Recently we stayed at a high-rise Bangkok 32/26 S T Storms sense of humour Berlin S T Storms 28/17 M Cloudy 26/16 the hard knocks life. “I began by making outrageous hotel,” says Mariah. “I told Ted I was Cairo Sunny 38/23 Sunny 38/24 Laughter helps take the edge of your provides a cushion claims about how good looking he is,” going to parade him naked in front Cape Town P Cloudy 23/13 Sunny 21/11 nervousness before a job interview, says Mariah. “You have to get people of the windows if he didn’t shut up Colombo S T Storms 31/26 S T Storms 31/26 for example. Or, if you fi nd something between you and the used to your new, fun self. I went about the time I was spending on my Dhaka S T Storms 32/26 T Storms 32/26 Hong Kong T Storms 33/28 S T Storms 33/28 extremely funny before giving a slowly with Ted. mascara. Istanbul M Sunny 27/21 Sunny 28/21 speech, you won’t get half as nervous. hard knocks life “I wanted him to laugh when I told He did laugh, thank God, because Jakarta S T Storms 32/24 S T Storms 33/24 Without humour, you will also him he is better looking than Brad Pitt I was ready to push him out of the Karachi P Cloudy 34/28 Cloudy 33/28 have lots of stress within your Humour is not something you can in a hot tub. My husband had never window! Ted has even started joking London S Showers 21/13 Rain 19/11 S T Storms S T Storms 33/24 relationships. master in a week, of course. heard me joke around like this, so I had back, which is a darned miracle!” Manila 32/24 Moscow S T Storms 26/16 T Storms 26/16 “My fraternity brothers had to really Many of us have used it so sparingly 14 years of catching up to do.” New Delhi S T Storms 33/27 T Storms 33/26 work on me,” says a businessman we’ll or forgotten how to laugh that we need Mariah paid her husband a few zJudi Light Hopson is the executive New York M Sunny 29/21 P Cloudy 29/22 call Fred who lives in East Tennessee. a refresher course. compliments to get him to laugh. director of the stress management Paris Cloudy 24/16 S T Storms 22/13 “I was so solemn when I fi rst pledged Keep in mind that humour is often Next, she started threatening to grill website USA Wellness Cafe at Sao Paulo Sunny 29/16 Sunny 29/15 Seoul M Cloudy 32/24 S T Storms 29/23 the fraternity. used best in an outrageous situation, him on the grill if he didn’t lighten up www.usawellnesscafe.com Emma Singapore S T Storms 33/27 T Storms 33/27 I would laugh a little here and there, such as dropping a bag of groceries in about the steaks. Hopson is an author and a nurse Sydney Showers 21/11 P Cloudy 19/08 but my sense of humour was basically the store parking lot. “My husband was so deadly serious educator. Ted Hagen is a family Tokyo Rain 32/22 Cloudy 29/22 zero.” And, if you don’t practice making about the doneness of all our steaks, psychologist. Gulf Times 24 Monday, July 11, 2016 QATAR

Performers entertain the crowd at City Center Doha. An acrobatic performance. QTA hopes to build on ‘highly successful’ Eid celebrations

By Joey Aguilar Staff Reporter

id al-Fitr celebrations in Qatar treated many resi- Edents and foreign visitors with fun-fi lled entertainment shows and activities at various locations for the last fi ve days. Some characters of Iftah Ya Simsim (the Arabic version of Sesame Street) led by Grover and Bert enthralled the audience with their fi nal performance at Hyatt Plaza Shopping Mall yesterday. The mall’s food court was packed with hundreds of parents and children who watched the show from 5pm to 10pm. Hyatt general manager Feroz Moideen said the events and ac- tivities organised by Qatar Tour- ism Authority (QTA) annually create a festive atmosphere that makes Qatar a “wonderful lei- sure destination.” At City Center Doha, a large number of children had the op- portunity to interact and take pictures with the cast of Alice in Wonderland on stage yesterday. Other ‘exclusive family enter- tainment shows’ such as Sleep- ing Beauty (Dar Al Salam Mall), The Little Mermaid (Ezdan Mall) Another acrobatic performance. Young visitors pose with the cast of Alice in Wonderland. and Snow White (Lagoona Mall) also captured the hearts of Eid spent their Eid holidays in Qatar Saudi Arabia. The celebrations ing QTA enrich indoor enter- visitors with their remarkable also had the chance to watch this year dubbed as “Capture tainment off erings. Shahbik also performances. two QTA-sponsored theatrical Joy” witnessed huge crowds lauded the eff orts of the Qatar For fi ve days, many families and plays, the Tar Al Wazir, an Ara- at popular venues across the National Theatre, Souq Waqif Doha residents took time to watch bic comedy about social issues in country, including malls, sports and Katara for hosting and or- the Kids Circus Show at Al Khor Qatar and the GCC, at the Qatar arenas and museums.Entertain- ganising fantastic performances Mall and visited the Al Khor Park. National Theatre; and the chil- ment shows, cultural events and and drawing huge crowds. The Eid festivities at Katara – dren’s play, The Hunter and the unique activities form part of The QTA offi cial noted that the Cultural Village concluded Pirates at Souq Waqif’s Al Rayy- QTA’s strategy in promoting Qa- the festivities will continue from last Saturday with a colourful an Theatre. tar as a family destination. August 1 to 31 for the QSF 2016 fi reworks display, as well as the “Festivals and events are one In organising these events, al- at the Doha Exhibition and Con- last staging of the musical show of several avenues through which Qurese said they want to further vention Centre (DECC). She also “A Child’s Dream.” QTA works on diversifying Qa- boost the hospitality and retail expects local and foreign visitors Other Eid activities included tar’s tourism off ering. Other sectors, drive domestic tourism to throng the Entertainment City free tours of the Sheikh Faisal bin avenues include cruise tourism and attract regional visitors espe- (to be set up at DECC), see new Qassim Al Thani Museum; horse and business events tourism,” cially during the off peak season. attractions and watch a number riding sessions at Al Samariyah said QTA’s chief Promotions and “Estimates of attendance of cultural events and shows.The Equestrian Centre; aerial pa- Marketing offi cer Rashed al- show a highly successful festival Entertainment City will feature a ragliding tours at Sealine Beach Qurese in a statement. and we look forward to build- range of new, interactive gaming by the Qatar Air Sports Com- QTA-organised events such ing on this success for the up- and entertainment options for mittee; and a wide variety of as the Eid celebration and the coming QSF, which is just three children and adults. entertainment off erings at some annual Qatar Summer Festival weeks away,” QTA’s Festivals and Hotels will be off ering special venues that included Aqua Park, (QSF) have been attracting an Tourism Events director Mashal room rates while renowned retail Al Dosari Zoo and Game Reserve, increasing number of visitors Shahbik said. brands and shops at major malls the Pearl-Qatar and Aspire Zone from neighbouring GCC coun- She also thanked their part- are expected to launch various Foundation. Many residents who tries each year especially from ners such as the malls for help- sales promotions. Children pose with Sesame Street characters.

Performers bid farewell to the audience. A large number of spectators watch the show at City Center Doha.