MP Files to Grill 2 Ministers, Deepening Political Crisis Lawyers Society Demands Probe Into Financial Rewards to Frontline Workers
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RAMADAN 21, 1442 AH MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021 16 Pages Max 37 Min 25º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18425 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net State departments told to address Real Madrid defeat Osasuna, unpaid wages problem, visa trade Atletico scrape past Elche 3 15 Fajr 03:39 Shurooq 05:04 Dhuhr 11:45 Asr 15:21 Maghrib 18:25 Isha 19:49 MP files to grill 2 ministers, deepening political crisis Lawyers Society demands probe into financial rewards to frontline workers By B Izzak normally made up of several pages. filed to grill Health Minister Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah for Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said he allegedly failing to manage the coronavirus crisis. More aid lands in KUWAIT: Leading opposition MP Shuaib Al- received the two grillings, which will be added to the Unconfirmed reports state that other opposition Muwaizri yesterday filed to grill the foreign and agenda of the next Assembly session. Assembly ses- MPs may file grillings against other ministers, effective- finance ministers for “failing to respect the constitu- sions have been suspended until after the Eid Al-Fitr ly voting all Cabinet members out of office, which could India; Canada, tion and law” in a move that is expected to deepen the holidays and the first session is not expected before lead to the dissolution of the National Assembly and political crisis in the country. Muwaizri said in a brief May 25. fresh polls. Brazil struggle statement that he filed to grill Foreign Minister Sheikh It was not immediately known if the move is a new Meanwhile, the Lawyers Society in cooperation Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah and Finance tactic by the opposition, locked in a standoff with the with the Public Funds Protection Society yesterday NEW DELHI: More international aid arrived in Minister Khalifa Hamada for failing to respect article government and the speaker over a decision to delay asked the Anti-Corruption Authority to launch an India yesterday as the daily COVID-19 death toll 99 of the constitution and article 121 of the Assembly’s grillings of the prime minister for 18 months. The oppo- investigation into financial rewards to frontline work- reached a new record in the South Asian nation. internal charter. sition says the delay is a violation of the constitution. ers, saying the amount is highly inflated. Press reports The country struggled to contain one of the Both articles emphasize the constitutional right of It seems the opposition has decided to grill ministers showed that the government is proposing a financial world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks with nearly all members of parliament to ask questions to the instead of insisting to grill the prime minister first, which reward of KD 586 million to as many as 214,000 400,000 new infections reported. Surges in Brazil prime minister and all Cabinet ministers, and their has already caused the disruption of Assembly sessions. employees who have contributed to the campaign to and Canada also highlighted the persistent threat right to get replies and comment on them. The two Grillings can lead to a vote of no-confidence against combat the coronavirus pandemic. The size of the of the pandemic, with the COVID-19 death toll grillings are perhaps the shortest in the history of ministers, which requires just 25 votes to pass. The amount has been strongly criticized, and several MPs approaching 3.2 million even as many nations ramp Kuwait’s parliament, since Muwaizri did not include opposition has more than enough numbers to vote any have charged that the process of granting the rewards up vaccination drives. — AFP (See Page 7) any explanations, as is usual. Grillings in Kuwait are minister out of office. Two opposition MPs had already could involve corruption. 2 Established 1961 Monday, May 3, 2021 Local Amir receives senior state officials at Bayan Palace KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Crown His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Marzouq Al-Ghanem. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al- Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Minister of State for Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Ali Al-Sabah. Integrity Enhancement Abdullah Al-Roumi. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah received His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness the Amir also received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al- Sabah. Furthermore, His Highness the Amir received Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Minister of State for Integrity Enhancement Abdullah Al-Roumi. In the meantime, His Highness the Crown Prince received Ghanem, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled and Roumi at Bayan Palace. Moreover, His Highness Sheikh Mishal received Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah and Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. — KUNA Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. Ramadan Kareem Hope and fear in Taleban Gloating over one’s misfortune is prohibited in Islam bastion Kandahar KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: As the US military By Hassan T Bwambale ment may result in being afflicted with a similar or began formally withdrawing from Afghanistan worse calamity. Let God Almighty deal with His Saturday, some residents in Kandahar-the former mong Islam’s articles of belief is to believe servants whom He created because He is their cre- bastion of the Taleban-were optimistic the exit will in preordainment. Almighty Allah has pre- ator and knows more about them than anyone else. bring peace to the violence-wracked country. Adetermined what will happen and what will * Only Allah can judge His servants: If anyone, “The fighting will then be between two Muslim not happen. If someone is tested by a calamity or especially the one you dislike, gets afflicted with a brothers (Afghan government forces and the affliction or something else, there is wisdom calamity, do not conclude that it’s because of his Taleban) and the hope is that the two will reconcile behind it. It is prohibited for a believer to rejoice sins. Who gave you the moral authority to judge and make peace,” said Pacha Khan, a farmer from in a misfortune that strikes anyone whom he con- others? Jundub bin Abdillah narrated that Prophet the southern Afghan province that was once a flash- siders enemy or whom he doesn’t like or whom he Muhammad (pbuh) informed his companions point of fighting. US President Joe Biden had competes with. While he rejoices in the misfor- about a man who quarreled with his friend- announced in April that the remaining 2,500 tunes and sufferings of others, what assurances turned-adversary, saying, “I swear by Allah that He American troops will formally begin leaving does he have that a similar or worse catastrophe will not forgive so-and-so!” God Almighty Afghanistan from May 1 and complete their with- cannot strike him? Moreover, is he aware of Allah’s responded, “Who is He who thinks he can control drawal by the 20th anniversary of the September 11 KANDAHAR: People make their way along a market plans? Whatever you regard as calamity may turn Me, claiming that I won’t forgive so-and-so? For, I attacks, bringing an end to America’s longest war. area in Kandahar. As the US military pressed on May out to be a blessing in disguise. Almighty Allah have, indeed, forgiven him and rendered your In reality, the withdrawal has been a work in 1 withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. — AFP told Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) deeds null and void.” (Saheeh Muslim # 2, 621) progress for months. Fighting between US forces and the Taleban has stopped since a landmark deal what can be translated as: “If a blessing befalls * Even if someone rejoices in your calamity or leaving.” His views were echoed by Agha Shireen, a between Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump and the you, it grieves them (ie your enemies), but if a predicament, do not retaliate by doing the same trishaw driver from Arghandab on the outskirts of insurgents last year. But battles rage daily between calamity strikes you, they say, ‘We took our pre- when he suffers; ‘two wrongs cannot make a right.’ Kandahar city. “They have killed a lot of our people Afghan government forces and the militants across cautions beforehand,’ and they turn away rejoic- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) advised Ja’ber bin and brought only misery,” he said. “If the Taliban Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taleban who ruled ing. Tell them that nothing will befall us except Saleem in a long prophetic narration, saying, “... return, the situation might turn better.” the country in the 1990s with a harsh version of what Allah has decreed for us. For He is our and if a person insults and humiliates you, do not But Pari, 31, who works in Panjwai district Islamic sharia law.