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SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 MUHARRAM 19, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait Hospital Philippine Azalea the Messi treble in Gaza helps police van smoking chimp gives Guardiola patients amid runs over new star at nightmares on Israeli blockade4 protesters12 Pyongyang40 zoo Barca20 return Amir instructs premier to Min 18º re-examine DNA test law Max 38º High Tide 01:31 & 15:18 Royal files to contest election • Candidates blast dissolved Assembly Low Tide 08:31 & 20:55 40 PAGES NO: 17025 150 FILS By B Izzak Kuwait inches KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah yesterday ordered HH the Prime Minister Sheikh closer to expat Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to review the controversial DNA law that was passed by the National Assembly earlier this only hospitals year that required all citizens, expats and visitors to undergo mandatory DNA tests. The Amir said the By Ahmad Jabr revision must safeguard people’s privacy. HH the Amir also instructed the premier KUWAIT: Kuwait’s plan to achieve complete nationali- that the re-examination of the law should ty-based segregation at its medical facilities is on track, be in a manner that would serve public with the first steps set to take place early next year interests, social security and the objective when clinics run by a medical insurance company will that had been set for drafting it. begin offering services exclusively for expatriates. Meanwhile, in a rare event of its kind, a In addition to the 15 clinics that will be spread member of the ruling Al-Sabah family was across Kuwait, the Health Insurance Hospitals among 71 candidates who filed nomina- Company, a public shareholding firm for health insur- tion papers to stand for the 50-seat ance established in accordance with a decision by the Assembly elections on the first day of candidate registra- Cabinet, will provide medical care for expatriates tions. Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Sabah criticized the out- through three hospitals to be officially opened by late going Assembly for failing to protect the interests of Kuwaiti 2019, CEO Dr Ahmad Al-Saleh said during a confer- people and said he has decided to run as an ordinary ence sponsored by the health ministry. Kuwaiti citizen to defend the interests of the people. He said When those hospitals become operational, the he had given up his special passport for a regular one and plan is to prohibit expats from receiving medical that he does not mind losing other benefits. attention at public hospitals and clinics, making access Sheikh Malek said that the constitution does not bar rul- to those facilities - where services are mostly offered ing family members from contesting parliamentary polls free of charge - exclusive to Kuwaiti citizens. This step and they are considered similar to other Kuwaiti citizens. also comes at an additional cost for foreigners. Once Only a handful of ruling family members have filed to run in the new company takes over the duties of offering health services to expats from the health ministry, elections during Kuwait’s 54 years of parliamentary democ- expats’ annual health insurance fees will increase to racy. However, all of them dropped out of the race before KD 130, Saleh confirmed, without giving an exact date the elections were held. The last royal to register his candi- for its implementation. dacy was Sheikh Fahd Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, who withdrew KUWAIT: Candidates register for the upcoming parliamentary elections yesterday. (Inset) Ruling family member Continued on Page 13 before the 2006 election. Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Sabah files to run in the polls. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Malala urges Muslims to unite SHARJAH: Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize children in Mosul right now under a winner Malala Yousafzai, giving a speech threat to be used as human shields,” she Spending cuts a yesterday in the Emirates, urged Muslims said of the Iraqi city where an offensive to respect the “true message of Islam” has been launched to retake it from the must despite oil and unite against wars in their countries. Islamic State group. The 19-year-old, who was shot in the She called for empowering the recovery: IMF head by the Taleban in 2012 after she younger generation, especially women, had publicly advocated education for with the education needed “to bring DUBAI: A modest recovery in oil prices falls short of girls, urged the world’s Muslims to “come peace and prosperity to their countries”. filling budgetary gaps in crude-exporting Gulf coun- together... and follow the true message The youngest-ever Nobel recipient tries, the International Monetary Fund said, stressing of Islam as they join hands in the strug- stressed the need for men to support the need to cut spending. The price of the region’s gle for peace”. women in their attempt to receive “quali- main commodity has partially rebounded and is hov- “We cannot talk about investing in our ty education”. Malala, who moved to ering around $50 per barrel having hit a 10-year low future in this region without calling for England where she received medical of less than $30 in January, an end to these bombings and these treatment after the shooting, is both from a peak of more than attacks,” she told a conference in the admired and hated in her native DOHA: Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi poses for a picture with his work titled ‘Mission of $100 in mid-2014. The southern Gulf emirate of Sharjah on the Pakistan, where some conservatives view Destruction’ at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in the Qatari capital yesterday. — AFP recovery “will definitely future of women in the Middle East. “We her as a Western agent on a mission to help in terms of the finan- must not forget that the majority of shame her country. She was awarded the Top Iraqi artist warns of cial numbers for this year” those suffering because of these conflicts Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with for the countries of the Gulf and wars are Muslims,” said Malala, refer- India’s Kailash Satyarthi, a fellow educa- ‘scenario of destruction’ Cooperation Council, said ring to conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. tion activist who made similar calls at the Masood Ahmed, the IMF’s “I cannot stop thinking of those 500,000 Sharjah conference yesterday. — AFP Masood Ahmed DOHA: Acclaimed Iraqi artist Dia Al- interest in Iraqi folk figures and legends. director for the Middle East. Azzawi, who exhibits almost 550 of his The second half, in the Al Riwaq gallery, “But it doesn’t really change the fundamental out- works in Qatar this week, says his country charts the 77-year-old’s more politicized look for GCC countries or the challenges that face faces a bleak future and the assault on work from the late 1960s onwards. One them,” he told AFP in an interview Tuesday. Oil was Mosul is “a scenario of destruction”. “I am major theme is the momentous political expected to stabilize at around $60 per barrel in the the cry, who will give voice to me?” show- events which have engulfed the Middle medium term, he said, a rate lower than the budget- cases paintings, sculptures and drawings East over the past few decades as well as ary breakeven point for some of the six nations. In its for the next six months across two Doha the fate of his own nation, about which regional economic outlook report released museums. It is potentially the largest ever Baghdad-born Azzawi is steadfastly pes- Wednesday, the IMF cited a breakeven price for Saudi solo exhibition by an Arab artist and is the simistic. “We have destruction, we have Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates at $79.7, first major retrospective of Al-Azzawi’s tragedy, sectarian mentality, faith mentali- $62.1 and $58.6 respectively. work. The exhibition charts a career span- ty,” he says of Iraq. The level drops to $47.8 per barrel in the case of ning more than 50 years by a politically “All that is created by the interests of Kuwait, but it shoots to $77.5 and $93.8 in the case of conscious artist, and the division of work the West, I have no problem with that, but Oman and Bahrain respectively. “(This) means that across two museums neatly represents to support parties, Islamic parties, the GCC countries as a group still have to try and balance two distinct phases of his career. mentality of Daesh (the Islamic State their budgets,” said Ahmed. The exhibition at Doha’s the Mathaf: group), the mentality of ethnic Continued on Page 13 SHARJAH: Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Arab Museum of Modern Art highlights his Continued on Page 13 Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech during a conference yesterday. — AFP ‘Cat-eyed’ tea seller sparks soul searching ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani tea seller with velvet eyes Javeria Ali took the fateful shot was swarmed by cation of working class men,” tweeted @nidkirm, saw his life changed this week when his portrait dozens eager to gawk at the young worker. who described himself as a sociologist based in spread around the Internet, sparking ardent debates But in a country where women have long fought Lahore. on class, objectification, and the place of ethnic for rights and rarely express their feelings publicly, And in a column in the Express Tribune Farahnaz Pashtuns in society. Arshad Khan had no idea he had that fervor soon morphed into an intense debate on Zahidi mocked the “surprise” that someone poor set the Internet alight from Pakistan to India and what it meant to reduce a poor man to a beautiful could be good-looking.