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JAMADA ALTHANI 2, 1439 AH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2018 Max 24º 32 Pages Min 17º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17460 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Society urges public to protect Qatar calls for EU-style Nepali shoes get revamp: From Magical title for Hanyu as 3 environment during celebrations 11security pact for Mideast 32 Maoist symbol to hip accessory 15 snowboarder in ski shock Calls for justice as Filipina maid’s body returns home Kuwait manpower authority keen to safeguard workers’ rights ILOILO, Philippines: More than a hun- ously condemned Manila’s “escalation”, dred relatives and supporters of a of the issue but Philippine Foreign Filipina maid whose body was found Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said stuffed in a freezer in Kuwait brandished Friday the Kuwaiti ambassador had banners demanding justice as her coffin assured him his government was “out- was returned home yesterday. The family raged” over the killing and determined to of Joanna Demafelis openly wept as the find those responsible. white casket was unloaded at an airport Cayetano said while the death was cargo terminal in the central city of Iloilo. tragic, it would be a “rallying point” for “Justice for Joanna D Demafelis,” was governments to work harder to protect emblazoned on banners and on T-shirts Filipinos overseas, while conceding that worn by the crowd which included a Philippine-Kuwaiti relations were going congressman and local officials express- through a “very rocky period”. He said ing their anger over the death of the only about three to five percent of Filipina whose body was found in a Filipino laborers in Kuwait were having freezer in Kuwait earlier this month after problems but acknowledged the govern- her employers, a Lebanese man and his ment needed to do more. His department Syrian wife, disappeared in 2016. The said Monday authorities were repatriat- incident worsened a diplomatic flap ing 10,000 Filipinos who had overstayed between the Philippines and Kuwait with their visas in Kuwait, with more than 700 President Rodrigo Duterte alleging that flown home already under an amnesty employers routinely rape their Filipina program announced recently by the workers, force them to work 21 hours a Kuwaiti government. day and feed them scraps. A distraught Eva Demafelis could only He has also banned the deployment of say “I am sad,” when asked by reporters new workers to Kuwait and ordered air- about the death of her daughter. “She lines to fly home any of the 252,000 does not deserve the manner in which Filipinos working there who wish to she died. She was beaten up,” said an return. About 10 million Filipinos work aunt, Rosela Demafelis Taunan, referring abroad and the money they remit back is to local news reports about the 29-year- a lifeline of the Philippine economy. Their old maid’s death. “She decided to go ILOILO, Philippines: Eva (third left), mother of Filipina worker Joanna Demafelis whose body was found inside a freezer in Kuwait, cries in treatment abroad is often a political issue abroad because she wanted to help her front of the wooden casket containing her daughter’s body shortly after its arrival from Manila at Iloilo International Airport yesterday. — AFP at home. Kuwait’s foreign minister previ- Continued on Page 11 India, Iran agree Pak child killer to support Kabul, handed four ink pact to lease death sentences LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday handed four Chabahar port death sentences to a man charged with raping and mur- dering a six-year-old girl, in a case that shocked the NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani country and sparked major riots in his home district. Imran Ali, 24, was on trial for killing Zainab Fatima and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed yester- (left) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister ISLAMABAD: Ameen Ansari, the father of six-year-old day to step up efforts to bring stability to war-rav- Ameen in the eastern city of Kasur last month. He faces Narendra Modi before a meeting at Hyderabad further charges in the cases of at least seven other chil- Zainab who was found raped and murdered, leaves aged Afghanistan. Modi reiterated India’s commitment House yesterday. — AFP to help Afghanistan become “a peaceful, secure, per- dren attacked in the Punjab city - five of whom were following a court verdict yesterday. — AFP murdered - in a spate of assaults that had stoked fears a manent, prosperous and pluralistic country” after in 2001. In 2016, India offered $1 billion in economic serial child killer was on the loose. He has confessed to Lakhpat prison under tight security. Journalists were holding talks with Rouhani in New Delhi on the last aid to strengthen various sectors in the war-torn all eight attacks, including the death of Zainab. stopped 500 m from the prison and only relatives of the day of his three-day visit. “Looking at our common nation including education, health and agriculture. Ali was handed four separate death sentences after victim were allowed in court for the hearing. Zainab’s interests, we are committed to stopping the expansion Modi said both countries wanted to increase eco- being convicted of the rape and murder of Zainab, as mother Nusrat Bibi demanded he be executed in public. of such forces that promote international organized nomic cooperation, regional connectivity and well as terrorism charges, prosecutor general of Punjab “I want him to be hanged publicly at the place where he crime in terrorism, extremism, illegal drug trafficking, improve energy security to reach landlocked province Ihtesham Qadir said after a special anti-terror- took Zainab,” she told reporters after the verdict. cyber crime and various forms,” Modi said “We want Afghanistan and central Asia via the southern Iranian ism court passed its judgement. Under Pakistani law, Zainab’s murder last month sparked outrage across to see our region and the world free from terrorism.” port of Chabahar. The port, which was inaugurated in crimes that are considered to have spread terror in soci- Pakistan, with riots erupting in Kasur as thousands There was no mention of financial assistance or December, has been touted as a way for India to ety can be charged as acts of terrorism. The prosecutors swarmed police stations and set fire to politicians’ providing weapons to help Afghanistan fight militants establish trade routes that bypass its rival Pakistan. said he also received life imprisonment and fines homes, while Pakistanis across the nation took to social by either leader. They did not name Pakistan but it has India has been a key purchaser of Iranian oil and gas, totalling 3.2 million rupees ($30,000) for additional media demanding action. Television stations repeatedly long been accused of supporting insurgents in and maintained trade ties even as international sanc- charges of hiding his victim’s body. broadcast chilling CCTV footage purportedly showing Afghanistan. India has been a key supporter of tions were imposed on Tehran over its nuclear pro- One million rupees of the fine would be given in com- the young girl walking hand-in-hand with an unidenti- Kabul’s government and has poured more than $2 bil- gram between 2012 and 2016. pensation to Zainab’s family, public prosecutor Abdul fied male in what may have been her last moments. lion into the country since the Taleban were toppled Continued on Page 11 Rauf Wattoo told AFP. The trial was held in Lahore’s Kot Continued on Page 11 ‘Screaming Mummy’ ing disabilities in newborns. MoH to open The conference coincided displayed in museum with health ministry’s prepara- CAIRO: The Egyptian Museum in Cairo tions to launch a Comprehensive has put on display the “Screaming ENT depts in National Program for the Mummy” of the son of a pharaoh who Prevention of Deafness and its may have been hanged for plotting his all hospitals celebration of the International father’s murder. Dubbed “the unknown Day for Hearing in March. man E”, the mummy - which is not usual- KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Basel said participants in ly exhibited - appears to be of a man Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said the conference will carry out who died an agonizing death. Egypt’s the ministry has completed several tests and operations at antiquities ministry has said DNA analy- nearly 80 percent of the goals of Zain, Farwaniya and Adan sis confirmed the mummy was a son of a health survey that aims at early Hospitals, adding that involving Ramses III, who ruled between 1186 BC discovery of hearing disabilities world experts in such confer- and 1155 BC. CAIRO: A picture taken yesterday shows the in newborns. Sheikh Basel was ences contributes to easing It showed signs that the man had “Screaming Mummy”, known scientifically speaking during the opening of pressure on the treatment KUWAIT: CEO of Central Circle Co Dr Ziad Al-Alyan (second left) discuss- been hanged and shrouded in sheepskin, as “the unknown man E”, on display at the a conference on the latest devel- abroad program and enhancing es the latest ear, nose and throat technologies with Health Minister which the ancient Egyptians considered Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. —AFP opments in throat and vocal Kuwaiti doctors’ experience. Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah (second right) at an ENT conference. impure. Pentawere, the son of Ramses cord surgeries, which ended Sheikh Basel said the ministry III, was sentenced to hang for his role in killed in the plot, but there are indica- yesterday. He said the survey, is keen on opening ear, nose and equip it with state-of-the-art Arabia, UAE, US, Australia, the plot, according to an ancient papyrus tions that he was stabbed in the neck.