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TUESDAY Vol. XXXX No. 11197 May 28, 2019 Ramadan 23, 1440 AH

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In brief Regime bombs civilians in Idlib QATAR | Religion Baladna plans Eid expected to fall on June 5 Qatar Astronomical Society expects to raise exports that the first day of Eid al-Fitr to fall on Wednesday, June 5. Qatar depends on the Eid announcement from the Crescent Moon Sighting Committee of the Ministry of Endowments-Awqaf and expand and Islamic Aff airs. Dr Khaled bin Abdulla Turki al- Subaey, head of Qatar Astronomical Society, said in statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA) that the domestic outlets crescent will be absent in Doha only three minutes after sunset, and the maximum time the moon Company determined to achieve self-suff iciency in Qatar will remain in the Arab world will be in Rabat, where it will be absent By Santhosh V Perumal after sunset by only 12 minutes. He Business Reporter added that according to astronomy, Tuesday, June 4 will be the last day of Ramadan for all countries that aladna, a beacon of self-suffi - require crescent moon sighting and ciency that has been growing the month of Shawwal will begin on Bmore than 100% year-on-year, Wednesday, June 5. is rolling out a two-tier strategy, which includes tapping more export mar- REGION | Politics White Helmet rescue volunteers and civilians rescue a child from the rubble of a building destroyed during an air kets and expanding domestic outlets, Kuwait Amir calls for strike by Syrian regime forces and their allies on the town of Ariha, in the southern outskirts of Syria’s Idlib province as Qatar completes the second year of yesterday. Page 11 “unwarranted blockade” by Saudi-led GCC vigilance, unity quartet. The Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah “We do have solid plans to expand al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, stressed and deliver shareholder value,” Balad- Dr Kamel Abdallah, Baladna chief yesterday that the regional situation na chief executive Dr Kamel Abdallah executive. necessitates vigilance and unity in told Gulf Times when asked about the order to preserve the achievements dairy major’s plan in the wake of Gulf value and quality dairy or other food of the GCC. “The bitter reality More steps to curb use of crisis that however brought the best products,” he said. of the region, its dangerous out of Qatar. In May 2018, it had achieved 95% dimensions and consequences, Baladna was one of the fi rst entities self-suffi ciency in fresh milk in Qatar and the developments taking to swiftly spring into action (after Qa- and it has just started the journey for place in the region calls upon us to tar came under unjust economic, trade long-life milk and 100% natural fruit realise the current situations and mobile phones by drivers and diplomatic embargo) by fl ying in juice categories. circumstances, be cautious and cows from Germany and Switzerland - Abdallah said the dairy sector in ready to confront them in order to a show of strength of Qatar as well as Qatar is a very dynamic one with protect the safety and security of By Shafeeq Alingal ing. We also deliver lectures and con- that of its private sector to overcome constant growth due to its health our dear country,” the Kuwaiti Amir Staff Reporter duct exhibitions. We also make use hurdles with ease. and wellness elements, and the ro- said in a speech carried by Kuwait’s of the social media to spread aware- bust growth of the population in the KUNA news agency. ness,” he said. Besides, offi cials visit “Our medium to long-term country. He added: “This will not be achieved he Traffi c Department is look- spring camps and Qatari ‘majlises’ strategy will be focused on “I can confi rm now is that we are but through cohesion and adherence ing to further strengthen where they hold interactions with the global and local trends to growing more than 100% year-on- to our national unity, which we will Tmeasures to curb the use of public. provide consumers with high year, and we continue to evolve dy- never allow to prejudice. It is the mobile phones while driving, an of- According to data available with value and quality dairy or namically,” he said without divulging protective wall after God for the fi cial has said. the Ministry of Interior, Qatar records other food products” the actual top line fi gures as it is yet a homeland, that protects it from the Noting that the use of mobile devic- some 800 road accidents a day on an private entity, pending its process of woes that plague other countries.” es results in many accidents involv- average. It has also been found that Baladna, whose main focus is on initial public off ering (IPO). ing both motorists and pedestrians, some 51% of the total accidents are health and wellness, is moving towards The company has already lined up RAMADAN THOUGHT Captain Abdul Wahid Gharib al-Anzi, due to mobile usage. Captain al-Anzi becoming an integrated food and bev- QR21mn investments for UHT (long- Traffi c Awareness Offi cer at the de- said the victims are pedestrians in erage company. life milk) and another QR10mn for And We send not the Messengers Captain Abdul Wahid Gharib al-Anzi. partment, said: “Some motorists fail PICTURE 32% of accident death cases. “Our main goal is to achieve self- fresh juice. but as givers of glad tidings : Ram Chand to take proper steps before changing A task force is working towards suffi ciency in Qatar and prioritise it About its brand strategy, Abdallah and as warners. So whosoever lanes and also jump signals as they are intensify awareness campaigns and implementing Qatar’s National Traf- among others,” he said, adding Baladna said Baladna is rolling out a two-tier believes and does righteous busy using their mobile phones while initiate other steps in co-ordination fi c Safety Strategy. As part of the im- continues to gain market share in every strategy built on proximity and avail- good deeds, upon such shall driving. Also, pedestrians become with the departments concerned. plementation, eff orts are being taken category it enters, refl ecting the unique ability. “We are constantly expanding come no fear, nor shall they victims as they, too, sometimes use The Traffi c Department offi cial added to spread a culture of traffi c safety consumer off erings and a good price- across diff erent outlets in Qatar aiming grieve. (Qur’an 6: 48) mobile phones while crossing a street that road traffi c accident cases have among school students through fi eld equity relation. to be accessible by everyone in Qatar,” Prayer times or walking along a road.” come down due to proper interven- visits by specialists. Expecting that in the years to come, he added. Captain al-Anzi made the observa- tion and awareness campaigns. In addition, lectures and work- the market will open further to many The company is also looking at ex- Fajr....3.17 Zuhr....11.31 Asr....2.56 tions while speaking at a recent com- Currently, the Traffi c Awareness shops are organised while awareness off erings as consumers trends and ports as an additional source of rev- Maghrib.....6.21 Isha.....7.51 munity awareness and Iftar event in Department holds classes for em- messages are provided to parents needs evolve, Abdallah said Baladna enue, and has devised its strategy to Fasting times Doha. ployees and labourers at functions through text messages and direct will be a dominant player in that per- promote products and emerge as a re- Traffi c personnel conduct patrols organised by diff erent companies. meetings. The authorities are also spective. gionally recognised player. Iftar today ...... 6.21pm to detect and record violations, he “The department is active in terms looking to reduce road traffi c accident “Our medium to long-term strat- On the proposed IPO, he said the Imsak tomorrow...... 3.07am told Gulf Times, stressing that the of holding special campaigns against mortality rate through continued in- egy will be focused on global and local process is “work in progress” and did authorities have decided to further the use of mobile phones while driv- tervention. trends to provide consumers with high not elaborate further. HIA celebrates fi ve years of successful operations

atar’s state-of-the-art Ha- New cargo terminal minal expansion plans to accommo- check-in hall. A fi rst of its kind in any mad International Airport date 53mn passengers annually at the major airport worldwide, mobile Au- Q(HIA) celebrated its 5th year HIA will also see the construction airport by 2022. tomated Visa Document Check has of operations yesterday by organising of a new cargo terminal. This will HIA will see the construction of an also been implemented in the fi ve-star a parade in the terminal to thank the increase the capacity handled Airport City which will provide sig- terminal to enable ground services passengers for their contribution and to 3mn tonnes per year and help nifi cant future investment opportuni- agents to check passengers visa docu- support towards the rapid growth of accommodate the expected surge ties, including a free trade zone, an of- mentation. the airport. in freight traff ic. Construction of the fi ce and business complex, and hotels As reported in these columns yes- “HIA has redefi ned the airport ex- expanded terminal is set to begin in among others. terday, HIA is now launching the perience around the globe for over the second half of 2019. After the successful completion of second phase of its innovative Smart 170mn passengers to date,” chief op- the fi rst major phase of its Smart Air- Airport programme through facial bio- erating offi cer Engineer Badr Mo- port programme in 2018, HIA enabled metric recognition across all key pas- hamed al-Meer commented on the HIA, which started its operation on Qatar Airways to process more than senger touch points. Currently under occasion. May 27, 2014 with an inaugural fl ight 25% of its passengers using self-serv- trial, the system is a central piece of “We are committed more than ever by Qatar’s national airline, Qatar Air- ice check-in and bag-drop facilities. the airport’s digital strategy and com- to provide our passengers with un- ways, has become one of the fastest This was accomplished by commis- bines passengers’ fl ight, passport, and matched fi ve-star services and strive growing hubs in the world. sioning 62 next-generation self-serv- facial biometric information in a single to grow together with their continuous Within fi ve years of operations, HIA ice check-in kiosks and 12 self-service electronic record at the self-check-in support and loyalty,” he asserted. has started the second phase of its ter- bag drops spread across the departures kiosk or mobile app. To Page 24 A view of the parade taken out inside HIA yesterday to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 QATAR

Amir issues FM sends message to French minister Transport minister meets Iraqi envoy decrees

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued the following decrees yesterday: 1. Decree No 28 of 2019 ratifying a memorandum of understand- ing to co-operate in the tourism field between the governments of Qatar and Turkmenistan, signed in Ashgabat on 7/3/2016, annexed to this decree and shall have the powers of a law in line with Article 68 of the constitution. 2. Decree No 29 of 2019 ratifying an agreement on the cancellation of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and private pass- ports between the governments of Qatar and Togolese Republic signed in Doha on 30/4/2018, annexed to this decree and shall have the powers of a law in line with Article 68 of the constitu- tion. 3. Decree No 30 of 2019 ratifying an air services agreement be- HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman tween the governments of Qatar al-Thani has sent a written message to French Minister of Europe and Foreign Aff airs Jean-Yves Le HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti yesterday met and Kyrgyz Republic signed in Drian, pertaining to bilateral relations and means to develop them. Qatar’s ambassador to France the Iraqi ambassador in Doha Omar Ahmed Karim al-Barazanchi. They discussed co-operation Doha on 21/1/2018, annexed to Sheikh Ali bin Jassim al-Thani delivered the message during a meeting with Diplomatic Counsellor between Qatar and Iraq in the fields of transportation, ports and communications and means of this decree and shall have the to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Aff airs of France Olivier Decottignies. further enhancing it. powers of a law in line with Arti- cle 68 of the constitution. 4. Decree No 31 of 2019 ratifying an agreement on the cancellation of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and private pass- ports between the governments Council approves draft law on combating money laundering of Qatar and Peru signed in Lima on 2/10/2018, annexed to this decree and shall have the powers QNA The council discussed the re- the environment as one of the of a law in line with Article 68 of Doha port of the Public Services and pillars of Qatar National Vision the constitution. Utilities Committee on draft law 2030. amending certain provisions of The committee recommended he Advisory Council held Law No 15 of 2010 on prohibiting to activate laws related to pre- Instruments its regular weekly meet- the housing of workers’ within serving the environment, which of ratification Ting yesterday under the the residential areas of families. works to protect environmental chairmanship of HE the Coun- After the discussion, the life, both land or sea, through cil’s Deputy Speaker Mohamed council approved the draft law tightening control over the mis- His Highness the Amir Sheikh bin Abdullah al-Sulaiti. and decided to send its recom- behaviour of some, increasing Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani The council discussed the re- mendations to the government. the number of inspectors and yesterday issued the following port of the Legal and Legislative The council also discussed the fi nding the appropriate mecha- instruments of ratification: Aff airs Committee on the draft report of the Internal and Ex- nisms for treating environmen- 1. Instrument of ratification law on combating money laun- ternal Aff airs Committee on the tal waste of all kinds. approving draft agreement on dering and terrorism fi nancing. draft law regarding fi reworks, After extensive discussion of economic, trade and technical The committee recommended which included a recommenda- the report, the council requested co-operation between the that some of the articles of the tion to amend two articles of the the committee to continue to ex- governments of Qatar and draft be amended. draft law. HE the Advisory Council’s Deputy Speaker Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Sulaiti chairing yesterday’s session. amine the issue of the environ- Benin signed in Doha on May After the discussion the coun- After the discussion, the ment due to its importance in 7, 2018. cil approved the amended ver- council approved the revised The council concluded its ses- general discussion on the terres- ness campaign through all media light of the comments and obser- 2. Instrument of ratification sion of the draft law and decided version of the draft law and de- sion by discussing the report of trial and marine environment. outlets and social media plat- vations raised by the members of approving a draft agreement to send its recommendations cided to send its recommenda- the Public Services and Utilities In the report, the committee forms to emphasise the necessi- the council during their discus- in maritime transport between thereon to the government. tions to the government. Committee on the request for a recommended to hold an aware- ty and importance of preserving sions at yesterday’s meeting. the governments of Qatar and the Council of Ministers of Albania, signed in Doha on April 16, 2019. 3. Instrument of ratification approving a memorandum of Foreign ministry holds induction understanding (MoU) to co- operate in the field of technical and vocational education meeting for students studying abroad and training between the governments of Qatar and the Philippines signed in Doha on QNA April 16, 2017. Doha 4. Instrument of ratification approving a draft agreements for co-operation and news he Ministry of For- exchange between Qatar News eign Aff airs has or- Agency (QNA) and the Liberian Tganised the second News Agency (LINA), signed in induction meeting for Monrovia, April 30, 2018. students studying abroad, 5. Instrument of ratification in the presence of HE the approving the air services Secretary-General of the draft agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs governments of Qatar and Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al- Lesotho signed in Doha on April Hammadi along with di- 24, 2019. rectors of foreign ministry 6. Instrument of ratification departments. approving a draft agreement to In his speech during the co-operate in the agricultural, meeting, HE Dr Ahmed bin livestock and fisheries fields Hassan al-Hammadi said HE the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign between the governments of that after the blockade, Aff airs Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al-Hammadi addressing the Qatar and Palestine signed in Qatar has proved that it is meeting. Doha on September 13, 2018. a strong country thanks 7. Instrument of ratification to the steadfastness of its try, stressing importance light of the Ministry of approving the ratification of people, the wisdom of its given to them to continue Foreign Aff airs’ keenness the co-operation agreement leader and the strength of studying and join work to provide qualifi ed hu- in the legal field between the its economy. later. man resources capable of governments of Qatar and The secretary-general The Secretary-General keeping up with the vision Togolese Republic signed in Doha urged the students to ad- said that the Qatar Vision of Qatari diplomacy, the on April 4, 2018. here to the Qatari identity 2030 is a socio-economic scholarship programme and scientifi c and moral and political vision in ad- was designed to attract Qatar condemns commitment, pointing dition to human develop- distinguished students to out that the student spon- ment, stressing that edu- have a generation of Qatari Nepal bombings sored by the Ministry of cation is fi ghting poverty, diplomats who will be able Foreign Aff airs represents ignorance, extremism and to raise the name of Qatar Qatar has strongly condemned the State, which is a great terrorism. in all international forums. the bombings in the Nepalese responsibility. For his part, Head of Al-Ahmad stressed the capital of Kathmandu, causing He also urged the stu- Human Resources De- great attention paid by the deaths and injuries. dents to persevere and partment at the Ministry Ministry of Foreign Aff airs In a statement on Sunday, the strive to contribute to the Abdulaziz Abdulqader to its students, as they are Ministry of Foreign Aff airs development of the coun- al-Ahmad said that in provided with all facilities. reiterated Qatar’s firm stance rejecting violence and terrorism, regardless of their motives and reasons. The statement expressed condolences of Qatar to the victims’ families, the government and the people of Nepal, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.  Qatar has also strongly condemned the attack on a church in the town of Toulfe, northern Burkina Faso, which resulted in deaths and injuries. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs reiterated Qatar’s firm stance rejecting violence and terrorism, regardless of their motives and reasons. The statement stressed Qatar’s total refusal of targeting places of worship and terrorising peaceful people. The statement expressed Qatar’s condolences to the victims’ families, the government and HE the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al- people of Burkina Faso, wishing Hammadi with the students. the injured a speedy recovery. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 3 QATAR

Minister meets WHO officials in Geneva Ministry plans to expand school network in Al Khor

QNA students, the focus of the educa- Doha tional process. This calls for co-operation between all parties to the educa- he education ministry has tional process in order to ensure a plan to establish addi- the success and excellence of Ttional schools in Al Khor students, the minister added. and surrounding areas, HE the The minister said that it is Minister of Education and High- important for teachers to ben- er Education Dr Mohamed Abdul efi t from the use of curricula Wahed Ali al-Hammadi has an- and focus on competencies, and nounced. touched on the role of teacher Dr al-Hammadi made the in using information through announcement yesterday as he HE the Minister of seminars to encourage students held a meeting with the teachers Education and Higher Education to research. of Al Khor preparatory and sec- Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali The minister discussed vari- ondary schools for girls. al-Hammadi. ous educational issues, includ- The minister said the expansion ing the school days, the burdens plan includes the establishment country, how to fi ll vacancies associated with the teaching of schools for all stages in the Al in schools, and the reasons that profession, staying away from HE the Minister of Public Health Dr Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari met the Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Daayen area to serve the city of Al led to the formulation of experi- unimportant and non-required Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the sidelines of the participation of the delegation of Qatar in the meetings of the World Health Assembly, Khor and surrounding cities. mental curricula that are un- work, the completion of ad- currently being held in Geneva. During the meeting, they discussed enhancing co-operation between Qatar and WHO, in addition to During his interaction with der revision in partnership with ministrative studies in schools, issues of common interest. HE the Minister of Public Health also held separate meetings with assistant of the WHO director-general, the teachers at the Al Khor pre- schools and society. and the allocation of training the assistant director-general for Data, analytics and delivery Dr Samira Asma, WHO director for health and multilateral partnerships, paratory and secondary schools The minister stressed that the workshops on the needs of each external relations Gaudenz Silberschmidt, the Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response Dr Peter Salama for girls, the minister policies related to education, teacher according to their per- and the CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) Seth Berkley. During the meetings, they discussed enhancing discussed with them the schools and school curricula are formance assessment and pro- co-operation between Qatar and the WHO. situation of education in the primarily for the benefi t of the fessional development plan. 800 farms benefi ted from civic ministry’s greenhouse project

QNA pality and Environment said ments for marketing local agri- Doha that the provision of these cultural products. greenhouses and equipment Qatar attaches great impor- is part of the support pro- tance to the agricultural sector he Department of Ag- vided to the owners of farms through which it aims to achieve ricultural Aff airs of the and its efforts to develop food security as one of the most TMinistry of Municipality existing local farms and in- important current and future and Environment has imported crease their production. priorities. In this regard, Qatar and installed 350 cool and regu- The support focused on sup- is keen to support the agricul- lar greenhouses and distributed plying cool and regular green- tural sector in order to achieve them to 85 farms. houses and protected houses the highest possible level of self- It has also imported and in- with hydroponic system, in ad- suffi ciency. stalled 500,000 packing boxes dition to the production require- It is noteworthy that the State in 100 farms with each farm re- ments of seeds, fertilisers, pes- has allocated about QR70mn ceiving 5,000 boxes. A total of ticides and other supplies such annually to support the agricul- 800 Qatari farms have benefi ted as packing boxes for marketing tural sector over the next fi ve from this project. local vegetables in diff erent sales years for plant, animal and fi sh The Ministry of Munici- outlets as well as other require- production. Packing boxes being installed. Installation of greenhouse.

Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5 QATAR Qatar Shell wins Over 21% of children in Qatar are obese: ‘Best Qatarisation WCM-Q offi cial besity is one of the means for the management of greatest health chal- obesity, including weight loss Olenges of the modern strategies, weight loss main- era, explained professor of tenance, bariatric surgery and medicine Dr Shahrad Taheri at various forms of medication. Progress’ award Weill Cornell Medicine – Qa- Dr Taheri stressed that both tar’s (WCM-Q) latest Grand low-carbohydrate and low-fat atar Shell has added a Rounds lecture. diets can lead to signifi cant new accolade to its list Dr Taheri displayed recent weight loss of 6-7kg after 12 Qof honours, receiving fi gures showing that 21.5% of months, but also that there the ‘Best Qatarisation Progress children in Qatar aged 5-19 Dr Shahrad Taheri was little clinical diff erence Crystal Award’ in recognition years are obese, a level that he between the results produced of its valued contribution to says is all the more concerning are obese lose years from their by following various diff erent Qatarisation in the energy sector. because research has shown life. If someone is obese at the well-known named diets. The award was presented by that most children tend not to age of 40, they will lose six to “Early weight loss is the key,” HE the Minister of State for En- outgrow obesity, but instead seven years of life. If they are said Dr Taheri. “Those who ergy Aff airs Saad bin Sherida al- carry it into adulthood. obese and they smoke it can be demonstrate early weight loss Kaabi, who is also president and Speaking at Grand Rounds estimated that they will likely are the most likely to succeed in CEO of Qatar Petroleum (QP), to an audience of students and live 13 to 14 years less than nor- the long-term. If someone has at the 11th Annual Qatarisa- fellow health professionals, he mal weight non-smokers. lost ten percent of their body tion Awards, which recognised said, “We are in a region where “Obesity is one of the great- weight in the fi rst year, they are companies that demonstrat- we have some of the highest est health challenges that 10.4 times more likely to have ed excellence in Qatarisation levels of overweight and obes- we are facing as healthcare maintained that weight loss during 2018. ity in the world - 76.6% of peo- professionals and as a society.” after four years.” The awards followed the ple are overweight or obese and Complications of obesity Patients who manage to energy sector’s ‘19th Annual 42% are obese. What is most such as diabetes, cardiovascu- achieve signifi cant long-term Qatarisation Review Meet- alarming is the prevalence of lar disease and cancer add to weight loss have vastly im- ing’, which brought together obesity in children. The high the reduced longevity caused proved healthcare outcomes, senior executives and repre- prevalence of obesity in adults by obesity, he said. Dr Taheri said Dr Taheri. There is now sentatives from the 35 com- and children in Qatar are com- then went on to explain that evidence that type 2 diabetes panies participating in the parable to those observed in obesity should be considered can be reversed by adopting Energy Sector’s Strategic some regions of the United a chronic disease that requires positive lifestyle behaviours Qatarisation Plan, as well as States.” lifelong management to keep such as eating a healthy diet, senior executives from Qatar’s Dr Taheri said, “We know it under control. He also dis- increasing physical activity education community. very clearly that people who cussed the most eff ective and losing weight. For the second consecutive year, Qatar Shell was shortlist- ed for multiple award catego- Porsche Panamera models recalled Indian embassy ries, which included ‘Support and Liaison with the Education The Ministry of Commerce within the framework of the Open House Sector’, ‘Supporting Qatari- HE Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi (right) handing over the ‘Best Qatarisation Progress Crystal Award’ to and Industry, in co-operation Ministry’s continuous eff orts to sation’, ‘Support for Training Andrew Faulkner. with Al Boraq Automobiles Co, protect consumers and ensure The Indian ambassador will and Development’, and ‘Best has announced the recall of that car dealers follow up on hold Open House on Thursday Qatarisation Progress’. veloping, and supporting Qatari success of Qatar Shell and to number of accolades secured by Porsche Panamera models of vehicle defects and repairs. (May 30) in the embassy “We are proud to be recog- employees through our com- achieving the human develop- Qatar Shell since the launch of 2010-2016 due to the possibility The ministry said that it will co- premises from 3pm to 4pm nised for our achievements in petitive employment packages, ment pillar of the Qatar National the energy sector’s ‘Annual Qa- of moisture collecting on ordinate with the dealer to follow to listen/redress any urgent Qatarisation and for our ef- robust learning opportunities Vision 2030,” Qatar Shell man- tarisation Awards’ in 2008 to the control unit of the air- up on the maintenance and repair labour and consular issues forts to become an employer of and career development paths. aging director and chairman, seven. These include fi ve crys- conditioning fan which can works and will communicate with of the Indian nationals in choice for Qataris. We remain The contribution of our Qatari Andrew Faulkner said. tal awards and two recognition cause electrical short circuit. customers to ensure that the Qatar, the embassy said in a committed to recruiting, de- employees is key to the future The award brings the total certifi cates. The recall campaign comes necessary repairs are carried out. statement. Gulf Times 6 Tuesday, May 23, 2019 QATAR

MoCI, Customs collaborate to combat money laundering Tamuq names fourth alumnus of the year ariam Abdulrazak al- Meer, a Class of 2012 Mchemical engineering graduate of Texas A&M University at Qatar (Tamuq), has been named the branch campus’s Alumnus of the Year for 2019. While an undergraduate at Ta- muq, al-Meer worked on a research project in collaboration with Qa- tar Shell Research and Technology Centre and Shell Global Solutions. This work aimed to develop a new generation of synthetic aviation The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) has signed a memorandum of fuels obtained from natural gas via understanding (MoU) with the General Authority of Customs (GAC) to enhance co- the gas-to-liquid (GTL) technol- operation in terms of operational issues relating to combating money laundering, ogy. crimes and terrorism financing. The MoCI’s Corporate Aff airs Department director She presented it at several con- Salem bin Salim al-Mannai and GAC’s Legal Aff airs director Abdulaziz al-Hathal were ferences and workshops and her the signatories at a ceremony on Sunday, according to a statement issued yesterday by work was well received by world- the MoCI. The signing of the MoU comes within the framework of joint co-ordination leading scientists in synthetic fuels and unification of national eff orts. It also reflects the keenness of both parties to join and hydrocarbon processing. eff orts to achieve the desired objectives and their continued commitment to enhancing This experience in GTL fuel bilateral co-operation in the field of information exchange to combat money laundering characterisation inspired her to and terrorism financing crimes. join Qatar Shell in 2012 as a gradu- ate engineer at the Pearl GTL plant. As part of the Shell Graduate Pro- gramme, she was trained in process Mariam Abdulrazak al-Meer was named fourth alumnus of the year by Tamuq. technology and operations sup- port. She supported the unit opera- ambassador for Tamuq, participat- high its core values.” Dr Cesar Oc- ates to connect and stay involved tions and optimisation of a highly ing in various career fairs, univer- tavio Malave, dean, Tamuq, said, with the branch campus. sophisticated plant, and worked sity talks, recruitment campaigns, “Mariam is a true Aggie who exem- “Since 2007, we have graduated with multidisciplinary engineers and the university’s Alumni Coun- plifi es the Texas A&M core values more than 1,000 engineering lead- and operators to implement tech- cil. She also served as an alumni of excellence, integrity, leadership, ers in Qatar, and our graduates are nical plant changes and improve- member of the university’s Chemi- loyalty, respect and selfl ess service. the most visible example of our ments. cal Engineering Industrial Advi- She leads by example and is a role success as a partner university of Al-Meer then went on to earn sory Board. model to future generations of Ag- Qatar Foundation. dual master’s degrees in business “I am truly honoured to have gie engineering leaders in Qatar.” Mariam is an engineering leader administration and mechanical en- received the 2019 Alumnus of the Al-Meer was recognised during who represents the best her coun- gineering from the Massachusetts Year award,” al-Meer said. “Texas the fourth annual Tamuq Alumni try has to off er, and we are proud to Institute of Technology. Following A&M at Qatar has provided me Suhoor, organised in collaboration call her an Aggie engineer,” added graduation, she returned to Qa- with a solid foundation that formed with the Tamuq Alumni Council. Dr Hassan S Bazzi, associate dean tar Shell as a commercial adviser. the basis of an exciting and reward- More than 150 faculty and gradu- of research and executive director Throughout her career, al-Meer ing career. It remains a duty to give ates of Tamuq attended the event, of development, engagement and has remained an active campus back to the university and to hold which aimed to encourage gradu- outreach, Tamuq.

Vodafone, Talabat celebrate success of Iftar drive

odafone Qatar announced generous donation from Vodafone.” that its Iftar meal donation Ali al-Gharib, director of Local Vinitiative in partnership Development, Qatar Charity, said: with Talabat resulted in the dona- “We are very proud of our partner- tion of more than 14,000 meals that ship with Vodafone Qatar and Ta- benefi ted Qatar Charity’s “Feed the labat through our Feed the Fasting Fasting” programme. project. Vodafone Qatar automatically This project benefi ts nearly 2mn donated an Iftar meal on behalf of people in Qatar and in more than customers who made food deliv- 30 countries around the world. Vo- ery orders on Talabat from May 16 dafone Qatar’s generous donation to 26. provided more than14,000 Iftar The highly successful initiative meals to less fortunate people in was open to all those who use Ta- Bangladesh. labat and the message received by “We believe that this three way customers confi rming their auto- partnership is a model for all com- matic meal donation was appreci- Ali al-Gharib, Mohamed Alyafei, Francisco De Sousa announce the success panies and institutions for how to ated and shared by customers on of the Iftar meal donation initiative. co-operate in the fi eld of philan- their social media channels. thropy and community service un- The initiative was organised as Qatar said: “Vodafone Qatar has with Qatar Charity that has helped der the banner of corporate social part of Vodafone Qatar’s broad a long history of giving back to thousands less fortunate.” responsibility.” ranging corporate social responsi- the community and in this holi- Talabat managing director for Vodafone Qatar and Talabat fi rst bility programme during the holy est of months we always increase Qatar Francisco De Sousa com- formed a partnership in February month under the banner of the our eff orts. We’re proud to have mented, “With this partnership, this year when it was announced Company’s Ramadan campaign partnered with Talabat to involve we are further fortifying our stra- that Vodafone’s Red Postpaid cus- #ShukranFromTheHeart. the public in spreading the gener- tegic partnership with Vodafone to tomers would benefi t from Talabat Mohamed Alyafei, Events & ous spirit of Ramadan. We’re also benefi t Qatari society. We’re proud Go, Talabat’s own delivery service, Sponsorship manager, Vodafone proud of our long term partnership to have had a role in facilitating this to enjoy free and quicker deliveries. Woqod opens expanded section of petrol station in Wadi Al Banat area atar Fuel (Woqod) opened the expanded section of the petrol station in Wadi Al Banat area yesterday, QCEO Saad Rashid al-Muhannadi announced. The expanded Wadi Al Banat Petrol Station is spread across an area of 12,650 sqm. The expanded area has two lanes with six dispensers in addition to the existing six dispensers within three lanes. Wadi Al Banat Petrol Station off ers round-the-clock services and include a Sidra convenience store, Manual & Auto Car Wash, Oil Change and Tyre Repair, and sale of LPG cylinders, in addition to the sale of petrol and diesel prod- ucts for light vehicles. “The opening of Wadi Al Banat Petrol Station expansion is included in Woqod’s plan for opening 30 new petrol sta- tions during 2019,” al-Muhannadi explained in a statement. “As part of its strategic expansion plan, Woqod is targeting a total of 134 fuel stations by the end of 2020,” he added.

A view of the expanded section of the petrol station in Wadi Al Banat area. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 7 QATAR QNL hosting ‘Holy Ka’aba Exhibition’ atar National Library directions unite. In circling the The Holy Ka’aba has been refl ected in the many testimo- (QNL) is currently host- Ka’aba, diff erences of colour, renovated, repaired, and recon- nies and accounts of pilgrims Qing the “Holy Ka’aba gender, and language disap- structed numerous times, and which are on display. In the Exhibition”, which depicts the pear…” the exhibition brings together last two centuries, celebrating history of the sacred Ka’aba, sit- Items on display at the exhibi- fascinating manuscripts, pho- the completion of the pilgrim- uated in the centre of The Grand tion such as calligraphic compo- tos, and artefacts that record this age through the multi-coloured Mosque, in the city of Makkah. sitions, miniatures, illustrations, aspect of the Ka’aba, including painted Haj certifi cates, mu- Visitors to the exhibition that photographic prints and Qur’an descriptions of pre-Islamic his- rals and works of art included runs until October 1 at the Her- manuscripts were digitised and tory and traditions. in the exhibition, became more itage Library, have a rare chance carefully conserved by experts Treatise on Building the common. to interact and learn from valu- from the library’s Conservation Ka’aba (Morocco, 1793 CE) re- The items also show how the Some of the visitors at the exhibition. able historical sources including and Preservation Centre. counts the 11 times the sacred function of the Haj certifi cates manuscripts, documents, early Abeer al-Kuwari, acting di- structure was built, with de- went beyond simply recording hibit off er astonishingly detailed display is an image of the Holy blessing. A Kaftan Made from printed books, illustrations and rector of Distinctive Collections tails on architectural changes to the pilgrimage: “The numer- descriptions of Makkah and the Ka’aba believed to be the earli- the Interior Kiswa of the Ka’aba photos, which evoke impor- at the library, says: “The exhi- the Kaaba after the death of the ous mosques, shrines and land- rituals of Haj. Personal Narrative est photograph taken by an Arab (Turkey, circa 20th century CE) tant events in the history of the bition highlights the library’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), scapes mentioned, the insertion of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah photographer during his visit includes verses from the Qur’an Holy Ka’aba, and highlight its commitment to providing a re- and its reconstruction during of Jerusalem, and the naming of and Meccah (1855) by Sir Richard in 1885 CE. about the Ka’aba and the Holy spiritual impact for Muslims. pository for the region’s most the rule of Sultan Murad IV. early Muslims evoking impor- F Burton, is a vivid narrative from Many of the exhibits show Mosque. The exhibition holds special signifi cant religious, cultural, History of Holy Makkah (Ot- tant and pivotal events in early one of the fi rst English Christians visitors the ornamentation of the These and other items are on signifi cance during the holy and historical items. Preserving toman Printing Press Cairo, 1886 Islam are proof that the purpose to visit Mecca in 1853, and to gain inside of the Ka’aba. One of the display to the public at the “Holy month of Ramadan, a time of these heritage items is an im- CE) is a culmination of eff orts by of these representations was also access to the Ka’aba. artefacts is part of the ornament- Ka’aba Exhibition,”. More than 50 refl ection and increased devo- portant contribution to the ef- Muslims to record the history of to provide a visual landscape of My Journey to Makkah (Ha- ed curtain door of the Ka’aba (the curated items such as ‘Transla- tion for Muslims. The sacred site forts to protect Islamic history Makkah; a compilation of chroni- Islam and its early history.” Re- chette Publishing, 1896) is a burqa) made in Egypt during the tion of the Holy Qur’an’ (C Ack- is an essential part of day to day and identity, and the library has cles narrated by the companions prints were often hung on the book of illustrations inspired by reign of King Farouk I (circa 1936 ers for J Wilcox Press, London, Muslim life, orientating the di- established an environment that of the Prophet (PBUH), their suc- walls of houses, mosques and photos taken by the author, Jules CE). According to historical ac- 1734 CE), one of the most fa- rection in which Muslims pros- will preserve this information cessors, and scholars. madrasas as a visual reminder of Gervais-Courtellement, one of counts, the old discarded cov- mous translations of the Qur’an trate when they pray. The ex- for our future generations, to The immeasurable religious the holy sites of Islam. the fi rst to photograph Makkah’s ering cloths of the Ka’aba were into English by George Sale, that hibition’s narrative states that, learn about the origins of their and spiritual importance of vis- The travel accounts by non- landmarks. sometimes used to make clothes, includes a sketch of the Holy “The Ka’aba is a place where all religion and culture.” iting the Ka’aba to Muslims is Muslims that are part of the ex- Another rare visual item on believing them to be a source of Mosque. Ooredoo staff spend day with kidney patients

host of volunteers from among ical Corporation in 2010 to provide time for us to fi nd opportunities to Ooredoo staff spent a day at the dialysis facilities for patients suff ering show our support in a practical way. AFahad Bin Jassim Kidney Cen- acute and chronic kidney disease. The We’re delighted to continue our annu- tre, as part of its ongoing corporate centre off ers a modern, spacious envi- al tradition of visiting and supporting social responsibility activity schedule ronment for patients, with 80 stations the Fahad Bin Jassim Kidney Centre during Ramadan. stress patients could be under due to and 20 private rooms. again this year; our team of volunteers The delegation of Ooredoo staff re- their illness, spent time chatting to Talking about the visit, Manar Kha- spent a wonderful time with the pa- ceived a warm welcome from nurses, and connecting with the patients and lifa al-Muraikhi, director PR and Cor- tients, and we hope everyone enjoyed centre staff and patients at the centre, surprised them with gift bags. porate Communications at Ooredoo, their gift bags.” who are undergoing treatment and Ooredoo has a long history of sup- said: “Supporting the local commu- The visit was the latest in Ooredoo’s dialysis. porting patients with kidney disorders nity is a key focus for Ooredoo as part series of charitable initiatives benefi t- Ooredoo’s volunteers, in an eff ort to in Qatar, having donated the Fahad Bin of our corporate social responsibility ing the local community during the An Ooredoo volunteer talks to a patient at Fahad Bin Jassim Kidney Centre. alleviate at least some of the potential Jassim Kidney Centre to Hamad Med- strategy, and Ramadan is the perfect holy month of Ramadan.

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QC, QRCS in co-operation deal Jaidah and Italian brand host technical seminar atar Charity (QC) and the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) aidah Automotive (Independent gears for the aftermarket and has done Qhave signed a memorandum of Aftermarket) and Italian aftermar- so for more than 40 years. understanding to enhance co-operation Jket brand Euroricambi recently It is the market leader in gear parts and achieve common goals efficiently hosted a seminar event attended by replacement and has the highest mar- and effectively in the field of capac- dozens of executives from Qatar’s big- ket share in the region, the statement ity building, resource mobilisation, co- gest truck spare parts dealers, whole- adds. operation in the implementation of hu- salers, retailers, garages and fl eet com- During the evening, Jaidah Au- manitarian programmes and projects, panies. tomotive hosted a ceremony with and to exchange experiences, informa- The event brought together pro- awards dedicated to three business tion and knowledge between the two fessionals from across the market for partners that have achieved consider- parties. an evening programme made up of a able success in 2018 in terms of their According to the MoU, the two sides technical presentation, awards and commitment to quality, customer agreed to co-operate in the implemen- networking, “in a sign of the growing service and satisfaction. tation of joint initiatives and exchange strength of the partnership between Off icials with representatives of the business partners honoured on the occasion. The winners were Euro Parts, Royal of information on relief and humani- the two businesses, which is now en- Spare Parts Co and Al Suwayde Trad- tarian conditions within the affected tering its third year”, Jaidah Group said Senior executives from both Jaidah Alessandro Collavo, area manager ing & Transport Company. areas. in a press statement. Automotive and Euroricambi deliv- — Middle East market for Eurori- Jaidah Automotive has developed Qatar Charity’s executive chair- A focus for the evening was the ered speeches that refl ected on the cambi, thanked Jaidah Group for “an “a fl ourishing business partnership” man Yousef Ahmed al-Kuwari said the The officials exchanging the MoU technical seminar presentation, which strength of the relationship and out- outstanding performance in the fi rst with Euroricambi in the past two co-operation is of great importance documents. provided attendees with an in-depth lined plans for the future. two years of the partnership and all the years, during which time the rela- because both parties will achieve the overview of Euroricambi products, Bernhard Dolinek, managing di- progress till date to consolidate this tionship “has gone from strength to best results at the level of achieving QRCS Secretary-General Ali bin Has- features and benefi ts. rector at Jaidah Automotive, thanked further”. strength”. the desired objectives, the integration san al-Hammadi expressed his pleasure The session emphasised the key customers for their support and in- He thanked customers for support- The popularity of the recent techni- of knowledge and experience, and to of signing the MoU with Qatar Char- reasons why the Italian brand has es- volvement with both Jaidah Group and ing Euroricambi’s business in Qatar cal seminar “demonstrates the success benefit from their respective preferen- ity in order to further enhance charity tablished such “an enviable reputation the Wholesale Division. and congratulated all the award win- of both partners in driving awareness, tial advantages, and this agreement will works at the internal and external lev- in automotive truck parts”, the state- K T Rao, manager for Automotive ners. engagement and understanding about shorten a lot of time and effort. els. — QNA ment noted. Parts, also addressed the gathering. Euroricambi off ers a wide range of Euroicambi products”. Gulf Times 10 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 QATAR/RAMADAN

Ahlibank hosts Suhoor for staff Ahlibank, a leading Qatari-owned financial Remaining patient when institution, hosted its Ramadan Suhoor at Doha’s La Cigale Hotel for staff and family members to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. The evening provided an opportunity for the senior management experiencing harm and staff to strengthen relationships across the organisation, the bank said in a statement. The Ramadan evening f anyone curses you in Ramadan, acts of worship because the soul, by was attended by Mahmoud Malkawi, then say, ‘I am fasting’. If anyone nature, dislikes obligatory acts of Ahlibank’s acting CEO, Saad al-Kaabi, head Ifights with you in Ramadan, then worship. of Human Resources, senior management, say, ‘I am fasting’. 2- Keeping patient in abstaining Ahlibank staff and their families. Malkawi I should be patient upon the from committing sins; a person is in and al-Kaabi welcomed all the staff and harm that I may receive from peo- dire need for this since the soul is a stressed that the holy month of Ramadan ple, I should endure being wronged persistent enjoiner of evil. is a wonderful opportunity for colleagues by others, follow the steps of the 3- Keeping patient at times of ca- across Ahlibank to be together. Ahlibank’s Prophet sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam lamities; these are so many, like the Ramadan employee Suhoor is an annual (may Allah exalt his mention) and death of beloved ones, loss of wealth, event and is part of the bank’s corporate say to anyone who does evil to me, loss of health, and so on. The highest social responsibility, the statement added. transgresses, or harms, or abuses, or rank is to keep patient with people’s insults me, ‘I am fasting.’ ‘I am fast- harm, especially during the month of ing.’ With my fasting, I have cut off Ramadan; Allah Says (what means): Satan’s share from me and narrowed  {But if you are patient and fear his paths and ways. Allah—indeed, that is of the matters ‘I am fasting’ is a phrase which the [worthy] of determination.} [Qur’an fasting person reminds himself of, 3:186] and reminds others of, and it is with  {And We already Know that your Aspetar experts share this phrase that he keeps his fasting breast is constrained by what they and worship of his Lord free from be- say.} [Qur’an 15:97] having ignorantly towards others, or Sufficient in this respect is the attacking or wronging them. statement of the best of all creation ‘I am fasting.’ My fasting is an im- sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Ramadan workout tips pregnable dam against my soul’s evil Allah exalt his mention ): “No fa- inclinations, fortunes, and misguid- tigue, disease, sorrow, sadness, hurt, ance. Since I abstain from the law- or distress befalls a Muslim, even if it xperts from Aspetar, the orthopaedic and sports medi- ful things that I used to indulge in, were the prick that he receives from cine hospital, are off ering some advice on what a bal- such as food, drink and the like, for a thorn, but that Allah expiates some Eanced and smart exercising schedule looks like during the purpose of getting closer to Allah of his sins for it.” [Al-Bukhari] Ramadan, especially to those who are fasting. Almighty, then how is the case with You are, O Muslim, upon good in In a press statement, Aspetar said such a move aims to help what is unlawful in principle? Of whichever state you are, especially if people reach their personal fi tness goals, whether losing fat, course, I will be the farthest from it, you feel that you are imitating your increasing muscle or maintain their current body weight and simply because I am fasting. Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sal- fi tness levels. Because I am fasting, I am indeed lam, when he kept patient upon all Dr Omar al-Seyrafi , sports medicine physician at Aspetar, tranquil, stable, good-humoured, the harm, abuses and insults that he said the key is “balance and exercising smartly” during the pure, active, smiling, and not frown- received. He kept patient even when holy month. Dr al-Seyrafi explained that the balance be- ing to anyone. The effect of my fast- they dragged him, turned him out, tween calorie intake vs calories burn is essential to under- Aspetar bats for a balanced exercise regime during Ramadan. ing is visible on my bodily organs and detained him (in the defile of Abu stand, as our bodies consume energy without gaining any way of speech. Talib) and expelled him, in compli- back, which is good if we are aiming to lose weight. It can also ing with a moderate temperature and avoid outdoor activities I am fasting; and the smell of my ance with the statements of Allah be a great opportunity to burn the body’s extra stock of fat especially when the temperatures are high; make sure to drink mouth is more pleasant in the sight Almighty Says (which means): and carbs that the body stores as backup. Dr al-Seyrafi also enough water and fl uids during the evening and night, once you of Allah Almighty than that of musk.  {so patience is most fitting.} warned that not sticking to a balanced exercise regime can be have broken your fast, so your body becomes well hydrated for Because I am fasting, I do not re- [Qur’an 12:18] risky if someone is not paying close attention to their calorie the following day; and eating healthy and balanced foods and spond to evil, just to please my Lord,  {So be patient over what they intake vs calorie burn ratio on a daily basis during fasting and avoiding fatty and high processed sugar will help to reach your the Almighty, as I am fasting for His say.} [Qur’an 20:130] can pose serious health risk. goal faster and allow you to perform better while exercising. sake, in confirmation of the state- On that method were the Com- Aspetar’s experts have developed the following handy tips Other tips include to consider doing intense sessions such ment (of Allah Almighty in the Qudsi panions, may Allah be pleased with for recreational athletes to consider during the holy month of as gym workouts, or performing your preferred sports in the Hadith) which reads: “He leaves his them, and the Taabi‘is (the genera- Ramadan in 2019: short and mild to moderate intensity exer- evening no less than 2-3 hours after Iftar; always pay attention food, drink and lusts for My Sake. Lord and mercy. And it is those who tion that followed them) may Allah cise sessions during the day before Iftar is an ideal time to burn to any unusual or new symptoms during or after exercise and Fasting is for Me; for it, I give reward, are the [rightly] guided.} [Qur’an have mercy upon them especially in fat; exercise 1-2 hours before Iftar so you can re- energise and consult your doctor; and know your existing health problems and the good deed is multiplied to ten 2:157] the month of fasting and Thikr (re- rehydrate at Iftar time; avoid exhausting high-intensity exer- such as diabetes or hypertension and exercise according to your times the like of it.” [Al-Bukhari] Abu Sa‘eed Al-Khudri may Allah membrance of Allah Almighty). A cises during fasting time; consider training indoor during fast- doctor’s advice. There is no act of worship but that be pleased with him narrated that man came to Zayn Al-‘Aabideen ibn its reward is multiplied ten times (or the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘Ali may Allah have mercy upon him more) except for fasting, because it is ‘alaihi wa sallam, said: “No one has and said: “O Zayn Al-‘Aabideen!” He part of patience. Allah Almighty said ever been given any favour better and said: “Yes.” He said: “Is your beard in the following Qudsi Hadith: “All greater than patience.” [Al-Bukhari] purer or the tail of my dog?” He said: deeds of mankind are for him except Al-Hasan may Allah have mercy “If my beard enters Paradise, it will for fasting, which is for Me, and I will upon him said: “Patience is one of be purer; and if it enters the Fire, give its reward.” the treasures of good that Allah only then your dog’s tail will be purer.” Allah, The Almighty, promises the gives to a servant who is honoured in Consider, dear brothers and sis- patient ones that He is with them His sight.” ters, to what extent the companions and combines things for them which Patience is of three kinds: endured harm and kept patient with He never combines for others, Saying 1- Keeping patient in performing others. (what means): {Those are the ones acts of worship; a servant is in need Article source: http://www.is- upon whom are blessings from their of showing patience in performing lamweb.net/emainpage/ Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11 REGION/ARAB WORLD/AFRICA

TRAGEDY ELECTION ACCIDENT TRIAL POLITICS Death toll in DR Congo Malawi’s Mutharika At least nine illegal Eight Gambian soldiers Zimbabwe’s opposition boat disaster rises to 32 wins presidential race Zimbabwean miners die jailed over coup plot MDC backs Chamisa

The death toll from a boat disaster in western DR President Peter Mutharika won Malawi’s presidential At least nine illegal gold miners have died in A Gambian military court yesterday sentenced Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has elected Congo at the weekend rose to 32, while scores more election with 38.57% of votes, the electoral commis- Zimbabwe after they detonated explosives seven soldiers to nine years in jail for plotting to Nelson Chamisa unopposed to remain as leader are feared drowned, a local off icial said yesterday. sion said yesterday, narrowly securing another five- underground and were trapped at a mine owned overthrow President Adama Barrow, and handed at its first congress since the death of its founder, The vessel capsized in choppy conditions on Lake year term after delays over suspected tampering. by unlisted London-headquartered Metallon Cor- a three-year prison term to another. The sentences Morgan Tsvangirai, the party announced yes- Mai-Ndombe on Saturday, in the latest in a string of Voters in the southern African nation cast ballots for poration north of the capital Harare, the company relate to events in 2017 after the ouster of strong- terday. The Movement for Democratic Change deadly accidents in Congolese waters. “There are a president and parliament last Tuesday in a bruising said yesterday. Metallon put its Mazowe Mine on man Yahya Jammeh. The court in Yundum, about (MDC) has been plagued by infighting since Ts- 32 dead, 183 survivors,” Simon Mbo Wemba, mayor race between Mutharika and two former allies, Lazarus care and maintenance last September, citing vi- 25 kilometres from the capital Banjul, acquitted four vangirai’s death and battered by another election of the lakeside town of Inongo, said. “The manifest Chakwera and Deputy President Saulos Chilima, with ability problems. One of Zimbabwe’s biggest gold other soldiers arrested along with the eight who defeat. Tsvangirai appointed Chamisa and Elias given to the authorities states there were 113 pas- results due at the weekend. But on Saturday a court producers, it still operates three other mines. got jail terms. Tribunal head Colonel Salifu Bojang Mudzuri as party co-vice presidents before dying sengers. But survivors say there were between 350 granted the opposition an injunction after the electoral Metallon said in a statement the mine collapse said two of the 12 soldiers accused had accepted of colon cancer in February 2018. Chamisa, 41, and 400 people on board,” he said. The boat “was commission (MEC) received 147 cases of irregularities, happened on Sunday when illegal miners gained plotting “how to arrest cabinet ministers, the Chief then took the party helm, becoming its champion decrepit and unfit” for transport, the mayor said, including results sheets with sections blotted out or access to underground shafts and blasted explo- of Defence Staff and battalion commanders of the in the first presidential elections since the authori- adding that its owner had been arrested. altered with correction fluid. sives. Gambia Armed Forces.” tarian Robert Mugabe was ousted. Trump says Iran Kuwait FM holds talks with Iran’s deputy FM N-deal achievable as sanctions sting

Reuters Zarif said. President Hassan Rouhani said future. “I know for a fact that the prime Tokyo in October the United States was seeking minister is very close with the leadership of “regime change” in Iran, adding that the Iran, and we’ll see what happens,” Trump current US administration was the most said. S President Donald Trump said yes- hostile that the Islamic Republic had faced At his joint news conference with Trump, terday a deal with Iran on its nuclear in its four decades. Abe said Japan would do what it can on the Uprogramme was possible, crediting Tensions have risen between Iran and the Iran issue. Trump last year withdrew the economic sanctions for curbing activities United States after this month’s attack on United States from a 2015 international Washington has said are behind a spate of oil tankers in the Gulf region. nuclear deal with Iran, and is ratcheting up attacks in the Middle East. Washington, a fi rm backer of Tehran’s sanctions seeking to end Iran’s internation- Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah meets with Iranian Deputy Foreign “I really believe that Iran would like to regional rival Saudi Arabia, has blamed the al sales of crude oil and strangle its econ- Minister Abbas Araqchi, in Kuwait City, yesterday. make a deal, and I think that’s very smart of attacks on Iran, which denies the accusa- omy. Japan was a major buyer of Iranian them, and I think that’s a possibility to hap- tions. oil for decades before US sanctions which pen,” Trump said during a news conference The United States has deployed a carrier Trump said were taking eff ect. with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in strike group and bombers to the region and “They were fi ghting in many locations,” Tokyo. announced plans to deploy 1,500 troops to he said of Iran. “Now they are pulling back “It has a chance to be a great country the Middle East, prompting fears of a con- because they have serious economic prob- with the same leadership,” Trump said. fl ict. lems.” Eight killed in Kuwait road accident “We aren’t looking for regime change — I Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton, who has spearheaded an increas- just want to make that clear. Bolton said on Saturday that the United ingly hawkish US policy on Iran, described We are looking for no nuclear weapons.” States had “deep and serious” intelligence recent bomb attacks on tankers off the DPA Fire Service said. The accident around 4.5mn people, has one In Tehran, Foreign Minister Mohamed on threats posed by Iran, without providing United Arab Emirates and a pipeline pump- Kuwait in the area of Kabd occurred of the world’s highest rates of Javad Zarif said Iran was not seeking nucle- details. ing station in Saudi Arabia, as well as a when a speeding car ploughed traffic accidents. ar weapons, which its supreme leader had Trump, on a four-day visit to Japan, rocket attack in Baghdad’s Green Zone, as into a crowd of people who had Road accidents killed 401 banned in an edict, adding on Twitter that welcomed Abe’s help in dealing with Iran “manifestations of concern” about Iran. ight people were killed gathered around another minor people in Kuwait last year and US policies were hurting the Iranian people after broadcaster NHK said Japan’s leader Iran has distanced itself from the bomb- and another seriously accident that took place earlier, 424 in 2017, according to offi- and causing regional tensions. is considering a trip to Tehran as early as ings and on Sunday, Zarif said his country Ewounded in a road acci- the official KUNA news agency cial figures. “Actions-not words-will show whether mid-June. will defend itself against any military or dent in north-western Kuwait reported. Speeding is often blamed for or not that’s @realDonaldTrump’s intent,” Iran said a visit was unlikely in the near economic aggression. early yesterday, the country’s Kuwait, a Gulf country of the casualties. Regime bombardment leaves Iraq court condemns fourth 18 dead in Syria’s Idlib province French IS member to death AFP The trials have been criticised a stay on this death sentence... AFP Ariha said White Helmet fi rst Baghdad by rights groups, which say they (but) all the avenues have not yet Ariha responders were seen search- often rely on evidence obtained been exhausted”. ing for survivors in the rubble through torture. They have also Before handing down his sen- of a building hit in yesterday’s n Iraqi court yester- raised the question of whether tence, the judge told Merzoughi t least 18 civilians were bombardment. “It was inde- day condemned a fourth suspected IS militants should be yesterday that “the evidence and killed yesterday as scribable. Wounded women and AFrench citizen to death for tried in the region or repatriated, the confession show that you ASyria’s regime intensi- children lying on the ground, joining the Islamic State group, in the face of strong public oppo- joined the Islamic State group, fi ed its bombardment of Idlib destruction everywhere, shops despite France reiterating its op- sition at home. that you worked in its military province, the last militant damaged,” said Mohamed Said, position to capital punishment. France has long insisted that its branch.” Wearing a yellow prison stronghold in the country’s a resident at the site of the raid. Mustapha Merzoughi, a adult citizens captured in Iraq or uniform, the French citizen with northwest, a monitor said. The fi rst responders were 37-year-old former French army Syria must face trial locally, refus- Tunisian roots said he was “not Idlib and parts of the neigh- lifted to an upper fl oor of the soldier, was sentenced to death ing to repatriate them despite the guilty of crimes and killings” but bouring provinces of Aleppo, badly damaged building in the by hanging, according to an AFP risk they face capital punishment simply of travelling to Syria. Hama and Latakia are under bucket of an excavator machine journalist at the court. for waging their militant war in “I ask for forgiveness from the the control of Hayat Tahrir in an attempt to rescue a child In recent months Iraq has taken the region. Paris yesterday reit- people of Iraq, Syria, France and al-Sham, a militant group led who had been buried under custody of thousands of militants erated its opposition to the death the families of the victims,” he by Syria’s former Al Qaeda blocks of concrete. including foreigners captured in penalty, saying it would take “the said. affi liate. Eighteen civilians, But the child was among neighbouring Syria by the US- necessary steps” to prevent Iraq Originally from Toulouse in including six children, were those who died, the AFP corre- backed Syrian Democratic Forces from carrying out capital punish- southwestern France, Merzoughi killed yesterday in air strikes A man carries a child rescued with the help of a excavator spondent said. (SDF) during the battle to destroy ment against its citizens. told investigators he had served and missile attacks on Idlib from the rubble of a building destroyed during an air strike by The Observatory says more the IS “caliphate”. Among them “France is opposed in principle in the French army from 2000 to province, said Rami Abdel Syrian regime forces and their allies on the town of Ariha, in the than 250 civilians have been are 12 French citizens, three of to the death penalty at all times 2010, including a tour in Afghani- Rahman, director of the Syr- southern outskirts of Idlib province, yesterday. killed in the spike in violence whom — Kevin Gonot, Leonard and in all places,” the foreign min- stan in 2009. ian Observatory for Human since the end of April. Lopez and Salim Machou — were istry said in a statement. Passing through Belgium and Rights. least 47 people were wounded vilians in the same province, More than 200,000 civilians handed death sentences Sunday French government spokes- then Morocco, Merzoughi said Ten of them, including four across the province. according to the Britain-based have already been displaced by by a Baghdad court in a fi rst for woman Sibeth Ndiaye told in court yesterday he underwent children, died in the town of The deaths come a day after Observatory. this upsurge of violence, the French militants. France’s BFMTV that “we are not “religious and military training” Ariha, he said, adding that at regime air strikes killed 12 ci- An AFP correspondent in United Nations has said. They have 30 days to appeal. going to ask Iraq’s government for in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Madagascar votes in latest battle of political feud

AFP fi ne our future for the next fi ve few queues seen at polling sta- It is far from certain that yes- handed over to prosecutors Antananarivo years,” said Rajoelina after vot- tions. terday’s vote will produce sta- a list of 79 deputies alleged ing in the capital Antananarivo. The vote took place after bility — of the 800 candidates to have each accepted bribes “The candidates who will be another bout of instability in fi ghting for the 151 assembly worth 12,500 euros ($14,000) adagascar held parlia- elected MPs have the duty not Madagascar which saw Rajoe- seats, nearly 500 are standing as to vote in favour of Rajaonar- mentary elections yes- only to pass laws, but also to lina and Ravalomanana put aside independents. imampianina’s electoral laws. Mterday in what is being represent the aspirations of the their diff erences last year to op- “Independent candidates Both Rajoelina and Ravalo- seen as the latest round of a bit- people.” pose new electoral laws intro- could win many seats...because manana have promised voters ter feud between President An- Ravalomanana also voted in duced by then president Hery a lot of voters want to break the they will put an end to such dry Rajoelina and his longstand- the capital, and he raised allega- Rajaonarimampianina. hold of the Rajoelina and Rav- practices. ing rival Marc Ravalomanana. tions of fraud in the presidential After two months of street alomanana camps,” political The former French colony is Beaten to the top job in De- election last December. protests, the government fell and analyst Tohavina Ralamboma- well known for its vanilla and cember, Ravalomanana has “People are less enthusiastic Rajaonarimampianina trailed in hay said. “If there are too many precious redwood, yet is one been pushing hard in support of to vote because of the fraud that a distant third in the presidential independents in the assembly, of the world’s poorest nations, candidates of his TIM (“I Love has already been noted in previ- election. that will create changeable ma- according to World Bank data, Madagascar”) party, determined ous elections,” he said. “I was disappointed that the jorities which will in turn gen- with 76% of people living in to secure a victory in his rivalry Antananarivo’s walls have leader of our party did not win erate corruption and political extreme poverty. with President Rajoelina. been plastered with elec- the presidential election, but instability.” The island, which is also The two men have dominated tion posters, while during the that defeat has motivated us to Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina waves as he arrives to vote The campaign has been over- famed for its unique wildlife, politics since the early 2000s, campaign, loudspeaker trucks win a majority in the assembly,” for the parliamentary elections in Antananarivo, yesterday. shadowed in its last days by is dependent on foreign aid and sometimes cooperating but passed by in convoys and sup- said the TIM candidate, busi- corruption allegations against has a long history of coups and mostly fi ghting for advantage porters handed out T-shirts for nessman Feno Ralambomanana. litical war over the next fi ve popularly known as Anyah. more than half the outgoing unrest. and high offi ce. their candidates. “We need a majority to en- years,” said Rajoelina candidate “Madagascans have no need to deputies. Election results are not ex- “These elections will de- But turnout could be low, with sure stability and avoid a po- Aina Rafenomanantsoa, a singer go through all that again.” The anti-corruption bureau pected for at least two weeks. Gulf Times 12 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 AMERICAS

DOG-GONE! MOURNED JUSTICE OUTBREAK EUTHANISED Nobel-winning physicist Canada’s Ontario says 60 new measles cases Horse death toll rises at Murray Gell-Mann dead will sue opioid makers reported in 26 states Santa Anita course

Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who theorised the Canada’s most populous province of Ontario The United States recorded 60 new measles A third horse has died in nine days at Santa Anita existence of the quark and won a Nobel Prize yesterday announced plans to sue opioid makers cases last week, taking confirmed cases for the Park, bringing the equine death toll at the Southern for his method of classifying particles, has died to recover healthcare costs related to the deadly year to 940, the worst outbreak since 1994 and California track to 26 since December 26. Track at 89, the California Institute of Technology addiction epidemic. Ontario’s attorney general, since measles was declared eliminated in 2000, off icials confirmed that 9-year-old gelding Kochees (Caltech) said. Considered among the most Caroline Mulroney, said the province will join a federal health off icials said yesterday. The US was euthanised on Sunday, a day after suff ering a important physicists of the 20th century, the lawsuit launched last year by British Columbia Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leg injury in a $10,000 claiming race. Mike Willman, American scientist theorised in the 1960s that against more than 40 opioid manufacturers reported a 6.8% increase in the number of Santa Anita’s director of publicity, confirmed that subatomic particles — protons and neutrons and wholesalers. “The opioid crisis has cost the measles cases in the week ended May 24 in an surgeons determined the animal couldn’t be saved Corgis race during the heats of the Southern — were composed of paired subunits he called people of Ontario enormously, both in terms of outbreak that has now reached 26 states. The because of loss of blood flow to the injured limb. California ‘Corgi Nationals’ at the Santa Anita quarks. He taught at Caltech in Pasadena, lives lost and its impact on healthcare’s front agency has been providing weekly updates every The three deaths in nine days follow nearly six Horse Racetrack in Arcadia, California, on California from 1955 until his retirement in 1993. lines,” Mulroney said. She unveiled legislation Monday. Experts warn that the outbreak is not weeks without a fatality at the scenic race track Sunday. The event saw hundreds of Corgis Hirosi Ooguri, a professor at Caltech, said in an to set up the legal action “to battle the ongoing over as the number of cases edges closer to the northeast of Los Angeles. But 26 horses have compete for the coveted fastest corgi title at obituary published by the university: “He opened opioid crisis and hold manufacturers and 1994 total of 958. That was the highest number died in either racing or training since the current the 17 race event. a new paradigm in particle physics.” wholesalers accountable for their roles in it.” since 1992, when the CDC recorded 2,126 cases. race meeting opened on December 26.

Trump backer builds his own ‘Rolling Thunder’ rides private wall AFP Sunland Park, New Mexico

US military veteran has launched construc- into Memorial Day sunset A tion on the fi rst section of private border wall between AFP the United States and Mexico, Washington using money crowdsourced by supporters of President Donald Trump. ore than 100,000 fl ag-bearing “This is Americans’ way of bikers, many of them Viet- saying, ‘Congress, you’re worth- Mnam veterans, roared through less, and we’re fi ghting it. We’re Washington on Sunday in an annual going to build (the wall) our- ‘Rolling Thunder’ ride, with President selves,” said New Mexico resi- Donald Trump vowing to keep the Me- dent Jeff Allen, the co-owner of morial Day spectacle alive. the land where the private wall is Spectators lined the route from as the being built. riders set off from the Pentagon, making Determined to help Trump their way to the National Mall. fulfi l his promise to build a “big, It had been billed as the last national beautiful wall” on the border, Rolling Thunder ride by its organisers, Allen began erecting a towering but Trump, who loves a parade, ap- fence of steel slats last weekend peared to off er a reprieve. on his land in the city of Sunland “The Great Patriots of Rolling Thun- Park, across from Ciudad Juarez, der WILL be coming back to Washing- in Mexico. ton, DC next year, & hopefully for many He said the project was being years to come. It is where they want to funded by We Build the Wall, a be, & where they should be,” Trump company launched by war vet- tweeted from Japan. “Thank you to our eran and triple amputee Brian great men & women of the Pentagon for Kolfage to help get Trump’s bor- working it out!” der barrier built, using millions The Pentagon had no comment, re- of dollars in private donations he ferring questions to the White House, raised online. which off ered no details on what had The company’s advisory board been worked out. is chaired by Steve Bannon, the The current plan is still for this year’s far-right strategist and former ride to be the group’s last in Washing- Trump advisor. ton, Rolling Thunder president Joe Bean “This is not Europe. This is told CNN. America. We protect our bor- “This is our fi nal ride in Washing- ders,” Allen, 56, told AFP as ton, DC. Until we can get into the White workers used heavy construc- House and talk to President Trump and tion equipment to manoeuvre see what he can do for us — this is our sections of the fence into place fi nal ride in Washington,” the network behind him. quoted Bean as saying. Trump has struggled to get But for Ron Galey, a Navy veteran Congress to allocate the bil- who served in Vietnam in 1968-69 and lions of dollars he wants for has taken part in every Rolling Thunder his wall, leading to a political ride since 1990, Trump’s tweet off ered battle that shut down the US hope for future rides. government for more than a “Trump said it’s not over, so it is not month. over, and he is the boss of those guys The new private barrier will and he keeps his word,” he told AFP. measure 800m long, and is being Many pro-Trump banners were vis- built to the same specifi cations ible among the bikers forming up for the as government border fencing, parade, a leather-clad, red-white-and- Allen said. blue tribute to American soldiers miss- Allen insisted he had nothing ing in the Vietnam War. against immigrants. The huge motorcycle rally began in Vice President Mike Pence lays a wreath yesterday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. He is married to a Mexican 1988 with fewer than 3,000 participants woman, and his daughter was under the motto “We will never forget.” Bikers kicked off the weekend of South faces off storms and sweltering heat born in Ciudad Juarez, where The goal was to press for an account- events with a “blessing of the bikes” at he lived for three and a half ing of those missing in Vietnam. Washington National Cathedral on Fri- Sweltering heat, storms and possible Deese, predicting high temperatures for survivors in the rubble left by the years. Over the years, it has grown into a day. twisters were yesterday expected to hit through the week staying in the mid to tornado that devastated parts of the “This is not about racism. rumbling combination of protest and Organisers had cited diffi cult rela- the US southern Plains and southeastern high 90s in the region. small community near Oklahoma City, This is about me protecting parade. Riders end up at the Vietnam tions with the Pentagon — where riders states on Memorial Day after a spate of The risk of strong tornadoes are mod- off icials said. myself, and America having a Veterans Memorial and the nearby Lin- line up to begin the rally — over logistics deadly tornadoes and flooding in the erate but remain possible through the At least seven other people were killed secure border. If people want coln Memorial for speeches and a con- and costs, in announcing that this year region. week for the southeastern Plains states, by storms last week. to immigrate, they should go cert on the eve of Memorial Day. would mark the last national rally. Temperatures around 38 Celsius already hit by lethal twisters last week, US southern Plains including Ne- to a port of entry and apply,” he Unlike Veterans Day in the United “As always, the Pentagon is charging were forecast in cities from Jacksonville, forecasters said. braska, Oklahoma, Kansas and parts of said. States, which honours all military vet- us with an outrageous bill for their serv- Florida, up the southeast into Macon and The latest severe tornado killed two Ohio will remain under flood watches He declined to say how much erans in November, Memorial Day — on ices,” Bean said in a letter to members. Savannah Georgia, and on to Charleston, people in El Reno, Oklahoma on Satur- and warnings through the week, as the barrier would cost. the last Monday in May — is aimed spe- Another letter co-signed by Bean said South Carolina, the National Weather day night, injured at least 29 people, rains, wind, hail and possible twisters Kolfage raised around $20mn cifi cally at remembering those who died costs of staging the event had soared to Service said. yesterday and left hundreds homeless, officials are in the forecast, said David Roth of on the website GoFundMe — while serving in the US armed forces, more than $200,000. “This is super hot for this time of year,” said. the NWS Weather Prediction Center in well short of the $1bn he wanted were prisoners of war or remain unac- “The organisation will continue to said John Deese, a NWS forecaster in Four more people were killed in the College Park Maryland. to donate to the government — counted for. bring awareness to the public, in years Peachtree, Georgia, near Atlanta. same storm in Oklahoma, CNN reported As for the southeast from Florida to before cancelling the project and The event has the same name as a to come, with regional demonstra- “This is a heat wave across the south, on Sunday. Virginia — “It’ll stay hot,” he said. “This launching We Build the Wall to major US bombing operation against tions,” organisers said in a statement and it’s going to be here for a while,” said Rescue workers on Sunday searched weather pattern is just parked, persistent.” build sections of border barrier North Vietnam during the war. posted on their website. privately. US push to capture carbon fuses green and fossil-fuel interests

By Sebastien Malo, Reuters promise of keeping his coal-fi red the rise in global temperatures as in greener states whose leaders tion, which consists of more than will soon be dedicated to storing “The more the costs go down, Jackson, Wyoming power plant running at a time of below catastrophic levels. want to address climate change. 60 companies, labour unions and CO2 emissions from other in- the more projects are built, and rising pressure to pollute less. But it is also controversial. In politically conservative green groups, launched a blue- dustries such as gas processing you get this virtuous circle,” said Environmentalists and fossil Some environmentalists worry North Dakota, Democratic sena- print at the gathering, calling for and cement and chemical pro- Crabtree. ason Albritton, who works fuel industry representatives made CCS will help perpetuate the fos- tor Heidi Heitkamp introduced a additional policies to boost CCS. duction. Beefed-up backing from the for green group The Nature for strange bedfellows earlier this sil-fuel status quo at the expense successful bill for a national tax Co-director Brad Crabtree said The “policy blueprint” from US government for CCS is as JConservancy, says he is all for month as they convened outside of the rapid, deep cuts in dirty credit expansion last year aimed he hoped it would continue to the Carbon Capture Coalition crucial as other initiatives to technology to suck carbon diox- the US ski town of Jackson, Wyo- energy use needed to curb global at promoting use of the technol- resonate across party lines. called for additional tax incen- cut planet-warming emissions, ide (CO2), the main cause of cli- ming, to strategise on ways to get warming, said Steve Clemmer, ogy. The “foundational fi rst step” tives and research funding. from planting forests to setting mate change, out of the air. commercial CCS off the ground director of energy research at the Similarly, sponsors of this of a tax credit expansion last It largely refl ects measures in up wind farms, said Julio Fried- Stephen Johnson, president of across the United States. Union of Concerned Scientists. week’s meeting included envi- year needed to be followed by a bills with bipartisan support that mann, a senior research scholar Illinois Clean Fuels, a start-up CCS involves separating car- Still, in the United States, CCS ronmental groups such as the wider set of policies to accelerate are already before lawmakers. at Columbia University. that will produce jet fuel from bon dioxide from other gases is beginning to transcend ideo- National Audubon Society, but the technology’s deployment at Chief among these, the “USE The International Energy municipal garbage, is also a fan of and re-using it as an ingredi- logical leanings, he said on the also fossil fuel companies like scale, he added. IT Act”, co-sponsored by Demo- Agency says CCS will be needed the nascent technique known as ent in anything from plastics to sidelines of the CO2NNECT 2019 Occidental Petroleum. Any US industrial facility that cratic and Republican members to cut 14% of the emissions that carbon capture and storage (CCS). fi zzy drinks, or storing it away for meeting. “Carbon capture has recently injects CO2 into an oil fi eld before of Congress, seeks support for have to be abated by 2060 to limit He plans to turn a profi t pump- good, typically in geological for- The United States has half of caught the eye of a curious coalition 2024 is eligible for the higher tax CO2 pipelines and funding for a global rise in average tempera- ing the planet-warming gas he mations. the world’s 18 large-scale CCS of interests,” said David Livingston, credit. research to develop technology tures to below 2 degrees Celsius traps underground. The technology is gradually projects, according to the Global a deputy director at the Atlantic So far the program’s suc- that sucks CO2 from the air. above pre-industrial times. For Don Gaston, meanwhile, gaining momentum worldwide, CCS Institute in Australia. Council, a bipartisan think tank. cess has relied heavily on power So-called “direct air capture”, “The climate math demands who heads the Illinois utility with the United Nations saying Clemmer said CCS had won “Their interests overlap,” he plants, which produce nearly which pulls gas directly from the we...reduce greenhouse gas Prairie State Generating Com- in a scientifi c report last year it backing in US states with fossil added. 30% of US carbon emissions. atmosphere, is an emerging fi eld emissions however we can,” pany, capturing CO2 off ers the would likely be needed to keep fuel industries and lobbies, as well The Carbon Capture Coali- Crabtree expects more projects with only a handful of players. Friedmann said. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 13 ASIA

American Four bodies and 10 tonnes of climber dies Reuters Kathmandu

n American climber died on the descent from the summit trash collected from Everest Aof Mount Everest yesterday, a Nepalese offi cial said, taking the AFP to Namche Bazar, the last ma- number of dead or missing moun- Namche Bazar, Nepal jor town on the route to Mount taineers on the world’s highest Everest. mountain to nine on the Nepali side Authorities said some of it during the current climbing season. our bodies have been re- will be sent to Kathmandu for Christopher John Kulish, 61, scaled trieved from Everest and recycling. the 8,850m (29,035ft) peak from the Fsome 10 tonnes of garbage Fluorescent tents, discarded normal Southeast Ridge route in the plucked from the mountain at climbing equipment, empty morning but died suddenly at South the end of this year’s climbing gas canisters and even human Col after descending from the sum- season, Nepal authorities said excrement litter the well-trod- mit, Mira Acharya, a Nepal tourism yesterday. den route to the summit of the department offi cial said. Global warming means melt- 8,848m (29,029ft) peak. The authorities did not say ing glaciers are revealing human “We need to run this pro- where he was from in the United remains and rubbish, which has gramme for few more years, es- States. The cause of his death gathered over decades of com- pecially at the higher camps, to was unclear. mercial mountaineering and as make the mountain clean,” said Most of the deaths on Everest an increasing number of big- Pasang Nuru Sherpa, the clean- this year have been attributed to spending climbers who pay little up team’s leader. exhaustion and tiredness, exac- attention to the ugly footprint Governments on both sides erbated because a crowded route they leave behind. of the mountain have been bat- to and from the summit has led The four bodies were brought tling the human waste and trash to delays. The short climbing down by helicopter last week left by an increasing number of season ends this month. according to media reports. climbers. The route, also called the Dandu Raj Ghimire of Nepal’s Six years ago, Nepal imple- South Col route, was pioneered tourism department said they mented a $4,000 rubbish de- by New Zealander Sir Edmund were being identifi ed. posit per team that would be re- Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa The 14-strong team sent by funded if each climber brought Tenzing Norgay in 1953. the government spent about six down at least 8kg (18 pounds) About 5,000 people have scaled weeks scouring for litter at base of waste, but only half of the the Everest summit so far and camp and at Camp 4 – nearly climbers return with their trash. about 300 have died on its slopes. 8,000m up – scraping together In February, China banned Two climbers are also confi rmed empty cans, bottles, plastic and non-climbers from accessing dead on the Tibetan side of Mount discarded climbing gear. its Everest base camp in Tibet in Everest this climbing season. “We have reached our target an attempt to clean up its side of A record 381 climbers had been this season... we hope we are the mountain. permitted to scale the summit able to continue what we have Hundreds of climbers reached from the Nepali side this season. started,” Ghimire said. the summit this season, and the About 130 others were tackling Army helicopters and porters total could go past last year’s Everest from the mountain’s transported the refuse down record of 807 ascents. Nepali Army personnel carry bags of waste collected from the Mt Everest at Namche Bazar, yesterday, before it is transported to Kathmandu to be recycled. northern side in Tibet. Myanmar soldiers Lanka to relax emergency in a month

jailed for Rohingya AFP emergency giving sweeping clared for a month at a time. and other targets in Sri Lanka. Colombo powers to the military to arrest Sirisena extended the period The mainly Buddhist nation of and detain suspects a day af- on May 22 and it will lapse in a 21mn people was about to mark ter the bombings that killed 258 month unless he uses his execu- a decade since ending a 37-year- killings released ri Lanka’s President an- people and wounded nearly 500. tive power to prolong it. long Tamil separatist war when nounced yesterday he will The suicide bombings against Sirisena said he, as the minis- Islamic extremists struck. Sallow tough emergency three Christian churches and ter of defence and law and order, Sirisena reiterated to foreign Reuters The soldiers were freed laws to lapse within a month be- three luxury hotels were blamed was restructuring the security envoys that Sri Lankan security Yangon in November last year, cause the security situation was on a local jihadi group, the Na- forces to ensure there will be no forces have either arrested or meaning they served “99% back to normal” following tional Thowheeth Jama’ath repetition of the terror attacks killed all those directly involved less than one year of the Easter bombings. which has since been banned that shattered a decade-long in the Easter Sunday bombings. yanmar has granted their 10-year prison Maithripala Sirisena told Co- under the emergency. peace in the country. Police say just over 100 people, early release to seven terms for the killings at lombo-based diplomats from “The emergency was declared The attacks exposed serious including 10 women are in custody Msoldiers jailed for the Inn Din village Australia, Canada, Japan, the to deal with the immediate secu- security failures. Sirisena has or- in connection with the attacks. killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim US and European states that se- rity situation,” Sirisena’s offi ce dered an investigation into why Security forces also detained a men and boys during a 2017 more than 730,000 Rohingya curity forces were successful in quoted him as saying. “However, local authorities failed to act on further 100 suspects in four days Sri Lankan President military crackdown in the Muslims to fl ee to Bangla- getting at all those responsible it will not be necessary to extend precise intelligence from neigh- of cordon-and-search opera- Maithripala Sirisena: “The western state of Rakhine, two desh. UN investigators said for the April 21 bombings. this any further.” bouring India that jihadists were tions since Thursday, according security situation was “99% prison offi cials, two former the crackdown was executed Sirisena declared a state of The emergency can be de- about to hit Christian churches to military offi cials. back to normal.” fellow inmates and one of the with “genocidal intent” and soldiers told Reuters. included mass killings, gang The soldiers were freed in rapes and widespread arson. November last year, the two Myanmar denies wide- inmates said, meaning they spread wrongdoing and offi - served less than one year of cials have pointed to the jailing Maoist activists held for Nepal blasts Thailand their 10-year prison terms of the seven soldiers in the Inn for the killings at Inn Din Din case as evidence Myanmar village. security forces do not enjoy AFP urged to end They also served less jail impunity. Kathmandu time than two Reuters report- “I would say that we took ers who uncovered the kill- action against every case we legal action ings. The journalists, Wa Lone could investigate,” the mili- epalese police arrested and Kyaw Soe Oo, spent more tary’s commander in chief, suspected Maoist ac- than 16 months behind bars on Senior General Min Aung Ntivists after three dead- against MP charges of obtaining state se- Hlaing, told offi cials from the ly bomb blasts in Kathmandu as crets. The two were released in UN Security Council in April a general strike disrupted daily DPA an amnesty on May 6. last year, according to an ac- life in much of the South Asian Bangkok Win Naing, the chief war- count posted on his personal nation yesterday, police said. den at Rakhine’s Sittwe Pris- website. Amid a high alert after Sun- on, and a senior prison offi - The army chief cited the Inn day’s attacks, which were oliticians from the Asso- cial in the capital, Naypyitaw, Din case specifi cally. “The lat- blamed on an outlawed Maoist ciation of South-East Asian confi rmed that the convicted est crime we punished was a group, police blew up several PNations (Asean) yesterday soldiers had not been in prison killing, and 10 years’ impris- suspicious packages. urged the Thai authorities to end for some months. onment was given to seven The group broke away from their legal action against a promi- “Their punishment was re- perpetrators,” he said. “We the country’s main communist nent anti-junta member of parlia- duced by the military,” said the will not forgive anyone if they party, which is now in power, ment amid Thailand’s scramble to senior Naypyitaw offi cial, who commit (a) crime.” and called the general strike to form a new government. declined to be named. Reached by phone on protest against the death of one Thanathorn Juangroongru- Both prison offi cials de- Thursday, a man named Zin of its leaders in police custody. A member of a Nepal army bomb disposal squad checks a suspected bomb in a street in Kathmandu angkit, 40, the leader of the pro- clined to provide further Paing Soe confi rmed that he Police said at least 13 offi cials yesterday. gressive Future Forward Party, details and said they did was one of the seven soldiers from the Maoist group were ar- which won 80 seats in March not know the exact date of and that he was now free, but rested on Sunday night and ear- eral strike is nominal in the whilst two men carrying ex- calm since the end of a decade- general elections, is facing at the release, which was not declined to comment further. ly yesterday in diff erent parts of Kathmandu valley but very few plosives on a motorbike were long civil war in 2006. But some least two criminal cases in rela- announced publicly. “We were told to shut up,” he the country. vehicles are working outside the among those injured. former guerrillas have formed tion to his anti-military stance. Military spokesmen Zaw said. “Security agencies dealt with capital,” the spokesman added. There was no immediate a new group accusing their The charges, which he says are Min Tun and Tun Tun Nyi The 2017 campaign was suspicious objects found in dif- Four men were killed and claim of responsibility but po- former leaders of betraying politically motivated, include se- declined to comment. launched across hundreds of ferent areas, mostly outside the seven people injured in three lice said they suspected the their revolutionary cause. dition for his alleged involvement The seven soldiers were the villages in northern Rakhine capital,” said police spokesman explosions in Kathmandu on Maoist group whose pamphlets The group was banned after in anti-junta protests in 2015, and only security personnel the in response to attacks by Ro- Bishwa Raj Pokharel. Sunday. were found in a house where it was implicated in an explo- cyber-crime for criticizing the military has said it has pun- hingya insurgents. Reuters While some schools and of- A blast inside a shop killed one of the explosions took sion that killed one person out- regime on Facebook last year. ished over the 2017 opera- exposed the killings in a report fi ces remained closed in Kath- three people, one died in an place. side a telecom company offi ce On Thursday, the Constitu- tion in Rakhine, which drove published in February 2018. mandu, “the eff ect of the gen- explosion at a nearby house, Nepal has enjoyed relative in February. tional Court suspended his par- liamentary status while decid- ing whether to disqualify him as a lawmaker over his holding of shares in a media company. “It is diffi cult not to see the Thailand’s pro-army party seeks allies to cement power Constitutional Court’s move as another attempt to silence a Reuters A deal with the unaligned pro-military party formed last Bhumjaithai said it accepted general Chalermchai Sri-on said “It’s certain that we will be voice critical of the junta,” said Bangkok Democrat and Bhumjaithai par- year by members of the junta’s the invitation and its executive the party would announce its forming a coalition govern- Teddy Baguilar, a Philippine ties would likely sink the oppo- Cabinet, said after yesterday’s committee would deliberate on decision soon. Party leaders were ment, with at least 251 seats and board member of the associa- sition Democratic Front coali- meeting. policies with a view to forming meeting on Monday evening. more,” he said. tion’s Parliamentarians for Hu- wo Thai political parties tion’s bid to keep junta members “We understand there are a government soon. Puttipong Punnakanta, a The opposition Pheu Thai man Rights. have been invited to join from retaining dominance over internal processes, but it was “Leaders will connect and Palang Pracharat board member Party, which was ousted in “[The] authorities must show Ta new government led by the government fi ve years after a very good starting point,” he quickly resolve any issues...so and a member of parliament, 2014, won the most seats in the that they respect the outcome of military junta chief General Pray- the army seized power in a coup. told reporters. Palang Pracharat will not have any told Reuters on Sunday the par- 500-member House of Repre- the recent vote. This means al- uth Chan-ocha as prime minis- “We invited two parties, but The two parties would headaches. It’s time we go to work ty - which gained the second- sentatives but its Democratic lowing those elected to take part ter, a pro-army party said yester- did not expect a conclusion give the pro-army coalition a for the country,” party leader Anu- largest number of seats in the Front coalition did not gain a in public life, no matter how ‘in- day, more than two months after today,” Uttama Savanayana, slim majority in the House of tin Charnvirakul told reporters. March 24 election - said he was majority when fi nal results were convenient’ their opinions are,” a disputed election. leader of Palang Pracharat, the Representatives. Democrat Party secretary- confi dent of making a deal. announced. Baguilat’s statement read. Gulf Times 14 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 ASIA/AUSTRALASIA

US President Donald Trump talks with Japan’s Emperor Naruhito while first lady Melania Trump talks with Empress Masako during their state US President Donald Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Akasaka Palace, Japanese call at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. state guest house in Tokyo yesterday. Trump presses Japan over trade gap, expects ‘good things’ from N Korea

Reuters Trade tensions cast shadow over ers in Beijing that China’s stance On my mind: Trump meets relatives N Korea dubs Tokyo was consistent: Disputes should state visit; Expects balance of trade be resolved through negotiations of Japanese abducted by North Korea Bolton’s missile to be straightened out soon; First and China-US consultations comments ‘more S President Donald “must be based on mutual re- US President Donald Trump in Hanoi in February that broke Trump pressed Japanese foreign dignitary to be received by spect, equality and mutual ben- yesterday told relatives of down without an agreement. than ignorant’ UPrime Minister Shinzo new monarch efi t”. Trump and Abe also have Japanese abducted by North Trump’s eff orts were producing Abe yesterday to even out a trade disagreements over North Ko- Korea that their loved ones “concrete progress towards US National Security Adviser imbalance with the United States rea. Trump expressed optimism were “very much on my mind” the resolution of the abduction John Bolton is “more than and said he was happy with how “We’ll get the balance of trade, I tion. “Since then, our two na- over prospects that North Korea and promised to work to bring issue,” said Sakie Yokota, whose ignorant” to argue that North things were going with North think, straightened out rapidly.” tions and peoples have overcome would give up its nuclear pro- them home. daughter Megumi is among the Korea’s recent missile tests Korea despite its recent missile Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary various hardships to cultivate gramme, and repeated that he The US leader made the missing. violated UN resolutions, the and rocket launches. Yasutoshi Nishimura told report- mutual understanding and trust was not bothered by recent mis- comments during a brief Megumi was kidnapped on North’s foreign ministry said in a Trump told a news conference ers there was no agreement to to become extremely close Pacif- sile tests, which he indicated he meeting with around a dozen her way home from school statement yesterday. Giving up with Abe after their summit that reach a trade deal by August. ic neighbours bound by a strong did not believe fl outed United relatives as part of a state visit in 1977 aged only 13, and is missile tests would mean giving he wanted US exports to be put Abe, who has developed a friendship,” he said. Nations Security Council resolu- to Japan, the second time the youngest among the 17 up the right to self-defence, a on a fair footing in Japan through warm relationship with Trump On Sunday, Trump spent tions. he has met with the families off icially listed as abductees by North Korean foreign ministry the removal of trade barriers. since the US leader came to of- what he said was “an incredible “My people think it could have of the missing. “The stories the Japanese government. spokesman was quoted as saying He said he hoped to have more fi ce, stressed the closeness of evening” watching the Japanese been a violation, as you know. I are very sad,” he said at the In 2004, North Korea handed in a statement issued by the to announce on trade very soon ties. “This visit of President national sport of sumo — where view it diff erently – I view it as sombre gathering, surrounded over cremated remains it state KCNA news agency. The and said he and Abe had agreed Trump and Madame Trump is nearly naked wrestlers grapple a man, perhaps he wants to get by family members, some claimed were Megumi’s. unidentified spokesman singled to expand cooperation in human a golden opportunity to clearly on a raised sand ring — after he attention. Perhaps not. Who clutching framed photographs However, Tokyo said DNA tests out Bolton, who last week said space exploration. show the unshakable bond to the and Abe had bonded over ham- knows? It doesn’t matter. All I of their missing loved ones. conducted in Japan proved the the recent tests “no doubt” “We have an unbelievably large whole world and inside Japan as burgers and golf. While Abe and know is that there have been no Japan suspects dozens of claim to be untrue. violated UN Security Council imbalance, as you know, trade well,” Abe told the news confer- Trump have put their friendship nuclear tests, no ballistic mis- its citizens were abducted in Her brother sat next to their resolutions. “His claim is indeed imbalance with Japan for many, ence. on show, Trump has threatened siles going out, no long-range the 1970s and 1980s by North mother during the meeting, much more than ignorant,” the many years, Japan having the big Earlier, Trump was greeted by to target Japanese automak- missiles going out. And I think Korean agents to train their holding a photo of his sister spokesman said. “Our military advantage,” Trump said. Emperor Naruhito and his Har- ers with high tariff s. He has also that someday we’ll have a deal,” spies in Japanese language and dressed in a pink and white drill neither targeted anyone nor “They are brilliant business vard-educated wife at the impe- spearheaded an expensive trade Trump said. “I’m not in a rush,” culture. The abductions are checkered kimono. “We have endangered the surrounding people, brilliant negotiators, and rial palace in a formal welcome dispute with China. The trade he added. a potent and emotional issue the greatest trust in you and countries, but Bolton makes put us in a very tough spot. But I ceremony. Trump is the fi rst war between the world’s two Trump also said he agreed with in Japan, with Prime Minister also in Prime Minister Abe,” dogged claims that it constitutes think we will have a deal with Ja- foreign dignitary to be received largest economies has hurt mar- Kim that former US Vice Presi- Shinzo Abe even promising Yokota told Trump, who was a violation of the ‘resolutions’, pan,” he added. by the monarch since Naruhito kets worldwide. dent Joe Biden, who has been to meet North Korea’s Kim sitting next to his wife Melania, impudently poking his nose into Abe, for his part, said the two inherited the throne after his fa- Trump told the news confer- critical of North Korea and is Jong-un if it would help resolve along with Abe and his wife other’s internal matters.” leaders had agreed to accelerate ther, Akihito, stepped down on ence that Washington was not now campaigning to become the the long-running question. “I Akie. Koichiro Iizuka, whose Bolton, a regular target of North trade talks but dodged a ques- April 30, the fi rst abdication by ready to make a deal with Beijing Democratic Party candidate for can see why your great prime mother Yaeko Taguchi was Korean criticism, is more of a tion about timing. Trump, who is a Japanese emperor in two cen- but he expected one in the future. the 2020 US presidential elec- minister feels so strongly about kidnapped in 1978, urged “security-destroying adviser” on a four-day state visit to Japan turies. Emperor Naruhito and his “I believe that we will have a very tion, was a “low IQ individual”. it,” Trump told the gathered Trump and Abe to “break this than a security adviser, the meant to showcase the Japan-US wife Empress Masako hosted a good deal with China sometime Abe said he supported Trump’s family members. “I can tell deadlock.” spokesman added. “It is not at alliance, said on Twitter on Sun- six-course state dinner later yes- in the future. Because I don’t approach to Kim, but repeated you that it is very much on my “My mother has been all strange that perverse words day that he expected big moves terday for Trump and his wife, believe that China can continue Japan’s stance that the recent mind,” he added. “And we will separated from her son, as always come out from the mouth on trade would wait until after Melania, and dozens of guests, to pay these really hundreds of short-range missile tests violat- be working together to bring well as her family members, of a structurally defective guy,” Japan’s upper house election in many of whom were dressed in billions of dollars in tariff s,” he ed UN resolutions. the relatives, children, sons, for the past 41 years,” he said. the spokesman said. Earlier July. tuxedos or colourful kimonos. said. “You know businesses are The two leaders also discussed your mothers, home.” “I sincerely hope Mr Prime in May, North Korean military “Trade-wise, I think we’ll be In his toast, Naruhito high- leaving China, by the hundreds, Iran. Japanese media has said Relatives of the missing Minister and President will forces test fired several rockets announcing some things, prob- lighted how Japan forged a treaty by the thousands, and going into Abe was considering a trip there thanked Trump for raising the break this deadlock... so as to and missiles, including several ably in August, that will be very with the United States when it areas that are not tariff ed.” next month, to try to soothe ris- issue in two rounds of talks bring about the return of my guided missiles that experts said good for both countries,” Trump emerged in 1854 from more than Chinese Foreign Ministry ing tension between Iran and the with Kim, including a summit mother as soon as possible.” could be used to penetrate South said at the start of the talks. 200 years of self-imposed isola- spokesman Lu Kang told report- United States. Korean and American defences.

Four dead in post-poll riot in Indonesia’s Australian PM to visit Solomon Islands Vanquished Australian Papua Reuters Morrison’s first China’s efforts to expand its in- Solomon Islands, amid national opposition shifts left A 16-year-old boy was one Sydney fluence. Those remarks threat- security concerns about China’s of at least four people shot overseas trip en to inflame tension between Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. dead by police during a riot since winning the United States and China al- That year, Australia became the with new leader triggered by dissatisfaction ustralian Prime Minister ready heated by a trade war, US first country to ban the Chinese over the election result in the Scott Morrison will visit re-election this sanctions and China’s increas- company, world’s largest maker restive province of Papua, an Athe Solomon Islands month will also ingly muscular military posture of telecom network gear, from AFP Albanese told reporters in Syd- off icial said. More than 300 next week, he said yesterday, in the South China Sea. its nascent broadband network, Sydney ney, where he holds his lower supporters of a legislative as Western nations seek to rein be the first time Australia and China have a step the United States fol- house seat, yesterday. candidate who claimed he in China’s influence on the tiny an Australian been increasingly vying for in- lowed this year by effectively “I want to build relationships should have won the seat in Pacific island and across the re- fluence in sparsely populated banning US firms from doing ustralia’s opposition is between the Labor Party and the local council attacked a gion. prime minister Pacific island countries that business with Huawei. set to anoint Anthony Al- those people who voted for us, district off ice in Asmat district. The visit comes as the United has visited the control vast swathes of re- In November, Australia of- Abanese as its new leader, but also those people who want- The candidate, who was not States and its allies are trying source-rich oceans. fered Pacific countries up to hoping to win back the working ed to vote for us, who were open identified, claimed based on to ensure that Pacific countries Solomon Islands Yesterday, Vanuatu Prime A$3bon in grants and cheap class after a shock election defeat to vote for us, but who felt like the votes he should have won that have diplomatic links with since 2008 Minister Charlot Salwai meet loans in build infrastructure, to the conservative government. they couldn’t.” a seat in the city council but Taiwan, do not severe those Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in as Morrison declared the region The Australian Labor Party Labor’s large and progressive his name was replaced with in favour of establishing them Beijing, with Li promising that was “our patch”. Australia has unexpectedly lost to incumbent policy reform agenda, which it another candidate’s name. with Beijing. The Solomon Is- e-mailed statement. He did not China would encourage invest- won favour through its spend- leader Scott Morrison on May campaigned heavily on, as well The protesters, armed with lands is one of only a handful of mention efforts to preserve Tai- ment and deepen trade and ing commitments but its sup- 18, despite leading in the polls as Shorten’s unpopularity with sharp weapons, damaged the Pacific countries to recognise wan’s diplomatic alliances, but infrastructure cooperation, port of its coal industry is a sore running up to the election. Al- voters, have been blamed for the district off ice, local military Taiwan, a policy now in ques- analysts say the issue has be- according to China’s foreign point for many in a region par- banese, from Labor’s left faction, election upset. spokesman Muhammad tion after recent elections on come a flashpoint in the region ministry. Last year, Vanuatu ticularly vulnerable to rising sea replaced Bill Shorten when the Morrison successfully cast Aidi said. Four soldiers tried the islands. China views Taiwan and is likely to be raised. and China denied reports that levels caused by greenhouse- former union chief stepped down Labor’s proposals, including to control the protesters but as a renegade province with no “China is the Solomon Is- Beijing wanted to establish a gas induced global warming. hours after losing the vote. tackling climate change, as too were outnumbered, and one right to state-to-state ties. lands’ largest trading partner permanent military presence in “There is little doubt that The 56-year-old will be of- risky and damaging to household of the off icers tried to control Morrison’s first overseas trip and this is adding a lot of pres- the Pacific island nation. many Pacific islands will have fi cially confi rmed by the Labor fi nances at a time when the na- the mob by opening fire into since winning re-election this sure on lawmakers to switch al- Keen to undercut China’s been unhappy with the re- caucus on Thursday after the un- tional economy is slowing down. the air, Aidi said. “The mob month will also be the first time legiances,” said Jonathan Pryke, Belt and Road Initiative, Aus- election of Morrison,” said Pe- contested leadership ballot. Al- The Labor party performed became even more brutal and an Australian prime minister Pacific Islands programme di- tralia has directed ever larger ter Chen, a political science banese vowed to create a “larger, particularly poorly in Queens- attacked the off icer, in a such has visited the Solomon Islands rector at the think-tank, the amounts of its foreign aid to the professor at the University of more inclusive party” amid soul- land state, where Shorten was threatening situation another since 2008. Lowy Institute. region. In 2018, Australia said it Sydney. searching within the ranks over perceived to be lukewarm about off icer was forced to open fire “The Pacific is front and On Friday, a senior US official would spend $139mn to develop “He will need to find com- the defeat. a potential large India-backed and retreat to the post to save centre of Australia’s strategic said Washington would help undersea Internet cable links mon ground to repair that rela- “I understand that it is a big mine that promises to create themselves,” Aidi said. outlook,” Morrison said in an Pacific countries in the face of to Papua New Guinea and the tionship.” mountain that we have to climb,” thousands of jobs. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 15 BRITAIN Sajid Javid joins race to replace May as Tory leader

Guardian News and Media Javid is the latest entrant in a welcomed the proposal for a TV In a statement meant to in- man you want driving you home is to be the next prime minister and that means doing it properly London crowded fi eld. His announce- debate. Boris Johnson, the fa- crease pressure upon his com- at the end of the evening”. from a shortlist of two candi- – not with some frail simulacrum ment came after another candi- vourite to succeed Theresa May, petitors, Raab said: “I hope that One aide to a leadership candi- dates whittled down by MPs. of Brexit, but clearly and sen- date, Dominic Raab, challenged has been asked for a response. the other candidates take me up date said a debate could, without After the EU election results sibly, so that we are able to join ajid Javid has become the his rivals to take part in a tel- Raab offi cially joined the par- on my suggestion of holding a careful management, perma- yesterday, Johnson warned his every other independent country latest Conservative to de- evised debate amid concerns it ty’s leadership race on Sunday, televised debate so that we can nently damage the party. “We party that it would face a fresh in being able to set our own tariff s Sclare he is standing for the could further expose gaping divi- but has been signing up MPs as test each other’s plans on Brexit.” have to decide if we are going to drubbing if it did not deliver and make our own laws.” party leadership, telling mem- sions across the party. supporters for several weeks. Other rivals are mulling over expose ourselves to an all-out Brexit “properly”. Leadsom issued a statement bers: “First and foremost, we In a statement issued after He joined the Foreign Secre- the suggestion, conscious that fi ght on the EU. It could turn out “The message from these re- yesterday describing the results must deliver Brexit.” dramatic electoral losses to the tary, Jeremy Hunt, the Interna- Johnson has previously strug- to be a race to the bottom,” the sults is clear,” he wrote in his col- as “truly terrible”. The home secretary made his Brexit party, the bookmakers’ tional Development Secretary, gled when pressurised by fellow aide said. umn for the Daily Telegraph. “If “It is now vital we now fi nd a announcement yesterday in a vid- second favourite to become the Rory Stewart, the Health Secre- Tories. There are fears among Tory we go on like this, we will be fi red: way to decisively leave the EU … eo posted on Twitter. He said: “We next prime minister has also tary, Matt Hancock, the Environ- During ITV’s referendum de- moderates that many of the eight dismissed from the job of run- I have a three-step plan for how must get on and deliver Brexit,” called on the party to leave the ment Secretary, Michael Gove, bate in 2016, Amber Rudd, then declared leadership candidates ning the country. The only way we deliver Brexit which I look adding it was important to “re- EU by October 31 “at the very lat- and former work and pensions the energy secretary, memorably will adopt hardline Brexit posi- to avert that outcome is to hon- forward to discussing further store trust, bring unity, and create est”. secretary Esther McVey, who are described Johnson as the “life tions to win over 160,000 party our the result of the 2016 refer- during the leadership campaign,” new opportunities across the UK”. One rival, Andrea Leadsom, all vying for the leadership. and soul of the party but not the members. They will choose who endum, and come out of the EU; she said. Farage demands a seat at talks

Reuters speak during an energetic cam- Southampton paign focused on deprived post- industrial areas of the country where voters feel left behind. igel Farage yesterday de- Critics accuse him of stoking manded a seat at Brexit anger over issues like immigra- Nnegotiations after his tion, and off ering popular but new party swept to victory in simplistic solutions to complex the United Kingdom’s European problems like Brexit. Parliament election, warning One voter expressed his anger that he would turn British poli- by showering Farage in a milkshake tics upside down if denied. during a campaign appearance. Farage, a bombastic 55-year- Despite spending two decades old commodities broker-turned as an elected member of the Eu- anti-establishment supremo, ropean Parliament and making won by riding a wave of anger seven unsuccessful attempts to at the failure of Prime Minister win a seat in the British parlia- Former Conservative party MP and Brexit Party candidate Ann Widdecombe (centre right) gestures as she stands with her fellow MEPs including, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage (centre) Theresa May to take the United ment, he casts himself as an out- at a post-European Parliament election press call in London yesterday. Kingdom out of the European sider shouting truth at a sham- Union. bolic political elite. As May’s Conservative Party “There’s a huge message here, prepares to pick a new leader, the Labour and Conservative Farage had a warning for the parties can learn a massive les- next prime minister: A say in the son, though I don’t suppose they United Kingdom’s biggest deci- actually will,” he said. sion since World War II. Farage has been here before. “We should be part of the As leader of the Eurosceptic team now, that’s pretty clear,” United Kingdom Independence UK’s main parties gird Brexit Party leader Farage said in Party (Ukip), he put so much Southampton. pressure on the Conservatives After repeated delays to Brexit, that in 2013 then prime minister Farage said the United Kingdom David Cameron promised a ref- had to leave the EU on October 31, erendum. the current deadline for Britain’s Then, in 2014, he humiliated parliament to agree an exit deal. the Conservatives at European for no-deal Brexit battle Farage would prefer to leave parliament elections. without a deal. Farage went on to play a lead- Reuters It pledged to make sure any of July, many of the would-be May as party leader and prime who support a second Brexit ref- “If we don’t leave on that day, ing role in the successful 2016 London new eurosceptic Conservative successors see the European vote minister, said the election mes- erendum, some felt the pressure then you can expect the Brexit referendum campaign, but then leader would not take Britain out outcome as proof they must seek sage was “if we go on like this, we to change tack. Party to repeat this kind of sur- stepped away from frontline of the EU without a transition a cleaner break with the EU, with will be fi red”. Labour’s fi nance chief, John prise in the next general elec- British politics. ritain’s two main parties deal to help protect the economy. several saying they would leave “We can and must deliver. No McDonnell, caused a short-lived tion,” he said. However, after severing ties set the stage yesterday But with Farage’s Brexit Party, without a deal — a move some one sensible would aim exclu- sensation in seeming to signal a While no British leader would with Ukip, he has returned with a Bfor a battle over a no-deal which prefers a no-deal Brexit, senior pro-EU Conservatives re- sively for a no-deal outcome. shift in Labour policy to unequiv- allow Farage near EU divorce new party and a familiar mission. Brexit, hoping to win back voters capturing the greatest number gard as foolhardy. No one responsible would take ocally backing a second referen- talks, his proven ability to poach Accusing the establishment of who abandoned them for a new of votes for seats in the European For Labour leader Jeremy Cor- no-deal off the table,” Johnson, dum — something favoured by Brexit supporters from both the betraying voters, he is promising movement led by eurosceptic Ni- Parliament, closely shadowed by byn, pressure will mount to em- who was also London mayor, said many party members but fought Conservative and Labour parties to ensure Brexit happens. gel Farage and other smaller par- a group of fervently pro-EU par- brace a second referendum with- in his regular column in the Tel- off by the party leadership. will stiff en a belief among lead- “Never before in British poli- ties in European elections. ties, Conservatives and Labour out qualifi cation — something he egraph newspaper. But Corbyn sought to set the ing Conservatives vying to re- tics has a new party, launched six After a punishing night when were under pressure to commit has said would be needed to pre- “If we are courageous and op- record straight, again saying place May that they must go for weeks ago, topped the polls in a acrimonious divisions over Brit- clearly to either side of the de- vent a no-deal Brexit. timistic, we can strike a good Labour would do its utmost to a more decisive split from the EU. national election,” he said. ain’s departure from the Europe- bate. But what is clear from a vote bargain with our friends across stop a no-deal Brexit — some- Farage is one of Britain’s most As dramatic as the Brexit Party’s an Union were plain to see, con- Almost three years since Brit- which many used as a protest is the Channel, come out well and thing experts say might be legally recognisable politicians with a rise is, the election result will not tenders for the leadership of the ain voted narrowly to leave the that Brexit — which forced Prime on time — by October 31.” trickier than many lawmakers rare capacity to polarise opinion. give Farage a clear route to bring governing Conservatives said the EU and barely two months after Minister Theresa May to say she May said the results showed earlier thought if faced with a He once posed with Donald about his preferred outcome of results were a demand to deliver the originally planned departure will resign on June 7 after fail- the importance of a negotiated eurosceptic prime minister de- Trump in a gilded lift, enraging leaving the EU without a deal. Brexit no matter what. date, lawmakers remain at log- ing to deliver Britain’s departure deal. The question posed for the termined to leave the EU by the the British establishment. Members of the European Par- Taking a diff erent tack, the op- gerheads over how, when or even — risks shattering the election Labour Party was a little diff er- current deadline of October 31. His fl air for capturing the an- liament cannot directly infl uence position Labour Party said a pub- whether the country will quit the prospects of both the main par- ent. “This issue will have to go back ger and disillusionment of Brit- British policymaking, and it will lic vote — a new national election club it joined in 1973. ties. With part of its support bolt- to the people, whether through a ain’s working classes regularly be May’s successor who decides or second referendum — was the For the Conservatives, who Former foreign minister Boris ing to the Brexit Party and part general election or a public vote,” brought crowds out to hear him the country’s fate. way to reunite the country. will name a new leader by the end Johnson, the favourite to replace to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, Corbyn said in a statement. Watchdog ‘buried report Striking a pose BA ex-steward sues into hospital abuse’ over racism claims Daily Mail derstood to strenuously deny all London his claims. Daily Mail – which Stanley-Wilkinson de- Stanley-Wilkinson, who now He told the Daily Mail: “They London nies. works as a consultant for health- sacked me four days before Managers also complained the care and learning disability serv- former British Airways Christmas. They off ered me inspectors threatened to impose ice providers, said: “I’m furious fi rst class steward is suing money to settle, but I want the whistleblower told how ‘warning notices’, requiring the with the CQC. My whole career Athe airline, claiming he public know what has been going the Care Quality Com- removal of dangerous building at CQC was spent advising them suff ered years of racism. on. I am sick of it.” Amission had the opportu- materials which had been left in on what to do about stuff like Nick Singh alleges the com- Singh alleges: “Bosses did not nity to take action against a hos- a skip in the grounds of the NHS- this. But they tried to tell me the pany failed to deal properly with take seriously his warnings about pital where staff have recently funded hospital near Barnard report I’d written didn’t have incidents including a BA pilot a ‘white-supremacist’ BA pilot been fi lmed abusing vulnerable Castle, County Durham. enough evidence of wrongdo- abusing him. who shouted abuses at him.” patients – but instead buried his The CQCs ‘dereliction of ing.” He also claims that, despite Singh’s Audi car was vandal- fi ndings. duty’ caused him to leave the The former inspector claimed being born in England, he was ised in the BA crew car park. A Barry Stanley-Wilkinson, 38, organisation the following year, staff in 2015 were using ‘rapid told to “go back to your own white steward who told him to was the lead inspector for the he said, after which time a dif- tranquilisation’ to sedate pa- country” by a white steward. “go back to your own country’ watchdog when its team visited ferent inspection team was sent tients without a proper policy, The father-of-one, who is was forced to write an apology Whorlton Hall for a three-day in to investigate the hospital while some patients were locked claiming racial discrimination “on what looked like a crumpled inspection in August 2015. and it was later rated ‘good’ in a ‘seclusion’ room for un- at an employment tribunal, says piece of toilet paper”. One of his Stanley-Wilkinson revealed overall. documented periods. He said he he took his allegation that rac- managers shared a social media how he produced a report which On Wednesday, BBC1’s Pano- did not recognise any of the staff ism “is commonplace” to senior post by the race-hate far-Right concluded the institution was rama exposed the barbaric abuse fi lmed by Panorama as being managers including the chief ex- group Britain First, although she inadequate in all areas – only of patients with learning diffi cul- among those he had encountered ecutive, Alex Cruz. later insisted it was accidental. for management to upgrade the ties at Whorlton Hall. Undercov- in 2015. Last week, Cruz showed the Singh’s decision to speak out hospital to merely ‘required im- er footage showed a vulnerable The CQC said a review into Queen around BA’s headquarters comes after BA suspended fi ve provement’. He said the damning man being pinned to the fl oor as what it could have done ‘diff er- near Heathrow airport, to celebrate pilots for alleged racism earlier report was never published af- punishment, his head between a ently’ is ongoing, adding: “This the national fl ag carrier’s centenary. this year, following claims by a ter managers at the home com- male staff member’s knees. Staff draft report did not raise any Singh, 53, claims that last year Boeing 777 captain, Manish Pa- plained his team had accused routinely taunted, mocked and concerns about abusive practice. D-Day veteran Richard Llewellyn poses for a photograph on he was off ered £25,000 to leave tel, that he had endured being staff of behaving as though they threatened patients with physi- All CQC reports go through a rig- the HMS Belfast, on the River Thames in London yesterday. BA and, when he did not accept, called ‘chai wallah’. All fi ve have were in a ‘Butlin’s holiday camp’ cal abuse. orous peer review process.” the airline sacked him. BA is un- since been reinstated. Gulf Times 16 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 EUROPE

INVESTIGATION ‘NOT AN OBSTACLE’ BALLOT BATTLE BEHIND BARS Four arrested over Lyon Rocket launch successful Political novice elected Romania strongman package bomb blast despite lightning strike Lithuania president begins jail sentence

French police yesterday arrested four people A Russian space launch yesterday was Gitanas Nauseda, a centre-right independent and Romania’s ruling party strongman Liviu Dragnea over a package bomb explosion in the heart of successful despite the rocket being hit by political novice, has won Lithuania’s presidential was jailed yesterday, just hours after his appeal the southeastern city of Lyon last week which lightning shortly after blast-off , the Roscosmos runoff in a race marked by low populist sentiment against a corruption conviction failed and as injured 13 people, authorities said. A police raid space agency said. “Lightning is no obstacle and concerns over inequality in the Baltic eurozone his party grappled with a crushing defeat at the was under way in a building in the Oullins suburb for you,” Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin state. Although Lithuanian presidents do not European elections. Police said in a statement just south of the city, a few hours after the arrest said on Twitter, congratulating his team for the directly craft economic policy, bread-and-butter that “a man sentenced to jail was taken to the of the suspected bomber, a 24-year-old Algerian “successful launch.” He posted a video of a bolt issues have dominated the race. Experts also noted Rahova prison (on the outskirts of Bucharest) IT student. The man’s parents were later arrested of lightning appearing to strike the vessel. The that by choosing between two pro-EU, centre-right where he was imprisoned”, without naming and taken in for questioning, as was a second launch delivered a satellite for Russia’s Glonass candidates in the runoff , Lithuanians who see the Dragnea directly. Earlier yesterday, a court had student of Algerian nationality who is a family navigation system into orbit, the space agency European Union as a source of prosperity and upheld his original three-and-a-half-year prison relation, according to the Paris prosecutor’s said in a statement. The head of Russia’s Plesetsk security. Vowing to build a “welfare state”, Nauseda sentence. He had been convicted last year of An October 3, 2017, file photo of a protester off ice, which has jurisdiction over terrorism cases Cosmodrome, which conducted the launch, said he would bridge the gap between rich and using his influence to procure fake public jobs waving a pair of handcuff s in front of Social in France. The suspect was previously unknown confirmed that the carrier rocket had been poor in Lithuania, which is among the most for two women who were actually working for Democrat Party leader Liviu Dragnea in to police, Lyon’s Mayor Gerard Collomb said. struck by lightning on ascent. pronounced in the 28-member EU. the PSD at the time. Bucharest.

Ukrainian leader Divided pro-EU leaders holds contest for ‘highly moral’ look for common ground candidates By Natalia Zinets, Reuters Reuters Kyiv Brussels krainian President Volodymyr Zelen- arties committed to closer Eu- skiy’s team yesterday invited applica- ropean Union integration yes- Utions from members of the public to Pterday began bargaining over fi ght a snap election in July for his new Servant jobs and policy after an election to of the People party, betting they can wrench the EU parliament which fragmented power from a discredited political class. the centre but gave only limited gains Candidates, who, like the former comedian, to nationalists. need not have previous political experience, National leaders of the bloc, many can apply through a website to tout their cre- of whom hailed the vote as a vindica- dentials and proposals for new laws, offi cials tion, will meet today to chart the next said at the launch of the party’s campaign. steps. The applicants would then be screened with Matteo Salvini, Italian deputy the help of international companies. prime minister, leader of the anti- Offi cials from the party, named after the immigration League and potential television show that made him famous, might builder of a far-right alliance across use a lie-detector to test the candidate’s hon- Europe, said his 34% of the Italian esty. national vote was a mandate to rip up Zelenskiy’s party has no lawmakers in par- euro zone budget austerity rules. liament. But despite other wins for euro- Winning the snap election would allow him sceptics in big countries, including to decide the make-up of a new government France, Poland and would-be ex- and implement reforms that might please his member Britain, the result was taken voters and Ukraine’s international donors. as a vote of confi dence by main- Opinion polls suggest Zelenskiy’s party will stream leaders after turnout surged win the July election but fall short of a major- and nationalists advanced only mod- ity. estly. “Of course our opponents are old-school “The European elections were tan- politicians,” said campaign chief Oleksandr gible proof that European democracy Kornienko. is alive and well,” Margaritis Schinas, “They are currently trying to create the im- chief spokesman of the executive Eu- pression that apart from them there is nobody ropean Commission, told reporters. able to run the country.” “The populists didn’t win this elec- Comedian Zelenskiy won last month’s tion.” presidential election by a landslide promis- Facing a more hostile Russia, Chi- ing to fi ght corruption and a new way of doing na’s growing economic might and an politics in one of Europe’s poorest countries. unpredictable US President Donald Yesterday’s announcement is in keeping Trump, many Europeans appeared to with Zelenskiy’s unorthodox campaigning heed a message that the EU needed style. to stick together to protect workers’ In the presidential race he relied heavily on rights, free speech and democracy. social media posts and comedy gigs while es- Turnout rose to 51% from just 43% Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini addresses a press conference yesterday in the Lega headquarters in northern Milan follow- chewing traditional rallies. in the last election in 2014. ing the results of the European parliamentary elections. He crowdsourced policy ideas on Facebook. Salvini, calling the shots in Rome “First of all, this person should be highly and who now emerges as leader of a the succession to Commission Presi- cron’s new movement, and for the elected socialist Prime Minister Pedro Macron and his liberal allies may moral, with deep principles and with a desire potential new European Parliament dent Jean-Claude Juncker and other Greens, second in Germany, third in Sanchez fl exing muscles. push for one of the few women in the to understand and carry out the tasks that group hostile to the Brussels estab- key jobs, including the head of the France and fourth Britain, means a “We are going to build a social race, Danish EU antitrust chief Mar- Ukrainian society will set for them,” party lishment, told a news conference: European Central Bank, in the light four-party alliance is already in the Europe, a Europe that protects,” grethe Vestager, or French Brexit ne- leader Dmytro Razumkov said. “The time has come to totally re- of the election results. works. Sanchez said before he fl ew to Paris gotiator Michel Barnier. In the TV show, Zelenskiy played a history discuss old and outdated rules that Hard bargaining, playing off na- These four pro-Union groups lost for talks with Macron to coordinate The euro made early gains on re- teacher who accidentally becomes president have hurt Europe. Otherwise a vote tional interest, party lines and gen- fewer than 20 seats to retain 503 in ahead of the wider Brussels summit. lief at the limited success of euro- after a video of him ranting about corruption like this cannot be explained.” der issues, will last at least until a key the 751-seat chamber. That could mean a bigger push to tax sceptics but settled back as investors goes viral. But the far-right and other na- summit on June 20-21. Leaders of those groups met yes- multinational companies and tight- pondered the fragmentation of the His presidential campaign made frequent tionalists, including Nigel Farage’s A standoff is likely with parlia- terday, although building a common en environmental rules on industry, pro-EU middle ground of European allusions to Zelenskiy’s on-screen character, triumphant new Brexit Party, Marine ment, where EU party chiefs want platform, let alone agreeing on who as well as a more protectionist bent politics. who is scrupulously honest and outwits cor- Le Pen’s National Rally, which edged the national leaders to back down to back for top EU jobs, is unlikely to in trade negotiations, with a greater Provisional results published by rupt lawmakers and oligarchs. President Emmanuel Macron’s liber- from a refusal to replace Juncker with be smooth. stress put on pressing commercial the European Parliament at 1305 His Servant of the People party is named af- als in France, and the ruling parties a lawmaker from among their win- Sources in three parties said a partners to combat climate change. GMT showed the EPP on 180 seats, ter the show and its logo is a man holding the of Poland and Hungary may fi nd it ning ranks. planned dinner yesterday to thrash The battle for top jobs may also be S&D on 145, liberals on 109 and presidential mace while riding a bicycle. hard to overcome long-standing dif- The vote saw the centre-right EPP, out a position to put to national lead- divisive for parliament. Greens on 69 for a total of 503. Zelenskiy’s character rides a bicycle in the ferences and turn what may be about dented by losses for the likes of Ger- ers seemed by late afternoon unlikely Manfred Weber, the fi rst-placed Two far-right groups shared 112 opening credits of the series. a quarter of Parliament’s seats into a man Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to go ahead. EPP’s German lead candidate, is seats, rising to 171 with a third euro- At yesterday’s media briefi ng, party offi cials united force. Christian Democrats, and centre-left At the expense of Merkel, long Eu- pushing hard to be nominated as sceptic bloc. declined to say which other party they might The 28 EU national leaders, in- S&D lose a joint majority in the leg- rope’s key power-broker but now in Juncker’s successor. Farage’s party won 29 seats, seek an alliance with in the event of a hung cluding outgoing British Prime Min- islature. her fi nal term, there has been leftward But the Socialists have a claim with matching Merkel’s conservatives as parliament. ister Theresa May, will meet over But gains for liberals, like those shift in the balance of power, with the Dutchman Frans Timmermans, Jun- the biggest in the chamber, one ahead They also declined to name their candidate dinner in Brussels today to discuss of French President Emmanuel Ma- Greens, Macron and Spain’s newly re- ker’s current deputy. of Salvini’s League. for prime minister. From Greta to Luisa, youths spearhead climate movement

By Gael Branchereau, AFP Katri Ylinen, a spokeswoman for Kyra Gantois, 20, and Ugandan In Sweden, the Greens party Some are threatened by these Stockholm the Federation of Young European 14-year-old Leah Namugerwa, all lost two of its four seats in the youngsters, and Greta, who has Greens. of whom have risen to the fore- European Parliament. been diagnosed with Asperger’s At just 16, Sweden’s Greta front of climate activism in their However, its 11.4% score was a syndrome, has been subjected hey’re the faces of the cli- Thunberg has become a fi gure- countries in recent months. sharp rise from the 4.4% it scored to harsh criticism from far-right mate alert that propelled head for a movement that has Green parties posted strong in legislative elections in Septem- climate sceptics. TGreen parties to strong gone global, inspiring hundreds gains across Europe, in particu- ber 2018, before Greta’s school In France and Germany, activ- gains in EU elections: Greta, Lu- of thousands of other youths in lar in Germany where they took strikes became a worldwide phe- ists used her handicap to discredit isa and Leah lead a generation of dozens of countries to strike from 20.5% of votes, in France (13.47%) nomenon. her campaign, accusing her of be- youths that have put the planet school in “Fridays For Future” and Britain (12.1%). Around 15% of Swedish women ing manipulated by “ecofascists”, atop the political agenda. protests. “The European elections show voted for the Greens party, ac- according to the London-based Without these youngsters, some One of them is Luisa Neubauer, that we’re not only bringing the cording to exit polls by public Institute for Strategic Dialogue. of whom are still not old enough to a 23-year-old university student climate crisis to the streets but broadcaster SVT. Greta’s student movement has vote, Europe’s Green parties might who has been dubbed “the Ger- also to the ballot boxes,” Luisa “Greta is very inspiring, she nonetheless spread around the have still posted strong scores, man Greta”. Neubauer wrote on Twitter. motivates us. She infl uenced my world. as the climate has become one of The pair have met on several Greta’s most recent Instagram vote, I really took to heart some In Uganda, 14-year-old Leah voters’ main concerns. occasions in recent months, in- post was on Sunday. of the things she said, like ‘Maybe Namugerwa is leading a campaign But their ubiquitous activism cluding in December in Poland The teen, who was on a train my grandchildren will ask why we against plastic bags that litter the — in the streets, on social net- at the Cop24 summit and in headed for Austria and who is too didn’t do anything’,” said Lou- streets of Kampala. works, and in the media — has Hamburg in March for a climate young to cast a ballot yet, urged ise Wirman, an 18-year-old high She has started a petition urg- had an undeniable eff ect mobilis- march. Europeans to vote “for the fu- school student. ing President Yoweri Museveni to ing voters. Social media play a decisive ture”. The fact that many young ac- ban them. “The Green parties’ results role in mobilising youths and get- Swedish liberal-leaning news- tivists are girls can be attributed Like Greta, Namugerwa is also are due to all the young people ting them to take to the streets. paper Dagens Nyheter said yes- to the fact that “young women striking from school, though she striking, climate activism is get- Known for her long braids and terday there was “a Green wind are drawn to liberal parties, while says she was inspired by a New ting more important, especially serious demeanour, Greta has blowing in Europe”, thanks in part older men (lean) to the right and York girl of the same age, Alex- among young women. They are also inspired other young girls to “the Greta eff ect”. to some extent to populist par- andria Villasenor, who organises the ones who set the agenda for and women, including Belgian “But you’re never a prophet in ties,” political scientist Sofi e recurring demonstrations outside Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen meets Swedish the European elections,” said students Anuna De Wever, 17, and your own country,” it noted. Blomback told AFP. the United Nations building. climate activist Greta Thunberg in Vienna yesterday. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 17 INDIA Is it end of the road for Chandrababu Naidu?

IANS time, he ran out of both options (UF) he brought together regional Naidu mastered the skills of doing revive his political fortunes. and poor fi nances, he had no op- critic and even joined hands with Hyderabad and luck. parties to prop up a government business with any formation at the He not only joined the NDA tion but to quietly accept whatever the Congress, his party’s sworn en- Till a day before the count- of the third alternative. In 1999, Centre, irrespective of its ideology. once again but by campaign- was doled out to the state. emy of 35 years. This was Naidu’s ing, Naidu was holding series of he donned a similar role for the After losing power to his bête ing with Modi, he succeeded in However, it was when YSR’s biggest political misadventure and ith his worst-ever meetings with leaders of vari- BJP-led National Democratic Al- noire Y S Rajasekhara Red- storming to power in the trun- son and the chief of the YSRCP, his rivals targeted him incessantly electoral defeat in ous regional parties, desperate to liance (NDA). dy (YSR) in 2004 following a cated state of Andhra Pradesh, as Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy started for his opportunism. WAndhra Pradesh and cobble together an anti-Bharati- Many saw in him a shrewd record nine-year stint as Andhra people preferred him, apparently targeting him for his compromise He even joined hands with the losing relevance in national poli- ya Janata Party alliance to remain politician and few branded him Pradesh chief minister, Naidu for his experience in developing over the Special Category Status Congress in the Telangana as- tics, Nara Chandrababu Naidu is relevant in the national politics. a rank opportunist as he aligned admitted his priorities were lop- Hyderabad as a tech hub. (SCS) that Naidu realised how he sembly elections, but the experi- facing the biggest challenge of his He wanted to stop his friend- with the BJP, apparently to ride sided which led to the neglect of As a leader who always enjoyed was losing the ground to the op- ment ended in a disaster with the career. turned-rival Narendra Modi on the Vajpayee wave. He suc- agriculture in the state. the role of a kingmaker and ex- position. Last year, he pulled out Congress-led United People’s A leader whose four-decade- from returning to power even as ceeded in retaining power, which So he promised a slew of free- tracted his pound of fl esh from of NDA government accusing Alliance (UPA) biting the dust. long career saw his political pen- he was facing an acid test at home he got in 1995 after leading a re- bies in the 2009 elections, but the the government at the Centre, Modi of ‘betrayal’. The fl ip-fl ops continued as he dulum swinging wildly from left against Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. volt against his father-in-law people remained unconvinced Naidu was uncomfortable in the BUt the opposition still re- decided not to have an alliance with to the right, the Telugu Desam At the national level, the and TDP founder N T Rama Rao. and gave YSR a fresh mandate. new dispensation where Modi mained aggressive in exposing the Congress in Andhra Pradesh Party (TDP) chief last year exer- 69-year-old wanted to achieve Then known as the poster boy The emergence of Modi as the had absolute majority. his fl ip-fl ops over the SCS. thereafter, even as he continued his cised even his last option - align- what he did in 1996, when as of new economic reforms, a re- prime ministerial candidate in Though facing post-bifurcation From a great admirer of Modi, eff orts for an anti-BJP front at the ing with the Congress. But this convener of the United Front formist and a tech-savvy leader, 2014 off ered Naidu a chance to challenges like lack of state capital Naidu soon turned into his worst Centre led by the Congress. More MPs face criminal charges including rape, murder: study

Agencies Pragya Thakur, a newly elected New Delhi MP, faces a terrorism charge over a 2008 attack near a mosque that killed six people. ore than 40% of law- She denies the charges and makers in the new Lok says she was framed by a previ- MSabha face criminal ous Congress government. charges - some as serious as Parties often brush off charges murder and rape - and the list against their candidates by say- is growing, an electoral reform ing they were victims of political group said. vendettas. One Congress MP is battling This year the Election Com- 204 cases including manslaugh- mission made it mandatory for ter and robbery, the Association candidates to publish details of of Democratic Reforms (ADR) their criminal records during the said. campaign period. At least 233 of the 543 mem- The ADR campaigns to bring bers named as winning seats accountability into Indian poli- on Thursday face criminal pro- tics and successfully petitioned ceedings, according to the ADR, the Supreme Court to make whose election chief Anil Verma candidates file their educa- said there is a “disturbing trend” tional, financial and criminal Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters at the Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum after off ering prayers at the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi yesterday. in parliament that “is bad for the records. democracy”. Verma said the political class The ADR said it studied the sought to avoid reform. records of 539 of the winners and But he added: “We will con- found that the number facing tinue to legally fight this men- criminal cases was the highest ace and demand that courts since it started studies in 2004. bar candidates facing criminal The report said 116 of the 303 charges.” lawmakers from Prime Minis- The ADR also said 46% of the Chemistry defeated ter Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya newly elected legislators in Odi- Janata Party (BJP) landslide win sha face criminal cases. face charges, including one for Sixty-seven of the 146 mem- terrorism. bers of the Odisha assembly Twenty-nine of the 52 Con- have declared criminal cases in gress MPs face cases. their affi davits, ADR said and 49 Dean Kuriakose from Idukki, (34%) of the legislators have se- arithmetic in polls: PM in Kerala, faces 204 criminal rious criminal cases like murder, cases. attempt to murder and kidnap- Agencies was a party worker and followed making the election a war and the He said that the BJP had two ocratic,” he added. The ADR said the number of ping, the report said. Varanasi the directives of the Bharatiya Ja- rival candidates for maintaining main diffi culties - selective sensi- A close aide of senior BJP lead- lawmakers facing grave criminal Of the legislators with serious nata Party. the dignity of Kashi. Elections tivity and political untouchability. er Smriti Irani was shot dead by cases had more than doubled in criminal cases, two have cases “I was asked to come here and were a festival of democracy that Modi praised the party’s cour- gunmen on a motorbike in the a decade - including 11 murder related to murder and 11 have de- rime Minister Narendra on April 25 (for a roadshow), was celebrated by all,” he said. age amid political clashes and Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh cases, 30 manslaughter charges clared attempt to murder cases Modi said yesterday that Kashi welcomed me with its Modi said that there are many killings after his latest landslide on Saturday night. and three accused of rape. them. Pchemistry had managed to ‘Vishwa Roop’ (larger than life in politics whose profi le runs into election triumph. Irani won the Amethi seat from Indian laws bar people from Forty-six (41%) of the 112 defeat arithmetic in the 2019 Lok image) that had an impact be- 50 pages or more but they are not Three BJP workers have been Congress president Rahul Gandhi. contesting an election if they MLAs from the Biju Janata Dal Sabha elections. yond Kashi and Uttar Pradesh. It connected to the poorest of the killed and there have been Another BJP worker was shot have been convicted while in (BJD), 14 (61%) of the 23 MLAs “Elections are all about arith- impacted all parts of the country. poor. pitched battles between BJP and dead in West Bengal on Sunday offi ce for crimes that carry jail from BJP and 6 (67%) of the metic but there is chemistry that Kashi made me PM but I will al- “We are dedicated to such West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool night, triggering fresh clashes terms of two or more years, with nine MLAs from Congress have goes beyond arithmetic. This ways remain a worker for you.” people,” he said. Congress party activists in West with supporters of the Trinamool some exceptions depending on declared criminal cases against time chemistry has defeated Modi said that if he seemed “Uttar Pradesh has elected Bengal since Modi secured a new Congress, offi cials said. The two the crime. them. arithmetic,” he said, address- complacent and relaxed during us in 2014, 2017 and in 2019 and fi ve-year term last week. sides hurled home-made bombs Candidates standing for offi ce The report said that 33 (30%) ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) elections, it was because of the deserves to be lauded for this hat Thousands of supporters lined at each other and about a dozen for the fi rst time are allowed to MLAs from the BJD, 10 (44%) workers at a thanksgiving func- love and strength that Kashi gave trick which is not a small feat.” the streets of Varanasi, wav- people were injured. have a conviction. from the BJP and fi ve from the tion in Varanasi. him. Modi said that it was the BJP ing fl ags, chanting his name and A BJP activist was shot dead None of the 185 lawmakers Congress face serious criminal “Some people say that poli- “You asked me not to come which had maximum belief in throwing fl ower petals at his cav- in West Bengal a day after elec- from the previous parliament cases. tics is all about perception but again for campaigning, so I went democracy. alcade, despite 40 degree Celsius tion results were announced on who faced criminal cases was In 2014, of the 147 MLAs we do not create perceptions. For to Kedarnath after polling.” “When we are in power, the heat. Thursday. convicted. elected, 52 (35%) MLAs had de- us, transparency and hard work The prime minister thanked opposition comes alive. Tripura, “Why are our workers being Other politicians from the rul- Many have returned for a new clared criminal cases while 41 scores above everything else,” he local offi cials, media persons and for years, had no opposition but killed and attacked in Kashmir, ing party and opposition were term. (28%) had serious criminal cases said. even his electoral rivals. now that BJP is in power, the op- Kerala or Bengal,” Modi said. killed during the campaign in Firebrand BJP leader Sadhvi against them. The prime minister said that he “I thank the workers for not position is vibrant.” “It is shameful and anti-dem- several states. Newly-elected MPs start arriving Kamal Nath’s days as in Delhi ahead of swearing-in CM numbered: BJP

IANS They include Hans Raj Hans from the Bharatiya Janata Party IANS and have a fl oor test of the gov- New Delhi and Tejasvi Surya, elected from and one each from Biju Janata Bhopal ernment. North West Delhi and Bengalu- Dal and Congress. When the chief minister ac- ru South respectively. Notably, about 100 rooms cused the BJP of trying to poach s the government has de- “I am speechless. I am thank- have been made available here adhya Pradesh Bharati- his legislators, Bhargav told cided not to allow newly ful to Modiji. I am feeling nice for the MPs till they are provid- ya Janata Party leader reporters: “I don’t believe in Aelected MPs to stay in being geared up to work for the ed with official residences. MGopal Bhargav yester- horse-trading but this govern- five-star hotels, the landmark people. I am working on a plan According to an official of the day raised doubts over the po- ment will fall on its own. I feel Western Court on Janpath has to prioritise work in my con- Madhya Pradesh Bhawan, eight litical future of Chief Minister its time has come and it will become a transit hostel for stituency,” Hans Raj Hans told rooms were booked till yester- Kamal Nath’s government in the have to go soon.” many new parliamentarians. IANS. day. state and said it was to continue Congress is down from three The Western Court has There are 80 room sets in the Meanwhile, excitement was beyond a month. to just one seat out of the 29 par- stopped general bookings and new building and 20 in the old clearly visible on the faces of “The Congress has been rout- liamentary seats in the state after will be serving only to new Lok building of the Western Court. actresses-turned-politicians ed in the Lok Sabha elections the just concluded general elec- Sabha members at least till May “As of now, we have allotted Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat in the state. We are not sure if tions. 30 when Prime Minister-elect rooms to 33 MPs. Food is being Jahan when they arrived at par- this government would even be Kamal Nath meanwhile has Narendra Modi will take oath provided through ITDC (India liament for the first time after able to complete a month after earned a “fresh mandate” as for a second time. Tourism Development Corpo- getting elected from the Trina- this. The BJP would not try and the leader of the state’s ruling Also, the guesthouses of ration) canteen. However, liq- mool Congress. destablise the Kamal Nath gov- combine by playing the victim every state and union territory uor is not allowed,” said an offi- The two actresses posted ernment in the state because card. have made arrangements for cial who requested anonymity. their joint photographs dis- Congress leaders would do that He tossed up the question of MPs who do not wish to stay in Not a single MP came to playing the identity cards as on their own,” Bhargav told re- government’s stability at the fi rst the Western Court. stay in the building after the MPs. porters here. meeting of the combined Legis- As many as 33 MPs had checked 2014 election results were an- “And it’s us again. First day at Last week, Bhargav had writ- lature Party of Congress, Bahu- into the Western Court till yester- nounced. parliament Nusrat Jahan,” Mimi ten to Governor Anandiben Patel jan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwa- day evening and most were from At Odisha Niwas, a total of Chkraborty tweeted tagging Ja- Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan display the identity cards as MPs requesting her to convene a spe- di Party (SP) and independent Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. seven MPs are residing - five are han. yesterday. cial session of the state assembly MLAs on Sunday. Gulf Times 18 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 INDIA

TRAVEL APPRECIATION ANGER HONOUR INVESTIGATION Railways runs 78 special Dalai Lama congratulates Students protest against IAF pays tribute to Kargil Teaching staff linked to trains to meet summer rush new Sikkim CM on poll win medico’s suicide in Mumbai martyr with rare flypast college abuse scandal

The Indian Railways is running 78 special trains Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama The Students Federation of India (SFI) and other In a rare feat, Indian Air Force (IAF) chief B In a shocking revelation in the sexual abuse to cater to the summer holiday rush, an off icial yesterday congratulated Sikkim Chief Minister student organisations yesterday staged protests S Dhanoa and Western Air Command chief scandal unearthed in a government college in said yesterday. “To cater to the extra rush, we Prem Singh Tamang on his party’s historic against the recent suicide of a woman medical Raghunath Nambiar flew in a formation together Faridabad last week, a lab assistant has admitted have started 78 special trains from April 1,” the win in the recent assembly election. “A great student due to alleged abuse in a Mumbai hospital, in a commemorative flight paying tribute to Kargil that several girls were targeted by senior senior Northern Railway off icial told IANS. The responsibility now lies ahead of you and I and demanded stringent action. This is the first war martyr Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja. Dhanoa college staff , including an associate professor. special trains would make 1,354 trips until July, trust that under your leadership the people time in Maharashtra that a postgraduate medical and Nambiar strapped up for the “missing man” The scandal came to light after a student filed the off icial said. There are about 1,200 trains of Sikkim will see prosperity and progress. student has committed suicide after alleged formation in Bathinda yesterday. It is rare for two a complaint alleging that three college staff , that ferry about 10-12 lakh passengers every I particularly hope that you will strive to harassment on grounds of her caste background, top IAF off icers to fly together in a formation. Both including the professor, were abusing girls day across the country. On trains running late, improve the lives of the less privileged people Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors are Kargil veterans as they had flown missions students by promising them better grades in often by over 5-7 hours, the off icial said the in the state,” the Dalai Lama wrote in a letter (MARD) general secretary Dr Deepak Mundhe during the conflict in 1999. Nambiar, who is also a exams. In a recording submitted to the police, huge traff ic was one of the biggest challenges to Tamang. “During my visits to Sikkim over told IANS. “Since the past three-four years, we strong contender to succeed Dhanoa, had flown the lab assistant was heard talking to a girl and for punctuality. “If the train gets late then it the years, the people of Sikkim have shown have seen an increase in such comments against Mirage 2000 during the Kargil war, while Dhanoa trying to persuade her to accompany him to a goes on getting late as the rail traff ic is already me affection and warm hospitality, which I students coming from the reserved categories, had commanded a MiG-21 squadron. After hotel. The lab assistant was arrested on Saturday occupied by another train ahead,” the off icial very much appreciated. The kindness and which is very unfortunate,” Mundhe said. The SFI the flight, Dhanoa said that the government’s by the Crime Branch of the Faridabad police. He said. The off icial also said sometimes the rakes enthusiasm with which I have been received activists protested in various cities and outside decision to buy two squadrons of Rafale was admitted that several girls were promised better of special trains are used for express trains vividly reminded me of the strong emotions I the B Y L Nair Hospital in Mumbai where Dr Payal game changing. He said the IAF had enhanced its grades in the practical exams in lieu of favours when they gate late by over 5-6 hours. felt during my first visit in 1956.” Tadvi hanged herself on May 22. capability immensely since the Kargil war. by the senior college staff . Sonia, Rahul pay tribute to first PM Ready to be party leader in Lok Sabha, says Tharoor

IANS the main opposition party in in Punjab winning eight of 13 New Delhi the house. However, like in seats. the 16th Lok Sabha, the Con- Jharkhand Congress chief gress has not qualified to have Ajoy Kumar has also tendered his enior Congress leader a Leader of Opposition in the resignation. The party won only Shashi Tharoor has said 17th Lok Sabha. one seat in the state where it had United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi pay tributes to India’s first prime Sthat he is ready to take the Meanwhile, Delhi Congress an alliance with the Jharkhand minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary, in New Delhi yesterday. Nehru was the prime minister from independence responsibility of the leader of chief and former chief minister Mukti Morcha and the Rashtriya in 1947 till his death on May 27, 1964. the Congress in the Lok Sabha if Sheila Dikshit has constituted a Janata Dal and other parties. party off ers him the job. fi ve-member committee to in- While the party won Singhb- “If off ered, I am ready to be trospect the party’s loss in the hum seat, it lost Khunti by only the Congress Lok Sabha leader,” national capital in the elections. 1,445 votes and Lohardaga by Tharoor told Tiranga TV yester- She asked the panel to submit 10,363 votes. day. a report within 10 days. The party’s Assam unit chief Tharoor was elected for a third Former MP Parvez Hashmi, Ripun Bora also wrote to Gandhi consecutive term as MP from taking moral responsibility for Rahul refuses to meet Gehlot Thiruvananthapuram in the re- “The party could consider the party’s inability to increase cent elections. appointing a series its tally from three seats. He has He said the Congress’ main of regional working said in his letter that Gandhi may election theme – the ‘NYAY’ in- presidents to assist him” choose to replace him. come guaranteed scheme – was Maharashtra unit chief Ashok in snub over election debacle not properly communicated former Delhi ministers A K Walia Chavan, Uttar Pradesh unit among the electorate and criti- and Yoganand Shastri, party chief Raj Babbar and Odisha cised Congress president Rahul spokesperson Pawan Khera and Congress chief Niranjan Pat- IANS The Congress won 52 Lok its deliberations were “uncalled mongering in a section of the Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for former legislators Jaikishan are naik have already sent their res- New Delhi Sabha seats, winning none in for and unwarranted”. media is uncalled for and un- their “soft Hindutava” plank. members of the committee. ignations. Rajasthan and just one in Mad- In a statement, Congress warranted,” Surjewala said. He, however, insisted that Ra- The Congress lost all seven Yogendra Misra, the district hya Pradesh. spokesman Randeep Singh He said the gist of delibera- hul should continue as the Con- seats in Delhi. Congress chief in Amethi in Ut- ongress president Rahul Gandhi is believed to have Surjewala said that the party tions was made public in the gress president. The committee would probe tar Pradesh has also sent his res- Gandhi yesterday re- said that Gehlot and Madhya has authorised Gandhi to go for CWC resolution of May 25. “The party could consider the reasons for defeat of Con- ignation, owning moral respon- Cfused to meet Rajasthan Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal radical changes and a complete “The CWC held a collective appointing a series of regional gress candidates, what should be sibility for Gandhi’s defeat. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Nath were eager to give ticket organisational overhaul. deliberation on the perform- working presidents to assist done to ensure the party’s vic- Gandhi had also off ered to here. to their sons although the party He said the CWC, which is ance of the party, the challenges him,” the former minister said. tory in the 2020 assembly elec- resign taking moral responsibil- According to sources, Gandhi president was not very keen on the highest decision making before it as also the way ahead, He said the Congress and tions and how to strengthen the ity for the party’s defeat but the was angry that the Congress the idea as he felt that they had body of the party, is a demo- instead of casting aspersions other opposition parties must party in Delhi, Dikshit said. Congress Working Committee was routed in the Lok Sabha a bigger role to play in cam- cratic forum to exchange ideas, on the role or conduct of any challenge the belief that the Following the election deba- unanimously rejected the off er. elections as leaders were giv- paigning. formulates policies and takes specifi c individual. We would Hindutva concept of India, as cle, three more state Congress In other developments, amid ing preference to their families While Nath’s son Nakul won corrective action. request everyone, including the essentially a Hindu country, has chiefs have tendered their resig- speculation of a leadership instead of the party. from Chhindwara, Gehlot’s son “In this realm and context, media, to not fall into the trap of triumphed over the Nehruvian nations, taking the total number change in Rajasthan, Congress According to the sources, Vaibhav lost in Jodhpur. members of the CWC expressed conjectures or speculations and view of secularism that India is to seven. leader Lal Chand Kataria has re- Gandhi had given an appoint- Gandhi reportedly said that their views in the meeting. The await the calibrated eff orts by a country of multiple religions, Congress party chiefs of portedly resigned as agriculture ment to Gehlot for the meeting Ashok Gehlot campaigned in CWC looked at the reverses in the Congress Party towards fu- castes, cultures and identities. Jharkhand, Assam and Punjab minister, citing the rout of the at his residence at 11am yester- Jodhpur for a week, ignoring the Lok Sabha elections as an ture course of action,” he said. Tharoor, a former UN under- have also resigned in addition to party. day. other tasks of the party. opportunity for radical changes The CWC had rejected the secretary general, has been rep- those from Maharashtra, Uttar In a purported press release, “But he declined to meet him However, the party said and a complete organisational off er of resignation made by resenting Thiruvananthapuram Pradesh and Odisha. Karanataka Kataria said he had sent the res- and asked him to meet general yesterday that the Congress overhaul, for which it author- Rahul Gandhi following the since 2009. Congress campaign committee ignation to the governor through secretary K C Venugopal,” the Working Committee meeting ised the Congress president Ra- party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha In 2014, he won by a narrow chairman H K Patil has also re- Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. sources said. on Saturday held a collective hul Gandhi,” he said. elections. margin of 15,000-odd votes signed. Neither the chief minister’s They said Gehlot then met deliberation on the party’s per- “The Congress Party ex- There have been reports in against Bharatiya Janata Party Punjab Congress chief Sunil nor the governor’s offi ce con- Venugopal and party leader formance in the polls and did pects everyone, including the the media of Rahul Gandhi con- veteran O Rajagopal. This year, Jhakar, who was the sitting MP fi rmed that Kataria had quit. Ahmed Patel. not cast aspersions on the role media to respect the sanctity veying at the meeting that Con- he defeated Kummanam Rajas- from Gurdaspur, sent his resig- Kataria could not be reached The snub from the Congress or conduct of any specifi c in- of a closed door meeting of the gress Chief Ministers Ashok ekharan of the BJP by 99,989 nation to Gandhi taking moral for comments. Sources said he president comes two days after dividual and any “conjectures, CWC. Various conjectures, Gehlot and Kamal Nath wanted votes. responsibility for losing to actor had left for Delhi and possibly to he did not spare even senior lead- speculations, insinuations, as- speculations, insinuations, as- tickets for their sons but he was The Congress won 52 seats in Sunny Deol from the seat. The Europe on a holiday. ers for the Congress debacle. sumptions” in the media about sumptions, gossip and rumour not very keen on it. the Lok Sabha polls. It remains Congress has generally done well

German woman with 1,800 Court issues notice cows allowed to stay in India to Vadra over bail

AFP This prompted Foreign Prime Minister Narendra Modi, IANS The ED challenged the lower Mathura Minister Sushma Swaraj to newly re-elected, has been the New Delhi court’s order and said that pro- take to Twitter and announce protection of cows, which for tection to Vadra would be det- she had “asked for a report”, many Hindus are sacred. rimental in carrying out a free t’s a long way from Berlin to and yesterday Bruning said Laws against the slaughter he Delhi High Court investigation. India, where Friederike Irina she had been issued with a and consumption of beef have yesterday asked Robert The case relates to owner- IBruning devotes her life to new visa allowing her to re- been strengthened, and lynch- TVadra, the brother-in- ship of £1.9mn worth of over- sick and abandoned cows. main in India. ings of Muslims and Dalits – law of Congress president Rahul seas assets by Vadra. It per- Now, after intervention from Bruning came to India around who have traditionally been Gandhi, to fi le a reply on the En- tains to undisclosed foreign the Bharatiya Janata Party gov- 25 years ago and says she has involved in the sector – have forcement Directorate’s appeal assets and entities meant to ernment, she has been allowed since spent around €200,000 risen. seeking to cancel his bail in a evade tax. to stay. ($225,000) of her own money This has prompted many peo- money laundering case. The ED told the high court “Currently we have around over the years on her cow shelter, ple to abandon old and infi rm Justice Chander Shekhar is- that Vadra’s questioning was 1,800 cows,” Bruning told AFP which costs around $45,000 per cows instead of selling them for sued a notice to Vadra and his required to unearth the entire from outside Mathura in Ut- month to run. slaughter, resulting in more of close associate Manoj Arora. source of credit used for the pur- tar Pradesh where she keeps the Many of the cows that arrive the animals on the loose, includ- The ED has pressed for Vadra’s chase of properties, ascertaining animals. are blind or have been injured ing in cities like Delhi where they custodial interrogation, saying transactions and money laun- “Between fi ve and 15 are in road accidents, while oth- are a common sight. he was not co-operating with dering. brought in every day.” ers are sick from eating the vast But Bruning, who has become the investigation. “The anticipatory bail, to Bruning, 61, had threatened amounts of plastic waste litter- a Hindu and is known as Sude- He was granted anticipatory some extent, intrudes in the last week to return the Padma ing India. vi Dasi, said that allowing the bail by a lower court on April 1 on sphere of investigation of crime Shri award, the top civilian Around half of the new arriv- slaughter of old or sick cows is the condition that he would not and the courts must be cautious award for cow protection that als die. not the answer. German citizen Friederike Irina Bruning, 61, also known as Sudevi leave the country without per- and circumspect in exercising she won, after her request for a Since coming to power in 2014 “Killing a cow is the worst Dasi, embraces a cow at the cowshed at Radhakund village in mission and join the investiga- such powers of discriminatory visa extension was denied. one of the signature policies of thing you can do,” she said. Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. tion whenever needed. nature,” the ED said. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 19 LATIN AMERICA Russia ready to play role in Venezuela crisis talks in Oslo

Reuters the country’s political crisis. confl ict mediation, including fresh presidential elections. bers of the European Union, They argue that Maduro between government and oppo- Moscow The Russian foreign ministry assistance with Colombia’s 2016 “If we have an end to the usur- recognise Guaido as Venezuela’s has previously used dialogue sition representatives, Gonzalez said in a statement it welcomed peace deal between the govern- pation (by Maduro), a transition legitimate leader. as a stalling tactic to maintain told local media. the fact that the talks were con- ment and leftist Farc rebels. government and free elections, Maduro, who maintains con- his grip on power while living Guaido said that Norway ussia’s Ministry of For- tinuing, but warned against any “This is not negotiation. This it will have worked. If not...we trol over state institutions, calls standards steadily declined in would defi ne the methodology eign Aff airs yesterday said external powers trying to foist is not dialogue,” Guaido told re- will remain in the streets,” said Guaido a puppet of Washington the oil-rich nation. for the next round of talks, with- RMoscow was ready to play ultimatums on the Venezuelan porters after a rally in the west- Guaido, the head of Venezuela’s and blames US sanctions for Last week, opposition law- out specifying if the two sides a role in talks between the Ven- leadership. ern Venezuelan city of Barqui- opposition-controlled National a hyperinfl ationary economic maker Stalin Gonzalez and two would meet directly. ezuelan government and oppo- Meanwhile in Caracas opposi- simeto, adding that his team was Assembly. meltdown and humanitarian advisors represented Guaido’s In a video posted on Twitter, sition in Oslo if the participants tion leader Juan Guaido played simply responding to an off er Venezuela has been plunged crisis. side in Oslo, while Information Maduro said the government felt it was useful. down the prospects for success from the Norwegian government into political turmoil since The Venezuelan information Minister Jorge Rodriguez and delegation would once again be Norway said on Saturday that at a new round of mediation with to mediate. Guaido invoked the constitution ministry did not immediately Miranda state governor Hector led by the information minister, representatives of Venezuela’s the government to be hosted by Guaido reiterated that any to assume an interim presidency reply to a request for comment. Rodriguez went on behalf of the with the participation of the for- government and opposition Norway next week, saying pro- solution to Venezuela’s crisis in January, dismissing Maduro’s Venezuela’s ruling Socialist government. eign minister and a state gover- would return to Oslo follow- tests would continue until Presi- required Maduro to stand down, 2018 re-election as a fraud. Party has endorsed the Norwe- Each side met separately with nor. ing an initial round of prelimi- dent Nicolas Maduro resigned. allowing a transitional govern- More than 50 countries, in- gian mediation, but opposition Norwegian mediators, but there He said he believed agree- nary talks about how to address Norway has a tradition of ment to steer the Opec nation to cluding the US and many mem- sympathisers remain sceptical. was no face-to-face meeting ments were possible. Latin American art emerges as a bargain for collectors

AFP A portrait of the daughter of New York Diego Rivera — the world’s top draw among Mexican artists, followed by Kahlo and Tamayo hopping for a masterpiece — was thought to be worth up to but can’t aff ord, say, a steel $700,000 at Sotheby’s. Srabbit sculpture that went Yet in the end, nobody took it for over $90mn? Then, consider home. Latin American art. Tamayo’s Mujer con Rebozo Indeed, even big names, such (Woman with a Shawl) went for as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, $495,000 recently at Christie’s, off er a lot of bang for the buck, far below its estimate of up to auction houses, gallery owners $700,000. and collectors said. A large triptych by the Cuban- “With a million dollars you American artist Carlos Alfonzo really can buy a masterpiece,” — whose career was distin- said Virgilio Garza, director of guished but brief because he died Policemen take position during a riot in a prison in Brazilian state of Amazonas in Manaus. Latin American art at Christie’s at age 40 — went for $350,000 at in New York. Christie’s. For someone seeking a mod- That was a record for the artist ern or contemporary US or Eu- at auction. ropean work, Garza said that Garza said Latin American art same amount of money “will not is perfect for someone starting get you very far.” a collection because “there are Money has been really fl ooded really good things at reasonable the spring art auctions in New prices.” Clash between inmates York. US and European collectors Jeff Koons’ work entitled Rab- have an increasing appetite for bit — a stainless steel casting of Latin American art, said Anna Di an infl atable bunny — fetched Stasi, director of Latin American $91.1mn, a record for a living art at Sotheby’s in New York. artist, last week at Christie’s. In Asia, the most sought-after And a Claude Monet painting Latin American works are those at Brazil prison kills 15 from his celebrated “Meules” of Colombia’s Fernando Botero, (Haystacks) series fetched known for his depictions of vo- AFP stabbed with sharpened tooth- capacity of the nation’s pris- The previous April, a mili- 56 prisoners dead, many be- $110.7mn at Sotheby’s. luminous people and animals. Sao Paulo brushes, while others had been ons, which in the same year tary-style battle erupted be- headed. That was a record for the “The demography of our cli- strangled, Almeida said, adding was estimated to be 368,049 tween guards and prisoners Brazil’s prisons are home French Impressionist. entele has changed. It is no long- that an investigation has been inmates. This has led to severe aided by outside associates, to the leaders of several drug The standouts among Latin er Latin Americans buying Latin lashes between inmates opened to determine the cause overcrowding, fuelling gang leaving 21 people dead at a pris- trafficking organisations, and American art, however, were American. It is more global, said killed 15 people at a jail of the fi ght. violence, riots and sometimes on in Belem, near the Amazon the crisis in the country’s acquired for a song, relatively Garza. Cin Amazonas state in He emphasised that authori- breakout attempts. rainforest. penitentiaries has had a ripple speaking. He noted that there is an ex- northern Brazil, the regional ties had reacted within minutes Along with severe over- The attackers in that case effect. At Sotheby’s, a famous paint- hibition of works by Roberto prison authority said. to the violence, preventing a crowding, Brazil’s prisons are tried to blow up a wall to help Attempts to reform the prison ing of watermelon slices by Matta, a Chilean who blended The clashes broke out around potentially worse result. plagued by gang violence, while the would-be escapees. system and to introduce tighter Mexico’s Rufi no Tamayo was Surrealism with Abstract Ex- 11am (1500GMT) during visit- The same facility was the riots and breakout attempts are One policeman was killed controls have met with resist- auctioned for $4.9mn. pressionism, on right now at ing hours at the facility, located scene of a prison rebellion not uncommon. alongside 20 prisoners and their ance from powerful criminal And a work by Uruguay’s the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, some 28km from state capital that lasted almost 20 hours In September, heavily armed associates. gangs which operate both inside Joaquin Torres Garcia entitled Russia. Manaus. and left 56 people dead in men detonated explosives In January 2017, Brazilian and outside of jails. “Construccion en blanco” drew “There are marvellous oppor- “It was a fi ght between the January 2017. outside the gate of a prison in police had to launch a massive Earlier this year, a wave of $3.4mn. tunities in Latin American art,” inmates. There had never been Brazil has the world’s third northeastern Brazil and then manhunt after 184 inmates about 80 attacks on public Latin American art is perfect said Henrique Faria, owner of deaths during the visits,” Colo- largest prison population, with shot their way inside, killing a escaped from two prisons in buildings, banks, buses and gas for people who are only starting a New York gallery specialising nel Marcos Vinicius Almeida 726,712 inmates as of June 2016, policeman and releasing 92 in- Amazonas state following a stations was blamed on newly to collect, because of the bar- in Latin American art. “Because told a news conference. according to offi cial statistics. mates, about half of whom were gruesome 17-hour bloodbath announced measures to tighten gains out there, said Garza. the prices are fantastic.” Some of the inmates were The population is double the later recaptured. between rival gangs that left control of prisons.

Corruption trial Brazil braces for another Mexico minister quits tailings dam collapse after delaying fl ight Reuters the well-being of the majority.” Mexico City In his remarks, the president AFP the mine, which was closed in to its latest update on Friday. said he had spoken with Gonzal- Belo Horizonte 2016. “All preventive measures” ez Blanco, telling her to attend The slope usually shifts have been taken, it added. exico’s environment to the matter of the fl ight delay, about 10cm a year, but that Apart from monitoring the minister resigned after adding that she apologised. housands of Brazilians has accelerated in recent dam 24-hours a day, Vale has Mcausing a commercial “She very honestly told me yesterday braced for the months. been building a containment fl ight to be delayed, making her what had happened and placed Tpossible collapse of an- In the past few days it has wall 6kms downstream and is the second top offi cial to depart her resignation at my disposal and other tailings dam owned by topped 20cm a day, local media installing barriers to slow a po- from the government of Presi- I accepted it,” Lopez Obrador said. mining giant Vale that threat- reported yesterday. tential fl ood in the hope of con- dent Andres Manuel Lopez Ob- Her exit follows last Tuesday’s ens to spew millions of tonnes taining displaced material. rador in less than a week. resignation of German Martinez, of toxic sludge over towns, riv- Apart from monitoring Another upstream tailings The president’s offi ce an- head of Mexico’s social security ers and forest. the dam 24-hours a day, dam owned by Vale collapsed nounced that Josefa Gonzalez institute (IMSS), who complained The latest emergency comes Vale has been building a January 25, killing 242 people in Blanco Ortiz Mena, minister of the budget cuts and lay-off s ordered four months after 242 people containment wall 6km one of Brazil’s worst industrial environment and natural resourc- by Lopez Obrador’s fi nance min- were killed when a dam burst at downstream disasters. es, had tendered her resignation, ister were harming health services another Vale-owned mine. Emergency workers are still and Lopez Obrador said during a for the poor. Since Lopez Obrador Vale and emergency services Around 6,000 inhabitants in searching for 28 people listed speech he had accepted it. took offi ce in December, the vet- have warned that a section of Barao de Cocais municipality as missing but almost certainly In her resignation letter, which eran leftist has taken commercial the defunct Gongo Soco mine who are living in the so-called dead, according to the latest was published by the president’s fl ights after making a campaign in the southeastern state of Mi- secondary safety zone have fi gures released on Saturday. offi ce, Gonzalez Blanco said that pledge to sell his predecessor’s nas Gerais is at risk of disinte- been on high alert, performing That dam collapse was the at the start of a work trip, she luxury presidential plane. grating, which could rupture evacuation drills in preparation second such disaster involving had caused a delay to passengers Lopez Obrador has taken an the Sul Superior dam 1.5kms for the potential disaster. Vale in three years and forced who were travelling on the plane implacable stand against public away. They will have less than an the company to suspend opera- and its crew. sector excess and his fi rst budget More than 400 people liv- hour-and-a-half to reach safe- tions at several mines. “There is no justifi cation. The slashed spending for several ma- ing around the dam, which ty. Brazil has since banned the true transformation of Mexico jor government departments, holds nearly 7mn cubic metres Vale has “teams in a state of construction of new upstream requires total alignment with including the health service. (247mn cubic feet) of mining permanent readiness” but it dams, which are cheaper but Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner the values of equity and justice,” His austerity drive has caused waste, were evacuated in early said there was “no technical less stable than other types of arrives at the Comodoro Py courthouse before her second Gonzalez Blanco said. “Nobody problems in hospitals, leading February after monitoring sys- data that can confi rm whether tailings dams, and ordered the hearing of a corruption trial, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, should have privileges, and the to anger over surgery delays, re- tems detected abnormal move- the eventual slippage will trigger decommissioning of existing yesterday. benefi ts of one, even in carrying ductions in testing and staffi ng ment in the northern slope of a breach of the dam,” according ones. out one’s duties, cannot be above shortages, hospital directors say. Gulf Times 20 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 PAKISTAN

Top court hears cases Pakistan, UK sign MoU through video link

Internews for Dar’s extradition Islamabad Internews Accountability Shahzad Akbar and Accountability focal person the right to adjudication by an ister once the laws of England to sign extradition treaty with Islamabad held talks with British Home for Pakistan on behalf of Home impartial tribunal established and Wales are met. Pakistan with exception of of- or the fi rst time in the his- Secretary Sajid Javid. Secretary Sajid Javid and Shah- pursuant to law”. The source said the principle of fences resulting in death sen- tory of the country, the On May 23, the home secre- zad Akbar stated that the MoU A source familiar with the dual criminality is met in this case tence upon conviction. FSupreme Court of Pakistan he British government tary tweeted: “Pleasure to meet means the “surrender to the development said that it’s a big and the off ences alleged are ex- Pakistan agreed to accept yesterday began hearing cases and Pakistan have signed with @ShazadAkbar again this government of Pakistan of Dar step towards Pakistan’s eff orts tradition off ences which include that condition of UK by provid- through video link. Ta memorandum of un- morning to discuss progress on for the purpose of prosecution for the extradition of Dar in the every off ence which is imprison- ing appropriate assurances in A three-member bench under derstanding (MoU) for the for- UK-Pakistan eff orts to tackle there for one or more off ences absence of a treaty – the only able for more than one year and such cases in future and follow- Chief Justice Asif Khosa heard mal beginning of process for the corruption.” and for the purpose of serving a possibility of someone’s extra- doesn’t involve death penalty. ing that Shahzad Akbar visited cases through the e-court sys- extradition former fi nance min- The MoU states that the gov- sentence of imprisonment”. dition is by way of a special ar- A government source said London this week. tem, court sources here said. ister Ishaq Dar to Pakistan. ernment of Pakistan and the The MoU states that it pro- rangement for extradition of a that in the next two weeks the The UK had told Pakistan that Utilising the system, lawyers The MoU signed this week British government have de- vides for “more eff ective co- specifi c person. Pakistan government will send the treaty with Pakistan cannot presented their arguments from and case specifi c to Dar which veloped an understanding “for operation in combating crime”. The source claimed that the material to the secretary of state be signed on the grounds that Supreme Court’s Karachi regis- provides legal basis in the ab- the extradition of Dar to the ju- It goes on that the MoU is MoU means that the UK is sat- for the extradition of Dar and the latter has not abolished death try through video link. Initially, sence of an extradition treaty. risdiction of the government of “mindful of the guarantee un- isfi ed that Pakistan is a suitable it is hoped that the secretary of sentence and cited it a matter of the e-court system will be avail- It’s understood that the MoU Pakistan”. der the respective legal system extradition destination and the state will accelerate the process. human rights. Recently, the cabi- able in the Islamabad and Kara- was signed after Prime Min- The document, signed by which produces an accused per- UK is ready to consider extra- The British government had net approved amendments in the chi registries of the apex court. ister Imran Khan’s Adviser on Graeme Biggar, the new Justice son right to fair trial including diting the former fi nance min- told Pakistan that it was ready laws in this connection. Chief Justice Khosa remarked that the e-court system would be instrumental in dispensing swift justice at a low cost. During the proceedings, the pre-arrest plea for bail of murder suspect Noor Mohammed was MoUs in four approved. The suspect was named in a murder case in 2014 in Shadab- pur, said the chief justice, add- ing that he was not involved in sectors signed the murder. The top judge said eyewitnesses said that unknown men carried out the killing. The Sindh High Court had not made a decision on bail from with China 2016 to 2019. Internews Meanwhile, the two lead- Islamabad ers launched and unveiled the plaques of the four mega devel- opment projects in the fi elds of energy, technology and educa- Foreign help akistan and China have tion under China-Pakistan Eco- signed several memoran- nomic Corridor. Pdums of understanding The two leaders also inaugu- sought to (MoUs) for co-operation in dif- rated the Confucius Institute at ferent sectors. the University of Punjab. The The signing ceremony was institute mainly provides Chi- control HIV held in Islamabad which was nese education, cultural promo- attended by Prime Minister tion and cultural exchanges and Imran Khan and Chinese Vice other projects and activities. outbreak President Wang Qishan, offi cial The ceremony also marked sources confi rmed yesterday. the launching of Huawei Tech- DPA These MoUs include co-oper- nical Support Center to be es- Islamabad ation in economic and technical tablished in Pakistan as part of aff airs, Disaster Management Chinese tech giant’s commit- Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, left, shaking hands with Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan on his arrival for a meeting in Islamabad. and assistance in agriculture ment to make massive invest- Pakistan PM Khan and Chinese Vice President Qishan launched four mega development projects in the fields of energy, technology and n international team of sector of Lasbela University. ment in Pakistan. education under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). experts is expected to ar- Arive in southern Pakistan where an HIV outbreak has in- fected hundreds of children. A 10-member joint team of World Health Organisation Gilgit girls Rights group (WHO) and the Centre for Dis- ease Control (CDC) would work KP okays budget with local medics, said Zafar scale highest Mirza, the prime minister’s spe- protests against cial advisor for health. The experts would start work- peak in Spain ing in the region in a couple of for next fi scal days, he said late on Sunday. killing of activists Health offi cials are continuing Internews Internews approved this fi gure had gone the meeting, Mahmood stat- to screen thousands of people Islamabad Peshawar up by a percentage point to ed that the provincial cabinet DPA a PTM demonstration. every day after hundreds were Rs657.251bn. will have good news for resi- Islamabad The army said a group, led found infected with HIV in a Jhagra also detailed the new dents of the province in the by PTM leaders and members small town. wo teenage girls from he provincial cabinet taxes which will be introduced next provincial budget. of parliament Mohsin Dawar Nearly 800 people, mostly Ghanche district of Gilg- of Pakistan’s Khyber and measures to provide re- He added that every de- Pakistani rights group and Ali Wazir, “assaulted” the children, were tested posi- Tit-Baltistan in Pakistan TPakhtunkhawa (KP) lief to the public under the partment will be given a representing ethnic Kharqamar checkpoint. tive in the town of Ratto Dhero have scaled the Teide peak, the approved an Rs657bn budget property tax concession pro- timeline to play its role in APashtun announced Wazir was later arrested and in the province of Sindh dur- highest mountain in Spain. for the upcoming fi scal year gramme. The cabinet was told revenue generation to ensure nationwide protests yester- Dawar is on the run. ing a screening process that was Amina Hanif, 15, and Sid- 2019-20 and decided to un- that current expenditures for that the province achieves its day over the deaths of at least The military said fi ve sol- launched in April, health offi cial diga Batool, 17, residents of veil it next month on June 13, the year 2019-20 are estimat- goal of self-suffi ciency. three activists in clashes with diers were wounded in the Sikandar Memon said. Hushey valley of Ghanche, are wherein it has decided to give ed at Rs657.251bn, slightly up K-P Information Minister the military in the country’s exchange of fi re and one died Up to 2,000 people are being also the granddaughters of fa- concessions on property tax- from last year’s Rs648bn. Shaukat Yousafzai said that troubled tribal region. yesterday. screened every day, said Masood mous mountaineer Abdul Karim es for medium-sized houses. The development pro- they had tried to give relief to “We will continue our non- The Human Rights Com- Solangi, director general of known as Little Karim. This was decided in a spe- gramme, though, will be lim- the impoverished masses of violent constitutional strug- mission of Pakistan (HRCP) health for the region. The two young mountaineers cial meeting of the provincial ited to an estimated Rs122bn, the province. In this regard, gle,” said Manzoor Pashteen, called for a parliamentary Ratto Dhero is a small, poor had started their adventure with cabinet which met in Pesha- down from the Rs180bn ear- he said that they were aim- a central leader of the Pashtun commission to “inquire into town in the district of Larkana, their father, Mohammed Hanif, war with KP Chief Minister marked for the sector last year. ing to off er tax exemptions for Tahafuz Movement (PTM), the matter and establish the a region where more than 1,500 who is also a climber, thus becom- Mahmood Khan in the chair. However, this year’s budget owners of houses which were which emerged last year after truth”. In a statement, the people were found infected last ing the youngest mountaineers to In the meeting, KP Finance will see around Rs53.884bn from between fi ve and ten marlas. the killing of an ethnic Pash- commission also demanded year. summit the highest peak in Spain. Minister Taimur Saleem Jha- the overall budget reserved for “We have introduced chang- tun in the port city of Karachi. the release of Wazir and other The international experts Hanif shared a post at his Fa- gra briefed the cabinet on the the merged tribal districts. Of es in the taxes framework for PTM activists will protest activists taken into custody. would investigate the exact cause cebook page which said Amina salient features of the up- this, an estimated Rs33bn have those taxis which fall under the across the country, he said. Pashtuns live mainly in the of the outbreak and assist local Hanif and Sidiqqa Batool marked coming provincial budget. It been reserved for development. ambit of the provincial govern- At least three activists Federally Administered Tribal authorities to control the spread, new history by scaling the high- was disclosed that in the fi rst During the meeting, the ment, while we have designed were killed and over a dozen Areas (Fata) in north-western Mirza said. est mountain peak in Spain. budget paper approved by the cabinet okayed the use of to bring taxes to aff ordable lev- others were wounded on Pakistan. There are around 170,000 On May 25, they had got best provincial cabinet in Febru- provincially-owned helicop- els, while the poor of the soci- Sunday in North Wazirstan, The area was once a strong- people registered as being in- hikers award after trekking the ary, it had estimated revenues ters by the offi cials of the pro- ety have been given relief in the a semi-autonomous region hold of Al Qaeda and the Tali- fected with HIV in Pakistan, ac- highest hiking site in Spain. of Rs605.508bn. vincial government. next year budget,” the provin- bordering Afghanistan, ban, with many families suf- cording to the National Aids pro- This is the start of their career In the second budget paper, In a short media talk after cial fi nance minister stated. when soldiers opened fi re on fering violent attacks. gramme in the capital Islamabad. and in future, they have strong intention to scale the world’s loftiest 14, 8,000m peaks, in- cluding Mount Everest and K2, according to the Facebook post. Masaam Tamaar, a colleague ‘Surplus’ principals to be sent to rural schools of Islamabad of Hanif, told Dawn that the two teenage girls with their father successfully scaled the 3,718-me- Internews Documents available suggest two principals in BPS-19 and BPS-20 and a vice principal of tion secretary who would later Federal Directorate of Edu- tre Teide peak in Spain on Friday. Islamabad that the Federal Directorate of four vice principals in BPS-18 BPS-18 should be deployed. send a letter to the fi nance min- cation (FDE) Director Schools He said Hushey was a remote Education (FDE) had conducted were deployed. The rules, how- However, sources in the edu- istry for a follow-up. Saqib Shahab, said in line with area and the locals had no re- a survey which revealed that ever, stipulate that only a single cation sector disclose that a Sources say that there are the vision of Federal Educa- sources to utilise their energy in n a bid to improve the edu- there were some 65 institutions principal of BPS-19 and a vice survey has found that around numerous schools in the rural tion Minister Shafqat Meh- mountaineering because it was cation standards in the rural which were apparently operat- principal in BPS-18 will be de- 177 principals were serving in areas where teachers in BPS- mood to transform Islama- an expensive sport. Iareas of the federal capital ing with more than one head. ployed in each educational in- 65 schools as opposed to the re- 16 and BPS-17 have been given bad’s educational system into He said the teenagers girls were Islamabad, some 94 posts for Moreover, there are at least stitution. quirement of only 83 principals. administrative responsibilities a role model, only a single sponsored by a climber in Spain. principals and vice-principals four primary and middle schools Further, there are some 40 Instead of fi ring the sur- because no sanctioned posts principal will be deployed in Last year, the two girls made in Federal Government (FG) where there are four principals boys’ higher secondary and sec- plus principals, he said that the were approved for them and the every institution. a world record by climbing the schools are expected to be in basic pay scale grade (BPS) 19 ondary schools where around government has decided to use schools lack principals. He further said that the de- 6,080m Manglesser peak in the transferred to schools in these and four vice principals in BPS- 125 posts were occupied by of- these principals where their ex- Further, sources disclosed ployment of school heads in Shimshal valley of Hunza. areas. 18 against the rules. fi cials in BPS-18 to BPS-20. The pertise is needed most, in the that a proposal, with the rules the rural areas will not only im- According to Alpine Club It has been disclosed that According to the rules, a BPS- requirement, however, was for rural areas of the federal capi- attached, has been sent to the prove the performance of these of Pakistan, the two girls have there are some 69 surplus posts 18 principal should be deployed only 56 such posts. tal where there is a shortage of education secretary to inform schools apart from improving also been invited by the France in the secondary and higher in each primary school. The rules state that for a principals. him about the violation of the standard of education there Mountaineering Federation to secondary schools in the rural Moreover, there are two girls’ higher secondary school, a Approval for this move is ex- rules and regulations in these but will also reduce the percent- climb some rock walls there. areas of the federal capital. higher secondary schools where principal in either BPS-19 or pected to be given by the educa- schools. age of school drop-outs. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 21 PHILIPPINES

Senator’s court Deals worth billions to be signed hearing rescheduled during Duterte’s Japan visit

By Tyrone J Piad By Neil J Servallos Manila Times Manila Times hilippine businessmen Makati court yesterday will ink P300bn worth of resumed Sen. Antonio Pdeals with their Japanese ATrillanes 4th’s trial for a counterparts during President reopened rebellion case, but the Rodrigo Duterte’s trip to Tokyo hearing was suspended after the this week, the Trade depart- prosecution presented an unlist- ment said yesterday. ed witness. In a statement, Trade Sec- The Department of Justice retary Ramon Lopez said more presented Assistant State Pros- than 20 business agreements ecutor Mary Jane Sytat as its lone would be signed and that these witness for the day. would create 8,000 jobs. He had She testifi ed that Trillanes had earlier announced that the trip initiated a walkout during a 2007 would generate 10 business-to- trial that led to a short-lived business deals. takeover of the Manila Peninsula The investment pledges Hotel. will cover the infrastructure, Trillanes’ lawyer, Rey Robles, manufacturing, electron- objected to the use of a “fi ller” ics, medical devices, business witness. process outsourcing, power, “We tried to object to it be- electricity, transport, auto- cause she was not included with motive, food manufactur- the witnesses to this case. But ing and marine manpower over our objections, the court industries.“Japanese investors allowed her to testify,” he told remain bullish on the sustained reporters. growth momentum under the Robles added that this was the administration of President fi rst time for documentation and Duterte, given its aggressive testimony regarding Trillanes’ infrastructure build-up, mean- alleged “hand gestures” to be in- ingful investment and fi nancial troduced. reforms and demographic ad- The court subsequently ad- vantages,” Lopez said. journed the hearing, which will Duterte will be attending President Rodrigo Duterte shares a laugh with Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd (left), Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd (centre) and Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez. continue on July 22. Nikkei’s 25th International Con- Trillanes’ rebellion case was ference on The Future of Asia in nomic developments such as last partment announced that it had kyo. The Japanese fi rms said to ISE Foods Inc, Itochu Corp, Mit- pines) Corp. Japan is the Phil- dismissed in 2011, pursuant to Tokyo on May 30-31. He is ex- month’s Standard & Poor’s credit sealed $1.24bn worth of invest- have committed to invest in the sui OSK Lines Ltd, Nidec Corp, ippines’ second-largest trading the amnesty granted by Presi- pected to give a speech that will rating upgrade. ments and expansion projects Philippines were Sumitomo Wir- Isetan Mitsukoshi, Nomura partner, with total trade amount- dent Benigno Aquino 3rd. highlight recent positive eco- Earlier this year, the Trade de- following a trade mission to To- ing Systems Inc, Sumitomo Corp, Holdings and Terumo (Philip- ing to $20bn last year. Villar, Pacquiao are richest Six illegal residents held in Mindanao crackdown senators; Trillanes poorest islands like Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, Manila Times complaints we received regard- Manila ing the activities of these un- using a private sea craft and By Bernadette E Tamayo desirable foreigners in various vice-versa. From Sabah, illegal Manila Times places in the South. Hence, we aliens may take a fl ight to Kuala ureau of Immigration encourage the public to report Lumpur and back. (BI) operatives arrested to us the presence of any illegal Foreigners who enter and e-elected Senator Cynthia Bsix illegal aliens in sepa- alien in their areas, and they are exit the country via these ports Villar remains the rich- rate operations in Mindanao as assured that these reports will are mostly Malaysians and In- Rest member of the Sen- the agency intensifi ed its drive be acted upon,” Morente said. donesians engaged in barter, ate, with a net worth of P3.719bn against undocumented for- All six are now detained at fi shing and other commercial based on her 2018 Statement of eigners entering the country the BI’s detention facility in trading activities. Assets Liabilities and Net Worth through the southern back- Davao pending deportation “Consequently, aside from (SALN). door. proceedings. thwarting the entry of suspect- Second richest was Sen. Em- Immigration Commissioner Morente also disclosed that ed foreign terrorists and illegal manuel “Manny” Pacquiao with Jaime Morente disclosed over a total of 36 immigration bor- aliens, these offi cers are also P3.005bn, with Sen. Ralph Recto the weekend that the bureau’s der crossing offi cers have been tasked to monitor and report on a distant third with P555.3mn. Mindanao intelligence task deployed to the BI’s six border the activities of and apprehend Villar, Pacquiao and Recto group (MITG) based in Davao crossing stations in Mindanao human traffi ckers and illegal had respectively declared net City conducted the operations. and Palawan. recruiters who smuggle their worths of P3.6bn, P2.9bn and The illegal aliens were iden- He said that each of these victims in or out of the country P539mn, respectively, in their tifi ed as Indonesians Jimbirs ports were being manned by six via the backdoor.” 2017 SALNs. Da Lema and Supian Undin- additional border crossing offi c- Migration authorities in the The “poorest” was Sen. Anto- gan, who were arrested in Gen- ers tasked to monitor and board South have always been on a high nio Trillanes 4th, who reported eral Santos City; Warnakula and inspect travellers aboard sea state of alert since the Sept 11, having just P7.5mn. The outgo- Weerasuirya Jayathilaka a.k.a. craft that would regularly cross 2001 terror attack in the US. ing senator, who will end his Anton Rowel, a Sri Lankan; and the country’s borders with Ma- The BI has a complete pro- term next month, was also the Senator Cynthia Villar and Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao. Korean national Kim Yoonsig, laysia and Indonesia. fi le and pictures of suspected poorest in 2017 with P6.8mn. who is on the BI blacklist, were These stations are located in international terrorists and it Rounding out the top 10 Richard Gordon (P71.2mn). Emmanuel Joel Vilanueva ability” or debt in their SALNs. arrested in separate operations the ports of Brooke’s Point and would be hard for them to enter millionaire-senators were The rest, in descending or- (P26.9mn), Gregorio “Gringo” Sotto in February said the in Tagum City, Davao del Sur. Balabac in Palawan; Tibanban, the country through standard Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri der, were Vicente “Tito” Sotto Honasan 2nd (P25.8mn), Francis Senate would not be imposing Arrested in Davao City was Davao Oriental; Batuganding, routes. (P182.8mn), Juan Edgardo “Son- 3rd (P70.1mn), Maria Lour- “Kiko” Pangilinan (P16.6mn), strict rules in releasing the sena- American Branden Fitzgerald Davao del Sur; and the islands Intelligence reports indi- ny” Angara (P135.8mn), Joseph des Nancy Binay (P60.1mn), Ana Theresia “Risa” Hontiveros tors’ SALNs. Dandridge; and Chinese Tony of Taganak and Bongao in Ta- cated that the foreign militants Victor “JV” Ejercito (P132.8mn), Loren Legarda (P56.2mn), (P15.6mn), Francis “Chiz” Es- He made the remark after Co a.k.a. Alex Ubalde in Ca- wi-Tawi. that fought side-by-side with Franklin Drilon (P97.7mn), Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino cudero (P10.5mn) and Leila de the House of Representatives gayan de Oro City. Both were The so-called southern back- the Maute group against gov- Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian 4th (P45.2mn), Panfi lo “Ping” Lima (P7.7mn). came up with stringent meas- overstaying. door route is from Sandakan, ernment security forces in Ma- (P96.2mn), Mary Grace Poe Lacson (P42.2mn), Aquilino Villar, Gatchalian, Honasan ures in releasing the SALNs of its “The apprehension of these Sabah in Malaysia to either rawi City entered the country Llamanzares (P93.0mn) and “Koko” Pimentel 3rd (P28.6mn), and Pimentel declared “no li- members. illegal aliens stemmed from Zamboanga City or other nearby through the backdoor. Sara may play key role in contest for House speaker

By Glee Jalea fences, and possibly her brother, Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Alvarez also denied Duterte- “So, if you will insist, if he Manila Times incoming Davao City Rep. Paolo Velasco her bet for the speaker- Carpio’s allegation that he want- does not listen to me… Let me Duterte. ship over other aspirants such as ed to “humiliate” her, following know three days in advance be- DUTERTE’S THREAT Alvarez, former Foreign Aff airs his re-election. fore you make the announce- n endorsement from TO RESIGN secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, “I do not know where that ment and I will tender my res- Davao City Mayor Sara The younger Duterte, how- Leyte Rep. came from because I am very ignation,” Duterte added. ADuterte-Carpio will likely ever, denied this yesterday, while Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, careful… it’s very unlikely that I The younger Duterte denied seal the deal for legislators want- the president threatened to re- San Juan Rep. Ronaldo Zamora, said that… if I did, I have no right that he was after the top House ing to become the next speaker sign if his son ran for speaker. Cavite representatives Alex Ad- to run for speaker,” Alvarez said. post. of the House of Representatives, Duterte-Carpio was said to be vincula and Abraham Tolentino, Suarez previously said “I did not say I want to be given talk that she could succeed instrumental in last year’s ouster Malabon Rep. Ricky Sandoval, Romualdez had already gained speaker. Someone whispered her father President Rodrigo Du- of former speaker Pantaleon Al- Leyte Rep. the support of at least 126 House false information to your ear, terte. varez, who, as Davao del Norte Lucy Torres Gomez, and Pam- members, including him and Mr President,” he posted on Fa- “They are looking at her as congressman, has expressed in- panga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales. other members of the minority cebook. possible contender in 2022, terest in regaining the top House Last week, she said she only bloc. Partido Demokratiko Pilipi- that’s one,” incumbent House post. had “a personal bet” and was not He also remarked that Paolo no-Lakas ng Bayan President Minority Leader Danilo Suarez Alvarez’s overtures were re- out “to infl uence Congress.” Duterte running for the speaker- Sen. Aquilino Pimentel 3rd said said in a television interview jected last week, with Sara call- As it stands, said Suarez, the ship would be a breach of delica- the ruling party aimed to retain yesterday. ing him “very dangerous and race had narrowed down to Ve- deza or propriety since his father the speakership via three can- “Plus the fact that she’s a very Machiavellian,” but the legisla- lasco and Romualdez, who Du- was already the president. didates: Alvarez, its secretary nice person, she speaks from her tor said he would continue to terte-Carpio denied having en- The president agreed, telling general; Gonzales, national heart. reach out. dorsed despite claims by Surigao newly appointed government deputy campaign manager; and If she wants to say something, “Oh yes, why not?” he replied del Sur Rep.Prospero Pichay. offi cials that it would “not be a Velasco, a strong ally of the Du- she goes straight to the point,” he when asked. Her criticism of Cayetano good sight.” tertes. added. “Many in the House look up for allegedly making a “veiled “Paolo, I am telling you now, Romualdez yesterday ap- Those said to be interested to her. They have a lot of respect threat” about the consequences if you run for (the) speaker- pealed to his fellow lawmakers in the top House post include for her. So, if she endorses any- of endorsing Velasco could also ship, let me know. If you will to set politics aside by signing a lawmakers that she reportedly one it will change everything,” he “somewhat infl uence the think- run I will resign because we are covenant declaring their com- earlier endorsed, a former po- added. ing of undecided House mem- already a lot… Let the people mitment to support Duterte’s Sara Duterte-Carpio: crucial role? litical ally who wants to mend Duterte-Carpio earlier called bers,” Suarez added. choose who they want,” he said. priority bills. Gulf Times 22 Tuesday, May 28, 2019 COMMENT

CHAIRMAN Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka 28 - 05 -2019 Deputy Managing Editor K T Chacko P.O.Box 2888, Doha, Qatar [email protected] 44350478 (News), 44466404 (Sport), 44466636 (Home delivery) 44350474 facebook.com/gulftimes twitter.com/gulftimes_Qatar GULF TIMES Juve extend Italian domination but fall short in Europe Massimiliano Allegri oversaw his fi nal game as Juventus coach on Sunday, after guiding the team to an eighth consecutive Serie A title but paying the price for yet another Champions League failure despite the sensational signing of Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo was left out alongside a host of other starters as the Allegri era ended with the whimper of a 2-0 defeat at Sampdoria, having played 31 of 38 matches and closing the season as the team’s top scorer with 21 league goals. But helping the team to another Serie A title was not why the 34-year-old was signed last summer. Ronaldo had spent nine glittering seasons at Real Madrid, Ukraine’s new president lifting a fourth Champions League trophy in fi ve seasons before moving to Italy. His arrival in Turin on a 100mn euro deal, plus a reported 30mn euros a year, was hailed as “the deal of the century” by the Italian press. joins the resistance But after a season in which they were expected to sweep all before them Juventus have won less than the previous Fuks, an oil and real estate magnate of something that has no bearing except bring about that outcome. season, with their four-year reign as Coppa Italia holders By Nina L Khrushcheva New York Russian-Ukrainian background who to try to embarrass.” In fact, the Nonetheless, there is a big ended in a 3-0 quarter-fi nal defeat by Atalanta. hired Giuliani’s security firm in 2017 Trump administration’s behaviour difference between bad optics and Ronaldo single handedly lifted Juventus into the to advise Kharkiv and to create a US has a whiff of extortion: in 2017, illegal behaviour. Despite his lack of Champions League quarter-fi nals with a hat-trick against eset with its own very large office for supporting investment in Ukraine received $510mn in aid from political experience, Zelensky, who problems, the last thing the city. Fuks also claims that Giuliani the United States, and Trump already was a television comedian before Atletico Madrid. Ukraine needs is to be sucked, was hired as a “lobbyist” for Ukraine’s slashed that amount by more than half winning the presidency by a landslide But his hopes of Byet again, into US President national government. (Giuliani in 2018, to some $224mn. last month, smelled something rotten Even Ronaldo a fourth straight Donald Trump’s scandals. Fortunately, disputes this.) To be sure, it was not particularly in Giuliani’s plans. He reportedly had European triumph for all his deficiencies, Ukraine’s new In any case, as Serhiy Leshchenko, wise, from Biden’s perspective, for his some help from advisers, who urged couldn’t help them president, Volodymyr Zelensky, seems who received and publicised parts son to become a well-paid director him not to agree to the meeting. were ended when they to understand this. of Lutsenko’s letter to Giuliani, at Burisma in 2014 – a time when Now, even Lutsenko has reversed his progress beyond crashed out to daring Zelensky had not even been sworn confirmed, the Hunter Biden issue was Biden was acting as President Barack position, declaring Hunter Biden did Dutch Ajax in the last in yet when Trump’s consigliere, a manufactured “conspiracy.” The role Obama’s point man on Ukraine amid nothing illegal in Ukraine and that the quarter-fi nals eight. former New York City mayor and of Leshchenko, a former investigative Russia’s invasion and annexation of there is no need for an investigation. mafia prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani, journalist and current member of Crimea. Both Joe and Hunter Biden Giuliani was thus forced to cancel of the Champions Amid criticism announced plans to visit Kyiv. His goal parliament, was somewhat poetic: should have known that in Ukraine, his trip. Had he gone, he claimed, of Allegri’s tactics, was to lure Zelensky into pursuing a it was he who, in 2016, exposed the as elsewhere, a company would view he would have been “walking into a League Ronaldo, who has spurious investigation into former “black ledger” listing secret payments hiring the US vice-president’s son as group of people that are enemies” of scored 124 goals in vice-president Joe Biden’s son Hunter, made by Ukraine’s pro-Russia Party a surefire means of securing future Trump, and in some cases “enemies who had served on the board of of Regions to Manafort when he was favours. of the United States.” If exposing the 160 Champions League appearances, reportedly said: “I Burisma Holdings, one of Ukraine’s consulting for Yanukovych. (Giuliani Complicating matters further, Trump administration’s intrigues – don’t work miracles”. largest energy companies. With Biden decried that ledger – proven to be Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky and avoiding its booby traps – makes “Cristiano showed us he could always score in the now leading the pack of Democratic authentic – as “fake,” in order to – who has fallen in and out of favour one an “enemy of the US,” one hopes it games that counted. But then you have to have a candidates seeking to oppose Trump advance the narrative that the Mueller with Ukraine’s government over the is a badge Zelensky remains willing to in the 2020 presidential election, investigation had been politically years – had, by that time, been subject wear. – Project Syndicate strong team behind him,” said veteran defender Andrea Zelensky was being offered a poisoned motivated.) to several investigations mounted Barzagli. chalice. As for Biden, he has condemned by then-Prosecutor-General Viktor  Nina L Khrushcheva is Professor Despite the fi nancial fallout of failing to advance in the Giuliani was trying to turn the Giuliani’s efforts to lobby Ukraine Shokin. Then, in 2016, Shokin was of International Affairs at The New Champions League, Ronaldo’s signing has been a money- tables on the Democrats, who, in the to investigate his son, calling it sacked for corruption at Joe Biden’s School. Her latest book (with Jeffrey run-up to the 2016 US presidential “inappropriate” for the president urging. Indeed, Biden has proudly Tayler) is In Putin’s Footsteps: spinning one for Juventus. election, received compromising to send his lawyer “to a foreign recounted how he used the promise of Searching for the Soul of an Empire The fi ve-time Ballon d’Or winner is the most followed material on Trump’s then-campaign government to try to get them to do a billion-dollar US loan guarantee to Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones. sports star on social media with a global reach of over manager, Paul Manafort, through the 340mn followers. administration of Ukraine’s then- president, Petro Poroshenko. Exposing More fans ultimately means more money, and Manafort’s activities in Ukraine suddenly Ronaldo’s transfer fee does not look so (where he worked as a consultant extortionate. for Poroshenko’s Kremlin-backed The club’s value on the Milan stock exchange has predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych) turned out to be a major feature of rocketed by 133 percent since his arrival last July. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Shares had been trading around 0.6 euro in mid-May, recently concluded investigation jumping to 1.8 euro during the session on September 20, into Russia’s interference in the 2016 before dipping slightly following rape allegations against election. In attempting to engineer a “reverse Ronaldo in the United States dating back to 2009 which he Manafort,” Giuliani had plenty of vehemently denies. willing accomplices in Ukraine. Shares jumped by 30 per cent after his hat-trick According to news reports, Yuri catapulted the Italian football club into the quarter fi nals of Lutsenko, Ukraine’s prosecutor- general, wrote a letter to Giuliani in the Champions League in March. which he alleged that while Biden was Next season there will be a new coach on the bench with vice president, he personally received reports that Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri, former coach income from a Ukrainian natural gas of Napoli, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Lazio boss company in exchange for “lobbying activities and political support.” Simone Inzaghi are among the candidates. Lutsenko seemed to think that this On the pitch Welsh international midfi elder Aaron bid to smear Biden would strengthen Ramsey arrives in Turin from Arsenal. But they will have to his position with Zelensky, who wait until next season to see if the changes bring about the would not wish to be seen as opposing Trump. How surprised he must desired eff ect. have been when Zelensky asked the parliament to dismiss him from his post. To Advertise But the incompetent and flip- flopping Lutsenko was not Giuliani’s [email protected] only ally in Ukraine. On the contrary, Display Giuliani’s own opaque connections in that country have been fodder for 44466621 44418811 much speculation, and were included in the Mueller investigation. Classified Through his consultancy, Giuliani 44466609 44418811 Partners, Giuliani has formed connections with people linked Subscription to Ukrainian mobsters, including Hennadiy Kernes, Kharkiv’s longtime [email protected] mayor who was allegedly once an organised crime boss in the city. (Kernes denies those allegations.) © 2019 Gulf Times. All rights reserved Giuliani is also linked to Pavel Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky. Gulf Times Tuesday, May 28, 2019 23 COMMENT How will the US-China trade war end?

By Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng of the Trump doctrine is burden- That wealth was not, however, Hong Kong sharing. Skinner interprets this shared equally; on the contrary, the narrowly, focusing on the need for QE-centred approach has deepened America’s Nato allies to increase their domestic inequality. For example, ashing hopes of a quick defence spending. What she does every time the S&P 500 has dipped agreement on trade not acknowledge is that the US is over the last decade, corporate share relations with China, US also forcing the rest of the world to buybacks (amounting to $5 trillion DPresident Donald Trump’s share the burden of its unsustainable from 2008 to 2018) provided a administration has imposed punitive structural savings defi cit. cushion. This was technically good tariff s on another $200bn of Chinese The US consistently runs both a for growth: the S&P 500 index rose goods. Now that the Chinese fi scal defi cit – with total expenditure by a total of 319% from its 2009 government has responded with new (of which defence comprised 14.8% trough to its March 2019 peak. But tariff s on $60bn of US products, the in 2017) signifi cantly exceeding its Trump’s trade war is threatening United States is threatening tariff s income – and a current-account even those narrowly shared (and, for targeting yet another $300bn of defi cit. If those twin defi cits run at the Fed, costly) gains. Chinese imports. Both sides are now a trend rate of over 3% of GDP per For the top 25 S&P companies – with digging in for a long fi ght – largely annum, net US debt to the rest of the a combined market capitalisation because Americans have yet to feel the world – currently at 40% of GDP – will exceeding $20tn – just under one- pain of Trump’s policies. double in less than 24 years. third of revenues come from China and China has understood Trump’s The Trump administration insists Taiwan (weighted average), meaning transactional style for some time. But that the only defi cit to worry about that tariff s on Chinese imports will it only recently began to appreciate is the bilateral trade defi cit with hit profi ts. Tech giants that depend on fully the signifi cance of Trump’s China. But even if China bowed to US chips, components, and software sales “America First” doctrine, which demands and eliminated the bilateral to China – amounting to 20-65% of according to US State Department defi cit, America’s imbalance of saving total revenue – will face particularly Policy Director Kiron Skinner, rests and investment would merely shift high costs, as will US shoe importers. on four pillars: national sovereignty, its external defi cit – like water in The trade war seems not to have reciprocity, burden-sharing, and a squeezed balloon – toward other caused much pain yet, because regional partnerships. surplus economies, like the EU, Japan, fi nancial markets assume (perhaps National sovereignty and reciprocity and South Korea (the targets of the wrongly) that central banks will bail are standard features of any country’s threatened automotive tariff s). them out with more QE. But after foreign policy. They form the For decades, the US saving shortfall 117 consecutive months of economic foundations of the 1648 Peace of seemed like a problem to be managed, expansion – compared to an historical Westphalia, which recognised after the not solved. Since the US started average of 48 months – the US could Thirty Years War that sovereign states running structural defi cits in the soon fi nd itself in a painful recession, have their own interests to defend, and 1970s, there has been a kind of global owing to disruptions caused by must engage with other states on a “grand bargain” on the topic. The Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. Both sides are now digging in for a long fight. Trump’s trade war. Perhaps then it reciprocal basis. world willingly fi nances America’s will be ready for a truce. – Project But the Trump administration often current-account defi cit in US dollars; is engaging in tax subterfuge. taxes, but because they can be blamed But today’s prosperity hinges mainly Syndicate takes reciprocity too far, weakening in exchange, the US acts as a guarantor Historically, governments have on foreigners, they are more palatable on the temporary eff ects of budget- America’s capacity to build and of free trade and global security. addressed their excessive debts with to the American public. busting tax cuts and quantitative easing  Andrew Sheng is Distinguished maintain partnerships, regional or The Trump doctrine upends that tax increases, spending cuts, higher From Trump’s perspective, the by the US Federal Reserve, which Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the otherwise. Indeed, under Trump, bargain. By weaponising America’s infl ation (with negative real interest costs of this approach appear low. expanded its balance sheet by $3.6tn University of Hong Kong and a member the US has undercut the interests of economic leverage (including the US rates), or, in the case of the Roman With the US economy still growing, from 2007 to 2017 (it has since reduced of the UNEP Advisory Council on its closest allies for its own narrow dollar), it aims to force the world to Empire, conquest of creditors. stock markets at record highs, and that total by $391bn). Historically low Sustainable Finance. benefi t, even threatening to impose uphold its end, with no guarantee that It seems to be politically unemployment at record lows, interest rates and liquidity-infl ated Xiao Geng, President of the Hong broad tariff s on automobile and auto- the US will respond in kind. impossible for the US government JPMorgan has estimated that the trade asset bubbles fi nanced the fi scal defi cit Kong Institution for International part imports from the European Union, This approach will end up costing to raise taxes domestically. So the war’s direct costs will amount to just and enabled the household sector to Finance, is a professor and Director Japan, and South Korea, claiming that virtually everyone – beginning with Trump administration has found a -0.2% of GDP for the US, -0.4% of deleverage. It was thanks largely to QE of the Research Institute of Maritime they pose a national security threat. American consumers. With its trade workaround: tariff increases end up GDP for China, and -0.22% of GDP for that US net wealth increased by $33.6tn Silk-Road at Peking University HSBC In any case, the active ingredient war, the Trump administration serving eff ectively as consumption the rest of the world through 2020. from 2010 to 2018. Business School.

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By Chadi Aoun people. Along with this, Msheireb free public spaces for people to enjoy, WEDNESDAY Downtown Doha – a mixed-used and public transportation systems Maximum Temperature : 410c development in the heart of the that are eff ectively interconnected. Minimum Temperature : 310c ith the opening of the capital – is also emerging as a leading Information and communication THURSDAY Doha Metro, Qatar has downtown regeneration project. technologies are interwoven into Maximum Temperature : 420c taken an important step These initiatives aim to address a the fabric of these solutions, not as Minimum Temperature : 310c toward harnessing smart range of smart city pillars, including ends in themselves, but rather as W Fisherman's forecast technology for the benefi t of the wider smart economy, smart living, and means to meet community needs community. smart environment. and aspirations. Students on our Elsewhere, diff erent issues call study trips brought back a wealth of WARNING The network, which is driverless and Inshore : Nil completely automated, is equipped for diff erent smart solutions. In knowledge and experiential learning. with information systems that enable Japan, for example, there is a dearth The technology is not ‘smart’ in and Offshore : Nil communication between vehicles and of age care providers to serve an of itself, but rather becomes smart Inshore : Hot daytime with slight automated route control. ageing population. One solution through judicious usage and social dust at some places A technologically sophisticated that has been garnering attention interaction. Education and innovation and scattered clouds transportation system is, for many, is the deployment of robotics for are the corner stones of smart cities. by night Offshore : Some clouds at first a defi ning feature of a ‘smart city.’ home care, household maintenance On our study trips, I instil in students becoming fine Transportation, however, is just and emergency management. The my conviction that ‘the world is our WIND one element. Smart cities touch robots emulate human emotions and classroom’, and emphasise to them the Inshore : Northeasterly-North- westerly 05-15/20 KT on all aspects of society, from Chadi Aoun responses and are proving to be a need for thinking globally and acting economy, to environment, housing, useful asset for an ageing population. locally in a rapidly evolving world. Offshrore : Southwesterly-North- education, healthcare and community research institutions are playing a Nonetheless, ‘smart’ solutions Ultimately, each community westerly 03-12/15 KT engagement. In my view, the most crucial part in enabling a smart future do not have to be high-tech. For the should be setting its own vision, Visibility : 4-8 KM important aspect of successful smart through empowering new generations past few years, my colleagues and I at and harnessing knowledge and cities is smart people. to inspire a collective vision and make Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar information systems to achieve Offshore : 1-3/4 FT From that perspective, a smart city it a reality. have organised sustainability trips to it. Each vision will be diff erent according to circumstances, and should enable people to collaborate, Given the upcoming sustainability various global cities for our students. Around the region innovate, and achieve more. It is not challenges, smart city initiatives We travelled to Sydney, Australia, these solutions will extend far beyond Weather enough for technologies to simply do are underway all over the world, in 2017. Among the many initiatives the basics of traffi c fl ow. So, the next Weather tomorrow Max/min things for people. Technologies enable and take diff erent forms depending we studied on that trip was Michael time you are travelling on the Doha today Max/min Sunny 43/24 us, but they should not substitute what on communities’ needs. In Qatar, Mobbs’ townhouse. The townhouse Metro, take note that this is one part Baghdad P Cloudy 42/24 M Sunny 43/31 a community does for itself. 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It aims “to drive the middle of the city! be smart in the choices we make on stakeholders in envisioning and sustainable economic Agenda set In 2018, we travelled to Singapore our collective journey. co-creating a smart future. This goes forward by Qatar’s Vision 2030.” where smart living takes an entirely beyond depending on technology Qatar is also investing in diff erent form. Singapore is a tiny Chadi Aoun is an Associate to solve current problems, to also developing smart city infrastructure country with a large population, and Teaching Professor in Information enable communities to reach new in Lusail, ‘Qatar’s Future City’, with relatively small living spaces. To avoid Systems at Carnegie Mellon University developmental goals. Educational and an estimated capacity of 450,000 claustrophobia, Singapore has large, in Qatar

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Class of 2019 The Class of 2019 graduates. atar Academy Doha night, we come together, on this in your place in the past. I faced nation, dreams do come true. She (QAD), part of Qatar most special of occasions, to hon- challenges, had dreams, and felt concluded by wishing the gradu- QFoundation’s (QF) Pre- our the hard work and dedication what you are feeling now. At that ates a successful future, noting University Education, held a that has resulted in another 100% time, I was waiting for this mo- that they are all part of Qatar’s graduation ceremony recently for graduation rate for our senior ment – for graduation. Life has renaissance. its Class of 2019 at Qatar National class. “The success that has been just begun for you. This year’s valedictorian, Ziad Convention Centre. achieved is undeniably the result “I thank God for giving me the Thamer Khattab, also addressed The event celebrated the grad- of a team eff ort; dedication and ability to be who I am today. And I the audience, saying, “We have uation of 92 students, includ- resolution of our students, but thank those who helped and sup- all achieved things worth being ing 46 Qataris, bringing the to- also from you, our faculty and ported me to stand before you to- proud of — each and every person tal number of QAD alumni up to parents, who have all worked tire- day – my teachers, my family, and on this stage has a place in college, more than 1,000. It was attended lessly to bring our seniors – your my friends.” which is phenomenal. “We’ve also by members of QF’s leadership, children – to this point in their The fi rst Qatari woman to climb endured disappointments, but, in PUE representatives, and QAD academic careers.” Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as the the end, we pushed through them board members, as well as school Sheikha Asma al-Thani, direc- fi rst Qatari to ski to the last degree and we made it here! I think the administrators, faculty, and par- tor, Marketing and Communi- of the North Pole, Sheikha Asma key to that is to be honest with ents. cation at Qatar Olympic Com- stressed the need to persevere and yourself about what you did right, Cory Carson, acting director, mittee, and one of QAD’s former effi ciently manage time in order what you did wrong, take respon- QAD, addressed the graduates in students, addressed the students to achieve goals and ambitions, sibility, and work on improving his welcoming note, saying, “To- at the ceremony, “I have been explaining that, through determi- yourself.” One of the graduates receiving the diploma. QCS Hope Iftar supports QFC hosts Garangao celebrations he Qatar Financial Centre meaningful and impactful way,” mon goal of promoting an in- (QFC), one of the world’s according to Abdulaziz Ahmed, clusive society that respects and Tleading and fastest grow- CSR and Protocol Executive, accepts all of its members,” said people living with cancer ing onshore business and fi - QFC. The event featured a range Yousef Fakhroo, Deputy Direc- nancial centres, has organised a of entertaining and fun activities tor, Public and Government Af- ‘Garangao’ community event in including games, an art work- fairs, ExxonMobil Qatar. atar Cancer Society set of objectives such as: assess view of Ramadan at Msheireb shop, and the screening of a Jenan Zaghmout, Marketing (QCS) hosted Hope Iftar and recognise the unique needs Downtown Doha, the future short fi lm on ExxonMobil’s CSR Offi cer, QICDRC said it takes Qevent as part of psycho- for the patients; help the patients fi nancial district. The initia- campaign for social inclusion. pride in promoting the values social and social support pro- being healthy after treatment; tive comes as part of the QFC’s The fi lm, shot at Qatar land- of volunteering amongst the gramme for people living with provide accurate, up to date can- corporate social responsibil- marks, was produced in part- local community and its staff cancer. cer information; connect them ity (CSR) and social investment nership with Al Shafallah Center members, and continues to par- More than 300 patients, sur- with the available services and strategy ‘United for Good’. for Persons with Disability and ticipate in various initiatives and vivors and their families, as well resources in the community and The event was organised in aimed to create awareness on support non-profi t organisa- as ambassadors of QCS and a help the patients to manage the collaboration with Msheireb the role of the local community tions. The QFC’s CSR and social number of public fi gures attend- physical side eff ects of cancer Properties, ExxonMobil, QFC in accepting and supporting investment strategy ‘United for ed the ceremony at hotel Inter- treatment. Regulatory Authority (QFCRA), children with special needs and Good’ underscores its long-term Continental Doha the City. Hope Adnan Ali, Carrefour repre- Qatar International Court providing them with the oppor- commitment to its ethical, social Iftar was held with support from sentative, praised the eff orts of (QICDRC), Qatar Finance and tunity to live normally, work and and environmental responsibili- Carrefour and in collaboration the Qatar Cancer Society to raise Business Academy (QFBA), and be productive. The cast of the ties, and focuses on two key pil- with National Centre for Cancer awareness of cancer. saw participation from Al Sha- fi lm included children and grad- lars, youth and education and Care and Research (NCCCR) and “We are very proud of all the fallah Center for Persons with uates from Al Shafallah Center. community development, with Sidra Medicine. Dr Khalid bin Jabor al-Thani speaks at the event. good work done by charity or- Disability, the Center for Em- “We are delighted to have this a special focus on encouraging During the event, the survivors ganisations in the country and powerment and Elderly Care – opportunity to share the special fi nancial literacy within the local also shared with the audience the QCS’s mission to prevent cancer Dana Mansour, head of In- by Qatar Cancer Society. Our Ehsan and Best Buddies Qatar. fi lm we produced with Al Sha- community. stories of their amazing battles and control its burden in Qatar dividuals Living with Cancer sponsorship is part of our ini- “Social investment remains fallah Center for Persons with The programme has played an with the disease. by working with its partners to Support Department at QCS, tiatives to raise health awareness a key priority for the QFC and Disability. The fi lm is an ex- instrumental role in driving so- QCS chairman, Dr Khalid bin educate the community and to presented an overview of the and promote the improvement of these Garangao celebrations ample of what can be achieved cially-conscious initiatives that Jabor al-Thani, said that the an- support, empower and advocate department’s programmes. The health conditions of the Qatari provide yet another opportunity when like-minded partners address the long-term needs of nual event is in conjunction with individuals living with cancer. department seeks to achieve a community.” he added. to engage our community in a work together towards a com- the community.

Some of the participants at the event. A view of the QFC Garangao celebration. HIA celebrates fi ve years of operations

From Page 1 ‘SMALL LIE’ by world renowned American artist and designer KAWS and French artist, HIA is also maintaining its ISO/IEC 20000 Jean-Michel Othoniel’s installation of ‘Cos- certifi cation, provided to entities with the mos’. highest global standard for IT Service Man- The art commissioned in the airport is agement. The airport is also amongst few in installed in collaboration with the local mu- the world exploring the potential use of aug- seum authority, Qatar Museums. HIA houses mented reality and virtual reality for various more than 20 permanent art pieces. operations. HIA off ers endless shopping and dining, After only two years of operations, HIA has entertainment nodes, and relaxation fa- joined the chart of the top 10 Best Airports in cilities all housed in one expansive terminal. the World by Skytrax in early 2016. The Doha HIA’s award-winning partner Qatar Duty hub was classifi ed as the fi rst Middle East Free composes of 90 shops, 30 cafes and res- airport to be listed amongst the world’s most taurants, spread out over 40,000sqm of com- advanced airports. bined retail, food and beverage facilities. HIA was then ranked as the ‘6th Best Air- HIA’s passenger terminal complex also port in the World’ in 2017. Last year, HIA boasts 12 lounges across the terminal and an made its way to join the 5 best airports in the airport hotel, featuring a Vitality Well-being world after being ranked ‘5th Best Airport in HIA’s chief operating off icer Engineer Badr & Fitness Centre, responding to the diverse the World’. Mohamed al-Meer. needs of the modern traveller. Recently, HIA was ranked the ‘4th Best Air- Qatar’s fi ve-star airport has received nu- port in the World’ at the Skytrax World Air- tion on its own in the world map for art and merous recognitions from Skytrax World port Awards 2019. HIA has also been named culture. The airport is home to a considerable Airport awards for its state-of-the-art ter- as a fi ve-star airport and was honoured with range of art work that spans across artistic minal and facilities. These include the ‘5th the title of ‘Best Airport in the Middle East’ for media including paintings, sculptures, elec- World’s Best Airport Dining’ and ‘4th Best the fi fth year in a row and ‘Best Staff Service in tronic and interactive installations from both Airport Shopping’ in 2018. HIA has also been the Middle East’ for the fourth year in a row in local and internationally renowned artists. named ‘9th World’s Cleanest Airport’ and the 2019. HIA has established itself as a destina- The airport’s newest installations include world’s ‘3rd Best Airport Leisure Amenities’. HIA has established itself as a destination on its own in the world map for art and culture.