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TUESDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10203 September 6, 2016 Dhul-Hijja 4, 1437 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir meets outgoing Singaporean envoy

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QATAR | Diplomacy step in QF Emir receives message from Indian premier HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday received a written message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pertaining Stadium’s to relations between the two countries and means of developing them. HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani was handed the message as he met with Indian Minister of State for External Aff airsV K Singh, currently progress on a visit to Doha. Page 3 J&P Qatar WLL, Conspel Qatar WLL, ARAB WORLD | Event J& P-Avax S.A. and J&P (Overseas) Ltd have been awarded the contract Celebration as a joint-venture in Darfur HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin he Supreme Committee for De- Hamad al-Thani is to participate livery & Legacy (SC) has an- in the celebration of completing Tnounced the main contractor for the implementation of the Doha Qatar Foundation (QF) Stadium, located Document for Peace in Darfur, in in Education City. An aerial view of QF Stadium: architect’s response to an the invitation of J&P Qatar WLL, Conspel Qatar WLL, impression. President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. J& P-Avax S.A. and J&P (Overseas) Ltd The celebration will take place in have been awarded the contract as a contractor will be fully mobilised on Darfur tomorrow. joint-venture (JV). site, progressing with the schematic HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met with outgoing Singaporean ambassador Wong Kok Bonn at his Scheduled for completion by the end design, fi nishing the foundation works QATAR | Summit Emiri Diwan Off ice yesterday. The Emir wished the ambassador every success in his future assignments and for the bilateral of 2019, the stadium will host fi xtures and securing a substantial portion of the relations further progress and prosperity. The ambassador expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Emir and to off icials in up to the quarter-fi nal stage during the structural steel for the super structure. Saudi-Russia joint the state for the co-operation he received which contributed to the success of his mission. 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament. Earlier this year, during preliminary statement welcomed “Over the next four years we will be works, QF Stadium construction team Qatar yesterday welcomed the working closely with our new partners unearthed samples of “Dukhan rock” results of a meeting held between to ensure we deliver an outstanding, dating back approximately 20mn to Saudi Arabia and Russia on the legacy-orientated stadium at Education 30mn years during an excavation of sidelines of the G20 summit to City that will serve the community long 1.37mn cu m. discuss oil production and prices. after the last ball is kicked,” said Hassan “As we dug down deeper on site, we The two countries released a joint Qatargas signs new sale and al-Thawadi, secretary general, SC. came across interesting and distinct statement after the meeting and The project is being delivered in con- colour bandings on the rock forma- said they would co-operate to junction with Astad Project Manage- tions,” recalled Eid al-Qahtani, project contain the excess volatility in the ment, a wholly-owned Qatari company, manager, SC. oil market. Business Page 1 which looks after project and construc- “We discovered that the rocks in purchase deal with Centrica question originated under water, form- tion management and construction su- TURKEY | Plan pervision. ing a layer known as the middle-Eocene atargas, the largest producer of strong relationship with customers, “This signing demonstrates the epoch. This is a remarkable fi nd for a Erdogan proposes liquefi ed natural gas (LNG) in and our position as the leading sup- progress being made as we head towards stadium construction site, as usually Syria no-fl y zone Qthe world with an annual pro- plier of LNG to the UK,” Khalid bin 2022, with fi ve stadiums sites now at this type of rock is only found in deeper Turkish President Recep Tayyip duction capacity of 42mn tonnes per Khalifa al-Thani, chief executive, Qa- main construction stage,” explained en- tunnelling works, conducted by the likes Erdogan said yesterday he annum (MTPA), has entered into a new targas, said. gineer Hilal al-Kuwari, Technical Deliv- of Qatar Rail,” Qahtani added. proposed, to the US and Russia, sale and purchase agreement (SPA) Qatargas has initially entered into ery Offi ce chairman, SC. Revealed in a ceremony in 2014, QF the setting up of a no-fly zone in with Centrica, the largest supplier of a three-year contract with Centrica “The next 12 months will be crucial Stadium design is inspired by complex ge- northern Syria, after Ankara-backed gas to households in the UK. to supply LNG from June 2011. The for the tournament’s progression as we ometrical patterns designed to pay tribute fighters pushed the Islamic State In accordance with the SPA, Qatar- company then inked a further four- prepare another three sites for works, to traditional Islamic architecture. group from the border area. “We gas will deliver up to 2MTPA of LNG and- a-half- year contract, with the with the SC and its partners managing QF Stadium will become the focal are working for this region to be to Centrica - a leading international latest fi ve-year contract extending the eight live construction sites by mid- point for Education City’s sporting fa- declared no-fly zone,” he said at the energy and services company, supply- agreement until December 2023. 2017,” he observed. cilities, as part of the foundation’s mis- G20 meeting in China. ing approximately 28mn customer ac- “Centrica continues to grow its LNG G C Christofi des, CEO of Joannou sion to community development. counts mainly in the UK, Ireland and portfolio, further developing its pres- & Paraskevaides (Overseas) Ltd, who QF’s Education City is home to eight WORLD | Weather North America - until 2023. ence in the global LNG market. I am spoke on behalf of all of those involved branch campuses of some of the world’s The LNG will be supplied from Qa- very pleased that our long-standing in the joint-venture, claimed that QF most prestigious universities, as well Climate change spells targas 4, a joint venture between Qatar supply relationship with the world’s Stadium will be one of Qatar’s most as home-grown educational establish- violent typhoons Petroleum or QP (70%) and Shell (30%), biggest LNG producer will continue,” stunning World Cup venues. ments, student accommodation and China, Taiwan, Japan and the with a production capacity of 7.8MTPA. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi: QP president and according to Iain Conn, Centrica chief The most recent work completed by research and development companies. Koreas will experience more violent Qatargas-chartered Q-Flex and Q- chief executive executive. the CCC/TCC JV in July 2016 included QF was founded in 1995 by HH typhoons under climate change, said Max LNG vessels will deliver the LNG further bulk excavation works of a total Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and researchers yesterday, presenting to the Isle of Grain Terminal, in the UK. volume of 650,000 cu m to formation HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, with a evidence for a recent rise in storm “We are delighted to extend our level, and implementation of a dewater- class of around 30 for Qatar Academy’s intensity caused by ocean warming. strong relationship with Centrica and ing system for the next main-package fi rst year. It is estimated Education the UK. This agreement underscores contractor. City’s community will grow to 50,000 AFGHANISTAN | Violence Qatargas’ reputation as a safe and reli- By the end of 2016, the main-works by 2022. able supplier of LNG,” Saad Sherida al- Third blast aft er 24 Kaabi, QP president and chief execu- die in Kabul carnage tive, and chairman of Qatargas, said. A net capacity of 40,000 spectators A third massive explosion shook This agreement, according to him, central Kabul late yesterday, hours has the potential to positively con- QF Stadium is located within the of how the venues will benefi t Qatar’s after a Taliban double bombing tribute to the UK’s energy security for Hamad Bin Khalifa Sports Complex residents long aft er the tournament, killed at least 24 people and left 91 years to come. (HBKSC) located at the western area with world-class sporting facilities others wounded, in another day “Qatargas is pleased to lengthen of the Education City South campus. available for all, promoting healthy of carnage in the Afghan capital. our existing partnership with Centri- The stadium will have a net capacity living and wellness to all,” said engineer Authorities said they were trying to ca – a partnership which dates back to of 40,000 spectators, which will be Yasir al-Jamal, Technical Department pin down the location of the third 2011. This new agreement reinforces reduced to a net capacity of 25,000 Offi ce vice-chairman, SC. blast. Page 19 Qatargas’ commitment to building a Qatar’s LNG reach Isle of Grain seats aft er the tournament to fulfi l In addition to football, the stadium Education City’s own legacy needs will be able to stage leisure and for world-class multipurpose sports entertainment events such as concerts facilities. and performances with diff erent pitch “Qatar Foundation and its surrounding and seating confi gurations for various G20 warns against slide into protectionism precinct is one of the best examples other sports.

AFP commitments, and with a stumbling At the end of the tightly choreo- Hangzhou at the weekend that Europe Hangzhou, China push for a Syria ceasefi re and Asia’s graphed talks, held in an imposing hall was “close to limits” on its ability to territorial disputes intruding on the in a largely deserted city, Xi produced accept more refugees and urged the agenda. resolutions on combating industrial broader international community not he world’s leading economies “We have agreed... to support the overcapacity and boosting interna- to shirk its responsibilities. spoke out against a return to multilateral trade system and oppose tional cooperation on corporate taxa- Syria, the source of many of those Tprotectionism and defended the protectionism,” said China’s President tion. migrants, was one of the geopolitical is- unfashionable concepts of free trade Xi Jinping after hosting the gathering Leaders also turned to the global sues that swirled around the gathering. and globalisation yesterday, warning in the scenic eastern city of Hangzhou. refugee and migrant crisis, the White The US and Russia tried and failed the listless global economy needs an “G20 leaders all agreed that the House said, calling for “global eff orts in to strike a deal on stemming the vio- urgent reboot. risks and challenges facing the world addressing the root causes and eff ects”, lence in the disastrous fi ve-year con- The G20 summit took place in China economy make it crucial to maintain a including providing support for refu- fl ict, even as a string of bomb attacks as rising populist sentiment puts them peaceful and stable international envi- gees and their host countries. hit across the country, underlining the under pressure to sidestep diffi cult ronment.” EU President Donald Tusk said in urgency of the task. Off icials signing the agreement for QF Stadium’s main contractor award. Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 QATAR

Emir chairs PM meets Afghan security chief meeting of investment council

Experts set to HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic Aff airs and Investment, chaired the Council’s third meeting for 2016 held at the Emiri Diwan attend diabetes yesterday morning. HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani, Vice-President of the Council, attended the meeting along with HE the Prime Minister and Minister leadership of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani the Council’s Executive Member and members of the Council. HE the Minister of Finance Ali HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani met Sherif al-Emadi, the Council’s forum in Doha in Doha yesterday with Afghan National Security Director Mohamed Masoom Stanekzai, and his Secretary-General, told Qatar News accompanying delegation. Talks dealt with a number of issues of mutual interest. Agency (QNA) that the meeting he Ministry of Pub- need to act, spelling out the the political agenda, empha- discussed topics on the agenda lic Health (MoPH) and steps to meet the challenges sise the size of the issue and and took appropriate decisions. Tpartners of Action on in a holistic and co-ordinated establish a co-ordinated ap- The Council also reviewed a Diabetes (AoD), will host Qa- manner and encouraging local proach to tackling the disease,” follow-up item up of its previous tar’s fi rst International Diabe- partners to play their part in she added. resolutions and procedures being tes Leadership Forum on Sep- defeating them. The event will build a frame- Sada meets Japan’s minister implemented, he added. tember 26 and 27. HE the Minister of Public work for cross sector public- The agenda also included the Held under the patron- Health Dr Hanan Mohamed private and public-public last developments with respect age of HE the Prime Minister al-Kuwari, said: “The forum partnerships crucial to success to energy and investment aff airs, and Interior Minister Sheikh presents a unique opportunity in tackling diabetes and will he said. Abdullah bin Nasser bin Kha- for leaders in our country from draw on international experts’ lifa al-Thani, dozens of world- both the government and pri- experience to ensure the suc- leading experts will convene in vate sectors to come together cessful implementation of the Minister conveys Doha. to discuss the huge challenge National Diabetes Strategy. condolences to The forum will address the presented by diabetes to our It will also explore the most challenge of combating diabetes society. A total of 16.7% of the eff ective model for bringing Uzbek leader in Qatar and bring together lead- Qatari population is estimated together ministers and vari- ing diabetes experts and aca- to suff er from the disease. ous organisations interested in HE the Minister of Culture and demics, patient organisations, If we are to signifi cantly re- tackling diabetes by discuss- Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin healthcare professionals and duce this number, it is criti- ing how to co-ordinate activity Nasser al-Ali conveyed the NGOs from around the world cal that all parties from across and ensuring support for the condolences of HH the Emir with leaders from the healthcare diff erent sectors work together implementation of the strat- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani sector, policy makers, and gov- in a cohesive and co-ordinated egy. to Acting President of Uzbekistan, ernment offi cials from Qatar and manner to turn our National The participants will collab- Nigmatilla Yuldashev, as well as the other GCC countries. Diabetes Strategy into reality.” orate on developing a road map the government and the Uzbek The forum organised by Al-Kuwari also stressed the for the successful roll out of people on the death of President MoPH and AoD partners – Ha- eagerness of the Ministry of the strategy to tackle the issue Islam Karimov. mad Medical Corp, Primary Public Health to make use of of diabetes in Qatar that was Healthcare Corp, Qatar Diabe- the best local and international developed by the National Dia- HE the Minister of Energy and Industry Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada met yesterday with tes Association, Novo Nordisk practises to guarantee the suc- betes Committee and launched Japan’s State Minister for Foreign Aff airs Kentaro Sonoura. During the meeting, they discussed and Maersk Oil Qatar, in col- cessful implementation of the last year. ways of further promoting bilateral relations and partnership between the two countries. Japan laboration with its sponsors National Diabetes Strategy Through a series of work- is Qatar’s largest importer of hydrocarbons, while Chubu Electric Power Company of Japan is the Dusty winds – World Diabetes Foundation, and the ambitious health pro- shops, plenary sessions, and largest importer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Qatargas. International Diabetes Federa- grammes associated with it. partnership meetings, they will tion and Qatar Airways, aims to “We are expecting extremely share ideas, inspiration and ex- likely today confront the major health chal- engaging discussions during perience to shape plans for ac- lenges presented by diabetes. the forum around the execu- tionable implementation of the trong winds, dusty condi- The forum is also supported tion of the National Strategy strategy in the coming year. tions and low visibility are by the Qatar Metabolic Insti- plans with input from key dia- The Diabetes Leadership Fo- Sexpected in the country tute which is a multi-institu- betes experts from across the rum will build on lessons from today, the Qatar Met department tional collaboration on meta- globe.” previous leadership forums Avoid overeating during has said. bolic diseases and in particular “We hope that the event held in New York (2007), Mos- Off shore areas, too, are likely diabetes. will highlight the weight of the cow (2008), Beijing (2009), to see strong winds and high seas The two-day forum will health, economic, fi nancial and Mena (Dubai 2010), Copenha- in the early hours today, accord- confi rm the urgency of the social burden of diabetes on gen (2012) and Istanbul (2013). Eid festivities: doctor ing to the weather report. Northwesterly winds blow- ing at a speed of 12-22 knots are ith Eid al-Adha fes- or neighbour during Eid, it is etables, whole grains and lean expected in inshore areas today, Qatar-French ties reviewed tivities starting next important to consume food and meats as well as avoiding salty which may go up to 30 knots in Wweek, Hamad Medi- drinks in moderation so one can foods and sugary and/or caf- some places at times and decrease cal Corp (HMC) has cautioned enjoy the festivities rather than feinated drinks. by the evening. In off shore areas, people against over indulging spending it in an emergency People also have to avoid northwesterly winds will blow at a in food and drink to prevent room,” Dr al-Nuaimi added. heavy fatty foods, which can speed of 10-20 knots and reach 26 stomach upsets and intestinal “Overindulging can also lead cause gastrointestinal dis- knots towards the north. disorders. to rapid weight gain, which can turbances.When using oil to The sea level may go up to 8ft. “Unfortunately, many peo- in turn cause obesity, a leading prepare food, use only a small Visibility, meanwhile, may ple tend to overload their bod- cause of Type 2 diabetes, hy- amount of olive oil or other drop to 3km or less in some plac- ies with large amounts of un- pertension and back pain.” polyunsaturated fats.They are es at times. healthy food and soft drinks To prevent avoidable ill also advised to avoid refi ned The detailed forecast for in- during Eid celebrations. As a health during the Eid celebra- carbohydrates and sugar such shore areas today also says it will result, we often notice a spike tions and holidays, Dr al-Nuai- as white bread, white rice, be hazy in some places at fi rst, in the number of patients seek- mi has advised people to eat sweets and pastries which can followed by a hot day. ing emergency treatment for healthy food in moderation and cause blood sugar surges and Sheehaniya, Batna and Turay- gastric issues such as nausea, avoid soft drinks. weight gain. na recorded the highest tempera- vomiting, stomach upset and The physician has also cau- According to the doctor, the ture in the country yesterday at indigestion at Hamad General tioned not to skip breakfast, as main meal should be balanced 44C, followed by 43C in Al Rayy- Hospital’s Emergency Depart- this will just lead to overeating with larger portions of vegeta- an, Karana and Ghuwairiyah. ment,” said Dr Saad al-Nuaimi, during the day and keep people bles, fruits and complex carbo- In the capital, the mercury senior consultant, Emergency hydrated throughout the day. hydrates, such as beans, lentils, level reached a high of 42C in the Medicine, HMC. Dr al-Nuaimi suggested that whole grain bread and oats. Doha airport area and 41C in the “Although some people feel it people should choose healthy Similarly, food items Qatar University area. is impolite not to accept sweets options with small portions of should be stored properly in The maximum temperature or meals which may be off ered low-calorie, nutrient-dense the refrigerator or as directed today is expected to be 42C in while visiting a relative, friend foods such as fruits, veg- on the food label. Doha, Mesaieed and Wakrah. Medical college welcomes

HE Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti (above) and HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi (below) yesterday met French Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl. Talks during the two meetings dealt 10 new faculty members with a number of issues of common interest between the two countries.

he College of Medicine formation about QU’s vision, (CMED) at Qatar Uni- strategy, programmes, and the Tversity (QU) conducted a numerous resources that will two-day orientation event for 10 support them to continuously new faculty members. enhance the quality of their The new faculty members work as well as their life in Qa- including Qataris, come from tar. medical schools in Australia, A workshop on faculty de- Canada, Egypt, Qatar, UAE and velopment “Learning, Teach- UK. ing, and Assessment” will also Faculty onboarding sessions be organised today to introduce aimed to give new faculty the Prof Egon Toft addressing the faculty. faculty to various aspects related opportunity to learn more about to the curriculum and academics QU Health Cluster, to meet their and CMED dean Prof Egon Toft search agenda, groups and plat- life at CMED. colleagues, and to get introduced said: “The faculty are at the core forms; external outreach and In addition, this activity will to various aspects related to of everything we do. A company identity; education technology; allow faculty to network within CMED including external out- may be valued by its products, and QU Library. their new collegial environment look, teaching philosophy as well premises, profi t, fi nancial capi- They were given an oppor- from day one of joining the med- as research programmes. tal, etc., but in higher education, tunity to visit the Biomedical ical college. The event attracted all 10 new our value is refl ected by what Research Centre and CMED re- The workshop will engage faculty members in addition to happens in the brains of our search laboratories that aim to faculty in the curriculum de- seven clinical faculty (members faculty members and the teach- provide progressive and cutting- sign and structure, and will help of healthcare organisations in ing and research that result. edge research on health-related them recognise the diff erent Qatar which have a clinical fac- We as administrators are here issues. learning and teaching strategies ulty affi liation with the College) to serve you. Our work revolves A university-level academic used at CMED, understand the as well as a number of new fac- around yours, not the other way orientation for new faculty (Ya students’ assessment system, ulty from other colleges from the around.” Hala) was organised yesterday and receive information on vari- Cluster (Pharmacy and Health On Sunday, faculty members to initiate the new comers into ous aspects related to govern- Sciences). attended a number of sessions QU’s work environment and to ance and academic committees QU VP for Medical Education on QU Health Cluster and its re- provide them with valuable in- at CMED. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 3 QATAR

Qatar investments in France stands Message from Indian PM at $22bn, says Qatar and France French minister France is currently the second destination for public and private Qatari investments, which amounts to more than $22bn, French ink pacts for training Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl has said. Speaking at the ‘3rd Investment Majiles’, organised yesterday by the Qatari Businessmen in health, education Association (QBA), in co- operation with the French By Peter Alagos embassy in Doha, Fekl Business Reporter described as “impressive” the economic ties between Qatar and France, which he said atar and France have signed “have increased quickly.” three agreements for the train- “Over the last five years, our Qing of Qatar-based experts bilateral trade has doubled; HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday received a written in the fi elds of health and education 120 French companies are message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pertaining to relations during the ‘3rd Investment Majiles’, currently working in Qatar between the two countries and means of developing them. HE the Foreign organised yesterday by the Qatari and 5,000 French citizens live Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani was handed the message Businessmen Association (QBA), in in your country,” he said. as he met yesterday with Indian Minister of State for External Aff airs V K Singh, co-operation with the French em- Citing the joint investment currently on a visit to Doha. HE the Minister of State for Foreign Aff airs Sultan bassy. fund established in 2014 bin Saad al-Muraikhi also met with Singh. A number of ranking off icials at the Letters of intent were signed be- between Qatar Holding and Ministry of Foreign Aff airs attended the meeting. tween Qatar University president Dr CDC International Capital, Hassan al-Derham and Dassault Avia- Fekl said the partnership tion vice president Herve Estubier, and aims to channel investments the Ministry of Public Health’s general to small and medium-sized secretary assistant for Health Aff airs enterprises (SMEs) in France. Offi ce Dr Salih al-Marri, Sanofi country “An important share of these chair and general manager Jean-Paul innovations has been coming Scheuer, and French ambassador Eric from SMEs that are keen to Chevallier. develop partnerships with An agreement on training con- Qatari companies, and I vention was signed between Alstom Off icials from Alstom Transport and HEC Paris in Qatar sign the agreement while encourage the private sector Transport CEO GCC Cluster Thi-Mai (standing, from left) French ambassador Eric Chevallier, French Minister of State of our two countries to work Tran and HEC Paris in Qatar dean M for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl, and QBA chairman Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim in that direction. Laoucine Kerbache. The three agree- al-Thani look on. PICTURE: Nasar T K The minister also said ments were signed in the presence of Qatar could play a role in French Minister of State for Foreign in Qatar, while training with Dassault tive is a great example. Also, this initi- France’s national objective Trade Matthias Fekl and QBA chair- Aviation will be “partly held” in Qatar ative aims at providing a platform and to welcome 100mn tourists man Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim al-Tha- and in France. a think tank to businessmen from both by 2020. As many as 85mn ni. “The agreements involve three im- France and Qatar to exchange ideas and tourists were welcomed in Speaking on the sidelines of the portant French companies, which are expose business and economic oppor- France last year. event, Chevallier said that all of the contributing to the human resources tunities in their respective markets. agreements are centred on education, development within Qatar under the “The support of both our public “aimed at training people from Qatar.” national vision 2030; and we believe sectors has paved the way for this co- Workshop on human traff icking kicks off in Amman today He said Dassault Aviation will sup- that it is a very strong element of our operation. The mutual agreements port training and training costs of engi- relationship,” Chevallier said. and memorandum of understanding A regional training workshop for South-West Asia and the Training Centre in Doha, of victims of human traff icking neers from Qatar University, while Sa- QBA board member Sheikh Ha- have contributed to the fl ow of Qatari on the role of national human Arab region, in co-operation Mu’ayyad Mehyar, said that the of both genders and identify nofi , the Ministry of Public Health, and mad bin Faisal al-Thani said in a investments towards France, which rights institutions in the fight with the Arab Network for training workshop will provide protection gaps. the French embassy will develop a cur- speech that the event aims to in- currently represents more than €20bn. against human traff icking will National Human Rights a forum for discussion and He added that the workshop riculum for doctors and health workers troduce new business opportuni- Also, France comes in the fi fth position kick off in Amman today. Institutions in Doha and the dialogue between national will promote a common in Qatar on infectious diseases, in co- ties and strategies for attracting for- among exporters to Qatar, where the The workshop is being National Centre for Human human rights institutions in understanding of the operation with Institut Pasteur. eign investment to France. He also volume of trade reached €2bn in 2015,” organised by the Doha-based Rights in Jordan. the Arab region to identify, participants who represent Alstom Transport will sup- noted that the meeting will “further Sheikh Hamad said. UN Human Rights Training Human rights off icial and exchange and promote good the national human rights port students and curriculum strengthen” bilateral economic ties Chevallier added: “For the moment, and Documentation Centre acting director of the UN practices to protect the rights institutions. within HEC Paris in Qatar, “aimed between Qatar and France. the most important investments from at supporting and developing “This visit comes in line with the Qatar are in the real estate and hotels, education.” will of both business communities to mainly in Paris or the southern part of He said the training by Sanofi and develop mutual business relations, and France. The idea is to diversify invest- Alstom Transport will be conducted the recently launched Qadran initia- ments.

QDA launches fi lms to raise diabetes awareness among schoolchildren

By Ayman Adly monitor school canteens Staff Reporter to ensure that only healthy meals are provided to stu- dents and special care is af- atar Diabetes Associa- forded to those with diabetes. tion (QDA), in collabo- Dr al-Saadi said a survey Qration with Oryx GTL, conducted last year across all has launched a series of 12 schools in Qatar – both pub- animated fi lms in English and Representatives of entities involved in the diabetes lic and private – revealed that Arabic for schoolchildren on initiative. PICTURE: Noushad Thekkayil there were around 680 stu- the subject of diabetes. dents suff ering from Type 1 The short educational academically and socially. launched the ‘Rights of the and Type 2 diabetes, out of an videos will serve as a tool for The fi lms will also be cir- Diabetic Student’ initiative in estimated 260,000 students. both children and adults to culated via social networks 2005. “This is a very high rate. raise awareness about dia- and cinemas for all members Dr Abdulaziz Ali al-Saadi, The reasonable rate should betes and provide an insight of the community. director of health and safety at be within 10 for every into how to deal with the Dr Abdullah al-Hamaq, the Ministry of Education and 100,000 students, mean- disease in specifi c ways. executive director, QDA, said: Higher Education, stressed ing that we should not have The fi lms will be circu- “QDA believes in the impor- that the newly introduced more than 26 students with lated in schools to high- tance of ensuring the rights of department of health and diabetes in our schools.” light the needs of diabetic all children suff ering from di- safety at the ministry would To address such concerns, students, ensuring that abetes. We work with schools make sure that children with he added, there are plans they benefi t from the same as this represents a formative diabetes got the necessary to increase physical activi- educational experiences stage of life where children are due care. ties in schools and instruct their fellow students enjoy in continuous and close care; Eye on school canteens: children on how to develop in order to achieve success to this end, the association There are plans to strictly healthy eating habits.

Centre for Environmental and Municipal Studies to be set up Katara set to host Eid fest HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi yesterday atara - the Cultural Village is the end of the daily Eid programme issued a ministerial decision establishing the all set to host annual Eid al- with brilliant showers of colourful Centre for Environmental and Municipal Studies at KAdha festival. The four-day lights on Katara Beach at 10:15pm. the ministry. event will include several shows Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al-Sulai- The centre will prepare ministry’s staff to and activities on the Katara espla- ti, general manager, Katara, said, undertake diff erent types of environmental and nade, designed to attract specta- “Katara continues to off er its local municipal work and help in developing their tors from Qatar and the region. and foreign audiences and visitors scientific and practical capabilities. The extravaganza will feature a the best recreational and cultural The centre also aims at enhancing inspectors’ spectacular show inspired by Sin- programmes and experiences. capabilities and skills for the exercise of judicial bad, the fi ctional sailor and hero The Cultural Village has an estab- tasks. It will also organise rehabilitative and from One Thousand and One Nights lished reputation as a renowned educational sessions for the new staff , develop story. The show will be performed hub and fun house”. scientific research in the field of municipal and three times on Eid, starting 7pm. The show will also include sev- environmental work, hold seminars, meetings and The second performance will be at eral other fun displays such as workshops and issue periodicals in the field of 8:15pm. Both the fi rst and second aerobatics, loops, rolls, and other municipal and environmental work. shows will witness giving away ‘Ei- feats of spectacular fl ying. The The decision stipulates that the centre will be deya’, a gift usually given to kids as Sinbad show will conclude with his managed by a director, who will be assigned by the they celebrate Eid. The third show is ship reaching the beach of Doha, minister and assisted by an advisory body, which scheduled at 9:30pm and will be fol- where a new fun journey to search includes members to be selected by the director lowed by dazzling fi reworks marking for the Pearl Island begins. after the approval of the minister.

Ooredoo launches Hala Nepal key Ooredoo has launched the Hala Nepal Telecom and Ncell, for 20Dhs per minute. QR1 a week, and can be activated by key, which will enable customers to make Without a subscription to the key, sending the SMS ‘NK’ to 121 or by dialling all calls to Nepal at 20Dhs per minute. Ooredoo customers calling Nepal would *121#, as well as via the Ooredoo App. The The Nepal key enables all subscribers to be charged at the standard rate of 99Dhs Nepal key will renew automatically every call any network in Nepal, including Nepal per minute. The Hala Nepal key costs week. Gulf Times 4 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 QATAR

Elan Media exclusive media representative for Mall of Qatar QR16mn Elan Media has announced it has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership that makes it the exclusive media representative for the Mall of Qatar. Under the new partnership agreement, access road Elan Media will “manage and drive the full range of Mall of Qatar’s media portfolio while delivering a wealth of tailored creative advertising strategies”, according to a press statement. to treatment Elan Media is the media arm of Elan Group. As a part of its strategy, Elan Media will expand its portfolio of “high-value and high-impact” advertising assets and plant opens introduce “cutting-edge” digital advertising technology. It will also unveil two “new iconic” sites, the statement notes. he QR16mn access road to part of the project in addition to Elan Media will create a personalised the Umm Birkah Package telecommunications and Kah- media mix across a spectrum of Mall of Elan Media will manage and drive the full range of Mall of Qatar’s media portfolio. TTreatment Plant (PTP), ramaa connections and prepar- Qatar’s media channels. The idea behind has been opened for traffi c. ing designated areas for future this creative approach is to leverage the clients and tenants, but also further of being not just another shopping mall service to our clients and partners. The project aims at providing public services. mall’s advertising with the “optimal reach enhance the shopping and entertainment in Doha.” “In particular, the super-sized 72sqm a direct link between the PTP Ashghal implemented the and positioning that will resonate with experience for our visitors and provide a Jamie Ball, COO at Elan Media, noted: digital screens and the digital pillars and the main road from Al Khor Umm Birkah PTP project - with visitors”. rich media landscape for a wide array of “This agreement with Mall of Qatar in the food court area will off er a to Ras Laff an Industrial City a capacity of 10,000 cu m per day Rony Mourani, general manager for businesses to showcase their products underscores the solid reputation and spectacular creative experience. It is through the 2km road, having - as part of its plan to stop sew- Mall of Qatar, said: “This initiative with and services. the trust that Elan Media has earned in an exciting opportunity and we are two lanes in each direction. age transportation with tankers Elan Media will not only elevate the “We are confident that the alliance with the media and advertising industry by looking forward to seeing the first The road has entrances con- to the liquid waste lagoon facility advertising impact for our portfolio of Elan Media will help drive our mandate continuously delivering an excellent advertisements running in the mall.” necting it to Ras Laff an main at Al Karaana completely. road, and ends with a rounda- The plan also included con- bout with three exits serving the struction of infrastructure to treatment plant gates. receive sewage tankers at the ex- The project also included isting and new treatment plants Suriyani food festival begins at Palm Grove constructing six concrete tun- besides sewage from areas that nels to protect Qatar Petro- were not connected to sewers A Suriyani food festival has leum’s gas pipes in the area and until the completion of drainage been inaugurated at Palm three tunnels for storm water projects in these areas. Grove Restaurant by Indian pipes, in addition to road pave- The treated water from the Business and Professional ment works. Umm Birkah plant will help in Network president K M Street lighting, signage and all irrigation purposes for the Al Varghese in the presence of safety requirement were done as Rakia fodder farm. Palm Grove’s chef Binoy and manager Roby Joseph. The traditional Suriyani dishes are popular in Kottayam and Ernakulam districts of the south Indian state of Kerala. The dishes include pidi – chicken curry, chicken piralan, appam – stew, chicken thoran, erachi roast, erachi – kaya curry, and erachi puttu. The festival ends along with Ona Sadhya on September 14. The special dishes are available daily from 6pm to 10pm at Palm Grove’s B Ring road (near Capital Police Station Signal) outlet and the New Indian Supermarket outlet on Airport Road. A section of the new road to the Umm Birkah treatment plant. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 5

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Al-Hoota cave reopens Iran shuts Fighting in Yemen 800 shops for selling oil region kills 26 ‘odd’ coats AFP AFP “Pro-government forces launched a mili- left dozens wounded”, the source said. Tehran Aden tary operation today to retake Sarwah,” a Ten pro-government soldiers were killed loyalist military source said of the only part and 12 wounded in the fi ghting, he added. of Marib province still held by the rebels who Loyalist forces recaptured hills overlook- ranian police said they t least 26 fi ghters were killed in clash- have controlled nearby Sanaa since Septem- ing Sarwah, military sources said. had closed more than es yesterday between pro-govern- ber 2014. Marib province has seen fi erce battles be- I800 clothes shops to Ament troops and rebels over control Clashes and air raids by the Saudi-led tween forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu stop them selling “uncon- of an oil-rich region east of the Yemeni capi- coalition backing Yemen’s internationally Mansour Hadi and Shia Houthi rebels and ventional” women’s coats, tal, military sources said. recognised government “killed 16 rebels and their allies. state media reported yes- If they controlled Marib, loyalist forces terday. Arab League chief backs Yemen’s legitimate govt could advance from the east towards Sanaa. A further 3,000 shops have A Saudi-led coalition which intervened been sent warnings, the Irna Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul- of Houthi group and Saleh of the formation in March last year against the Iran-backed news agency reported. Gheit has expressed full support for Yemen’s of the so-called “supreme political council” rebels has forces based in Marib to support A new fashion for women’s the loyalists. legitimate government, led by President Abd- is an escalatory step that would hamper the coats — known as “man- It has intensifi ed operations since the Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and its eff orts to resume eff orts made to establish the desired political teaux” in Iran — with English suspension in early August of UN-brokered the peace consultations under the auspices of settlement in Yemen. He called on Houthi phrases printed on the back peace talks. the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General group and Saleh to desist forthwith from had attracted the attention of for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. taking any escalation procedures, abide by The United Arab Emirates, which plays a key role in coalition operations, said yes- the authorities, who passed In a statement issued yesterday, Aboul-Gheit the cessation of hostilities and to respect the new regulations in July. strongly criticised the stances of Houthi group agreed terms of reference of negotiations terday one of its soldiers had been killed in Yemen, in an armed forces statement pub- The coats in question tend and ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh which are represented by the GCC initiative to have nonsensical phrases and what they did by escalating the military and its executive mechanisms, the outputs of lished by the offi cial WAM news agency. such as “Keep Calm I’m the operations in Sanaa, Taiz and on the border the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference and The Yemeni government’s sabanew.net Queen” written on them, but with Saudi Arabia. He said that the declaration the relevant Security Council resolutions. said the Emirati soldier was killed during the Marib operation. they also have short arms and A general view shows rock formations in the al-Hoota natural no buttons in the front. cave after it re-opened to the public for the first time in three Under Iranian law, wom- years near the ancient city of Jizwa in Oman’s northern en must wear a manteau, or Dakhiliya region yesterday. The cave is 4.5km long, 500m of similar item, that loosely which is open to the public. covers the whole body from UK, Iran name fi rst envoys in fi ve years the neck down to the knee.

AFP that led to last year’s nuclear ac- Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sy saw a mob rampage for hours Tehran cord and the lifting of interna- said in a statement, referring to through the compound. tional sanctions. the ongoing detention of dual The incident followed a vote Dubai airport passenger traffi c hits record Britain appointed Nicholas nationals in Iran. by lawmakers to expel Britain’s ran and Britain appointed Hopton – the current charge “I hope this will mark the ambassador and reduce trade Reuters ties with the rest of the Mid- of this year, passenger traffi c rose new ambassadors to each d’aff airs in Tehran – as its fi rst start of more productive co-op- relations in retaliation for nu- Dubai dle East, Asia and other regions 7.0% to 48.12mn. Iother’s countries yesterday ambassador to Iran since rela- eration between our countries, clear-related sanctions, but the of the world are fuelling traffi c Freight handled by Dubai In- for the fi rst time since a mob tions were severed following the enabling us to discuss more violence was later condemned growth at Dubai’s airport ternational shrank 1.2% in July ransacked the British embassy storming of the embassy by stu- directly issues such as human by Iran’s supreme leader and assenger traffi c through Du- July’s sharp rise was partly due to 203,153 tonnes, but in the fi rst in Tehran in 2011. dents in fi ve years ago. rights and Iran’s role in the re- other politicians. bai International Airport, to the timing of the Islamic holy seven months of 2016 it rose Hamid Baeidinejad, 53, was “The upgrade in diplomatic gion, as well as ongoing imple- The British embassy was reo- Pthe world’s busiest for inter- month of Ramadan, which nor- 3.2% to 1.49mn tonnes. named as Tehran’s envoy to relations gives us the opportu- mentation of the nuclear deal pened in August 2015, a month national travel, jumped 14% from a mally reduces business travel in Only some of Dubai’s air London, ISNA state news agen- nity to develop our discussions and the expansion of the trading after the signing of the nuclear year earlier to a monthly record of the region. Most of Ramadan oc- freight passes through Dubai cy reported. on a range of issues, including relationship between both our accord, during a visit by John- 7.62mn people in July, the airport’s curred during June this year, but International as another facility, He played a crucial role in the our consular cases about which countries,” said Johnson. son’s predecessor Philip Ham- operator said yesterday. it extended into July last year. Dubai World Central, handles negotiations with world powers I am deeply concerned,” British The 2011 attack on the embas- mond. Growing tourism and trade During the fi rst seven months pure cargo operations. Gulf Times 6 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 ARAB WORLD Abbas accepts Russia plan to meet Israeli PM: envoy

AFP They “discussed Presi- Ramallah, Palestinian Territories dent Putin’s proposal to host a face-to-face meeting be- tween the prime minister and alestinian President president Abbas in Moscow,” Mahmoud Abbas has Netanyahu’s offi ce said in a Pagreed on a Russian statement. proposal for him to meet Is- “The prime minister pre- raeli Prime Minister Benjamin sented Israel’s position that he Netanyahu as part of a new is always ready to meet with peace push, an offi cial said president Abbas directly and yesterday. without preconditions. Netanyahu has said he is He is therefore reviewing open to such a meeting to- the Russian president’s pro- gether with Russian President posal and the timing of a pos- Vladimir Putin. sible meeting.” But the Palestinians have Bogdanov was expected in questioned Israel’s commit- Ramallah for talks with Pales- ment to the initiative and tinian offi cials today. disagreements have derailed The Palestinian ambas- previous attempts to arrange sador also told Russian news talks. agency Interfax that Bogdanov “We told the Russian side had met Abbas in Jordan three today that president Abbas weeks ago and “received his accepted the Russian ini- agreement to participate in Syrians and security forces gathering at the site of a blast targeting the Arzuna bridge in a government-held area outside the Syrian city of Tartus. A string of bomb attacks hit tiative about the meeting of such a meeting”. across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria, killing several dozen people including at least 35 in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal stronghold of Tartus. Abbas and Netanyahu with The ambassador said the President Putin in Moscow,” Palestinian side “had planned said Abed al-Hafeez Nofal, for the meeting to take place the Palestinian ambassador on September 9.” to Moscow. But he said the talks had “But it is clear for us that been postponed indefi nitely the Israelis are evading the “after Israel’s decision to take requirements of the meet- a pause and have a think about ing,” he told AFP by phone, agreeing.” Deadly blasts rock Syria without providing further Egyptian President Abdel details. Fattah al-Sisi said recently Abbas is currently travel- Putin wanted to host an Is- ling in Poland and his entou- raeli-Palestinian summit to rage could not immediately be revive peace talks. reached for comment. Abbas’s offi ce has said pre- Netanyahu earlier yesterday viously that the Palestinians as US-Russia talks stall discussed the proposal with are ready to participate in any Putin’s Middle East envoy peace initiative aimed at a AFP the coastal province of Tartus, a rubble strewn on the streets and The operation — dubbed al that has failed to materialise in Mikhail Bogdanov in Jerusa- “comprehensive and fair solu- Damascus stronghold of President Bashar smoke rising from the charred “Euphrates Shield” — pushed the past. lem. tion”. al-Assad’s government. remains of vehicles. further into IS territory yester- Washington backs the upris- The bombings hit the Arzuna Another attack hit the Al- day and captured another fi ve ing against Assad, but is working ombings claimed by the bridge outside the provincial Sabura road west of the capi- villages, the Observatory said. with his key ally Moscow on how Islamic State group killed capital of Tartus city, killing at tal Damascus, with state media Turkey began an operation in- to stem the bloodshed. Bdozens in mainly govern- least 35 people and wounding 43, saying one person was killed and side Syria on August 24, target- Hopes had been raised that a ment-controlled areas of Syria state media said. three wounded. ing both IS and Syrian Kurdish deal would be announced over UN-brokered Libya yesterday, as Washington and Tartus has been largely The Syrian Observatory for forces that have been a key US the weekend, but US offi cials Moscow failed to agree a deal to spared the worst violence of Human Rights, a Britain-based partner in fi ghting the militant said it fl oundered after Russia stem the violence. Syria’s conflict since it began monitoring group, said that at- group in Syria. backtracked. talks begin in Tunis The blasts killed at least 48 with anti-government pro- tack targeted a checkpoint and The operation has put Wash- Despite this, Obama said yes- people and wounded dozens a tests, and has become a refuge killed three people. ington in an awkward position, terday a meeting with Putin on day after IS lost the last stretch for many Syrians fleeing the The IS-affi liated Amaq agen- with two key allies at times Syria had included “productive AFP impose its legitimacy across of the Syria-Turkey border un- fighting. cy carried a statement saying clashing. conversations about what a real Tunis the North African nation and der its control. In the northeastern city of the militant group was behind a A State Department spokes- cessation of hostilities would facing rejection by Libya’s In China, where world pow- Hasakeh, mostly controlled by “string of simultaneous suicide man said yesterday Washing- look like”. parliament. ers were gathered for the G20 Kurdish forces, a bomber on a attacks”. ton’s envoy to the US-led coali- Putin said he felt there was ibyan politicians began The internationally recog- meeting, US President Barack motorbike killed six members of Syria expert Thomas Pierret tion against IS was in Syria and “some alignment of positions yesterday two days of nised legislature has repeat- Obama and Russian counterpart the Kurdish security forces and said the attacks were part of Turkey last week for talks with and an understanding of what LUN-brokered talks in edly refused to give the GNA Vladimir Putin touted “produc- two civilians. a new IS “strategy to ‘seduce’ Syrian Kurdish forces and Turk- we could do to de-escalate the Tunis to discuss power strug- the vote of confi dence it needs tive” talks and “some align- In central Homs city, the tar- rebels by demonstrating IS’s ca- ish offi cials. situation in Syria”. gles and militant threats that in order to formally take offi ce. ment” on Syria. get was the Al-Zahraa neigh- pacity to strike the regime”. Washington has urged Kurd- He said a deal could be fi rmed are undermining stability in On August 22, it again voted But the two powers failed to bourhood, whose residents are “IS also wants to whip up sec- ish forces to honour a pledge to up in the “coming days” but re- the oil-rich country. no confi dence in the GNA and produce an expected deal to mostly from the same Alawite tarian tensions for its benefi t withdraw east of the Euphrates fused to elaborate, saying that The members of the Liby- gave a nine-member presi- ease the violence in Syria, where sect as Assad and have regularly and is counting on more of these river to allay Turkish fears of a US and Russian offi cials are still an Political Dialogue signed dential council headed by Sar- more than 290,000 people have been targeted. events to mobilise its supporters contiguous semi-autonomous “working out some of our pre- in December 2015 a political raj a “fi nal chance” to propose been killed and more than half Four people were killed there in these regions,” he said. Kurdish zone in Syria. liminary agreements”. agreement that established a new cabinet. the population displaced since in a car bombing that hit a The latest violence came a day Turkey’s President Recep US Secretary of State John the UN-backed Government Yesterday’s talks also come March 2011. checkpoint at the district’s en- after Turkish forces and allied Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday Kerry and his Russian counter- of National Accord (GNA). as forces loyal to the GNA were The latest carnage came in a trance. rebels seized the last part of the he was working with Russia and part Sergei Lavrov are expected But nine months on, the facing stiff resistance from Is- wave of blasts, the deadliest of State television broadcast im- Turkish-Syrian border under IS the US to have northern Syria to continue the talks in the com- GNA led by Fayez al-Sarraj lamic State group holdouts in which was a double bombing in ages of the aftermath, showing control. declared a no-fl y zone, a propos- ing days. is still struggling to fully the coastal city of Sirte.

Libya air academy turned base in battle against IS

AFP Rajab Abdaraheem says, referring to IS. Staff members of the Libyan Air Force next to fighter jets on Misrata, Libya “When I’m up in the air about to hit the tarmac of the Air College, that was turned into an air base an IS target, I feel like I’m defending my for jets targeting the positions of the Islamic State (IS) group in country and the world,” says the 57-year- Sirte as well as in the north-central and north-western Libya. ellow-and-blue fi ghter jets sit old pilot who has been fl ying since he neatly lined up on the tarmac at graduated in 1982. Ythe air force academy in Libya’s Since it opened in 1975, more than 30 Misrata, no longer awaiting students classes of around 1,000 trainee pilots but orders for strikes against the Islamic have graduated from the academy. State group. The school trained offi cers from Libya The military college has been trans- and other countries in the Arab world formed into a major base in the battle until the 2011 uprising that toppled against the militants since they gained and killed longtime dictator Muammar ground in the country in the turmoil that Gaddafi . followed the 2011 uprising. The academy saw heavy fi ghting be- For a year and half its planes – fl own tween the rebels and fi ghters loyal to mainly by former instructors in their 40s Gaddafi and was damaged in Nato strikes and 50s – have been carrying out strikes backing the opposition who retook the against IS, and for several months they area. have been targeting what was their main The door of the main maintenance stronghold in North Africa. hangar at the academy is still peppered IS took over Sirte some 250km (150 with bullet holes. miles) east of Misrata in June last year, After 2011 “we renovated the facilities sparking fears the militants would use but when the situation in Libya didn’t the Mediterranean city as a launchpad stabilise the academy became a (military) for attacks in Europe. base,” says Brigadier-General Abderah- Forces loyal to the UN-backed govern- man Mohamed. ment this June fought their way into Sirte Offi cers – most of whom had gradu- and have since pushed back IS fi ghters ated for the academy in the 1980s and into one last district of the city. 1990s – transformed the college’s train- At the air force academy in Misrata, ing aircraft into warplanes, equipping two pilots board a fi ghter jet don their them with rockets and missiles, they say. helmets and wait for the signal to fl y off The aircraft date mainly from the on a reconnaissance mission of IS tar- Gaddafi era and include some two doz- gets. en ageing jets including Russian-made “We know this terrorist organisation MiG-23s, Yugoslav Soko G-2 Galebs and operates worldwide,” Brigadier-General Czech L-39s, as well as helicopters.

Gulf Times 8 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 AFRICA Unrest in Poll case Gabon’s Ping calls Ethiopia hits aid to is rejected for general strike children by court in Thomson Reuters Foundation Nairobi olitical violence in Ethio- Zambia pia has delayed the distri- to ‘topple tyrant’ Pbution of aid to four mil- lion people hit by drought and AFP — soaring unemployment and Gabon is facing civil unrest African Union job and served able option as they question the been gunshots heard in the city fl oods, including malnourished Lusaka infl ation rising to over 20%. over the poll results as foreign minister, has already courts impartiality. overnight. children, the UN said yesterday. Following the election on vowed to challenge the result. They say fraud was rampant, “The refi nery remains closed. Protests over disputed provin- August 11, Lungu told Zam- AFP “We cannot accept that our notably in the Bongo fi efdom of The teams working round- cial boundaries and allegations ambia’s constitutional bians that the new government Libreville people will be killed like animals Haut-Ogooue in the east. the-clock are only there to en- of rights violations have riven court yesterday threw would tackle the country’s without reacting,” Ping said on It is one of the country’s nine sure security,” said an offi cial Ethiopia’s Amhara province and Zout an attempt by the mounting problems. Facebook.”I propose to cease provinces and turnout there, at Sogara, Gabon’s sole refi nery Oromiya province. defeated presidential candi- “For the next fi ve years, it abon’s failed presiden- all activity and begin a general according to offi cial fi gures, jointly owned by the govern- “The situation in Oromiya and date to annul August’s election will be total work, there will be tial candidate Jean Ping strike. crossed 99% with 95% voting ment and a clutch of major in- Amhara has slowed down dis- results, clearing the way for no honeymoon,” he told sup- Gyesterday called for a “We must use all means of re- for the president. ternational fi rms. patches of targeted supplemen- president Edgar Lungu’s inau- porters at a rally shortly after general strike after days of vio- sistance to topple this tyrant and The violence after the an- The troubles have also caused tary feeding commodities from guration next week. the results were announced. lence following incumbent Ali believe me, he is on the verge of nouncement of the results on prices to rocket. the main warehouse in Nazareth, Hakainde Hichilema, who Zambia, in contrast to Bongo’s disputed re-election, falling,” Ping added. Wednesday has sparked inter- “Four chillies now cost 1,000 Oromiya,” the UN lost the election by 100,000 neighbours like Angola and saying an economic blockage Bongo was declared victori- national concern with top dip- CFA francs ($1.6) against 200 Offi ce for the Coordination of votes, alleged that the result Zimbabwe, has escaped war would “topple the tyrant”. ous by a razor-thin margin of lomats calling for restraint as to 300 CFA francs earlier,” said Humanitarian Aff airs (OCHA) was rigged and launched a le- and serious upheaval in recent But the centre of the capital just under 6,000 votes, but Ping rights groups raised alarm over Andre, a resident from Lalala- said in its latest update. gal bid to stop Lungu retaining decades. Libreville was its usual bustling has insisted the vote was rigged the use of excessive force. a-gauche, a working class area “The situation also aff ects power. It last held a peaceful trans- self yesterday, despite Ping’s and on Friday claimed victory At least seven people have in Libreville. dispatches and distributions in Zambia is known for its rela- fer of power to an opposition appeal for a massive work stop- for himself. died, according to an AFP count, “Things will really start heat- Afar, as a large proportion of the tive stability, but the run-up to party in 2011 when Michael page. He is calling for a recount — and some 800 people have been ing up,” he said, echoing a wide- commodities allocated to the the vote was marked by clashes Sata took offi ce. After being shuttered for days something the Gabonese au- arrested in the capital spread fear in the capital. region are dispatched from the between supporters of Lungu’s over the post-election violence, thorities have so far refused to UN chief Ban Ki-moon spoke “This is the lull before the WFP (World Food Programme) Patriotic Front (PF) and Hich- “We wish to tell the nation banks and shops were re-opened do. to both Bongo and Ping on Sun- storm,” said a fruit and veg- warehouse in Kombolcha, Am- ilema’s United Party for Na- that we have rejected the in the seaside city and taxis were Yesterday, the internet was day and “deplored the loss of etable wholesaler, speaking the hara.” tional Development (UPND). court ruling” returning to the streets. accessible after a fi ve-day life”, a UN statement said. central town of Lambarene. Children under fi ve and preg- “There is no petition to be Many shops however off ered blackout but social media net- “He expressed concern about The country had previously nant and nursing women with heard before this court,” said Sata died in 2014, and the only limited provisions as the works remained blocked, ac- the continuing infl ammatory enjoyed relative political stabil- moderate acute malnutrition judge Annie Sitali, ruling that 2015 election gave Lungu the unrest had stalled deliveries. cording to AFP journalists in the messages being disseminated ity, mainly because former colo- receive specialised nutritious a 14-day deadline for the legal right to fi nish Sata’s term. Post-election chaos has capital Libreville. and called for an immediate nial power France helped Omar foods for about six months, or challenge had expired. Hichilema, 54, a wealthy claimed at least seven lives in Meanwhile, speculation end to all acts of violence in the Bongo rule for 41 years. until they return to health. Hichilema had argued for businessman who was making the oil-rich central African na- mounted that Ping could launch country,” it said. After he died in June 2009, Those with life-threatening an extension after legal argu- his fi fth attempt at the presi- tion, ruled by the Bongo family an appeal at the constitutional Tensions remained high in his son Ali won an election but severe acute malnutrition were ments lasted until midnight on dency, said when he voted that since 1967. court for a recount. the economic capital Port- opposition media claimed he not aff ected, the UN said, as Friday. he would only accept the elec- Bongo’s rival Ping, a veteran However many of his sup- Gentil. had essentially been installed by there were suffi cient stocks in He attended court yester- tion result if it was “free, fair diplomat who has held a top porters feel this is not a vi- A Total worker said there had France. health posts. day, along with hundreds of and transparent”. supporters gathered outside. On the campaign trail, the “We wish to tell the nation British-educated economist that we have rejected the court emphasised his business cre- ruling,” his UPND party said in dentials as an asset to turning statement later. around the weakening econo- The offi cial results put Lun- my. gu narrowly ahead on 50.35% Known as “HH”, he has ma- ANC factions face off in Jo’burg jor investments in ranching, against 47.63% for Hichilema among a fi eld of nine candi- property and healthcare in AFP doesn’t promote corruption.” dates — just enough to avoid a Zambia. Johannesburg Zuma, 74, who was jailed on second-round run-off . The country, a British col- Robben Island with Nelson Man- Lungu, 59, will be sworn in ony until 1964, recorded GDP dela during apartheid, retains on September 13, the govern- growth of 3.6% last year — its ctivists from rival factions strong loyalty within the party ment announced. slowest rate since 1998. of South Africa’s ruling especially in rural areas, but he He fi rst took offi ce last year Election day last month was AANC faced off in Johan- could step down before the next after beating Hichilema in a peaceful, and there was little nesburg yesterday, highlight- presidential election in 2019. snap election, and has since of the feared violence during ing deep divisions in the party “I’m here to defend my presi- faced falling prices for cop- the delayed vote count and as pressure grows on president dent. per — the country’s key export subsequent court hearing. Jacob Zuma. Who’s got the proof that Zuma The ANC, which led the strug- is corrupt? He’s my president gle to end apartheid, has been until the end of his term,” Cecilia rocked by poor results in last Lindiwe Ximba, a Zuma loyalist, month’s local election largely told AFP. blamed on Zuma’s leadership and “They have the right to dem- the country’s mounting econom- onstrate, but they only spread rumours. Third polio ic woes. Police patrolled outside the They must wait until he fi n- ANC’s Luthuli House headquar- ishes his term.” ters in central Johannesburg af- An unemployment rate of 27% ter some party activists vowed and GDP growth at zero % this year have added to Zuma’s trou- case found to occupy the building in protest at how the party and the govern- bles, as frustration builds among ment are being run. poor black communities seeing As about 40 anti-Zuma pro- few improvements since white- testers gathered nearby, other South African ruling party African National Congress president and national executive committee supporters minority rule fell in 1994. In August’s municipal elec- in Nigeria ANC members loyal to the presi- chase disgruntled members demonstrating outside ANC headquarter in Johannesburg, South Africa. dent pledged to defend the build- tions, the ANC lost control of Jo- ing. dressed the crowd briefl y and “There should be no blood- tion against the leadership, hannesburg, the country’s larg- Among those backing Zuma received a petition from the anti- shed. but criticism of Zuma has been est city and its economic centre, were scores of camoufl age-wear- Zuma group. You have defended the or- growing over the last year. as well as the administrative capital Pretoria. state: WHO ing members of the Umkhonto He urged supporters not to re- ganisation, you have defended “We lost (control of some cit- we Sizwe (MK) veterans associa- sort to violence and to allow the Luthuli House. ies in the local elections) because The opposition Democratic tion, the former armed wing of protests “to fi zzle out”. I am appealing to you, com- of the corruption of Jacob Zuma,” Alliance (DA) now runs four AFP the isolated viruses suggests the ANC. “Don’t try to beat them up... rades.” Mary Louw, one frustrated ANC major cities, including tourism Lagos they are most closely linked to Gwede Mantashe, the ANC’s don’t give them publicity,” he The march by the party’s own member, told AFP. hub and legislative capital Cape WPV1 last detected in Borno in infl uential secretary general, ad- said. members was a rare protest ac- “We need a leadership who Town. 2011, indicating the strain has igeria has reported its been circulating without de- third polio case in the tection since that time,” Muc- Nnortheastern state of znik said. Borno, the World Health Or- Polio is a highly infectious ganization (WHO) said yes- viral disease which mainly af- terday, warning more cases fects young children and can Taboos and ancient traditions could appear in a major health result in permanent paralysis. setback. There is no cure and it can Two other polio cases were only be prevented through im- reported in August. munisation. Nigeria was on track to be Nigeria’s outbreak response, help community protect forests certifi ed free of the virus next which includes a large immu- year. nisation campaign, is expected “A third child has been par- to continue until November Thomson Reuters Foundation reduce up to 50%,” Mugo told the Thom- the forest meant they knew which trees livestock should be grazed in the forest.” alyzed by wild poliovirus type and includes the neighbouring Laikipia son Reuters Foundation. had medicinal value and need conserva- Children are trained and taught by their one (WPV1) in Borno state,” areas of Chad, Cameroon and “Since we integrated the community’s tion, could foresee dry spells so water elders to understand the value of individual WHO said in a statement. Niger. indigenous knowledge model of conserv- points could be conserved and used obser- trees for the overall health of the forest, he “It’s all linked to the same Nigerian Health Minister eep within the Mukogodo forest in ing forests into our forest policy.. vation of wildlife — such as bird migration said, and every individual will plant more outbreak,” WHO said, adding: Isaac Adewole warned in Au- central Kenya, a community of tra- there has been little friction or tensions patterns — to warn of drought or danger- than 20 trees during each rainy season “detection of new cases is not gust that the aff ected areas Dditional hunter gatherers are work- with these forest dwellers.” ous weather events. “The community has strong cultural unexpected and can be antici- “have had their health facili- ing with the government to help expand The Kenya Forest Management Act of beliefs and taboos which are viewed as sa- pated, particularly as disease ties destroyed by insurgents” forests and crack down on illegal logging 2007 aimed to integrate communities into “Where this community model is cred,” he said. surveillance is being strength- and “accessibility was a barrier and poaching using ancient conservation forest management but also led to the ab- practiced we have seen cases of “These taboos are a set of rules and ened including by conducting to service provision.” techniques. olition of long-standing traditions such as illegal logging reduce up to 50%” regulations used to bring sanity within the retrospective case searches.” Since taking up arms in The Yiaaku are hailed a model of collab- hunting and logging for charcoal to main- community and anyone who breaks the The three cases appear to 2009, Boko Haram Islam- oration with authorities, using traditional tain the forests and promote tourism. He said the Yiaaku, living northeast of rules brings a curse to the family.” come from the same strain ist militants have captured knowledge to take care of tree and plant It came ahead of Kenya setting a target Nairobi, also acted as fi re fi ghters during Mugo said the Yiaaku are now custo- of the disease circulating in swathes of territory in the cover while adopting new livelihoods such to increase its forest cover to about 10% by the hot season and monitored the health of dians of more than 74,000 acres of for- the northeast for years, said northeast, cutting off health as keeping bees and livestock to protect 2030 from an estimated 7.2% according to seedlings and old trees. est land and their success has also earned Stephanie Mucznik, spokes- services for millions of people. animals from hunting. the Kenya Forest Service (KFS). “We don’t have to fi ght with the author- them security and autonomy. person for Rotary Interna- In the past year, the Nigeri- Kenya Forest Services director, Emilio Yiaaku leaders say their approach to ities anymore as they have acknowledged He said the government had saved “mil- tional, which is working with an military has recorded a se- Mugo, said legislation to allow co-man- protecting the forest from illegal loggers our system as a powerful tool in protection lions of Kenyan shillings” previously spent the Nigerian government to ries of successes against Boko agement of forests was introduced nearly a and trophy hunters has not only helped and conservation of the forest biodiver- on armed personnel to guard forests and eradicate polio. Haram. decade ago but the Yiaaku is the fi rst suc- defuse confl ict with neighbouring com- sity,” Simon Napei, a Yiaaku forest scout, reforesting programs, and the government Mucznik said the latest case But the northeast has been cessful community to do so, with hopes munities but eased past tensions with told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. now hopes to replicate this approach in concerned a two-year-old boy devastated by the fi ghting, this approach can be replicated across government authorities who want to en- “Every activity in the forest is decided 100 other gazetted forests. suff ering from the onset of with the United Nations es- Kenya. sure forests and animals are protected to by a council of elders. “We are targeting communities that are paralysis on August 6 in the timating that this year seven “Where this community model is prac- encourage tourism. During drought seasons a council of well organized and have a common pur- Monguno area. million people are in need of ticed we have seen cases of illegal logging He said the community’s knowledge of elders sits and decides where and when the pose of conserving forests,” he said. “Genetic sequencing of humanitarian assistance. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9 AMERICAS Obama defends In plane sight Kaepernick’s constitutional right to protest

Reuters nick’s sincerity in making the protest they can be part of our democratic Hangzhou, China but acknowledged that it was diffi cult process than people who are just sit- for some to swallow. ting on the sidelines and not paying “I think there are a lot of ways you attention at all”. Obama, speaking at a resident Barack Obama said yes- can do it as a general matter when it news conference, said he had not been Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a model of her new campaign plane at Westchester County terday that San Francisco 49er comes to the fl ag and the national an- following the controversy closely, but Airport in White Plains, New York. Pquarterback Colin Kaepernick them and the meaning that that holds added, “If nothing else what he’s done was exercising his constitutional right for our men and women in uniform and is he’s generated more conversation by not standing during the national those who’ve fought for us. around some topics that need to be anthem, although it might be a “tough That is a tough thing for them to get talked about.” thing” to stomach for people in the past to then hear what his deeper con- “Sometimes it’s messy, but it’s the military or law enforcement. cerns are,” Obama said. way democracy works.” Kaepernick sparked controversy Kaepernick, who led San Francisco In a gesture of solidarity with University of Chicago weighs free last month when he remained seated to the 2013 Super Bowl but has since Kaepernick, American women’s soccer through the traditional rendition of the been demoted to backup, is the latest star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ before a pre- professional athlete to use his celebrity national anthem at a Sunday match, speech vs crackdown on hecklers season game, and has continued with to call attention to the issue of the mis- calling it a deliberate move to support what he says is a protest against racial treatment of minority groups by law Kaepernick. injustice and police brutality. enforcement. Some critics of the player say Reuters battle on US university campuses over lencing black voices, I think it’s im- Many Americans have denounced Over the past two years, a series of Kaepernick, 28, should be punished. New York what constitutes free speech in an ac- portant to make ourselves heard in a the gesture as a sign of disrespect to the police killings of African-Americans in The National Football League has is- ademic environment. way that we cannot be ignored,” said fl ag, although he has drawn support cities across the country have triggered sued a statement saying it encourages When does a student have a right to Mary Blair, a University of Chicago from some people, including some fel- protests and given rise to the Black players to stand during the anthem but isruption of a local prosecu- heckle and shout down someone with sophomore who was part of the Alva- low players. Lives Matter movement. does not require them to do so. tor’s speech at the University an off ensive point of view? Should a rez protest. Speaking in China after a gather- Despite the controversy, Obama said The 49ers have framed the issue in Dof Chicago by hecklers un- school cancel a speech that generates In March, Alvarez lost a primary ing of leaders of 20 leading economies, he would rather have engaged young terms of the right of free expression happy with her handling of a police too much controversy? Does a student election. Her offi ce did not respond to Obama said he did not doubt Kaeper- people “trying to think through how enjoyed by all Americans. shooting may have been the last straw have a right to be warned before at- interview requests. for administrators at one of the coun- tending an academic lecture that may Located in the third-largest US city, try’s most prestigious schools. prove upsetting? the University of Chicago, which dates 2 die as chopper crashes After years of tolerating dissent- On the last question, the Univer- to 1890, is highly ranked academical- ers who shouted down unpopular sity of Chicago came out strongly last ly, lending its name to the “Chicago into Canada power lines speakers on campus, the school is month in favour of giving faculty the School” of economics. Hermine spares East Coast now considering a policy of meting right to decide if and when to warn President Barack Obama, who wo people died and another was in- out suspensions, expulsions or other students whenever lecture material taught law there, has stood up for jured Sunday after a helicopter col- punishment for those it sees as violat- might upset or off end some of them. campuses hosting divisive speakers. Tlided with power lines in eastern Reuters were extending outward by about ing free speech rights. Students, for instance, have been “If you disagree with somebody, Canada, police said. New York 370km, failing to reach US shores. “I think the university is now sig- known to object to lectures on novels bring them in and ask them tough The aircraft, which was carrying only Hermine was forecast to bring up naling that we mean business here,” containing scenes of sexual assault. questions,” Obama told Rutgers Uni- three people, crashed to the ground and to 5cm of rain yesterday to southern said Jerry Coyne, an ecology and evo- In August the dean of students, Jay versity’s commencement in May. then ultimately into a body of water, New tlantic storm Hermine, New England, after having hit land lution professor and an outspoken Ellison, sent a letter to incoming stu- He said students should not “shut Brunswick Royal Canadian Mounted Police which has killed two peo- in Florida on Friday, and churning critic of dissident students who he dents saying that such “trigger warn- your ears off because you’re too frag- spokesman Corporal Dan Smith told AFP. Aple, lurked off the middle of up the southeastern seaboard. says are acting “entitled.” ings” were strictly optional. ile.” “The helicopter collided with some pow- the US East Coast late on Sunday Then it merged with a conven- “What they’re basically saying is, He vowed the university would not Rutgers in New Jersey is one of er lines in what’s known as the Flatlands while threatening to regain hurri- tional weather front, to be reclas- ‘We have the right to harass anybody cancel a talk or presentation no matter many US schools that have cancelled area of New Brunswick” in the province’s cane strength, after having spared sifi ed on Saturday as a post-trop- we don’t like,’” Coyne, who is not a how much controversy it generated or speeches in the face of protests in re- north near the border with Quebec, he said. the region the brunt of its wind, ical cyclone. But Hermine is not member of the faculty committee, how strongly some students objected. cent years. The crash, which occurred around 4pm rain and tidal surge. expected to make landfall again, said about the disrupters. Some students defend their right to In March, hecklers shut down an local time (1900 GMT) in a mostly rural area Forecasters warned swimmers said Robbie Berg, an offi cial of the University rules already bar inter- heckle speakers they consider morally event for Republican presidential sent the plane into the Restigouche River, and boaters to avoid the risk of National Hurricane Center. fering with campus activities, but fac- objectionable. nominee Donald Trump at the Uni- according to public broadcaster CBC. deadly surf churned up by the A tropical storm warning re- ulty and students said they could not They say that authority fi gures such versity of Illinois at Chicago. The lone survivor was taken to a local storm and stay out of treacherous mained in eff ect Sunday night recall them ever being enforced. as the prosecutor who spoke in Febru- At the University of Chicago, the hospital for treatment. waters during the Labor Day holi- from the Delaware and New Jersey The panel is seeking ways to ary at the University of Chicago, Cook chairman of the faculty committee, The RCMP did not provide information day weekend, when many Ameri- shores north to New York’s Long streamline a “cumbersome” student County State’s Attorney Anita Alva- due to make recommendations by De- on the victims’ identities nor the helicop- cans celebrate the end of summer. Island and beyond to Martha’s disciplinary system that dates back to rez, have many opportunities to speak cember 15, said he is keeping an open ter’s origin and destination. Hermine was still packing maxi- Vineyard and Nantucket Island off the era of Vietnam War protests, ac- their minds. mind about how to change the disci- The accident, which occurred near the mum sustained surface winds of Massachusetts, but was cancelled cording to a memo sent to faculty in Alvarez, who took more than a year plinary system. town of Campbellton, knocked out power nearly 113kph late on Sunday, and for New York City, which Berg said June. to charge a white police offi cer who fa- “We’re not opposed to protest. to several thousand residences, Smith said. forecasters said it could intensify appeared largely out of harm’s way. The aim is to protect “freedom of tally shot a black teenager in 2014, has We’re opposed to disruption,” said The Transportation Safety Board of Can- slightly to reach hurricane strength Potential storm-surge inundation expression, inquiry and debate” from drawn harsh criticism in Chicago from Randal Picker, a law professor. “These ada announced that it is sending a team of again, before it starts to dwindle. levels of no more than 30cm to 1m interference, the memo says. Black Lives Matter supporters. are university campuses; there should investigators to the site. But for now, its strongest winds were expected in coastal areas. The proposal is the latest volley in a “In a world that is consistently si- be a lot of activity on them.”

Voyage to fi nal frontier goes on as Star Trek turns 50

By Christian Fahrenbach, DPA of sci-fi , but the idea is scientifi cally New York based and may yet become reality. Star Trek’s optimism could be seen as a counterbalance to the he mission “to boldly go gloomier Star Wars that fi rst ap- where no man has gone be- peared in 1977. Tfore” initially failed to im- Creator Gene Roddenbury had press the critics, but Star Trek, the pacifi st leanings, his son Rod says enduring sci-fi series that made the in the “50 Years of Star Trek” docu- crew of the Starship Enterprise fa- mentary recently broadcast on the mous, turns 50 on Thursday. History Channel. “It won’t work,” Variety said of As a bomber pilot in World War NBC’s new series at its launch on II and later policeman, Rodden- September 8, 1966. berry had seen the best and worst The US broadcaster’s show “was in humanity, “but I think that really an incredible and dreary mess helped shape his view of Star Trek in of confusion and complexities,” that better future,” he said. the influential magazine’s critic Roddenberry, who died in 1991, opined. had expressed the wish for his re- NBC pulled the series in February mains to be sent into space, and 1969 after 79 episodes, citing poor in 1997 some of his ashes were audience fi gures, but global interest launched into orbit in one of the fi rst in space soared after the fi rst moon Actor William Shatner speaks at the ‘Star Trek: Mission New York’ event at such funerals. landing in July that same year and the Javits Center in New York City. The years have taken their toll on further incarnations of Star Trek the cast. followed. of the 1960s, African-American ac- Star Trek was set well in the fu- Leonard Nimoy — Mr Spock, the Over the years the original Star tress Nichelle Nichols was given the ture. science offi cer on the Enterprise — Trek series gathered fans by being role of Lieutenant Uhura, the com- “But at its best it dealt with issues died last year, while Anton Yelchin, aired internationally and through munications offi cer. of the time,” William Shatner, who who played Pavel Chekov in later repeats in the United States. The episode in which Kirk kissed played Kirk, told the newspaper USA Star Trek fi lms, died in June. The fi rst full-length feature fi lm Uhura was not broadcast in some Today in an interview to mark the But the “Trekkie” cult lives on. followed in 1979, although its recep- southern states in the US. 50th anniversary. J J Abrams, the director who re- tion by critics was at best lukewarm. “That was so funny,” Nichols said He highlighted the way the series booted the Star Trek fi lm franchise But today, after six television se- in an interview years later. dealt with the idea of people, na- in 2009, is planning another one. ries with more than 700 episodes “I didn’t think of it as the fi rst tions and planets working together. And a seventh series — Star Trek: and more than a dozen fi lms, Star inter-racial kiss. I just got the script, Shatner was also fascinated by the Discovery — is due for an online Trek is a dazzling international suc- and I said Oh, wow, great! We’re go- technical aspects, saying they often streaming premiere in January. cess story with a cult following. ing to get a little romance in here!” accurately predicted later develop- But Shatner remains dissatisfi ed Its fans love the universe it con- Japanese-American George Takei ments. For example, the “commu- with his declamation of the famous jures up, optimistically revealing a played Sulu, her colleague and the nicators” are clearly reminiscent of opening words: “Space. The fi nal better future society. helmsman of the Enterprise at a smartphones. frontier. These are the voyages of the At the height of the Cold War, time when wartime memories were Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Enterprise.” Captain James T Kirk operated in an still strong. which aired from 1987 to 1994, had “I never quite got it right for my atmosphere of trust with his Russian The series also took on topical is- devices like today’s tablets. ear. Good enough, I suppose, for the navigator Pavel Chekov. sues, such as exploitation of the en- Being “transported” by being people listening. But I wish I could Amid the racial tensions in the US vironment and class diff erences. “beamed up” remains in the realm do that again,” he told USA Today. Gulf Times 10 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 ASEAN

Protest threat as ex-UN chief heads to restive Myanmar state

AFP recommend how her government can to use the word “Rohingya”, instead la- personally but we do not think he health care and other basic services. them to get worse and worse,” she Yangon narrow bitter sectarian divides in the belling them “Bengalis”. knows Rakhine history.” More than 100,000 of the Muslim told reporters. western state. Annan told reporters he intends to The envoy is expected to visit Ro- group live in squalid displacement But for the first few months of her Rakhine has suff ered deadly anti- be impartial in his peace and reconcili- hingya camps and meet Rakhine camps. Their treatment is seen as a tenure in office Suu Kyi tried to avoid uddhist hardliners threatened Muslim violence since 2012 and the ation bid. But Rakhine activists object community groups and officials. black spot on Myanmar’s democratic inflaming Buddhist nationalist sen- yesterday to stage protests Rohingya question remains incendiary to the visit.“Rakhine affairs are local But the region’s largest political progress since Suu Kyi’s elected gov- timent. Bagainst a visit by former UN in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. affairs. We acknowledge Kofi Annan group, the Arakan National Party, has ernment took power in April. In June she ordered officials to re- chief Kofi Annan to Myanmar’s strife- Their plight has also seen Suu Kyi’s and his reputation but we do not ac- already ruled out meeting the former Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, fer to the group only as “Muslims of torn Rakhine state, where tens of thou- reputation as a rights defender tar- cept his interference in our affairs,” UN secretary-general. said yesterday Annan’s nine-member Rakhine State”. sands of stateless Rohingya Muslims nished. said Aung Htay, one of the leaders of The Rohingya are denied citizen- commission could help “heal the But even that order sparked mass languish in displacement camps. Myanmar nationalists insist the the protest group. ship in Myanmar and face severe re- wounds” of sectarian conflict. protests in Rakhine, with local Bud- Aung San Suu Kyi has asked Annan million-strong group are illegal im- “We will protest tomorrow at Sit- strictions on their movements across “We cannot ignore problems.... dhists demanding the government to head an advisory commission to migrants from Bangladesh and refuse twe airport. We respect Kofi Annan Rakhine, as well as curbs in access to ignoring problems will simply allow call them “Bengalis”. Singapore Malaysia abuzz as old foes expects Zika to Mahathir, Anwar join hands spread as cases

AFP Kuala Lumpur surpass 250

itter foes Mahathir Mo- AFP sees high rainfall and humid hamed and his estranged Singapore weather, ideal mosquito- Bprotege Anwar Ibrahim breeding conditions. met for the fi rst time in 18 years Most of the confi rmed yesterday, underscoring shift- he number of cases of Zika cases have been centred ing political alliances caused by the mosquito-borne around the adjacent suburbs a corruption scandal plaguing TZika virus in Singapore of Aljunied and Paya Lebar. Malaysia’s current leader. reached 258 yesterday, with Many of those initially in- Mahathir infl amed social me- health authorities warning it fected were foreign workers on dia with a show of support at a is no longer contained in one a condominium construction court appearance by Anwar, the part of the city-state and likely project, whom health authori- former opposition leader jailed to spread further. ties say are more suspectible last year following a controver- In a joint statement, the because they live and work in sial sodomy conviction — the Ministry of Health and the close proximity. same charge Mahathir hurled at National Environment Agency The health ministry also him in 1998. confi rmed 16 new cases, four said yesterday it would no The face-to-face encounter of which were not linked to ex- longer isolate patients because was the fi rst since their stormy isting cluster areas. of its “limited eff ect”. 1998 rift, Anwar’s wife Wan “Over time, we expect Zika “As more cases emerge, Azizah Wan Ismail said on Face- cases to emerge in more ar- there is evidence that there book. eas given the presence of the is transmission in the com- Images of the political heavy- Aedes mosquitoes here,” the munity with the presence of weights smiling and shaking statement said. infected mosquitoes,” said the hands were shared widely on- Zika is spread by the Aedes health ministry. line, highlighting the politi- mosquito, which also spreads Authorities are working to cal fl ux caused by outrage over dengue fever. control the mosquito popula- scandal-tainted Prime Minister “MOH and the National En- tion, the ministry said, fumi- Najib Razak. vironment Agency (NEA) will gating the aff ected areas and Najib is accused of involve- therefore adjust our strategies checking for breeding sites. ment in looting billions of dol- to manage Zika in the same Those found with mosquito lars in state money. way that we deal with dengue.” larvae in their homes can be He denies the charge and has Despite having one of the fi ned up to Sg$5,000 ($3,700). cracked down in response. Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamed (centre left) meets with jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in a high court in Kuala Lumpur. highest standards of health- Zika virus has been detected Mahathir, who imposed his care in Asia, dengue is endem- in 67 countries and territories will on Malaysia for 22 years as deeply divided the country. whether the two were friendly seen everything,” Eric Paulsen of try and used the powerful rul- ic in tropical Singapore which including hard-hit Brazil. prime minister before retiring Charged with sodomy and again.“I met him and had a long activist group Lawyers for Lib- ing coalition’s deep pockets and in 2003, has led calls for Najib’s corruption, Anwar was jailed six chat with him about what he was erty said in tweeting an image of pervasive control to win recent arrest.Any potential rapproche- years, but emerged to revitalise doing,” he added, while denying the handshake. by-elections. The next general ment between the cagey Ma- the previously ineff ectual oppo- they had “made peace.” It remains to be seen whether election must be held by mid- Too costly for Indonesia to thoroughly test cases hathir and the charismatic An- sition until he was jailed again in Mahathir said he was merely a politically signifi cant detente 2018. war — whose rivalry continues 2015 by Najib’s government. showing support for a legal chal- can be achieved given the bag- However, leading independ- Indonesia can not aff ord over the past week said it to reverberate in Malaysian poli- Mahathir played down yester- lenge launched by Anwar against gage between the two men. ent pollster Ibrahim Suffi an to thoroughly check for a detected more than 240 Zika tics — could be a game-changer. day’s meeting. a draconian new security law The formidable opposition called the handshake “a big deal” possible Zika outbreak, a cases while Malaysia reported Anwar was heir apparent to “I don’t know about friends, rammed through last year by alliance that Anwar forged has and a potentially signifi cant sign health ministry off icial said, its first locally transmitted Mahathir until he was sacked but I know I talked to him,” Ma- Najib. But the encounter quickly crumbled amid infi ghting since that Mahathir was ready to link as Southeast Asia’s most infection on Saturday. in 1998 by his boss over politi- hathir said, chuckling, when re- went viral in politics-obsessed his jailing. Najib, meanwhile, has up with the opposition he once populous country must focus The Philippines confirmed cal diff erences, an episode that porters asked after the encounter Malaysia. “Now I think I have tightened his grip on the coun- fi ercely battled. on fighting dengue, a poten- on Monday its first case of tially fatal virus also carried by Zika this year and said it was mosquitoes. “highly likely” it had been lo- The World Health Organisa- cally transmitted. tion (WHO) lists Indonesia “At the moment we cannot go among Asian countries with out there and test everybody Fire investigators taken hostage, face death threats possible endemic transmission or every suspected case for of, or evidence of, local Zika Zika because it is too costly,” infections, but authorities in Muhamad Subuh, director AFP forcement crisis. A seven-strong team of using fires to illegally clear land, a according to the environment ministry. the sprawling nation of 250mn general for disease preven- Jakarta on Sumatra island, which is afflicted 100-strong gang forced them to delete The case highlights the difficulty people have yet to report any tion and control at Indonesia’s with serious fires during the dry sea- photos and then took them hostage. Indonesia faces in fighting fires that recent infections. health ministry, told Reuters. son every year, were probing why blazes They mob — suspected to be APSL flare annually on Sumatra and the In- Both dengue and Zika are “There are other priorities like ndonesian offi cials investigating forest were burning out of control despite the employees — threatened to beat them, donesian part of Borneo. spread by the Aedes aegypti dengue fever, which is more fi res were taken hostage and threat- government’s attempts to combat them. kill them and dump their bodies in a The blazes are set to clear land for mosquito, which is common prevalent and more danger- Iened with death by a mob allegedly But as they examined a plantation nearby river. palm oil and pulpwood plantations, across Southeast Asia. ous, and we have to allocate linked to a palm oil company, prompt- where a company called Andika Permata They were finally released unharmed shrouding Southeast Asia in toxic Neighbouring Singapore has our resources accordingly.” ing activists yesterday to decry a law en- Sawit Lestari (APSL) was suspected after 12 hours when police intervened, smog.

Seeking smoother summit, Asean to skirt mention of sea ruling

Reuters Its outrage over the verdict has rock the boat by discussing the Vientiane created regional concerns that ruling at this week’s Asean and Beijing might take a tougher line East Asia Summits in Laos. in future disputes. But a few days before the meet- outheast Asian leaders are Soon after the ruling in The ings, the outspoken leader vowed set to avoid references to Hague, the Philippines lobbied to make no concessions towards Sa recent arbitration ruling strongly at an Asean foreign min- China over the ruling, and de- that undermined China’s claims isters’ meeting for the verdict manded that Beijing explain why to the South China Sea, after to be included in the text of the it had increased its boat presence omitting it from a joint state- communique, only for Cambodia, around the disputed Scarborough ment at a summit this week over a China ally, to oppose it. Shoal. which Beijing’s infl uence looms Beijing publicly thanked Sek Wannamethee, a spokes- large. Phnom Penh for its support. man for Thailand’s foreign min- A draft communique of the As- China has been accused of istry, said it was unclear from sociation of South East Asian Na- pressuring some countries in the Senior Offi cials Meetings (SOM) tions (Asean) seen by Reuters yes- consensus-led, 10-nation bloc to if Manila would bring its con- terday listed eight points related stymie what it sees as unfavour- cerns about China to the Laos to the South China Sea, but made able proposals. forum. no mention of a high-profi le July Asean does not include China, “There is no indication at the ruling by the Permanent Court but leaders and senior repre- preparatory Asean SOM yet as of Arbitration, which invalidated sentatives from China, the United to what, if anything, the Philip- Beijing’s territorial claims. States and other regional powers pines would raise at the summit The decision to exclude ref- are attending the Laos summit. regarding the South China Sea,” erence to the ruling represents Experts say that China’s ap- Sek said. a diplomatic victory for China, proach makes it harder for South- The draft communique con- following Asean’s decision at its east Asian states to form a unifi ed tained one new element on the last meeting in July to turn down front to counter Beijing’s assert- South China Sea, welcoming the a US-backed proposal to include iveness over the strategic water- adoption of emergency hotlines the landmark ruling in the text. way. and rules among Asean states and China refuses to recognise the Philippines President Rodrigo China to prevent military mis- case brought by the Philippines Duterte wants to negotiate with haps, known as the Code for Un- Security personnel at the Wattay International Airport in Vientiane yesterday for the 28th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in 2013. Beijing, and has pledged not to planned Encounters at Sea. and related summit to be held from today until September 8. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 11 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA N Korea test-fi res three ballistic missiles: Seoul

AFP “They are speculated to be launches as they pose a grave action against the Pyongyang re- South Korea and China have been ties, adding that security threats The country’s leader Kim Seoul Rodong missiles with a range of threat to Japan’s national secu- gime. frosty since Seoul announced from Pyongyang were at an “un- Jong-Un described the August 1,000km (620 miles) and were rity,” a ministry statement said. “Today’s reckless launches by plans to deploy a US anti-missile precedented level”, South Korea’s test as the “greatest success” and fi red without navigational warn- The North’s latest tests North Korea pose threats to civil system in July to counter growing Yonhap news agency said. said it put the US mainland with- orth Korea test-fi red ing to Japan,” the spokesman said sparked strong protests from aviation and maritime commerce nuclear and missile threats from North Korea has conducted a in striking range. three ballistic missiles in a statement. “North Korea’s senior Japanese and US offi cials. in the region,” the offi cial said. the North. series of missile tests this year The launch was widely con- Ninto the sea yesterday, ballistic missile launch is a direct The launches “are a grave se- Washington would try to “bol- During the summit, Xi reit- in defi ance of UN sanctions im- demned by the United States and South Korea said, in a new show violation of UN Security Council curity provocation and can never ster international resolve to hold erated Beijing’s opposition to posed after its fourth nuclear test other major powers but analysts of force as world leaders meet at resolutions, aimed at showing off be permitted”, Japanese Foreign the DPRK (North Korea) ac- Seoul’s planned deployment of in January. saw it as a clear step forward for the G20 summit in China. its nuclear and missile capabili- Minister Fumio Kishida told countable for its provocative ac- the Terminal High Altitude Area The most recent was a subma- North Korea’s nuclear strike am- The missiles were fi red into the ties during the G20 summit.” reporters in Tokyo. “We have tions”. Defence (THAAD) system, argu- rine-launched ballistic missile bitions. Sea of Japan (East Sea) from the The defence ministry in Tokyo lodged a strong protest against Yesterday’s missile launches ing that “mishandling” the issue last month. A proven submarine-launched North’s Hwangju county around said the three missiles are esti- North Korea.” came hours after South Korean could “intensify disputes” in the That missile, fi red from off ballistic missile system would al- 0300 GMT, a spokesman for mated to have fallen into Japan’s A senior US administration President Park Geun-Hye and region, China’s state-run Xinhua the northeastern port of Sinpo, low deployment far beyond the Seoul’s defence ministry said. maritime Exclusive Economic offi cial at the G20 in Hangzhou Chinese President Xi Jinping met news agency said. fl ew 500km (around 300 miles) Korean peninsula and a “second- The sabre-rattling follows the Zone. also condemned the launches as on the sidelines of the summit in Park labelled North Korea’s towards Japan, far exceeding the strike” capability in the event of North’s submarine-launched “The ministry expresses se- a threat to its allies and to civilian Hangzhou. continued provocations as a range of the North’s previous an attack on the North’s military ballistic missile test weeks ago. rious concern over the missile air travel, and vowed diplomatic The relationship between “challenge” to Seoul-Beijing sub-launched missiles. bases.

Half-Indian woman crowned Miss Japan Anti-China activists By Alastair Himmer, AFP Tokyo

half-Indian beauty queen with an elephant Atrainer’s licence was crowned Miss Japan yesterday, win seats in HK vote striking a fresh blow for racial equality. Reuters major laws and public funding faces ... but the price is a further Priyanka Yoshikawa’s tear- Hong Kong that has helped check China’s fragmentation (of the democracy ful victory comes a year after infl uence. camp). Ideologically they’re talk- Ariana Miyamoto faced an ugly Priyanka Yoshikawa smiles The vote, which ushered in a ing about independence and they backlash for becoming the fi rst after winning the Miss Japan everal pro-independence new crop of legislators includ- want to assert themselves.” black woman to represent Ja- title during the Miss World candidates won seats in ing a 23-year-old former protest Hong Kong Secretary for Con- pan. Japan 2016 Beauty Pageant in SHong Kong’s fi rst major leader who vowed to “fi ght” the stitutional Aff airs Raymond Tam Social media lit up after Mi- Tokyo yesterday. election since pro-democracy Chinese Communist Party, un- said that the government would yamoto’s trail-blazing triumph protests in 2014, prompting a derscores growing frustration do its best to “bring them around as critics complained that Miss at their home in Kolkata. robust warning from China that with how Beijing has handled its to a more centrist position”. Universe Japan should instead “We have problems, we’ve any independence would damage “special administrative region” “But it’s too early to say if this have been won by a “pure” Jap- been struggling and it hurts. the city’s security and prosperity. and marks a signifi cant turning will be an issue,” he said. anese rather than a “haafu” – When I came back to Ja- In comments carried by the point. Pro-establishment lawmak- the Japanese pronunciation for pan, everyone thought I was offi cial Xinhua news agency, The former British colony was ers like Elizabeth Quat said she “half”, a word used to describe a germ,” she added. “Like if China’s Hong Kong and Macao handed back to China in 1997 hoped the issue of splitting from mixed race. they touched me they would Aff airs Offi ce said it “resolutely under a “one country, two sys- China wouldn’t enter the legis- “Before Ariana, haafu girls be touching something bad. opposed” any form of independ- tems” agreement that promised lature or it could damage Hong couldn’t represent Japan,” But I’m thankful because that ence for Hong Kong, noting this to maintain the global fi nancial Kong’s economic interests. Yoshikawa told AFP in an inter- made me really strong.” would violate China’s constitu- hub’s freedoms and separate laws Ballot boxes for the Legislative Council election are seen at the “Independence is not realistic view after her exotic Bollywood Yoshikawa, who speaks fl u- tion. for at least 50 years, but gave ul- central counting station in Hong Kong early yesterday. at all,” she said. “Hopefully this looks helped sweep her to the ent Japanese and English and The election of a new genera- timate control to Beijing. will not be their main objective.” title. “That’s what I thought towered over her rivals at 1.76m tion of pro-democracy activists Beijing offi cials have repeat- central government in Beijing. they see as increasing Beijing Voters fl ocked to cast ballots in too. I didn’t doubt it or chal- (5’ 9”), will contest for the Miss in a record turnout in Chinese- edly warned Hong Kong not to Localists put the interests of interference stifl ing dissent and record numbers with some hav- lenge it until this day. Ariana World crown in Washington controlled Hong Kong on Sun- stray too far. Hong Kong before those of Bei- civil liberties, leading to a radi- ing to wait several hours after encouraged me a lot by show- this December. day underscores a deep divide in Despite the disqualifi cation of jing. calisation of the political scene polls closed, leading to some de- ing me and showing all mixed “When I’m abroad, people a city of more than 7mn people six pro-democracy election can- “I’m quite shocked,” said Law. and occasional violent protests. lays in vote counting yesterday. girls the way.” never ask me what mix I am,” where tensions with Beijing are didates from the election in July “We inherit some spirit from Several veteran democrats “Hong Kong is really chaotic Yoshikawa, born in Tokyo to said Yoshikawa, who earned intensifying. on the grounds that they backed the movement and I hope that lost their seats, as voters backed now. I want to do something to an Indian father and a Japanese her elephant trainer’s licence China bristles at open dissent, independence, at least fi ve “lo- can continue in the future ... we a new batch of younger candi- help,” said 28-year-old Maicy mother, vowed to continue the to add spice to her resume. “As especially over sensitive matters calists” and younger democratic still have to unite in order to have dates espousing self-determina- Leung, who was in a snaking fi ght against racial prejudice Miss Japan, hopefully I can help such as demands for universal newcomers won seats, including stronger power to fi ght the Chi- tion and a more confrontational queue of several hundred. “It’s to in homogenous Japan, where change perceptions so that it suff rage, and many in Hong Kong Nathan Law, one of the leaders nese Communist Party.” stance with China. help the next generation and to multiracial children make up can be the same here too. The are increasingly concerned about of mass democracy protests in Sunday’s vote was the fi rst “It’s a new era,” said Lee help myself.” just 2% of those born annually. number of people with mixed what they see as Beijing’s med- 2014. major election since the 2014 Cheuk-yan, a democratic law- The Electoral Aff airs Commis- “I think it means we have to race is only going to increase, dling in the city’s aff airs. Those protests posed one of student-led “Umbrella Revolu- maker who lost his seat after sion said 58% of an eligible 3.8mn let it in,” said the 22-year-old so people have to accept it.” In the election, the pro-de- the greatest challenges to Bei- tion” protests that blocked roads more than two decades in public voters had cast their ballot, up when asked what it signifi ed Reaction to Yoshikawa’s vic- mocracy opposition also kept its jing’s rule in decades and were for 79 days. offi ce. from 53% in 2012 and the highest for her and Miyamoto to break tory failed initially to trigger crucial one-third veto bloc in the deemed illegal by the local gov- Since then, many disaff ected “People want change, change legislative election turnout since down cultural barriers. “We are any real outrage, although pre- 70-seat Legislative Council over ernment in Hong Kong and the youngsters have decried what meaning that they want new 1997. Japanese. Yes, I’m half-Indian dictably some were unhappy. and people are asking me about “What’s the point of hold- my ‘purity’ – yes, my dad is ing a pageant like this now? Indian and I’m proud of it, I’m Zero national characteristics,” proud that I have Indian in me. grumbled one Twitter user, But that does not mean I’m not while another fumed: “It’s like China, Japan seek to improve ties as Xi, Abe meet Japanese.” we’re saying a pure Japanese Yoshikawa, like Miyamoto, face can’t be a winner.” was bullied because of her skin As the Japanese government AFP Just weeks before the sum- colour after returning to Japan continues to push its “Cool Ja- Hangzhou, China mit, hundreds of Chinese fi shing aged 10 following three years in pan” brand overseas to entice boats, accompanied by govern- Sacramento and a further year foreign tourists for the 2020 ment ships, fl ooded into nearby in India. Tokyo Olympics, Yoshikawa hina’s leader Xi Jinping waters, infuriating Tokyo and “I know many people who promised to win over any and Japan’s Shinzo Abe raising questions about Beijing’s are haafu and suff er,” said doubters. Csought to reset their intentions for the relationship. Yoshikawa, an avid kick-boxer “There was a time as a kid countries’ troubled relationship In a substantive breakthrough, whose politician great-grand- when I was confused about my yesterday at their fi rst meeting the leaders agreed that they father once welcomed inde- identity,” she admitted. “But in over a year, with the Japanese would restart talks later this pendence campaigner Mahat- I’ve lived in Japan so long now Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to the Japanese delegation led by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo prime minister calling China an month on a deal to jointly devel- ma Gandhi for a two-week stay I feel Japanese.” Abe during their meeting yesterday at the West Lake State House in Hangzhou. “important friend”. op resources in the region. The Asian giants have been Japan and China agreed in June at loggerheads over territorial 2008 to co-operate over oil and disputes and historical animos- gas resources in area, but nego- ity, but Xi said they should “put tiations stopped two years later aside disruptions”, the offi cial amid rising tensions. Australian teen gets 10 years for Anzac Day terror plot news agency Xinhua said. Meanwhile, Japan has weighed Their relationship was “trou- in on another Chinese territorial bled by complications at times”, dispute in the South China Sea, Reuters had planned to attack police at sought in his ruling to balance has been on heightened alert for ney that left two hostages and it cited the Chinese president as where Beijing has built artifi cial Sydney the Melbourne Anzac Day pa- the need to protect the com- attacks by home-grown Islamist the gunman dead. saying, but they should seek to islands capable of supporting rade on April 25, 2015, but his munity from Besim’s “evil” and radicals since 2014 and authori- Besim’s sentence may have return to normal development military facilities. scheme was uncovered when “terrifying” plans against the ties say they have thwarted a seemed harsh just a few years for the sake of regional peace and Abe has vocally criticised n Australian teenager police in Britain discovered young man’s age, contrition and number of plots. ago, but must now been under- stability. China for rejecting a July ruling who planned a terror phone messages between Besim prospects of rehabilitation. About 100 people have left stood in view of recent attacks For his part Abe described by an international tribunal that Aattack which involved and a 15-year-old British boy. “I accept that Mr Besim’s Australia for Syria to fi ght in Europe and the US, said Greg China as “an important friend of said its extensive claims to the beheading a police offi cer and Victoria Supreme Court Jus- youth and immaturity are sig- alongside organisations such as Barton, a terrorism expert at Japan’s since long ago”. strategically vital waters had no attaching explosives to a kanga- tice Michael Croucher said that nifi cant mitigating factors. He Islamic State (IS) group, Aus- Deakin University. “We need to look at the big legal basis. roo at commemorations of the Besim’s decision to plead guilty was just 18 at the time of the tralia’s Immigration Minister “It has to be seen in the con- picture and work to improve re- Yesterday’s rapprochement World War I Anzac landings at was a major factor in his deci- off ending and is now only 19,” said this year. text of realised and attempted lations,” he told reporters after only went so far. Gallipoli was sentenced yester- sion to impose a 10-year, rather Croucher said, according to a There have been several “lone low-fi , lone-wolf attacks in the the meeting. Xi told Abe that Japan should day to 10 years in prison. than 15-year, sentence. transcript of the proceedings. wolf” assaults in Australia, in- last two years that are fairly un- The tone of the two leaders’ “exercise caution in its words Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, Croucher said that he had Australia, a staunch US ally, cluding a 2014 cafe siege in Syd- precedented,” Barton said. comments after a G20 summit and deeds” on the issue, Xinhua in Hangzhou was a marked im- said. provement on the last time they And Abe reiterated his stance, met on Chinese soil, on the side- saying: “Any dispute has to be lines of an Asia-Pacifi c Econom- solved peacefully and diplomati- ic Co-operation (Apec) gathering cally under international law, not Report on climate change has top scientists divided in 2014, when they could barely through power or intimidation.” conceal their mutual distaste. “Since we are neighbours, we The relationship between the have a variety of problems,” he DPA Last week, Australia’s Climate Authority report are inadequate “Given this, we felt we had no Climate change is too big and two powers is crucial to Asian said. “So therefore, it is impor- Sydney Change Authority published a to meet Australia’s international choice but to write our own re- too important for the policy stability, and Abe said they were tant to have dialogue.” report calling for the govern- obligations. port,” Hamilton said in a state- makers to be spooked by the fear “both responsible for the re- The two agreed to accelerate ment to introduce an emissions They criticised the “major- ment. campaigns, he said. gion’s peace and prosperity as talks on an air and sea commu- fi ssure has emerged trading scheme. ity report”, saying that the im- Hamilton said it was disap- Climate Change Authority is well as the global economy”. nications hotline between their among Australia’s sci- But two of the authority’s pression that Australia has until pointing that the Authority’s an independent authority that But they have a longstanding defence ministries, he added. Aentists after two of them 10 scientists, David Karoly and 2030 to implement measures to report chose to frame its recom- reviews and advises the govern- dispute over islands in the East Last week Japan’s defence accused other colleagues of Clive Hamilton, voiced dissent bring carbon emissions down is mendations around what is seen ment on its climate change poli- China Sea controlled by Japan, ministry requested a record publishing an authoritative re- and released their own minority “untrue and dangerous” and it to be politically possible rather cies. which knows them as Senkaku, budget, including funds for an port that toes the government report yesterday, warning that will further delay the need to re- than what needs to be done to It has no legislative or execu- and claimed by China, which anti-ship missile system to de- line, consisting of “major fl aws”. the actions recommended in the duce greenhouse gas emissions. protect the nation. tive power. calls them Diaoyu. fend the East China Sea islands. Gulf Times 12 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 BRITAIN

AVIATION CRIME ACCIDENT VERDICT DECISION Hole in Gatwick runway Driver arrested for threat Woman ‘critical’ as car Receptionist jailed Supermarket operator causes flight delays to ‘knock out’ BBC presenter smashes into block of flats for AK47possession Morrisons cuts more prices

Passengers suff ered delays after a hole was A motorist has been arrested after allegedly A woman was fighting for her life yesterday after A woman has been jailed after police found a Morrisons, Britain’s fourth largest supermarket discovered in the main runway at Gatwick threatening to “knock out” BBC Radio 2 a car she was travelling in smashed through a Kalashnikov assault rifle and more than 400 group, has announced another wave of price airport. Some flights were forced into holding presenter Jeremy Vine. Vine posted a video of window at flats in north London. The woman, rounds of ammunition hidden in her bedroom cuts, fuelling an already fierce industry price war. patterns and others were diverted after it a young woman ranting at him as he cycled who is in her sixties, was a passenger in the car cupboard. Lynn Tetteh, 24, was sentenced to five Like market leader Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, was closed as a “precautionary measure” at through Kensington on his way home. The when it struck a tree and then careered into the years in prison after the AK47 was discovered Morrisons is lowering prices to try to reverse 7.40pm on Sunday. Gatwick’s second runway, footage, showing a motorist screaming, “Get out flats in Gunner Drive, Enfield. The driver, a man wrapped inside a section of soil pipe in the the flow of shoppers turning to discounters Aldi a “stand-in” landing strip not usually used for of the road” before apparently kicking his bike, in his eighties, also suff ered serious injuries and locked bedroom of her Mitcham home. The and Lidl. All players are also having to deal with public flights, was brought into operation as was viewed half a million times online. A Met was taken to hospital in a critical condition. He receptionist pleaded guilty to two counts of commodity-driven industry price deflation. The engineers worked to repair the damage. In June, spokeswoman said off icers from Kensington was recovering and his injuries were no longer possessing a prohibited firearm and ammunition company, based in Bradford said it will this week scores of flights were delayed following a similar and Chelsea arrested a woman on Friday. She said to be life threatening. No one at the flats was but denied knowing what was inside the reduce prices on nearly 130 cooked meat, fresh discovery. Eight aircraft were diverted to airports said: “The 22-year-old woman was arrested on injured but the building was evacuated while its package. Tetteh, a graduate in international meat and poultry products by an average of as far afield as Southampton and other flights suspicion of common assault and a public order safety was assessed by a structural engineer. travel and tourism, said her boyfriend had asked 12%. Morrisons is unique among Britain’s major were delayed. The main runway reopened before off ence. She has been bailed to return to police Firefighters worked with London Ambulance her to keep the package for him because he was supermarkets in making half of all the own brand 11pm. on a date in early September.” crews and police to release the driver. moving house. and fresh food it sells.

Trump’s golf resort Points-based sued for breach of privacy immigration

Guardian News and Media London system not onald Trump’s golf resort near Aberdeen is being Dsued for breach of privacy and damages by a rambler who was fi lmed without her consent on the course. A lawyer acting for Rohan feasible: May Beyts, a retired social worker and environmental activist, has ac- Guardian News and Media eign nationals the right to come worth the paper they were writ- cused Trump’s staff of breaching London to Britain if they meet certain ten on.” the Data Protection Act by taking criteria: an immigration system “May cannot be let off the hook mobile phone footage of her in that works for Britain would either. After barely campaigning April as she allegedly relieved her- owning Street has ruled ensure that the right to decide for Remain, our unelected prime self behind a dune on the course. out a points-based immi- who comes to the country re- minister now contemptuously Beyts’s lawyer, Mike Dailly, has Dgration system promised sides with the government.” dismisses policies like increas- accused Trump’s staff of illegally by the offi cial Brexit campaign A points-based system of im- ing spending on the NHS which fi lming and retaining that foot- but insisted Theresa May would migration applying to migrants people voted on in good faith and age, after the Guardian revealed put forward a better way of con- from across the world was first great numbers.” last month that the resort had trolling arrivals to the UK. suggested by Ukip and quickly No 10 sources insisted May breached the UK’s strict laws on The prime minister was ac- championed by the Leave cam- was still intending to honour the data protection and privacy. cused of backsliding on prom- paign spearheaded by May’s essence of what people voted for Trump International Golf ises made by the Vote Leave Foreign Secretary, Boris John- by bringing in a system that will Course Scotland, which is wholly campaign, after she cast doubt son. be more eff ective at curbing im- owned by the Republican presi- on the effectiveness of a system It would have seen equal ac- migration than the Vote Leave dential candidate, admitted it had admitting people on the basis cess to the UK for citizens from and Ukip idea. failed to register with the infor- of their skills and refused to across the globe based on cer- Theoretically, this could in- mation commissioner’s offi ce, the commit an extra £100mn to the tain criteria such as skills and clude a work permit or visa UK’s data protection regulator. NHS. qualifications, without giving system, restrictions on entry This was despite operating at least As former Ukip leader Ni- any special access to those from to those with job offers, a quota nine CCTV cameras at the resort gel Farage suggested yesterday the EU. system or an emergency brake. and holding records on thousands she was betraying Brexit vot- Farage said: “May’s track However, the prime minister of guests, 95 employees and a large ers, No 10 issued a statement record on immigration as home has given no more details about number of contractors and sup- saying it would devise an im- secretary was appalling and her how this might be done and has pliers. The resort also breached migration system that gave the comments rejecting an Austral- not answered the crucial ques- offi cial guidelines on using CCTV government more control than ian-style points system really tion of whether the government by failing to display prominent a points-based system. worry me. could give preferential access signs warning visitors and guests A spokeswoman said: “One “There is already huge anxi- to citizens of the EU over those at the course and its 19-bedroom of the opportunities of Brexit ety out there in the country from the rest of the world. boutique hotel that they were be- is that we will be able to control regarding May’s reluctance to The dilemma for May is that a ing fi lmed. the number of people coming to trigger Article 50. Her rejection number of EU states have indi- In a statement, TIGCS said the Britain from the EU. The precise of the type of migration system cated the UK will not get prefer- failure to register with the com- way in which the government so many went out there and ential terms for trading without missioner was a clerical error, and will control the movement of voted leave to see implemented accepting at least a degree of free it had submitted its registration EU nationals to Britain after indicates serious backsliding.” movement for EU citizens. on August 10. Under Scotland’s Brexit is yet to be determined. Remain campaigners also Carlo Calenda, an Italian eco- wide-ranging laws that uphold However, as the premier has seized on May’s comments as a nomic development minister, public access to open land, Beyts said many times in the past, a sign that people who voted for told Bloomberg: “We cannot and a friend had used a public points-based system will not Brexit had been misled. waste two years by negotiating footpath across the Trump course work and is not an option. Chuka Umunna, the Labour with the UK how to maintain to walk past the clubhouse to “When Labour introduced a MP and chairman of the cam- them inside without them want- reach a thick band of sand dunes points-based immigration sys- paign group Vote Leave Watch, ing to be inside. We cannot af- and beach bordering the course. tem, the numbers went straight said: “Johnson and his Vote Leave ford this paradox … The more As they came back from their up. In Australia, they have a colleagues spent the whole refer- they are going to regulate and walk, the pair say there were chal- points-based system, and they endum campaign making impos- limit the presence of EU citizens lenged by resort staff and then Pro-Brexit demonstrators, calling on the government to invoke Article 50 immediately, and urging have higher immigration per sible promises they knew they in the UK, the more we are going photographed by a local newspa- them not to hold a second referendum, shout slogans and hold placards as they protest outside the capita than Britain. A points- couldn’t keep. It’s now clear that to limit the presence of UK goods per photographer. Houses of Parliament in London yesterday. based system would give for- very few of their pledges were into Europe.”

Great Fire Anniversary Foreign investors buying Top school proximity up fl ats in suburbs ‘lifts’ prices of homes Agencies 171% above the county average London house price of £367,191. London Evening Standard told BBC’s Inside Out London for one group — foreigners.” The Henrietta Barnett School in London programme: “Brexit is not the David Adams, managing Barnet, London, came second on end of the world. This coun- director of Mayfair agents arents in England are forking the list with a £429,506 premium try has a stable and secure po- John Taylor Estate, said that out thousands – and in some on homes, followed by The Wil- ealthy foreign litical system. Yes it attracts British buyers were using Pcases, hundreds of thou- liam Borlase’s Grammar School in property investors foreign investors to come here post-referendum uncertainty sands of pounds more for their Buckinghamshire (£220,082), The Ware turning their at- — like me! Fifteen percent off, as a reason not to take the homes in order to ensure their Tiffi n Girls’ School in Kingston tention from central London it’s like a sale... I’m going to plunge and were in danger of children are able to attend top per- upon Thames (£192,011) and Dr to cheaper suburban locations invest in buying flats and rent missing out. He said: “The forming state schools. Challoner’s High School, also in to avoid paying heavy stamp them out.” London sale is on to foreign- New research from Lloyds Bank Buckinghamshire (£168,308). duty bills, an investigation The current system of ers. It’s not on to the English shows that many are willing to pay Andrew Mason, mortgage has found. stamp duty means a purchas- — they continue to sit on their an average of £53,000 extra to se- products director at Lloyds Bank, The trend, which follows er buying a £1.5mn apartment hands and say, ‘David, it’s not cure homes close to schools with said: “Schools with the best exam a series of swingeing stamp in Mayfair would have to pay a good time to trade.’” the best academic outcomes. performance are proving to be duty hikes on expensive prop- more than £138,000, includ- He said that of the enquiry The fi gure marks a 31% increase an increasingly strong draw for erties since 2012, means cash- ing a three percent stamp calls received by the agency on last year. home-movers, as we’ve seen rich investors are increasingly duty surcharge on buy-to- in the month after the June 23 Average house prices have now house prices rise sharply in loca- in competition with first- let properties. However, by referendum, 80% had foreign reached £366,744 in the catch- tions close to such schools.” time buyers in new develop- spreading the same invest- dialling codes for their point ment areas surrounding England’s “Our analysis shows that since ments in outer London. ment on about six cheaper of contact. top 30 state schools, compared 2011 average house prices in areas It has been accelerated flats of £250,000 each, the Recent property surveys to a general average of £313,318 with the best state schools have by the slump in the value of bill is reduced to £60,000 — a show prices in the most ex- elsewhere. The top performing increased by £76,000, compared the pound that followed the saving of £78,000. pensive central London bor- schools are judged as those with to a national increase of £42,145.” Brexit vote in June, which One first-time buyer, jun- oughs such as Kensington and the strongest GCSE results last “And seven of the areas covered has made London property ior doctor Tania Rahman, Chelsea are tumbling — in year. Six of the top 30 schools ap- in this survey have seen house around 15% cheaper in dollar told of her frustration that large part because of the huge A giant replica of 17th-century London was set ablaze on pear to have pushed house prices prices rise by over £100,000 in the terms compared with a year she now has to compete with stamp duty burden — while the Thames in the city to mark the 350th anniversary of the at least a whopping £150,000 last fi ve years.” ago. foreign investors. She said: those in more affordable lo- devastating Great Fire of London. The 1666 inferno destroyed above their county averages. “The popularity of areas close Chinese investor Ada Yau, “Brexit has just brought so cal authority areas on the most of the walled inner city dating back to Roman times — a Homes near Beaconsfi eld High to high performing schools may who has been looking at flats much big hope for Brexiteers fringes of the capital, such as bustling, congested maze of tightly-packed wooden houses. It School in Buckinghamshire saw mean that homes remain unaf- in the north-west London that property would become Waltham Forest, continue to forced London to rebuild anew from the ashes. the biggest premium, with house fordable for buyers on average suburb of Colindale in Zone 4, more affordable. Well it has surge by up to 20% a year. selling for almost £630,000 – earnings.” Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 13 BRITAIN

Re-electing Corbyn will be disastrous for Labour, warns Smith

Guardian News and Media Those casting votes in the Jeremy has to be held account- or 13mn people, voting Labour, Featuring the Tory logo – And I’m not prepared to stand by becoming once more ... looked London contest had a “crushing duty able for that as the leader of the in order to stop this happening,” prompting one Conservative MP and see another 18 years of the at by the country as a cred- to think hard” about what they party.” he added. to ask if permission had been Tories, as we did in the 1980s. ible alternative to the Tories, were doing, the challenger Smith said Corbyn, the fa- For the speech in Lon- sought – the mock manifesto Britain would be unrecognisable or whether we recede into ir- abour faces the “choice warned, arguing that Corbyn vourite to win in the vote of party don, Smith’s team produced a was, Smith insisted, a credible at the end of that.” relevance, being thought of as of a generation” in its had failed to provide cred- members, registered support- mocked-up Conservative mani- picture of a Conservative pro- The election, which will see not able to take back the reins Lforthcoming leadership ible opposition to Theresa May’s ers and trade union affi liates, festo for 2020, using ideas from gramme “if they were wholly the victor announced at the of power from the Tories,” he election, Owen Smith has said, government. was not on course to prevent the the party and associated think- unfettered, both by coalition, start of the Labour conference said. warning members that re-elect- “It’s a disastrous government Conservatives potentially rul- tanks to predict that if May’s or indeed by a substantive and on September 24, was “a water- Asked how he would respond ing Jeremy Corbyn would see the we’ve got right now, and where ing for 20 more years. “You can- government was not properly credible opposition in the La- shed”, Smith said. if he lost the contest, Smith said party consigned to irrelevance are we in off ering really robust, not mistake the mass rallies that challenged it would roll back the bour party”. “There is an enormous he would continue to make the and allow the Conservatives to serious and credible opposition Jeremy is gathering for the mass state, cut taxes and benefi ts, sell Smith said: “It’s an ugly vision choice, a choice of a genera- same arguments, predicting that rule without obstacle for dec- to that?” he said. “I’ll tell you movement that we need to gath- off social housing, and introduce of what Britain could become, tion, a watershed for Labour the party risked new divisions if ades. where we are – nowhere. And er, the mass movement of 12mn hundreds of grammar schools. without a Labour opposition. – whether we move forward to Corbyn won again. Data reveals Scandal threatens career shock rise in home attacks on women

London Evening Standard mined to protect victims and London was continuing work to com- bat the crimes of domestic violence. he full impact of the Others insisted, however, alarming toll of violence that more urgent action was Tinfl icted on women in needed. London emerged yesterday, Sir Keir Starmer, Labour MP as new fi gures showed that 25 for Holborn and St Pancras murders and more than 1,600 and a former director of public rapes were committed by do- prosecutions, said law enforcers mestic abusers in a year. were “working hard” to tackle The killings were among the problem but “these fi gures nearly 60,000 off ences in- are a shocking reminder of just Labour Party politician Keith Vaz speaks during a session of the House of Commons in central London yesterday. The Commons Standards watchdog is being urged to volving violent domestic how prevalent and persistent investigate Vaz over claims in the Sunday Mirror he paid for the services of male escorts. abuse recorded in the capital domestic abuse still is. in the 12 months up to the end “The sheer number of rape of March. and assault cases shows that The tally from the Metro- domestic abuse must remain politan police — including just an absolute priority, not only over 6,000 incidents involving for the police but for all of us. wounding or grievous bod- We all have a duty to speak out ily harm, and 17,676 crimes of and redouble eff orts to pre- “assault with injury” — rep- vent and respond to domestic resents more than a quarter of abuse. all violent crimes committed “The murder fi gures — a Junior doctors suspend in London. domestic abuse murder in A total of 2,198 sex off ences, London every other week — including 1,640 rapes, were are equally shocking and re- carried out by domestic abus- quire robust analysis and re- ers. Twenty-nine percent of sponse. The home should be rapes in the capital were do- a place of comfort and safety, mestic abuse off ences, high- not a place of violent risk and planned strike in Sept lighting the threat posed to terrible abuse.” women from sexually violent Sir Keir said that although Guardian News and Media has sparked such anger among BMA has decided to call off the ice under such pressure can- would take months to clear the partners. law enforcers and others were London trainee medics in England over fi rst phase of these unprec- not cope with the notice period backlog. The figures, obtained by “working hard to improve their the last year. It is due to start edented strikes, so this is wel- for industrial action given,” she The BMA’s move may be a the Standard under the Free- response to domestic abuse” being implemented from early come news. But if the BMA were said. “We have also listened to belated attempt to maintain the dom of Information Act, the under-reporting of off ences unior doctors have called off October. really serious about patient the concerns of working doctors, profession’s year-long unity were compiled by the Met meant that the true scale of the the fi rst of their planned se- However, the BMA is still safety, they would immediately patient groups and the public.” over the new junior doctors’ following the introduction problem was even worse than Jries of fi ve-day strikes after planning to stage three other cancel their remaining plans for It comes hours after the Gen- contract, which shattered last of a new “flagging” system offi cial fi gures indicated. growing alarm from senior doc- fi ve-day- walkouts, in Octo- industrial action which, as the eral Medical Council, which week with many leading doctors to identify domestic abuse Yesterday’s new Met fi gures tors and NHS leaders that the ber, November and December, GMC says, will only cause pa- regulates doctors, warned that criticising the intended strikes crimes. show that 19,365 crimes of action could endanger patients. if Hunt does not respond posi- tients to suff er.” “harm and suff ering to patients” as disproportionate and likely It was brought in because of common assault were infl icted In a statement yesterday af- tively. McCourt added that the BMA would inevitably result from the to threaten patient safety. Jun- concern that traditional crime on domestic abuse victims ternoon, Dr Ellen McCourt, the However, it is unclear what decided to call off next week’s action. ior doctors may also be hoping recording methods were mak- and 53 cases — in addition to chair of the British Medical as- will happen next after the de- planned action, which saw the The walkouts were due to in- to keep the public on their side ing it hard to assess the scale of the homicides — involved the sociation’s junior doctors com- partment of health’s initial reac- BMA being heavily criticised by clude even life-or-death areas in their bitter dispute with Hunt. domestic abuse and obscuring use of an “off ensive weapon” mittee, said that the doctors’ tion to the call-off did not indi- many medical groups including of care in hospitals such as A&E, They continued to enjoy around the root cause of a signifi cant such as a knife, gun or blunt union was “suspending the in- cate if Hunt would do what the the Academy of Medical Royal surgery, intensive care and ma- 60% public backing despite the area of off ending. instrument. dustrial action planned for the BMA are urging him to do and Colleges, to ensure that safety of ternity services. An estimated eight days of strikes they staged The Met, which has pre- Domestic abusers were also week of September 12”. suspend the planned imposition care was maintained. 125,000 planned operations between January and May in pur- viously promised to use Al responsible for 14,437 crimes McCourt told Jeremy Hunt, of the contract. “Patient safety remains doc- were set to be cancelled as an- suit of their claim that the new Capone-style tactics to bring of harassment, 2,217 off ences the health secretary, that he now A department of health tors’ primary concern. For the other consequence, leading to contract for England’s 54,000 offenders to justice, yester- involving “other violence” had a month to stop the impo- spokesman said only that: “The fi rst time in this dispute, NHS fears that patients would suff er doctors below the level of consult- day insisted it was deter- and 259 kidnappings. sition of the new contract that public will be relieved that the England have told us that a serv- pain and distress as hospitals ant was unsafe and unfair.

3D images of Mary Rose Well-earned break ‘Sea monster’ fossil skulls published online freed from rock AFP shortly before the dinosaurs, Paris to be replaced by dolphins AFP study on the website following while fi ghting off a French in- and whales. London lengthy work by scientists at vasion fl eet. Encased in rock, this set Swansea University in Wales. After a six-year search, the leg- toothy, dolphin- of remains was found by an The technique is known as endary ship was defi nitively iden- like predator which amateur on a beach on the ritish archaeologists yes- photogrammetry, using high- tifi ed in 1971 and around a third of Aprowled the oceans in Isle of Skye 50 years ago, and terday published detailed resolution 2D photographs to it was raised in 1982, watched live the Jurassic era, when dino- presented to the National Mu- B3D models of skulls and produce detailed 3D models. by millions on television. saurs roamed the Earth, has seum of Scotland. artefacts found on board king “This digital resource ena- The public can view a sample been uncovered in a Scottish “For half a century the Henry VIII’s warship as part of bles researchers around the of the objects such as a mir- museum where it lay buried museum kept the fossil safe a digital experiment designed world to join the project and ror, rigging or a leather shoe on for 50 years, scientists said and secure, but there wasn’t to share knowledge of major study virtual 3D reconstruc- the Virtual Tudors website — a yesterday. the expertise to free it from historical fi nds. tions,” said professor Cather- collaboration between Swan- First discovered in 1966, the very dense rock that One skull, reproduced in a ine Fletcher. sea University, the Mary Rose the fossil has at last been surrounded it, or the ex- fully interactive model, be- “Once fully developed, this Trust and Oxford University. freed from its prehistor- pertise to study it,” Brusatte longed to a carpenter on board technology can be applied to Thousands of other artefacts ic sarcophagus to reveal a said. “But now we finally the Mary Rose, the fl agship of many more historic objects, are on display at the Mary Rose chunky, four-metre-long (13 have that expertise... and England’s navy when it sank in bringing them to an even wid- Museum in Portsmouth on feet) deep-sea killer — its have realised that this skel- 1545 as heartbroken Henry VIII er community of researchers England’s south coast. pointed mouth bristling with eton is the most complete watched from the shore. while preventing damage to the Alex Hildred, head of re- hundreds of cone-shaped fossil of a sea reptile ever “An abscess in his upper jaw original remains and artefacts.” search and curator of human teeth. found in Scotland. meant he could only chew on The researchers captured remains of the Mary Rose Trust “It is spectacular,” said pal- The fossil monster will go the right side,” said details on 1,000 images of 10 skulls found said excavating the carpenter’s aeontologist Steve Brusatte of on display at the museum as the website, www.virtualtu- on the ship to create naviga- cabin was “like stepping into a the University of Edinburgh’s the “crown jewel” of Scot- dors.org.”He also had arthritis ble online models, which they deserted workshop”. School of Geosciences, who tish prehistory, the scientist in his spine, ribs and left clavi- hope other researchers will an- “Finding one of the car- helped expose the 170mn- added. cle and a lesion across his right alyse to eventually recreate full penter’s second set of tools year-old remains. Earlier this year, researchers eyebrow which may be the re- skeletons of some of the 500 on the deck below allows us to Dubbed the Storr Lochs said prehistoric global warm- sult of an old wound.” men who perished. look into the face of one of the Monster, the reptile belonged ing had wiped out the ich- Relics from the ship, includ- The Mary Rose fought three most important members of to the ichthyosaur fam- thyosaurs after an impressive ing the carpenter’s tools, are wars with the French but mys- the crew; and the ship comes Olympic medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill drinks a smoothie during ily — scary-looking, finned 157mn-year deep-sea reign. also available for fellow ar- teriously keeled over and sank alive,” he said, according to the the country fair at Chatsworth House near Bakewell in Britain. hunters sometimes called There had been several sub- chaeologists and scientists to off Portsmouth on July 19, 1545, Press Association. sea dragons — that died out species. Gulf Times 14 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 EUROPE Farmers, truckers block This handout photo taken on Sunday and released yesterday by the Spanish authorities shows firefighters freeing migrants from a false bottom below the front seats of roads over Calais ‘Jungle’ a vehicle in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. AFP to be immediately transported presence of the Jungle. Calais back to the home depot.” “The government must de- “This demonstration is to clare Calais an economic emer- shout loud and clear about how gency zone,” read one banner at ngry French truckers and fed up road hauliers are,” said the demonstration. Police farmers blocked the main David Sagnard, head of the local The authorities have made re- Aroutes in and out of the branch of the National Federa- peated eff orts to close the Jungle. port of Calais yesterday to call tion of Road Hauliers. Earlier this year, authorities rescue for the closure of the sprawling “What we’re calling for today cleared shelters in parts of the “Jungle” migrant camp. are security measures so we can site in a bid to persuade migrants Around 70 trucks mounted a drive on the A16 motorway and to move into more permanent migrants “go-slow” on the A16 motorway on the port road in complete accommodation or camps else- – the main artery for freight and safety,” he added. where on France’s northern passengers heading for Britain A banner attached to one of coast. hidden in either via the Channel Tunnel or the trucks said: “We’re truck Former French president on board ferries from the port. drivers, not people smugglers.” Nicolas Sarkozy, who is bidding Dozens of farmers on trac- The town’s mayor, Natacha to secure the right-wing nomi- minivan tors joined up with the trucks, Bouchart, who joined the pro- nation to win back the presi- slowing traffi c to a crawl, while test wearing an “I love Calais” dency next year, has called for around 400 people staged a T-shirt, claims the Jungle may Britain to take responsibility for AFP demonstration in the middle of soon contain as many as 15,000 the migrants over the Channel. Madrid the motorway. migrants within months unless Last week France and Brit- Authorities said that despite it is razed. ain pledged to work together to long tailbacks at the start of the Interior Minister Bernard Ca- increase security at the port of panish police freed four protest, a system of detours pre- Harbour workers, truck drivers, farmers, storekeepers, and residents block a motorway as part of their zeneuve promised during a visit Calais and to improve the hu- young African migrants vented widespread disruption. protest against the migrant situation in Calais. to the Jungle on Friday to close manitarian situation for the Jun- Sfound squeezed into a hid- But the demonstrators said the camp down “as quickly as gle’s residents. den compartment of a minivan they were digging in for the makeshift tents and shelters, is When the trucks slow down, overstretched and unable to se- possible” but said it would be In an attempt to encour- with no ventilation at a bor- night. home to some 7,000 migrants migrants try to clamber into the cure the roads. done in stages. age migrants to leave the Jun- der crossing from Morocco into “We’re not moving,” said Fre- but charities say the number trailers to stow away aboard. Nicolas Lotin, who runs a Disgruntled Calais residents gle, France is expected to create Spain and arrested the driver, deric Van Gansbeke, who rep- might be as high as 10,000 after Drivers say migrants and peo- logistics company in nearby want the authorities to set a date places for an additional 8,000 they said yesterday. resents businesses and shop- an infl ux this summer. ple traffi cking gangs have at- Boulogne-sur-Mer, said: “Every for the entire camp to be cleared. people in accommodation cen- The migrants – a woman from owners in Calais. “We’re waiting Migrants from the camp tacked their vehicles with metal day, we have to wonder whether Bars and restaurants in Calais tres around the country. the Congo and three men from for the government’s answers, sometimes use tree branches to bars. our working day will be ruined, – which is also the main gateway The population of the Jungle Guinea – were found on Sunday especially on ... fi nancial help for create roadblocks to slow trucks The drivers say despite the whether a migrant will sneak to France for millions of British includes large numbers of Suda- when police at the crossing be- businesses that are in trouble.” heading for Britain, their desti- deployment of 2,100 offi cers under the truck’s canvas. If the holidaymakers – say that their nese, Afghan, Somali and Iraqi tween Morocco and the Spanish The Jungle, a squalid camp of nation of choice. around the port, the police are goods are damaged, they have trade has been severely hit by the residents. territory of Melilla grew suspi- cious and searched the vehicle. They were crammed inside a “hermetic false bottom with no ventilation” located below the front seats of the minivan, police More than said in a statement. The woman began yelling in French: “Please, please, get me 1,000 fl ee out of here. I’m scared. I don’t feel my legs and my feet are re- ally swollen!” wildfi re Firefi ghters had to use an electric saw and other tools to free the migrants who were all in near “very poor physical shape” and in need of medical care. Police said all four migrants, Spanish aged between 21 and 27, are now in good health. Offi cers arrested the driver resort and only other occupant of the vehicle, a Moroccan man. Temperatures on Sunday AFP neared 30° Celsius (86° Fahren- Madrid heit) in Melilla, which has one of only two land borders between Africa and the European Union. ore than 1,000 people The other is at Ceuta, another have been evacuated Spanish territory nearly 400km Mafter a wildfi re fuelled (250 miles) away on the north by intense heat roared through Smoke from forest fires rises into the air along the coastline near the Spanish resort of Javea, Valencia region, yesterday. coast of Africa. brush surrounding a popular tourist resort on Spain’s Costa according to Antena 3. Blanca, offi cials said yesterday. Among those who posted Some 300 fi refi ghters backed photos of the blaze was BBC 20 water-dropping aircraft host Chris Stark who was on were battling the blaze which vacation in the area. Kurds in Turkey on hunger strike over Ocalan broke out on Sunday near the “This is crazy. I think my car Mediterranean resort of Javea, and maybe my apartment is on a local emergency services of- fi re,” he Tweeted on Sunday. AFP unspecifi ed period of time until a statement carried by state-run fi cial said. He sent another tweet yes- Diyarbakir a meeting is secured between Mr Anadolu news agency. Offi cials suspect the fi re was terday, saying that he was safe. Ocalan and his lawyers, his fam- “On the subject of Abdullah started deliberately. Firefi ghters said the blaze ily or a political delegation.” Ocalan, the subject is constantly Offi cials evacuated over was fuelled by scorching tem- group of 50 Kurdish ac- Ocalan, who heads the out- exploited by the separatist terror 1,000 people late on Sunday peratures and low humidity tivists, including MPs, lawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party organisation (PKK) and the pub- from Javea and the resort of levels. Abegan yesterday a hunger (PKK) which is blacklisted as a lic receives false information,” he Benitatxell near Benidorm, Most of Spain faced an “ex- strike to protest the lack of news terror group by Turkey and its said. popular with British and Ger- treme risk” of wildfi res yes- about the welfare of jailed Kurd- Western allies, is serving life for “To mobilise the public and for man tourists, due to the threat terday due to the heat, with ish leader Abdullah Ocalan. treason at an island prison near their own objectives, they spread from the fl ames. temperatures over 40° Cel- The protesters, wearing T- Istanbul. unfounded information about The evacuees were put up in sius (104° Fahrenheit) in some shirts with bearing Ocalan’s im- Since the collapse in July 2015 (his) health and safety,” he added. schools. parts. age, said they had received no of a fragile ceasefi re between the The hunger strike comes as Residents of Javea also of- Spain routinely suff ers wild- update about him for several PKK and the Turkish state, he has Turkey’s military steps up its fered to put up evacuees for fi res during the hot summer months. not been permitted visits by law- Pro-Kurdish politicians wearing t-shirts featuring Abdullah Ocalan campaign against PKK rebels in the night and gave them food months but there have been “We haven’t received any ob- yers or supporters. gather to start a hunger strike in Diyarbakir to demand the right to the southeast. and water, Javea city council- fewer large blazes in 2016 than jective information about Oca- “We joined this (hunger) strike visit the jailed PKK leader. Turkish war jets on Sunday lor Maria del Pilar Zamora told in recent years. lan’s state of health and security,” voluntarily and will continue till bombed PKK bases in northern private television Antena 3. There were just 13 wildfi res said the group’s spokeswoman the end,” Ferhat Encu, MP for the Fellow HDP lawmaker Dilek of people who call for peace and Iraq, Anadolu reported, citing Photos and videos posted that destroyed over 500 hec- Sabahat Tuncel in the Kurdish- pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democrat- Ocalan, a niece of the jailed PKK settlement,” she added. the army, and “neutralised 30 on social media showed fl ames tares (1,200 acres) of land be- majority city of Diyarbakir in the ic Party (HDP), told AFP. leader, said their protest should Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag terrorists including those from raging near built up areas. tween January 1 and August 28, southeast. He confi rmed that there was not be interpreted as a sign of on Sunday dismissed claims the leadership cadres of the sepa- Several homes were com- according to a tally kept by the “We, as 50 volunteers, are be- no scheduled end date for the weakness. there were any problems with ratist organisation”, it added, re- pletely destroyed by the fi re, agriculture ministry. ginning a hunger strike for an protesters’ action. “It is the minimum demand Ocalan’s health or his security, in ferring to the PKK. NYT piece on burqinis is ‘unacceptable’: French PM

AFP ropean Muslim women on the bur- came under fi re for saying last month it means reappropriating the body and He said the “great majority of Mus- Paris qini debate, distilling more than 1,000 that the burqini was “based notably on femininity”. lims ... do not recognise themselves in comments for the article. the enslavement of women”, reiterated These women’s assertions suggest this proselytising minority that is ex- One respondent said that she was his stance in the Huffi ngton Post piece. “complete acceptance of male domi- ploiting their religion”. rench Prime Minister Manuel “afraid of having to wear a yellow cres- Blasting foreign media for accus- nation”, Valls wrote. In France, which counts a population Valls has slammed a New York cent on my clothes one day, like the ing secular France of seeking to “un- “In France, we consider to the con- of 5mn Muslims, burqinis are extreme- FTimes article prompted by the Star of David for Jews not so long ago”. dermine Muslims’ freedom to practise trary that ... women cannot be the ly rare and only a minority of Muslim debate over the burqini (also spelled Another said: “French Muslim their faith,” he said: “It is precisely for subject of the slightest domination. women remain covered on beaches. burkini) swimsuit in which French women would be justifi ed to request freedom that we are fi ghting.” And the idea that women should be re- The prime minister said that France Muslim women complained of dis- asylum in the United States ... given Valls saw an “incredible reversal” in moved from the public arena is indeed was “proud that Islam is the country’s crimination and even “persecution”. how many persecutions we are sub- comments that he said presented the male domination,” he added. second religion. Millions of citizens The article, which appeared on Fri- jected to.” burqini as “an instrument of women’s Valls linked the promotion of the of the Muslim faith or culture respect day, painted an “unacceptable image of Valls objected “with the greatest liberation”, citing one respondent who burqini to Islamist “proselytising”. their duties perfectly and fully enjoy France because it is false”, Valls wrote vigour ... that the journalist quotes said her sister “could fi nally play with “It’s not an anodine swimming cos- their duties.” in the French-language online edition women of the Muslim faith suggesting her children on the beach instead of tume. It’s a provocation (of) radical Is- The burqini debate came as France of the Huffi ngton Post. that their voices are muzzled, to depict sitting in the shadow”. lamism that is on the rise and wants to has been rocked by a string of deadly New York Times reporter Lillie France as oppressing them”. Another said “wearing the veil does impose itself in the public arena,” Valls attacks claimed by Islamic State mili- Valls: France is ‘proud that Islam is the Dremaux solicited the views of Eu- The Socialist prime minister, who not mean being enslaved by a man ... wrote. tants. country’s second religion’. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 15 EUROPE

Friendship and death depicted in Germany’s conservatives Syrian fi lm at Venice split over state poll ‘rout’ festival Reuters/DPA Incoming refugee numbers Berlin have dropped sharply this year. There have been rumours that AFP the powerful CSU leader, Bavar- Venice erman Chancellor Angela ia state premier Horst Seehofer, Merkel acknowledged is considering a run for chancel- Gyesterday that her pro- lor in 2017 instead of supporting s a documentary on the refugee policies led to her party’s Merkel’s candidacy. Syrian confl ict, The War state election rout on Sunday That threat had always been AShow is highly personal, but said they would not be jetti- thwarted in the past by CDU capturing the lives of a group of soned even though her Bavarian warnings that it would then run youngsters from the uprising’s ally is clamouring for change. its own campaign in Bavaria. exhilarating fi rst protests to the In a rare, self-critical refl ec- “We need a change of direc- unspeakable horrors that fol- tion over a state election defeat, tion in Berlin,” Bavarian state lowed. Merkel insisted three times in Merkel: I’m also responsible, obviously ... but I believe the Finance Minister Markus Soeder Most of the footage was shot the space of a four-minute state- fundamental decisions made in the past months are the right told the Bild daily. “The voice of by Syrian radio DJ Obaidah Zy- ment in China that her decision decisions. the people can’t be ignored any toon and her friends, and goes to open the gate for refugees last longer.” from early carefree days at the year was right and would not be CDU secretary general Peter Tauber speaks after the state elections according to preliminary fi nal me, of course,” said Merkel, who CSU general secretary An- beach to sniper attacks and dis- changed. in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern yesterday in Berlin. results. has won the last three federal dreas Scheuer, Seehofer’s right- appearances, ending with the “I’m also responsible, obvi- The SPD won with 30.6% elections since 2005 but has had hand man, demanded that Mer- deaths of several of the group. ously,” Merkel said, breaking her Christian Social Union (CSU), said during a press conference in while the AfD scored a historic to delay her announcement of a kel drop her opposition to limits When Zytoon fl ed Syria she rule against speaking on domes- the Bavarian sister party of the Berlin. win over the CDU with 20.8%. run for a fourth term because of on refugees. “It’s obvious who’s took with her fi ve hard drives of tic issues while outside Germa- CDU. The CDU suff ered one of its The AfD played on the pub- CSU opposition, according to to blame for this election – not footage shot between 2011 and ny as she was on a visit to China. After Sunday’s vote, CSU worst electoral defeats when it lic’s angst that refugees, some Der Spiegel newsmagazine. the CSU.” 2013 and asked Danish director “But I believe the fundamen- leaders quickly renewed an fell to third place in Mecklen- 70% of whom are Muslims, are Her approval ratings fell 22 Grumbling in CDU ranks is Andreas Dalsgaard to help her tal decisions made in the past internecine battle with calls for burg-Vorpommern behind the overrunning Germany, siphon- points to a fi ve-year low at 45% also growing as many fear a sort them, saying she was too months are the right decisions.” limits on refugees. centre-left Social Democrats ing away housing, resources and in the year since she opened the drubbing in next year’s federal traumatised to do it alone. The poor showing of Merkel’s Earlier yesterday CDU secre- and anti-immigrant Alternative jobs from Germans. gates to more than 1mn refugees, election would cost it dozens of “They started fi lming even Christian Democratic (CDU) tary general Peter Tauber said for Germany (AfD). Merkel rejected that argu- mainly from Syria, Iraq and Af- seats in parliament. before the revolution started,” party in the Mecklenburg-Vor- that Merkel’s government had “I’m extremely dissatisfi ed ment, saying no funds were tak- ghanistan, drawn by Germany’s The CDU/CSU has slid some Dalsgaard told AFP during an pommern state vote has raised already introduced a series of with the election result,” she en away for refugees. famed prosperity, order and sta- eight points to 33% in the last interview at the Venice Film Fes- questions about her hopes of measures to reduce the refugee said, noting refugees had over- Fears of terrorism run high bility. year, Infratest Dimap said last tival, where Zytoon was present winning – or even running – for infl ux, integrate the 1.1mn mi- whelmed local issues in the rural among AfD supporters after The CSU has been railing week. for the screening but was still too a fourth term in the 2017 general grants that arrived in 2015 and northeastern state that has been two refugees carried out Islamic against Merkel’s steadfast op- “Peoples’ confi dence in the deep in mourning to talk to jour- election. improve security in the country. her home district since 1990. State-inspired attacks in July. position to putting limits on the chancellor has been badly shak- nalists. Her refusal to change course “It takes time for the meas- It was the fi rst time the CDU “Everyone’s got a lot of think- number of refugees even though en,” said Erika Steinbach, a CDU “There was a certain weird on refugees deepened a split ures to work and to win back lost to a far-right party in a state ing to do about winning voters Germany took in more than the MP. “It’s hard to tell if that can power to this footage in its frag- with the arch-conservative the trust that has been lost,” he election, winning a paltry 19%, back, and that means fi rst of all rest of Europe combined in 2015. be repaired by the election.” mentary randomness, and it was very authentic because it was fi lmed by people who had an en- ergy together, a bond that was special,” he said. The fi lm shows economics Former French minister on trial for tax fraud student Amal, architect Hous- sam, music-mad Rabea and law student Lulu with her poet boy- AFP He and his ex-wife Patricia The story of the fraud, car- to parliament was repeated in succeeding Nicolas Sarkozy, the friend, Hisham – all dreaming Paris Menard – with whom he ran a ried out between 1992 and 2013, an endless loop on French media subject of several graft investi- of freedom and the collapse of lucrative hair transplant clinic reads like a cross between a after he confessed in April 2013 gations, in 2012. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. – each face up to seven years in cheap airport novel and an inter- to holding a Swiss bank account. The aff air prompted Hol- “What’s great about these rance’s former budget jail and €1mn ($1.1mn) in fi nes if national fi nancial crime manual. He said he was “consumed by lande to order his ministers to people is they don’t fi t into any minister Jerome Cahuzac convicted. In one episode, Cahuzac, us- remorse”. disclose their personal wealth, kind of label ... they like Islamic Fwent on trial yesterday for Also in the dock are their ad- ing the codename “Birdie”, al- Cahuzac was immediately a fi rst in France, where personal poetry from the 13th century, stashing millions abroad while visers, Swiss banker Francois legedly received two cash pay- hounded by the media, telling a fi nances are rarely discussed and they like Lebanese hip-hop, and chasing tax cheats at home. Reyl and Dubai-based lawyer ments of €10,000 each on the newspaper that he had to move the wealth of public offi cials had Cahuzac arriving at the court- The Doors,” Dalsgaard said. The 64-year-old former ris- Philippe Houman. streets of Paris. “every two days” to escape the long been considered private. room on the first day of his trial Hand-held cameras capture ing star in the French Socialist The Reyl Bank of Geneva, Cahuzac initially denied the glare. Cahuzac’s lawyers in Febru- for tax fraud. the voices of those descending Party faces charges of tax eva- which in 2009 allegedly helped allegations, lodging a defama- The scandal was the fi rst of ary unsuccessfully challenged onto the streets to protest, with sion and money laundering as Cahuzac move funds to Sin- tion suit against the Mediapart a series that have tarnished the the constitutionality of the case, €2.3mn and should not be tried one moving scene featuring a girl well as under-declaring the val- gapore to avoid detection by news website that broke the sto- presidency of Francois Hol- arguing that their client had al- twice over the same matter. no older than 10 who refuses to ue of his fortune when he took French tax authorities, is also ry in December 2012. lande, who had promised a ready settled his debts with the The trial runs until September cover her face and hide her iden- up his post in 2012. being tried. Footage of the minister lying squeaky-clean government after tax authorities to the tune of 15. tity despite the risk of retalia- tion. “I’m not demonstrating to be suff ocated. I’m demonstrating to breathe,” she says. The documentary explores not only the dangers of fi lming Missing comet lander in Syria but also the evolution of the confl ict from genuine skir- mishes to groups staging battles for their own ends. “A lot of the rebels that took Philae spotted at last up weapons did so to protect demonstrators who were being attacked by the regime, so the AFP weeks before the offi cial end of and send home data before run- Free Syrian Army started to de- Paris the ground-breaking science ning out of power and entering velop as a protection of demon- mission to unravel the mysteries standby mode on November 15, strators,” Dalsgaard said. “Some of life on Earth. 2014. of these rebels started to get urope’s Rosetta spacecraft “With only a month left of the “We were beginning to think funding by showing ‘we fi ght, has fi nally spotted its tiny Rosetta mission, we are so happy that Philae would remain lost and we fi ght under a certain po- Elander Philae, thought to to have fi nally imaged Philae and forever. It is incredible that we litical label that fi ts an interna- be lost forever, stuck in a ditch to see it in such amazing detail,” have captured this at the fi - tional donor that wants this sort on the surface of a comet hur- Cecilia Tubiana of the OSIRIS nal hour,” said Rosetta mission of policy to be promoted’. tling through space, ground camera team, the fi rst person to manager Patrick Martin. From Damascus to Zytoon’s controllers said yesterday. see the images, said in a state- The photo was taken at a dis- hometown of Zabadani, and on “THE SEARCH IS OVER! I’ve ment. tance of 2.7km from the surface to Homs, Qassab, Saraqeb, and found @Philae2014!!” the Euro- The Twitter page of Philae, its of the comet, which is speed- Kafranbel, the friends fi nd towns pean Space Agency (ESA) tweet- communications unit switched ing away from the Sun at nearly This handout picture obtained from the European Space Agency (ESA) yesterday shows images of the under siege, families starving, ed on behalf of Rosetta, orbiting off in July, remained silent. 15km per second. landing craft Philae, viewed for the first time since its crash landing, captured by OSIRIS narrow-angle children wounded and men with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasi- The 100kg (220-pound) probe Rosetta is drawing closer to camera taken on September 2 from a distance of 2.7km. the scars of torture. menko at some 682mn kilome- touched down on comet 67P the comet for its own swansong. The fi lm’s fi nal chapter re- tres (424mn miles) from Earth. in November 2014, after a 10- On September 30, Rosetta will The comet-sniffi ng and After eight intermittent com- well in the air and its antennas turns to the images of Syria fa- The agency released a photo year, 6.5bn kilometre (4bn-mile) crashland and join Philae on the -prodding exploits of Rosetta munications with ground con- pointing ... groundwards”, he miliar to the world: the devasta- of the washing machine-sized journey piggybacking on Ro- surface – their eternal resting and Philae were closely followed trol, Philae fell forever silent in said. tion of cities, the mass exodus of robot lab on the comet’s rough setta. place. around the world via cartoon July 2015. That is why communicating hundreds of thousands of people surface, one of its three legs Philae bounced several times After it touches down, com- recreations of the pioneering “Philae is at the foot of a cliff with Philae had been so diffi cult. and boats carrying refugees to- thrust dramatically into the air. after its harpoons failed to fi re, munications with the craft will pair. in an extremely rocky zone” of “This wonderful news means wards the shores of Europe. This was the fi rst sighting of and ended up in a ditch shad- be severed once and for all, clos- Philae, in particular, earned a the comet, Rosetta project chief that we now have the miss- Zytoon fears the crisis is far Philae since its rough landing in owed from the Sun’s battery- ing the historic mission. loyal Twitter following. Philippe Gaudon of France’s ing ‘ground-truth’ information from being over and both she November 2014. replenishing rays. The €1.3bn ($1.4bn) project In June 2015, as it drew closer CNES space agency told AFP, needed to put Philae’s three days and Dalsgaard hope the docu- The image was captured by Until now, nobody knew ex- was conceived to unravel the se- to the Sun, some 30,000 people after examining the picture. of science into proper context, mentary will shame European Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle actly where. crets of comets – believed to be retweeted Philae’s unexpected It is now clear that after now that we know where that countries into doing more for camera on Friday and down- The tiny lab managed to con- time capsules from the birth of reawakening: “Hello Earth! Can bouncing, Philae landed the ground actually is,” said Rosetta those forced to fl ee. loaded two days later – just duct 60 hours of experiments the Solar System. you hear me?” wrong-way up, “with one foot project scientist Matt Taylor. Drivers fume as Paris turns right bank of Seine into car-free park

Reuters Georges Pompidou between the increase congestion, commuting should improve buses and sub- arguments: “We want to pedes- World Heritage site in 1991. from the left bank highway be- Paris Louvre museum and the Place time and pollution elsewhere. ways and make better use of the trianise the right bank because The right bank highway runs tween the Musee d’Orsay and the de la Bastille area to motor traf- “I’m a saleswoman, this is a river for transport. we want to give this magnifi cent past some of the capital’s main Eiff el Tower. fi c, opening it to pedestrians and hassle, it is just horrible,” French His colleague Benoit, who sells space, part of the Unesco World landmarks – the Ile de la Cite, The area is now a popular park aris plans to turn a stretch cyclists, but this year cars are not driver Corinne told Reuters at a French wine, said cycling is no Heritage, back to Parisians.” Notre Dame and Paris city hall. with outdoor cafes and sports fa- of highway on the right being allowed back as the city traffi c light. alternative to driving. He said the highway, built in “It is essential for Paris to re- cilities. Pbank of the river Seine into prepares to transform the area Others agreed. Italian wine “I carry 15 bottles of wine with the 1960s, had brought motor store its connection with the Najdovski said any impact on a pedestrian zone in an attempt into a riverside park. merchant Gianluca De Simone, me. How would I get up the hill at traffi c to a place where there was river, this river nourishes the city local traffi c would be temporary, to reduce pollution despite pro- In heavy traffi c on the first who crisscrosses Paris on his Montmartre? What about win- none before. and we want to give this space as closing main routes in cities tests from drivers. Monday of the new school year, scooter everyday visiting restau- ter, what about rain?” he said. The banks of the Seine from another function than being a usually means traffi c just “evap- Every Sunday and for much of many drivers and local business rants and bars, said that before Paris deputy mayor Christophe the Bir Hakeim bridge to the Ile freeway,” Najdovski added. orates” as people change their the summer, Paris closes the Voie owners said the measure would closing off key arteries, the city Najdovski dismissed the drivers’ Saint Louis were made a Unesco In 2013, Paris banned traffi c behaviour. Gulf Times 16 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 INDIA

POLITICS DIPLOMACY COURAGE JUDICIARY EVENT Mayawati playing politics Boon to meet Kerala CM Woman falls from train SC to hear Delhi Modi to flag off Haryana’s in name of Dalits: BJP to promote Tasmania while fighting off robber govt’s plea on Sept 9 golden jubilee celebrations

The Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday hit back Former Australian batsman David Boon will A woman off icer of the Central Industrial Security The Supreme Court yesterday said it will hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi will at Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati for meet Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Force (CISF) fell from a train while trying to save the plea of the Delhi government challenging inaugurate the year-long celebrations of accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Thiruvananthapuram tomorrow. The 55-year- her purse from a robber at a railway station the Delhi High Court’s decision on the power Haryana’s golden jubilee on November 1 working only for corporates, and accused the old played for his country between 1984 and in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh, police and position of Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on from in Gurgaon, Chief Minister Manohar former Uttar Pradesh chief minister of playing 1996, appearing in 107 Tests and 181 One-Dayers, said yesterday. Suman Dagar was travelling September 9. The Kejriwal government had Lal Khattar said yesterday. He said on that politics in the name of Dalits and said her party scoring 7,422 runs and 5,964 runs, respectively. from Ajmer to Jabalpur in an AC three-tier challenged the Delhi High Court verdict that day, the process to set up the Gurgaon was synonymous with crime and corruption. He was also Australia’s national selector for a compartment on Saturday. Near Ruthiyai the Lt Governor was the administrative head Development Authority (GDA) would begin “It seems that Mayawati is looking through decade from 2001 to 2011. Boon, who hails from Junction, Dagar collected her belongings and and had the final word in the governance and Gurgaon would be developed as a Super the prism of money and is unable to see the the island state of Tasmania, is currently part went to the door of the compartment, from of the national capital of Delhi. The bench Smart City for which a Rs5bn project would development works of the Modi government. of the Tasmanian Trade Commission and the which a youth was hanging. The youth tried to of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D be implemented. Khattar said Transport Mayawati knows that if she accepts this fact brand ambassador for his state. He is arriving in snatch her purse. While fighting off the robber, Y Chandrachud set the date for hearing and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari would then the market rate of her party tickets, which Kerala to promote his state in India. According Dagar fell off the train and was injured, Guna the plea that the Lt Governor was obliged launch a project on that day to construct she sells and earns money, will go down,” BJP to a source, Boon is expected to call on other police off icer R V S Parihar said yesterday. Dagar to act on the aid and advice of the council underpasses or flyovers at IFFCO Chowk leader Srikant Sharma said in a statement. “Not ministers and also industry captains from the was unable to prevent the robber from fleeing of ministers after senior counsel Gopal to ease traffic congestion on the national the welfare of Dalits but to earn money in the state, and will do his best to attract students to with her purse. She sustained serious injuries on Subramaniam mentioned the matter for an highway 8 connecting Delhi and Gurgaon, name of Dalits is her only agenda,” he added. Tasmania for higher studies. her hands and feet. early hearing yesterday. Signature Tower and Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon.

Mumbai soaks in Brexit not to Ganesh festival IANS hit trade ties, Mumbai

umbai and rest of Ma- harashtra shifted into a Mfestive gear with the ar- rival at homes and public places Modi tells of thousands of big, medium and small statues of the elephant- headed Ganesh for the 10-day- long annual Ganeshotsav yes- terday. The festival, initiated in an open public format in 1892 by British PM Mumbai’s Bhausaheb Laxman Javale alias Bhau Rangari, enters Two leaders meet on the the 125th year. sidelines of the G20 summit in It was popularised on a mass Hangzhou scale by freedom fi ghter Lok- manya Bal Gangadhar Tilak from Agencies 1893 onwards in Pune to unite Hangzhou the people against the British rule and in the struggle for In- dian Independence. ritish Prime Minister In less than a decade, it spread Theresa May and her Indian across the state in a big way and Bcounterpart Narendra Modi even other parts of the country agreed yesterday to look at ways where public Ganeshotsav cel- to retain strong trading links after ebrations were held. Britain leaves the European Un- A century-and-a-quarter ion, a British offi cial said. later, the festival has trans- “The Indians said they wanted formed into Maharashtra’s to look at how we could continue biggest, most opulent, glit- to have a strong trading relation- tering fi esta drawing millions ship and there was agreement Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with his British of devotees and tourists, with that as we prepare to leave the EU, counterpart Theresa May ahead of a meeting on the sidelines of G20 the biggest celebrations held in we should be exploring what that Summit in Hangzhou yesterday. Mumbai, Pune and the coastal looks like,” the offi cial said. Konkan region, where Ganesh “Prime Minister Modi said that The leaders also discussed en- UK investment and participation has for generations been a we had always been an important hancing counter-terrorism co- in Make in India. reigning deity. partner for India and nothing operation. Modi also referred to the recent This year, more than 1,300 about leaving the European Union Modi told May that the meet- passage of the Goods and Serv- public organisations are hold- would change that.” ing of the India-UK Joint Working ices Tax (GST) Bill, which, he said, ing the ‘sarvajanik’ Ganeshotsav The two leaders were meet- Group on Counter Terrorism had could further boost trade and in- programmes, according to of- ing on the sidelines of the G20 been very useful. vestment ties with the UK. fi cial fi gures, besides hundreds summit in the Chinese city of He called for greater collabora- Modi said he was working on of thousands of smaller and Hangzhou. tion in the area of cyber security making it easy to do business with household celebrations across This was Modi’s fi rst bilateral and intelligence sharing. India. the state. with May, who succeeded David May said she was keen to sup- May said she supported Modi’s The fresh aroma of diff er- Cameron after he stepped down port Modi’s vision for India and reform agenda and the UK was ent types of ‘modak’ - Ganesh’s following the Brexit vote in June. take forward the broader strategic keen to participate in Make in favourite sweet preparation - “PM underlined that even af- partnership, including the deci- India, Smart Cities and the Skill wafts across streets and roads ter BREXIT, the UK remained as sions taken during Modi’s visit to India Programme among others. everywhere as the Ganesh important a partner for India as the UK in November. The two leaders discussed fur- mandals, sweetmeat shops and before,” External Aff airs Ministry She also underlined the great ther enhancement of the defence homes prepare it in abundant spokesman Vikas Swarup told re- importance the UK attached to partnership, with Modi inviting quantities to be distributed as porters here. the Indian diaspora in UK. British defence fi rms to take part ‘prasad’ among the devotees. The issue of terrorism also fi g- May sought Modi’s sugges- in Make in India. Chief Minister Devendra Fad- ured in the Modi-May meeting. tions on further strengthening Modi also touched on UK’s visa navis started the Ganeshotsav at “PM said terrorism is the big- the partnership, particularly policy. ‘Varsha’, his offi cial bungalow, gest threat and danger to the trade and investment ties with “In particular he said that the with an ‘aarti’ (an invocation) world and knows no boundaries. the UK. new UK regulations could have and his wife Amruta sang devo- Alluding to the UK PM’s previous He referred to the recent launch negative impact on Indian work- tional songs in praise of Ganesh. stint as home secretary, he said of the HSBC Corporate Rupee ing professionals wishing to visit On the occasion, they prayed she was well aware of the dan- Bond on the London Stock Ex- the UK for short term business for the progress and welfare of gers of terrorism,” Swarup quoted change. visits” Swarup said. the people of the state. People celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai yesterday. Modi saying. India, he said, also needed more Modi invited May to visit India.

AAP leader vows to sue party Ashutosh accused of MLA over ‘baseless’ charges ‘demeaning’ women IANS police are investigating the mat- IANS on Sunday said: “I saw disturb- day after the woman approached New Delhi ter,” she said. New Delhi ing reports about women being Sultanpuri police station in north In his article published on exploited in Punjab in return for Delhi with a complaint of sexual NDTV website on September 1, ticket. The MLAs of Delhi are un- harassment against him. he National Commission Ashutosh said a public fi gure is am Aadmi Party leader aware about what is being done by A case was fi led and Kumar was for Women (NCW) yester- entitled to their private space and Sanjay Singh yesterday party representatives in Punjab. booked under Sections 376 (pun- Tday summoned Aam Aad- they should not be chased there, Avowed to fi le a defama- “Now the situation is getting ishment for rape) and 328 (caus- mi Party leader Ashutosh for “de- suggesting that what Sandeep tion case against a party legislator indefensible and disgraceful. Ac- ing hurt by means of poison, with meaning” women through one of Kumar did in private should not who accused him of “exploiting” tion needs to be taken to remove intent to commit an off ence) of the articles he wrote in defence be a matter of debate. women to promise ticket to con- rotten elements,” Sehrawat said. the Indian Penal Code (IPC). of sacked Delhi minister Sandeep He said that tall public fi gures test the Punjab assembly polls. The AAP has emerged as a ma- He was also charged under the Kumar. such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahat- “The charges levelled by jor player in Punjab, where elec- Information Technology Act’s The commission has asked the ma Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Devinder) Sahrawat against me tions are due early next year. section 67A (punishment for journalist-turned-politician to and George Fernandes had rela- are baseless and malicious. I will Meanwhile, a Delhi court yes- publishing or transmitting of ma- appear before it on September 9. tions with more than one women fi le a defamation case against terday extended the police cus- terial containing sexually explicit “The NCW feels that the lan- but this aspect of their life was Sahrawat for spoiling my image,” tody of sacked AAP minister San- act in electronic form). guage of the article was derogato- seldom discussed or held against Sanjay Singh told reporters here. deep Kumar, arrested on charges The woman in her complaint ry and demeaning towards wom- them. He said the allegation was a of rape, till September 8. alleged that she was sexually en. He has portrayed the former “Maybe these leaders were for- conspiracy by the Bharatiya Ja- Kumar was arrested following harassed by Kumar at his offi ce- minister’s act as something being tunate as they didn’t live in the TV nata Party (BJP) and the Akali Dal a complaint by a woman who fi g- cum-residence in Sultanpuri area done by many people, (and hence era; they were not caught on cam- against him and the AAP in a bid ured in a video clip with him in an where she had gone to get her ra- implying) what is the big deal era; no sting operation was done. to derail its campaign in Punjab. objectionable position. tion card made. about it. It is insulting towards Why the sex video of two consent- “The BJP and Akalis are rattled Special Judge Poonam Chaud- She alleged that Kumar off ered women in general,” NCW chief ing adults should grab headlines by the AAP’s success in Punjab hary remanded Kumar in three- her soft drinks laced with seda- Lalitha Kumaramangalam said. and why should it be debated on as they know we are getting over day police custody after he was tives following which she failed “It is trying to put blame away TV channels?” he asked. 100 seats there. The Delhi MLA is presented in court on the expiry to recall the exact sequence of from a person who has been pri- “If it is a sin and a certifi cate for being used to defame me and the of his one-day police custody. events or how she had acted. ma facie found indulging in the characterless-ness, then the role party,” he added. The former social welfare and A Delhi police team on Sunday worst crime of violence against of all the above great leaders in In a letter to Delhi Chief Min- women and child development visited the house where the wom- Congress activists led by Ajay Maken stage a demonstration against women, although the whole truth history should also be re-assessed ister Arvind Kejriwal, Sehrawat minister was arrested on Satur- an was allegedly raped. Aam Aadmi Party in New Delhi yesterday. of the matter is yet to come out as and re-evaluated.” Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 17 INDIA

Special agency needed to protect children from traffi ckers: MP

Reuters government last week showed we have created a fertile ground and keeping a child as a slave. Act, clearer emphasis on child A rethink is urgently required.” givers and parents of victims has Chennai more than 40% of human traf- for their traffi cking and abuse,” “Children cannot speak for traffi cking in the proposed Anti- Chandrasekhar said poor to change,” he said. fi cking cases in 2015 involved said Chandrasekhar, a member of themselves and neither can they Traffi cking Bill and a child sexual regulation of India’s orphanages Justice eludes many children children being bought, sold and parliament from Bengaluru. organise themselves as an eff ec- off ender register across police and child-care homes had turned who are victims of these crimes. ecades of neglect of In- exploited as modern day slaves. Government fi gures showed a tive group. They depend on adults stations in India. them into spaces for abuse and Activists blame a slow judicial dian children’s rights Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who 25% increase in cases of human to get them justice, and we are “The depth and lack of sen- traffi cking. “A couple of years process and poor use of funds by Dhave created a breeding last year set up the campaign traffi cking in India in 2015, with failing them,” Chandrasekhar told sitivity in government depart- back, a young urban couple came Indian states. ground for children to be traf- group the National Coalition to 43% of the 9,127 victims below the Thomson Reuters Foundation. ments is startling,” he said. to me seeking justice. Their “We need specialists who un- fi cked and abused, a prominent Protect our Children, said Indian the age of 18. In a series of letters written “The existing laws are not three-year-old child had been derstand the laws that promise lawmaker said yesterday, calling society had long been in denial The crimes included induc- to the government over the last working. Reporting crimes un- raped in her school. They lived our children safety. We also need for a dedicated agency to detect about child exploitation. ing a young girl with the intent year, Chandrasekhar has asked der these acts, proper investiga- in a modern Indian metropolis child friendly courtrooms and and prosecute child traffi ckers. “With child rights and safety of sexual intercourse, buying or for a revision of the Protection of tions and evidence collection is but had no access to justice. That offi cials who understand that the Crime data released by the being left unregulated for decades, selling a girl for prostitution, Children from Sexual Off ences also not happening. feeling of helplessness for care child is a unique victim.” ‘One nation’ in South Asia spreading terror: PM

IANS “The two leaders agreed to ex- Hangzhou, China pand co-operation in areas such as agriculture, mining and hy- drocarbons,” Swarup said. rime Minister Narendra “The president invited Indian Modi yesterday called for companies to participate in the Pglobal eff orts to eliminate exploration of gas reserves in terrorism. Argentina. He also sought Indian nd as the G20 Summit collaboration in the area of food ended, Modi met the security.” Aleaders of Britain, Argen- Speaking with the Turkish tina and Turkey. president, Modi raised the is- Addressing G20 leaders, Modi sue of India’s membership to urged them to “isolate and sanc- the NSG. In June, Turkey had tion supporters of terrorism.” teamed up with a group of coun- At the two-day summit held tries to oppose India’s member- Home Minister speaks to Kashmir Governor N N Vohra as other members of the all-party delegation look on in Srinagar yesterday. in the eastern Chinese city of ship to the 48-member cartel. Hangzhou, India raised the is- Modi also raised the issues sue of terrorism at various ses- of black money and tax evasion sions. at the summit, urging member Modi told Chinese President countries to act against fi nancial XI Jinping how the scourge of corruption. terrorism was aff ecting the re- “Fighting corruption, black gion. money and tax evasion were “There are some nations that central to eff ective fi nancial gov- Kashmir forces to start use it as an instrument of state ernance.” policy. One single nation in Modi urged the grouping to South Asia is spreading agents of show full commitment to ac- terror in our region,” he said. tion against financial corrup- “For us a terrorist is a terror- tion and said effective financial ist,” Modi said. He was speak- governance required action ing during his intervention against the corrupt and elimi- using chilli shells: Singh at the last session of the G20 nation of safe havens for eco- Summit. nomic offenders. Agencies from pump-action shotguns. armed forces a relatively free by the unrest in Kashmir, but MPs even as they kept waiting “India has a policy of zero “We need to act to eliminate Srinagar Speaking on a visit to the hand to use lethal force, espe- lashed out at separatists for re- outside his upscale Hyderpora tolerance to terrorism. Because safe havens for economic of- state capital Srinagar, Rajnath cially against suspected mili- fusing to talk. residence for about 10 minutes. anything less than that is not fenders, track down and un- Singh said an expert panel had tants. He said their conduct defi ed This, Singh said, “was cer- enough,” he said. conditionally extradite money olice and troops in Jam- recommended the use of Pel- The chilli compound, when the spirit of “Kashmiriyat”. tainly neither ‘Kashmiriyat’ nor On the sidelines of the sum- launderers and break down the mu and Kashmir will use argonic Acid Vanillylamide fi red, is thought to cause severe The Home Minister, however, ‘insaniyat’ (humane). mit, Modi met new British Prime web of complex internation- Pchilli-based shells instead (PAVA) shells as an alternative irritation and temporarily im- made it clear that MPs Sharad “If you do not want to talk is Theresa May, Argentine Presi- al regulations and excessive of pellet guns to quell protests, to the mainly lead-based pel- mobilise the target. Yadav, Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, a diff erent thing. But what they dent Mauricio Macri and Turk- banking secrecy that hide the federal Home Minister Rajnath lets. But although they rarely re- Jay Prakash Narayan and As- did proves they have no faith in ish President Recep Tayyip Er- corrupt and their deeds,” Modi Singh said yesterday, after hun- “The expert panel suggested sult in deaths, the birdshot from saduddin Owaisi went to meet democracy.” dogan. said. dreds of civilians sustained se- the use of PAVA shells and I the pellets can often blind vic- the separatist leaders in their Authorities lifted a curfew Modi also met Argentina’s Representing 85% of the rious eye injuries in weeks of understand that no one can die tims if the fragments hit them individual capacity and not as in most parts of the state late newly elected President Macri world’s GDP, the G20 is com- unrest. from it,” Singh told reporters as in the eye. part of the all-party delegation last month, but schools, shops and invited him to visit In- posed of Argentina, Australia, The government has been fresh violence erupted in parts Hospitals say they have treat- that was on a two-day trip to and many banks remain closed dia, External Aff airs Ministry Brazil, Canada, China, France, coming under growing pressure of the state. ed around 600 patients with eye Kashmir. while residents struggle with a spokesman Vikas Swarup said. Germany, India, Indonesia, Ita- over the level of casualties in “Since yesterday, 1,000 shells injuries in the last two months, “Some members of the del- communications blackout. The Indian leader said he ly, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Kashmir during protests against have already reached Kashmir,” many of whom will never re- egation went to meet the Hur- Fresh clashes were report- would personally take him to Arabia, South Africa, South Ko- Indian rule since the death of he added. cover full vision. riyat leaders. We had neither ed at protests in large parts the birthplace of Mahatma Gan- rea, Turkey, the UK, the US and Hizbul Mujahideen Burhan Singh was leading an all-par- Singh’s trip to Srinagar ap- said ‘no’ nor ‘yes’ to their of Kashmir on Sunday, with dhi, for whom Macri has had the European Union. Wani on July 8 in a gunbattle ty delegation. peared to make little headway in meetings. You know what hap- sources putting the number of high regards. Macri recalled his Making his intervention in the with soldiers. PAVA, also called Noniva- resolving the crisis. pened. They had gone there in injured in three fi gures. two previous visits to India, as a discussion on ‘More Eff ective More than 70 civilians have mide, is present in chillis and is On Sunday, separatist leader their individual capacity,” he “We have not the actual count tourist and as a mayor. and Effi cient Global Economic been killed and thousands in- commonly used to make pepper Syed Ali Shah Geelani turned told reporters. of the injured but it is certain Modi thanked Macri for Ar- and Financial Governance at the jured in the worst violence spray. delegation members away at the While other separatist lead- that a considerable number of gentina’s strong support for In- G-20 summit’, Modi called for to hit the state since 2010, The pellet guns are meant door of his home, where he is ers did meet them briefl y but forces personnel are also among dia’s membership in the Nuclear further strengthening the global with many sustaining inju- to minimise fatalities in pro- under house arrest. refused to hold talks, hardliner them,” a senior police offi cial Suppliers Group (NSG). fi nancial safety net. ries from metal pellets fired tests although the law gives the Singh said India was “pained” Geelani shut his door on the said.

Release Cauvery water to Teacher’s Day celebrated Govt response sought TN, court orders Karnataka on triple talaq issue

IANS had in its response on Septem- IANS and gave Tamil Nadu three days’ direction of the top court, pub- New Delhi ber 2 defended both polygamy New Delhi time to approach the Superviso- lished in offi cial Gazette on Feb- and triple talaq saying that ry Committee with its claim of 35 ruary 19, 2013. courts have no jurisdiction to tmcft of water from Karnataka. The fi nal order by the tribunal he Supreme Court yes- examine the issue as it relates he Supreme Court yester- The court gave three days’ has been challenged by Karna- terday gave the central to their religion based on the day asked the Karnataka time to Karnataka to respond to taka and Kerala. Tgovernment four weeks’ Qur’an and Shariah law. Tgovernment to release the plea by Tamil Nadu, while The bench was told that since time to fi le its response on the A bench of Justice Anil R 15,000 cusecs of Cauvery river asking the Cauvery Supervisory it has received 33 tmcft of water right of Muslim women relat- Dave and Justice Adarsh Ku- water every day to Tamil Nadu Committee to examine the mat- only so far, Karnataka may be di- ing to divorce, including triple mar Goel had by their October for the next 10 days to meet the ter in four days and pass appro- rected to release 35 tmcft. talaq, and maintenance. 16, 2015 order issued notice to demands of the summer crop in priate directions. Meanwhile farmers in Tamil A bench of Chief Justice T S Attorney General Mukul Ro- the state. Tamil Nadu has contended Nadu hoped it was only an inter- Thakur and Justice D Y Chan- hatgi Aand the National Legal A bench of Justice Dipak Misra that even if it was to accept the im order and that the fi nal order drachud accepted the request Service Authority as it directed and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit Karnataka stand that due to defi - will give suffi cient water. of Solicitor General Ranjit Ku- the separate listing of a peti- asked the Cauvery Supervisory cient rainfall in the current year, “We are happy at the Supreme mar, who sought time as the tion addressing the question of Committee to look into Tamil the infl ow of water into four ma- Court’s order. The total wa- government has been asked by the rights of Muslim women. Nadu’s plea seeking direction jor reservoirs in the state was ter release ordered for 10 days the top court to respond to a The court is examining the to Karnataka to release 35 tmcft less, it could not have been more amounts to around 12 thousand writ petition. question of gender discrimi- (thousand million cubic feet) of than 28%. mn cubic (tmc) of water. Only A bench of Chief Jus- nation in Muslim personal law water to make up for the shortfall It also contended that apply- when 25 tmc water is released tice Thakur and Justice A M in the context of fundamental in the release of water for three ing the formula as per the fi - will there be storage at Mettur Khanwilkar had said on June rights. months from June 1 to August 30. nal order of the Cauvery Water Dam for release,” S Ranganath- 29 that they “have to hear all of In the hearing on June 29, The bench took note of the Dispute Tribunal, the state was an, general secretary of Tamil A school boy presents roses to his teacher during them and take a call to what ex- 2016, senior counsel Indira impact of non-availability of entitled to 68 tmcft of water at Nadu Cauvery Delta Farmers’ celebrations for Teacher’s Day at a school in Amritsar tent courts can interfere in the Jaisinh, appearing for two peti- water for the summer crops and Billigundulu from June 1 to Au- Welfare Association, said. yesterday. September 5 is the birth anniversary of former Muslim personal laws if courts tioners, had contended that the the plight of farmers. gust 31. He said it is possible for Kar- president Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, an influential scholar fi nd they are in violation of the personal laws should be subject The bench also said that Tamil The Cauvery Water Dispute nataka to release 25 tmc of water in comparative religion and philosophy, and is celebrated fundamental rights.” to the regime of the fundamen- Nadu in turn would proportion- Tribunal’s fi nal order was passed so that it can cater to the need of as Teachers’ Day in India. The All India Muslim Per- tal rights and the court should ately give water to Puducherry on February 2, 2007 and on the crops till October. sonal Law Board (AIMPLB) address this question. Gulf Times 18 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 LATIN AMERICA Venezuela protesters released AFP an angry crowd surrounding Maduro, fol- Caracas lowing him down a street, banging pots and insulting him. Dozens of protesters were swept up in an enezuela has released all but one of ensuing crackdown, reports said. dozens of protesters rounded up after Information Minister Luis Marcano ac- Van angry, pot-banging crowd report- cused local media of exaggerating the pro- edly surrounded President Nicolas Maduro test, tweeting that the pot-banging “re- amid mass protests over the country’s crip- fl ects what remains of the right (wing).” pling food shortages. Last Thursday, Maduro’s opponents Of around 30 protesters detained, only claimed to have mobilised a mn demonstra- one — apparently a journalist who released tors in Caracas in the biggest rally in dec- videos of the chaotic protests — remained ades. in custody Saturday, Alfredo Romero of Jailed Maduro opponent Leopoldo Lopez the NGO Venezuelan Justice Forum said on said on Twitter that “the people made it Twitter. known what they want...a recall vote, and change.” Last Thursday, Maduro’s opponents The government, however, estimated that An anti-government demonstrator jumps over a coff in that represents a symbolic funeral of Brazil’s President Michel Temer during a protest in Sao Paulo. claimed to have mobilised a mn only 30,000 people attended. demonstrators in Caracas in the Jesus Torrealba, executive secretary of the biggest rally in decades opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), on Sunday called for new mass pro- With tempers heating up over the woeful tests on the next two Wednesdays. state of the economy, Maduro’s critics on He told private television network Tel- Brazilians protest Temer ‘coup’ Sunday pledged new mass demonstrations even that protests would continue until the for the next two Wednesdays to build pres- National Electoral Council (CNE) set a date sure for a recall vote, while a top socialist and specifi ed conditions for collecting the AFP Paulista Avenue, many holding Temer, who after being sworn in that our demonstration would have said no such referendum was possible before four mn signatures needed for a recall ref- Sao Paulo banners that read “Out with Te- promptly travelled to China for the 40 people. Here are those 40 people March. erendum. mer!” and “Direct elections now!” G20 summit, said the protests were — we’re already almost 100,000 on The incidents Friday, in the Caribbean is- Unless it does so soon, he said, the oppo- The Senate voted last Wednesday done by “small groups and preda- Paulista Avenue,” said Guilherme land resort city of Porlamar, came just a day sition “will protest in an energetic manner ens of thousands took to Bra- to convict Rousseff on charges of tors.” Boulos, a member of one of the op- after anti-Maduro critics had mobilised a throughout Venezuela.” zilian streets Sunday to sup- having illegally manipulated gov- “These are small groups...I don’t position groups that organised the vast march fi lling the streets of Caracas. But Diosdado Cabello, a former National Tport sacked leader Dilma ernment accounts, stripping her have it numerically, but they are 40, protest. The embattled Maduro — whose state- Assembly speaker and a leading socialist, Rousseff and protest the new govern- of her offi ce and replacing her with 50, 100 people. It’s nothing more The demonstration was held in led leftist government is fi ghting crippling vowed to “mobilise our people” against a ment of Michel Temer, who has taken Temer, her bitter enemy and former than that. Out of 204mn Brazilians, the late afternoon so as not to in- shortages of everything from hard currency recall. power and downplayed the protests. vice president. I don’t think it means much,” media terfere with the passing of the torch to food and toilet paper — had gone to Por- He told Televen that “the recall does not Demonstration organizers — who The protest ended with clashes outlets quoted Temer as saying. from the Paralympic Games, a Rio lamar to speak at the opening of a remod- have the slightest chance of being this year,” have rejected Temer’s ascendancy between demonstrators and police, The opposition dismissed the event due to start within three days elled public housing development. as the opposition demands, and would not as a “coup” — said some 100,000 who fi red gas bombs, according to president’s fi gures. — where another 2,000 people had But social media images appeared to show occur before March. protesters fi lled the major artery the news website G1. “The coup president of Brazil said demonstrated. Mexico’s slavery survivors defy stigma on road to recovery

By Anastasia Moloney, Reuters exploited as forced labourers on farms, “You need unconditional support Mexico City in factories and on building sites, ac- from psychologists and your fam- cording to the US State Department’s ily, like I have with my mother, to get 2016 Traffi cking in Persons Report. through this and move on,” said Jacin- hen her captives tied the “In Mexico we still have people who to, who will start studying at university chains around her waist a are slaves in homes, especially chil- this year. Wlittle looser than usual, Zun- dren, who work in exchange for food, Her work as an anti-traffi cking ac- duri knew it was her chance to escape. water and a bed,” said Rosi Orozco, tivist brought her, together with Zun- Wriggling free, she dashed out of who heads the Commission United duri, to the Vatican last year where the dry cleaning shop in Mexico City Against Human Traffi cking, a Mexican they shared their experiences with where she had been enslaved, beaten non-governmental organisation. Pope Francis. and starved for more than half a dec- She said the message Zunduri and “My message to others is that we can ade. other prominent survivors promote is dream. We can survive,” Jacinto said. “There is no part of my body without that lives can be rebuilt after slavery. “There are opportunities beyond the scars,” Zunduri told Thomson Reuters “They are examples to the world that life we once knew. Living again is pos- Foundation in a phone interview from traffi cking survivors can successfully re- sible.” her home in Mexico’s capital, recall- integrate back into society,” said Orozco, Both Jacinto and Zunduri hope their ONE SMOKER. ing an ordeal that shocked Mexicans as a former congresswoman who helped gradual recovery can encourage others one of the worst slavery cases to come push through Mexico’s new and tougher to come forward and rebuild their lives to light in the city. anti-traffi cking law in 2012. as Mexico does more to tackle human “Doctors counted more than 600 “It takes time for each survivor to traffi cking. scars on my body. A hot iron was put to take away the shame. But now they are The number of federal and state TWO PATIENTS. my head. I ironed and ironed. I didn’t not ashamed about what happened to investigations for traffi cking has in- see the light of day. I didn’t know when them.” creased across the country, rising to the sun set or when it rose. I had to For Zunduri, the goal is to raise 665 in 2015 from 449 in 2014, accord- drink steam from the iron to get water.” awareness about the many diffi culties ing to the US State Department’s latest Since her dramatic escape last year, facing survivors who are often trauma- report. Zunduri has become an icon of resil- tised and vulnerable. Yet prosecutions for traffi cking re- ience in a country where shame and “It’s a long process for the physi- main low in Mexico, as they do world- stigma make many slavery survivors cal scars to heal and disappear. But the wide, in an industry the International reluctant to go public. main scar is the one I have in my soul, Labour Organisation estimates is And as her alleged tormentors await in my heart, and in my mind,” said worth $150bn a year. trial, her example has inspired others Zunduri, who has undergone psycho- Few traffi cking victims get justice in TOBACCO KILLS to speak out as they seek justice and try logical therapy and plans to set up a Mexico. to rebuild their lives. bakery and learn English. Authorities convicted 86 traffi ckers “I was an animal to them,” 24-year- For Karla Jacinto, a Mexican survivor last year — around 2% of cases. old Zunduri said. “I want them to pay of sex traffi cking, life after slavery can That’s “a rate consistent with con- for everything I have had to suff er.” give way to depression and despair. viction rates for other crimes in Mex- Her fi ve alleged captors are the When Jacinto was 12, she was lured ico”, the US State Department’s 2016 woman who owned the dry cleaners, from poverty and sexual abuse at home report said. plus the woman’s two daughters, hus- by a man posing as a car salesman who Mexico’s conviction rate for human band and sister. showered her with kind words and traffi cking is high though when com- All are in prison facing charges of gifts. pared to Latin American neighbours human traffi cking, which carries a The charming “dream man” became and other countries worldwide, Oro- maximum sentence of 30 years. her boyfriend but later turned into her zco said. Their trial is set to be one of Mexi- traffi cker and tormentor, Jacinto said in But support for traffi cking victims, co’s highest-profi le traffi cking cases, a telephone interview. especially outside of Mexico City, is underlining the country’s status as a He forced her to work for four years limited, leaving many survivors vul- source, transit and destination coun- as a child prostitute on streets and nerable to being traffi cked again. try for adults and children coerced into roadside motels in Mexico and threat- In Mexico, there are no shelters for forced labour and sex work. ened to harm her family if she refused male traffi cking victims and most are While Zunduri reported the crime to or tried to escape. only for underage girls, Orozco said. police and gave testimony, prosecutors “The fi rst time with a client was She added that more needs to be and activists say thousands of slavery the hardest. I was 12. I had to close my done to provide long-term personal- cases remain invisible as many victims eyes,” Jacinto, now 24, said. ised care. don’t come forward due to fear of re- “I was forced to be with on average “There is no one model, no one re- prisal from traffi ckers. 20 to 30 men a day. Around 43,000 sponse to help survivors. Every person Nearly 380,000 people are trapped men between the ages of 12 to 16.” is diff erent, and every person needs in modern slavery in Mexico, accord- She said one man who became a reg- their own programme, their own per- ing to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by ular client helped her escape in 2008. sonalised help,” Orozco said. rights group Walk Free Foundation. “At fi rst, I didn’t want to live any- Traffi cking victims can only stay in In Mexico, the most common form more,” Jacinto said. “Some girls don’t government-run refuges for a maxi- of human traffi cking involves women escape. Some die, others commit sui- mum of six months. and girls forced into sex work, with cide.” “It’s inhumane and unfair to think indigenous people and migrants most It took two years of therapy before that a person can recover and rehabili- Issued in Public Interest by GULF TIMES vulnerable. Jacinto could begin to think about tate in that space of time,” Orozco said. Men, women and children are also moving on with her life. “The process takes years.” Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

Afghan airline grounded over debts

Afghanistan’s largest private airline has been forced to suspend operations after it Twin Taliban suicide blasts failed to clear outstanding debt and taxes. The Afghan civil aviation authority ordered Safi Airways on Sunday to pay 1.15bn Afghani ($1.7mn) before it can regain permission to resume services and sell tickets. in Kabul kill 24, wound 91 “The finance ministry decided to suspend Safi Airways AFP tack left 24 people dead and 91 activities in Afghanistan,” the Kabul others wounded, some of them Independent Directorate of seriously, adding the casualties Civil Aviation said. It added that could rise still further. authorities can also stop the t least 24 people were The Italian-run Emergency company’s executives from killed and 91 wounded Hospital in Kabul, which was travelling outside Afghanistan. Ayesterday in a Taliban overwhelmed with wounded The finance ministry has double bombing near the de- patients, tweeted that four allowed the tax off ice to seek fence ministry in central Ka- people died on arrival. court approval to confiscate bul during rush hour, the latest The interior ministry initially and sell Safi Airways property assault on the Afghan capital. said the attack was carried out if it fails to meet the payment High-level offi cials, including by two suicide bombers on foot. deadline. an army general, were among But offi cials later said the fi rst The airline, which was founded those killed in the carnage, as bomb was detonated remotely in 2006, currently flies three the Taliban ramp up their na- while the second was triggered domestic and four international tionwide off ensive against the by a suicide bomber. routes. It is the country’s US-backed government. Taliban spokesman Zabihul- second-largest airline after A suicide bomber struck the lah Mujahid said on Twitter national carrier Ariana Afghan area just minutes after the fi rst that the defence ministry was Airlines. explosion, in an assault appar- the object of the fi rst attack, Safi Airways transports many ently aimed at infl icting mass while police were targeted in the expatriates and benefits casualties as offi cials left the second. from the presence of non- ministry after work. President Ashraf Ghani governmental organisations, “The fi rst explosion occurred strongly condemned the car- private security companies on a bridge near the defence nage and off ered condolences to and other foreign entities in ministry. The second struck the families of the victims. Afghanistan. just as soldiers, policemen and “The enemies of Afghanistan Last year, the company said civilians hurried to help the vic- have lost their ability to fi ght it was looking to add 10 to 20 tims,” defence ministry spokes- the security and defence forces planes in three to five years to man Mohammad Radmanish of the country,” Ghani said in a expand business in Iran, Kuwait said. statement. and Kazakhstan. Ambulances rushed to the “That is why they are attack- The company was not scene, littered with disfi gured ing highways, cities, mosques, immediately reachable for a bodies and charred debris. But schools and common people.” comment. there were so many bodies that The attack took place more some had to be taken to hospi- than a week after 16 people were Policemen stand guard as a helicopter flies over the ministry of defence compound at the site of a twin suicide bombing in Kabul yesterday. tals in car boots and the back of killed when militants stormed Relief funds set up police pickup trucks. the American University of Af- after two university professors – The uptick in violence in the troops are seeking to head off in their biggest military victory Firemen, meanwhile, raced ghanistan in Kabul, in a nearly an American and an Australian capital comes as the Taliban es- a potential Taliban takeover of since the 2001 US invasion – for rights violation to retrieve some bodies thrown 10-hour raid that prompted – were kidnapped at gunpoint calate nationwide attacks, un- Lashkar Gah, the capital of the leaving Afghan forces stretched victims into the Kabul River by the in- anguished pleas for help from near the school. derscoring the worsening secu- southern opium-rich province on multiple fronts. tensity of the fi rst blast on the trapped students. Their whereabouts are still rity situation since Nato forces of Helmand. But Nato coalition forces have The Ministry of Human Rights in bridge. Explosions and gunfi re unknown and no group so far ended their combat mission at The Taliban have also closed insisted that neither Kunduz nor Pakistan has set up four separate Health ministry spokesman rocked the campus in that at- has publicly claimed responsi- the end of 2014. in on Kunduz – the northern Lashkar Gah are at risk of falling funds to help victims of torture Waheed Majroh said the at- tack, which came just weeks bility for the abductions. Afghan forces backed by US city they briefl y seized last year to the insurgents. and assault, and to prepare a database of human rights violations in Pakistan. Initially, an amount of Rs150mn has been set aside for Human Preparing goat for sale Rights Relief Fund; Human Rights Revolving Fund; Women in Drop in terrorist attacks Distress and Detention Fund; and Diyat, Arsh and Daman Fund. A helpline has already been set up under the Human Rights Relief Fund. observed in Pakistan The ministry provides legal aid to victims of human rights violations under this fund. Internews scured in the global statistics Although terrorist attacks Human Rights Revolving Fund Islamabad due to considerable decreases took place in 92 countries aims to provide financial help in the number of terrorist at- in 2015, more than 55% of to victims of torture and other tacks in Iraq, Pakistan, Bangla- all attacks took place in fi ve crimes. here has been a marked desh, Egypt and Nigeria during countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, The funds also aim to improve reduction in terrorist the fi rst six months of the year. Pakistan, India and Nigeria. DNA testing and forensic Tattacks and deaths in The statistics for Pakistan, And 74% of all deaths due to science laboratories for better Pakistan in 2015, but terrorists however, also indicated that terrorist attacks took place investigation in sexual assault seem to have become more le- the terrorists became more le- in fi ve countries: Iraq, Af- cases. Under the Women in thal as the ratio of deaths per thal in 2015 compared to the ghanistan, Nigeria, Syria and Distress and Detention Fund, attack has increased. previous year. In 2015, there Pakistan. women prisoners would be The statistics from a com- were 1.10 deaths per attack, While the militant Islamic provided medical facilities. parative study of the US State compared to 0.99 in 2014. State (IS) group was responsi- The fund will also help in Department’s country reports The total number of peo- ble for 31% fewer terrorist at- rehabilitating women prisoners. on terrorism for 2014 and 2015 ple injured in terrorist attacks tacks in Iraq, the number of at- The ministry would arrange also show a greater decrease in dropped by 53%, from 2,836 in tacks carried out by IS in Syria payment of diyat and fines of the number of people injured in 2014 to 1,325 in 2015. Injuries increased by 39%. prisoners who are languishing in these attacks. per attack also decreased from The geographic reach of at- jail due to non-payment of diyat The comparative study, re- 1.61 in 2014 to 1.36 in 2015. tacks by IS and its affi liates and fines. leased recently, coincided with The most noticeable im- expanded as several exist- A trader, left, uses a file tool to shape horns of a goat as other man holds the animal before putting it Victims of domestic violence a debate in the National As- provement was in kidnapping ing terrorist groups pledged up for sale at a makeshift cattle market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi yesterday. will also be provided legal and sembly in Islamabad this week and hostage-taking cases, allegiance to IS. financial aid under the relief fund. on the law and order situation which decreased to 269 in 2015 In addition to Boko Haram in the country. from 879 in 2014. in West Africa, the most active The Interior Ministry shared The US study also showed of these IS branches were lo- the State Department’s statis- several signifi cant global cated in Afghanistan, Pakistan, tics with parliament to prove trends. Egypt, Libya and Yemen. that the ongoing operations The total number of terror- The number of attacks in Political deadlock delays passage of women bills against terrorists had helped ist attacks in 2015 decreased by which victims were kidnapped improve the situation greatly. 13% around the globe and total or taken hostage declined in According to the US State deaths due to terrorist attacks 2015; however, the number of Internews Hamid told media persons that Laws (Criminal Laws Amend- Leaks and it is ignoring its basic Department, there were a to- decreased by 14%, compared kidnap victims and hostages Islamabad both bills were scheduled to be ment) Bill, 2015 had lapsed as responsibility.” tal of 1,009 terrorist attacks in to 2014. increased. This was prima- presented in the joint sitting of they could not be passed by the These two bills had been origi- Pakistan in 2015, compared to “This was largely due to rily due to an increase in the parliament in the fi rst week of Au- National Assembly within the nally presented in the Senate in 1,823 in 2014, which is a 45% fewer attacks and deaths in Pa- number of attacks involving eepening political tur- gust. But the political logjam over stipulated timeframe of 90 days. January 2014 by a former senator decrease. The total deaths in kistan, Iraq and Nigeria. This exceptionally large numbers of moil in Pakistan has ef- the Panama Papers seems to have About the undue delay in call- Sughra Imam as a private member the attacks 1,081 in 2015 com- represents the fi rst decline victims. Dfectively kept two pro- overshadowed everything else. ing the joint session of parliament, bills. However, they could not be pared to 1,761 in 2014 went in total terrorist attacks and In 2015, a total of 11,774 ter- women bills on the backburner. The prime minister’s daugh- Senator Farhatullah Babar said, “The presented during the joint sitting of down by 39%. deaths worldwide since 2012,” rorist attacks occurred world- A special parliamentary panel ter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, had government is not serious about leg- parliament in April this year, in the But in Afghanistan, the the State Department noted. wide, resulting in more than unanimously passed the anti- also tweeted back then that the islating on important issues.” face of opposition from the Jamiat number of total attacks in 2015 In several countries, including 28,300 total deaths and more honour killing and anti-rape two pro-women bills would soon Babar maintained that it was Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F). increased by 127% between Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, than 35,300 people injured. bills on July 21, paving the way be passed by parliament. a matter of deep concern that However, the government constitut- February (88 attacks) and the Philippines, Syria and Tur- In addition, more than 12,100 for the proposed legislation to be Earlier, the proposed laws the government is obsessed with ed a special body – Committee of Joint May (200). key, terrorist attacks and total people were kidnapped or adopted during the joint session. Criminal Laws Amendment protecting the prime minister Sittings Bills – to speed up legislation However, this trend is ob- deaths increased in 2015. taken hostage. Law and Justice Minister Zahid Bill, 2015, and the Anti-Rape from the fallout of the Panama on the long-delayed process. Teachers reluctant to use interactive smart boards

Internews Department had installed 600 The education department is said that the teachers were not from the textbooks and some- of his school. The 10 sections of to be provided refresher train- Peshawar interactive smart boards in the set to install ISBs in 500 more taking interest in the training. time using the black boards. class 9th and 10th had been using ing courses about how to oper- government high and higher schools in the ongoing fi nan- They said that the lack of inter- They teachers using ISBs are it, the teacher said. So a timetable ate ISB, adding it had made the secondary schools in Khyber Pa- cial year, the sources said, not- est was stated to be fi ve to six hours very happy, saying these boards has been made to give chance to teaching process easy and con- round 70% of the 600 in- khtunkhwa during last two years ing that even the famous private training at a stretch. The teachers are a very eff ective teaching tool. each section to use ISB, he said. vincing by doing away with the teractive smart boards in- ago to teach the students with schools had not provided this picked very little from the training “If possible the government The teacher said that the ISB traditional teaching methods. Astalled in the government the help of audio-visuals tools. facility to their students. as everything was new for them. should install ISBs in each class- was very helpful for students in A senior offi cial of E and SE schools at a cost of Rs260mn The interactive smart board After installation of ISBs the Like cellular phones sets, they room because the teacher can eas- clearing their concepts of diff er- Department said that the de- ($2.476mn) are not being used by (ISB) is an advanced teaching tool, education department provides said, the ISB’s commands would ily make the students understand ent topics. “The teachers are not partment had planned to arrange teachers, mainly because of their which is very useful in teach- one day training to two teachers be learned by more usage and in- about any complicated topic,” said required to draw diagrams on the refresher training for the teach- lack of interest and computer ing biology, chemistry, physics from each school on how to op- volvement. Instead of imparting a teacher of the Government Higher blackboard or display the charts for ers, as they were not much in- profi ciency, according to sources. and mathematics through au- erate these boards, they said. Be- their lectures through ISBs the Secondary School City No. 1. teaching purposes as everything is terested in the previous training They said that the Elemen- diovisuals with the help of already ing not familiar with the infor- teachers prefer the traditional He said that only one ISB had installed in the ISB,” he said. when ISBs were introduced for tary and Secondary Education installed software, they said. mation technology, the sources method of loudly reading a topic been installed at the computer lab He said that teachers needed the fi rst time. Gulf Times 20 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 PHILIPPINES Paying tribute to blast victims Obama throws planned meeting with Duterte into doubt

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S President Barack Obama said yesterday he Uwas considering wheth- er or not to meet his Filipino counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, as planned, amid alarm over the latter’s campaign against ille- gal drugs in which thousands of people have died. Earlier in the day, the plain- talking Duterte had told report- ers he would swear at Obama if he tried to question him about extra-judicial killings, using a Filipino expletive to describe the Tourists off er candles and prayers at the memorial site for the victims of Friday night’s explosion in a market in Davao city yesterday. US president. Speaking at a G20 meeting in China, and before travelling to Laos for a summit where he was due to hold talks with Duterte, Obama said he had asked his US President Barack Obama has called a planned meeting with Rodrigo team to fi nd out if “constructive, Duterte into question after the Philippine leader launched a tirade Beijing denies building on artifi cial productive conversations” were against him. possible. “Obviously the Filipino peo- “It is rude.” The former refuses to recognise that July ple are some of our closest crime-busting mayor of south- ruling. island after Manila concern friends and allies and the Philip- ern Davao city won the presi- Since then, the Philippines pines is a treaty ally of ours. But dency in May promising to sup- has sent mixed signals to China. I always want to make sure that press crime and wipe out drugs Duterte said last month he AFP to ask Beijing — possibly at a evant waters and the situation illegal. China has sought to if I’m having a meeting that it’s and drug dealers. expected all Asean members to Beijing regional summit in Laos this have always been like that, bolster its claims by building actually productive and we’re While his campaign has won support the arbitration court’s week — if they are reclaiming and has not changed,” said a network of artificial islands getting something done,” he told popular support, the killings ruling, but that the Philippines the shoal despite an interna- Hua Chunying, a Chinese for- capable of supporting military reporters in the eastern Chinese have alarmed rights groups and would not raise the issue in Laos. hina yesterday denied tional court ruling rejecting eign ministry spokeswoman. operations. city of Hangzhou. brought expressions of concern Yesterday, he showed no signs it had begun building most of China’s claims in the Hua, at a regular briefing Its massive land reclama- “I’m going to make an assess- from the United States, a former of backing down in his anti-drug Can artifi cial island at a resource-rich area. yesterday, cautioned the Phil- tion has prompted criticism ment...What is certainly true is colonial power and a close Phil- campaign. South China Sea fl ashpoint and On Sunday Philippine De- ippines not to “hype up” the from the US and claimant that the issues of how we ap- ippine ally, and the United Na- “Plenty will be killed until the cautioned the Philippines not fence Secretary Delfin Loren- situation. The shoal, which is countries, with Washington proach fi ghting crime and drug tions. last pusher is out of the streets. to “hype up” their maritime zana said a Philippine air just 230 kilometres from the warning it endangers freedom traffi cking is a serious one for all The frank public exchanges Until the (last) drug manufac- dispute. force plane saw four Chinese main Philippine island of Lu- of navigation in international of us, and we’ve got to do it the threaten to overshadow the As- turer is killed we will continue,” Philippine President Ro- coastguard ships, two barge- zon, has long been a bone of waters. right way.” sociation of Southeast Asian he said. drigo Duterte said Friday he like vessels and two suspected contention. China took con- The United States has Earlier, Duterte made it clear Nations (Asean) and East Asia Police say about 900 of those had received an “unsettling” troop ships near the shoal on trol of it in 2012 after a stand- warned of “actions” if Beijing he would not be lectured on hu- Summits in Laos from today to killed died in police operations, intelligence report showing Saturday. off with the Philippine navy. extends its military expansion man rights by Obama, adding Thursday. and the rest were “deaths under China had sent barges to the “The Chinese side has A UN-backed tribunal ruled to Scarborough Shoal. that “plenty will be killed” be- There the 10-member Asean investigation”, a term human contested Scarborough Shoal maintained the patrol by in July that China’s claims to Apart from the Philippines, fore the end of a crackdown that will meet leaders of other re- rights activists say is a euphe- and had appeared to begin coastguard vessels in relevant almost all of the South China Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and has led to the deaths of about gional powers: China, Japan, mism for vigilante and extraju- construction in the area for waters and there have also Sea had no legal basis and its Taiwan also have partial claims 2,400 people since he became South Korea, Australia, India, dicial killings. the first time. been some fishing boats for construction of artificial is- to the sea, through which over president two months ago. Russia and the United States. Duterte earlier lambasted the Duterte has said he intends fishing operations in the rel- lands in disputed waters was $5tn in annual trade passes. “I am a president of a sov- The Philippines has been a key United Nations after it criti- ereign state and we have long US ally in its dispute with China cised the surge in killings and he ceased to be a colony,” Duterte over the South China Sea, where turned down a meeting with UN told reporters before setting off Washington blames Beijing for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Govt eyes 14% defence budget rise to secure seas, fight rebels for Laos, when asked about his militarising a vital global trade in Laos. planned meeting with Obama. route and jeopardising freedom In response to a bombing last The Philippines is proposing a 14% increase in defence spending five nationalities. Abu Sayyaf has this year beheaded two Canadian “Who is he to confront me? As of movement at sea and in the week that killed 14 people in Du- next year to buy new ships and aircraft to boost its fight against hostages and President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military to a matter of fact, America has one air. China rejects those accusa- terte’s hometown, his govern- militants and enhance maritime security in the disputed South “destroy” the group. too many to answer for,” he said. tions, and in turn blames the ment on Monday signed a decla- China Sea. According to internal documents seen by Reuters yester- The government believes it was behind Friday’s bombing in Davao “Everybody has a terrible record United States for ratcheting up ration of a “state of lawlessness”, day, about 130bn pesos ($2.8bn) or 96 % of the proposed defence city that killed 14 people. of extrajudicial killings.” tensions unnecessarily. a term that has left many Filipi- budget, would go to the armed forces. The government has proposed a 3.35tn pesos national budget for Asked after arriving in the China claims most of the nos concerned that it might be The push to beef up military spending reflects regional concern next year, which the bicameral legislature is expected to approve Laos capital of Vientiane wheth- South China Sea, through which draconian and open to abuse by about China’s maritime assertiveness and the new government’s de- before the end of the year. er the meeting would go ahead, more than $5tn of trade moves security forces. termination to crush the entrenched and lucrative network of the Is- A senior defence off icial told Reuters 2017 would be the second year Duterte replied: “Maybe, if I feel annually. The government, however, lamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels behind a spree of kidnappings. in a row that the government is spending 25bn pesos for the mod- good. I don’t want to quarrel Brunei, Malaysia, the Philip- has been keen to allay fears the Some 25bn pesos would go to a modernisation programme, the ernisation plan, which is slated to cost 82bn over a five-year period. with him. pines, Taiwan and Vietnam have obscure order might impinge on Department of National Defence said in the documents, including The country is set to award contracts for two frigates for navy and He’s the most powerful presi- rival claims. civil liberties. the acquisition of two surveillance planes and six close-air support three radar systems for the air force, which are designed to improve dent...on the planet.” An arbitration court in The Offi cials have repeatedly said planes to fight Abu Sayyaf. monitoring in the South China Sea. Duterte added that he did not Hague invalidated China’s vast the declaration simply allows the The rebels, who have their stronghold in two southern islands in Part of the funds will go to instalments to pay for 12 Korean-made believe the subject of extrajudi- territorial claims to the water- armed forces to support police the Muslim-majority south, are holding more than 20 hostages of FA-50 jets, two of which arrived last year. cial killings should be raised at way after a case was brought by operations, such as at check- such a summit. the Philippines, though Beijing points. As bodies pile up, many fear to talk about president’s war

Reuters Very little stands in the way of his Obama, when in the United States he tors nationwide, the IAS is able to deal Manila campaign. alleged “black people are being shot with just 30% of the roughly 30 cases Last week, the number of people even if they are already lying down”. coming in every day. killed since July 1 reached 2,400: about Duterte may intensify the crack- “Our resources are breaking at the he body of 22-year-old pedicab 900 died in police operations, and the down after 14 people were killed on Fri- seams,” said Leuterio. driver Eric Sison lies in a coffi n rest are “deaths under investigation”, day in a bomb attack at a market in his The IAS chief is supposed to be a ci- Tin a Manila slum with a chick a term human rights activists say is a hometown, Davao. Police blamed the vilian to ensure its independence but pacing across his casket, placed there euphemism for vigilante and extraju- Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic State-linked Leuterio is a policeman who spent 13 in keeping with a local tradition to dicial killings. group Duterte has vowed to destroy, years of his career in Duterte’s home- symbolically peck at the conscience of Duterte’s offi ce did not immediately but his war on the drug trade is mak- town, Davao. He says he is unbiased his killers. respond to a request for comment for ing enemies elsewhere and the attack and has a track record of dismissing Cellphone video footage circulating this story. But he told a news confer- quickened rumours of a plot to kill him. hundreds of offi cers for misconduct. on social media purports to capture the ence yesterday that “plenty will be Duterte has declared a nationwide The CHR, for its part, is looking moment Sison was killed last month killed” in his campaign. “Until the “state of lawlessness” after the blast at just 259 of the 2,000-plus killings when, according to local offi cials, po- (last) drug manufacturer is killed we that authorises troops to reinforce the since July 1. The commission says its lice were looking for drug pushers in will continue,” Duterte told reporters Police officers distribute leaflets to residents during a house-to-house campaign police with checkpoints and patrols. biggest obstacle is that witnesses are the Pasay township of the Philippines’ before leaving for a regional summit in on illegal drugs at an affluent neighbourhood in Manila. He has managed with remarkable hard to fi nd. One person who did come capital. A voice on the video, recorded Laos. speed to nationalise a model for fi ght- forward is Harrah Kazuo, whose hus- by a neighbour according to newspaper Reuters interviews reveal that the the death toll rose, a July poll by Pulse the “madness” that led in one case to ing crime that he pioneered as mayor band and father-in-law were severely reports, can be heard shouting “Don’t police’s Internal Aff airs Service (IAS) Asia put Duterte’s approval rating at a fi ve-year-old girl being shot in the of Davao for 22 years. beaten and shot dead in a police sta- do it, I’ll surrender!”. Then there is the and the Commission on Human Rights 91%. head. “How many more of these cases Across the country now, lists of sus- tion, according to a CHR report. sound of gunfi re. (CHR) are so overwhelmed by the kill- Anxious reminders by the Catholic of collateral damage are we willing to pected drug pushers are being provid- She told Reuters that when the po- A poster near the coffi n, which lies ings that they can investigate only a Church of the commandment ‘thou bear before we can really start scream- ed to police by neighbourhood chiefs, lice entered their home without a war- beside a stinking canal cut between ram- fraction, and there is scant hope of es- shalt not kill’ make few headlines in the ing about it?” she asked. adding to a sense of fear and distrust rant they even removed her toddler’s shackle homes, demands “Justice for tablishing many as unlawful because predominantly Catholic country, with As for critics abroad, Duterte pours across communities. underwear to search for drugs. Eric Quintinita Sison”. A handpainted witnesses are too terrifi ed to come for- newspapers preferring to carry breath- scorn on them in language larded with Politicians of all hues have gone qui- Police have declined comment on sign reads: “Overkill — Justice 4 Eric.” ward. less accounts of the latest slayings. curses. et, and a Senate enquiry led by de Lima what happened in the home, but two These are rare tokens of protest Meanwhile, the immense popular- Duterte has delivered withering at- He lambasted the United Nations only has the power to propose legisla- offi cers have been arrested and charged against a surge of killings unleashed ity of Duterte’s crusade and a climate tacks on his chief critic, Senator Leila after it criticised the surge in killings tion. Chief Superintendent Leo Angelo with murder in connection with the since Rodrigo Duterte became presi- of fear it has engendered have severely de Lima, accusing her of dealing in and he turned down a meeting with Leuterio, who heads the IAS, says it is case. dent of the Philippines just over two restrained dissent from civil society. drugs herself and having an aff air with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at his offi ce’s responsibility to investigate Kazuo has been taken into witness months ago and pledged to wage war Hardly anyone turned up at candle- her driver. “It’s only the president who a summit in Laos this week. every discharge of fi rearms involving protection by the CHR. on drug dealers and crush widespread light vigils in Manila recently to protest can stop this,” de Lima told Reuters last Duterte has also made it clear he will police. She is a rare protesting voice in an addiction to methamphetamine. against extrajudicial killings. Even as week, deploring what she described as take no lecture on human rights from But with only about 170 investiga- environment where many are fearful. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Five held WHO certifi es Lanka over attack as Malaria-free nation on Lanka IANS can be made when targeted ac- that prompt and eff ective treat- the presence of health ministers laria from all low-and moder- Colombo tion is taken,” said the WHO ment could reduce the parasite and senior offi cials from all the 11 ately-endemic states and union envoy in statement. reservoir and the possibility of member states. territories by 2022 and reduction According to WHO, after Ma- further transmission,” said the India accounts for 70% of in the disease cases to less than he World Health Organi- laria cases soared in the 1970s statement. Malaria cases and 69% Malaria one per 1,000 population in eve- sation has certifi ed Sri and 80s, the country’s anti-Ma- “By 2006, the country record- deaths in the Southeast Asian ry part of India by 2024. TLanka as a Malaria-free laria campaign in the 1990s ad- ed less than 1,000 cases of Ma- region countries. At least 1.13mn Preventing re-transmission Malaysia nation on having eliminated justed its strategy to intensively laria per year, and since October cases were reported in the coun- of Malaria in areas where it has the life threatening disease, a target the parasite in addition to 2012, the indigenous cases were try last year. been eliminated and maintain- statement said. targeting the mosquitoes. down to zero. For the past three- The health ministry had ing Malaria-free status of the AFP “Sri Lanka’s achievement is Sri Lanka is the second coun- and-a-half years, no locally launched the National Frame- country by 2030 are its other Kuala Lumpur/Colombo ly against former Sri Lankan truly remarkable. In the mid- try in the WHO Southeast Asia transmitted cases have been re- work for Malaria Elimination in objectives. president Mahinda Rajapakse, 20th century it was among the region to eliminate Malaria after corded.” February this year, with a view Dengue and Chikungunya are who was attending an interna- most Malaria-aff ected coun- Maldives. The announcement of Sri to eradicating the mosquito- the other mosquito-borne dis- alaysian police said tional conference, local media tries, but now it is Malaria-free. “The change in strategy was Lanka’s victory over Malaria was borne disease from India by eases prevalent in India, with yesterday they have reported. This is testament to the cour- unorthodox, but highly eff ec- made on Monday at the WHO 2030. Delhi alone witnessing over 400 Marrested fi ve people Rajapakse ordered the age and vision of its leaders and tive. Mobile Malaria clinics in Southeast Asia region’s annual The objectives of the frame- cases of Dengue and Chikun- after a group of protesters as- bloody military assault which signifi es the great leaps that high transmission areas meant regional committee meeting in work include eradication of Ma- gunya each. saulted the Sri Lankan ambas- ended Sri Lanka’s war with sador at Kuala Lumpur Inter- Tamil separatist guerrillas in national Airport. 2009. Malaysian authorities International rights groups said the attack on high have said up to 40,000 civil- Marking anti-human trafficking day commissioner (ambassa- ians may have been killed in Bangladesh dor) Ibrahim Sahib Ansar on the fi nal off ensive, a charge Sunday left him with minor denied by Colombo. injuries, but they have so far Sympathisers of the police given no details on the iden- Tamil victims in the almost tities or background of the three-decade long civil attackers. war burnt an effi gy of Ra- arrest four “Five people have been ar- japakse during the protests rested and we are investigat- in Malaysia. ing the motive for the attack,” Police have warned local In- women Abdul Samah Mat, police chief dian groups not to show sup- of Selangor state, said. port for the Liberation Tigers In Colombo, Sri Lanka’s of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) them- militants foreign secretary Esala selves. Weerakoon summoned Ma- “I want to warn these laysia’s top envoy, Wan Za- groups which support the Agencies idi Wan Abdullah, and de- LTTE that it is a group that Dhaka manded adequate security is banned by the United for Colombo’s diplomatic Nations,” national police mission. chief Khalid Abu Bakar was t least four women ter- The foreign ministry ex- quoted as saying by The Star rorists of the outlawed pressed “disappointment yesterday. Amilitant outfi t Jamaat- that the Malaysian authori- More than 2mn of multi- ul-Mujahideen were arrested ties had failed to provide ethnic Malaysia’s 31mn people yesterday in Bangladesh, weeks necessary protection” de- are ethnic Indians. after similar arrests were made spite warnings of a possible Most are descendants of la- as part of nationwide crack- Participants hold placards during a rally on the occasion of the National Anti-Human Traff icking Day in Kathmandu yesterday. The threat. bourers brought from ethnic down following the country’s day is celebrated yearly to bring the awareness of stopping and preventing human traff icking. Human rights activists, civil society Almost 100 ethnic Indian Tamil areas of southern India worst terror attack on an up- members, government off icials, students and police personnel marched in the rally through the streets. protesters had gathered in by Malaysia’s former British scale cafe in Dhaka, a media Kuala Lumpur last week to ral- colonial masters. report said. “We carried out the pre- dawn raid acting on a secret tip off ... It was a rented house from where these women were conducting drives in recruit- ing other women in the name Dhaka set to carry Landslides claim 7 of preaching Islam,” Sirajganj’s district police superintendent Miraz Uddin Ahmed said. Police also seized a large quantity of bomb-making ma- out study on overseas lives across Nepal terials, six improvised bombs, nine Jihadi books, four grenade shells and electrical equipment Agencies Security personnel and lo- Khodambu have taken refuge at from the den, he said. Kathmandu cals pulled the bodies from the their relatives’ houses. All the four arrested women employment markets debris on Saturday morning. “It rained throughout Fri- are married and aged between Locals had informed police day night. Had the villagers not 18 and 30. They are being ques- t least seven people were about the incident after they moved to safer places on time, tioned by police ahead of subse- By Mizan Rahman study, which will also be a mar- to Singapore, 34,533 to Malay- killed in landslides trig- heard the cries of children from there could have been more quent legal procedures. Dhaka ket research paradigm for car- sia, 18,889 to Kuwait, 15,449 to Agered by torrential rains the buried house. The eff orts casualties,” said Nirmala Bhat- Earlier on August 16, elite an- rying out studies in the future. Jordan, 9,827 to Lebanon, 4,772 across Nepal over the past 24 of security personnel to rescue tarai, a local teacher. The dis- ti-crime Rapid Action Battalion Abdur Rauf, joint secretary, to the UAE, 3,859 to Iraq, 3,308 hours, media reports said. them alive, however, were not trict received 137mm of rain on (RAB) arrested three women n view of dwindling job Expatriates’ Welfare and Over- to Brunei, 3,257 to Mauritius Four people, including three successful. Friday night. Transportation students of a private university market in the Gulf coun- sees Employment Ministry, and 1,301 to South Korea. members of a family, were bur- Similarly, Dil Kumari services have come to a halt and a woman intern at the Dha- Itries, Bangladesh is now set told newsmen that the study BMET offi cials forecast ied to death in separate land- Palungwa died after a land- along the Taplejung stretch on ka Medical College Hospital for to diversify destinations of the will focus on expansion of the that Bangladesh will be able slide incidents in Taplejung slide swept away her house Mechi Highway. their alleged links with Jamaat- country’s job-seekers. As part existing key markets and ex- to export more than 700,000 municipality on Friday night. in Taplejung-8. The victim’s On Saturday, a couple was ul-Mujahideen (JMB), blamed of the move, the country is now ploration of newer ones. workers in 2016, up from some Dozens of cattle, goats and sister Krishna Kumari, who buried to death in a landslide for the terror attack on an up- set to conduct a comprehensive The demand for Bangladeshi 556,000 in 2015. sheep were killed in the dis- sustained serious injuries, is at Kulung-9 in Bhojpur. Bharat scale cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 study on 50 overseas job mar- workers will be assessed in some Since 1976, more than 10mn aster. At least 75 families have receiving treatment at the dis- Rai, 58, and his wife Rammani, people, including an Indian girl. kets for the fi rst time to assess 50 markets, particularly the Bangladeshi workers went been displaced. trict hospital, police said. 54, died when the landslide JMB is known for its ideologi- the job demand and explore existing big ones in the Middle abroad taking BMET clearance. Bimala Magar, 28, and her According to chief district buried their house, police said. cal inclination to ISIS. newer markets. East and Europe, he said. Of them, the highest 875,000 sons Manoj, 9, and Lalit, 7, died offi cer Chakrapani Pandey, In Myagdi, a landslide This is the third such major The study will be conducted Rauf said it will be the fi rst workers went abroad in when a massive landslide bur- 42 families of ward No. 7 have claimed the life of an elderly incident of arresting women under the supervision of Bu- comprehensive study on over- 2008, while the second high- ied their house in Taplejung-2, been displaced. The displaced person. Om Prasad Bhattach- militants since July when seven reau of Manpower, Employ- seas job markets which will est 832,000 in 2007. But the police said. The victims were people are taking shelter at a an, 72, died when the landslide women JMB activists, three of ment and Training (BMET) help boost the manpower ex- number of migrated workers sleeping when the disaster oc- local school. Displaced fami- buried a shed in Devisthan-5 them members of its suicide from November 2016 to April port. Previous studies only fo- came down at 475,000 in 2009 curred. lies from Suketar, Bejambu and on Saturday. squad, were arrested from Tan- 2017. cused on partial scenario of the and 390,000 in 2010. gail. The research will mainly as- manpower export markets. Bangladesh sent abroad Security agencies have ar- sess trade qualifi cations and Bangladesh is now export- 568,000 workers in 2011, rested dozens of JMB militants capabilities of the overseas ing manpower to 161 countries, 608,000 in 2012, while with offi cials calling some of employment markets as well while the number of Bangla- 409,000 in 2013 and 426,000 Jumbo treat them as masterminds of the as project future demands for deshi workers in many markets in 2014. outfi t as a nationwide anti-mil- Bangladeshi manpower, BMET other than the Middle East is In 2015, Bangladeshi expa- itant security clampdown is un- director Nurul Islam told very few. triates sent $15.27bn remit- derway since the July 1 attack. newsmen in Dhaka yesterday. According to the BMET sta- tance, which were only $5.48bn Police call the arrested op- Based on the study recom- tistics, Bangladesh exported in 2006 and $1bn in 1993. eratives as neo-JMB activists mendations, the government 483,955 workers till August 29 In the seven months till July because of their inclination to- will take initiatives to improve this year. Of them, the highest this year, Bangladesh received wards the Islamic State terrorist manpower training to avail of 130,370 went to Oman, while $8.45bn in remittances. The group, which initially claimed more and more overseas jobs, 83,098 to Qatar and 68,127 to highest $1,632mn remittance the cafe attack. But authorities Islam said. Saudi Arabia. infl ow was from Saudi Arabia, have denied presence of ISIS in The BMET has recently in- Besides, 43,806 Bangladeshi while $1,568mn from the UAE Bangladesh. vited tenders from fi rms for the workers went to Bahrain, 37,407 and $1,258mn from the USA. Delegation from IIT in Bangladesh to meet students A delegation from the Indian in Chittagong on September 6 They met higher secondary in Chittagong on September 6 Institutes of Technology (IIT) and 7. students at DPS-STS School and 7, the high commission said. is in Bangladesh to meet high The primary objective of the in Uttara, and final year The IIT delegation would school and university students visit is to make students in engineering students at the address two groups of students as part of the Indian high Bangladesh aware about the IITs Dhaka University campus separately – Group A for commission’s eff orts to provide and provide them a clear idea on Sunday. Yesterday, the students in Class 11 and 12, set to an opportunity for Bangladeshi about admissions. delegation was to meet final appear for the JEE, and Group students to pursue engineering The delegation will also survey year engineering students B for students in final year of at the premier engineering and prepare the ground at Bangladesh University of engineering target audience for institutes. for holding Joint Entrance Engineering and Technology (GATE) 2017. The delegation is on a visit to Examination (JEE) and Graduate (BUET). The JEE (Advanced) 2017 will Bangladesh from September Aptitude Test in Engineering The delegation will meet the be conducted in the month of 4-7. They are interacting with (GATE), which is planned to be higher secondary students at May 2017 and GATE 2017 in the Sri Lanka’s Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayake, third right, feeds fruits to an elephant interested students in Dhaka on conducted in Bangladesh as Aga Khan School in Uttara, and first and second weekends of after an event at a Buddhist temple near Colombo yesterday. September 4 and 5 and will be well from 2017. interact with interested students February. Gulf Times 22 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 COMMENT

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P.O.Box 2888 Doha, Qatar remain a viable project [email protected] Telephone 44350478 (news), Even if the nightmare of a cannot and will not carry its previous The EU proved over the last few and Europeans should be prepared 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) president Donald Trump burdens. decades that it could be a force for to intervene militarily if outbreaks of Fax 44350474 Meanwhile, the European Union’s globalisation – tearing down barriers violence recur. is avoided, as appears declining cohesion is undermining its between peoples and nations. But Moreover, EU leaders should pursue increasingly likely, the moral authority on the world stage. today its survival depends on showing a broader defi nition of peace than the Many of the global institutions that that it can protect citizens from the absence of war, including political United States can no longer refl ect European values and norms – very forces it has promoted. and social stability and preventing be the world’s policeman from the World Trade Organisation Maintaining the four freedoms radicalisation in Bosnia and Kosovo. and the International Criminal Court at the heart of the European project GULF TIMES to the United Nations Framework – the free movement of people, For Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova, By Mark Leonard Convention on Climate Change – are goods, capital, and services within the goal should be to promote stable London gridlocked. Europe – will be possible only if EU and predictable governments. For governments have credible policies to the next few years, the EU should In the troubled protect the most vulnerable in their view them as independent buff er Indian govt should he most frightening periods societies. That will mean improving states rather than as member-states- in history have often been Middle East, the EU protection of the EU’s external in-waiting. It will be particularly interregnums – moments borders, compensating domestic important not to set red lines that the Tbetween the death of one cannot hope to be losers from migration and free trade, EU is not willing to defend. heed Rajan’s advice king and the rise of the next. Disorder, and soothing public fears about In the troubled Middle East, the EU war, and even disease can fl ood into the central actor terrorism. cannot hope to be the central actor. the vacuum when, as Antonio Gramsci The danger is that much of what the But EU countries cannot protect their put it in his Prison Notebooks, “the Regionally, the three strands of EU rightly pushed for during the good populations from instability if they are on interest rate cuts old is dying and the new cannot be the European order are unravelling: times could hasten its unravelling now, only spectators. Particularly in Syria born.” The dislocation and confusion the US is seeking to reduce its during the current interregnum. For and Libya, the EU needs to playing of 2016 do not rival the turmoil of the investment in Nato, the EU is de- example, given so much uncertainty a more concerted role with regional Raghuram Rajan was the poster boy of the Indian interwar period, when Gramsci wrote, emphasising enlargement, and the about the future state of Europe and powers – as well as with the US and fi nancial establishment before he fell out with Prime but they are certainly symptoms of a chaos in the Middle East and Ukraine the world, debating enlargement Russia – to advance political processes Minister Narendra Modi’s government for reasons not new interregnum. is making a mockery of the European or the TTIP seems pointless – or that could help reduce violence, After the end of the Cold War, Neighbourhood Policy. The rise – and worse, because even opening such provide humanitarian aid, and stem yet clearly established or explained. the world was held together by an rapprochement – of illiberal forces in discussions is certain to play into the the fl ow of refugees. Now, as the 53-year-old hands over the reins of the American-policed security order and Russia and Turkey mean that the EU is hands of Euroskeptics. One of the EU’s main challenges is Reserve Bank of India to new Governor Urjit Patel, who a European-inspired legal order. Now, no longer the only pole of attraction in The EU needs to distinguish to defi ne success in a defensive era. functioned as his deputy, he has issued a stark warning to however, both are fraying, and no the region. between core and peripheral priorities. During the heyday of enlargement, the government on its keenness to further lower interest candidates to replace them have yet Worse, EU integration has gone into For issues such as EU relations with the goal was to deepen integration and rates. emerged. Indeed, unlike in 1989, this is reverse, with member states seeking to Russia and Turkey (and these two broaden its reach across Europe. Now, not a crisis of a single type of system. insulate themselves from the outside countries’ relations with each other), however, success means preventing The 53-year-old Rajan, who predicted the global Countries as diff erent as Brazil, world, rather than trying to export member states need to agree on a countries from leaving the EU or fi nancial crisis of 2008 and was Chief Economist with China and Russia are coming under their shared values. policy that recognises the interests hollowing out its institutions. the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and heightened political and economic As a result, the biggest threats to of all. But much greater fl exibility is History moves in cycles. The 2006, is credited with getting the Indian economy back pressure. free trade and the open society stem advisable in other areas, including interregnum will eventually end and a on track after being appointed as the RBI Governor in Even if the nightmare of a president from domestic sources, not external commitments to refugee re-allocation new order will be born. What is certain Donald Trump is avoided, as appears enemies. and eurozone rules, where excessive is that the survivors and inheritors of 2013. increasingly likely, the United Even in Germany, which had long rigidity could cause European unity to the old order will write the rules of the With the rupee threatening to go into a free fall and States can no longer be the world’s seemed immune to such pressures, buckle and snap. new one. The EU’s goal, achievable infl ation seemingly galloping at an alarming rate – it was policeman. Powers such as Russia, the interior minister talks of banning In addition to preventing an only with fl exibility and courage, must a whopping 9.8% in September 2013 – it was a stellar Iran, and China are probing US burkas (a policy that would aff ect 300 alliance between Russia and Ankara, be to remain a viable project – and move by then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s UPA reactions in Ukraine, Syria, and the people), while the vice-chancellor has the EU should rethink its goals in its thus be one of the authors.- Project South China Sea. And US allies like declared the death of the Transatlantic neighbourhood. Although the Balkan Syndicate government to appoint him at the helm of the RBI. Turkey, Poland, and Japan are forging Trade and Investment Partnership countries that are outside the EU will Of course, Dr Singh being an economist himself who is independent and assertive foreign (TTIP) between the EU and the US remain there for many years, they are zMark Leonard is director of the credited with liberalising the Indian economy when he policies to make up for a US that even before the body is cold. in the European security space already, European Council on Foreign Relations. was the fi nance minister between 1991 and 1996, knew full well that Rajan’s credentials were impeccable for the hot seat. Soon enough, Dr Singh was vindicated when Rajan focused on curbing infl ation and succeeded in bringing it down to 3.78% by July 2015, the lowest in about 20 years. However, despite his widely-acclaimed success, he was the target of some harsh personal remarks by Rajya Sabha MP and perpetual loose cannon Subramanian Swamy, who insinuated that Rajan was not a BJP risks committed Indian and his work was not driven angering the by patriotism, but by middle class by some mysterious, dark agenda which would going for deeper benefi t the country’s enemies. interest rate cuts Although Modi backed Rajan, it was too little too late, besides being somewhat half-hearted, and soon it was clear that a new RBI chief would have to be found. India’s fi nance minister Arun Jaitley and others in the top echelons of the government are reportedly keen advocates of much lower interest rates, and it will be interesting to see how Patel deals with it. Will he follow the policy of his previous boss who was cautious with interest rate cuts, or would he be easily “persuaded” by the government to go for speedier cuts? Rajan himself slashed interest rates to their lowest level since 2011 but angered some in the ruling BJP who wanted deeper and faster cuts intended to boost growth further. In the US, Japan and several Western nations interest rates are kept low to keep the economy going, but the big Fertile times for Europe’s populist parties question is can India aff ord to do so? With millions of Indians relying solely on their bank By Simon Sturedee hundreds of thousands of migrants politician Geert Wilders, which Wilders, Hofer and Beppe Grillo of the savings to get by after retirement, unlike in the West AFP/Vienna fl eeing violence in the Middle East. has vowed to close all mosques and M5S in Italy among them – have at “This is a reaction to the absence of Islamic schools and ban the Qur’an, is least fl irted with the idea of their own where a strong social security system exists, regular credible European responses... to the leading polls ahead of parliamentary EU plebiscite. interest rate cuts may not be the right answer to all of lternative for Germany issues that worry people, starting with elections due in 2017. Anti-establishment parties have India’s fi nancial ills. is not the only populist the question of immigration,” he said. But it’s not just immigration. also jumped on mooted trade deals “Often when monetary policy is really easy, it (low party enjoying electoral The next evidence of this backlash Globalisation, austerity, stagnating between the EU and Canada and the interest rates) becomes the residual policy of choice,” Asuccess. Across Europe, could come on October 2 in Austria, incomes, as well as an increasingly United States as evidence that the these are fertile times for protest if Norbert Hofer of the Freedom unpopular European Union have established parties are in cahoots with Rajan told the New York Times, adding that “other movements tapping into unease about Party (FPOe) – formerly of the Nazi- boosted populist parties, on the left as multinational corporations. instruments of policy” may be needed to encourage immigration to attack a long-cosy admiring Joerg Haider – wins a tight well as the right, say experts. The International Monetary Fund’s economic growth. political establishment. presidential election. In Italy, where the right-wing Christine Lagarde conceded yesterday It is inevitable that the Modi government heed his The anti-immigration AfD scored a Northern League has long been strong, at a G20 meeting of world leaders advice. Otherwise, the BJP would be risking its political major symbolic victory on Sunday by Globalisation, the Five Star Movement (M5S), founded in China that globalisation “has to relegating German Chancellor Angela by a comedian, is shaking up national benefi t all, not a few”, but said that future by disregarding the concerns of its supporters, Merkel’s conservatives into third place austerity, stagnating politics, winning local elections in Rome the fruits of a connected world were millions of whom are from the middle class with nothing in elections in her home state. by a landslide in June. severely undersold. more than their salaries and pensions to look forward to The result means that the incomes, as well Elsewhere in southern Europe, it is There was “a determination at the end of every month. Islamophobic AfD, whose popularity groupings more of the left – Podemos around the room to better identify the has soared due to opposition to as an increasingly in Spain, Syriza in Greece – that have benefi ts of trade in order to respond Merkel’s open-door refugee policy, made hay, tapping into anger about to the easy populist backlash against is now represented in nine out of unpopular EU have austerity cuts imposed during the globalisation,” she added as leaders To Advertise Germany’s 16 regional parliaments. boosted populist eurozone debt crisis. at the summit grappled with the [email protected] Its success has been replicated In Britain, the main opposition problem. around Europe, with other anti- parties Labour party chose Jeremy Corbyn as For Paul Schmidt at the Austrian Display immigration populist parties stealing leader in 2015, a hard-left campaigner Society for European Politics (OeGfE), Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 voters in their droves from the whose beliefs placed him for decades the problem for Europe’s leaders is established centrist forces. Next year could see further on the fringes of the country’s politics. that many of the problems can only be Classified For Jean-Dominique Giulani, head electoral upsets, not least with Britain then voted to leave solved by supranational action. Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 of the Robert Schuman Foundation Germany set to hold general elections the European Union in June in a “But many voters reject this loss of think-tank, anxiety in a Europe late in the year. referendum driven in large part by sovereignty. It scares them,” Schmidt Subscription “looking for an identity” in a fast- In France, reeling from a string of worries about immigration, economic told AFP. [email protected] changing world has been on the rise deadly extremist attacks, Marine Le uncertainty and a perception that In addition, populist parties have for a while. Pen of the far-right Front National an out-of-touch Brussels elite was found in social media, where issues But, Giulani told AFP, this (FN) is on course to make a strong making the rules. can quickly “snowball dangerously”, 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved phenomenon has been “inexorably running for the presidency. Since the surprise “Brexit” result, a useful weapon with which to attack boosted” by the arrival last year of And the party of Dutch far-right many populist fi gures – Le Pen, governments, he said. Gulf Times Tuesday, September 6, 2016 23 COMMENT Global growth – still made in China

No matter how you slice it, global growth. India’s GDP is expected world. That possibility should not be to grow by 7.4% this year, or 0.8 ignored, as political pressures bear China remains the world’s percentage points faster than China. down on the global trade debate. major growth engine But the Chinese economy accounts for All in all, despite all the focus fully 18% of world output (measured on the US, Europe, or Japan, China By Stephen S Roach on a purchasing-power-parity basis) – continues to hold the trump card in New Haven more than double India’s 7.6% share. today’s weakened global economy. That means India’s contribution to While a Chinese hard landing would global GDP growth is likely to be just be disastrous, a successful rebalancing espite all the hand-wringing 0.6 percentage points this year – only would be an unqualifi ed boon. That over the vaunted China half the 1.2-percentage-point boost could well make the prognosis for slowdown, the Chinese expected from China. China the decisive factor for the global Deconomy remains the single More broadly, China is expected to economic outlook. largest contributor to world GDP account for fully 73% of total growth While the latest monthly indicators growth. For a global economy limping of the so-called Brics grouping of large show China’s economy stabilising at along at stall speed – and most likely developing economies. The gains in around the 6.7% growth rate recorded unable to withstand a signifi cant India (7.4%) and South Africa (0.1%) in the fi rst half of 2016, there can be shock without toppling into renewed are off set by ongoing recessions in no mistaking the headwinds looming recession – that contribution is all the Russia (-1.2%) and Brazil (-3.3%). in the second half of the year. In more important. Excluding China, Brics GDP growth particular, the possibility of a further A few numbers bear this out. If is expected to be an anaemic 3.2% in downshift in private-sector fi xed-asset Chinese GDP growth reaches 6.7% in 2016. investment could exacerbate ongoing 2016 – in line with the government’s So, no matter how you slice it, pressures associated with deleveraging, offi cial target and only slightly above China remains the world’s major persistently weak external demand, and the International Monetary Fund’s growth engine. Yes, the Chinese a faltering property cycle. latest prediction (6.6%) – China economy has slowed signifi cantly But, unlike the major economies would account for 1.2 percentage from the 10% average annual growth of the advanced world, where policy points of world GDP growth. With the recorded during the 1980-2011 period. space is severely constrained, Chinese IMF currently expecting only 3.1% But even after transitioning from the authorities have ample scope for global growth this year, China would “old normal” to what the Chinese accommodative moves that could contribute nearly 39% of the total. leadership has dubbed the “new shore up economic activity. And, That share dwarfs the contribution normal,” global economic growth unlike the major economies of the of other major economies. For remains heavily dependent on China. developed world, which constantly example, while the United States is There are three key implications struggle with a tradeoff between widely praised for a solid recovery, its of a persistent China-centric global short-term cyclical pressures and GDP is expected to grow by just 2.2% growth dynamic. A worker looking through the fence of a construction site that is decorated with pictures of the Great Wall at Badaling, longer-term structural reforms, China in 2016 – enough to contribute just First, and most obvious, continued north of Beijing. is perfectly capable of addressing both 0.3 percentage points to overall world deceleration of Chinese growth would sets of challenges simultaneously. GDP growth, or only about one-fourth have a much greater impact on an impact. Every one-percentage-point growth. In such a scenario, there is Chinese domestic demand has the To the extent that the Chinese of the contribution made by China. otherwise weak global economy than decline in Chinese GDP growth knocks no way the world could avoid another potential to become an increasingly leadership is able to maintain such a A sclerotic European economy is would be the case if the world were close to 0.2 percentage points directly full-blown recession. important source of export-led multi-dimensional policy and reform expected to add a mere 0.2 percentage growing at something closer to its off world GDP; including the spillover Finally (and more likely in my growth for China’s major trading focus, a weak and still vulnerable points to world growth, and Japan not longer-term trend of 3.6%. Excluding eff ects of foreign trade, the total global view), there are the global impacts partners – provided, of course, that global economy can only benefi t. The even 0.1 percentage point. China’s China, world GDP growth would be growth impact would be around 0.3 of a successful rebalancing of the other countries are granted free and world needs a successful China more contribution to global growth is, in about 1.9% in 2016 – well below the percentage points. Chinese economy. The world stands open access to rapidly expanding than ever. - Project Syndicate, fact, 50% larger than the combined 2.5% threshold commonly associated Defi ning a Chinese hard landing to benefi t greatly if the components Chinese markets. A successful 0.8-percentage-point contribution with global recessions. as a halving of the current 6.7% of China’s GDP continue to shift Chinese rebalancing scenario has the zStephen S Roach, a faculty member at likely to be made by all of the so-called The second implication, related growth rate, the combined direct and from manufacturing-led exports and potential to jump-start global demand Yale University and a former chairman advanced economies. to the fi rst, is that the widely feared indirect eff ects of such an outcome investment to services and household with a new and important source of Morgan Stanley Asia, is the author Moreover, no developing economy economic “hard landing” for China would consequently knock about one consumption. of aggregate demand – a powerful of Unbalanced: The Codependency of comes close to China’s contribution to would have a devastating global percentage point off overall global Under those circumstances, antidote to an otherwise sluggish America and China

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In a statement, DFI stressed that “as part of its commitment to promoting fi lmmaking talents in Qatar and off ering them plat- forms to strengthen their under- standing of global cinema and foster international network- ing”, the institute will host two Qatari fi lmmakers — Hafi z Ali Abdulla and Meriem Mesraoua — at TIFF. They will participate in a series of targeted workshops, networking events and industry meetings. Fatma al-Remaihi, CEO of DFIe, said: “The signifi cant showcase of eight fi lms support- ed by Doha Film Institute at TIFF 2016 is a matter of great pride for us. It underlines the qual- ity of our selection process that supports new and established A visual from Blessed Benefit by Mahmoud al-Massad. A view from White Sun by Deepak Rauniyar. voices from the Arab world and beyond.” niyar, a TIFF Talent Lab alum- ing their North American debut, sia, UAE, Lebanon, Qatar/2016) Two grant recipients mark nus. include Apprentice (Singapore, by Ala Eddine Slim, selected to their world premiere at TIFF: Closely following their suc- Germany, France, Hong Kong, screen in the International Crit- Blessed Benefi t (Jordan, Neth- cess at the 2016 Cannes Film Qatar/2016), directed by Junfeng ics’ Week segment. The other erlands, Germany, UAE, Qa- Festival, where they premiered, Boo; Mimosas (Spain, Morocco, three grantee projects – Poi- tar/2016) by Mahmoud al- four fi lms supported by DFI France, Qatar/2016) directed by sonous Roses (Egypt, France, Massad and Off Frame AKA have made the cut at TIFF, too. Oliver Laxe, winner of the 2016 Qatar/2016) by Fawzi Saleh, Revolution Until Victory (Pal- These include The Salesman, Nespresso Grand Prize awarded One of These Days (Lebanon, estine, France, Qatar/2016) by written and directed by Asghar by the Jury of the Cannes Crit- Qatar/2017) by Nadim Tabet Mohanad Yaqubi. Farhadi, which won top hon- ics Week and Divines (Morocco, and Ghost Hunting (Pales- In another fi rst, By the Time ours at Cannes — including the France, Qatar/2016), the debut tine, France, Switzerland, Qa- it Gets Dark (Thailand, Neth- Best Screenplay and Best Actor feature by Houda Benyamina tar/2016) by Raed Andoni have erlands, France, Qatar/2016), awards in the offi cial competi- that scooped the coveted Cam- been selected to screen as work directed by Anocha Suwicha- tion section. era d’Or prize at Cannes this in progress at the Final Cut in kornpong, has been chosen in The Salesman is produced by year along with a special men- Venice. the Wavelengths programme Memento Films Production and tion from SACD for debut fi lm in The selection at TIFF follows at TIFF, which celebrates dar- Asghar Farhadi Production and the Directors’ Fortnight section. the win by DFI-supported fi lms ing, visionary and autonomous co-produced by Arte France Additionally, fi ve fi lms sup- gaining top acclaim at the 2016 voices that expand the notions Cinema in association with Me- ported by DFI are also being Cannes Film Festival and Sara- of cinema. The fi lm had its world mento Films Distribution and screened at the ongoing 73rd jevo Film Festival. At Sarajevo, 15 premiere at Locarno. Also at DFI. Venice Film Festival. These in- fi lms supported by DFI, includ- TIFF is another DFI grantee, The other fi lms supported clude White Sun by Rauniyar ing several fi lms ‘Made in Qatar’ White Sun (Nepal, Netherlands, by DFI, which were screened at screening in the Orizzonti sec- by local talents, were screened in US, Qatar/2016) by Deepak Rau- Cannes this year and are mak- tion and The Last of Us (Tuni- August this year. By the Time it Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong. Indian govt ‘exploring ways to link insurance schemes to protect expats’

By Ramesh Mathew “Insurance companies are be- Besides pensions for its ex- in distress through any possible non-resident Indians to avoid Staff Reporter ing contacted over and again and patriates, the Philippines has means. spreading unsavoury informa- they are also coming up with in- schemes for their housing and While elaborating on some of tion through social media and novative proposals from their medical requirements, educa- the initiatives launched by the news channels at a time when he Indian government is side to help the expatriates,” he tion for children and emergency Indian government for the ben- the region’s economy had suf- exploring the possibil- said. and calamity loans, among oth- efi t of Indians returning to their fered owing to a fall in oil prices. Tity of linking all insurance The minister had earlier spo- ers, as part of the country’s so- homeland in diff erent circum- Speaking earlier, Indian am- schemes in such a way that the ken at a reception jointly hosted cial security system, it is learnt. stances, Singh told them to avail bassador Sanjiv Arora expressed interests of millions of its expa- in his honour by the Indian Cul- Singh called upon Indian com- of schemes such as Startup In- hope that the strong fundamen- triates are safeguarded. tural Centre, Indian Business munities abroad to bring to his at- dia, Stand-Up India and Mudra tals of its economy would help This was revealed by India’s Promotion Network and Indian tention expatriate-friendly social Yojana, each of which he said has Qatar occupy a prime position Minister of State for External Community Benevolent Fund. security schemes in other coun- opened the doors for an array of even in the wake of the ongoing Aff airs Gen. V K Singh to Gulf Singh said his ministry has tries if they were familiar with people-friendly loans for those economic downturn. Times yesterday when asked if been working on the issue (of their nature and functioning. wanting to excel in life. Singh, who was on a day-long the government had any plans linking insurances) for more In his address, Singh spoke of Singh, who was actively in- visit to Qatar, also met HE the to fl oat eff ective social secu- than six months and he is hope- the Indian federal government’s volved in the evacuation of Foreign Minister Sheikh Mo- rity schemes for its expatriates ful that some eff ective solutions resolve to help members of the thousands of Indians, along with hamed bin Abdulrahman al- on the lines of those in place in are found to meet the urgent diaspora wherever they were. many others from more than Thani and HE the Minister of India’s Minister of State for External Aff airs V K Singh speaking in Doha the Philippines for its overseas requirements of expatriates at a He also urged the community 30 countries, from strife-torn State for Foreign Aff airs Sultan yesterday. PICTURE: Ram Chand workers. later date. members to help fellow Indians Yemen in 2015, also appealed to bin Saad al-Muraikhi. Qatar Airways receives ‘Best for Business’ accolade

atar Airways (QA) has part of the world’s largest global include a complete revamp of once again been recog- airline alliance, oneworld. the airline’s in-fl ight entertain- Qnised as one of the lead- “Such an accolade is a direct ment system, Oryx One, with ing airlines in the world in the refl ection of our passengers’ sat- more than 3,000 entertainment recent Conde Nast Traveller isfaction in the service we pro- options – the most of any air- ‘Readers Travel Awards’ held in vide and we remain committed line, alongside newly-intro- London. to providing the very best expe- duced Giorgio Armani amenity The airline was awarded the rience to our guests throughout kits; new on-board menus and coveted ‘Best for Business’ ac- their journey,” QA Group chief seamless transfers through HIA, colade with readers highlighting executive Akbar al-Baker said. one of the world’s newest airport QA’s industry leading on-board He stressed that they continue gateways. experience and premium loung- to set the industry standard in QA earlier announced plans es. airline travel with their modern to expand its network with new Through its network of more fl eet, and extensive business destinations launching this year, than 150 destinations around the and leisure destinations via the including the recent addition of globe, QA connects leisure and Hamad International Airport Adelaide, Atlanta, Birmingham, business passengers with mini- (HIA). Boston, Los Angeles, Marrakech, mal transfer times in the Middle Contributing to the overall Pisa, Ras Al Khaimah, Sydney and East. Business Class passenger expe- Yerevan, and services soon to be QA provides passengers with rience, the airline has in recent launched to Windhoek, Helsinki, an on-board level of comfort for years introduced a number of Krabi and Seychelles. which it is renowned the world enhancements, including the The airline is set to expand fur- over, inclusive of Wi-Fi, a fl ex- opening of the world’s largest ther in 2017, and will commence ible dine-on-demand service Business Class lounge, Al Mour- services to Auckland, which will in Business Class and the travel jan, at HIA. be the world’s longest commercial advantages bestowed upon it as Part of these enhancements fl ight; Lusaka; Skopje and Nice. Qatar Airways bags the ‘Best for Business’ award by Conde Nast Traveller readers.