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GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Second gold for Qatar Eff orts to In brief

QATAR | Event strengthen Emir to attend Arab summit HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani heads Qatar’s delegation to the 27th session of the Arab League Council at the summit level, starting cyber today in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott. The conference is being held under the slogan “Summit of Hope”. Arab foreign ministers began a preparatory meeting on Saturday ahead of the summit. Qatar’s delegation to the foreign ministers’ safeguards meeting is headed by its permanent representative to the Arab League, Saif The round table brought together a in Cyber Security programme. We rec- bin Muqaddam al-Buainain. group of cyber experts to support ognise the importance of collaborating innovation and open discussions in with industry to provide our students SPORT | Basketball this field of growing importance to with the skills of the future to solve Qatar some of the most pressing cyber chal- Qatar win Asian lenges facing industry and government Championships The discussions that took place over Qatar yesterday won the second lobal technology leader Lock- the past few days will help us develop edition of the FIBA 3x3 U18 Asian Qatar’s Mohamed Ibrahim Moaz celebrates on the podium after winning the discus throw gold medal with a hurl of 63.63 heed Martin has joined hands the talent pipeline in this area of critical basketball championships in Cyberjaya, metres at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, yesterday. He required only one attempt to win Gwith Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- national signifi cance to Qatar.” Malaysia. Reigning U18 3x3 world the title ahead of Poland’s Oskar Stachnik (62.83m) and Hleb Zhuk of Belarus (61.70m). Qatar finished the event with two gold versity (HBKU) and the University of Prof Dimitrios Serpanos from the champs Qatar remained undefeated medals, Abdalelah Haroun having won the 400m two days ago. See also Page 11 in the sport section for earlier story. Patras, Greece, to support the develop- University of Patras and director of the in the tournament and capped their ment of Qatar’s national cyber security Industrial Systems Institute said: “The fine run with a 21-9 defeat of the capabilities. University of Patras is a leading Europe- Philippines in the final. Last June, Qatar The announcement was made at the an University in engineering, including had won the 2016 FIBA 3x3 U18 World fi rst International Cyber Security Tech- electrical and computing, with strong Championships after beating Brazil in nologies Round Table recently. activities in cyber security research.The the final in Astana, Kazakhstan. In line with Qatar National Vision participation and support to this round 2030, the round table is part of Lock- table demonstrates the commitment of ASIA | Dispute heed Martin’s growing collaboration to the faculty to address the growing cyber Asean deadlocked Filipino population support the country’s national cyber se- security challenge to academia, indus- curity objectives. try, and governments around the world. on South China Sea The round table brought together a Bringing talent together with a global Southeast Asian nations, meeting in group of multi-national cyber experts lens will bring the innovative approach the Laos capital of Vientiane, failed from across academia and industry to we need to shape a more secure future.” to find common ground on maritime support innovation and open discus- Tom Milton, chief executive, Lock- disputes in the South China Sea in Qatar hits 222,712 sions in this fi eld of growing importance heed Martin Qatar, said: “We are ex- yesterday after Cambodia stuck to its to Qatar and the greater GCC region. cited to support a strong foundation of demand the group make no reference The discussions also focused on the preparedness for the emerging cyber to an international court ruling By Joey Aguilar build-up of the next generation of cyber threats this region will face. Today’s against Beijing in a statement. Foreign Staff Reporter defenders. The outcome of the two-day increasingly complex security environ- ministers from the 10-member Asean round table will support the develop- ment requires dynamic collaboration met for the first time since the UN- ment of a comprehensive framework to with academia, industry, and govern- backed Permanent Court of Arbitration ore than 2,22,000 Filipino cultivate the human-capital and edu- ment to execute Qatar’s national cyber in the Hague handed an emphatic expatriates are now working cational framework necessary to solve priorities.” legal victory to the Philippines in the Min Qatar, an increase of over future cyber challenges across diverse According to him the round table was maritime dispute earlier this month. 34,000 from last year, according to the sectors of national importance. just the beginning. Philippine embassy. Prof Amine Bermak, acting associate “Lockheed Martin looks forward to SYRIA | Plight Quoting fi gures provided by the provost and ICT division co-ordinator, leveraging our global technology exper- Ministry of Interior, the mission said HBKU said: “Later this summer, we look tise to support Qatar’s eff orts to keep Air raids hit four the latest number of Filipinos working forward to welcoming our fi rst cohort of its networks and citizens safe from the hospitals in Aleppo in the country was 222,712, while the students to our new Master of Science emerging cyber challenges,” he added. Air raids have hit four makeshift number for 2015 was 188,000. From left: Philippine labour attache Dicang, ambassador Santos, consul general hospitals in Syria’s battered Aleppo city, “This excludes those who are on Reyes, and UFOQ chairman Ed Anami at a media gathering last week. doctors said yesterday, jeopardising family visa, family visit, and business/ PICTURE: Imelda Enrile medical care for more than 200,000 tourist visas,” consul general Roussel desperate civilians in rebel-held areas. Reyes, who has newly arrived in Doha, bassy is currently “instituting” several semi-skilled, low-skilled, household The bombardment since Saturday said. He was introduced by ambassa- changes at the chancery to serve them service workers and professionals. Asylum-seeker kills woman has worsened the plight of residents dor Wilfredo Santos to reporters last better. Labour attache David Des Dicang of besieged eastern neighbourhoods week. Santos said the mission had in- cited an increasing number of Filipino of Syria’s second city, where food With an increasing number of Filipi- creased the number of data-capturing workers in the hospitality and food and in Germany machete attack and medical supplies are becoming nos arriving, Reyes noted that Doha was machines to accommodate those who beverage sectors as well as in the serv- increasingly scarce. Page 6 one of the busiest Philippine embassies applied for new as well as renewal of ices sector, who are being deployed to AFP nothing to indicate this was a terrorist around the world. passports. Among other measures un- Qatar Reutlingen, Germany attack,” local police said in a statement, AFGHANISTAN | Violence The Filipino population in the coun- der consideration are outsourcing the “These include cleaners, hotel staff , adding that the attack happened after try is also augmented by an average of visa application process and imple- cook and waitress, among others,” he the perpetrator “had a dispute” with Kabul in mourning 20 new births every month, the embas- menting an appointment system to said, noting an increasing demand for Syrian asylum-seeker was ar- the woman. aft er terror attack sy offi cial said. make the embassy less crowded. maintenance workers as the number of rested yesterday after killing a After killing her with a machete, the Kabul was plunged into mourning “A lot of Filipino mothers are giving Filipino expatriates can also call the new business establishments operating A woman with a machete in the suspect then injured a man and woman yesterday after its deadliest attack for birth here in Qatar, and many couples embassy hotline (5527-5123) for inquir- in the country has increased. southwest German city of Reutlingen, before being arrested, it said. 15 years killed 80 people, reigniting also get married here, around four to six ies and assistance while feedbacks are According to the Philippine Over- in an incident police said did not bear The incident took place in the centre concern that the Islamic State group per week,” he added. also being addressed by the embassy. seas Employment Administration, the the hallmarks of a “terrorist attack” of Reutlingen, a city of some 100,000, was seeking to expand its foothold The embassy conducts wedding cer- “Please bear with us. We are doing average annual number of deployed and could have been a crime of passion. located near Stuttgart. in Afghanistan. Tempers were frayed emonies twice a week, on Mondays and everything possible to make it more land-based Filipino expatriates to Qa- Two people were also injured in the The bloodshed sparked scenes of a day after the twin bombings that Wednesdays. However, Reyes also not- convenient for our Filipino nationals,” tar ranged between 94,000 and 114,000 assault, which ended when the 21-year- panic in the city, a TV news channel tore through crowds of Shia Hazara ed that an average of two Filipinos die the envoy pointed out. from 2011 to 2014. old assailant was hit by a car and which reported, in a country still on edge fol- protesters, as many searched hospitals every week, most of them due to natural The Philippine Overseas Labour Of- Dicang also sees an increasing sparked fresh jitters in a country still lowing Friday’s mass shooting in Mu- and morgues, looking among the causes. fi ce (POLO) in Doha expects to see a con- number of Filipino workers arriving in reeling from other deadly attacks on ci- nich, where a German-Iranian teenager mutilated bodies for missing relatives. Due to the increasing number of tinuing demand for almost all categories Qatar to be deployed in the construc- vilians in recent days. killed nine people and injured 19 others Page 19 Filipino expatriates in Qatar, the em- of Filipino workers, including skilled, tion sector. Page 2 “At this stage of the enquiry we have before committing suicide. Page 14 Qatar accounts for $10.4bn in global remittances in 2015

atar accounted for more than Remittances from Qatar show a these expatriates safeguard their future In the Middle East and North Af- spending and investments in educa- $10.4bn in remittances to coun- “strong” year-on-year growth trend by investing back home and providing rica (Mena) region, Egypt is the largest tion, healthcare and infrastructure in Qtries across the globe in 2015, over the past fi ve years. for their families. recipient of Qatari remittances with receiving countries, and lead to a better with South Asian countries receiving In 2014, global transfers out of the “This is clearly visible as trends show $1.05bn. Jordan received $207mn from quality of life overall,” Giriyan added. 70% of remittances from the country, country stood at $10.09bn, comparing that remittances from Qatar to the rest Qatar in 2015. Qatar’s population stood at 2.477mn Xpress Money said citing data from favourably to $6.77bn in 2011. of the world are showing strong year- “Global trade and economic hubs on June 30, according to the Ministry the latest “World Bank Bilateral Remit- Xpress Money COO Sudhesh Giriyan on-year growth, and hit their highest such as Qatar are a key part of the glo- of Development Planning and Sta- tances Matrices”. said: “Expatriate workers from South levels yet in 2015. The South Asia re- bal economy, and catalyse economic tistics (MDPS). This shows a 5.7% India, the largest recipient of remit- Asia are drawn to Qatar’s vibrant econ- gion is the biggest benefi ciary of these benefi ts for a host of countries through year-on-year increase, although on a tances in the world, received $3.99bn omy. They help sustain the high con- remittance fl ows, which play an invalu- money transfers and remittances by month-on-month basis, the country’s from Qatar in 2015. Nepal followed struction and development levels in the able role in spurring economic activity expatriate workers. population declined 4.3%. Expatriates at $2.02bn, Bangladesh ($525mn), Sri country as Qatar prepares for the 2022 and bolstering the GDP of the key ben- “These remittances are directly constitute a majority of the country’s Lanka ($511mn) and Pakistan ($427mn). FIFA World Cup. At the same time, Sudhesh Giriyan: Xpress Money COO efi ciary countries in that region.” correlated with increased consumer population. Gulf Times 2 Monday, July 25, 2016 QATAR

Minister meets US special envoy to Syria Humidity Philippine envoy to intensify by night

trong winds and high seas are expected in off shore plans measures to Sareas today even as humid conditions are likely to intensify by night, the Met department has said. The wind speed will range from 12-22 knots in off shore ar- decongest mission eas, going up to 28 knots towards the east, according to the weath- By Joey Aguilar visit the Philippines annually. er report. Staff Reporter “I have been thinking of ways The highest temperature in the to decongest the chancery and country yesterday was 45C, which that includes outsourcing the HE the Minister of State for Foreign Aff airs Sultan bin Saad al-Muraikhi holding talks with the US was recorded in Karanah, followed he Philippine embassy in submission of visa applications; Special Envoy to Syria Michael Ratney in Doha yesterday. They discussed developments in Syria by 44C in Batna and Turayna. Doha wants to “institute” this will signifi cantly lessen the and matters of common interest. In the capital, the mercury level Tan appointment system, traffi c,” the envoy added. reached a high of 40C in the Doha as well as outsource its visa ap- Last year, he noted that the airport area. Today, the maxi- plication process, to decongest Doha embassy had processed mum temperature will be 42C in the chancery and better serve 1,948 visas, making it the sixth Dukhan and 40C in Doha. the increasing number of Filipi- largest in the number of visas The forecast for inshore areas nos in Qatar. issued among other Philippine Katara chief meets Bangladeshi envoy says hazy to misty conditions are “Imagine probably about 100 embassies in the Middle East expected in some places at fi rst, (persons) are already at the em- and North Africa. Dubai, Riyadh, along with clouds. It will be hot bassy from 8am, the building is Islamabad, Jeddah, and Teheran QNA during the day while humid and too small for our increasing pop- are the top fi ve. Doha hazy conditions are likely by night. ulation in Qatar,” ambassador The embassy in Doha also Off shore areas, meanwhile, Wilfredo Santos told reporters at Philippine ambassador Wilfredo made it to the second spot will remain hazy and some clouds a media gathering last week. Santos. worldwide for issuing 48,814 irector General of Katara are also expected. The sea level “But if we have an appoint- notarials, which include ac- Cultural Village Dr Kha- may rise to 7ft towards the east. ment system, even if it is 20 per- time of their visit. knowledgment and authentica- Dlid bin Ibrahim al-Sulaiti sons per hour, the fl ow will be According to Santos, the mis- tion, among others. Hong Kong yesterday met Bangladesh am- better,” the envoy said, noting sion will also provide mobile topped the list with 123,673. bassador to Qatar Achod Ahmed. Qatar takes part that they issued a total of 30,034 passport services at various Santos also bared plans to Talks dealt with cultural co- passports last year or an aver- locations to further lessen the shift the embassy to a new loca- operation between Qatar and in Arab cultural age of 2,503 per month, 626 per number of people at the chan- tion in a bigger building by the Bangladesh and plans to organ- event in Tunisia week, or 125 per day. cery and reach out to Filipino end of 2017 when the lease with ise an exhibition by Bangladeshi Adding to the diffi culty is the expatriates in the country. De- the current one ends. artists. Tunisia has launched the limited number of staff at the tails will soon be posted on the “When we go to a new build- Bangladesh’s ambassador, in celebration of choosing the embassy, which he said has re- embassy’s Facebook page, news- ing, we will segregate the consu- a statement, praised Katara and central city of Sfax as a Capital mained frozen for many years papers, and other media outlets. lar section so that Filipinos will its role in “introducing diff er- of Arab Culture 2016, with Qatari while the number of Filipino The embassy is also planning be able to have a bigger space and ent cultures and achieving hu- Director General of Katara Cultural Village Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim participation. expatriates had increased from to resubmit to Congress back then they will have a diff erent manitarian convergence through al-Sulaiti yesterday with Bangladesh ambassador to Qatar Achod Director of Culture and Arts about 188,000 in 2015 to 222,712 home a proposal to outsource entrance, exclusively for them,” various events and activities that Ahmed. Department of the Ministry of this year. visa application, which was ear- he said. it provides”. Culture and Sports, Faleh al-Ajlan Now widely implemented in lier denied by a former undersec- The envoy is also consider- He expressed his pleasure at honours the State of Qatar”. comed plans to host the art ex- al-Hajri, said in a statement to the Philippines, he expressed retary from the previous admin- ing a one-stop-shop, which will organising an exhibition aimed at He said that his country is hibition affi rming that Katara is Qatar News Agency that the confidence that the new sys- istration. include the Philippine Overseas introducing Bangladesh’s culture looking forward to developing its keen to provide all the facilities presence of the Qatari delegation tem will be more convenient to Santos said such a move will Labour Offi ce and other at- and its various arts to Katara visi- cultural relations with Qatar in for the proposals that contribute in the event reflects the ministry’s Filipino expatriates who have better serve the increasing tached government agencies in tors, praising it as “a true touris- the future through Katara. to enriching the cultural scene in keenness to consolidate cultural the option to choose a date and number of Qatar residents who one compound. tic and cultural destination that Meanwhile, Dr al-Sulaiti wel- Qatar. relations with all Arab countries. Amana-Al Zaman tie-up Ooredoo companies win prestigious awards

oredoo companies have received a string of pres- Otigious awards in recent months, including leading hon- ours for marketing innovation, customer service, and network investment. Operations in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia all won industry accolades, marking one of the company’s most successful award seasons in its history. Sheikh Saud bin Nasser al- Thani, Group CEO, Ooredoo, said: “Across our footprint and in every market, Ooredoo is striving to deliver world-class networks, a superior customer experience and a strong per- formance culture. These awards demonstrate that Ooredoo is setting the pace for growth and development, and that we con- tinue to introduce new innova- tions that make a real impact on Ooredoo was named one of the “Top Companies in the Arab World 2016” by Forbes Middle East in its annual gala ceremony. Sri Lanka’s Amana Bank recently launched an instant money our customers’ lives.” remittance service to Sri Lanka in collaboration with Al Zaman This awards include fi ve major prestigious awards at the Oman where it won individual awards mit Marketing Eff ectiveness the spirit of togetherness and Exchange. The tie-up provides Sri Lankans in Qatar with “a fast, honours at the Global Telecoms Tech Awards, including hon- for leadership as well as trophies Awards 2015. connection that it shared dur- reliable and convenient mode of money transfer” to their own Business Innovation Awards in ours for the company’s website, for implementing best-practice In the APAC Stevie Awards, ing the Holy Month, received or loved ones’ accounts in Amana Bank or any other bank in Sri London, including Consumer Facebook page, and dedicated and operational excellence. held in Sydney, Australia in May, the top prize at Tasaweeq’s Vi- Lanka, in rupees or US dollars, according to a press statement. Service Innovation, Business Ooredoo Oman App. In addi- One of the important features Ooredoo received three silver ral Forum, which took place in Amana Bank is a licensed commercial bank in Sri Lanka whose Service Innovation, Wireless tion, for the sixth consecutive of Ooredoo’s recent award suc- and three bronze awards for a Kuwait recently. The short fi lm operations are based on Islamic banking principles. Al Zaman Network Infrastructure Innova- year, Ooredoo was recognised cess has been the rising profi le of range of innovative campaigns, marks the fi rst time that Oore- Exchange, one of the leading remittance service providers in tion and Infrastructure Innova- as one of the Sultanate’s Top 20 the company’s brand-building including Ooredoo Myanmar’s doo’s operations have come Qatar, operates through seven branches and services the tion awards. performing companies by Oman work and advertising. Bindez news aggregation app, together to create an origi- expatriate community in Qatar seven days a week. In the Ooredoo was also named one Economic Review, Oman’s lead- The cutting-edge “Fans Do Indosat Ooredoo’s vision to be- nal advert, with support from picture, Hazim Hamza, chairperson the Sri Lanka Muslim of the “Top Companies in the ing economic and business Wonders” campaign, which fea- come Indonesia’s Leading Dig- Ooredoo Group, Ooredoo Qatar, Professionals’ Forum – Qatar (SLMPQ), is seen receiving his Arab World 2016” by Forbes publication. tured Paris Saint-Germain, won ital Telco and the “Fans do Won- Ooredoo Kuwait and Ooredoo receipt from Al Zaman Exchange Doha branch manager Middle East in its annual gala In the Contact Centre World a Bronze for Social Media in the ders” campaign. Oman. Juwaiz on conducting the first remittance to Amana Bank. Also ceremony. Asia Pacifi c Finals in Malaysia, international Clio Sports Awards Ooredoo’s Ramadan advert, Ooredoo’s fi nancial strategy present are Mikthad Hameed, remittance manager, Al Zaman Ooredoo Qatar won the “Best Ooredoo Myanmar’s Contact held in New York, as well as fea- which celebrates the spirit of has also received international Exchange; Zubair Abdul Rahiman, manager (operation) at Al Mobile Application of the Year” Centre won the Gold Prize and turing in fi rst place award in the togetherness and connection recognition in recent months, Zaman Exchange; and Mohamed Lafir, deputy chairperson, award at 2016 Qatar IT Business was ranked number one for “Best Viral Best TVC Awards. of the Holy Month, has also with the company winning “Best SLMPQ. Awards in Doha, for its innova- in Customer Service” in Asia Pa- The campaign has also re- begun to receive regional rec- Telecoms Deal” and “Best Social tive Ooredoo App, which is one cifi c. ceived awards at the Summit ognition, despite only having Development Deal” at the of the most popular telecoms Ooredoo Kuwait also saw Creative Awards 2016, MENA been screened over the past few EMEA Finance Project apps in the region. strong results at the Contact Digital Awards 2016, Interna- weeks. Awards, held in London this Ooredoo Oman took home six Center World Awards in London, tionalist Awards 2016 and Sum- The award, which celebrates June. MEC issues over 1,800 commercial registrations GAC Motor sees 600,000th

he Ministry of Economy materials trade (162) and eater- and Commerce (MEC) ies, fast food outlets and veg- car roll off assembly line Thas issued 1,888 com- etable/fruit shops (121). mercial registrations for new The MEC also modifi ed and companies last month. renewed 6,088 commercial oha Marketing Services ume with the fastest growth rate in the Qatar market with our These included 1,064 pri- registrations in June. Company (Domasco) among Chinese car-makers. The prolifi c portfolio of models, mary registrations and 824 Meanwhile, there were 195 Dhas announced that GAC 600,000th car marks a break- ranging from compact city car sub-registrations, according to cases of closed companies and Motor has achieved a total sales through moment and a new GA3S to premium SUV GS5S a statement. cancelled registrations, with volume of 600,000 cars world- starting point,” it noted. and premium sedan GA6.” Around 63% of the new fi rms 33% of these being contracting wide. Domasco is the authorised Andrew Parrot, head of sales GAC has invested over have limited liability, 21% are fi rms and 23% building materi- distributor for GAC cars in Qatar. and marketing for GAC at Do- RMB10bn (QR5.4bn) in total to one-person companies and als trading companies. GAC Motor had launched its masco, said: “2016 started as build a world-class R&D and 16% are individual organisa- The number of new patent fi rst car in 2010 and has seen an an eventful and rewarding year manufacturing base. It is the only tions. applications in June amounted annual growth average of over for us. High production num- Chinese brand with a C-NCAP Contracting companies (390) to 63 while another 105 cas- 80% for fi ve years in a row, ac- bers show the strong global de- fi ve-star rating and is “commit- accounted for the bulk of the es were renewed. Registered cording to a press statement mand for the GAC brand. This ted to provide consumers with a new registrations, followed by trademarks amounted to 2,617 from Domasco. “By May 2016, year holds tremendous oppor- safe and eco-friendly car experi- fi rms involved in the building in the same period. GAC’s GS5 Super GAC ranked 19th in sales vol- tunity for our further growth ence”, the statement adds. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 3 QATAR RAF opens Qatari institute for vocational training in Khartoum

QNA Doha

heikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humani- Starian Services (RAF) has opened the Qatari Institute for Vocational Training in the Suda- nese capital Khartoum at a total cost of QR1,640,000. RAF said in a statement yes- terday that the centre trains annually 200 students in nine professional specialities includ- ing electricity, carpentry, refrig- eration, air conditioning, auto- Myanmarese families receiving food aid from QRCS. motive power, auto mechanics, electronics and computer. It also provides training programmes and consultations for public and private sectors, and summer Qatar Charity brings relief to training programmes for young people of both sexes. Built on 250 square metres, the centre which has eight class- needy families in Myanmar rooms, four administrative of- The Qatari Institute for Vocational Training in Khartoum. fi ces and other supporting fa- cilities, is run by 30 employees young people and enable them to manitarian Aid Commission (HAC) the project, which he described as “a QNA total number of benefi ciaries of Mohamed Rashid al-Kaabi, among them skilled technicians, learn professional skills. in Sudan, Ahmed Mohamed Adam, humanitarian act” that would serve Doha Qatar Charity’s relief in these praised the generous support experts and engineers, to train Commissioner-General for Hu- expressed pleasure at inaugurating development plans in Sudan. camps to 198,564 people over al- made by the people of Qatar for most three years. the needy in the world, including atar Charity has pro- The aid distributed last month Muslims in Myanmar, stressing vided a new batch of food in co-operation with the Turkish that Qatar Charity assumes its Sky Jewellery mega draw winners Qaid to people displaced in IHH Humanitarian Relief Foun- religious and moral duty towards camps in Myanmar as part of its dation took the form of food bas- the needy and keenness to rescue ongoing aid relief eff orts since kets including dry foodstuff s to refugees in the tense areas. the end of 2013. help families to secure basic sup- Qatar Charity has carried out The organisation said in a plies of food for a whole month, more than QR11,500,000 projects press statement yesterday that such as rice, beans, cooking oil, in Myanmar since December 2013, 5,568 people have benefi ted from pepper and canned fi sh. from which 198,564 people have this programme, bringing the Director, Relief Management, so far benefi ted, he added.

QRCS helps Syrian refugee camp fire victims

The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has victims, documented the damage, and co-ordinated provided immediate relief to the victims of a fire with Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Aff airs, the Off ice of Sky Jewellery has announced the Doha region winners of the Summer Surprises promotion mega draw. Among the winners is Mohamed at a Syrian refugee camp in Western Beqaa Distric the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Abdur Razzak (coupon No 65239) from Bangladesh, who has won a Mercedes-Benz car. The draw was conducted at the company’s in Lebanon. (UNHCR), the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), and other showroom in the presence of Sky Jewellery regional manager P K Mohan, sales manager Tom C Jacob and Ministry of Economy and Some 19 tents of Syrian families were damaged in humanitarian partners. Commerce off icial Khalid al-Marri. Also present were showroom in-charge Sinto Jose, accountant Mukesh Ravi and other Sky Jewellery the fire, 13 of which were totally destroyed. It provided urgent cash subsidies to more than 60 off icials. A QRCS team conducted field investigations, listed victims of the fire, QRCS said in a statement. Gulf Times 4 Monday, July 25, 2016 REGION Tehran destroys 100,000 satellite dishes, receivers

AFP litia, who warned of the impact Under Iranian law, satellite nians violate the law” by owning Tehran that satellite television was hav- equipment is banned and those satellite dishes, he added. ing in the conservative country. who distribute, use, or repair Naghdi criticised Jannati’s “The truth is that most satel- them can be fi ned up to $2,800. comments and said those in ran destroyed 100,000 satel- lite channels deviate the society’s Iranian police regularly raid charge of cultural aff airs “should lite dishes and receivers yes- morality and culture,” he said neighbourhoods and confi scate be truthful with people rather Iterday as part of a widespread at the event according to Basij dishes from rooftops. than following what pleases crackdown against the illegal News. Culture Minister Ali Jannati them”. devices that authorities say are “What these televisions really pleaded on Friday for a revision “Most of these satellite chan- morally damaging, a news web- achieve is increased divorce, ad- of the law. nels not only weaken the foun- site reported. diction and insecurity in society.” “Reforming this law is very dation of families but also cause The destruction ceremony Naghdi added that a total of necessary as using satellite is disruptions in children’s educa- took place in Tehran in the pres- 1mn Iranians had already volun- strictly prohibited, but most tion and children who are under Satellite dishes and receivers being piled before being destroyed during a ceremony in Tehran. Iran destroyed ence of General Mohamed Reza tarily handed over their satellite people use it,” Jannati said. the infl uence of satellite have im- 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers as part of a widespread crackdown against the illegal devices that Naghdi, head of Iran’s Basij mi- apparatuses to authorities. “This means that 70% of Ira- proper behaviour,” Naghdi said. authorities say are morally damaging.

Abnormal Iran says detains heatwave hits Kuwait, Iraq Iranian-American

Reuters if he was referring to the case QNA Dubai of San Diego, California-based Kuwait Robin Reza Shahini who was de- tained while visiting his mother ran confi rmed yesterday in the northeastern city of Gor- he northwestern part of the Arabian the detention of an Irani- gan earlier in July, according to Peninsula region was swept by an Ian-American visiting the the Los Angeles Times and other Tabnormal heatwave, particularly in country, the latest in a string of Western media. Kuwait and Iraq, with temperature soar- arrests of dual nationals in the In the past nine months, Iran’s ing over 50C, a senior meteorologist said on past year. Revolutionary Guards have ar- Saturday. Asked about reports of the rested at least six dual-national These unprecedented temperature levels arrest of a dual citizen on na- Iranians, their friends and fam- are most likely caused by the El-Nino phe- tional security charges, Judici- ily members say, the highest nomenon’s recent impact on air masses in ary spokesman Gholamhossein number of Iranians with dual- the atmosphere, Essa Ramadan, Meteorol- Mohseni Ejei told a weekly news nationality detained at one time ogy expert and consultant at the Directorate conference: “The report on the in recent years to have been ac- General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), stated to arrest of an Iranian-American knowledged. (KUNA) news agency. dual national is correct,” the The government has con- El-Nino had aff ected the region signifi - semi-offi cial Fars news agency fi rmed most of the detentions, cantly in the past, Ramadan noted. said. without giving details of any Meanwhile, he also said that Kuwait was “But I don’t know what the charges. hit by dusty northwestern winds on Saturday charges are. The person was ar- The Iranian government does that would gradually diminish. rested in Gorgan but the trial may not recognise dual nationality, High temperature is to continue until end be held in Tehran,” Mohseni Ejei which prevents relevant Western of August, Ramadan said, adding that it will added. embassies from seeing individu- gradually decrease after September 6. It was not immediately clear als who have been detained. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 5 ARAB WORLD Libya loyalists take IS bomb factory in Sirte

AFP sive devices, cables and mobile Tripoli phones. The fall of Sirte, 450km (280 miles) east of Tripoli, would be a orces loyal to Libya’s unity major blow to IS, which has faced a government said yesterday series of setbacks in Syria and Iraq. Fthey had seized a building The two-month battle for used by the Islamic State group Sirte has killed around 280 to manufacture explosives in its pro-government fi ghters and coastal stronghold. wounded more than 1,500, ac- The bomb factory is the larg- cording to medical sources at the est to be captured by fighters unity forces’ command centre. allied with the Tripoli-based The pro-GNA forces are Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Swiss Bertrand Piccard, taking off from Cairo’s International Airport in Egypt as it heads to Abu Dhabi on the final leg of its world tour. Government of National Ac- mostly made up of militias from cord (GNA) since they launched western Libya established dur- an operation to retake Sirte in ing the 2011 revolt that over- May, the forces said on Face- threw Gaddafi . book. A militia set up to guard the They said the building was in country’s main oil facilities has the southeast of Sirte, the home- also been advancing on IS. The GNA was the result of a Solar Impulse leaves Egypt town of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi which IS has controlled UN-brokered power-sharing since June 2015. agreement struck in December, The pro-GNA forces shared but it has yet to be endorsed by images of the building including Libya’s elected parliament based several rooms containing explo- in the country’s far east. for fi nal leg of world tour 41 migrant bodies wash up on beach AFP It had been scheduled to leave only by the sun. Borschberg told journalists fl ight the go-ahead from its Volunteers have recovered the Sabratha city council in mid-July Cairo last week, but the fl ight was The single-seat aircraft, no that the heat would be a new mission control centre in Mo- bodies of 41 presumed migrants to look for victims of people delayed because of winds and heavier than a car but with the challenge for the plane. naco, telling Piccard “you are that washed up on a Libyan smugglers, the off icial said. Picard falling ill. wingspan of a Boeing 747, is fi t- “Technically it’s close to the released to proceed.” beach, an off icial from the coastal Illegal migration from Libya he fi rst solar-powered Piccard and Swiss entrepre- ted with 17,000 solar cells on its limits that we have set in terms Borschberg and Piccard have city of Sabratha said yesterday. booms in the summer months plane to circle the world neur and pilot Andre Borsch- wings. of temperature, so that’s some- said they want to raise aware- The bodies, found on Saturday when the Mediterranean is Ttook off from Cairo yes- berg have taken turns fl ying During night-time fl ights it thing which we did not experi- ness of renewable energy sourc- on the city’s beach west of the generally calm and traff ickers terday for Abu Dhabi, in the fi - the plane on its 35,000-km runs on battery-stored power. ence before,” he said via Skype es and technologies with their capital Tripoli, were taken to pack unsafe boats with migrants nal leg of its journey. (22,000-mile) trip around the It typically travels at a mere from mission control in Mo- project, although they do not the morgue for DNA testing desperate to start a new life in Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard world. 48km (30 miles) per hour, al- naco. expect solar-powered commer- before being buried, the Europe. was behind the controls of So- Borschberg piloted the though its fl ight speed can dou- “But with the temperature cial planes any time soon. official said. People smugglers have taken lar Impulse 2, which can fl y for fl ight’s 8,924km Pacifi c stage ble when exposed to full sun- profi le that we see over the “There will be passengers “We think that these are people advantage of the chaos gripping days on only energy from the between Nagoya, in Japan, and light. coming days, we should be all very soon in electric airplanes who drowned five or six days Libya since the 2011 uprising sun. Hawaii. Piccard, a psychiatrist who fi ne.” that we will charge on the ago,” added the off icial who did that toppled and killed dictator “It’s a project for energy, for Solar Impulse 2 arrived in had made the fi rst non-stop The plane set out on March 9, ground,” Piccard had said when not wish to be identified. Muammar Gaddafi to boost their a better world,” Piccard, 58, told Cairo after a two-day fl ight balloon fl ight around the world 2015 from Abu Dhabi, crossing the plane arrived in Cairo. He said that normally one or lucrative business. journalists before taking off . from Spain, fi nishing the 3,745 in 1999, said the last leg of the Asia and the Pacifi c to reach the “On the ground you can two bodies a day were found They cram migrants into boats The ground crew, who had kilometre journey with an aver- Solar Impulse 2 tour would be United States and then fl ying on charge batteries and you can and that 41 in just one day is “an that are small and unsafe for dragged the plane out to the age speed of 76.7km an hour. diffi cult. to Spain and Egypt with the sun have short haul fl ights, maybe exceptionally high number”. the perilous journey to Italy just tarmac with ropes, cheered as It had earlier landed in Seville “It’s a very, very hot region... as its only source of power. 500km with 50 people fl ying in The group of volunteers who 300km (190 miles) from Libya’s it lifted off and disappeared into after completing the fi rst solo it’s going to be an exhausting Prince Albert of Monaco, a these planes” in a decade, he found the bodies was trained by shores. the night. transatlantic fl ight powered fl ight,” he said. patron of the project, gave the predicted. Gulf Times 6 Monday, July 25, 2016 ARAB WORLD Rocket fi re kills eight in Damascus

AFP streets, calling for help and Beirut waiting for ambulances. A civilian in a pick-up truck ferried several people to hospi- ockets rained down on tal, the correspondent said, ex- several Old Damascus plaining that ambulances could Rneighbourhoods yester- not enter Bab Tuma because of day, including one known for its its narrow alleyways. cafes and restaurants, killing at A Facebook page dedicated to least eight people and wounding pinpointing rocket and mortar 20 others. fi re in Damascus posted pictures The Britain-based Syrian Ob- of destruction at a restaurant, servatory for Human Rights said showing overturned chairs and the rockets were fi red from rebel tables and blood on the fl oor. positions on the outskirts of the Layla al-Jawabrah, 23, said capital. she had been heading towards “At least eight people were Bab Tuma when she saw security killed and more than 20 others forces shouting and telling peo- were wounded when rockets hits ple to run. several neighbourhoods in Old “I hid in the entrance of a Damascus,” Observatory head building and saw people run- Rami Abdel Rahman said. ning. Some were wounded and A Syrian man holds the body of his child after it was taken from under the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria’s state news agency their clothes were stained with al-Marjah in the northern city of Aleppo yesterday. SANA, quoting a police source, blood,” she said. denounced a “terrorist attack” The rocket attack was the fi rst that it said killed fi ve people and to target Damascus in months, wounded 16. since a ceasefi re brokered by the SANA said the rockets hit the United States and Russia in Feb- mostly Christian neighbourhood ruary. of Bab Tuma. But the truce has been violat- The Observatory said rockets ed repeatedly, and Washington also struck Bab al-Salama and and Moscow have tried to rein- Qaymariyeh in Old Damascus. force it with temporary or local Air strikes hit four A restaurant in Qaymariyeh ceasefi res to no avail. was hit, it said. Damascus is mostly control- An AFP correspondent who led by regime forces, but rebels went to Bab Tuma said he saw hold districts on its outskirts and bloodied people running in the positions in the countryside. hospitals in Aleppo

AFP “After the second strike, we 135 attacks on health facilities can’t anymore,” she said. news agency SANA and quoting Beirut had to move him (the baby) and workers in 2015. Syria’s confl ict erupted in an anonymous foreign ministry Children turn to downstairs to the bomb shel- An AFP journalist in eastern March 2011 with anti-govern- offi cial, also said Syria would be ter, and that’s why he died,” said Aleppo said heavy air strikes had ment protests across the coun- “ready to co-ordinate air opera- ir raids have hit four Malika, the head nurse at the resumed after a brief pause yes- try but has since morphed into a tions against terrorism as part of makeshift hospitals in children’s hospital. terday morning. complex multi-front war. the agreement between Russia Pokemon to catch ASyria’s battered Aleppo “The hospital is severely dam- The streets were empty except At least 280,000 people have and the United States.” city, doctors said yesterday, aged and it’s not the fi rst time,” she for ambulances speeding to the been killed and more than half Moscow has sought to work jeopardising medical care for said, in online conversations with site of fresh bombing raids with the population have been forced with Washington on military ac- world attention more than 200,000 desperate IDA representatives seen by AFP. their sirens wailing. to fl ee their homes, as world tion against the jihadists of the civilians in rebel-held areas. Footage posted by the IDA of According to the IDA, fi ve powers are increasingly drawn Islamic State group and Al Qaeda The bombardment since Sat- the strike’s aftermath showed hospitals are left operating in into the confl ict. affi liate Al Nusra Front. DPA year confl ict along with those of urday has worsened the plight agitated doctors carrying a tiny eastern neighbourhoods of Repeated attempts, particu- The US-led coalition has Cairo Syrian children carrying images of residents of besieged eastern baby in a room lined with incu- Aleppo city, devastated by a re- larly by the United States and carried out air strikes against of Pokemon characters waiting neighbourhoods of Syria’s sec- bators, with sandbags piled high gime siege that took hold earlier regime ally Russia, at securing IS since September 2014, and to be spotted. ond city, where food and medical just outside the entrance. this month. a political settlement built on a Russia began its own bombing yrian children, who live One picture shows a child supplies are becoming increas- All four hospitals and the “Besiegement and the deci- teetering ceasefi re have failed. campaign in support of Assad’s under constant bombard- holding a photo of a Pokemon ingly scarce. blood bank were out of service mation of healthcare constitute Moscow and Washington are forces a year later. Sment in the war-torn character on which is written: The hospitals, as well as a yesterday, the city’s opposition- war crimes. nominally co-chairs of interna- US Secretary of State John Kerry country, have in the past few “I’m in the Idlib countryside, blood bank that was hit, were run “health directorate” con- We demand an immediate end tional eff orts to bring President held marathon meetings last week days taken advantage of the come and save me.” located in the Al-Shaar neigh- fi rmed in a statement. to and accountability for the col- Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the with his Russian counterpart Ser- global craze for the smartphone Idlib, mostly controlled by bourhood, said the Independent It warned that doctors “are lective punishment the city fac- negotiating table with oppo- gei Lavrov and Russian President game Pokemon Go to draw at- rebels, is in north-western Syria. Doctor’s Association, a group not able to get any wounded es,” the group said. sition groups. The UN has set Vladimir Putin in Moscow. tention to their plight. Another child is seen with a of Syrian doctors that supports people out or any medicine in to Marianne Gasser, head of the August as the target date for the They struck an agreement on Pictures of Syrian children message reading: “I’m from Syr- clinics in Aleppo. this devastated city.” International Committee of the resumption of talks. “concrete steps” to salvage the holding photos of Pokemon ia...save me.” It said a two-day-old baby Opposition-controlled areas Red Cross in Syria, said learning Yesterday, the foreign min- failing truce and fi ght jihadist characters along with messages “If the Pokemon game char- was killed in the children’s hos- of Aleppo are regularly hit by air of the hospital strikes fi lled her istry in Damascus said Syria “is factions, but did not announce calling to be rescued have gone acters that spread in Syria man- pital when his oxygen supply was strikes by the regime and its key with “overwhelming despair”. ready to continue the Syrian- details. viral on social media. aged to get out of the pictures cut after a raid during the early ally Russia. “I think about the people who Syrian dialogue without any Kerry and Lavrov are expected The Revolutionary Forces they would cry for help from hours of yesterday. According to the World Health died, and keep dying, again and preconditions, in the hopes that to meet again on the sidelines of Syria (RFS) Media Offi ce, a the horrible things happening It was the second strike on Organisation, Syria was the most again. I think about the patients this dialogue will lead to a com- of an Association of Southeast media outlet based in Turkey, there,” the RFS Media Offi ce the same hospital in about nine dangerous place for healthcare and their families. I feel for the prehensive solution”. Asian Nations (Asean) meeting tweeted scenes of Syria’s fi ve- wrote on Twitter. hours, according to the IDA. workers to operate last year, with doctors who want to help but The statement, carried by state in Laos this week. West Bank Palestinian villagers in legal limbo

By Majeda El-Batsh/AFP raeli authorities and were fi ned The military demolishes Rights activists who support Khirbet Zanuta for doing so. structures it deems illegal. the villagers and their legal bat- Such permits are extremely That process, along with Is- tle say claims about the area’s diffi cult to obtain for Palestinians rael’s continuous settlement importance as an archaeological tiny Palestinian village living in most of the West Bank. building in the West Bank, has site are exaggerated. in the Hebron hills could “We showed them all the been strongly criticised inter- “We have consulted Israeli Asoon cease to exist after ownership papers for our land nationally as contributing to the archaeological experts who say a nine-year legal battle with Is- and asked for construction per- erosion of the possibility of a that the presence of the resi- raeli authorities who say its 167 mits,” said Tal. two-state solution. dents does not interfere with A Palestinian girl aims a pistol as she prepares to fire at a target during a training session for the families residents live on an archaeologi- While Israeli authorities say The court case involving that of the historical remains,” of Hamas off icials, organised by Hamas-run Security and Protection Service, in Khan Younis in the cal site. structures in the village are ille- Khirbet Zanuta is reaching its said Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. Israel’s supreme court is ex- gal and are built on an archaeo- conclusion as debate over Is- Association for Civil Rights in pected to make a fi nal decision logical site, the villagers them- raeli demolitions of Palestinian Israel. on the fate of Khirbet Zanuta selves suspect other motives. structures in the West Bank in- Yoni Mizrachi of the Emek soon. They allege that Israel wants tensifi es. Shaveh NGO said that “every The village in the south of the to clear more space for settlers, In 2015, Israel demolished 548 West Bank village contains re- occupied West Bank, around since a settlement industrial structures in the West Bank, mains”, adding that those in Israeli settlers desecrate 20km (12 miles) from the Is- zone called Meitarim is located displacing 787 Palestinians, ac- Khirbet Zanuta are “neither very raeli city of Beersheba, includes less than a kilometre away. cording to UN fi gures. important nor very extensive”. makeshift homes made of stones, Villagers say explosives were But during the fi rst four “This is a political issue,” he metal, clay and even tyres. used to develop the industrial months of this year alone, 598 said. “When they want to expel Islamic sites in Hebron Caves in the area have also zone and question why this were demolished, displacing residents, they say that it is an been used as homes in the past, would have been done if the 858 people. The legal battle over archaeological site.” and its residents farm the hun- nearby area was archaeologically Khirbet Zanuta has been waged Mizrachi said the village does QNA estinian News Agency (WAFA) Municipality local planning and dreds of hectares of surrounding important. since 2007. indeed contain remains dating Hebron/Bethlehem reported. construction committee pre- land, raising sheep and goats. Khirbet Zanuta is in what is With the two sides unable to to the Iron Age and spanning the Israeli military soldiers re- sented the construction plans “I was born here before 1967,” known as Area C, the part of the settle, Israel’s supreme court is Roman, Byzantine and Islamic portedly provided the settlers for 770 settlement housing said village head Rashad al-Tal, West Bank under complete Is- expected to issue a ruling soon. periods. sraeli settlers yesterday broke with protection and secured units, according to Israeli news 65, referring to the year when raeli control. Israeli authorities have said in But he also alleged that there into Kifl Haris town to the their entrance and exit out of the website Walla. Israel’s occupation of the West Around 60% of the Pales- court fi lings that “Khirbet Za- have been no excavations there Inorth of the West Bank district town, causing a state of tension The new units will be con- Bank began. tinian territory falls under that nuta is an archaeological site and since it was declared an archae- of Salfi t and proceeded to des- among the town’s locals. sidered by Israel as part of the “We lived in a cave and we classifi cation, originally set up residents’ presence in the area ological site in 1968, while argu- ecrate the Islamic shrines there. Head of Kifl Haris municipality, Jerusalem district, and will be walked 7km to go to school in under the 1990s Oslo accords can have an impact on the site. ing that in any case the remains A large number of settlers Abdel-Rahim Bothyeh, said the built between the illegal Gilo Dahriya,” the closest city, he in an arrangement meant to be “As a result, they must leave “do not belong to Israel, but to broke into the town in the early religious sites there are constantly settlement and the Palestinian added as his daughter stirred temporary. the area.” Palestine”. hours, and proceeded to “in- subjected to destruction and des- town of Beit Jala, across from milk behind him to make curd. Israel’s military decides on Israeli authorities declined Others have pointed out that tentionally provoke” the town’s ecration by settlers; settlers have the Cremisan monastery in the He said villagers began to construction permits in Area C, further comment when contact- Jewish construction is allowed locals by performing religious previously set fi re to the sites. Bethlehem district of the occu- build houses in the 1970s with- and they are rarely granted to ed by AFP, saying their case was on much more important ar- rituals on the Islamic sites, Pal- Meanwhile, Israel’s Jerusalem pied West Bank. out having permits from the Is- Palestinians. being presented in court. chaeological sites. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 7 AFRICA

Three dead in fresh Nigeria hails major step rebel attack in CAR

AFP Ngakobo saw a spate of attacks Bangui during two years of widespread unrest between 2013 and 2015 which saw about half a million t least three people people displaced after the oust- towards polio-free Africa were killed in an attack ing of long-serving president Aby militia in the trou- Francois Bozize, a Christian by a AFP contaminated water - since July many as 200 000 new cases eve- safe, but hostility to vaccina- fever and measles, he added. bled Bambari region of the Seleka-led rebel alliance. Lagos 24, 2014, when a child was left ry year, within 10 years, all over tion drives has remained in some Modibo Kassogue, immuni- Central African Republic, in- During that period Seleka paralysed in the impoverished the world.” areas. sation manager in Nigeria for formed sources said yesterday. fi ghters sacked and occupied northern state of Kano. Nigeria had struggled to con- Boko Haram’s bloody six-year Unicef, said that funding was Armed herdsmen and fi ght- the sugar plant for a year before igeria yesterday cel- Nigerian President Muham- tain the virus after some north- Islamist insurgency has also cre- crucial. ers from the mainly former it fi nally reopened in mid-2014. ebrated two years with- madu Buhari yesterday hailed ern states imposed a ban on ated major security issues for ef- “They must also improve rebel Seleka movement at- President Faustin-Arch- Nout a new case of polio, the progress towards wiping out vaccinations in 2003. forts to vaccinate children in the monitoring, increase levels tacked the southern town ange Touadera, who took in a major stride towards Af- polio, but said more needed to be Immunisation teams were north. of routine immunisation and of Ngakobo, some 30km (20 offi ce earlier this year, ear- rica being declared free of the done keep up the momentum. attacked and even killed as ru- Health Minister Isaac Ade- strengthen the overall health miles) outside Bambari, on lier this month indicated the devastating disease. “The next major milestone mours spread about vaccine wole said the government would system to prevent the return of Saturday, “fi ring on sight” at country remained “in danger” If no new case is reported by for us as a country is the cer- safety - a phenonemon also get “people out of their com- polio,” he said. houses, a police offi cer said with “entire regions” occu- July 2017, Nigeria will be cer- tifi cation of polio-free status seen in Pakistan, where suspi- fort zones to further enhance And he said plenty needed to condition of anonymity. pied by armed groups. tifi ed free of the virus, which in 2017 by the World Health cions grew after the CIA ran a the quality of polio campaigns, be done in Nigeria to stop chil- “At least three people were Touadera was elected in a mainly aff ects children under Organisation,” he said in a statement. fake vaccine drive to help track reach children in diffi cult areas dren dying of other diseases. killed and several more injured,” peaceful vote in February, helped fi ve and can leave its victims A sporadic case occurred in down Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin and continue to improve routine Treatable infectious diseases he added, adding hundreds of by a 12,000-strong UN force. crippled or dead. August 2014 in Somalia but Ni- Laden in 2011. immunisation.” such as malaria, pneumonia, di- local people had fl ed their homes But the long-restive coun- As recently as 2012, Nigeria geria is the last African country In northern Nigeria, immuni- Buhari meanwhile pledged to arrhoea, measles and HIV/Aids for neighbouring villages. try has seen a resurgence of seemed to be losing the battle where polio was endemic. sation bans followed allegations work with international part- account for more than 70% of Isaac Gonaba, a teacher, said violence since mid-June. against polio, recording more “As long as a single child re- by some state governors and ners “to ensure that this disease the estimated one million un- a fellow teacher was among the Earlier this month, the United than half of all global cases. mains infected, children in all religious leaders that vaccines is wiped off the face of the earth der-fi ve deaths in Nigeria every dead and indicated two employ- Nations said thousands of peo- But these days the disease is countries are at risk of contract- were contaminated by Western for good”. year, according to Unicef. ees from the local Sucaf sugar ple had fl ed renewed violence in only endemic in Afghanistan and ing polio,” the WHO says on its powers to spread sterility and Nigeria has budgeted 12.6n “In Nigeria, one child out of factory had also been killed. what is one of the world’s poorest Pakistan. website. HIV among Muslims. naira ($42.5mn) in 2016 for every 13 born dies before reach- Other residents reported countries to neighbouring Chad Nigeria has not seen a case “Failure to eradicate po- Independent tests ordered vaccinations and other pro- ing age one, and one in every the situation as calm yester- and Cameroon after clashes be- of “wild” polio - contracted lio from these last remaining by the government in 2004 de- grammes to combat childhood eight does not survive till their day but that armed men were tween livestock herders and local person-to-person or through strongholds could result in as clared that the vaccines were diseases such as polio, yellow fi fth birthday,” Kassogue said. still in the vicinity. arable farmers in the northwest.

Five missing soldiers found Paying tribute Gabon police charge at protesters Five of the 19 soldiers who went missing after an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents Nigeria’s AFP man chain at the front of the crowd. his camera was clearly marked. volatile northeast have been Libreville Among them was presidential candi- Several offi cers beat him and then found, the army has said. date Guy Nzouba Ndama, the former released him minutes later, along with The military launched a search parliamentary speaker. his camera. for the troops after they went ecurity forces in Gabon vio- The young protesters broke into Suff ering from back pain, the cam- missing on Thursday during a lently charged at demonstrators song, chanting the national anthem eraman went to a Libreville hospital military operation in the town Sgathering on Saturday in Libre- as the security forces began fi ring tear for X-rays. of Alagarno in Borno state, the ville in the lead-up to presidential gas at the crowd. Gabon’s Information Minister epicentre of Boko Haram’s seven- elections and beat an AFP cameraman Police then moved to break up the Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze described year Islamist insurgency. covering the protest, a colleague said. protest and several shots were heard, the incident as “regrettable.” Army spokesman Sani Usman Defying a heavy police presence, according to the AFP journalist who saw Another journalist covering the said in a statement late Saturday hundreds of protesters took to the 70-year-old Ndama running for cover protest was also harassed by the secu- that five of the soldiers had streets in opposition to President Ali with other demonstrators. rity forces, who seized his camera. been found, including the unit’s Bongo Ondimba’s candidacy for re- Armed, masked members of the se- Ndama said that Saturday’s inci- commanding off icer. election on August 26. curity forces grabbed the AFP journal- dent “shows Ali Bongo Ondimba is “Although they are in a stable Some 15 opposition leaders also ist’s cameraman colleague and threw afraid of the opposition speaking its condition, have been moved to attended the protest, forming a hu- him onto a pick-up truck, even though mind. our medical facilities for medical care,” he said, adding that the other 14 are still unaccounted for. Boko Haram’s bid to form a hardline Islamic state has left Relatives, party activists and representatives of the ANC Women’s League at least 20,000 people dead in gesturing next to the coff in and the portrait of late African National Congress Nigeria and displaced more than (ANC) ward candidate Khanyisile Ngobese-Sibisi, during the funeral ceremony in 2.6mn people, with the violence Ladysmith, some 270km west of Durban on Saturday. Sibisi was gunned down spilling over into neighbouring on July 18 during a Nelson Mandela Day event. Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

Putrid poultry scramble sparks spat

AFP which they then tried to dig out with off raided nearby shops and confi scat- Freetown shovels, hoes and pickaxes. ed cartons of the rotten chicken. Police moved in, using tear gas, stun Civil society groups demanded that grenades and rubber bullets to prevent local authorities immediately inves- scramble by thousands of peo- people from removing the contami- tigate the company that imported the ple for scraps of imported rot- nated meat after crowds barged past meat, Universal Impex Business. Aten chicken has sparked a huge health inspectors. The chairman of the company has standoff between police and residents Police made 40 arrests, the ministry said, reportedly gone into hiding. in Sierra Leone’s capital over the week- adding that three quarters of the chicken “We are worried that some of the end, the health ministry said yesterday. had been crushed with mud at a site. rotten chicken if consumed might The ministry said health inspectors Despite eff orts to stop people getting cause an outbreak (worse) than Ebola,” and police were on the hunt for what their hands on the meat in clashes which said Victor Lansana Koroma, director remained of a huge consignment of left several with minor injuries, many resi- of a local health NGO, demanded the putrid poultry imported from Brazil on dents managed to make off with scraps. arrest and prosecution of the importer. July 12, which was buried at a Freetown “We are going to wash, cook and eat Media reports said the contaminated rubbish dump after health offi cials the chicken during our family sup- chicken might have fl ooded markets deemed it unfi t for consumption. per,” said Aminata Kamara, a mother elsewhere in Sierra Leone and added that But thousands of residents went to of three who managed to salvage two armed police were still hunting for rot- the dump in the city’s east after learn- bags of the rotten chicken. ten meat in shops, homes, warehouses ing about the vast haul of chicken, An elite police unit acting on a tip- and markets yesterday afternoon. War veterans attack ‘beginning of the end’ for Mugabe: analysts

AFP lyst Charles Laurie of London-based Sibanda who was expelled from Harare risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. Zanu-PF party for warning over the But during a meeting last week, the excessive infl uence of Mugabe’s wife war veterans said their relationship with Grace, said the country’s leadership imbabwe’s war veterans’ sur- Mugabe, 92, was seriously damaged. “has lost touch with reality”. prise attack on President Robert “The relationship between us as war Editor of the privately-owned Zimba- ZMugabe signals the “beginning veterans and the president has broken bwe Independent Dumisani Muleya said of the end” for the long-time lead- down. He and the party do not like us the country was in unchartered territory. er, already buckling under pressure anymore,” the war veterans’ political “The war veterans’ historic stand from a restive population angry over commissar Francis Nhando said. against Mugabe could be Zimbabwe’s worsening economic woes. The ruling party this week launched political decisive moment,” Muleya said. In a rare public rebuke to the world’s a project to reward party loyalists with Muleya warned that if the war veterans oldest president, war veterans decried housing plots, but excluded war veterans joined forces with the national resist- Mugabe’s “dictatorial tendencies” and who over the years were given fi rst prior- ance movement driven by civic groups, vowed to withdrawal their support if ity in party and government projects. churches and opposition parties, Mugabe he seeks re-election in 2018. “We very angry with what the presi- “could soon face his Waterloo”. “This is the beginning of the end for dent is doing,” Beta Guvheya, a war The country has in recent weeks Mugabe,” said Takavafi ra Zhou, a political veteran, said. been hit by protests including a mass scientist from Masvingo State University. “There is no money in this country strike called by an evangelical pastor “The war veterans have realised not because the country is poor... but we Evan Mawarire, which shut business Mugabe is sinking and with him his re- don’t have a manager,” said Guvheya. earlier this month. gime. They don’t want to sink with the “That is the reason we are saying “I am glad everyone is standing up” ship,” said Zhou. Mugabe must go. Mugabe is not going (against Mugabe), said Sibanda. For decades, the war veterans who to win an election. No one is interested Authorities in Zimbabwe Saturday fought in the 1972-1979 war of inde- in Mugabe’s government now.” denounced the war veterans’ statement pendence have propped up Mugabe as Former war veterans leader Jabulani as “treasonable” and “traitorous” and the “heart and soul” and “foot soldiers” Sibanda said: “We have reached rock said they were investigating its origin of the ruling Zanu-PF party, said ana- bottom. People are angry.” and threatened to prosecute the authors. Gulf Times 8 Monday, July 25, 2016 AMERICA Accused in SMS scam named by prosecutors

Reuters cluding wire fraud and con- New York spiracy to commit money laundering. Lawyers for Thompson S prosecutors on and Assifuah did not re- Friday unveiled an spond to requests for com- Uindictment against ment. three men for engaging A lawyer for Tsvetnenko in a multimillion-dollar could not be identifi ed. scheme to defraud con- According to court pa- sumers by charging unsus- pers, Thompson was the pecting mobile phone users executive vice president of for unwanted text mes- operations at Mobile Mes- sages. senger, where two-previ- An indictment fi led in ously charged defendants, federal court in Manhattan Darcy Wedd and Christo- charged Fraser Thompson, pher Goff, were chief exec- an ex-executive at mo- utive and an account man- bile aggregation company ager, respectively. Mobile Messenger, as well Prosecutors said they as Eugeni Tsvetnenko and and others participated in a Francis Assifuah, who au- scheme lasting from 2011 to thorities say ran digital con- 2013 that involved causing tent providers. cell phone users to receive Flames blown by strong winds close in on homes near Santa Clarita, California. Fuelled by temperatures reaching about 108 degrees fahrenheit, the wildfire began yesterday has The trio were added to a unsolicited text messages grown to 20,000 acres. pre-existing case against for content including horo- five other people and ac- scopes, celebrity gossip and cused of participating in an trivia. “auto-subscribing” scheme While users typically ig- to charge cell phone cus- nored or deleted the mes- tomers monthly fees for sages, these consumers were unsolicited, recurring text nonetheless billed for the messages without their services at a rate of $9.99 consent. per month, even though they Thompson was arrested on never ordered them, pros- Residents fl ee as fi re Friday in California. ecutors said. Tsvetnenko lives in Aus- Wedd, Goff and three other tralia and has not been ar- already-charged defendants rested, while Assifuah had in Friday’s indictment previ- already been arrested in ously pleaded not guilty and April. were set to face trial on Oc- threatens homes The trio face charges in- tober 5. The area has been scorched by a fifth Offi cials said one fi refi ghter sustained a year of drought providing dry material minor injury, and that structures had been for the fire destroyed or damaged in the Bear Divide and Sand Canyon areas. Reuters “Because this is the fi fth year of an ongo- Los Angeles ing drought we have a lot dry vegetation,” Los Angeles county fi re chief Daryl Osby told a news conference. fast-moving wildfi re that has forced “Some of these fuels, they haven’t burned hundreds of people to fl ee from their in decades. Ahomes in the drought-parched foot- This fi re has increased to about 11,000 hills northwest of Los Angeles had black- acres just overnight.” ened some 20,000 acres by Saturday night Some 900 fi refi ghters were battling the and was threatening homes and commercial fl ames in temperatures exceeding 41C, with structures, fi re offi cials said. the aid of 28 helicopters and eight fi xed- The so-called Sand Fire broke out shortly winged aircraft. after 2pm on Friday and spread quickly near But fi re managers said crews were strug- Santa Clarita, about 65km northwest of the gling in very rugged terrain as they tried to city, prompting evacuation orders covering defend homes in the community of Little about 1,500 homes. Tujunga and stop the spreading blaze that is By late Saturday night the Southern Cali- burning through chaparral and brush. fornia blaze was 10% contained, and was Evacuation shelters have been set up for casting a pall of thick black smoke over residents in the area and about 10 roads have much of Los Angeles and threatening about been closed due to the fi re. 100 commercial structures. Residents flee their home as flames from the Sand Fire close in near Santa Clarita. A number of roads in and out of foothill Los Angeles county sheriff ’s homicide de- communities were shut down. tectives were investigating circumstances in a burned car, citing a neighbour who said ing plumes and the South Coast Air Quality The fi re is one of a series this summer that surrounding a man found dead in an evacu- the man’s house has burned down. Management District issued a smoke advi- have hit the drought-stricken state, where ation area. Residents earlier posted pictures on social sory, warning of unhealthy air conditions in dried grass and bush land as well as high Media reported a resident was found dead media of the sun blotted out by the tower- the region. temperatures have helped fuel the blazes. Four shot dead at Texas home

Reuters Another child sustained non-life threat- Austin ening wounds. Authorities said the shooter was among the dead, but provided no details about the our people, including a child, were shot circumstances. and killed at an apartment complex in The victims’ identities were not released FTexas on Saturday, authorities said. and no information was available on their Police responding to reports of shots relationship to one another. fi red early Saturday evening at the com- The Bastrop County Sheriff ’s offi ce and plex in Bastrop, Texas, found an adult male, the Texas Rangers were investigating, Stef- two women and a child all dead of gunshot fanic said. wounds, detective Vicky Steff anic told re- Bastrop is a city of about 7,500 people porters. about 45km southeast of Austin.

Colorado town finds no chemical in water

A Colorado farming town on Saturday water restrictions were lifted on Saturday ended restrictions put on the local water morning, Lincoln County Public Health supply this week after it warned residents said in a Facebook post. “The municipal to avoid drinking the town’s water because water in the Town of Hugo is SAFE,” the THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, post read. was found in a feeder well. The sheriff The county health department said in an said a criminal investigation has been alert on Thursday that residents should launched to look into possible tampering avoid drinking, cooking or bathing with of the well in Hugo, a town of about 800 the town’s water for at least 48 hours after people some 145kms southeast of Denver. a field testing kit showed the possible THC “The Colorado Bureau of Investigation contamination. Peter Perrone, of a licensed has just reached out to us and advised cannabis testing facility, Gobi Analytical in that samples taken from Well #1 and Denver said that it is virtually impossible throughout town are NEGATIVE for THC,” to find THC in water in concentrated levels the Lincoln County sheriff’s office said because cannabinoids are not water on its Facebook page on Saturday. The soluble. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 9 AMERICA LaGuardia Airport Trump: French may face terror screening Trunp has taken on conventional wisdom at He then called for “extreme vetting” and said: activities abroad, citing NAFTA partner Mexico every juncture “We have to have tough, we’re going to have tough as an example. standards.... If a person can’t prove what they When show host Chuck Todd objected that Agencies have to be able to prove, they’re not coming into such plans would be challenged at the WTO, he Washington this country.” responded: “Doesn’t matter. We’ll renegotiate or During his interview, Trump also Defended pull out. These trade deals are a disaster, Chuck. Ailes, who resigned from Fox amid sexual harass- World Trade Organization is a disaster.” epublican presidential nominee Don- ment allegations by numerous women. Asked if he was concerned such actions could ald Trump is asserting that countries like Trump described Ailes as a longtime friend and rattle the world economy — much as the British RFrance that he says are compromised by said “some of the women” complaining about Ai- decision to exit the EU has done — Trump was terrorism may be subjected to the “extreme vet- les have been helped by him in the past and ear- dismissive. ting” he proposes as a deterrent to attacks in the lier had said good things about him.”It’s very sad,” “I’m the only one that said Brexit is going to US When asked if his proposal might lead to a Trump said.”Because he’s a very good person. I’ve happen,” said the billionaire.“What did it do? The point when not a lot of people from overseas are always found him to be just a very, very good per- stock market is higher now.” allowed into the US, Trump said, “maybe we get to son.” Pressed again on whether a fractured Eu- that point” and added: “We have to be smart and He criticized Kaine for accepting $160,000 rope was good for America, Trump equivocated, we have to be vigilant and we have to be strong.” worth of gifts, much of it for trips, while serving putting forward a vision of Europe as an economic In an interview to air yesterday on NBC’s Meet as governor. competitor to be bested. the Press, Trump also defended Fox News founder The gifts were legal under the state’s permis- “No, no — but we’re spending a lot of money An aerial view of LaGuardia Airport in New York. Roger Ailes, who left the network amid accusa- sive ethics rules, but Trump said: “To me, it’s a big in Europe,” he said.“Don’t forget, Europe got to- tions of sexual harassment; criticised rival Hil- problem... gether, why primarily did they get together? To lary Clinton’s newly named running mate, sena- how do you take all these gifts?” beat the United States when it comes to making tor Tim Kaine, for accepting gifts while Virginia’s He took issue with descriptions of his conven- money. In other words, on trade. governor; dismissed descriptions of his nomina- tion speech earlier in the week as “dark”. ‘’It was “The reason that it got together was like a consor- tion acceptance speech as “dark,” instead call- an optimistic speech,” Trump said. tium so it could compete with the United States.” ing it “optimistic”; and expressed disapproval of Referring to his mention of crime as well as “Look at Airbus,” he said.“They got together, all David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who shootings and terrorist attacks both here and of these countries got together so they could beat is seeking a senate seat from Louisiana. overseas, he said, “Sure, I talk about the problems, the United States. Okay?” For months Trump has called for a temporary but we’re going to solve the problems.” “So you know, we’re in competition in one way ban on foreign Muslims seeking to enter the Unit- He criticized Duke, who cited Trump’s cam- and helping them in one way. ed States and criticised the Obama administration paign as an inspiration for his senate bid. It’s so messed up.” for continuing to admit refugees from Syria. Trump was quick to say he rejected eff orts by Regarding the United States’ Nato commit- In his speech Thursday night at the Republican Duke to run for the senate. ments, Trump was unapologetic, repeating that National Convention, he said the US “must im- In an interview several months ago, Trump was he intended to force allies to shoulder defence mediately suspend immigration from any nation asked about Duke off ering his support and Trump costs that the US has borne for decades. that has been compromised by terrorism until responded: “I don’t know anything about David “We have countries within Nato taking ad- such time as proven vetting mechanisms have Duke.” vantage of us. With me, I believe they are going been put in place” — notably leaving out any ref- His initial response drew harsh criticism from to pay,” said Trump, who previously warned as- erence to Muslims or to Syria, Iraq and other Mi- Democrats, Republicans and civil rights groups,” sistance to allies would depend on whether they deast nations. and he later said “I disavow” Duke’s support. “have fulfi lled their obligations to us.” In the NBC interview, Trump noted “specifi c Trump also suggested yesterday that the Unit- “Now, a country gets invaded. They haven’t problems” in Germany and France — both coun- ed States could pull out of the World Trade Or- paid. Everyone said ‘Oh, but we have a treaty’.” tries have been rocked by fatal attacks in public ganization if he is elected president. “If they don’t pay — Chuck — this isn’t 40 years places in recent weeks — and Meet the Press host Trump, who has already threatened to rene- ago. This isn’t 50 years ago. It’s not 30 years ago. Chuck Todd asked if his proposal would limit im- gotiate or rip up the North American Free Trade We’re a diff erent country today. migration from France.”They’ve been compro- Agreement, also doubled down in the interview “We have countries that aren’t paying and this mised by terrorism,” Todd said. on recent comments questioning the US commit- goes beyond Nato because we take care of Japan. Trump replied: “They have totally been. And ment to its Nato allies. We take care of Germany and South Korea and you know why? It’s their own fault. Because they He said he would slap punitive import taxes of we lose on everything. “We can no longer be the allowed people to come into their territory.” up to 30% on fi rms that moved manufacturing stupid country.”

Rudi Bakhtiar breaks silence on Fox exit Former Fox News reporter Rudi Bakhtiar has stepped forward to claim that she was fired by the news network nearly a decade ago after reporting sexual harassment by superiors — and received a six-figure settlement. In reports Saturday in the New York Times and New York magazine, the Iranian American journalist went on record to claim that around 2007 she was sidelined at the network after refusing the sexual advances of the incoming Washington, DC, bureau chief, Brian Wilson. After relating her experiences with the human resources VP and general counsel, she told New York magazine, network boss Roger Ailes fired her altogether. A mediator later ordered Fox to pay her $670,000 remaining on her three-year contract as well as her legal fees. Bakhtiar’s allegations come in the wake of Ailes’ resignation following an explosive lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. On Twitter, Bakhtiar credited Carlson’s lawsuit for her decision to go public.“It took me 9 years. You inspired me. Thank you Gretchen,” she tweeted to Carlson. Bakhtiar’s career was cut short in 2007, she said, after a cup of coff ee with her friend and Fox News colleague, Brian Wilson. The social encounter quickly turned awkward when, according to the accounts, he mentioned he’d soon be promoted to Washington bureau chief and that he wanted to help her career along by securing a fulltime spot in the bureau.“You know how I feel about you, Rudi,” she claimed that he told her, before adding, “Well, I want to see the inside of your hotel room.” Bakhtiar said she tried to gently decline Wilson’s proposition and apologise for giving him the wrong impression. But soon after the encounter, she said that she was reassigned from the Washington bureau, denied major assignments and eff ectively sidelined. Wilson, who left Fox in 2010, told the New York Times on Saturday, “I take strong exception to the facts of the story as you have relayed it to me, period. Beyond that, I will have no further comment.” Gulf Times 10 Monday, July 25, 2016 ASEAN

Vote No campaign US rejects account of how Najib got cash

US justice department nothing for personal gain, told complaint fi led this reporters on Thursday that his Aweek directly contra- government would “fully co- dicts repeated assertions by operate” with the justice de- Malaysian Prime Minister Na- partment action. jib Razak about the origins and “Allow the process to take purpose of hundreds of mil- its course,” he said, “but I want lions of dollars that ended up to say categorically that we are in his personal bank accounts. serious about good govern- While Najib and other Ma- ance.” laysian offi cials have insisted A spokesman for Najib, that the money was a gift from reached late Thursday, said an unidentifi ed Saudi donor, that the prime minister had the justice department said not changed his position that that it was stolen from a Ma- the money he received was a laysian government invest- gift from a Saudi donor and ment fund that Najib oversaw. that he gave most of it back be- Najib has said he never re- cause he did not need it.While ceived money from the fund. the justice department com- The court fi ling, one of sev- plaint is an allegation, not eral complaints fi led Wednes- evidence, it outlines in 136 day in a federal money-laun- pages of blow-by-blow detail dering investigation, provides how huge sums were diverted the fi rst offi cial public docu- from the government fund, mentation of transactions routed through bank accounts that challenge Najib’s version in various countries and then of events in a scandal that has spent on high-end real estate, battered his government for artwork, gambling and luxury the past year. goods by Najib’s stepson and The revelations could un- friends. dermine his credibility and The court fi ling seeks to re- give new ammunition to a cover more than $1bn in assets movement to force him from bought with money that pros- offi ce. However, he maintains ecutors say was stolen from the fi rm control over his governing fund, known as 1Malaysia De- party and has successfully sti- velopment Berhad, or 1MDB. fl ed opposition with the fi ring Those assets, attorney gen- of critics from party posts, the eral Loretta E. Lynch said on closing of online news outlets Wednesday: “Are just a por- and the criminal prosecution tion of the more than $3 billion of social media detractors and that was stolen from 1MDB and political opponents. laundered through American An activist wearing a ‘Vote No’ T-shirt, sells ‘No’ bread during a campaign against junta-back draft constitution, ahead of the August 7 referendum at Thammasat University Najib, who has acknowl- fi nancial institutions in vio- in Bangkok, Thailand. edged receiving the money but lation of US law.” -Courtesy said he broke no laws and took Bankok Post website Thousands join funeral march for slain Cambodia activist Strongman Hun Sen is facing The brazen murder sent ripples of Thousands of others lined the streets A regular critic of both Hun Sen and But stirring up opposition in the are standing up against injustice.” growing anger over the murder fear across a country already brimming to watch the procession, which marked the political opposition, Kem Ley called country’s rural heartlands — for years Shortly before his death Kem Ley with political tension between strong- the end of a two-week mourning period for a new era of clean politics in graft- considered Hun Sen’s key support base gave a lengthy radio interview welcom- AFP man Hun Sen and a resurgent opposi- that saw people from across the coun- ridden Cambodia. — has long proved a dangerous game in ing a report that detailed the riches Phnom Penh tion. try fl ock to the Phnom Penh temple The frequent radio commentator Cambodia, he added. amassed by Hun Sen and his family A former soldier charged with the where his body had lain. was also a major advocate for land and Watchdog groups say more than a during his three decades in power. murder claimed he shot Kem Ley over “He was a mirror of society, a hero. labour rights, travelling across the im- dozen environmental activists have United Nations rights experts ex- ens of thousands of Cambodi- an outstanding debt. His murder is a huge loss to democ- poverished country to speak directly to been killed in the past decade, often pressed concern over the circumstanc- ans joined the funeral proces- But suspicions of a political assassi- racy,” 39-year-old Hul Chan told AFP villagers. during efforts to expose illegal log- es of his death “in view of his standing Tsion of a prominent government nation continue to run strong in a na- while he was walking alongside other He charmed Cambodians by speak- ging. as a critic of the government”. critic whose murder in broad daylight tion where the rule of law is threadbare mourners. ing in a vernacular rich in metaphor and Am Sam Ath, from the Cambodian In a statement they said it “exem- has raised suspicions of a hit job in and critics of the elite are routinely si- Many wore white shirts printed with folk references, said Sebastian Stran- rights group Licadho, said yesterday’s plifi es an alarming negative trend in country with a long history of political lenced. Kem Ley’s face and the words: “Wipe gio, the author of a recent book on the outpouring of grief refl ected a grow- Cambodia whereby political activists violence. On Sunday a massive crowd of your tears, continue your journey.” country’s politics. ing disillusionment with a government and human rights defenders are facing Kem Ley, a popular pro-democracy mourners, many carrying portraits of Sunday’s procession, one of the larg- “He had a very special gift for be- blamed for rampant rights abuses and increasing restrictions”. voice and grassroots rights activist, Kem Ley, trailed for kilometres behind est public gatherings in recent years, ing able to explain complex issues to corruption. Hun Sen has ordered a thorough in- was shot dead on July 10 while drink- Buddhist monks and a motorcade car- will see the activist’s corpse returned to do with justice and accountability in “Kem Ley was a straight-talking vestigation into the murder and urged ing coff ee outside a petrol station in the rying the 46-year-old’s body in a glass his home village about 70km south of a language that ordinary people could person who strongly criticised social people not to turn the case into a “po- capital. casket. the capital for burial. grasp,” Strangio told AFP. injustices,” he told AFP.”The people litical act”.

Seven migrants drown in boat accident

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even Indonesians suspected of trying to sneak out of Malaysia after working there illegally drowned Safter their boat capsized, an immigration offi cial said yesterday. The fatalities were among the estimated 62 illegal In- donesian migrants who hoped to return to their home- land after working for years in Malaysia, according to state immigration chief Rohaizi Ibrahim. Thirty-four other people were rescued alive in the ac- cident that occurred late Saturday off the town of Pantai Batu Layar in the state of Johor, south of Kuala Lumpur, Rohaizi added. “The boat left the shore early evening but after a few hours at sea, the vessel was battered with strong waves, causing the boat to capsize,” he told reporters in a press briefi ng. Operations are still locating passengers of the vessel. Deadly boat accidents usually involving illegal mi- grants on unsafe vessels are common along the Malay- sian coast.The home ministry estimate there are 1.5mn illegal Indonesian workers in Malaysia.

Leak causes flight cancellation A hydraulic fluid leak was the cause of the cancellation of a Thai Smile Airways flight from Khon Kaen to Bangkok yesterday morning, the carrier said. Flight WE041, which was due to depart from Khon Kaen for Suvarnabhumi airport at 9.20am was cancelled before the passengers were to board the A320-200, Thai Smile said in a statement. Of the 116 passengers, 88 were later transferred to a Nok Air flight and the next Thai Smile flight, while the 28 others cancelled or postponed their journeys.The budget arm of Thai Airways apologised for the inconvenience.-Courtesy Bankok Post website Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 11 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

New Zealander quits job to become full-time Pokemon hunter A New Zealander has quit his job in Auckland to become a full-time Pokemon hunter. Every morning he fills a flask with coff ee, packs a rain jacket and cut lunch in his backpack and heads into the wilderness to hunt Pokemon — come hail, rain or snow. Tom Currie, 24, quit his job at Hibiscus Cafe in Auck- land, to embark on a two month tour of New Zealand, with the aim of capturing all of the Pokemon released on smartphone game Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go — a free-to-play location-based aug- mented reality mobile app developed by Niantic and published by The Pokemon Company is part of the Pokemon franchise. Currie has booked 20 bus trips around New Zealand and, in less than a week, has already visited six South Island towns — and caught Pokemon at every stop. So far he has captured 90 of the 151 Pokemon re- leased on the game. In the Kaikoura Ranges on the east coast of the South Island, Currie captured Dragonair, Scyther and Jynx. And, in the rough seas off the wild west coast he seized water-dwelling Goldeen. “I wanted to have an adventure,” Currie said.”I have been working for six years and I was desperate for a break. And Pokemon gave me the chance to live that dream.” A week in, and Currie’s adventure is both exhilarat- ing and exhausting. On occasion he has hunted till 3am and he says he sleeps deeply now because of the “miles and miles” he walks each day, the Guardian newspaper reported from London. “I think the most exciting experience so far was in Sumner, Christchurch, which has become a hot spot for Pokemon hunters,” Currie said. “There were about 100 people there hunting. And some of these people would usually be shut up at home and really reclusive. Hunting for Pokemon is bringing them into the real world. “It was such a buzzy atmosphere, when someone spotted a rare Pokemon they would shout out to alert the crowd,” he added. Currie’s journey so far has been done on the cheap, sleeping on friends’ couches or in crowded backpacker dorms. But his trip has piqued the nation’s interest and he has been approached by various transport companies, off ering to take him to remote parts of the country to hunt for rare Pokemon. Currie has also received messages of support from around the world, including Ireland, India, Canada and the US. “Tom is a very spur-of-the-moment, independent kid, he always has been,” said his mother, Tania Dobbs.“His nana and I don’t understand the game but I remember him loving it in his childhood. I am just glad he is out enjoying his life and seeing so much of New Zealand. I The AG600 amphibious plane being displayed in Zhuhai, in south China’s Guangdong Province on Saturday. back him 100%.”

Tiger kills tourist at China reserve China unveils massive

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ne woman was mauled to death and another seaplane: state media injured at a Beijing wildlife park after they Ostepped out of their car inside a tiger enclo- AFP The aircraft, which has a maxi- it only ever made one fl ight, in 1947. ity to conduct a variety of op- problems, China’s aviation indus- sure, a news report said yesterday. Beijing mum range of 4,500km, is intended The Chinese plane, which is tar- erations in the South China Sea, try has made rapid progress in the Emergency staff at Beijing Badaling Wildlife World for fi ghting forest fi res and per- geted at the domestic market, will where it has built a series of arti- last year. were able to rescue the young woman who fi rst stepped forming marine rescues, it said. be “very useful in developing and ficial islands featuring air strips, In June, the Chinese-made out of the car, but the older woman who tried to help hina has completed produc- At around the size of a Boeing 737, exploiting marine resources,” the among other infrastructure with ARJ21 — which stands for Ad- her companion was killed “on the spot” by another ti- tion of the world’s largest it is far larger than any other plane article said, adding that it could be the potential for either civilian vanced Regional Jet for the 21st ger, the state-run Legal Evening News reported. Camphibious aircraft, state built for marine take off and land- used for “environmental monitor- or military use. century — made its fi rst commer- Tourists can drive through the enclosures but are media has said, the latest eff ort in ing, Xinhua quoted AVIC’s deputy ing, resource detection and trans- Xinhua said AVIC has received 17 cial fl ight, when Chengdu Airlines warned to stay inside their vehicles at all times by the country’s program to wean it- general manager Geng Ruguang as portation”. orders for the plane so far. fl ew one from its home base to messages frequently broadcast through the park, ac- self off dependence on foreign avia- saying. Beijing is currently locked in dis- China is seeking to develop its Shanghai, and the country’s mili- cording to the report. tion fi rms. However, its wingspan is con- putes with several of its neighbours, own aviation sector to reduce de- tary began using its homegrown The incident took place on Saturday afternoon and The state-owned Aviation Indus- siderably smaller than that of the including Japan, Vietnam and the pendence on and even challenge Y-20 heavy transport plane earlier the injured woman was being treated at hospital, the try Corp of China (AVIC) unveiled H-4 Hercules, known as the Spruce Philippines, over the rights to de- foreign giants, such as European this month. newspaper cited Yanqing district authorities as saying. the fi rst of the new planes, dubbed Goose, which was designed in the velop economic resources in waters consortium Airbus and Boeing of It rolled out the C919, China’s Badaling Wildlife World, located at the foot of the Ba- the AG600, Saturday in the southern 1940s to carry Allied troops into off its shores. the United States, though analysts fi rst domestically developed nar- daling section of the Great Wall 60km from Beijing, is port city of Zhuhai, the offi cial Xin- battle. It is regarded as by far the The AG600 could potentially say it could take years. row-body passenger plane, in No- China’s largest ecological park, covering 400 hectares. hua news agency reported yesterday. largest seaplane ever built although extend the Asian giant’s abil- Despite a history of delays and vember last year. 4 offi cials suspended over China ooding fl Female birds call the shots to a break-up AFP committee has now announced Beijing it has suspended two Xingtai town offi cials, as well as a chief Agencies times up to three years, for a engineer from the provincial Sydney good vacant spot to come up our Chinese offi cials have capital and a deputy county — where the female owner been suspended following head, for “dereliction of duty” has died or moved on,” said Fdevastating fl oods that the offi cial Xinhua news agency ndangered Purple- Anne Peters, Associate Pro- left more than 200 dead and reported. crowned Fairy-wren fessor, Monash University. missing and provoked wide- The four offi cials will be Efemale birds call the Found in Western Aus- spread outrage over an alleged “subjected to accountability shots or tune when it comes tralia’s Kimberley region, cover-up by the authorities, investigations and could face to breaking-up with their it’s estimated that less than state media reported yesterday. further punishment”, it said. partner, according a new 10,000 Purple-crowned Torrential rains lashed the Xingtai’s mayor also apolo- study published over the Fairy-wrens remain in the north this week, driving over gised for the town’s response to weekend. area. 300,000 people from their the disaster. The study, published “These females are sit- homes and leaving hundreds of Earlier in the week, local dep- in the journal Behavio- ting there, they’re not thousands more trapped as wa- uty Communist Party secretary ral Ecology, revealed how happy with their partner or ters rose. Wang Qingfei had drawn ire for the researchers studied their territory; they have an But a fl ash fl ood near the suggesting there had been “no 317 breeding pairs to learn aff air on the side and they’re town of Xingtai in Hebei prov- casualties” in the fl ood, the Be- what was driving the be- more likely to divorce. With ince provoked particular out- ijing News said Saturday. haviour and highlighted on divorce they get a diff erent rage after locals accused offi - Public scepticism towards the causes of divorce in the partner and a diff erent ter- cials of failing to warn them of offi cials is common following monogamous year-round ritory. The territory seems the impending deluge — and disasters in China, as authori- territorial birds. to be more important than trying to cover up the cause of ties seek to control information As many as one in fi ve the partner,” added Peters. the disaster. and their lack of openness can avian pairs ended in divorce According to the re- The alleged mistake left at raise doubts about their trust- over nine years and the re- searchers, the females were least 25 dead and 13 missing, worthiness. searchers were surprised to prepared to take drastic ac- and public anger over the situ- Flooding is not uncommon fi nd that it was the females tion to gain a better terri- ation mounted after pictures of during the summer monsoon who were more likely to tory and divorce is a female the corpses of drowned children season in northern China, break up. strategy to improve repro- being pulled from the muddy but rains have been unusually The research shows how ductive success in the long- fl oodwaters circulated online. heavy across the country this important is high quality term and the immediate In the aftermath, residents summer. habitat for these birds and benefi t is a better territory. voiced suspicions that the sud- Beijing and surrounding ar- to what extend they will go The endangered bird lives den fl ood, which struck early eas is expected to receive more to secure a top post. in a harsh, unpredictable on Wednesday while villagers heavy rains, Xinhua said. “Females exhibit long- environment where 80% of slept, was man-made — the re- Heavy downpours have al- term planning and are more nest attempts end in failure, sult of a release of water from a ready wreaked havoc in central likely to end their relation- so females are prepared to local reservoir, rather than the and southern China, fl ooding ship when the opportunity divorce for a better territory breaking of a levee in a nearby several major cities and causing for a better territory arises. because a good site for nest- river, as offi cials claimed. over 200 deaths, state media We found females were ing will pay off , revealed the Hebei’s Communist Party has said. People push a car that turned over during floods in Xingtai, Hebei Province. prepared to wait, some- study. Gulf Times 12 Monday, July 25, 2016 BRITAIN Inquest unable to solve mystery of DJ Derek’s death

Guardian News and Media and his family said he would not ping centre about seven miles near Bristol, detective Carol The inquest heard a dog cannot be known how the de- ing about his retirement and his London have taken his own life but an from his home. Doxsey, of Avon and Somer- walker found his body. Doxsey ceased came to be there.” bus travels.” inquest was told it had not been Derek, dubbed the blackest set police, said: “Everybody we added: “We were unable to say Speaking after the hearing, In April hundreds attended possible to establish cause of white man in Bristol, was hugely spoke to had only good things to how he died or why he was in Derek’s great-niece, Jenny Grif- his funeral service at St Agnes ystery is likely to for- death because his remains had respected and loved in the St say about (Derek). Nobody had that location.” fi ths, said: “I still don’t feel like church in St Pauls, where he ever surround the lain undiscovered for so long. Pauls area of the city, where he any problems with him.” The assistant coroner Peter we have full closure as we don’t had lived – and performed – Mdeath of the legendary DJ Derek – Derek James Ser- lived and worked as a DJ. He Asked if there had been evi- Harrowing was unable to es- know anything. I don’t think since the late 1970s. Among the Bristol music fi gure DJ Derek, pell-Morris – went missing in was friends with members of dence that he had been a victim tablish a cause of death and re- anything untoward could have mourners was Daddy G from whose body was found in wood- July 2015 aged 74. After a high- the band Massive Attack, played of assault, killed elsewhere and corded a short narrative conclu- happened, he was loved by too Massive Attack, who had known land nine months after he van- profi le search his remains were Glastonbury and appeared in a taken to the woods, or had taken sion. He said: “The deceased’s many people.” Derek for decades and once de- ished. found in March in undergrowth Dizzee Rascal video. his own life, Doxsey said: “No, severely decomposed body was Ruling out suicide, she said: scribed him as “an ambassador Police have ruled out foul play close to Cribbs Causeway shop- Giving evidence at his inquest nothing to suggest that.” found in a wooded area and it “He was too happy. He was talk- for cultural exchange”.

Builders Royals attend America’s Cup series face action Stop attempt to as WWII homes destroy party, torn down

London Evening Standard London McDonnell tells developer who tore down three Victorian homes Awhich survived The Blitz could be forced to rebuild them “brick by brick”. The properties in East Ferry Labour activists Road, on the Isle of Dogs, were de- molished without planning per- Guardian News and Media McDonnell had told Marr: “See- “I have discovered that mem- mission or consideration for the London ma is a friend, I asked Jeremy to bers of staff working for McDon- impact on the local conservation appoint her. I think she’s very nell and Corbyn have gained area. German bombing raids de- talented. I fi nd this distressing unauthorised entry into my of- stroyed most of the other homes in ohn McDonnell, the shadow ... Seema resigned a month ago. fi ce in parliament,” she said in the road during World War II. Ten chancellor, has made an im- A month later we thought she’d a statement. “The implications bombs fell on the immediate area Jpassioned plea for Labour moved out.” of this are extremely serious. between October 1940 and the supporters to stop “trying to He said his offi ce manager had This is a breach of parliamentary following June but the three prop- destroy our party just to get rid thought the room was empty so privilege and is a violation of the erties remained undamaged. of Jeremy Corbyn” after it was went in, and then went back the privacy, security and confi denti- Bulldozers have now reduced claimed a member of his staff next morning, to fi nd Malhotra’s ality of a member of parliament’s them to rubble within the past broke into a rival MP’s offi ce. staff there. He said she apolo- offi ce. month. Tower Hamlets mayor Pausing in the middle of a live gised, adding that his colleague “Furthermore, my staff, in- John Biggs warned the owners television interview and asking had taken her complaint to the cluding an intern, who have al- that they could face legal action “what camera am I on?”, Mc- Speaker of the Commons but not ways been courteous and open, and should be made to rebuild the Donnell issued a direct appeal to to him. have felt harassed, intimidat- properties. Biggs said: “I am out- Corbyn’s opponents after being “I have a member of staff , a ed and insecure and decided raged by this unwarranted demo- questioned over the allegedly il- widow with daughters. She is themselves it would be best to lition. The council is looking at its legal intrusion in Seema Mal- now worried she will lose her job not leave anyone alone in the legal options, but in my view the hotra’s Westminster offi ce. and face prosecution because it office. owners should be made to replace Malhotra, the former shadow is being described as break-in. “I have made a formal com- these properties like for like, brick chief secretary to the Treasury, My offi ce said it was an error, a plaint to the Speaker of the by brick. had claimed on Saturday that month after we thought she’d Commons and to Jeremy Corbyn “This action is unprecedented a member of McDonnell’s staff moved out,” he added. MP, and requested an investi- in our borough. I can assure those gained entry to her offi ce without Malhotra’s claims do not gation into how this could have who have been understandably her permission, and had lodged a match up with McDonnell’s, and happened.” distressed by this that the council formal complaint with the speak- her team strongly denies any Sources in the Labour leader- takes protection of heritage assets er of the House of Commons. sort of bullying or intimidation ship team have suggested that seriously and we will thoroughly “My offi ce manager has apolo- by them, pointing out that they Malhotra should have vacated explore all the options and seek gised,” McDonnell said about the have gone out of their way not to the room that is dedicated to a to take the strongest legal rem- alleged incident, which Malhotra identify the member of staff in member of the shadow cabinet edy possible.” The three buildings said amounted to intimidation McDonnell’s offi ce. team. But her team pointed out were not listed but were within the and harassment of her workers But they argue that entering that she was waiting for a new Coldharbour Conservation Area, and illegal and unauthorised en- her room without permission was location to move to, adding that which grants protection to older try into her Westminster offi ce. wrong and without precedent. she had off ered to swap with her buildings and often means even Breaking with the traditional Malhotra has warned of a “breach successor as shadow chief secre- moderate changes need planning question and answer format of of parliamentary privilege” along tary, Rebecca Long-Bailey. permission. No one was living the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, with “aggressive and intimidat- They say that they had spoken in the properties in the run up to the shadow chancellor turned to ing” behaviour from Corbyn’s of- regularly to both Corbyn’s and them being demolished and the the camera and said: “Let me say fi ce manager, Karie Murphy, who McDonnell’s teams about the developer also served notice on this: we’ve got to stop this now. tried to use a keycard to enter situation and so it was known Harry’s Cafe next door, which has There is a small group out there the room on July 15 when it was that they were still there. now permanently closed. willing to destroy our party just empty. Since the police search of the Council offi cers inspected the to get rid of Jeremy.” The attempt failed, but later new Work and Pensions Minister properties two years ago amid Prince William and his wife Catherine, duchess of Cambridge, were the guests of honour Dismissing the allegations and on the same day a member of Damian Green’s offi ce when he concerns they were structur- at the America’s Cup World Series for the second year in a row. The royal couple posed turning the claims of harass- McDonnell’s staff was able to was an opposition MP in 2008, ally unsound. But a detailed check for photos with participants, including a number of children, during the event yesterday. ment over to Malhotra, he added: access the room with a diff erent it has been accepted that only showed they were safe and a “dan- The America’s Cup World Series is a racing circuit featuring the best sailors in the world, “Don’t pick on staff who can’t keycard, although Malhotra has a search warrant can justify an gerous structure” notice was not competing on foiling, wingsailed catamarans. defend (themselves).” not released the name of the indi- entry of a parliamentary offi ce served. Earlier in the same interview, vidual involved. without the wishes of an MP. Ukip ‘must step up or be Tory chairman says Brexit must be binding

replaced by new party’ Reuters David Cameron telephoned Ger- London man Chancellor Angela Merkel to appeal for concessions on the free Guardian News and Media MEPs Jonathan Arnott and Steven for starting a new party. movement of people, though the London Woolfe. “Now, more than ever, Banks, the co-founder of Leave. ritain’s vote to leave the idea was eventually shelved. the country needs Ukip to step EU, said that group’s enormous European Union must be Immigration was a core issue up, or for a new movement to step social media eff ort had meant it Bbinding, the chairman of the in the campaign to leave the bloc, kip’s most high-profi le do- forward,” Banks said. “We won’t could bypass traditional media. Conservative Party said yesterday, with polls in the run-up to the ref- nor, Arron Banks, has given achieve anything by tempering “We now need to push it further, and Article 50, which formally erendum showing worries about Ufurther hints that he may ourselves to create another bland, lowering prices for party member- starts the exit process from the the number of people arriving start a new political party, inspired centrist party. ship, putting more control over the bloc, would be triggered before the from the EU swaying the public by Italy’s populist Five Star Move- “We need to lower the barriers party in the hands of the grass- next election. towards supporting Brexit. ment, which recently won several to entry for politics, and reach out roots, and reaching into areas of Patrick McLoughlin, who was McLoughlin also said Article signifi cant electoral victories. to new audiences online, as Beppe the country that the mainstream made party chairman by new 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which Either Ukip, or his new move- Grillo’s revolutionary Five Star parties have long forgotten or tak- Prime Minister Theresa May last will begin Britain’s formal divorce ment, should now push for a Movement has done in Italy.” en for granted,” he said. week, told the BBC’s Marr Show from the EU, would defi nitely be “Swiss-style model of direct de- Five Star Movement, created by Banks, who backed Andrea that the vote for Brexit meant triggered before the next national mocracy, which allows citizens to the Italian comedian and TV per- Leadsom for Conservative leader, Britain must now get control of its election and that it would be dif- propose their own laws and veto sonality, is a Eurosceptic populist said he had little faith in new Prime own borders and that immigration fi cult for Britain to have an early the schemes of the politicians”, group that has won a series of key Minister Theresa May, claiming must be reduced. election because of its fi xed-term Banks said in a comment article electoral victories in recent years, that Ukip’s membership had in- Asked about a report in the parliament system. written for the Guardian. including mayoral races in Rome creased by more than 1,000 in a Observer newspaper that an Meanwhile new Finance Min- The multimillionaire business- and Turin, with the aim of estab- single day since she entered No 10. “emergency brake” on the free ister Philip Hammond sought to man is prevented from running lishing itself as the country’s of- The manner of May’s corona- movement of people was being address concerns among global for the leadership of Ukip, after fi cial opposition party by the 2018 tion as prime minister was an op- discussed, which would allow fi nance chiefs about the uncer- the resignation of his close friend general election. portunity for right-wing Brexit Britain to keep access to the Eu- tain path ahead for the country’s Nigel Farage, by party rules which With Ukip’s raison d’etre of conservatives, Banks said, as well ropean single market, McLoughlin exit from the European Union, state any new leader must have leaving the EU now achieved in as what he termed “the patriotic said: “let us see.” saying there could be more clarity been a member for fi ve years. principle, Banks and Farage have working-class voters who rejected “I’m quite clear that the refer- later this year. But Hammond also The rules also bar high-profi le long been tipped to be mulling the Blairite left on referendum endum result is binding on parlia- warned that volatility in fi nancial Ukip politicians including the starting a new populist party with day”. Banks said he believed those ment,” he said. markets was possible throughout party’s only MP, Douglas Carswell, libertarian leanings. He previously two core voter groups could be The BBC reported on Saturday the two-year period set out for the and its former MP, Mark Reck- told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show “united either within Ukip or a Patrick McLoughlin, chairman of the Conservative Party, speaks that days before the June 23 EU Brexit negotiations which Britain less. Frontrunners for the role are there were “very sound reasons” new political movement”. on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. referendum, then-prime minister has yet to trigger. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 13 BRITAIN Families to face prosecution if ransoms paid to terrorists

London Evening Standard “permissible” because it amounts working in terrorist-controlled and Spain, have a diff erent ap- said it was “totally unacceptable” ter into an arrangement whereby that a ransom has been paid to a London to fi nancing terrorism and that any territory, reinforces Britain’s policy proach and are thought to have that their families might face pros- money is made available, if you terror group to report the off ence person who does so will be com- of not paying ransoms. handed over large sums in the past ecution. In its new guidance, how- know or have reasonable cause to to the police or the National Crime mitting a crime. It also makes clear It follows intelligence assess- to free citizens held by terrorist ever, the Home Offi ce states “no” suspect that it may be used for the Agency. he families and friends of that employers will be breaching ments suggesting that ransom organisations. In America, Barack in response to a question asking if purposes of terrorism. The new document also rules Britons seized by terror- counter-terrorism legislation if payments have been a major Obama also gave families permis- ransom payments can be lawfully “Terrorist fi nance off ences have out making legal provisions to pro- Tists will not be exempt from they make payments to free kid- source of income for Islamic State sion to pay ransoms in a change of made. The document adds: “Sec- extra-territorial eff ect, so an ac- tect charity and other humanitar- prosecution if they make ransom napped staff and that ransoms and concern that Britons could be policy last year. tions 15-18 of the Terrorism Act tion committed overseas can result ian workers who could be in dan- payments, the government has cannot be paid via an insurance more vulnerable to kidnap if other The president, acting after the 2000 create a number of off ences in prosecution in the UK.” ger of breaking the law if they buy said. policy. The guidance, which also terror groups believe that they can deaths of US hostages James Foley, related to the fi nancing of terror- The guidance further warns that goods from militants, or assist in New Home Offi ce guidance rules out giving an exemption from make money from their capture. Steven Sotloff and Abdul-Rahman ism. It is an off ence... to provide the legislation requires any person other ways, while operating in ar- warns that paying a ransom is not prosecution to humanitarian staff Other countries, such as France Kassig at the hands of IS in Syria, money, to possess money or to en- who has a “belief or suspicion” eas controlled by terrorists. Go-ahead for Hinkley nuke project likely this week

Guardian News and Media ter for the government, which re- London gards Hinkley as a fl agship energy scheme despite criticism from the City about its massive cost. he Hinkley Point C nu- EDF insists it can build the clear project is poised to project for £18bn but a complex Tget the go-ahead from EDF system of subsidies agreed by the this week in what will be a major former chancellor, George Os- boost to a new government trying borne, could cost the consumer to steady nerves on the economy up to £37bn, according to a recent after the British vote to leave the estimate published on the depart- European Union last month. ment of energy and climate change A board meeting of the French (Decc) website. energy group on Thursday is ex- His successor, Philip Ham- pected to give a fi nal investment mond, has seized on a decision by decision in favour of building new a Japanese company to buy one of reactors in Somerset despite in- Britain’s leading technology com- ternal divisions over the £18bn panies, ARM, for £24bn as an ex- Lines of traff ic queue to enter the port of Dover yesterday. scheme. The decision has been ample that the UK was still attrac- repeatedly postponed, partly be- tive to foreign investors. cause of pressure from trade un- But Hinkley would be a much ionists on the board of the partly clearer vote of confi dence by state-owned French group who France and its Chinese partners claim EDF cannot aff ord the cost and it should encourage other and risk of such a massive project foreign nuclear companies such in the UK. as Toshiba of Japan to press ahead But Jean-Bernard Levy, EDF’s with their own reactor plans. Dover port chaos leads chief executive, has the support New capacity is needed to gen- of the British government to press erate electricity in the UK at a time ahead with a scheme that repre- when old atomic and coal plants sents an important shop window are being retired and there are fears for selling nuclear technology and of the lights going out. expertise worldwide. Greg Clark, the business and EDF said it would discuss Hin- energy secretary, said: “It’s clear to 15-hour traffi c jams kley Point C (HPC) – which in- that we are open for business as volves building two so-called Eu- we come closer to sealing the deal Agencies “We recognise the security following the recent attacks in sure motorists who had already ally have prepared for this, espe- ropean pressurised reactors (EPR) on this major investment in British Dover pressures that French law en- France.” The local Kent Police missed their allotted ferry, tweet- cially on a day like this, on a hot – at its forthcoming board meet- infrastructure and British jobs. forcement organisations are un- force said there was a 12-mile tail- ing: “Rest assured, if you are stuck day, to provide some sort of reas- ing and underlined the importance “This is a welcome decision (to der at Dover and we have agreed back, which it put down to a “vast in the queues at Border Control in surance if this happens there is a of building in Britain. “The HPC hold a board meeting) from EDF, ritish offi cials were draft- the UK Border Force will assist volume of holiday traffi c”. Dover we will put you on our next plan B.” The Conservative MP for project is a major element of the and we look forward to the out- ed in to help French bor- the PAF (French frontier police) People were advised to bring available sailing at no extra cost.” Dover, Charlie Elphicke, who was group’s … strategy. The two EPR come.” Critics remained vocal. Bder police yesterday after with border checks to remove food and drink supplies, while a Sikh relief organisation, Khalsa himself stuck in traffi c for about reactors at Hinkley Point would “It’s right that the UK should re- 15-hour queues built up at the the backlog,” said a spokeswom- Sikh humanitarian organisation Aid, which supplies aid to refu- two hours on Friday, said there strengthen EDF’s presence in Brit- main open for business but hand- port of Dover due to heightened an for the Home Offi ce. delivered water and snacks. gees in makeshift camps, found had been a lack of forward plan- ain, a country where its subsidiary ing billions of energy bill payers entry checks. “There has been extraordi- Xavier Czerwinski, a senior itself helping motorists. The or- ning that led to “poor transport EDF Energy already operates 15 money over to the French gov- Stationary vehicles could be nary disruption in the Dover offi cial from the Pas-de-Calais ganisation was given a blue light management”. He called for the nuclear reactors and is the largest ernment for an outdated technol- seen snaking through the coun- area but safety is paramount.” area, said: “The situation is ex- escort to distribute 5,800 bottles government to apologise for the electricity supplier by volume.” ogy makes no business sense,” said tryside, inland from Dover at Some people slept overnight ceptional because it’s the week- of water and cereal bars to those “traffi c nightmare”. EDF would not publicly com- John Sauven, executive director of England’s southeastern tip. in their cars. end when Britons make the great stranded. The shadow home secretary, mit itself to a decision in favour of Greenpeace UK. The town is Britain’s main Highways England, which getaway to the continent. Aid worker Ravi Singh organ- Andy Burnham, accused the the project, but nuclear industry “A possible fi nal investment ferry port to Calais in north- runs the road network, told driv- “We have deployed the maxi- ised the drop after seeing images government of being “caught ill- sources said all company prepara- decision next week will only show eastern France, 33kms across the ers: “French border police at the mum resources. of the traffi c on social media. He prepared once again” and said tions were being made as if it was that high-level post-truth poli- Channel. port of Dover and Eurotunnel “Given the European con- told Sky News the organisation the prime minister should have a done deal. “We are all expecting tics trumps good sense. The type Under a reciprocal agree- continue to follow French gov- text and the prolonged state of normally works in the refugee expected heightened security the go ahead this week,” the sourc- of reactor EDF wants to build at ment, Britain and France have ernment requirements to deliver emergency, offi cers are obliged to camps where there is no water. checks in France. es said. Hinkley hasn’t yet been shown to border controls on the opposite heightened security checks to check every vehicle rigorously.” He said: “And this is Britain, and Many travellers vented their The timing could not be bet- work”. side of the Channel. keep the travelling public safe P&O Ferries sought to reas- I think the government should re- frustration on Twitter. Garden bridge ‘may need Olympic stadium public money once built’ track sections on sale Guardian News and Media ing and operating the stadium, London which will become the home Guardian News and Media designed structure, to run be- brings a projected loss for the of West Ham United when the London tween Temple on the north side year of nearly £1mn. A predict- new Premier League football of the river and the South Bank, ed near-£500,000 profit in year thletics fans are being season begins. is forecast to cost £175mn. Of five is more likely to be a small given the chance to own Sections of the track will ondon’s planned garden this, £60mn will come from loss, the report says. Aa piece of London 2012 also be presented as gifts to lo- bridge could end up reli- public money – half from the Anderson argues that much history as the Olympic Stadi- cal schools, as well as to 2012 Lant on public money to department for transport and of the trust’s projected in- um prepares to welcome back Olympic and Paralympic gold cover running costs once built half from Transport for Lon- come from donations is based gold medallists Usain Bolt and medallists. because its proposed business don. on models taken from muse- Mo Farah. David Edmonds, chairman plan is wildly optimistic and The project received heavy ums and galleries, whereas the A new track has been laid in of E20 Stadium LLP, said: riddled with untested assump- backing from Boris Johnson bridge is billed as primarily a time for the Muller Anniver- “There were world records and tions, according to an expert as London mayor, but his La- transport link for pedestrians sary Games and the running great sporting moments in the report on the project. bour successor, Sadiq Khan, – 65% of users are forecast to surface used for the Olympic summer of 2012. The former Dan Anderson, who runs a has since pledged that no more be regular commuters unlikely and Paralympic Games is now Olympic Stadium’s track holds consultancy that advises tour- public money will go to the to use voluntary contactless being off ered for sale to mem- many amazing memories so ist attractions and similar des- bridge and last week halted donation points. “Simply mak- bers of the public. we’re delighted to off er the op- tinations, said the business some existing spending ahead ing this key adjustment reduc- Framed track-shaped pieces portunity for people to own a plan for the proposed 367-me- of a review. es projected income by some measuring 12cm by 7.5cm are piece and treasure it forever.” tre link across the Thames was But Anderson, a critic of the £200,000 per annum,” Ander- available for £60 each, with a British Athletics support- possibly the least robust he had bridge who undertook the 44- son writes. larger 26cm by 16cm “Track in ers and residents in Newham seen in 20 years in the industry. page report without being com- Similarly, he argues that pro- a Box” version priced at £99 in were given the fi rst opportu- “I’ve never seen one that is missioned, said Khan’s pledge jections for fundraising and its own commemorative pack- nity to purchase the track last so obviously weak,” said Ander- was likely to be unrealistic. sponsorship include “virtually age. weekend before the general son, of the Fourth Street con- Anderson’s analysis of the no explanation of what the Gar- Other versions include sale to the public begins today sultancy. Most such projects business plan produced in den Bridge Trust will do to raise numbers from both the start at www.london2012track.com. normally needed lottery fund- March by the Garden Bridge these funds”. Museums and pal- and fi nishing lines, with the Newham Mayor Sir Robin ing and thus had their busi- Trust calculates that although aces can offer donors discount- majority of the track being Wales said: “This track helped ness plans scrutinised, he said. the trust predicts a £232,000 ed admission, or entry to areas taken from the 100m straight create some of the most iconic “This one just seems to have net profit in the first year of otherwise closed to the public, where Bolt won gold and set a moments from the 2012 Games sailed through with very little operation, a more realistic out- but the garden bridge will be new Olympic record. and it is great our residents challenge.” come is a £165,000 loss. A more open to the public and thus has Proceeds from the public have priority to buy a piece of The Thomas Heatherwick- gloomy set of assumptions little scope for offering extras. Sadiq Khan: Khan’s pledge ‘likely to be unrealistic’ sale will go back into maintain- history.” Gulf Times 14 Monday, July 25, 2016 EUROPE

Offi cials urge fresh look at gun laws

By Andrea Shalal, Reuters Berlin

enior German offi cials yesterday called for a review of Germany’s already strict gun laws Safter Friday’s deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine people and the gunman, a deranged 18-year-old who was obsessed with mass killings. “Gun control is an important issue. We must continue to do all we can to limit and strictly control access to deadly weapons,” German Vice Chancel- lor Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, told Funke Mediengruppe, which owns a series of German newspapers. Gabriel said German authorities were investi- gating how the German-Iranian dual national had gained illegal access to the weapon — identifi ed by police as a 9mm Glock 17 pistol, the most widely used law enforcement weapon worldwide — despite signs that he had signifi cant psychological issues. “Clearly we will have to have a discussion in the near future about whether the current gun control laws are suffi cient,” said German lawmaker Stephan Mayer, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservatives in parliament. “The biggest priority is to combat the illegal arms trade since that could also reduce crime and terror- ism,” he said in a statement yesterday. The gunman, named by German media as Ali David Sonboly, opened fi re near a busy shopping People mourn at a memorial of candles and flowers in front of the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping centre in Munich yesterday. mall on Friday evening, killing nine and wounding 35 more, before turning the gun on himself as police approached. The Munich shooting was the third act of vio- lence against civilians in Western Europe — and the second in southern Germany — in eight days. Offi cials said there were no signs of any links in this case to Islamist extremist groups. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, Munich gunman planned also a member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in an interview that he planned to review German gun laws after the attack, and seek improvements where needed. De Maiziere said German gun laws were already very strict, which he considered appropriate, and it was critical to understand how the shooter gained deadly strike ‘for a year’ access to the pistol used. “Then we have to evaluate very carefully if and AFP precision, with Bavarian police chief Steinkraus-Koch said Sonboly had ziere has described as “particularly the black-clad assailant replies after where further legal changes are needed,” he said in Munich Robert Heimberger telling a press spent two months in a psychiatric underhand”. the man swore at him, using curse an interview published yesterday. conference yesterday that Sonboly unit last year. He suff ered anxiety at- Sonboly was obsessed with An- words for foreigners. Of Shia Muslim Mayer and De Maiziere also cited the current de- had visited the site and taken photos tacks and “social phobias”, according ders Behring Breivik, whose mas- origin, Sonboly appears to have con- bate within the European Union about a package of he teenager who shot dead during a year of preparation. to documents found in his bedroom. sacre of 77 people in Norway came verted to Christianity. reforms that would tighten gun controls within the nine people at a Munich shop- Chief prosecutor Thomas Steink- Police also found medication, but exactly fi ve years before his own The attack came just four days af- bloc and make it easier to trace the origin of guns Tping mall spent a year plan- raus-Koch added that the gunman it was not clear whether he had been shooting spree. ter a 17-year-old asylum seeker went purchased legally. ning the rampage but selected his had not “deliberately selected” his taking it. He had continued treat- But police also believe the teen- on a rampage with an axe and a knife The proposed changes, which must still be en- victims at random, offi cials said yes- victims, dismissing speculation that ment as an outpatient after his re- ager was infl uenced by a previous on a train in Bavaria, injuring fi ve acted by EU member states, would also set more terday. Sonbaly sought to target foreigners. lease from hospital. shooting in Winnenden, southwest people. He was believed to be a “lone stringent rules for deactivating previously fully- Details are emerging of gunman Most of the dead — who were He also appeared to have been a Germany in 2009, when a 17-year- wolf” Afghan or Pakistani inspired functioning guns and making them available for David Ali Sonboly as a depressed mainly teenagers — were foreign na- victim of bullying by other pupils at old shot 15 people in his former by IS. sale as so-called decorations. 18-year-old who was obsessed with tionals. his school, fi ling a complaint against school before killing himself. And it occurred just over a week Member states have diff erent criteria for what mass killings and had long struggled They included a Turk, two Turk- three of his tormentors in 2012. Born to Iranian parents who came after a Tunisian used a truck to mow does and does not constitute a deactivated weapon, with his mental health. ish-German dual nationals, a Hun- But none of these youngsters were to Germany in the 1990s as asy- down 84 people after a Bastille Day a legal loophole exploited by criminals to import Friday’s shooting spree sparked a garian, a Kosovan and a Greek, ac- among the shooting spree victims, lum-seekers, Sonboly lived in social fi reworks display in Nice, the third weapons that have only been superfi cially modifi ed terror alert, with Europe on edge fol- cording to police. police stressed. housing in Munich’s well-heeled major attack on French soil in the to appear non-functioning. lowing a string of attacks claimed by Sonboly killed himself after his They added there was no evidence Maxvorstadt neighbourhood. past 18 months. The Glock 17 used by the Munich gunman, which the Islamic State (IS) group, but in- murderous spree with the 9mm that any of the dead were lured to the Video footage from Friday appar- IS described Nice gunman Mo- police said had had its serial number fi led away, was vestigators have ruled out that Son- Glock pistol he had bought on the McDonald’s branch by promises of ently shows Sonboly on a car park hamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel as one of such a “reactivated” weapon from the Slovakia, the boly had any link with militants. internet. His attack, which began discounts that Sonboly had sent out roof in a heated exchange with a man its “soldiers”, though investigators Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily reported yesterday, cit- However, he appears to have at a McDonald’s branch, also left 35 from a fake Facebook account, an act on a nearby balcony. have not found direct proof of his al- ing law enforcement sources. planned the assault with chilling people injured. Interior Minister Thomas de Mai- “I’m German, I was born here,” legiance to militants. Sonboly obtained the gun on the Internet, it said.

Hollande rating inches Tourism blow for Greek island that sheltered refugees up despite Nice attack By Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP Lesbos, Greece

AFP not doing more following last No- Paris vember’s terrorist attacks in Paris hen a sea of humanity landed that left 130 dead. on their island’s rocky shores His Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Wlast year, the people of Lesbos rench President Francois Hol- who was jeered by a crowd in Nice turned out with blankets and hot food lande’s popularity rating has at a commemoration for the victims to help thousands of refugees emerging Finched up from near record there, saw his popularity rating dip from the cold waters of the Aegean. lows this month, despite heavy in the BVA poll to a record low of In the months that followed, Lesbos’ criticism he received over security 24% from 25% in June. citizens were hailed for their compassion- issues since the Bastille Day attack In the Ifop poll his rating was ate response by everyone from Pope Fran- in Nice, two polls showed. unchanged from June at 21%. cis to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, About 19% of those surveyed in Hollande’s government has or- Queen Rania of Jordan and Angelina Jolie. a BVA poll published late on Sat- dered an inquiry into policing on But praise from such global luminar- urday said they had a favourable the night of the attack in the Rivi- ies has not helped restore the island’s opinion of Hollande, up from a era city in a bid to dispel criticism tourist trade, with many foreign visitors record low of 18% in June. that security was inadequate. seemingly put off by the migrant infl ux. The poll for Orange and Itele Known for tough talk on secu- “We were bracing for a diffi cult sea- was conducted on July 20-21, days rity and immigration issues, con- son after the migrant crisis but it’s even after a delivery man in Nice killed servative former president Nicolas worse than we could imagine,” said Mar- 84 people when he drove his truck Sarkozy saw his rating jump four ilena Gourgoutzi, staring at the empty through a crowd of revellers leav- percentage points to 24% in the tables in her restaurant in the normally ing a July 14 fi reworks display on BVA poll. bustling port village of Molyvos. the beach front promenade. That helped narrow some of the Hotel operators say that only one in 10 A July 22-23 Ifop poll for the ground between him and Alain Ju- rooms is occupied and tourism business is Journal du Dimanche published ppe, his main rival to be the con- down 64 % compared to last June, accord- yesterday showed a bigger im- servative Republicains’ candidate ing to the local chamber of commerce. provement, with those satisfi ed for president. “It’s unfair,” said chamber chairman A stone is kept on the empty Eftalou beach near the resort of Molyvos on the Greek island of Lesbos. with the president rising three Juppe, who is not seen as strong Vangelis Myrsinias. percentage points to a fi ve-month on security issues and was left “All those who thanked the inhabit- was already done. Faced with Europe’s agement eff orts, summer season arrivals for the end of Ramadan,” Gourgoutzi re- high of 17%. scrambling to sound tough after ants of Lesbos for lending a helping hand greatest migration challenge since World were expected to drop to 80,000 from members. It had fallen to a near record low the attack in Nice, saw his rating to the refugees should visit our island,” War II, several EU countries opted to shut 120,000 previously on average. “But after the recent events there has of 14% in June as Hollande’s gov- fall two percentage points to 42%, he added. their borders to migrants early this year, Instead of Germans, Britons and been a clear drop,” she added. ernment faced a series of strikes although he remained the most Over 800,000 refugees and migrants, trapping over 57,000 people in Greece. Dutch, Lesbos had hoped at least to fall Jeweller Yiorgos Frangoulis last year and violent street protests over a popular politician, according to the mainly from war-torn Syria but also Iraq Images of beaches littered with dis- back on visitors from neighbouring Tur- off ered a cut of his earnings to aid groups contested labour reform. BVA poll. and Afghanistan, passed through Lesbos carded lifejackets and torn dinghies, key, even for short three-day trips. helping to bring succour to refugees. While that standoff has subsided Marine Le Pen, leader of the an- last year en route to northern Europe. though no longer accurate, continue to But the failed July 15 coup against This year, he says he’ll donate the as the government forced the law ti-immigrant Front National party, Hotel owner Theodoros Vathis, 74, re- hurt the island’s image, said Gourgoutzi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan money to organisations helping poor through parliament despite op- saw her rating in the BVA poll rise members days when 400 people would ar- the restaurant owner. changed that too. Greeks. position from leftwing lawmakers, three percentage points to 27% af- rive at once, and he would help drive entire “Foreign clients tell me that cer- As Turkish authorities began a purge “It’s the fault of our government the government has been heavily ter the Nice attack. families to a registering centre in his van. tain news outlets are still showing last in search of the plotters, over 10,000 which allowed such a great number of criticised over security since the The attack led Hollande to reverse “At the time there were no aid groups year’s footage with drowned migrants, people have been detained, thousands migrants to arrive in Greece but at the attack in Nice. plans to end a state of emergency in present, we were the ones to give them and dirty beaches which have now been more have had their jobs suspended, a same time increased taxes,” says Vathis, Conservatives with an eye on a place since the November 13 attacks clothes and food,” he said. cleaned up,” she told AFP. state of emergency has been imposed the hotel owner. presidential election nine months in Paris and instead extend it an- A deal between the EU and Turkey in Island mayor Spyros Galinos said that and annual leave for civil servants has “And it’s also the fault of journalists — away lost no time criticising Hol- other six months, which lawmakers March drastically reduced the fl ow to a charter arrivals fell from 27 to just nine been cancelled. Greek and foreign — who only broadcast lande’s Socialist government for approved on Wednesday. few dozen arrivals daily, but the damage per week, and that despite crisis-man- “Two weeks ago we were full of Turks images of misery from Lesbos,” he says. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 15 EUROPE

Greenhouse gases deal in sight, say delegates

Reuters Vienna

global agreement on cut- ting the use of hydrofl uor- Aocarbons (HFCs) — potent greenhouse gases used in aerosols, refrigerants and air conditioning — seems within grasp, delegates said yesterday after 10 days of talks on climate change in Vienna. A fi nal deal is expected to be reached at a meeting in October in Kigali, Rwanda. If successful, it would be the biggest single measure to limit global warming since govern- ments adopted the Paris Agree- ment last December, seeking to limit heat waves, fl oods, droughts and rising seas. At the Vienna talks, the last before the Kigali meeting, al- most 200 countries convened to lay the groundwork for such a deal, hammering out details and timetables for almost eliminat- ing the use of HFCs. “At the (conference) in Vienna the basis was reached today, in the early hours today, for a politi- cal agreement on the sustainable reduction of climate-damaging gases,” Austria’s Environment Minister Andrae Rupprechter said in a statement yesterday. “The text that has been worked out...should be con- clusively decided on...in Octo- Supporters of various political parties gather in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and wave Turkey’s national flags during the Republic and Democracy Rally organised by main opposition Republican People’s Party. ber in Kigali. This decision is a milestone for the reduction of climate-damaging gases,” he added, echoing the US Environ- mental Protection Agency (EPA). US Secretary of State John Kerry was among those who took part in high-level talks on Friday. Under the current draft of the agreement, rich nations would Turks come together for get a target of almost eliminating HFCs by the 2030s, while poorer nations — which may struggle with the high costs of shifting to new technologies — would get a decade or so longer. “The odds are very high for a deal in Kigali,” David Doniger of post-coup unity rally the US Natural Resources De- fense Council told Reuters. Reuters Erdogan will probably try to capital- Turkish authorities have suspended, len, who has many followers in Turkey, urk, the soldier who founded the secu- Developing nations would Istanbul ise on the large size of the crowd of all detained or placed under investiga- of masterminding the abortive coup. lar republic on the ashes of the Ottoman also get fi nancial support from political persuasions gathered in a sea tion more than 60,000 soldiers, police, In his fi rst decree Erdogan ordered Empire in 1923. nations led by the United States of Turkish fl ags to try and reassert full judges, teachers, civil servants and oth- the closure of thousands of private Supporters of Erdogan’s AKP, which and the European Union. ens of thousands of supporters of control over the country. ers in the past week. schools, charities and foundations with has ruled Turkey since 2002, have gen- “This single step could avoid Turkey’s ruling and main oppo- In another demonstration of unity Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildir- suspected links to Gulen, who denies erally tended to use religious symbols up to 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 Tsition parties, usually bitter foes, after the coup, which was staged by a im said on Saturday authorities had involvement in the coup. and rhetoric. Fahrenheit) of warming by rallied together yesterday in support faction within the armed forces, the taken around 13,000 people into cus- The CHP and other political parties But the coup has united both sides in 2100,” the EPA said of cutting the of democracy following a failed mili- head of Turkey’s air force issued a rare tody over the coup attempt, including swiftly joined the ruling Islamist-rooted a blaze of nationalist fervour. Istanbul’s use of HFCs. tary coup as President Tayyip Erdogan statement stressing “absolute obedi- 8,831 soldiers. AKP in condemning the coup attempt, AKP mayor, Kadir Toptas, has provided Clare Perry of the Environ- tightens his grip on the country. ence” to the chief of the military Gen- He pledged they would have a fair mindful of four other military interven- free public transport for the rally. mental Investigation Agency, a Demonstrators held a cross-party eral Staff . trial. tions in Turkey in the past 60 years. The chief of Turkey’s Air Force, Abi- US-based non-governmental “Republic and Democracy” rally in Some members of the air force were Rights group Amnesty International The last full-scale coup in 1980 led to din Unal, issued a statement saying ef- organisation, said countries are Istanbul’s central Taksim Square in involved in the coup. said it had received credible evidence mass arrests of politicians and others, forts were continuing “day and night to moving in the right direction but a spirit of unity following the failed The chief of the military General of detainees being subjected to beatings torture and executions. cleanse the Turkish armed forces of Gu- there is a huge amount of work to coup, in which at least 246 people were Staff , Hulusi Akar, who was held hos- and torture, including rape, since the “This coup attempt has shown once lenist terrorists and traitors who have be done before October. killed and more than 2,000 injured. In tage by the plotters on the night of July coup attempt. again how precious democracy and are became a tumour within our army.” Paris set a goal of phasing out a rare move, pro-government channels 15, yesterday condemned the plotters as “It is absolutely imperative that the freedoms for us all,” said Engin Altay, Turkey’s Supreme Military Council greenhouse gas emissions by 2100, broadcast live comments live by main “cowards in uniform” who had greatly Turkish authorities halt these abhor- deputy head of CHP. (YAS) will meet under Erdogan’s super- mainly by shifting away from fos- opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. harmed the nation and the army. rent practices and allow international “All 133 CHP members of parliament vision on July 28. sil fuels, and a target of limiting “This is a day to unite, a day to stand Erdogan, who narrowly escaped cap- monitors to visit all these detainees will be at Taksim. But we are not the Erdogan told Reuters in an interview a rise in average global surface up against coups and dictatorial re- ture and possible death during the at- in the places they are being held,” said only owners of democracy, everybody last week that he would restructure the temperatures to “well below” 2C gimes, a day to let the voice of the peo- tempted coup, has declared a state of Amnesty’s Europe director John Dalhu- must come to the meeting and show the armed forces and bring in “fresh blood”. above pre-Industrial times. ple be heard,” he said from a podium emergency, allowing him to sign laws isen in a statement. world how much democracy has been After the coup, Western countries Temperatures this year are at the rally, organised by his secularist without prior parliamentary approval Erdogan has extended the maximum internalised (by Turks),” he told report- pledged support for democracy in Tur- on track to be the warmest on opposition CHP but also backed by the in a drive to root out supporters of the period of detention for suspects from ers. key, a Nato ally and an important part- record, eclipsing 2015, accord- ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and by coup. four days to 30, a move Amnesty said Taksim Square, like much of Istanbul ner in the fi ght against Islamic State, ing to the World Meteorological other opposition groups. “We are all to- Critics of Erdogan fear he is using the increased the risk of torture or other and other cities, is awash with Turkish but have also expressed concern over Organization. Temperatures are gether in Taksim today. Today is a day abortive coup to wage an indiscriminate maltreatment of detainees. Erdogan has fl ags and CHP supporters were also car- the scale of subsequent purges of state already about 1C above pre-In- we made history all together.” crackdown on dissent. accused US-based cleric Fethullah Gu- rying pictures of their hero Kemal Atat- institutions. dustrial times. Migrant protesters 6 Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge AFP near Hungary border Kiev ix Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and thirteen wounded in a fresh surge of fi ght- AFP cross the region in smaller numbers, often Sing between pro-Russia rebels and gov- Belgrade with the help of smugglers. ernment forces in the country’s war-torn east, The migrants began the 200km trek north Kiev said yesterday. escorted by a police car and carrying blankets “In the past 24 hours, to our great regret, as ome 300 migrants, the largest group and backpacks, many bearing the distinctive a result of the hostilities, six Ukrainian soldiers in many months to try to march across blue logo of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). were killed and thirteen of our men wounded”, SSerbia into Hungary, were nearing the Abdul Malik from Afghanistan had said the Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Mo- border yesterday, the UN refugee agency has group was “going to Hungarian border” and tuzyanyk told journalists, adding that another said. was “gonna change something by walking and eight soldiers were suff ering from shell-shock. The group of mostly young men from Af- not eating.” Motuzyanyk told AFP that the Ukrainian ghanistan and Pakistan had set off from Ser- Hungarian media quoted one of the march- army suff ered the majority of the losses in fi erce bia’s capital on Friday to protest against the ers as saying he planned to stage a hunger shelling by insurgents overnight around the ma- closure of Hungary’s border as well as tough strike at the border. jor rebel hub Lugansk and the government-held new measures introduced this month to The number of migrants blocked inside city of Mariupol. tighten border security. Serbia has grown signifi cantly since Hungary The latest deaths come after the government The group reached the town of Subotica introduced tough new measures this month to last Tuesday reported fi ghting had claimed the near the border yesterday morning, continu- stop them crossing the border. lives of seven servicemen in the highest one-day ing their march towards the frontier in early According to UNHCR in Serbia, up to 2,800 death toll in the confl ict for two months. afternoon in the hope of gaining entry into the migrants were in the country on Friday, most- Ukraine and the rebels — who the West ac- Pro-Russia insurgents take part in an exercise to prepare for the deployment of an armed international European Union. ly in makeshift along the Hungarian border. cuses Russia of directing — have agreed a series of police force in rebel-held areas in Shakhtarsk, some 60km from Donetsk. The simulated street Serbia lies on the so-called Balkan route Last weekend Belgrade decided to launch ceasefi res but they have failed to halt the violence. fighting in the rebel-controlled town saw around 100 camouflaged fighters armed with thick metal taken by hundreds of thousands of migrants joint police and army patrols to beef up its A peace deal to end the bloodshed has fl oundered shields training cheering crowds how to form lines to push back against advancing troops. from the Middle East, Asia and Africa since borders. and observers from the Organization for Security last year on their way to western Europe. Serbian authorities said recently that and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) say both sides violations in Lugansk region since September “Monitors keep hearing and seeing weapons Although the route was eff ectively shut 102,000 migrants had been registered since seem to be bringing up more hardware. 2015”, the deputy chief of the monitoring mis- that should be withdrawn in increasing num- down in March, migrants have continued to the start of the year — more than 500 a day. “Last week saw highest number of ceasefi re sion, Alexander Hug, said on Friday. bers on both sides of contact line.” Gulf Times 16 Monday, July 25, 2016 INDIA

Tamil Nadu Roundup Proclaim India a Hindu state, says Shiv Sena chief

By Umaima Shafiq IANS in the party mouthpieces Saama- being crushed like a snake? We which he termed “strange.” the warpath. The Amarnath Yatra eray) immediately intervened Mumbai na (Marathi) and Dopaharka Saa- don’t support them, but let the “The Hindus are in a major- was stopped, soldiers and police to off er hope to the beleaguered mana (Hindi) ahead of his 56th truth about the Sanatan Sanstha ity, yet they are subjected to have been attacked without any Hindus - but the others simply Three women birthday on July 27. come out once and for all. Merely atrocities. They elected this fear and they (separatists) raise an- mouth ‘Hindutva’ and enjoy the hiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was speaking to the talking and labelling them will government with the hope and ti-India slogans. For how long will fruits of power,” he said. arrested for Thackeray yesterday de- dailies’ executive editor and Ra- not serve the cause of justice,” confi dence of improving their this go on,” Thackeray wondered. As for Pakistan, Thackeray kidnap, murder Smanded that India be pro- jya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut. Thackeray said. lot, but the same old story as be- The Sena leader termed the claimed that “only the Shiv Sena claimed a ‘Hindu state.’ The Sena chief said: “If speak- People linked to the Hindu fore (Congress rule) continues,” current situation in the country, is giving them a tough challenge, “We have to decide now... ing about Hindutva is a crime, at rightwing group have been ac- Thackeray said. especially in Kashmir, as “foggy” opposing their artistes, actors Three women and a man were enough of this ‘secular’ stuff . least shed the false pretensions cused of involvement in the Dwelling on a variety of issues, - which he said was a matter of and cricketers.” arrested for allegedly kidnapping The only option left is to declare of secularism - as the country is murder of rationalist and author Thackeray said people were at a utmost concern for his party. “But only the Shiv Sena has and murdering a financier in India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ if attacks now stuck between the two (Hin- Narendra Achyut Dabholkar in loss and don’t understand what “Right from the times of (party suff ered - what are the Hindus in Virudhunagar, about 45km from on Hindus have to be prevented,” dutva and secularism). 2013 and leftwing author Govind is going on in the country. founder) Bal Thackeray, Shiv other parties doing? They seem the temple city of Madurai, last Thackeray said in his annual “When Hindus are being tar- Pansare in 2015. “Why is Jammu and Kashmir Sena has espoused the cause of to be listening to ghazals and week. birthday-eve interview. geted and attacked, where are He agreed with Raut that at- suddenly up in fl ames? Who’s re- Hindutva, and fought for the watching cricket matches. It’s Police said the accused had The fi rst of the three-part in- these secularists? What about tempts were being to decimate sponsible for this? Hindus were country. Whenever Hindutva high time all Hindus unite for the invested Rs600,000 in a chit terview was published yesterday the Sanatan Sanstha, which is Hindutva groups in the country, targeted by the Kashmiri youth on was under threat, he (Bal Thack- country,” Thackeray said. scheme run by Subburaj who promised to double the amount within a year. However they got angry when Thousands attend festival Subburaj failed to pay back the money on maturity. He kept giving excuses until they convinced him to meet them in Theni. When he arrived they beat him to death and dumped his Massive hunt body near Aruppukottai. Police found Subburaj’s body based on his cell phone location and his family’s information. In another incident, a 15-member gang led by a woman kidnapped a businessman and released him for missing after collecting Rs1.5mn in Salem. Rajkumar, 45, told police that Vijaya, 40, ordered designer glass partitions from his shop worth Rs3mn for a ‘buyer’ in nearby Attur town. Three days later, Rajkumar and plane goes his assistants met Vijaya at a wayside restaurant between Salem and Attur. However Vijaya who came with ten men in a car and four bikes forced Rajkumar’s group into her vehicle. She then kept them in captivity and into third day collected the ransom through Rajkumar’s friends. Sixteen ships, a submarine the Indian Space Research Or- in the sea for search and rescue Three days later the kidnapped and six aircraft are searching ganisation. operations. men were released at Uthankarai for the IAF plane that The recorded transcript of T M Balakrishnan Nair, head of town near Attur. disappeared on Friday. Chennai air traffi c radar showed Ocean Science and Information Search has begun for the gang. last pickup of the aircraft was 151 Services Group of Incois, said Agencies nautical miles east of Chennai, they have provided two triangles Chennai when the aircraft was observed to over which search could be done Laser used have carried out a left turn with - one about 5,000sq km and the to remove rapid loss of height from 23,000ft. other about 9,000sq km. he massive hunt for an In- Defence Minister Manohar The closest point of search and tattoos dian Air Force plane that Parrikar, who was in Chennai on rescue operations from Chennai Twent missing in stormy Saturday, undertook a two-hour coast is 217km from the shore- Cosmetic surgeons at the Stanley monsoon weather over the Bay of aerial survey of the area of opera- line. Government Hospital in Chennai Bengal on Friday with 29 people tion. The 5,000sq km area, which treat at least ten patients every on board dragged into a third day He instructed that more re- starts 217km from Chennai coast week to remove or redesign yesterday. sources could be diverted for the and extends till 373km, is in the unwanted tattoos through laser Air force and navy offi cials said purpose if necessary. form of a triangle, with 50% treatment. the search was continuing but no Meanwhile, family members probability of fi nding the air- The procedure is free and signs of any wreckage had so far of those on board were eagerly craft. consists of laser light from a pen been found. waiting for news of the aircraft. The rescue teams are likely to tip that is used over the tattoo like Local media channels reported The son of one of the men on comb the area with maximum an eraser. However each patient that clear skies and improved board has a message for fellow chances before they head farther. requires up to six sittings with a weather yesterday could aid on- Indians. Balakrishnan explained that three-week intervals to remove going search eff orts, which the “I want to request all my fel- they estimated clues of the air- the tattoo completely. Removal Defence Ministry said on Satur- low Indians to pray for my father craft could be be found within can be painful depending upon day were hampered by choppy and all people on board. I feel my 25km from its last known posi- the depth, the ink used, skin type seas and thick monsoon clouds in father is safe. I want all of you tion and time, as it was uncertain and area of inscription. the search area. to pray they all come back un- if the aircraft fl ew further or fell Tattoo parlours have escaped Sixteen ships, a submarine and harmed,” said Ashutosh Singh, into the sea from that known po- legal action by claiming to six aircraft are searching for the son of Bhupath Singh. sition. take written consent of each plane that disappeared on a rou- The probability of fi nding air- Several other factors like the customer before the procedure. tine re-supply fl ight to remote craft or its debris in the search speed of the aircraft, fl ight direc- Some customers cleverly re- islands in the Bay of Bengal on area of 5,000km is 50%, accord- tion, height at which it was fl ying design their tattoos either with Friday. ing to Indian National Centre were taken into consideration to partial surgery or redrawing at The Russian-made AN-32 was for Ocean Information Services decide on the search location. parlours. on its way from Tambaram Air (Incois ) that is providing co- All the data including the 25km Force station to Port Blair, the ordinates for the search and res- estimate calculated were fed into capital of the s Andaman and cue operation, the Times of India the numerical model to calculate Salem student Nicobar islands, when it van- newspaper quoted an expert as the probable search locations. tops CA exam ished from radar. saying. “We calculated ocean currents There were 21 military person- Once extended the search to and wind directions,” Nair said. Women waiting in a long queue as they take part in the Ujjaini Mahankali Jatra temple festival nel on board the missing plane 9,000km, the probability goes SARAT, which is yet to be of- S Sri Ram from Salem secured in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, yesterday. Thousands of people, including including six crew. down to 20%, he said. fi cially launched by the govern- the top rank in the Chartered Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, state ministers and central ministers from the The remainder were civilians Incois scientists have used ment, is already linked to Ocean Accountancy (CA) final exams state, took part in the festival. The folk festival is celebrated to ward off evil and usher in peace. and some family members of sol- Search and Rescue Aid Tool Forecast and Information System whose results were released It is believed that the festival was first celebrated over 150 years ago following a major cholera diers deployed on the islands. (SARAT), a numerical simulation that provides real time and fore- on July 18. The Chartered outbreak. The navy said it had sought model they have developed and cast data on ocean currents and Accountancy courses are satellite imagery of the area from have provided probable locations wind direction. conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and are considered one of the toughest professional courses in the country. Sri Ram, 21, secured 613 marks BJP suspends (76.63%) in the exams and Dubai boy undergoes credits his success to his parents’ legislator for encouragement, dedicated revision and good coaching. The course consists of two teasing girl foundation exams and a three- rare surgery in Kerala year articleship with an auditor’s IANS firm with a final exam that is held By Ashraf Padanna within one month. But in this reduction of body temperature Patna twice a year. Thiruvananthapuram case, the tissue developed into a to 15°C,” the doctor explained. cancerous tumour,” Kunhi said. “It was a narrow escape from The parents brought Aadhi death for the boy as the sur- he Bharatiya Janata Party Idols digitised to octors in Kerala have to Lakeshore as the hospital in gery had only a 50:50 success yesterday suspended a Bi- prevent theft successfully carried out Dubai didn’t have the facility rate. His health condition has Thar legislator after he was Da rare heart surgery on a and experts to perform such a now improved very well, and he arrested for allegedly teasing a two-year-old boy from Dubai, complicated surgery. will be discharged within a few girl on a train in Vaishali district. The Tamil Nadu government’s offi cials said yesterday. The Lakeshore management days.” Party leader Sanjay Mayukh Hindu Religious and Charitable They removed a primary an claimed it was the fi fth such The boy’s parents said they said the BJP has also issued a Endowments (HR&CE) ‘intracardiac yolk sac germ cell surgery successfully conducted were in extreme shock after the show-cause notice to Tunnaji department has begun digitising tumour’ from the heart of Aadhi in the world. detection of the cancerous tu- Pandey. bronze and stone idols belonging Fabeer. “The boy was in a very criti- mour in his heart. Though doc- Pandey, who is a member of to 38,000 temples in the state to The tumour was detected cal stage as 95% of the blood tors in Dubai advised against the legislative council of Bihar, prevent theft. when Aadhi’s parents recently circulation was blocked by the travel, the parents took the risk. was arrested at Hajipur railway The department has created a took him to a hospital in Dubai tumour, which had aff ected the “On the next day we fl ew station by the Government Rail- database recording each idol’s after he fell ill. right two chambers of his heart. down to Kochi and Aadhi was way Police on the complaint of picture, history and physical Developed both inside and It had to be removed at the ear- taken in an ambulance from the the girl, a police offi cial said. details. The process was outside the heart, the tumour liest,” said Kunhi. airport to the hospital (about “According to the girl’s com- launched after smuggling rackets was removed in a nine-hour- Kunhi has performed 16,000 40km away),” said Jenny Merin plaint, Pandey tried to molest in Chennai and Coimbatore were long procedure at the VPS heart surgeries with a 99.6% Fabeer, his mother. her and also misbehaved with unearthed and precious artefacts Lakeshore Hospital in Kochi success rate and is the fi rst heart “Dr Kunhi readily agreed to her in the train,” the police said. were found in foreign museums. “It’s a rarest of rare case,” surgeon in India to introduce perform the surgery on the Eid Pandey, a criminal-turned- However art experts are said Dr M K Moosa Kunhi, who beating heart surgery and some day without a second thought. politician, is also known to be a sceptical. “We need to know headed a 30-member team that other advanced techniques. Our son is in good condition member of the liquor mafi a of from whom the HR&CE got their carried out the surgery. “The surgery was performed now.” Uttar Pradesh. He also had liq- information. Only if a statue is “The yolk sac tissue, which by applying deep hypothermic The boy will have to undergo uor business in Bihar before a stolen can we verify if it belongs develops on the third day of circulatory arrest (DHCA), a chemotherapy to check any Dr Moosa Kunhi with two-year-old Aadhi and his mother Merin total prohibition was imposed on to us,” they said. pregnancy, is usually dissolved surgical technique that involves growth of tumour in future. Fabeer. the state on April 5. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 17 INDIA

JUDICIARY CRIME ACCIDENT TRAGEDY CONTROVERSY Salman poaching case Policeman’s abductor Two die as building under Pregnant woman Kejriwal questions Modi’s verdict likely today held after gun fight construction crashes commits suicide silence on Dalit attacks

The Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur is A man involved in the kidnapping of a police Two labourers were killed and eight injured as A 24-year-old pregnant woman committed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday expected to deliver today its verdict in the off icer has been arrested after a brief gun fight, a building under construction collapsed in the suicide by hanging herself after a tiff with her questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases Haryana police said yesterday. Identified as upscale Jubliee Hills area of Hyderabad yesterday, fiancé in New Delhi, police said yesterday. The silence over the attacks on the members of the involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan, off icials Khalid, the man received a bullet in his leg during police said. One of the victims was a woman incident occurred in Katwaria Sarai area of Dalit community and accused the Bharatiya said yesterday. Khan has challenged a lower the exchange of fire with the police and was from West Bengal. Some labourers are feared south Delhi. She was identified as Ruchi, who Janata Party (BJP) leadership of supporting such court’s verdict sentencing him to one and five arrested, but his accomplice escaped, said the trapped under the debris. The accident occurred was staying at a rented flat with her fiancé acts. “PM Modi’s continued silence on Dalit attacks years’ imprisonment, respectively, in the two police. The police recovered a bike and a pistol in Film Nagar, where the three-storey building Sharad, 24,the police said. Both are residents proves that these attacks are taking place with separate cases of poaching. If the high court from Khalid. Police Inspector Surender Phogat, was being built as part of the expansion of Film of Madhya Pradesh “The woman and the man active support from top BJP leadership,” Kejriwal upholds the lower court’s verdict, the actor will chief of the Gurgaon Sector 29 police station, Nagar Cultural Centre and cement-concrete slabs were engaged a few months back ... they had tweeted. The Aam Aadmi Party leader on Friday have to go to Jodhpur central jail once again. was abducted on June 30 by four men who for two floors were laid. The injured were shifted a fight last night after which Ruchi committed visited Una town in Gujarat and met Dalits victims Khan and seven others are accused of killing subsequently dumped him in Mathura district to the nearby Apollo Hospital. Police, fire services suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling who were thrashed by members of a Hindu a blackbuck and chinkara in two separate of Uttar Pradesh after taking his money, mobile and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation fan,” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police “cow protection group” for skinning a dead cow. incidents. At the time they were shooting for phone and car. Police said Khalid was one of the (GHMC) launched the rescue operation. The Nupur Prasad said. “Ruchi was also evidently Kejriwal had blamed the Gujarat government for Hum Sath Sath Hain. “Salman’s sister Alvira has four abductors. The police off icer was on Friday National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) also pregnant,” she added. Police said they have also their misery. The AAP leader had also demanded already reached Jodhpur,” sources said. brought back to Gurgaon. joined the operation. recovered a suicide note from the flat. the strictest punishment for the guilty. AAP lawmaker arrested for threatening woman: police

IANS and Gujarat will now fi ght to- New Delhi gether,” he said in another tweet. Khan is the 10th AAP legisla- tor to be arrested since it swept olice yesterday arrested an to power in February 2015 after Aam Aadmi Party legisla- crushing the Bharatiya Janata Ptor on charges of threaten- Party in Delhi assembly elections. ing a woman, an offi cial said. In all but one case, the AAP A court later sent Aamanatul- has defended the legislators and lah Khan, legislator from Okhla, accused the Modi government of to a day’s police custody. vendetta. “We arrested the legislator Also yesterday Punjab po- today morning as the complain- lice arrested Delhi AAP legisla- ant again informed the police tor Naresh Yadav in connection that he was threatening her and with the alleged Qur’an sacrilege also trying to manipulate the incident in the state’s Muslim- evidence,” Additional Deputy dominated town of Malerkotla Commissioner of Police Rajeev last month. Ranjan said. Police sources said that Yadav, Khan was presented before a who is the AAP legislator from duty magistrate who remanded Mehrauli, was arrested from him in police custody. Delhi and was being brought A 35-year-old woman had to Punjab where he will be pro- fi led a complaint against Khan duced in a court in Malerkotla on July 20 for allegedly threaten- town, 100km from Chandigarh. ing her. The arrest came just hours af- A case was registered against ter the Malerkotla court issued the legislator under Sections his arrest warrants. Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrives for a press conference at an air force base in Srinagar yesterday. 506 (punishment for criminal The AAP legislator was ad- intimidation) and 509 (word, dressing media in Delhi when a gesture or act intended to insult Punjab police team arrived to ar- the modesty of a woman) of the rest him. Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the “We arrested him from his Jamia Nagar police station in offi ce today evening after ob- south Delhi, Ranjan said. taining arrest warrants from The alleged incident took the Malerkotla court. We have place on July 10, when the wom- enough evidence in this case Singh urges ‘maximum an went to Khan’s residence in against the MLA,” said a Pun- South Delhi’s Batla House local- jab police offi cial heading the ity after a telephonic conversa- 25-member police team. tion with him to complain about The police had questioned Ya- poor electricity supply in Jasola dav for over eight hours on July area where she resides. 9 in connection with the alleged One of the legislator’s sup- Qur’an desecration incident of restraint’ in Kashmir porters allegedly abused the June 24. woman and threatened her, she The AAP lawmaker has been Home minister accuses “I am worried about the situ- remained suspended. “If there are diff erences of cept that Jammu and Kashmir said in her complaint. booked by the Punjab police as Pakistan of inflaming ation here, so is our prime min- Singh accused Pakistan of opinion, those can be resolved is not an issue of money. You She alleged that the supporter a “mastermind” in the sacrilege violence in the state ister,” Singh told reporters after infl aming violence in the state through dialogue.” cannot solve it by sending (eco- said he was abusing her on the conspiracy following revelations meeting with business, govern- after Islamabad announced a Asked if the government was nomic) packages. It is not an is- “orders of Khan.” made by one of the accused ar- Agencies ment and other groups during “black day” to show solidarity ready to talk to separatist lead- sue of gun either. The gun has, Khan also fi led a counter-case rested in the case. Srinagar the visit. with Kashmir residents living ers, Singh didn’t rule it out but of course, played a role in this on Saturday and claimed he was The main accused Vijay Ku- “I have asked the security under Indian rule. said normalcy was the priority. issue. But fundamentally, it is not even in Delhi when he was mar, who claimed he was paid forces to exercise maximum re- “Pakistan is itself a suff erer “Let us fi rst ensure normalcy. not an issue related to the gun,” supposed to have threatened the Rs10mn by Yadav, later recorded ederal Home Home Ra- straint.” of terrorism and they should Then, we can decide whether he said. woman. his statement before a magis- jnath Singh yesterday Singh also urged residents to not instigate Kashmiri youth to we talk to separatists or any He said he explained to Singh The AAP also released a se- trate. Fcalled for “maximum re- refrain from violence. pick up arms. This should stop,” other group.” that “Kashmir is fundamentally cretly shot video of the woman Sangrur police had arrested straint” in Jammu and Kashmir More than 5,500 people in- Singh said. Earlier in the day former chief a political problem.” on Saturday where she is heard Vijay Kumar, Gaurav and Nand after weeks of clashes between cluding 2,259 civilians, have The clashes are the deadli- minister Omar Abdullah told “And till we accept that, we saying she was told by a police Kishore on charge of desecra- protesters and security forces been injured in the latest clash- est in Kashmir since 2010 when Singh Kashmir needed a politi- cannot a fi nd a solution to it.” offi cer to make rape allegations tion of the Qur’an and said they that left scores dead. es, including scores who were massive demonstrations were cal solution and not economic The National Conference against the legislator. belonged to the rightwing Hindu At least 49 people have been shot in the eyes with pellets by staged against Indian rule. packages. leader said his party leaders told Reacting to Khan’s arrest, organisation VHP. killed in clashes following the troopers and may have been The minister said New Delhi Abdullah told reporters he Singh that the central govern- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Ke- There was arson in Malerkotla killing of Hizbul Mujahideen blinded. was ready for talks that will help put forward some suggestions ment should “muster courage” jriwal tweeted: “(Prime Minis- on June 24 after pages of the holy commander Burhan Wani on One more protester injured bring “peace and normalcy” in on how to control the violent and accept the reality of the ter Narendra) Modiji arrests one book were found dumped near July 8 in a gunfi ght with secu- during earlier fi ghting died in the state. unrest in the state. Kashmir issue. more AAP MLA.” a drain. Several vehicles were rity forces. a hospital yesterday, taking the He said he met at least 13 del- “But we also told him that “Then you can involve people “(Gujarat Chief Minister) set on fi re and other property Speaking at the end of a two- death toll to 49. egations during his stay in Sri- unless some long-term meas- with diff erent opinions.Talk to Anandiben (Patel) sends Dalits was damaged as the situation day visit to the state Singh said Large parts of the state re- nagar and asked them “to help ures are taken,” the Kashmir them. Bring in all stakeholders and Patidars to jail in fake cases remained tense on June 25. The he was concerned about the vi- mained under a security lock- the government with construc- issue will continue to burn, he within the ambit of dialogue in Gujarat, Modiji sends Delhi mob also exchanged gunfi re with olence and called on both sides down for the 16th day as mobile tive suggestions in bringing said. and arrive at a solution that is people to jail in fake cases. Delhi police, leaving several injured. to ease tensions. phone and Internet networks peace and normalcy.” “First of all, we have to ac- acceptable to all.”

Alumni association to hold global meeting Boy found dead at author’s house

he alumni of the NSS Col- er sectors in India and abroad. IANS registered a case of unnatu- thing? How is that possi- lege of Engineering in Pal- The alumnus in Qatar under Kolkata ral death, a murder case was ble?” Takkad, Kerala, will hold the chapter Anecx-Qatar has initiated yesterday following “Police should interrogate a global meeting in Palakkad on more than 200 members, many a complaint by the Dasgupta all the kids, then only will July 30 and 31. of them holding key positions olice yesterday registered family. the truth come out,” Abesh’s “Old students working in dif- and contributing towards the a case of murder after a “A murder case has been mother Rimjhim Dasgupta ferent parts of the world will growth of the country. Pteenager was found dead initiated. A postmortem ex- said. participate, exchange nostal- They have organised vari- with multiple injuries at the amination is being conduct- While the Dasgupta fam- gic ‘once-upon-a-time’ stories ous technical sessions for the apartment complex of noted ed. Prima facie it appears the ily claimed that the boy went and share real life experience,” benefi t of engineers, personal- author Amit Chaudhuri where death was caused due to mas- to attend the birthday party of a spokesman of the alumni as- ity development programmes for he had gone to attend a birth- sive bleeding,” said a police Chaudhuri’s daughter Aruna, sociation said in Doha yesterday. The college is located near the foothills of the Western Ghats in students, robotic shows, inter- day party. officer. the Sahitya Akademi Award The inauguration and gen- Palakkad. school sports quiz competitions A grievously injured Abesh Alleging that cover-up at- winning author claimed his eral sessions will be held at Hotel and volleyball tournaments. Dasgupta, a Class 12 student, tempts were being made, the daughter as well as most of the Tripenda at Malampuzha, a re- to learn and plan their career Plan with the aid of central and Every year, the Qatar chapter was found in a pool of blood in boy’s mother demanded the group present at the party “did sort near Palakkad, followed by paths,” said the spokesman. state governments, the college disburses endowment scholar- the ground fl oor car park of the interrogation of all who at- not know” Abesh. technical sessions on the college The NSS College of Engineer- is highly rated by education ex- ship for eligible students recom- apartment complex in South tended the party. “The gathering, meant to campus. ing in Palakkad is one of the pre- perts. It is located in a scenic mended by the institution. Kolkata’s Ballygunge on Sat- “At the hospital, all the celebrate my daughter’s 18th A campus tour and various mier higher educational institu- setting, near the foothills of the The spokesman called on all urday. kids said they did not see birthday, had not been organ- entertainment programmes have tions in Kerala. Western Ghats in Palakkad. alumni members in Qatar to at- He was later declared dead anything, they all are say- ised by us, but by two of her been arranged for alumni mem- Founded in 1960 by the Nair The institution has a legacy tend the global meeting. at a hospital. A blood-soaked ing they are unaware. How school friends, and was com- bers and their families. Service Society under the lead- of grooming brilliant engineer- “It will be a memorable event neck of a broken bottle was can this happen? It was a pletely unknown to my daugh- “The event will provide a great ership of Mannathu Padmanab- ing professionals who later made for the college’s former stu- found at the scene. party, a murder happened ter until she returned home on opportunity for current students han during the Second Five-Year their mark in industrial and oth- dents,” he said. While the police on Saturday and none of them know any- Saturday after her tuition.” Gulf Times 18 Monday, July 25, 2016 LATIN AMERICA

VIOLENCE PEOPLE LEGAL TRAGEDY REPATRIATION One more mayor Former drug kingpin Ecuador pays $112mn Teenager playing 1,000-year-old artefacts killed in Mexico denies US agent’s murder award to Chevron Pokemon Go shot dead handed over to Guatemala

A second mayor was killed in southern Mexico One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, who Ecuador has paid $112mn to energy company A teenager playing Pokemon Go has been shot US federal authorities have formally repatriated along with his driver while they were driving on a is wanted by the US for the 1985 murder of a US Chevron Corporation over a four-decade-old dead in Guatemala in what appeared to be random a collection of more than thousand-year- road in Guerrero state, authorities said yesterday. undercover agent, spoke out from hiding to deny contract dispute, even though it remains in violence that had nothing to do with the game, old Mayan artefacts to the Guatemalan Ambrosio Soto, the mayor of Pungabarato, and involvement in the killing in an article yesterday. disagreement, the head of the central bank police said. The 18-year-old was in a street with a government at a ceremony in Los Angeles after his chauff eur were “ambushed by unknown Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the now defunct has said. A Hague arbitration court awarded 17-year-old friend playing the popular augmented recovering them from the estate of a deceased individuals” on a road near the village at around Guadalajara cartel, Mexico’s most powerful the US company $96mn in 2011 in a dispute reality game on his smartphone when unidentified art collector. The collection of limestone midnight Saturday, a municipal off icial said on drug traff icking network in the 1980s, denied stemming from a 1973 deal that called for assailants on a motorbike shot at them. They were sculptures was turned over to the Federal condition of anonymity. The murder was confirmed murdering the Drug Enforcement Administration Texaco, later acquired by Chevron, to develop attacked “for unknown reasons,” police said after Bureau of Investigation by a person handling by Soto’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), off icer during an interview with news magazine fields in exchange for selling oil to Ecuador gathering testimony from the friend, who was the estate of the collector, who has not been which said the mayor had unsuccessfully asked Proceso. Caro Quintero, who served 28 years of at below-market rates. Various appeals by wounded but survived. The killing happened in the publicly identified. “The cultural significance for state and federal government support after a 40-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the Ecuador against the ruling failed. “We have paid town of Chiquimula in eastern Guatemala near the of these pre-Columbian artefacts is priceless receiving threats. Soto had said that he received murder, was freed over a technicality in 2013 and around $112mn,” the central bank head Diego border with Honduras. Police identified the victim to the people of Guatemala,” Deirdre Fike, FBI threats from an organised crime group after taking then vanished. “I did not kidnap, did not torture Martinez told a local radio station. That amount as Jerson Lopez de Leon and said he and his friend assistant director in charge of the agency’s Los steps to combat extortion and drug traff icking. and did not kill him,” Caro Quintero said. represented the award plus interest. had played Pokemon Go several times in the area. Angeles off ice, said following the ceremony. Spy agency Protest over pension model regroups, wins back power under Macri

Reuters when thousands disappeared. Buenos Aires Successive democratically elected governments were wide- ly believed to keep using it to little over a year since Ar- snoop on opponents. gentina’s spy agency was Macri, who has promised to Ashackled in the wake of uproot crime, declined to com- the mysterious death of a star ment. prosecutor, President Mauricio But advocates of allowing the Macri is backing its quest for spy agency to conduct wiretaps broader powers that critics fear again say it would help speed up will revive unfettered domestic criminal investigations amid a spying. recent spate of kidnappings and Argentina’s spies are press- extortion. ing Macri to remove restrictions “I’m worried” about AFI re- imposed by former president gaining wiretapping powers, Cristina Fernandez after public said Juan Rodriguez, the director investigator Alberto Nisman was of the court-controlled depart- found dead in his home in 2015, a ment DCC that now conducts all source in the judiciary said. legal taps of some 3,000 phone Chilean workers march to protest against the Pension Fund Administrator (AFP) in front of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago yesterday. Thousands Fernandez accused a rogue lines in Argentina. protested in Santiago demanding the end of the current pension model. agent of playing a role in Nis- Wiretaps today are mostly man’s murder, which came days used to track suspected drug traf- after he accused her of covering fi ckers, Rodriguez said, and must up Iran’s alleged role in the 1994 be authorised by a judge and reg- bombing of a Jewish centre in istered for possible scrutiny. Buenos Aires. Standing before DCC’s 17 Fernandez overhauled the wiretapping devices, Rodriguez country’s spy agency in re- said “this is transparent...we sponse, branding it the Federal want to end the dark period that Intelligence Service, or AFI. this system once represented.” But despite the new name, the A source close to Macri said Maduro wife’s kin ‘had agency is starting to look more it was a myth that the country’s like the former Intelligence Sec- spies are sinister and powerful, retariat, with agents purged by and that AFI is too weak in its Fernandez moving back into old current state to operate eff ec- posts since Macri took power in tively. December, said an intelligence Ruling party lawmaker Emilio admitted smuggling drugs’ source who spoke on the condi- Monzo has said that Macri was tion of anonymity. studying the reform and would AFP las Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores The drugs were purportedly Venezuela before being fl ight to the US, Campo and In May, Macri issued a decree likely propose a bill by the end Washington — were arrested in Haiti in No- to be bought by Mexican drug transported to the US and Flores waived their rights to re- that lifted controls Fernandez of the year if he deems it a good vember 2015 and fl own to New traffi ckers, who were in fact Europe. main silent “and confessed to had placed on the spy agency’s idea. York by US Drug Enforcement sources acting under instruc- During an October meeting participating in a conspiracy to funding, allowing it once again Monzo declined requests for wo nephews of Venezue- Administration agents. tion from the DEA. with DEA sources, Campo de- import cocaine into the US,” the to spend most of its budget an interview. la’s fi rst lady admitted The pair are accused of plot- During recorded meetings scribed connections to the Ven- papers said. without any oversight. Macri has not said why he Tbeing part of a cocaine ting to smuggle at least 5kgs of in Venezuela, Honduras, and ezuelan government and later The Spanish-speaking de- Macri’s centre-right govern- lifted oversight rules on AFI’s smuggling scheme in a US sting cocaine into the US. Haiti, the defendants discussed stated, “we’re at war with the fendants have argued that ment has since fl oated the pos- budget, but a second intelligence operation before their arrest They were also accused of transporting multiple loads of US...with Colombia...with the their post-arrest statements sibility of giving back to AFI con- source said the decision aimed to last year, according to recently taking part in meetings to plan cocaine via private aircraft, the opposition,” according to the were involuntary and the re- trol of wiretaps that have been improve AFI’s workfl ow by cut- fi led court documents. a shipment of cocaine to the US papers said. documents. sult of an impermissible in- run by the judiciary since last ting out unnecessary bureauc- Details of the alleged confes- via Honduras. The defendants understood The defendants, rather than terrogation because they did year — raising red fl ags with Ar- racy. sions by Efrain Antonio Campo The newly released court that the narcotics would end the DEA, initiated the drug traf- not fully understand their US gentines fearful of a return to its But critics point to corruption Flores and Francisco Flores de documents show how Campo up in the US in transactions fi cking activities at issue in the rights. sinister role in the country’s past. cases in recent decades that have Freita were recounted in docu- and Flores and others worked “that they hoped would gener- case, prosecutors said. Campo and Flores are sched- The old spy agency helped traced money used for bribes to ments US prosecutors fi led in together to try to send hundreds ate millions of dollars in pro- The two men were arrested in uled to stand trial on the charg- the military dictatorship of the spy agency, which was as- the US federal court in Manhat- of kilograms of cocaine from ceeds.” Haiti at the request of the DEA, es on November 7. 1976-1983 target Marxists, signed a $100mn budget for 2016. tan. Venezuela to Honduras so that US officials believe much and taken into custody by the If convicted they face up to labour unions and students The murder of Nisman has The two — sons of brothers the drugs could be imported of the cocaine produced in agency. life in prison. They have pleaded in the country’s “dirty war,” still not been solved. of Venezuelan President Nico- into the US. Colombia passes through During the November 10 not guilty. Imprisoned Fujimori Rousseff supporters FBI ‘tip off led to terror plot arrests’ asks for pardon Reuters the other people arrested this Rio de Janeiro week. A spokeswoman for the FBI Reuters serving a 25-year sentence for ple are asking you from the bot- in Washington declined to Lima corruption and human rights tom of our hearts to grant Al- he US Federal Bureau of comment. abuses during his 1990-2000 berto Fujimori freedom,” said Investigation gave Brazil The arrests on Thursday, government. protester Mavela Alcala. Tthe tip that led to ar- just two weeks before the fi rst- eru’s imprisoned former Kuczynski, who narrowly de- “They can do what they want,” rests this week of 11 suspected ever Olympics in South Amer- authoritarian leader Al- feated Fujimori’s daughter, Keiko Kuczynski told reporters about militants who had discussed a ica begin on August 5, come Pberto Fujimori has fi led a Fujimori, in a run-off election the protesters. “If they want to possible attack on the upcom- after a recent wave of violent new request for a presidential last month, opposes giving Fu- ask for a pardon they have the ing Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, attacks in Europe and the US pardon, the prime minister said, jimori a pardon that would clear right to do so.” according to a Brazilian pros- and amid heightened fears that four days before president-elect him of guilt. Despite his autocratic rule, ecutor. the Games could be a target. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes of- However, Kuczynski has said Fujimori’s supporters say he In comments to several Initially, police arrested 10 fi ce. he would back a law that allows ended years of hyperinfl ation Brazilian newspapers, Rafael suspects and said that another It is unclear if the pardon aging prisoners like Fujimori to and recession and blame his sin- Brum Miron, the federal pros- two were being monitored. would be decided by outgoing carry out the remainder of their ister spymaster for the vast cor- ecutor handling the case in the On Friday, one of the other president Ollanta Humala, who sentences under house arrest. ruption scandal that led him to southern state of Parana, said two turned himself into police. rebuffed Fujimori’s first pardon Fujimori’s lawyer did not im- fl ee Peru in 2000. the FBI had provided a brief The suspects, described appeal in 2013, or by Kuczyn- mediately respond to requests Many Peruvians also credit report in which it identifi ed at by Brazil’s justice minister as ski, who must govern alongside for comment. him with quashing the bloody least six people it suspected as poorly organised and “abso- a Congress controlled by the Earlier hundreds of Peru- Shining Path insurgency and potential militants. lutely amateur,” were alleged populist party Fujimori found- vians who view Fujimori as a bringing sorely needed roads “The information came from sympathisers of the Islamic ed. misunderstood hero marched and schools to far-fl ung Andean the FBI,” he told the Estado de S. State (IS) militant group. Prime Minister Pedro Ca- through the streets of down- provinces. Paulo newspaper. “They sent a Although some of the sus- teriano said Fujimori sent the town Lima demanding the in- Keiko Fujimori and her succinct report: These people pects had pledged allegiance pardon request to the justice coming president free him from brother, congressman Kenji merit investigating.” to IS online, investigators said ministry. “It will be processed prison. Fujimori, did not take part in A spokeswoman for the they have no formal ties or according to the constitution Protesters waved white fl ags the march, which witnesses prosecutor’s offi ce confi rmed backing from the group itself. and the law,” he said on Twit- chanting “Fujimori Freedom!” said drew between 1,000 to Supporters of suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff the comments and said the FBI Only two of the suspects ac- ter. and carried banners bearing re- 2,000 people. protest against the government of interim President Michel provided the tip in May, after tually knew one another, police Fujimori, who suff ers from cent images of the weary-look- Prominent lawmakers who Temer before the relay of the Olympic flame at Paulista which Brazilian investigators said, but the group communi- hypertension and turns 78 this ing former statesman. promoted the march on social Avenue in Sao Paulo’s financial centre, Brazil, yesterday. tracked the suspects’ com- cated extensively online and week, was jailed in 2007 and is “Kuczynski, please, the peo- media did not show up either. munications and identifi ed through messaging services. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 19 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN

Loopholes persist Kabul in mourning in Pakistan’s honour killing bill

Internews in honour killing cases is very after deadly attack Islamabad diffi cult and this is the reason a person after killing his daugh- United Nations labels ity including beheadings. ter, sister or mother cannot be Saturday’s assault on The Afghan government is he proposed legislation convicted, he said. civilians a “war crime”; Twin currently in the middle of an op- on honour killings in He suggested that the law- bombings claimed 80 lives; eration backed by Nato airstrikes TPakistan has introduced makers should amend Qa- IS claims responsibility for against IS in Nangarhar, after strict punishment for the con- noon-i-Shahadat (the law of attacks Ghani earlier this year claimed victs making it tougher than evidence) for honour killing that the group had been defeat- the ordinary murder cases. cases and the standard of evi- AFP ed. However, legal experts are of dence should be relaxed which Kabul Nato this month said the the view that after killing a rela- would increase the possibility group’s infl uence was waning tive in the name of honour, a per- of conviction. as it steadily lost territory, with son may declare it a simple mur- abul was plunged into fi ghters largely confi ned to two der to avoid the punishment. The honour killings mourning yesterday after or three districts in the province Under the existing law, a bill aims at preventing Kits deadliest attack for 15 from around nine in January. murderer can be released after killing of women in years killed 80 people and left “There is no doubt that IS is the legal heirs pardon him. But the name of honour by hundreds maimed, reigniting under intense pressure in Nan- the proposed legislation on making the crime a non- concern that the Islamic State garhar, and they are desperate to honour killings recommends compoundable off ence group was seeking to expand its reassert themselves with attacks 25 years’ imprisonment even if foothold in Afghanistan. such as the one in Kabul,” analyst the heirs of the victim pardon Instead of direct evidence Tempers were frayed a day af- Ahmad Saeedi said. the convict. testimonies of the witnesses ter the twin bombings that tore The Taliban, who are in the Under Section 302 of the reliance should be made on through crowds of Shia Hazara middle of their annual summer Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), the circumstantial evidence protesters, as many anxiously off ensive and are more powerful the convict in a simple murder which may be the electronic searched hospitals and morgues, than IS, strongly denied any in- case may get the life impris- evidence or other related facts. looking among the mutilated volvement in Saturday’s attack. onment of 14 years or a maxi- The Anti-Honour Killings bodies for missing relatives. The National Directorate of mum of the death penalty. Laws (Criminal Laws Amend- The attack in the majority Security, Afghanistan’s main in- Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, ment) Bill 2015 and the Anti- Sunni country highlighted the telligence agency, said the attack a criminal law expert and the Rape Laws (Criminal Laws risk of sectarian disharmony in was masterminded by Abu Ali, president of the Islamabad High Amendment) Bill 2015, ini- a nation that has largely avoided an IS commander in Nangarhar’s Court Bar Association, said the tially moved by former senator the bloody strife between Sunnis volatile Achin district. legislation on honour killings of the Pakistan People’s Party and Shias. Men carry the coff in of a victim a day after a suicide attack in Kabul yesterday. The bombings, which killed would not achieve the desired (PPP) Sughra Imam as private “I promise you that I will at least 80 people and wounded results as the accused may claim members’ bills, were passed by avenge the blood of our loved Ghani renamed as “Martyr’s with shovels and excavators at a and solidarity in the face of ter- 231, mark the deadliest single that he had committed the mur- the Senate two years ago. ones on the perpetrators of this Square”, remained littered with nearby hilltop cemetery, where rible violence,” the United Na- attack in Kabul since the Tali- der for other reasons such as a But the government failed crime, wherever they are,” Presi- scorched metal, charred fl esh coffi ns were brought in, draped tions said. ban were toppled from power in dispute over property etc. to get the bills passed by the dent Ashraf Ghani said, declar- and personal items includ- in traditional burial shrouds. IS, which controls territory a 2001 US-led invasion, the UN Hence, he may be charged National Assembly within the ing yesterday a national day of ing shoes, ID cards and protest Many who survived with across Syria and Iraq, claimed said. with Section 302 of the PPC stipulated 90 days and later mourning. banners with messages such as grievous wounds overwhelmed the bombings in a statement The killings sparked an ava- and the family members may had to include them on the The bombings occurred as “Don’t eliminate us”. city hospitals, with reports of carried by its affi liated Amaq lanche of global condemnation, pardon him under Section 309 agenda of a joint sitting of thousands of Hazara protesters Many protesters defi antly blood shortages and urgent ap- news agency, calling it an attack with the United Nations label- of the PPC. parliament, which had actu- had gathered to demand that a camped there overnight, holding peals for donors swirling on so- on a “gathering of Shias”. ling the direct assault on civil- Moreover, in honour killing ally been convened to get the multi-million-dollar power line candlelight vigils and reciting cial media. The devastating attack in ians a “war crime”. cases the police as well as the PIA conversion bill passed. pass through their electricity- Qur’anic verses even though the “The lines of Afghan men and the capital represents a major “This heinous attack was courts follow the same proce- The honour killings bill starved province of Bamiyan, government announced a 10- women who queued to donate escalation for IS, which so far made all the more despicable by dure and rely on the same evi- aims at preventing killing of one of the most deprived areas of day ban on public gatherings on blood for their injured compa- has largely been confi ned to the the fact that it targeted a peace- dence as they would require in women in the name of honour Afghanistan. security grounds. triots was a poignant indicator eastern province of Nangarhar ful demonstration,” the White ordinary murder cases. by making the crime a non- The site of the attack, which Dozens of graves were dug of the Afghan peoples’ resilience where it is notorious for brutal- House said. The collection of evidence compoundable off ence.

Daily urges Pakistan and India to resolve Kashmir amicably

IANS self-determination. The editorial said that instead Islamabad “This stance is commendable of talking about capturing more but making statements about land, Islamabad needed to make the accession of Kashmir with- Pakistani-governed Kashmir a lamming Prime Minis- out any clear policy seems inap- model state. Islamabad hold the ter Nawaz Sharif for say- propriate,” the daily said. northern state of the divided state. Sing he was waiting for the “By uttering these words, the For the last 67 years, Paki- day Jammu and Kashmir will PM is challenging the author- stan had failed to ensure good join Pakistan, a Pakistani daily ity of India and inviting more governance in its own Kashmir, has urged him not to indulge in trouble not only for Pakistan but known as “Azad Jammu and “wishful thinking”. Kashmiris also.” Kashmir”, it said. “Such statements are nothing The daily said that talking The daily urged India and Pa- more than rhetoric,” the Daily about Jammu and Kashmir’s ac- kistan to resolve their bilateral Times said in an editorial. cession with Pakistan was easy issues amicably. “Instead of indulging in wish- but nobody knew how to make it “They need to get engaged in ful thinking, the PM needs to sit happen. the dialogue process to pave the back and think with a cool mind “It could only happen through way for further talks to help fi nd the ways to resolve the regional talks or war. There is no other solu- common ground to end diff er- issues,” it added. tion... Kashmiris are already paying ences... Pakistan’s offi cial stance on a heavy price for this confl ict. “Both Pakistan and India gov- Kashmir is that it extends moral “What can Pakistan off er to ernments must take pity on their support to the Kashmiri struggle Kashmiris when it is still coping respective people and come to for freedom and will continue to with numerous challenges that are the negotiating table for striking Supporters of the political and religious party Jama’at-e-Islami shout slogans during a rally in Islamabad condemning the violence in Kashmir. raise its voice for their right to posing a threat to its own stability?” a permanent peace deal.”

GENDER ISSUE Election panel likely to get woman member Row over Bin Laden compound in Pakistan

The Election Commission of Paki- AFP developing a cemetery in the stan (ECP) will get a woman as its Peshawar built up area. member when the parliamentary “The government wants to committee on appointment of construct a playground there. If ECP members finalises the proc- dispute has broken out we get funds, we will turn that ess today, informed sources said. over the future of the site place into a playground this The sources claimed that a Awhere Osama bin Laden year,” Ghani said. consensus had been reached was shot dead in 2011, with au- “You can’t develop a cemetery between the government and the thorities pushing rival plans for a in the middle of houses.” opposition as the separate lists graveyard or playground. Bhutto insisted CBA had the sent to the committee by the two The military has erected a wall authority to push ahead with it sides comprising 12 names each around the 3,800 square feet plot plans. had one name for each province where the Al Qaeda leader’s com- “We are going to meet the in common. pound once stood in the garrison provincial government offi cials “There may be a diff erence in or- city of Abbottabad, and wants to next week and will sort out this der of the priority on both the lists convert it into a graveyard. issue,” he said. but one name for each province But the local provincial gov- Elite US Navy Seals launched a is common,” a highly informed ernment, which was handed the helicopter raid on the highly for- source said. land after Bin Laden was killed tifi ed compound on May 2, 2011, He said the common names in- by US special forces, is trying to killing Osama bin Laden and cluded the name of a woman who redevelop it as a playground. taking away his body. would make history by becoming “We have secured this place Pakistani authorities later de- the member of the ECP. from encroachment by build- molished the building and left He said that a major political party ing a wall around it and now we the plot vacant. had suggested that a woman will develop this into a graveyard The killing was a huge success should get representation at the because there is a serious issue for US President Barack Obama decision-making level in the ECP. of unavailability of graveyards and decapitated Al Qaeda. Another source revealed that in the area,” Zylfi qar Ali Bhutto, But it drove a wedge between the woman who in all probability vice-president of the military- Islamabad and Washington, was to be picked up belonged run Cantonment Board of Ab- with lingering suspicions that to Sindh. “She is a retired senior bottabad (CBA), said. the Pakistanis had for years been bureaucrat who had the distinc- However, Mushtaq Ghani covering up the whereabouts of tion of being the first and only from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa one of the world’s most wanted Pakistani workers mark the edges of the patch of ground where the house where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed once stood in secretary defence.” provincial government, opposed men. Abbottabad on July 23. Gulf Times 20 Monday, July 25, 2016 PHILIPPINES Faeldon threatens to shoot corrupt customs personnel

Manila Times source said, adding that Faeldon ficer in the Philippine Marines Aquino in 2010. He was granted said that he would not hesitate was preceded by two separate the bureau’s fl agship ports. Manila may end up in jail if somebody with the rank of captain. He amnesty in 2011 but was not to resort to drastic actions if memorandums, both dated It was off-limits to members in the bureau who is accused of was jailed and dismissed, along allowed to return to military that would be necessary to bring July 19, which ordered the con- of the media. But a short video corruption gets killed. with several other members of service. about the needed reforms in the cerned personnel “to attend a of the meeting posted on so- ustoms Commissioner “If some stubborn or hard- the rebel Magdalo Group, for Faeldon issued the warn- graft-ridden bureau. meeting to discuss the Bureau cial media by a television sta- Nicanor Faeldon has headed personnel in the BoC get his participation in the failed ing to corrupt customs people “If I cannot touch them le- of Customs Reform Agenda at tion showed an angry Faeldon Cwarned corrupt customs killed, who will be the suspect? 2003 Oakwood mutiny and on two occasions. The fi rst was gally, I will have to start shooting the Office of the Commissioner warning customs personnel to offi cials and personnel to reform Naturally, it’s him. So how can he with the November 2007 siege on Tuesday before members of them one by one,” said Faeldon Conference Room” on July 22 at reform in 15 days and join him now while there is still time, or defend himself as he had already of the Manila Peninsula Hotel the Federation of Filipino-Chi- in a speech before the business 8am. in his crusade or risk being risk being shot like a criminal. issued a threat that he would kill aimed at toppling the Arroyo nese Chambers of Commerce group. The 54 offi cials were from the killed. But a customs offi cial, who those who are corrupt in Cus- government. and Industry, while the second According to him, the bureau Intelligence Group, Enforce- “If I have to kill one bureau of- requested anonymity, yesterday toms? Oh my! Think about it Faeldon and more than 200 was over the weekend during a loses some P300mn daily in du- ment Group, Enforcement and fi cial every opportunity I get, I advised Faeldon to analyse the (Commissioner Faeldon),” the other fellow mutineers applied closed-door “reform” meeting ties and taxes because of ram- Security Service, and from the will do that if that is the only way implications of his statement. source added. for amnesty under Presiden- with 54 allegedly corrupt cus- pant corruption. Formal Entry Divisions of the you want to reform this bureau. “A barking dog won’t bite. He Prior to his appointment in tial Proclamation No75 issued toms offi cials. The meeting with the 54 Port of Manila and the Manila Do you understand me?” Fael- better watch his language,” the Customs, Faeldon was an of- by former president Benigno In both instances, Faeldon customs officials on Friday International Container Port, don said. Filipinos await Yasay attends Asean meeting president’s fi rst state of nation speech

Manila Times legislative priorities but they Manila hardly made a dent,” Tayao said. The Aquino administration resident Rodrigo Du- failed to reduce poverty. Of- terte sets the national fi cial data show that 26.3% or Pagenda for the fi rst time one out of every four Filipinos in his State of the Nation Ad- fell below the poverty line in dress (SONA) today, confront- the fi rst half of 2015, the lat- ed with the twin problems of est available data, from 28.6% poverty and unemployment in 2009 before president Be- despite record economic nigno Aquino took offi ce. growth in the past few years. Translated into headcounts, Duterte has heightened the the number of poor Filipinos expectations of businessmen in 2015 stood at more than and policymakers with his 26mn, about the same as in no-nonsense attitude towards 2010. Security guards try to make way for Philippines Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay (centre) as he is mobbed by reporters after leaving the Association of Southeast Asian Na- governance and the fi ght Data also show slow tions’ (Asean) 49th annual ministerial meeting in Vientiane, Laos yesterday. Southeast Asian nations were deadlocked about how to confront China’s territorial claims in the against corruption, but as he progress in the jobs picture: South China Sea as pressure from Beijing again drove a wedge between countries on the region’s toughest security challenge. takes the rostrum during the 2.6mn Filipinos were unem- joint session of Congress at ployed in 2015, or an unem- the Batasang Pambansa, Fili- ployment rate of 6.3%. In pinos look forward to concrete 2010, 2.9mn Filipinos were measures that will provide unemployed, or 7.3% of the la- better-paying jobs and reduce bour pool. the ranks of the poor. The quality of jobs remains But the emerging focus of an issue: of those employed in policymakers and legislators is 2015, only 59% received sala- on political reforms such as a ries, and 10% worked without shift to a federal form of gov- pay, fi gures from the Philippine Duterte signs freedom ernment and populist measures Statistics Authority show. like the restoration of the death The urgency of these issues penalty to give teeth to the new was evident in the recent Pulse government’s war against crim- Asia survey taken from July 2 inality and illegal drugs. to 8, which showed that most The legislative agenda, Filipinos want the Duterte ad- so far, deals with the central ministration to prioritise three of information order problems of poverty and job- economic issues – controlling lessness only indirectly, ana- increases in prices (68%), cre- Media and watchdog groups had been demanding the reform, ters aff ecting national security, A proposed law imposing alternative media outfi ts, cau- lysts said. ating employment opportuni- had been demanding the the fi rst national freedom of in- Andanar said. freedom of information proce- tioned that a long list of excep- “It is clear that the underly- ties (56%), and crafting new reform for years formation order, for years. The order does not cover the dures on public bodies nation- tions would restrict rather than ing philosophy behind the leg- pro-poor programmes (55%). “This is record-breaking legislature and judiciary. wide, including Congress and expand access to information. islative agenda of the House is Other national concerns Agencies speed for a landmark executive Andanar said any person who the courts, has remained stuck Andanar said Duterte, who that once crime and law and included loan grants to small Manila order being signed,” Andanar requests information should in the legislature for years. took offi ce in June, respected order are addressed, poverty entrepreneurs and the self- told reporters. submit a written request to the Senator Grace Poe, an advo- the independence of Congress will follow,” political analyst employed (23%), a programme Press and anti-corruption government offi ce concerned. cate of the freedom of infor- and denied the new order was Alfred Sureta of the University to address the government’s resident Rodrigo Duterte groups have long campaigned for The request should state the mation bill, said that Duterte’s intended to pressure lawmakers of Makati said. debt problem (17%), and pur- has signed a landmark freedom of information to com- name and contact information move “is already indeed a mile- into passing the freedom of in- The challenge for Duterte’s suing peace negotiations with Pfreedom of information bat endemic corruption blight- of the requesting party, provide stone.” formation law. economic team is to craft a diff erent armed groups (17%). order to allow the public full ac- ing the nation. valid proof of identifi cation or “There are a lot of things that Despite this move towards new Medium-Term Philip- Curbing criminality was cess to government records for “This is a gesture we are sure authorisation, reasonably de- we need to continue with regard transparency, Andanar con- pine Development Plan that only the fourth top concern the fi rst time, his spokesman not only media but everybody scribe the information request- to the freedom of information in ceded that Duterte had stopped will eff ectively address these among Filipinos at 48%. said yesterday, in a move wel- who believes (in) transparency ed, and the reason for or purpose other branches of government giving interviews to the media “systemic” problems and out- Filipinos meanwhile believe comed by transparency advo- and accountability and democ- of the request for information. but we await with much antici- after clashing with journalists line the legislative measures the least priority should be given cates. racy highly appreciates,” the Na- The public offi cial receiving pation that full implementation last month over his justifi cation needed, said Edmund Tayao, to forging a government of na- The executive order, provid- tional Union of Journalists of the the request will provide reason- in the executive branch,” she said for the murder of reporters who political science professor at tional unity (9%), and amending ing for “full public disclosure Philippines said in a statement. able assistance and can charge in a statement. he branded as corrupt. the University of Santo Tomas the Constitution (7%). and transparency” by govern- The order, covering all cen- a reasonable cost to the person She said it was a “good step Duterte has previously vowed (UST). Measures that will address ment agencies, was signed by the tral government offi ces, requires making the request. towards accountability in gov- to fi ght corruption but his main “We need to change the poverty and create jobs are not fi rebrand leader on Saturday, his them to make public records, Local governments are “en- ernment.” focus has been a war on crime system and to come up with refl ected, at least not yet, in spokesman Martin Andanar said, meetings, research and any in- couraged to observe and be Luis Teodoro, national chair- that has seen the killing of hun- policies that will resonate. The the emerging agenda of Con- just 25 days after taking offi ce. formation requested by a mem- guided by this order,” copies of man of AlterMidya, a national dreds of suspected drug pushers previous administration had gress. Media and watchdog groups ber of the public, except for mat- the document said. network of independent and since he was elected on May 9.

Transport groups slam plan to Boy Scouts names phase out 15-year-old buses new secretary general

Manila Times of Transport Workers and the and burdens in order to fulfi ll the Manila Times board member of the Manila Manila Samahan ng mga Operator, Tsu- objectives of the government. Manila Council before becoming coun- per at Konduktor ng mga Mini Verily, the government may en- cil executive. He was called to Bus sa Katagalugan assailed the act legislation that may interfere the National Offi ce to head the pholding the govern- order for being unconstitution- with personal liberty, property, he Boy Scouts of the Phil- administration division. He also ment’s right to protect al. lawful businesses, and occu- ippines (BSP) has ap- served as operations director, Uthe public, the Court of But the CA said the DOTC pations to promote the general Tpointed Acting Deputy then programme director, before Appeals (CA) has affi rmed the and LTFRB, as regulators of the welfare,” it added. Secretary General Rogelio Villa becoming the head of the Field phase-out of 15-year-old buses, government, have the power to The CA cited numerous ve- Jr as offi cer in charge of the Of- Operations Division which han- a move seen by transport groups secure the safety of the riding hicular accidents that snuff ed fi ce of the Secretary General, the dles all concerns of the regions as anti-poor. public. out so many lives because of old highest position in the move- and the councils. In an 18-page decision “While we truly commiser- and defective vehicles. ment. Villa became popular for his penned by Associate Justice ate with the plight of the peti- “The right to life enjoys prec- Villa took over the post va- successful handling of various Maria Elisa Sempio Diy dated tioners who are affected by the edence over the right to prop- cated by Acting Secretary Gen- BSP events, including the Cen- July 1, the CA’s 12th Division assailed issuances, we cannot erty. The reason is obvious: life eral Wendel E Avisado, who was tennial Jamboree held in Clark in affirmed the order of the De- legally bar respondents DOTC is irreplaceable, property is not. elected BSP national president. 1999, one of the most attended partment of Transportation and LTFRB from exercising When the State’s exercise of Avisado replaced former vice jamborees in the country. and Communications (DOTC) their mandate crafting and police power clashes with a few president Jejomar Binay, who As OIC, Villa will be respon- and the Land Transportation achieving the effective imple- individuals’ right to property, took a leave to join the presiden- sible to the board and will take Franchising and Regulatory mentation of a comprehensive the former should prevail,” it tial race. charge of key events like the An- Board (LTFRB) phasing out old and rationalised national land pointed out. As secretary general, Villa will nual National Council meeting and rickety buses. transport plan,” the appellate The court said the DOTC and be in charge of the operation of and the Annual Scout Executive The ruling was concurred in court said. LTFRB did not commit grave the national headquarters and the Council meeting. by Associate Justices Ramon “In the exercise of police pow- abuse of discretion when the more than 124 councils of the BSP Villa said President Rodrigo Bato and Manuel Barrios. er, property rights or individuals agencies issues orders stopping scattered throughout the country. Duterte will be invested soon as The National Confederation may be subjected to restraints the use of old buses. Rogelio Villa: new post An engineer, Villa started as chief scout. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 21 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Oli quits as Nepal PM just before no-trust vote

AFP premier after the former rebels back on its feet since last April’s Kathmandu and main opposition Nepali quake that claimed almost 9,000 Congress party said before the lives. vote that they would try to form The Maoists joined Oli’s gov- epal’s K P Sharma Oli a new administration if Oli lost. ernment last October, weeks K P Oli Sharma, centre, looks on after resigning as prime minister, minutes before facing a no-confidence motion in parliament in Kathmandu resigned as prime min- A letter from the president’s after Nepal adopted the new yesterday. Nister yesterday, minutes offi ce read out in parliament said national constitution. before facing a no-confi dence the current cabinet would con- Oli has faced fi erce criticism agreement to withdraw war cas- motion in parliament he was tinue until a new government over his handling of protests es from Nepal’s courts and off er certain to lose, plunging the im- was formed, a process expected against the constitution, which amnesties to people accused of poverished, quake-hit nation to take at least a week. triggered a months-long bor- abuses during the decade-long into fresh turmoil. Dahal, the country’s fi rst der blockade in southern Ne- Maoist confl ict. Oli was forced to quit after prime minister after the Mao- pal by demonstrators from the Dahal, better known by his former Maoist rebels deserted ist insurgency ended in 2006, Madhesi ethnic minority. nom-de-guerre Prachanda, his fractious, ruling coalition, pulled his party from Oli’s coa- More than 50 people died painted Oli as an egocentric who accusing him of reneging on lition two weeks ago, leaving it in clashes between police and refused to listen to the people past deals and following dead- without a majority. protesters, who said the con- and demanded that he resign. ly unrest over a divisive new In his speech, the embattled stitution left them politically After debate on the no-con- constitution. premier accused the Maoists of marginalised. fi dence motion kicked off on “I have decided to open the undermining his government, Kathmandu accused New Friday, two smaller parties also road to elect a new prime min- which he said was working to Delhi of imposing an “unoffi cial abandoned the coalition, leav- ister in this parliament and pre- rebuild the Himalayan country blockade” on the landlocked na- ing Oli’s Communist Party of sented my resignation to the after a devastating earthquake tion in support of the Madhesis, Nepal (Unifi ed Marxist Leninist) president,” Oli, who has only last year. who share close cultural and fl oundering for support. been in power for nine months, “I am concerned that the steps family links with Indians across The new constitution, the told lawmakers ahead of the no- taken were driven by selfi shness the border. fi rst drawn up by elected rep- confi dence vote. and revenge (and they) will cause Cracks began to appear in Oli’s resentatives, was meant to Nepal’s president is now ex- a long-term negative impact and coalition two months ago when cement peace and bolster pected to ask political parties to push the country to instability,” the Maoists threatened to topple Nepal’s transformation to a dem- try to form a new power-sharing he said of the motion, during the him, prompting the premier to ocratic republic after decades of government and nominate a nearly two-hour speech. draw up an 11th-hour deal with political instability. consensus candidate for prime Oli’s resignation is the lat- Dahal. But ongoing discussions be- minister. est crisis to hit Nepal which has But Dahal later withdrew from tween the government and pro- Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal suff ered from years of political the coalition, citing the govern- testers over the charter have Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is likely to replace K P Oli Sharma as the prime minister of Dahal could become the new instability and struggled to get ment’s failure to implement that failed to yield agreement. Nepal, leaving the Parliament Building in Kathmandu yesterday. Cafe attack masterminds Foreign TV channels told to remove ads to identifi ed, says top cop transmit in Nepal

By Mizan Rahman He claimed it is now clear “He can form the cell at his through corruption, is being IANS of Ministry of Information and Dhaka who had orchestrated the offi ce headed by an additional used in spreading militancy. Kathmandu Communication said that new attack and how. attorney general. I will talk “If illegal money is not used foreign television channels Zia asked “We will be able to nab them to him about this,” said the in militancy, from where such willing to enter Nepal have angladesh yesterday an- soon. Police are working based minister. huge money is coming to for- oreign television chan- to remove foreign advertise- nounced that the mas- on specifi c information.” On July 19, Attorney Gen- eign bank accounts,” he said. nels operating in Nepal ments from the beginning but to appear Bterminds of Dhaka cafe On July 1, gunmen stormed eral Mahbubey Alam called for Identifying economic ter- Fwill have to transmit those which have already been attack have been identifi ed and Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery forming a co-ordination cell to rorism and militancy as major their television contents with- telecasting in Nepal would get they will be arrested soon. and took guests and employ- give information to his offi ce threats to today’s world, Mah- out advertisements after Ne- certain time for implement to in court “Those behind the planning ees hostage. Twenty bodies, and offi ce of the public pros- mood said, adding that nobody pal’s cabinet on Friday decid- remove advertisements. have been identifi ed and now including nine of Italians and ecutor to stop militants getting will remain safe in the future ed to implement ‘Clean Feed “We have plans to imple- it’s a matter of time to arrest seven Japanese nationals, were bail from court. if both cannot be addressed Policy’ in foreign TV channels. ment this policy fully from the By Mizan Rahman them. We’ve information about recovered from the crime scene “There should be a co-ordi- eff ectively. This is expected to boost next fi scal year which begins Dhaka those involved in the attack and the following day. nation cell. We need a system Vowing to take all-out steps Nepal’s advertisement market in mid-July 2017,” he said. how they carried out the at- The crisis ended following an where the names of the mili- to prevent corruption from and help Nepalese media to Nepalese advertising agen- tack,” said Dhaka Metropolitan army-led joint forces’ operation tants will be posted. The public society, he said the commis- get more advertisements be- cies have welcomed the gov- Dhaka court yesterday Police (DMP) commissioner -‘Operation Thunderbolt’. Two prosecutors in diff erent dis- sion will take opinion from all cause foreign advertisers will- ernment’s decision. asked Bangladesh Na- Asaduzzaman Mia said. policemen and six militants, of tricts can see the names once sections of society to do so. ing to cater Nepali consumers “The implementation of Ationalist Party (BNP) “The law enforcement agen- whom one later appeared to be they logged into their comput- About black money, the ACC will have to invest in Nepal. Clean Feed Policy will boost chairperson Khaleda Zia, cies are conducting drives a staff of the Bakery who might ers. The system should be open chief said it is a ‘big hole of cor- Currently, several foreign the advertisements not only pictured, to appear before it based on specifi c information, have not been involved in the for my offi ce too, so that my of- ruption’ and many people, in- channels, mostly Indians, are for domestic television chan- on August 10 while adjourning and they’ll be brought to book attack, were also killed. fi cials and I can see the names cluding tax offi ces, are involved transmitted in Nepal and they nels but also other media be- hearing on framing charges in the soon as some important evi- Meanwhile, Law, Justice and of the accused in diff erent cases in it. also transmit advertisements cause foreign advertisers will Barapukuria coalmine graft case. dence has been seized,” he said. Parliamentary Aff airs Minister in diff erent districts,” the top Stressing the need for con- along with TV programmes. seek to promote their products Dhaka Second Special Judge “We have cracked the case of Anisul Huq yesterday said the law offi cer said. ducting probes into cases of Nepalese advertising agencies and services thorough various Hosne Ara Begum set the date as the Holey Artisan (Bakery) at- attorney general himself can On the other hand, Anti- black money, he said the ACC had long been demanding that media,” said Advertising As- Khaleda refrained from appear- tack. Arrests will be made soon. take initiative to form a special Corruption Commission (ACC) will soon send specifi c recom- such policy be introduced. sociation of Nepal, in a press ing before the court yesterday The process is on,” said the cell to monitor cases against chairman Iqbal Mahmood said mendations to the government Dinesh Thapaliya, secretary statement. and pleaded for time through her police commissioner. militants. illegal money, accumulated in this regard. counsel. The court asked all the ac- cused to appear before it on the next hearing date. Tourism promotion The Anti-Corruption Com- Lanka prime minister mission (ACC) on February 26, 2008, fi led a graft case against Khaleda Zia and 15 others with censures media for the Shahbagh police station. They were accused of causing a loss of 1,590mn taka ($19.87mn) backing Rajapakse to the state exchequer by award- ing a contract for operation of Barapukuria coalmine to a Chinese ri Lanka Prime Minister the foreign minister and company through abuse of power. Ranil Wickremesinghe the Financial Times was The High Court later stayed Syesterday accused the trying to undermine the the proceedings of the case country’s print media of back- government’s economic and issued a ruling asking why ing the former president Ma- management. the proceedings shall not be hinda Rajapakse with a view to “I have no issues of me- cancelled permanently. see him back in power, a media dia becoming critical of the The Supreme Court too up- report said. government, do it as you held the decision, lingering the Addressing his United Na- please but do not try to call proceedings for couple of years. tional Party (UNP) mem- for the return of rogues,” The ACC last year decided to bers in the central district of Wickremesinghe said. revive the case and following their Kandy, Wickremesinghe said “If they are trying to top- appeal and on September 17, 2015, he would name the media per- ple this government and bring the High Court rejected a peti- sonnel who had benefi ted dur- him (Rajapakses) back, we are tion of Khaleda who demanded ing the Rajapakse presidency ready for it,” he said. cancellation of the graft case. and who are now bidding for Referring to the Rajapakse The court had also asked the BNP his return. group’s opposition protest chief to surrender before the court He named the Daily Mirror, march from Kandy starting within two months of releasing of From left: Nepal’s Consul General to Hong Kong Kamal Prasad Bhattarai, 10-time Mount Everest summiteer Phurba Tenjing Sherpa, the English daily, and Finan- next week, Wickremesinghe the full text of the judgement. and Guinness World Record holder of various feats Thaneswar Guragai are introduced to hikers before the start of the “Hike for cial Times daily, for allegedly said, “Let them walk, we are The BNP chief on June 26, Nepal in Hong Kong” event in front of the Observation Wheel in Hong Kong’s Central district yesterday. The hike from Hong Kong’s favouring Rajapakse. ready, we too can bring people fi led a leave to appeal with the Central to Repulse Bay was organised to promote tourism in the Himalayan nation following the devastating 2015 earthquake, He said the Daily Mirror to the streets”. Supreme Court against the High which killed nearly 8,000 people and heavily impacted Nepal’s tourism industry. had called for the removal Rajapakse ruled Sri Lanka Court order. of Mangala Samaraweera, from 2005 to January 2015. Gulf Times 22 Monday, July 25, 2016 COMMENT

Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah Production Editor: C P Ravindran The Brexit vote brings out

P.O.Box 2888 the worst in Britain’s leaders Doha, Qatar [email protected] Our elected leaders, often brick through the window of one of his view not to instruct key departments As mortifying as it is to see Johnson Telephone 44350478 (news), among the fi rst to demand rivals’ constituency offi ce. including the Foreign Office to plan appointed Foreign Secretary, given 44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery) And the post-referendum turmoil for the possibility that the electorate his history of lying, xenophobic Fax 44350474 sound strategy, succession runs deeper. The number of reported would vote to leave the EU amounted statements, and insulting remarks planning, and accountability hate crimes since the referendum to gross negligence”. about other world leaders, at least has soared by 500%, amid a lowering The only UK political leader who he will bear the stain of Britain’s in the private sector, have mood of social, political, and quickly stepped forward with a clear catastrophe publicly. spectacularly failed to economic uncertainty and discontent. and decisive strategy was Scotland’s The deeper problem in the UK More than £100bn ($131bn) was fi rst minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Her is that there is no alternative. The practice what they preach wiped off the FTSE 100 in the first plan is to hold another referendum Labour Party is simply too divided GULF TIMES ten minutes of trading after the result on Scottish independence and rejoin to take power. If Corbyn were a CEO By Lucy P Marcus was announced, while the pound has the EU. who lost the confi dence of his entire London plumbed a 35-year low against the US And it was an unelected executive team and board, he would dollar. Canadian, Mark Carney, the be forced to resign or be fi red. If a governor of the Bank of England, CEO can’t command the respect of thical political leadership is The Labour Party is whose authoritative reassurance his leadership team, he can’t lead the The race for UN helped to calm the markets. In company to success, even if most in short supply worldwide, from the United States to simply too divided to 2015, Carney came under fire for of the employees think he’s great. ETurkey to the Philippines. forming a committee to carry out The same is true of political parties, But perhaps the most striking take power forward planning for the possibility though they often take longer to act, secretary-general instance of dishonest leadership of Brexit. And in early July, he was causing the enterprise – in this case, has been in the United Kingdom, One of the most striking lessons of called to testify before the House the UK – to fl ounder. where the Brexit referendum and the British case – and many others of Commons Treasury Committee, With very few exceptions, the its aftermath have caused more – is that promising eff orts to hold accused of leaning toward “Remain” Brexit vote has brought out the worst moves up a gear instability than Britain experiences business leaders to account and ensure in the run-up to the referendum, in Britain’s leaders. If a CEO lied to in a typical decade. that companies behave ethically simply because he presented a bleak investors and consumers as much as In just the fi rst couple of weeks after have not carried over to our political (and accurate) assessment of the Farage, Johnson, and Michael Gove The race to succeed Ban Ki-moon has moved up the referendum, David Cameron, the systems. Our elected leaders, often economic consequences of a Leave lied to UK voters, the consequences a gear with the United Nations Security Council prime minister who brought about the among the fi rst to demand sound victory. would be swift and painful, both vote, resigned, and his Conservative strategy, succession planning, and When Nigel Farage, one of the from regulators and the market. They conducting a secret ballot to decide who will be successor, Theresa May, appointed accountability in the private sector, Leave campaign’s most vociferous could not simply resign and move chosen as the next secretary general of the United a new Cabinet. Though some of the have spectacularly failed to practice and extreme leaders, decided to on, much less receive a future role in Brexiteers – most notably former what they preach. step down as leader of the UK the organisation (and certainly not a Nations. London Mayor Boris Johnson – are We expect business leaders to Independence Party on July 4, he senior post). They would be fi ned (or The 15 council members including the powerful now in the government, none of plan for the certainty of uncertainty said: “I want my life back.” If that worse), professionally ostracised, and those who led the campaign to leave and to manage risks properly. In the sounds familiar, it is because Tony sent packing to Florida. permanent fi ve – Britain, China, France, Russia and the European Union are ultimately past year, companies big and small Hayward, then-CEO of BP, used the When we can hold our business the United States – each rated the 12 candidates responsible for carrying it out. May in the UK, elsewhere in the EU, and same phrase when talking about the leaders to account more eff ectively herself supported the “Remain” around the world have held countless impact – on him – of the 2010 oil than we can our elected political running for the top UN job with a ballot marked campaign. meetings and high-level planning spill in the Gulf of Mexico. leaders, we should worry for the “encourage,” “discourage” or “no opinion”. Meanwhile, the opposition Labour sessions to prepare for a Brexit vote. When Hayward said it, the future - and not just in the UK. If it Party has fallen into disarray. Almost When the results came in, it seemed condemnation was swift. His words can happen here - in the homeland The results of the fi rst round of straw polls will not the entire Shadow Cabinet has that the only people who hadn’t conveyed a complete lack of empathy of Edmund Burke and Tony Benn – it be announced, but they will be communicated to the resigned, having lost confi dence in planned for the “Leave” campaign’s for the people who were actually truly can happen anywhere. - Project party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and victory were those who led it. aff ected by the spill. Likewise, Syndicate governments that have put forward candidates to eff orts to challenge him have been Indeed, according to a recent report Farage, having helped drive Britain replace Ban in January. exceptionally acrimonious, with by Parliament’s foreign affairs select to disaster, blithely walked away zLucy P Marcus is CEO of Marcus Corbyn supporters even throwing a committee, Cameron’s “considered when the destination was reached. Venture Consulting. Among the top contenders are Argentina’s Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, Slovenia’s ex-president Danilo Turk, New Zealand’s ex-prime minister Helen Clark and Antonio Guterres, who served as Portugal’s prime minister and headed the UN refugee agency. Six of the 12 candidates are women. The bulk of the contenders – eight – are from eastern Europe. The secret vote follows a new, more open process that for the fi rst time in the UN’s history provided for hearings to allow Six of the 12 candidates to present candidates are their pitch for the top women job before the General Assembly. UN member states have complained for years that the secretary-general is chosen not for his or her ability to lead the world body but to serve the permanent fi ve members. Security Council members are facing calls to pick the fi rst woman after eight men in the job, and to give preference to a candidate from eastern Europe, the only region that has yet to be represented in the top post. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn: If Corbyn were a CEO who lost the confidence of his entire executive team and board, he would be forced to resign or be fired. However, divisions among Eastern Europeans have meant that no clear frontrunner has emerged from that region. More candidates from eastern Europe could come The death of world heritage sites forward as a result of the vote. Australia’s former prime minister Kevin Rudd is also By Martin Wagner and Noni Austin energy projects like coal mines and spectacular delta of mangrove islands fuel-related threats to designated sites expected to throw his hat in the ring. San Francisco, California coal-fi red power plants. that is home to endangered Bengal to take action. Such action from the Ukraine, which will be casting its straw poll as a Even as the Great Barrier Reef dies tigers and river dolphins. The power WHC would also help to educate and before our eyes, Australia continues to plants will pollute the waters with tox- empower civil society, while plac- non-permanent council member, is not committed to limate change has claimed increase its exploitation of dirty fossil ic coal ash, bring constant coal-barge ing pressure on fi nancial institutions backing a candidate from eastern Europe. another victim. Almost fuels. In the past year, the Australian traffi c, and require the dredging of to withhold the funding required for one-quarter of the coral in government has approved both the riverbeds. Mercury from the smoke- massive development projects. Several rounds of straw polls are expected to be held CAustralia’s Great Barrier massive Carmichael coalmine and the stacks will accumulate in the marine The WHC’s annual meetings, such before the council agrees on a consensus candidate, Reef World Heritage Area – one of Abbot Point terminal, located near life, permanently contaminating the as that which just ended in Istanbul, the world’s richest and most com- the Reef, to facilitate the global export food supply of hundreds of thousands are the ideal forum for such an eff ort. which is likely to happen in October. plex ecosystems – has died this year, of output from the Carmichael mine. of people and vulnerable wildlife. Already, dozens of organisations and At some stage, the council will introduce colour- in the worst mass coral bleaching The emissions attributable to the It is true that Bangladesh is energy more than 60,000 individuals have in recorded history. Even in the far Carmichael mine will be some of the poor, a problem that must be ad- called on the committee to urge India coded ballots for the permanent fi ve members, northern reaches of the Reef, long highest resulting from a single project dressed if it is to continue to develop and Bangladesh to cancel the proposed allowing them to cast an eff ective veto to block any at a sufficient distance from human anywhere in the world. economically. But there are alterna- coal plants and invest in renewable pressures like coastal development tives. The country has signifi cant energy instead. candidate. to preserve, to a large extent, coral With governments potential for renewable-energy Similarly, dozens of renowned sci- From now on, the selection process becomes more health, a staggering 50% of the coral production, and it is already a world entists, NGOs, and international and has died. failing to protect our leader in rooftop solar energy. Australian lawyers have demanded opaque, with some comparing the vote to a Vatican The above-average sea tempera- Of course, the responsibility to avert that the WHC counsel Australia not conclave convened to elect the Pope. tures that triggered this bleaching natural heritage, dangerous anthropogenic climate to continue supporting developments were made 175 times more likely change does not fall only on countries that will exacerbate the impact of cli- by climate change. As the ocean the World Heritage that are home to World Heritage sites. mate change on the Great Barrier Reef. continues to absorb heat from the But, knowing what we know today, As the threat of climate change atmosphere, large-scale coral bleach- Committee must initiating such damaging dirty energy grows increasingly menacing, infl u- To Advertise ing like that which has decimated the step up projects is indefensible. ential institutions like the WHC must Great Barrier Reef – not to mention With governments failing to protect take a stand against the toxic and [email protected] other destructive phenomena spurred And the problem isn’t limited to our natural heritage, the World Herit- insidious legacy of dependence on coal Display by rising temperatures – is likely Australia. In low-lying Bangladesh, age Committee must step up, in order and other fossil fuels. If the commit- Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 to become even more frequent and one of the countries most vulnerable to help bring an end to the relentless tee remains silent on this crucial issue, devastating. to climate change, the government exploitation of fossil fuels. Specifi cal- World Heritage sites around the world Classified The future of priceless World Herit- supports a proposal to build two huge ly, the WHC should make recommen- will suff er. -Project Syndicate Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 age sites – and, indeed, our planet – coal-fi red power plants adjacent to dations to governments for reducing depends on the immediate reduction the Sundarbans World Heritage site. fossil-fuel-related threats, identify zMartin Wagner is the managing Subscription of climate-change-inducing green- India, too, supports the proposal. sites that are in particular danger from attorney of the International Program [email protected] house-gas emissions. Yet many of the Not only will these power plants such threats, and carry out monitoring of Earthjustice, the largest non-profi t governments responsible for protect- emit large quantities of greenhouse missions. environmental law organisation in ing these sites within their borders are gases; they will also devastate the The objective should be, fi rst and the United States. Noni Austin is an 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved not only failing to take strong climate Sundarbans, where the Ganges and foremost, to encourage governments Australian lawyer in Earthjustice’s action; they are actively pursuing dirty other rivers meet the Bay of Bengal in a with the capacity to reduce fossil- International Programme. Gulf Times Monday, July 25, 2016 23 COMMENT Soft drinks and hard questions

Many countries have how consumers and the food industry Coca-Cola, with 10.6 grams per 100 suggested that the industry introduced, or are respond to the incentives it creates. millilitres, would pay the upper rate. should consider providing smaller The introduction of taxes on The revenue will be used to fund portions, but existing vending and considering, taxes on sugary drinks in Mexico and Berkeley, sports programmes in schools and storage infrastructure is designed unhealthy foods and drinks – California, has demonstrated the expand breakfast clubs. for 330ml cans and 500ml bottles. industry’s willingness to fi ght In his budget statement, Osborne Any large change would require an in particular, those to which legislation that might lower its challenged the sugary drinks industry-wide shift in packaging and sugar has been added profi ts. And evidence suggests that industry to respond to his proposal distribution. these taxes, once implemented, did by reformulating their products, The debate has already begun. The indeed result in a change in price for encouraging consumers to switch UK soft drink industry is considering By Adam Briggs, Mike Rayner customers, who subsequently bought to low-sugar brands, and reducing legal action, arguing that the tax is and Peter Scarborough fewer sugary drinks. portion sizes. anti-competitive given that pure Oxford Unfortunately, however, little The proposed tax has been fruit juice and sweetened milk are is known about the eff ect of these widely welcomed by public health not included. On the other side, taxes on public health. Obesity and organisations and campaigners. some campaigners want high-sugar n March, the British government its related ailments take a long time But, because placing the burden foods, such as sweets and cakes, announced that it intends to to develop, and isolating the eff ects on industry is a different approach to be included in the proposed introduce a tax on sugary drinks of food taxes from changes caused than has been implemented legislation. Iin 2018 to tackle childhood by other health policies and cultural elsewhere, the effects are not The world will be watching the obesity. Whether the tax, which will trends is challenging. However, entirely predictable. For example, UK with interest, as its approach be debated this summer, achieves its both mathematical modelling and there is nothing to stop a company would be politically easier for other public-health goals depends on the simple logic suggest that these taxes from raising prices across its countries to adopt. Recently, Ireland details and on rigorous evaluation of will improve health. And detailed product range, thereby erasing became the latest country to announce its eff ects. evaluations have been launched in any price difference between its intention to levy a tax on sugary The United Kingdom is not alone Mexico and elsewhere to quantify the high-sugar drinks and low-sugar drinks. in worrying about the global rise in eff ect. alternatives. If industry responds to the tax by obesity-related ailments like diabetes Interestingly, all sugary drink The possibility of the reformulation reformulating products and changing and cardiovascular disease – costly taxes, whether in France, Hungary, of existing off erings and new entrants its marketing strategy, and if this conditions that can lead to signifi cant Mexico, or Chile, are sales taxes; they into the market are other important leads to a reduction in sugar intake in disability and early death. Many lead directly to point-of-sale price uncertainties. In 2014, Coca-Cola the UK, then the tax will have been countries have introduced, or are increases, often in proportion to the introduced its low-sugar alternative, a success. But accomplishing this considering, taxes on unhealthy foods volume of the drink. In Mexico, for Coca-Cola Life. With its distinctive will require policymakers to get the and drinks – in particular, those to example, the tax is a peso per litre, green packaging and wholesome legislation right and to ensure that its which sugar has been added. which raises the price by around 10%. image established through advertising eff ects are properly assessed. - Project For example, Chile has an 18% tax This is where the proposed UK campaigns, the new product captured Syndicate on high-sugar drinks; France taxes scheme diff ers. Former chancellor more than 2% of total Coca-Cola sales drinks with both added sugar and of the exchequer George Osborne in the fi rst year after its introduction. zAdam Briggs is a Wellcome Trust artifi cial sweeteners; and Hungary announced a two-tiered levy, with However, it is unclear whether these Research Training Fellow at the British taxes food and drink with high the explicit aim of encouraging the additional sales came from consumers Heart Foundation Centre on Population sugar, salt, and caff eine content. industry, rather than consumers, to who would otherwise be drinking Approaches for Non-Communicable Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recently change behaviour. full-sugar Coca-Cola, the diet version Disease Prevention. Mike Rayner is a became the largest US city to Under Osborne’s plan, the sugary of the soft drink, or other beverages, professor of population health at the introduce a tax on sweetened drinks. drinks industry will be charged around such as fruit juice or water. Nuffi eld Department of Population These food taxes operate one of the 18 pence ($0.24) per litre for products In his statement, Osborne excluded Health and director of the British Heart most eff ective behavioural-change containing 5-8 grams of sugar per 100 small producers from the legislation, Foundation Centre on Population levers available to policymakers: price. millilitres of liquid, and 24 pence per but he did not defi ne what he meant Approaches for Non-Communicable But it would be premature to conclude litre for drinks with more than eight by “small”. This could encourage an Disease Prevention. Peter Scarborough that higher prices necessarily lead to grams of sugar per 100 millilitres. So, expansion and diversifi cation of small is a senior researcher at the British lower consumption and thus better for example, Sprite, which has 6.6 designer products with a market Heart Foundation Centre on Population health outcomes. A tax’s eff ectiveness grams of sugar per 100 millilitres, advantage. Approaches for Non-Communicable depends on how it is designed, and would be taxed at the lower rate; Finally, the government has Disease Prevention. Letters Weather report Three-day forecast

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Gulf Times 24 Monday, July 25, 2016 QATAR QTA to open offi ces Domasco continues off ers on Honda in Turkey and US cars, motorcycles n a move to expand its inter- national presence and focus oha Marketing Services Ieff orts on growing markets, Company (Domasco) Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) Dhas said it is provid- is set to open new offi ces in ing a range of off ers on Honda Turkey and the United States. cars and motorbikes and Honda The offi ces in Istanbul and New Marine engines this month. York will open at the beginning “The holy month of Ram- of next month. adan has ended but the gener- “Qatar’s presence in these osity continues with Honda,” markets will raise strong desti- Domasco, the authorised dis- nation awareness and strength- tributor for Honda in Qatar, said en QTA’s outreach to prominent in a press statement. “Honda travel trade partners and me- is keeping the spirit of giving dia with a drive towards visitor alive.” generation to consumers on the With the purchase of any ground,” a spokesman said. new Honda car, customers can The opening of the Turkey QTA announces opening of representative off ice in Istanbul. benefi t from fi nancing the ve- offi ce will build on collabora- hicle with 0% interest for one tion between the two nations in was shared with attendees. Summer Festival, which con- that QTA promotes globally. year and 60 days before hav- the fi eld of tourism, capitalising “New economic realities have tinues through August 1-31, has The quarterly summits allowed ing to pay the fi rst instalment. specifi cally on a recent agree- underscored the importance of been designed to attract visits at QTA’s international offi ces to “Low down-payments and low ment which allows Turkish developing tourism products in a traditionally off -peak period interact with their counterparts monthly instalments starting visitors to enter Qatar without Qatar that can attract and retain in Qatar’s hospitality and retail in Qatar, whilst constantly fa- from QR999 on the 2017 model a visa. leisure visitors, and increase sectors. We have partnered with miliarising themselves with the City will also be available ex- These openings were an- the average length of stay of over 50 hotels to provide special destination latest developments clusively until August 14,” the nounced at QTA’s Q3 2016 business visitors,” said Rashed off ers to domestic and inbound and networking opportuni- statement noted. Quarterly Marketing Frame- al-Qurese, chief marketing and tourists. Additionally, mall acti- ties with Qatar’s private sec- Honda Marine custom- customers can benefi t from holy month with these incred- work Summit which was at- promotion offi cer. “QTA is ac- vations, cultural performances, tor stakeholders, hoteliers and ers can benefi t from a “special “amazing prices and accessory ible off ers because we know how tended by personnel from ex- tively engaged on many fronts concerts, and sports events will service providers. QR120,000 price on a set of vouchers worth up to QR5,000” much our innovative off ers are isting international offi ces in to build a sustainable tourism bring footfall to country’s vari- Attendees at the summit 250HP engines with free in- with the purchase of selected appreciated.” France, Italy, UK, Germany, industry and maintain visitor ous venues and stores.” also discussed Qatar’s repre- stallation, free accessory pack- models until July 31. Customers can purchase their Saudi Arabia, S E Asia and Hong fl ow into the country.” Marketing Qatar interna- sentation at upcoming global ages, free fi rst fi ve services, free Greig Roff ey, head of sales new Honda at the main Domasco Kong with their newest coun- Al-Qurese said that, in addi- tionally entails close collabora- tourism trade shows, which in- genset (Honda Silent 1kva gen- and marketing for Honda at Do- showroom on Khalifa Street near terparts and members of Qatar’s tion to expanding promotional tion between public and private clude Seatrade in Tenerife, TTG erator) and three-year warranty masco, said: “We present our the National Mosque and TV tourism sector. The year to date activities abroad, the ongoing sector partners with hotels and Rimini in Italy, World Travel with no limitation on operation Honda customers with the best Roundabout. The opening hours results were highlighted and the implementation of QTA’s fes- other tourist facilities and serv- Market in London, ITB Asia in hours”. This off er is available deals, aiming to enhance their are 8am to 8pm, from Saturday aligned approach for the forth- tivals strategy in Qatar contin- ices being key factors in the se- Singapore and IBTM World in until July 31. Honda experience. We are ex- to Thursday, and 4pm to 8pm on coming second half of the year ues to show impact. “The Qatar lection of the tourism products Barcelona. Further, Honda motorbike tending the generosity of the Friday. Women’s Hospital goes for skills training to boost patient care

omen’s Hospital of based teamwork system de- tive and most compassionate Hamad Medical Cor- veloped by the United States’ care to each and every one of our Wporation will be the department of defence in col- patients,” stated Dr Salwa Abu TeamSTEPPS participants of Women’s Hospital. fi rst in the Middle East to adopt laboration with the Agency Yaqoub, vice chair of education, the TeamSTEPPS training pro- for Healthcare Research and clinical lead of TeamSTEPPS rics and gynaecology, anaesthe- between team members which rics and gynaecology at Women’s the best possible patient care. gramme to enhance patient care Quality. The aim of the pro- training and senior consultant of sia, and neonatal intensive care is proven to decrease medical Hospital and faculty member of In collaboration with Hamad and safety by developing team- gramme is to produce eff ective obstetrics and gynaecology. unit participated in the week- errors. TeamSTEPPS training. International Training Centre, work capabilities and inter- clinical teams that optimise “Throughout the patient jour- long training session. Partici- “What is great about the train- “With the training, we start Women’s Hospital has run a total professional practice among its the use of information, people ney, a woman may encounter pants are taught four key com- ing programme is that it promotes thinking less like an individual of 31 sessions, in its simulation healthcare providers. and resources to achieve the many healthcare professionals. petencies based on leadership, stronger inter-professional and more like a team and an es- training facility. The goal is to The goal of the training is to best clinical outcomes for their Practical implementation of the communications, situational working between doctors, nurses sential part of this team includes complete TeamSTEPPS training fully engage all Women’s Hospi- patients. TeamSTEPPS communication monitoring and mutual sup- and other members of the clinical our patients,” she said, adding that for all clinicians by the end of the tal staff with the programme and “TeamSTEPPS is a power- tools can really enhance a pa- port. These competencies aim to support team and other depart- TeamSTEPPS is a very valuable year prior to transferring to the integrate the methods learned ful tool that will support the tient’s safety,” she stated. further increase staff adaptabil- ments through a series of tools programme that gives everyone new Women’s Wellness and Re- into their everyday practice. hospital’s staff in continuing to Over 500 clinicians from the ity, accuracy, productivity, ef- and strategies,” said Dr Maryam the opportunity to be part of com- search Centre scheduled to open TeamSTEPPS is an evidence deliver the safest, most eff ec- departments of nursing, obstet- fi ciency, safety and mutual trust Kunjachen, specialist for obstet- munications in order to provide in 2017. QFBA receives prestigious award

he Qatar Finance and leader in the professional edu- commitment and perseverance, Business Academy cation fi eld. By receiving the the academy has become an ex- T(QFBA) has received the International Arch of Europe ample of perseverance in the 2016 International Arch of Eu- Award, QFBA makes ‘total qual- fi eld of quality. When companies rope Award in the “Gold Cat- ity management’ a core focus for train their employees at QFBA, egory” during an event held in its continuous development, in they are assured that their skills Frankfurt, Germany. line with its pivotal role in sus- are developed and honed at an The award by Business Ini- tainable development, as well internationally-acknowledged tiative Directions (BID) is a tes- as maintaining its leading role in academy for quality, leadership, timony to QFBA’s commitment Qatar and the region as a leading technology, and innovation.” to quality, leadership, technol- professional training academy.” BID president and CEO Jose ogy, and innovation in the acad- Dr Mohamed al-Emadi, head E Prieto said: “The awarded emy’s pursuit of excellence, said of sales and marketing at QFBA, companies are symbols of com- QFBA chief executive offi cer said: “The prestigious award af- mitment to leadership, tech- Participants of the SBUM class of 2017 on a trip to France and Germany. Dr Abdulaziz al-Horr. fi rms QFBA’s status in the front nology, and innovation, making He said: “We are honoured ranks of professional and busi- them models for others in their to be recognised by BID as a ness training institutions. With sectors.” HEC Paris in Qatar group attends Europe study trip

EC Paris has hosted a historical building in which the gart, Ingolstadt and Munich, balance between procuring, group of participants academic institution is located. where the participants visited manufacturing and cost con- Hfrom its Qatar campus “Visiting our main campus automobile plants of BMW, Audi, siderations and the key meas- during a study trip to Europe. in Paris provides any group of Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. ure driving the decision process Eight participants of the our Qatar participants with an The mission for this trip was to on a global economy. They also Strategic Business Unit Man- international experience and an understand the overall business learned how companies adapt agement (SBUM) class of 2017 opportunity to further network strategy of the companies while to changing trends in the auto- joined the trip to France and with their peers and gain valu- linking it to their curriculum motive industry such as auto- Germany, aiming to further able information about HEC and obtaining a new perspec- mation, electrical vehicles and develop their understanding Paris,” said Laoucine Kerbache, tive on how corporate goals are volatility in oil prices. of the international business Dean and CEO, HEC Paris in set and executed. It also aimed “By attending such trips, culture and environment. Qatar. “I welcome this inde- to provide a better understand- participants are able to gain During the 10-day excursion, pendent initiative by a small ing of how diff erent departments fi rst-hand experience of the which took place between July group of SBUM participants and – from manufacturing to front- business world as well as speak 10 and 19, the group fi rst vis- would like to thank Salam In- line sales – implement and drive with those in the profession ited the main campus of HEC ternational for their assistance organisational strategy. about their own experiences,” Paris where they met with MBA in making it happen.” The participants were able said Nora Kerbache, director participants and professors be- The second part of the trip to gain insight from the various of Institutional and Alumni Dignitaries from Qatar Finance and Business Academy receive an award in the Gold Category for “quality” fore undertaking a tour of the took place in Germany in Stutt- companies they met on how to Relations, Middle East. from Business Initiative Directions.