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Emir condoles FM: Rebuilding GCC trust will take time with Kuwait Emir EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Doha Al Thani has sent a cable to the Emir AFP We told the blockading countries to of Kuwait, H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, to express his condo- oreign Minister H E put up thier claims and evidence any- lences on the two Kuwaiti victims of Sheikh Mohammed the criminal terrorist attack on a res- bin Abdulrahman Al where they want, whatever evidence taurant in Ouagadougou, Republic of Thani said yesterday they have. Now it has been 72 days Burkina Faso. The Emir expressed his that it will take a “lot sincere condolences to the government Fof time” to rebuild any trust since the first day of their measures and people of Kuwait, praying Allah between sparring Gulf countries Almighty to grant them mercy and rest because of the region’s contin- and we have not been provided with their souls in paradise and to inspire their uing diplomatic crisis. families with patience and solace . As the impasse between a single document.” Doha and four Arab states led Emir checks on Senator by Saudi Arabia entered its 11th John McCain’s health week, the Foreign Minister said regional relations had been Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and cut ties with Qatar on June 5 and Arab world is now destabilised Despite this, Sheikh EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad transformed by the dispute. the United Arab Emirates. imposed sanctions including because... of a crisis without a Mohammed said Qatar was still Al Thani held via telephone a conver- “Qatar has always been one “This organisation has been restrictions on Qatari aircraft solid foundation.” However, he waiting to hear from its rivals. sation with Senator John McCain, of the founders of the GCC built on a strategical security and using their airspace. added that diplomatic efforts led “Put up your claims and put member of the United States Senate, organisation and we still been built on trust. The Foreign Minister added by regional mediator Kuwait up your evidence. We told them to check on his health and congratu- consider that this has a great Unfortunately, what happened that the conflict was were continuing. (Saudi-led countries) anywhere late him on the success of the surgery importance for all of us in the lately with this crisis, this factor unnecessary. “Such a crisis is not “We have received a letter you want, whatever evidence that he underwent. Senator McCain region,” he told reporters. is missing now and needs a lot needed in our region, we have from the Emir of Kuwait a few you have, just put it on the table. expressed his deep thanks and appre- Created in 1981, the Gulf of time to rebuild the trust again. enough problems and enough days ago. And this letter is a “Now its been 72 days since ciation to the Emir for the conversation Cooperation Council (GCC) is a “We hope that it’s restored.” conflict. “A region like the Gulf continuous effort... to encourage the first day of their measures gesture as well as the kind sentiments political and economic union Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the region, which was considered the parties to engage in and we have not been provided that he showed, which reflect the comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Egypt the most stable region in the dialogue.” with a single document.” depth of Qatari-US ties.

More tourists Leaked emails arrive in Qatar Gulf crisis and failure in Yemen push expose UAE’s THE FIRST half of this year Saudi to seek help of Iraqi cleric Sadr ambitious plans witnessed a growth in the number of tourists visiting Agencies unlikely to be asked by Iran to mediate Qatar with expectations of an to end the tension with Saudi Arabia. to rule region increase in the coming period, he hypocritical foreign policies of Saudi Arabia invited top Different media sources reported that especially after the announce- Saudi Arabia and the UAE unveiled Iraqi officials and asked Riyadh has resorted to Iraqi officials and fig- Agencies ment of the exemption of Tbefore the whole world when both them to mediate for Iran’s ures, including Prime Minister Haider Al citizens of 80 countries to blockading countries after asking Qatar in help to convince the Houthis Abadi and Muqtada Sadr, to ask for their NEW leaked emails of the UAE obtain a visa to enter the coun- its notorious 13-point demands to cut off mediation with Iran to help end the Yemen Ambassador to the US, Yousef Al try. Despite the siege imposed relations with Iran themselves engaged the to end Yemen war. war. Saudi Arabia invited top Iraqi offi- Otaiba, have not only exposed since June 5, the tourism move- influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al Sadr cials and asked them to mediate for Iran’s UAE’s overambitious plans to rule ment did not stop in Qatar and to mend their relations with Tehran. The New Arab news website, Saudis also help to convince the Houthis to end the the region by employing all tools witnessed an increase in the Al Sadr, who made a rare trip to Saudi awarded special visas to members of Sadr’s Yemen war, as if the war launched on from rulebook of dirty politics but number of tourists. Arabia recently — first in 11 years— did so office for this year’s Haj pilgrimage. Yemen by Houthis themselves. also indicate how much influence → See also page 4 upon an official invitation from the Sau- Sadr’s office also said that the influen- Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi it has gained or wants to gain on dis. Although no information has been tial cleric’s meeting with Mohammed bin told Iranian news agency, Isna, that the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia to Food security in leaked about the reason of the visit as Salman, resulted in an agreement to “study recent visits by Al Sadr to Saudi Arabia and achieve its goals. Saudi is seeking way to get out of the war possible investments in Shia regions of Emirates “do not suggest that Shia groups Leaked emails showed from next few years in Yemen, Al Sadar has been asked to southern Iraq. The Saudis will also con- or the Iraqi government were breaking away the private correspondence of the mediate with Houthi militias. sider the possibility of opening a consulate from Iran”. United Arab Emirates’ ambassa- THE CEO of Hassad Food In an interview with Al Sharq Al Awsat in Iraq’s Shia city of Najaf. Al Sadr said that Masjedi said his country’s relations with dor to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba, Company, Mohamed Badr Al newspaper last Friday, Al Sadr, comment- all the disputes of the region can be solved the Iraqi government and Shia groups will make it brutally clear about his Sada, said yesterday that the ing on his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, said even they take time including the current remain strong. “Both countries enjoy very country’s role and UAE’s driving State of Qatar will achieve its that their visions with Saudi Crown Prince Gulf crisis, adding that he had demanded good relations, military and security coop- seat position when it comes to the food security goals in the next Mohammed bin Salman were identical and the Syrian President to step down. eration, besides an economic ties worth $8bn Emirati-Saudi relationships. few years. He was speaking at they discussed many hot issues of the Iranian commentators and analysts a year.” The Emirati government sent a The emails by WikiLeaks a forum held by Qatar General region including the war in Yemen, Syria differed on the aims of Sadr’s visit. Some special plane to fly Sadr to the UAE and clearly reflect his country’s ambi- Water and Electricity Company and situations in Bahrain, Al Quds and see it as an important development which return him to Iraq, according to a state- tions to lead the region and the (Kahramaa) on innovation and relation between Saudi Arabia and Iran. will lead to release of Shias sentenced to ment on the cleric’s website. Iraq has been level of drift growing among the said that Hassad plays a role in According to a statement issued by death in Saudi Arabia, while others con- keen not to be seen as taking a side in the members of the Gulf Cooperation providing the country’s basic Sadr’s office, Riyadh had agreed to pay sidered it as hurting Muslims feelings. One current Gulf crisis and the siege imposed Council. needs from the beginning of Baghdad $10m purportedly as aid to commentator Musaddaqi Nur, while talk- on Qatar but Iraq and Qatar have shown → Continued on page 6 the siege. rebuild Iraq. According to London-based ing to Press TV, said that Al Sadr was cooperation in different areas. → See also page 4

2nd Turkish ship with food to reach on Aug 26 Dairy plants and milk products inspected

TO MEET increased demand of fruits, vegetables and other QNA conducted intensive visits to all in addition to ensuring that the edibles on the eve of Eid Al dairy plants and inspected all manufacturing process Adha, a second Turkish ship he Ministry of Public stages of production and conforms to the different quality loaded with food supplies will Health has carried out manufacturing including control systems, including dock at Hamad Port on Tnumerous intensive storage depots, transport and HACCP and ISO. August 26 and this time food inspection campaigns on dairy sales outlets, as well as The campaigns also products will also be carry- factories and milk products to inspecting factories’ dairy reviewed documents on ing “labels in Arabic and check compliance with quality vehicles to ascertain their regulatory system which English”. The second Turkish and production standards and appropriateness of health includes potential risk points ship is set to deliver food sup- ensure the safety of products as specifications and requirements during production and sets the plies to Qatar by the end of well as the extent to which they and standards. safety standards and control for August as the loading proc- Southern Part of Doha Express meet health requirements at all The inspectors were these points. ess has entered into final stages of manufacturing. introduced to food control The Ministry of Public phase in western Turkey’s Highway & Hamad Port Road opens Inspectors from the systems in the dairy factories. Health is keen to activate the Izmir province, Daily Sabah department of food safety and The system defines, evaluates partnership between inspection reported from Turkey. → Page 3 environmental health of the and monitors risks related to the bodies and consumers to ensure → See also page 2 Ministry of Public Health safety of milk and milk products, the safety of food products. 02 HOME WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

Deputy PM meets outgoing Ecuador envoy FM meets Ethiopian delegation Emir greets President & PM of India

EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held a conversation with Prime Min- ister of the friendly Republic of India, Narendra Modi, via telephone during which the Emir expressed his felicita- tions on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of India’s Independence Day. The conversation also reviewed the latest develop- ments of the Gulf crisis and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met a its repercussions on the H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud met Ambassador delegation of governors of the provinces of Oromia Region in the Federal Democratic regional and international of the Republic of Ecuador to Qatar, Kabalan Bahij Abisaab, on Republic of Ethiopia, during their visit to Qatar. They discussed bilateral relations fronts, as well as efforts to the occasion of ending his tenure in the country. and ways of enhancing them, as well as issues of mutual concern. solve it through diplomatic channels within the media- tion of the fraternal State of Kuwait. Additionally, the call touched on friendship and cooperation ties between the 2nd Turkish ship with food to arrive on August 26 two countries and means of boosting and developing them in all fields. Irfan Bukhari more ships would come to Qatar. 15 days. We have started to plan The Emir also sent a cable The Peninsula “Both governments are vigor- and prepare for this endeavour. of congratulations to Presi- ously working on the plans to We are trying to gain experience dent of India, Ram Nath o meet increased explore new trade routes to to provide a regular service,” she Kovind, on the anniversary demand of fruits, veg- shorten the distance and reduce said, adding that they had of Independence Day. Dep- etables and other transportation time between two planned to send a third ship after uty Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah edibles for the forth- countries,” he noted. the end of Eid Al Adha in early bin Hamad Al Thani also sent coming Eid Al Adha, a Kurucayirli said that many September. a similar cable. The Prime Tsecond Turkish ship loaded with Qatari companies were engaged An issue arose with the first Minister and Interior Minis- food supplies will dock at Hamad in business negotiations with shipment, as many of the food ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Port on August 26 and this time Turkish firms and once “their products did not contain labels Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani food products will also be carry- deals are matured, the availabil- in the Arabic script, Demirci sent a cable of congratula- ing “labels in Arabic and ity of Turkish products on the explained. tions to Prime Minister English”. shelves of Qatari markets will “The problem has been Narendra Modi. The loading process has grow manifold”. resolved with the second ship, entered into final phase in west- “Not only Turkey is export- which will contain new products ern Turkey’s Izmir province, The loading process of second ship to Qatar has entered into ing various kinds of goods to with Arabic labels.” Emir condoles Daily Sabah reported. final phase in western Turkey’s Izmir province. Doha but Turkish companies are By mid last month, Turkey The first ship — The Green also engaged in talks with Qatari had also sent more than 200 with Burkina Guatemala — carrying 4,000 Atilla Kurucayirli, a Doha- the previous months. businessmen to launch joint ven- cargo planes to Qatar to meet its tonnes of food had left Turkey on based banker affiliated with “This cooperation will be tures in various sectors in Qatar daily needs. To open new trade Faso President June 22. The refrigerated ship had Commercial Bank who is cemented with every passing day. in near future,” he added. routes and develop new partner- arrived at Hamad Port in the first actively engaged in ongoing The arrival of Turkish vessel Meanwhile, İpek Demirci, ships for countering effects of the EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim week of July. The second ship bilateral trade activities, told packed with food products will General Manager of the logistics siege, Hamad Port on August 13 bin Hamad Al Thani held a which is loaded with dry food, The Peninsula that Turkish meet increased demand of food company behind the shipment also launched its weekly direct phone call with President fruits and vegetables, is sched- exports to Qatar, particularly items during Eid holidays and no has told Anatolia news agency shipping service with Karachi of Burkina Faso Roch Marc uled to depart today and will food products, had witnessed a resident of Qatar will face any that the second vessel had more Port, Pakistan by receiving the Christian Kabore, to express reach five days before Eid Al 50 percent increase in the last kind of shortage,” he added. loading capacity than the first first container ship, Libra, carry- condolences on the victims of Adha. two months when compared to He further said that in future ship. “Our goal is to do this every ing a total load of 1,200 TEUs. the terrorist attack in Ouaga- dougou last Sunday. The Emir expressed strong condemna- tion of this criminal act aimed at destabilising security and Call to adopt innovative ideas Electricity & water stability and terrorising the innocents. The Emir affirmed that Qatar stands by Burkina Faso and its friendly people and creativity for development supply unaffected in confronting extremism and terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. The Peninsula by siege: Kahramaa atar General Electricity & Emir greets Water Corporation, Kah- Qramaa, organised the QNA noted that Kahramaa is currently Crown Prince second forum for Creativity and working on providing irrigation Innovation yesterday at Kah- atar General Electricity and water by using solar power to of Kuwait ramaa Awareness Park under Water Corporation (Kah- desalinate groundwater. If the the theme of “Achieving Vision Qramaa) President Eng. Essa idea succeeds commercially, it EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin with a Creative Leadership”. bin Hilal Al Kuwari, said Qatar will be a huge boost to the issue Hamad Al Thani has sent a The forum aimed at improv- can produce its needs of electric- of food security, he said. cable of congratulations ing performance by adopting ity and water, stressing that As for Kahramaa’s imple- to Crown Prince of Kuwait innovative methodologies in all electricity and water supply mentation of innovative thought, H H Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad work’s fields and attaining wasn’t affected by the siege. the achieved results and the chal- Al Jaber Al Sabah on the occa- vision with a creative leader- Speaking during the second lenges in which creativity can sion of his safe return after ship. It also mentioned the edition of Kahramaa’s Forum for help, Al Kuwari said the human undergoing successful med- inspirational speech of Emir Creativity and Innovation, Al element is the most important ical check-ups in the United H H Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Kuwari said the corporation was thing and the corporation has States, praying to Allah “We need diligence, ingenuity, Officials at the second forum for Creativity and innovation able to tackle the siege thanks to focused on having the capacity Almighty to grant him health free thinking, and constructive yesterday at Kahramaa Awareness Park. its strategic inventory as well as to develop that element through and wellness. Deputy Emir H initiatives”. its flexibility in offering tenders innovative and creative thought H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad The organisation comes and moving to alternative mar- out of the conventional scope. Al Thani and Prime Minis- within Kahramaa efforts and bin Nasser Al Khalifa, CEO of their creative ideas and instil kets in a very short time. He The Kahramaa president ter and Interior Minister H E believes in creativity and inno- Qatar Development Bank; and innovation culture among Qatari revealed Kahramaa’s intention addressed smart cities, which Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser vation as key factors of Mohamed bin Badr Al Sada, CEO society. to sign contracts with new coun- relies on communications tech- bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent achieving the march of produc- of Hasad Food. Kahramaa is also keen to tries to compensate for the nology, saying that the similar cables. tive improvement and During discussion session, provide an innovative environ- besieging Gulf markets. corporation has come a long way development. the participants presented the ment to support human element, He also said that the Gulf in meter readings with more than Moreover, the forum aimed most challenges faced by cor- which considers the real wealth electric linkage agreements are 20,000 smart meters fixed and Emir greets at instilling creativity and inno- poration and how to deal with that must focus on via provid- ongoing and weren’t affected by the rest are being replaced and vation culture, continuing them in creative methods that ing all possibilities to develop the siege. connected to a contact center. President of achievements, transforming contribute in promoting per- and train those sources. These Through the high technology On renewable energy, Al challenges into opportunities formance as well as attaining the efforts come as a part of Kah- that it has, Al Kuwari said, Qatar Kuwari said the company has a South Korea and initiatives, encouraging State’s ambitious vision 2030 ramaa’s contributing in attaining now competes Japan and Singa- project to produce nearly 500 Qatari leadership as well as with its four pillars: human Qatar National Vision 2030 pore in the ability to control megawatt of electricity through EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin strengthen social responsibility development, social develop- where it seeks to achieve its water leakage, with the rate of solar power and is working to Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of the national programs ment, economic development vision represented in “By 2030, water leakage now in Qatar’s transform homes into produc- of congratulations to President launched by Kahramaa Corpo- and environmental develop- our people, assets, systems and network standing at 4 percent. tion hubs of renewable energy. of the Republic of Korea, Moon ration to preserve Qatar’s ment. Furthermore, it discussed processes will set a global He added that the corporation He highlighted the issue of Jae-in, on the occasion of his resources. the role of Qatari youth in trans- benchmark for performance, would not have reached this ratio providing materials and equip- country’s National Day. Dep- The forum included a dis- ferring those challenges into technological innovation, envi- if it hadn’t been for creativity ment for the corporation, uty Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah cussion session with presence innovative ideas and construc- ronmental sustainability and because technology is available noting that the agreement that bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a of Eng. Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari, tive initiatives. social responsibility in electric- for all but the ability to apply it will sign tomorrow with Qatar similar cable. The Prime Min- Kahramaa President; Dr Saad It is worth mentioning that ity & water Sector. Thus, we are them and achieve such results Development Bank on manu- ister and Interior Minister H E bin Ahmed Al Muhannadi, Pres- Kahramaa has launched an constantly challenging to keep requires creative thought. facturing in the electricity Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser ident of Ashghal; Hassan bin electronic website for creativ- the highest level of excellence Al Kuwari said groundwater sector and encouraging inves- bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a Abdulla Al Thawadi, Secretary ity and innovation “A Creative and leadership in order to is available in Qatar, partly used tors, especially Qataris, to cable of congratulations to General of Supreme Committee Fingerprint” to encourage Cor- achieve our ambitious future for agriculture and the remain- provide manufacturing in the Prime Minister of the Repub- for Delivery & Legacy; Abdulaziz poration’s members to present vision.” der is a strategic inventory. He electricity sector. lic of Korea Lee Nak-yeon. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 HOME 03 Expressway: Another milestone for Ashghal Southern Part of Doha Express Highway and Hamad Port Road opened

The Peninsula we continue progressing on our The two roads will big projects, which is a tangible he Public Works Author- proof on our success in this area.” ity (Ashghal) announced serve the populated The five multi-level inter- the opening of the southern areas and changes of Southern part of Doha southern part of Doha will enhance traffic Express Highway include: Al Express Highway and flow by providing Mashaf Interchange: a two-level THamad Port Road during a cere- interchange that provides direct mony that was attended by alternative options access to G-Ring Road in the south Minister of Transport and Com- to Al Wakrah Main and residential areas in Al Mashaf munications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Road and a direct west. Al Wukair Interchange: a Sulaiti, Minister of Municipality two-level interchange that pro- and Environment H E Mohamed connection to the vides direct access to Al Wukair bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, Presi- Industrial Area. Road and residential areas to the dent of the Public Works Authority east and west of the interchange. Dr Eng. Saad bin Ahmad Al road and surrounding areas, Waab Buhair 2 Interchanges: Muhannadi, in addition to officials which will provide direct access both are two-level interchanges, from the Ministry of Municipality from the southern areas of the one of them eases access to some and Environment, Ministry of country to the northern areas residential areas to the east of the Transport and Communications, and vice-versa. interchange, and the other is the Public Works Authority, and The highway will relieve the connected to Mesaieed Road and the General Directorate of Traffic pressure on Al Wakrah Main provides direct access to Hamad in the Ministry of Interior. Road, leading to reducing traffic Port. The new Hamad Port Road These projects fall under the congestion in the area by pro- extends from Umm Al Hawl expressway projects that were viding a highway with five lanes Interchange on Mesaieed Road opened recently to traffic and in each direction, connecting the to G-Ring Road that connects form vital parts of the express- south and north of the city. There Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, Minister of Municipality with the East Industrial Street way network to serve all areas are ongoing procedures to con- and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, President of the Public Works through the tunnel at East Street in the country, including projects nect it with the northern part of Authority Dr Eng. Saad bin Ahmad Al Muhannadi, with other officials at the opening of the 33 Interchange. This interchange that serve the southern areas Doha Express Highway. southern part of Doha Express Highway and Hamad Port Road. was formerly known as Al Watan such as Al Wakrah, Al Wukair Hamad Port Road is 14km Roundabout, which was opened and Al Mashaf. long and it connects Hamad Port swing, which is visible through residents of Al Wakrah, Al Wukair Ashghal’s commitment to deliver recently to form a free flowing The new roads which opened with G-Ring Road. accelerating these projects, and and Al Mashaf, this is in addition on the requirements of the com- road between Hamad Port and to traffic completely in both direc- In this occasion, Al Sulaiti opening a big number of them to the association of these roads ing phase according to the Hamad International Airport tions, will serve the southern areas expressed his happiness with the recently according to its sched- with travelling to and from Hamad priorities set by Emir H H Sheikh until Salwa Road. that are characterised by their successive achievements by Ash- ule, and “we look forward to the International Airport, Industrial Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Ashghal is currently imple- population density, in addition to ghal, as he said: “Opening the continuation of these efforts to Area and others.” related to the current situation menting three interchanges as their association with the trans- southern part of Doha Express achieve Qatar National Vision He added: “opening these and the future direction of Qatar, part of the new road works that portation to and from Hamad Highway and Hamad Port Road 2030 and meet the requirements new expressways is a new that encourages self-sufficiency will provide free flowing traffic, International Airport, Hamad Port, is a great addition to the land of our respected people.” achievement that is added to the and studies opportunities that which upon completion will Industrial Area and others. transportation in Qatar, and it will Al Rumaihi said that the two achievements Ashghal accom- enable us to continue achieving enhance the connectivity of the The southern part of Doha contribute in enhancing traffic new roads will serve the populated plished during the second half of on regular basis without being new expressway with local areas Express Highway includes the movement between Al Wakrah southern areas, in addition to its 2017. This emphasizes again affected by any challenges, while and surrounding expressways. main carriageway in both direc- and Doha, and between Mesaieed, association with traffic movement tions with a total length of 11km, Hamad Port and Industrial Area, to and from Hamad International in addition to parts of the five and connect south of the country Airport, Hamad Port and Indus- interchanges included in the with the north.” trial Area, and others. The Minister project such as access and exit The Minister also thanked said he looks forward to celebrate ramps to enable road users from Ashghal, which implements all more openings and achievements accessing and exiting the new projects assigned to it in full in expressway, which will contrib- ute to achieving a great development on the social and economic levels. Al Muhannadi said: “The opening of the southern part of Doha Express Highway and Hamad Port Road in both directions will change traffic flow in the southern areas through pro- viding alternative options to Al Wakra Main Road, which results in easing travel for Scattered rains likely Qatar Airways hosts open recruitment day The Peninsula launched from Hamad Airport indicated the presence of rela- The Peninsula eight programmes atellite images and tive cold advection in the upper including the weather charts show levels of the atmosphere which atar Airways hosted an Summer Intern- Swidespread cloud cover helped the formation of thun- open recruitment day on ship Programme, over Central Arabian Peninsula dery clouds with scattered light QMonday for Qatari nation- the National due to the passage of Intertrop- to moderate rain. als at the Recruitment Centre at Scholarship Pro- ical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Clear to occasionally partly Qatar Airways Tower 2, as part gramme, the over the region. cloudy skies expected to con- of its ever-expanding Al Darb Cadet Pilot Pro- ITCZ is a convergence line tinue today and tomorrow with Qatarisation programme. gramme, the between northwesterly wind a chance of scattered light rain As part of the open day, stu- Aircraft Mainte- and easterly moist wind that over some areas. It’s worth dents and graduates were given nance Engineering cause rising currents of air mentioning that climate records the chance to meet with our Programme, the leading to formations of con- show that rains have been employees and explore the many Graduate Devel- vective rainy clouds. In addition observed over some areas of different employment pathways opment to the passage of ITCZ over the the country during August in the available at Qatar Airways, Programme, the region, the weather balloon past. including National scholarship, Airport Operations cadet pilot, and aircraft mainte- Programme, the nance engineering Aviation Manage- programmes. ment Programme, Now in its sixth year, the Al and the Jossor Darb Qatarisation programme Programme. It is a presents young nationals with tremendous local and international career Qatar Airways officials attend to students and graduates at the recruitment project that brings opportunities through eight dif- day on Monday at the Recruitment Centre at Qatar Airways Tower 2. benefits and ferent programmes and 35 opportunities at a different majors across the air- Al Darb initiative invites Qataris development, and valuable variety of differ- line’s various departments. to join our award-winning team experience.” ent levels and across various Qatar Airways Senior Vice- and use their talent and skills to Qatar Airways’ Al Darb aviation-related fields. President Human Resources support the rapid expansion of Qatarisation Programme aims At the event, visitors Nabeela Fakhri said: “We are the national carrier of the State to develop the skills of young received first-hand information aligned with Qatar’s National of Qatar. The aim is to empower Qataris, allowing them to gain about the Al Darb programme Vision and therefore sourcing, these young students to succeed experience through Qatar Air- and were given the opportunity developing and nurturing young in a chosen career path with ways’ network of offices around to meet and hear from current national talent remain high on Qatar Airways by providing the world. Currently, the pro- and previous students about the agenda at Qatar Airways. The them access to knowledge, skills gramme features 35 majors and their experiences. 04 HOME WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

Food security in More tourists arrive despite siege next few years: Hassad CEO QNA stay in Qatar and spend their hol- Shahbik said that the advent idays in solidarity with their of Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha dur- CEO of Hassad Food Company, he first half of this year QTA is working on a number of initiatives and country. ing the summer months of this year Mohamed Badr Al Sada, said that witnessed a growth in promotional campaigns to find new markets to The initiatives launched by was an ideal opportunity to com- Qatar will achieve its food secu- the number of tourists attract tourists and diversify the tourism product to QTA have been diversified to bine the two Eids celebrations rity goals in the next few years. visiting Qatar with ensure the prosperity of Qatar’s tourism industry, include all aspects of entertain- within Qatar Summer Festival, He was speaking at a forum expectations of an ment that benefit citizens and adding that visitors and residents held by Kahramaa on innova- Tincrease in the coming period, which has not been affected by the siege. residents, attract tourists to Qatar will also have more choice in terms tion and said that Hassad plays especially after the announcement and contribute to the advancement of leisure activities, shopping dis- a role in providing the country’s of the exemption of citizens of 80 of the local economy. counts and hotels’ offers. basic needs from the beginning countries to obtain a visa to enter tourism strategy and to support the openness initiative to 80 countries Qatar Summer Festival 2017, The country has witnessed the of the siege. He said the com- the country. tourism sector in Qatar, the most will have a positive impact on the which started on June 25 and will arrival of a large number of tour- pany held an internal meeting Despite the siege imposed on recently is the visa-free entry for number of tourists coming and will last until September with the par- ists and visitors from Oman and and placed an appropriate plan Qatar since June 5, the tourism citizens of 80 countries. He added contribute to the growth of the ticipation of 77 hotels Kuwait as well as foreign tourists to provide for the country’s food movement witnessed an increase that one of the Authority’s objec- tourism sector at a faster pace. He establishments and carries the slo- who to took advantage of compet- needs. in the number of tourists, which is tives is to diversify the target stressed that the first half of this gan “Colour Your Summer”, plays itive offers provided by hotels Al Sada said that the first confirmed by occupancy rates of markets and segments and that the year witnessed a growth in the a major role in promoting the tour- during that period, which also plane carrying food needs was hotels that are registered, espe- visa-free entry initiative comes in number of tourists, which he con- ism sector and attracting tourists emphasises the strength of the hos- available after 24 hours from cially during Eid Al Fitr holidays, this context, stressing QTA’s inten- sidered a good thing, noting that despite the siege imposed on the pitality sector in the country. the siege. Five days later, all the where the occupancy rate was tion to continue opening new the Authority intends to launch country. As part of its efforts to provide local market’s food need were 95%. Qatar Tourism Authority representative offices in addition more incentive initiatives for the In this context, Director of tourists with the opportunity to ready. He stressed that all state (QTA) is working on a number of to carrying out many future pro- tourism sector with the launch of QTA’s Festivals and Events, Mashal travel, stay and shop smoothly in institutions are committed to initiatives and promotional cam- motional campaigns with its the national strategy for the tour- Shahbik, said the Qatar Summer Qatar, QTA has also cooperated the country’s food security paigns to find new markets to partners to promote Qatar and ism sector after being updated Festival offers visitors integrated with many entities to enable tour- goals. attract tourists and diversify the support the tourism sector. during the celebration of the World package, including travel and hos- ists to benefit from the offers of In Qatar, the company pro- tourism product to ensure the Al Ibrahim said some of the Tourism Day on September 27. pitality packages as well as a accommodation offered by the duces 50 percent of all national prosperity of Qatar’s tourism markets currently targeted by QTA The activity of the tourism sec- variety of shopping and entertain- luxury hospitality sector in the food produce. However, this industry, which has not been were planned to be targeted in the tor in Qatar during the recent ment options for all members of State of Qatar. only equates to 7 percent of the affected by the siege. coming years, but due to the siege period, he said, was not only due the family to enjoy. In term of the events and activ- country’s needs. On the Authority’s efforts in imposed on Qatar, it is targeting to the support of the competent The summer festivities, which ities during Qatar Summer Festival, He noted that Hassad developing the tourism sector, other new markets in order to authorities in tourism but also due this year extend from Eid Al Fitr to which is being held until the end placed a number of plans to Chief of QTA’s Tourism Develop- attract tourists who wish to visit to the awareness of the citizens of Eid Al Adha, form a key part of of Eid al-Adha, the festival’s organ- increase production in all sec- ment Sector, Hassan Al Ibrahim, Qatar and know about its histori- the importance of this sector and QTA’s efforts to energise the tour- izers announced that they have tors over the short term. He said in a statement to QNA that cal and heritage features and its they played a role in the flourish- ism sector through diversifying reached an agreement with Heya stressed that the private sector there are many steps taken by the renaissance. ing of the domestic tourism where tourist activities and tourism mar- Arabian Fashion Exhibition to is a main partner in achieving Authority in response to its 2030 Al Ibrahim expected that the most of the Qataris preferred to kets, she said. launch a summer edition. food security. Asean nations commit to fully realising shared goals

Raynald C Rivera Ambassador Alan Timbayan. of cultures and mores, Asean The Peninsula The Philippines has taken the members keep their zeal of enthu- helm of this year’s Asean Chair- siasm, collaboration and he grand 50th Asean Found- manship with the theme cooperation in keeping member ing Anniversary celebrations “Partnering for Change, Engaging nations’ peace and solidarity, Theld yesterday at Philippine the World.” “With Asean standing brotherhood and diplomacy, com- School Doha (PSD) highlighted a at the centre of the future of the monality in diversity; in building commitment towards a proactive, Asia-Pacific region, it is time to bridges instead of walls, in com- relevant and transformative bloc make our decisions count. It is ing together as one Asean nation, working towards positive change time for Asean to finally assert and in partnering for change that in the lives of its people. with conviction, its position in the will spark united progress as we Asean Heads of Mission together at the 50th Asean Founding Anniversary celebrations held Ambassadors of the seven international community,” said continue to be engaged in world at Philippine School Doha, yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula Asean-member countries in Doha Duterte in his message. affairs,” said Acosta. graced yesterday’s celebration The programme included a All heads of missions of Asean- which featured performances variety of performances by PSD member countries represented in the students to embody a good depicting the diverse culture of students from different levels Doha were present at the event image of an Asean citizen by striv- member countries as well as piv- garbed in colourful traditional cos- including Brunei Ambassador Haji ing to excel in their studies, otal moments in the decades-long tumes of each member country. Nordin Bin Haji Ahmad, Singapo- working hard and showing their Asean history. “Let us remember: Speaking at the event PSD rean Ambassador Jai Sohan Singh, talents. He also asked them to Asean has a compelling narrative School Principal Alexander S Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen extend friendship to Qatari friends of positive change that we can Acosta stressed the school’s com- Hoang, Indonesian Ambassador and others, bring them around to hold up to the world. Our Asean mitment to educate students about Muhammad Basri Sidehabi, visit Asean and learn more about way has allowed us to get to where Asean and the reason for its exist- Malaysian Embassy Charge d’ Asean’s way of life. An Asean Vil- we are now. Our Asean way will ence. “Besides promoting Affaires Mohamad Shahir Sabaru- lage exhibition of photos and take us further forward as we interdependence among us Asean din and Ambassador Soonthorn objects representative of each strive to fully realise our shared members, we share common ide- Chaiyindeepum. member country was also set up goals for our peoples,” said Phil- als in advocating the importance Ambassador Chaiyindeepum at the event attended by officials ippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s of peace, prosperity, and people. who currently heads the Asean of various embassies, teachers and Activities at the celebrations held at Philippine School Doha. message read by Philippine Diverse as it may seem if we speak Committee in Doha (ACD), urged students.

Hand washing must to stop Excelling in career key to success contagious The Peninsula diseases: HMC he Bedaya Center for Entrepreneur- Tship and Career WASHING hands often Development (Bedaya with soap and water, Center), a joint initiative especially after chang- by Qatar Development ing diapers and using the Bank and Silatech, toilet, will help prevent recently hosted a work- the spread of contagious shop titled, “How to diseases such as hand, Excel in my Career”. foot and mouth disease This was held in col- (HFMD), says the Director laboration with Coach of Paediatric Emergency Rawda Al Kubeissi and at Services at Hamad Med- Katara Art Center - ical Corporation, Dr building 5 at the Katara Khalid Al Ansari. Cultural Village. Coach Rawda Al Kubeissi at the workshop titled, “How to Excel in “Hand, foot and This workshop was my Career”at the Katara Cultural Village. mouth disease is com- held to highlight the mon in children but can importance of excelling creative contracting, how to market today. These qualities also occur in adults. It and pioneering in any career in innovate in a career and its sur- are also an integral part of sat- can occur at any time of addition to, providing consulta- rounding environment and ways isfaction for the employee year but is most com- tion and advises aiming to help of promoting one’s ideas in a himself and at the same time mon in the summer and people develop their careers and working environment. a significant way to reduce fall. In Qatar, we tend to facilitate their way to On this occasion, Reem Al effort, money and an impor- see an increase in cases excellence. Suwaidi, General Manager of tant way for progress in all during the colder Coach Rawda Al Kubeissi, a Bedaya Center, said:” Without sectors. On top of that it months. We see around specialist in the field of human any doubt innovating, pioneer- achieves job stability and secu- 3,500 children diag- development addressing the ing and excelling in a career rity for the employee and nosed with the disease workshop, highlighted several are keys to success especially thereby help evolving and annually,” says Dr. Al points and important aspects on as these virtues are the core developing the company he/ Ansari. career development through requirements of the labour she is part off.” WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 HOME 05 Indians mark I-Day; grand cultural event on Friday

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mbassador of India to Qatar, P Kumaran, led the flag hoisting ceremony held at Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) to commemorate 71st Inde- pendenceA Day of India. The event was attended by officials from Indian Embassy in Qatar, presi- dents and officials of different apex bodies, officials of affiliated organisa- tions and members of the community. The large gathering marked the special occasion of the beginning of grand cel- ebrations planned for the 70th year of Indian Independence celebrations. The programme began with parade by students from different Indian schools followed by the flag-hoisting, National Anthem and patriotic songs. ICC President Milan Arun welcomed the gathering. Amabssador P Kumaran addressed the gathering, and said: “This is an occa- sion for us to pay tribute to those who laid their lives for our nation and also time for fellow citizens to contribute for the nation building”. He also red out the message delivered by President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, during the occasion. ICC General Secretary Juttas Paul conducted the meeting and a cake was cut by the Ambassador as part of cele- bration. Head of Consulor services of ABOVE: Indian Ambassador P Kumaran hoisting the flag ICC, K S Prasad, proposed vote of thanks to mark the 71st Independence Day at the ICC premises for the meeting. in Doha, yesterday. TOP RIGHT: Ambassador P Kumaran A grand Cultural Celebrations will (centre) along with other officials cutting a cake to mark be held on Friday at Al Wakrah Sports the celebrations. The Ambassador holding a copy of Club to mark the occasion, where mul- The Peninsula supplement on Independence Day at the tiple cultural programmes will be function and Ambassador P Kumaran speaking at the presented by different community organisations and Indian schools. occasion yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula Schools celebrate day with enthusiasm and patriotic fervour

Birla Public School Shantiniketan DPS-MIS Indian School

The Peninsula staff, parents, teachers, and stu- Hassan Choug- dents. C V Rappai delivered the ule, President of everal Indian Schools Independence Day address. DPS-MIS in the marked the 71st Independ- presence of Sence Day with colourful Doha Modern Indian School members of the events with great fervour and DMIS security staff marched Executive Com- fighters and martyrs who sacri- gusto at their main campuses out in a procession and gave mittee and other guests. ficed their lives for the freedom. A yesterday. guard of honour to the Chief K Usman, Treasurer, MES Govern- Guest and Director of Taleb MES Indian School ing Board; AT Usman Secretary, I Birla Public School Group of Schools, Jayashankar MES Indian School, Doha ES (Kerala); parents, students and Birla Public School cele- Pillai. He hoisted the National marked the Independence Day staff were among those who brated the 71st Independence Flag in the presence of staff at the KG auditorium of the attended the function. Day at their main campus in Abu memebers and Academic Audi- school. P K Mohamed, General Hamour. The Indian flag was tor Padmini V and Assistant Secretary of the school Govern- Noble International School hoisted by Vice-Chairman Gope Principal Jacob Mathew. ing Board, unfurled the National Noble International School Shahani in the presence of flag, which was followed by the celebrated the Independence day MES Indian School former chairman C V Rappai, DPS-MIS singing of the National Anthem. at the KG campus at Hilal. The Members of the school sub com- DPS-MIS celebrated the 71st The school choir rendered a programme was attended by Ideal Indian School mittees, Chindhu Anthony, Aman Independence Day with full pas- special patriotic song befitting the Adv. Abdul Rahim Kunnummal, to strengthen our country. Shahani, Malvika Kumar, Nevil sion. The tricolour was unfurled occasion. Mohamed paid tributes Vice-Chairman, Shoukath Ali, The Independence Day was Assistant Headmaster Shaikh Lukose; life members, school at the lawns of the school by to great national leaders, freedom Finance Director, Faizal VP, celebrated at IIS with great Shamim urged everyone to Director of Administration of enthusiasm and patriotic fervour. imbibe the right patriotic feel- Doha Modern NIS. Students along with Vice- Principal, Syed Shoukath Ali ings and to be truthful and Ideal Indian School India School Principal Jayamon Joy, parents hoisted the national flag amidst devoted to the cause of national and teachers were present dur- chanting of the National Anthem integration and also to joined ing the occasion. Chief Guest by the school choir. Speaking on hands to lead out country to Kunnummal hoisted the national the occasion, Ali called upon the peace, prosperity and flag. Patriotic poems and songs students to contribute their bit secularism. were recited both by the teach- ers and students. Noble International Shantiniketan Indian School School The 71st Independence Day was celebrated with great patri- otism and spirit at SIS. K C Abdul Latheef, President of the school, hoisted the flag at its campus. One minute silence was also observed for the unfortunate vic- tims of the Gorakhpur tragedy. Shihabudheen Pulath (Senior Vice-Principal), Abdul Salam T.B (Administrator), Staff Members and students attended the ceremony. 06 HOME WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

Ooredoo lines up WISH to study genomics August movies ‘On Demand’

from Islamic perspective The Peninsula oredoo announced The Peninsula offer solutions from an Islamic exist and to play a part in break- yesterday the line-up perspective. ing them down.” Ofor its August movies he World Innovation The innovative research Dr Walid Qoronfleh added: ‘On Demand’ schedule, which Summit for Health project, which is supported by a “Genomics is the study of a per- will feature some of the lat- (WISH) is to take part grant from the Qatar National son’s genes and their interaction est blockbusters. in a new study that Research Fund, is intended to be with each other and the environ- Ooredoo has seen a huge will investigate ways of benefit to the work being done ment, and this has many rise in ‘On Demand’ custom- Tto develop religious and cultur- by the Qatar Genome Pro- applications in medicine. ers enjoying blockbuster ally sensitive approaches and gramme (QGP). QGP was Increasingly, the technology is movies and TV series since perspectives for public engage- announced by Her Highness being used clinically to inform the launch of Ooredoo tv and ment within the fields of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chair- patient care as part of genomics the Ooredoo tv app. genomics and Islamic biomedi- person of Qatar Foundation, medicine. Globally, there is cur- To ensure that Ooredoo cal ethics. during WISH 2013 and aims to rently a lack of public tv continues to offer leading Dr Walid Qoronfleh (left), Director of Research and Policy The study will be led by Dr map the genome of the Qatari understanding of genomics from local and international con- Mohammed Ghaly, who chaired population in order to support an Islamic perspective. The pub- at WISH, with Dr Mohammed Ghaly, Professor of Islam and tent, the company has the 2016 forum on genomics at the development of personalized lic plays a vital role in genomic Biomedical Ethics at CILE-HBKU and chair of WISH 2016 invested in making the latest the World Innovation Summit for healthcare in Qatar. research, so, without such Genomics Forum. movies available from all the Health (WISH) and is a profes- Upon completion of the understanding, scientists are major Hollywood studios and sor of Islam and biomedical study, research findings will be limited in the work they can member of Qatar Foundation for stem cell research, Assisted independent movie distribu- ethics at the Research Center for available on various interactive undertake in a field of science Education, Science and Commu- Reproductive Technologies tors across the world. Islamic Legislation and Ethics platforms and communicated at that has the potential to greatly nity Development (QF), has (ART) and gamete donation, milk This month, Ooredoo tv’s (CILE) within Hamad Bin Khal- public events in English and Ara- benefit society.” ongoing interest in this field, banks, organ transplantation, movies ‘on demand’ will offer ifa University (HBKU); and Dr bic. The findings will also be used In addition to Dr. Ghaly and which previously led to the pub- ethical management of inciden- the Marvel™ blockbuster Walid Qoronfleh, Director of to create guidelines designed to Dr. Qoronfleh, the international lishing of a report titled tal findings, and euthanasia. All ‘Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. Research and Policy at WISH; influence public policy region- research team consists of Farah ‘Genomics in the Gulf Region and topics were addressed in detail 2’ from August 23, Ken along with experts from across ally and beyond. Zahir, Scientist, Qatar Biomedi- Islamic Ethics’ that was pre- from an Islamic perspective. Loach’s BAFTA winning Qatar and Canada. Dr Mohammed Ghaly, Lead cal Research Institute, HBKU; Dr. sented at WISH 2016 in Doha. In The WISH 2016 report; drama ‘I, Daniel Blake’, and Genomics, which involves Principle Investigator of the Khalid Fakhro, Principal Inves- April 2017, WISH partnered with ‘Genomics in the Gulf Region and Ben Wheatley’s action- the study of the complete set of research project, said: “Our tigator in Translational Medicine, CILE and the London-based Islamic Ethics’ is available to packed shoot-‘em-up ‘Free genes found within all living research aims to help bridge the Sidra Medical and Research Islamic Institute for Develop- read via the WISH website: Fire’ is available now. To keep things, including humans, and knowledge gaps that exist Center; Hanan Abdul Rahim, ment and Research (IIDR) to http://www.wish-qatar.org/ the whole family happy, the their functions is heavily reliant between scientists working in Assistant Professor, Qatar Uni- create a two-day training pro- wish-2016/forum-reports service will also have the on public engagement. The genomics, Islamic religious versity; Ma’n Zawati, Executive gram that explored Islamic Image Captions hilarious animated comedy project, entitled ‘Genomics, scholars, and the general public Director of the Centre of Genom- biomedical ethics, addressing Image 1: (left to right) Dr. ‘The Boss Baby’. Islamic Bioethics and Public in a way that is beneficial for all ics and Policy, McGill University, ethical questions relating to Walid Qoronfleh, Director of With Ooredoo tv’s Mov- Engagement: Towards Bridging stakeholders. I am looking for- Canada; and Salah Basalamah, Islam that have arisen as a result Research and Policy at WISH, ies on Demand customers can the Knowledge Gaps’, aims to ward to working closely with Associate Professor, University of the rapid scientific advance- with Dr. Mohammed Ghaly, Pro- choose from a host of Holly- identify areas of ethical concern colleagues in Qatar, as well as of Ottawa, Canada. Additional ments in biomedicine in recent fessor of Islam and Biomedical wood, Bollywood and Arabic to Muslims who participate in abroad, to identify the barriers researchers will join the team as years. Ethics at CILE-HBKU and chair cinema with just the touch of genomic studies and strives to of understanding that currently the project develops. WISH, a Topics discussed included of WISH 2016 Genomics Forum. a button. Sidra to offer cytopathology certification examinations

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idra Medical and Research Center (Sidra) will become Sthe first institution in the State of Qatar to offer cytopa- thology certification examinations for Qataris and other candidates wanting to secure professional credentials to practice as diagnostic cytologists. Sidra has been authorised by the International Academy of A view of Wyndham Grand Regency Doha. Cytology (IAC) to organise and host inaugural certification examinations for cytologists in Qatar. The IAC is a scientific, Wyndham Grand Regency Doha non-profit organisation for cytopathologists, cytotechnol- ogists and other professionals offers Eid Al Adha special package concerned with the discipline of clinical cytopathology; it is also the foremost organisation to Nikolaos Chantziantoniou, fellow of the International Academy The Peninsula free access to the Internet any- happy Eid and a most enjoyable issue professional credentials on where in the hotel. stay. The Wyndham Grand a global scale. of Cytology. yndham Grand This offer is valid exclusively Regency Doha is a 246-room Diagnostic cytologists pre- Regency Doha offers from August 31 until September hotel offering guests single, dou- pare and methodically analyse The examinations will be led Wspecial packages dur- 6 for a limited number of rooms ble and suite accommodations. samples to assess various asso- The examinations by senior diagnostic cytologist ing “Eid Al Adha”. Book a room and is subject to availability and Rooms feature a harmonious ciated diseases and conditions at Sidra are open to and fellow of the International for two nights and get the third conditions apply. This package blend of traditional architecture as well as to support screening Academy of Cytology, Nikolaos night for free including a break- cannot be combined with any and spectacular contemporary services and provide enhanced qualified candidates Chantziantoniou, who was in fast buffet at Grand Gourmet other promotion or discount. design alongside all the comforts patient care and treatment. internationally. Sidra charge of getting Sidra author- Restaurant, access to the fitness Wyndham Grand Regency Doha and amenities to be expected Cytopathology is a special- is also currently ized as an examination site for centre and swimming pool, plus Hotel wishes all of our guests a from a five-star hotel. ized discipline of diagnostic the IAC. “Medical education is medicine whereby cells in in the process of one of the three pillars of Sidra human samples are analysed reviewing the option and by qualifying the organiza- predominantly for the detection of conducting future tion to host IAC examinations is of cancer. IAC examinations a significant historical milestone UAE tactically in touch with Saudis Other follow up services by in support of robust and special- Cytopathology pertain to the along with other ized academic programs in the surveillance and management distinguished country. Continued from page 1 emails quoted by middleeast- influence on KSA [Kingdom of of the cancer cells, its likely institutions around For those working in Qatar, Two days ago watanserb. eye.net, Otaiba replied: “Yes, Saudi Arabia], at least with cer- spread, and the effectiveness of the world. they now have access to cutting- com reported that in a message how dare we! In all honesty tain people there.” Otaiba’s treatment. For example, a pri- edge technology, laboratories sent by Elliott Abrams, a former there was not much of a choice. words “with certain people mary target for cytopathology and experts in the region. We US conservative official We stepped up only after your there” further indicate that the is the detection of early cellular hope more medical profession- renowned for his neoconserv- country chose to step down.” UAE is tacitly in touch with some changes that may reflect the examinations encompass all als specialising in clinical ative views on Israel and his Abrams complains it was Saudi officials who are actually development of cervical cancer aspects of comprehensive cytopathology will be encour- strong support to its policies “too bad you aren’t getting the working on the UAE dictation in through the Pap test screening cytopathology; inclusive of the- aged to seek prestigious against Palestinians, that Otaiba help you deserve” from the US, Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, service. ory, digital cytopathology, and credentials in the field.” did not object when Abrams Qatar and Saudi. Otaiba adds: according the MEE, Otaiba con- Seven medical profession- practical test cases. Particularly The examinations at Sidra wrote to him saying, “the new “Or Oman or Turkey.” fides: “Our relationship with als from both the public and in accredited cytopathology are open to qualified candidates hegemon! Emirati imperialism!”, In his correspondence with them is based on strategic depth, private health sector in Qatar, services, diagnostic cytologists internationally. Sidra is also cur- rather Otaiba responded to that Abrams Otaiba made it clear shared interests, and most and elsewhere, are currently need to be certified and creden- rently in the process of saying, “Well if the US won’t do that Emirates is playing influ- importantly the hope that we enrolled to sit for the inaugural tialed in order to report reviewing the option of con- it, someone has to hold things ential role in the region saying could influence them. Not the certification examinations diagnostic findings along with ducting future IAC examinations together for a while.” to Abrams, “I think in the long other way around.” He means which will be conducted at Sidra cytopathologists. This is a fun- along with other distinguished According to the leaked term, we might be a good the Saudis. on August 17, 2017. The damental requirement at Sidra. institutions around the world. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 07 Iraqi jets pound Tal Afar ahead of ground assault

Baghdad Afar,” spokesman Ahmed Al Agencies Assadi said. Preparations are Abadi is expected to raqi warplanes carried out under way pending announce the launch of the air strikes yesterday against instructions from the ground assault but there are no Islamic State group posi- commander in chief indications on when it is due to tions in Tal Afar in start. JOC said the defence min- preparation for a ground (Prime Minister Haider ister yesterday sacked his official Iassault to retake the town near Al Abadi)” for the spokesman, Brigadier Genereal the Syrian border, the military launch of the assault, Mohammed Al Khodari, for hav- said. said a spokesman for ing erroneously announced the Tal Afar is the main remain- start of the operation. ing IS stronghold in northern Iraq’s Joint Operation Khodari had told a local tel- Iraq, after the capture by Iraqi Command (JOC). evision by telephone that the forces in July of second city ground assault on Tal Afar had Mosul further east in a major been launched but his remarks blow to the jihadists. General Raed Shakir Jawdat, who were quickly denied by several “Preparations are under way said “armoured and elite units” military officials. IS jihadists pending instructions from the were headed for the town. overran Tal Afar in June 2014, commander in chief (Prime Min- The units, whose number has when it had a population of ister Haider Al Abadi)” for the not been specified, were around 200,000. launch of the assault, said a “regrouping in combat positions But Iraqi forces, closely spokesman for Iraq’s Joint Oper- in preparation for the next bat- backed by the US-led coalition, ation Command (JOC). tle,” he said in a statement. are not expected to push into the The spokesman, Yahiya Joining them is the Hashed town for another few weeks, Rassul, said that although the Al Shaabi, a Shia-dominated coa- according to an Iraqi officer Iraqi armoured units headed for the town of Tal Afar, the main remaining Islamic State (IS) main offensive to retake Tal Afar lition of paramilitary units overseeing the operation. He had not yet begun, the air force deployed since 2014 to halt the spoke on condition of anonym- group stronghold in the northern part of the country. was pounding jihadist positions jihadist advance. ity in line with regulations. in the town. “Hashed Al Shaabi com- Iraqi army, federal police and mostly Shiite militias known as retake Mosul, a mostly Sunni city, a Sunni extremist group. The Plans to retake Tal Afar were manders met Saturday with special forces units are expected the Popular Mobilization Forces. but have vowed to play a bigger militias captured Tal Afar’s air- announced on Monday by fed- army and police commanders to to participate in the operation, The militiamen largely role in Tal Afar, which was port, on the outskirts of the town, eral police chief Lieutenant decide on the plan to free Tal as well as state-sanctioned stayed out of the operation to mostly Shiite before it fell to IS, earlier this year. ‘Iran could quit N-deal if new sanctions imposed’ Grace Mugabe Dubai advanced than before the start missile programme after Tehran called upon Tehran not to Reuters of negotiations,” Rowhani told launched a rocket capable of undertake activities related to a session of parliament broad- putting a satellite into orbit. ballistic missiles capable of accused of attacking ran could abandon its nuclear cast live on state television. In early August, US President delivering nuclear weapons, agreement with world pow- Iran says new sanctions that Donald Trump signed into law including launches using such Iers “within hours” if the the United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran, Russia technology. model in hotel room United States imposes any more on it breach the agreememt it and North Korea passed by the It stopped short of explicitly new sanctions, Iranian President reached in 2015 with the United US Congress. The sanctions in barring such activity. Hassan Rowhani said States, Russia, China and three that bill also target Iran’s missile Iran denies its missile devel- Johannesburg yesterday. European powers in which it programmes as well as human opment breaches the resolution, Reuters “If America wants to go back agreed to curb its nuclear work rights abuses. saying its missiles are not to the experience (of imposing in return for the lifting of most The United States imposed designed to carry nuclear weap- outh African police were sanctions), Iran would certainly sanctions. The US Treasury unilateral sanctions after saying ons. Trump said last week he did negotiating with Grace return in a short time—not a imposed sanctions on six Iranian Iran’s ballistic missile tests vio- not believe that Iran was living SMugabe’s (pictured) law- week or a month but within firms in late July for their role in lated a UN resolution, which up to the spirit of the nuclear yers yesterday to get the wife hours—to conditions more the development of a ballistic endorsed the nuclear deal and deal. of the Zimbabwean president to turn herself in to face charges of assaulting a model, a senior police source said. South African police min- Algeria Freetown mudslide toll rises ister Fikile Mbalula had said earlier in the day the Zimba- bwean first lady had already replaces to 400; hundreds missing handed herself in to police and would appear in court shortly, local time but failed to do so. but that later appeared to have Asked if Grace was now con- premier Freetown been premature. sidered a fugitive, the source Agencies Twenty-year-old Gabriella said that was not the case at Engels told South African this stage. Algiers he death toll from massive media Grace had attacked her The source said police AFP mudslides in Sierra Leo- while the model was visiting were investigating a charge of Tne’s capital rose to nearly the Mugabes’ sons Robert and assault with intent to do griev- lgerian President 400 yesterday as bodies washed Chatunga at a hotel in Johan- ous bodily harm. Abdelaziz Bouteflika up on a beach and workers nesburg’s upmarket Sandton Another source in South Asacked Prime Minister searched for an untold number district on Sunday. Africa’s prosecuting authority Abdelmadjid Tebboune yes- of people buried in their homes. There was no immediate said Mugabe had breached an terday, less than three months The Red Cross estimated that public comment on the case agreement to surrender her- after appointing him, the 600 people were still missing. from Grace Mugabe or her self ahead of an expected court presidency said, according to Authorities have said more aides. Confusion arose yester- hearing yesterday afternoon. state media. than 400 people were killed in day afternoon when the “They (the police) had an “President Abdelaziz and around Freetown on Mon- magistrates’ court where agreement that she hand her- Bouteflika yesterday relieved day following heavy rains. Many Grace had been expected to be self over, but she never did,” Prime Minister Abdelmadjid were trapped under tons of mud Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma (second left) visits formally charged closed for the source said. South African Tebboune of his duties and as they slept. the site of a mudslide near Freetown, yesterday. the day without her media said Grace was in the appointed Ahmed Ouyahia”, “The magnitude of the appearing. country to have an injured foot the president’s chief of staff, destruction as a result of the dis- “two bodies were brought out red mud. Deveaux said defini- “The negotiations for her examined. It was unclear in his place, the presidency aster is such that the number of alive from the debris last tive death figures were to hand herself in are still whether she was travelling on said in a statement carried by victims in the community who evening.” Government spokes- unknown “as the mortuary is going on. We are at a point a diplomatic passport. On the official APS news agency. may not come out alive may man Cornelius Deveaux said overwhelmed with corpses — where we cannot effect an whether she could be arrested Bouteflika’s National Lib- likely exceed the number of rescue operations began yester- men, women and children.” arrest yet,” the police source despite having diplomatic eration Front (FLN) and the dead bodies already recovered,” day to remove people still Some rescue workers and vol- said. “We will cross that bridge immunity, minister Mbalula Rally for National Democracy said Charles Mambu, a civil soci- believed to be buried in the unteers dug overnight through when we get there.” The said: “All those implications (RND) led by Ouyahia ety activist and resident of one rubble. the mud and debris with their source said that 52-year-old will be taken into considera- together enjoy an absolute affected area, Mount Sugar Loaf. Heavy equipment was bare hands in a desperate search Grace had earlier agreed to tion.” He then added: “She will majority in parliament after In a sign of hope, he said, deployed to dig into the piles of for missing relatives. hand herself over at 10am be charged.” winning re-election on May 4. In a surprise move three weeks after the vote, the president named Tebboune, who had been housing min- Rebels shoot down Syrian military jet; army confirms crash ister, to the post of prime minister in place of Boutefli- ka’s ally Abdelmalek Sellal. Amman mention the fate of the pilot. wounds and we are interrogat- with Jordan and Israel. Jordanian-backed tribal militia According to a source, Reuters Rebels released photos of a ing him,” said Younis Al Salameh, Sweida province was not known as Jaish al Ashair that had 71-year-old Tebboune was pilot they identified as Major Ali another official from Osoud al included in a US-Russian bro- patrolled the border area. dismissed because his “vision he Syrian military said yes- al Hilwa, with bruises on his face, Sharqiya, one of two major rebel kered ceasefire that took effect This had allowed the army was not in line” with the pres- terday that one of its jets and the wreckage of a jet they groups operating in the area. in nearby areas of the southwest to quickly overrun the border ident. The source also cited Tcrashed in southern Syria, said was a Russian-built MiG The eastern part of Sweida in July. Free Syrian Army rebels posts and establish a presence communication problems state television reported, hours brought down by anti-aircraft province borders Jordan in a who get support from a com- in a border strip abandoned in between the men. The sack- after Western-backed rebels said guns. Saad al Haj, spokesman for front where the Syrian army, mand room in Jordan run by the early years of the conflict. ing comes days after reports they had shot it down and cap- the Osoud al Sharqiya rebel alongside Iranian-backed mili- Arab and Western backers of the Jordan has expressed con- that Bouteflika had sent a tured the pilot. group, earlier told Reuters the tias, had established control last insurgency say the plane was cern about the presence near its strongly worded letter to the State-owned Ikhbariya tel- rebels shot down the jet in the Thursday over checkpoints and downed during heavy fighting in border of Iranian-backed mili- premier, demanding he adjust evision quoted a Syrian army eastern countryside of Sweida border posts. Mainly Western- the area where they were trying tias whose role has been crucial his policies and criticising a source as saying an investigation province in southern Syria near backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) to regain lost ground. in recent gains by the army in decision to restrict imports of was under way to determine the border with Jordan. rebel groups still control much They blamed recent losses on the south eastern Syrian desert many products. what caused the crash. It did not “The pilot is being treated for of Syria’s southwestern frontier the sudden retreat by a known as Badiya. 08 VIEWS WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

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EDITORIAL India’s free spirit The Israel lobby vs the ndependence Day invokes myriad memories in the Indian mind. A country of 1.3 billion with a burgeoning middle class started the march Ito self-dependency when the reins of power First Amendment were transferred from British rule to Indian hands on August 15, 1947. In a brilliant show of movement’s just demands speak for them- who were meant to guard the Constitution erudition, India’s first prime minister delivered the selves: ending the Israeli military are the ones openly violating it. The First tryst with destiny speech on the night of August 14. Ramzy Baroud Al Jazeera occupation, equal rights to Palestinian- Amendment to the US Constitution has Cambridge alumnus Jawaharlal Nehru thus Arab citizens of Israel, right of return for been the pillar in defence of the people’s summed it up: Long years ago we made a tryst with Palestinian refugees. Every single demand right to free speech, freedom of the press, destiny, and now the time comes when we shall is supported by international and humani- “the right of the people peaceably to redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but tarian laws, and needless to say, basic assemble, and to petition the Government very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, he adage goes, “Be careful what you wish human rights and morality. for a redress of grievances”. when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and for, because you might just get it.” Indeed, Aware of its failure, and the notable This right has, however, often been freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely this is the very predicament in which the success of BDS, the Israeli government and curtailed when it applies to Israel. The in history, when we step out from the old to the new, influential American Israel Public Affairs its wealthy supporters across the US began Center for Constitutional Rights refers to when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, Committee (AIPAC) could soon find itself. deliberating the need for a well-financed, this fact as “The Palestine Exception”. long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at TIn its obsessive efforts to defeat the Palestinian- coherent strategy to combat the boycott S.720, if it passes, will cement the new US this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication led boycott movement, AIPAC will soon force the movement. status, that of “flawed democracy” as to the service of India and her people and to the still revisitation of a long-dormant debate on the ille- The pinnacle of the Israeli campaign is opposed to a fully democratic nation that larger cause of humanity…” gal Israeli military occupation of Palestine. now to lobby the US Congress to officially legislates and applies all laws fairly and India did substantially redeem its pledge in the US mainstream media has long avoided an ban BDS and punish its supporters. equally to all of its citizens. subsequent years. The first general elections that honest discussion on Israel and Palestine as if By doing so, Israel and the lobby On July 17, the American Civil Liberties wrapped up in 1952 gave a taste of fair universal the mere acknowledgment of a Palestinian point entered new, uncharted waters as the war Union (ACLU) issued a letter calling on leg- adult suffrage to millions waiting to find their own of view, let alone Palestinian rights, is in itself a on Palestinians is now becoming a war on islators who signed the senate version of political destiny. With help from an elected Lok sinister act. freedom of speech in the US as protected the bill to reconsider their decision. “The Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament), the If it were not for alternative media and var- by the First Amendment. bill would punish businesses and individu- nation embarked on a journey that would take it ied margins available in international media, the als, based solely on their point of view,” Palestinian voice would have been completely The plot thickens The ACLU said. “Such a penalty is in direct through several crests silenced, and Palestinians would merely exist as Cheered on by AIPAC and others, the violation of the First Amendment”. and troughs, testing the notorious “terrorist” figures standing obstacle to US Congress is now leading the Israeli war mettle of leaders and the Israel’s supposedly Western-style democracy. on Palestinians and their supporters. In the An opportunity ruled. In fact, this is the very image that is con- process, they are attempting to demolish Dire as it may seem, there is something Seventy years The Radcliffe line had stantly peddled by the Israeli government, its the very core of American democratic positive in this. For many years, it has been after the British been drawn five years official propaganda (hasbara) machine and its values. wrongly perceived that Israel’s solicitation left, a sixth of ago, splitting the many allies in the United States. A large network The build-up to this particular battle of American support against Palestinians subcontinent into Hindu- humanity is that is purportedly motivated by its undying began when AIPAC declared in its “2017 and Arabs is, by no means, a foreign coun- majority India and “love” for Israel, encompasses among its ranks Lobbying Agenda” that criminalising the try meddling or interfering in the US caught up in Muslim-majority powerful politicians, end-of-time religious boycott of Israel is a top priority. political system or undermining US balancing the Pakistan. The White fanatics, business interests and media moguls. The US Congress, which has histori- democracy. effects of rapid Man’s burden had been It is this conglomerate of individuals and the cally proven subservient to the Israeli The “Israel Anti-Boycott Act”, how- transferred to the natives industrialisation massive interests they represent that we often government and its lobbies, enthusiasti- ever, is the most egregious of such and it was now the turn refer to as the “lobby”. AIPAC is the central piece cally embraced AIPAC’s efforts. This interventions, for it strikes down the First with traditional of the colonised to build in the lobby’s intricate web, which has to a large resulted in the Senate Bill S.720 - also Amendment, the very foundation of social values. their destiny. degree succeeded in tainting the oppressed Pal- known as the “Anti-Israel Boycott Act” - American democracy, by using America’s Despite the so-called estinian as an aggressor, and the militarily which aims to ban the boycott of Israel and own legislators to be its executors. Hindu rate of growth — powerful Israel as a victim. its illegal Jewish settlements in the occu- This bill exposes Israel, as well as its clocking two to three To ensure that ordinary Americans never pied Palestinian West Bank. hordes of supporters in US Congress. percent of GDP in the understand that reality is entirely different from Thus far, the bill has the support of 48 Moreover, it presents human rights initial decades, heavy industrialisation marked what the media reports, the Palestinian voice is Senators and 234 House members. Unsur- defenders with the opportunity to cham- India’s pivot to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. habitually muffled and the Palestinian intellec- prisingly, it was drafted mostly by AIPAC pion BDS, hence, the rights of the An investment in heavy industries and a later tual is hidden from view. For many years, the itself. Punishment of those who violate the Palestinian people and also the rights of all emphasis on agriculture punctuated a chequered “debate” has rarely focused on Palestinian proposed law ranges from $250,000 to $1 Americans. It would be the first time in economic policy. Decades of sustained development rights, but has been a one-sided Israeli diatribe million and 10 years in prison. many years that the battle for Palestinian has made India the seventh largest economy in the about its security, future and its twisted, conven- Anti-Palestinian measures in the US rights can be openly discussed and contex- world. ient and ever-flexible definition of are nothing new. In fact, ardent support tualised in a way that most Americans find A maturing democratic polity has brought forth anti-Semitism. But the rise of the Boycott, for Israel and the complete disregard for relevant to their everyday life. its challenges. Development has thrown up bumps Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement Palestinians is the only aspect which Dem- This was one of the aims of BDS from on the way — often seen as social and administrative posed a serious challenge to Israel’s self-tailored ocrats and Republicans have in common. the very beginning. While the boycott and barriers to building a normative society based on narrative. But S.720 marks a completely different delegitimisation of the Israeli military values. The unfinished agenda of tomorrow includes Contrary to the typical behaviour of the story. It is part of a massive campaign that occupation of Palestine are at the core of improved healthcare, good governance and a solid Israeli lobby, the BDS movement sought the soli- would, once and for all, make it illegal for the civil society-backed movement, BDS educational foundation built on the premise that darity of civil society organisations, churches even ordinary Americans to be critical of also aims at generating an urgent discus- and student groups. It engaged people in mean- Israel. sion on Israel and Palestine. universities will lay the pitch for research that will ingful discussion and used direct democracy as a Initiated in 2014, this process has been Although inadvertently, the US Con- translate into a strength of the future. vehicle to propel action. At first, the boycott gathering steam without much challenge gress is now making this very much efforts seemed minuscule and unthreatening. from either major political parties, govern- possible. Interestingly, the mobilisation of In its early years, the mission of combating ment or mainstream media. the US — and other western governments any kind of dissent against Israel within the US Since then, 11 US states have passed — to punish the boycott movement is was entrusted to the likes of notorious Zionist and enacted legislation to criminalise boy- largely consistent with its targeting of the Daniel Pipes and his “Campus Watch”, a Big cott efforts. State attorney generals have South African anti-Apartheid movement QUOTE OF THE DAY Brother type of organisation aimed at intimidat- shamelessly and system- in the past. ing teachers, scaring off students and monitoring atically coordinated to The US government strongly opposed and reporting nonconformist educational insti- push their agendas from the South African liberation movement, tutions across the country. a state level to Washing- condemned the international boycott Military action on the Korean Not only did Pipes miserably fail, but his tac- ton, DC, itself. against the country, and backed the racist Peninsula can only be tics unwittingly inspired real, often heated The very individuals authoritarian role of PW Botha to the very decided by South Korea and debates and discussions across American cam- end. Former President Ronald Reagan no one else can decide to puses, where BDS began taking the initiative perceived Nelson Mandela as a “terrorist”. take military action without and ultimately prevailing. Thanks to BDS-affili- Anti-Palestinian measures in In fact, Mandela was not removed from the consent of South Korea. ated student groups, many campuses either the US terror list until 2008. declared their support of Palestinian rights, or the US are nothing new. In Now, it seems history is repeating The government, putting pushed university boards to divest from Israeli fact, ardent support for Israel itself. The Israeli version of Apartheid is everything on the line, will companies or firms that contribute to the and the complete disregard fighting for legitimacy and refuses to con- block war by all means. oppression of the Palestinians. Churches, com- for Palestinians is the only cede. It aims to colonise all of Palestine, panies, academic collectives, artists and others mistreat and oppress its people, and vio- aspect which Democrats and Moon Jae-in followed suit. late international law without any form of South Korean President Thus far, every attempt at demonising and Republicans have in common. censure from either individuals or silencing BDS has failed, simply because the organisations. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 OPINION 09 Shared value an important lever in Modi’s 2022 vision

country, it’s important that apart Amit Kapoor from the large enterprises, even IANS small and medium enterprises start to see shared value as an opportunity to create long-term scalable and sustainable impact. The other enterprises that n the 75th anniversary of the Quit have created exceptional impact India movement, Prime Minister of similar nature are Mother Narendra Modi urged citizens to create Dairy, Godrej, ITC, HUL et al. a new India by 2022 by freeing the What we need to learn from expe- country from poverty, corruption, dirt, riences of these enterprises is that Oterrorism, casteism, and communalism. To fulfill by embedding the principle of this vision of a new India, it’s important that all shared value within the business stakeholders come together and support the gov- models’ corporates can create ernments efforts on eradicating these evils. win-win scenarios for both the To this effect, the role of the corporate sector is community and the company critical, and this gets accentuated by the fact that itself. corporates hold significant sway on quality Having said this, we should resources in the form of manpower, assets, tech- keep in mind that the shared nology et al. value Strategy for each enterprise Enterprises today need to think out of the box would be different that would be and start to embed the idea of social good as part driven based on its its products, of its strategy. The idea is to move beyond philan- geography, customers and suppli- thropy, CSR investments and making social good ers. Each organisation would as part of its business model. Embedding social need to look inward on where it good as part of your business model is the idea of can see synergy with community shared value that Professor Michael Porter had as goals and based on that would well talked about at the NITI Transformation Lec- need to initiate its own strategy. ture Series recently. If the enterprises start imbib- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India delivers speech as schoolchildren sit during 71st Independence Shared value is about creating a win-win situa- ing these principles within their tion for the company and the community. Shared Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in New Delhi. strategy it is certainly possible to value should not be confused with philanthropy or achieve the dream that Modi has. CSR. Shared value is about business strategy criticism for philanthropy though a call for further the adulterated neem based products in the mar- In short, it is about improving the wherein the idea is to build scale and create an action by corporates. ket. It created value for the community and also quality of lives of the citizens of impact. This assertion should not be construed as a Individual philanthropy has been part of helped the company in better procurement of the country wherein we can boast India’s culture since generations but has had lim- neem oil for its urea coating. In addition, GNFC as of an India that is one of the most ited impact on solving the problems at hand. What well created new business opportunities for neem socially progressive geographies the country needs today are scalable solutions that based products by leveraging its distribution net- in the world. Shared value is about create opportunities for livelihood for the popula- work and brand with the farmers. This was made creating a win-win situation tion that is at the bottom of the income pyramid. possible by engaging women at the village level to The writer is Honorary Chairman, for the company and the One of the successful examples of Shared value collect neem seeds. This effort, which was enabled Institute for Competitiveness; President & CEO, India Council on community. Shared value has been Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Com- through self-help groups in itself created over pany’s (GNFC) Neem Project. One of the decisions 100,000 livelihood opportunities for people in Competitiveness. should not be confused with made by the Prime Minister after assuming office rural areas. philanthropy or CSR. Shared in 2014 was the distribution of neem coated urea Shared value initiatives such as this make a value is about business fertilisers. This has led to a systematic change sustainable impact on the community and on pov- strategy wherein the idea within the distribution chain for urea wherein pil- erty alleviation, rather than one time philanthropic ferage of urea is not possible for other industrial activity. It is important that India Inc. plays a con- is to build scale and create activity and as well has increased the yields and structive role in creating a new India and looks at an impact. This assertion productivity for the farmers. this as an opportunity and start thinking in differ- D-RING ROAD should not be construed as GNFC is an example of shared value where the ent aspects of their business where they can POST BOX: 3488 company created a self-sustainable division for integrate with the community. It could be forward a criticism for philanthropy neem oil through backward and forward integra- linkage, backward linkage in the supply chain, skill DOHA - QATAR though a call for further tion thereby generating livelihood opportunities development for the larger industry, better indus- [email protected] action by corporates. for women, providing quality product in the mar- trial relations practices among others. Considering ket at affordable price points, thereby challenging the size and the geographic diversity of the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758

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New Delhi IANS Indian Prime Minister addresses the nation ndia is capable of fighting any security threat on “bor- on the 70th anniversary ders, space or cyberspace”, of Independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as he Iurged militants in Kashmir to “But I am absolutely clear shun violence and let love about how to fight this battle. resolve the dragging problem. Neither brickbats nor bullets can Addressing the nation on solve the problem. The problem India’s 71st Independence Day, will be solved by embracing Modi also called for a “New every Kashmiri.” India” free of casteism, commu- Asserting that there would be nalism, terrorism and corruption. no let up in India’s fight against And he warned those indulging terrorism, the Prime Minister in mob violence that attacks in called upon militants to shun the the name of “aastha” (faith) won’t gun and join the mainstream. be allowed. In a 56-minute “We time and again call ter- speech, his fourth from the Red rorists to join the mainstream Fort, Modi touched upon many where you have every right and topics including security, demon- where there is every arrange- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers his address during the country’s 71st Independence Day celebrations, which marks etisation and black money and ment to put forward your point the 70th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule, at the historic Red Fort in New Delhi, yesterday. RIGHT: Schoolchildren vowed to lead India “with a of view through democratic sit in formation forming Hindi script that reads ‘Bharat’ (India) during the celebrations. greater speed”. ways.” Unlike the last year, Modi “India’s security is our prior- made no reference to Pakistan ity. Be it our coastline or our or the border conflict with China. its battle against terror and had many countries who shared the uniformed forces who have India’s fight against “Left-Wing- borders, the space or the cyber- But he said India wasn’t alone in the active support of intelligence inputs. He saluted all “showed valour and strength in Extremism, terrorism, space, India is capable of infiltrators”. He said the world ensuring its own security and acknowledged India’s “might and strong enough to ward off any Most disappointing speech: Congress Shutdown cripples life in Kashmir strength” after the surgical strike threats against the country,” against terror launch pads in Modi said amid a lingering bor- NEW DELHI: The Congress described Prime Minister Narendra SRINAGAR: A protest shutdown called by separatist leaders yes- Pakistan last year. der row with China. Modi’s Independence Day speech as “most disappointing” and terday affected life adversely across the Kashmir Valley even Deprecating violence in the Modi said India wanted to slammed him for being “insensitive” towards the deaths of over though it was a public holiday on account of Independence Day. name of faith, Modi said some restore the glory of Kashmir, a 60 children in a Gorakhpur hospital last week. The party also said Despite the protest call, all official functions including parades, people due to lack of patience “paradise” on Earth. “Kashmir that Modi’s promise of curbing black money “remains a sham”. flag hoisting and cultural programmes were held peacefully across end up destroying the social fab- problem cannot be resolved by “On Gorakhpur, he has not shown his sensitivity and has not the Valley. ric. “The poison of casteism and either bullets or by abuses. It can actually registered the gravity of the situation that a large number While educational institutions, government offices, banks and communalism can never bene- be resolved by embracing all of children, infants, have died because of callous neglect. post offices remained closed because of the holiday, no public or fit the country. We have to move Kashmiris,” Modi said in his “He has just in a very trivial manner equated the Gorakhpur private transport moved on the roads. forward taking everyone along fourth Independence Day tragedy to the other natural calamities. He should have been care- Markets remained closed in Srinagar city and all other major and that is why in the name of speech. Taking a jibe at “a hand- ful,” Congress leader Anand Sharma told reporters here. cities and towns of the Valley. faith, violence cannot be ful of separatists”, he said they “His (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) fight against black money Train services between Baramullah and Bannihal were sus- allowed.” Modi said destroying were adopting new tactics to was a sham and remains a sham,” he added. pended in the wake of the protest call. public property in mob violence keep the pot boiling. was unacceptable. Gorakhpur tragedy: Report in five days Blue Whale Challenge: Kerala probes youngster’s death Lucknow government. The panel has been death of children, including Members of this committee IANS mandated to complete its inves- infants, the background in which include Alok Kumar, Health Sec- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the Centre has launched efforts tigation within five days and it happened, reasons and causes retary; Mukesh Mittal, Finance to tackle the problems posed by ‘The Blue Whale challenge’ by he Uttar Pradesh government submit a report to the Chief Min- behind the deaths, fixing respon- Secretary; and Dr Hem Chandra, ordering removal of all internet links to the online game, Kerala formed a committee headed ister on August 19. sibility and accountability of Medical Superintendent of the Police have begun a probe into the death of a local teenager. The Tby Chief Secretary Rajeev Chief Minister Yogi Adity- people for the tragedy, propose Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate police action came after the Class XI student’s parents, who live Kumar to probe the death of chil- anath had two days back action against such errant offi- Institute of Medical Sciences on the city outskirts, registered a complaint earlier this week that dren at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) announced formation of such a cials and employees, and (SGPGI), Lucknow. More than 60 their 16-year-old son committed suicide on July 26 by hanging as Medical College in Gorakhpur over committee. recommendations — both innocent lives have been lost at he was hooked on to the game. The parents said a probe was the past one week. The points of reference of immediate and long term — so the BRD Medical College in a needed to find out the reason for their son’s death, and blamed Notification of the commit- this high-powered committee that such incidents are not week allegedly due to disrup- the online game for taking his life. The boy’s mother told police tee has been issued by the state include the incident involving repeated in future. tion of liquid oxygen supply. that he had downloaded the game last year and despite their rep- rimands had refused to not play the game. She said the teenager started behaving indifferently and was always engaged in weird Bengaluru sees activities. Indian, Chinese soldiers scuffle in Ladakh heaviest August NEW DELHI: A brief scuffle between Indian and Chinese troops rainfall since 1890 was reported from Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir yester- day, informed sources said, even as the Army officials in Delhi BENGALURU: Bengaluru refused comment. The Chinese soldiers are said to have attempted early yesterday witnessed a to cross the Line of Actual Control near Pangong lake, but were record 180 mm rainfall in stopped by Indian soldiers. After a brief stand-off, the Chinese troops barely three hours, the heav- went back, the sources added. The latest incident comes in the wake iest downpour in August in of a stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops along the border over 100 years. The rains in Sikkim. A ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting on the Indian wreaked havoc across the Independence Day was also not held this time as the Chinese side did city, crippling normal life, not respond to a communication from the Indian side. flooding roads and houses in many localities and damp- ened the 71st Independence Hizb has new commander in Kashmir Day celebrations. “As the downpour in just SRINAGAR: The Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit has named three hours (3am to 6am) was Mohammad Bin Qasim as its new commander in Kashmir follow- so heavy, the storm-water ing the killing of Yasin Yatoo. Pakistan-based Hizb chief Syed drains could not take the load Salahuddin in a statement named Mohammad Bin Qasim as the in such a short time, result- new operational commander of the largest militant group active ing in rainwater overflowing in the state. The new commander succeeds Yatoo whose loss Residents wade through flooded streets of a low lying area in Bengaluru, yesterday. on several roads and inundat- has dealt a big blow to the Hizbul Mujahideen at a time when ing low-laying areas,” Bruhat its former leader Zakir Musa has announced a breakaway group, Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an Al Qaeda affiliate in Kashmir. Musa (BBMP) Commissioner Manju- with his pan-Islamist assertions has been taking the centre Over 6.5 million hit by Bihar floods; 40 dead natha Prasad told reporters stage of militancy in the valley and even threatened to kill those later. The torrential rains who refer to the Kashmir separatist campaign as a nationalis- Patna the floods. “So far 41 people have and Sheohar face the threat of uprooted trees, twisted elec- tic movement. IANS died in the floods,” officials said, floods. “Flood waters have tric poles and snapped cable but unconfirmed reports put entered in some new areas and lines even in upscale residen- ore than 6.5 million peo- death toll at 85. Nearly three are likely to create panic among tial areas across the city, Two-year-old falls in borewell; rescue efforts on ple have been affected million people were affected people,” officials said. disrupting power supply. Mby floods in Bihar, that alone in the worst-hit districts Other affected districts are Civic officials had to use VIJAYAWADA: A two-year-old child fell into a borewell in And- have claimed the lives of 40 of Kishanganj, Araria, Purnea Darbhanga, Madhubani, Muz- make-shift boats to rescue hra Pradesh’s Guntur district yesterday afternoon and efforts were people so far, washed away and Katihar in last three days. affarpur, Sitamarhi, Madhepura, the stranded in some areas continuing late in the evening to rescue him, police said. After the thousands of huts, badly dam- “Thousands were displaced due Saharsa, Supaul, East and West while power outages led to boy, Chandrasekhar, fell into the abandoned borewell in Ummadi- aged buildings, roads, bridges to floods,” an official said. Champaran. Thousands of peo- blackouts for hours since varam village in Vinukonda ‘mandal’, personnel of the National and standing crops worth crores, According to them, about ple have been forced to flee early morning in many areas. Disaster Response Force, police and other rescue workers were officials said. 1.82 lakh people have been from their homes after their vil- Police had a tough time dur- pressed into service to rescue him. In an operation that was con- Bihar disaster management evacuated to safe places by the lages were inundated. They have ing the day, as several arterial tinuing for over six hours when last reports came in, the rescue department officials said that rescue teams in the last two taken shelter in high rise areas, roads, subways and under- workers were digging a crater parallel to the borewell. The res- 65.37 lakh people in 889 pan- days.The state administration including national highways, bridges were waterlogged, cue workers also inserted oxygen tubes into the pit to help the chayats under 84 blocks in 13 says at least five more districts schools and government slowing vehicular movement child breathe and were using cameras to ascertain the depth at districts have been affected by including Samastipur, Khagaria buildings. and causing traffic snarls. which he may be stuck. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 ASIA 11 North Korea holds off on Guam missile plan

Seoul government would prevent war Reuters by all means. In his first public “Military action on the appearance in about Korean peninsula can only be orth Korea’s leader two weeks, North decided by South Korea and no has delayed a deci- Korean leader Kim one else can decide to take mil- sion on firing itary action without the consent missiles towards Jong-Un inspected of South Korea,” Moon said in a Guam while he the command of speech to commemorate the Nwaits to see what the United the North’s army, anniversary of the nation’s lib- States does next, the North’s state examining a plan eration from Japanese military media said yesterday, as South rule in 1945. Korea’s president said Seoul to fire four missiles “The government, putting would seek to prevent war by all to land near the US everything on the line, will block means. Pacific territory of war by all means,” Moon said. In his first public appearance Speaking to his Russian in about two weeks, North Guam, the official counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Chi- Korean leader Kim Jong Un KCNA said in a report. nese Foreign Minister Wang Yi inspected the command of the said it was urgent the United North’s army, examining a plan States and North Korea “put the to fire four missiles to land near the missiles appearing to start brakes” on mutually irritating the US Pacific territory of Guam, from North Korea’s east coast, words and actions to lower tem- the official KCNA said in a report. flying over Japan towards Guam. peratures and prevent an “He said that if the Yankees North Korea has often threat- “August crisis”, China’s Foreign persist in their extremely dan- ened to attack the United States Ministry said in a statement. gerous reckless actions on the and its bases and released sim- Japan will be seeking further Korean peninsula and in its ilar photos in the past but never reassurance from Washington vicinity, testing the self-restraint followed through. in meetings between Japan’s of the DPRK, the latter will make Pyongyang’s plans to fire defence chief and foreign min- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (centre) clapping hands while inspecting the Command of an important decision as it missiles near Guam prompted a ister and their US counterparts the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) at an undisclosed location, yesterday. already declared,” the report surge in tensions in the region on Thursday. “The strategic envi- said. The DPRK stands for North last week, with US President ronment is becoming harsher The Liberation Day holiday, cel- Security Council resolutions and to lower tensions. Yesterday, Korea’s official name, the Dem- Donald Trump saying the US mil- and we need to discuss how we ebrated by both North and South, sanctions. China, North Korea’s Chinese Foreign Ministry spokes- ocratic People’s Republic of itary was “locked and loaded” if will respond to that,” a Japanese will be followed next week by the main ally and trading partner, woman Hua Korea. North Korea acted unwisely. foreign ministry official said in a joint US-South Korean military has repeatedly urged Pyongyang Chunying said the crisis was In photos released with the South Korean President briefing in Tokyo. drills. North Korea has persisted to halt its weapons programme approaching a critical juncture KCNA report, Kim was seen Moon Jae-in said yesterday there “We will look for the US to with its nuclear and missile pro- and at the same time urged South and urged all sides in the stand- holding a baton and pointing at would be no military action reaffirm it defence commitment, grammes, to ward off perceived Korea and the United States to off to help “put out the flames” a map showing a flight path for without Seoul’s consent and his including the nuclear deterrent.” US hostility, in defiance of U.N. stop military drills and not add fuel to the fire. Nawaz Sharif 21 dead in Philippine anti-drug raids Afghan forces recapture challenges Manila would be killed. The raids arrest of 64 suspects, the seizure disqualification AFP resulted in the single largest of 21 firearms and about 100 village in Sayad district death toll in one night of police grams of methamphetamines, Islamabad hilippine police killed at operations since officers killed popularly known as “shabu” the AP least 21 people in a series 16 people, including a city records said. A breakdown of the Afghanistan local officials that about 50, Pof raids near the capital mayor, in a raid on a southern incidents showed that the 21 AFP mostly-Shia and Hazara, villag- Pakistani official says Manila, in the bloodiest night of city on July 30. were killed in 16 separate oper- ers were either shot or former Prime Minister President Rodrigo Duterte’s war Police records from Bulacan ations where all the fatalities fghan forces have recap- beheaded after Taliban and IS ANawaz Sharif has filed on drugs, official records province, a light-industrial cen- were armed. Spokesmen for the tured a remote village insurgents took Mirzawalang petitions with the Supreme showed yesterday. tre just north of Manila, said that police could not be contacted. Awhere Taliban and in a rare joint operation. Court to challenge his dis- Duterte won a landslide vic- 26 anti-drug operations were Bulacan, a province of about Islamic State fighters allegedly The Islamic State group qualification and removal tory in presidential elections last conducted in 12 towns and cit- 3.29 million people, has massacred dozens of civilians claimed responsibility for kill- from office. year after promising an unprec- ies, resulting in the killing of 21 recorded numerous arrests and earlier this month, officials said ing 54 Shias in Sar-e Pul in a Environment Minister edented war on drugs in which “drug personalities”. killings of suspects in recent yesterday. statement released by its prop- Mushahidullah Khan, who is tens of thousands of people The raids also resulted in the months, records showed. Militants killed about 50 aganda outlet Amaq late in Sharif’s party, said yester- men, women and children in Monday. The Taliban earlier day that the former prime Mirzawalang, a mainly Shia vil- claimed capturing the village minister’s lawyers filed three lage in Sayad district of but said it did so alone. It also petitions to review the ver- northern Sar-e Pul province, on denied allegations it had killed dict. The court disqualified Up in arms August 5 after overrunning a civilians. Sharif after documents leaked government-backed militia, Survivors fleeing the vio- from a Panama-based law according to officials and lence described nightmarish firm showed that his family residents. scenes, detailing how militants held previously undisclosed A spokesman for the Afghan went from house to house, overseas assets. A five-judge National Army’s northern mil- shooting villagers. panel last month disqualified itary corps said troops had The insurgents also took a Sharif, accusing him of con- retaken the village following number of residents captive, cealing assets. several days of intense fighting but later released 235 hostages that left at least 50 insurgents after elders and provincial offi- Bangladesh dead. “Our forces are in full cials struck a deal with the control of the village and are group. Taliban and IS fighters searching for Taliban mines and have regularly clashed since the extremist dead booby traps,” Nasratullah Jam- latter gained a foothold in the shidi said. country in 2015 but security in suicide blast Dawlat Waziri, a spokes- sources say they have teamed man for the Afghan defence up to attack Afghan forces on a Dhaka ministry, said forces had few occasions. IS has carried AFP “pushed the Taliban out of the out a number of deadly attacks village” on Monday afternoon. on Shiites in the past year, pro- n Islamist extremist He said that militants had viding a sectarian twist to the was killed yesterday in suffered “heavy casualties”. Afghan conflict. This month two Athe Bangladeshi capi- There has been no word on any suicide bombers killed more tal Dhaka after detonating a South Korean protesters hold red cards to demand a halt of South Korea-Japan military casualties to Afghan forces. than 33 worshippers at a suicide vest and other explo- cooperation during an anti-Japan rally marking the 72th anniversary of Korea’s liberation Troops are expected to start mosque in Afghanistan’s west- sives as police prepared to from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul yesterday. searching for mass graves fol- ern city of Herat, in an attack raid his hotel room, an offi- lowing claims from families and claimed by the group. cial said. The blast, on the third floor of a hotel in the city cen- tre, sent police running for cover and showered the China agrees on no new expansion in S China Sea: Philippines streets below in rubble and smoke. Manila of the South China Sea with an that China blockaded from 2012 China has built seven islands armed forces had the “whole National police chief AKM Reuters aim to begin drilling within a to 2016. upon reefs in disputed areas, picture on the current Shahidul Hoque said the year. China claims almost the three of which, experts say, are situation”. deceased was a foot soldier hina has assured the Phil- The defence minister, Delfin entire South China Sea, a water- capable of accommodating China’s foreign ministry did from Jamayetul Mujahideen ippines it will not occupy Lorenzana, told a congressional way through which about $3 fighter jets. They have runways, not immediately respond to a Bangladesh, a local militant Cnew features or territory hearing the Philippines and trillion worth of sea-borne trade radars and surface-to-air mis- request for comment. Cayetano outfit blamed for the massa- in the South China Sea, under a China had reached a “modus passes every year. Brunei, siles which China says are for assured lawmakers on Tuesday cre of 22 hostages at a cafe new “status quo” brokered by vivendi”, or a way to get along, Malaysia, the Philippines, Tai- defence. any energy deal with China popular with foreigners in Manila as both sides try to in the South China Sea that pro- wan and Vietnam also have Lorenzana did not comment would not violate the constitu- Dhaka last year. strengthen their relations, the hibits new occupation of islands. conflicting claims in the area. when lawmakers, citing reports tion and would conform to a “He was carrying bombs Philippine defence minister “The Chinese will not Philippine President Rod- from the military, told him five 60-40 percent revenue sharing, and a suicide vest. The door said. occupy new features in the rigo Duterte, who took office in Chinese ships had showed up weighted towards the was blown off in one explo- Philippine Foreign Secretary South China Sea nor they are June last year, has courted China almost 5 km off the Philippine- Philippines. sion, and he died in the Alan Peter Cayetano also said going to build structures in Scar- and avoided rows over maritime held Thitu Island in the Spratly The Permanent Court of second explosion,” he said. the Philippines was working on borough Shoal,” Lorenzana told sovereignty that dogged his archipelago on Saturday. Arbitration in The Hague inval- “He is a JMB member. He a “commercial deal” with China lawmakers late on Monday, predecessors, while berating The military’s public affairs idated China’s claim over most is a former madrasa to explore and exploit oil and referring to a prime fishing traditional ally the United States chief, Colonel Edgard Arevalo, of the South China Sea in July student.” gas resources in disputed areas ground close to the Philippines over several issues. declined to comment until the last year. 12 EUROPE WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

Electrifying sight! Macron seeks Kiev clears the release of French reporter air on N Korea held in Turkey Paris AFP

rocket engine rench President Emmanuel Macron Fsought to secure the Kiev release of a French reporter AFP Both the engines detained in Turkey at the end of July, during a conversation kraine’s space and the space carrier yesterday with Turkish Pres- agency said yester- rockets “were made ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, day that an engine at Yuzhmash in the a statement said. type reportedly interests of Russia,” The French leader used in North “expressed his concern about UKorean missiles was made at a Ukraine’s acting the case of Loup Bureau, a Ukrainian factory, but solely for space agency chief journalism student detained use in space rockets supplied Yuriy Radchenko in Turkey, and his desire to to Russia. see our compatriot return to The development came Radchenko said. France as soon as possible,” after an expert report published the Elysee Palace said. Monday said Pyongyang’s used in space launches. The Bureau, 27, was arrested A lightning bolt striking a Stalin-era skyscraper during a storm over Moscow. recent rapid progress in devel- space agency chief said that on July 26 and accused of oping a long-range missile according to Ukrainian infor- having links to Kurdish mili- appeared to have come after it mation, “Russia today has tias which Turkey regards as refurbished rocket engines pro- between 7 and 20” of the terrorist groups. cured from a plant in the former Cyclone rockets and could do He is studying for a mas- Soviet Union. whatever it wanted with the ter’s degree in journalism but These could have been engines and blueprints. Ukrainian agent planning has also worked as a reporter, bought from corrupt workers “They have these engines, notably on a story for the at arsenals in Russia or Ukraine they have the documentation. French channel TV5 in 2013 and smuggled to North Korea They can supply these engines on the militia known as the by criminal networks at some from the finished rockets to sabotage held: Russia Kurdish People’s Protection point between the collapse of whoever they want.” Units (YPG). the Soviet Union in 1991 and The IISS report suggests French journalist unions, Ukraine’s current crisis, the Kim Jong-Un’s regime, which Moscow cause a landslide to block a The Ukrainian military also European and international International Institute for Stra- successfully tested interconti- AFP highway, the FSB said. confirmed Lemeshko had journalist associations, tegic Studies said. nental ballistic missiles in July He had been detained on served in the armed forces on a Reporters Without Borders “Such engines that are ussian security services Saturday while “attempting to contract from November 2016 (RSF) and TV5 have called for were made up to believed to have said yesterday they had damage a power line”, and was to May 2017. Bureau’s immediate release. 2001 by Ukraine’s brought the US Rcaptured an alleged carrying a hand grenade, two But a Ukrainian Security Macron broke off from his Yuzhmash mainland within Ukrainian agent who was plan- sticks of TNT and a hand saw, Service statement described the holidays in the south of (plant),” Ukraine’s reach, has ning acts of sabotage including the FSB added. allegations that one of its agent France to speak with Erdogan acting space abandoned blowing up power lines in Rus- Russian state television had been detained as a “provo- yesterday. agency chief attempts to sian-annexed Crimea. showed FSB video footage of the cation” and “fake news”. “The leaders have agreed Yuriy Radchenko modify the Rus- The Federal Security Serv- man being questioned. In 2015, Ukrainian far-right to talk again next week,” the told journalists. sian-built ice (FSB) said in a statement it Other footage showed him groups and Crimean Tatars statement said. He said the OKB-456 rocket had detained an “agent of the giving his name as “Gennady opposed to Russia’s annexation Foreign journalists have RD-250 engines engine and has Ukrainian Security Service... Lemeshko” while pinned to the of their homeland set off a series repeatedly been accused by were used in now switched to sent to Crimea to carry out acts ground near a wooden pole of explosions that damaged high the Turkish government of Cyclone-2 and the once of sabotage”. holding up power lines, as a voltage power lines, cutting supporting terrorism for Cyclone-3 space Acting Chairman of Ukrainian- It named him as Gennady masked agent dumped his pos- power to more than a million reporting on Kurdish separa- rockets supplied the Ukrainian State made RD-250. Lemeshko, describing him as a sessions out of a bag. residents of the peninsula. Cri- tist groups, adding to tensions to Russia. Space Agency Yuriy During the former military reconnaissance A spokesman for the Ukrain- mea still depends on Ukraine for between Erdogan and the EU. Both the Radchenko attends a Soviet era, the officer in eastern Ukraine and ian border service Oleg its electricity. Bureau is the third French engines and the news conference in Kiev, RD-250 was claiming he had been sent to Slobodyan confirmed that a Moscow annexed the Black journalist to be detained in space carrier yesterday. produced at the Crimea on a sabotage Ukrainian citizen of that name Sea peninsula from Ukraine in Turkey in the past year. rockets “were Yuzhmash plant mission. had entered Crimea on August March 2014 soon after the In June, Turkey deported made at Yuzh- in Dnipro, a city He was under orders to put 9. “He did not have any banned overthrow of Ukraine’s pro- French photojournalist Math- mash in the interests of Russia,” that is today in Kiev govern- a power line out of order, to items with him” and was Russian president Viktor ias Depardon after holding Radchenko said. In total, 233 ment-held central light forest fires, set alight an allowed onto the peninsula by Yanukovich following mass him for a month on charges such rockets were produced, Ukraine. administrative building and the Russian side, he said. protests in Kiev. of supporting terror groups. More jeers & less cheers for campaigning Merkel Two in Dutch court

Berlin rebound in support to third place Bloomberg after a bout of party infighting over eggs scandal at the beginning of the year. nsisting that “people are There’s also a possibility that doing better’’ than they were polls are underestimating the Zwolle Belgium. Dutch farmers and Ifour years ago, Angela Mer- party’s backing. Either way, it’s AFP retailers this week began kel made her re-election pitch more than enough for the AfD counting the costs stemming to a crowd of some 3,000 in a to clear the 5 percent threshold wo Dutch men appeared from fipronil scandal, which medieval town square in west- and enter the lower house of in court yesterday in con- has now affected 17 European ern Germany, a stump speech parliament for the first time, Tnection with the countries and stretched as far marred by a clutch of jeering upsetting potential party alli- tainted-eggs scandal that swept as Hong Kong. anti-immigration protesters. ances and further complicating Europe this month, which saw Initial damages to poultry The chancellor was speak- coalition-building. millions of eggs destroyed and farms were estimated at at least ing late on Monday at an election Merkel’s CDU-led bloc held caused tens of millions of euros ¤150m, a spokesman for the rally of her Christian Democratic at 37 percent compared to 25 in damages. ZLTO federation of southern Union in Gelnhausen, a town of percent for the Social Democrats The men, identified in Dutch farmers and gardeners just over 20,000 about 50km in an INSA poll published by Bild Dutch media reports as Martin said Monday. east of Frankfurt. While most newspaper on Tuesday. The AfD van de B, 31 and Mathijs IJ, 24, Millions of eggs have been were placard-waving CDU sup- rose to 10 percent support briefly appeared before a judge pulled from supermarket porters, several dozen nationwide, followed by the at the Overijssel District Court shelves and destroyed across supporters of the nationalist anti-capitalist Left party and the in the central Dutch city of Europe and dozens of poultry Alternative for Germany party, pro-business Free Democrats, Zwolle, in a hearing that was farms closed since the discov- or AfD, blew whistles and both with 9 percent, and the closed to the public. ery of contamination with shouted at Merkel. Greens on 7 percent. “The judge decided that fipronil, which can harm The German leader didn’t With all polls showing Mer- there is currently enough sus- human health, was made pub- acknowledge the protests in a kel with a towering lead over her picion to keep the men in lic on August 1. 32-minute speech that covered Social Democratic challenger, custody,” the court said in a Commonly used to get rid the campaign themes of the die- Martin Schulz, the chancellor is statement. of fleas, lice and ticks from ani- sel scandal, her CDU’s hewing taking no chances with a 50-stop “The public prosecution mals, fipronil is banned by the to a balanced budget and pledges tour across the country over the service suspects the two man- European Union from use in the to increase domestic security. next six weeks. She made two agers of a disinfection company food industry. Yet the presence of loud dem- appearances on the North Sea of using fipronil at poultry The issue has sparked a row onstrators, a relative rarity coast later yesterday, in Cux- farms in the Netherlands,” it between Belgium, the Nether- during her rallies, hinted at the haven and in the port city of said. lands and Germany, the three A Muslim supporter of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at lingering tensions that have Bremen. Schulz was meanwhile “Thereby they endangered countries at the centre of the dogged Merkel since the refu- an election meeting in Siegen. due to address the topic of ref- public health, and there are sus- crisis, about how long officials gee crisis exploded two years ugees and integration in a picions they knew that the knew about the problem. ago — and the residual anger among those who shouted “Mer- saying it would lead to “desta- speech in Berlin the same day. biocide was banned,” the court Belgium became the first that could inject uncertainty into kel out” during the speech, he bilization.” He said he wasn’t The AfD protesters were the said. country to officially notify the the September 24 election said after the rally. “with the AfD,” but pro-Russia most vocal at the Monday night The two men were arrested EU’s food safety alert system outcome. The town native, who gave sentiment is something he rally, honing a familiar message Thursday as agents raided eight about the presence of tainted “I won’t vote for Merkel,” only his first name, singled out shares with the party. taking Merkel to task for the premises — including the two eggs on July 20, followed by Alexander, a 31-year-old the chancellor’s harsh stance on While the AfD isn’t about to uncontrolled influx of more than men’s company, Chickfriend — the Netherlands and machinist who said he was Russian sanctions for criticism, win the election, polls suggest a a million migrants since 2015. in the Netherlands as well as in Germany. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 EUROPE 13

Police disperse 12 crushed to death in Portugal far-right protesters around five kilometres from central Funchal. in Warsaw Tragedy struck at noon when “We heard a cracking sound and then the massive tree toppled the tree fell where people were lighting into a crowd gathered candles. People sitting on the benches Warsaw near the fountain were also hit,” witness AFP near the island’s capital of Domingos Perestrelo told the SIC Noti- Funchal to mark a festival. cias TV station. olice removed protest- “There was a big panic — it happened ers blocking a march by in the middle of mass, around a half-hour Pmembers of a far-right Lisbon before the start of the procession. There youth organisation in central AFP were a lot of people there.” Warsaw yesterday, insisting The fountain is surrounded by sev- they used force to protect a welve people were crushed to eral tall trees aged a hundred years or legal event. death and around 50 injured more. Several hundred police yesterday when a 200-year-old A security perimeter was set up officers were deployed to oak tree fell on them at a reli- around the scene, where worried wor- escort the march by around gious festival on the Portuguese shippers were gathered waiting anxiously 100 members of the All- Tisland of Madeira. for news and offering help to rescue Polish Youth, a far-right Seven of those hurt were seriously teams. Miguel Albuquerque, president of Catholic nationalist group injured, regional health chief Pedro Ramos the regional government, announced known for its opposition to told a press conference. The injured three days of mourning. abortion and queer rights. include a French citizen, a German and a Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio The marchers, some Hungarian. Costa offered his condolences to families wearing all black, touted red Tragedy struck at noon when the and friends of the victims, while Presi- and white Polish flags and massive tree toppled into a crowd gath- dent Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was due to other green-and-white ones ered near the island’s capital of Funchal arrive at the scene in the coming hours. representing the ONR to mark the Lady of the Mount festival Local football team Maritimo Funchal National Radical Camp, a in honour of Madeira’s patron saint, expressed its “profound sadness at the Polish extreme-right party. Mary. tragedy in Monte”. Chanting “Fascism is ille- Amateur video posted online showed Madeira, a popular tourist destination gal”, “Free Warsaw of the tree smashing down, prompting pan- thanks to its dramatic coastlines and gen- fascists” and “No Pasaran” icked worshippers to flee. tle climate, is the largest of several (“They shall not pass” in Catholics around the world mark Portuguese islands in the north Atlantic Spanish), around 200 oppo- Assumption Day on August 15. Ocean. Located in a volcanic archipelago nents blocked their path, The festival in Madeira draws large off the coast of Morocco, it is prone to many by sitting down in the crowds every year from the island and floods as well as landslides — which in middle of the street. beyond, and worshippers had gathered February 2010 left more than 50 people Police used force to to light candles in a botanical garden dead, with Funchal badly hit. remove them, dragging some across the pavement, after verbal requests for them to move went unheeded. No injuries were imme- diately reported and a police spokesman said no arrests were made. “We took action against people whose behaviour dis- turbed a legal gathering,” Warsaw police spokesman Sylwester Marczak told local media. Poland’s criminal code prohibits the promotion of Rescue workers clear the area while looking for survivors, yesterday. fascist or other totalitarian LEFT: An man injured by the oak tree being helped in Funchal. ideologies. Former aide Search on for missing Swedish woman in two nations labels Brexit Copenhagen Madsen has denied having Sea to the Baltic Sea. Danish statement that “nearly 300 peo- finished the technical investiga- AP anything to do with Wall’s dis- police said they suspect that ple” have contacted Danish tions “as well as an actual search minister appearance. He told police that Madsen deliberately sank the investigators. Many of them had of the submarine,” the police olice from Sweden assisted she disembarked from the sub- vessel, though he initially blamed photographs and videos of the statement said yesterday. as workshy their Danish counterparts marine several hours into their technical problems. Nautilus as it sailed into the Ore- “With regard to the contin- Pyesterday with pursuing Thursday night trip and he Swedish police spokesman sund strait, according to the ued investigation, we are leads in the search for a missing doesn’t know what happened to Mattias Sigfridsson said yester- statement. currently unable to provide London Swedish woman who was on an her after that. day that authorities in Sweden Sigfridsson said the main information about what was dis- AFP amateur-built submarine the Danish authorities haven’t are providing details about peo- probe is in Denmark, where covered at the examination and night before it sank, while vol- said why they filed the man- ple and places that could be investigators continue search- search,” police said. former top aide to Brit- unteers and authorities combed slaughter charges, whether they useful to investigators in Den- ing for Wall. The Nautilus was Copenhagen police said they ain’s Brexit minister the countries’ waterways for are searching for a body or if mark, but declined to be more hauled up from a depth of 7 also had received information ADavid Davis branded signs of her. they expect to find Wall alive. specific. But he urged the public meters on Saturday, but the that the submarine “was close” his former boss workshy and The submarine’s Danish She was on the submarine for a to “pay attention to what is in the woman’s body was not inside it, to a merchant ship around mid- clueless in an astonishing owner, inventor Peter Madsen, reporting assignment, accord- water.” police said. Submarine experts night between Thursday and tirade on Twitter yesterday was questioned after the UC3 ing to her family. “If you see things that seem from the Danish navy have Friday. Local media have as the government presented Nautilus sank Friday. Police later Madsen was rescued from normal, something resembling assisted police in searching the reported that the submarine was its post-Brexit trade plans. arrested Madsen on preliminary his sinking submarine in the junk, look again, and contact us submarine, which is standing on spotted close to a ship with all “He and the PM (prime manslaughter charges in the dis- Oresund strait, a narrow water- if needed,” Sigfridsson told a land in a cordoned-off, indus- its lights off. It was not clear minister) don’t have the first appearance of 30-year-old way between Denmark and news conference. trial area in northern whether the police were refer- idea what they are doing,” freelance journalist Kim Wall. Sweden that connects the North Copenhagen police said in a Copenhagen. Investigators have ring to that incident. wrote James Chapman, a former political editor at the right-wing Daily Mail tabloid who worked as Davis’s chief Off the rails of staff until June. British rescue worker Chapman has been highly critical of the government’s Brexit plans since leaving his in daring sea rescue post but had not previously attacked his former boss until London when he was caught blindsided Davis mentioned him in Reuters by a wave. Hughes reached the interviews yesterday. man and was attaching him to “He’s been working 3 day British rescue worker the wire when both were week since day one,” Chap- was battered by waves washed into the sea by a sec- man said of Davis, after the Abut still completed a dar- ond wave. They were winched minister said his former aide ing sea rescue after three quickly out of the surf, while had supported Britain stay- people got into difficulty on the two other people were also res- ing in the European Union west coast of England, a video cued from a nearby beach. since starting to work for him released by British coastguard “This video clearly shows in 2016. Contacted by AFP, service yesterday showed. what can happen when people the Brexit ministry declined Footage shot from a heli- are cut off by the tide but also to comment on individual copter showed a man clinging the sterling job Spike the claims made by Chapman but to a rock in the sea near Bude, winchman did in the harsh con- noted Davis’ public comments 321.87km southwest of Lon- ditions and rapidly changing on the issue. “James when he don, after he became cut off by situation to successfully rescue came to me was, I mean he a rising tide on Saturday the casualties,” said Captain was a Remainer, we knew evening. Graham Finn. that. But he did a good job, he Mark Hughes, a winchman Two of those rescued were was a good chief of staff,” Workers look at a train that was partially derailed at Waterloo station, in central London, for the coastguard who is taken to a nearby hospital and Davis told LBC radio yesterday. known as “Spike”, was lowered were treated for mild yesterday. from the helicopter to save him hypothermia. 14 AMERICAS WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 US slams foes and allies alike on religious freedom

Washington world as a “moral imperative” Annual report foe Iran, noting that the Islamic of religious freedom for all of its seeking to ban Jehovah’s Wit- AFP and a universal human right. republic has used “vague apos- citizens,” he said. Saudi Arabia nesses and framing innocent “Religious persecution and The report does not tasy laws” to execute 20 bans non-Muslims from practic- Muslims on terror charges. he United States issued intolerance remains far too prev- look into policy in the members of religious minorities ing religion in public and Russia is not one of the ten its annual religious alent,” he said. “Almost 80 United States, where over the past year. discriminates against Shiites. countries currently of “particular freedom report yester- percent of the global population Trump won office on But he also complained Pakistan, which does not concern” and US officials said Till- day, slamming allies live with restrictions on or hos- a pledge to ban all about the behavior of some US even recognise the Ahmadi erson is not due to review these and foes alike for their tilities to limit their freedom of friends, such as Nato ally Tur- community as Muslim and designations until another 90 days Muslim immigration Tshortcomings at a time when its religion. key, where he said non-Sunni imposes death sentences for after yesterday’s report was made and is now battling own record has come under fire. “Where religious freedom is Muslims such as the Alevi are not blasphemy and apostasy, was public. The 2016 report itself — Launching the first report not protected, we know that US courts for the protected by the state from “dis- also cited, as was China’s per- while required under the 1998 since President Donald Trump instability, human rights abuses, right to ban arrivals crimination and violence.” secution of Falun Gong International Religious Freedom took office, Secretary of State Rex and violent extremism have a from eight And he demanded Turkey members and Tibetan Bud- Act — does not bind the US admin- Tillerson took swipes at Bahrain, greater opportunity to take root,” mainly-Muslim states. release a US citizen, evangelical dhists. But Russia, while it has a istration to act. China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Ara- he warned, in a brief speech at pastor Andrew Brunson, who has critical chapter in the report But Ambassador Michael America’s allies in the bia, Sudan and Turkey. the State Department. been “wrongfully imprisoned” itself, did not come up by name Kozak of the Bureau of Democ- The report does not look into The 2016 report itself, which Gulf, Saudi Arabia and since last year on charges he in Tillerson’s speech. racy, Human Rights, and Labor policy in the United States, where US diplomats have been man- Bahrain, were also in belongs to the banned movement The US Commission on told reporters that its data would Trump won office on a pledge to dated by Congress to prepare, is the firing line. of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen. International Freedom — an inform policymakers as they make ban all Muslim immigration and not much changed from that of America’s allies in the Gulf, independent federal government decisions on diplomatic outreach is now battling US courts for the the year before; a dry but Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, were body that advises the State and refugee admissions. right to ban arrivals from eight detailed breakdown of the state year’s denunciation of the also in the firing line, despite Department — has urged that Countries listed separately mainly-Muslim states. of play across the world. Islamic State group’s “genocide” Trump’s recent triumphant visit Russia be designated a “country as being “of particular concern” But Tillerson—who gave a But Tillerson used his against the Yazidi, Christian and to Riyadh to salute their support of particular concern.” in terms of religious freedoms brief address to launch the remarks and a preface to the Shiite minorities in areas it holds in the battle against Iran and vio- In April, the panel said Rus- can face sanctions, but Tiller- report—insisted the administra- report to draw attention to some or until recently held in Iraq and lent extremism. sia has “effectively criminalised son can also issue a waiver if tion will continue to promote particular offenders. Syria. He again took the oppor- “We urge Saudi Arabia to all private religious speech not he thinks it is in US interests to religious freedom around the As expected, he repeated last tunity to criticize perennial US embrace greater degrees sanctioned by the state” while give them a pass.

Taylor Swift wins Venezuela crisis Trump loses groping lawsuit CEO support New York AFP Denver handed her daughter tissues. AFP “I don’t know what kind of he honeymoon is defi- person grabs or gropes a music nitely over. In June, op superstar Taylor Swift superstar, but it’s not that guy,” Toptimism among Amer- was celebrating on Mon- McFarland told the court. He ican CEOs was at a three-year Pday after winning a sexual repeatedly said the singer was high on hopes that US Presi- assault lawsuit against a former wrong in her assertion that Muel- dent Donald Trump would radio DJ she accused of grop- ler had fondled her buttocks succeed in implementing his ing her. A jury in Denver federal during a meet-and-greet before pro-growth agenda, includ- court deliberated for four hours Swift’s gig at the Pepsi Center. ing tax cuts. before allowing her complaint Swift’s aides complained to the But this week, Trump has that David Mueller had fondled DJ’s radio station of the incident lost support from four exec- her buttocks during a photo and he lost his job. utives who left an advisory opportunity in 2013. Mueller launched a $3m panel on manufacturing over Swift was awarded the lawsuit against Swift in 2015 for his response to a violent white nominal $1 in damages she had loss of earnings, arguing it was supremacist rally in Virginia asked for, capping an emotional her allegations that had got him Opposition deputies during a session of the Venezuelan National Assembly in Caracas — a sign that big business is day for the “Bad Blood” singer, sacked, while the popstar coun- yesterday. US Vice-President Mike Pence heard more complaints from Latin American disenchanted with the billion- who had broken down in tears ter-sued for sexual assault. allies about President Donald Trump’s warning of a possible US military option to deal aire leader. during the closing arguments. US District Judge William with the crisis in Venezuela. Scott Paul, the president of The 27-year-old diva issued Martinez scaled back the case the Alliance for American Man- a statement thanking the court on Friday, ruling that there was ufacturing, yesterday added his and acknowledging her legal no evidence for Mueller to be name to a list of defectors that team for “fighting for me and entitled to damages from Swift also includes the heads of anyone who feels silenced by a personally. The six woman, Merck Pharmaceutical, Under sexual assault”. “I acknowledge two-man jury ruled on Monday Colombia declares FARC war Armour and Intel. the privilege that I benefit from that Swift’s mother and radio “It’s the right thing to do,” in life, in society and in my abil- consultant Frank Bell weren’t Paul said on Twitter. Trump, ity to shoulder the enormous liable for damages either. over as last guns roll away never one to shy away from cost of defending myself in a Doug Baldridge, Swift’s controversy, fired back. “For trial like this,” she said. attorney, had told the jury in his every CEO that drops out of “My hope is to help those closing arguments that the sole Bogota Armed Forces of Colombia September 1, a major step in the Manufacturing Council, I whose voices should also be issue to be determined was AFP (FARC). “With the laying down reintegrating into civilian life as have many to take their heard. Therefore, I will be mak- whether someone like Mueller of arms ... the conflict is truly part of a historic peace deal place,” he tweeted. ing donations in the near future should be allowed to humiliate olombia’s President Juan over and a new phase begins in signed last year. Last year, PepsiCo faced to multiple organisations that or assault a woman. The dol- Manuel Santos declared the the life of our nation,” Santos “Soon we will be holding a a brief boycott after Chief help sexual assault victims lar in damages Swift sought “is Ccountry’s 50-year conflict said at a ceremony in Pondores, founding congress for the new Executive Indra Nooyi pub- defend themselves.” of immeasurable value,” Bald- with FARC guerrillas “truly over” a remote area in the northern political party that will be called licly rued the election result The singer had turned away ridge said, adding: “It says ‘no yesterday, as the last truckloads Guajira department. “This is the Alternative Revolutionary shortly after Trump won last from the public gallery to wipe means no.’ It tells every woman of decommissioned weapons truly a historic moment for the Force of Colombia,” said one of November. She later joined a her eyes earlier in the day as that they will decide what hap- rolled away to be melted down. country,” he said. the FARC’s senior leaders, Ivan White House advisory panel. Mueller’s lawyer Gabriel pens to their bodies.” Santos himself shut a pad- “We have been a republic Marquez. The FARC was born in This week, Nooyi and McFarland questioned whether Baldridge said the jury had lock on the last lot of for 198 years. Never had we had May 1964 from a peasants’ other several prominent his client would have any rea- “knuckled down and did the right decommissioned rifles before it such a long conflict and today is revolt, and its ranks were made executives, including JPMor- son to assault the star. thing”. “Something really big hap- was taken out of a remote indeed the last breath of that up mostly of country-dwellers gan Chase chief Jamie Dimon, The singer’s mother, And- pened here today. It took someone demobilization camp to formally conflict.” The leftist rebel force who rallied behind the group’s condemned the racism in rea Swift, also had tears in her as prominent as Taylor Swift to seal the UN-supervised disar- has said it will officially trans- Marxist-Leninist ideology, with Charlottesville — but signaled eyes during the session as she stand up and say no,” he said. mament by the Revolutionary form into a political party on land reform its key demand. no plans to exit White House advisory panels. Holocaust memorial Pressure builds in US to remove Confederate monuments in Boston vandalised NEW YORK: A memorial to Washington Confederate dead. Debate over Charlottesville and Alexandria as the bloodshed in Charlottes- demand the removal of a bust on the Holocaust in Boston has AFP what to do with these controver- statues are tied up in the courts ville, the mayor of Lexington, display there of Nathan Bedford been vandalised for the sec- sial symbols of the pro-slavery and state legislature, but other Kentucky announced plans to Forrest, a Confederate general and ond time in less than two e stands in the middle of Confederacy has been simmer- Confederate monuments and relocate two Confederate stat- founder of the Ku Klux Klan. months with a 17-year-old the street, his back to the ing for years and is intensifying symbols have been coming down ues. “The Civil War was a dark In a report published in suspect due to appear in Hnation’s capital, his gaze after boiling over into bloodshed as the United States confronts its and tragic time in our nation’s April 2016, the Southern Poverty court, police said. southwards towards the battle- at the weekend. complicated racial legacy. history and yes, we need to Law Center (SPLC) -- a civil The teen allegedly threw fields of the Civil War where his Three people died on Satur- Demonstrators in the North remember it,” Mayor Jim Gray rights advocacy group — found a rock at the New England comrades fell. day in Charlottesville, Virginia, Carolina city of Durham took said. “But we also need to explain that more than 1,500 symbols of Holocaust Memorial, shatter- Erected nearly 130 years ago, following a rally called by white matters into their own hands on it accurately and truthfully. the Confederacy are located on ing a glass panel at around the bronze statue of an unarmed supremacists to protest plans to Monday and pulled down a “Lexington was one of Amer- US public lands, mostly in the 2240 GMT on Monday, before Confederate soldier sits at a busy remove a statue of Confederate statue of a Confederate soldier ica’s largest slave markets,” Gray South. They include more than being detained by two intersection in Alexandria, Vir- general Robert E Lee from a pub- that had been erected outside the said. “It’s just not right that we 700 monuments and statues and bystanders, police said. Shat- ginia, just across the Potomac lic park. A woman was killed and old county courthouse in 1924. would continue to honor these more than 100 public schools tered glass littered the ground River from Washington. 19 other people injured when a In Gainesville, Florida, a Confederate men who fought to named for Confederate military next to the damaged panel. The statue, named man suspected of being a white Confederate statue known as preserve slavery on the same or political figures. The suspect would be charged “Appomattox” for the site of the nationalist drove his car into a “Old Joe” that had been stand- ground where men, women and Defenders of preserving the with willful and malicious rebel surrender in 1865 after a crowd of counter-protesters. ing outside a county building even children were sold into a Confederate symbols argue that destruction of property, police devastating four-year conflict, Two police officers died in a hel- since 1904 was taken down on life of slavery.” they serve as a reminder of a said. Officers from the civil is one of hundreds of similar icopter crash while surveying the Monday and carted away to a In Nashville, Tennessee, doz- proud Southern heritage, and rights unit were investigating monuments across the Ameri- situation. private cemetery. ens of activists staged a protest at that removing them is effectively to determine if additional can South honouring the Efforts to remove the On Saturday, the same day the state capitol on Monday to a way of erasing history. charges are pending. WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017 BREAK TIME 15

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08:00 News 10:55 Treasure Quest: 10:05 Mutant Planet 13:05 Star Darlings 08:30 The Listening Post Snake Island 11:00 Gator Boys 14:00 Jessie 09:00 Marco Polo: A Very 11:40 Legend Of Croc 11:55 Project Grizzly 15:15 Whisker Haven Modern Journey Gold 12:50 Guardians Of Tales With The 10:00 News 12:25 How Do They Do Rescue Palace Pets 10:30 Inside Story It? 13:45 Preposterous 16:10 Liv And Maddie 11:00 News 12:47 Storage Hunters Pets 17:05 Stuck In The 11:30 The Stream 13:10 Gold Rush 14:40 Mutant Planet Middle 12:30 Artscape - Poets of 13:55 Running Wild With 15:35 Untamed & Uncut 17:30 Bunk'd Protest Bear Grylls 16:30 Treehouse 18:50 Best Friends 13:00 NEWSHOUR 14:40 Deadliest Catch Masters Whenever 14:00 News 15:25 Fast N' Loud 17:25 The Bronx Zoo 19:15 Sunny Bunnies 14:30 Inside Story 16:10 Wheeler Dealers 18:20 Insane Pools: Off 19:20 Liv And Maddie 15:00 Al Jazeera World 17:00 How Do They Do The Deep End 19:45 Mako Mermaids 16:00 NEWSHOUR It? 19:15 Preposterous 20:10 Jessie 17:00 News 17:50 Storage Hunters Pets 20:35 Cracke 17:30 The Stream 18:50 Running Wild With 20:10 Gator Boys 20:40 Alex & Co. Yesterday's answer 18:00 Newsgrid Bear Grylls 21:05 The Bronx Zoo 21:05 Austin & Ally 19:00 News 21:00 Blowing Up History 22:00 Insane Pools: Off 21:30 Stuck In The Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is a number- 19:30 Witness 21:50 Strip The City The Deep End Middle placing puzzle based on a 9×9 grid. The object is to 20:00 News 23:05 Made By 22:55 Mutant Planet 21:55 Tsum Tsum place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so 20:30 Inside Story Destruction 23:50 Untamed & Uncut Shorts that each row, each column and each 3×3 box 21:00 NEWSHOUR 23:30 Fast N' Loud 00:45 Treehouse 22:00 Bunk'd contains the same number only once. 22:00 News 01:05 Blowing Up History Masters 22:25 Miraculous Tales 22:30 The Stream 01:50 Strip The City 01:40 Preposterous Of Ladybug And 23:00 CROSSWORD Witness Pets Cat Noir HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

NOVO — Pearl SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 10:00, 11:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 4:10, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Wind River (2D/Crime) 10:00am, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 11:15 & 11:30pm The Emoji Movie(Animation) 3D 10:00am & 5:20pm 2D 11:50am & 3:30pm Arabic 1:40pm The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 7:10, 9:00 & 11:00pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 10:00am, 3:30 & 9:00pm Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 1:00, 6:30pm & 12:00midnight Boyka: Undisputed (2D/Action) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm First Kill (2D/Action) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight Baby Driver (2D/Action) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pm Jawab Leteqal (2D/Arabic) 12:15, 4:45 & 9:15pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Dunkirk (2D IMAX/Action) 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm

MALL VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 2:00 & 11:30pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:00 & 5:30pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 7:15 & 11:00pm Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2D/Telugu) 2:00pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 4:15 & 10:00pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 4:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 7:15 & 11:15pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 5:45 & 9:45pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 7:30pm Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 9:00pm

LANDMARK Podhuvaga Emmanasu Thangam (2D/Tamil) 2:15pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 2:15pm Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 2:30pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:15, 5:45 & 7:15pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 4:30 & 11:00pm Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2D/Telugu) 5:00pm VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 7:15 & 11:30pm Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 7:45 & 9:45pm Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 9:15pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 9:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 11:30pm

ROYAL PLAZA Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 2:00pm The Emoji Movie (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:30 & 6:00pm VelaIilla Pattadhari 2 – VIP 2 (2D/Tamil) 3:30pm Wind River (2D/Crime) 2:30 & 11:30pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 4:00pm 47 Meters Down (2D/Drama) 6:00 & 10:00pm Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2D/Hindi) 6:45 & 11:15pm Yesterday’s answer Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 7:30 & 9:30pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 7:45pm Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 9:15pm ALL IN THE MIND Podhuvaga Emmanasu Thangam (2D/Tamil) 11:30pm ASIAN TOWN Chunkzz (2D/Malayalam) 5:15, 7:45, 8:15 & 10:15pm ARCHERY, ATHLETICS, Podhuvaga (2D/Tamil) 5:45 & 10:30pm BADMINTON, BASEBALL, VIP-2 (2D/Tamil) 6:00, 8:45, 9:00 & 11:30pm BASKETBALL, BOXING, Toliet Ek Prem Katha 12:30, 6:00pm & 12:00midnight CRICKET, CURLING, CYCLING, DIVING, FENCING, AL KHOR FOOTBALL, GOLF, Velailla Pattadi (Tamil) 10:45am, 3:45, 8:45 & 11:30pm Podhuvaga 1:45 & 11:45pm GYMNASTICS, HANDBALL, 47 Meters Down (Drama) 11:45am & 7:00pm Jaya Janaki Nay (Telugu) 3:00pm HOCKEY, HORSE RACING, The Emoji Movie (Animation) 11:00am & 01:00am Kidnap (Thriller)1:30 & 6:30pm JUDO, LACROSSE, MOTOR Toilet Ek Prem Katha 5:45 & 11:30pm Chunkzz 4:30 & 9:00pm Nene Raju 8:45pm RACING, NETBALL, POLO, ROUNDERS, ROXY ROWING, RUGBY, SAILING, The Emoji Movie (Animation) 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00. 6:00 & 8:00pm SKATING, SKIING, Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Hindi) 12:00noon, 3:00, 8:50 & 11:50pm SOCCER, SQUASH, Kidnap (2D/Thriller) 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00pm SWIMMING, TENNIS, VIP 2 9:00 & 11:45pm 47 Meters Down (Drama) 10:00pm & 12:00midnight VOLLEYBALL, WRESTLING. Lie 12:00noon & 6:00pm Nene Raju (Telugu) 12:00noon, 3:00 & 6:00pm 16 HOME WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017

PRAYER TIMINGS Bangladesh observes ‘National Mourning Day’ FAJR 03.46 am SHOROOK 05.08 am The Peninsula the meeting the messages from Pres- ident, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister ZUHR 11.38 am MAGHRIB 06.11 pm he Embassy of Bangladesh and State Minister for Foreign Affairs ASR 03.07 pm ISHA 07.41 pm in Qatar observed yesterday, of Bangladesh on the National Mourn- “National Mourning Day” – ing Day were read out. the 42nd death anniversary In his speech Ambassador Ashud WEATHER TODAY of the Father of the Nation Ahmed recalled the heroic leadership TBangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, role played by Bangabandhu in the o o with due solemnity. emergence of Bangladesh as an inde- In this connection, the embassy pendent country. He mentioned that 34 C 41 C chalked out a day long programme. In the August 15 is the darkest chapter in Minimum Maximum the morning, the programme started the history of Bangladesh. He also said with hoisting of the National Flag at as a nation we must learn a lesson here half-mast by the Ambassador, Ashud – our mourning should be turned into Ahmed, at the embassy premises in our strength and we should work hard presence of the Embassy officials and to fulfil the dream of the Father of the a good number of expatriate Bangla- Nation. He thanked the expatriate deshi nationals. After hoisting the Bangladeshis in Qatar for their hard national flag, Ashud Ahmed alongwith labour and contribution to the nation Embassy officials placed floral wreaths building towards fulfilling the dream in front of the protrait of of Bangabandhu and for demonstra- Bangabandhu. tion of unity, fraternity, liberal and The discussion meeting on the life moderate attitude. At the end of day’s and works of the Father of the Nation programme, a Doa and Milad Mahfil The Ambassador of Bangladesh, Ashud Ahmed, along with officials was arranged which started with rec- was offered seeking the eternal peace placing floral wreaths in front of the portrait of the Father of the Nation itation from The Holy Quran. All stood of Bangabandhu, martyrs of August 15 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, yesterday, at the embassy in solemn silence there for one minute and also for the continued peace and premise, yesterday. as mark of profound respect to the prosperity of Bangladesh. The reading memories of the Father of the Nation of the Holy Qur’an for Khatme Qur’an formed on the occasion of the Day. works of Bangabandhu was also and the martyrs of August 15, 1975. In by a group of maulanas was also per- A documentary on the life and screened during the event. Kids Come Along Colourful events mark upsets Beton in Strong wind at times during thun- PIBAQ contest PAQ’s I-Day celebrations dery rain formation. Hazy to misty at first becomes hot daytime with scattered clouds and chance of rain The Peninsula The Peninsula maybe thundery rain at places at times and humid by night. he elimination round of akistan Association HIGH TIDE 12:45 – 22:45 LOW TIDE 05:00 – 18:45 the Premiere Division Qatar’s (PAQ) Youth Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Tended in a rollercoaster PWing organised a col- game between the two unde- ourful celebration to mark feated teams. Kids Come Along Pakistan’s Independence started the game on fire as they Day at Doha Downtown erected a 10 point lead to end Hotel, yesterday. the first quarter, but the offen- Areeba, President of sive prowess of Nio Gelig and series is now set for the Pre- PAQ Youth Wing and Rodel Mallari answered back miere Division wherein top Laraib Rafaqat, Secretory, to put Beton on top at the half seed, Kids Come Along will play coordinated the event well by 11. With the momentum on 4th seed, Lucky Seven while and they said it was an Beton’s side, Kids Come Along 2nd place Beton will face 3 Stars effort to convey the Inde- relied on their defence to get and A Sun. In other games, pendence Day’s message to back in the game then launched Doha Dessert eliminated War- youth. The members of PAQ during the celebrations. an offensive assault led by the rior Cats 78-54 in Rising Commodore Irfan Taj, trio of Jeff Cristobal, Edwin Per- DIvision A, while Kids Come the Defence Attaché’s of emne and Jeffrey Defensor. Along (Rising) beat P4P 79-68 Islamic Republic of Paki- The theme of the pro- National Anthem of Paki- With Kids Come Along advancing to the bracket finals stan, was the chief guest. gramme was “The even for stan was played and sung leading by 10 and just 2 min- in Rising Division B. In the Chairperson of Pakistan kids, from the kids”. The by all the participants. utes remaining in the game, Inter-company Division, Aktor Woman Association Qatar event was cosponsored by Students have pre- Jonathan Domangcas and Mal- edged Ministry in a hotly con- & CEO of Mercedez Benz Doha’s significant youth sented their speeches on lari unloaded a couple of treys tested match with the final Fashion Week Doha, Rahat development organization different subjects covering but the steady hands on the score 67-63 to advance to the Mansoor, and Chaudhary WWICS, there representa- the importance of inde- stripe of Francis Mercado made Division Finals. The Ambassod- Ajmal, community liaison tive were there to guide the pendence and how to uplift sure that every foul committed or’s Cup 2017 is brought to you officer of all significant students for their further the nation. Laraib Rafaqat, by Beton would be converted by Qatar Basketball Federation Pakistani community educations projects. Fatima Farhan Khursheed, to two made free throws. Gelig in cooperation with the Philip- organisation, was the guest The programme started Abdoohu Usama and Abdul- led all scorers with 25 followed pine Embassy in Qatar and the of honours of the event. with recitation of The Holy lah Farooq were the by Mallari with 17 for Beton, Samahang Basketbolng Pilipi- Chairman of Pakistan Quran by Muhammad students who delivered while Defensor phased KCA nas (SBP) ; sponsored by Alicafé, Association Qatar, Syed Faizan Syed and praising speeches. Pakistan Associ- with 22 supported by Peremne Happy Journey Travels, McDon- Faheem ud din, spoke about of The Holy Prophet in ation Qatar’s patron with 18 and 17 by Mercado, the ald’s, Philippine Airlines, the organisation and the poetic form (Naat) was pre- Tajamul Cheema paid vote final score KCA 80 – 75 Beton. Season Restaurant and Trave- back ground of forming sented by Muhammad of thanks to participants The best of 3 semi-final lex Exchange. Youth Wing. Ahmed and Wardah haseeb. and community members. Texas A&M at Qatar students sharpen skills through PREP

The Peninsula Leaders initiative, a partnership between Texas A&M at Qatar and tudents set to begin their engi- longtime collaborator, Maersk Oil neering studies at Texas A&M Qatar, that aims to help young Qataris SUniversity at Qatar posted signif- to choose and succeed in educational icant improvements in their pathways in science, technology, engi- mathematics knowledge and skills neering and mathematics (STEM), through Pathways for Retention in which are critical to the success of the Engineering Programs (PREP), accord- Qatar National Vision 2030. ing to examination scores at the PREP aims to provide students a conclusion of the programme. solid foundation in mathematics, Overall, the students improved which is essential in sciences and their exam scores by an average of engineering, to support the academic more than 20 percent from the begin- success of incoming engineering ning to the end of the program, students. reflecting the success of the initiative. The programme comprised The PREP course, which ran the three intense instruction in mathematical weeks from July 23 through August 10, topics such as functions, trigonome- was taught by Dr Sandra Nite from try and linear systems. Faisal Al Baker, Texas A&M’s main campus in College an incoming Texas A&M at Qatar engi- Station, Texas, USA. neering student, said the programme Nite commended the students for significantly strengthened his math- their remarkable progress. ematics skill ahead of his enrolment “I have enjoyed working with this in university studies. A student receives certificate after PREP training. talented group of students,” Nite said. “The PREP programme has helped “They have worked diligently to me a great deal because most of the deepen their understanding of con- things I’ve studied here I haven’t seen visualize the problems to better solve grams at Texas A&M at Qatar. cepts needed for success in before at school, and they were intro- them.” “Our goal is to inspire the next engineering calculus. I have high con- duced to us in new and creative ways,” Academic enrichment initiatives generation of engineering leaders in fidence that these students are more he said. “The teachers here care about such as PREP are part of a broad strat- Qatar,” he said. “Texas A&M at Qatar prepared for their engineering careers whether or not the information was egy to support Qatar’s is proud to support and encourage as a result of their effort this summer.” understood, and the equipment and knowledge-based economy, said Dr. these ambitious students on their path PREP is part of the Dhia: Engineering the tools we used in class helped us Brady Creel, director of outreach pro- to becoming engineers.”