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Sheikha Hind honours Qatar University team Emir concludes Strict vigilance Africa tour QNA

EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin keeps sea Hamad Al Thani yesterday concluded his state visit to the Republic of South Africa, the last leg of Africa tour. The Emir sent a cable to borders safe President of South Africa Jacob Zuma in which he expressed thanks and appre- Sidi Mohamed ciation for the warm welcome The Peninsula The Coast Guard and appreciation he and the accompanying delegation have muggling attempts has foiled several received during the visit which through the sea bor- attempts by discussed means of enhancing ders have dropped smugglers with the relations of friendship and drastically with intro- support vessels and cooperation in various fields duction of an along with a number of issues Sadvanced surveillance system radars developed in of common concern. that is locally developed, a sen- Qatar. H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani with the Qatar University Team for boys who won The Emir expressed his ior official said yesterday. the first place at fourth International Universities Arabic Debating Championship 2017 in deep appreciation and best The Coast Guard has foiled Doha, yesterday. → See also page 8 wishes of health and happi- several attempts by smugglers theme “Our aim is safety and ness for President Zuma. with the support vessels and security” are organized by the radars developed in Qatar, said General Directorate of Coasts Emir's condolences Brigadier Jaber Ali Al Attiyah, and Borders Security. Assistant Director General of "We have also taken many Neighbourhood stores can conveyed the Coast Guard and Border steps to preserve the marine Security Directorate. environment by catching viola- JEDDAH: H E Sheikh Thani “Our borders are fully tions and report them to the renew licence for 3 years bin Hamad Al Thani conveyed secured. Smugglers are looking authorities concerned like Min- the condolences of the Emir for loopholes and they are istry of Municipality and H H Sheikh Tamim bin monitoring the department’s Environment," said the official. The Peninsula draft law, licences for neighbour- took the necessary measures to Hamad Al Thani and the Dep- readiness to respond. That is An exhibition being held on hood shops located in residential issue a draft law on regulating the uty Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah why we are keen to own the lat- the sideline of the event show- undreds of neighbhour- areas can be renewed for a period connection of electricity and bin Hamad Al Thani, to Prince est equipment and devices to cases the latest naval security hood stores in Qatar will of three years from July 6, 2017. water, after it was briefed on the Khalid Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz protect our borders,” Al Attiyah devices and equipment, includ- Hnow be able to renew their Yesterday’s weekly cabinet recommendations of the Advisory Al Saud, Advisor to the Cus- told the media during the open- ing some vessels made by licences for a period of three meeting has given a new lease of Council. A draft law was prepared todian of the Two Holy ing of the GCC Coast Guard Qatar, in addition to radars that years. The Cabinet yesterday life for these shops. Prime Minis- to replace law No. 4 of 1997 on Mosques, and Governor of Week yesterday. were developed by Qatar. approved a draft decision by the ter and Interior Minister H E the procedures and fees for the Makkah Region and to the The event being held at Al "We have also new boats Minister of Economy and Com- Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin electricity and water connection, Princes, members of the Bandar at Doha Corniche aims never used before and recently merce that amends some Khalifa Al Thani chaired the and law No. 29 of 2008 on the Royal Family in the Kingdom to raise public awareness about reached from Turkey," he provisions of decree No. 70 of weekly Cabinet meeting at Emiri works of electricity and water of Saudi Arabia, on the death marine safety procedures. The added. 2006 on shops located in residen- Diwan, yesterday. connection. of Prince Saad bin Faisal bin four-day activities under the → Continued on page 8 tial areas. Under the amended The Cabinet yesterday also → Continued on page 4 Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Consumers prefer local poultry products 20% rise in bus passengers Huda N V “We had noticed customers favourable,” he said. The Peninsula refraining from buying chicken, Another retailer said that there The Peninsula of new city services and routes and new with much hype over the social could be shortage of frozen chicken feeder routes into the Doha Metro, the ore consumers in Qatar are media on the issue. However, the parts due to import restrictions. he number of passengers using public design of 18 new bus stations, depots, park switching to local or sales are going back to normal,” said “Importers and retailers have buses in Qatar increased by 20 percent and ride sites, and development of an Inter- Mregional poultry products an official at one of the oldest retail good stock of frozen whole chicken. Tlast year, the Ministry of Transport and net portal and mobile applications for following controversies over chains in the country. However, when it comes to frozen Communications said yesterday attributing journey planning. chicken imported from Brazil and “We also noticed a recent chicken sold as parts, most of us do this increase to efforts by the Ministry to The changes made by the Ministry, in the non-availability of several Euro- change in the pattern of poultry not stock such products in bulk. So improve public transport in the country. The close coordination with Mowasalat pean brands due to avian flu issues, sales, with local and regional the impact could be felt more in this Ministry said that it has commissioned a (Karwa), include route realignments, more say retailers. products moving faster over the area,” the retailer said. number of new planning and design stud- frequent services on some routes, enhanced Sales of chicken had dropped past few weeks. Already, these “There could be some drop in ies to improve public transport in Qatar bus facilities and improvements in public marginally following the contro- products were in demand, but the frozen chicken sales, but this change over the next five years. transport information and ticketing, the versy over some brands of Brazilian current issues in different coun- is mostly seasonal,” one of the These include the development of a Technical Affairs Department at the Min- chicken but business is going back tries in Europe and America has retailers told The Peninsula. new bus network plan to introduce a range istry said in a statement. to normal. made regional products more → Continued on page 4

Russia vetoes UN draft resolution Another honour for HIA on Syria The Peninsula Board on Tuesay, during the programmes and engaging air- 12th ACI Asia-Pacific Regional port stakeholders to measure United Nations Hamad International Assembly in Doha. HIA’s and manage third-party emis- AFP Airport (HIA) yesterday achievement comes only 18 sions associated with the H announced it has months after first initiating its airport. Central to this commit- UNITED NATIONS: Russia become the first airport in the carbon management pro- ment is HIA’s target to improve vetoed a UN draft resolution GCC and the second in the gramme in 2015. The airport carbon efficiency per passen- demanding the Syrian gov- Middle East and Northern has also recorded a 14.2 per- ger by 30 per cent by 2030 ernment cooperate with an Africa (Mena)region to have cent improvement in carbon against a 2015 baseline.” investigation of a suspected reached Level 3 ‘Optimisation’ efficiencyin 2016 compared to HIA has developed a Car- chemical attack that the status in the Airports Council 2015. bon Management Strategy that West blames on President International (ACI) Airport Al Meer said: “This accred- provides the framework for Bashar Al Assad's forces. Carbon Accreditation itation acknowledges HIA’s energy reduction initiatives It was the eighth time that programme. commitment to tackling cli- throughout the airport. An Russia has used its veto power The certification was mate change, and was Energy Working Group has at the UN Security Council to Eng. Badr Mohammed Al Meer, Chief Operating Officer of HIA and awarded to Eng. Badr Moham- achieved by continuing to been created to identify and block action directed at its ally Special Adviser to the ACI Asia-Pacific Board, and other officials with med Al Meer, Chief Operating measure the airport’s carbon promote energy saving initia- in Damascus. the certificate during the 12th ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly Officer of HIA and Special emissions, implementing air- tives across the whole → See also page 9 in Doha. Advisor to the ACI Asia-Pacific port-wide energy reduction airport. 02 HOME THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 HOME 03 Emir and Zuma hold talks to increase cooperation

Pretoria Warm hospitality Palestinian-Israeli conflict and QNA stressed the urgent need to Emir thanks Zuma for revive the Arab peace initia- mir H H Sheikh Tamim the warm reception tive and the importance of bin Hamad Al Thani and hospitality, reaching a just solution based and President Jacob expressing hope the on the two-state solution, in Zuma of South Africa visit would be a step accordance with the related held an official session forward in relations. United Nations resolutions, Eof talks at the Presidential Pal- international legitimacy and ace in the capital city of the agreements signed Pretoria. Both leaders discuss between the Palestinian and At the beginning of the ses- the strategic issues Israeli sides. Katara General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti (centre) along with ambassadors and sion, the President of South related to regional On Libya, the two sides Africa welcomed the Emir and and global security. stressed the necessity of pre- representatives of the embassies of 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries participating the accompanying delegation serving the unity, integrity and in the 'Roots' festival next week. and thanked him for replying to sovereignty of Libya, by estab- the invitation to visit the Repub- lishing security and stability lic of South Africa, expressing achieve common interests in and supporting it in the fight 12 LatAm & Caribbean countries to his aspiration to strengthen the various domains including agri- against terrorism, and stressed bilateral relations between the culture, energy, industry, the importance of the African two countries. tourism, economy and trade. Union role in contributing to showcase cultures at 'Roots' festival For his part, the Emir The two sides agreed to raise this. thanked the South African Pres- the level of trade exchange The two sides also affirmed ident for the warm reception between the two countries to the continuation of joint efforts The Peninsula Panameno Suazrez, Mexico’s appreciation of the different art and hospitality, expressing hope more than $1bn by 2020. with the international commu- Ambassador Francisco Javier forms related to Latin America that the visit would be a step for- On the political arena, the nity regarding the promotion of welve Latin American and Niembro Cibrian, Panama’s and the Caribbean.” The Latin ward in the cooperation two sides discussed the stra- security, peace and stability in Caribbean countries will Charge D' Affaires Dr. Oreste Del American and the Caribbean between the two countries. tegic issues related to regional the region and the world. Tshowcase their cultures in Rio Sandoval, Paraguay’s ambassadors expressed their During the meeting , the two and global security and the The session was attended by the ‘Roots’ festival to be held at Ambassador Angel Barchini, appreciation and gratitude to sides discussed bilateral rela- developments of regional and the members of the official del- the Cultural Village Foundation- Peru’s Deputy Chief of Mission Katara for its efforts to host such tions and means of developing international political events, egation accompanying HH the Katara from April 18 to 22. Ruben Espinoza Raymondi, Uru- an event aimed at bringing the them in fields of cooperation to especially those related to the Emir and a number of South The festival will feature a guay’s Ambassador Jorge rich culture and tradition of wider horizons in order to Middle East. They reviewed the Africa's ministers host of music and dance per- Antonio Seré Sturzenegger, and Latin America closer to Qatar. formances and exhibitions. Venezuela’s Charge D' Affaires The exhibition will be staged in This was announced at a Fatima Majzoub El-Majzoub. building 19, and will run until the press conference yesterday at Welcoming the participants, April 29, from 10am until 10pm. Katara which was attended by Al-Sulaiti, said, “This initiative Music and dance perform- PPC brings out 34th edition of Sukan Katara General Manager Dr. comes in line with Katara’s efforts ances by Ecuadorian artists will Khalid bin Ibrahim Al-Sulaiti to open windows to diverse cul- be the key attraction at the open- The Peninsula for a better life of the people liv- honouring senior employees, and representatives of various tures, shedding light on the rich ing of the festival. The second day ing in Qatar, said a release. the second session was held on missions of the participating traditions and history of countries of the festival will see perform- he Permanent Population The new edition has a brief the general features the afore- countries including Ecuador’s from across the world.” ances by musicians and dancers Committee (PPC) has report about the activities on mentioned. The third session Ambassador Kabalan Abi Saab, He added, “We are confident from Venezuela at 7.30pm to be Tissued its 34th edition Qatar’s Population Day-2016 was a panel discussion on fol- Brazil’s Deputy Head of Mission that this lively and colorful fes- followed by the Argentinean per- (December 2016) of its period- held in Doha on October 31 at lowing up the implementation Joao Belloc, Costa Rica’s Ambas- tival will contribute in achieving formance at 8.15pm. ical report “Sukan” in Arabic and the Four Season under the slo- of the agenda of population sador Luis Alberto Guillen the desired goals and will The rich schedule of perform- English. gan “General Features for the polices. Downing, Argentina’s Ambas- enhance the channels of com- ances include Mexico (April 20), It is the fourth edition in this Agenda of Population Policies The second subject was sador Rossana Surballe, Cuba’s munication between people Paraguay (April 21)and Peru and year. The report includes a slew for Qatar 2017-22). about tackling the issues of Ambassador Eumelio Caballero from all walks of life, while Cuba (April 22). All the perform- of issues aimed at creating After the inauguration ses- youth and the horizon of Rodriguez, El Salvador’s Charge developing in each person a ances will be staged at Katara awareness about the population sion of the event and development. D' Affaires Giannina Maria deeper understanding and Drama Theatre starting 7. 04 HOME THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 Young artists must find their 'own language'

Raynald C Rivera hard situations cleaning public The Peninsula Art as a journey toilets.” For me art is a He talked about his life in the enowned Chinese journey which puts labour camps, education in New contemporary artist you in a totally York, his arrest and 81-day Ai Weiwei advised unknown condition detention in 2011, and the trans- young artists to find and that’s why I love formation of his artistic their language to production, among others. art: Ai Weiwei Rmake their voices heard, as he With a long and established spoke about his ‘dangerous’ jour- career as a contemporary artist, ney as an artist and political Arab artists urged to Ai resides and works in Berlin activist during his first public talk create art different and Beijing. He studied anima- in Doha which saw a packed from the global tion at the Beijing Film Academy, Museum of Islamic Art audito- mainstream by then studied art in New York in rium on Tuesday night. exploring their roots. the early 80s. Upon returning to “A lot of young people often China a decade later, Ai advo- Ai Weiwei taking a selfie with fans and Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman, diplomat and art collector, ask for my advice. My case is not cated for experimental artists by recommendable because it was start some kind of publishing underground books at the Museum of Islamic Art. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula really an extreme condition and conversation.” and curating avant-garde I’m very lucky to become like The son of the poet Ai Qing exhibitions. art different from the global in a contemporary language East-West / West-East by Rich- this. For me art is a journey denounced by China’s Commu- He has worked in many mainstream by exploring their which could be debated thus ard Serra, near Zekreet. which puts you in a totally nist Party, he and his family media, including sculpture, own roots. have relevance for today,” he He will also meet with aspir- unknown condition and that’s were sent to labour camps installation, photography, archi- “My suggestion is to create said. ing artists including residents at why I love art although it’s a dan- where they stayed for 18 years tecture and film. an art different from the global Ai will also visit Mathaf: Arab the Fire Station: Artist in Resi- gerous profession,” said Ai. from 1958. Moderated by art expert and mainstream even though you Museum of Modern Art and QM dence Programme giving He said as an individual, an Asked on his favourite verse curator Tom Eccles, the public may want or eventually become Gallery Katara and meet with local-based artists opportunity artist must find a way “to express written by his father, he talk also featured Swiss busi- part of it. You have to begin with senior Qatar Museums repre- to discuss the creative process yourself, to find a language to said,”I’ve known him by his life nessman, diplomat and art your own roots because it’s sentatives as well as explore the and explore different techniques communicate to have your voice than what he writes, surviving collector, Uli Sigg who advised where the difference can come country’s notable public art with a hugely experienced and heard very clearly and even to all seasons even during very Arab artists to create from. Of course you must bring projects, including the sculpture established artistic figure.

Noon prayer Cabinet nod for RAF implements relief project for several MoUs

→ Continued from page 1 6,000 drought victims in Ethiopia As per the provisions of draft law, Qatar General Elec- tricity and Water Corporation The Peninsula will establish electricity and water connections, make any heikh Thani Bin Abdullah changes in the connection Foundation for Humanitar- and even disconnection of the Sian Services (RAF) has services from the public net- implemented a relief project for work. Only those licensed by 6,000 drought-affected people the Corporation can carry out in Ethiopia, including the distri- any of these tasks. bution of supply baskets in Meanwhile, the Cabinet several remote villages as part approved a draft decision of of the Horn of Africa relief the Minister of Municipality campaign. and Environment regarding The project was imple- the banned plants in Qatar. mented in cooperation with the Under the draft decision, Erchad Association for Cooper- plants listed in the table ation and Development, the RAF annexed to the decision are partner in Ethiopia, which con- prohibited in Qatar. ducted a field study in most The Cabinet also approved needy areas and identified ben- a draft memorandum of eficiary families before the understanding for cooperation beginning the distribution proc- between Qatar Tourism ess, taking into account families Authority and Qatar National with no breadwinners, orphans, Convention Centre in business persons with special needs, the tourism, a draft air services A woman carrying food provided by RAF at an aid distribution elderly and the sick. agreement between Qatar and centre at a drought-affected village in Ethiopia. The assistance was provided the Netherlands regarding within RAF's humanitarian efforts Curacao, and draft MoU for to help and rescue Ethiopians in humanitarian disaster. provide urgent help to those cooperation in the field of tech- drought-affected areas, whose In mid-March, RAF launched affected by drought. nical and vocational education A man praying under a date palm yesterday afternoon number exceeds 6 million. It also a relief campaign for the Horn of Last year's drought left 10.2 and training between Qatar as the mercury soared to 40 degrees Celsius in Doha. came in response to the human- Africa, aimed at raising QR5m in million people hungry and killed and the Philippines. Today, the weather will be hazy at first, becoming hotter itarian appeal made by the funds for the relief of those several hundred thousand of the by day with some scattered clouds, the Meteorology Ethiopian government to human- affected by drought that hit sev- animals that the local sheep and Products sold Department has forecast. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula itarian institutions to quickly eral African countries, threatening cattle farmers depend on for rescue those affected by a a famine and allocated QR2m to their livelihood. only after thorough tests

→ Continued from page 1 A novel device to produce drinking water from air Meanwhile, imports are returning to normal levels as confidence slowly comes back Sanaullah Ataullah “The product manufactured any water source. into the country’s poultry sec- The Peninsula in India is available in various cit- In 2007, a well-known tor. A leading poultry importer ies of India, Oman, South Africa Indian scientist and inventor, said that products arrive in the very unique device for and Singapore. Within a month it who owns many international Qatari market after thorough producing 30 litres of pure will be available in Qatar as our patents, Dr Rajah Vijay Kumar, safety checks and people have Adrinking water from air in partner has already initiated the accidently found that when trust in the products. a day was showcased at a stall procedures to get the approval for water is subjected to sound “There was a slight dip in set up on the sidelines of the 6th importing the device," he said. waves in the range of millions of sales, but it was normalised in Annual Arab Future Cities Sum- The device is a dispenser cycles per second, nano-sized no time. With the recent media mit 2017, which concluded on with option for hot, cold and nor- water particles were produced hype, we had expected things Tuesday, at the Ritz-Carlton, mal water mounted on a metal and under certain condition of to get out of hand, which did Doha. box. Through Rain Tunnel Tech- pressure, temperature and wind not happen,” said an importer. “The device called Aquaria, nology, the box got the condition velocity, this nano-water can “The government has which works through “Rain Tun- suitable made for creating rain. freeze at much higher tempera- placed controls on all imports nel Technology”, is expected to "If you create rain you will get ture forming Nano-Ice Crystals. and so people know that all be available within a month in water and the device is based on First, he tried to use this discov- precautions are taken before Qatar for about QR7,666,” Dr this principle." ery to induce rain by vapour the product comes to the Rajah Vijay Kumar, the inventor Aquaria produces water from deposition with ground based market. The regulations are of the device and Chairman of thin air, a new patented technol- cloud seeding, the experiment followed completely and all organization de Scalene, a Ben- ogy that creates rain inside the failed miserably. But a new tech- shipments are inspected. In galur based Indian company, box. Aquaria works on the prin- nology was born that he named case of any issues, we have to told The Peninsula. ciple of creating clouds and it "The Rain Tunnel Technology" destroy the shipment. The “Our local partner in Qatar seeding it with Hypersonic pre- to create rain in a box with low government makes it sure Top and Solutions will import and cipitation to form rain in a tunnel energy. He thought that the rain that all the products are 100 sell the device in the country. The just like how it happens in nature. in the box could be a source of percent fit for consumption. device is very energy efficient and Now you can generate fresh, safe drinking water some day for mil- Dr Rajah Vijay Kumar, the inventor of the device, talking with So there is no question of costs approximately one riyal for and purest form of drinking water lions, who don't have drinking visitors. unhealthy food in the local producing five litres of water.” at home without depending on water. market,” the importer said. THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 HOME 05 Qatar Motor Show to display unique cars

The Peninsula Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, first-hand, visitors will experi- is offering special promotions hands with new partners such as Twenty global BAIC and Harley Davidson. The ence the future of the in collaboration with hotel, air- the Shangri-La Hotel and Car- wenty global automo- Classic Car exhibition will show- automotive industry.” line, and transportation eem,” said Ahmed Al Mulla, Chief tive brands will mark automotive brands case a line up of 20 classical cars Interactive fan zones will be partners. Operating Officer of Entertain- their exclusive will mark their provided by Sheikh Faisal packed with performances and Qatar Airways, the Official ment at Elan Group. “Our partners regional and local exclusive regional Museum, Al Fardan Group and activities including the inaugu- Airline, will offer visitors com- and sponsors have contributed to reveals at the seventh and local reveals at Mawater. ral XRebels extreme sports ing to see the show discounted enriching this year’s programme Tedition of the Qatar Motor Show “Qatar Motor Show’s long- performance by Xtork at the fares which can be accessed by and ensuring a smooth and mem- that runs from April 18 to 22 at the seventh edition of term vision is to become a ‘Xtreme Sports Park’, which will visiting the Qatar Airways orable experience for our fans as the Doha Exhibition and Con- the Qatar Motor Show platform and a hub for industry be open to the public at DECC. website. they live the evolution of the vention Center (DECC), that runs from April innovation and technology, Skateboarding, BMX Best Runs Discounted bookings will automotive industry.” organisers Qatar Tourism while reinforcing Qatar’s posi- and Longboard Sprint Race also be available at Shangri-La, Starting from April 19, Doha Authority (QTA) and Fira Qatar 18 to 22. tion as a premium business competitions will be running QMS’ Official Hotel, where vis- will experience a parade of have confirmed. events destination,” said Ahmed from April 19 until the end of the itors can access them via the unique and exciting cars in West With the theme of “Driving to Al Obaidli, Director of Exhibi- event. Visitors can register code “ELA170417”. In addition, Bay at the DECC at 5pm daily. Innovation,” Qatar Motor Show sic cars in the world. tions at QTA. online in advance for these Careem, the Official Transpor- Social media competitions 2017 will feature the latest hybrid Spread over the 12,000sqm “This goal has guided our activities. Additionally, the park tation Partner will be offering will be running throughout the and tech-advanced vehicles that hall, exhibitors will include: strategy in designing the three will host fun games such as visitors 20% off rides to and show, giving visitors the chance are paving the way to the future Dodge, Jeep, Ford, Lincoln, upcoming editions and turning parkour, MTB and Aggressive from the event during the five to win memorable prizes includ- of the automotive industry. The Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, Lexus, them into true experiential Inline Skate. days of the show. ing gadgets, branded show will unveil limited edition Chevrolet, Genesis, Jaguar, Land events. In addition to witness- To attract visitors from the “We are delighted to welcome merchandising and weekend cars and some of the rarest clas- Rover, Maserati, Mini, BMW, ing reveals by global brands region, Qatar Motor Show 2017 Qatar Airways back and to join test drives.

Workshop of ‘Books - Made Kazakhstan realising all initiated reforms in Qatar’ initiative launched The Peninsula particular, the focus was made on large-scale political and socio-eco- DOHA: Qatar National Library (QNL), in collab- he participants of a round table nomic reforms, state programmes, oration with Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press meeting held yesterday by as well as on the initiatives of Kaza- (HBKU Press), and the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region, TEmbassy of Kazakhstan khstan in the political, economic has launched the second workshop of the ‘Books observed that the Republic of Kaza- and cultural-humanitarian spheres. - Made in Qatar’ initiative. The workshop is dedi- khstan is confidently and Also during the event the ambas- cated to the development of Qatari illustrators and progressively realising all initiated sadors of Ukraine, Bulgaria, is being organized as part of the official Qatar Ger- reforms, achieving its goals and play- Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, as well as many 2017 Year of Culture programme. ing an important role in the world representatives of government bod- The five-day workshop, taking place until April politics. ies and non-governmental 13, will give participating illustrators the oppor- The round table was held at the organisations and media of Qatar tunity to work on sketches and storyboards with Grand Hyatt Hotel in Doha with the delivered their statements and one of Germany’s best-known children’s and participation of representatives of underlined Kazakhstan's success in young adults’ book authors and illustrators, Ute state bodies and non-governmental building a strong and developed state Krause. The illustrators’ work will be based on organisations of Qatar, diplomatic and, in this context, the importance stories created and developed during the first corps accredited in Qatar and rep- Ambassador of Kazakhstan, Askar Shokybaev (right), and Serik of the "Third Modernization of workshop of the initiative, which involved Qatari resentatives of local media. Kazakhstan". writers. Myrzakhmetov, Counsellor, at the press conference. It was dedicated to the Annual In general, according to the par- Workshop instructor Ute Krause said: “I’m Address of the President of the Repub- ticipants of the round table, the excited to come back to Doha for the illustrators' lic of Kazakhstan Nursultan and diplomats of several European, audience about the main pillars of Republic of Kazakhstan is confi- workshop, especially after the first workshop, dur- Nazarbayev to the people of Kaza- Arab and Asian countries took part in the five priorities of the Address of dently and progressively realising ing which I spent a wonderful week working with khstan on January 31, 2017, entitled the event. the Head of State. The participants all initiated reforms, achieving its Qatari authors. The stories that the authors devel- "Third Modernization of Kazakhstan: Ambassador of Kazakhstan, of the round table were thoroughly goals and playing an important role oped during were very impressive and I can almost Global Competitiveness". Ambassadors Askar Shokybaev, informed the acquainted with the address. In in the world politics. see the first illustrations that will enhance them.” 06 HOME THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 NBK launches AMG Performance Center at Salwa Road

The Peninsula core values of the brand in terms of high performance, aggressive New centre asser Bin Khaled design, and unlimited power. It Extended on an area (NBK) Automobiles, will offer the customers more of 550sqm, the newly- the authorised gen- choices to add their personal opened AMG eral distributor of touches on their cars to reflect Performance Center Mercedes-Benz in their own ambition and style,” was renovated, NQatar, has inaugurated the ded- Sha’aban continued. icated Mercedes-AMG The three distinctive letters refurbished, Performance Center in its show- AMG embody automotive high re-designed per the room at Salwa Road. performance, exclusivity and latest update AMG The new AMG Performance dynamic driving pleasure. Mer- global retail Center was inaugurated by NBK cedes AMG specialises in unique, guidelines. Chairman and CEO Sheikh high-performance vehicles; its Nawaf Nasser bin Khaled AI sporty saloons, SUVs, coupés, It can host up to 8 Thani and attended by Khaled cabriolets, roadsters and spe- Mercedes-AMG cars, Sha’aban, NBK Automobiles cially built one-off models with special customer General Manager; Dennis Ober- constitute a product portfolio service, state-of-the- meier, AMG Senior Executive, which meets its customers' every art technology, and Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East wish. FZE; distinguished guests and Mercedes AMG has overall large LED screens that members of the media. responsibility for developing the show the features and Extended on an area of design, aerodynamics, interior high performance of 550sqm, the newly-opened AMG as well as the powertrain, engine, Mercedes-AMG cars. NBK Chairman and CEO Sheikh Nawaf Nasser bin Khaled AI Thani and Khaled Sha’aban, NBK Performance Center was reno- suspension, brakes and electron- Automobiles General Manager; with other dignitaries at the inauguration. vated, refurbished, re-designed per the latest update AMG glo- bal retail guidelines. It can host up to 8 Mercedes-AMG cars, with special customer service, state- of-the-art technology, and large LED screens that show the fea- tures and high performance of Mercedes-AMG cars. Customers of AMG can now get a better understanding on the distinctive features of the Mer- cedes-AMG cars, in terms of engine, technology, interior and exterior designs. The centre will also have a luxury lounge that offers clients the best services. Khaled Sha’aban said: “We are pleased to inaugurate the new Mercedes-AMG Perform- ance Center at our showroom NBK Chairman and CEO Sheikh Nawaf Nasser bin Khaled AI Thani with other officials at the newly-opened AMG Performance Center athe t Salwa Road which comes within our con- showroom. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula tinuous development plans. We are happy to strengthen our ties ics — right up to granting final technological spearhead in the engines. After all, even an AMG The technology of AMG high- which excites with unique power with Mercedes-Benz and launch approval for production of the high-performance car segment. high-performance engine must performance automobiles differs delivery, tantalising engine this dedicated state-of-the-art complete AMG vehicle. The The Mercedes-AMG brand prom- exhibit the reliability and long fundamentally from that of other sound, excellent handling and a centre equipped with latest image of Mercedes-AMG as the ise of "Driving Performance" operating life typical of a Mer- cars. The staff of the AMG Design direct driving sensation. The pro- technology, to demonstrate the successful performance brand stands for state-of-the-art tech- cedes. The AMG design language Center integrates the high-per- verbial exclusivity also comes as specs and features of Mercedes- of Mercedes-Benz is reflected in nology and pure driving stylistically emphasises the car’s formance technology into the standard, as do outstanding qual- AMG cars, and provide high its impressive successes in the excitement. high level of driving dynamics. vehicles while creating a mus- ity and precise workmanship. In standards of customer world of motorsport and its All work stages are subject It integrates technical require- cular and well-proportioned brief: all Mercedes-AMG models service”. unique vehicles. Today it is a one to the stringent Mercedes-Benz ments such as wider wheel exterior. embody the levels of engineer- “The new Mercedes-AMG hundred percent subsidiary of quality criteria which also apply arches and other motorsport fea- Each AMG model is an all- ing and craftsmanship which are Performance Center reflects the Daimler AG and is the group's to all other series-production tures into a total work of art. round performance vehicle typical of the brand. HBKU to host MIT professor

The Peninsula prominent American university of old pharaonic civilisation. The MIT. regional impacts of global cli- amad Bin Khalifa Univer- Dr Eltahir a world-renowned mate change on the hydrology sity (HBKU), in expert in the field of the effect of of the Nile will be projected Hcollaboration with MIT, climate change on the global based on simulations from an will be hosting on Sunday a sem- supply of water and is currently ensemble of global climate mod- inar on global climate change visiting Qatar as part of a collab- els. The implications of these and its impact on the hydrology oration with HBKU’s College of impacts on the ongoing water of the Nile and the ongoing water Science and Engineering. conflict will also be explored. conflict. By reviewing the docu- “We are very excited about The lecture, titled “Hydrol- mented history of the regional this opportunity to be working ogy and Climate of the Nile Basin: climate over the Nile Basin, the with our fellow scholars at MIT, Past, Present, and the Future”, lecture will delve into the role of which is consistently ranked as will be delivered by Dr Elfatih the variations in the solar radia- one of leading names in the Eltahir, Breene M Kerr Professor tion in shaping regional climate world for science and engineer- of Hydrology and Climate and over North Africa, which trig- ing” says Dr Mounir Hamdi, Dean Quality Group Chairman Shamsudheen Olakara and other officials at the opening. Professor of Civil and Environ- gered the human migrations of HBKU’s College of Science and mental Engineering at the associated with the emergence Engineering. Quality Group subsidiary opens logistics base in Hong Kong

The Peninsula this venture to facilitate the between Quality Group and trading of electronic products operators in Hong Kong. atar-headquartered Qual- and household items which are Products ranging from elec- ity Group International has developed, processed and man- tronics, household appliances Qannounced that it has fur- ufactured across the commercial and retails are sourced from ther expanded its footprint in the cities of Malaysia, Thailand, China and nearby provinces. The international market by starting Philippines, Indonesia, China success of the company owes an administrative office and and export the same to GCC much to its well-educated and logistics base in Hong Kong. countries such as Qatar, Oman, adaptable workforce, who are Quality Impex Ltd, a subsid- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE, on a constant urge to better iary of the Group, launched its through Hong Kong which will themselves. Furthermore strong operations last week at Tsim Sha, act as a portal of trade and the work ethics facilitate the smooth Salisbury Road, Hong Kong. administrative office, connect- functioning of the company. Last The “world-class” export ing the South East Asia sector to month witnessed the opening centre will attend to purchase, the Group. of Food Processing and Logis- process, re-label and export “Our group has been tics Base in Guangzhou, Republic non-food products manufac- importing high-quality Chinese of China. tured in adjoining areas. and bordering localities local “The $2.2bn-turnover Qual- The facility was formally made products for the past ity Group operates hypermarkets, inaugurated by Shamsudheen many years to cater to thou- supermarkets and shopping Olakara, Chairman of Quality sands of shoppers through our malls, in addition to wholesale Group, in the presence of the retail and wholesale units,” distribution, food processing and attendees including local Olakara said during the cere- hospitality with operations in the officials. mony, highlighting the GCC, India and the Far East,” the The Group has undertaken longstanding relationships statement added. THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 HOME 07

Artists gather Expo Turkey for Mathaf event

DOHA: Artists from different parts of the country gathered at Mathaf: Arab to showcase Museum of Modern Art for the launch of its ‘Creative Conversation for Artists’ programme. The programme, which will run on the second Tuesday of every month, brings together artists of dif- 300 firms ferent backgrounds and age groups in Qatar and provides them with a space to network, showcase their work and Irfan Bukhari latest projects and discuss their careers, The Peninsula The expo will inspirations and practices in the art field. strengthen the The event, which was organised o explore new avenues under the patronage of H E Sheikha Al of investment and investment and Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al trade between Qatar economic cooperation Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums, and Turkey, a three- opportunities for highlights Mathaf’s commitment to day exhibition Turkish companies exploring artistic production and devel- Tshowcasing around 300 Turk- oping programmes that stimulate Artists gathered at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art for the launch of its ‘Creative ish firms is set to kick start from with other GCC creativity and develop an engaged and April 19 at Qatar National Con- countries. Conversation for Artists’ programme. inspired cultural audience. vention Center. “Turkey and Qatar’s strategic partnership is heading to the world stage with banking sector while Aljazeera’s this trade fair. Two great coun- beIN channel also bought a Turk- tries are coming together in order ish digital channel,” he said. BCI Forum holds first meet of this year to strengthen economic relations On bilateral trade, Demirok having effective commercial had told that bilateral trade vol- strengths,” says expo’s website. ume in 2016 was $1.3bn. He had The Peninsula This Forum strives to help There was a special welcome Expo Turkey by Qatar, while also said the total worth of vari- understand the potentials of message from David Thorpe, aiming to increase opportunities ous projects being developed or he Qatar Business Conti- Business Continuity in this Executive Director of BCI, UK for cooperation between Turkey constructed by Turkish compa- nuity Institute (BCI) Forum region and contribute the cumu- who welcomed the members in and Qatar, will strengthen the nies in Qatar was around $18bn. Tconducted its first Forum lative knowledge and experience his video address and was sup- investment and economic coop- The organiser, Medyacity, meet for 2017 on the Theme to the resiliency challenges, portive of the BCI Qatar Forum’s eration opportunities for Turkish has termed it as an "ideal plat- “National Resiliency”. Several emerging issues and threats of activities. The Forum Members companies with other GCC coun- form for market research and professionals from key sectors this region. It also facilitates the heard an interesting and inform- tries, it adds. The organisers have customer analysis as well as an like banking, oil and gas, educa- knowledge experts to come ative presentation by PMO termed the expo as an opportu- opportunity to take a place in the tional institutions, energy sector, together to develop, enhance Director of the National Secu- nity for Turkish companies to World Cup 2022 bids". healthcare, telecommunications, and share various Business con- rity and Resilience Programme grow their brand awareness in On first day, there will be a Business Continuity Manage- tinuity programs which can be (Somod Resilience Centre SRC). Qatar and GCC which will also “Royal Tour” followed by a ment (BCM) & Information instrumental for individual com- Abdus Salam, Head of BCM open opportunities for Turkish number of business conferences. Technology Disaster Recovery panies to optimise their at Qatar Islamic Bank and mem- exports to Qatar and GCC. Turkish-Qatar Business Summit (ITDR) Service providers partic- organisation resiliency and drive ber of the BCI Qatar Forum In a recent interview with will be held on April 20 along ipated in this event. through the leadership in Busi- Organizing Committee con- The Peninsula, former Turkish with various workshops while This forum was started to ness Continuity. conference 2015 in Doha and cluded the event requesting the ambassador to Qatar Ahmet the second day will end with a bring together BCM profession- Welcoming the Forum mem- development of the Qatar BCM members to support the upcom- Demirok had said that the total gala dinner. On the third and the als across the country and to bers, Eng. Abdullatif Ali Al Yafei Guidelines which was launched ing events of the Qatar BCI volume of Qatari investments in last day of expo, "Turkish Celeb- share the knowledge and good (pictured), Chairperson of the during 2015. He also mentioned Forum. It was also agreed that Turkey was around $20bn. “This rity Event and Singing practices in Business Continuity BCI Qatar Forum Organising about the upcoming events BCI Qatar Forum will organise figure includes both public and Ceremony" is the main attrac- domain. BCI Qatar forum has Committee, stressed on the which include the BCI ME three more forums during 2017; private sector investments. Qatar tion while workshops and more than 200 Business Conti- remarkable achievements of the Awards Night in September 2017 one by mid of May and the National Bank and Commercial conferences will also continue nuity Professionals across Forum which included hosting and the BCI Middle East Confer- remaining two will be in Sep- Bank of Qatar have invested in all the day long. diversified industry segments. the 2015 BCI Middle East ence in 2018. tember and November. NU-Q Dean elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Peninsula Ngozi Adichie. Dennis has written or edited mong the new members some 45 books that have been named to the American translated into 10 languages, as AAcademy of Arts and Sci- well more than 200 articles, ences was Dr Everette E Dennis essays, and monographs about (pictured), Dean and CEO of global media, media industries, Northwestern University in media law, and management. Qatar. Founded in 1780, the At Northwestern’s home cam- American Academy of Arts and pus, he is a professor in the Sciences is one of the United mathematician Maryam Mirza- Medill School of Journalism and State’s oldest learned societies khani, immunologist James P is cross appointed in the School and independent policy research Allison, and writer Chimamanda of Communication. centres, convening leaders from the academic, busi- ness, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing — and opportunities available to — the nation and the world. Joining Dennis among the election of the 228 new members are some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, busi- ness, and philanthropic leaders. They include win- ners of the Pulitzer Prize and the Wolf Prize; MacArthur Fellows; Fields Medalists; Presidential Medal of Free- dom and National Medal of Arts recipients; and Acad- emy Award, Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winners. “It is an honour to wel- come this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distin- guished membership,” said Don Randel, chair of the Academy’s Board of Directors. In addition to Dennis, the 237th class of members includes philanthropist and singer-songwriter John Leg- end, award-winning actress Carol Burnett, chairman of the board of Xerox Corpo- ration Ursula Burns, 08 HOME THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017

Special menu on Ooredoo select QA flights to Thailand unveils new and Sri Lanka The Peninsula

atar Airways will cele- brate the Thai and Sri QLankan New Years by data offer offering special menus on select flights and in the Al Safwa First Class and Al The Peninsula Mourjan Business lounges. With the offer, new Thai New Year will be oredoo launched a celebrated today and tomor- new data offer or upgraded Hala row on select inbound flights specifically for Business and Shahry from Bangkok, Krabi and businesses, cater- subscriptions, on Phuket in both premium and ing the growing selected tariffs, will economy cabins. The menus Odemand for connectivity and for Thailand flights will con- data across Qatar’s business receive five times the tain a specially selected main H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani with the International Islamic University Malaysia sector, yesterday. plans data allowance course and one dessert both With the offer, new or for six months. This team who won the second place at fourth International Universities Arabic Debating prepared by Qatar Airways’ Championship 2017 in Doha, yesterday. upgraded Hala Business and offer will be valid , top chefs. Shahry subscriptions, on selected The menu will feature tariffs, will receive five times the until May 31, 2017. traditional Thai dishes such plans data allowance for six Qatar University team wins as grilled prawns marinated months. This offer will be valid in garlic and coriander with until May 31, 2017. smartphone at the time of sub- tom yam fried rice, stir-fried The telecom operator antic- scribing to a Shahry or Hala Arabic Debating Championship vegetables and tom yam ipates strong demand from Business plan will also enjoy up sauce, as well as mango with companies in Qatar, as the to 15GB free data. sticky rice and pandan coco- number of businesses relying on “Making sure your business The Peninsula ceremony, HE Sheikha Hind bint differences,” she said. nut sauce. Passengers will the capabilities of smartphones has the latest technology is just Hamad Al Thani stated that From her part, Dr. Hayat also be presented with a tra- is increasing. as important as staying con- nder the patronage of Her QatarDebate, and events such Maarafi, Executive Director of ditional Thai sweet in a Designed to give businesses nected, as devices are becoming Excellency Sheikha Hind as the International Universities QatarDebate, praised in her clos- decorative box to complete in Qatar the best monthly com- increasingly smart and can link Ubint Hamad Al Thani, the Arabic Debating Championship, ing speech HE Sheikha Hind bint their meal. munication bundles, Ooredoo to employee’s emails, share large Vice Chairperson & CEO of Qatar are invaluable tools that Hamad Al-Thani's patronage of In addition to the in-flight has a strong portfolio of business documents, make payments, dis- Foundation, the fourth edition empower and educate our young the competition and the honor of menu, Al Safwa First Class plans with features such as bill play presentations and more,” Al of the International Universities people on the importance of her presence; to Elite Academy lounge will also offer a selec- control, international calling Kubaisi added. Arabic Debating Championship cross-cultural exchange, global members, and to Al Jazeera Media tion of dishes in celebration allowances and more. Hala Business and Hala Busi- organized by QatarDebate, dialogue and critical thinking. Network as Media Partener & of the Thai New Year tomor- “Apart from providing busi- ness International plans offer a concluded. These initiatives form part of QF’s Qatar Airways as Official row and on Saturday. The ness packages for all company range of key services, including The championship took place ongoing drive to foster a culture carrier. lounge menu will feature needs across Qatar, large or local and international call min- at the Qatar National Convention of creativity and to develop deci- HE Sheikha Hind bint Hamad some of Thailand’s famous small, we decided to help utes, SMS and data. Centre (QNCC) from April 8-12, sion makers and global leaders Al Thani, the Vice Chairman & dishes such as tom yum soup, employees stay connected 24/7 When these monthly allow- 2017, and included 87 teams from of the future who are equipped CEO of Qatar Foundation for Edu- som tum, beef skewers, ver- with more data than ever at no ances are used up, employees 46 Arab and non-Arab to discuss challenges and devise cation, Science and Community micelli prawns, satay gai and extra cost. In business being have the freedom to top-up countries. solutions in our international Development, took the stage to more. Dessert options will available or offline can make a directly or subscribe to additional The Qatar University Team community.” honor the winners, and to join in include coconut and jaggery big difference and we hope this services – with no additional for boys took first place in this In her speech at the closing announcing the Qatar University pancake with banana gives our nation’s growing busi- costs for the employer. year’s edition of the International ceremony, Dr. Hayat Abdullah Team for boys as the winner, fol- smoothie and mango nigiri nesses and organisations a Ooredoo’s Shahry Smart Universities Arabic Debating Maarafi, Executive Director of lowed by the International Islamic with pandan-flavoured coco- helping hand,” said Yousuf Al plans offer a fully post-paid Championship, followed by the QatarDebate center, welcomed University Malaysia team as nut cream. Kubaisi, Chief Operating Officer, mobile service inclusive of local International Islamic University their Excellencies, guests and par- runner-up. The airline’s Al Mourjan Ooredoo Qatar. and international calls, messag- Malaysia team and the Qatar Uni- ticipants and expressed her Al Jazeera Media Network – Business Class lounge will Added to the five times data ing, high-speed mobile internet versity Team for girls in second pleasure to see such a great crowd Media Partener - & Qatar Airways also offer a wide variety of allowance for six months, busi- access and free intra-company and third place respectively. in the Doha, “brought together by – Official carrier - were also hon- dishes, such as tom yum, pad nesses that purchase a new calls. In her address at the closing the Arabic language, despite their ored during the ceremony. Thai, beef stir fry and basil fried rice. The Sri Lankan New Year will be celebrated tomorrow on board Colombo inbound Magical Festival Village holds special day for Dhreima & QACSN children and outbound flights in busi- ness and economy cabins as The Peninsula Qatari society, and to spread the visit of QACSN and Dhreima well as in Al Safwa and Al awareness of their rights and role Foundation was part of our sup- Mourjan lounges. agical Festival Village has within the community through portive endeavours towards The Sri Lankan in-flight recently organised a spe- multiple activities and events. autistic children and orphans of the menus will feature dishes Mcial entertainment day The entertainment day, which community. such as fish ambulthiyal with for children of Qatar Autism was organised at the Magical Fes- Ezdan World is committed to pol roti, kiribath, spicy potato, Center & Special Needs (QACSN), tival Village, witnessed a provide appropriate environment lunu miris and sambol for as well as orphans of Qatar remarkable interaction by the chil- and interaction opportunity for breakfast services, and Sri Orphan Foundation (Dhreima), dren in a lively fun and educational children of both groups, aiming at Lankan devilled chicken with as part of MFV’s ongoing commit- atmosphere. Children have derived increasing awareness among soci- vegetable fried rice, dhal ment to the values and principles a great pleasure from the appeal- ety on how to integrate this curry, spicy potatoes with of social responsibility. ing attractions and entertainment category into society, especially bibikkan dessert, served for This move comes in the con- shows under the supervision of the that such initiatives create bridges lunch/dinner. text of Ezdan Holding Group and village team. Commenting on the of communication and integra- Passengers will also be its subsidiaries’ efforts to children's visit to Magical Festival tion between orphans and autistic presented with traditional Sri A view of the Magical Festival Village located within the Cultural empower and integrate orphans Village, GM of Ezdan World, children on the one hand and Lankan sweets to complete Village - Katara. and children with autism in the Abdulaziz Al Muhannadi, said that society on the other. their meal. Joyalukkas gets ready for festival Coast guard week observed

Continued from page 1 season with new offers The Coast Guard week is held in line with the decisions The Peninsula spoilt for choice in Gold, Dia- of the GCC Interior Ministers mond, Polki and Pearl Jewellery meet in order to spread and his Festive Season is a specially created for the Festive raise the maritime safety aware- beloved festival among Season celebration. Aside from ness for sea goers as well as TIndian nationals and many special rates on Jewellery sets, enhance mutual collaboration keep to the tradition of buying patrons also enjoy a free gold between Coasts Guard author- gold and jewellery to usher in coin up to 2 grams on purchase ities in GCC countries. prosperity for the year to come. of Jewellery, as well as 0% It is necessary for sea goers It is amongst the top dates in a deduction on gold exchange. A to visit the exhibition to see the jewellery retail chain’s calen- limited edition quarter gram latest naval security devices and dar, and Joyalukkas, the world’s gold coin will also be given away equipment to protect them- favourite jeweller, celebrates it Joyalukkas Group’s activities, for free on purchase of Gold selves from sea risks, said Staff Officials at the Coast Guard week. every year with big give aways, and as a result we tend to cele- Jewellery worth AED 3,000 or Brigadier (Navy) Ali Ahmad al- a dazzling new collection and brate Festive Season in a big more only on 28th April 2017. Budaid, Director General of the special offers befitting such an way, with new collections, give- Even more exciting is the General Directorate of Coasts urged all citizens and residents "Qasar", which is used as a sup- auspicious day. aways and offers to delight our gold rate protection guarantee and Borders Security. Al Attiyah to visit the exhibition and see the ply vessel for maritime patrols, “This Festive Season is a fes- loyal customers, whose support on offer for the duration of the said that the tasks of the Gen- associated activities. among others. tival with a beautiful message in our three decades of opera- promotion. At just 10% advance eral Directorate of Coast and The exhibition features sev- The equipment on display about acting now, doing good tions has made the success we booking, customers are assured Border Security are multiple in eral models of boats used by the include the aerial reconnais- now to reap an abundance of enjoy as a household name in to get their gold at the lowest the fields of border protection, Coast Guards in their mission, sance unit, which includes a rewards in the future,” says John jewellery worldwide rate till May 6, 2017. search and rescue, as the exhi- including the new "Makhbat", group of aircraft used for mar- Paul Alukkas, Executive Direc- possible.” All offers for Festive Season bition showcases the advanced the first boat manufactured by itime security and rescue tor, Joyalukkas Group. “This is Across 130 showrooms in 13 Gold Luck at Joyalukkas are and modern equipment used by the General Directorate of Coast operations on the coasts as well a philosophy echoed in countries, customers will be available till May 6. the Directorate in their tasks. He and Border Security and as search for missing persons. THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 09

Turkey calls Facing bleak future Evacuation of for use of force to halt four Syrian Syria atrocities Adana, Turkey Anatolia

towns begins A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday called for military force to be used against Beirut Evacuation deal Bashar al-Assad’s regime to AFP prevent atrocities against More than 30,000 civilians. deal to evacuate people are expected EU Affairs Minister Omer four besieged Syr- to be evacuated Celik said Assad manipulated ian towns began under the deal, which efforts to resolve the six-year yesterday with an was postponed after conflict in Syria while carry- exchange of prison- objections from both ing out attacks on civilians. ersA between rebels and “The world needs to use sides and tensions government forces, local following a force to stop the massacres,” sources and state media said. he told Anadolu Agency dur- suspected chemical Thousands of people, both ing a visit to Adana province, weapons attack on a Displaced Iraqi children stand on the ruins of destroyed building outside Hammam Al Alil civilians and fighters, are southern Turkey. camp, south of Mosul, yesterday. expected to begin leaving gov- rebel-held town in “We have always talked ernment-held Fuaa and Idlib province. about a political solution until Kafraya and opposition-con- now but we know how Assad trolled Madaya and Zabadani . blocked political solution The evacuations of the four Zabadani are opposition processes. When the political besieged towns come under an enclaves surrounded by regime solution is alive, the answer Philippines says Saudi Arabia agreement brokered by Qatar forces in Damascus province. given by Assad is [use of] and government ally Iran last The exchange marks the begin- chemical weapons.” month. A photographer in gov- ning of the implementation of Celik did not say whether still needs its workers ernment-held Aleppo city saw the deal to evacuate the four Ankara would be willing to 12 of the prisoners released by towns, as well as part of the provide troops for any mili- the opposition, nine of whom Yarmuk Palestinian camp in tary force against Assad, who Riyadh fields ranging from construction, Under a wide-ranging economic appeared to be suffering injuries, southern Damascus. is backed by Russia and Iran. AFP domestic work, healthcare, reform plan released last year in arriving along with eight bodies. Negotiators and residents Turkey ended a seven- retail, engineering, telecommu- the face of collapsed oil revenues, Syrian state news agency Sana said buses had entered Madaya month operation in northern audi Arabia will still nications, transportation and the Saudi Arabia wants unemploy- said the four children and eight and Zabadani last morning, and Syria last month that had need even more Fili- oil industry. ment among its citizens to fall to women had been transferred people were gathering their been aimed at ridding the pino workers despite its "They explained the kind of nine percent by 2020, against 11.6 with the bodies of "eight martyrs" belongings to leave. But a gov- region of terrorists. "Saudisation" policy, growth they are having in Saudi percent last year. from "terrorist groups in Idlib ernment coordinator for the Last week, a chemical Manila's labour secre- Arabia. They would need more Latest official figures showed province". negotiations said vehicles had attack in Khan Sheikhun car- Stary said yesterday following a workers in the coming years," almost nine million foreigners It said the exchange of pris- yet to arrive at Fuaa and Kafraya. ried out by Assad forces left meeting between Philippine Bello said. employed in the kingdom but that oners marked the start of the More than 30,000 people are more than 100 civilians dead. President Rodrigo Duterte and "It came from their side that was before the worst of the eco- "implementation of the first expected to be evacuated under Authorities in Turkey who have the Custodian of the Two Holy Filipino workers are good work- nomic pain struck, sending many phase of the agreement". the deal, which was postponed treated some of the survivors Mosques King Salman bin ers. They recognise that they expats homes. Sana said that "19 militants" after objections from both sides have said that sarin gas was Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia. were instrumental in the growth Thousands of Filipinos and were transferred from Fuaa and and tensions following a sus- used. In late 2016, Russia and To show Filipinos that they of Saudi Arabia in the past other Asian labourers, particu- Kafraya at the same time. A pected chemical weapons attack Turkey brokered a cease-fire are still welcome, the Saudis are years," he said. Asked how this larly in the construction sector, source in the jihadist Tahrir Al on a rebel-held town in Idlib that has been widely breached even willing to allow more than would affect the policy of "Sau- have left Saudi Arabia with Sham alliance confirmed the province. All 16,000 residents despite peace talks in Astana 100 "runaway" Filipino work- dization," or giving jobs to wages still unpaid. exchange. Fuaa and Kafraya of Fuaa and Kafraya are and Geneva. ers to return home, Secretary Saudis, Bello said: "Saudisation Saudi Arabia is the second- are government-held Shia- expected to leave, heading to “Assad must end his pol- Silvestre Bello told reporters. is sort of just a concept now." largest employer of Philippine majority villages in the government-held Aleppo, the icy of killing through the use He said Saudi officials told "The most prefered overseas overseas workers with 760,000 otherwise rebel-controlled coastal province of Latakia or of chemical or standard him they still need Filipinos who worker is the Filipino," he Filipinos in that Middle Eastern province of Idlib. Madaya and Damascus. weapons,” Celik added. work in the Gulf kingdom in quoted Saudi officials as saying. nation, Manila has said. Ahmadinejad to run for president Palestinian MP held over Hamas 'activities' JERUSALEM: Israel has arrested a Palestinian lawmaker over Hamas "activities," an NGO and officials said, bringing to 13 the number of Tehran Khamenei's recommendation in blunt assessment. "It was an is for peaceful purposes. Palestinian deputies detained by the Jewish state. Ahmed Atoun, a AP September for Ahmadinejad to organised mutiny against Iran's Ahmadinejad's disputed re- Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem since 1996 affiliated with stand down and conservatives' ruling system," said Soroush election in 2009 sparked Hamas, was arrested at dawn, according to the Palestinian Prison- ran's former President Mah- inability to coalesce around a Farhadian, who backs reformists. massive protests and a sweep- ers Club NGO. Banned from Jerusalem by Israel, he has recently moud Ahmadinejad single candidate. Ahmadinejad previously served ing crackdown in which lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. His arrest brings to 13 Iyesterday stunned the coun- Ahmadinejad's firebrand two four-year terms from 2005 thousands of people were the number of Palestinian parliament members detained by Israel. try by unexpectedly filing to run style could prove appealing for to 2013. Under Iranian law, he detained and dozens were killed. The parliament, or Palestinian Legislative Council, includes 132 mem- in the May presidential election, hard-liners seeking a tough- became eligible to run again after Internationally, Ahmadine- bers, though it has not sat since 2007, when Hamas and the contradicting a recommenda- talking candidate who can stand four years out of office, but he jad is more known for repeatedly Palestinian Authority clashed in a near-civil war over control of the tion from the supreme leader to up to US President Donald remains a polarising figure, even questioning the scale of the Hol- Gaza Strip. Hamas won polls in 2006, eventually sparking the con- stay out of the race. Trump. His candidacy also could among fellow hard-liners. ocaust, predicting Israel's demise flict that led to the Islamist group's control of the strip. Ahmadinejad's decision expose the fissures inside Ira- Two of his former vice pres- and expanding Iran's contested could upend an election many nian politics that linger since his idents have been jailed for nuclear programme. believed would be won by mod- contested 2009 re-election, corruption since he left office. The memory of the 2009 Zambian oppn leader charged with treason erate President Hassan Rowhani, which brought massive unrest. Iran's economy suffered under unrest likely sparked Khamenei's who negotiated the nuclear deal Journalists watched as heavy international sanctions comments in September. At that LUSAKA: Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has with world powers. stunned election officials proc- during his administration time, he recommended an been charged with treason after allegedly refusing to give way to Though Rowhani has yet to essed Ahmadinejad's paperwork because of Western suspicions unnamed candidate not seek President Edgar Lungu's motorcade on a main road, police said. formally register, many viewed yesterday. Asked about that Tehran was secretly pur- office as it would bring about a Hichilema, who has refused to recognise Lungu as president, was him as a shoe-in following Ahmadinejad's decision, one suing nuclear weapons. Iran "polarized situation" that would accused of deliberately endangering his life in the high-speed inci- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Tehran-based analyst offered a insists its nuclear programme be "harmful for the county." dent at the weekend. "We have charged Hichilema and five others with treason," Zambian police chief Kakoma Kanganja told report- ers in Lusaka. "The opposition leader disobeyed police orders to give way to the presidential motorcade in an attempt to put the Protests called as Lebanon life of the republican president in danger." MPs to extend own term Kenya needs 2m homes to curb slum explosion NAIROBI: Kenya needs to build two million affordable city homes Beirut civil war in neighbouring Syria. to meet its housing deficit and stem the growth of its sprawling Reuters “Short of any surprises, the slums, already home to six out of 10 urban households, the World extension will take place so that Bank said yesterday. Investment in housing would also create jobs, ebanon’s parliament is the country does not face a improve economic growth and strengthen the east African coun- expected to vote today to political vacuum,” said a Leb- try’s financial sector, it said. “Many Kenyans are unnecessarily Lextend its own term until anese official. living in slum dwellings, because of limited supply and lack of 2018 without an election, offi- Security is expected to be affordability,” the World Bank said in a report. cials said, as activists called for tight in downtown Beirut, protests to prevent what they where parliament is located. said would be a blow to “We are urging Lebanese to Suspected Boko Haram recruiter arrested democracy. hold protests and prevent MPs Lebanese politics has long from meeting,” said prominent DAKAR: Senegalese police say authorities have arrested a sus- been dogged by sectarian divi- activist Marwan Maalouf. “This pected recruiter for the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Islamic sions, with the Syrian war is unconstitutional.” extremist group. Police said they arrested the Nigerian on April 1 exacerbating party rivalries as Critics accuse Lebanese in a Dakar suburb. Police said the suspect was known to Nigerian lawmakers feud. politicians of using regional intelligence services and had been in Mauritania for some months Parliament has already upheaval as an excuse to dodge before coming to Senegal to recruit on behalf of Boko Haram. Sen- extended its mandate twice elections. “This is will be the egal police also said they arrested two Moroccans at the because lawmakers were una- third time they extend in four international airport who had been linked to the Islamic State ble to agree on an election law. years,” said activist Asaad The- group. The two men, who police said came from a Syrian refugee Lebanese soldiers secure the area outside the parliament It last did this in 2014, citing bien. “This doesn’t happen in camp in Turkey, denied association with the extremist group. Police building in downtown Beirut, yesterday. security concerns linked to the any country in the world.” said they came to Senegal for its proximity to Morocco. 10 VIEWS THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected]

EDITORIAL Stopping Kim

ension is rising in the Korean peninsula as a US aircraft carrier group is headed to the Korean waters to send a strict warning to Pyongyang that Washington will not tolerate its nuclear ambitions and will Ttake unilateral action to “solve the problem”. The US action comes amid concerns that Pyongyang may conduct another nuclear or long-range missile test in defiance of UN resolutions and sanctions. North Korea is celebrating this week the 105th birth anniversary of the country’s founding president Kim Qatar invigorates relations Il Sung and foreign media have been invited to cover the celebrations. Interestingly, the country often marks important anniversaries with tests of its nuclear or missile capabilities. North Korea with Southern Africa launched a long-range rocket carrying a satellite on April 13, 2012, marking the anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. states. Over the past four decades these US President Donald Trump’s warnings to North Thembisa Fakude ties have become broad and deep. Cur- Korea and the military movement come after the US Al Jazeera rently, the GCC’s economic partnerships airstrikes on a Syrian airbase last week in retaliation in Africa are broadening to include tele- for the chemical attacks by Bashar Al Assad’s forces communications and private equity in against Syrians, which killed around ninety people. West Africa, as well as energy projects There are real fears that the region could plunge into in South Africa and Mozambique. a real war if diplomacy and caution are thrown to he relationship between the Gulf Saudi Arabia’s special role in the Qatar has continued to the winds in favour of one-upmanship and Cooperation Council (GCC) and Gulf has placed the country in a special improve relations across impulsiveness. Trump, who is impulsive, mercurial Sub-Saharan Africa continues to position in Southern Africa. Through Sub-Saharan Africa, and willing to go it alone, present opportunities. The lull in organisations such as Rabitat al Alam al interactions between the Arabs in Islami, also known as the Muslim World particularly with South is capable of punishing Tgeneral and Sub Saharan African has over League, Saudi Arabia has pursued soft Africa. Trade between Kim Jong Un without the years widened mistrusts between Arabs power politics throughout Sub-Saharan weighing seriously the Qatar and South Africa and Africans. President Kamuzu Banda of Africa. Their activities include the con- consequences of his has increased from $287 Tension is rising Malawi was not only critical of the Arabs, struction of mosques, the distribution of action. And Kim is a million in 2012 to $500 in the Korean denouncing Arab Sudanese policies towards religious books, and sponsorship for maverick and their Southern compatriots; he also main- annual Ramadan festivities. million in 2015. peninsula as provocative leader who is tained that Arab participation in the heinous On 11 April 2017, Emir H H Sheikh Trump threatens willing to abandon African trade excluded Arabs from being Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani led a dele- unilateral action. common sense to launch regarded as Africa’s genuine friends. gation to South Africa. According to a war just to prove his The increased presence of Qatar and official sources, this was the biggest aspect of cooperation is on hosting point. other Gulf nations in Sub-Saharan Africa delegation from Qatar to any African mega-sporting events. Kim Jong Un revels in will help to erase stereotypes held by the country. At the top of the agenda is eco- The FIFA World Cup 2022 is fast conducting missile tests people of both regions. The discovery of oil nomic partnerships, security approaching and the build-up will and threatening its in the 1930s altered the Gulf’s position in cooperation, and coordination regard- require expertise from across the world. neighbours and adversaries. Sanctions and warnings international politics. The region’s influence ing the FIFA World Cup 2022. Qatar could learn from South Africa’s have failed to deter him, and with every test there rose dramatically over the course of the Qatar has continued to improve experience hosting the successful are genuine fears that Pyongyang is getting closer to 20th century and in 1981 the Gulf Sates relations across Sub-Saharan Africa, World Cup 2010. Finally, Qatar has acquire nuclear capabilities. It’s an extremely banded together to establishment the Gulf particularly with South Africa. Trade established a strong business partner- dangerous and alarming situation which the region Cooperation Council (GCC). between Qatar and South Africa has ship with major companies in South and the world is concerned about. The options are The founding of the GCC marked the increased from $287 million in 2012 to Africa. limited in tackling Kim Jong Un and it’s this beginning of direct interaction between Gulf $500 million in 2015. The Oryx Gas To Liquid (GTL) helplessness which Kim has been exploiting to his countries, as a collective, and Sub-Saharan Many Africans who travel on Qatar project, a partnership between South advantage. Africa at political and economic levels. Airways use South African airports to African energy giant SASOL and Qatar At the same time, there is a need to avoid actions Prior to 1981, the Gulf countries’ foreign connect to destinations around the Petroleum, is one case in point. The that will precipitate a crisis of unmanageable relations had been overshadowed by the world. Unfortunately, this includes partnership between SASOL, a South proportions or a full-fledged war. The Trump Arab League, which largely shaped the for- individuals hoping to travel to Syria and African energy giant, and Qatar Gas administration must exercise caution while dealing eign policy of the Arab world. During the other places to join and support terror- continues to expand. Moreover, the dis- with Kim and focus on building a consensus that tenure of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab ist activities. According to Martin Ewi, a covery of gas off the coast of takes all parties into confidence, especially China. League enjoyed strong relationships in Sub- senior researcher at the Institute for Mozambique will likely lead to the Beijing too is worried about an escalation in tension Saharan Africa as Nasser was supportive of Security Studies, for many radicalized expansion of Qatar Gas’s interests in in the region. Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the liberation of all African nations from young Africans, South Africa is a gate- Southern Africa. a peaceful resolution of the rising tension on the colonial rule. way to the world. Qatar’s new tourist Qatar Petroleum is interested in the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with Nasser was a bridge builder between visa program has further increased the Mozambique gas business of Italian Donald Trump yesterday. The call came as a state- North (largely Arab) and Sub-Saharan security concerns. energy group Eni and could opt to join Africa, and, more broadly, between the Arab Qatar’s new visa program allows Exxon Mobil in buying a multibillion- run Chinese newspaper warned that the region was world and Sub-Saharan Africa. His death visitors four days transit visa in Qatar if dollar stake. South Africa will remain a the closest to a “military clash” since North Korea’s largely ended Sub-Saharan Africa’s enthusi- traveling on a Qatar Airways to any vital partner in that project. first nuclear test in 2006. asm for partnering with the Arab League. destination in the world. Thus, Qatar Since the early 1980s, the GCC emerged has a strong interest to screen danger- The writer is a Researcher at Al Jazeera from the shadow of the ous individuals before they arrive in Center for Studies. Arab League and began to Doha. The Emir’s visit will also open QUOTE OF THE DAY forge its own economic and the possibility to expand cultural political ties with African exchange between Qatar and South Africa. China advocates to Qatar is rapidly becoming a tourist destination in its own right, possessing resolve the issue a collection of world class museums through peaceful Qatar is rapidly becoming a featuring some of the most valuable art means, and is willing to tourist destination in its own in the Arab world. Qatar hopes to be a The FIFA World Cup 2022 right, possessing a collection cultural hub that will attract tourists is fast approaching and maintain communication from all over the world. and coordination with of world class museums According to Britain-based Art the build-up will require the US on the Korean featuring some of the most Newspaper, Qatar is funding a large- expertise from across Peninsula issue. valuable art in the Arab world. scale project to make approximately the world. Qatar could Qatar hopes to be a cultural 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic man- learn from South Africa’s uscripts available through the online Xi Jinping hub that will attract tourists collection of the British Library in Lon- experience hosting the Chinese President from all over the world. don, representing a great milestone in successful World Cup 2010. cultural preservation. An important THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 OPINION 11 Zionism’s problem with intersectionality

appeal to women and queer com- Shaheen Nassar munities in the pathetic, clumsy Al Jazeera way that only a hetero-patriarch can. To my knowledge, Israeli mis- siles don’t differentiate between “straight” and “queer” targets; they rowing up Palestinian in the states means kill Palestinians indiscriminately, being in the crosshairs of a barrage of regardless of sexual orientation. macro and micro aggressions. These Lastly, proponents of Israeli aggressions can meet your gaze on a bill- apartheid have a nasty habit of board, on TV, or even in the aisles of a attacking our champions of libera- Gfranchise bookstore. While traversing the aisles of a tion. The libel especially Barnes & Noble, I once had the misfortune of reading surrounding Rasmea Odeh needs to a passage penned by a well-known Zionist. be addressed. Rasmeawas forced to Morbid curiosity guided me towards a line that give a false confession under the read something to the effect of, “To deny the suffer- duress of torture. She was sexually ing of a people is to make them go through a double assaulted at the hands of the Israeli death”. Ironically this particular Zionist built his security forces in the presence of entire career cheerleading the genocide of Palestini- her own father. ansand muffling their tortured cries. Zionists dehumanisation If I can credit Israel’s supporters with one thing, doesn’t stop at the controlling of it’s their ability to manipulate the truth to atrocious bodies, but also of the narratives ends. A common tactic is to derail the conversation that produce them. Words fail at away from Israel’s brutal racial oppression. professing the raw strength she Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest against Israel’’s war on Gaza in Durban. In this particular case, they want to redirect the embodies. She is our matriarch; a focus on the validity of racial theory, anything to dis- walking symbol of the intersections tract from Israeli settler colonialism and Jim Crow questioned intersectionality to draw attention away Zionists look at the natural kinship between Palestin- of feminism and racial justice, style segregation. Cheerleaders of Israeli apartheid from the daily horror that is Israeli occupation. ians and other oppressed communities with envy, among the ranks of Angela Davis. simply don’t want to talk about how the occupied The truth is that intersectionality is more than oblivious to the reality that black, brown, yellow, red, Any slight against her credibility is territories are plagued with a state-sponsored ethnic abstract theory; it’s a reality painted with blood and queer, and working-class people live empathetically a sign of extreme moral cowardice. cleansing programme. barbed wire that can be traced from the slums of through tears, knowing each other’s suffering all too Questioning intersectionality is They don’t want to talk about how anti-miscege- Soweto to the ghettos of Gaza, to the streets of Oax- well. Even if the academy had not produced the term just a desperate attempt to separate nation laws treat Palestinian ethnicity like a venereal aca. There is a lengthy and beautiful organic “intersectionality” the experience would still exist. Palestinians from natural allies, disease. They don’t want to talk about the racial connection between Palestinians and other people of It’s not about strategy; it’s about transcendent collec- which falls well within the colonial criminalisation of Arabs that populates Israel’s pris- colour. tive trauma that the pomp and privilege of Tel Aviv tradition of divide and conquer. ons with a nearly three-quarters Palestinian This connection transcends the PLO sending suburbs or luxury settlements are alien to. Intersectionality describes the tan- majority. They don’t want to talk about the word donations to Nelson Mandela’s ANC; it transcends Conversely, Israel shares many similarities with gible connections between “araboushim”, the Hebrew equivalent of the “n” Huey P Newton’s visit to Lebanon where he met other settler colonies and the racist ideologies that Palestinians and other oppressed word, indicative of Palestinian subhuman social sta- Yasser Arafat; it transcends Palestinian support for produced them. Zionism embodies the same racial communities that a settler colo- tus. Zionists want us to engage nonsensical questions the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota narcissism and melodrama that found the employ- niser seeks to systematically sever. on their own terms so that we can validate a fictional Access Pipeline. It also transcends the convergence ment of John Boyega in the Star Wars franchise narrative that inverses reality. They want to render of systems of oppression such as Israel’s role as equivalent to a “white genocide”. The writer is a University of California our wounds invisible. nuclear arms broker to apartheid South Africa. Somehow in the midst of racially segregated Riverside graduate with a degree in A recent op-ed from a well-known Zionist Intersectionality is vested in a shared experience roads and mounting Palestinian corpses, Israel’s pro- Ethnic Studies. of racial subjugations, humiliation, and exploitation. ponents still manage to make it about the victimhood But even if those connections didn’t abundantly exist, of racists. it would still not justify the ethnic supremacy, settler Irony strikes again when they claim victimhood Questioning intersectionality colonial genocide and racial segregation that Israel from the same impoverished Palestinian masses that is just a desperate attempt inflicts on Palestinians. they simultaneously derive privilege from. While to separate Palestinians from Even if it didn’t exist, it wouldn’t justify wholesale Western Jews can freely roam the ancient land of torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. And even if Palestine, more than 200 of my relatives have been D-RING ROAD natural allies, which falls well black, Latino, Native, and LGBTQ populations didn’t confined to a refugee camp in Northern Jordan, POST BOX: 3488 within the colonial tradition already identify with Palestine, it still wouldn’t justify barred from reentering their ancestral homeland. DOHA - QATAR of divide and conquer. the bombardment of the starving, impoverished There are millions of Palestinians, myself included, masses of Gaza, resulting in the deaths of thousands waiting to exercise our legal and moral right to [email protected] Intersectionality describes of innocents, including my four-year-old cousin return as enshrined in UN Resolution 242. the tangible connections Deema Isleem, who was incinerated in her father’s Israel supporters often reference the racial Muslim between Palestinians and arms, to clear the land for racially exclusive boogey man to advance their cause. 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His first two-and-a-half wife-beater would for no longer abusing his spouse. seems to have done — so we can hope (even if we remain months in office have also demonstrated That said, he did it. He acknowledged, at least deeply skeptical). TEL: 4455 7613 that he is an awful manager who has sur- implicitly, a mistake and corrected it. But the other That said, at the end of the day, process is only part of the [email protected] rounded himself with a very mixed bag of corrections he also accepted - restoring the national equation. Personalities, as noted above, for better or for advisors that includes some who are cor- security advisor to the position of truly leading the worse, are part of it. (Bannon has to be kept from establishing ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT rupt, others who are profoundly misguided, NSC process, restoring more permanent represen- an “informal” back channel. 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His for- What they do is restore the national security lack of knowledge, that constrain him.) [email protected] eign-policy blunders have been so many structure to a more traditional shape and in so But, of course, policies matter, too. And this week we and so extreme that they would be an doing also show that not only does McMaster have have seen yet again that the Trump administration lacks a SUBSCRIPTION & DISTRIBUTION embarrassment to a president who had his head screwed on right but that he is deft enough coherent foreign policy and that where there are hints of one, TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 served two full terms in office. to set a course and implement it. What’s more, he they are disturbing. FAX: 44557819 All this and he and his team are likely did it in a way that worked, for this administration Most administrations struggle with foreign policy in their involved in the biggest political and spy and for Washington. He kept his head down. He early days. Some, like the George W. Bush administration, are [email protected] scandal in American history. avoided unnecessary publicity. He did not embar- shocked into shaping one. Others, like the Barack Obama This raises the question: Can it get any rass his boss. And he got it done. He was advertised administration, start out with a “not what the last guy was doing” worse? Or, alternatively, can it get any as one of Trump’s “grown-ups” and a man who sort of policy. All thoughts and views better? Is he irredeemable? Or can he could speak truth to power — and he is living up to Mostly though, they try things, make a mess, see who expressed in these columns learn, and would that help? his billing. The changes that have been put in place emerges as leaders on their team, and take a while to get their This week, we have been offered are sound. But more encouraging is that apparently footing and establish the doctrines and parameters that then are those of the writers, not answers that are marginally encouraging someone in charge of this policy process is the kind define them and upon which the world can depend. (Often I of the newspaper. and that are deeply disturbing - which on of smart professional we need. think, there is less coherence than policy pros or analysts will balance, even Trump critics must admit, is It should be noted that this view is supported by admit, even late in administrations. Governments are often All correspondence better than usual. other moves he has made, from the easing out of about reaction and seldom have the time or the inclination to regarding Views and On the positive side, Trump approved a Deputy National Security Advisor K T McFarland to a really fit all the pieces of the foreign-policy puzzle together. So Opinion pages should be shake-up in his National Security Council number of solid hires he has made from the best and they end up being defined by a few key traits — Obama’s cau- that is both welcome and smart. His new brightest of the mainstream Republican policy com- tion, Bush’s unilateralism, etc. — that oversimplify and don’t mailed to the national security adviser, H R McMaster, munity. In a White House that has thus far offered up prove helpful for anyone except pundits lacking imagination.) [email protected] 12 ASIA THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 Oppn meets President Australian PM visits Mumbai over EVM tampering

New Delhi Poll controversy Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Gujarat IANS and Uttar Pradesh, a number of Opposition raised such incidents have taken number of opposi- concern over what place," he said. tion leaders, they called an "We also informed the Pres- including Congress "environment of fear ident about how non-BJP-ruled President Sonia and insecurity" in the states are being destabilised by Gandhi, yesterday country. the government through mis- metA President Pranab Mukher- use of power of Governors and jee on the EVM issue and raised They submitted a by creating artificial majority (in concern over what they called memorandum to the Goa and Manipur) through an "environment of fear and President on alleged unethical means," Azad added. insecurity" in the country. Raising the issue of violence tampering of the Congress Vice President in Jammu and Kashmir, Azad Electronic Voting Rahul Gandhi and senior party said continued violence result- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (second left) walking with the Governor of leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Machines (EVMs) ing in deaths and injuries to Mallikarjun Kharge, Communist during the recent civilians and an overall failure the state of Maharashtra, Ch Vidyasagar Rao, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Party of India-Marxist General state polls, of governance in the state was Fadnavis following a meeting at the Governor House in Mumbai, yesterday. Secretary Sitaram Yechury and undermining of a matter of great national Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal constitutional concern. (United) were part of the institutions. "It is an imperative that the 13-party delegation that called government addresses the cri- on the President. sis and creates an reassuring BJP disowns leader's bounty They submitted a memoran- integrity," said Azad, the Leader environment for people to par- dum to the President on alleged of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. ticipate in the democratic tampering of the Electronic Vot- Arbitrariness in decision- process and caste their votes ing Machines (EVMs) during the making and the appointments without intimidation and vio- offer to behead Mamata recent state polls, undermining to key constitutional positions lence," he said. of constitutional institutions, in brazen disregard of estab- The memorandum men- Kolkata comments cannot be condoned. march forward. attacks on the minority commu- lished procedures and practices tioned that there had been a IANS "We doubt if he has the cred- "Now we are in Bengal. nity by lumpen elements in was a matter of concern, he said, tendency on the part of the gov- ibility to be a BJP Yuva Morcha Slowly we will move on to Bihar, Rajasthan and elsewhere, and adding: "The environment of ernment to avoid legislative he BJP yesterday disowned leader. Such comments cannot Odisha, Jharkhand, Delhi, Pun- unabated violence in Jammu fear and insecurity is prevailing scrutiny and bypass established a youth leader who trig- be supported by anyone. He has jab and Uttar Pradesh." and Kashmir, among others. in the country and voices of dis- practices for the enactment of Tgered outrage by offering made a most jihadi-like state- In the Lok Sabha, Parlia- The delegation sought Pres- sent are being muzzled." legislation. Rs 11 lakh to anyone who ment," Sinha said in Kolkata. mentary Affairs Minister Ananth ident's intervention to protect "Triggering false debates, Concerned over malfunc- beheads West Bengal Chief Min- "We will continue to oppose Kumar condemned the remarks. India's constitutional democ- orchestrating inflammatory nar- tioning and alleged tampering ister Mamata Banerjee. An Mamata Banerjee on political "The statement ... is com- racy, preserve its plurality and ratives on nationalism, with EVMs, which raised ques- unperturbed Banerjee said she grounds. But the BJP does not pletely wrong. We condemn it. diversity, safeguard fundamen- exploiting religious sentiments tions on the sanctity of entire considers such threats as approve the politics of hatred Mamata Banerjee is an elected tal rights and ensure that the and threats of violence to the electoral process, the leaders of "blessings". and murder though such leader and she must be rule of law is upheld in letter and citizens are vitiating the envi- various opposition parties had As the Trinamool Congress extreme comments were made respected," he said. spirit, a Congress leader said. ronment and jeopardising the also met the Election Commis- and Congress raised the issue by Trinamool Congress leaders Varshney of the Bharatiya "Through our memorandum, cause of peace and security." sion authorities on Monday, angrily in Parliament, demand- earlier," he said. Janata Yuva Morcha made the we drew his attention to the "Self-styled lumpen ele- Azad said. According to the sen- ing action against Yogesh Speaking in Murshidabad, statement after police clashed recent critical developments ments have indulged in violence ior Congress leader, they have Varshney, the Bharatiya Janata Banerjee said: "I am being with people taking part in a which have seriously under- and mob lynching of citizens been assured by the Commis- Party distanced itself from the Ali- abused variously. I consider that Hanuman Jayanti rally in West mined accepted norms of and harassment is being wit- sion of an all-party meeting on garh-based leader. BJP national as blessings. The more they Bengal's Birbhum district on governance and institutional nessed across the country. In the issue.. Secretary Rahul Sinha said such abuse us, they more we will Tuesday.

NEWS BYTES Four held for 71% turnout in Malappuram bypoll cheating banks Street children march in Agra Malappuram IANS over Rs22,400m AGRA: Urging Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to provide them identity and a secure future, scores of street ver 71 percent turnout New Delhi children of the Taj city took out a march here on the Interna- was recorded in the IANS tional Day of Street Children. Holding placards and raising Obypoll to the Malap- slogans, the children on Tuesday evening marched to the puram Lok Sabha constituency he CBI has arrested four Agra District Magistrate's residence. "Yogiji give us iden- in Kerala yesterday and could directors of Delhi-based tity, education, protection and respect," shouted the group still go up as many voters were TSurya Vinayak Indus- of street children. "Most of the street children live in slums, still in the queues when polling tries Ltd for cheating a footpaths, railway stations or bus stands, doing odd jobs or ended officially, election offi- consortium of banks over begging," Naresh Paras, regional coordinator of NGO Mah- cials said. Rs22,400m, an agency offi- fooz, said. The number of street kids is high in Agra, as they According to the figures from cial said yesterday. usually find succour at various tourist locations, Paras said. the Chief Electoral Officer, the Sanjay Jain, Rajiv Jain, turnout at 5pm stood at 70.40 Rohit Chaudhary and Sanjeev Nepal President to visit India next week percent and with voters still in Muslim League candidate P K Kunhalikutty and other leaders Agarwal have been arrested queue when polls closed at 6pm, after voting. on the complaint of the Pun- NEW DELHI: Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari will pay the final figure could well be jab National Bank, said the an official visit to India at the invitation of President Pranab more than the 71.21 percent turn- problems at all. The election was body member and youth leader Central Bureau of Investiga- Mukherjee from April 17 to 21, the External Affairs Ministry out seen in 2014 Lok sabha polls called after the death of sitting M B Faizal and the Bharatiya tion (CBI) official. announced yesterday. This will the first state visit of Bhandari and the 74.95 percent turnout in MP, E Ahamed of the IUML Janata Party has brought in Sree It was alleged that the to India after she assumed office in October 2015. "The upcom- the seven assembly constituen- leader. Prakash. accused fraudulently used ing visit reflects the priority that both India and Nepal attach cies that make up the The IUML has fielded former Soon after casting his vote, more than 100 shell compa- to further strengthening of their age-old, unique, wide-rang- parliamentary constituency. Kerala Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty said the party's nies for the diversion of bank ing partnership, underpinned by shared historical and cultural The highlight of the poll has Kunhalikutty, a sitting legisla- victory margin was set to go up funds. The official said that linkages and strong people-to-people connections," the Exter- been, even though all the three tor and one of the most popular and as the voting ended, he said there was no genuine busi- nal Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During the visit, rival fronts had engaged in a faces of the party. that the increase in turnout will ness between the firm run by Bhandari will meet Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari keen election campaign, the vot- The Communist Party of ensure that the margin of the the accused and the shell and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ing day passed off without any India-Marxist has fielded local victory would be better. companies. Kerala intelligence chief goofs up THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala intelligence chief Mohammed Yasin yesterday found himself in an embarrass- Tribal rights denial raises fears of violence ing situation when he mistook a state minister for the latter's Cabinet colleague. Yasin, an Additional Director General of Mumbai conferred in critical tiger habi- wildlife and humans into con- poaching and also help in con- Police, went to Revenue Minister E. Chandrasekharan's res- Reuters tats,” said the notice to 17 states flict across the country as land servation efforts.” idence at around 7.30 a.m. and as the minister came out to with tiger reserves. is increasingly sought for indus- India has about half the meet him, the senior IPS officer asked if he was Agriculture he Indian government has The Forest Rights Act (FRA) trial projects. world’s estimated 3,200 tigers Minister Sunil Kumar. A baffled minister then asked a staff directed states not to grant of 2006 gives indigenous peo- Land reserved for wildlife in dozens of reserves established member to guide Yasin to the residence of his party and Cabinet Trights to indigenous peo- ple and forest dwellers the right including tigers, elephants and since the 1970s. colleague Sunil Kumar. Confirming the goof-up, the Revenue ple and forest dwellers living in to harvest and use forest rhinoceros is also inhabited by Wildlife tourism is a grow- Minister told reporters that such a mistake should not have tiger reserves, a move that could resources to maintain their tra- tribal villagers and hundreds ing money spinner for India, occurred, especially on part of a senior intelligence officer. hurt vulnerable communities, ditional livelihoods. have been evicted in violent even as conservationists are trigger clashes and endanger More than a fifth of India’s clashes recently. divided over whether visitors HC directs CBI to probe actor's death wildlife, human rights activists 1.2 billion population was The new order will only trig- help protect threatened species said. expected to benefit from the law ger more such clashes and or encroach on their habitat. KOCHI: The Kerala High Court yesterday directed the CBI to The National Tiger Conser- covering vast areas of forest land impoverish vulnerable commu- Brinda Karat, a member of begin a probe, within a month, into the death of actor Kalabha- vation Authority issued a notice roughly the size of Germany. nities, said Brajesh Dubey at the the opposition communist party, van Mani. The family of Mani approached the court seeking to states two weeks ago asking But implementation has conservation non-profit Foun- asked Prime Minister Narendra a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe. Mani, 45, who officials to suspend granting of been slow and conflicts between dation for Ecological Security. Modi to withdraw the order. acted in 200 films in Malayalam and other languages, was rights to tribals and other forest states and tribal communities ”We are going to see more "This open contempt for laws admitted in a hospital here on March 4 last year as he said to dwellers under the Forest Rights have risen as demand for land people displaced because the that provide some protection for be suffering from a liver ailment. He died two days later. A Act in all critical tiger habitats. increases in one of the world’s government wants to show they the rights of millions of tribals police probe team has, even after more than three months, ”In the absence of guidelines fastest growing economies. care about tigers,” he said. and forest dwellers is unprece- not been able to make much headway. for notification of critical wild- Scarcity of land has also ”But it has been proven that dented," she said in a letter to life habitats, no rights shall be brought the competing needs of tribal communities help prevent Modi. THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 ASIA 13

Fury in Vietnam over dragged Xi calls for calm on N Korea war threat United passenger Avoiding clash Beijing warned that the Korean penin- Trump had initiated the call, at a Syrian airfield in response Reuters sula was the closest it has been urged everyone to lower the to a deadly gas attack last week. Hanoi Chinese Foreign to a "military clash" since North tension. "Not only is Washington Reuters Ministry spokesman hinese President Xi Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. "We hope that the relevant brimming with confidence and said, We hope that Jinping called for a Trump said on Twitter on parties do not adopt irresponsi- arrogance following the missile OUTRAGE spread to Viet- the relevant parties peaceful resolution of Tuesday that North Korea was ble actions. Under the current attacks on Syria, but Trump is nam yesterday over United do not adopt rising tension on the "looking for trouble" and the circumstances, this is very dan- also willing to be regarded as a Airlines' handling of a passen- irresponsible actions. Korean peninsula in United States would "solve the gerous," Lu said. man who honours promises". ger dragged from his seat after Under the current Ca telephone conversation with problem" with or without Chi- China's Global Times news- "The US is making up its it emerged that the 69-year- circumstances, this is US President Donald Trump yes- na's help. paper said in an editorial that mind to stop the North from con- old US doctor was Vietnamese very dangerous. terday, as a US aircraft carrier Xi stressed in their telephone North Korea should halt any plan ducting further nuclear tests. It by birth. strike group steamed towards call that China "is committed to for nuclear and missile activities doesn't plan to co-exist with a Although United Airlines the region. the target of denuclearisation on "for its own security". While nuclear-armed Pyongyang," it has no direct flights to Viet- China's Global Times Trump, in an early morning the peninsula, safeguarding widely read in China and run by said. "Pyongyang should avoid nam, there were widespread newspaper said in an note on Twitter, said the call peace and stability on the penin- the ruling Communist Party's making mistakes at this time." calls on social media for a editorial that North with Xi, just days after they met sula, and advocates resolving official People's Daily, the Glo- The Global Times said if boycott after video showed a Korea should halt any in the United States, was a "very problems through peaceful bal Times does not represent North Korea made another pro- bloodied David Dao being plan for nuclear and good" discussion of the "men- means", Chinese state broad- government policy. vocative move, "Chinese society" yanked out of the plane by missile activities "for ace of North Korea". caster CCTV said. The newspaper noted might be willing to back unprec- airport security to make way its own security". The call came as an influen- Chinese Foreign Ministry Trump's recent decision to edented sanctions, "such as for United employees. tial state-run Chinese newspaper spokesman Lu Kang, who said launch 59 Tomahawk missiles restricting oil imports". The ire in Vietnam grew quickly after it was reported that Dao's origins were not in the Southeast Asian country's old enemy, China, as many Preparations Premier vetoes military had at first assumed. Vietnamese also fumed at allegations over Dao's past use of Sri Lankan ports reported in the US as irrele- vant and possibly racist. Tokyo Ocean again," Wickremesinghe "Watching this makes my Reuters told a joint news conference blood boil, I'll never fly United following a meeting with his Airlines," commented Anh ri Lanka will make sure no Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Trang Khuya on Facebook. military activity is con- Abe. Nguyen Khac Huy wrote: Sducted at its ports, Prime "We want to ensure that we "Boycott United!!! This is Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe develop all our ports, and all excessive! said in Tokyo yesterday, as these ports are used for com- Let's be loving and united, China invests heavily in roads mercial activity, transparent Vietnamese people!" and harbours on island nation. activity, and will not be avail- There was no immediate Beijing, which is fortifying able to anyone for any military comment from the govern- islands in the South China Sea activity." ment or in state media. to which it lays claim, has He did not mention any Video showing Dao being pumped hundreds of millions specific countries. pulled from United Airlines of dollars in Sri Lanka's infra- China's investments in Flight 3411 at Chicago O'Hare structure since the end of the transportation infrastructure in International Airport on Sun- country's civil war in 2009, Sri Lanka are considered part day went viral and the when Colombo was shunned of its ambitions to build mari- Women carry accessories as North Korea prepares to mark 105th birth anniversary of worldwide backlash hit the by Western investors over its time routes to the oil-rich airline's share price and Kim Il-sung, North Korea's founding father and grandfather of the current ruler, in central human rights record. Middle East and on to Europe. prompted an apology from the Pyongyang, yesterday. "Sri Lanka hopes to become That makes some countries company chief executive. the regional hub of the Indian nervous.

Dozens of Thais Coral reef damage may harm Australia's tourism stranded over Sydney prospect" of recovery after council's Lesley Hughes Great Barrier Reef risk declines... that live in their tissue and pro- AFP researchers detected another yesterday. from 2.8 million visitors (2015 vide them with food -- after travel scam round of mass bleaching due to "It's responsible for bringing figures) to around 1.7 million per previous events in 1998, 2002 ass coral bleaching on warming sea temperatures. in more than Aus$7.0bn each year," the study said, citing anal- and 2016. Bangkok Australia's Great Barrier In a new study, Australia's year to our economy, while also ysis by the Australia Institute It is also under pressure from AP MReef could cost the independent Climate Council supporting the livelihoods of think-tank. farming run-off, development region more than a million tour- said that further damage to the around 70,000 people." "This is the equivalent of and the crown-of-thorns THE traditional Thai New ists a year and up to $760m in 2,300km long reef could Even if parts of the reef hurt more than Aus$1bn in tourism starfish. Year's holiday has turned out lost revenue, a study warned severely affect tourism prospects by bleaching bounce back, sci- expenditure, which supports And last month the site was to be anything but fun for more yesterday. and cost around 10,000 jobs. entists say it could take up to a around 10,000 tourism jobs in hammered by Cyclone Debbie, than 1,000 would-be trave- Scientists said this week that "This isn't just an environ- decade for even the fastest grow- regional Queensland." mostly affecting southern areas lers who were stranded at coral bleached for two consec- mental issue. The Great Barrier ing corals to recover. The reef is experiencing its around the Whitsunday islands Bangkok's international air- utive years at the World Reef is one of Australia's great- "If coral bleaching persists, fourth mass bleaching -- where which largely escaped the port after their cut-rate tour Heritage-listed site had "zero est economic assets," said the tourism areas adjacent to the stressed corals expel the algae bleaching. packages to Japan turned out to be an apparent scam. Police said hundreds of people lodged complaints after finding themselves at HK arrests lawmaker for Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday with no flight to board. upending Chinese flags They said they had booked six-day tour packages Hong Kong and regional flags by "publicly with WealthEver, better AFP and wilfully burning, mutilat- known as a multi-level mar- ing, scrawling on, defiling or keting company. Hong Kong lawmaker trampling on them". Victims told Thai televi- was arrested yesterday "The clear and obvious goal sion interviewers that they A for "desecrating" the Chi- is to eliminate dissent" before paid $280 for a package nese and Hong Kong flags by the city's newly elected pro- including airfare and turning them upside down in Beijing leader Carrie Lam takes accommodation. parliament. office in July," Cheng said. One way-fare from Bang- Cheng Chung-tai upended He said that Hong Kong was kok to Tokyo alone typically small China and Hong Kong facing a "massive purge" costs more than $400. flags that some legislators had against pro-democracy voices. Thai media reported that displayed on their desks in the The city was handed back to WealthEver boss Pasit Arin- assembly last October. China by colonial ruler Britain in chalapit was detained by Under Hong Kong law, it is 1997 under a "one country, two police late Wednesday in an offence to desecrate national systems" formula. Ranong, a border province. Pupils playing with the background of Mount Sinabung volcano spewing thick smoke. Smoke & ash as Mt Sinabung erupts again Taiwan bans dog and cat meat trade Karo disaster agency said recently. Villagers continue their pre- AFP The clouds of smoke carious existences despite the Beijing law to double the maximum according to the amendments shrouded the sky above a school eruptions, putting on masks to AP penalty for deliberate harm to passed Tuesday. volcano on Indonesia's in North Sumatra province but go shopping as ash falls from the animals to two years in prison While consumption of dogs Sumatra island spewed children continued to play out- sky, and tending to their crops. aiwan has banned the and a fine of $65,000. and cats was never widespread, Ahot smoke and ash high side in the yard in the shadow Over 2,000 families have sale and consumption of People who sell or eat dog the amendments point to into the air yesterday, in its lat- of the volcano. been evacuated from around the Tdog and cat meat and or cat meat face a fine of up to increasing awareness of animal est violent eruptions. Local authorities insist the rumbling volcano in recent increased the penalty for ani- $8,000 and their identity may welfare on the island, where "Mount Sinabung has school is safe as it is outside a 7km years, and many will soon be mal cruelty. be publicised. Drivers and many residents lavish money erupted repeatedly in recent restricted area around the vol- relocated to new villages after The legislature amended motorcyclists who pull animals and attention on their pets amid days, pumping hot gas clouds cano, which has been erupting lengthy stays in temporary Taiwan's animal protection along on a leash also face fines, a plunging birthrate. up to 3km into the sky," the local almost continuously since 2013. shelters. 14 ASIA THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 Sayyaf rebels on the run after foiled kidnap raid

Manila Gunmen at large Philippines island of Jolo, which AFP is about 500km away from Five Abu Sayyaf Bohol. ilitants who landed gunmen, along with The island is just half an on a Philippine an unknown number hour's boat ride from Cebu, tourist island trig- of local collaborators, another major tourism draw. gering deadly remain at large after The incursion is the first on clashes with secu- the clashes. a major destination in recent Mrity forces had planned to stage years by the group, which a mass kidnapping, the military pledges allegiance to the IS. said yesterday as it pursued five Authorities in Cebu, Ano said the Bohol plan was fighters still on the loose. an island of nearly put into motion late last week as The army said the Abu Sayyaf five million people, millions of local and foreign group, notorious for a kidnap- warned their citizens tourists prepared to hit the coun- for-ransom spree that has about potential try's beaches ahead of the Easter targeted foreigners, had planned kidnapping raids holidays. to snatch up to a dozen tourists following the Bohol Philippine intelligence agen- Soldiers wade through a river as they search for the hideout of militants in Inabanga town, around Easter Sunday when cies got wind of the plot last attack. Bohol province, yesterday. resorts are packed. week, and alerted the military The group of 11 gunmen and foreign counterpart agen- landed by boat on Bohol -- one Ano said the gang, which cies, though authorities lost track fought back with high-end sniper Canadians, a Norwegian and a warned their citizens about of the country's top tourism spots arrived on three boats, had of the gunmen in the open seas. rifles while holed up in a con- Filipina -- were snatched. potential kidnapping raids fol- -- sparking a gunbattle with planned to acclimatise in the The US and Australian gov- crete house, according to The two Canadian men were lowing the Bohol attack. security forces on Tuesday that area and send scouts into resorts ernments later warned their officials. beheaded last year while the "It is unlikely that they have left six insurgents dead and also to scope out kidnapping citizens about possible "terror- Ano said that among the Norwegian man and the Filipina the operational capability to do killed three soldiers and a targets. ist" abductions in Bohol and dead was a key Abu Sayyaf were freed unharmed. further damage now. However, policeman. "They are expecting proba- Cebu. leader known by his alias Abu Ano said Abu Rahmi's group other elements may exist," Cebu "Five Abu Sayyaf gunmen, bly to kidnap four or five persons Ano said the five remaining Rahmi. also attacked a German couple city Mayor Tomas Osmena said along with an unknown number per boat, so at least 10 to 12 kid- fighters fled after an overnight The claim could not be inde- on a yacht at sea last year, mur- on his Facebook page. of local collaborators, remain at nap victims was their (overall) siege near a remote village. pendently confirmed. dering the woman on board and As the government moved to large after the clashes which took plan," he said. "They are all running for He said Abu Rahmi was taking the man hostage. He was contain the fallout on the lucra- place in a rural district," said mil- The Abu Sayyaf launched the their lives," he said. behind a 2015 raid on the south- later killed. tive tourism industry, the itary chief of staff General strike from their remote strong- Helicopter gunships were ern island resort of Samal in Authorities in Cebu, an island military said it would repel sim- Eduardo Ano. hold on the lawless southern used to bomb the militants, who which four tourists -- two of nearly five million people, ilar incursions.

US recognises Pakistan’s fight against terrorism NEWS BYTES Islamabad in Afghanistan. This disbursement uses CSF made a decision on certifica- Canadian 'citizenship' for Malala Internews This amount was set aside funds that are not restricted by tion,” Stump said, noting that the for this purpose in the US fiscal the Secretary of Defence certi- Pakistani people had made sig- OTTAWA: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became he US Department of year 2016, which ended on Sept fication of Pakistan’s actions on nificant sacrifices over the last only the sixth person to receive honorary Canadian citizen- Defence said yesterday 30, and covers the services pro- the Haqqani network. three years in order to counter ship yesterday, before advocating in a speech to parliament Tthat it authorised the dis- vided from January to June 2015. In the 2016 US National terrorism. for women and girls' education -- a cause dear to Prime Min- bursement of $550m to Pakistan “The department recognises Defence Authorisation Act, Paki- “We continue to be encour- ister Justin Trudeau. this year as recognition of the the significant sacrifices the stan was slated to receive up to aged by Pakistan’s operations in The young woman was welcomed to the seat of Canada's significant sacrifices the Paki- Pakistan military has made in $900m from the CSF but the dis- North Waziristan and elsewhere democracy in Ottawa by Trudeau. stani military has made in the the fight against terrorism, and bursement of the remaining in the Federally Administered Yousafzai is the youngest person to speak to Canadian fight against terrorism. appreciates Pakistan’s contin- $350m will require the secre- Tribal Areas. Pakistan’s efforts members of parliament and senators in a joint session. The money comes from the ued support for transit of tary of defence to certify that have reduced the ability of some Coalition Support Funds (CSF), material to coalition forces in Pakistan has taken sufficient militant groups to use North which reimburses Pakistan for Afghanistan,” said Adam Stump, action against the Haqqani Waziristan and Fata as a safe Powerful quake rocks Mindanao providing logistical, military, and a US Defence Department network. haven for terrorism,” the US offi- other support to US operations spokesman. “The secretary has not yet cial said. ZAMBOANGA CITY: A strong earthquake hit parts of south- ern Mindanao island yesterday, damaging at least 30 houses, two mosques, some commercial buildings, a school and sev- eral roads, local authorities said. Pakistan new According to the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the magnitude 6 quake had its epicentre in Wao in Lanao del Sur province. It was also felt in the provinces of education policy Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental, the cities of Cagagan de Oro, covers child care Cocabato, Gingoog and Davao.

Islamabad Al Qaeda members held in Karachi Internews KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday announced the arrest of five THE new education policy suspected Al Qaeda operatives said to be planning major ter- being worked on will incor- rorist attacks in the country’s commercial capital, Karachi. porate a separate chapter on "The alleged terrorists, arrested in an operation from Kara- early childhood development, chi’s western district, were trained in war-torn Afghanistan care and pre-primary edu- and Syria," Col Qaiser Ahmed of the paramilitary Pakistan cation. Rangers said. "The group belonged to Al Qaeda’s South Asia This was stated by Minis- chapter, and had already been involved in several attacks ter for Federal Education and and killing of security personnel and civilians in Karachi." Policemen keep watch at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, yesterday. Professional Training, Engr Baligh ur Rehman while talk- ing to UN delegation led by Bangladesh executes 3 militants Assistant Secretary General Five dead in Kabul bomb attack and Global Coordinator of DHAKA: Bangladesh executed a militant leader and two aides Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Kabul Three other people were left interior ministry spokesman yesterday for a grenade attack on the British ambassador in Movement Gerda Verburg. AFP wounded in the explosion, Najib Danish said yesterday. 2004, days after the president turned down their clemency The Minister welcomed which occurred during after- Islamic State group claimed pleas, a senior prison official said. Verburg and appreciated SUN t least five people were noon rush hour when employees the attack through its propa- The Supreme Court last month upheld death sentences Movement’s efforts for tack- killed yesterday when a of the ministry were likely to go ganda agency Amaq. for the three militants, who included Mufti Abdul Hannan, ling issues and challenges of Asuicide bomber on foot home. It said that the bomber had the head of the Harkat-ul Jihad Islami group, for the attack malnutrition globally. struck near the Afghan Defence "Most of the people killed targeted a checkpoint outside on a Muslim shrine that killed three people and wounded the “We share the signifi- Ministry in the capital, Kabul, and wounded were civilians, but the Afghanistan Presidential then British high commissioner. cance of adopting a officials said. we don't know the exact target," Palace. multi-sectoral and collabo- rative approach to eliminate malnutrition in all its forms at national and sub-national level in Pakistan". China warns off intervention over detained Taiwanese Verburg congratulated the Minister on the overall improvements in the educa- Beijing spokesman An Fengshan said recognise Taiwanese passports An said at a biweekly news are seizing this opportunity to tion sector, especially the AP that China had passed on letters and requires islanders to use to conference that authorities were attack mainland are doomed to declining rate of out-of- from Lee Ming-che, who is under a Beijing-issued document called protecting the legal rights of Lee, failure. They will not achieve their school children and provision eijing yesterday warned investigation for endangering a Taiwan Compatriots Pass to who was taken into custody on goal of interfering in the work of of infrastructural facilities in outside groups against China's national security, of his visit the mainland. March 19, but that he had no relevant mainland departments the schools, particularly the Bseeking to intervene in the wife and parents. Although Beijing cut off its other information about his case. in handling the case by law". availability of toilets. case of a Taiwanese pro-democ- On Monday, Lee's wife was already limited contacts with the However, he said outside An warned also against She appreciated role of racy activist detained in China, prevented from flying to Beijing island's government in June, An interference would "only render "attempts by the Taiwan author- Ministry of Federal Education saying that would complicate to seek a meeting with her hus- said it had commissioned a the issue even more complicated ities to use the incident to attack and Professional Training in matters and harm already tense band because China canceled third-party in Taiwan to "relate and harm the interests of the the mainland," saying that "can introducing the WASH pro- relations between Taiwan and her travel permit. the relevant situation" to Lee's person concerned." only make the current, already gramme for ensuring proper the mainland. China, which claims Taiwan wife and pass letters from Lee to "A few Taiwanese people and extremely grim cross-strait rela- sanitation and hygiene. Taiwan Affairs Office as its own territory, doesn't her and his parents. groups with ulterior motives who tionship even worse." THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 EUROPE 15 Putin meets Tillerson amid soaring tensions

The agenda for the meeting happened last week in rebel- Syria quagmire wasn't announced. The two lead- held territory in northern Syria. The meeting was ers were expected to discuss "Frankly, Putin is backing a steeped in disagreement about whether person that's truly an evil per- geopolitical intrigue, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad son," Trump said, referring to or his opposition was responsi- Assad. "I think it's very bad for with neither country ble for a chemical weapons Russia. I think it's very bad for saying ahead of time attack last week that led to US mankind." if it would take place retaliatory cruise missiles. Con- Of Assad, Trump added: "This or not. flicts over Russia's actions in is an animal." Ukraine and Russia's alleged And Putin, who US intelli- Top US diplomat got interference in the US presiden- gence agencies say tried to help chilly reception from tial campaign were also likely Trump get elected, insisted that Russian Foreign topics. relations with the US had only Minister Sergei The meeting was steeped in gone downhill since Trump took Lavrov. geopolitical intrigue, with nei- office in January. ther country saying ahead of "The level of trust at the Moscow time if it would take place or not. working level, especially at the AP Earlier yesterday, Russia's top military level, has not become diplomat accused the United better but most likely has ussian President States of carrying out an unlaw- degraded," Putin said in an inter- Vladimir Putin met ful attack against Syrian President view broadcast yesterday by with US Secretary of Bashar Al Assad's forces. state television channel Mir. State Rex Tillerson in Giving Tillerson a chilly Moscow has objected to Moscow yesterday as reception, Russian Foreign Min- Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a space suit helmet as he speaks with veteran Trump's decision to launch 59 Rthe two countries traded sharp ister Sergey Lavrov said Russia cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (second right) and Valentina Tereshkova (left) at a screening of US Tomahawk missiles at a Syr- accusations about a chemical was trying to understand the "The Spacewalker" in Moscow. ian air base that the US says was weapons attack in Syria. "real intentions" of the Trump used to pummel civilians with Tillerson, making the first administration. He said Moscow the risks of replay of similar Business News that the US had tension hanging over Tillerson's nerve gas. Russia, Assad's visit by a Trump Cabinet official, has lots of questions about the action in the future." no plans to become more deeply trip spoke to a widening chasm staunchest ally, has insisted that went to the Kremlin in the early "very ambiguous" and "contra- It was an ominous start to involved in Syria and only did so between the former Cold War it was the rebels responsible for evening to meet with the Rus- dictory" ideas emanating from Tillerson's visit. Tillerson con- because of last week's deadly foes. the disbursed chemical weap- sian leader, the US Embassy and Washington. ceded the two world powers had chemical weapons attack that Only weeks ago, it appeared ons. Intelligence services from the Kremlin said. Though Pres- "We have seen very alarm- "sharp differences" that have killed dozens. Turkey has said that Trump, who lavishly praised several Western countries dis- ident Donald Trump has spoken ing actions recently with an obstructed cooperation but tests showed sarin gas was used. Putin throughout the campaign, pute that claim. The health with Putin by phone, the meet- unlawful attack against Syria," voiced optimism that their talks "Are we going to get involved was poised for a potentially his- minister in Turkey, which treated ing was believed to be the first Lavrov said, referring to the could narrow those differences. with Syria? No," Trump said in toric rapprochement with Russia. many of the attack's victims and between Putin and a top mem- cruise missiles Trump ordered "We both have agreed our lines the interview, which aired yes- But any expectations of an easy conducted autopsies on others, ber of Trump's administration to punish Assad for using chem- of communication shall always terday in the US. "But if I see rapport have crashed into real- said Tuesday that test results since the new American presi- ical weapons. "We consider it of remain open," Tillerson said. them using gas...we have to do ity as the two countries trade conducted on victims confirmed dent took office in January. utmost importance to prevent Trump, meanwhile, told Fox something." The palpable escalating accusations over what sarin gas was used. Wiretapping Threats and bullets as French election race heats up rooms found Paris targeted, according to a person him from running. near caves Bloomberg familiar with the matter, who Reporters Without Borders asked not to be named because and the SNJ-CGT, a union of everal French journalists the information is not public. journalists, have both pointed to in Slovenia and investigative judges “This intimidation is unac- Fillon’s comments that he would Sreceived letters with death ceptable in a democracy and “go after all those that started Postojna threats and bullets just weeks takes place in an atmosphere this case in due course” and that Reuters from the first round of voting in already tainted by toxic and dan- “those who started the case a presidential election campaign gerous remarks against won’t sleep well going forward.” our surveillance rooms marred by the legal woes of journalists from politicians,” The Republican candidate has believed to date back to Republican candidate Francois Christophe Deloire, the Secre- also repeatedly said that he con- Fcommunist-era Yugo- Fillon. tary General of Reporters siders it defamatory to say his slavia and filled with Journalists at weekly Le Without Borders, said in a state- wife’s job was bogus. dust-covered listening equip- Canard Enchaine, whose report ment last week when the first The threats are aimed at ment have been discovered that Fillon had employed his wife threats were received. Paris “muzzling journalists to prevent behind a Slovenian hotel sit- for years as a parliamentary aide prosecutors are investigating the them from doing their job and uated next to one of the triggered a criminal investiga- matter. see through their investigations world’s largest limestone tion, online newspaper The front-runner for months, French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! in the context of the Fillon case,” caves. Mediapart and Sunday newspa- Fillon started sliding in poll rat- movement Emmanuel Macron (centre) and his wife Brigitte according to the SNJ-CGT. The wiretapping rooms per Le Journal du Dimanche ings right after the Canard Reporters Without Borders said Trogneux during a lunch break on a mountain top during a were found behind a solid received the death threats in the reported on January 25 that his the letters each contained a 22 campaign visit in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, yesterday. steel door during renovation the last six days. The financial wife had collected about ¤1m Long Rifle calibre bullet and work at the back of the Hotel prosecutor’s office and the three ($1.1m) in public money without minister was then charged with who has maintained his inno- were sent from Marseilles and Jama and lead directly to the investigative judges in charge of doing much to earn it. The the misuse of public funds as the cence, has accused investigators signed by a group going by the Postojna Cave’s interior. the Fillon probe were also 63-year-old former prime investigation deepened. Fillon, of being part of a plot to prevent name “Epuration 2J.” The spy rooms were likely built around 1969 when the hotel was under construction, according to Marjan Batagelj Wings over white terrain who heads the company Metro bomber was managing the hotel and cave, a major tourist attraction in the former Balkan state. The absence of humidity expelled from Turkey in the rooms made them ideal locations to store sensitive Istanbul problems,” the official said. equipment, Batagelj said, Reuters The Turkish official’s account con- while the thick layers of dust firmed information given to Reuters by suggest the rooms have laid kbarzhon Jalilov, the man Rus- two of Jalilov’s acquaintances. They said undisturbed for years. sian police suspect of blowing up that he had acquired an interest in Islam “Those centres were part Aa St Petersburg metro carriage, and left Russia for Turkey at the end of of a wider wiretapping sys- entered Turkey in late 2015 and was 2015, after which they lost contact. tem operated by UDBA, the deported to Russia about a year later Jalilov, a Russian citizen who was secret political police,” said because of migration violations, a sen- born in the mainly Muslim ex-Soviet researcher Igor Omerza, who ior Turkish official said yesterday. republic of Kyrgyzstan, revealed no out- has published books on Slov- The April 3 attack killed 14 people, ward signs of radicalism, his enian history. including the bomber himself, and acquaintances said, and no evidence “They used this for sur- injured dozens more. It took place as has emerged that he belonged to any veillance of people they Russian President Vladimir Putin— established Islamist militant groups. believed were their political French Alphajets flying over Greenland during a stage from Keflavik, Iceland, architect of Russia’s military That has made it harder for Russian opponents.” and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, as part of the Patrouille de France's US Tour intervention in Syria—was visiting St security agencies to establish how he Omerza said Yugoslavia’s 2017. Petersburg. carried out the attack on the metro former communist leader The Turkish official, who spoke on train, and whether he has associates Josip Broz Tito used to stay at condition of anonymity, said that while who are planning future attacks. the hotel, as did foreign and in Turkey Jalilov “was deemed suspi- At the time he left for Turkey, Jal- local dignitaries. Cables run- cious due to some connections he had, ilov was living in St Petersburg, where ning from the surveillance but no action was taken as he had not he worked as a restaurant cook and in rooms to the hotel indicate Mogherini to make first visit to Russia done anything illegal and there was no a car repair shop. some hotel rooms had also evidence of wrongdoing.” Soon after he was deported from been tapped, he said. Brussels by the Ukraine conflict and in deep freeze over its sup- “However, the issue was not Turkey, he travelled to his native city “I don’t think Tito himself AFP the war in Syria. port for pro-Russian rebels dropped and this person was sent out of Osh, in Kyrgyzstan, local officials was wiretapped, they proba- She will also visit China fighting an insurgency in of Turkey in December 2016 for violat- there said. From there, he went back to bly wouldn’t dare to do that, U foreign affairs chief and India next week, her eastern Ukraine and its ing their visa and residency. In the end, St Petersburg, moving into a new apart- but anything is possible. I Federica Mogherini office said in a statement 2014 annexation of a fine was given and they were deported ment in early March this year. think they primarily wire- Ewill make her first yesterday. Crimea. with an entry ban,” the official said. Prosecutors said security camera foot- tapped guests who met with official visit to Russia this Most attention is likely Mogherini will also After leaving Turkey, Jalilov’s “pas- age showed him leaving that apartment him there, foreigners,” he month, with relations to focus on her trip to Mos- meet Lavrov, the statement sage into Russia was easy from here, it on the day of the attack carrying a ruck- said. strained to breaking point cow on April 24, with ties from her office said. seems they (Jalilov) encountered no sack and another bag. 16 EUROPE THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 EU warns Hungary & Disneyland Paris turns 25 Poland over migrants

Burden sharing the Commission will not hesi- tate to make use of its powers European ... for those which have not Commission complied,” the bloc’s executive threatens legal arm said in a statement. The action if the two Commission had proposed to members keep fine member states for failing blocking migrants. to take in migrants, but there has been little political backing EU officials are split for such a step. A court case would not resolve the issue over whether to quickly, but could add to open legal mounting pressure for action proceedings over Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, from other EU states. relocation. above, and Polish President Italy has been in the fore- Andrzej Duda. front of calling for cuts to EU Euro Disney S A S President Catherine Powell poses with Disney character Mickey Mouse subsidies to Poland and Hun- during the 25th anniversary of Disneyland Paris at the park in Marne-la-Vallee, near Paris, Brussels gary over migration. Germany, yesterday. Reuters Sweden, Austria and France — the most frequent final he European Union’s exec- destinations — have also been utive stepped up pressure stepping up pressure on the Ton Poland and Hungary hold-outs. yesterday to take in asylum Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia Navalny calls Russia Day protests seekers under the bloc’s migra- and the Czech Republic have tion plan or risk legal action if taken in only a few asylum seek- their reluctant governments ers and the European Moscow anti-corruption demonstrations. among the roughly 1,000 people refuse. Commission also underlined AFP "Let's go out on the streets on detained at the demonstration in Warsaw and Budapest have their weak response to the plan. June 12 with our former slogans Moscow as police in riot gear stonewalled the scheme to move The Commission statement ussia's top opposition and under the national flag," cracked down harshly on the big- 160,000 people from Italy and bloc’s democratic checks and recalled the relocation plan was leader Alexei Navalny Navalny wrote in an Internet gest show of opposition to the Greece — the main ports of balances. decided by EU leaders in Sep- Ryesterday called fresh post. Kremlin in years. arrival — to elsewhere in the EU. The influx of some 1.6 mil- tember 2015 despite Hungary, protests after rallying the big- "We have two months for Navalny — a populist with Other member states have also lion refugees and migrants into the Czech Republic, Slovakia gest anti-Kremlin preparations. We will attract nationalist anti-immigrant views dragged their feet, leaving the the EU in 2014-2016 has led to and Romania voting against it. demonstrations in years and more towns and gather more — has announced he intends to divisive plan stalled. rows on how to share the bur- In rare good news, Brussels drawing a harsh response from people." Thousands of people stand in 2018 presidential polls The eurosceptic govern- den among member states. Only noted that Austria has now the authorities. nationwide took part in unau- that are expected to see Putin ments in Poland and Hungary about 16,340 people have been decided to join the relocation Navalny — who was thorised protests Navalny cruise to a fourth term. have also put their media and moved so far under the emer- programme. Vienna was previ- released Monday after serving organised on March 26 against He faces legal obstacles to judiciary under tighter state gency scheme that ends in ously exempted since it had 15 days in jail over last month's alleged massive corruption by running for the top job due to a control, raising concerns in September. taken in some 90,000 asylum protests — urged citizens to rally Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, fraud conviction at a trial this Brussels and other EU capitals “If Member States do not seekers in 2015 as it sits on one on the country's June 12 Russia one of President Vladimir Putin's year that would bar him from that they are infringing on the increase their relocations soon, of the key migratory routes. Day holiday for a new round of most trusted allies. Navalny was public office.

Court annuls Hungary town's Islamist arrested for blasts on Dortmund bus Dortmund buses will take designated safe decree against AFP routes to the stadiums. Both Dortmund and Monaco Islamic practices erman investigators yes- fans were also out in force in terday detained an downtown Dortmund, under- Budapest GIslamist suspect over lining their support for the AFP three explosions that rocked players. Borussia Dortmund's team bus, Federal prosecutor's office ungary's highest court prosecutors said, confirming that spokeswoman Frauke Koehler yesterday repealed a the probe was examining a pos- said the probe was examining a Hfar-right mayor's sible "terrorist link". possible "terrorist link", after decree banning the construc- The roadside blasts left Dort- three identical letters were tion of mosques and the mund's Spanish international found at the scene. wearing of clothes such as the Marc Bartra and a policeman "An Islamist background niqab and the burkini in his injured, with the bombs "con- appears to be possible," she said, town. taining metal pieces" detonating noting the letter demanded that The decree in Asothalom, minutes after the team bus set Germany withdraw its deploy- close to the Serbian border, off to a planned Champions ment of Tornado was "unconstitutional" and League game against Monaco on reconnaissance missions in the "infringed fundamental Tuesday night. anti-IS international coalition rights", the constitutional The blast had a radius of and close the US air base in the court in Budapest said. more than 100 metres (yards), western German town of The directive was intro- federal prosecutors said, add- Ramstein. duced last November by ing it was lucky the toll was not "Two suspects from the Laszlo Toroczkai, a vice-pres- higher. The match was post- Islamist spectrum have become ident of the radical-right poned until today as security the focus of our investigation. Jobbik party. was ratcheted up around Dort- Both of their apartments were Monaco fans hold banners thanking Dortmund fans for their hospitality before the Borussia He gained prominence in mund and in Munich where searched, and one of the two has Dortmund versus AS Monaco match, in Dortmund, yesterday. RIGHT: Police officers outside 2015 when he filmed an Bayern Munich will take on Real been detained," she added. the stadium before the match. action movie-style video at a Madrid. Local media identified the fence on the Serbian border But a defiant Dortmund suspects as a 25-year-old Iraqi sources who nevertheless urged Dortmund city's police chief attacks last year, including a warning asylum-seekers not team vowed it won't "give in to and a 28-year-old German. caution on linking the individ- Gregor Lange described as a Christmas market assault in to enter Hungary. terror", with players returning At least one of the two could uals to the assault. "targeted attack" against the Berlin. Tuesday's explosives det- The 39-year-old said last to the pitch for training. have been close to the scene at Chancellor Angela Merkel team, also known as BVB. onated minutes after the year the Asothalom decree Extra forces were deployed the time of the explosion, they said she was "horrified" by the Germany has been on high Dortmund team bus pulled was aimed at "protecting the around team hotels and their said, quoting unnamed security "repugnant act", which alert since a series of jihadist away from the squad's hotel. community and its traditions from any mass settlement from outside". Asothalom, a town of around 4,000 people, has few Loudest shrimp named after migrants. The Hungarian Islamic Community (MIK), estimated British rock band Pink Floyd to have around 40,000 mem- bers, had called the measures "xenophobic" and asked the London energy, according to a post on small fish. A description of the constitutional court to exam- AFP the blog of the University of shrimp appeared in the journal ine their validity. Oxford's Museum of Natural Zootaxa yesterday and the At the height of Europe's newly-discovered shrimp History. Oxford team featured the migrant crisis in 2015, over species with a bright pink Zoologist Sammy de Grave, shrimp in fictitious covers for 400,000 people, many flee- A claw and the ability to a lifelong Pink Floyd fan who the legendary British rock ing the Syrian civil war, produce one of the loudest works at the museum, said the band's albums "Animals" and passed through European sounds in the ocean has been shrimp's discovery off the coast "The Wall". Union member Hungary on named after legendary British of Panama was "the perfect "I often play Pink Floyd as their way to western and band Pink Floyd, zoologists said opportunity to finally give a nod background music while I'm northern Europe. Right-wing yesterday. to my favourite band". working," de Grave said. Prime Minister Viktor Orban "Synalpheus pinkfloydi" has By closing its distinctive "But now the band and my The newly-discovered bright pink-clawed pistol shrimp which has taken a hard line on a bright pink claw that, "just like claw at rapid speed, the shrimp work have been happily com- has been named as 'Synalpheus pinkfloydi' in the scientific immigration, calling it the all good rock bands," can pro- can produce a sound strong bined in the scientific "Trojan horse of terrorism". description of the species. duce large amounts of sonic enough to stun or even kill a literature". THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 AMERICAS 17 United chief apologises as image goes viral

Chicago enforcement. He vowed to AFP Orders review release the review results by The apology came April 30. he chief executive of amid a torrent of But the public relations dam- embattled United Air- criticism of the age was done, with calls for lines unequivocally boycotts and the US Department carrier’s actions on a apologised late yester- of Transportation promising to day for an incident in Sunday flight and its review the airline’s actions. Even Twhich a passenger was dragged initial explanations. the White House weighed in. off a plane, promising a thorough “When you watch the video, it is review of the airline’s Munoz said the troubling to see how that was practices. company will handled,” White House Press The apology came amid a conduct a “thorough Secretary Sean Spicer said. torrent of criticism of the carri- review” of its Asian and Arab American er’s actions on a Sunday flight procedures. groups rallied at Chicago’s and its initial explanations. In O’Hare airport Tuesday night, images now seen worldwide, a insisting airlines and security passenger was forcefully stark contrast to the company’s personnel improve treatment of removed and bloodied in the initial response, in which it minority groups. process—the entire event cap- seemed to at least partially blame “We are here to demand tured on video by passengers and the passenger, inflaming world- accountability and transparency posted on social media. wide outrage. from United and the Chicago avi- Passenger David Dao, 69, US media published an email ation police,” said Tuyet Le of the had refused to be “bumped” from Munoz sent earlier to employees, group Asian Americans Advanc- the overbooked flight—an air- in which he said the passenger ing Justice. Demonstrators protesting outside the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport line practice that has now come “defied” authorities and “com- US Congresswoman Jan under increased scrutiny. pounded” the incident. “Our Schakowsky, also speaking at the in Chicago, Illinois, yesterday. “I continue to be disturbed employees followed established news conference, said she was by what happened on this flight procedures for dealing with sit- considering legislation to stop were prevented from boarding counted travel. they have received,” said Chicago and I deeply apologise to the cus- uations like this,” the CEO wrote. the involuntary removal of trave- a United flight in Denver because An attorney for Dao’s family attorney Stephen Golan. tomer forcibly removed and to Munoz said the company will lers from airplanes. “Once a they were wearing leggings. said he is in a Chicago hospital The incident spotlighted the all the customers aboard,” CEO conduct a “thorough review” of plane is boarded, no one should The airline defended its getting treated for his injuries. practice of overbooking and Oscar Munoz said. its procedures, including “how be asked to leave,” she said. action at the time by saying the “The family of Dr. Dao wants the bumping passengers, which air- “We take full responsibility we handle oversold situations” The public relations fire- girls were flying on passes that world to know that they are very lines increasingly rely upon to and we will work to make it and how the airline partners with storm followed a late March required them to abide by a dress appreciative of the outpouring avoid losing money on seats left right.” The comments were in airport authorities and law incident in which two teenagers code in return for free or dis- of prayers, concern and support empty by no-show passengers.

Iowa to become latest state to US Sikhs launch ad allow guns in campaign that seeks its Capitol Des Moines to push back on hate AP New York subsequent TV ads are planned owa is set to become the AP for at least three more cities latest state to allow gun with large Sikh populations. Iowners to keep firearms ikhs in the United States “We teach our kids the at their side while visiting the are launching a million- American values go hand in state Capitol, a move that has Sdollar awareness hand with the Sikh values: tol- raised questions about how campaign that seeks to stop erance, religious freedom, security workers would deal hate-fueled attacks by explain- gender equality,” a bearded with armed visitors. ing more about who they are man in a red turban says in one When Republican Gov. and what they believe. of the ads shared with The Terry Branstad signs the The “We are Sikhs” cam- Associated Press. measure Thursday as part of paign was years in the making, Another ad highlights Sikhs a wide-ranging gun bill, it will funded by Sikh leaders and embracing US pop culture: “We mirror similar activity at their families across a dozen like ‘Game of Thrones,’” one statehouses around the U.S. cities, who have been swept up person says. “I’m obsessed with in recent years. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologises during an interview for saying Adolf in anti-Muslim sentiment since ‘Star Wars,’” says another. Under the provision Hitler did not use chemical weapons, at the White House in Washington, yesterday. the Sept. 11 attacks. Their beards The ads, developed in con- approved by the GOP-con- and turbans — symbols of sultation with Republican and trolled Legislature, any U.S. equality in a religion that Democratic consulting firms, do resident with a valid weap- opposes India’s caste system — not mention Republican Pres- ons permit could bring a Trump aide offers fresh apology make American Sikhs easy ident Donald Trump, whose concealed handgun into the targets for the angry and candidacy hammered on ille- Iowa Capitol. About 275,000 uninformed. gal immigration and Islamic people in Iowa have such a over Adolf Hitler reference “Our hope was that as the extremism. While fundraising permit. memory of 9/11 goes down, events in Sikh communities The provision would things would get better. But they across the nation coincided require building security staff Washington Spicer said his gaffe was A few hours later, a contrite have not,” said Rajwant Singh, with Trump’s rise, organizers to resolve staffing and train- AFP “painful to myself” and was “dis- Spicer appeared on US televi- a dentist from suburban Wash- insist the $1.3 million effort has ing issues before it takes appointing because I think I’ve sion expressing regret for the ington and one of the campaign’s no connection to the tough- effect July 1. hite House spokes- let the president down.” comments. volunteer organisers. talking president. The current setup has vis- man Sean Spicer During a White House brief- Despite the apologies, Spic- The ads, which will air on “It’s a coincidence,” says itors passing through metal Wyesterday offered a ing on Tuesday, the spokesman er’s remarks provoked outrage CNN, Fox News and on TV sta- Gurwin Ahuja, a 27-year-old detectors at the building’s two fresh apology for minimising for President Donald Trump around the globe from those tions in Fresno, California, political operative who also basement entrances, which the atrocities of Adolf Hitler in sought to highlight criticism of who claimed he showed insen- home to a large Sikh commu- helped organize the new cam- are staffed by unarmed secu- his comments on Syria, amid a Syrian strongman Bashar al- sitivity to victims of the nity, make no mention of the paign. “Administrations have rity guards. Armed state wave of indignation at home Assad, for his apparent use of Holocaust. German Chancellor more than 300 hate crimes changed, and we still experi- troopers also staff the Capi- and abroad. the deadly nerve agent sarin Angela Merkel’s spokesman said reported by Sikhs in the U.S. ence violence regardless of tol and building grounds, “I made a mistake, there is against civilians. contemporary comparisons with since the 2001 terrorist attacks. who’s president.” though their locations and no other way to say it,” Spicer “You had someone as des- Nazi atrocities were Rather, they feature Sikh fam- This type of religious outreach hours aren’t disclosed. Part of told a forum at the Newseum in picable as Hitler who didn’t even ill-advised. ilies explaining how the world’s has some precedent. Muslim the challenge will be figuring Washington, adding that the sink to using chemical weap- “Any comparison of current fifth-largest religion, founded advocacy groups launched a bill- out how often armed visitors damage was especially unfor- ons,” Spicer told reporters, situations with the crimes of in India, aligns with American board campaign in recent years, would come to the Capitol, tunate because “it’s a very holy momentarily overlooking the National Socialism leads to values. while others developed public said Capt. Mark Logsdon, who week for the Christian people Holocaust and prompting out- nothing good,” the spokesman, Internet advertising will service announcements soon after heads Capitol security. and the Jewish people.” raged calls for his resignation. Steffen Seibert, told reporters. begin immediately as well, and Septtember 11. “Is this something that you’re going to encounter every day, or maybe a day or two a week?” he asked. Capitol security will need San Francisco gets a taste of robotic food delivery new guidelines, which must be approved in a rules-mak- ing process that can take San Francisco and Portrero Hill districts of San whether machines handle deliv- neighborhoods where robots will basically eyes and ears there,” several weeks and allows for AFP Francisco. eries. Food orders are locked into be working “This allows us to have Delaney said. “Operators can public comment, said Ross “It’s the real deal,” Marble robot cargo compartments large the most intelligent and reliable jump in at any time.” Loder, bureau chief for weap- an Francisco startup Mar- co-founder and chief Matthew enough to hold about four stand- robot that really knows its envi- He described the robot cargo ons permits at the Iowa ble yesterday began giving Delaney said while providing a ard shopping bags. ronment and is a bit socially aware compartment as being as safe as Department of Public Safety. Sits home town a taste of res- demonstration of one of the Marble robots, the current so that it can have the right eti- a typical car trunk. When robots The Iowa Department of taurant orders delivered by robots at the startup’s offices in generation named “Happy” and quette on the sidewalk and get arrive with food orders, custom- Administrative Services, robot, confident that appetite for Portrero Hill. “On select eve- numbered, roll along sidewalks around,” Delaney said. ers get text messages containing which oversees the Capitol such service will grow around nings, you might be getting a text and cross streets at walking Marble robots were designed codes to enter on key pads to grounds, would write the the world. Marble partnered with message in the middle of your speeds, relying on lasers, cameras to get around on their own, but unlock lids. “We are always rules. The department is “still take-away meal ordering mobile Yelp Eat24 order asking if you and other sensors to maneuver. they will have human escorts looking for innovative new ways determining what needs to be application Yelp Eat24 to put its would like it delivered by robot.” The technology involved is simi- during the roll-out. Robots are to give diners what they want: done pending the bill being boxy, wheeled robots to work Marble is starting with a lar to that used in self-driving cars. also wirelessly linked to opera- efficient and affordable food signed,” spokeswoman Tami handling local deliveries for “handful” of robots and keeping Marble also created three-dimen- tors who, from Marble’s office, delivery,” said Yelp Eat24 deliv- Wiencek said in an email. some restaurants in the Mission it opt-in when it comes to sional digital maps of virtually ride along. “We have ery operations head. 18 AMERICAS THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017

Paying tributes Argentina’s Brazilian govt president reels from to visit US Washington AFP

S President Donald graft probes Trump will host UArgentina’s presi- Brasília Corruption crisis dent—and his onetime AFP business partner—Mauricio The scandal, likened Macri at the White House on razil’s government by Brazilian April 27, US officials tried to brush off a commentators to a announced yesterday. growing corruption political earthquake “President Donald J. crisis yesterday after or bomb, shook the Trump and First Lady Mela- the Supreme Court core of President nia Trump look forward to Bordered 108 graft investiga- Michel Temer’s welcoming President Mauri- tions, targeting at least eight already deeply cio Macri and First Lady ministers and a third of the unpopular Juliana Awada of Argentina Senate. government and his to the White House,” a state- The scandal, likened by ment said. allies in Congress. Brazilian commentators to a The pair of real estate political earthquake or bomb, tycoons have known each shook the core of President A woman pays respect at a makeshift memorial near the North Park Elementary School other for years, and Macri was More than 40 Michel Temer’s already deeply following a classroom shooting on Monday in San Bernardino, California, yesterday. one of the first foreign lead- unpopular government and his deputies in the lower ers to congratulate Trump on allies in Congress. house were also his election victory. More than 40 deputies in the targetted in the list lower house were also targeted of politicians who in the list of politicians who are are suspected of suspected of participating in a participating in a huge bribes and embezzlement huge bribes and Venezuela protests spread to low-income areas scandal. The legislature rapidly embezzlement emptied late Tuesday when the scandal. Caracas closely-protected Maduro dur- seeking comment. Venezuelans have been suf- news broke as lawmakers Reuters ing a rally on Tuesday, before The opposition says Maduro fering food and medicine avoided the media. state television cut off the has morphed into a dictator after shortages for months, leading The empty chambers sym- However, political analyst enezuelans blocked broadcast. a Supreme Court decision in late many to skip meals or go with- bolized the problems that Temer David Fleischer at the Univer- streets and lit fires during “Last night’s protests in March to assume the functions out crucial treatment. Lines of may now have in maintaining sity of Brasilia said Temer is in Vscattered protests across Caracas and the provinces are of the opposition-led congress. hundreds form in front of super- his close working relationship trouble. “He will be even weaker the country yesterday night with not isolated occurrences, we The court quickly overturned the markets as people jostle for with Congress as he tries to enact and perhaps will lose control of over 40 people arrested during Venezuelans are sick of living in most controversial part of its hours under the hot sun hoping pension reform and other aus- his support base in Congress the growing anti-government a dictatorship,” said opposition decision, but the move breathed price-controlled rice or flour will terity measures aimed at where many are desperate and unrest in the midst of a crippling lawmaker Olivia Lozano on new life into the fractured oppo- be delivered. dragging Brazil out of a historic are eying their chances of ree- economic crisis. Twitter, as the coalition pre- sition movement. The crisis has especially hurt recession. The presidency played lection in 2018,” he said. “This In a worrying sign for leftist pared for another protest on News that the national the poor, long the base of support down the crisis, saying that it had episode will delay and compli- President Nicolas Maduro, Thursday. comptroller on Friday had of Maduro and his predecessor already received warning via cate approval of reforms,” with groups in low-income, tradition- Witnesses said residents of banned high-profile opposition the late Hugo Chavez. Amid what numerous media leaks that the investors backing off for a “wait ally pro-government a number of working-class leader Henrique Capriles from the opposition coalition says is a deluge of probes was coming. and see” period, Fleischer said. neighborhoods took to the Caracas neighborhoods blocked office for 15 years drew broad crackdown on dissent, some 43 “There are no new facts and All the politicians are sus- streets in nighttime protests dur- streets with trash or burning criticism, too. Maduro’s foes are people were arrested on Tues- the names had already been pected of involvement in a ing the typically calm Easter debris, describing confused demanding the government call day, according to rights group mentioned. The government massive embezzlement and week, witnesses and opposition street melees and clashes with delayed state elections, which Penal Forum. will keep working. Now it is a bribery conspiracy that fleeced lawmakers reported. security forces. polls suggest would not go well In total, 325 people were question of each individual state oil company Petrobras Many were galvanized by Government officials did not for the ruling Socialists. arrested between April 4-11 dur- minister defending himself,” a and funneled dirty money into footage of a crowd in the poor provide an official account of the But it is Venezuela’s ing the most sustained protests source at the presidency, who leading political parties’ elec- town of San Felix heckling and events, and the Information Min- extended economic crisis that since 2014, with 153 people still asked not to be identified, said. tion war chests. throwing objects at the usually istry did not respond to an email has ordinary people fuming. behind bars, the group added.

Protest against gender violence Students clash NEWS BYTES with police at US orders tougher legal demo in Chile treatment for border crossers

Santiago WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered AFP prosecutors and judges to take a tougher line on undocumented immigrants on Tuesday, saying more severe punishment could lashes erupted as Chile’s deter illegal border crossers. Speaking in Nogales, Arizona, raucous student move- Sessions said anyone who crosses the US-Mexico border with- Cment held its first out legal immigration documents would now be detained and protest of the year for free presented to a judge. In the past, most were just delivered back education, with students over the border. He also ordered prosecutors to jail people hurling stones and police fir- who transport and harbor illegal immigrants; to lodge felony ing tear gas. charges against people caught a second time sneaking into Tens of thousands of stu- the country; and to charge anyone caught using false papers dents flooded the streets of with fraud and identity theft, which brings a minimum two- central Santiago, protesting year jail sentence. “For those that continue to seek improper an education reform bill they and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a say does not go far enough in new era. This is the Trump era,” Sessions told an audience overhauling an expensive and of border patrol agents. “The lawlessness, the abdication of Women demonstrating at Plaza de Mayo Square in Buenos Aires against gender violence unequal education system the duty to enforce our immigration laws and the catch and and in solidarity with Argentina's latest femicide victim, 21-year-old Micaela Garcia, a "Ni that dates to the dictatorship release practices of old are over.” Una Menos" (Not One Less) movement activist, whose body was found on Saturday in a of Augusto Pinochet rural field in Gualeguay, Entre Rios province. (1973-1990). Following the protest, the Amazon aims to help parents education committee in the lower house of Congress monitor and talk to kids voted against sending the bill NEW YORK: Amazon is introducing new tools to help parents to the floor for debate. That see what their kids are doing on the company’s Fire tablets. As Narrow win for Republicans will now force President a bonus, the e-commerce giant says its service will also help Michelle Bachelet and her spark discussions about the books kids read and the videos team to go back to the draw- they watch. Parents first have to sign up with Amazon’s Free- ing board. Time service, a set of tools for pre-approving how much time in first post-Trump election “I would love to vote for kids spend on a tablet and what they do with it. The FreeTime education reform, but don’t service is free, as is the new dashboard tool. Then they’ll be Chicago Democrat challenger James territory in the state of Georgia ask us to vote for this frustrat- able to view each child’s activities through Amazon’s web- AFP Thompson. next week, could portend tough ing and disappointing bill,” site. Information will include the amount of time spent on That was a surprisingly nar- election battles for the presi- said independent lawmaker e-books, videos, apps and web browsing. Parents will also epublicans held on to a US row eight-point margin of dent’s party in 2018. Giorgio Jackson, a former stu- see 90 days’ worth of details such as the specific books read congressional seat on victory, considering Trump had House Speaker Paul Ryan, a dent leader. The bill would and videos watched — and how long the child spent on each. RTuesday, although by a won the district during the pres- Republican from Wisconsin, have expanded access to free The service will also suggest some questions and activities, smaller margin than expected, idential race by 27 points, and it quickly congratulated Estes on university education, with the with open-ended questions designed to avoid classic single- in their first electoral test since has been in Republican hands Tuesday evening. number of beneficiaries word responses from kids. For the book “Captain Awesome Donald Trump won the for more than two decades. “Kansans are fortunate to based on Chile’s economic vs. Nacho Cheese Man,” for instance, suggested discussion presidency. The special election was have this committed public growth in any given year. topics include questioning assumptions and assessing the The special election in a considered a bellwether of how servant representing them in Clashes erupted as the pro- role incorrect assumptions have on friendships. The dash- House district in the Midwest- Republicans might fare in next Congress,” Ryan said in a test got under way. Rowdy board tool also works with FreeTime Unlimited, a $3-and-up ern state of Kansas was to year’s midterm elections, with statement. groups of students—many monthly subscription that offers access to books, videos and replace Mike Pompeo, who anti-Trump sentiments among The Kansas race had unex- wearing masks and dressed other digital items that Amazon deems appropriate for chil- became Trump’s CIA director. many voters. pectedly tightened in its final in black—threw stones at the dren at various ages. With regular FreeTime, parents only Republican Ron Estes won It and another close con- days, worrying the Republican heavy contingent of riot have access to their own Amazon library of digital purchases. 53 to 45 percent against gressional race in Republican establishment. police standing guard. THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017 HOME 19

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The Peninsula with disabilities to gather their ZUHR 11.35 am MAGHRIB 05.57 pm input on the type of training ASR 03.04 pm ISHA 07.27 pm he Supreme Committee required to ensure the volun- for Delivery & Legacy teer workforce are T(SC) has taken the first represented by people with WEATHER TODAY step towards the integration disabilities and all staff are of people with disabilities in equipped to meet the addi- o o the Volunteer Programme of tional needs of all guests. the 2022 FIFA World Cup, by The initiative will look to 26 C 39 C organising the first ever create a pool of volunteers in Minimum Maximum Accessibility Forum workshop the years leading to the tour- to identify the training nament. It will include a requirements and opportuni- specific section about acces- ties for a truly diverse sibility and involve people volunteer workforce. with disabilities and local Qatari Paralympic silver organisations in this sector, medallists, Abdulrahman both to train the volunteers, Abdulqader and Sara Masoud, and be volunteers who will were among the attendees. have specific roles in events They shared their experi- before the World Cup and ences, which will inform the during it. Qatar Football Family’s vol- Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Accessibility Forum workshop. BELOW: The volunteer capacity unteer capacity-building Qatari Paralympic silver medallists, Abdulrahman Abdulqader and Sara Masoud, who building programme will tar- strategy that is currently being attended the event. get approximately 20,000 formulated and see the first people in Qatar. ever FIFA World Cup in the training, to get to that point Social and Cultural Centre for the best outcome for people The Accessibility Forum Middle East as a catalyst to was fantastic. the Blind, said: “It is great that with disabilities. members represent individ- make the country more “My family encouraged Qatar is looking to involve The SC recently organised uals with different types of accessible. me to become fitter and com- people with disabilities in the forum’s first meeting with visible and invisible Speaking exclusively to pete. My first major preparations so early on. I local institutions and people disabilities. www.sc.qa, Abdulrahman tournament was the London think people with disabilities Abdulqader said: “I hope more Paralympics in 2012. It was an can contribute a lot, and by people with disabilities vol- excellent event for spectators giving them training and the unteer for the World Cup in and athletes, partly because option to volunteer they will 2022. Having volunteers with volunteers were excellent.” be more confident.” Hazy at places at first becomes hot disabilities and being involved Fellow Rio 2016 silver The Accessibility Forum, daytime with some scattered clouds. in preparations for the tour- medallist Masoud said: “Vol- an SC initiative to ensure a HIGH TIDE 05:45 - 18:45 LOW TIDE 00:15 - 12:00 nament shows that Qatar unteers with disabilities sense seamless fan experience for cares about our and feel our needs more. They people with disabilities Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department community.” know exactly what informa- attending the 2022 FIFA Abdulqader also remi- tion we need for the best fan World Cup™, was launched nisced about the feeling he got experience. They would tell in November 2016. There are LATEST NEWS when he won the medal. He us what roads to take and over 30 organisations repre- UPDATE continued: “When I won the what’s the easier way to move sented on the Forum and their first medal in Qatar's history with our wheelchairs.” role is to test, evaluate and in the Parlympics I felt amaz- Meanwhile, Ikrami consult on plans before they www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ing. After eight years of Ahmed Fouad, from the Qatar are implemented to ensure 20 HOME THURSDAY 13 APRIL 2017