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SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016 RABI AL-AWWAL 9, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir says GCC Frantic search Time names Dortmund come keen on strategic for survivors Trump its back from 2-0 partnership as Aceh quake 2016 ‘Person down to draw with Britain2 kills nearly7 100 of10 the Year’ with20 Real Madrid Saudi King Salman arrives Min 08º in Kuwait on historic visit Max 18º High Tide 04:35 & 18:40 Amir voices deep pleasure, hails brotherly ties Low Tide 11:00 40 PAGES NO: 17074 150 FILS KUWAIT: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud will arrive in Kuwait today on an official visit, where he will Junaid Jamshed among hold talks with HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah. In his first official state visit to Kuwait since ascending the throne on Jan 23, 2015, King 48 dead in Pak air crash Salman will focus on reinforcing the strong relations with Kuwait. Kuwait is the final stop on King Salman’s ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan: A plane belonging to airport manager and a local police official. The Gulf tour, which began in the United Arab Emirates, fol- Pakistan’s national carrier crashed and burst singer’s Twitter account had said he was in lowed by a visit to Qatar. He then traveled to Bahrain, into flames yesterday with 48 people on Chitral. Jamshed rocketed to fame in Pakistan which hosted this year’s Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) board, killing all of them, police and an airline in the 1980s and 1990s as the singer for the summit that ended yesterday. spokesman said. According to senior police Vital Signs rock group, and later launched a officer Khurram Rasheed, the plane crashed in solo career, with a string of chart-topping SEE PAGE 3 a village in the district of Abbottabad, 75 km albums and hits. Jamshed abandoned his northwest of the capital, Islamabad. The small singing career in 2001 to join the Tableeghi HH Sheikh Sabah yesterday expressed overwhelming twin-propeller aircraft was travelling from the Jamaat group, which travels across Pakistan pleasure on the visit that portrays the brotherly ties city of Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed and abroad preaching about Islam. between the two Gulf states. The Amiri Diwan, in a state- shortly after takeoff. In his last tweet, Jamshed posted pictures ment, quoted HH the Amir as warmly welcoming the Among those on board was Junaid of a snow-capped mountain, calling Chitral Saudi Monarch and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Jamshed, a former Pakistani pop star turned “Heaven on Earth”. Tributes were pouring in on King Salman and the officials who would accompany him evangelical Muslim, according to the Chitral social media for the former lead singer of the during the visit to the country, “where they will be guests country’s first major pop band, whose popular in their second home, among their families and brothers.” “Dil Dil Pakistan” became an unofficial national This visit clearly reflects the good and brotherly anthem. “The voice of my youth, the voice of bonds between the two countries’ leaderships and peo- my generation.... #JunaidJamshed you will be ples that have stood together in face of hardships and sorely missed,” tweeted user Huma A Shah. dangers, the Amir stated. He lauded the historic and piv- According to Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman otal role played by the Saudi leadership and people in for Pakistan International Airlines, the plane support of the Kuwaiti cause, namely the flagrant had lost touch with the control tower prior to “Saddami aggression” in 1990, alluding to the invasion of the crash. He said the plane was carrying 42 the country by forces of the ousted and executed Iraqi passengers, five crew members and a ground ruler Saddam Hussein. He recalled in this context brav- engineer. MANAMA: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ery of the Saudi forces that had taken part in the epic lib- Junaid Jamshed Continued on Page 13 (left) shares a light moment with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al eration of the country. Saud at the GCC summit in the Bahraini capital on Tuesday. — KUNA Continued on Page 13.

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