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BRITAIN | Row Cameron admits ‘mishandling’ to go British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday admitted he had mishandled the controversy over his shares in his father’s off shore business interests, which were flushed out by the “Panama Papers” revelations. Cameron said he would publish his tax returns ‘smart’ and shouldered the blame for the row over his financial aff airs. From check-in to boarding, every “Combined with the airport’s com- Cameron and his Downing Street step of the journey will be self- plimentary Wi-Fi and the iBeacon off ice issued four comments service enabled to significantly enabled mobile app that offers way- HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, along with HE the Minister of Transport and regarding the Panama Papers improve efficiency and reduce finding and context relevant informa- Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, attending a trial session at HIA. It is aimed at transforming HIA into a “smart airport”. before the premier on Thursday waiting time tion, HIA’s passengers will truly enjoy finally admitted he had held shares an immersive travel experience,” it baggage payment, ability to purchase in his late father’s Bahamas-based major initiative is underway to said. upgrades and access to lounge serv- off shore investment fund. Page 17 transform Hamad Internation- Al-Meer said that HIA “continu- ices, in partnership with airlines,” the A al (HIA) into a “smart airport”, ously and proactively focuses on its HIA release said. enabling passengers to have a speedi- people, processes, technology and Currently, HIA has some 63 au- TURKEY | Travel er and hassle-free experience. partnerships with key stakeholders” tomated border control e-gates that US embassy sees HIA yesterday said it had “com- to provide a world-class service, as allow enrolled nationals and perma- menced the testing phase of its pro- recognised by the industry. nent residents to swiftly pass through ‘credible threats’ gramme” to transform into a ‘smart “The latest passenger processing departure and arrival immigration The US embassy in Turkey airport’ by integrating best of breed and security technologies are either process based on biometric and travel yesterday warned American technologies that would offer pas- already deployed or being trialled to document verification. The airport is citizens of “credible threats” to sengers more control and independ- maintain and boost our position as actively working with the government tourist areas in Istanbul and the ence over their journey. one of the best airports in the world,” agencies concerned to extend these resort city of Antalya, a day after HE the Prime Minister and Interior al-Meer said. benefits to the large number of visi- Israel spoke of “imminent risks” of Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser HIA became one of the first air- tors to Qatar. attacks. Page 19 bin Khalifa al-Thani, along with HE ports to support “Home-Printed Bag The airport is among a few in the the Minister of Transport and Com- Tags” (HPBT) and already provides world that are championing smart munications Jassim Seif Ahmed al- self-service check-in. It will soon be security and has ongoing trials us- ASIA | Tension Sulaiti, attended a trial session at introducing its next generation coming latest technology to optimise the A view of Hamad International Airport in Doha. N Korea tests new HIA. The new technologies at the mon-use self-service check-in and security checks by speeding up the airport were demonstrated to them by self-service bag drop services, which process and minimising inconven- generation single-token based travel to greater heights,” al-Meer said. engine for missile Badr Mohammed al-Meer, HIA chief will enable passengers to check-in ience to the passengers. at the airport that would provide the “They will also allow the airport to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un operating officer. themselves, print their boarding pass HIA has also successfully com- ultimate experience by eliminating be better connected to its passengers supervised a successful test of a “From check-in to boarding, every and baggage tags, tag their bags and pleted trials for self-boarding gates to the need for the passengers to present and provide need-based assistance. new engine for an intercontinental step of the journey will be self-service simply drop them off at the custom expedite passenger processing. the same documentation at multiple Several aspects of the programme ballistic missile (ICBM), state media enabled to signiﬁ cantly improve effi - designed bag-drop system. Strategically, HIA has initiated touch points. have already been implemented and said yesterday, in their latest report ciency and reduce waiting time, facili- “These services will be continu- dialogue with government authori- “These technological advance- the remaining is being trialled with of advances in an arms programme tating fast and seamless passenger ex- ously enhanced to offer our valued ties and other airport stakeholders ments at key passenger touch points phased completion planned in the that has attracted UN sanctions. perience,” a release issued by HIA said. customers options such as excess to co-create a vision for the next- will take passenger experience at HIA near future.” Page 16

AFRICA | Politics Djibouti’s president Guelleh is re-elected Car agencies respond positively to ministry initiative Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been re-elected for esponding positively to the among garage operators, was aimed approved for both Nissan and Infi niti had contributed to a rise in the price accordance with the manufacturer’s the fourth time after winning nine-clause initiative of the at off ering consumers multiple op- vehicles by the department concerned of maintenance services,” the minis- guidelines. a landslide victory in the first RMinistry of Economy and Com- tions for the repair and maintenance of at the Ministry of Economy and Com- try said but following the launch of The release also urged consumers to round of voting in the east African merce (MEC) to ease warranty terms, their vehicles. It also provided an op- merce. The ministry praised Saleh Al the nine-clause initiative, consumers examine warranty booklets to ensure country. Page 13 Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Company, portunity for specialised workshops to Hamad Al Mana Company’s initiative are now free to take their vehicles for compliance of car dealers with the stip- the distributors of Nissan and Infi niti improve their performance and reduce on reducing maintenance prices and has service or repair works to any certifi ed ulated warranty terms and inform the in Qatar, has reduced maintenance the prices of their services. also confi rmed that inspectors from the workshop of their choice with no eff ect Ministry of Economy and Commerce of PHILIPPINES | Confl ict charges of all their vehicles with eff ect “In this context, a list of discount- ministry would follow up on the extent on the warranty.” any manipulation of the terms and vio- Militants wound from today. ed prices has been made available by of compliance with the prices at the Urging all consumers to select prop- lations through the following channels: Other car agencies have acknowl- Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Company company’s service centres. erly from among the available options Call Centre: 16001, e-mail: info@mec. 22 soldiers in clash edged the initiative and are to an- which includes deductions on all their The warranty terms that were ap- and in the case of choosing third-party gov.qa, the accounts of the Ministry of Some 22 Philippine soldiers were nounce discounted rates soon, the current Nissan and Infi niti models that plied by local car agencies prior to the workshops to retain invoices as proof Economy and Commerce on social me- wounded yesterday in a firefight ministry said in a release yesterday. range from 23% to 48%. The total de- implementation of the nine-clause of maintenance and repair works , the dia networks: Twitter MEC_QATAR with militants, the military said, a Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Company has duction value represents money saved initiative introduced by the Ministry ministry advised vehicle owners to - Instagram MEC_QATAR and the day after the release of a retired announced discounts ranging from by the consumer during the mainte- of Economy and Commerce had re- keep bills of spare parts and materials applications of the Ministry of Econ- Italian priest taken hostage in the 23% to 48% on their own accord. nance period (from 0 km to 120,000 quired vehicle owners to have main- used, with the aim of presenting them omy and Commerce on smart phones Muslim-populated south of the The initiative, which was launched km) ,” the release said. tenance and repair works done at the to the car agency to demonstrate that available on iPhone and Android de- country. Page 24 by the ministry to boost competition The discounted price list has been car agency’s workshop. “The practice repair works had been carried out in vices MEC_QATAR HMC opens a state-of-the-art laboratory

By Joey Aguilar Shuaib noted that patients were nor- Staff Reporter mally taken to the emergency for a CT or CAT scan where at least one hour is wasted. he Hamad Medical Corporation “Every minute, for every artery (HMC) has opened a state-of- blocked, a patient is losing 2mn brain Tthe-art laboratory capable of cells, so speed is very important,” he producing clearer images that can be pointed out. “Let us say. one hour, be- used to better diagnose heart, brain and cause now we are not taking them into blood vessel problems. the CAT scanner, they are coming here “The lab at the Hamad General Hos- directly, so there are 100mn cells you pital produces high-quality images can protect,” he said. with lowest radiation, including images “What makes it very unique is that in from CT scan, MRI, and live echocardi- angio, you take pictures but it doesn’t ogram. In echocardiogram, it combines show you much about the function. both echocardiography and angiogra- An off icial explaining the functioning of the new machine. You are only looking at the arteries but phy at the same time,” Catheterisation not the brain, this clarity (produced Laboratory Pediatric cardiologist Dr rooms: a recovery area and day care. without opening up the brain.” at the hospital, 10% have blocked ar- abdominal aorta and intracranial arter- by the lab) gives you a profusion of the Hesham al-Saloos told reporters last “If there is a hole in the heart, it can Some procedures may take three teries and another 50 to 100 have an- ies, resulting from disease or trauma to brain,” he added. week. close it without a surgery, and if there to four hours while other cases only eurysms, according to professor Ash- the wall, as in atherosclerosis. “So not only does it gives you imag- First of its kind in the Mena re- is a narrow valve, it can be opened up,” last only about 20 minutes, accord- faq Shuaib, director of Neuroscience Echoing the statement of Dr al-Sa- ing facilities, it also gives you profu- gion, he said the laboratory could Dr al-Saloos explained. “For vascular, ing to Dr al-Saloos. “If you are do- Institute at HMC. Aneurysm is an loos, he said the new facility would help sion facilities and you could pull the handle ﬁ ve to seven patients per day it can open up vessels. For the brain, ing only diagnostic procedures, abnormal, blood-ﬁ lled sac formed by them treat patients faster, further im- clot out or put coils in an aneurysm, depending on how complex the pro- it can treat stroke in a secluded area. it can do more than 20 patients.” dilation of the wall of a blood vessel prove their capacity and allow them to state-of-the-art, it does not get any cedure was. It also has two procedure If there is aneurysm, it can be treated Out of 1,000 patients seen annually or heart ventricle, most commonly the hire very competent people. better than this.” Gulf Times 2 Sunday, April 10, 2016 QATAR Transport Minister Ministry issues tips for safe to open Future evacuation during emergencies

he Ministry of Interior (MoI) has issued a set of Cities Summit Ttips on how to evacuate safely during emergencies such as gas leaks, fi res and other un- number of issues con- Management Company (Mwani), toward incidents. cerning urban develop- Public Works Authority (Ash- In a post on its Facebook Ament across the region ghal), Geographic Information page, the MoI also advised peo- will be deliberated upon at the Systems (GIS Qatar) and others. ple to call 999 in case of a fi re fi fth Arab Future Cities Summit, Among the key topics are dig- or any other emergency, asking which starts tomorrow at The ital society and sustainable de- them to provide key informa- Ritz-Carlton, Doha. velopment in Qatar and ways of tion such as their exact loca- The two-day event is taking benefi ting from the potential of tion, house/fl at number, build- place under the patronage of the information and communica- ing number, zone and street Ministry of Transport & Com- tion technologies to transform name/number for quick arrival munications and Ministry of Doha into a smart city. of emergency services. Municipality & Environment. HE Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti The summit will help facili- Noting that evacuation is HE the Minister of Transport tate an international platform considered an important pro- & Communications Jassim Seif munications; Faleh al-Naemi, to discuss the ways of transfer of cedure in case of an emergency, Ahmed al-Sulaiti will inaugurate chairman and managing direc- knowledge, know-how and re- the MoI advisory said the situ- the summit, where ministers, tor of QPost; and Waleed al- fl ect on technological and social ation should be handled calmly ambassadors and a number of Sayed, deputy CEO – Ooredoo innovations and transforma- and wisely, and people should senior offi cials from government Group and CEO – Ooredoo Qa- tions that are arising in cities. not panic. “Approach the near- and private sector entities and tar, are among those attending. It will feature discussions on est exit after securing the area, GCC organisations are expected The event will see several the implementation of the Arab switch off electrical devices and to be present. speakers from outside Qatar as Smart Cities Development, the close the gas cylinder if it’s safe Key fi gures representing trans- well and is expected to witness an infrastructure, issues and chal- to do so,” it noted. portation, telecommunications announcement on the launch of lenges and the solutions to over- It advised people to co-oper- The MoI has listed a slew of dos and don’ts to ensure safe evacuation during fires and other and urban development will also new postal services in the country. come these challenges. ate for mass evacuation of the emergencies. Pictures courtesy of MoI attend the event, according to a An exhibition will be held on The summit will also shed place, making sure that no one Ministry of Transport & Commu- the sidelines of the summit fea- light on measures and strategies is left behind. burning building. Smoke is nications statement. turing models of key projects capable of achieving sustain- “Get down on your knees, go toxic and inhalation can kill Reem al-Mansoori, assistant taking place in Qatar in the fi elds ability and the development of under the smoke to the nearest you,” the MoI said. “If you can’t undersecretary for Digital Soci- of transportation, mobility and Qatar’s capital into a smart city, exit. Smoke will rise to the ceil- exit an apartment building due ety Sector Development at the roads, involving Qatar Railways in addition to latest trends relat- ing, leaving cooler, cleaner air to smoke or fi re in the hallway, Ministry of Transport & Com- Company (Qatar Rail), Qatar Ports ed to smart cities development. close to the fl oor,” the advisory gather in a room with a window. said. “Before opening any door, Close all doors between you and one must ensure the safety of the fi re. Use a duct tape or tow- the door handle - it may be hot els to create a seal around the or blistering. Be prepared to slam door and over air vents in order the door shut if heat or smoke to keep smoke from coming in. Coff ee shop outlet ordered closed rushes in, and look for another If possible, one should open way out. If safe, open the door the windows so that fresh air to escape. As you escape, close can get in. “Do not break the n outlet of an an in- paigns carried out by the min- concerning consumer protec- all doors behind you to hold back window unless you have to. ternational coff ee istry in an eff ort to monitor the tion, as amended by decree-law toxic smoke and fl ames.” Wave a fl ashlight or light-col- Ashop chain has been market and commercial activity No (14) of 2011”. The MoI also stressed that in oured cloth at the window to ordered to be closed for one in the State of Qatar, an offi cial The administrative closure case of a fi re, one must always let the rescue team know where week by the Ministry of statement said. is published on the ministry’s use the stairs to get out, never you are located,” according to Economy and Commerce for “Inspectors from the Ministry website as well as two daily the elevator. the advisory. charging higher prices than fi ned the coff ee shop and com- newspapers at the off ending “Get out and stay out. When It is important to pre-identi- advertised. pelled its closure for a one-week shop’s own expense in line with a fi re alarm sounds, don’t stop fy the emergency exits in order The closure comes within the period in line with article No (10) article (3) of law no (8) on con- to get dressed or gather valu- to use them during an emer- framework of inspection cam- of law number No (8) of 2008 sumer protection. ables. Never go back inside a gency. People should call 999 and provide accurate information.

Gulf Times 4 Sunday, April 10, 2016 QATAR US deploys B-52s to Udeid base for ﬁ ght against IS

Reuters continued resolve to apply per- Brown said the bombers Washington sistent pressure on Daesh and would be able to deliver preci- defend the region in any future sion weapons and carry out a contingency,” said Air Force range of missions, including he US Air Force deployed Lieutenant General Charles strategic attack, close-air sup- B-52 bombers at Al Udeid Brown, commander of US Air port, air interdiction, and mari- TAir Base in Qatar yester- Forces Central Command. time operations. day to join the fi ght against Is- Lieutenant Colonel Chris Karns said the bombers would lamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Karns, spokesman for the Cen- enable US forces to drop one or fi rst time they have been based in tral Command, said he could two munitions in an area, rather the Middle East since the end of not provide the exact number of than use carpet bombing. the Gulf War in 1991. B-52 bombers to be based at Al “Accuracy is critically impor- US Air Forces Central Com- Udeid Air Base due to “opera- tant in this war,” he said. “Car- mand said it last fl ew the long- tional security reasons.” pet-bombing would not be ef- range bombers operationally in Washington’s decision to de- fective for the operation we’re in the region in May 2006 as part of ploy its powerful B-52 bombers because Daesh doesn’t mass as the war in Afghanistan, and dur- to Al Udeid Air Base came as the large groups. Often, they blend ing a US-led military exercise in US military stepped up the fi ght into population centres. We al- Jordan in May 2015. against Islamic State in Iraq and ways look to minimise civilian “The B-52 demonstrates our Syria. casualties.” A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, touches down at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, yesterday. Driving test remains big challenge for learners

By Joey Aguilar successful learners would male candidates passed the year but still failed,” she la- Staff Reporter often be around fi ve a day, test on a single day recently mented. he added. while eight males out of 50 Failure to pass on all four “The numbers keep cleared it. attempts in the full course assing the driving test changing, sometimes it is One female candidate will send a candidate back to in Qatar remains a big more than 10 and in some who had failed on all four at- the driving school again. Pchallenge for learn- cases it is less than fi ve,” tempts felt the process was Some of the others who ers, many of whom have the instructor noted. “But too long. She said it took her failed the test spoke of gone through the process recently, it has been more more than fi ve months to get similar experiences, saying unsuccessfully for nearly than fi ve.” a date for the test. they had to save money and six months, according to He estimated that less She enrolled in the last hoped to convince the po- sources. than 20% of the total male week of August 2015 and lice that they were qualifi ed The passing percentage, candidates passed the test, had to wait for a couple of to drive on Qatar’s roads. though, has shown signs of on an average, adding that weeks before attending a Some expatriates ad- improvement since January women can take the test on theory class. She took the mitted that they spent a as compared to the situa- Sundays. theory exam and was al- whole month practising tion in the July-December The instructor said train- lowed to go for driving les- back home during their an- period last year, an instruc- ees get a number of hours to sons in December. nual leave before enrolling tor from a leading driving hone their skills, particu- She took her fi rst driv- at a driving school in Doha school in Doha told Gulf larly those taking the full ing test in February this again. Times. course, and it is up to them year but failed to secure a “I have to take it now be- He said about 10 of the to prove to the police that licence even after her fourth fore it gets more diffi cult to 25 male candidates passed they deserve to get a driving and fi nal test on March 6. secure a driving licence. Be- the test on a single day to- licence. “Some of my friends who sides, I need it for my job,” wards the end of last month. At another driving school, had enrolled in other driv- said a Filipino who recently Before that, the number of a source said 14 out of 50 fe- ing schools spent nearly a re-enrolled for a full course.

Gulf Times 6 Sunday, April 10, 2016 QATAR

Senegal leader lauds Emir’s Study links human behaviour support to birds when events go ‘viral’ QNA Dakar new research de- Spanish 15M protests, the Holthoefer said. veloped in Qatar by Outono Brasileiro (Brazil- The researchers found Aa scientist at Qatar ian autumn) movement, the there were early warn- resident Macky Sall of Computing Research Insti- announcement of the Higgs ing signs that could detect Senegal has met Qatar’s tute (QCRI), one of Hamad boson discovery, the release when a transition was about PAttorney General HE Dr Bin Khalifa University’s of a Hollywood blockbuster to take place in the build-up Ali bin Fetais al-Marri and his (HBKU’s) national research movie, The Dark Knight of collective attention. accompanying delegation, at the institutes, has shown that Rises and the acquisition of They discovered that as presidential palace in the capital people behave like schools Motorola by Google. the pace of tweeting accel- Dakar. of fi sh or fl ocks of birds Borge-Holthoefer said Javier Borge-Holthoefer erated, the complexity of The Senegalese President when events go viral on so- the researchers detected a the information exchange lauded the role of HH the Emir cial media. change in the communica- users were leading as oth- increased. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad The research, led by Dr tion time scale from slow to ers started to adopt a simi- “These early warnings al-Thani, and his continued Javier Borge-Holthoefer, a fast and the network struc- lar opinion. However, at happen some time before support to Senegal, particu- scientist from QCRI with ture from hierarchical to some point, the alignment a lot of people start tweet- larly, the Senegalese judicial collaboration from North- distributed in the reactions was complete with no clear ing about an issue,” Borge- authorities and institutions of eastern University, the Cen- to the events. leader, and leaders became Holthoefer said. the rule of law and anti-cor- tre for Data Science (New They discovered that of- indistinguishable from fol- The research was pub- ruption. York University) and the ten the events started with lowers. lished in the journal, Science President Macky Sall awraded University of Pennsylvania, just a small, scattered group “I would say that the re- Advances, recently. Borge- the Attorney General the Sen- analyses how collective at- of people planning them sult is intriguing, because Holthoefer said further egalese Medal of “Legion of tention builds on Twitter. but gained momentum. As it relates human unplanned work and refi nement could Honour with the rank of Com- President Macky Sall of Senegal receiving Qatar’s Attorney General HE Dr Ali bin Borge-Holthoefer and his the time between tweets on behaviour to other collec- potentially lead to reliable mander”. Fetais al-Marri in Dakar. fellow scientists looked at a topic decreased and the tive behaviour we observe in methods to forecast epi- fi ve diff erent events as they elements of them became nature such as in bird fl ocks sodes of collective attention unfolded on Twitter: the increasingly aligned, some and fi sh schooling,” Borge- or behaviour. Aspetar shares expertise at sports Qatar medicine conference in Bahrain reiterates spetar, the ortho- enhancing medical educa- explored the role of sports building a common base of paedic and sports tion in sports medicine and and physical activity in knowledge across the GCC. rejection of Amedicine hospital, orthopaedic surgery based managing and preventing Other sessions explored participated in the fourth on its role as a Reference chronic diseases and helped options and ideas for new annual Arabian Gulf Uni- Collaborator Centre in the raise awareness of the im- sports programmes and ac- extremism versity Sports Medicine GCC region. portance of a range of pre- tivities that can support the Conference that concluded During the conference, ventative healthcare prac- growth of the sports medi- in Bahrain yesterday. Aspetar’s physiotherapists tices and the rehabilitation cine sector in general. QNA The involvement of As- and sports medicine ex- of sports-related injuries. Aspetar is considered one Geneva petar in the conference re- perts shared insights drawn Other important themes of the leading sports medi- fl ects the hospital’s com- from their extensive expe- discussed during the con- cine institutes in the region mitment to enhancing rience with the participants ference included the role of and around the world. In atar has reiterated its co-operation across the from the GCC and students sports medicine in build- 2013, it was chosen by the fi rm stance rejecting region and internationally of medicine in Bahrain. ing healthy and active so- executive board of the GCC Qviolent extremism and in sports medicine, clini- The conference spon- cieties, the most eff ective Council of Health Ministers terrorism in all their forms, cal training and scientifi c sored by Aspetar, shed light approaches for increasing as a Reference Collabora- whatever their motives. research. on the role of the sports knowledge of medical con- tor Centre in recognition of Delivering a speech at the Participating in such medicine sector in manag- cepts related to the fi eld the hospital’s contributions international conference on events also highlights As- ing and preventing sports- of sports medicine and to scientifi c research and the UN Secretary-General’s petar’s leading position in related injuries. It also recommended steps for technical training. plan to prevent violent extremism, ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah al-Henzab, Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Offi ce and International Organisations in Geneva, reiterated Qatar’s support for regional and international eff orts to eliminate terrorism, as well as the protection of human rights, the right of freedom of people for self-determination. HE al-Henzab said that this conference is being held under extremely complicated international circumstances, where there are disputes and confl icts, and the international community suff ers from the spread of the scourge of violent extremism and terrorism, and the spread of hate speeches and violence instead of speeches of tolerance and coexistence. Al-Henzab added that in light of the inability of strategies that focus on solutions and security measures, Qatar emphasises the need to give the plan of action to prevent violent extremism great attention with a view to addressing the motives of violent extremism and the circumstances of its origins, its causes such as a continuation of disputes and confl icts and occupation, ex- clusion, and the continued op- pression of peoples, depriving them of their legitimate rights by authoritarian regimes. To deal with this major challenge requires a unifi ed international response to an inte- grated strategy that works to end confl icts and crises in the world, the fi rst and foremost of which are ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories and the establishment of an independent State of Palestine, al-Henzab said. Qatari leaders greet Djibouti president-elect

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al- Thani have sent cables of congratulations to President Ismail Omar Guelleh, on his re-election as president of Djibouti. The Emir, The Deputy Emir and the Prime Minister wished President Ismail Omar Guelleh success and the people of Djibouti further development. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 7 QATAR QIC offi cial sponsor of Arab conference on civil society role

eading insurer Qatar Insurance Company L(QIC) is the offi cial sponsor of Qatar Founda- tion Social Work’s (QFSW) conference titled “Arab Conference on the Role of Civil Society in the Sustain- able Development Agenda 2030.” QIC senior deputy group president and CEO Ali al- Fadala signed the agreement with Amal bint Ab- QIC and QFSW off icials during the signing ceremony. dullatif al-Mannai, CEO, Qatar Foundation for So- to enrich the Qatari society. hesion, as well as human de- ration with United Nations cial Work and head of the We extend full support to velopment in Qatar, which Development Programme, steering committee. QFSW for accomplishing its is in line with QFSW vision United Nations Economic Al-Fadala said: “We are mission and set goals.” and mission of empowering and Social Council for West- pleased to be partnering Al-Mannai said: “QFSW and developing civil society ern Asia, United Nations with Qatar Foundation for will work hand in hand with organisations.” Population Fund, and the Social Work on their no- QIC to help support and de- Held under the patronage Arab League, the two-day ble mission, and take pride velop social action, and proof HH Sheikha Moza bint conference is slated on April in supporting all activities mote the sustainability of Nasser, co-founder of Qatar 20 at the Qatar National and initiatives which serve family and community co- Foundation, and in collabo- Convention Centre (QNCC).

Ooredoo launches new data services campaign oredoo has launched eff orts to improve data op- paid Mobile Broadband Packs. ing international and lo- a new campaign tions for everyone in Qatar, “Ooredoo has introduced cal minute allowance, at no Opromoting its range the statement notes. new giveback options for extra charge for new and of data services for Hala and Ooredoo provides a wide Hala customers, and now existing customers. Shahry customers. range of prepaid, postpaid customers won’t get charged The company has also in- The campaign, which and data-only packs for for data they don’t use with troduced new Mobile Broad- builds upon its “Just Switch” customers looking to get the 150MB for QR3/daily op- band Packs on top of the ex- promotion launched in Feb- online with their mobile tion, or can carry it over to the isting packs, giving customers ruary, aims to highlight the devices. These include data next pack with the 1GB for more options to choose from wide range of mobile Inter- bundles off ering 6GB for QR20/week bundle, deliver- based on their usage. net options currently avail- QR100 or QR400 for un- ing superior value for money Ooredoo’s “Just Switched” able for all types of custom- limited data with a Shahry and a better customer experi- campaign aims to highlight ers, as well as the company’s Mobile Internet Pack ence,” the statement explains. the enhanced communica- ongoing investment in the As part of the campaign, For Shahry customers, tion experience available Ooredoo Supernet, accord- Ooredoo has refreshed its Ooredoo recently enhanced with Ooredoo thanks to its ing to a statement. Shahry Smart pack data of- its monthly local data al- Supernet, as well as the di- The new campaign is ferings and revamped its Hala lowance in Shahry Smart verse host of customers part of Ooredoo’s ongoing Mobile Internet and its post- bundles, besides boost- making the switch. Gulf Times 8 Sunday, April 10, 2016 QATAR HMC transmits live cardiac procedures on two

team led by interven- transmitted live to more Prof Ziyad Hijazi, chairman of pae- The ﬁ rst procedure was per- that separates the top two cham- overnight and discharged the fol- the level of expertise we have here tional cardiologists than 450 delegates at the diatrics at Sidra. formed on a 10-year-old Qatari boy bers of the heart. The hole was lowing day. and that together with HMC, Sidra Afrom Hamad Medical Paediatric and Adult Inter- Dr al-Saloos said, “It was a great suff ering from a leaky heart valve closed transvenously using a clo- Prof Hijazi explained, “Live continues to break new ground Corporation (HMC) and Sidra ventional Cardiac Catheter honour to be invited by the PICS- and dilation of his right ventricle. sure device. transmissions are a widely used to help advance patient focused Medical and Research Center Intervention and Congenital CSI Asia conference to transmit The team carried out a transvenous Both patients received a thera- educational and training tool and safe healthcare services.” (Sidra) performed two suc- and Structural Heart Disease these live cases to their delegates. pulmonary valve implantation - a peutic cardiac catheterisation and across the medical world. Having Dr Yousef al-Maslamani, medi- cessful cardiac procedures Symposia (PICS-CSI Asia), This was the ﬁ rst time interven- procedure to insert a new pulmo- avoided the need for traditional conducted similar transmissions cal director, HGH, noted, “We have at Hamad General Hospital held in Dubai last month. tional cases at HMC have been nary valve without surgery. open heart surgery. This meant in the USA, I was very pleased that been performing therapeutic car- (HGH) which delegates at an The procedures were broadcast live in this way and ena- The second live transmission there was no surgical wound and a we had the opportunity to show- diac catheterisation for more than international conference ob- jointly carried out by Dr bled us to showcase the high qual- case involved an adult male Bang- heart-lung machine and recovery case the procedures from Qatar. three decades and have taken a served via live transmission. Hesham al-Saloos, paediat- ity of our therapeutic cardiac cath- ladeshi patient suff ering from an in the Intensive Care Unit were The most important thing was that great leap forward in recent years by Both procedures were ric cardiologist at HMC, and eterisation to hundreds of cardiac atrial septal defect. This meant the not required. They were both kept both of the patients’ lives were off ering a non-surgical therapy for medical professionals.” patient had a large hole in the wall under observation in the ward saved. This is also testament to complex congenital heart diseases.”

Minister visits diabetes screening booth

E Dr Hanan Mohamed al- cations such as blindness, kidney “Simple lifestyle measures have Kuwari, the Minister of Pub- failure, heart attacks, stroke and been shown to be eff ective in pre- Hlic Health, visited a screening lower limb amputations. Regular venting or delaying the onset of type booth at Hamad General Hospital diabetes screenings are crucial for 2 diabetes. Maintaining a normal (HGH) Thursday, to raise awareness early detection and events such as body weight, engaging in regular about both the high prevalence of World Health Day serve as important physical activity and eating a healthy diabetes in Qatar and the importance reminders of this,” said al-Kuwari. diet can reduce the risk of diabetes. HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari talking to staff ers at diabetes of early detection, as part of the Manal Musallam Othman, direc- One of the fi rst steps for prevention screening booth at Hamad General Hospital. activities of World Health Day. tor, diabetes education at the Na- is to get tested and understand your “In Qatar, as is the case in much tional Diabetes Centre, stressed the risk for developing type 2 diabetes,” atric patients every month. inaugurated in December of the rest of the world, the burden importance of education, stating said Othman. The National Diabetes Cen- 2014, receives approximately of diabetes and its complications are that it is the cornerstone of both dia- The National Diabetes Cen- tre at Al Wakra Hospital, 400 patient visits per month. high. Diabetes is a serious condi- betes management and prevention, tre at Hamad General Hospital tion which has many consequences adding that a large number of type 2 was opened in 2013 and receives if left untreated, including compli- diabetes cases are preventable. about 2,000 adult and 700 paedi- Expert warns of silent diabetes symptoms amad Medical Cor- and high blood sugar levels an alarm clock for your poration’s (HMC) during pregnancy, known health,” said Dr Zirie. Hsenior consultant as gestational diabetes. “An increasing number and head of endocrinology Type 2 diabetes symp- of patients diagnosed with and diabetes, Dr Mahmoud toms can vary from one diabetes are asymptomat- Zirie, has urged people to person to another and can ic. We see many patients talk to their family about include excessive thirst, at the National Diabetes diabetes and specifi cally its frequent urination, in- Centres at Hamad Gen- symptoms and risk factors. creased hunger, fatigue, eral Hospital and Al Wakra Some studies suggest Dr Mahmoud Zirie blurred vision, slow heal- Hospital who experienced that Type 2 diabetes can ing cuts and bruises, unex- no symptoms prior to their go undiagnosed for many cause of Type 2 diabetes, plained weight loss or gain diagnosis. They only came years, with many diabetics there are well-established and numbness in the hands to see our physicians for not being diagnosed until risk factors, including and feet. consultation because they they experience a serious obesity, an inactive life- “Being aware of diabe- developed one or more of complication such as stroke style, increased age, a tes symptoms is an impor- the complications asso- or heart attack. family history of diabetes, tant part for taking action. ciated with diabetes,” Dr While there is no single polycystic ovary syndrome These symptoms are like Zirie added. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 9 QATAR QF launches reading campaign atar Foundation (QF) Several activities and events include pop-up stores and pub- has launched a National will be launched in the months lic activities which will encour- QReading Campaign, to ahead to demonstrate that read- age parents, teachers and insti- incubate a love of literature ing can be fun, exciting and tutions to be actively involved in among all residents, with a spe- informative. These include promoting a book-loving cul- cial focus on children. the Reading Truck, which is a ture in Qatar. QF will seek to unite the in- dedicated vehicle that will op- Other QF initiatives, such as dividual literacy eff orts to cre- erate as a mobile library; Vend- the World Innovation Summit ate one consolidated platform ing Machines, which will be for Education (WISE) and Qatar that will enable entities to col- circulated around schools and National Library, further illus- lectively promote a passion for allow children to exchange up trate this goal and, through the reading throughout the entire to ten books at a time; and in- National Reading Campaign, community. Through a series teractive, immersive story tell- the Foundation aims to facilitate of innovative and interactive ing sessions and nationwide the acquisition of knowledge for projects, the nationwide initia- competitions. all. tive will make books readily ac- More activities and events “By incubating a deep-rooted cessible to the people of Qatar, will be announced to make read- culture of self-learning, Qatar and encourage their uptake, QF ing an essential part of the na- Foundation is working to inspire said in a statement. tion’s daily routine. a passion for innovation,” said The fi rst stage of the year- As the campaign evolves to Fahad Saad al-Qahtani, presi- round campaign, focusing on include the wider public in its dent, Community Development, schoolchildren across Qatar, is subsequent phases, the initia- Qatar Foundation. “Reading is already underway. Regular read- tive will provide abundant read- the primary building block for ing sessions are taking place at ing and storytelling opportuni- learning, as it helps to encour- many local schools, in co-ordi- ties, in collaboration with local age a range of soft skills in young nation with the Ministry of Ed- stakeholders and partners to minds, including learning, un- ucation and Higher Education. involve the whole family. These derstanding and creativity.” The first stage of the National Reading Campaign targets schoolchildren.

HMC nursing services ‘vital in improving patient outcomes’

he important role of nurses in implement- Ting quality improvement initiatives has been highlighted as an outcome of Hamad Medical Corpo- ration’s recently announced simultaneous accreditation of all its hospitals by the Joint Commission Interna- Prof Ann-Marie Cannaby tional (JCI). “Nursing is part of safe conducted a system-wide and eff ective patient care in review of our nursing and any modern healthcare sys- midwifery sensitive indica- tem. As part of the multidis- tors, contrasting the 2014 ciplinary healthcare team, and 2015 fi gures, and the nurses contribute to quality data demonstrates a nota- improvement in numerous ble improvement in nursing ways. For example, the evi- care and patient outcomes,” dence shows that nursing Cannaby said. education and the number “Our nursing work- of nurses in the care setting force places patient safety plays a crucial role in refi rst and foremost in their ducing errors and improv- performance every day. ing patient outcomes,” Prof Nurses develop and imple- Ann-Marie Cannaby, chief ment clinical evidence- nursing offi cer at HMC said. based practice guidelines, The Nursing and Mid- champion infection control wifery Department is ac- projects and improve care tively involved in qual- standards across our hos- ity improvement initiatives pitals. They provide conti- focused on continually nuity of care and evidence- measuring and improving based interventions in the patient outcomes. Nursing- right way, and at the right sensitive indicators is the time. This data represents international term used to a commitment to quality refl ect elements of patient healthcare outcomes,” she care that are directly aff ect- said. ed by the quality or quantity Evidence shows that of nursing care; they include education is an important metrics such as hospital ac- component of a high quality quired infections, patient nursing service. Earlier this falls and pressure ulcer year HMC’s Department rates. of Nursing and Midwifery HMC also looks at the Education and Research rates for these measures earned re-accreditation, across the world by using with distinction, as a pro- the National Database of vider for Continuing Pro- Nursing Sensitive Indica- fessional Development from tors which were originally the American Nursing Cre- developed by the Ameri- dentialing Centre (ANCC). can Nursing Association ANCC accreditation dis- to monitor and benchmark tinguishes organisations nursing-sensitive indicators that demonstrate quality against some of the world’s and excellence in the design leading healthcare organi- and delivery of continu- sations like the Cleveland ing nursing education. The Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hos- prestigious re-accreditation pital and Mayo Clinic. places HMC among an elite “Nursing-sensitive indi- class of healthcare organi- cators encompass the struc- sations and underscores ture, process and outcomes the importance placed on of nursing care and are one supporting clinical staff form of assessment that through providing high- nurses at HMC use to meas- quality professional devel- ure our care. We recently opment opportunities.

Temperature set to rise

Temperature is expected weather charts show. to rise in the country today, According to data available nearing the mid-30C mark with the Met department, in some places, according to the places that received the the weather off ice. highest rainfall in the country The Qatar Met department between April 7 and 12 noon also noted – through a post yesterday were Dukhan on its social media channels (5.6mm), Qatar University yesterday – that another (4.1mm) and Umm Bab weather system would (3.8mm). start aff ecting the northern Today’s forecast shows it Arabian Peninsula today and will be relatively hot during was expected to influence the day in inshore areas with Qatar by the end of this slight dust in places. Off shore week. areas will remain partly The country received cloudy. scattered rain over The minimum and maximum the weekend and the temperatures in the country temperature also saw a slight today are expected to be 21C drop during this period. From and 34C, respectively, with today, it is likely to get the forecast for Doha being hotter during the day, 22C and 33C. Gulf Times 10 Sunday, April 10, 2016 REGION King Salman visits Al-Azhar mosque ‘Qaeda ambush’ kills 20 Yemeni soldiers

AFP They had been travelling to a Islamic State group have tak- The Saudi-led coalition car- Marib military camp in Hadramawt, the en advantage of the chaos to ried out two air strikes to stop neighbouring province whose strengthen their grip on south- the advance of Houthis seeking capital has been held by Al Qaeda ern Yemen. to take back a military base that l Qaeda militants killed at since April last year. But after having long ignored pro-government forces had re- least 20 Yemeni soldiers Al Qaeda in the Arabian Pe- them, forces loyal to President captured in late 2015. Ayesterday when they am- ninsula (AQAP), also known as Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have The developments come be- bushed their convoy in the south Ansar al-Sharia, in an online launched operations against fore a UN-announced ceasefi re of the war-torn country, a mili- statement denied it was involved them in the past few weeks. that is due to take eff ect tonight, tary source said. in the attack. Jihadist attacks on symbols ahead of peace talks that are Al Qaeda swiftly denied it was “We in Ansar al-Sharia deny of the state have increased in scheduled to be held in Kuwait behind the killings. any connection to the mur- southern Yemen, in an appar- on April 18. “Armed members of Al Qaeda der incident that took place on ent attempt to hamper the gov- One loyalist fi ghter, Ahmed ambushed a group of young sol- Saturday morning in the Ahwar ernment’s eff orts to rebuild the al-Shalafi , said he doubted the diers travelling in three civilian area,” it said, blaming a local army and security forces. rebels would respect the truce. vehicles in the province of Ab- tribal leader for the killings in- In mid-February, a suicide “How will they observe a yan, killing at least 20 of them,” stead. bomb attack claimed by IS re- ceasefi re while they continue to The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (left) and the Custodian of the Two Holy said the source, who requested Yemen has been at war since portedly killed at least 14 sol- attack us,” he said, adding that Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia visiting the mosque at Al-Azhar headquarters anonymity. September 2014, when Iran- diers at a military camp in Aden, the two sides had sent in rein- in Cairo yesterday. The assailants ordered the backed Shia Houthi rebels and where young recruits had been forcements to the front line in soldiers to get out of the vehicles their allies drove the govern- undergoing training. Sarwah. and gunned them down early ment out of Sanaa and much of Elsewhere yesterday, loyal- Meanwhile, in the region in the morning in the town of the country’s north. ist forces clashed with Houthi of Nahm, northeast of Sanaa, Ahwar, the source said. The Houthis controlled Aden, fi ghters in Marib province for a clashes yesterday killed three The soldiers were young re- the main city in southern Yem- second consecutive day, accord- loyalists and four rebel fi ghters, cruits who were being deployed en, for months before governing to military sources. said another military source. as part of the internationally rec- ment forces backed by a Saudi- The clashes in the Sarwah re- The UN says the violence in Passenger dies aboard ognised government’s eff orts to led military coalition pushed gion have so far killed 21 people, Yemen has killed nearly 6,300 restore security to areas under its them back in July. 13 of them loyalists and eight people since March last year - Dubai-bound Qantas fl ight control. Militants of AQAP and the rebel fi ghters, the sources said. half of them civilians.

AFP ing perform CPR with a doctor make a very fast descent”. Sydney who was on board, but unfor- “The patient was being treat- tunately the passenger passed ed on the fl oor in the middle of Oman evacuates American from Yemen away before the fl ight landed,” everyone. He died before they passenger has died the Australian carrier said in a could land and when they land- aboard a Qantas jet statement. ed a string of people came on AFP the Omani authorities, in co- The statement gave no other back in July. In September, Oman A bound for Dubai, the “Our thoughts are with the board to examine the situation. Muscat ordination with the Yemeni au- details. helped to negotiate the release airline said yesterday, with the passenger’s family.” “About an hour later they re- thorities in Sanaa, obtained the Yemen has been at war since of a Briton, two Americans and man reportedly suff ering from a Qantas declined to give fur- moved the body and distraught release” of the US citizen, said a September 2014, when Iran- three Saudis held by the Houthis. heart attack mid-air. ther information about the pas- wife and travelling compan- mani armed forces have statement. backed Houthi rebels and their And in November, Oman Flight QF9, which was travel- senger and the circumstances ions.” evacuated an American The person, whose identity allies drove the government out evacuated from Yemen three ling from Melbourne on Friday, around his death for privacy Earlier this week, the same Ofrom Yemen’s rebel-held was not revealed, “was evacu- of Sanaa and much of northern other Americans said to have was diverted to Muscat, Oman reasons, but the Sydney Morn- fl ight from Melbourne to Dubai capital following a request for ated on Friday night from Sanaa Yemen. been held on allegations of spy- for the medical emergency but ing Herald reported that he suf- was three hours into its journey assistance from the US, the sul- to Muscat on board an Omani The Shia Houthi rebels con- ing. was unable to land in time to fered a suspected heart attack. when one of its engines had a tanate’s foreign ministry said. air force plane before being trolled Yemen’s second city Aden The release of the latest save the man. Another passenger on board “slight vibration issue” and the “In response to a request from repatriated” to the US, it said, for months before government American comes ahead of a UN- “Our crew did everything the plane told the Herald that aircraft was diverted to Sydney, the US government for help to quoted by the offi cial ONA forces backed by a Saudi-led announced ceasefi re set to take they could, including help- the Airbus A380 “started to the airline said. free an American in Yemen, news agency. military coalition pushed them eff ect tonight. US Navy leading 30-nation maritime exercise in Mideast

Reuters Abu Dhabi

he US Navy is leading a 30-nation maritime exercise across Middle TEastern waters which it says will help protect international trade routes against possible threats, including from Islamic State and Al Qaeda. The exercise is partly being held in the Arabian Gulf. The International Mine Counter- measures Exercise (IMCMEX) started on Monday with a symposium in Bahrain where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is based, An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter prepares to land on the flight deck of aircraft in part as a bulwark against Iran. carrier USS Harry S Truman during a vertical replenishment in the Arabian Gulf. Vice Adm. Kevin Donegan, com- The US Navy is leading a 30-nation maritime exercise across Middle Eastern mander, US Naval Forces Central Com- waters which it says will help protect international trade routes against possible mand, said yesterday the exercise was threats, including from Islamic State and Al Qaeda. designed to stop militants from causing disruption to shipping as, “we know that Suez Canal, the Strait of Bab Al Mandeb partner”. US President Barack Obama they want to disturb trade lines”. and the Strait of Hormuz,” Donegan said. will attend a summit in Riyadh on April “This region provides a strong train- US Secretary of State John Kerry had 21 with the Gulf Co-operation Council ing opportunity for nations world- praised security co-operation with Bah- states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United wide as three of the six major maritime rain on Thursday during a visit to the Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain chokepoints in the world are here: the Gulf state calling it a “critical security - on Iran’s role in the region. Gulf Times Sunday, Apri 10, 2016 11 ARAB WORLD

Lebanon to decide ‘soon’ on fate of Aussie ﬁ lm crew Regeni probe: Egypt says

Reuters determined shortly,” for- Lebanese Interior Min- Sydney/Beirut eign minister Julie Bishop ister Nohad Machnouk told reporters. was quoted on Thursday Italian request for phone The crew members as saying the crew were ebanese authori- were making a film about “involved in abducting ties are expected the mother’s efforts to the two children and de- Lto decide soon on recover her children for tained in respect of their whether a four-member the Australian current participation in the kid- Australian film crew will affairs show 60 Minutes. napping operation”. records ‘unconstitutional’ face charges in connec- “I cannot understate CCTV footage broad- tion with a plot to kidnap the seriousness with cast on Lebanese TV had two children in a child- which the Lebanese au- appeared to show the two AFP custody dispute, Austral- thorities are viewing the children, who the father Cairo ia’s foreign minister said case but we’re doing all said were aged five and yesterday. we can to maintain con- three, being bundled into Lebanese police have tact with all of the par- a car by several attackers gypt’s assistant state prosecu- detained the four Aus- ties involved,” Bishop on a busy street in south- tor said yesterday Italy had de- tralians and accused said. ern Beirut. The children’s Emanded thousands of phone them of involvement in The Australian mother grandmother told media records to investigate the murder of the kidnapping of the two was also in detention in she had been hit on the student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, charg- children from their Leba- Lebanon, media has re- head with a pistol during ing that the request was unconstitu- nese father on behalf of ported. the abduction. tional. their Australian mother. “Given the sensitivi- Lebanese media re- Mostafa Suleiman told a press con- “At this stage we un- ties of this case and the ported on Friday that ference that Italian investigators had derstand they are still be- fact children are in- Brisbane woman Sally made the demand during an incon- ing held in detention and volved, we are handling Faulkner had been de- clusive meeting in Rome last week the question of charges this very carefully,” tained and her children that prompted Italy on Friday to recall is an issue that will be Bishop said. returned to their father. its ambassador from Cairo. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri, meanwhile, told his Italian counterpart that recalling the ambassador “raised question marks” in light of what he said was Egypt’s co-operation in the probe. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD student, was in Egypt researching labour unions when he Mostafa Suleiman, Egypt’s assistant state prosecutor, speaks to the press in Cairo yesterday on the subject of the disappeared on January 25. murder of student Giulio Regeni. Suleiman told a press conference that Italian investigators had made the demand His badly mutilated body was during an inconclusive meeting in Rome last week that prompted Italy to recall its ambassador from Cairo. found more than a week later by the side of a road. Rome announced it was recalling Egypt’s co-operation. Renzi to be seen to be getting tough Suleiman said Italian investigators its ambassador over lack of progress “The foreign minister told his Ital- with Cairo. asked for records of “all subscrib- in the probe into Regeni’s brutal mur- ian counterpart that this approach “Italy has undertaken a commit- ers in areas in where (Regeni) lived, der. raised question marks about the goals ment with the Regeni family... that where he disappeared and where Suleiman said that the Italian in- of these decisions,” the statement said we would stop only once we get the his body was found”, Suleiman said, vestigators also demanded CCTV of the ambassador’s recall. truth,” Renzi said. adding the number could even reach footage that had been automatically Italian offi cials suspect the student The withdrawal of Rome’s ambas- a million. deleted by then, but Egypt made in- was killed by elements in the Egyp- sador is unlikely to satisfy those who “This demand conﬂ icts with and quiries and found that a programme tian security services. Their Egyptian are demanding that Renzi send a violates the Egyptian constitution, could be purchased that might have counterparts have maintained that strong signal of Italy’s anger over the and would constitute a crime,” he retrieved it. there is no basis for such claims. case to Egypt’s president, Abdel Fat- said. He said they asked Italy for help but Egypt’s presentation of a theory tah al-Sisi. Suleiman added that the Italian the matter was “still under study”. that a criminal gang murdered him Renzi has a close relationship with investigators “conditioned further A foreign ministry statement said was greeted with outraged scepticism Sisi which has helped to generate judicial cooperation on this demand” Shoukri had called his Italian coun- in Italy and has helped fuel public hugely valuable business contracts for but the Egyptian delegation in Rome terpart Paolo Gentiloni yesterday anger over the case, putting intense Italian companies, particularly in the ﬂ atly refused. and described to him the extent of pressure on Prime Minister Matteo energy sector.

Israeli forces detain four Palestinians

QNA Jerusalem

sraeli forces launched multiple predawn raids Iacross the occupied Pal- estinian territory yesterday detaining at least four Pales- tinians and delivering summons to others. In the northernmost West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli forces ransacked a house in the village of Rummana and detained Nidal Sbeihat, locals and Palestinian security sources told Ma’an news agency. Israeli forces also stormed Qalandiya refugee camp in the central West Bank district of Ramallah and detained Husam al-Ashhab. In the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces detained a woman identiﬁ ed by local sources as Zeinat Uweida. The sources added that Uweida was among a group of volunteers known in Ara- bic as the Murabitat (Mu- rabiteen for men) who often stay inside the Al Aqsa mosque compound with the aim of preventing groups of right-wing Jews from enter- ing. Another predawn detention raid was reported in the village of Qatanna northwest of Jerusalem. A young man was reportedly detained. In Bethlehem district in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli forces raided Ayda refugee camp and the town of Al-Khader and delivered summons to Mo- hamed Mustafa Kanaan, Mohamed Riziq Salah, Ham- za Issa Ghneim, and Nabil Suleiman Mousa. Raids were also reported in Hebron district in the southern West Bank where Israeli forces delivered summons in Hebron city as well as the towns of Dura and Deir Samit. The detentions come after seven women were detained on Friday, with Israeli authorities issuing ﬁ ve of them months-long bans from en- tering Al Aqsa mosque. Gulf Times 12 Sunday, April 10 2016 ARAB WORLD Call to step up pressure on Israel over demolitions

Reuters 2015, tightening the squeeze on ries out the demolitions because people had lost their homes and demolitions, saying Israel did not Israeli navy opens fire on Gaza fishing boats Brussels Palestinians living there. the structures are illegal: they about 2,000 their livelihoods. give the Palestinians living there Robert Piper, a UN assistant were either built without a per- In doing so, he said, Israel was a real chance to obtain building Israeli navy boats yesterday men to return to shore without secretary general and the head of mit, in a closed military area or forcing Palestinians away from permits. opened fire on Palestinian fisher- injuries. he European Union must humanitarian aff airs for the Pal- fi ring zone, or violate other plan- some parts of the West Bank Piper said that, while there was men boats, off the town of Beit Palestinian fishermen are be- raise political pressure estinian territories, briefed EU ning and zoning restrictions. as more Israeli settlements ap- much diplomacy going on behind Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip. ing continuously harassed by Ton Israel over accelerat- offi cials on that in Brussels on “The pace of demolitions has peared there, even though build- closed doors, there was a need for Palestinian sources said that the the occupation forces at sea, ing West Bank demolitions that Friday, urging them to respond. exceeded any previous records ing them on the land Israel has more public statements on the occupation naval force opened in breach of the truce deals run against international law and “We have entered a new and and we are only in the fourth occupied since the 1967 Middle matter, adding that the EU could fire on the vicinity of fishing reached between the Palestinian increasingly aff ect aid projects fairly disturbing phase in terms month of the year. We are very East was against the law. also deploy diplomats to the sites boats at sea while fishing within resistance factions and Israel af- sponsored by the bloc, a UN envoy of the confrontation between worried about what the rest of “The EU needs to refl ect on its aff ected to send a political mes- the permitted six nautical mile ter the Israeli aggression against for Palestinian territories said. international humanitarian law the year holds,” Piper said. strategy and how it’s going to re- sage to Israel. fishing zone, forcing the fisher- the Gaza Strip in 2014. With more than 540 demoli- and the Israeli occupation of the Piper said around 140 aid spond ... This can’t be left unad- “We also need to talk about tions and confi scations in the oc- West Bank,” Piper told Reuters. projects by donors were de- dressed. It’s a provocation,” Piper forms of seeking fi nancial com- cupied West Bank so far this year, The Israeli military, which has stroyed, including more than said. pensation or restitution by the in March its fi rst aid package ($287.62mn) to help Palestinian the Israeli military has already occupied the West Bank since the 200,000 euros worth of EU in- Piper challenged the Israeli occupying power,” he said. for the Palestinian Authority in refugees and develop health and matched or exceeded the total of 1967 Middle East war, says it car- vestments, while some 600 military’s justifi cation for the The 28-nation EU approved 2016, earmarking 252.5mn euros education services, among others. Syrians back home in Palmyra

AFP recaptured the city and its world “The walls, the windows and Palmyra famous antiquities. the door are also still there, Once home to 70,000 peo- and that’s enough for me to get ple, Palmyra has been scarred by my family ready to return to lutching her Barbie doll Syria’s fi ve-year war and retreat- Palmyra,” he said. and a teddy bear, six- ing militants sowed traps around In Hammoud’s home all the Cyear-old Marwa trod the city. windows have been shattered, carefully as she accompanied As Marwa’s parents and the and some of the walls, although her parents on their fi rst visit others inspected their homes and they are still standing, are riddled to inspect their home in Syria’s gathered personal belongings, with bullets. Palmyra since the Islamic State Russian sappers could be seen Hammoud said he left his fam- group was expelled. clearing mines and powerful blasts ily back in Homs because he did They were among thousands could be heard in the distance. not want them to see the damage of residents who fl ed as IS over- Many apartment blocks are and destruction. ran the ancient city in May last partially collapsed while others But before boarding one of the year, and among hundreds who have been totally demolished, buses chartered by the authori- returned yesterday, two weeks AFP journalists said. ties he made a dash for his son’s after the Russian-backed Syrian Some of the returnees wept at room to pick up a toy. army regained control. the sight of the damage to their “I promised Abdu that I would For the past 10 months, they city, overcome with grief. bring him the toys he wanted, have been living in the provincial Still, many were determined to which he had left in his room,” he capital Homs, where they sought return home for good against all said. shelter from militant rule. odds. For some of the city’s residents, Yesterday, they returned to “There’s nowhere like home,” all that remains today is grief. the city known as the “Pearl of said Marwa’s mother Hayat. “My husband died at the be- the Desert” on board 25 govern- A local offi cial said that resi- ginning of the war,” said Umm ment-run buses, some of the dents would not be allowed to Khaled, a mother of two. “Eve- passengers overcome with emo- spend the night until infrastruc- rything is gone. Nothing is left.” tion. ture is repaired and demining In a poignant symbol of the “I can’t fi nd some of my toys operations are completed. brutality of the civil war, three in the house. All I found was my “We will need at least three painted slogans vie for promi- Barbie, my teddy bear, a necklace weeks to rehabilitate the city’s nence on a Palmyra wall. and a notebook,” Marwa said. infrastructure to the extent that The fi rst is a salute to Assad’s “I’ll come back to look for the residents will be able to spend ruling Baath party, the second rest,” she added. the night in their homes,” the of- hails IS and the last pays hom- Her father Jamal, 55, mean- fi cial said. age to the elite Republican Guard while packed a bag with some of But Hayat is keen to return de- army unit. Women carry bags of belongings they collected from their damaged homes during their visit to the city of Palmyra, Syria yesterday. the family’s belongings. spite the damage. Palmyra was a key tourist des- “The main reason why I came “It’s true that there’s no water tination before the Syrian confl ict back to Palmyra today, despite or electricity, but if we were al- erupted in March 2011 known for the dangers, was Marwa and her lowed to we would have stayed its celebrated ancient ruins, in- toys,” said Jamal, a driver. there despite the rubble, dust cluding colonnaded streets and He added that the family was and chaos,” she said. 2,000-year-old temples. also keen to rescue their sewing Khudr Hammoud, a 68-year- But IS destroyed some of machine. “My wife uses it for old retired civil servant, was also Palmyra’s most striking monu- work, and it is a source of income determined to return. ments and used the ancient am- for us,” he said. “The fi rst thing I checked in phitheatre as a venue for public On March 27, the Syrian army the house was the roof,” he said. executions. IS pushes into refugee camp near Damascus

DPA Damascus, from Al Nusra Front, Abu Rami, an activist based in Beirut the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. the Yarmuk camp, said that the The Britain-based watchdog sound of heavy machine-gun fi re reported unspecifi ed casualties could be heard echoing across he Islamic State militant among both feuding sides. the grounds. group yesterday advanced Islamic State’s incursion into “Islamic State is trying to Tinto parts of a Palestinian the sprawling camp is seen as an make up for the losses they refugee camp on the outskirts attempt by the Al Qaeda splinter have also suffered in the past of the Syrian capital Damascus, group to make up for the ground two days in northern Syria and following two days of fi ghting it has recently lost elsewhere in near Damascus,” Abu Rami against Islamist rivals, a moni- Syria. said. toring group reported. Last month, Syrian regime He added that the fi ghting, The Syrian Observatory for forces, backed by Russian war- which is still going on, had forced Human Rights said that Islamic planes, drove Islamic State from dozens of residents to fl ee the State fi ghters had seized some the ancient city of Palmyra, camp for safer areas. parts of the Yarmuk camp, lo- which the militants had control- “The remaining residents in A view of the Great Colonnade in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria yesterday. Syrian troops backed by Russian forces recaptured Palmyra cated on the southern edge of led for 10 months. the camp now feel terrifi ed.” on March 27, after a fierce off ensive to rescue the city from Islamic State militants. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 13 AFRICA Opposition hits out after Guelleh wins re-election

AFP people’s will,” Tourtour said. Djibouti Guelleh’s nearest rival, Omar Elmi Khaireh, said the offi cial results were “a fantasy” but ad- jibouti’s opposition yes- mitted that legal challenges had terday lashed out at little chance of success. DPresident Ismail Omar Several opposition candidates Guelleh after he claimed a land- complained that their repre- slide victory in the strategic Af- sentatives had been turned away rican nation’s election, accusing from a number of voting centres him of stealing the ballot in an on polling day. “electoral hold-up”. “We demand that the govern- Friday’s vote, which activ- ment fi x this and organise trans- ists complained was preceded parent, free, fair and just elec- by political repression and curbs tions,” independent candidate on basic freedoms, saw Guelleh Jama Abderahaman Djama told - in power since 1999 - winning AFP. 86.68% of ballots cast, according With a population of 875,000 to the interior ministry. people, Djibouti is little more Facing a fractured opposition, than a port with a country at- Guelleh had been widely ex- tached, but the former French pected to extend his iron-fi sted colony has leveraged its posi- rule with a fourth term in the tion on one of the world’s busiest tiny Horn of Africa country that shipping routes. People stand around the debris at the site of a car bomb blast outside a Mogadishu restaurant. has attracted the US, France and It is home to Washington’s China as a prime location for only permanent base in Africa, military bases. which is used for operations in The closest opposition candi- Yemen - just across the Gulf of date won just over 7% of the vote Aden - as well as the fi ght against in a race where some 187,000 the Islamist Shebaab in Somalia people - around a fourth of the and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Pe- population - were eligible to cast ninsula (AQAP). a ballot. Guelleh won the previous Some opposition parties had election in 2011 with 80% of the Shebaab bombers hit called for a boycott, as they had vote, after parliament changed done in previous votes, but turn- the constitution to clear the way out was reported to be 68%. for a third term. “The people of Djibouti Following parliamentary elec- have again entrusted me with tions in 2013 which Guelleh’s the state’s highest offi ce,” the UMP party won, sparking furi- 68-year-old Guelleh said in a ous opposition claims of fraud, Mogadishu restaurant speech on national TV, vowing to rival parties demanded the crea- get straight back to work. tion of an independent electoral Mohamed Tourtour, one of the commission - which has never AFP Several sources told AFP that the res- the supreme military court told reporters. killed doing his job in the country since fi ve candidates who ran against happened. Mogadishu taurant, which is in the northern part of “Both of them were found guilty of 2010, the group says. Guelleh, said the president’s Opposition groups com- the city, was regularly used by Somali se- murdering journalist Hindiyo Haji Mo- Shebaab rebels have carried out re- winning total was “far from real- plained of curbs on freedom of curity forces, although it was unclear if hamed whose car was blown with explo- peated attacks in Somalia and neigh- ity”. assembly ahead of the vote, while t least three people including a any were there at the time. sive device,” Hussein said. bouring Kenya as part of their fi ght to “It’s an electoral hold-up. Mr rights groups denounced politi- child were killed yesterday in a car There was no immediate claim of re- National television journalist Mo- overthrow the country’s internationally- Omar Guelleh has stolen this elec- cal repression and crackdowns Abomb blast outside a restaurant in sponsibility for the attack, but the Al- hamed was killed in December when his backed government, as well as the Afri- tion - it is not the expression of the on basic freedoms. the capital Mogadishu, offi cials and wit- Qaeda-linked Shebaab militant group car blew up as he returned home from a can Union troops supporting it, which nesses said. regularly mounts car bomb attacks and university class in Mogadishu. include Kenyan soldiers. “There was an explosion against a assassinations on government targets. The military court recently rejected an Shebaab leaders have vowed to bring Head-on bus crash kills 24 in Zambia restaurant in the Beyhani district. Three They have also stepped up deadly attacks appeal by the men - and indeed increased down the Somali government, which is civilians were killed and fi ve others in- in recent months on restaurants and some their sentence from life imprisonment to supported by the international commu- A bus and a minibus crashed “All the passengers who were in jured,” said Abdifatah Halane, a spokes- of Mogadishu’s most high-profi le hotels. execution. nity and defended by the African Union’s head-on in Zambia yesterday, the minibus including the driver man for the Banadir province which in- Separately, two Shebaab militants were Somalia is one of the most dangerous 22,000-strong AMISOM mission. killing 24 people, police said. died on the spot. They were 24 in cludes the capital. executed yesterday by fi ring squad Satur- countries in the world for journalists to Confronted with AMISOM’s superior The accident in the northern area total,” Chanda said, adding that Witnesses told AFP that the car, day for the murder of a journalist killed by operate, with some attacks believed to be fi re power, deployed from 2007, Shebaab of Kapiri Mposhi, around 210km the number of injured was not packed with explosives, was parked just a car bomb last year, a judge said. linked to score-settling among the multiple militants were chased out of Mogadishu north of Lusaka, came after the yet clear. outside the restaurant, and produced a Abdirisak Mohamed Barow and Has- factions in power, as well as by the Shebaab. in August 2011. The group subsequently driver of the bus failed to keep to Deadly traff ic accidents are massive blast. san Nur Ali, who admitted being Shebaab The Reporters Without Borders press lost its main strongholds, although it still his lane and hit a minibus coming common in Zambia due to the “The explosion was enormous... I saw members during their trial, were shot freedom campaign group ranks Somalia controls vast rural areas from which it the other way, police spokeswoman poor state of the roads and bad several corpses, including one of a child,” yesterday morning in Mogadishu, Abdu- 172nd out of 180 countries for press free- mounts guerrilla operations and suicide Charity Munganga said. driving. said one witness, Farhan Mohamed. lahi Hussein Mohamed, deputy judge of dom. Mohamed was the 38th journalist attacks, often targeting the capital.

Lake Kariba at record low level brings hunger, power cuts Kinshasa kicks out

By Farai Mungano, AFP US researcher over Karba, Zimbabwe massacre report ake Kariba on the Zambezi River border between Zim- Lbabwe and Zambia used to Reuters that soldiers in Congo’s army be dotted with hundreds of com- Kinshasa had participated in massacres mercial fi shing rigs, while lo- of civilians in the country’s cal fi shermen in small makeshift northeast since 2014, al- boats would catch enough bream uthorities in Demo- though it said it was unclear for their livelihood. cratic Republic of to what extent the military Now the fi shermen are stand- ACongo have expelled hierarchy was involved. ing on shore praying for rain as a prominent American re- Mende sharply criticised drought has shrunk the water searcher weeks after he the report at a news confer- level of the world’s biggest man- published a report linking ence in the days after it was made lake by volume to a record soldiers to the massacres of released, accusing Stearns of low. civilians, the government and “abusive generalisation”. “It’s so bad that on a bad day the researcher’s organisation Rights groups say more you can catch just a couple of fi sh, said yesterday. than 500 people have died just enough to eat on the day or Jason Stearns, the director in a wave of machete attacks exchange for cooking oil or a small of the Congo Research Group and other raids since Octo- packet of cornmeal,” said one of at New York University, was ber 2014. The government them, Cyril Murinda. expelled from the country, has blamed most of them on “We just hope that God hears to which he makes regular a Ugandan Islamist group our pleas for rain and the dam fi lls research visits, for making that has operated in eastern up so that we can get back to fi sh- false declarations to immi- Congo since the 1990s. ing, otherwise we will just starve.” Kapenta Sales co-operative staff ers spread kapenta fish to dry in the sun on racks after a night of fishing on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. gration services, government Political tensions are high Lake Kariba has fallen to 12% of spokesman Lambert Mende in Congo, where President its capacity, hitting the fi shing infi sh - are hunted commercially by ciation on the Zimbabwean side age daily catch of 20kg he could But he ruled out a total shut- said. Joseph Kabila, in power since dustry and also vital hydroelectric some 400 boats, known as rigs, at of the lake. “There is no profi t and pocket $40 a day, but now he can down of the power generators. “(Immigration authorities) 2001, is required by the con- power production in Zambia and any one time. people are just fi shing for sur- barely catch 1kg. “Although we don’t expect a wanted to present him to a stitution to step down before Zimbabwe, according to the dam’s The rigs employ thousands of vival.” The region’s severe drought has vast increase in the water volume, judge but fi nally they decided the end of the year. operators. people. They operate at night, Fisherman Wonder Dipuka says been caused largely by poor rains a complete shutdown is not like- to expel him,” Mende said, Opponents, however, ac- This time last year, the lake was attracting the shoaling fi sh with his family faces starvation unless due to the El Nino weather phe- ly,” Munodawafa said. “We may adding that he did not have cuse him of trying to delay 51% full. lights and scooping them up in the water rises. nomenon. have to further ration.” any details on the nature of a presidential election due “We are lower than the lowest dip nets. In a country saddled with mas- And the hardships from low Heightened rationing means those declarations. in for November in order to levels we had in 1995 and 1996,” “Climate change is threaten- sive unemployment, Dipuka earns water levels stretch far beyond the more blackouts in both countries. The group said the rea- hold onto power. The UN and engineer Munyaradzi Munoda- ing the industry and some people a living and pays school fees for shores of Lake Kariba. Zimbabwe is already suff ering son given by authorities for rights groups say the govern- wafa, chief executive of the lake’s have moved off fi shing,” Chiringa his children through fi shing, but Located 400km downstream from perennial shortages, forcing Stearns’ expulsion on Thurs- ment is cracking down on managers Zambezi River Author- said. the low water levels have left him from the Victoria Falls, the dam the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply day was his “undesirability”, dissent through arrests and ity, told AFP in a telephone inter- “In the last few months, there struggling to catch enough to put feeds water to two hydroelectric Authority (ZESA) to cut power to and said the immigration ir- intimidation of opponents. view. were very few rigs who managed a meal on the table. stations capable of generating 750 some parts of the country for up regularities were “minor pro- The government denies Kariba’s maximum storage of to catch a tonne in a month where “It’s now very diffi cult to sur- megawatts of electricity for Zim- to 10 hours at a time. cedural matters, which we are both of these charges. an enormous 185cu km of water in the past they could catch up to vive because there are no jobs in babwe and 600 MW for Zambia. ZESA spokesman Fullard Gwa- taking steps to address”. Stearns is a former coor- makes it the earth’s largest man- four tonnes within a month.” Kariba,” he said, while fi shing The Zambezi River Author- sira said the authority had adopt- Its statement said the au- dinator of the UN panel of made lake by volume. The low water levels have dried from the shore and watching for ity is rationing the fl ow of water ed “mitigatory measures” includ- thorities referred to Stearns’ experts in Congo and author John Chiringa, who runs a fi sh- up business, says Hakurotwi any hint of a bite at the end of his used for power generation and at ing power imports and turning report about the massacres, of a widely read book about ing company in Kariba town, said Shonhiwa, chairman of the In- line. the current rate it will last just fi ve to alternative energy sources to without giving further detail. the country’s civil wars from kapenta - a small, sardine-like digenous Kapenta Fishers’ Asso- Dipuka said that with an aver- months, CEO Munodawafa said. maintain local supplies. Last month’s report said 1996-2003. Gulf Times 14 Sunday, April 10, 2016 AMERICAS Trump block could hurt Republicans in November

By Chris Kahn, Reuters The online poll of 468 Re- even a small number of Republi- Washington publican Trump supporters has cans would make it tough for the a credibility interval of 5.3 per- party to prevent the Democrats centage points. from winning the White House, third of Republican vot- Trump has topped the national especially if the election is again ers who support Donald polls throughout most of the race decided by razor-thin margins in ATrump could turn their for the Republican nomination, a handful of battleground states. Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with an unmanned Dragon cargo craft from the launch platform in Cape Canaveral on Friday. backs on their party in Novem- and has won more delegates than In 2012, President Barack ber’s presidential election if he is any other Republican so far. Obama won Florida by less than denied the nomination in a con- A Reuters/Ipsos online poll one percentage point and Ohio tested convention, according to a from April 4-8 showed that 42% and Virginia by less than four Reuters/Ipsos poll. of Republicans support Trump, percentage points. The results are bad news for compared with 32% for US Sena- “The Republicans don’t really SpaceX rocket booster makes Trump’s rivals as well as party tor Ted Cruz of Texas and 20% have any margin of error,” Green elites opposed to the real estate for Ohio Governor John Kasich. said. billionaire, suggesting that an Cruz and Kasich have both Trump and Cruz both trail alternative Republican nominee said their paths to victory rely on Democratic front-runner Hil- for the November 8 presidential winning at least enough votes to lary Clinton among likely general breakthrough landing at sea race would have a tougher road block an outright win for Trump election voters in a hypothetical against the Democrats. and force a decision at the Re- general election matchup, but “If it’s a close election, this is publican National Convention in not by much, according to the Reuters About 2-1/2 minutes af- President Obama hailed the 20 launches, possibly up to 100 devastating news” for the Re- Cleveland. latest Reuters/Ipsos polls. Cape Canaveral, Florida ter Friday’s launch, the main latest accomplishment on Twit- with minor refurbishment. publicans, said Donald Green, an But Trump, whose supporters Generally, a convention bat- part of the 23-story tall, two- ter, saying, “Congrats SpaceX SpaceX also plans to debut a expert on election turnout at Co- have remained loyal even as he tle is a bad sign for the health stage SpaceX rocket separated, on landing a rocket at sea. It’s heavy-lift version of the Falcon lumbia University. rankled women, Hispanics, Mus- of a political party, said Elaine SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket turned around and headed to- because of innovators like you & rocket this year, equipped with The Reuters/Ipsos poll con- lims, veterans and others with his Kamarck, a senior fellow at the blasted off from Florida ward a landing platform fl oating Nasa that America continues to 27 engines powering its fi rst- ducted March 30 to April 8 asked fi ery rhetoric on the campaign Brookings Institution and author Aon a Nasa cargo run to in the Atlantic about 185 miles lead in space exploration.” stage, compared to the nine cur- Trump’s Republican supporters trail, predicted last month there of the book, “Primary Politics: the International Space Sta- (300 km) northeast of Cape Ca- The reusable rocket booster rently used. two questions: if Trump wins the would be riots outside the con- How Presidential Candidates tion on Friday, and its reusable naveral. should arrive back in Florida The cargo ship that lifted off most delegates in the primaries vention if he was blocked. Have Shaped the Modern Nomi- main-stage booster landed on A live video feed broadcast today and will be test-fi red on Friday, a capsule dubbed but loses the nomination, what “If they broker him out, I’ll nating System.” an ocean platform minutes later on Nasa television showed the about 10 times, then likely re- Dragon, is due to arrive today would they do on Election Day, be fed up with the Republicans,” “When a party gets to a point in a dramatic spacefl ight fi rst. rocket booster, its four landing launched, probably on a com- at the space station, the $100bn and how would it impact their said Chuck Thompson, 66, a when it has a contested con- The successful autonomous legs extended, descending over mercial fl ight, as early as May, laboratory fl ying about 400km relationship with the Republican Trump supporter from Concord, vention, it almost always hurts touchdown of the booster at sea the ocean before settling itself Musk said. above Earth. Party? North Carolina, who took the them,” Kamarck said. “It’s a con- marked another milestone for upright on the barge-like plat- SpaceX plans to plans to start It is packed with about About 66% said they would poll. fi rmation of some really deep fi s- billionaire entrepreneur Elon form, roughly eight minutes af- launching rockets about every 3,175kg of food, supplies and vote for the candidate who even- Thompson, a lifelong Republi- sures within the party that were Musk and his privately owned ter launch. two weeks from its sites in Flor- experiments, including a proto- tually wins the nomination, can, said he admires Trump’s in- unable to be dealt with during Space Exploration Technologies “The rocket landed instead of ida and California later this year type infl atable habitat. while the remaining third were dependence from big campaign the primary season.” in the quest to develop a cheap, putting a hole in the ship or tip- as the company tackles satel- Built by Nevada-based split between a number of alter- donors and takes that as a sign Trump supporter Elizabeth reusable rocket, expanding his ping over,” Musk told reporters lite-delivery orders worth some Bigelow Aerospace, the light- natives such as not voting, sup- that the front-runner will be able Oerther, 40, of Louisville, Ken- edge in the burgeoning com- at the Kennedy Space Center a $10bn, company offi cials said. weight fabric habitat will be test- porting a third-party candidate, to think for himself if he were to tucky, said she would switch par- mercial space launch industry. short time later. “We’re real ex- Roughly half the upcoming ed to see how it compares with and switching parties and voting become president. ties and vote for the Democratic The liftoff at 4.43pm EDT cited about that.” missions will leave the Falcon more traditional orbiting en- for the Democratic nominee. If Trump loses the nomina- nominee if the Republicans de- (2043 GMT) from Cape Canav- Four previous at-sea land- 9’s booster with too little re- closures made from metal in the Meanwhile, 58% said they tion, Thompson said he would nied Trump the nomination. eral Air Station also marked the ing attempts had failed. But serve fuel to fl y all the way back hostile environment of space. would remain with the Republi- quit the party. “The people want “If you don’t give it to him, I’m resumption of resupply fl ights a Falcon 9 main-stage rocket to the launch site for a return The US space agency is in- can Party. Another 16% said they Donald Trump. If they (Republi- going to vote against them,” said by SpaceX for Nasa following achieved a successful ground- landing, so the ability to land at terested in expandable habitats would leave it, and 26% said they cans) can’t deal with that, I don’t Oerther, who took the poll. “They a launch accident in June 2015 based touchdown in December, sea is essential, Musk said. to serve as crew living quarters did not know what they would do need them,” he said. want to take away the choice of that destroyed an earlier cargo the fi rst ever during an actual He estimates each Falcon 9 during eventual three-year trips with their registration. Green said the departure of the people. That’s wrong.” payload for the space station. commercial space mission. booster should be good for 10 to to and from Mars.

Prime Vancouver real estate sold to aboriginal groups Former House speaker ritish Columbia said on Friday it had reached a had ‘molested 5 boys’ BC$480mn ($369.7mn) deal to sell a large swath of land on Vancouver’s exclusive west side AFP duct, allegations of which fi rst to three local aboriginal groups, Washington emerged last year, had not previ- opening up the property for po- ously been offi cially confi rmed. tential redevelopment. Ironically, it was a scandal The deal, which includes two tunning new details have involving a former lawmaker parcels totalling a combined 38.8 emerged of ex-House - Mark Foley - sending sexu- acres, will give the Musqueam, Sspeaker Dennis Hastert’s ally explicit and suggestive mes- Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Na- alleged molestation of boys as sages to teenage pages, or aides, tions control over the majority of young as 14, a precipitous fall that led to Hastert’s downfall as the so-called Jericho lands in Van- from grace for a man once second speaker of the House of Repre- couver’s West Point Grey neigh- in line to the US presidency. sentatives, a post he held from bourhood. The 74-year-old Republican 1999 to 2007. The three First Nation groups, lobbyist agreed to pay $3.5mn Prosecutors said the money along with the federal govern- to one of his youngest victims, served to pay Individual A after ment’s Canada Land Corp, had federal prosecutors said in a Hastert made him stay in his mo- previously purchased a separate court fi ling detailing for the fi rst tel room during a wrestling camp 52-acre Jericho lands parcel from time abuse allegations by fi ve and massaged his groin area. the Department of Defence. former high school wrestlers he “Defendant used his position Located just blocks from many coached. of trust as a teacher and coach to of Vancouver’s most expensive He pleaded guilty in Octo- touch a child’s genitals and then properties, the Jericho lands in- (From left) MC Ren, Dr Dre, Ice Cube and DJ Yella of N.W.A. pose onstage after speaking at the 31st annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ber to illegally structuring bank undress and ask the child for a clude a former military base along Induction Ceremony at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn on Friday night. withdrawals over 4.5 years that back massage in a motel room,” with a recreation centre and a pri- prosecutors identifi ed as hush prosecutors wrote of that en- vate school. money. counter. “There is no ambiguity; Redevelopment of the roughly Hastert told government defendant sexually abused Indi- 90-acre site could create an entire agents he was being extorted by vidual A.” neighbourhood of homes, poten- Jubilant rappers N.W.A join Hall of Fame someone falsely accusing him of In the end, Hastert was able to tially helping to address a housing abuse, but recorded conversa- actually pay Individual A $1.7mn shortage in Vancouver, where sky- tions between him and the per- - half the agreed amount - be- rocketing real estate prices have son identifi ed in Friday’s fi ling tween 2010 and 2014 in regu- pushed ownership out of reach for with an attitude and a selfi e with Dr Dre as “Individual A” cast doubt over lar payments that only stopped many residents. his claim. when the government started The province said it will transfer By Jill Serjeant, Reuters Founding member Ice Cube said the Miller, who moved from blues to pop and Prosecutors suggested Hastert investigating him. the fi rst parcel to the First Nations New York group had earned their place in the Hall of back again to produce 1970s hits such as be handed a six-month sentence Stephen Reinboldt, who died this November, with the second Fame, just as the pioneers of jazz, blues, “The Joker” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” lashed at an April 27 hearing, taking in 1995, was abused by Hast- transfer in November 2017, spread- punk, rock and pop before them. out backstage at the induction process. note of his ill health - he suff ered ert throughout his time in high ing the proceeds of the sale over alifornia rappers N.W.A. fi nally “We have come a long way from being He criticised restrictions over music a stroke after pleading guilty - school in 1967-1971, according to two budget years. The two parcels took their place in the Rock and so hated in the industry to making it to the and video licensing for the show and com- but stressing that he could con- his sister and others. are of similar size and value. CRoll Hall of Fame on Friday, jubi- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” Ice Cube said. plained about being off ered only two tick- tinue to receive medical care and An attorney for Hastert did not In February, British Columbia lant about their transformation from one “Are we rock and roll? You’re goddam ets for family and friends for the ceremony. medication while in prison. immediately respond to requests projected a surplus of C$264mn of the most hated bands in America to right we’re rock and roll. Rock and roll is “This came so close to not happening,” Statutes of limitations have for comment, but his lawyers did in fi scal 2016-17 and C$287mn in music’s mainstream. not conforming to the people who came Miller said of his appearance at Friday’s long passed on the abuse, which off er an apology in a memoran- 2017-18. N.W.A., formed in the 1980s in the before you, but creating your own path in ceremony. “They make it so unpleasant.” took place when Hastert taught dum earlier last week. The deal follows a consultation troubled Compton neighbourhood of Los music and in life.” British band Deep Purple, formed and coached at Yorkville High “First and foremost, Mr Hast- process between the province and Angeles and enjoying new fame through N.W.A. celebrated with Dr Dre taking a in 1968, performed their signature hit School in Illinois from the 1960s ert is deeply sorry and apologizes the Musqueam, Squamish and the 2015 biopic “Straight Outta Comp- selfi e on stage of the group. “Smoke on the Water.” Introducing the to the early 1980s, so he is only for his misconduct that occurred Tsleil-Waututh Nations, whose ton,” were only the fi fth hip hop act ever to British metal band Deep Purple, soft band, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, being charged for breaking fi - decades ago and the resulting traditional territories include the be voted into the Hall of Fame. They had rock-pop group Chicago, singer Steve called them timeless, pioneering and nancial laws. harm he caused to others,” it city of Vancouver. been nominated three times before. Miller, and 1970s rock band Cheap Trick mesmerising. Hastert’s abuse consisted of read. It was not clear how the aborigi- The group made waves for their often rounded out the 2016 inductees, who were Chicago, which fused jazz and rock, “intentional touching of minors’ “He regrets that he resorted to nal groups are fi nancing the pur- infl ammatory songs that refl ected the vi- chosen by fans and more than 800 voters performed their upbeat hit “25 or 6 to 4,” groin area and genitals or oral sex structuring the withdrawal of his chase, though they have worked olence, crime and anti-police sentiments of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. but left out what was arguably their best- with a minor,” according to pros- money from banks in an eff ort with local builder Aquilini Devel- of their neighbourhood, but went on to Artists are eligible for inclusion 25 years known song, the 1976 romantic ballad “If ecutors. to prevent the disclosure of that opments on previous projects. sell more than 100mn records. after the release of their fi rst recording. You Leave Me Now.” The nature of the miscon- misconduct.” Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 15 ASEAN

Indonesian Air Force parade Thailand steps up security after Uighurs ‘linked to terror’ visit

Reuters documents. Two Chinese eth- Bangkok nic Uighur men were arrested last year for their involvement in an Aug 17 bombing at hai police have stepped a Bangkok shrine that killed up security after two 20 people. They were charged Tethnic Uighur men with murder and possession of from China linked to “foreign explosives. terror groups” visited a holi- Authorities said the bomb day island, a senior offi cer said was in retaliation for a crack- yesterday. down on human smuggling Fears of a militant attack in gangs and not a “terrorist” at- Southeast Asia have risen re- tack. cently, especially after the Is- The Uighur people from lamic State group claimed an China’s far west are a Mus- attack in the Indonesian capi- lim minority and Chinese au- tal in January in which eight thorities accuse some of being people, four of them attackers, involved in militancy. were killed. In March, Indonesian forces “At the end of March, two killed two ethnic Uighurs who Uighurs came to Phuket and linked up with an Indonesian stayed one night and then left militant on Sulawesi island. Thailand,” police Lieutenant Four Uighurs were jailed in In- General Suchart Teerasawat donesia last year after trying told Reuters, referring to a to join the same network. tourist island on Thailand’s China has said Uighurs pose Indian Ocean coast. an increasing threat to Indo- “These two have links to nesia. China has long come foreign terror groups”, he said. under criticism for its treat- Suchart said police did not ment of Uighur Muslims. have information about who Hundreds of people have died the Uighurs met or where they in recent years in unrest in the Members of the Indonesian Air Force parade during celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Air Force at Halim Perdanakusuma air base in Jakarta yesterday. went on the island. west China region of Xinjiang, “We’re investigating this. where most Uighurs live. After staying one night the Hundreds, perhaps thou- pair travelled to Malaysia and sands, of Uighurs keen to Indonesia. We understand escape unrest at home have they were eventually caught in travelled via Southeast Asia to Indonesia,” he said. Turkey. Suchart said authorities Some Chechens from Rus- were also investigating several sia are known to have joined ethnic Chechens following re- militants in South Asia and Myanmar govt drops charges ports last week that some were Syria. Suchart said intelli- on Phuket. gence showed four Chechens On Thursday, Thai Defence planned to enter Thailand last Minister Prawit Wongsuwan month but two of them were said he had ordered surveil- caught in Malaysia before they lance of Uighur and Chechen were able to travel. against nearly 200 activists visitors who might have en- “The location of the other tered Thailand on fake travel two is not known,” he said. AFP was applauded by international Yangon human rights groups, though many urged the new government to go a step further and amend yanmar authorities legislation that allows authori- have dropped charges ties to round up peaceful pro- Suu Kyi undergoes Magainst nearly 200 po- testers. litical activists since Aung San “We look forward to the re- Suu Kyi pledged to fi ght for their lease of all remaining political eye surgery: offi cial freedom, a senior police offi cer prisoners and their full rehabili- said yesterday. tation,” the European Union said The cases were dismissed Fri- in a statement. AFP local media showed Suu Kyi at day, he said, following Suu Kyi’s Watchdog groups in Myan- Yangon the hospital with her personal announcement the day before mar say there are still hundreds doctor Tin Myo Win, one of that she was working with her of activists facing trial or being the few people permitted to new civilian-led administration held in the country’s notori- yanmar’s Aung Sang visit the democracy activist to secure the release of scores of ous prisons, many of them ar- Suu Kyi underwent during the 15 years the military political prisoners languishing in rested under the quasi-civilian Msuccessful eye sur- kept her under house arrest in Myanmar’s jails. government that stepped down gery yesterday, a senior party her crumbling Yangon man- “Police have dropped 199 last month after five years of offi cial said, weeks after the sion. cases against political activists transitioning the country from 70-year-old’s fl edgling ad- He said by phone that Presi- around the country as of yester- junta rule. ministration took power. dent Htin Kyaw had also ar- day,” the offi cer said on condi- Suu Kyi called for the pris- “She went back home after rived at the hospital to see Suu tion of anonymity. In this photograph taken on Friday, freed students and supporters march from Shwedagon pagoda to a oner release through her new the successful operation,” Win Kyi after the operation. The issue has personal reso- memorial hall upon their arrival in Yangon. position as state counsellor, Htein, a senior member of Suu Suu Kyi and her party took nance for Suu Kyi and many in which she was given despite Kyi’s ruling National League their seats in government last her fl edgling government, which stration they organised in March more cases would be reviewed aide of hers who was sworn in vehement opposition from the for Democracy (NLD) party, month following a massive is stacked with former activ- 2015. during the festival, which starts last month. still-powerful military whose told AFP. election win in November, ists once jailed under junta rule In statement later that night next week, and that other ac- Dissidents were routinely charter bars her from the presi- He declined to comment on forming the fi rst civilian ad- for their pro-democracy cam- Suu Kyi said more political pris- tivists could be freed when the jailed by the brutal junta that dency. MPs from her National the specifi c nature of the op- ministration in decades. paigns. oners would be released follow- courts reopen. strangled free expression in My- League for Democracy (NLD) eration but said it was minor The historic power transfer Those freed Friday included ing Myanmar’s new year holiday, Suu Kyi’s administration is anmar for decades, one of many party approved the new post, and that Suu Kyi, who is state crowned the Nobel laureate’s dozens of student activists in but that “necessary scrutinisa- expected to seek the release repressive policies that garnered which will be added to her counsellor and foreign min- lengthy campaign to wrest central Tharrawaddy who had tion” would need to be complet- of convicted political prison- global support for Suu Kyi’s de- portfolio as foreign minister, ister, would return to hospital power from a repressive junta been locked up for more than a ed fi rst. ers through a pardon signed by mocracy struggle. through their solid majority in for surgery on the other eye on that sunk the Southeast Asian year over an education demon- The police offi cer told AFP President Htin Kyaw, a close Friday’s release of activists parliament. April 16. Photos published by country into brutal poverty. Vietnam wraps up leadership change ahead of Obama visit

AFP tivist Nguyen Lan Thang said he Hanoi predicted Lich would continue the party trend of confronting Beijing with “only words and no ietnam’s rubber-stamp action” over its increasing pres- parliament approved 21 ence in the South China Sea. Vnew minister positions But he said the new secu- yesterday, state media reported, rity chief, known for driving fi nishing off a leadership reshuf- the state’s suppression of dis- fl e among Communist top brass sent and religious freedom as ahead of a visit by US President a deputy in the ministry, would Barack Obama next month. likely strengthen a clampdown The National Assembly ap- on free speech. proved three new deputy prime “There will be more concen- ministers and 18 other cabinet trated pressure against figures members, according to the leg- and groups that oppose the islature’s offi cial website, con- state’s limp policy,” Thang said. cluding a change in government Hanoi and Beijing frequently that occurs once every fi ve years. trade diplomatic barbs over In the past, the assembly often disputed island chains and took up to six months to approve waters in the South China Sea, the leadership nominations especially after China moved a made during the party congress Vietnam’s National Assembly chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (ninth left) poses for a photo with new cabinet members after they were approved by the National Assembly in Hanoi yesterday. controversial oil rig into con- in January, but analysts say the tested territory in 2014 and process was sped up this year closer ties with its former war- tory for the party’s conservative who championed a reformist largely ceremonial but offi cially domestic and overseas threats. sparked riots in Vietnam. partly due to Obama’s upcom- time adversary. wing. pro-business agenda but ruffl ed the head of state. Among yesterday’s cabinet Beijing has reclaimed thou- ing visit and friction with Beijing Vietnam’s new administra- The new prime minister feathers among the party’s old Quang, 59, rose the ranks appointments were 61-year-old sands of acres of land in less over the disputed South China tion will be led by incumbent Nguyen Xuan Phuc is expected guard. within the country’s Ministry of army general Ngo Xuan Lich for than two years in an inten- Sea. party leader Nguyen Phu Trong to shift the government back Meanwhile experts say the Public Security, a powerful body defence minister and 58-year- sive island-building cam- China’s increasing assertive- along with a newly-appointed towards consensus-driven rule new president Tran Dai Quang with sweeping powers including old To Lam for public security paign, drawing condemna- ness in the hotly-contested wa- president and prime minister, a after taking over from Nguyen is the fi rst police general to be intelligence gathering and pro- chief. tion from other claimants and ters has pushed Hanoi to seek trio analysts said marked a vic- Tan Dung, a charismatic leader appointed to the role, which is tecting the party from perceived Vietnamese human rights ac- Washington. Gulf Times 16 Sunday, April 10, 2016 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA North Korea ‘tests’ new ICBM engine North Korea leader Kim Jong Un Reuters/AFP As soon as Kim fl agged off South Korea’s defence offi - watches the test of a new engine Seoul the test, “the engine spewed cials did not immediately provide for an intercontinental ballistic out huge fl ames with deafening comment on the authenticity of missile (ICBM) at a test site at boom”, KCNA said. yesterday’s report. Sohae Space Centre in Cholsan orth Korean leader Kim “Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un The North said in March that it County, North Pyongan province Jong Un supervised a said now we can mount an ever had miniaturised a nuclear war- in North Korea in this undated Nsuccessful test of a new more powerful nuclear warhead head to be mounted on ballistic photo released engine for an intercontinental on a new intercontinental bal- missiles and conducted a simu- yesterday by North Korea’s ballistic missile (ICBM), state listic rocket and put the den of lated re-entry test of a ballistic Korean Central News Agency media said yesterday, in their lat- evil in the United States, and all missile, which could indicate ad- (KCNA). est report of advances in an arms over the world, within our strike vances in its ICBM programme, if programme that has attracted range,” the agency said. true. Left: The new engine for an ICBM UN sanctions. “The great success ... provided But South Korean offi cials being tested at the Sohae Space South Korea and the United a fi rm guarantee for mounting questioned those assertions and Centre, according to the KCNA. States have shown scepticism another form of nuclear attack said that the North was several over the North’s statements upon the US imperialists and years away from developing an rean Studies told AFP. about rapid progress in its nu- other hostile forces,” Kim was ICBM. Some analysts have suggested clear and missile programmes quoted as saying. The United States said there the North could even conduct a ahead of a ruling party congress The North’s top newspaper was no proof of the North’s fi fth nuclear test before the con- in May, where analysts expect it Rodong Sinmun featured photos statements and urged Pyongyang gress, and South Korean offi cials to declare itself a major nuclear of Kim overseeing the test on its to halt actions that fuel tension. say they are fully prepared for weapons state. front and second pages yester- The North conducted its such an eventuality. Tension has remained high on day, and said the trial was re- fourth nuclear test in January The North said that its Janu- the Korean peninsula after the portedly conducted at the Sohae and the rocket launch in Febru- ary nuclear test was a successful North’s nuclear test and a long- Space Centre. ary, in defi ance of international hydrogen bomb test, but many range rocket launch earlier in One picture showed Kim look- warnings and past UN sanctions, experts and offi cials in the South the year and South Korean and ing down from an observation triggering a new Security Coun- and the United States said the US troops conducted large-scale tower as fl ames were seen over cil resolution that imposed more blast was too small to have been joint drills amid harsh rhetoric the horizon. punishment. played such a missile, known as sented “another great victory” ment national unity and loyalty from a successful test of such a from both rival Koreas. Another showed fl ames Despite its assertions, the the KN-08, during recent mass to be presented at the upcoming around Kim Jong-Un. weapon. The engine was ignited at streaming down from an engine North has yet to conduct a fl ight- military parades in Pyongyang. Workers’ Party Congress, which “Kim was showing off his Outside experts have treated a Kim’s command and released a propped up vertically. test of a long-range missile or Kim described the engine test is believed to be scheduled for military build-up achievements number of the claims with scep- fi ery blast, and the test showed The missile station is near its an ICBM and show mastery of as an “eye-catching event” that May 7. to consolidate loyalty ahead of ticism, suggesting the North Ko- the indigenously designed rocket west coast, where, in February, the technology needed to bring a demonstrated the North’s na- It is the fi rst congress of its the Party Congress as economic rean leadership is attempting to fulfi lled all required conditions, the country launched a long- missile back into the atmosphere tional defence capability to the kind for 36 years and seen as a diffi culties grow following UN talk up its achievements ahead of the North’s offi cial KCNA news range rocket that put an object and hit a target with precision. world. showcase for the leadership to sanctions,” Professor Yang Moo- the showcase ruling party con- agency said. into space orbit, KCNA said. North Korea has however dis- He also noted that it repre- hype its achievements and to ce- Jin of the University of North Ko- gress next month.

Sailors Looking east Religious harmony Left: A Taiwanese Coast Guard Administration off icer stranded demonstrates a machine gun in Samoa under test yesterday on the docks of the 3,000-tonne ‘Ilan’ patrol ship on ship at East China Sea, near Pengjia AFP on her hands, feet and fore- Islet, the northern most island Apia head, with believers making controlled by Taiwan. pilgrimages to her home vil- DPA lage. Hong Kong Below, left: People watch goats laims that a young The fact that stigmata is fight yesterday during a local woman developed usually a Catholic phenom- festival in Dagong town of CChrist-like wounds enon but Soana’i is from the ozens of sailors have been Nantong, Jiangsu Province, after playing Jesus in a play Congregational Christian stranded in Hong Kong China. have sharply divided opinion Church of Samoa, a Protestant Dfor months after being in Samoa, igniting debate over denomination, is contributing abandoned by the owner of the Below: Singer May J poses next whether the bleeding cuts to to the furore. casino ship they serve on. to cherry blossoms before a her body are miraculous or a There are doubters among The 46 men and women on cherry blossom viewing party hoax. followers of both faiths. the New Imperial Star, which has hosted yesterday by Japan’s The country’s prime minis- “We should be happy about been fl oating aimlessly near Kai Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at ter is among those who believe these events, that it has hap- Tak cruise terminal in eastern Shinjuku Gyoen Park in Tokyo. Toaipuapuaga Opapo Soana’i pened to a daughter of a pastor Hong Kong for six months, are developed stigmata – wounds in Samoa,” the Catholic Prime stuck in a dispute with the ship’s corresponding to the injuries Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele owners, saying they are owed Christ suff ered on the cross Malielegao told reporters this hundreds of thousands of dollars – after starring in a Sunday week. in wages for the last fi ve months. school production at Easter. Pastor Samoa Unoi, from “We keep being told that once Others are sceptical about Apia’s Peace Chapel Church we pass the inspection we will the claims, dismissing the was adamant no miracle had set sail and be paid,” said one of 23-year-old’s wounds as a taken place. the crew who spoke to DPA on hoax or psychosomatic injuries “It is not a sign from the condition of anonymity. brought on by religious hyste- Lord,” he told the Samoa Ob- The ship has been detained by ria. server this week. the Marine Department for fail- Veteran Samoan journalist Professor Paul Morris, a reli- ing several safety checks since Cherelle Jackson said the case gious studies specialist at Wel- October last year. had prompted heated debate, lington’s Victoria University, The crew member spoke of including threats of violence said even if the wounds were tough conditions on board, staff in Samoa’s online chat forums, not a divine message, it did not being provided meagre rations, unprecedented in a country mean they were a hoax. poor medical care and contami- that is normally a model for re- “The other explanation is nated food that led to several ligious harmony. that it’s psychosomatic, that people falling ill. “This story has generated intensity of identifi cation ... “I worry about provisions and one of the most aggressive, where a young woman or man fresh water supply,” said Captain intense and no doubt the most identifi es with Jesus to an ex- Valeriy Lyzhyn. widespread discussions on Sa- treme degree,” he told the The crew are Ukrainian, Bur- moan public forums online,” Australian Broadcasting Cor- mese and Chinese, and are fear- she said. poration. “This auto-suggesti- ful that once they leave they will Media have run images of bility (can) lead to this physical never be paid. Soana’i with bleeding wounds transformation.” The ship is owned by Arising International Holdings Ltd, a shell company registered in the British Virgin Islands, but be- China and Pakistan militaries launch longing to a group of mainland joint air force training exercise Chinese and Hong Kong inves- China seeks clarifi cation on ‘Panama Papers’ tors, according to the crew. China’s air force began joint training exercises yesterday with The ship’s operator Skywill that of Pakistan, China’s defence ministry said, as the two nations’ Management Ltd could not be militaries strengthen operational ties. Reuters Chinese offi cial to acknowledge tinuing to move forward. As our failed Icelandic banks. reached for comment. The countries call each other “all-weather friends”, with ties Beijing the matter. leaders have said, we will always Gunnlaugsson stepped down “This isn’t the fi rst time a ca- underpinned by long-standing wariness of their common The ministry has repeatedly be on the path of anti-corrup- on Tuesday. sino ship has been involved in neighbour, India, and a desire to hedge against US influence in Asia. said it will not comment when tion,” Wang said. While holding money in off - something like this,” said Rever- “China’s Air Force hopes to widen the scope of co-operation and hina needs clarifi cation asked if Beijing would investi- China is in the midst of a shore companies is not illegal, end Stephen Miller of the Mis- dialogue with all countries and regions,” the Chinese defence on a massive leak of doc- gate. massive crackdown on cor- the International Consortium of sion to Seafarers, a non-profi t ministry said in a statement on its website, adding that the exercise, Cuments from a Panama- “We have noted that the Pan- ruption overseen by Xi, but the Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), organisation, which alongside called “Shaheen V”, would run until April 30. nian law fi rm that revealed the ama side is making some expla- government has repeatedly had which has been reviewing the the International Transport China has long urged Pakistan to weed out what it says are off shore fi nancial arrangements nations and clarifi cations. I’m to swat away criticism that the leaked documents along with Workers’ Federation is help- militants from its far western region of Xinjiang who have holed up of some of the world’s rich and afraid we fi rst must get clarity campaign is more about an in- dozens of other media organi- ing the sailors build a legal case in lawless ethnic Pashtun areas on Pakistan’s Afghan border, home powerful, including family and understand what it’s really ternal power play than actually sations, said they could provide against the company. to a mix of groups, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda. members of China’s top leaders, about,” Wang said. tackling graft. evidence of wealth hidden for Miller predicted that more For its part Pakistan wants to upgrade its air force, now dependent Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Panama’s government has State media have largely tax evasion, money laundering, ships would face similar situa- on a mostly outmoded fleet of US, French and Chinese fighter jets on Friday. said it will form an independ- avoided any reporting of the sanctions busting, drug deals or tions in the future as the ship- that Pakistani off icials fear can do little against Indian craft or help The foreign ministry has de- ent commission to review the documents, which also re- other crimes. ping industry experiences a con- target domestic insurgents. nounced accusations arising country’s fi nancial practices vealed fi nancial arrangements Hu Dehua, the son of Chi- tinuing downturn, and added from the release of the so-called and work with other countries of prominent global fi gures, na’s late reformist leader, Hu that the situation would not be “Panama Papers” as ground- over the leak. including friends of Russian Yaobang, was the fi rst Chinese as adverse had Hong Kong fi - Japan launches whaling expedition less after their leak this week Wang did not elaborate on the President Vladimir Putin, rela- relative named in the docu- nalised the ratifi cation of the revealed off shore companies documents or say if China was tives of the prime ministers of ments to say he had an off shore International Maritime Labour Japanese whalers started yesterday to hunt up to 51 minke whales linked to the relatives of Chinese in touch with the Panama gov- Britain and Pakistan, as well as company, telling Hong Kong Convention. in coastal waters off the northeast of the country despite long- President Xi Jinping and other ernment about them. Ukraine’s president. media that he had nothing to Under the convention, which standing international criticism. powerful current and former He said that China’s anti- Iceland fell into political crisis hide. sets out to protect the labour A fleet of four whaling ships left Ayukawa port in Ishinomaki city, Chinese leaders. corruption fi ght would con- this week after the papers linked Hu said the registration was rights of sailors, Hong Kong in- 340km northeast of Tokyo, for a trip to last to late May. Wang’s comments, made at tinue. the then-Prime Minister Sig- “above board” and that he used spectors would be allowed to The Association for Community-Based Whaling, a nonprofit group a joint press briefi ng with the “With the broad support of mundur David Gunnlaugsson to his own passport and real name, arrest a shipowner who failed to for what they call coastal research whaling, plans to hunt in an visiting German foreign minis- the Chinese people, China’s an off shore company that held the South China Morning Post pay wages for more than 30 days. 80km radius area from the port. ter, makes him the most senior anti-corruption struggle is con- millions of dollars in debt from reported on Friday. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 17 BRITAIN/IRELAND Policeman’s remains are found in apartment

Evening Standard are with Gordon’s family and London friends at this time of personal tragedy. I would ask that they are given the space and priva- murder inquiry was cy they need to come to terms launched today after the with this development. A“dismembered” body of “This is a very sad day for a police offi cer was found in a Gordon’s colleagues. There are fl at near the Tate Modern. many offi cers who have served Scotland Yard said the re- London alongside Gordon mains of missing PC Gordon during his 30 year career who Semple, 59, were found at an will acutely feel his loss.” address in Southwark close to Commander Newcomb said where he was last seen a week a forensic search of the prop- ago. erty was ongoing and would Detectives said the condi- take time to complete. Demonstrators outside Downing Street in Whitehall yesterday. tion of the body meant it would She appealed for anyone take time to formally identify who could help with the in- the offi cer and establish the quiry to come forward. cause of death. The fi ve-storey block where Neighbours told how ear- the remains were found has lier they knocked on the door undergone a complete refur- of the fl at where the body was bishment in the past few years found to complain about the with several fl ats now rented smell and were met by a man to private tenants, mostly City in speedos who said he was workers, at market rents. Mishandled Panama “cooking for a friend”. A huge search was launched Neighbours who knocked acrosss London after PC Sem- on the door to complain ple was reported missing by his about the smell were met partner after he failed to come by a man in speedos who home from work last Friday said he was “cooking for a night. friend” The Westminster-based revelations, says PM anti-social behaviour offi cer There were also reports of vanished shortly after leaving late night parties in the block Cameron faces sustained public bilise support following the Panama Pa- the premier said he was “very proud of the fi ve-star Shangri-La hotel where the body was found. and parliamentary censure pers scandal revelations that toppled the everything he did.” in The Shard following a meet- The devastated family of premier. “The facts are these: I bought shares in ing with a friend at 12.30pm on the police officer today paid The demonstration, beginning at 1400 a unit trust - shares that are like any other Friday. He had been on duty in tribute to a “loved partner, AFP GMT, follows fi ve consecutive days of sorts of shares, and I paid taxes on them in plain clothes. brother, uncle and friend to London protests sparked by the leak of millions of exactly the same way,” he said. He was fi lmed on CCTV many”. documents exposing the hidden off shore “I sold those shares. In fact, I sold all the three hours later in Southwark Thousands of people joined dealings of political fi gures and celebrities shares that I owned on becoming prime Street, a few hundred yards a Facebook group set up by ritish Prime Minister David Cam- across the world. minister,” Cameron said. The Conserva- from the fl at on the Peabody Semple’s niece Kerry Nicholas eron admitted yesterday he had Since Monday, when the Panama Pa- tive Party leader has been Britain’s head of estate where his remains were to share news of the ongoing Bmishandled the controversy over pers story hit front pages around the government since 2010. found. search. his shares in his father’s off shore business world, thousands of Icelanders have taken “And later on I will be publishing the in- A neighbour at the housing Last night she posted a short interests, which were fl ushed out by the Premier David Cameron arrives to attend to the streets in a historic show of force formation that goes into my tax return, not association block in South- message telling of the family’s Panama Papers revelations. a Conservative party conference. with prime minister Sigmundur David just for this year but the years gone past, wark raised the alarm yester- devastation with a link to the Cameron said he would publish his tax Gunnlaugsson, becoming the fi rst political because I want to be completely open and day afternoon after detecting a police report of his death. returns and shouldered the blame for the puter hack launched from abroad, revealed casualty of the revelations. transparent about these things,” he said, “strong smell” coming from an She wrote: “It’s with great row over his fi nancial aff airs. how the world’s wealthy stashed assets in Hurling eggs and yoghurt at the parlia- adding that this would make him the fi rst apartment. sadness that we post the fol- Cameron and his Downing Street offi ce off shore companies. ment, protestors demanded his resigna- prime minister to do so. Commander Alison New- lowing link. Gordon’s family issued four comments regarding the Pana- Demonstrators were set to gather out- tion following allegations that he and his On Friday, Labour leader Jeremy Cor- comb, in a statement, said: would like to thank everyone ma Papers before the premier on Thursday side Downing Street later Saturday to call wife used an off shore fi rm to hide million- byn and other opposition leaders had urged “Due to the condition of those for their support throughout fi nally admitted he had held shares in his for Cameron’s resignation. dollar investments. Cameron to make a statement to parliament human remains it will take this diffi cult time. late father’s Bahamas-based off shore in- “The facts are these: I bought shares in a The issue is particularly sensitive in on his links to his father’s off shore funds. some time for cause of death “Your support and help to vestment fund. unit trust -- shares that are like any other Iceland following the 2008 collapse of the Corbyn accused Cameron of misleading to be established and for for- fi nd Gordon was overwhelm- “It has not been a great week. I know sorts of shares and I paid taxes on them in nation’s three main banks, which plunged the public and said he had “lost the trust mal identifi cation to take ing. He was a loved partner, that I should have handled this better, I exactly the same way,” Cameron told his the country into a deep recession and left of the British people” by making a series of place. brother, uncle and friend to could have handled this better,” he told his party’s gathering. thousands mired in debt. brief statements this week instead of a full “At this point I do not wish many.” Conservative Party’s spring forum in Lon- “I sold those shares. In fact, I sold all the In Panama, president Juan Carlos Varela disclosure. to speculate on what has hap- Semple, who was gay, was don. shares that I owned, on becoming prime said Friday that France’s decision to put He said he did not know whether the pened.” described as a “happy-go- “I know there are lessons to learn and I minister. the central American country on its list of £300,000 he inherited after his father’s She added: “My thoughts lucky old school copper”. will learn them. “And later on I will be publishing the in- tax havens in the wake of the revelations death in 2010 had come from off shore in- “Don’t blame Number 10 Downing formation that goes into my tax return, not was “wrong”. vestments. Street or nameless advisers; blame me.” just for this year but the years gone past Hundreds of left-wing protesters gath- He initially said his father’s use of the On Thursday, Cameron admitted he because I want to be completely open and ered on Saturday near Downing Street, the Mossack Fonseca law fi rm, which was and his wife had held a stake in his father’s transparent about these things. prime minister’s offi cial residence in cen- the source of the massive Panama Papers Blairmore Holdings scheme. They bought “I will be the first prime minister, the tral London, with many calling for him to leak, was “a private matter”. His father, Ian Jail for girls who the stake for £12,497 in 1997 and sold it for first leader of a major political party, to resign. Cameron, controlled the fund from 1982 £31,500, four months before he became do that and I think it is the right thing to Many of the protesters marched to the until his death in 2010. prime minister in 2010. do.” nearby Grand Connaught Rooms, where Cameron later made statements saying killed woman The revelations in the Panama Papers, Meanwhile Iceland was gearing up yes- Cameron was attending the Conservative that he and his immediate family held no resulting from what the Panamanian law terday for a major anti-government rally Party’s Spring Forum. off shore assets and would not benefi t from fi rm Mossack Fonseca blamed on a com- in a test of the opposition’s ability to mo- Speaking about his father, Ian Cameron, off shore holdings in the future. Agencies wrists, and arms as she tried to Dublin ward off the blows”. Justice Globe said it was a “cowardly attack” and that wo teenage girls sub- Wrightson’s defensive inju- jected a 39-year-old ries backed up one of the girls’ Twoman to “gratuitous claims to friends that their vic- Anglican leader reveals he is degradation” as they battered tim was pleading with them to her to death in her home, ac- stop. cording to a judge who sen- Dismissing an application tenced them to an indefi nite by media organisations to lift term in prison with a minimum an order banning their identi- son of Churchill’s secretary of 15 years according to the ir- fi cation, he pointed to multiple ishexaminer.com. suicide attempts by the older The pair were 13 and 14 when girl. AFP probability that they were father and son. son was conceived as a result of this liai- they murdered Angela Wright- The teenagers showed no London Welby said both Gavin Welby and his son.” son in the lounge of her home obvious emotion when the mother Jane had been alcoholics, although Welby had met Montague Browne when in Hartlepool, County Dur- judge passed sentence, al- he stressed that his mother had not drank he was a boy as his mother remained a ham, in December 2014, us- though one wiped away the he leader of the world’s Anglicans, alcohol for nearly 50 years. friend. ing weapons that included a occasional tear during the the Archbishop of Canterbury Jus- “My own experience is typical of many Montague Browne was wartime prime shovel, a TV, a coff ee table, and two-hour long hearing. Ttin Welby, revealed his shock yes- people. To fi nd that one’s father is other minister Churchill’s private secretary for a stick studded with screws After they were taken from terday at discovering he is the illegitimate than imagined is not unusual. To be the the last decade of his life until the states- during a fi ve-hour long ordeal. the court, a loud wail could be son of Winston Churchill’s last private child of families with great diffi culties in man’s death in 1965. He studied at Oxford A judge at Leeds Crown heard from the cell area. secretary. relationships, with substance abuse or University and served in the Royal Air Court recounted how Wright- The judge told them: “It was Welby, the spiritual head of the Church other matters, is far too normal,” he said. Force in the Middle East and Asia during son suff ered an “absolute an attack that included gratui- of England and of the wider global Angli- “Although there are elements of sadness World War II. minimum of 70 separate slash tous degradation. can Communion of 85mn Christians, said and even tragedy in my father’s (Gavin He worked for the Foreign Offi ce after injuries and 54 separate blunt- She undoubtedly suff ered the news had come as a “complete sur- Welby’s) case, this is a story of redemption the war and then worked for Churchill. force injuries — 71 were to the con-siderably, both mentally prise”. and hope from a place of tumultuous dif- After Welby was appointed archbishop head and face, 31 were to the and physically, before she ulti- But the 60-year-old cleric insisted he Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. fi culty and near despair in several lives.” of Canterbury in 2013, Montague Browne’s body, 22 were defl ection inju- mately lost consciousness and was not disturbed by it. Welby’s mother Jane Williams, formerly step-son said how alike they looked. He ries to the back of her hands, died.”-Courtesy yahoo.com “In the last month I have discovered Welby had always thought that his fa- a personal secretary to Churchill, also is- confi rmed that Welby might be his son. that my biological father is not Gavin Wel- ther was Gavin Welby, a whisky salesman sued a statement saying the news had Through his step-son, Montague by but, in fact, the late Sir Anthony Mon- and son of a Jewish immigrant, who died come as an “almost unbelievable shock”. Browne asked if he could meet Welby and Three missing after fishing boat sinks tague Browne. This comes as a complete in 1977. The 86-year-old said though she had a the archbishop agreed. However, Mon- surprise,” Welby said in a highly unusual But The Daily Telegraph newspaper re- short and dysfunctional marriage, “nei- tague Browne, then aged 89, died within Rescue services were searching for three people missing after statement issued through the Church of vealed yesterday it had pieced together ev- ther of us ever doubted that we were the days of Welby’s installation and the meet- a fishing boat sank off Scotland early yesterday, the British England. idence suggesting that Montague Browne parents of our son Justin”, born almost ing never took place. coastguard said. “This revelation has, of course, been a was actually his father. The broadsheet nine months to the day after their wed- The hair sample was taken from a hair- A lifeboat and a search-and-rescue helicopter were sent out after a surprise, but in my life and in our marriage then discussed its fi ndings with Welby, ding. brush kept by his widow. distress call at 3:45 am (0345 GMT) from the emergency beacon of Caroline and I have had far worse,” said the who decided to take a DNA test to disprove She confi rmed she had slept with Mon- Welby, an only child, now has a half-sis- a fishing vessel with four crew on board, UK Coastguard said. archbishop, whose fi rst child Johanna died the claim. tague Browne shortly before marrying ter, Jane, who is three years older than him. “One crew member has been taken to hospital by the helicopter,” in a car crash in 1983, aged seven months. A comparison between a swab from his Welby, “fuelled by a large amount of alco- For centuries, men born illegitimately the coastguard said in a statement. “I know that I fi nd who I am in Jesus mouth and hair samples from Montague hol on both sides”. were barred from becoming archbishops. “The lifeboat remains in the area and the coastguard search-and- Christ, not in genetics, and my identity in Browne, who worked for Churchill be- “It appears that the precautions taken However, a little-known 1950s change in rescue helicopter from Prestwick has now taken over so the search him never changes.” tween 1952 and 1965, showed a 99.9779% at the time didn’t work and my wonderful the law leaves Welby safe in his position. can continue,” it said. Gulf Times 18 Sunday, April 10, 2016 EUROPE

German ruling Aegean claims its fi rst parties’ ratings victims since EU deal sink: poll AFP board the 3.5m (11’) boat when it perilous Aegean Sea crossing in Another 366 people have migrants heading to northern Turkey, which has been the main Reuters Athens capsized, she said. fl imsy boats by presenting them drowned en route. Europe. gateway for migrants heading to Berlin It was the fi rst time people with the threat of deportation The Greek coastguard report- “We haven’t seen any spe- Europe. had drowned while trying to straight back to where they came ed that April 5 was the fi rst day cifi c increase of (migrant fl ow) Dutch Foreign Minister Bert our migrant women and reach Europe via the Aegean Sea from. without migrant or refugee ar- through Albania,” Gozi said af- Koenders, whose country cur- upport for one of Ger- a child drowned yester- since a deal between Brussels For every Syrian refugee rivals by sea since last year, acter a meeting of six European rently holds the rotating EU many’s ruling parties has Fday off the Greek island of and Ankara to stem the human sent back to Turkey, one Syr- cording to the IOM. ministers in Greece to take stock presidency, stressed the bloc’s Ssunk to a near 20-year low Samos in the fi rst deaths in the tide went into eff ect on March ian is supposed to be reset- Meanwhile, Italian foreign of the migrant crisis. “But it’s support for Greece in imple- and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Aegean Sea since a controversial 20. tled in Europe. But the deal has minister Sandro Gozi said yes- very important to strengthen menting the EU-Turkey deal. conservatives have lost ground EU-Turkey deal took eff ect three The last time was on March 14 been sharply criticised by rights terday that his country and Al- our co-operation between Italy “Greece plays a key role in re- too, a poll showed on Thursday, weeks ago. when eight people went missing groups. bania were working closely to and Albania. We are working solving the migration crisis be- suggesting a deal to limit mi- “Five people were saved but off the island of Kos. According to statistics re- prevent the creation of a “new very closely not to fi nd ourselves cause thousands of migrants ar- grant numbers has yet to reas- another fi ve died, including a Under the terms of the EU- leased on Friday by the Interna- migrant route” via the Greek- taken by surprise when we know rive fi rst here and because of its sure voters. child, when their plastic boat Turkey deal, all “irregular mi- tional Organisation of Migrants Albanian border. that there is the possibility of a geographical location,” he said. Merkel is banking on the suc- capsized,” a Greek coastguard grants” arriving on the Greek (IOM), more than 152,000 peo- The EU-Turkey deal was ne- new route of fl ows.” “Fortunately they are not fac- cess of the deal between the Eu- spokeswoman told AFP. islands from Turkey face being ple have arrived in Greece by gotiated after a series of Balkan The six ministers – from ing this crisis on their own. The ropean Union and Turkey which Coastguard vessels were sent back. sea from Turkey since January 1, countries closed their borders France, Malta, Italy, the Neth- EU stands ready to give a hand gives Ankara political and fi nan- searching the water for another The objective is to discour- nearly three-quarters of whom including Macedonia, which had erlands, Slovakia and Portugal whenever necessary. EU coun- cial benefi ts in return for taking four people who had been on age people from making the were Syrians. been a key point on the route for – were to leave Greece later for tries have to show solidarity.” back refugees and migrants who had crossed to Greece. Both Chancellor Merkel’s conservative bloc (CDU/CSU) and her Social Democrat (SPD) junior coalition partners suffered heavy losses in three state New violence elections last month while voters fl ocked to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The Deutschlandtrend poll for in protests public broadcaster ARD/WDR showed voters remained fed-up with infi ghting within the ruling coalition about how to handle the crisis and integrate the new over reforms arrivals. Support for the CDU/CSU fell two percentage points to 34%, AFP took part, according to police, the lowest level in nearly four Paris while the total of organisers’ es- years, while the SPD sank two timates was 1.2mn nationwide. percentage points to 21%, its Yesterday police in Rennes lowest ever level in the ARD poll, poradic violence erupted used tear gas and stun grenades which has been carried out since as tens of thousands of in clashes with protesters, with 1997. Speople took to the streets three members of the security Meanwhile, support for the in dozens of French cities yes- forces needing emergency care AfD rose three percentage points terday in the latest protests and unconfi rmed reports of an- to 14%, its highest in the poll. against labour reforms seen as other 19 people injured. Gero Neugebauer, a political threatening workers’ rights. In nearby Nantes, hundreds scientist at Berlin’s Free Uni- Police and protesters clashed of youths erected barricades and versity, linked the waning sup- in western Rennes and Nantes threw stones, bottles and eggs at port for Merkel’s conservatives as well as Paris, leaving sev- security forces who responded and the co-governing SPD to the eral injured, as demonstrations with stun guns and tear gas. quarrels within the coalition on across the country aimed to Paris police also used tear gas migration policy. keep up pressure against the re- against several dozen masked “The voters are punishing forms, which will make it easier protesters throwing bottles and the ruling parties because the for struggling companies to fi re fi recrackers, leaving one offi cer A protester holds placards reading ‘Labour law, withdrawal now’ during a protest in Paris yesterday against the French government’s coalition is a constant dispute,” workers. wounded. proposed labour law reforms. Neugebauer said. “The public From Paris to northern Lille, The labour reforms, which perception of the coalition is re- to eastern Strasbourg and have already been diluted once liam Martinet said the proposed dubbed “Up All Night” that is testers known as the Indignados, der to justify lay-off s. ally bad. “Many have doubts that southwestern Toulouse, some in a bid to placate critics, are legislation was a form of “social taking over French city squares, who gave rise to the far-left Po- The legislation is to go to the the EU/Turkey agreement has 200 cities saw protests over considered unlikely to achieve hazing”. with young people gathering demos party. fl oor of parliament on May 3, the potential to solve the refugee “The Bosses’ Law”, as it was their stated goal of reining in Many young people, includ- until dawn demanding social Yesterday a protester de- and unions have called for a crisis. The majority of Germans dubbed on a marcher’s banner in unemployment, which stands at ing graduates, fi nd themselves change. scribed the new movement as a strike on April 28 – the third in is sceptical on this.” Toulouse. 25% among young people. working on short-term con- In Paris, hundreds of people “convergence of struggles” and the wave of protest actions. The poll of 1,505 people was “We’re starting the second Socialist President Fran- tracts for several years after their have been gathering every night was a sign of “the end of a sys- While some unions have conducted by Infratest-dimap month (of protests),” Jean- cois Hollande’s government is studies, or doing internship af- since March 31 at the vast Place tem”. shown willingness to negoti- between Monday and Wednes- Claude Mailly of the Force desperate to push through the ter internship while hoping to de la Republique. Echoing her remarks was a ate the reforms, others are call- day. Ouvriere trade union said in reforms, billed as a last-gasp secure a job. The labour reforms are a uni- banner reading “Game over, the ing for the bill to be withdrawn Paris as the sixth in a relentless attempt to boost the fl ailing The lower turnout in yes- fying theme of the gatherings, people are waking up”. wholesale. series kicked off . “We’re not economy before next year’s terday’s protests may be partly but the Up All Night movement The labour bill has passed Philippe Martinez of the CGT afraid of losing steam.” presidential election. explained by the start of school is broader, embracing a range of the committee stage after a few union called for the government More anti-Semitic Turnout however appeared Youths have been at the fore- holidays in much of the country. anti-establishment grievances. more tweaks, such as a clarifi ca- to “go back to square one for a cases in Austria to be far lower than a peak on front of the protest movement, Anger over the reforms has They say they are drawing in- tion over when an employer can real labour code that will protect March 31 when 390,000 people and student union leader Wil- spawned a protest movement spiration from the Spanish pro- declare economic duress in or- workers”. The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Austria increased more than 80% last year, with reported internet postings denouncing Jews more than doubling, an Austrian group Thousands gather in Warsaw said on Wednesday. Jews across Europe have warned of a rising tide of anti-Semitism, against proposed abortion law fuelled by anger at Israeli policy in the Middle East, while far- right movements have gained AFP identify as Catholic – have ta- servative Law and Justice (PiS) popularity because of tensions Warsaw bled a citizen’s bill in parlia- party Jaroslaw Kaczynski and over immigration and concerns ment that would allow abortion Prime Minister Beata Szy- following militant Islamist attacks only where it was necessary to dlo have voiced their support in Paris and Brussels. ore than 3,000 peo- save the mother’s life. for the proposal, which needs The Austrian Forum Against ple protested in War- The proposal, which would 100,000 signatures in support Anti-Semitism, which began Msaw yesterday against also increase the maximum jail to be examined by parliament. monitoring anti-Semitic incidents proposals to tighten Poland’s term for people who perform Opponents have launched in 2003, said 465 incidents were abortion law, which is already abortions from two years to their own plan to get 100,000 recorded during 2015, over 200 one of the most restrictive in fi ve, has sparked a backlash and signatures supporting a law of them being Internet postings Europe. yesterday’s rally saw protest- liberalising abortion. hostile to Jews. The current legislation, dat- ers waving wire coat hangers, a Legal abortions in Poland, The total number of Internet ing from 1993, bans all ter- tool sometimes used in the past with a population of 38mn, are postings reported to Austria’s minations except when the for crude and dangerous self- limited to 1,800 per year. constitutional protection pregnancy results from rape or terminations. There are no reliable statis- authority as off ensive remained incest, poses a health risk to the “I want women in Poland to tics on the number of illegal stable in 2015, but the number mother, or if the foetus is se- have the same choice as in civi- abortions in Poland or women of postings liable to be used in verely deformed. lised countries, where the right who undergo the procedure at criminal proceedings doubled Anti-abortion activists to abortion is normal,” said clinics in nearby countries like People demonstrate in Warsaw yesterday against plans to tighten the abortion law. The placards read, from compared to 2014, according to backed by the Roman Catholic protester Urszula Kwasna, 37. Austria, Germany and Slova- left, ‘I want choice!!!’, ‘Abortion is my business’, and ‘My body = my right’. an interior ministry spokesman. Church – some 90% of Poles The head of the ruling con- kia. “The whole picture is terrifying,” Oskar Deutsch, president of the Jewish Communities of Austria Government to seize Hitler house Swedish train derails at station Humming sex toy sparks bomb (IKG), said. The European Union Agency for After years trying to buy the property from its private owner, the A train derailed yesterday while reversing at a station in western scare at German gambling hall Fundamental Rights (FRA) urged Austrian government wants to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was Sweden, emergency services said, adding that no one was injured. the EU in January to increase born to prevent it falling into neo-Nazi hands. The accident at the central station in the city of Karlstad occurred German police brought in a bomb squad and evacuated a eff orts to combat widespread “Given the unique nature of the building, its historic significance and as the passenger train was reversing into its slot, Ola Akesson of the gambling hall when they heard a strange noise emanating from anti-Semitic cyber hate. the public interest, we’ve decided to begin discussions seeking to lay emergency services told Swedish Radio. a garbage can, but declared a false alarm after the source of the IKG’s secretary general Raimund the legal groundwork for the seizure,” interior ministry spokesman Video footage posted by local daily NWT showed that the last car had humming sound turned out to be a sex toy. Fastenbauer said it was diff icult Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said. flipped over a barrier, and was suspended in mid-air. Authorities on Tuesday night cleared about 90 people from to clearly tell who committed The decision was made after years of discussions and fruitless It narrowly missed crashing into the wall of a nearby kiosk. the business and nearby premises and closed off a street in some anti-Semitic acts because attempts to buy the property, he said, adding that the owner would be A power line was damaged, causing a power cut at the station. the eastern town of Halberstadt, after a staff member heard off enders could not be identified compensated for losing ownership. Initial reports said there were about a dozen personnel but no suspicious vibrations echoing from a metal garbage bin in the and Internet postings were Hitler was born in the house in Brunau am Inn on April 20, 1889. passengers onboard the heritage train. men’s toilet, police said. usually anonymous. It was made the subject of an historic preservation order by Germany’s An investigation has been launched into the incident. Three explosives experts of the Off ice of Criminal Investigation in But there was a clear trend of National Socialist regime in 1938 after being purchased by the Nazi The train is operated by Stockholm-based cultural association SKAJ, the state of Saxony-Anhalt were called in. increasingly hostile behaviour government. which runs and maintains heritage trains and locomotives, and They cautiously examined the contents of the bin – only to find against the 15,000 Jews living in After being returned to the Pommer family in 1952, the house passed organises trips to various locations, chairman Sten-Erik Beskow the off ending object to be not a bomb, but a battery-powered Austria from Muslims, the Jewish into Gerlinde Pommer’s hands in 1977. told DPA. penis ring. community representative said. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 19 EUROPE ‘Man in a hat’ found and charged, says Belgium Medvedev: They will buy Reuters group and terrorist murder,” the weapons in other countries, and Brussels Belgian federal prosecutors of- the degree of their deadliness fi ce said in a statement. won’t change in any way. Prosecutors charged four man held on terrorism people, including Abrini, with charges in Belgium has terrorist activity for their sus- Aadmitted to being the pected roles in the Brussels “man in a hat” seen on secu- bombings and November’s Paris Russia rity camera footage at Brussels attacks. airport alongside two suicide They were arrested on Friday, bombers after attacks in the city along with two others who were won’t halt killed 32 people, public prosecu- later released. tors said yesterday. Belgian police raided a sus- Prosecutors said that after be- pected safe house in central weapons ing confronted with footage pre- Brussels yesterday but found no pared by an investigational unit, weapons or explosives and made Belgian Mohamed Abrini said no further arrests. sales to he was the man police had been Prosecutors said they also hunting since the bombings at charged Osama K, who local the airport and on the metro on media said was a Swede named This image taken from CCTV Baku and March 22. Osama Krayem, adding that they footage shows the ‘man in the “He had no other choice,” a were able to identify him as the hat’. Abrini (right) has admitted spokesman for Belgium’s public man present at the time of the he was that man. Yerevan prosecutors said. He had been attack on the Brussels metro held since Friday evening. station that same day. lant about the militant threat. Abrini had been on Europe’s Osama K was seen buying the “We are positive about the re- Reuters most wanted list since Decem- bags used in the Brussels attacks cent developments in the inves- Moscow ber, after he was caught by a in a shopping centre there, pros- tigation. But we know we have to security camera at a motorway ecutors said. stay alert and cautious,” Michel service station with suspected The other two were Bilal El told a news conference in Brus- ussia said it would con- militant Salah Abdeslam while Makhoukhi, who had already sels. tinue selling arms to both they drove to Paris two days be- been convicted for working with El Makhoukhi was convicted RAzerbaijan and Armenia fore the attacks there that killed Islamic militant recruiters, and in January last year for being despite the latest fl are-up of the 130 people in November. a Rwandan named Herve BM on involved in Sharia4Belgium, a confl ict over Nagorno-Karaba- With the arrests and deaths in charges of helping Abrini and now-disbanded organisation kh, angering the Armenians who Brussels since a raid on March Osama K. that recruited people to go fi ght consider Moscow a close ally. 15 put police on the trail of Ab- The arrests were a sign of suc- alongside Islamic militant or- Russia will continue its arms deslam, all of the main known cess for Belgian security serv- ganisations in Syria and Iraq, sales to both Azerbaijan and Ar- suspects in the Paris and Brus- ices, which have been criticised Belgium’s Justice Minister Koen People lay flowers during a tribute, called yesterday by Muslim menia despite the latest fl are-up sels attacks appear to have been at home and abroad since Brus- Geens said. “He was under electronic su- organisations, to the victims of the March 22 Brussels terror attacks, of the confl ict over Nagorno- taken off Europe’s streets. sels-based militants organised Originally sentenced to fi ve pervision and his sentence end- outside of Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station. Karabakh. After leaving the airport, the attacks in Paris and, four years in prison, with three years ed on March 15,” Geens said at a Renewed fi ghting around Ar- Abrini had thrown his light coat months later, those in the Bel- suspended, he was allowed to government news conference. Prosecutors said that they had committing terrorist murders. menian-backed Nagorno-Kara- in a dust bin and later sold his gian capital. serve his remaining term at El Makhoukhi was convicted charged El Makhouki, who they “He is suspected of having bakh, which broke out last week- hat, prosecutors added. Belgian Prime Minister home under electronic monitor- last year following his return to named as 27-year-old Bilal EM, off ered assistance to Moham- end, was the most intense since “He is charged with participa- Charles Michel said his governing and was released last month, Belgium after losing a leg while with participation in the ac- ed Abrini as well as Osama K,” a 1994 ceasefi re that stopped the tion in the activities of a terrorist ment would continue to be vigi- Geens told reporters. fi ghting in Syria. tivities of a terrorist group and prosecutors said. confl ict around the rebel region but did not resolve the underly- ing dispute. A Moscow-brokered ceasefi re agreed on Tuesday stopped the Turkey police detonate bag in Istanbul’s Taksim Square outburst of violence in which Azerbaijan and the Armenia- backed rebel region lost dozens Reuters square lined with hotels and res- no further information about police presence, with security of their servicemen. Istanbul taurants frequented by tourists, the incident was immediately tight, ahead of an Organisation Russia plays an important role while a member of the police available. of Islamic Co-operation summit in the region as its former impe- bomb squad was seen opening Turkey has been on high alert this coming week. rial and Soviet-era overlord. urkish police carried out a what appeared to be a bag, the after four suicide bombings al- Roads were sealed off near It is also the main seller of controlled explosion of a witness said. ready this year. some major hotels and police weapons to both Armenia, a Tbag left in Istanbul’s pop- The bomb squad later deto- Two of those, in Istanbul, units were deployed outside for- close Moscow ally, and Azerbai- ular Taksim Square yesterday, nated it in a controlled explo- have killed tourists and have eign consulates in Istanbul, in- jan, which has developed warm a Reuters witness at the scene sion, causing a loud boom to been blamed on Islamic State cluding the German and Italian relations with ethnically kin said, hours after the US embassy echo across the square, the wit- (IS) militants. missions. Turkey. warned of “credible threats” to ness said. The United States warned its Last month’s attack in Is- Russian Prime Minister Dmit- tourist areas. A police offi cer at the scene citizens yesterday about “cred- tanbul’s main shopping dis- ry Medvedev, who travelled to Police cordoned off Taksim, a later confi rmed it was a bag, but ible threats” to tourist areas in trict killed three Israelis, two of both Armenia and Azerbaijan Turkey, particularly in Istanbul whom held dual citizenship with this week in a display of Mos- Spain police fi nd hidden weapons cache, IS fl ag and the southwest coastal resort the United States, and one Ira- cow’s lead role in mediating in of Antalya, e-mailing what it nian. the confl ict, said that Russia Police said yesterday that they had discovered a hidden weapons cache called an “emergency message” A separate attack in the city’s had no intention of halting arms and a home-made Islamic State (IS) flag in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave to Americans. historic heart in January killed 12 sales to any side of the confl ict. in Morocco, and are investigating a possible connection to Islamist “The US mission in Turkey German tourists. “If we imagine for a minute militants. would like to inform US citizens Turkey is facing multiple se- that Russia has given up this The cache of four pistols, including an air gun modified to shoot live that there are credible threats curity threats. role (of arms seller), we well un- ammunition, two Scorpion sub-machine guns, ammunition and variety to tourist areas, in particular to As part of a United States-led derstand that this place will not of knives, was found in perfect condition and buried on wasteland on public squares and docks in Is- coalition, it is fi ghting Islamic stay vacant,” Medvedev told the Thursday, Spain’s interior ministry said. tanbul and Antalya,” it said in State in neighbouring Syria and weekly Vesti on Saturday pro- Spanish police have detained 15 people with suspected links to IS mili- the statement. “Please exercise Iraq. gramme on Russian state TV. tants so far this year and 102 people on the same charges last year after extreme caution if you are in the It is also battling Kurdish This 2006 file photo shows tourists watching the full solar eclipse in “They will buy weapons in police stepped up security measures following attacks in Paris. vicinity of such areas.” militants in its southeast, where the second century Apollo Temple in Side, Antalya Southern coast other countries, and the degree Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s other north African enclave, have been a Before the explosion, two a 2-1/2-year ceasefi re collapsed of Turkey. The US embassy in Turkey has warned American citizens of their deadliness won’t change focus of Spanish anti-militant investigations. Reuters reporters in central Is- last July, triggering the worst of ‘credible threats’ to tourist areas in Istanbul and the resort city of in any way,” he said. “But at the tanbul saw an extremely heavy violence since the 1990s. Antalya, a day after Israel spoke of ‘imminent risks’ of attacks. same time, this could ... destroy the existing balance of forces (in the region).” Yesterday Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan de- cried Russia’s continued arms Minister Turkish Cyprus names new supplies to Azerbaijan. “Russia is our strategic partner, and our people take it with resigns pain that Russia sells weapons to premier after govt collapse aggressor Azerbaijan,” the government press service quoted over him as saying after a church fu- AFP after the UBP withdrew on tion in the breakaway north of neral service for a soldier killed Nicosia Monday from the ruling coali- the island. in clashes with Azeri forces. slapping tion in a dispute over economic The TRNC government is still Nagorno-Karabakh is a policy. heavily dependent on aid from mountainous enclave within he president of the The resignations left former Turkey to stay afl oat and was Azerbaijan’s borders, populated row breakaway Turkish Cyp- premier Omer Kalyoncu’s cen- unable to pay public sector staff mainly by ethnic Armenians Triot state has appointed tre-left Republican Turkish their wages in March. who reject Azerbaijan’s rule. Reuters the head of the conservative Party (CTP) without a major- Akinci heads the dovish With support from Armenia, Lisbon This picture taken on November 26 shows Soares signing the National Unity Party (UBP) as ity in parliament and ended the Communal Democracy Party they fought a war in the early honour book during the swearing-in ceremony of new ministers at prime minister, after the col- fi rst grand coalition between (TDP) and defeated the UBP 1990s to establish de facto con- Ajuda Palace in Lisbon. lapse of the previous ruling the two largest Turkish Cypriot candidate in a presidential elec- trol over the territory. ortuguese Culture Min- coalition. parties since the formation of tion run-off in April last year Russia’s active diplomacy has ister Joao Soares has re- Costa issued a public apol- was time to slap two columnists President Mustafa Akinci the TRNC in 1983. with support from the CTP. overshadowed the United States, Psigned after threatening ogy on behalf of his cabinet late at infl uential daily Publico. urged UBP leader Huseyin The UBP, which holds only 18 Cyprus has been divided which has extensive interests in to slap critics who had called on Thursday, saying that the “I see that I do have to fi nd Ozgurgun to rapidly form a gov- of 50 seats in parliament, will since 1974 when Turkish troops the South Caucasus region that him incompetent and rude. episode “does not refl ect how him (columnist Augusto Sea- ernment to support his talks have 15 days to try to form a new invaded the island’s northern includes Azerbaijan and Arme- A post on his Facebook page the government wants to relate bra), and now also Vasco Pu- with Greek Cypriot leaders on government, under the state- third in response to an Athens- nia. saying he wanted to slap two to people” and that he told his lido Valente, to give them some ending the island’s decades-old let’s constitution. engineered coup in Nicosia While the leaders of Azerbai- newspaper columnists, fol- ministers “to be reserved and ... sound slapping. It will be good division. Ozgurgun has been reaching seeking union with Greece. jan and Armenia maintain their lowed by what was seen as a never forget that they are gov- for them. And for me,” Soares, Both Akinci and his Greek out to the liberal Democratic In 2004, Turkish Cypriots bellicose rhetoric, Moscow behalf-hearted apology, provoked ernment members”. 66, wrote on Facebook. Cypriot counterpart Nicos Party as well as independent voted in favour of a UN-bro- lieves the possible involvement a fl urry of calls for him to be He said on Friday that he ac- After the columnists, media, Anastasiades, the island’s in- lawmakers. kered reunifi cation plan but it of other major arms exporters to sacked. cepted Soares’ resignation. hundreds of Facebook users ternationally recognised presi- “It is still too early to say that was overwhelmingly rejected the region “will most likely com- Soares, a Socialist and the “I respect his decision and and opposition politicians said dent, have expressed hope they there have been results,” Ozgur- by Greek Cypriots, and Cyprus plicate the situation further”. son of former president and I thank him for his eff orts and his remarks were incompatible can reach a deal this year after gun told a press conference on joined the European Union still “I believe weapons may and prime minister Mario Soares, dedication in his job,” Costa with a ministerial job, especial- 11 months of promising UN- Friday . a divided island. should be bought not only to is the fi rst minister to leave the told reporters. ly in charge of culture, Soares backed talks. Ozgurgun’s party was op- Despite repeated promises be used one day, but to be a de- new left-leaning government After being called “incom- said he “reacted to insults and The government of the Turk- posed to a decision by the coali- from European leaders, Turkish terrent factor,” Medvedev said. of Socialist Prime Minister An- petent” and promoting a “work not opinions” and said: “I am ish Republic of Northern Cy- tion to pay civil servants’ sala- Cypriots remain denied most of “This aspect must be considered tonio Costa, which took over in style of cronyism, domineering a peaceful man ... I’m sorry if I prus (TRNC), which is recog- ries in instalments and was also the benefi ts of European Union by both sides of the confl ict.” November. and rudeness”, Soares said it scared them.” nised only by Turkey, collapsed unhappy with water distribu- membership. Gulf Times 20 Sunday, April 10, 2016 INDIA

CEREMONY RESTRICTIONS INVESTIGATION PROTEST CRITICISM Naqvi to off er chadar at Kejriwal announces Trinamool to conduct Angry villagers torch Probe into NIA off icer’s Ajmer Sharif on PM’s behalf rules for ‘odd-even’ part 2 internal probe into sting camp ahead of festival killing shoddy: BJP

Spreading a message of peace and harmony, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress yesterday A camp was set on fire around midnight Friday Five days after the killing of National Investigation Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday announced guidelines for the second leg of the announced it would conduct an internal probe into allegedly by angry residents of Napet and nearby Agency off icer Tanzil Ahmad, the Bharatiya Janata handed over a ‘chadar’ to Minister of State for ‘odd-even’ traff ic scheme in Delhi, saying women a sting operation in which several of its top leaders villages in Manipur ahead of a folk dance which Party (BJP) has accused Uttar Pradesh police of Minority Aff airs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to off er drivers and vehicles carrying students in uniform were allegedly caught accepting bribes. Trinamool was to be performed on the occasion of the talking in “too many voices” on the incident and it at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah. Ajmer Sharif in will be exempted from the restrictions. “Women secretary general Partha Chatterjee said the party Manipuri new year yesterday. The camp was located not being “anywhere near cracking the case”. Rajasthan is the shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin drivers, CNG-operated vehicles, chief ministers of would also look into the roles of Congress leader under the Lamlai police station in Imphal east district. State BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said Chishti. The ‘chadar’ is a ceremonial cloth inscribed states and vehicles carrying students in uniform Ahmed Patel, Bharatiya Janata Party national Inmates of the camp who ran away for their own even after five days, the police were engaged in with religious verses, a traditional off ering at Sufi will remain exempted from the restrictions of the secretary Siddharth Nath Singh and Communist safety are yet to be traced. Villagers told reporters throwing up possibilities rather than coming out with shrines. Naqvi said he would visit Ajmer today to second phase of odd-even traff ic scheme,” Kejriwal Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram yesterday they would never allow them to return a definitive answer on the killing. The NIA deputy off er the ‘chadar’. “The prime minister has given a told reporters. However, Delhi’s chief minister and Yechury in the “conspiracy”. The move comes a and reopen the camp. Women activists of Napet superintendent police was killed on Sunday while he message of peace and harmony. I will read it out ministers would not be exempted, he said. He also day after the Calcutta High Court began hearing village said: “We had planned to organise the Thabal was on his way back from Bijnor, his native place, after there,” Naqvi said. On Friday, Modi off ered prayers launched a helpline for ‘odd-even’ part two. “People several public interest litigations seeking a Central Chongba folk dance. However, the inmates of the attending a family wedding. He was shot 21 times at Assam’s Kamakhya temple on the first day of the can call on 011-422400400 if they have any Bureau of Investigation probe and action against designated camp who are members of the United by assailants and his wife sustained four gunshot Navratri festival, dedicated to Goddess Vaishno. questions related to odd-even traff ic scheme.” the leaders caught in the sting. Revolutionary Front objected for unknown reasons.” wounds. His two children were unhurt.

Vendetta politics Second round behind murder: Trinamool of W Bengal,

IANS Kolkata Assam polls he ruling Trinamool Con- gress yesterday blamed Tthe Communist Party of India (Marxist)- Congress com- bine’s “bloody vendetta politics” for the “murder” of one of its workers in West Midnapore tomorrow district of West Bengal. The party also demanded the Parties in both states make polls in Assam by winning seven stood the tacit understand- immediate arrest of Congress last-ditch eff orts to woo the of the total 14 Lok Sabha seats, ing between the Congress and candidate Manas Bhuniya in the electorate has intensifi ed its attack on the the AIUDF. The high turnout incident. ruling Congress Party over in- of voters in the first phase (on “Our party worker Joydeb IANS fi ltration from Bangladesh. The April 4) is an indication that Jana was murdered in Sabang in Guwahati/ Kolkata BJP has said it will seal the Indo- people want a change,” said West Midnapore following the Bangladesh border if it comes to president of the state unit of call of CPM’s Mohamed Salim power in Assam. BJP Sarbananda Sonowal. and Surjya Kanta Mishra for ampaigning came to an BJP president Amit Shah reit- While the Congress is going vendetta politics and the com- end yesterday for the sec- erated the pledge while asserting to polls in Assam with a region- bined threat from the Congress Cond phase of crucial as- that the protection of the identi- al party – the United Peoples’ and CPM,” Trinamool Congress sembly elections in Assam and ty and culture of the indigenous Party (UPP), the BJP has forged secretary general Partha Chat- West Bengal. people will also be a priority for an alliance with the Asom Gana terjee said. Voters will cast ballots in 61 his party. Parishad (AGP) and the Bod- Trinamool Congress on Fri- constituencies in Assam and 31 “The BJP is committed to oland Peoples’ Front (BPF), the day lodged a complaint with the in West Bengal. sealing the India-Bangladesh ruling party in the Bodoland Election Commission against Political parties in both states border. We are going to seal the Territorial Council (BTC). Salim over his warning that the were busy in last-ditch eff orts to border as soon as possible. The The BJP is also highlight- Left Front will take account of woo the electorate. execution of the land swap deal ing the boost to connectivity in all “murderers and execution- While the Congress in As- between the two countries has the region after the party-led ers” who ran amok during the sam has been highlighting the already eased the process,” Shah National Democratic Alliance Trinamool regime after it comes development it has ushered in said at a press conference in Gu- (NDA) came to power in 2014. to power following the assembly during its 15-year rule in the wahati. People in Assam’s Barak polls. insurgency-ravaged state, the The BJP has been asking the Valley got the first ever direct Earlier yesterday, the party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is people in almost all its rallies train to Guwahati, 68 years said in a statement: “The lo- playing on the threat of Moulana not to vote for the Congress, after India’s independence. cal Congress candidate Manas Badaruddin Ajmal becoming the claiming it might threaten the The Silchar-Guwahati Fast Bhuniya lodged a complaint state’s deputy chief minister in indigenous Assamese identity Passenger train was flagged against Joydeb Jana a few days the event of a Congress-All In- by paving way for a ‘Bangla- off on September 21 last year. ago. Even as late as yesterday dia United Democratic Front deshi’ (as the AIUDF is often Subsequently, the services of (Friday) he was conducting in- (AIUDF) government in the referred to in Assam due to Kolkata-Guwahati Kanchen- quiries, following up and plot- state. the party’s popularity among junga Express and New Del- ting the murder. All evidence “People have witnessed Bengali-speaking Muslim set- hi-Guwahati Sampark Kranti points to the fact. We demand the development our govern- tlers in Assam) to become the Express trains were extended he be booked as an accused in ment has brought in the past deputy chief minister. to Silchar in the valley, which the case.” 15 years. In 2001, the state was The substantial change in the comprises Cachar, Karimganj Reiterating the demand, in a financial mess and people state’s demographic pattern in and Hailakandi districts. Chatterjee asked why Bhuniya were scared to go out of their the recent past due to the illegal In West Bengal, 13 of the con- was not arrested. “We demand homes after dusk. Now people infi ltration from the other side stituencies are in West Med- his immediate arrest.” are roaming around freely and of the border has already caused inipur, and nine each in Bankura “They confirm that the the financial situation has im- concern among the indigenous and Bardhaman. murder was done without any proved to a great extent,” As- people that a ‘Bangladeshi’ may Nearly 7mn voters across provocation. The Congress, sam Congress president Anjan become the chief minister. 8,465 polling stations includ- CPM and the BJP know their Dutta said. What has made the people buy ing two auxiliary stations would campaign is having no impact “The violence is now over and the BJP’s argument is that while decide the fate of 163 candidates on the ground. Hence they are it is the Congress government the Congress has been taking on - 21 of them female. resorting to bloody tactics of that has brought most of the in- it aggressively in almost all its Political big shots like Prime vendetta,” Trinamool said in surgent outfi ts to the negotiating rallies, the party has maintained Minister Narendra Modi, Con- the statement. table in the last 15 years,” he said, a soft stand on the AIUDF. Be- gress vice president Rahul Gan- Addressing an election rally in asserting that the party is going sides, AIUDF legislators in the dhi, Communist Party of In- Labhpur are of Birbhum district, to form the government again in Assam assembly have also voted dia (Marxist) general secretary Salim said: “After the elections, the state. for the two candidates nomi- Sitaram Yechury, Trinamool we will take account of all mur- He refuted allegations that nated by Congress for the Rajya Congress supremo and Chief derers and executioners. We will there was an understanding Sabha. Minister Mamata Banerjee were take account of every drop of with the AIUDF and claimed “We are ready to sit in the among those who hit the cam- blood of our men who have em- it was the BJP which has a opposition for another 50 years paign trail. braced martyrdom.” tacit understanding with the but we are not ready to join The Trinamool, the Left Jana was attacked by armed AIUDF. hands with the AIUDF to form Front-Congress combination men late Friday after addressing The saff ron party, which had a government in Assam. The and the BJP are contesting all the a campaign rally. Flags of various political parties are on display at a roadside shop in Balurghat of West Bengal yesterday. made it big in the 2014 Lok Sabha people of Assam have under- seats.

Man kills wife, Confusion among Kerala Felicitation for new party chief son over AC A man allegedly killed his wife and son over the use of air-conditioner in Kerala Left parties over prohibition yesterday, police said. Trouble was brewing for a while in the household of By Ashraf Padanna culties faced by the citizens are down drastically, substance 81-year-old Paul, a retired Gulf Times Correspondent important; not whether the bars abuse, in particular among the railway employee, because Thiruvananthapuram remain closed or open.” schoolchildren, is on the rise. of mounting electricity Yechury’s statement support- The CPM took a stand against bills. “The electricity bill ing the widely criticised policy prohibition at the risk of even was mounting and his day after Communist had put the CPM on the back foot. losing the support of religious pension was the sole Party of India (Marxist) Last week, CPM leader and fundamentalists. household income,” a Achief Sitaram Yechury chief ministerial candidate Pi- Kerala, which tops in alcohol police off icer said. Paul flew clarifi ed that his party would narayi Vijayan had made it clear consumption in India, holds as- into a rage on seeing his continue the Congress-led gov- that prohibition was a danger- sembly elections on May 16, with wife and son sleeping with ernment’s liquor policy if voted ous idea and his party believed Chandy highlighting the prohibi- the AC on and attacked to power its key ally yesterday in abstinence, a view Congress tion policy as a major achievement them both with an iron said the decision not fi nal. leaders like Shashi Tharoor also of his government along with big- rod, the police off icer said. Communist Party of India aired earlier. ticket development projects and After committing the (CPI) secretary Kanam Rajen- The United Democratic Front welfare schemes including critical crime, Paul called up his dran said the new government (UDF) government of Chief care assistance to poor patients. relatives and told them would decide on its liquor policy Minister Oommen Chandy an- He has been daring his oppo- what happened. When the and no decision had been taken nounced the prohibition policy nents to make their stand clear relatives and the police whether to keep all bars closed. two years back to phase out all on the issue and Yechury’s state- arrived, they found Paul “Are the bars not function- liquor shops in ten years. ment came as a virtual endorse- Bharatiya Janata Party leaders congratulate newly-appointed BJP Karnataka state president B S trying to commit suicide. ing now?” he said. “We believe The opponents say, though ment of his policy, criticised as Yeddyurappa, in Bengaluru yesterday. He was prevented from in abstinence. For us, the diffi - liquor consumption has come fl awed by the CPM-led LDF. taking his own life. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 21 INDIA Man throws shoe at Kejriwal, is detained

IANS Ved Prakash of the Aam Aadmi frustrated man. Incidents like man Raghav Chadda called for “People are crossing limits be an expression of frustration has happened. This has not been New Delhi Sena threw the shoe at Kejriwal, these keep on happening,” he a probe, and denied that the trying to harm people. What is of the people over the working of done by any other party who are alleging fake CNG stickers were added. Water Minister Kapil man had any links with the AAP. worrisome is that this is becom- the government.” opposing Kejriwal’s party. This being distributed in Delhi ahead Mishra said the call records of “This man has no link with our ing a trend now. He is the chief BJP leader Shahnawaz Hus- is because of the authoritarian man hurled a shoe at Del- of the odd-even scheme. He said the man should be checked, add- party. The incident should be in- minister. Somewhere a line has sain added: “While it’s true style of functioning of Kejriwal. hi Chief Minister Arvind he had video evidence of the ing that Prakash allegedly talked vestigated.” to be drawn. We should come that CNG stickers were being His own party people are rising AKejriwal while he was ad- “scam”. Cars running on CNG to a Bharatiya Janata Party leader “Delhi police is responsible together and decide that this sold making odd-even a farce, in revolt. dressing a press conference here are exempt from the scheme. before the attack. for the chief minister’s security. should not be allowed,” Kohli throwing a shoe is not an appro- “Unfortunately, why is this yesterday alleging a ‘scam’ in the Delhi’s Transport Minister “Call details of Ved Prakash I am sure they will look into the said. priate way to protest.” kind of a situation being created distribution of CNG car stickers Gopal Rai condemned the inci- should be probed. He called a matter,” he said. However, reacting to the in- Congress leader P C Chacko by Kejriwal? He has to look into ahead of the odd-even vehicle dent, saying it “would not deter BJP Delhi leader right before at- The BJP and the Congress cident, the BJP’s Delhi unit also condemned the shoe- that issue. I think the situation is rationing scheme. our aim to provide good govern- tacking,” Mishra said. condemned the incident. president Satish Upadhyay said: throwing but said “it’s due to the created by Kejriwal himself. But The shoe missed the target, ance and our commitment to- “We have seen many such at- BJP leader Nalin Kohli said “This may be managed by them- authoritarian style of function- attacking Kejriwal, hurling shoes while the thrower was detained wards a cleaner environment”. tacks. We are not scared of it.” such incidents were becoming a selves. Earlier also, their own ing of Kejriwal. at him at a press conference is not by police. “It’s an act committed by a Aam Aadmi Party spokes- trend and it was “worrisome”. people have done it or it could “This is not the ﬁ rst time this acceptable. We condemn that.” Street children back campaign to ﬁ nd missing youngsters

Reuters Alarmed by the disappearance Chennai of 271 children in Tamil Nadu in the fi rst three months of this year, the National Human Rights group of street children is Commission last week asked the face of a new citizens’ state authorities to account for Acampaign demanding the situation. better policing and community The disappearance of children programmes to track missing has raised concerns they may children in Tamil Nadu, where be traffi cked into prostitution, at least two children are reported handed over to criminal gangs or missing every day. sold for illegal adoption. The campaign, which launched “The recent cases of two ba- this week, aims to spread aware- bies stolen, in what appears to ness among the homeless, help be a very organised and blatant police understand the challenges manner, have rattled everyone,” of street children and push the Paul Sunder Singh, secretary of Tamil Nadu government to ad- Karunalaya, told the Thomson dress safety issues of those living Reuters Foundation. on the streets. “There is an urgent need to “I know what it’s like on the keep a watch on children growing street. There is always the fear of up on the street because they are something not good happening,” the easiest targets for traffi cking said C Ashok, 19, a runaway now or child labour,” he added. living in a shelter run by a local An estimated 40,000 peo- charity, Karunalaya. ple live on the streets of Chen- “I want to be the voice of the nai, Singh said. “There has to be two babies stolen from Chen- constant public pressure on au- Supporters of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha attend her campaign rally in Chennai yesterday. nai’s streets in the past month,” thorities to ensure these children Ashok added, referring to recent are found.” reports of two incidents of child As part of the initiative, the kidnapping. four children chosen as ambas- He is one of the faces of sadors will be trained on the is- Project Abhayam (safe shelter), sue and asked to share their ex- which has the backing of several periences with a wider audience. Tamil fi lm stars demanding the “When you sleep on a pave- quick rescue of missing children. ment, there are often cases Jayalalithaa promises According to data released by where any stranger will just the state crime record bureau, lie down next to you and go to 4,280 children were reported sleep,” said E Usha, 18, who is missing across Tamil Nadu last also an ambassador. year. The number is up from the “Nobody stirs and that is the 3,373 missing in 2014. scariest thing.” liquor ban in phases Heatwave intensifies, toll 94 Chief minister accuses Addressing a massive public by state-owned outlets and is credited to the bank accounts of festo and also implemented Karunanidhi of lifting rally held at the Island Grounds the major revenue earner. the aff ected families. several other schemes not men- India’s hot season was claiming disaster management off icial prohibition in 1971 here, she said: “If AIADMK All parties have been de- “The government distributed tioned in that document. lives earlier than last year, already Sada Bhargavi said. comes back to power then pro- manding a ban on liquor in the free text books and school uni- She also introduced her par- one of the most deadly on record, India’s summer starts in April, peaks IANS hibition will be introduced in state and it is one of the major forms,” she said. ty’s 21 candidates standing for reports said. in mid-May and continues until late Chennai phases. The timing of the liquor poll issues. The chief minister also said election in the assembly con- At least 94 people died from June when the weather cools with shops will be reduced, the bars Targeting the Karunanidhi the state has become power stituencies here and surround- heat-related causes in the past the arrival of monsoon rains. will be closed, rehabilitation family, Jayalalithaa also said the surplus from 15-hours of power ing places. Her speech was tel- 10 days as temperatures reached Last year, reports of heat-related amil Nadu Chief Minister centres will be opened and the people voted for the AIADMK in cuts during the previous DMK ecast in all the 21 constituencies 44 degrees Celsius in parts of the deaths did not start until late May J Jayalalithaa yesterday number of liquor outlets will be 2011 to bring an end to dynasty government. through vans. country including the southern and went on to claim more than Tpromised introduction reduced.” rule. She claimed her rule is the The AIADMK is fi elding a states of Telangana and Andhra 2,000 lives, one of the highest tolls of liquor prohibition in the state She charged opposition Declaring that her life of ta- golden period for women in the record 227 candidates and al- Pradesh. The government on record, with most casualties in in phases if her All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam pas - “Thava Vazhvu” - is for state with the implementation lotting seven seats to allies, who announced precautionary Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is president M Karunanidhi with the people, she said: “I am by of various welfare measures, will also contest under the par- measures including shelters for India on Thursday issued voted back to power. lifting prohibition in 1971 and you. I am for you.” 50% reservation for women in ty’s two leaves symbols. the homeless and more hospital its first heat warning for the Launching her election cam- introducing liquor to a gen- Referring to the devastat- local bodies, freebies like mixer/ Jayalalithaa is seeking beds for heat-stroke patients. whole summer, saying that paign here, Jayalalithaa, also the eration that did not know about ing Chennai fl oods and the grinder, fan and others. re-election from the Rad- In Telangana, “a three-member temperatures were expected to party chief, said it was not pos- drinking. government’s relief measures, Jaylalithaa also claimed that hakrishnan Nagar constituency panel has been set up in each be “above normal” for several sible to ban liquor sales in the She said Karunanidhi had no Jayalalithaa said the rains were her government has fulfi lled all in Chennai. district to certify the deaths as weeks in heatwave-prone parts of state with one single signature right to talk about prohibition. unprecedented and around the 54 promises made by her She will campaign for 15 days being caused due to heat,” state the country. and has to be done step by step. In Tamil Nadu, liquor is sold Rs6.58bn of relief fund has been party in the 2011 election mani- till May 12. 93-year-old fan off ers William and Kate royal feast

AFP they will be watching cricket,” trait of Mahatma Gandhi. popular on social media. “Will William’s father, Prince Charles, Mumbai the eccentric, yet sharp-minded Behind him, attached to a #WillKat visit the Britannia res- however, and would rather the and physically fi t nonagenarian banister on the second fl oor of taurant of Mumbai? Spread the succession process skipped the said. the restaurant is a giant card- word. Make it happen,” wrote 67-year-old out. t the Britannia & Compa- “Hopefully I will see them board cut-out of a grinning Wil- user Nikhil Kumar. “I wish both Will and Kate ny restaurant in Mumbai, there,” he added, smiling. liam and Kate, their arms linked. The royal couple will spend the best of luck that after Queen ABoman Kohinoor ador- Kohinoor has worked at Bri- Kohinoor has written regular seven days in India and Bhutan. Elizabeth they should ascend ingly holds up a cherished pos- tannia, which sits tucked away letters to Queen Elizabeth over They will play with slum chil- the throne. I’m not so much in session- a photograph of Brit- in the city’s historic Ballard Es- the years and even received a re- dren and mix with celebrities in favour of Prince Charles,” he ain’s Prince William with wife tate, his whole life, his love of ply from one of her representa- Mumbai as well as visiting the says. Kate and son George. the British royals evident in its tives at Windsor Castle, an offi - Taj Mahal at Agra where Prin- In Britannia, the Union Jack In his other hand, the decor. cial royal residence. cess Diana was famously photo- hangs alongside the Indian 93-year-old owner of Mumbai’s “My father opened this res- He would love nothing more graphed. tricolour and the fl ag of Iran. most famous Parsi cafe proudly taurant in 1923, the year I was than for William and Kate to vis- The sprightly restaurant own- Mumbai’s Parsi settlers were Zo- displays a cut-out picture of a born. I have been working here it his restaurant, one of the few er, who takes delight in showing roastrians from Iran. smiling Queen Elizabeth while for 75 years,” Kohinoor said remaining cafes run by Mum- customers his laminated photos Kohinoor says there was a around him customers hastily proudly. bai’s Parsi minority, during their of the royals and newspaper cut- practical reason for naming the tuck into lunch. “I am 93 years old. The res- 36-hour stay in India’s fi nancial Boman Kohinoor, 93, poses with photos of Queen Elizabeth, and tings about himself, was partic- cafe after Britain, rather than Kohinoor, who has a strong taurant is also 93 years old and capital. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge outside the Britannia & Co ularly fond of the late princess. just his family’s admiration for claim to be India’s biggest fan of we have sentimental value about “I would be very happy and I restaurant. “Prince William’s mother, India’s colonial masters. the British royal family, is des- the royal family,” Kohinoor add- would be honoured if they would Princess Diana she was our fa- “It was established by my fa- perate to meet William and Kate ed, as if the aff ection was ever in visit me,” he says, promising to pulao and sali boti mutton, lamb, tion online after Conde Nast vourite and so much so that ther during British rule. If he when they arrive in Mumbai to- doubt. cook them a host of lip-smack- and fi sh and all that,” Kohinoor Traveller featured Kohinoor in a when my granddaughter was named it after Britain he thought day. On the wall to his left hangs ing Parsi and Irani delicacies. beams. video in which he holds up a sign born I named my granddaughter he would get easy permission to “I will be going to Oval Maid- a large, framed photograph of “I would treat them to the best His desire for the couple to which reads #WillKatMeetMe. Diana,” he explains. open the restaurant - and he was an the day after tomorrow when Queen Elizabeth, next to a por- of my signature dishes like berry eat at Britannia is gaining trac- The hashtag was proving Kohinoor is not so keen on given quick permission.” Gulf Times 22 Sunday, April 10, 2016 LATIN AMERICA Music video showing woman murder sparks outrage

By Jennifer Covarrubias, AFP controversial yet hugely popular of raising awareness of femicide, video of singer Gerardo Ortiz.” petes with Ciudad Juarez, the city with critics saying her clothes she realised a change of attitude Mexico City genre that celebrates the feats of or the violent killing of women. The video “clearly invites vio- bordering the US that became in- and lifestyle were an invitation to among men was what was really Mexico’s drug lords and is banned But his argument did little to lence against women, in addition famous for its spate of femicides, harassment. needed. from the airwaves in many places. appease critics in Mexico. to minimizing and normalizing for the grim title of the most dan- Noel eventually fl ed Mexico That, she says, will be a titanic man fi nds his lover in bed But none of his videos has at- Videos like this one “objectify this social scourge,” it said. gerous place for women in the after receiving death threats. task. “Mexico is a very macho with another man. He tracted as much attention as women, glorify violence, and re- Ortiz’s video also caught the country. In a similar case, a young country, and violence against Apulls a gun, shoots the ri- Fuiste Mia, which appeared just affi rm stereotypes about women attention of offi cials in the west- At the other end of the spec- woman from the eastern state of women is deeply ingrained,” she val dead, ties up the woman, drags as two high-profi le sexual harass- causing problems for men and ern state of Jalisco, who issued a trum of violence, examples of Veracruz, named Daphne Fern- said. her to a car, stuff s her in the trunk ment cases were making head- therefore deserving punish- summons for the singer for ques- sexual harassment and abuse andez, was subjected to online One group of activists has and smiles as he sets it on fi re. lines in Mexico - and prompted ment,” said Lucia Lagunes, head tioning. abound in the country, where two harassment after she spoke out gathered more than 4,000 signa- Fuiste Mia (‘You were mine’), him to cancel several concerts. of Women’s Communication and Two years ago police seized recent cases have seen women about sexual abuse one year ear- tures on the Change.org website a slick music video by the Mex- Stuffi ng a woman in a skimpy Information, a rights NGO. six AK-47 assault rifl es and a victimized for speaking out. lier at the hands of four young to persuade YouTube to pull the ican-American singer Gerardo nightgown into a trunk is remi- The subject is highly sensitive grenade launcher at the upscale On March 8, International men who are the sons of infl uen- Ortiz video. Ortiz, has garnered more than niscent of the tactics of Mexico’s in a country where nearly half home in Jalisco where the video Women’s Day, a 26-year-old tial local personalities. But that will do little to stop the 25mn views on YouTube - and drug gangs, who often dump of all women over the age of 15 - was fi lmed. US reporter called Andrea Noel Norma Mora, a gym instruc- violence, said Manuel Valenzuela, provoked a furious backlash in a bodies, sometimes hacked to 47% - have suff ered some form Some 600 women have been posted online security camera tor who experienced an assault an expert in narcocorridos at the country that suff ers from an in- pieces and with notes attached to of sexual violence, according to murdered in the State of Mexico, footage showing how a man ap- similar to Noel, says she wishes Colegio de la Frontera Norte. grained culture of sexual violence them, inside cars. government statistics. which nearly surrounds Mexico proached her from behind on a she could somehow “avenge” And for as long as “violence and where killings of women Speaking at a press conference The Mexican interior ministry City, in the past four years, ac- street in Mexico City, lifted her all victims of sexual violence on and death plague the daily lives have surged. from southern California, where condemned the singer by name cording to the non-governmental dress and pulled her underwear Mexico’s streets. of millions of Mexicans,” he said, The 25-year-old Ortiz has a he lives as a US citizen, Ortiz in a statement expressing “pro- National Citizen Observatory of down to her ankles. At one point, she made plans to these songs and videos will con- long list of “narcocorridos” - or said the “horrible publicity” sur- found rejection of this type of Femicides. Instead of eliciting sympathy, buy a stun gun, pepper spray and tinue to exist as a “crude mirror “narco ballads” - to his credit, a rounding the video had the merit content, and in particular, the The State of Mexico now com- Noel was savaged on social media a club for self-defence - before of our reality.” Rousseff moots Remembering ... Olympic ‘truce’ on impeachment

AFP which was until recently allied with the Rio de Janeiro Workers’ Party but now supports impeachment. Rousseff , who calls the impeachment ilma Rousseff tried to make it look a coup attempt, still hopes to engineer a like business as usual on Friday Houdini-like escape from her predica- Dwith a visit to the Rio Olympics ment. site, but time is running out for the Bra- Latest counts indicated that the result zilian president ahead of an impeach- in the lower house is on a knife-edge. ment vote. The respected Datafolha polling or- The trip to Rio, where she inaugurated Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio ganization said that 60% of deputies the Olympic swimming centre, was a Lula da Silva attends a rally against are pro-impeachment, representing the bittersweet occasion for a president who President Dima Rousseff ’s impeachment equivalent of 308 out of the 513, when a no longer knows if she’ll even be in power in Sao Paulo on Friday. total of 342 are needed to pass the meas- when the Games kick off on August 5. ure - or 172 to defeat it. A woman walks in front of a mural reading ‘Forced disappearance is not by magic’ in Cali, Colombia. The South The Olympics, the fi rst staged in South Rousseff was due to return to a grim- According to the poll, 18% of deputies American nation will hold the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict America, were awarded back in 2009 mer reality by the end of the day in the are still undecided, meaning they cur- on Wednesday. The armed conflict involving leftist guerrillas, rightist paramilitaries, criminal and drugs gangs when Brazil was an emerging markets capital Brasilia, where a congressional rently hold the crucial votes. has left some 7.6mn people aff ected, of which at least 6mn were displaced, according to government statistics. high fl ier and Rousseff ’s leftist mentor, commission is preparing to vote tomor- O Estadao newspaper’s estimate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was one of the row on whether to recommend her re- based on individual head counts, showed most popular presidents in the world. moval from offi ce. 284 in favour and 114 against, with 63 Now Rousseff is fi ghting for her politi- A week later comes a vote by the lower saying they were undecided and 52 not cal life ahead of an impeachment vote in house of Congress, where a two-thirds answering. Congress while ex-president Lula faces majority would send Rousseff to a full As Brazilians look for ways out of the corruption charges. impeachment trial in the Senate. crisis, one theory gaining support is that Panama law fi rm says it has not yet She cancelled a trip to Greece to see the Rousseff is accused of breaking the law the trauma of impeachment could be lighting of the Olympic fl ame on April 21, by juggling government accounts to dis- avoided through snap elections to re- Greek offi cials said on Friday. guise the depth of budget shortfalls dur- place the president and the entire Con- been approached by investigators Rousseff stood at the side of the spar- ing her 2014 re-election. gress. kling Olympic pool, calling for “dia- She argues that this relatively techni- Rousseff has indicated that she might logue” and saying that Rio’s staging of cal accusation does not amount to an im- support the idea, which would require a Reuters He had said last week the fi rm was Iceland’s prime minister to resign. the Games showed what Brazil could do peachable off ense. constitutional amendment. Berlin a victim of a hack from outside. Fonseca, who was a senior gov- when it was united. However, momentum for her removal Lula, who founded the Workers’ Party “We’re the ones who have fi led ernment offi cial in Panama until “This is a special moment, a symbol is being fuelled by a massive recession, and retains huge infl uence on the left, is a complaint with the authorities,” March, said “thousands of lawyers and an example of Brazil of what it is political paralysis and a sprawling cor- co-ordinating the intense behind-the- he founding partner of Mos- Fonseca told newspaper Bild edition around the world” were doing the possible to do when good people unite ruption scandal that together have re- scenes haggling to secure those votes. sack Fonseca, the Panama- published yesterday. same “completely legal” work as for the good of the Brazilian people,” she duced the Rousseff government’s ap- But the veteran wheeler and dealer Tnian law fi rm hit by a huge “Every time there’s something Mossack Fonseca, which specialises said. proval rating to around 10%. faces his own potential downfall. leak of off shore fi nancial data, told in the newspapers, the authorities in setting up off shore companies. After, she opened a new public hous- Rousseff ’s opponents sense that the He is accused of money laundering a German newspaper his company announce they’ll launch investiga- Most of the off shore fi rms are in ing project, part of the signature My country’s fi rst female president, a former in a case linked to a gargantuan embez- had not yet been approached by an- tions. We’re fully cooperating but jurisdictions other than Panama, House, My Life program, a centrepiece Marxist guerrilla tortured under a 1964- zlement and bribery scheme at state oil yone as part of investigations. we haven’t been contacted by any- including Britain, the US and the of her Workers’ Party attempt to tackle 1985 military dictatorship, is as good as company Petrobras which has already Ramon Fonseca also said the release one yet.” British Virgin Islands, Fonseca said. massive inequality and poverty in Brazil. fi nished. seen dozens of high ranking politicians of more than 11.5mn company emails Panama said last week that an “So why us? We see it like the The crowd cheered and chanted as “We are living in a situation where and executives snared by prosecutors. was the result of hacking from a com- independent commission would biblical story of David and Goliath. a beaming Rousseff shook hands with the government does not govern and the Lula says the case is a politicized fabri- puter overseas rather than an inside review the country’s financial Everyone has the right to privacy. well-wishers - a rare sight for a deeply president of the republic is no longer the cation, but now he and Rousseff are also job and that he knew which country practices following the leak of in- Perhaps God chose us to fi ght for unpopular president who often appears president,” said Moreira Franco, a former both in trouble for allegedly trying to ob- the hacker attack had come from but formation that has embarrassed a this fundamental human right or to lack the common touch. minister from the centrist PMDB party struct prosecutors. was not allowed to disclose it. clutch of world leaders and forced perhaps I’m mistaken,” he added. Mexico nabs woman Fujimori voters nostalgic for jailed father on ‘most wanted’ list By Roland Lloyd Parry, AFP ed Fujimori in 2009 of “crimes family name is a mark of shame. way to a menacing frown as she Lima against humanity” under Peru- “No one here is bothered about tackled law and order. AFP Delgado has been charged vian law. He was held responsible that. You know why? Because She drew deafening cheers as Mexico City with capital murder, and a for the death squads. The court that brave woman Keiko knows she vowed to build new prisons federal fugitive warrant was e is in jail for massacres also convicted him of corruption. what we suff er,” said Maria Estela high in the mountains to lock up issued in October 2015. and embezzling millions The courts are still working Farro, 49, at a Keiko rally in east- violent criminals. exican offi cials said Offi cials said the alleged Hin public funds, but many through a long list of charges ern Lima. For locals in Lima’s dangerous they have captured killers hired by Delgado are Peruvians still love their ex-pres- against Montesinos. “Those who attack her are peo- suburbs, electing a president is Ma woman on the already in US custody. ident Alberto Fujimori. Keiko admits that her father ple who have what they need. about more than just the memory FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list Even though Delgado They thank him for crushing made “mistakes” and has prom- They don’t care about the poor.” of Fujimori senior’s crimes. who US offi cials say ordered didn’t pull the trigger, she “is the Shining Path guerrillas, over- ised to safeguard human rights Keiko is topping the polls ahead “Yes, that matters, but he did the murder of a romantic ri- still responsible for the mur- seeing an economic boom and and to support victims of abuses, of today’s election with about good things too. He gave out food val who had been dating her der,” said Thomas Class, an- handing out gifts to the poor dur- such as women who were forcibly a third of the vote, according to to the poor,” said Nataly Gonzalo, former lover. other FBI agent. ing his 1990-2000 rule. sterilized under his rule. surveys by three pollsters released 25, at the rally with her three- Brenda Berenice Delgado Once notifi ed of the US Delighted that his daughter “Fujimoristas” say their hero on Friday. year-old son. She earns about Reynaga, 33, was detained at arrest request, Mexican au- Keiko may now follow in his foot- was led astray by his adviser. That will send her into a runoff $250 a month working as a hair- a home in the northern city thorities said they searched steps as president after elections “He gave a lot of power to vote against one of her opponents dresser. of Torreon, in Coahuila state, for Delgado “in places where today, thousands turned out in a Vladimiro Montesinos. That is vying for second place: former “She is fi rm. I hope she gets Mexico’s attorney general’s her relatives and friends working-class suburb of Lima to why Fujimori fell,” said 58-year- Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo rid of all the criminals. They kill, offi ce said late Friday. could help” in northern Mex- cheer her at her closing campaign old Lima taxi driver Felizardo Kuczynski, 77, or congresswoman fi ght and rob,” Gonzalo said. “And Delgado, a Mexican citizen, ico and Mexico City. rally. Mogollon. “If he had continued as Veronika Mendoza, 35. I hope she raises the minimum was sought by US authorities Delgado is only the ninth “When the country was de- president the country would be in Opponents tried to have her wage.” for her role in the “murder- woman to make it onto the stroyed, full of terrorism, of the Peru’s presidential candidate a better state now.” excluded from the race for alleged Fujimori senior was not among for-hire” of Kendra Hatcher, Federal Bureau of Investiga- Shining Path, in total chaos, Al- Keiko Fujimori of the ‘Fuerza Under outgoing President Ol- vote-buying, but the electoral the faces on the election posters a dentist in Dallas, Texas on tion’s list of infamous fu- berto Fujimori recovered the Popular’ party gives a speech lanta Humala, Peru’s economy board on Friday rejected the lat- lining the roads nearby. But his September 2, 2015. gitives since its creation in country,” said supporter Yoni during her closing campaign has grown faster than most of its est appeal against her candidacy, name was in the mind of Keiko’s “Apparently she was jeal- 1950. Carranca, 49. “Now his daughter meeting in Lima on Thursday neighbours, but not as strongly as confi rming she can run. supporters. ous because the victim was She is being held in the has to transform it even more.” night. during the Fujimori boom. Like her father, Keiko has “It is not fair that he is in jail. dating her ex-boyfriend,” Santa Martha Acatitla pris- The Shining Path carried out Keiko says many poor families wooed villagers in this moun- There was no proof against him said FBI Special Agent Jason on in Mexico City while the attacks and kidnappings in its after it with death squads that have been left behind. tainous South American land and over the massacres,” said Jose Ibrahim, according to the bu- extradition request is be- quest to set up a communist state. were accused of killing innocents Hearing her promises, her played a tough line on security. Luis Venancio, a 39-year-old re- reau’s “Most Wanted” post- ing completed, the Mexican Fujimori and his secret service as well as guerrillas. supporters say they do not care In her slick closing speech, tailer. “He was the best president ing. statement added. chief Vladimiro Montesinos went The Supreme Court convict- that, for her opponents, her Keiko’s broad smile swiftly gave Peru has had.” Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 23 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Panama Papers: Pakistan interior minister off ers probe

Agencies The PTI chairman has de- its founding day rally on April 24. and senators would demand the agement of Pakistan Television “You are well aware of the fact The letter said it was the right Islamabad manded an inquiry panel, The party had changed its venue same privilege.” (PTV) to allocate airtime for par- that the PTV, being the largest of the PTI chief to also address headed by Supreme Court Chief from D-Chowk to F/9 park in Is- Senior PPP leader Saeed Ghani ty chairman Imran Khan to ad- terrestrial television network of the nation via the PTV network Justice and comprising of audit lamabad. said that though addressing the dress the nation on the Panama the country, runs solely on tax- to respond to allegations regard- akistan’s Interior Minister experts, to look into the Panama Speaking about Imran Khan’s nation was something diff erent, Papers leak. payer money.” ing Shaukat Khanum Hospital Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Papers leaks. announcement to address the every politician had the right to PTI information secretary The letter said since the pub- and explain his position on the Phas off ered to investigate Nisar said Britain, Russia and nation via Pakistan Television, speak on state television. Naeemul Haq wrote to acting lication of the Panama Leaks the Panama Leaks. the Panama Leaks through the Argentina have rejected Panama Nisar Ali Khan said only the “The prime minister used PTV managing director Im- world over, the prime minister, The PTV chief was requested Federal Investigation Agency leaks allegations, adding that president and the prime minister PTV to defend his children. ran Gardezi, stating that the the federal information minister to make necessary arrangements (FIA). “This matter should now be re- can address the nation on state Even MNAs are using the net- names of Prime Minister Nawaz and a number of MNAs belong- for the live address of the PTI Speaking to the media in solved in Pakistan as well.” TV. work to defend the Sharif family. Sharif’s family members had ap- ing to the PML-N had been used chief to the nation on April 10 at Rawalpindi yesterday, Nisar Ali Nisar said he will consult The minister said that only So Khan can also be allowed to peared in the leaks. PTV to spread disinformation 6pm. It was further stated that Khan asked Pakistan Tehreek- with political parties after ap- the president and prime min- speak on the PTV. It can be de- In order to defend his po- about Shaukat Khanum Hospi- Khan would address the nation e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran proval from the cabinet over ister could address the nation clared a ‘public talk’ rather than sition, the PM addressed the tal. from his offi ce. Khan to name any FIA offi cial the matter of public rallies in through PTV. “If Imran Khan an address to the nation,” Ghani nation via PTV on April 5 to This was tantamount to using Despite repeated attempts, the who he wanted to make the in- Islamabad. is allowed to use PTV for being added. explain his family’s personal the network for political or per- MD PTV could not be reached quiry, Geo TV reported. PTI has announced it will hold an MNA, then over 400 MNAs PTI yesterday asked the man- position over the allegations. sonal interest. for comment. Kerry calls on Taliban to Govt claims 34 Baluch rebels ‘enter into peace process’ killed in raids AFP Kabul Reuters killed hundreds of Baluch po- Quetta, Baluchistan litical activists. The latest three-day op- S Secretary of State John eration took place in Kalat Kerry yesterday called akistani paramilitary district, about 200km south of Uon the Afghan Taliban to troops have killed at provincial capital Quetta. restart direct peace talks with Pleast 34 suspected Bal- The group targeted included Kabul, weeks after the militant uch rebels during a three- fi ghters involved in an attack group refused to return to the day operation in the violence on a provincial judge in 2001, negotiating table. wracked southwestern prov- as well as a bus attack that saw “We discussed our shared goal ince of Baluchistan, the gov- 22 people killed last year, Bugti of launching peace talks with the ernment said yesterday. said. Taliban,” he told reporters at a “The operation concluded In a separate incident, also joint press conference with Af- today in which a huge quan- yesterday, six people were ghan President Ashraf Ghani in tity of arms and ammunition killed in an attack in the Prom Kabul. was also recovered from their area of Baluchistan’s Panjgur “We call on the Taliban to en- camps, which were destroyed district, a local government ter into a peace process, a legiti- by the security forces,” said offi cial said. mate process that brings an end Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, the Around 20 men, armed with to violence,” he continued, add- provincial home minister at a heavy weaponry, attacked a ing: “Of course there is hope for press conference. house in the district, killing peace.” Bugti said those killed in- six people, including a wom- cluded Abdul Nabi Bangulzai, an, said Mujeeb-ur-Rehman “We want to repeat our allegedly a “main commander” Qambrani, the deputy com- stance once again that until of the United Baloch Army, missioner for the district. the occupation of foreign one of several armed separa- No group had yet claimed troops ends, until Taliban tist groups fi ghting Pakistani responsibility for that attack. names are removed from forces in the province. Baluchistan is set to see a international blacklists Baluchistan has seen in- large share of the $46bn Chi- and until our detainees are creasing violence since the na is investing in the China released, talks will yield no start of the latest iteration of Pakistan Economic Corridor results” an ethnic Baluch separatist (CPEC), which culminates in insurgency nearly a decade the consolidation of a major The announcement comes ago. port at Gwadar, in the south- just over a month after the mili- Attacks on security con- ern part of the province. tant group, which has been wag- voys and personnel by sepa- Security has been a serious ing a war against Kabul and US- ratist fi ghters are common, concern for CPEC projects led international forces since as are retaliatory operations all along the route from the they were toppled from power by Pakistani security forces, Pakistan-China border in the in 2001, refused to hold nego- who rights group allege have north to Baluchistan in the tiations until preconditions in- John Kerry and President Ashraf Ghani during a joint press conference at Dilkusha Palace in Kabul yesterday. abducted and extrajudicially south. cluding the withdrawal of foreign troops was met. Speaking ahead of a meet- defence, democracy, government’s hopes of settling the war terior minister Noor-ul-Haq “We want to repeat our ing with Afghan Foreign Minis- ance, as well as economic and that has lasted for more than 14 Ulumi who left offi ce in Febru- stance once again that until the ter Salahuddin Rabbani, Kerry social development, according years and claimed tens of thou- ary. His successor, Taj Mohamed occupation of foreign troops said: “We’ll clearly reaffi rm the to a State Department spokes- sands of lives. Jahid, was confi rmed by parlia- ends, until Taliban names are strength of our bilateral ties man. A four-way group, comprising ment yesterday morning. Pakistan hangs two removed from international through today’s session”, adding Hopes for peace and economic Afghan, Chinese, US and Paki- Both Ghani and Abdullah blacklists and until our detain- his support for a “democratic stability were high following stani diplomats formed to assist claimed victory in the presi- ees are released, talks will yield and increasingly prosperous Af- the 2014 presidential election, the process, had hoped that di- dential election, leading to a brothers for murder no results,” the group said in a ghanistan”. which marked the fi rst demo- rect talks could be revived by the three-month stalemate until a statement on March 5. Kerry’s fi rst port-of-call was cratic transition of power fol- start of March, even as fi ghting breakthrough deal mediated by Kerry arrived in Kabul yes- Nato headquarters, where he lowing the departure of Hamid remained in full swing across the Kerry. AFP Sialkot early yesterday for the terday on an unannounced met with General John Nichol- Karzai who had ruled the coun- country. The delay in legislative elec- Islamabad 2002 murders, senior prison visit to encourage the revival son, the newly appointed head of try for almost a decade. On the political front, parlia- tions is also due to the Taliban’s offi cial Chaudhry Arshad of peace talks with the Taliban the alliance’s Resolute Support But 18 months after Afghani- mentary elections are due to be resurgent campaign of violence, Saeed Arain said. and show support for Afghani- mission, and US troops. stan’s present unity govern- held October 15, more than a year which they stepped up following akistan yesterday hanged The hanged men killed six stan’s beleaguered unity gov- The United States currently ment was formed, “there have behind schedule, due to deep the withdrawal of Nato combat two brothers convicted members of a family over a ernment which he helped cre- has some 9,800 soldiers in the been challenges both in terms of diff erences at the highest levels troops in 2014 even after their Pof murdering six people land dispute, jail offi cials said. ate 18 months ago. country who have been offi cially politics, but also in terms of the of government between Ghani founder Mullah Omar was de- from the same family, just days No further details were avail- His visit comes as the rebel limited to a training and advisory resilience... of the Taliban,” ac- and Abdullah. clared dead last year, sparking after Amnesty International able. Islamist group is experiencing a role since the end of their com- cording to the US special envoy Several ministers have re- factionalism. criticised the country for be- A six-year moratorium on resurgence following the with- bat mission in 2014. to Pakistan and Afghanistan Ri- signed in recent months because Despite the infi ghting, new coming the world’s third most the death penalty was lifted in drawal of US-led combat troops He warned: “Obviously there chard Olson. of the tensions between the two leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour prolifi c executioner after Chi- Pakistan after Taliban attack- in 2014, announcing recently is no time to relax, vigilance has In early March, the Afghan camps. has overseen spectacular mili- na and Iran. ers gunned down more than it was preparing for “decisive” to be constant.” Taliban announced they would One of the most high-pro- tary victories, including the brief Nasir Mehmood and Tahir 150 people, most of them chil- battles in its upcoming spring Kerry’s meetings with Afghan not participate in talks with Ka- fi le resignations was Ghani’s capture of northern Kunduz city Iqbal were hanged in a jail in dren, at an army-run school in off ensive. leaders will relate to security, bul, dashing the Afghan govern- number two, the the former in- last September. the eastern Pakistani city of Peshawar in December 2014. Taliban chief consolidates power before annual off ensive

AFP off ensive, expected to start this leadership council. recent months have helped ce- up to six provinces. sertions and as eff orts to restart Kabul month, will be on a bigger scale. Last week another vocal critic, ment Mansour’s authority by “Once he emerges victori- Taliban peace talks falter. “Let’s prepare for decisive Mullah Qayum Zakir, pledged his burnishing his credentials as a ous, not many commanders will “This will be a very tough year strikes against the enemy purely loyalty to Mansour. commander. dare to question his authority,” for Afghan forces, beset by mis- y subduing dissidents and for the sake of Allah with strong It is not clear if they changed His resurgent group has Qasem said. management and corruption,” eliminating rivals, Tali- determination and high spirits,” their mind willingly or came opened new battlefronts across Interior ministry spokes- Kabul-based military analyst Bban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour told his followers in a under duress from the Pakistani Afghanistan with local forces man Sediq Sediqqi rejected the Atiqullah Amarkhil said. Mansour is rapidly consolidating recent message posted on the military establishment, which is struggling to beat back the ex- Taliban assertion that it was “The morale of Taliban fi ght- his authority over the fractious Taliban website. said to have close ties with Man- panding insurgency. planning a decisive off ensive as ers is high, whereas Afghan forc- Afghan insurgent movement as Ahead of the off ensive, Man- sour. They briefl y captured the “propaganda”. es are fi ghting for survival.” it prepares for “decisive” battles sour has been rooting out the Mullah Dadullah, a promi- strategic northern city of Kun- Afghan forces face their sec- If Mansour comprehensively in its upcoming spring off ensive. last vestiges of opposition to nent dissident commander, was duz in September in their most ond summer fi ghting season manages to quell internal rifts, Mansour was declared Taliban his leadership, buying the sup- killed last year in a gunfi ght with spectacular victory in 14 years without the full support of Nato, the Taliban could emerge as a leader last summer after the an- port of rebellious commanders, Mansour loyalists. And Mullah and southern opium-rich Hel- which ended its combat mission more “fearsome and ferocious nouncement of long-term chief quashing renegade groups and Rassoul, who formed a Taliban mand province is almost entirely in December 2014. fi ghting force”, said Kugelman. Mullah Omar’s death, but many luring dissidents with leadership breakaway faction, has report- under insurgent control. Afghanistan has actively “But it’s quite a tall order to top commanders refused to positions, militant sources say. edly been detained by the Paki- Mullah Akhtar Mansour “Mansour is preparing for a courted the Nato-led coalition expect Mansour to conclusively pledge their loyalty alleging that The Taliban recently an- stani military. major military push, more spec- to delay a planned drawdown of shore up his power and com- he rigged the hastily organised nounced that two of the most “It’s quite clear that Mullah tional Center for Scholars, said. tacular victories against the nearly 13,000 troops stationed in pletely unify a fractured or- selection process. infl uential dissenters — Mul- Mansour is putting his power “Mansour understands that government this year,” Mullah the country and maintain its air ganisation,” he added. “There Despite the infi ghting, the lah Abdul Manan, a brother of consolidation strategy into the time is ripe to do all he can Qasem, a retired Taliban com- power and military support. will always be rejectionists. The group saw a new resurgence under Mullah Omar and the deceased overdrive,” Michael Kugelman, to eliminate what is arguably the mander in Helmand, said. Nato faces growing pressure question is how much of a threat the fi rebrand supremo last year leader’s son, Mullah Mohammad an Afghanistan expert at the Taliban’s greatest weakness — its A senior Quetta Shura source from within to expand its mili- such players will continue to with striking military victories. Yaqoub — will be given posts Washington-based think tank internal power struggles.” said that Mansour is mobilising tary role as Afghan forces strug- pose, even amid Mansour’s rigor- Analysts predict that this year’s in Quetta Shura, the Taliban’s the Woodrow Wilson Interna- New Taliban military gains in fi ghters for major off ensives in gle with high casualties and de- ous power consolidation eff orts.” Gulf Times 24 Sunday, April 10, 2016 PHILIPPINES Militants wound 22 soldiers in clash

The Philippine security group of militants infamous forces have been hunting the for kidnapping foreigners and militant Abu Sayyaf group demanding huge ransoms, as for two weeks in an operation well as for being behind deadly launched across the southern bombings in the country where Basilan and Jolo islands 80% of the population are Cath- olics. AFP Eighteen other foreign hos- Zamboanga tages are being held in the Phil- ippines, most or all of them thought to be by the Abu Sayyaf. Undated handout photo released by Philippine military Western Mindanao Command (WESMINCOM) yesterday, shows retired Italian priest Rolando Del Torchio receiving ome 22 Philippine soldiers Tan said the Basilan-based treatment at a military hospital in Zamboanga City in the southern island of Mindanao, after his release. were wounded yesterday in Abu Sayyaf are led by Isnilon Sa fi refi ght with militants, Hapilon, one of its most senior the military said, a day after the fi gures who has pledged alle- release of a retired Italian priest giance to the Islamic State fi ght- taken hostage in the south of the ers in Syria and Iraq, and who is country. also wanted by the US govern- Freed Italian hostage leaves hospital The Philippine security forces ment for the kidnapping and have been hunting the militant murder of Americans. Abu Sayyaf group for two weeks Del Torchio was held on Jolo AFP late Friday aboard a ferry embassy in Manila went unan- Tan said he did not know if dians, a Norwegian and a Fili- in an operation launched across by another Abu Sayyaf unit led Zamboanga docked on the remote island swered. any ransom was paid to win the pina they kidnapped in Sep- the southern Basilan and Jolo is- by Idang Susukan, Tan said. of Jolo, the main stronghold of The Abu Sayyaf is a small Italian’s release. tember last year and set an lands — two remote strongholds The Abu Sayyaf was estab- the militant Abu Sayyaf group, group of militants infamous Del Torchio had worked as April 8 deadline for ransom to of the rebels in the mainly Cath- lished in the early 1990s with retired Italian priest held some 950 kilometres south of for kidnapping foreigners and a missionary for the interna- be paid or the foreigners would olic Asian nation. seed money from Osama bin hostage for six months Manila. demanding huge ransoms, as tional organisation PIME in the be killed. The deadline passed The army soldiers were in- Laden’s Al Qaeda network. Aby suspected militants “The victim is emaciated. He well as for being behind deadly south from 1998 before retiring Friday with no word on their jured when clashes broke out It was a radical off shoot of left a Philippine hospital yester- has lost a lot of weight com- bombings in the mainly Catho- in 2000 to set up his restaurant, fates. early yesterday with up to 120 a separatist insurgency in the day a day after his ordeal ended, pared to what we saw in his lic Asian nation. colleagues told AFP shortly af- The group beheaded a Malay- Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a remote southern Philippines that has looking frail though offi cials old pictures,” regional military Its leaders have in recent ter he was abducted. sian hostage last year. rural village on Basilan, region- claimed more than 100,000 lives said he was in good health. spokesman Major Filemon Tan years pledged allegiance to the There are still 18 foreign hos- The Abu Sayyaf was estab- al military spokesman Major since the 1970s. His face partly hidden by a told reporters. Islamic State group that con- tages being held in the country lished in the early 1990s with Filemon Tan told reporters. In a statement Tan added that red baseball cap, Rolando Del “He is okay otherwise.” trols vast swathes of Iraq and - 10 Indonesians, four Malay- seed money from Osama bin It came just a day after former the military “continues its in- Torchio stroked his grey beard The Italian government Syria. sians, two Canadians, a Norwe- Laden’s Al Qaeda network. missionary Rolando del Torchio tensifi ed focused military oper- and waved briefl y before get- chartered the private plane for Armed men posing as diners gian and a Dutchman - most of It was a radical off shoot of - held hostage for six months by ations in tracking down the ASG ting into an ambulance that the the former Catholic mission- snatched the then 56-year-old them thought to be held by the a separatist insurgency in the suspected militants - was found (Abu Sayyaf Group) responsible military said delivered him to a ary, Tan said, but Philippine of- Italian at his pizza restaurant in Abu Sayyaf. southern Philippines that has aboard a ferry docked on Jolo. for the series of kidnappings and chartered fl ight. fi cials would not say where he the southern city of Dipolog in The Abu Sayyaf last month claimed more than 100,000 The Abu Sayyaf is a small atrocities in the area”. The authorities found him was taken. Calls to the Italian October last year. posted a video of two Cana- lives since the 1970s. Philippines likely to hear verdict on sea row in May

By Michael Joe T Delizo held from November 24 to 30 (South China Sea) should be de- Reacting to reports that China Manila Times last year. clared invalid because these are will create its own settlement “We are hoping either May or contrary to the provisions of the body, the ambassador said Bei- June, according to our lawyers 1982 UN Convention on the Law jing can do what it wants but he international tribunal who are, of course, more expe- of the Sea (Unclos). Manila will only recognise the may hand down its ver- rienced because they have han- China refused to take part in UN-backed tribunal. Tdict on the complaint fi led dled similar disputes, similar the court proceedings. “They can create their own by the Philippines against China cases,” Cuisia said. “The Philippines looks for- court but it doesn’t mean that next month, the country’s am- “That’s what they told us so ward to the decision of the we will be bound by whatever bassador to the US Jose Cuisia Jr we are relying on them because Arbitral Tribunal on our legal that court decides,” he said. said. this is the fi rst time that we’ve challenge to China’s so-called “We are looking to the inter- By the reckoning of Philippine gone to the tribunal.” nine-dash line claim over nearly national tribunal which is the lawyers, the Permanent Arbitra- The Philippines fi led a memo- the entire South China Sea. tribunal that is set up in The tion Court (PCA) in The Hague, rial against China in 2013 after “We have said it before and we Hague, set up under Unclos and Netherlands will hand down its Chinese ships refused to with- say it again: the nine-dash line that is the one that really governs decision in May or June. draw from a shoal found within claim is expansive, excessive and the international law in this law Cuisia said the tribunal usual- the Philippine’s exclusive eco- in gross violation of internation- of the seas.” ly issues its decision six months nomic zone. al law. There is not one country He said China is a mem- after the last hearing. The government argued that in the world, besides China, that ber of Unclos and it should live Protesters burn a drawing of a Chinese warship during a rally regarding the disputed islands in the South The fi nal round of the hear- China’s claims over almost accepts the nine-dash line claim up to its obligations under the China Sea, in front of the Chinese consulate in Makati city, Metro Manila yesterday. ing on the merits of the case was the entire West Philippine Sea as valid,” Cuisia said. convention. Marcos ‘stays ahead’ in VP race Military battles forest fi res in protected areas By Jaime R Pilapil survey conducted on April 2, Manila Times getting the nod of 29.8% of the respondents. DPA Bukidnon and Mount Kanlaon Ed Malay, director of IAC, Manila on Negros Island. Offi cials might enator Ferdinand “Bong- said Marcos’ continuous rise in suspend access to the popu- bong” Marcos continues surveys can be attributed to the lar trekking areas, amid reports Sto rule pre-election vice Marcos loyalists. he Philippines is battling that some fi res could have been presidential surveys, topping “Largely ignored in the last 30 forest fi res in four of the started by careless mountain- the non-commissioned Pulso years, the families and extended Tprotected areas amid in- eers, Matias told a Manila radio ng Pilipino poll taken from April families of these Marcos loyal- tense summer heat, environ- station. 1-7, 2016 survey. ists, some of whom have migrat- ment offi cials said yesterday. “But it is also important for Conducted by the Issues and ed to other parts of the country the public to see these areas to Advocacy Centre, the survey and have managed to win may- “But it is also important for help them understand the need showed the Ilocano senator oralty positions where they now the public to see these areas to protect the environment,” he leading at 28.5%, up from his reside are actively campaigning to help them understand said. “The intense summer heat rating of 27% in the survey held for Senator Marcos and this ex- the need to protect the is also a factor in these fi res.” by the same fi rm from March 16- plains why (he) currently leads environment” Environment Secretary Ra- 22, 2016. the vice presidential race,” Ma- mon Paje earlier stressed the Camarines Sur representative lay said. Local offi cials and the mili- need for the public to exercise Leni Robredo placed second at One of them is Ilocano- tary are “putting up fi re lines vigilance against the risk of 23.5%, overtaking Senator Fran- speaking Makilala Mayor Rudy to stop the blaze from spread- forest fires in such protected cis Escudero who got 22.5%. Caoagdan and North Cotabato ing,” said Michael Drake Matias, areas. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano mayors Herlo Guzman Jr of Ka- chief of the environmental im- He noted that the aff ected took the fourth spot at 16%, fol- bacan and Joseph Evangelista of pact assessment division of the mountains are sanctuaries for lowed by Senator Gregorio Ho- Kidapawan City. Environmental Management some of the country’s endan- nasan, 4.25% and Senator Anto- Marcos vowed to continue his Bureau. gered species and endemic nio Trillanes IV, 3.75%. Marcos advocacy of uniting the Filipinos. The military has also been plants. The Philippines has a led in the A/B, D and E socio- “I believe it is what our coun- dumping crushed ice into the total of 113 designated protected economic classes with 27%, 23% try needs right now — to move forest fi res, which are aff ect- areas, many in maritime zones and 24% respectively. forward and give our people ing Mount Apo in Davao prov- of the archipelago, but includ- The senator also topped the the service that they deserve,” A recent photo shows Ferdinand Marcos, vice presidential candidate and son of late dictator Ferdinand ince, Mount Matutum in South ing 84 on land covering 2.2mn Manila Broadcasting Company he said. Marcos, being greeted by Muslim women during a campaign visit in Manila. Cotabato, Mount Kitanglad in hectares. Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 25 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL

Nepal urges Lanka requests equity swap India for more help on for some of its China debt homeopathy IANS Reuters albeit asking for better terms. es in Sri Lanka, the state-owned But CCCC, which had esti- New Delhi Beijing Speaking to reporters in Bei- enterprises, with a view to tak- mated that the shutdown would jing, Sri Lankan Prime Minister ing at least part of that equity result in losses of more than Ranil Wickremesinghe said his over,” he said. $380,000 a day, has sought epal’s Minister of State ri Lanka has asked China indebted country was suff er- “Then we can reduce the cur- compensation of $125mn, ac- for Health Mushtaque to swap some of the $8bn it ing because of global economic rent debt that we have and open cording to Sri Lanka, which has NAlam yesterday said his Sowes Beijing for equity in uncertainty. up the opportunity for us to said it can’t pay and wants to country has sought enhanced infrastructure projects and of- “We’ve been talking with take more funds from Chinese negotiate. co-operation from India in the fered to sell stakes in its compa- some companies and also the banks.” “The company has asked for fi eld of homeopathy medicine, nies to Chinese ones, Colombo government of China about the Sri Lanka upset China when additional compensation in which has a large number of users offi cials said yesterday. possibility of some infrastruc- it ordered a review of a $1.4bn view of the fact they say there in the Himalayan country. The ouster of president Ma- ture projects becoming public- Colombo port city project last has been a delay,” Wickremes- “Till now India has supported hinda Rajapakse, who steered private partnerships, in which year, citing irregularities in inghe said. “But I think we can a lot in the medicine system of Sri Lanka toward China until part of the debt will become the awarding of the contract to talk and settle it.” Nepal, however, we want a better his 2015 election defeat, was a equity held by the Chinese state-owned China Commu- Chinese projects in Sri Lanka support in the fi eld of homeopa- setback for relations as his suc- companies,” he said. nications Construction Com- have unnerved India, but Wick- thy medicine,” said Alam. cessor has reviewed projects to International trade minister pany (CCCC) by the previous remesinghe said there was no He was speaking at the inau- check if they were fair and le- Malik Samarawickrama said Sri government. security threat from the port. gural ceremony of International gal. Lanka would also like additional Last month, the present gov- “It’s an opportunity for eve- Convention on World Homeopa- Now President Maithri- funds from China, though they ernment, grappling with a diffi - ryone to make money. That’s thy Day in New Delhi. The two pala Sirisena’s government, had not asked for a specifi c cult economy, ordered the Chi- what we do in Asia.” day event will see participation faced with falling foreign re- amount. nese fi rm to resume work on the In a joint communique re- of over 2,000 delegates from 25 serves, a balance of payments “We want to reduce the cur- project, the country’s biggest leased by China later on Satur- countries, to discuss on integrat- crunch and few, if any, alter- rent debt by inviting Chinese foreign investment project, that day, both countries stressed they ing homeopathy in healthcare. native investors, is heading companies, Chinese investors, includes apartments, shopping would increase their military Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing Alam also said that the usage back into China’s embrace, to look at some of the enterpris- malls and marinas. and security co-operation. reporters at a hotel in Beijing yesterday. of homeopathy medicine started in Nepal some 100 years ago and India had a great role in it. Among other prominent personalities present were India’s AYUSH Minister Sripad Yesso US hints at granting refugee status to bloggers Nayak, who inaugurated the event, and the health minister of Bangladesh, Mohammad Nasim. By Mizan Rahman option that’s under considera- Toner said the law student inclusive society that protects Speaking on the occasion Naik Dhaka tion,” said the US embassy in (Samad) was apparently killed freedom of expression.” said the formation of AYUSH Dhaka, quoting a statement by for speaking out against ‘vio- He said the US will continue ministry has given a lot of sup- Mark C Toner, deputy spokes- lent extremism’ in Bangla- to support the government port for the promotion of Ay- he United States has in- person of the US Department desh. “We offer our condo- of Bangladesh in its eff orts to urvedic and homeopathic me- dicated its readiness to of State. lences to Samad’s family and combat terrorism, counter vio- dicinal system. Tgrant refugee status to Toner, however, said this is our unwavering support to the lent extremism, and bring to He said that over the years a select group of Bangladeshi a process run by the United Bangladeshi people in their justice those who commit such homeopathy hospitals in India bloggers in view of ‘imminent States Department of Home- struggle against violent ex- heinous acts. have increased to 235 while the danger’ to them in Bangla- land Security (DHS). tremism.” Samad, a master’s degree number of dispensaries stands at desh. “I don’t know; I’ll have to Nazimuddin knew and Bang- student of Jagannath Univer- nearly 1,000. The US move was disclosed see if that’s actually; if there ladesh’s history has shown sity, and said to be an organiser “India currently has 400 li- as it condemned the ‘barbaric’ are individuals who are taking that violence will not defeat of Ganajagran Manch, a secular censed homeopathy pharma- murder of Bangladeshi online advantage of that. I just don’t Bangladesh’s proud tradition campaign group, was killed in cists,” said Naik. activist Nazimuddin Samad. have clarity on it ... we can of free and independent dis- Dhaka on Wednesday night. Health Minister of Bangladesh “My understanding is that probably get an update whether course. “So we stand with the The United Nations, the Eu- Nasim said the event will open for a select number of blog- it’s actually been; it’s actually Bangladeshi people in reject- ropean Union, Amnesty Inter- the scope for better collabora- gers who continue to be under in train. I just don’t know,” the ing this vicious act and unit- national and local rights bodies tions between diff erent countries imminent danger, that is one deputy spokesperson added. ing to preserve a tolerant and condemned the killing. in the fi eld of homeopathy. Nazimuddin Samad Slain online Bangladesh anti-graft panel begins activist ‘went probe into off shore investments

By Mizan Rahman and sports stars in a snowball- biggest business conglomerates, July 2006, Kazi Zafarullah along their son Kazi Raihan Zafar be- Dhaka ing worldwide scandal on Mon- including Summit, Square and with his wife Nilufer Zafar, also came director and shareholder day over their secretive off shore United Group of Companies that a former lawmaker, became di- of another British Virgin Island into hiding’ fi nancial dealings revealed by they owned off shore companies rectors and shareholders of two company, with his wife Fahra he Anti-Corruption International Consortium of In- in secretive tax haven of British off shore companies. Murad (providing a Canadian IANS Samad was one of the or- Commission (ACC) in vestigative Journalists. Virgin Islands, the ACC director As directors of one of the com- address) and his mother Nilufer Dhaka ganisers of Ganajagaran Man- TBangladesh has launched The probe body led by the general told newsmen. panies, documents showed that also joining him as directors by cha in Sylhet. The platform a probe into involvement of ACC’s deputy director Akter Ha- He said the commission had Kazi Zafar and Nilufer opened the end of June 2008. was formed in 2013 to press for Bangladeshi people in illegal in- mid Bhuyan would investigate if launched an inquiry in 2013 against a bank account in Singaporean After six more months, while lain online Bangladeshi the demand of war criminals’ vestment in off shore companies any Bangladeshi people were them after a series of reports but branch of a Swiss bank, making a ‘fugitive’ from a court verdict activist Nazimuddin Sa- death penalty. in the secretive tax haven of the named in the leaked documents, the inquiry was not completed. them joint signatories. which had jailed him for to two Smad went into hiding for Hasan Shahriar, another or- British Virgin Islands. Panama Papers, said offi cials. Now the committee would The application form which years for failing to submit his some days after getting death ganiser of the platform in Syl- The ACC formed a three- The probe body also will in- also complete the earlier probe they signed gave details of their wealth statement to the com- threats for writing against het, said Samad had told him member probe committee vestigate the allegations against collecting information from Gulshan address and stat- mission, Kazi Zafarullah set up religious extremism. he had received death threats four days after one of the big- Awami League presidium mem- the leaked ‘Panama Papers’, the ed that the company was for a further off shore company in His friends said Samad, 27, through his mobile phone and gest document leaks in history ber Kazi Zafarullah, and direc- director general said. ‘investment purposes.’ which he was the sole director went into hiding at Bianibazar Facebook inbox. snared world leaders, celebrities tors of some of Bangladesh’s According to the reports, in Two years later, in April 2008, and shareholder. in Sylhet for some days before Shahriar said Samad “was he was killed on Wednesday somewhat intimidated” and night at the capital’s Sutrapur went into hiding at his ances- while he was on his way home tral home in Sylhet’s Biani- from evening classes at the Ja- bazar for some days after the Tourism fair gannath University, bdnews24 attacks on publishers that left Probe on into 35 more reported yesterday. one killed last October. Last year, suspected mili- He returned to Dhaka af- tants hacked to death four ter around 20 days when the cases of 1971 war crimes atheist bloggers and one secu- “situation had returned to lar publisher in a series of tar- normal”, Shahriar added. geted killings in the Muslim- An Al Qaeda-linked group By Mizan Rahman ity have so far been submitted majority country. reportedly claimed the killing Dhaka to the investigation agency, he He had also deactivated his of Samad for his “anti-Islam informed. Facebook account for some views”. Final verdicts in seven cases 15 days. Police yesterday said they nvestigation into 35 more have already been delivered af- Communist Party of Bang- are yet to fi nd any blogs cases of 1971 war crimes ter hearing of appeals against ladesh’s Sylhet unit leader written Samad, but have Iis going on in Bangladesh, death sentences by the ICT. Golam Rabbi Chowdhury found a diary he maintained court offi cials said yesterday. Execution of the death sen- went to school with Samad since 2009. “We are now conducting in- tences against Jamaat-e-Is- until the completion of their “The government is cre- vestigation into 35 more cases lami’s two assistant secretary higher secondary education. ating impunity to all the of- of crimes against humanity,” generals Abdul Quader Mollah “He (Samad) was always fences by not bringing the Sanaul Haque of the investi- and Muhammad Kamaruz- vocal against religious fanati- perpetrators to book,” Maruf gation agency of the Interna- zaman, secretary general Ali cism. He was also involved Rosul, one of the Ganajagaran tional Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, in progressive movements,” Mancha activists, said. told newsmen. and BNP standing committee Chowdhury said. “Instead of pointing blame But he declined to divulge member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury said Samad had at diff erent outfi ts, the gov- the names of suspected crimi- Chowdhury has already been told him in February that he ernment should identify the Volunteers pose for photos during a tourism fair in Dhaka yesterday. A four-day tourism fair nals for the sake of investiga- completed. had deactivated his Facebook perpetrators and bring them kicked off in Dhaka on Friday. tion, saying, “We are main- The Supreme Court earlier account “under pressure”. to justice.” taining secrecy to this end so reduced war crimes convict that the criminals could not Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s fl ee after seeing their names.” death sentence to ‘imprison- they were planning to sneak “The agency has completed ment until death’. Both the into India for circulating the investigation into 36 cases and prosecution and defense counterfeit currency, police said. verdict in 22 cases have already fi led review petition over the Crackdown on fake currency ring, six arrested Using the open Nepal-India been pronounced by the In- matter. border, counterfeiters smuggle ternational Crimes Tribunal Besides, the apex court In a crackdown on circulation of Nepali nationals - were arrested by Karachi) who was arrested from Kathmandu. They were held while fake notes to India from the (ICT). Trials in four more cases on January 6 last upheld the fake Indian currency in Nepal, police the Central Investigation Bureau of Thamel area of Kathmandu. travelling to Kathmandu to receive Nepali side and in most cases are now at fi nal stage while tri- convict’s maximum punish- said they have arrested six people, Nepal Police and paraded before Similarly, five Nepali nationals - the fake Indian currency notes. Nepalis, Indians and Pakistanis als in the other cases will start ment nearly 18 months after including a Pakistani national, for media at a press conference. Umadevi Pandey, Ishowari Prasad All the Nepali nationals hail from were found involved. within the shortest possible the country’s International possessing fake Indian currency According to police, one of them Teli, Parmandna Yadav, Dil Bahadur districts close to the Nepal-India Circulation of fake Indian notes time,” he added. Crimes Tribunal handed down notes with a face value of Rs10mn. has been identified as Mahammad Thapa and Mahadev Timilsina - were border. After receiving the fake using Nepal’s territory is a top Around 650 allegations of Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman The six - one Pakistani and five Nadim (PP number CD 9458742, arrested from various locations of notes from Nadim and Mahadev, Indian security concern. (war) crimes against human- Nizami the death penalty. Gulf Times 26 Sunday, April 10, 2016 COMMENT

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According in Italy. leaves education prematurely, and to Eurostat, Italy’s young people are Not surprisingly, it is Italy’s most only 22% of young people receive ver the last 20 years, among the most dissatisfi ed with qualifi ed who are most likely to leave. tertiary education. roughly a half-million their jobs, with many convinced that This trend began in the late 1980s, The good news is that Italy, along Qatar likely to be Italians aged 18 to 39 have the best jobs are reserved for the well with PhDs and researchers who could with its EU partners, has already Omoved abroad, especially to connected. not fi nd a place at local universities, committed to improving these more economically dynamic European And, indeed, corruption still poses which are hierarchically controlled, education outcomes. Union countries such as Germany, a major challenge for Italy; Rome’s last prone to corruption and starved of The European Commission’s Europe among fi rst adopters France and the United Kingdom. And two mayors, for example, were forced funding. 2020 growth strategy – aimed at those are just the offi cial fi gures; the out of offi ce for malfeasance. In last Since then many other creating “a smart, sustainable and actual numbers are probably much year’s Transparency International’s professionals, from doctors and inclusive economy” – demands that of 5G technology higher, possibly more than double. Corruption Perceptions Index, Italy healthcare practitioners to librarians countries reduce by 2020 the share Why are young Italians so eager to was ranked 61st, trailing all other and software specialists, have joined of early school leavers to below 10% leave? advanced economies. them. and ensure that at least 40% of people Qatar may well be one of the fi rst countries in the It is not for lack of political To some extent, this trend is being aged 30-34 have completed some form world to embrace “5G” or the fi fth-generation wireless representation. Since 2013, the Not surprisingly, it is off set by immigration, with three of higher education. broadband technology, which will provide better share of Italy’s parliament that is newcomers (offi cially) arriving for But these goals represent just under 40 has increased from 7% to Italy’s most qualifi ed every Italian who leaves. one feature of an eff ective strategy speeds and coverage than the current 4G. 13%. Moreover, Italy now has one of For Italy’s demographic balance, for revitalising Italy’s economy Although the 5G technology is not yet ready to hit the youngest governments among who are most likely this infl ux of foreigners – just over and capacity to attract top talent. the market, experts say the development of the fi fth- advanced countries (only France does 5mn people, 8.3% of the population Italy’s government must also fulfi l generation wireless broadband technology is at a better). to leave. – is a positive development. Not its promise of further improving “crucial phase” with expected roll out in the next few And Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, only does Italy have the EU’s oldest labour-market fl exibility and fi ghting at age 41, is Italy’s youngest prime Making matters worse, Italy’s population after Germany, with 1.5 corruption, including in the form of years. minister ever. economy has been stagnant for years. people over 65 for every one person nepotism. Similarly, handset manufacturers in the West and Nonetheless, young Italians remain To be sure, it remains the world’s under 15; its fertility rate, 1.35 children Given the headwinds of a sluggish Asia are working on developing 5G-compliant mobile deeply dissatisfi ed with the state eighth-largest economy, with a per per woman, is also one of the world’s world economy and the legacy of a phones. These may be commercially available in the of their country and the economic capita income of roughly €26,000 lowest, about on par with Japan. long recession, however, reforms will next few years, reports suggest. opportunities it can provide. Indeed, ($29,300) and a relatively high gross But the limited supply of higher- be diffi cult to implement. At the very despite Renzi’s promise to implement savings rate of 18% of GDP. skill jobs in Italy, compared to other least, they will take time. Qatar’s two telecom providers, Ooredoo and reforms aimed at rejuvenating the But from 2000 to 2015, real GDP advanced EU countries, also aff ects In the meantime, young Italians will Vodafone, have already said they are looking at the country’s economy and institutions – shrank slightly, while real per capita migrant fl ows. With 30% of foreign continue to try to build their future prospects of bringing 5G technology to Qatar. the platform on which he won power income dropped by 0.5%. The 2012- workers believing that they are elsewhere. Not even a young, buoyant Ooredoo Qatar CEO Waleed al-Sayed recently said in 2014 – some 90,000 Italians under 2014 period was especially diffi cult, overqualifi ed for the job they perform, prime minister can persuade them to that the telco was already laying the foundations for the age of 40 have since left. with a deep and prolonged recession Italy is losing its appeal, especially stay. - Project Syndicate 5G services in Qatar and had signed agreements with Renzi’s message, while skillfully resulting in a 2.1% drop in real GDP to skilled professionals. As a result, crafted and optimistic, cannot and 4.3% drop in real per capita since 2007, the number of immigrants zPaola Subacchi is research director, global technology leaders to build the region’s fi rst 5G mask the harsh economic reality income. arriving each year has fallen by half, International Economics at Chatham research and development centre in Doha. in Italy today. Most jarring, youth Unsurprisingly, for many young while the number of emigrants has House, and a visiting professor at the Vodafone Qatar CEO Ian Gray said the company unemployment stands at 39% – one people, emigration seems a better tripled. University of Bologna. would be “one of the fastest adopters” of 5G service. The 5G technology launch is expected to prepare the ground for the ambitious global initiative - The Internet of Things (IoT), which may revolutionise telecommunications and enhance connectivity around the world. IoT is the network of physical objects - devices, vehicles, buildings and other items - embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network 5G is expected to connectivity that enables these objects massively speed to collect and exchange up the Internet data. A forecast suggests and unlock that the market for IoT services will top $101bn the Internet of this year, nearly 30% Things more than the $78bn that businesses spent last year. By 2020, spending for services like network deployment, operations management and data analytics is forecasted to balloon to $257bn. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of billions of connected devices - almost up to 50bn by 2020. According to industry experts, 5G will be the next big Prime Minister Matteo Renzi: at age 41, he is Italy’s youngest prime minister ever. Nonetheless, young Italians remain deeply dissatisfied with the state of their country thing to revolutionise the way we connect. and the economic opportunities it can provide. Indeed, despite Renzi’s promise to implement reforms aimed at rejuvenating the country’s economy and The super-fast wireless network of the future is still institutions – the platform on which he won power in 2014 – some 90,000 Italians under the age of 40 have since left the country. likely at least a few years away from becoming a reality. Nevertheless, it was a hot topic at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) that was held in Barcelona in February, where some of the world’s most innovative companies and infl uential technologists gathered to discuss the future of connectivity. Dear America: It’s not so bad 5G is expected to massively speed up the Internet and unlock the Internet of Things, making driverless cars and talking fridges a reality, but experts warn By Ann McFeatters Bush, Clinton or George W Bush years, declining since 1999. And more than At the recent Nuclear Security Washington/Tribune News Service according to the respected Index of 16mn previously uninsured people Summit in Washington, 50 top plenty of hurdles remain. Consumer Satisfaction. now have health insurance. international leaders revealed their In future, 5G could have a whole range of The world of work is changing, In another bit of unforeseen good progress. They have removed or applications underpinning the Internet of Things eady for however, as are the tools needed for news, SeaWorld will no longer breed secured all the highly enriched — the increasing inter-connection of everyday some the jobs of tomorrow. Change is hard, orcas in captivity and will no longer uranium and plutonium from more good but Americans are some of the best catch killer whales for display. Some than 50 facilities in 30 countries appliances — with uses as varied as transport, health may groan that this is more political - enough to create 150 nuclear or industrial machinery, for which 4G is completely Rnews? adapters on Earth. Perhaps no people Let’s take a have exploited opportunity as much as correctness. But it is not. We don’t weapons, and it’s no longer available unadapted. breather from those of this nation. And nothing has trust people who mistreat animals, to terrorists. That said, one of the major challenges in realising wallowing in US dimmed Americans’ desire to innovate and the theatrical shows have Fourteen nations have rid 5G will be to “connect the unconnected”. An estimate politics, where and make technology work for them. smacked of inhumanity, unbefi tting themselves entirely of highly enriched shows that about 4bn people around the world still has the mantra seems to be that we are a of SeaWorld’s mission of education, uranium and plutonium. Ukraine, nation of faded glory with doom all Americans are research and rescue of marine animals. a war zone, no longer has enriched no Internet access at all! around us. This is a good step that shows uranium. Hence, 5G will require massive investment to create Honestly, a lot of good stuff is workers and most Americans are caring people, In addition, the US alone got a truly global network- one that ensures near-total happening out there. concerned about such magnifi cent rid of 138 tonnes of its surplus of network coverage around the globe! It’s encouraging that the US Americans like mammals. highly enriched uranium, enough economy has added jobs for 72 months The ranks of the Islamic State are for 5,500 nuclear weapons. Despite straight. Unemployment is down to their jobs and get fi lled with extremists who want to poor relations with Russia, the US is 5%. Yes, everyone wants more money, kill us and destroy our way of life. working with it to eliminate enough but we are not in recession. And satisfaction from And we’ve made enormous mistakes Russian highly enriched uranium for To Advertise contrary to the prediction of one of fi ghting terrorists. But it’s not true about 20,000 nuclear weapons, which the all-is-dire pitchmen, a massive them the United States is doing little to stop is being converted to electricity in the [email protected] recession does not loom. The auto There have been many fl at-out terrorism. US. Display industry just had its best year ever. statements that the nation’s new The US has been destroying the The next time you hear someone Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 The economy is growing. Aff ordable Care Act would give Islamic State’s fi nances and access to insist the US is in really bad shape, Another myth is that Americans employers a push to drop health cash. More than 10,000 drone strikes take it with a grain of salt. And, Classified are miserable on the job. Not so. insurance coverage. That has not have killed experienced leaders of the incidentally, a little bit of daily salt is Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 Americans are workers and most happened. According to the Kaiser Islamic State, reducing its territory good for you, according to a study of Americans like their jobs and get Family Foundation, employers are and destroying its oil reserves. This is 100,000 people reported in the New Subscription satisfaction from them. Wages are (too even more determined to provide not a war won overnight, but also not England Journal of Medicine. [email protected] slowly) rising but they are going up. health benefi ts than before the law one without signifi cant victories. The average gap in economic took eff ect. Nuclear weapons could obliterate zAnn McFeatters is an op-ed satisfaction between the upper and The percentage of adults under 65 the planet. But they have not been columnist. Readers may send her 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved lower thirds in income is lower than it with employer-based insurance held used for evil, and many are working e-mail at amcfeatters@nationalpress. was during the Reagan, George H W fi rm for the last fi ve years after steadily hard to prevent that. com Gulf Times Sunday, April 10, 2016 27 COMMENT Somali piracy is down, not out

Anti-piracy patrols by The others are Kenyan soldiers international warships and citizens seized on land and held by pirate gangs not drawn and armed guards aboard to the seaborne element of their commercial vessels which kidnapping trade. These are, said Steed, the forgotten continue to chug fast and hostages. The crew of the Naham far past the Somali coast, 3 come from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan have suppressed piracy, not and Vietnam but a crew’s value to stopped it shipowners and insurance companies disappears with the vessel which is By Tristan McConnell now wrecked. Nairobi Middle-aged French couple Christian and Evelyne Colombo were attacked in September 2011. he pirates who once ruled Seven Somali men on trial in Paris the seas off Somalia are little for Christian’s murder and Evelyne’s more than a memory now, abduction deny attacking the couple’s Tbut while they are forgotten catamaran yacht as it sailed from they are not gone. Yemen to Oman, killing the husband The trial in Paris of seven men and dumping his body in the sea. accused of killing a French sailor and Evelyne was rescued 48-hours later by kidnapping his wife during the height Spanish commandos who killed two of of Somali piracy in 2011 is a reminder the suspected pirates and arrested the of the deadly terror the pirates once other seven. spread. Steed points out that piracy remains However, experts and former pirates attractive when there are few other alike warn the scourge may yet return. options. Along Somalia’s coast basic “There hasn’t been a proper pirate government services are absent, jobs attack on a commercial vessel in over scarce and options limited. two years,” said John Steed, Horn of “Take the navies away and stop Africa manager for the US-based non- hiring armed guards and the whole profi t Oceans Beyond Piracy. “But the thing starts again,” he said. guys haven’t gone away and nothing’s US Navy search and seizure team members apprehending suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Instead of fi shing equipment, ice- changed on the ground.” making factories, storage facilities Anti-piracy patrols by international Much of that cost was down to mandate to stop illegal fi shing and Garacad. “Foreign trawlers are taking waters. Among the worst off enders and access to markets, Somalia got warships and armed guards aboard counter-piracy actions, including the private guards have no interest in it, all the fi sh.” are Iranian, Spanish and Taiwanese warships ghosting along the horizon. commercial vessels which continue to deployment of warships, the extra fuel while Somalia, making an unsteady “I joined the pirates in the fi rst place vessels, according to Oceans Beyond Former pirate Ahmed Yare can chug fast and far past the Somali coast, burned by vessels racing through the recovery from decades of war, lacks because of those illegal fi shing vessels, Piracy. sometimes see the warships and the have suppressed piracy, not stopped it. pirate ranges and the hiring of private either a coastguard or a navy. and now we have left the piracy “Illegal fi shing is giving pirates the foreign trawlers from the shoreline The last wave of piracy began in armed security teams aboard ships. “There’s now no risk to illegal business, we cannot fi sh in our own excuse they had in the beginning,” at his home close to Eyl, a onetime 2005 and reached its peak six years These costly measures worked and trawlers who can fi sh at will,” said waters,” Abas said. said Steed, “But it is just an excuse. pirate stronghold. “The situation is later when Somali pirate gangs Somali piracy dropped off dramatically Steed. Some of those illegal vessels have These are criminals whether they are not helping me here, I don’t have a attacked 237 vessels and, at year’s so that by 2013 no commercial vessels Somali pirates turned fi shermen been attacked. Last year the Iranian kidnapping at sea or on land.” job and I cannot go to fi sh freely in my end, held 11 vessels and 216 hostages, were successfully boarded. grumble about the foreign trawlers fi shing boat Siraj was hijacked while Today there are around 46 pirate own waters because of those foreign earning on average more than $2mn Now some Somali pirates have and have threatened to take up arms its partner vessel, Jaber, escaped after hostages left in Somalia. Twenty-six are trawlers,” he said. (1.8mn euros) for every ship ransomed. turned to a new activity, fi shing, and again. a gunfi ght with pirates. the crew of the Taiwanese trawler the “They are taking all the fi sh and Back then the total economic cost of are fi nding themselves up against a “Now we are fi shermen but where On any given day there are scores Naham 3 accounts who have been held I say it will bring back the piracy Somali piracy was estimated at $6.9bn new enemy: foreign trawlers. is the fi sh?” asked Abdulahi Abas, a of foreign trawlers illegally pulling for over four years, while 15 others were business, and this time it’ll be even (6.1bn euros). The anti-piracy navies have no former pirate in the coastal town of fi sh out of Somalia’s territorial captured aboard the Siraj last year. worse.” Letters Weather report Three-day forecast

TODAY Baseless national assembly chief, was the fi rst amounted to 2.50% of world GDP; in a bank, an international drug High: 33 C to raise the issue in its joint meeting other words, between $2tn and $4tn. moneylaundering operation, with Low : 22 C allegation with EU members in Brussels and after It is believed to have exceeded that ties to a militant group, infused its Partly cloudy that, in an Asian Development Bank fi gure since then. revenues from used car sales in Europe Dear Sir, meeting in Beijing. Off shore investments have lost their with those derived from cocaine sales The Indian government has innocence under a banking system in Africa. MONDAY I fully agree with the writer of the no intention to interfere in other infested with rogue elements. High: 31 C letter “Regretful comments” (Gulf countries’ aff airs. India stands by The deeper “dirty money” gets into Farouk Araie Low: 25 C Times, April 7) that interference in a Nepal. Please don’t play into the hands the international banking system, the [email protected] Sunny country’s internal aff airs by another of some parties or countries who want more diffi cult it is to identify its origin. state is not good. But at the same time, to see the India-Nepal relationship in Because of the clandestine nature a country’s internal problems should disarray. of moneylaundering under the TUESDAY not be thrust on another state too. guise of off shore investments, it is Please send us High: 32 C India has always stood by Nepal Sachin S Nambudiri diffi cult to estimate the total amount your letters Low: 24 C and is as friendly as Nepal is towards House no 5 that is secretively buried in tax-free M Cloudy it. Hence, I strictly disagree with Al Ghardiya street institutions. The proliferation of By e-mail the writer’s comment that India has Madinath Khalifa fi nancial secrecy havens has enveloped “imposed (a) blockade” on Nepal. It is and poisoned the global banking [email protected] Fishermen’s forecast a baseless allegation against India and system. Fax 44350474 Or Post OFFSHORE DOHA that issue must naturally have come Shocking In Switzerland, dirty money worth Wind: SW-NW 05-15 KT up in New Delhi’s talks in Brussels. revelations $500bn is being cycled every year Letters to the Editor Waves: 2-4 Feet I would like to correct the writer, through its banking system. In Dublin, Gulf Times INSHORE DOHA Wind: NW-NE 05-15 KT taking my cue from the book Global Ireland, $150mn is suspected of being P O Box 2888 Waves: 1-3 Feet Dimensions of Indo-Nepal Political Dear Sir, laundered annually. Organised crime Doha, Qatar Relations by Raj Kumar Singh, that syndicates grossed $1.5tn in 1999 Around the region it was Nepal which had tried to Revelations in the recently-released alone. The GDP of the US is only just All letters, which are subject Weather Weather internationalise the issue fi rst by Panama Papers are just the tip of a fi ve times that of global organised to editing, should have the today Max/min tomorrow Max/min Abu Dhabi Sunny 34/21 Sunny unleashing propaganda against gigantic fi nancial iceberg, involving crime. name of the writer, address 37/24 India and dispatched envoys to all global institutions and prominent Corruption and multinational Baghdad M Cloudy 34/21 P Cloudy 33/19 and phone number. The Dubai Sunny neigbouring countries, the US, UN personalities. Money laundering company tax evasion have all Sunny 31/21 32/23 Kuwait City Sunny 33/24 Cloudy 31/23 organisations to complain against New via off shore accounts has reached increased dramatically over the past writer’s name and address may be withheld by request. Manama Sunny 29/23 M Sunny 30/24 Delhi over its imaginary grouses. staggering proportions. fi ve years. Muscat Sunny 32/24 M Sunny 33/25 A Nepalese delegation, led by its During 1999, money laundering In a classical case involving Riyadh Sunny 34/21 P Cloudy 37/23 Tehran M Sunny 23/14 M Cloudy 23/16 Live issues Deal with anger before it’s too late

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However, anger, it can result in arguments or, him at [email protected] Gulf Times 28 Sunday, April 10, 2016 QATAR Rotana group’s Centro Capital Doha hotel to open this month eading hotel management company Rotana has an- Lnounced that “preparations are under way in full swing” for the opening of Centro Capital Doha in Bin Mahmoud district, Al Jazeera Street, before the end of this month. Centro will be the group’s fourth hotel in town, featuring 229 rooms and studios. It will meet the “demands of a new generation of travellers seeking fi nesse and functionality at rea- sonable rates,” the company has said in a press statement. Omer Kaddouri, president and CEO of Rotana, said: “We are delighted to announce that the fi nal preparations are nearing completion for the opening of Centro Capital Doha. It will mark the debut of the Centro brand in town, which is char- acterised by distinct accommodation in a contemporary environment designed primarily

Located in Bin Mahmoud, Centro Capital Doha will be the group’s fourth hotel in town. Right: The Centro lobby.

for business travellers who seek “In recent years, Rotana has guests that drove the conceptu- styled bathrooms, the strategic “comfortable social atmosphere, fer two fully-equipped meeting exclusive accommodation at af- recognised the arrival of a new alisation of the Centro brand. placement of room lighting and supported by high-speed Inter- rooms and recreational facili- fordable prices.” generation of travellers, guests The statement said that controls - including the latest net.” Further, Centro will pro- ties, including a swimming pool, Kaddouri noted that the de- who expect the elegance and “great care has been taken in technology and in-room enter- vide “unique residential spaces a gym and three F&B outlets: mand for aff ordable accom- fi nesse of a fi ve-star hotel but optimising room confi gurations tainment options.” in a contemporary environment” c.taste – the all-day dining res- Omer Kaddouri: assuring ‘distinct modation that off ered comfort, not its corresponding cost at the and styles, which cover the de- The hotel will also feature a to meet the needs of travellers taurant, c.mondo – the hotel bar accommodation in a functionality and style had never end of their stay,” he said, add- sign and functionality of each lobby designed to help travel- and off er comfort to them. and c.deli - Centro’s 24-hour contemporary environment’ been stronger in the region. ing that this was the category of piece of furniture, innovatively lers complete their meetings in a Centro Capital Doha will of- take-away dining concept. Top artistes set to win hearts at QPO concert

atar Philharmonic Or- position.” Rami calls the seven his long career full of master- chestra (QPO) has an- tracks from ‘Stories’ “a series pieces for the oud, he has tried Qnounced that is set to of soundscapes”. to set the instrument free from perform two new “large-scale” “Resistance blends techno the strict techniques that tra- compositions this week. They with contemporary and a dash ditionally governed it, greatly include Rami Khalife’s ‘Stories’ of romanticism…’Pulse, Life expanding its possibilities. for piano and orchestra, and and Goose Bumps’ emerges as Marcel has played a funda- Rami Khalife, French-Lebanese composer, pianist and artiste. Marcel Khalife’s third concerto the pop song of the series… mental role in the establish- for oud. and ‘Steps on the Dance Floor’ ment and development of QPO. Left: Kenan David Niemann will conduct is a DJ spinning turntables,” he The Arabian Concerto, which Adnawi, oud the performances, with Rami said. he composed specifically for player from on piano and Kenan Adnawi on Unesco Artiste for Peace its inaugural concert, was per- Syria. Right: oud. Marcel has renewed the char- formed during the orchestra’s Marcel The concert will be per- acter of the Arabic song, re- first international tours. Khalife, formed on April 15 and 16 at formulating it in more than 30 “Due to extraordinary de- Lebanese Qatar National Convention albums, as well as writing mu- mand, no tickets remain avail- composer, Centre. sic for both film and dance. In able for either performance,” singer and Born in 1981 in Beirut, Rami these concerts, he will sing two QPO said in a press statement oud player. has been called “a musician of his songs, ‘Ya Nassim el Rih’ yesterday. QPO is a member of of extreme calibre and pure and ‘Ya Bahriyyeh’, in new or- Qatar Foundation. expression…a welcome experi- chestral arrangements. More information about this mental detour from the norm of Marcel is also set to perform and other concerts is available today and in the relatively con- his third oud concerto as an- at qatarphilharmonicorches- formist world of classical com- other world premiere. Through tra.org QTA honours staff ers for their long years of service

atar Tourism Authority “recently experienced remark- (QTA) has honoured its able growth” in line with the Qlong-serving employees, development of Qatar’s tourism who have spent between fi ve and industry, which the country’s 20 years in service, at the QTA leadership has identifi ed as a Annual Staff Meeting held in priority in pursuit of a diversifi ed Doha. national economy. QTA chief tourism develop- In 2015, QTA established an ment offi cer Hassan Abdulrah- Investment Promotions Unit, in man al-Ibrahim awarded 33 staff addition to a Festival and Tour- members and thanked them on ism Events department. The behalf of the authority’s chair- year was also highlighted by the man and all employees for their launch of QBIC-Tourism - a loyalty and commitment over business incubator specialised in the past years. supporting businesses that con- On the occasion, al-Ibrahim tribute to enhancing the Qatar said: “The tourism industry tourism experience – in addition has seen many developments in to the opening of the Doha Exhi- 2015, such as the unveiling of the bition and Convention Centre. Qatar First Destination Brand The year which passed by also and joining the Cruise Arabia witnessed signifi cant develop- Alliance. And, as we are cel- ments on the global stage, with ebrating these accomplishments Qatar being selected by the UN- and readying for more growth in WTO as the offi cial host of World 2016, it was a must to recognise Tourism Day in 2017. In addi- those who have witnessed the tion, the World Economic Forum development of QTA for more ranked Qatar as the second most than a decade and are credited competitive travel and tourism for this growth, thanks to their destination in the Mena region hard work and dedication.” in its 2015 Travel and Tourism In a statement, QTA said it Competitiveness Report. QTA employees and off icials at the meeting.