SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2016 SHAWWAL 27, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net MoH signs Tokyo elects Harry Potter PSG sink retirees’ health Yuriko Koike magic hits Asia Leicester insurance contract as first woman as fans celebrate in clash of worth KD5 82m governor12 new29 book champions20 Kuwait to invest KD 4.75bn Min 30º in new development plan Max 49º High Tide 09:44 & 23: 59 Financing shared by both public and private sectors Low Tide 04:05 & 17:35 40 PAGES NO: 16949 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait plans to invest KD 4.75 billion ($15.75 billion) in its 2017-2018 development plan, in which KD E-visa part 200 arrested in Shuwaikh raid 1.59 billion will be borne by the state budget, the secre- tary general of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development said yesterday. Khaled Mahdi told a news of security conference that the rest of the funds would come from the public sector, including the energy industry, and revamp: MoI from private investors. Mahdi also said that financing of the current five- year development plan was being shared by both the KUWAIT: The newly-launched e-visa service is a compo- public and private sectors. nent of the Ministry of Interior’s strategic outlook to He said that the general revamp security tasks by employing state-of-the-art government sector was pro- technology, a senior MoI official said yesterday. The MoI viding 49.3 percent, oil sec- plans further expansion and tor was contributing 33.8 development of electronic percent while the private services soon, said Maj Gen sector was contributing Talal Al-Maarafi, the ministry’s 16.9 percent. General Director of Residency The scheme is based on Affairs, at a news conference. “foundations,” namely effec- He affirmed the approach tive government, sustain- for full deployment of such able and diversified econo- high-tech features to facilitate my, developed infrastruc- services for citizens, residents ture, sustainable livelihood Khaled Al-Mahdi and guests of Kuwait. Maarafi, environment, high-quality healthcare, creative man- Talal Al-Maarafi who made a detailed presen- power and Kuwait’s international status. The first axis tation about the recently- encompasses two programs - e-government and struc- launched e-visa service, explained that its response to tural reforms, in addition to eight projects aimed at applications will be immediate during working hours revamping the administration. One of the most impor- and via email. The instant visa is given to citizens of 52 tant projects is upgrading the state structure and set- countries and residents of GCC countries engaged in 13 ting up an urban monitor, due to finish by Sept 30, professions, with residencies valid for not less than six 2019, and execution of the five-year IT plan due to finish months. by Dec 31, 2019. Brig Gen Ali Al-Muaili, in charge of MoI information As to boosting manpower skills and capacities, the systems, said the e-visa is available on the ministry web- relevant plans tackle upgrading quality of education, KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd (second left) supervises opera- site - www.moi.gov. kw. Brig Gen Adel Al-Hashash, in expanding accommodation at higher studies colleges, tions in a dilapidated building inhabited by workers in Industrial Shuwaikh yesterday. The crackdown charge of security information and public relations, integration of citizens of special challenges into the in the area resulted in the arrest of 200 people, including residency violators, absconders and wanted affirmed that applicants should have no criminal society, improving care services for the elderly, boosting persons. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun records or traffic tickets. — KUNA (See Page 5) Continued on Page 13 India feeding laid-off workers Thousands stranded in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait NEW DELHI: New Delhi was working The Indian consulate in Jeddah post- yesterday to feed more than 10,000 ed a series of pictures on Twitter show- Indian laborers stranded in the Gulf ing its nationals queuing up for food News with no wages after losing their jobs, in packets, eggs, spices and salt provided in brief what Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj by its officials. Swaraj was responding called a “food crisis”. In a series of late Saturday to a series of tweets from tweets, Swaraj said the migrant work- people saying Indians had gone with- Those denied entry into ers were facing “extreme hardship” and out food for three to four days in the US can reapply for visa that two junior foreign ministers will be camps where they were living. Foreign KUWAIT: The American Embassy in Kuwait said yester- sent to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to take ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup told day that all those “who were prohibited from entering up the issue with authorities. AFP that a decision on bringing the the US can reapply for a visa whenever they so choose”. “Large number of Indians have lost workers home would be taken only “Granting entry to the United States is left to the sole their jobs in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. after a junior minister visits Saudi discretion of customs and border protection officials,” a The employers have not paid wages Arabia. statement by the embassy noted, adding that further PHILADELPHIA: Khizr Khan, father of fallen US Army Capt Humayun Khan, holds up (and) closed down their factories,” Hundreds of foreign workers at con- information can be obtained by directly contacting cus- a copy of the constitution of the United States as his wife Ghazala listens during Swaraj said late on Saturday. “As a result struction firm Saudi Oger staged a toms officials. Moreover, the statement also added that the final day of the Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016. — AP our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia public protest in Jeddah at the week- the embassy is aware of recent reports of Kuwaiti and Kuwait are facing extreme hard- end to demand seven months of nationals who were not allowed to enter the US. ship. While situation in Kuwait is man- unpaid wages, Saudi Arabia’s Arab Slain GI’s dad calls Trump ageable, matters are much worse in News reported. They were dispersed by Saudi Arabia sending 4 Saudi Arabia. The number of Indian police after disrupting traffic. Saudi a ‘black soul’ unfit to lead workers facing food crisis in Saudi Oger did not respond to a telephone female athletes to Rio Arabia is over ten thousand.” DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will send four women to the WASHINGTON: The father of a slain ABC’s “This Week,” insisting he had made “a call and an email seeking comment. Indians are among millions of poor Rio de Janeiro Olympics, doubling its female partic- Muslim American soldier assailed Donald lot of sacrifices” while suggesting that Nearly three million Indians live and Asians working in the Gulf states where ipation after two women competed for the first Trump as a “black soul” yesterday in an Khan’s wife, who stood silent on the con- work in Saudi Arabia, according to the human rights groups say many suffer time at the 2012 London Games. Hosam Al-Qurashi, impassioned exchange with the vention stage as her husband spoke, had foreign ministry, constituting one of exploitation and abuses including non- executive director of the Saudi Olympic Committee, Republican presidential candidate over the not been allowed to talk. payment of wages, with no channels the largest populations of Indian pass- told AP yesterday that two of the women will par- qualities required in a US leader. Khizr Khan But Khan shot back in interviews on US for redress. Indian media yesterday said port holders outside of India. In Nov ticipate in track and field, one in judo and one in electrified the Democratic convention last television news shows, while his wife the workers were “starving” in camps 2014, Gulf and Asian labor ministers fencing. The track and field athletes are Sarah Attar, week with a tribute to his fallen son that Ghazala explained in a Washington Post with no way of returning home, as Gulf agreed on a series of initiatives aimed who competed in 2012, and Cariman Abu Al-Jadail. ended with a steely rebuke that Trump had op-ed that she had been too grief-stricken countries face a drop in oil revenues at boosting protection and improving Judoka Wujud Fahmi and fencer Lubna Al-Omair “sacrificed nothing” for his country. Trump to speak. from falling prices, prompting a down- conditions of employment for foreign are the other competitors. defended himself in an interview with Continued on Page 13 turn in construction and layoffs. workers in the Gulf. — Agencies Govt accepts UN plan, Houthis reject it KUWAIT: Yemen’s government yesterday replaces a roadmap previously proposed by UN ment backed the “Kuwait Agreement”. One pre- accepted a UN-proposed plan to end fighting envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed that stipulat- condition, however, is that the Houthis and that has killed thousands, but the rebels reject- ed the creation of a unity government includ- allied forces loyal to Saleh sign the deal by Aug ed it, insisting that any settlement must first ing the insurgents, which was rejected by Hadi’s 7, Mikhlafi wrote on Twitter. tackle a unity administration. The draft agree- government. Under the new plan, a political The rebels rejected the proposal. “What was ment, which follows several months of UN-bro- dialogue between the factions would start 45 presented by the (UN) envoy was no more than kered negotiations in Kuwait, stipulates that the days after the rebels withdraw and hand over just ideas for a solution to the security aspect, Houthi rebels must withdraw from Sanaa, heavy weapons to a military committee to be subject to debate like other proposals,” a state- which they overran in Sept 2014.