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HM sends message CARTHAGE: His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said has sent a verbal message to President Beji Caid Essebsi of the Republic of Tunisia on the development of bi-lateral relations between the two countries.

The message was conveyed by Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, when he was received by the president at Carthage Palace, yesterday.

During the meeting, ways for enhancing the bilateral relations in the various spheres and recent developments in the Arab world were discussed. —ONA

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Illegals get one last lifeline for easy exit

FAHAD AL GHADANIfahadnews@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: With the Oman gov-ernment deciding to extend the amnesty by three months, ex-patriates in Oman without legal status have been given one more chance to leave the country with-out paying fines.

The amnesty, which began on May 3 this year, was to end on July 31, but the Ministry of Manpower, on Thursday, announced that the amnesty had been extended until October 28.

With this announcement, the ministry officials and social work-ers have once again appealed to all illegal expatriates to report to their respective embassies and register for an easy exit.

“Here is one more chance for

undocumented workers. This ex-tension is for the benefit of those who have not registered so far. It will allow undocumented and stranded expatriate workers to re-turn to their home country with-out facing legal action. We urge them to avail themselves of this opportunity,” said a ministry offi-cial. Staying back without proper papers does not help the cause of the worker, said the official.

It may be recalled that the Times of Oman had done a series of stories where undocumented workers spoke of the difficulties they faced living in the country without valid papers.

The latest figures from the min-istry revealed that of the 14,254 il-legal expatriate workers who had reported to the ministry, 7,382 had

already been deported, and anoth-er 6,872 were referred to the com-petent authorities for completion of their deportation procedures.

Shameer P T K, a social worker, said, “This is a golden opportunity for those who were misled into not registering for the amnesty to do so now. It is also a chance for those who did not hear about it. So I advise all those had not reg-istered in the last three months to do so.”

He added: “We are grateful to the ministry for extending the amnesty by three months. Thou-sands of workers will benefit from this extension.”

Shameer noted that as of Wednesday almost 2,600 expatri-ates had registered with the In-dian embassy.

“We expect a thousand more to register. As social workers we will make it a point to reach out to such people and convince them to register,” said the social worker.

“We have already read about how difficult life is for those who live an undocumented life,” he added.

An Indian embassy statement said that Indian nationals can avail themselves of this facility at the Ministry of Manpower’s la-bour offices in Muscat after regis-tering with the embassy.

Noting that the amnesty was announced to help regulate the labour market in Oman, a minis-try official added, “Those who will benefit the most are illegal work-ers who can return home without having to pay a fine.” >A3

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this opportunity and

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2A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four family members

wounded in an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers on two homes in the occupied West Bank. The attack stoked tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, two days after Netanyahu approved 300 new settler homes. >A4

SPORTSEngland win third Test against Australia

3Ian Bell delighted a capacity crowd at his Edgbaston home ground

with a sparkling unbeaten fifty as England defeated Australia by eight wickets to win the third Test on Friday. >A11

OMANOman, Italy focus on cultural cooperation

1His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, along with his delegation,

visited the Maritime Museum in Genoa. His Highness toured various facilities of the museum. He was briefed on the various means of interpretation and methods of utilisation of the media in achieving the mission of the museum . >A3

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Two boys go missing in sea off Ras Al HaddTARIQ AL HAREMItariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: As two more boys go missing, safety experts have sug-gested that people who do not know swimming should not ven-ture into the sea.

The two boys have been miss-ing since Thursday morning, ac-cording to the authorities.

Four boys had gone swimming off the coast of Ras Al Hadd in Al Sharqiyah Governorate and were probably pulled down by the cur-rents. “Among them, two were rescued by the locals and are do-ing well, but two others are still missing at sea,” according to the Royal Oman Police (ROP) and the Coast Guards.

The ROP is using their heli-copters to widen the search and rescue operations along with the South Al Sharqiyah coast guards.

Safety experts at the Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) reiterated

in a tweet that people who do not know swimming should stay away from the water as they are in danger of drowning.

In the tweet, they advised peo-ple not to swim in the sea during the Khareef (autumn) season due to the high waves and rough con-ditions throughout the season in the Sultanate.

Monitor childrenThey also advised parents to con-stantly monitor children while they are on the beach.

Swimming experts have also advised people not to go near the water if they cannot swim.

“Most drowning incidents are due to individual negligence. The person goes into the water without knowing swimming or does not know how to react when something such as cramps occur,” said Ashraf Al Harbi, Co-founder of Dolphin Swimming Centre, in an interview with the Times of Oman. >A3

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Amnesty factsheet

Source: Ministry of Interior Graphics

14,254illegal expatriate workers who have reported to the ministry

7,382have already been deported

6,872referred to the competent authorities for completion of deportation procedures

expatriate workers have been absconding since the beginning of this year, according to the figures from the ministry.

57,000

Nine Omani pilgrims die in Saudi accidentFAHAD AL GHADANIfahadnews@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Nine Omani citizens were killed and 39 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Khares, 120km from Al Ahsa, in Saudi Arabia, according to a reliable source in the govern-ment.

The bus was carrying 54 Oma-nis who were returning from Makkah after the Umrah pilgrim-age. Seven people died at Al Oyoon Hospital in Al Ahsa while the oth-er two died at King Fahd Hospital, stated the report.

Others were sent to seven dif-ferent hospitals in Al Ahsa. As per the report, six people have been

identified, but the identity of oth-er three could not be ascertained as their documents were burnt in the accident.

The emergency unit in Al Ihsa reported that at around 12.30 pm on Thursday they received infor-mation about the accident and rushed 24 medical personnel to the spot.

Oman TV reported that Royal directives were issued to send an Oman Air Force jet in Saudi Ara-bia to bring the bodies and the injured back to Oman. It reported that the government officials, in-cluding chairman of the Shura Council, medical staff and family members of the deceased and the injured were on board the private

jet. The Ministry of Health ad-vised its hospital, medical teams and units to be on alert to receive the injured.

It is reported that the Central Blood Bank in Bausher has also asked the public to donate blood as they prepare to receive the in-jured. The blood bank will receive blood between 8 am and 8 pm.

The reports show that the bus carrying the pilgrims belonged to Quba Company.

Oman’s embassy in the KSA reported that 13 people have suf-fered critical injuries and are in the intensive care units. In an-other accident, one national was killed and three others injured in the Al Jabiyah area of Ibri.

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RELIEF PLANE: Royal directives were issued to send an Oman Air Force jet in Saudi Arabia to bring the bodies and the injured back to Oman. -ONA

ZIMBABWE SEEKS CECIL THE LION’S KILLER EXTRADITIONThe American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice. >A9

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Thirteen Omani photographers, members of

Oman Photography Association, captured

seven gold, six sliver, two bronze medals

and 16 honorary awards at the first MNE

International Circuit 2015, which is

held in three countries — Serbia, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. The

competition is sponsored by the International

Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) and

the Photographic Society of America. A total

377 photographers representing 55 countries

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Omani Cultural Days open cultural window for BraziliansSAO PAOLO: His Highness Sayyid Fatik bin Fahr Al Said, sec-retary-general of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, inaugurated exhibitions as part of the Omani Cultural Days in Brazil. The show, being held at the El Dorado Centre, began on July 28 and will last until August 2.

The show was inaugurated in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Sao Paulo, and Sheikh Hamad bin Hilal Al Ma’amari, undersec-retary for Cultural Affairs in the Ministry of Heritage and Culture along with Dr Khalid bin Said Al Jaradi, the Sultanate’s ambassador to Brazil.

The Ministry of Heritage and Culture has planned an extensive cultural programme that includes many activities and events to high-light Omani culture, in co-oper-ation and co-ordination with the Sultanate’s embassy in Brazil, and

with the participation of a number of institutions in the Sultanate.

The events include exhibitions of documents and manuscripts, and exhibition on tolerance to highlight the history of the Sultan-ate and its relations with differ-

ent countries and with Brazil as a model, under the supervision of a group of specialists and academics from Oman and Brazil. The events also include live demonstrations of various traditional crafts and industries.

Activities of the Omani Cultural Days in Brazil include the Omani hospitality exhibition that directly showcases rituals and values of Omani hospitality, which are car-ried at Al Siblah, and its social role, in addition to an Omani house,

which displays the Omani thor-oughbred customs and traditions, including henna.

The Tolerance Culture Exhibi-tion, which is supervised by the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, displays photographs and

films about the message of toler-ance and co-existence, dialogue and Omani values of tolerance based on mutual understanding, respect and openness to others.

A documentary exhibition is also being held as part of the cul-tural days. It reviews the areas of historical, political and cultural re-lations between the Sultanate and Brazil and other countries. A photo exhibition displays more than 50 images by Omani photographer Khamis Al Maharbi of the most important cultural heritage and sites, as well as the most important landmarks of Omani Renaissance, and scenes from the life of the Om-ani man.

The book exhibition showcases a valuable collection of publica-tions on the Sultanate in different languages. An exhibition of Omani manuscripts was also held. It doc-umented the history of Oman.– ONA

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Oman, Italy focus on cultural ties

GENOA: His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, along with his delegation, visited the Maritime Museum in the Italian city of Genoa.

His Highness Sayyid Haitham toured various facilities of the museum and met with the chair-person, directors of the museum and advisers. He was briefed on the various means of interpreta-tion and methods and patterns of utilisation of the media to enable visitors to experience simulation experiments and important his-torical events.

Sayyid Haitham also met with the Governor of Genoa, who praised the selection of the Genoa Museum as a partner of the Omani Maritime Museum.

Common interestThe meeting discussed co-opera-tion in cultural areas and the mu-seum. The two sides emphasised on the development of co-opera-tion for the interest of both sides.

Sayyid Haitham also visited the most important landmarks in Genoa. This visit comes as part of the efforts to learn about the po-

tential of the museum, which was chosen to provide consultancy and supervisory services through an agreement to be signed for the Om-ani Maritime History Museum. This was based on the output to be reached by the scientific com-mittee evaluation of the museum group and the quality of media that will be utilised.

Sayyid Haitham also visited the Sultanate’s Pavilion at the Expo Milan 2015 on the sidelines of his participation in a Conference of Culture Ministers of countries participating in the expo. The con-ference is currently on in Milan and will end on Saturday.

During the visit, he viewed the displayed items in the pavilion. He also toured pavilions of some sis-terly and friendly countries.

Sayyid Haitham was accompa-nied by Salim bin Mohammed Al Mahrouqi, undersecretary of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture for Heritage and Sayyid Faisal bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, advisor to the minister.–ONA

Sayyid Haitham visited the Maritime

Museum in Genoa, besides holding talks

with Genoa Governor. He also toured Oman’s

Pavilion at the Expo Milan 2015

CULTURAL MISSION: Sayyid Haitham is in Italy to take part in the Conference of Culture Ministers of countries participating in the Expo Milan 2015.– ONA

Illegal expats can stay back by paying fine

He reminded that an abscond-ing and overstaying migrant can stay back and become a docu-mented worker by paying the fine.

“The worker has the option of staying back with his old sponsor or joining a new sponsor,” he said.

More than 57,000 expatriate workers have absconded since the beginning of this year, ac-cording to the figures from the ministry. “This means that there could be many more staying on illegally who might like to correct the situation,” he said.

Meanwhile, experts on labour issues feel that the number of undocumented workers who ap-plied for amnesty may not have reached the numbers expected by the ministry.

“This could be the reason for the extension,” he said.

A Majlis Al Shura member said, “The extension announced provides another big opportunity for those undocumented workers who could not register during the last three months for whatever reasons.”

“Some might have missed the news while other might have

heard about it a little late. So, here is their chance to correct it,” he said.

Around 7000 Bangladeshis are supposed to have registered with the Bangladesh embassy.

Some 200 overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) have availed of the amnesty as of June 25, ac-cording to the Philippines De-partment of Labour and Employ-ment’s website.

Philippines Labour and Em-ployment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz had recently urged all illegal Filipinos living in Oman to avail of the amnesty saying, “I strongly urge our Over-seas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Oman who, for various reasons, have been staying illegally in the Sultanate, to take advantage of this amnesty and go home or cor-rect their stay to avoid the reper-cussions.”

A previous amnesty offered at the end of 2009, which lasted until the start of 2011, helped over 60,000 overstaying workers to return home without facing any legal action. There have also been similar amnesty proposals in 2005 and 2007.

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HM receives thanks from Ghana president MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from President John Dramani Mahama of the Republic of Ghana in reply to His Majesty’s condolences cable on victims of the explosion at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital city Accra. In his cable, President Mahama expressed his utmost thanks and appreciation for His Majesty’s sincere condolences and sym-pathy for him and the friendly Ghanaian people.

His Majesty receives messageMUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from Duke Henri of Grand Luxembourg in reply to His Majesty’s greetings cable on the occasion of his country’s National Day. In his cable, Duke Henri expressed his utmost thanks and appre-ciation for His Majesty’s greetings, wishing His Majesty good health and happiness and the Omani people further progress and prosperity.–ONA

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‘Follow safety rules strictly’Very often, people neglect the warning signs, advisories and guidelines posted near beaches and wadis.

According to the PACDA, those who do not abide by the safety guidelines and regulations which are available at all tourist spots in and around the Sultanate will face legal action that could range from a fine to a jail term.

The PACDA said that most of the victims drown because they neglect their safety. Some enter the water which has strong cur-rents, while others enter the deep end or cannot swim.

In recent incidents, nine people drowned across various wilayats in October last year, including a family of four expatriates who drowned at Yiti beach. An Asian

expatriate drowned in Wadi Shab a few weeks ago during the first few days of Eid Al Fitr.

Meanwhile, the search for the two missing Emirati brothers is going on with the PACDA and ROP expanding the search area with the help of 100 Omani volun-teers. The search has been on for seven consecutive days without any luck.

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MISSION BRAZIL: Brazilians have a great desire to know the details of Omani customs and traditions, which in turn will reflect positively in the promotion of relations in various fields between the two countries.–ONA

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REGION The cold-blooded killing of Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha, presumably by extremist settlers ... highlights the urgent need for a political solution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflictEuropean Union

Palestinian toddler burned to death in attack by settlers

NABLUS (OCCUPIED WEST BANK): A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four fam-ily members wounded in an arson attack by suspected Jewish set-tlers on two homes in the occu-pied West Bank on Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu called the fire-bombing in the village of Duma near the northern city of Nablus “an act of terrorism in every re-spect” and ordered security forces to hunt down the perpetrators.

The attack further stoked ten-sions between Israelis and Pales-tinians, two days after Netanyahu controversially approved 300 new settler homes in the occu-pied West Bank. The Palestine Liberation Organisation said it held Netanyahu’s government “fully responsible” for the death of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawab-sha, arguing it was “a direct con-sequence of decades of impunity given by the Israeli government to settler terrorism”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an in-vestigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. According to Palestinian security officials, four assailants believed to be Jewish settlers set a house on fire at the entrance to the village and scrawled graffiti on a wall before fleeing to a nearby Jewish settlement.

Set ablazeThe Israeli military and army radio said two homes had been set ablaze by two masked men, and a child killed and four family members wounded. It added that the graffiti had been written in Hebrew. Palestinian sources said those wounded included the tod-

dler’s parents — mother Reham, 26, and father Saad — as well as four-year-old brother Ahmed. Israeli medical sources said they had been taken to hospital.

The mother was in critical con-dition with third-degree burns covering 90 per cent of her body, an Israeli doctor told public radio, stressing that her life was threat-ened. The father had burns on 80 per cent of his body.

The identity of the fourth per-son wounded as reported by the military was not immediately clear. Local media reported that the graffiti said “revenge” and that the attackers threw firebombs in-side the two homes, one of which was empty. Israeli Defence Min-ister Moshe Yaalon said such at-tacks would not be tolerated, add-ing “we will not allow terrorists to take the lives of Palestinians”.

The Israeli military said it was working to find the perpetrators.

Israeli authorities mobilised a large deployment in occupied Jerusalem around the flashpoint Al Aqsa mosque and barred men

under 50 years old from entering the complex. Previous such moves have provoked anger from Pales-tinians.

The arson attack follows days of tensions surrounding settlements in the occupied West Bank, with rightwing groups opposing the demolition of two buildings under construction that the Israeli High Court said were illegal.

The demolition began on Wednesday, but Netanyahu au-thorised the immediate construc-tion of 300 settler homes in the same area the same day. Settlers had clashed with police when they moved in to demolish the build-ings. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, of the right-wing Jewish Home party, had opposed the dem-olition and addressed protesters at the site. Netanyahu holds only a one-seat majority in parliament following March elections and set-tler groups wield significant influ-ence in his government.

IllegalOccupied West Bank settlements are viewed as illegal under inter-national law, but not by the Israeli government. They are also major impediments to peace negotia-tions with the Palestinians, who see the land as part of a future in-dependent state, and Western na-

tions have called on Israel to halt construction. Neighbouring Jor-dan, one of the rare Arab nations with diplomatic relations with Israel, strongly condemned the ar-son attack. “This ugly crime could have been avoided if the Israeli government had not ignored the rights of the Palestinian people and turned its back on peace... in the region,” government spokes-man Mohammed Momani said.

The European Union urged Israel to show “zero tolerance” for settler violence after an ar-son attack blamed on settlers in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli authorities should ... take resolute measures to protect the local population. We call for full accountability, effective law en-forcement and zero tolerance for settler violence,” a spokesperson for EU foreign affairs head Fed-erica Mogeherini said in a state-ment. “The cold-blooded killing of Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha, presumably by extremist settlers ... highlights the urgent need for a political solution of the Palestini-an-Israeli conflict,” it added.

Mogherini’s office condemned that move on Wednesday, re-peating the view that more set-tler homes “call into question the Israeli government’s stated commitment to a negotiated two-

state solution in the Middle East Peace Process.” The EU said it too wanted a “full and prompt investi-gation to bring the perpetrators of this terrible crime to justice.

“Acts like this terrible attack can easily lead to a spiral of vio-lence and bring both sides further away from a negotiated solution.

“The EU reiterates its strong opposition to Israel’s settlement policy that seriously threatens the two state solution,” the statement concluded.

Mogherini recently announced she was working on an idea for an “international support group” which would include Arab states so as to get peace talks back on track after they stalled completely last year.

Mogherini has repeatedly urged Israel and the Palestinians to re-sume peace negotiations, saying the situation on the ground can-not continue and it is a delusion to believe otherwise.

Extreme-right Israeli activists have committed acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and Arab Israelis for years, attack-ing Christian and places of wor-ship and even Israeli soldiers.

The attacks are known as “price tag” violence — a euphemism for nationalist-motivated hate crimes by Jewish extremists. — AFP

Palestinian President

Mahmoud Abbas

called for an

investigation by

the International

Criminal Court

US-led raids destroy two bridges used by IS group BEIRUT: US-led coalition air strikes destroyed early Friday two key bridges used by the IS militant group on the Syrian side of the Ira-qi border, a monitoring group said.

The Pentagon confirmed strikes in the area, and a senior US officer said they will have a “profound impact” on IS abilities to carry out operations in the neighbouring and strategically important Iraqi province of Anbar.

The coalition “destroyed two bridges between the Syrian city of Albu Kamal and the Iraqi border,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Hu-man Rights.

“These bridges are strategically important for IS’s movements be-tween Albu Kamal and Iraq,” he said. The militants seized Albu Ka-mal and the nearby border cross-ing in July 2014, linking their terri-tory in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor to areas they control in Iraq’s western Anbar province.

The two bridges leading out of Albu Kamal -- one to the east, and one to the southeast -- were IS’s “main routes to the Iraqi border”, Abdel Rahman said.

The bridge running to the east crosses the Euphrates River and leads to Baghouz, a smaller town along the border.

To the southeast of Albu Kamal, a road crosses the bridge runs over a smaller river and continues as a road leading directly to the border.

“Using these bridges, it would take IS only a few minutes to reach the Iraqi border from Albu Kamal,” Abdel Rahman said.

“The strikes do not cut off IS’s route to Iraq, but they make IS movements there more difficult, because it will take them longer and they will be in view (of the coa-lition) for a longer period of time,” he added. The Pentagon confirmed the air raids, saying they had struck IS-held bridges in Deir Ez-zor province.

“Coalition forces struck multi-ple IS targets in the vicinity of the eastern Syria border to reduce the freedom of movement of IS,” said Brigadier General Kevin Killea, chief of staff of the US-led coalition. “These strikes will have a profound impact on the ability of SI in Syria to affect operations in Iraq, particu-larly in Ramadi,” capital of Anbar province, Killea said. — AFP

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Many working Iranian mothers face sack over six-month maternity leaveTEHRAN: Tens of thousands of working mothers have been sacked in Iran since the start of 2014 because employers found cheaper staff, an official said on Friday, warning that a new mater-nity pay policy remains unfunded.

The comments highlight the financial pressures on families and on the Iranian government, despite this month’s nuclear deal with world powers that could pave the way for an economic rebound.

An austerity budget passed in March after a precipitous drop in global oil prices has left key Tehran ministries, including education and oil, struggling to pay wages.

A new law enshrining nine months of paid leave for mothers has been passed yet there are no funds to pay its estimated $985 million (3.2 trillion rial) bill, ac-cording to welfare bosses.

No allocation“So far, not one rial has been allo-cated,” Mohammad Hassan Zeda, a deputy at Iran’s Social Security Organisation, told the ISNA news agency in an interview.

He said studies showed that from 145,000 women who had gone on a six-month maternity leave in the past 18 months, 47,000 of them -- almost a third -- were sacked when they tried to return.

Working for lower salaries“This is because right now due to the situation in the job market, there are many individuals with higher education who are pre-pared to work for lower salaries,” said Zeda, noting the trend would likely worsen.

“If maternity leave is in-creased to nine months, the number of women getting sacked, upon returning to work

after using maternity leave, will increase much more.”

According to the Statistical Cen-tre of Iran, the unemployment rate was 10.8 per cent in 2014, though unofficial sources estimate the number is as high as 20 per cent.

UnemploymentUnemployment is particularly bad among women (19.2 per cent) and youths (25 per cent).

Underemployment has also be-

come common in Iran, according to the World Bank, with a weak la-bour market leaving only 36.7 per cent of the population economi-cally active. Zeda said the nine-month maternity leave term can start if the government allocates the money, but officials are “not allowed to implement a law for which no financial resources have been provided.”

Around 160,000 working wom-en would be eligible for the nine-

month leave, he said. After a deep recession, Iran returned to growth of three percent last year, partly due to limited sanctions relief under an interim nuclear deal be-tween Iran and six world powers.

A final deal struck on July 14 in Vienna stands to lift all UN, US and Europeans sanctions imposed on Iran as punishment for its dis-puted nuclear activities, raising hopes of better economic and job prospects. — AFP

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Bomber kills nine soldiers loyal to Yemeni presidentADEN/SANAA: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into a Yemeni army checkpoint on Friday killing nine soldiers, a military source said, blaming Al Qaeda for the attack.

The attack was mounted near the city of Qoton in southeastern Yemen’s vast desert province of Hadramawt where Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operates. The military source said the dead soldiers were mem-bers of an army division loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

Hadi was forced out of the country after Houthi rebels last year seized the capital Sanaa and challenged the government’s au-thority. In March, a Saudi-led co-alition launched an air campaign against the Houthis and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in a bid to re-store the authority of Hadi, who has taken refuge in Riyadh.

AQAP, considered by Wash-ington to be the extremist net-work’s most dangerous franchise, announced the death in June of its Yemen commander, Nasir Al Wuhayshi, in a US drone strike.

The group has taken advan-tage of the chaos gripping Yemen to make territorial gains in the south, including the seizure of Mukalla, capital of Hadramawt province, in April.

Setback to HouthisMeanwhile, Southern Yemeni fighters backed by a Saudi-led air coalition took more terri-tory from Houthi militiamen on Friday, expanding their control around the port city of Aden, sources in the southern force

said. The Southern Resistance retook much of Aden this month.

The resistance, an alliance of southern groups including seces-sionists seeking an independ-ent south Yemen and army units loyal to Hadi, won full control of Houta town, capital of Lahej province north of Aden, in heavy clashes, the sources said.

They reported 14 Houthis were killed and 40 captured.

Southern fighters and pro-Ha-di army units also drove Houthi fighters from Lowdar town in southern Abyan province and captured a number of Houthi fighters, they said.

AimThe coalition said on Thursday said it aimed first to help bring Yemen’s government back from exile to Aden and then return it to Sanaa if possible via peace talks with the Houthis.

But if the Houthis did not eventually agree to quit Sanaa, the government would have the right to “get them out” by force, coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri said in an interview.

Senior members of Yemen’s administration in exile flew to Aden on July 16 to make prepara-tions for the government’s return there, four months after it was pushed out by Houthi forces.

Asseri said the Houthis ought to implement UN Security Coun-cil Resolution 2216, which calls for the movement to withdraw from cities under their control, return seized arms and allow Hadi to return from his Riyadh exile. The Houthis have rejected that resolution. — Agencies

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VICTIM OF ARSON ATTACK: A man shows a picture of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha who died when his family house was set on fire by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Duma on Friday. – Reuters

JOB MARKET: An Iranian woman at the stock exchange in the capital Tehran on Monday. Mohammad Hassan Zeda, a deputy at Iran’s Social Security Organisation, said studies showed that from 145,000 women who had gone on a six-month maternity leave in the past 18 months, 47,000 of them — almost a third — were sacked when they tried to return. – AFP

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RSS promoting mediocrity, Rahul tells FTII students

PUNE: Rahul Gandhi on Fri-day mounted a blistering attack on the Modi government, saying appointment of actor Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman of the pre-mier FTII institute here formed part of the RSS’ “larger scheme” to undermine educational, bureau-cratic and judicial system.

On a visit to the Film and Tel-evision Institute of India (FTII) campus to pledge support to the students agitating for removal of Chauhan, he said the RSS and its ideologues are “undermin-ing” the institution’s stature by promoting “mediocrity” and bul-lying the critics as “anti-national and “anti-Hindu.”

“RSS and its ideologues are systematically promoting me-diocre people in the system...they are hell-bent on undermining the educational institutions’ stature...it is not going on just in the edu-cation system but also in bureau-cratic and judicial system,” he said

The nature of a bully“RSS wants to promote their idea. They will call you anti-national, anti-Hindu. They are scared of you. That is the nature of a bully,” he said. Gandhi, clad in casu-als, had an interaction with the students of the campus that has produced several leading person-

alities of contemporary Indian cinema, who have rallied behind the agitating students.

He said the Government was suppressing the voice of the stu-dents by refusing to have a mean-ingful discussion on their demand. “They (students) have only one demand that they (want to) have a discussion and want their voice to be heard... All that the students are saying is that there should be a discussion and their voice should be heard”.

“They (the government) don’t want discussion..anything that does not suit their ideology is anti-national. What is anti-national about these students who want to

make their films..What could be more pro-national than that.”

The Congress Vice President said having a discussion with the students would not dent the prestige of the government since they are future film makers of the country’.

“This would not make the gov-ernment small if they listen to the students.. They are the future of film makers of the country. All that they are doing is expressing themselves and studying. It is not nice of the government to try and impose their wishes on them.”

Saying that this “little school” was “disturbing” the govern-ment’s peace of mind , he said all

that it wants to promote its idea and would brand the protesting students as “anti-national”.

“Why is that a little school with around 250 students is disturbing the government’s peace of mind. If students don’t want him (Ga-jendra Chauhan), then he clearly should not be there. This is an at-tempt to bully you,” he said during an an open session with the pro-testing students.

He assured the students that he would raise their voice in Parlia-ment. As Gandhi visited the pres-tigious institution, BJP workers raised slogans outside.

FTII students have been on strike for the past 50 days ob-

jecting to appointment of TV actor Chauhan as institution’s chairman. Gandhi also used the platform to draw comparisons between the Congress and the BJP regime saying, “In Congress whenever there is an issue, it is discussed...some agree some don’t. But in BJP if the Prime Minister has decided, no one can say anything”.

Earlier this month, the students body had written to leaders from various political parties request-ing them to intervene and urge the government to revoke the ap-pointments of ‘unfit’ people and to set up a transparent procedure for future appointments. — PTI

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Hong Kong fines SBI for violation of anti-money laundering regulationNEW DELHI: The Hong Kong central bank on Friday penalised State Bank of India’s Hong Kong branch $1 million (Hong Kong dollar 7.5 million) for alleged vio-lation of local anti-money laun-dering and counter-terror financ-ing laws.

In its first action since the Hong Kong’s Anti Money- Laundering Ordinance came into force in 2012, the Hong Kong Monetary Author-ity (HKMA) said the SBI branch between April 2012 and November 2013 failed to carry out customer due diligence before establishing business relationships. The branch also failed to monitor business re-lationships with its customers and verify whether its customers were politically exposed persons, the HKMA said in a statement.

The HKMA “reprimanded” SBI’s Hong Kong branch for the contraventions and ordered it to submit a report by an independ-ent external advisor on sufficiency of remedial plan and effectiveness of its implementation. This is the first action by the HKMA under Hong Kong’s Anti Money-Laun-dering Ordinance, which came into force in 2012. Meena Dat-wani, Director-General (Enforce-ment) of the HKMA, said, “This was a case of internal control failures” relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist

financing (AML/CFT) rules. “The HKMA takes such fail-

ures seriously and wants to send a clear message to the industry that all authorised institutions should have effective AML/CFT systems,” she said.

While SBI Hong Kong (SBIHK) said, “As a member of the Hong Kong banking community for over 35 years, SBIHK is committed to a policy of zero tolerance of non-

compliance with regulatory guide-lines supported by a robust com-pliance and risk function, while providing the products and services to our esteemed customers. We fully support the HKMA’s efforts to ensure high standards of due dili-gence and monitoring among Hong Kong. These controls help detect and report suspicious transactions based on their knowledge of their customers, Datwani said.

“These are fundamental to com-bating money laundering and ter-rorist financing and thereby main-taining the integrity of the banking system and the reputation of Hong Kong as an international financial centre. The HKMA will take en-forcement action to deter lapses in this regard,” Director-General (Enforcement) of the HKMA said.

According to the SBIHK statement, in determining the disciplinary action, the HKMA took into account the fact that “SBIHK has taken very positive and intensive remediation work to address the contraventions” as well as “confirmed through an external consultant that neither actual problem accounts nor suspicious transactions have been identified.”

“SBIHK has no previous disci-plinary record and co-operated with the HKMA during the inves-tigation,” it added. The HKMA was

given powers in 2012 to supervise banks’ compliance with Hong Kong’s anti-money laundering law, introduced in the same year.

State Bank of India, Hong Kong Branch (SBIHK) has been ordered “to submit to the HKMA... a report prepared by an independent ex-ternal advisor assessing whether the remedial plan of SBIHK is sufficient to address the contra-ventions found and the effective-ness of the implementation of the remedial plan”, as per the Hong Kong Monetary Authority state-ment. Besides the SBI branch has been ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty of 7,500,000 Hong Kong dollars, it said.

“The action follows the HK-MA’s investigation which was conducted to ascertain whether SBIHK had proper internal con-trols in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) systems,” the HKMA statement added.

HKMA said its investigation found that between April 2012 and November 2013, SBIHK con-travened four specified provi-sions. There were failures to carry out the customer due diligence before establishing business rela-tionships with 28 corporate cus-tomers and maintaining effective procedures to ensure compliance with the law, it added. — PTI

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‘Parties should present a united front against terror’NEW DELHI: Union Home Min-ister Rajnath Singh on Friday asked all political parties to pre-sent a united front to the world against terrorism.

“Neither the country, nor the parliament should look divided on terrorism which is the biggest challenge to the country,” Rajanth Singh said while making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the July 27 Gurdaspur terrorist attack.

He said the government was ready for any discussion in the matter and he was willing to an-swer any question.

Ruckus The minister said while on the one hand security personnel were laying down their lives to counter such attacks, on the other hand members were creating ruckus while the issue was being dis-cussed.

Rajnath Singh’s comments came as opposition parties created a din over the twin issues of the Lalit Modi controversy and the Vyapam scam in the Lok Sabha.

Opposition members had, however, stopped their protests while the minister was making his statement, but were back near the speaker’s podium as soon as he finished.

DetailsIn his statement, Rajnath Singh gave details of the attack and said Punjab Police made every possible effort during the operation.

“Three AK 47 rifles, 19 maga-zines, two GPS systems and a large amount of ammunition was recovered from them,” he said.

He said preliminary data re-covered from the GPS showed that the terrorists had crossed over from Pakistan.

“The government is committed to deal with terrorists strongly,” he added. - IANS

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BLISTERING ATTACK: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi talks to the media after meeting agitating students of the Film and Televi-sion Institute of India (FTII) in Pune on Friday. – PTI

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STANDING TALLUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav meets an eight feet tall partyman at his official residence in Luc-know on Friday. -PTI

Two of four abducted by IS in Libya freed

NEW DELHI: Two Indian teach-ers who were detained in an area of Libya that the IS group claims to control have been released but two of their colleagues are still being held, the New Delhi govern-ment said on Friday.

India’s foreign ministry said it was able to “secure the release” of the two after the group was de-tained at a checkpoint around 30 miles (50 kilometres) from Sirte late on Thursday and taken to the southern coastal city.

The teachers, who had been working at Sirte university, were heading for Tripoli where they intended to catch a flight out of the country. “I am happy we have

been able to secure the release of Lakshmikant and Vijay Kumar. Trying for (the) other two,” For-eign Minister Sushma Swaraj posted on Twitter, without giving any other details.

Earlier this year IS overran the airport in Sirte -- the hometown of slain dictator Moamer Qad-dhafi -- in the IS group’s first such military gain in Libya. They have since claimed to control the whole of the city.

Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said the Indian mission in Tripoli “came to know that four Indian nationals who were returning to India, via Tripoli and Tunis, were detained at a check-point” around 11 pm Thursday.

“We are in regular touch with the families concerned and all efforts are being made to ensure (their) well-being and early re-lease,” Swarup told journalists earlier on Friday in New Delhi.

Of them, two are from south Indian state Hyderabad, one from Raichur and one from Bengaluru in south Indian state Karnataka, Indian Government said on Fri-day, adding the four Indians were “detained” at a check point, about 50 km from Sirte.

The area is under the control of the terror outfit. “Three of them were faculty members at the University of Sirte and one was

working at the Sirte University’s branch in Jufra,” Ministry of Ex-ternal Affairs of India’s spokes-person Vikas Swarup said here.

“We are in regular touch with the families concerned and all ef-forts are being made to ensure the well-being and early release of the four Indian nationals,” he said.

Official sources said no ransom demand has been made as yet.

Taking serious note of the prevailing situation, the Indian government had in July last year issued an advisory asking its citi-zens to leave conflict-hit Libya.

The latest incident came even as 39 Indians remain missing in Iraq. They were taken hostage last year at the height of the fight-ing between militants and gov-ernment forces and efforts to get their release have not yielded any results.

Swaraj to take steps Government of the south Indian state Andhra Pradesh on Friday urged Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to expe-dite steps for safe return of four Indians, including two persons from Hyderabad and Srikakulam, who were abducted in Libya.

In a letter to Swaraj, Andhra Pradesh Government’s Special Representative in national capital Delhi, K Rama Mohana Rao said

that four people including two Professors, Balaram of Srikaku-lam in Andhra Pradesh and Gopi Krishna from Hyderabad, were abducted on July 29 and held hos-tage by an unknown group.

“I request your good self to in-struct the officials of the Indian Embassy at Tripoli, Libya and to interact with the Government authorities at Libya to assist and extend full cooperation for the safe return of the Indian hostag-es including those from Andhra Pradesh,” Rao said.

Help soughtHe sought expeditious action for the safe release of Indian hostages in Libya. Rao also spoke to Rashid Khan, Charge d’affaires at the In-dian embassy at Libya and learnt about the situation on the ground, a statement from his office here said.

He requested the authorities there to provide necessary help for ensuring safe release of the kidnapped persons.

Kalyani, wife of Gopikrishna, said he spoke to her on Wednes-day over phone and informed that he is coming home via Tunis. He also told her not to worry as his mobile phone will be switched off during the two-and-half hour long journey from the university to Tripoli. -PTI

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PROTEST AGAINST YAKUB’S HANGINGTipu Sultan Mosque imam N R Barkati and others protest against the hanging of Yakub Ab-dul Razzak Memon in Kolkata on Friday. Yakub, the lone death row convict in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday, after a prolonged legal battle that continued until barely a couple of hours before his execution. -PTI

Pakistani woman does a ‘Bajrangi Bhaijan’, arrestedCHANDIGARH: In a case of life imitating art, a young Pakistani woman crossed the border into India without valid travel docu-ments — a la Salman Khan in Bol-lywood blockbuster ‘Bajrangi Bhaijan’, albeit in the reverse direction — and landed in police custody on Friday.

Claiming to be from Karachi city in Pakistan, Chanda Khan alias Fauzia, 27, told police of-ficials she had come to India to meet Bollywood heartthrob Sal-man Khan.

Chand — who arrived in India without a passport, visa or ticket — was off-loaded from the Sam-jhauta Express link train at Ja-landhar, about 160 km from here, late Thursday night.

She gave different statements to police regarding her travel across the border even as railway police in Punjab arrested her on Friday.

The woman was booked under the Foreigners Act and Passport Act for illegally entering India.

After initial questioning, she was taken back to Amritsar for further questioning by Govern-ment Railway Police (GRP) offi-cials on Friday.

BaffledGRP officials are baffled how the young woman could breach tight security and immigration chan-nels at Wagah in Pakistan and at Attari in India without detection.

She was taken off the link train at Jalandhar railway station after Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel found her travelling without documents. The train was stopped at Jalandhar after special permission.

The incident comes in the wake of a “high alert” in Punjab and other states after the July 27 terror attack in Dinanagar town

of Gurdaspur district in Punjab by Pakistani terrorists which left seven people dead, including an SP-rank officer, three home guards and three civilians.

The Samjhauta Express peace train between India and Pakistan ferries people from Lahore till At-tari, 30 km from Amritsar. A link train then takes the passengers from Attari to Delhi.

The arrested woman told GRP officials that her passport and visa were lying with her uncle though authorities could not find the man among those travelling on the train.

She even told GRP officials that she had come to India to offer prayers at the famous Sufi shrine in Ajmer.

GRP officer B.S. Randhawa said the woman was changing her statements frequently and inves-tigations into her illegal entry into India were on. -IANS

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All-party meet convened to end Parliament logjamNEW DELHI: Government will call an all-party meeting on Mon-day in a bid to break the Parlia-ment logjam as it accused Con-gress of “hurting” the country by blocking the passage of key reform bills like GST with its relentless protests.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu insisted that the washout for the second consecu-tive week of the monsoon session was not due to government’s fault and that it was unwilling to con-cede to Congress’s demand that Union minister Sushma Swaraj and two BJP chief ministers re-sign over their alleged role in scams.

He claimed that in the 14 months of the BJP government, there has been no scam, scandal or political vendetta.

Washout of proceedings“Congress wants a satisfactory proposal. You are in opposition and you will be satisfied only when you are in power. We cannot help it. It may take 10, 20, 25 years,” he told reporters and insisted it was the Opposition, mainly the Con-gress and Left, which was respon-sible for the washout of proceed-ings in both the Houses.

Rejecting the opposition’s charge the government had not reached out to them, Naidu said he had called a meeting of vari-ous parties on Friday morning as well but Congress backed out at the last moment and added that he was looking to call a meeting on Monday.

“We have contacted several parties and are reaching others,” he said. He, though, noted that some parties have said that their members may get late to return to Delhi from their respective con-stituencies. Congress has already asserted that it would not attend such a meeting until the govern-ment comes with a tangible pro-posal.

Taking a dig at the Opposition, Naidu said Congress may claim “victory” over the washout and feel “happy, very very happy” about it but it had to consider if it was not “harming” the country’s development.

“Congress party can claim vic-tory over the washout. Nation has lost out badly. It should introspect if it wants to participate in the na-tion’s development... Congress is ending up hurting itself politically

and hurting the country’s devel-opment,” he said.

Tangible proposal In a blunt message to the govern-ment, Congress on Friday said its participation in an

an all-party meeting to break the two-week long deadlock in Parliament depended on a “tan-gible” proposal from the Indian Prime Minister on opposition de-mands.

“We are not interested in mere photo-op, tea and sandwiches. The PM must first tell us what action is being taken on our de-mands,” party’s senior spokesman Anand Sharma told reporters.

His response came as govern-ment attempted to reach out to Opposition which has been dis-rupting proceedings in Parlia-ment demanding resignation of

External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj as well as Madhya

Pradesh and Rajasthan chief min-isters Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje over Lalitgate and Vyapam controversies.

Attacking Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi, Sharma said Parlia-ment is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.

Sharma insisted that Congress was not interested in a meeting for the sake of meeting and need-ed to be told what “action” the Prime Minister intended to take on the demands that have led to disruptions in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha since the Mon-soon session began on July 21.

Squarely blaming the govern-ment for the stalemate in Parlia-ment, Sharma, who is Deputy

leader of Congress in the Rajya Sabha, said the Prime Minister has made no effort to ensure that Parliament functions efficiently.

“It is unfortunate that despite opposition demand that the PM should break his ‘maun vrat’, he hasn’t done this so far. Parliament is not functioning because of ar-rogance and obduracy of the PM,” he said.

Hoping that “some wisdom will dawn” on the government over the weekend, he said that if this hap-pens, then Parliament could func-tion smoothly.

Sharma’s remarks are signifi-cant as government had planned an all party meeting earlier in the day but it was postponed af-ter the Congress had reportedly expressed inability to attend it due to preoccupation with other meetings. -PTI

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UNYIELDING: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu speaks in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Friday. -PTI

CONCRETE PLAN: Congress leader Anand Sharma speaks in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi on Friday. -PTI

Rat ‘sighting’ forces Air India plane to returnNEW DELHI: An Air India plane was forced to return to New Delhi two hours into a flight to Milan on Thursday after a “suspected rat sighting” in the cabin.

The airline said no rodent had been found, but it had no choice but to turn back and fumigate the aircraft after the report.

“(The Dreamliner flight) AI 123... returned to Delhi due to (a) suspected rat sighting,” an airline official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Friday.

“The presence of the rodent was not confirmed, but keeping pas-senger safety in mind, the aircraft was brought back.”

Rats pose a serious threat to the safety of flights as they can chew through wires and damage inter-nal controls. They often hitch rides on food catering trucks that store the flight meal trays.

It was not the first time the trou-bled airline, which has not report-ed an annual profit since 2007, had suffered a rodent problem.

An Air India domestic flight was reportedly grounded in May in the northern town of Leh after crew spotted rats scurrying around the plane.

Another plane was grounded at Delhi airport last August when staff complained of a rat infesta-tion. The Air India official said there was “nothing extraordinary in rodents being found on planes”, and it was a “global problem”. -AFP

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DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL HOUSESResidents watch as officials use a bulldozer to demolish illegal houses at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday. According to local media, the Capital De-velopment Authority (CDA) has started to demolish illegal settlements on the outskirts of Islamabad where Afghan refugees and people from Pakistan’s tribal area have escaped from the military operations. — Reuters

Act first, report later, Raheel tells army flood relief teams

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has directed the army teams rescuing people stranded by floods to leave no stone unturned in providing relief to the victims.

“The Chief of Army Staff has directed all to act first and report later to continue the rescue and relief activities,” Inter Services

Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release on Friday.

The army chief said so while presiding over a meeting in Raw-alpindi to review the army’s ongo-

ing drive in flood affected areas.“The COAS has also announced

the army would donate one day ration for the affectees,” the state-ment maintained.

On Wednesday, Multan Corps Commander Lt-Gen Ashfaq Na-deem visited Layyah to oversee relief activities in flood-hit areas.

He was briefed on the relief ac-

tivities while he also took aerial view of the situation. He also met flood victims in Southern Punjab, which is the worst-hit area.

The military has been carrying out rescue operations in flood-hit areas of Chitral, where the army and the Frontier Corps (FC) as well as the civil administration have distributed 16 tonnes of food packages.

The FC has also donated 100 tonnes of food items to the vic-tims.

Meanwhile, provincial health departments have already started reporting cases of different dis-eases, with 87 deaths from ill-nesses in Punjab’s flood-hit areas alone, according to a healt. Con-sidering the prevalent situation, health experts fear outbreak of dengue fever, diarrhoea and eye and skin diseases in the flood-hit areas. — Express Tribune

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for those affected,

according to an Inter

Services Public

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INUNDATED: Residents walk along a muddy street after heavy rainfall caused flooding in Peshawar, on July 27. — Reuters

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Court issues non-bailable arrest warrant for MeeraLAHORE: A court in Lahore on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for actor Meera after she failed to appear for court hearings regarding a case filed by her al-leged former husband.

The court ordered that Meera should be arrested and presented in court on September 17 in an on-going case filed against her by her alleged former husband Atiqur Re-hman. In his application, Rehman had claimed that she married an-other man before legally divorcing him first.

“I had not divorced Meera but she had gone ahead and married a second time,” Rehman had told the court. — Express Tribune

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7-year-old girl raped, murdered in KarachiKARACHI: A body of a seven-year-old girl who was report-edly raped and murdered was found on Friday near the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Kara-chi’s Clifton neighbourhood.

Seven-year-old girl, whose name has not been disclosed, went missing on Thursday night after she left her house in Abduallah Shah Ghazi Goth at around 9:30 pm.

“We thought she left the home to visit her friends in the neighbourhood but when she did not come back despite the passage of several hours, we started searching for her,” her father Zahid Mehmood Arain, who is a labourer by profession, told The Express Tribune.

“Finally on Friday morning, we founded her body in a ditch surrounded by bushes,” he add-ed. Medics and police officials confirmed the victim was raped before her body was dumped.

ConfirmationAn ambulance was called to shift her body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where doctors in their initial report confirmed that the girl was raped before being murdered.

The doctors also determined that the attack took place at night between Thursday and Friday. — Express Tribune

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Commander among two rebels killedQUETTA: At least two militants, including a local commander of a banned outfit, were killed and nearly a dozen suspected mili-tants were arrested in various targeted search operations in Ba-lochistan on Thursday.

According to the Frontier Corps (FC) spokesman FC forces and security agencies launched a search operation on a tip-off

against militants in the Wadh area of Khuzdar.

“A commander of Lashkar-e-Balochistan and his aide were killed in an exchange of fire,” he said, adding that the FC also seized four SMGs with rounds from their possession.

The spokesman said that the militants were wanted in a num-ber of cases.

A soldier also sustained bullet injuries during the operation, he added.

Search operationsEleven militants rounded up At least 11 suspected militants were rounded up in different search op-erations in Panjgur and Quetta on Thursday.

The spokesman said that the

FC forces carried out a search operation in the Tusp area of Pan-jgur and held seven miscreants.

“Seven militants were arrested in a targeted search operation,” he said, adding that the FC also seized a number of Kalashnik-ovs with two magazines and 45 rounds. They recovered some sus-pected passports, and weapons licences also. — Express Tribune

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For many Americans, the past three weeks have felt like the final straw in a year that has seen unprecedent-

ed recognition of police brutality against people of colour. Each day since the death of Sandra Bland on July 10th has heralded a new theory or an additional piece of evi-dence; this morning was no different, with the release by Texas police of new CCTV footage in an attempt to quash the wilder conspiracy theories about her death. Ques-tions – very important questions – still re-main, however. The inconsistencies in the case seem myriad; the trajectory from fail-ing to signal while changing lanes to suicide in a cell block seems odd.

From the moment Bland’s untimely death hit the news, social media activists on Twitter expressed heated outrage, creating and flooding hashtag after hashtag - #Jus-ticeforSandraBland, #SandySpeaks and of course, one that’s got a depressing amount of mileage in recent months, #BlackLives-Matter. As the Waller County Sheriff’s Of-fice defensively dodged the pertinent ques-tions such as why had Sandra Bland been taken into police custody on a minor traffic citation and how six foot tall, 175 pound woman managed to hang herself with a bin liner, momentum gathered. And then, all of a sudden, the poaching of Cecil the lion hit the headlines and within three days the fo-cus on justice for Sandra Bland came to an abrupt halt.

What riled me about this development was the discovery that when something happens which really matters to them, Americans can universally unite. I awoke this morning to impassioned howls of fury - from many who had refrained to com-ment on the Bland case. There were endless photographs circulated of the magnificent felled beast, Cecil, in his prime, and sev-eral impassioned appeals to punish the despicable Dr Walter Palmer of Minnesota (nothwithstanding his protestations that he thought he was acting within the law).‘ Destroy his dental practice!’ were the cries. People queued outside to leave teddy bears

and notes of indignation. Links to Palmer’s Yelp page were shared across Facebook, urging people to leave negative reviews that would impact upon his business (‘Friends, I invite you to voice your opinion about this hunter in a forum that will be impactful,’ one of the sharers commented.)

Following these developments, I began to feel ill at ease. Twitter had been animated enough when it came to the Bland story, but it’d yet to see this kind of unity in opinion. Liberals, feminists and people of all races – especially people who had been active in the #BlackLivesMatter campaign - came down hard, while closet racists (of which there are apparently many), particularly right-wing Republicans and white suprem-acists chimed in apathetically, chastising the rest for making such a fuss and heav-ily implying that Bland must have been in the wrong. People disagreed. Differences of opinion were common. Unlike Cecil, Sandra Bland wasn’t afforded the univer-sal support of the American people. Jimmy Kimmel, Cara Delevigne, Debra Messing, Ricky Gervais and a slew of other high-powered celebrities weren’t leaping on the Sandra Bland bandwagon quite so easily and emotionally as they were doing when Cecil was concerned.

It’s easier to get behind a lion than a hu-man being – especially, apparently, a black human being in America. Lions don’t have centuries of racist history to carry on their regal shoulders. Lions don’t have their own thoughts and opinions, and lions don’t question police officers or claim to know their own rights. But keyboard warriors would do well to question their own reac-tions to Sandra, versus Cecil. The online group Anonymous has called for a day of nationwide process in response to Bland’s alleged murder (thereby disputing the au-topsy’s finding of suicide), and that call in-spired me. But unless we can come together in this time of hardship, the way we did so naturally when faced with an innocent ani-mal slaughtered needlessly in Zimbabwe, then we’ll never achieve justice for the vic-tims of an institutionally racist police force. Divided, we are conquered. - The Independent

FISH CATCH BY TRADITIONALFISHERY (SPECIES)

Source: NCSI

(In ton)

69,284 78,144

Small Pelagic fish

Demersal fish

Large Pelagic fish

Sharks

Cuttlefish

Unidentified fish

Rays

Lobsters

Shrimps

Total

26,871

20,382

18,058

2,236

610

430

405

286

6

30,328

23,746

19,673

2,566

611

406

466

331

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Yakub had spent more than 20 years in prisonThis refers to the reports on the execution of Yakub Memon in India (July 30). Even though capital punishment is rarely carried out in In-dia, what is shocking here is that the execution of Yakub took place after he spent more than 20 years in prison, including more than 12 years without any legal proceedings. He waited for around 23 years under the shadow of death to reach the case to come to its conclu-

sion. With his execution, Indians are again divided on resuming capital punishment, as a good number still demand an end to death penalty. Though the United Nations has called for a worldwide freeze on capital punishment, some countries still continue the practice of the primitive age. — Ramachandran Nair, Ruwi

Ban hunting for pleasureThis refers to the online story, Zimbabwe calls for ‘Cecil’ lion’s killer extradition (July 31). I cannot believe that a country still allows hunters to kill endangered animals. Why are people allowed to be professional hunters? The United States and Zimbabwe both allow professional hunters to operate; this should be outlawed. There should be a total ban on hunting. — Isabel Penn, Al Khoud

US interference provoking ChinaThis refers to the online story, Philip-

pine military seeks ‘triple’ defence spending to modernise forces (July 29). There should be no need for countries to increase their defence spending. The US is needlessly turning peace-loving China into a monster by this war mongering — Naheed Feroz, Ruwi

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UPRAOR: This picture taken on October 21, 2012 and released on Tuesday by the Zimbabwe National Parks agency shows a much-loved Zimbabwean lion called ‘Cecil’. – AFP/Zimbabwe National Parks

Gunmen kill one at Sri Lanka rally

COLOMBO: Masked gunmen opened fire at an election rally headlined by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake in Sri Lanka’s capital on Friday, killing a woman and wounding 12 other ruling part activists, police said.

The attackers sprayed bullets into the crowd of 500 to 600 people drumming up support for the rul-

ing United National Party (UNP), marking the first major violence ahead of the August 17 parliamen-tary elections.

While there was no immedi-ate claim of responsibility for the attack in Colombo, Karunanay-ake blamed supporters of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse who is looking to stage

a comeback at the polls. “The gun-men travelled in two vehicles and escaped in the same vehicles after the shooting spree,” police spokes-man Ruwan Gunasekera told AFP.

“A woman was killed and 12 wounded persons have been ad-mitted to the Colombo National hospital.”

Hospital sources said two of the victims were in a “very criti-cal” condition. The minister said he was “seconds away” from the shooting although initial police re-ports said he had just left the area when gunmen got off two vehicles and opened fire indiscriminately.

“I was seconds away -- or about 20 feet from the incident,” Karuna-nayake told reporters in Colombo.

“This is nothing but an act of po-

litical terrorism sponsored by the opposition led by Rajapakse.”

During his decade in power, Ra-japakse was accused of presiding over an administration riddled with corruption and widespread rights abuses.

Karunanayake said the shoot-ing had broken out while his sup-porters were lighting firecrackers, exacerbating the sense of panic and confusion. “While the crack-ers were going off the four masked men got off a black coloured car and opened fire,” the minister said. “People realised what had hap-pened when several people started falling and were bleeding.”

The 52-year-old finance minis-ter is one of the most senior mem-bers of the UNP, which backed

Sirisena in January’s presidential election. Sirisena had been a sup-porter of Rajapakse’s United Peo-ple’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and is the nominal leader the for-mer president’s party even though the two men are now estranged.

Karunanayake had initiated several probes into alleged frauds by members of the Rajapakse re-gime. Police said investigators cor-doned off the Bloemendhal area where the shooting took place and launched a search for the two geta-way vehicles.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickrem-esinghe’s deputy Harsha de Silva expressed shock and vowed not to allow a return to violence. “I’m in shock and in disbelief at the shooting incident at Ravi’s event,”

de Silva said on Twitter. “No one will be allowed to reverse what we achieved on 8th January,” he said, referring to Sirisena’s presidential election triumph.

Soon after assuming office, Siri-sena invited the UNP to form a minority government after sack-ing Rajapakse’s cabinet. Sri Lanka has a long history of political vio-lence at election time. President Ranasinghe Premadasa was killed in a suicide bomb attack during an election rally in 1993 while Chandrika Kumaratunga, another president, lost her right eye in 1999 during her re-election bid.

This year’s campaign had been largely peaceful and local election monitors expressed surprise at Friday’s shooting. — AFP

Masked gunmen sprayed bullets into a crowd

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woman and wounding 12 others

Zimbabwe seeks ‘Cecil’ the lion’s killer extraditionHARARE: The American den-tist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be ex-tradited to Zimbabwe to face jus-tice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.

In Harare’s first official com-ments since Cecil’s killing grabbed world headlines this week, Muchinguri said the Prose-cutor General had already started the process to have 55-year-old Walter Palmer extradited from the United States.

Muchinguri, a 91-year-old veteran from President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, described Cecil — a black-maned lion well-known to foreign tour-ists in the Hwange National Park — as an “iconic attraction”.

“The illegal killing was deliber-ate,” she told a news conference. “We are appealing to the respon-sible authorities for his extradi-tion to Zimbabwe so that he can be held accountable for his illegal actions.”

Palmer has admitted killing the 13-year-old predator, who was fitted with a GPS collar as part of an Oxford University study, but said in a statement he had hired professional guides and believed all the necessary hunting permits were in order.

He has not been sighted since his identity was revealed this week by Zimbabwean conserva-tionists.

Muchinguri also said Palmer’s use of a bow and arrow to kill the lion, who is said to have been lured out of the national park with bait before being shot, was in contravention of Zimbabwean hunting regulations.

Palmer, a life-long big game hunter, returned to the United States before the authorities were aware of the controversy.

“It was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher because he had already absconded to his country of origin,” Muchinguri said.

Social media in the United States and Europe have explod-

ed in outrage and vitriol against Palmer, and the White House said on Thursday it would review a public petition of more than 100,000 signatures to have him extradited.

Under a 1998 treaty between the two countries - which have not enjoyed cordial relations in the latter stages of Mugabe’s 36 years in charge - a person can be extradited if they are accused of an offence that carries more than a year in prison.

In Zimbabwe, the illegal killing of a lion is punishable by a man-datory fine of $20,000 and up to 10 years in prison.

As with many African coun-tries, Zimbabwe issues annual hunting permits for big game such as elephant, buffalo and lion, arguing that the revenues gener-ated can be used for wider wild-life conservation.

Last year, the southern African nation which is still recovering from billion-percent hyperinfla-tion a decade ago, earned $45 million from hunting, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority head Edison Chadziya told reporters.

Zimbabwe had an estimated 2,000 lions on private and gov-ernment-owned reserves and issued hunting quotas of 50-70 lions every year, he added.

Theo Bronkhorst, a Zimba-bwean professional hunter who worked with Palmer, was charged this week with failing to prevent Palmer from unlawfully killing Cecil.

The shooting is also being in-vestigated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to see if it was part of a conspiracy to violate US laws against illegal wildlife trad-ing, a source close to the case told Reuters on Thursday.

Despite the global media cov-erage of Cecil’s killing, the big cat’s untimely demise has gone largely unnoticed in Zimbabwe, where average annual income is just over $1,000 and unemploy-ment is higher than 80 per cent. — Reuters

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Early poll looms as Turkey air strikes target IS, Kurds

ANKARA: Turkey looks increas-ingly likely to face an early election as its air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and IS in Syria stir nationalist sentiment and coa-lition talks make little apparent progress.

The NATO member launched near-simultaneous bombing cam-paigns in Iraq and Syria a week ago, opening up conflict on two fronts as the ruling AK Party tries to find a junior coalition partner.

The AK Party founded by Presi-dent Tayyip Erdogan lost its over-all majority in June elections

after over 10 years in power. The military action against Kurdis-tan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq has cheered the national opposition MHP, long opposed to a peace process with the Kurdish militants and raised the possibility it could support an albeit short-lived minority AKP government.

On Friday, Turkish warplanes scrambled from the southeast-ern Diyarbakir air base and again struck PKK targets in northern Iraq, CNN Turk television re-

ported, in the eighth wave of at-tacks since the campaign began last week.

Speaking to journalists travel-ling with him on a trip to Asia, Erdogan warned of what he saw as the dangers of fragile coalitions and extolled the virtues of single-party rule.

“If we see a positive result from coalition talks, fine. If not, we should immediately appeal to the national will and let the nation decide so that we save ourselves from the current situation,” he was

quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper.

“What I am against is a per-manent minority government. A minority government on the con-dition that it will take the country to elections is perfectly possible,” he said, adding that such a govern-ment could be formed with outside support from at least one opposi-tion party.

Turkey’s parties have until Au-gust 23 to agree a working govern-ment or Erdogan could call a new election.

Critics of the president see a fresh vote as his preferred option, offering an opportunity for the AKP to regain its parliamentary majority and govern alone. If the party were to win two thirds of the seats, it could also change the con-stitution and fulfil Erdogan’s am-bition of creating a more powerful executive presidency.

Minds of AKPThe AKP has been holding initial talks with the main secularist op-position CHP, the second biggest party in parliament, but those dis-cussions are due to end on Monday and there has been little sign of concrete progress.

“You’ve got to form the coalition in your mind first. We can see that there is no coalition with CHP in the minds of AKP,” one senior of-ficial from the CHP told Reuters.

Senior AKP officials said the party would conduct a survey of public opinion between August 1 and 10 and decide on the basis of that whether to press ahead with coalition efforts or move towards an early election.

“If these surveys point to a sin-gle party government, we can ex-pect coalition talks to be ended. Then we will call for an early election,” one of the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“But if there’s a different picture, we can expect one of the two al-ternatives, CHP or MHP. Nobody should overlook the possibility of a coalition with MHP.” — Reuters

On Friday, Turkish

warplanes scrambled

from Diyarbakir

air base and again

struck PKK targets

in northern Iraq,

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reported, in the eighth

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last week DISTRAUGHT: The mother of slain soldier Hamza Yildirim reacts as a member of the Turkish honour guard carries the portrait of Yildirim during a funeral ceremony at Kocatepe mosque in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. — Reuters

Hopes for peace rise as Mansour named new Taliban chiefKABUL: The Taliban named Mullah Akhtar Mansour as their new chief on Friday, a historic power transition that raises hopes a more moderate leader-ship will pave the way for an end to Afghanistan’s war.

The Taliban also announced his deputies -- Sirajuddin Haqqa-ni, who leads the Taliban-allied Haqqani network and has a $10 million US bounty on his head, and Haibatullah Akhundzada, former head of the Taliban courts.

The appointment of Mansour, seen as a pragmatist and a propo-nent of peace talks, comes a day after the Taliban confirmed the death of their near-mythical lead-er Mullah Omar, who led the frac-tious group for some 20 years.

The Taliban’s first handover of

power comes at a time when the US-led Afghan government has been trying to jumpstart peace ne-gotiations as it struggles to contain the resurgent insurgency.

Mansour, a longtime trusted deputy of Omar, takes charge as the movement faces growing in-ternal divisions and is threatened by the rise of the IS group, the Mid-dle East militant outfit that is mak-ing inroads in Afghanistan.

“After (Omar’s) death the lead-ership council and scholars of the country, after long consultations, appointed his close and trusted friend and his former deputy Mullah Akhtar Mansour as the leader,” the Taliban said in a Pash-to-language statement posted on their website.

“When Mullah Omar was alive,

Mullah Mansour was considered a trustworthy and appropriate per-son to take this heavy responsibil-ity.”

Ruling councilA Taliban official said that after the group’s ruling council had cho-sen a successor for Omar, the deci-

sion was supposed to be ratified by a college of religious clerics.

Omar’s son Mullah Yakoub was favoured to take over by some commanders, sources said, but at 26 was considered too young and inexperienced for such a key role.

Mansour, who was named the new Amirul Momineen -- “com-

mander of the faithful” -- faces staunch internal resistance from some members of the Taliban’s ruling council, the Quetta Shura, who accuse Pakistan of hijacking the movement.

Unhappy Some Taliban are also unhappy at the thought Mansour may have de-ceived them for over a year about Omar’s death and others accuse him of riding roughshod over the process to appoint a successor.

“Many Taliban commanders and members of the Quetta Shura will not accept his leadership,” Ka-bul-based military analyst Jawed Kohistani told AFP.

“His selection will only widen the rift within the Taliban.”

But the internal opposition

is unlikely to prevent Mansour from proceeding with peace talks launched in the Pakistani hill sta-tion of Murree earlier this month.

“Mullah Mansour is one of the founders of the Taliban movement and he is a moderate, pro-peace, pro-talks person,” Abdul Hakim Mujahid, a former Taliban official and a member of the Afghan High Peace Council, told AFP.

“I believe that under him the peace process will be strengthened and the Taliban will become part of political process in Afghanistan.”

The confirmation of Omar’s death ends years of speculation about the fate of the leader, who was not seen in public since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghani-stan that toppled the Taliban from power.— AFP

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The Taliban also announced his deputies -- Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads the allied Haqqani network and has a $10 million US bounty on his head, and Haibatullah Akhundzada, former head of the Taliban courts

A ‘slippery African foe’ invades Florida

MIAMI: Florida plant detectives are on the trail of a slippery foe, an invasive African land snail that is wily, potentially infectious, and can grow as big as a tennis shoe.

In the four years since Giant African Snails were discovered in Miami, they have slowly but sure-ly spread to new territory, alarm-ing residents in the southern sub-urbs and the neighboring county of Broward. Their slimy tracks have led agricultural experts on an odyssey of discovery about ani-mal behaviour, folk religion and the precise amount of chemicals and cash it takes to kill the world’s biggest gastropods.

Since 2011, Florida has spent $10.8 million on the Giant Afri-can Snail eradication program, according to state agriculture department spokesman Mark Fagan.

That is 10 times more than offi-cials spent to wipe out the snails’ last invasion of Florida in the 1960s, an effort that lasted an en-tire decade. And there is still no end in sight. “The fact is they’re a human and animal health threat and they’re a threat to Florida’s agriculture,” said Fagan. — AFP

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Aussie surfer keeps shark at bay by punching itSYDNEY: A surfer punched a shark after being attacked on Australia’s east coast on Friday, suffering bite wounds to his legs and hands in what a witness said was like “a Mick Fanning replay”.

The incident occurred near a popular tourist spot north of Sydney, close to where a body-boarder was mauled this month, and recalled dramatic images weeks earlier from South Africa when Australian three-time world champion surfer Fanning fought off a shark.

In the latest incident, the man attacked was 100 metres (330 feet) offshore at Evans Head in New South Wales state when he spotted the fin and shouted to another surfer to get out of the water.

“As he paddled towards shore, the 52-year-old was attacked by the shark which bit his left leg. The impact of the attack knocked the man off his board,” police said in a statement.

“The man punched the shark in an attempt to scare it away; during the struggle, the shark also bit his left arm.

“The man eventually made it to shore where a passerby ap-plied a tourniquet to his leg.”

Emergency services were called and started working on the man to a nearby hospital, where the surfer, named by local media as Craig Ison, was in a se-rious but stable condition. — AFP

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Bell sees England to Ashes series lead over Australia

BIRMINGHAM: Ian Bell de-lighted a capacity crowd at his Warwickshire home ground with a sparkling unbeaten fifty as Eng-land beat Australia by eight wick-ets to win the third Test at Edgbas-ton on Friday. Victory, achieved with more than two days to spare, saw England go 2-1 up in the five-match Ashes series.

England, set a modest victory target of 121, finished on 124 for two after lunch on Friday’s third day. Bell was 65 not out and Joe Root, who struck the winning boundary off Mitchell Marsh, 38 not out.

There was a moment of concern for England when captain Alastair Cook (seven) was bowled by a su-perb swinging delivery from left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc to leave the hosts seven for one.

But Bell, roared on by England fans in a sun-drenched crowd, then took charge with a flurry of four fours in seven balls off Starc, including one down the ground and a classic cover-drive.

Bell, arguably England’s most elegant batsman, then late cut off-spinner Nathan Lyon to the third man rope. He was, however, given a reprieve on 20 when, with Eng-

land 35 for one, he edged Starc to second slip only for Australia cap-tain Michael Clarke to drop the two-handed catch.

It summed up a miserable match for Clarke, whose run of low scores in Tests continued with innings of 10 and three at Edgbaston. Eng-land opener Adam Lyth has also been struggling with the bat and when he was lbw to Josh Hazle-wood’s inswinger for 12, it meant the hosts were now 51 for two.

Root, Lyth’s Yorkshire team-mate, showed few signs of nerves, however, in cutting his first ball, from Hazlewood, for four.

Bell’s late-cut boundary off Starc saw him to his second fifty of the match, off 68 balls with seven fours. It was a fine performance by the 33-year-old Bell, who came into this match — his 113th Test — with a question mark against his place after several meagre innings.

Meanwhile there was mass bar-racking of fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, repeatedly taunted with a derogatory song regarding his ac-

curacy that became commonplace during England’s 2010/11 Ashes series win in Australia.

It appeared to get to the left-arm quick, who aborted his run-up for one delivery and then bowled from well behind the crease before he was taken off.

TurnaroundThis match represented a remark-able turnaround from England’s humiliating 405-run defeat in the second Test at Lord’s which saw Australia level the series at 1-1.

But whereas that clash had tak-en place on a largely placid pitch, the course of this Test owed much to Clarke’s decision to bat first on a seaming surface offering sideways movement.

James Anderson, England’s all-time most successful Test bowler but wicketless at Lord’s, led the way with an Ashes-best six for 47 as Australia were dismissed for just 136 in their first innings.

However, come Friday, he had been ruled out of both the remain-

der of this match and next week’s fourth Test at Trent Bridge with a side strain suffered while bowling on Thursday.

Australia resumed Friday on 168 for seven, 23 runs ahead and the two not out batsmen over-night, Peter Nevill and Starc, both went on to make fifties and shared an eighth-wicket stand of 64 that boosted Australia’s second innings total to 265 all out. England fast bowler Steven Finn, recalled for his first Test in two years following an injury to Mark Wood, led the attack with his best figures at this level of six for 79.

Nevill’s leg-glanced boundary off Finn saw him to a maiden Test fifty, in only his second match, in 126 balls with six fours.

Having survived one appeal for a catch down the legside on 53 by op-posing wicket-keeper Jos Buttler, Nevill eventually fell in similar fashion when the diving England gloveman held a stunning one-handed chance, high to his left, off Finn. — AFP

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with more than two

days to spare, saw

England go 2-1 up

in the five-match

Ashes series against

Australia

GOOD PARTNERSHIP: England’s Ian Bell celebrates his half century with Joe Root during his match-winning knock. – Reuters

Australia 1st Innings 136 (C Rogers 52; J Anderson 6-47)England 1st Innings 281 (J Root 63, M Ali 59, I Bell 53; N Lyon 3-36, J Hazlewood 3-74)Australia 2nd Innings (overnight: 168-7)C. Rogers lbw b Broad 6D. Warner c Lyth b Anderson 77S. Smith c Buttler b Finn 8M. Clarke c Lyth b Finn 3A. Voges c Bell b Finn 0M. Marsh b Finn 6P. Nevill c Buttler b Finn 59M. Johnson c Stokes b Finn 14M. Starc c sub (Poysden) b Ali 58J. Hazlewood c Root b Stokes 11N. Lyon not out 12Extras (b-2, lb-9) 11Total (all out, 79.1 overs, 350 mins) 265Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Rogers), 2-62 (Smith), 3-76 (Clarke), 4-76 (Voges), 5-92 (Marsh), 6-111 (Warner), 7-153 (Johnson), 8-217 (Nevill), 9-245 (Hazlewood), 10-265 (Starc)Bowling: Anderson 8.3-5-15-1; Broad 20-4-61-1; Finn 21-3-79-6; Ali 16.1-3-64-1; Stokes 11-3-28-1; Root 2.3-0-7-0;England 2nd Innings (target: 121)A. Lyth lbw b Hazlewood 12A. Cook b Starc 7I. Bell not out 65J. Root not out 38Extras (w-2) 2Total (2 wkts, 32.1 overs, 139 mins) 124Did not bat: J Bairstow, B Stokes, J But-tler, M Ali, S Broad, S Finn, J AndersonFall of wickets: 1-11 (Cook), 2-51 (Lyth)Bowling: Starc 6-1-33-1 (2w); Hazlewood 7-0-21-1; Lyon 11-1-52-0; Johnson 7-3-10-0; Marsh 1.1-0-8-0Result: England won by eight wicketsMan of the match: Steven Finn (ENG)Series: England lead five-match series 2-1Toss: AustraliaUmpires: Aleem Dar, Chris GaffaneyTV umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA)Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI)August 6-10: Fourth Test, Trent BridgeAugust 20-24: Fifth Test, The Oval

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Anderson out of fourth TestBIRMINGHAM: England pace-man James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the third Ashes Test against Austral-ia at Edgbaston and next week’s fourth Test at Trent Bridge, it was announced Friday.

Anderson, England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker, left the field three balls into his ninth over in Australia’s second innings on the second day at Edgbaston on Thursday — his 33rd birthday.

An England and Wales Cricket Board statement issued Friday confirmed that, following an over-night assessment, he had suffered a side strain.

“England bowler James Ander-son has been ruled out of remain-der of the current Investec Ashes Test with a side strain,” the state-ment said.

“Anderson will be unavail-able for the fourth Test beginning on Thursday 6 August at Trent Bridge and his availability for the final Test in the series (at The Oval on August 20) will be deter-mined in due course.”

Anderson, whose 413 Test wick-ets are an England record, took an Ashes-best six for 47 as Australia were skittled out for just 136 in the first innings at Edgbaston.

Recalled fast bowler Steven

Finn then took five for 45 on Thursday as Australia slumped to 168 for seven in their second in-nings, a lead of just 23 runs with three wickets standing.

But Anderson’s injury could hamper England’s bid to go 2-1 up in the five-match Ashes series on Friday as bowling substitutes are not allowed under cricket’s rules or Laws, although a replacement fielder is permitted.

When he saw Anderson struggle before going off the field after pull-

ing out of his action on Thursday, England great Ian Botham said he feared the Lancastrian would miss the rest of the series.

“If it’s an intercostal, we won’t see him again in this series,” for-mer pace bowling all-rounder Botham said on Sky Sports.

“You can’t sneeze, can’t cough, can’t laugh. You have to let it heal.”

Anderson has an especially brilliant Test record at Trent Bridge, with 53 in eight matches at an average of 19.24.

Meanwhile six of his 18 returns of five wickets or more in Test in-nings have come at the Notting-ham ground.

He also took 10 wickets across the match in the last Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, in 2013 -- one of two 10-wicket returns he has at Not-tinghamshire’s headquarters.

England could now recall Dur-ham fast bowler Mark Wood, who took part in the first two Ashes Tests but was ruled out with ankle trouble and replaced by Finn at Edgbaston, into their squad for the fourth Test.

Other possible replacements for Anderson include Yorkshire’s Liam Plunkett, fit-again Warwick-shire seamer Chris Woakes and uncapped Derbyshire left-armer Mark Footitt. - AFP

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IN PAIN: James Anderson. – Reuters

Heavy rain washes out second day playDHAKA: The entire second day’s play in the second and fi-nal test between Bangladesh and South Africa was wiped out on Friday as rain continued to wreak havoc in the series.

Heavy downpours washed out the morning session and rain was pouring again in the afternoon, prompting the match official to abandon play after lunch.

When and if the action re-sumes on Saturday, Bangladesh will continue on 246 for eight af-ter opting to bat first at Mirpur’s

Shere Bangla National Stadium.The weather also intervened in

the drawn first test in Chittagong with only 221 overs bowled as rain curtailed play on the second and third days before washing out the last two days.

While the rain in Dhaka com-promises the prospect of a result again, Bangladesh, who stunned the Proteas in the one-day series, are unlikely to mind a drawn se-ries against opponents who sit eight places above them at the top of test rankings. - Reuters

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PESHAWAR: Former Sri Lan-kan captain Sanath Jayasuriya expressed optimism Friday that more international cricket matches would be held in Pa-kistan and said the security situation was improving in the country.

The 46-year-old, who is in Pa-kistan for the ongoing series be-tween Pakistan and Sri Lanka as an analyst for a sports TV chan-nel, was talking to reporters af-ter his visit to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 154 peo-ple, most of them schoolchil-dren, in December last year.

Jayasuriya, who played 110 Tests and 445 One-day Interna-tionals in an illustrious career that ended four years ago, said he believes Pakistan is now a safer place. “Pakistan is a peace-loving country and people here love peace,” he said.

“There is nothing to worry (about) here and life is now nor-mal, so I hope Pakistan (will) host more international cricket in future.” — AFP

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Beijing wins 2022 Winter Games vote to make Olympic history

KUALA LUMPUR: Beijing on Fri-day narrowly won an IOC vote for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games that secured its place in sporting history. The Chinese capital beat Almaty in Kazakhstan by just 44 votes to 40, with one abstention, to become the first city to be awarded the summer and winter Games.

Beijing held the summer Olym-pics in 2008 in what was then seen as China sealing its place on the world stage as an emerging super-power. This time it had been the strong favourite, presenting itself as a safe pair of hands against un-derdog Almaty. “We represent the

safest and most realistic choice,” said Beijing’s mayor Wang Anshun.

But the former capital of the Central Asian republic ate into China’s support on the Interna-tional Olympic Committee with an impressive “Keeping It Real” campaign that played on Beijing’s reliance on artificial snow and the vast distances between its venues.

China’s basketball legend Yao Ming and Sports Minister Liu Peng leaped to their feet in joy when IOC president Thomas Bach announced the result at a special session in Kuala Lumpur.

IOC director general Christophe

De Kepper said there were doubts about the “integrity” of the results given by the tablets used for the vote. But it held up the result and in Beijing performers and uni-formed volunteers also erupted into dancing and flag-waving joy as the Chinese capital was named.

Vote surprise“Finally — we won, but it was not easy,” Yao acknowledged.

“I was very confident about this campaign, but when the moment came I was still very excited about what we have done,” the former Houston Rockets center told reporters. The result surprised many IOC members.

“I always said Almaty would get more support than people had ex-pected, but I never thought it would be that close,” said Craig Reedie, a British member of the IOC.

He said IOC voters had been im-pressed by the final presentation by Kazakh prime minister Karim Massimov. Others said they still preferred the assurances offered by China’s communist govern-ment against oil-rich Kazakhstan which had been making its second bid for the Winter Olympics.

China’s President Xi Jinping promised rock solid government support for Beijing if it was chosen.

“Let me assure you that if you choose Beijing, the Chinese peo-

ple will present to the world a fan-tastic, extraordinary and excel-lent Olympic Winter Games,” Xi said in a video message to the IOC meeting.

Some of Beijing’s 2008 ven-ues, including its iconic Bird’s Nest national stadium will be re-used for the 2022 Games. But it will also make widespread use of machine-made snow for outdoor events and some of the venues are 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Beijing.

All of Almaty’s venues are with-in 30 kilometres (18 miles) of the city, which the delegation por-trayed as a “winter wonderland” with abundant natural snow.

Beijing has said it will spend $3.06 billion on running the Games and special infrastructure for the event. That does not in-clude $5 billion for a high-speed train link from Beijing to Zhangji-akou, where many mountain events will be held. Kazakhstan, which became independent from the former Soviet Union in 1991 but is still run by an authoritarian

president, had sought the Games as a way to stamp its place on the world map.

“We are a golden opportunity to prove that smaller advancing nations can successfully host the Olympic Games,” Kazakhstan’s prime minister told the IOC.

Almaty would stage “a Games that are centred on the needs of athletes and sport, not on the needs of (the) host country’s global image”, said Andrey Kryu-kov, vice chairman of the Almaty bid committee in a veiled dig at China.

Both countries’ human rights records have been condemned by activist groups, but no mention of rights was made in the IOC debate.

Six cities were originally in the race to follow 2018 hosts Pyeo-ngchang in South Korea.

But after Russia spent more than $50 billion to stage the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow in Poland and Lviv in Ukraine all withdrew be-cause of cost fears and local poli-tics. - AFP

The Chinese capital beat Almaty in

Kazakhstan by just 44 votes to 40, with one

abstention, to become the first city to be

awarded the summer and winter Games

IT’S FOR BEIJING: Beijing mayor and president of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games Bid Com-mittee, Wang Anshun, right, speaks as International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, left, listens during a press conference after Beijing was elected to host. – AFP

CELEBRATIONS: People wave Chinese national flags as they cheer after the IOC announced Beijing as the winner city for the 2022 winter Olympics bid, at the foot of the Great Wall, in Zhangjiakou, jointly bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games with capital Beijing. – Reuters

Strong gusts cancels first day’s GC32 racing in KielMUSCAT: The first day’s racing at the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour in Kiel was abandoned when race management, backed up by the whole fleet including Oman Sail’s Sultanate of Oman, decided that strong gusts in excess of 30 knots were not favourable for fair and safe sailing.

In the morning media and cor-porate sailing session, the Swiss boat Alinghi was upturned though

fortunately there were no injuries and no damage to the boat.

“The gusts came from nowhere and there is little you can do to control the boats when you go from zero to 30 knots in a second,” said Sultanate of Oman skipper Leigh McMillan. “This is the first of four days of racing and there is a lot of good competition remaining so there was no need to take any risks. For us, calling it off was the

right decision but we are looking forward to tomorrow and getting some good racing in.”

Sultanate of Oman won the open-ing Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour event in Austria and came second to Fla-vio Marazzi’s Armin Strom Racing Team in Cowes but remain three points ahead at the top of the lead-erboard with two events remaining, in Rome, Italy, in August and Mar-seille, France in September.

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Arsenal out to make statementLONDON: Old rivalries will be renewed when Arsenal play Chelsea in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday, with the Gunners hoping to prove they are the real deal and finally a match for the Premier League champi-ons ahead of the new season.

Arsenal won the FA Cup for the second successive year in May but finished third in the Premier League last season, 12 points be-hind winners Chelsea.

Having signed Chelsea goal-keeper Petr Cech, who won four Premier League titles and the Champions League during 11 years at Stamford Bridge, the Gunners should now possess the solidity at the back to comple-ment their free-flowing attack.

While Cech will go from Chel-sea friend to foe in the traditional season-opening match between the Premier League champions and FA Cup winners, the loveless relationship between the two man-agers gives the fixture added spice.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger appeared to push Jose Mourinho during a touchline spat last season, while the Chelsea boss described the Frenchman as “a specialist in failure” in 2014.

Mourinho, however, expects the Gunners to challenge for the title this season after assembling a squad that contains the likes of 42 million pounds ($65.54

million) playmaker Mesut Ozil and 35 million pounds forward Alexis Sanchez. “If you add up the amounts clubs have spent in the last three or four years, I think maybe you will find a surprise,” Mourinho told reporters.

“It’s a fantastic squad with good players, fantastic goalkeep-er, they are more than ready to be title contenders.”

Chelsea, who beat Arsenal 2-1 in the last Community Shield meeting between the two sides in 2005, have injury concerns over striker Diego Costa and de-fender Gary Cahill. Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0 in last year’s Community Shield but the north Londoners will be without for-wards Sanchez and Danny Wel-beck for the trip to Wembley.

Wenger’s winless run against Mourinho stands at 13 games but the Gunners have enjoyed a strong pre-season, scoring 14 goals and conceding once as they won the Asia Trophy and Emirates Cup.

“We know we will be better and we work very hard to better,” Wenger told reporters. “Let’s not forget that Chelsea won the Pre-mier League with a comfortable distance last year. There was still a gap between them and the others but the desire is to improve and to move up there to fight for the championship. Let’s start well and try to give our best.” - Reuters

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Walcott and Cazorla extend Arsenal contracts

LONDON: England forward Theo Walcott and Spanish mid-fielder Santi Cazorla have both agreed contract extensions with Arsenal, the Premier League club announced on Friday.

Walcott, 26, announced on Twitter that he had signed a four-year contract, but the length of Cazorla’s deal was not disclosed.

“We’re delighted to have ex-tended the contracts of Santi and Theo,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told the club’s website. “Both are top quality players who are hugely impor-tant and influential to our squad.

“As well as their huge contri-butions on the pitch, they both have a great deal of experience and are very popular off the pitch. We’re very pleased with them both signing contract extensions, as it provides our squad with further stability of quality.”

Walcott tweeted a picture of himself wearing Arsenal’s home kit and standing beside the Emirates Stadium pitch.

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Pacific trade negotiators chase final deal in tough talksLAHAINA, (Hawaii): Pacific Rim trade ministers neared the fi-nal spurt of negotiations on an am-bitious free trade pact on Thurs-day, but differences over farm exports and monopoly periods for next-generation drugs kept them short of an elusive final deal.

Ministers from the 12 coun-tries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would cut trade barriers and set com-mon standards for 40 percent of the world economy, are meeting in Hawaii to try to hammer out a deal.

But major issues are still unre-solved, including dairy exports and exclusivity periods for biologic drugs. The United States is push-ing for 12 years but Australia and other countries worried about the

impact on medicine prices want five. “They are few but very con-tested,” Mexican Trade Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told Reuters of the outstanding issues.

“I think that the negotiators will have to work through the night,” Japanese Economy Minister Aki-ra Amari said.

Final news conferenceA final news conference is scheduled for 1:30pm on Friday (2330GMT/1930ET). Ministers appeared relaxed as they were garlanded with leis for an official photo.

“It’s tough,” said one official in-volved in the talks, who declined to be identified because of the sen-sitivity of the discussions, which

seek to meld one-on-one nego-tiations over market access with a one-size-fits-all approach to rules.

“There are issues on dairy, on intellectual property, but it’s not always clear where things stand.

I know about my issues but I don’t always know what’s happen-ing with other countries.”

About 650 officials from 12 na-tions are taking part in the nego-tiations on the Hawaiian island of Maui, with numerous lobby groups and stakeholders also attending.

Negotiators have stressed they are doing their utmost to close the deal this week but also warned that not all industries will get what they want, amid a flurry of last-minute appeals.

US lawmakers, including from

tobacco-growing states such as North Carolina, renewed warnings against excluding tobacco from rules allowing foreign companies to sue a host government.

An official briefed on the talks said there was discussion of a US-initiated exception in Maui.

It would be narrower than the broad exclusion for health and environmental policy sought by Australia, which is being sued by Marlboro maker Philip Morris over tobacco plain packaging laws.

Australian Trade Minister An-drew Robb said on Tuesday that countries were “well down the track” on securing protection from litigation over health and environ-ment policy.

He said on Thursday investment

rules and sugar remained open.Australia’s bid to export more

sugar to the United States has the backing of US confectioners and beverage companies.

“The United States needs to grant Australia commercially meaningful access,” Sweetener Users Association chairman Perry Cerminara, who also handles sugar for chocolate maker The Hershey Co, wrote in a letter to US Trade Representative Michael Froman.

US canegrowers oppose more imports, and Mexico is keen to safeguard its preferential access to the US sugar market.

“Of course we all have to make an effort, but the effort has to be in line with the principle...that the very, very, very sensitive products

are subject to a less aggressive schedule of market opening,” Gua-jardo said when asked about sugar.

Dairy is another tricky issue, with New Zealand, Australia and the United States frustrated with Canada, and New Zealand and Australia also looking for more ac-cess to US and Japanese markets.

Robb said dairy was moving in “very tiny steps.”

Australian Dairy Industry Council chairman Noel Campbell said discussions had gone back-wards in some cases and he had hoped for more progress.

Canada hit back at complaints that it is holding up a deal.”To say that one particular issue is a stick-ing point to a potential deal just isn’t based in reality. - Reuters

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Chinese firms eyeing quick increase in Iran oil output

BEIJING: China’s state oil gi-ants are set to start pumping a combined 160,000 barrels a day at two projects in southwestern Iran from around October, company sources said, contributing to Teh-ran’s plan to boost output ahead of sanctions being lifted.

Chinese energy firms had ear-lier put on hold or slowed work on energy projects in Iran from late 2010, worried about penalties that might be imposed by Washington as it led world powers to press Tehran to curb its nuclear ambi-tions. Iran and six world powers, including China and the United States, clinched a landmark deal on July 14 that limits the Islamic nation’s nuclear activities in re-turn for lifting sanctions that have more than halved its oil exports since 2012.

Sources at Sinopec Group, par-ent of Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) said companies have since late last year stepped up work at existing main contracts, after prodding from Iranian counterparts as ne-gotiations were continuing over the eventual easing of sanctions.

Sinopec Group is expected to start producing at the Yadavaran oilfield at 85,000 barrels per day (bpd) under phase-one develop-ment, two company sources said, part of a $2 billion deal signed in

2007 to build a 200,000 bpd pro-ducer. “Yadavaran project is pro-gressing smoothly and is expected to start producing at 85,000bpd by the end of the year,” said company spokesman Lu Dapeng.

Top energy group CNPC is also slated to kick off phase one at North Azadegan around early Oc-tober, said a CNPC source, with-out specifying an output amount.

CNPC said in its inhouse newspaper on Thursday that the North Azadegan project “reached its final stage before production

starts.” Iranian media in early 2014 put phase one of North Azadegan at 75,000bpd. A CNPC media official said he had not been informed yet on the latest status regarding North Azadegan.

Two projectsThese two projects, both in Khuz-estan province in the southwest, would be part of Tehran’s plan to boost production by 500,000 bpd within two months of Western sanctions being eased.

A quick increase in output

and exports before sanctions are lifted would be similar to what happened in early 2014 when the temporary agreement leading to this month’s longer-term deal saw Iran boost its exports to Asia to nearly 1.4 million bpd.

Significant increaseMany analysts have said they do not expect significant increase in Iran’s oil output until mid-2016.

Iran’s current output is about 3 million bpd, while its exports to Asia in June were running at about 1.2 million bpd.

Sources at Sinopec said com-pany and NIOC are already in dis-cussions to develop phase two of Yadavaran.

As Iran starts to court new in-vestors to revive its ailing indus-try long crippled by sanctions, Chinese companies are worried about being outrun by Western companies such as France’s Total and Spain’s ENI, which have old-er, more established relationships with Tehran.

“Chinese firms may have squandered some of the best op-portunities during the worst sanc-tion days by not being a friend in need,” said a CNPC source.

CNCP in 2011 scaled back its participation in the giant South Pars field, leading to Iran suspend-ing the state company’s contract.

In late 2010, CNOOC had ear-lier withdrew completely from the North Pars project. - Reuters

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Greek prime minister defends ‘Plan B’ for euro zone exitATHENS: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece on Friday ac-knowledged his government had made covert contingency plans in case Greece was forced out of the euro, but rejected accusations he had plotted to take the country back to the drachma.

Tsipras was forced to respond to the issue in parliament after former finance minister Yanis Va-roufakis this week revealed efforts to hack into citizens’ tax codes to create a parallel payment system, prompting shock and outrage in Greece. The disclosure heaped new pressure on Tsipras, who is also battling a rebellion within his Syriza party and starting tough talks with the European and In-ternational Monetary Fund to seal a third bailout programme in less than three weeks.

“We didn’t design or have a plan to pull the country out of the euro, but we did have emergency plans,” Tsipras told parliament.”If our partners and lenders had prepared a Grexit plan, shouldn’t we as a government have prepared our de-fence?,” he added.

He compared the plan to a coun-try preparing its defences ahead of war, saying it was the obligation of a responsible government to have contingency plans in place.

He did not directly refer to Var-oufakis’ disclosure of plans to hack into his ministry’s software to ob-tain tax codes, but said but said the idea of a database giving Greeks passwords to make payments to settle arrears was hardly “a covert and satanic plan to take the coun-try out of the euro”. — Reuters

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Euro zone inflation stable at 0.2%, still far off ECB targetBRUSSELS: Euro zone infla-tion was unchanged in July as a further decline of energy prices negated the impact of more ex-pensive industrial goods and ser-vices, leaving the European Cen-tral Bank with more work to do to push up prices.

The European Union’s statis-tics office Eurostat said on Friday that consumer prices in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose by 0.2 per cent year-on-year in July, as in June. The flash estimate also matched market expectations, although Thursday reports of a mere 0.1 per cent reading in Ger-many and the return of deflation in Spain in July had suggested the euro zone figure could have been even weaker. Excluding energy and unprocessed food — what the European Central Bank calls core inflation — prices were up 0.9 per cent from 0.8 per cent in June. The market expectation was for no change.

Teunis Brosens, economist at ING, said that the question was

whether this marked a trend or was the sort of one-off seen in previous months, such as May.

“It’s too soon to declare a real strengthening of core inflation,” he said. Conversely, with core inflation higher than forecast, energy deflation must have been stronger than expected, with the delayed impact of autumn price declines feeding through into longer-term gas contract and also falling oil prices this month.

This could lead to even lower overall inflation in the coming months. Energy prices were 5.6 per cent lower year-on-year, a

steeper decline than in June. Unprocessed food increased by 1.3 per cent in July, down from 1.9 per cent a month earlier.

Inflation for services and in-dustrial goods accelerated, albe-it the latter to just 0.5 per cent.

Eurostat’s flash estimate for the month does not include month-on-month calculations.

The euro zone ended four months of deflation in April, but

inflation is still far below the Eu-ropean Central Bank’s target of just under two per cent.

The ECB has interest rates close to zero and this year began a money-printing quantitative eas-ing (QE) scheme, buying govern-ment bonds and other assets to pump around 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) into the economy so as to boost growth and prices.

A slump in commodity prices over the past month has pushed back expectations of when the ECB will start normalising its ultra-loose monetary policy by a year to 2019. — Reuters

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Strong demand for A320 jets boosts Airbus profits by 15%

PARIS: Airbus Group said de-mand for its workhorse single-aisle A320 plane, the company’s biggest earnings driver, is suffi-ciently strong to further lift out-put, a move that would risk strain-ing already-stretched suppliers.

Airbus has already announced plans to boost production of single-aisle planes to 50 a month by 2017, approaching the 52-a- month pace Boeing plans for it own single-aisle 737 model by 2018. A320 production is now at 44 as Airbus starts a shift toward building the newer A320neo.

“We clearly see potential for go-ing beyond rate 50, the market is there, the market is stable, but we at Airbus have always been very prudent before we take ramp-up decisions,” Chief Executive Offic-er Tom Enders said on Friday af-ter Airbus reported earnings.”I’m very confident that before the end of the year we’ll take a decision.”

Airbus is trying to work through a backlog of aircraft orders stretching out several years, with its A320neo the fastest-selling commercial airliner in aviation history. Pushing more planes out of factories in Germany, France,

China and the US means Airbus will be more demanding on its suppliers, with partners such as engine maker Safran saying this week that it’s at the limit of its pro-duction capabilities.

Enders said Airbus is explor-ing whether it itself has the tools and systems in place to allow for a move to higher rates, and whether suppliers are prepared and have sufficient capacity.

Continuing talks“This is a discussion going on amongst suppliers and between us and suppliers,” he said.

Enders spoke after the com-pany reported a 15 per cent gain in second-quarter profit on higher deliveries of civil airliners. Earn-

ings before interest, tax and one-time items rose to 1.23 billion eu-ros ($1.35 billion) from 1.07 billion euros, beating analyst estimates for 1.07 billion euros. Airbus took a charge of 290 million euros for its A400M military transport plane after an aircraft crashed on a test flight in Spain in May. Sales rose 16 per cent to 16.8 billion eu-ros, and free cash flow in the first half was 549 million euros.

The European aerospace com-pany, which draws two thirds of sales from Airbus Commercial, has benefited from demand for new, more-fuel efficient jets as airlines seek to protect them-selves from fuel-cost volatility.

Airbus said it expects to break even on production of its A380

this year, and that it targets deliv-ery of the A320neos by year-end.

Rising stock“It was an excellent quarter, not just for Airbus Commercial but for all the divisions,” said Yan Der-ocles, an analyst at Oddo Securi-ties in Paris.”The free cash flow was surprisingly positive, show-ing they’re doing a better job of executing on programmes.”

Airbus shares rose as much as 3.16 euros, or 5.1 per cent, to 65.57 euros in Paris. The stock has gained 56 per cent in value this year, more than Boeing.

Enders said that operational efficiency in building A380s has improved to the extent that Air-bus can break even on production

this year even with deliveries of just under 30 planes, the previous threshold for annual deliveries.

Deliveries have resumed, and Airbus is targeting to hand over of 13 to 17 planes in 2015. It has 174 orders for the A400M. Air-bus kept guidance for “slightly higher” deliveries for this year than in 2014, with higher sales and “slight” increase in operat-ing earnings before certain items, with a break-even on cash flow be-fore acquisitions. - Bloomberg News

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Japan inflation tepid; spending drops in JuneTOKYO: Japanese inflation was tepid last month while household spending suffered a surprise drop, official data showed on Friday, fan-ning speculation the central bank would unleash a fresh round of stimulus.

Core inflation, excluding vola-tile fresh food prices, edged up 0.1 per cent from a year ago, the government said, while excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.6 per cent — both well short of the Bank of Japan’s 2.0 per cent target.

Lower fuel prices and other en-ergy costs helped curb inflation, the internal affairs ministry data said. Separately, the ministry said household spending fell 2.0 per cent in June against market expec-tations for another rise after a 4.8 per cent increase in May.

The May figure was the first monthly rise since Japan hiked sales taxes in April last year to help pay down its huge national debt.

The sales levy hike, Japan’s first in 17 years, slammed the brakes on consumer spending and briefly pushed the economy into reces-sion. Growth returned in the last three months of 2014 and the economy expanded 1.0 per cent in the first quarter of this year.

On Thursday, more upbeat figures showed Japan’s factory output turned positive in June, reversing a decline from the previ-ous month.

But economists have warned that the April-June GDP figures could still be weak, and there is growing speculation that the Bank of Japan will almost certainly be forced to expand its already huge monetary easing scheme to jack up prices and stoke growth.

“The Bank is pinning its hopes on a strong rebound in demand, which would create capacity short-ages and stoke price pressures,” said Marcel Thieliant from Capi-tal Economics. “Unfortunately, today’s data on consumer spend-ing underline that these hopes are unlikely to materialise,” he said in a commentary. — AFP

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Japanese electronics giant Sharp’s April-June net loss widens to $274mTOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Sharp said on Friday its net loss widened in April-June as it struggles through a painful re-structuring and weak sales of dis-play screens and smartphones.

The Osaka-based firm reported a 33.98 billion yen ($274 million) shortfall in the first fiscal quarter, much more than the 1.79 billion yen in the same period last year.

However, it kept a target of 80 billion yen in operating profit on sales of 2.8 trillion yen for the 12 months through March 2016.

Restructuring costsIt did not give a net profit target, citing uncertain restructuring costs. Earlier this year, Sharp said it was cutting 10 per cent of its 49,000 positions worldwide as part of a turnaround plan intend-ed to keep it afloat after posting a bigger-than-expected $1.86 bil-lion annual loss.

“Sharp is barely surviving and it is still uncertain if the company turnaround can be carried out as planned — there are still many hurdles to clear,” said Hiroshi Sakai, chief economist at SMBC Friend Research Centre in Tokyo.

In the latest quarter, Sharp said it was hit by a decline in its electronics business, including slack demand for LCD televisions, smartphones and air purifiers.

Demand for small and mid-sized smartphone displays also weakened. The company annnounced on Friday it would sell its Mexican TV production business to Chinese electronics company Hisense, which would continue to sell televisions under the Sharp brand.

The once-mighty firm, like rivals Sony and Panasonic, has been working to move past years of gaping deficits, partly caused by steep losses in its television unit, which has been hammered by competition from lower-cost rivals particularly in South Korea and Taiwan.

Aquos-brand makerThe embattled Aquos-brand mak-er has said it would sell the build-ing that houses its Osaka head-quarters to raise cash, roll out unspecified pay cuts, and launch a drastic capital reduction plan to wipe away huge losses.

Sharp — a major Apple sup-plier and leader in screens for smartphones and tablets — said at the time it would issue 200 billion yen worth of new shares with no voting rights to a pair of Japanese banks.

Desperate situationThe bid for a lifeline from its banks underscored Sharp’s des-perate situation, as its rivals try to repair their own balance sheets.

On Thursday, Sony said its quarterly profit more than tripled as its PlayStation videogames and smartphone component sales got a lift while Panasonic’s operating profit weakened.

However, Panasonic has re-bounded more quickly that Sharp or Sony as it focuses less on the consumer products that built its global brand and more on goods sold to other businesses.

Among the changes, Panasonic is pulling the plug on its last re-maining television factory in China owing to the sharp decline in prices. — AFP

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Taiwan’s economic growth slowsTAIPEI: Taiwan’s economy grew at its slowest pace in three years in April-June, data showed on Friday, hammered by a plunge in its key export sector and falling demand in China.

The results underscore the challenge Taipei faces in diver-sifying from its traditional main-stays of electronics and hardware exports, as it tries to encourage tech innovation from smaller homegrown businesses as one way to boost the economy.

Growth came in at just 0.64 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, sharply down from 3.37 per cent in the previous three months and badly missing a fore-cast of 3.05 per cent, the Directo-rate General of Budget, Account-ing and Statistics said.

Compared with the previ-ous three months the economy shrank 7.65 per cent.

Exports fell 9.81 per cent as inventory of electronic products remain high and China expands

supply chains within the main-land. The soft reading came de-spite a 2.81 per cent rise in private consumption, which beat expec-tations of a 2.75 per cent increase.

Analysts warned that the news highlights the need for the gov-ernment to introduce measures to support the economy as it faces a general election in early 2016.

“It’s not only cyclical...there are also structural factors,” said Wai Ho Leong, an economist at Barclays based in Singapore. — AFP

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MAKING A POINT: Kozo Takahashi, president of Japan’s electron-ics giant Sharp, answers questions during a press conference at the company’s head office in Tokyo on Friday. Sharp said its net loss widened in the three months to June, as the embattled firm struggles through a restructuring and weak sales of its display panels and smartphones. - AFP

MINUTE DETAILS: Employees check papers in front of a TAP SGPS-branded Airbus A330 aircraft. Airbus took a charge of 290 million euros for its A400M military transport plane after an aircraft crashed on a test flight in Spain in May. Sales rose 16 per cent to 16.8 bil-lion euros, and free cash flow in the first half was 549 million euros. - Bloomberg files

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India’s ICICI Bank shares soar on record quarterly profitMUMBAI: ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector lender by as-sets, rose in Mumbai stock trading after the lender posted a record quarterly profit amid faster loan growth and a narrower bad-debt ratio. ICICI shares surged 5.2 per cent, the most in three months, to Rs306 at 1:18pm local time after the lender reported a 12 per cent climb in net income for the three months ended June 30.

Profit of Rs29.8 billion ($465 million), compared with the Rs29.2 billion median of 30 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

“ICICI shares surged post re-sults as investors are cheering the sequential improvement in asset quality,” P Karthikeyan, a

Chennai-based banking analyst at Cholamandalam Securities, said by phone.”

“While loan growth and asset quality improved from the previ-ous quarter, there is scepticism re-garding the sustainability of this.”

Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar is trying to boost con-sumer lending and cut soured debt at a time when India’s banks are grappling with the highest bad-debt ratios in 13 years and the slowest loan growth since 1995.

Forecasts for India’s economy to strengthen this year and next portend faster growth in ICICI’s earnings. India’s economy is pro-jected to expand 7.6 per cent in the 12 months to March and eight per

cent the following year, according to the median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.

More loansICICI’s fiscal year that ended March 31 “was probably” the worst in terms of nonperforming assets, and loan growth will improve in the current year, Kochhar told re-porters on a call in April.

The lender posted the lowest quarterly profit growth in five years in the three months to March. Its total outstanding loans increased 15 per cent to Rs4 trillion in June from a year earlier, exchange fil-ings showed. Advances grew 14.4 per cent in the March quarter. The company’s net interest margin, a

measure of lending profitability, widened to 3.54 per cent from 3.4 per cent a year earlier.

Net interest income, or revenue from lending minus payments on deposits, rose 14 per cent to Rs51.2 billion.

The bank’s gross bad-loan ratio narrowed to 3.68 per cent from 3.78 per cent in the three months ended March 31.

By comparison, HDFC Bank, India’s most valuable lender by market capitalisation, had a ratio of 0.95 per cent by the end of June.

ICICI’s capital-adequacy ratio was 16.37 per cent, filings showed, compared with a requirement of at least nine per cent under global Basel III rules. - Bloomberg News

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Lloyds profit surges; takes $2.2b provision

LONDON: Lloyds Banking Group will consider paying special divi-dends and share buy-backs after first-half profit climbed 38 per-cent, even as it took a 1.4 billion-pound ($2.2 billion) charge for improperly sold loan insurance.

Pretax profit rose to 1.2 billion pounds from 863 million pounds a year earlier, Lloyds said on Fri-day. That missed the 1.9 billion-pound average estimate of 20 analysts compiled by the bank. Britain’s biggest mortgage lender will pay an interim dividend of 0.75 pence a share.

Chief Executive Officer Anto-nio Horta-Osorio, 51, has elimi-nated jobs, strengthened capital and sold overseas assets to return Lloyds to profit in 2014. While the dividend may help attract in-vestors as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne pre-pares to sell Britain’s 15 perc ent stake with a sale to taxpayers, the CEO’s efforts to boost earnings have been undermined by surging costs for misconduct.

“We fully expect to be priva-

tised in the next 12 months,” Hor-ta-Osorio said.”The additional provision for payment protection insurance is disappointing” and “rebuilding customer trust re-mains key.”

The shares fell one per cent to 85.17 pence at 8:09am in London. They have gained about 12 per cent this year, giving the bank a market value of 61 billion pounds.

Dividend plansUnlike Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which hasn’t paid a divi-dend since its bailout, Lloyds is generating more capital than reg-ulators require it to hold against assets, bolstered by lower costs and falling bad-loan charges.

Lloyds’s interim dividend comes after it paid 0.75 pence a share in its first payout to share-holders since taking a bailout in the financial crisis.

The bank reiterated its commit-ment to a dividend payout ratio of at least 50 per cent of sustainable earnings, it said in the statement.

Lloyds’s common equity Tier 1

capital ratio, a measure of finan-cial strength, was 13.3 per cent compared with 13.4 per cent at the end of March.

Special buy-backsThe bank will consider special buy-backs if the measure remains greater than 13 per cent, Chief Financial Officer George Culmer said on a call with journalists.

“Our goal is to manage this bank as well as possible,” Horta-Osorio said.”It’s up to the govern-ment to decide what to do with their shares.

We understand that the politi-cal commitment and government interest that retail investors are also able to participate in the sale of Lloyds shares.”

PPI provisionsLloyds’s capital buffer is higher than any other major British lender. RBS said on Thursday that its CET1 ratio is at 12.3 per cent, while Barclays had a level of 11.1 per cent. The net interest margin, a measure of profitabil-

ity, fell to 2.62 per cent from 2.65 per cent at the end of March. The bank set a new target of 2.6 per cent for this year.

Fresh provisionsThe fresh provisions for PPI takes the total Lloyds has set aside to 13.4 billion pounds, more than any other United Kingdom lender in the costliest banking scandal since the financial crisis.

The industry as a whole has paid out more than 20 billion pounds to compensate customers.

Last month, it was fined a re-cord 117 million pounds and the CEO’s bonus was cut for mishan-dling customer payment protec-tion insurance (PPI) complaints.

Lloyds also provisioned 175 million pounds for improperly charging fees for insurance pack-aged with checking accounts.

Dividend payouts“On dividend payouts and guid-ance and relative to expectations, we see today’s release as margin-ally negative,” said Chirantan Ba-rua, a banking analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, with a market per-form on Lloyds shares.

The latest payment protection insurance provision “was 400 million pounds above expecta-tions.” Profit excluding one-time items and legacy conduct costs rose 15 per cent to 4.4 billion pounds in the first half from the year earlier period.

That beat the average analyst estimate of four billion pounds compiled by the bank. The bank’s loan impairment charge fell 75 per cent to 179 million pounds from a year earlier. Lloyds’s cost-income ratio was 48.3 per cent, down from 49 per cent.- Bloomberg News

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GE mulls plan to ship $10b worth of US work overseasWASHINGTON: General Elec-tric (GE) is taking steps to shift some US manufacturing work overseas now that the US Export-Import Bank will be shuttered at least until September, the indus-trial giant’s global operations boss told Reuters on Thursday.

GE Vice Chairman John Rice said the conglomerate is bidding on over $10 billion worth of pro-jects that require support from an export credit agency (ECA) like Ex-Im. With Ex-Im unable to extend new loans or guarantees thanks to an effort by congression-al Republicans to shut it down, GE is arranging with ECAs in other countries to finance the deals in-volved, with much of the produc-tion going to GE plants in those foreign locations.

The prospective government partners include Canada, the Unit-ed Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Hungary, he said.

“We’re submitting the tenders now. So we are identifying where we’ll bid this and the ECA support that comes with it, and it’s not in the United States,” Rice told Reu-ters in an exclusive telephone in-terview from Atlanta

Ex-Im has been unable to con-sider any new financing requests

since Congress allowed the bank’s charter to expire on June 30.

Rice’s comments come as the US Congress starts a five-week summer recess with no clear path to revive Ex-Im in the months ahead. A group of conservative Republicans, who say the 81-year-old trade bank is a nest of “crony capitalism” that doles out govern-ment welfare to GE, Boeing and other wealthy corporations, want to keep it closed for good.

An effort to revive the bank as part of a multi-year transporta-tion bill won strong support in the US Senate, but stalled this week when the House of Representa-tives approved a short-term fund-ing extension without the Ex-Im provision. Boeing chairman Jim McNerney on Wednesday said the aircraft maker was actively look-ing at moving “key pieces” of its operations to other countries that could offer export credits.

Rice, who is based in Hong Kong, said GE is not moving to shift work and jobs overseas “just to make a point” to Congress, but to win contracts that require ex-port credit agency support.”We’re doing this because if we don’t, we can’t submit a valid tender,” he fur-ther added. - Reuters

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Chanda Kochhar, chief executive officer of ICICI Bank. - Bloomberg files

ROBUST EARNINGS: Lloyds’s interim dividend comes after it paid 0.75 pence a share in its first payout to shareholders since taking a bailout in the financial crisis. The bank reiterated its commit-ment to a dividend payout ratio of at least 50 per cent of sustain-able earnings, it said in the statement. - Bloomberg files

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There are more net jobs in the world today than ever before, after hundreds of years of technological in-novation and hundreds of years of people pre-

dicting the death of work. The logic on this topic is crystal clear. Because of that, the contrary view is neces-sarily religious in nature, and, as we all know, there's no point in arguing about religion."

These are the words of tech mogul Marc Andreessen, in an email ex-change with me on the effect of ad-vancing technologies on employment. Andreessen steadfastly believes that the same exponential curve that is en-abling creation of an era of abundance will create new jobs faster and more broadly than before, and calls my as-sertions that we are heading into a job-less future a luddite fallacy.

I wish he were right, but he isn't. And it isn't a religious debate; it's a mat-ter of public policy and preparedness. With the technology advances that are presently on the horizon, not only low-skilled jobs are at risk; so are the jobs of knowledge workers. Too much is happening too fast. It will shake up entire industries and eliminate pro-fessions. Some new jobs will surely be created, but they will be few. And we won't be able to retrain the people who lose their jobs, because, as I said to An-

dreessen, you can train an Andreessen to drive a cab, but you can't retrain a laid-off cab driver to become an An-dreessen. The jobs that will be created will require very specialized skills and higher levels of education — which most people don't have.

I am optimistic about the future and know that technology will pro-vide society with many benefits. I also realise that millions will face perma-nent unemployment. I worry that if we keep brushing this issue under the rug, social upheaval will result. We must make the transition easier by providing for those worst affected. In the short term, we will create many new jobs in the United States to build robots and factories and programme new computer systems. But the em-ployment boom won't last long.

Within 10 years, we will see Uber laying off most of its drivers as it switches to self-driving cars; manu-facturers will start replacing workers with robots; fast-food restaurants will install fully automated food-prepara-tion systems; artificial intelligence-based systems will start doing the jobs of most office workers in accounting, finance and administration. The same will go for professionals such as pa-ralegals, pharmacists, and customer-support representatives. All of this will occur simultaneously, and the pace will accelerate in the late 2020s.

Andreessen agrees that there will be disruption and that professions will disappear because of the produc-tivity improvements that technology will enable. The libertarian book that he wanted me to read claims that, al-though the unemployment of skilled workers through mechanisation is a tragedy for those involved, it is an inevitable consequence of societal progress and makes the economic pie bigger — and is therefore a good thing.

Another technologist whom I hold in high regard, Vinod Khosla, worries as I do about the effect of increasing income disparity. Discussing the revo-lution in progress in machine-learning technology, which is enabling comput-ers to analyse information and make judgments better than human beings can, Khosla wrote:

While the future is promising and this technology revolution may result in dramatically increasing productiv-ity and abundance, the process of get-ting there raises all sorts of questions about the changing nature of work and the likely increase in income dispar-ity. With less need for human labour and judgment, labour will be devalued relative to capital and even more so relative to ideas and machine learn-ing technology. In an era of abundance and increasing income disparity, we may need a version of capitalism that is focused on more than just efficient

production and also places greater pri-oritisation on the less desirable side effects of capitalism.

So the real debate is about the new version of capitalism: do we design this or pretend that everything will be okay as the tech elite get richer and people who lose their jobs get poorer?

The impact of advancing technolo-gies will be different in every country. China will be the biggest global loser because of the rapid disappearance of its manufacturing jobs. It has not cre-ated a safety net, and income disparity is already too great, so we can expect greater turmoil there. But developing economies will be big winners.

In his office in Mexico City last month, I had a lengthy discussion about the global impact with Mexican industrialist Carlos Slim Domit. He had a surprisingly good understand-ing of the advances in technologies such as computing, sensors, networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing. He spoke of the uplift of so-ciety in the developing world through broader access to information, educa-tion, health care, and entertainment — and the need to share and spread the prosperity that advancing tech-nologies will create. He predicted the emergence of tens of millions of new service jobs in Mexico through meet-ing the Mexican people's basic needs and enabling them to spend time on

leisure and learning. He sees tremen-dous opportunities to build infra-structure where there is none, and to improve the lives of billions of people who presently spend their lives trying to earn enough on which to subsist.

Countries such as India and Peru and all of Africa will see the same benefits — for at least two or three decades, until the infrastructure has been built and necessities of the popu-lations have been met. Then there will not be enough work even there to em-ploy the masses. Slim's solution to this is to institute a three-day workweek so that everyone can find employment and earn the money necessary for lei-sure and entertainment. This is not a bad idea. In the future we are head-ing into, the cost of basic necessities, energy, and even luxury goods such as electronics will fall low enough to seem almost free — just as cell-phone minutes and information cost prac-tically nothing now. It is a matter of sharing the few jobs that will exist in an equitable way.

The concept of a universal basic income is also gaining popularity worldwide as it becomes increasingly apparent that declining costs and the elimination of bureaucracies, make it possible for governments to provide citizens with income enough for the basic necessities. — Vivek Wadhwa/Washington Post-Bloomberg News

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SURAnt Man (2D) (Action | Sci-Fi) (PG12) 4:15 PMANT MAN (3D) (PG12) 12:00, 9:30, 11:45 PMMinions (3D) (Animation ) (PG)2:30 PMBajrangi Bhaijaan (Hindi) (Action) (PG) 11:30 PMDrishyam (Hindi) (Action) (PG12) 6:30, 8:30 PMTed 2 (Comedy) (12+) CP#Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, 2:15, 6:30 PMAcha Din (Malayalam) (Drama) (PG) 12:15 PM, 4:15 PM

SALALAHAnt-Man (2D) (PG12) (Action) Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll4:00PM Ant-Man (3D)(PG12); 12:00, 9:15, 11:30PMMinions (3D) (PG) (Animation) 10:15AM, 2:15PMTerminator (3D)(PG12) (Action) 2:30, 11:45PMBajrangi Bhaijaan (2D) (PG) (Drama/Action) 6:15, 11:15PMThe Night Crew (2D) (15+) (Action/Thriller) Cast: Danny Trejo, Jason Mewes, Luke Goss9:30PMTed 2 (2D)(12+) (Comedy) Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried10:15AM, 2:30, 6:40PMPaper Towns (2D)(15+) (Drama) Cast: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin12:30, 4:45PMDrishyam (2D)(PG12)(Hindi) (Drama) 11:30AM, 8:45PMAcha Dhin (2D)(12+)(Malayalam) (Drama) Cast Mammootty, P. Balachandran, Jaise Jose 4:30PMSakalakala Vallavan Appatakkar (2D)(PG12)(Tamil) (Comic Drama) Cast: Anjali, Jayam Ravi, Trisha Krishnan6:40PM

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AMEER WAS running wildly in his residential campus located in Madinat Qaboos when his mother called him loudly. But Ameer pre-tended to not hear her. He knew in his heart that if he would answer her she would remind him of all that he was supposed to do and as usual he hadn’t done anything.

Ameer lived in the same apart-ment where Aaron stayed and they were great friends. Most of the even-ing after school Aaron and Ameer would play in the small play area in front of their building.

“Hey Ameer! Your mum is calling you. Can’t you hear,” Aaron remind-ed his friend.

But Ameer continued to run in the field without paying heed to anyone.

Everyone knew how irrespon-sible Ameer was. His parents re-mained anxious most of the time because of his careless attitude.

One day he took his little sister Laila to Qurum Natural Park and he got so lost in his own play that he forgot about her. Four-year-old Laila would have got lost if Aaron had not reminded Ameer about her. Then again on another day he went out to play leaving the entrance door wide open.

Ameer had gone to visit his cousins during the holidays. There he had a lovely time with his two

cousins and their pet dog, Pique. Throughout the day Ameer would run after Pique. He would toss the ball in the air and Pique would leap at it.

When the holidays were coming to an end Ameer felt very sad. Not just for his cousins but more for Pique. In just few days he and Pique had become great friends.

With a glum face he told his fa-ther: “Dad, can we take Pique along. Oh, How much I would miss him.” Ameer’s father smiled at his son’s in-nocent request. He knew that wasn’t possible but at the same time he did not want to break his son’s heart. He patted Ameer and said: “My son, if we take away Pique wouldn’t your cousins be sad?” They love him so much. But I promise I will surely get you a pet like Pique and then you can play with him.”

Ameer jumped in joy hearing this and he knew his father never gave him false hopes. If he had promised something he would surely keep up the promise.

And so he did. Soon Ameer was given a cute little Pomeranian dog.

While Ameer rejoiced the arrival of the new member in the family his father had a piece of advice for his son. He said: “Ameer, I am happy to see you being so elated but remem-ber one thing. Pets are not play-things to amuse you only. Like us

they too need love, care and atten-tion and I hope you will surely take care of the little one.”

“Of course dad,” Ameer said in excitement. “I would certainly take care of Pique.”

“Pique? What’s that?” his father asked amused. “Oh dad, I forgot to tell you. I have named this cute little thing as Pique.”

“Hey Pique, run!” shouted Ameer and the energetic little Pomeranian ran behind Ameer.

Ameer dotted on Pique and spent most of his free time playing with him. He cuddled and played with the little one always. Days passed by and Ameer enjoyed every minute of Pique’s presence.

But not for long. The initial ex-citement of having Pique soon fiz-zled. Ameer started leaving Pique unattended. His mother had given him the responsibility of giving food but Ameer would often forget. Nei-ther would he give him proper bath

nor would clean him up.His parents would often remind

him but Ameer didn’t care. One day Ameer went to the nearby

park with Pique after a long time. Most of his friends had come and

they were happily chasing the ball. Pique too ran behind the kids. “Hi Ameer, It’s nice to see Pique after a long time. Why don’t you take him out these days,” Aaron said.

“Oh Aaron! I am so busy you know. Taking care of Pique is not the only thing I have to do,” Ameer said in annoyance. He didn’t like the way Aaron commented about Pique.

“Why is he so bothered about Pique,” he thought and continued playing.

It was getting dark and the kids decided to go home. Ameer rang the doorbell constantly as it was time for the telecast of Scooby Doo. “Ameer, have patience,” shouted his mom from inside hearing the doorbell.

As soon as she opened the door Ameer rushed inside the hall and switched on the television set.

“Ameer, where is Pique?” asked his mom.

And her fears came true. Ameer in his utter carelessness and hur-ry had forgotten to bring Pique home.

“Oh my God! Pique was there in the garden while we were playing. I don’t remember what happened af-ter that,” said Ameer in panic.

“How can you be so careless Ameer,” his mother raised her voice in anger but controlled it as she knew that was not the time to lose one’s cool. It was time to look for their dear little Pique.

Soon the whole neighbourhood got to know about Pique gone miss-ing. Laila started crying and Ameer was too ashamed to react. He was feeling miserable at his deed but it was too late.

They all went to the park to look for Pique. Each one called out for him but there was no sign of Pique.

Ameer ran in all possible direc-tions but Pique could not be seen.

They had almost given up hope when Laila pointed towards the main gates of the park and shouted: “Look Pique’s there.”

And she was right. The little one was comfortably placed in the arms of a girl. “Oh! Pique! How much we missed you,” cried Ameer.

The little girl came towards them and said: “I was going home when I saw this little one sitting and whim-pering in one corner. I thought of tak-ing it home but then thought whoever it belongs to would worry. So I was waiting for someone to come.”

Everyone thanked the kind little girl. Ameer was very apologetic and promised to take care of Pique always. swati@timesofoman.com

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PRANAV NAIRGrade VIIIIndian School Muscat All is quite When it’s night,The children with their teddies Hugging them tight!

The sun completely sets downAnd the sky becomes blackish-brown,The whole world sleeps For hours without a frown!

If no nightThere will be fight,Always will it be bright The day will rule with all its might!

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Pranav Sivakumar, Grade 2, Modern International School

V. Ria Thanmayee, Grade 6, ISWK

J. Srinidhi, Grade 2, Al Injaz School

Vaishnav Prasanth, Grade 1, ISG

DARKNESS WITH A RAY OF LIGHTNeethu Sara JosephGrade 12Indian School Wadi Kabir

As the clouds cover the sun,Darkness has covered my life.Give me a chance,To let me grow.Just another chance,To show who I really am.

A wind has blown,And the sun is out,A glaze now covers my life. Now that there’s a chance,I’m moving on,No more hurt,No more pain.

I want to do something,That I have never done,Or,I’ll only regret about the chance,That I never took.

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Hyundai Tuscon 2.4 Full option (including Moon roof) for sale in Muscat, Model 2013 , Single Owner (University Lecturer) driven, 39,600 kms, in excellent condition, for sale. Contact 99653760. Mazda 3, 2007 KM 1,43000, full automatic R.O 1900/-. Contact : 99781671 RAV4-2009 model, silver colour, 2.4 liter, single hand use by Indian Expat. Contact 99355382 Nissan Sunny new / excellent con-dition. Contact: 95790291 Touareg 2011 Oman cars, 114000 KM, silver, 8500/-R.O. Contact 92857111

Prado ,2012. Contact : 99336093 Izuzu 4 ton Vehicle - 2nos (2008), Izuzu 3 ton Vehicle- 1 no (2006), Nis-san UD 10 ton 1 no (2001), Mitsubishi 7 ton -1 no (2004), Toyota forklift – 1 no (2000). Contact: 99719124 Email: thekkutt@gmail.com Volkswagen Caddy 2013, 146,000 KM, under warranty. Contact: 99822843 Tucson automatic V-6 2007, R.O 2300/-. Contact: 99384640 Land Cruiser 2012. Contact: 99336093 Sportage, 2013. Contact:99336093

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Required a room in Darsait / WadiKabir /Ruwi area. Contact: 95405033

Room available for rent for Indian executive bachelor near Al Khuwair R/A. Contact : 99659513 Furnished room with sharing Bathroom available in N.Gubrah for executive bachlor from 1st August. Contact --95450250 Acc available single room with at-tach bathroom, kitchen at Mabella near BP Petrol Pump rent R.O 100/- near Indian School. Contact: 91516775 Independent rooms in Qurum / Al Hail. Contact 95529970 Single room with attached toilet & bath in Ruwi for Executive bachelor rent Including with water & electric-ity. Contact: 99327158 New fully furnished room & attached bathroom, kitchen, Wifi, for bachelor Honda road. Contact: 98582078 Sharing accommodation available at Wadi Kabir for bachelor. Contact : 94195690 Rooms in Seeb for couple / single ladies. Contact : 96996938 Sharing accommodation available small family behind Mars Wadi Kabir spacious room attached big bathroom, separate kitchen Indian only. Contact: 95731543 Furnished single / sharing room for Exe. bachelor at Rex Road, near Ka-mat Restaurant with WIFI available. Contact 92873832 Large room furnished bath attached separate entrance Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99336206 Sharing single room with toilet, AC kitchen at A Hail high way roadside. Contact 92968292

Used furniture & Electronic items, office & house. Contact: 99834373

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Party & Wedding equipment rentals. Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crock-ery, Glassware, Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. www.tunesoman.com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

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Genuine Ayurvedic treatments & massage, Ayurvedic clinic at AL Khuwair. Contact: 24478618 / 97263637 / 93309131 Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis massage, steam bath, obesity, spondylitis IDEAL , CARE Ayurvedic Clinic 18 November street, Azaiba. Contact 99639695 / 99117987 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact 24475280 / 95371554 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know more about Islam, please call: 99425598, 96050000, 99353988, 99253818, 99341395, and 99379133. For ladies: 99415818, 99321360, 99730723 Orvisit: www.islamfact.com

Full furnished room with attached bathroom near Star Cinema for Ex. Bachelor/lady. Contact 92886715 Furnished room in Ruwi for non cooking Executive bachelor in Ruwi, rent RO 90/- per month. Contact 94412557 Room with attached bath and sharing kitchen available for Execu-tive bachelor, opp. O.C. Center Ruwi. Contact: 99016562 / 99296296 2BHKFlat Near Oman House, Muttrah for family/Ex Bachelor. Contact 96528069 Family sharing accommodation available in Al Khodh. # 99371129 Room for rent available in CBD near Papa John’s Restaurant. Contact 96568100 Fully furnished 1BHK with all house-hold items in Darsait near Lulu on monthly Basis. Contact : 99378397 Sharing accommodation available for working lady or couples near Ruwi Church. Contact: 92837206 Room attached toilet and kitchen near Indian School Wadi Kabir. Contact: 95345537 Fully furnished room for a decent expatriate. independent kitchen, bathroom in Wadi Adai. Contact 96243086 at 5p.m.

Remarriage, Pentecostal boy, LLB 35 /170 Project Executive hailing suitable proposal. . Contact 97413778 Email: winupaul01@gmail.com Sunni Muslim girl, Indian origin, 20 yrs BA graduate from Oman, good looking homely with good religious values, seeking alliances from Muslim professionals, well settled in Oman or Middle East. Contact: 99644760 or Email: ghulamuzma23@gmail.com

Running established for sale includ-ing industrial licenses for marble & granite, fully furnished kitchen showroom and fully equipped fac-tory. Contact: 99337670 / 92623665 House hold items. Contact: 97094797 Brand new Panasonic 60” full HD LED, TV TH60A430M R.O 350/- . Contact: 99628819 Truck spare parts (new) for sale. Contact: 92600900 3 floor commercial building in Muttrah behind Police. Generating income of OMR 18 Thousand annu-ally. Neat and well maintained. Built on 197 sq mtrs land. 2 tailor shops on ground floor and 6 flats. OMR 207 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 2560 sq mtrs industrial land in Wadi Kabir main road, First line on way to Al Bustan hotel. Possible to make petrol station or hotel. OMR 990 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 Wall papers, grass carpets sale & fixing. Contact: 99834373 / 97102699

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Volvo 12 Ton Truck for monthly rent. Contact: 98713900

Grill cafe sale Al Khuwair. Contact 97249366 Ladies beauty Saloon for sale at Amerat on prime location with two clearances. Contact : 95867900 New villa at Qurum, 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, sitting, dining and open sitting on the terrace. Contact: 99342733 60,000 Sq Mtrs Agriculture Land in Misfah, can be changed to Industrial Land. OMR 29 Per Square Meter. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 Vehicle automotive batteries avail-able at cost price. Interested parties who want to buy the batteries in bulk numbers for reselling purpose may. Contact: 24794657 5 Flats of 1 bedroom for Sale in Boushar: OMR 35 Thousand each. Monthly income OMR 270 Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 Shop for sale in Ruwi High street, Contact 96078411 23,886 Sq Mtrs Agriculture land with water well in Al Salwa, Barka. OMR 260 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360

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Required Omani Receptionist / Office assistant for a company in Ghoubra. Fresher’s can apply with expected salary. Email : thomas.john@ext.gfk.com

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Indian male 33, B.com, MBA (HR) tally having 9 yrs exp looking for suitable placement.Contact: 98181652, Email: wailsmathew@gamil.com

Pakistani male 25 years male MBA finance having, 18 months experi-ence accounts and transport seeking suitable job having valid Omani D/L /. Contact: 99191284

Indian male 24 years MBA finance 2 years experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact: 98222753 Email: shemeejvp@gmail.com Seeking for a job completed B.Tech in ECE under Anna Uni-versity knowledge in hardware troubleshooting ready to work with accounting & software section hold-ing one year experience in India. Contact: 96142153 Indian National, male, 41 years, CA Inter, persuing CA final. Now on express visa. 7 years of Experience in OMAN as Finance and Accounts Manager in Trading, Construction and Firefighting industry. Total 21 Years of Experience seeking suitable Managerial positions. No visa issues. Immediate joining. Phone no: 98469311 Email:sebin30@yahoo.co.in

Urgently required housemaid. Contact: 96339339 Email CV on info@eigllcoman.com Require qualify caregiver for an orderly mother. Contact 99425200 Indian House Maid with experience required to work in Sohar, visa ready. Contact 99417418 Full time housemaid required for Indian family in Ghubra, Nepalese preferred, call 95681350

Urgently required Junior Account-ant. Please send CV: hr.azatllc@gmail.com Urgently required male Account-ant & Office Admin. Contact: 96339339 Email CV on info@eigllcoman.com Urgently required Jr. Accountant/Purchasing Manager (preferably In-dian) 3-5 yrs Exp. to work with food stuff market. software/hardware knowledge would be an advantage, valid Omani D/L with NOC Contact 99417418 Reputed Construction Company require Accountant experience in Construction Company with accountancy degree. Email: jvacancy05@gmail.com Urgently required cash investors for company’s profitable projects. Contact: 92950082

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2 years experienced Electrical Engi-neer looking for suitable placement. Contact: 98480509

B.Tech Computer Engineer wanted job to work on IT / Banking / sales marketing, MCITP, CCNA, Network-ing, having NOC. Contact: 98857689 Email: khanshoebameer@gmail.com Indian (M) B.Tech (civil) with 2 yrs exp in Structural Designing using Etabs, Staad, Safe, excel looking for suitable position. Contact: 96698342 / 98768045 Email: qadeertom@gmail.com

Civil Engineer diploma holder hav-ing 7 years experience in construc-tion / oil & gas as Site Engineer seeking for suitable placement. Contact: 93294965 Civil Diploma Engineer 6 years ex-perience in Oman Indian male with valid Oman D/L. Contact: 93356736 Electrical Engineer, B.Sc. degree/ B.Tech, 4 years experience. Looking for suitable placement. Available in visit visa. Contact: 94739355, Email: mahin.eee@gmail.com Indian male B.E Electronic and Communication Engineering & have 2 years experience in oil & gas sec-tor (maintenance & construction). Contact: 98848077

Urgently required beautician with min 3 years. Contact 93231403 Email: rainbowfurnishing156@gmail.com Wanted experienced Beautician for beauty parlor in Al Amerat 3. Contact: 91107337

Indian male 2+yrs oman exp in HR. joing immediatly. release available. Contact :93671437

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Heavy Equipment Mechanic (sports) & (classic) 2No. Contact : 99550084 Engineering company in Muscat requires HVAC Engineer, minimum 7 Years experienced, knowledge in Tendering, BOQ, Design, Supply, Installation & Supervision of all Central & Unitary A/C systems. Email: info@4dengineering.net

Grade”A” company in interior Designing looking for: Operations manager Sales executive Qs Inte-rior Designer CVs to be emailed to : alzahi.oman@gmail.com

Indian male 33 yrs DEM, chef DE Partie (Continental, Chinese & South Indian) 14 yrs exp in hotel Indus-try, 7 yrs in Oman N.O.C available, seeks placement. Contact 97858956 Email: pratheesh.chef@gmail.com

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Required Indian or Pakistani calligrapher & Painter (staff accommodation) Contact# 24480487/24483493 Urgently required experienced Safety Officer with valid license for a reputed construction company. Interested candidates can send their CVs to rajesh@oasisgrace.com Contact: 99881459 / 99885931 fax: 24812226 Wanted urgently Secretary to the managing partner, Sales Execu-tive with driving license for rent a car business & electrical Engineer, linemen, electricians. All the above vacancies are for Salalah and enough experience required. Apply soon to hr_oman1@yahoo.com

Required heavy duty truck driver holding Omani driving license w/ 5 years experience please contact 92001111 Wanted driver. Contact: 95112461 Driver heavy duty required urgent-ly for trailer. Oman / GCC experience must. Those ready for immediate joining. Contact: 99310859

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Required Indian or Bangladesh GP Doctor with M.O.H license & N.O.C available, attractive package. Prometric passed Doctors can also apply. Contact: 97985325 Email: nooralfadayil@gmail.com Stuff Nurse for 2 months for a clinic in Muttrah.( LOCUM). Contact: 99330385 Immediately required lady Doctor (DGO) or GP with Gynecology expe-rience & lab technician. Contact: 99310590. Email : tjmaluke@gmail.com Dental surgeon, Staff Nurses (female), Dental Technician with or without MOH license for a poly-clinic near Sohar. Excellent salary package. Phone: 99006915, Email : alhinaee.clinic@yahoo.com

General Practitioner DR to work in Bidbid, Prometric passed,3 years of work experience, Send CV clinic@m-oman.com Urgently wanted Lady Ayurveda Therapist. Contact: 91590083 / 92798678

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Beautician exp Gulf and India look-ing job. Contact 93554741

Experienced Indian lady is looking housemaid job looking full time job for European family total experience : 9 years, 2 years exp. with European family 6 years worked with Indian family language English & Hindi. Contact: 93392788 Housemaid Indian looking for Ma-dras family house job.# 93554741 Housemaid (full time / part time) looking for job. Contact: 95799643

Indian male,Accountant,B.com,1yr experience in auditing and hav-ing knowledge in tally. Contact : 94733824/95769355

Urgently required out door Sales Executive for furnishing company with Oman D/L and min 3 years experience. Contact : 93231403 / rainbowfurnishing156@gmail.com Building Material Sales man required at Al Amerat shop. Contact: 99467054 Required Chinese / Biryani cook / Sales person for restaurant. Contact : 95395378 / 94053449 Urgent required Sales representa-tive with local experience, car & Omani driving license ready with NOC. Send CV to nationalblueskyemployment@gmail.com A leading Tissue paper & food stuffs company requires Sales & Marketing person with minimum 5 yrs exp. in Oman with good com-munication skills & valid Oman D/L. Candidate with interior market knowledge & experience preferable. Send CV : allub@alhosnigroup.com, fax: 24451430 Wanted male written & spoken Ma-layalam & Bengali as freelancers to conduct corporate & individual markets surveys on temporary basis, Must be fluent in English with driv-ing license. Contact: 24701242 A leading building materials shop required Marketing Executive (Omani National only) 1No with minimum 2 years experience and driving license. Contact: 99808868 Email: aalfarsi2020@gmail.com Experienced Marketing represent-ative – interlock blocks with light Omani driving license is required. Contact 99222086 Looking for Outdoor Salesman for heavy equipment spare parts. Contact - 93292015, Email: mail.om@gulfcenter.co

Filipino Male 26 years old, Certified Public Accountant, Bachelor of Sci-ence in Accountancy with 5 yrs of experience now on visit visa, Look-ing for suitable opening. Contact: +968 91278583, Email: kennethalcedo07@gmail.com Chartered Accountant with 7 years of post qualification experience in the areas of auditing/accounts & finance/taxation/IFRS, etc. seeking challenging job opportunity. Can obtain NOC. Email: sns2205@gmail.com and GSM +968 95763680. Indian male, 30 years, CMA (Inter),M.com.4 out of 7 years experience in Oman in Auditing/ Accounts/ Finance. Having NOC and valid Oman D/L. Contact: 96746420, Email: sijuthampi@ymail.com MBA (Finance) with NOC, 6 years accounting and finance experience in Oman, knowledge of Tally ERP9 having Omani driving license seeks suitable placement. Contact: 97205715 Email: ammar_uh@hotmail.com

Chartered Accountant with ICWA Inter having 5 years experience in Finance, Accounts, Costing, Budget-ing, Audit, Insurance, Treasury & Banking operations - NOC Available + OmanDrivingLicense Contact :97881548 Email-financecost2@gmail.com Indian male (34) B.Com with com-puter, 11 years experience as Store Manager, Accountant, Sales Execu-tive having Oman driving license, looking for suitable job. Contact: 92753822 13 years exp (7.5 years gulf exp) B.Com graduate, looking for Ac-countant job, GSM No:-92957064 with NOC. Energetic Finance & Audit Manager / Chief Accountant, C.A , MBA ,ACCA , CPA..15 yrs in GULF , Expert in Bank-ing, Financing, Profit Maximizations, Admin, Biz Developments ,All ERPs Software’s, 15yrs Audit Exp. with Big 5 , NOC & Driving License Call 94403270 – 94504505 Accountant, Indian Male, 15 Years experience (8 Years in Oman with Driving License) seeks suitable placement with NOC, Contact 94117616, 91238272 Fresh Graduate B.Com with CIMA (partly Qualified) looking for a suit-able position. Contact 94652485 32 male Pakistani Accountant B.Com having 2 years experience in Oman. Contact 99761664 Indian 24 years MBA finance 2 years experience seeking suitable placement. Contact: 9822253 6 years experienced male having masters degree and experience in sales, accounts, customer services and IT. Contact: 98823248 Email: sajjadhussain@yahoo.com Indian female 25 yrs B.Com MBA / 3months experience looking for job in Accts /Mktg. Contact: 94657403 / 99355931 Indian female B.Com 20 yrs exp in Accounts / Insurance seeking suitable placement. Contact: 92986455 12 years Oman experienced Chief Accountant looking for immediate placement. Contact: 99513082

15 years Oman experienced Admin & Accounts Manager looking for suitable placement. Contact: 92253080

Good experienced in accounts and Admin knowledge of Tally ERP9 having NOC looking for suitable job. Contact: 98717938

Accountant Indian male 8 years experience, 6 years in Oman with Oman driving license, seeking suit-able job. Contact 96012973 15 yrs of experience in Oman, Indian male – Accounts & finance professional with Oman driv-ing license is looking for suitable position. Commerce Graduate with certifications in DPCS & PPGDCA. Contact 93422557 Indian male 22 years, having 1 year experience in accounts & admin looking for suitable vacancy. Contact 97375512 Accounts or sales 27 years male Graduate B.Com 2 years experience in Oman as Asst Accountant looking for suitable job currently working in Oman. Contact: 98427810 Email: shaheel9895@gmial.com

14 years of Gulf experience in HR / Admin & logistics fluent in Arabic / English with D/L looking for suitable position. Contact: 95824598

Indian female 24 years MBA (HR) having 3 years experience in HR Administration, payroll seeking suit-able placement. Contact: 91104352 / 99012861 Egyptian legal adviser and con-sultant in international arbitration experience in legal affairs and ad-ministration, labor law and drafting and reviewing contracts is looking forward to work with the company. Contact: 99664890 5 years experience in store and admin department with Omni driv-ing license looking for suitable job, release available and can join im-mediately. Contact : 95860170 BSCS hons (4 years) 2 years expe-rience female currently on visit visa looking for any vacancy. Contact: 91519478 Email: marryum.akmal@gmail.com Indian female, 29 yrs, MBA (HR) 4 yrs exp in HR & Admin seeking suit-able placement. Contact: 95619537 Master degree HRM professional having excellent experience in fi-nance and management and having 8 yrs experience looking for suitable placement. Contact: 92955453 / 91213269 Male Admin office Manager, 16 years experience in Oman. Contact: 95790291 Indian female MBA, 3 Years experi-ence in Admin MIS, Family Visa. Contact 98234427,jkjsmith01@gmail.com

Looking for job as Electrician, Gulf 7 years exp. Contact: 93015630 Driver with car (Fortuner). Contact: 95365938 Looking for driving for job. Contact: 98219182

Light driver, 10 yrs experience look-ing for job. Contact 93060050 Experienced LTV driver available. Contact: 99514703 / 96943902 Bangladeshi male looking for job in any company or family, speak English, Hindi & Arabic, exp 3 years in Dubai taxi and 3 years in Oman in company. Contact: 93822195 Driver with car 3 yrs exp looking for part time job. Contact: 92041902 Light driver, age 3 yrs exp, KSA 7 years & Oman 5 years Education – HSC seeking job in Oman. Contact: 98474031 NOC available Driver LTV 3 years exp available local release. Contact: 98503406 Job driver light operator shawl and excavator. Contact: 91376612 Light vehicle driver NOC available, seeks suitable job with 4 yrs exp in Oman having driving license. Contact: 95683735 / 95495003 Driver 8 years exp India (Keralite). Contact: 93412587 Light driver looking for suitable placement. Contact: 95141473 Driver available with car and with-out car. # 96771598 / 92883299 Looking for driver. # 91788481 Looking for driver job. #93650209 Light driver searching for job expe-rience 5 years. Language English, Arabic & Hindi. Contact: 92458526 / 97941771 Faisal Male Driver 2 years exp in Oman seeking suitable placement. Contact 96362684 Driver with 8 years experience look-ing for job. # 98130645 / 94342106

English teachers wanted imme-diately locations Muscat, Salalah, Ibri, Nizwa, Buraimi, Khabourah and Khasab. Contact: 91979343 email: eaglesmuscat@gmail.com Kindergarten in Seeb looking for (female) English Teacher bachelor in English language. Contact: 99319259 / 93972775 Email: saif123.s171@gmail.com

Software developer with experience in asp.net, sql server and crystal reports required for a software development firm. Email CV to hr@ promisworld.com

Required Architectural Engineer for consulting company. Contact: 99077856 Email: rgeorge@omantd.com Project Engineer Civil with degree only need to apply with 7 to 10 years experience in Gulf. Contact: Email: omaniantrad@gmai.com Urgently Required: Civil Engineer minimum 5years experience in building construction in GCC, MUST have NOC and immediately join. Apply, fax 00968–24605955, emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com, sbeoman@yahoo.com. Required Electrical Engineer mini-mum 5years experience in building construction in GCC, MUST have NOC and immediately join. Apply, fax 00968–24605955, emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com, sbeoman@yahoo.com. MEP Engineer on urgent basis required for immediate placement. Please contact tgi17@omantel.net.om

Chinese/ Arab/ continental cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970

Qualified Accountant 5 years expe-rience bilingual Arabic & English, 2+ years in Oman. Contact: 95539923 Indian male, M.Com & CA inter qualified seeking a suitable position in Audit/finance. Contact: 91148139 Motivated and energetic male 25 having 4 years of experience in finance with Master’s degree in Eco-nomics and CAT Certified seeking opportunity in Accounts/finance/audit in a reputable organization. Cell no: 00968-94626209 E-Mail: omerjawedshah@gmail.com Accountant, Indian male, 10 years experience in Oman, having knowl-edge of Tally ERP9 & able to do upto finalization and can be joined imme-diately with NOC. Contact: 94134085 Email: mascatoman95@yahoo.com Indian male B.Com with Accountant, HR, Indoor sales, Store keeper on visit visa. Contact: 98295101 Well experienced and hard working Restaurant Manager seek immedi-ate placement. Release available. Contact: 92953199 Indian male Accountant B.Com 8 yrs in Oman exp with N.O.C, valid driving license. Contact: 95052969 Email: chetansmma@yahoo.co.in / chetansmma@gmail.com Jordanian Accountant (ACPA) with more than 15 yrs experience in Oman (Accounts, Purchase & finance). Contact: 92881223 Email: kamal_sarhan@yahoo.com Indian female MBA with 1 year experience seeks suitable place-ment. Contact: 98435532 MBA, B.Com CA (finalist) 7 years experience (2 years in Oman) looking for suitable placement in a reputable organization. Expertise in ERP, Tally Quickbooks, peachtree and Excel. NOC available. Contact: 97736404 Email: adnantahir1990@gmail.com

Indian male 33 yrs DEMI chef DE Partie Chinese South Indian, cold kitchen 13 yrs exp in Hotel industry 7 yrs in Oman, N.O.C available seeks placement. Contact: 95872464, Email: sreejith809@gmail.com

Salesman required for a well estab-lished building materials company. Oman D/L required. Contact: 93698385 Email: united@omantel.net.om

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B.Tech Mechanical Engineer, Indian male 23 yrs, currently on visit visa seeking suitable placement. Contact: 94070164 Email: prathapkumarthuvara@yahoo.com

Indian male, 14 yrs experience in maintenance & Supervisor in hotel field (Electrical, Ac Mechanical & Plumber). N O C available. Contact : 95253640, E mail = hareeshma24@yahoo.com

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Facility / Project Mgmt, 4+ yrs of exp holds B.E (ECE) Indian visit visa looking for suitable opening. Contact: 98580569 Email: arafacareer@gmail.com

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If you need A GP DOCTOR now: Immediately want change place-ment preferably in Sohar areas . 23 yrs of uninterrupted experience in Oman .Hospital, Polyclinic & Big companies having own clinic can contact. Mobile : 95406530 . Prefer Email to get Bio-data : uneedgpdr@yahoo.com BA degree Nursing professional having excellent looking for suit-able placement. Contact: 92955453 /91213269 Female Nurse - Indian, well expe-rienced, Prometric passed – 60%, currently on visit visa, ready to join immediately. Kindly contact: 9721 9495 / 9655 0603 or jshani67@gmail.com GP Doctor yemeni national-male, with 4 years of work experience. Mobile:00966531598754 Email: alsyaniramzy@gmail.com

TOURS & TRAVELS

Five years experience in Travel field ,BCom.,IATA & pursuing MBA, Presently working in the Travel Desk of (ITC managed) Five Star Hotel in India.Looking for a suitable position in the Middleeast. Contact 9465 2485 B.Com IATA MCSE working for Qatar Airways, Sales Reservation, ticket-ing English, Hindi, and Malayalam, Marathi NOC is available. Contact: 92954613 Indian male B.Com MBA (Tourism) 23 years, seeks a job in any field currently on visit visa. # 92363811 Email: faizekk@gmail.com

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Indian visit visa, Network / System Engineer switches, routers, servers, load balancers 5 yrs of exp holds B.E (ECE), CCNA looking for good opportunity. Contact: 91911792 Email: arafakdnl@gmail.com Diploma holder in Computer Hard-ware and Networking with valid Oman driving license, NOC avail-able seeking suitable placement. Contact: 95249087 / 93095329 B.Tech (CSE) Diploma Fire & safety IOSH, NEBOSH having 3.5 years exp in MNC on visit. Contact: 90260889 Male 25 B.Com with 3.5 years experience in IT and Administration excellent computer and communi-cation skills, web developing and handling, looking for relevant job, on family visit till 5th Oct 2015. Contact: 91298960 Email: usman.ali786@hotmail.com Male BE ECE having 1 years experi-ence CCTV, ACCESS CONTROL, Server now on visit visa, seeking suitable op-portunity. Contact 96792239

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Indian male B.Com & MBA Gradu-ate 11 years experience airline travel & tourism, Sales & Marketing in Dubai & Oman with driving license NOC available. Contact: 92552612 Email: mazmanu1@gmail.com Indian male 27 years, B.Tech Grad-uate having good work experience with valid Oman D/L looking for a suitable opening as Sales Engineer. Contact: 91472953 Email: harees.rasheed.2014@gmail.com Procurement / Purchase Executive 1.6 yrs exp in Oman construction industry Indian male 27 yrs, MBA with valid Oman D/L, available for immediate placement. Contact: 96300958 / 24796010

Business intelligence / Global Mar-keting management specialist with 9 years of experience developing brand value & managing overall pro-jects to achieve business objectives seeking suitable position on family visit. Contact: 91902154

Indian male 35 yrs, 10 yrs experi-ence in FMCG Sales & Marketing in UAE with valid GCC license looking for suitable position on visit. Contact: 93438747 / 93033252 Indian male MBA (Marketing) 26 on visit visa, with experience in stores looking for suitable position in warehouse stores logistics or in sales. Contact: 96915871 Email: ajanadoor@yahoo.com Indian female 35 years MCA, MBA six sigma black belt, 14 years Gulf experience in business analytics, Marketing business development qualities seeks placement. NOC available, Omani driving license available. Contact: 95783792

MBA from UK with 9 yrs experience in London, Dubai & Mumbai. Special-ized GCC experience in top real estate co & bank with driving license. NOC available. #968 95168205, dubaihomes1@gmail.com Sales Mechanical Engineer 14 year’s exp looking for Senior position. Contact: 0091 9600987895 Email: srameson@yahoo.co.in

Indian material controller / store keeper with 9 years exp , seeking job in Oman NOC/ Release available. Contact: 91946174 Electrician, Plumber, Driver, looking for job. Contact 95175192 Mason, still fitter, carpenter, helper, looking job. Contact 95175192 Indian male, Post Graduate in law, 15 + experience - seeks suitable position in corporate companies. Contact: 92844354

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Welder 16 years experience Arc Tig Welding & fabrication seeks placement, NOC available. Contact: 91345047 / 91604842

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5+ years experience BE Electrical Engineer having knowledge in exe-cution & basic knowledge in electri-cal design looking for suitable post. Contact: 99704742 / 97469689 Indian male 23 B.E mechanical & AutoCAD 1 year experience currently on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact: 92835957 Email: rafeek-mohammed84@gmail.com

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